President proposes amendments to law on corporations and labor
Washington January 31 the president sent Congress a special message calling for compensation for government service workers including those on the Panama Canal. He urges curb on injunctions in labor cases regulate interstate corporations and railroads and seeks amendments to the Sherman act to allow dissolution of corporations. He also pushes against stock watering overcapitalization and stock gambling. The message sparked heated reactions in Congress with cheers and calls for printing as a public document.
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Washington
Congress
Pusamu Canal
Davis
Arkansas
Waa
Committee On Interatute Commerce
Hearst Plans London Newspaper With Countess of Warwick
London report states William Randolph Hearst of New York and the Countess of Warwick form a plan to publish a London paper in the labor and suffrage interest. The Countess aims to raise funds in America to start the publication with Hearst as principal owner and she as editor.
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London
Jan
Willian Randolph Hearst
New York
United States
Countess of Warwick
Iabor
Atlantic
America
Hearst
England
Tobacco Trust Indicted Again
Franklin county grand jury in Kentucky indicts the American Tobacco Company as a trust. The indictment accuses a price fixing scheme and attempts to corner the supply of tobacco in restraint of trade.
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Frankfort
American Tobacco Company
Franklin County Grand Jury
McKinley Day Observed at Tippecanoe Club Banquet
Cleveland audience hears McKinley tribute as Secretary of War Taft attends the McKinley Day banquet. Taft speaks on The Republic and meets Ohio party leaders but avoids political remarks. The event cements Taft as a potential future president while focusing on McKinley’s legacy.
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Cleveland
McKinley
Tippecanoe Club
William H. Taft
Republic
Ohio
Philippine Islands
Caribbean
Taft
Arthurd Very
Walter C. Brown
Chelyman
Republican State Committee
Vorys
Brown
Washington
Joseph B. Foraker
Sunday labor cases dodge grand jury indictments
Kansas City, Jan. 30 Judge McPherson refused to intervene in Missouri Sunday labor enforcement. Nance O’Neill and theater owners sought to block grand jury indictments and obtain a permanent injunction. Judge Wallace denied the challenge and the temporary injunction, holding the jury properly drawn and the Sunday labor law valid.
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Kansas City
Smith McPherson
United States District Court
Nance O'Noh
Willam H. Wallace
Criminal Court
Wallace
McPherson
Leave of Absence For Rev Clement Due To Mrs Clement Illness
Rev A E Clement and Mrs Clement will leave for Thomasville Georgia this week for Mrs Clements health improve ment. The Board of Stewards granted an indefinite leave of absence for Mr Clement with an expected minimum of about two months. Rev A G Dinwiddie will lead the church in his absence. The article also notes a Groundhog forecast predicting six more weeks of winter.
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A. E. Clement
Thomasville
Georgia
Mra. Clement
Clement
A. G. Dinwiddie
Dinwldie
Temperance Bill Fight Moves Recommitment In Kentucky House
Frankfort, Ky. The House voted 45 to 36 to recommit the extension of the county unit law to the Public Morals committee rather than Kentucky Statutes. Debate grew heated with fiery speeches and charges on whether the measure would be killed.
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Frankfort
House
Committee On Public Morals
Committee On
Kentucky Statutes Committee
Aldoa
Doan's Kidney Pills Proclaimed by Local Testimonies
Residents of Sollmabla and Columbia in Tennessee publicly endorse Doan's Kidney Pills for relief from back and kidney pains. Mrs. W. M. Johnson of Columbia reiterates a former positive statement, noting lasting improvement after using the remedy and urging others to try it.
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Dean
Sollmabla
Columbia
W. M. Johnson
Tenth Street
Tenn
Doan
Adams & Martin’s
Foster-Milburn OO
Rev Ira Landrith Stricken With Appendicitis
Rev Ira Landrith D D General Secretary of the Presbyterian Brotherhood of America was suddenly stricken with appendicitis while en route to St Louis from Nashville. He arrived and was taken to the Southern Hotel then returned home on the advice of Dr L A Behrens. He is retiring moderator of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and had planned three addresses in different churches.
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ST. Louis
Nashville
Tenn
Ira Landrith
D. D
Presbyterian Brotherhood of America
Southern Hotel
L. A. Behrens
Behrens
Landrith
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Ipere
Swift travel to New York heralds tunnel openings
New York plans next week to open two of four long under river tunnels linking New York and New Jersey for trial operations from Sixth Avenue and Forty Street area to Hoboken Lackawanna station in eight minutes. Completion signals a broader network of tunnels and subways reshaping regional living. The Sixth Avenue line extends from Nineteenth to Thirty-third streets as work continues on a major terminal. A Jersey-wide subway already connects Pennsylvania Station with Lackawanna and Erie spur. Additional tunnels near Fulton and Cortland streets head toward a Jersey City Pennsylvania terminal.
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New York
New Jersey
Sith Avenue
Fourteenth Street
Hudson River
Lackswanna
Hoboken
Sixth Avenue
Nineteenth Street
Twenty-third
Twenty-eighth
Thirty-third Street
Pennsylvania Station
Lackawana
Erie
Fulton and Cortland Streets
Pennsylvania Terminal
Jersey City
Lawyers in Row Blood May Flow in Dispensary Case
In Asheville on January 30, a United States Circuit Court hearing on Pleighman & Co v South Carolina Dispensary Commission featured heated exchanges between counsel. Remarks about personal satisfaction and personal responsibility sparked a disturbance as arguments on jurisdiction continued and adjournment was taken to tomorrow.
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Asheville
N. C
South Carolina
United States
Gircuit
Pleighman & Co
W. F. Stevenson
Alt
Lester
Stevenson
Night riders blamed in Montgomery County barn fire
A large tobacco barn owned by John McDaniel near Rogers Mill was burned, with 22 000 pounds of tobacco and several animals destroyed. Insurance on the tobacco was 1 700. Investigators found no crowd trace, and this is the first barn destruction in Montgomery County.
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Mt, Sterling
Legendiaries
John
McDaniel
Rogers Mil
Thie City
Carlisle
Montgomery County
Thaw Verdict Reaches Not Guilty By Insanity Finding
The jury finds Harry Thaw not guilty by reason of insanity in the famous case. Justice Dowling orders Thaw committed to an insane asylum, with the decision reported from Nashville Tennessee on February 1.
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Herald
Nashville
Tenn
Thaw
Justice Dowling
Harry Thaw
Sheriff’s Sale of Land In Maury County Tennessee
By virtue of an execution from the Chancery Court of Maury County dated December 7 1907 in the case J M Hodge Extr et al versus Cordella Ezell et al the sheriff will sell to the highest bidder for cash at the foot of the Court House in Columbia Maury County on Monday March 2 1908 as of the right title and interest of the defendant in the property described a one seventeenth undivided interest in a tract about 187 acres located in the old 20th district now the 2nd Civil district bounded by W C Gordon estate on the north by Gordon tract on the east by Gordon and Figueras lands south by the estate of W E Green deceased and west by J H Murphey. Love Webb Sheriff.
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Chancery Court
Maury County
Teun
A. N. Akin
J. M. Hodge
Cordella Ezell
Columbia
Cormensee
Tenn
W. C. Gordon
Dr. Bedem
Sald
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Dale
View
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Ewell Farm
Anii Hone
Chun John R. Gentry
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Terieege
Jessie McEwen
Pout Hal
Addie Q
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Fox
Kansas
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Temperance
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P. A. ‘Chavez
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