France Seizes Papal Mandates as Clergy Clash Escalates
Paris reports a government clash with church authorities as Clemenceau moves to suppress clergy pensions, liquidate church property, and expel Mgr Montagnini. The cabinet seeks national security laws to force clerics to rejoin regiments and prevent foreign influence, with Rome denouncing actions.
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Paris
France
Clemendiow
Clemenceau
Modane
Savoy
Mgr
Montaguini
Briand
Nationalecurity
Mgr. Montagnini
Department of War
Merry de Val
Cardinal Richard
Insurance Officer Guilty in Mutual Reserve Case
George Burnham Jr of Mutual Reserve Life Insurance was convicted in New York City of larceny involving 7500 of company funds. Trial followed a year of insurance investigations. Burnham remanded to Tombs prison as executives Freeman Burnham and George Eldridge were indicted. A $10000 check linked to Low Payn appeared at trial. Ohio Northern University warns student smokers will pay $1 more per term.
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Burnham
New York City
George Burnham, Jr
Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company
Legislative Insurance
Greenbaum
Tombs
Frederick A. Burnham
George D. Eldridge
Mutual Reserve Company
Mutual Reserve Life Association
A. B. Smith
Ohio Northern University
Atlan, Ohio
Japan
San Francisco
Canal Zone
University of Nebraska
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pueblo
Col
Denver and Rilo Grande
French Senate
Emile Zola
Pantheon
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
Roosevelt
Columbia University
Students’ League
No Canal Employe Deaths Since July, Says Stevens
John F. Stevens chief engineer of the Panama Canal arrived in New York and stated that there had not been a death among canal employes since July.
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John F. Stevens
Panama Canal
New York
Notable Figures Highlight Long Span of Achievements
Prominent individuals of the era are noted for diverse milestones. James J. H. blocked a Western rail merger while Major-General Greeley assumed command of the Missouri Department in December. Edward Everett Hale marked fifty years in the pulpit. William M. Howe is linked to MIT leadership speculation. Senor Ferry becomes Paraguay president. Mark Twain turns seventy-one. Lord Alverstone, England’s future chief justice, chorister in Kensington. A memorial seeks Nobel for Dr Ziumenoff of Esperanto invention. Three Boston congressmen are young first-time lawmakers.
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James J. H
Greeley
Department of the Missouri
Edward Everett Hale
South Congregational Society
Boston
William M. Howe
Julia Ward Slowe
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Senor Ferry
Paraguay
Mark Twain
Lord Alverstone
England
Kensington
London
Ziumenoff
Joseph F. O'Connell
John A. Kelcher
Andrew J. Petegy
Famine in Seven Russian Provinces Devastates Crops
Princes Looff and Orbeliani report seven provinces Sambara Saratov Bembirsk Kazan Penza Tambov Ufe face crop failure and twenty one provinces poor harvests. Twenty million need aid for months as famine and disease rise. officials accused of blocking relief.
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St. Petersburg
Russia
G. E. Looff
Orbeliani
Moscow Zemstvo Famine Relief Organization
Samara
Saratov
Bembirsk
Kazan
Penza
Tambov
Ufe
Prince Lyall
Moscow Zemstvo Relief Organization
Ren
Zemstvo Organization
Prince Looff
Tula
Orbellani
Turgal
Harvey Mariner Disaster Ends In Freezing Fatalities
The schooner Harvey from Bucksport Maine bound for New York with a jumper cargo wrecked off Sloan's Cove eight miles east of Digby Gut during a northwest gale. Captain Berry perished frozen on the beach after the crew and remaining seamen found shelter and were revived. one sailor drowned when the ship broke apart.
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Digby
N. S
Berry
Hh Ninsted Sehoones-Im
Harvey
Bucksport
Applestand
New York
Nova Scotia
Sloan's Cove
Digby Gut
Clifton Flood Drowns Several as Detroit Dam Bursts
Bisbee Arizona reports seven to twenty drowned as San Francisco River and Chase Creek flooded Clifton. The disaster wrecked the business district after the Detroit dam failed. Mrs Joseph Throm died in a collapsing building. others narrowly escaped. A saloon washout swept men away and a woman with child perished in a restaurant wreck.
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Bisbee
Ariz
San Francisco
Chase Creek
Clifton
Detroit
Joseph Throm
Convicted of Murder in Canton Jury Verdict
A Canton Ohio jury found Jn4. Cornelius guilty of first degree murder for the killing of his wife. The verdict concludes the trial and sets the stage for sentencing under state law. The case details the homicide and trial proceedings as reported by local authorities.
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Canton
Hudson River Navigation Closure Quoted
The Hudson River was closed to navigation marking the earliest tie up since 1898 except for four cases. The note mentions Tanson Real Estate and ALDH authorizing National banks to make loans on real estate security.
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Hudson River
Tanson Real Estate
Aldh
Fight prize offered in Nevada for Hyland vs Nelson
Rhyolite Nevada offers $20 000 for a match between Viel Hyland and Battling Nelson. Also notes two football deaths this year vs last season and other assorted sports and racing items from diverse locales.
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Rhyolite
Nev
Viel
New York Yacht Club
New York
Bermuda
A. C
Tn mM Star A.C
Billy and Chains
Long Island City
Alfa Twenty
Eifel Tower
Paris
Cornell Fraternity Fire Kills Seven Students and Firemen
Fire at the Chi Psi house on the Cornell campus in Ithaca New York claims four Cornell students and three volunteer firemen. Victims trapped on upper floors die after heroic attempts to rescue companions. Two bodies remain in ruins as a 40 mile per hour wind worsens the blaze and fire crews struggle to reach the building.
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Chi Psi Fraternity
Ithaca
N. Y
Cornell University
Ithaca Wers
Chi Pas
Cornell
McGraw-Fiske
United States
Pope
Clarence J
Hast Orange
Curry
Henry M
Pittsburg
DeCamp
H. S
New York
Goetz
W. W
Milwaukee
Powers
R. R
Atlanta
Sailor
G. R
Uihlein
H. A
H.S. DeCamp
Noors
Oliver Schmuck
Nichols
McCutcheon
Grelle
Russian Seamen Strike Hits Odessa in Protest
About eleven thousand seamen in Odessa strike to protest government suppression of the Seamen's Union. The unrest follows labor tensions and calls for better working conditions and freedom of organization.
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Odessa
Russia
Seamen's Union
Gillette 10 to Die by Electric Chair at Auburn Prison
Chester Gillette was sentenced to death by the electric chair for the Grace Brown case at Auburn Prison. His mother Mrs. Laurie Gillette traveled from Denver to witness the sentencing, publicizing the moment in a newspaper interview. The crowd filled the courtroom as the judge called for judgment, and Gillette maintained his innocence while awaiting possible appeals.
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Isaktimer
Chester Gillette
Auburn
Ciing
Grace
Laurie M. Gillette
Denver
Gillette
Herkimer
Caly
Devendorf
Pension rolls decline as 1906 drop reported
Ethan Allen Hitchcock reports the interior department pension rolls fell from a high of 1,004,196 on January 31, 1905 to June 30, 1906 losing 18,225. the secretary urges more public land protection and notes survivor and widow counts from War of 1812 and earlier conflicts. President Roosevelt receives Nobel Peace Prize notice for $40,000 to fund a permanent industrial peace committee in Washington.
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Hitchcock
Washington, D. C
Ethan Allen Hitchcock
Secretary of the Interior
Congress
Department
Nobel
Roosevelt
Christiania
Norway
Washington
Secretary Shaw Announces Large Deposits and Bond Purchases
Secretary Shaw declares plans to deposit 10 million dollars in Danks and to buy 10 million dollars in bonds to ease financial stringency.
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Shaw
Fall River Mills Increase Wages and Unions Form
An Electrical Workers' Union formed in Dallas Texas while wage actions ripple across New England. Fall River and Ameshing Mass see wage adjustments and restored cuts. Bricklayers masons and plasters unions agree on card interchange as new wage scales take effect. International Seamen's Union met in Boston. Railroad workers gain near 100 million in wage boosts in November. Adams Mass Berkshire Cotton Company employees around 500 receive a five percent raise.
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Fall River
Dallas
Texas
Boston
Rathway Company
Wriges
Hamilton Cotton Mills
Ameshing
Mass
International Convention of the Seamen's Union
Maia
Berkshire Cotton Company
Adams
Roosevelt Denounces Storer Letters Over Ireland Cardinal Move
President Roosevelt condemns correspondence published by Bellamy Storer and wife as misrepresenting events around Archbishop Ireland’s potential elevation to Cardinal. The memo includes letters showing Storer pressing for church influence, Roosevelt’s replies, and warnings about Vatican dealings.
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Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
Root
Bellamy Storer
Vienna
Ireland
Belming Storer
Vatican
Pono
Rome
McKinley
Storer
Storers
Stovers
Stover
New York
Archbishop Ireland
President McKinley
Pope Leo
George B Cortelyou
Storerg
America
Philippines
Cuba
Case
Zion City Leaders Sign Over Interests to Creditors
In Zion City Illinois all leaders of the Christian Catholic Church including Dowie and Vollya have signed over their interests to the city creditors.
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Chrristian Catholic Church
I A Zion City
LIL
Dowie
Vollya
Quarrel in Lagrange Ends in Death and Wounding
In a dispute over tieaterial receipts at Lagrange Missouri Constable Hostia Duvall was killed Constable J J Rohon and O K Stuart an acay were fatally wounded in the same incident
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Lagrange
Hostia Duvall
J. J. Rohon
O. K. Stuart
Acay
Early 1900s Congress and Executive Movements Preview
Reports show Texas Representative Sheppard proposing a graduated income tax and New York's Perking backing a graduated inheritance tax. President Roosevelt aims to resolve Japanese tensions via treaty. Senator Cullom pushes a six year presidential term no second term. Harriman railway inquiry starts under Anti Trust. Navy costs per capita 1.33 and six in ten thousand serve. Samuel Spencer's will mostly to his widow is probated in Washington.
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Perking
New York
Roosevelt
Cullom
Interstate Commerce Commission
Great Harriman
Secretary of the Navy
Samuel Spencer
Washinggon
Rifles Clash Between La Paz and Terragona Troops
A column of constabulary clashed with Pulajanes between La Paz and Terragona on Leyte Island. Four soldiers were killed and eight wounded, including Lt. Ralph P. Yates Jr. Thirty Pulajanes were killed, with many wounded and captured.
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la Paz
Terragona
Leyte
Ralph P. Yates, Jr
Antonio Maceo
Havani
Philippine Commission
United States
Biw Prison
Manila
Supreme Court of the Philippines
Agipayanos
Lagonoy
Porto Rico
Tragic Gun Barrel Incident At School Ends In Death
In Leedsville James Lemming Jr. aged 11 died at St. Francis Hospital Trenton from a gunshot injury caused by improvised gun barrels brought to a public school. The accident occurred when barrels were warmed in a stove after a prank with classmates. A separate report notes Theodore Sherman a young Allenwood grocer died later from a gunshot wound suffered during a duck hunt incident near Barnagat Bay.
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James Lemming, Jr
James Lemming
Leedsville
St. Francis’ Hospital
Trenton
Lemming
Missy Sadie Cook
Theodore Sherman
Allenwood
Barnagat Bay
Sherman
Lee Newman
Edward Heaviland
Newman
Seaviland
Norman van Note
Fee
Remains of Assemblyman Engard Laid to Rest at Arlington
The remains of former Assemblyman Joseph M Engard lay in Arlington Cemetery Haddonfield with services at his home by Rev FP aA Smith and Rev Dr W HH Fishburn of Camden. Prominent business, professional and political leaders from Camden County attended the funeral. Pallbearers included County Clerk Frank F Patterson Jr editor Upton S Jefferys Wolcott J Patterson Iy lmar Postmaster Louis Derousse S D Norcross and Charles R Bacon. Farmers in Deerfield to receive higher tobacco prices 10 to 40 cents a pound due to grading and proper packing at the warehouse in Thompsonville.
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Assembly
Joseph M.engard
Arlington Cemetery
Haddonfield
FP. Aa.smith
W. HH. Fishburn
Camden
Camden County
Frank F. Patterson, Jr
Upton S. Jefferys
Wolcott J. Patteron
Iylmar
Miners Discuss Alaska Gold Output And Yukon History
Historic notes on Alaska mining growth from 1890 to 1905 show output rising from 2.1 million to over 15 million dollars. Yukon prospecting yielded low pay gravel and wage opportunities for crude methods. The article also mentions a Britain Turkey boundary accord with signing maps and Turkish troops at Kasimeh.
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Alaska
Yukon
City Marshal Enforces Curfew in Haverhill
In Haverhill Massachusetts City Marshal McLaughlin suppresses rowdylam by enforcing the old curfew law. Bars under twenty one found on the streets after 9 p.m. will be arrested.
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McLaughlins
Haverhill
Mass
P.m
New England Superstitions and the Dowser’s Hearfelt Lore
A rural interview collects Gramp’s superstitions from New England life. He tests witch hazel for water divining, cites iron ore’s interference, and recites a wide array of signs about weather, luck, health, and daily fate.
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Gramp
Proper Driving Seat For Safety And Ease On The Road
I M Ware argues that sitting on the left side of a carriage is practical and convenient, while the common right side obstructs view and hampers the coachman. He details how left seat avoids footmen jostling and keeps whips clear, urging readers to favor the left in self driven vehicles.
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Bald
fraNk
I. M. Ware
Jin. Trafic
Trafic
Park Outlook. A General Turn Down in Parlor Shade
A Chicago Daily News item reports a wry exchange about a proposal in a park outlook. The dialogue suggests a broad rejection as characters discuss the old story, shading the parlor, gas, and a figure named Dick amid a light domestic satire.
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Katharine
Chicago
Daily News
Bells Toll For Spiritual Death In Dinilton Ministry
A Wesleyan Methodist pastor in Dinilton tolled the church bell to rouse a indifferent congregation and remind them of spiritual decay. He warned that spiritual death deserves action and suggested praising the dead in spirit to spur effort, provoking mixed reactions from worshippers.
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Wesleyan Methodist Church
Dinilton
Indianapolis News
Narrow Escape in Georgia Banjo Legend Story
A Philadelphia Public Ledger writer lauds Uncle Mose as Georgia’s top banjoist. A Northern visitor asks Mose to perform for her party, but Aunt Sal reveals Mose quit music after a minstrel show offered him steady work, fearing exposure of his talent. London Punch jokes about an adjective tax on authors and theatre bosses.
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Uncle Mose
Georgia
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Darky
Mttle
Chile
Aunt Sal
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Schmuck
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Hanover
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Vporter
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Vatal
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Dayton
Ohio
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Muscatiie
Iowa
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Fuesing
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Utah
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de Lapponi
China
International Bureau of Telegraphic
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Congo Free State
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Deerfield
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Wiurehouse
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Gloucester
James McGlade
Jersey Avenue
King Street
Criss
North Baptist Church
Milville
Tes
EB. Freeman
Hopewell
Arthur S. Cole
South Jersey Institute
Middlesex County
William Newcymh
Mount Holly
West End
Mil- Ville Tiaeton Company
Avie
Vine Yand
Board of Education
Hss Mill
Clayton
Miss Way
Mss Rowan
Masha
Great Britain
Turkey
Turkie
Nt Kaseimeh
New England
New Englan Magazines
Fair Maida
Aoy
Punch
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