Battleship Delaware Launches in Newport News Yard
The battleship Delaware was launched with 8000 spectators including Assistant Secretary of the Navy Satterlee and Governor Pennewill present. Miss Anna Pennewill Cahill christened the ship. Delaware exceeds foreign battleships in displacement and armament, and is one of four alstered vessels authorized by Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport News
Delaware
Navy
Satterlee
Pennowill
Men@inhail
Toussig
Congress
Anna Pennewill Cahill
Bridgewell
Cal
Misa Florence Hazel
Dover
Meg Coleman du Pont
Wilmingon
North Dakota
Quincy
Mass
Florida
New York Navy Yard
Utah
Camden
N. J
Delawares
Great Britain
Canadian Madman Kills Two in Ontario Shooting Rampage
George Stewart, a Maple Valley farmer, killed John Spanhouse and injuried Mrs Spanhouse and others in a spree across Shelbourne Shrigley and Maple Valley. He attacked George Beaumont and Mrs Gowanus, leaving four wounded or dead. Stewart was arrested at his father's home and jailed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shelbourne
Ontario
George Stewart
Maple Valley
Stewart
Reddickville
John Spanhouse
Shrigley
James
Edwin Pounds
George Beaumont
General Fredericks Dismissed For Famine Relief Scandals
In St Petersburg Russia General Fredericks former Governor of NiNi Novgorod was found negligent and corrupt over famine relief aid. He is dismissed from government service fined 5000 dollars and faces one year in prison if unpaid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fredericks
St. Petersburg
Russia
Niini-Novgorod
Merger Averted Embarrassment for Moore and Schley
Grant B. Schley testified before a Senate committee in Washington. He said the absorption of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company by the Steel Corporation during the 1907 panic relieved Moore and Schley of serious embarrassment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grant B. Schley
Senate
Washington, D. C
Tennessee Coal and Tron Company
The
Steel Corporation
Moore & Schley
Presbyterian Church Burns in Campbell Wall N Y
Fire destroys the Presbyterian Church in Campbell Wall New York with losses estimated at sixteen thousand dollars. No further details on cause or casualties provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presbyterian
Campbell Wall
N. Y
One Sudden Death Causes Another
Daniel W. Healy a prominent lawyer died suddenly in Bradford Pennsylvania as report said. Mrs. Mary Daly mother of Healy’s sister’s son in law collapsed and died shortly after hearing the news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel W. Healy
Bradford
Mary Daly
Government to pursue restrictive trust policy via publicity
In his annual report Werbert Knox Smith says laws against trusts failed and calls for a restrictive program built on publicity. He argues the prohibition has tailed and urges government action to inform the public and curb trust power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Werbert Knox Smith
Nuggets of News from the Era
Wireless telegraphy aided the Scotland Lightship and a schooner that collided with her. Admiral Sperry’s ships reached Gibraltar amid cordial welcome. Radium produced from Cornwall mine refuse shown. Cortlandt Field Parker announced an Albany airship race for Hudson Fulton celebration. Hector de Castro died in Rome. Rev M A Wasson urged fight against prohibitionists for saloons. Diplomats sought Balkan settlement among Great Powers. Police clash with socialists in Hanover left twenty to thirty wounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotland
Admiral Sperry
Gibraltar
Cornwall
Cortlandt Field Parker
Aero Club of America
New York City
Albany
Hector de Castro
Zurich
Switzerland
Rome
M. A. Wasson
River, Head
L. 1
Austria-Hungary
England
France
Russia
Italy
Hanover
Inna
Roosevelt Targets Perkins over Navy Policy Clash
President Roosevelt accuses Senator Perkins of hampering naval upbuilding while defending his own record. The exchange follows U S anti-Japanese legislation and public debates on naval funding. Perkins defends California rights and supports a strong navy citing past support and anticipated increases toward $135,000,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington,d. C
Roosevelt
Perking
California
Pacific
Gillett
Perkins
White House
Gov. Gillett
Sacramento
Cal
George C. Perkins
Theodore Roosevelt
Navy
Committee On Naval Affairs
Naval Establishment
Cornell Men Dropped in Midwinter Examinations
Ithaca N Y midwinter exams led to record drops from Cornell University with more than prior years. Mechanical engineering suffered forty failures, civil engineering thirty five, arts thirty one, agriculture twenty five, law fourteen, architecture four, veterinary three, and medicine one.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ithace
N. Y
Cornell
Pastor fatally shot in ambush near Houston Mississippi
The body of Rev. W. T. Hudson pastor of the Baptist Church was found riddled with buckshot in a pond near Houston. He had left his hotel and failed to return prompting a search that led to the discovery. He was often seen writing sermons under a tree by the pond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
W. T. Hudson
The
Baptist Church
Hudson
American Book Company Agrees to Pay Damages in Texas Case
The State of Texas sued the American Book Company in the Fifty third District Court. An agreed judgment entered in favor of the State for 16 thousand dollars in penalties and ouster from the State. The action had demanded 3 million dollars, but the company had no property in the State to levy on.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Texas
Admits Big Forgery In Oakland Case
Fred D. Signot pleaded guilty in Oakland California to forging the name of James A. Murray Monterey capitalist to notes totaling 460000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakland, Cal
Fred D. Signot
James A. Murray
Monterey
War balloons funding defeated in House vote
The House in Washington reversed course and, by a 160 to 91 vote, knocked out the 500000 appropriation for war balloons as part of the Army Appropriation bill passage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Prosecution Ordered for Meat Packers in Chicago
United States District Attorney Sims in Chicago was directed to prosecute meat packers for rebating and for violating the Anti Trust law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Sims
Chicago
Prominent Figures Share Reflections and Tributes Across States
GB Harriman returns to New York to oversee the New York Central as elected director. Justice Gaynor criticizes courts city charter and Mayor Low reform. American consul in Gibraltar Sprague is third in a row from his family to hold the post. Ethu Root born in Clinton NY, Hamilton College graduate 1864. Fernaldo reportedly bought first top hat in Portland. James M Edwards dies in Toledo aged 94. his father Ebenezer Edwards fought at Concord Bridge.
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GB. H. Harriman
New York City
New York Central
Justice Gaynor
New Rochelle
N. Y
Low
Gibraltar
Sprague
Ethu Root
Clinton
Oneida County
Hamilton College
Portland
Fernaldo
Granger
James M. Edwards
Toledo
Ohio
Ebenezer Edwards
Acton
Concord Bridge
California racing suffers fatal blow from Walker Otis anti gambling bill
California racing faces a major setback as the Senate passes the Walker Otis Anti Race Track Gambling bill 33 to 7 sending it to Governor Gillett for signature. The measure limits pool selling and betting on horse races and makes violations felonies, though officials say the current racing season at Emeryville and Santa Anita will not be disturbed for 60 days to close operations. Senator Walker argues it preserves statewide interests while Senator Wolfe warns it will end racing and hurt breeding and jobs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacramento
Cal
California
Senate
Gillett
Emeryville
Santa Anita
New York
Walker
Wolfe
Canada
Mexico
Shooting In Texas Court At Gatesville
Six shots rang out in the Coryell County Courthouse during the John Haines seduction trial before District Judge Robertson. Victims include James Smith mortally wounded, John Haines shot multiple times, David Ross shot, A P Wiley wounded, and Verna Ware with her brother Charles arrested amid the melee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Tex
Gatesville
Coryell County
John Haines
Verna Ware
Robertson
David Ross
James Smith
A. P. Wiley
Charles
Haines
Smith
Ross
Wiley
Bland Ballard Dead After Self Inflicted Shooting
Bland Ballard, 54, a Chicagoan linked to Lake Forest circles, died by his own hand following periods of insanity from a fall at Narragansett Pier. A Princeton graduate and former football captain, he had married Adele Shreve of Louisville after leaving college.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Narragansett Pier
Bland Ballard
Lake Forest
Mr. Ballard
Kentucky
Princeton University
Adele Shreve
Louisville
Fight with Indians in Yucatan a Mexican Soldier Killed
A force of Mexican soldiers from the 170th battalion clashed with a group of Indians between Santa Cruz Bravo and San Isidro near Merida Yucatan. One Mexican soldier died and several were wounded. Three Indians are believed killed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merida
Yucatan
Santa Cruz Bravo
San Isidro
San Francisco
Cal
Vian Fiect
United States Circuit Court
Aged couple found dead in hotel room in Philadelphia
An elderly pair identified as Mr and Mrs Lomax from Lewistown Pennsylvania were found dead in their hotel room at the Imperial Hotel Philadelphia. A gas jet was found turned on full and investigators were uncertain if suicide or accidental gas poisoning caused the deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Lomax
Lewietown
Imperial Hotel
Ottings
Mrs Therese Suckilel Dies at 78 in McKeesport
Mrs Therese Suckilel dies at seventy eight from complications while cutting her third set of teeth. She left ten grandchildren and thirteen great grandchildren, several of whom were teething at the same time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mittsburg
Therese Suckilel
McKeesport
Coal miner flees mob after placing child on stove
Julius Greenwalt of Staunton narrowly escaped an enraged mob after an incident with a four year old child in his boarding house. Villagers hid him then rushed him onto a northbound car and he was taken to Carhinvilla for safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Staunton
Uwh
Julius Greenwalt
Greenwalt
Jak
Maralad
Carhinvilla
Harriman Election Gives Him Controlling Rail Line Power
The New York Evening Post notes that FE Harriman's election to the New York Central board places him in control of about a third of U S railway mileage through major systems including Union Pacific Southern Pacific Illinois Central New York Central Atchison St Paul Northwestern Baltimore and Ohio Delaware and Hudson and Georgia Central The piece argues such power challenges representative government and could fuel calls for regulation or ownership Harriman disputes a claim of direct control but Wall Street accepts his influence and vows to protect his interests over Vanderbilt rivals
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
FE. H. Harriman
New York Central
United States
Erie
Union Parelfic
Harriman
America
Kansas City
Wall Street
Richmond
Vanderbilts
Warriman
Earthquake fund in Italy nears 35 million dollars
Rome reports the quake relief fund totaling in the tens of millions with $6 million sent to the Pope and large sums moving through embassies and a national committee led by the Duke of Aosta. Americans contributed about $200,000 locally while state and federal agencies distribute aid for long term relief to orphans widows and the aged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Italy
Interior
Duke of Aosta
Red Cross
Iast
George Page
American Committee
F International
Americana
Griscom
Cutting
Edmund bin Ings
Massachusetts
France Moves to Tax Foreign Residents on Sevenfold Rent
In Paris the Chamber of Deputies debated taxing foreigners living in France. The bill proposed tax based on ten times rental value, others urged five times, and Minister of Finance Callaux proposed seven times which the chamber adopted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Paris
Chamber of Deputies
M. Siegfried
M. Callaux
Army Bill Includes 500000 For Military Airships
Senate actions include an army bill appropriation of 500000 for airships and a funding decision. Secretary Newberry was summoned to explain every item in the appropriations bill as committees pursue details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newberry
Senate Committee On Judiciary
Navy Department
Ben
Rare Form of Insanity Observed in Kalamazoo Case
In Kalamazoo Michigan Claus Vander wall was admitted to the State Insane Asylum with a rare insanity. He spoke to his body, grew rigid, and appears to gain relief from being unnoticed. In court he stood for an hour with an arm outstretched and silent. Food is forced to him at regular intervals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigander Kalamazoo
Mich
Claus Vanderwall
State Insane Asylum
Women and reform sweep early 20th century Prussia and abroad
Nearly 20 000 women work in Prussian brickyards with an eleven hour day. Miss Anne Morgan leads a crusade for sanitary cigar factories. Calcutta hires a female sanitary inspector at sixty dollars a month. Miss C de H Benest is England's first woman motor omnibus driver and passed a London exam for motor engineering. Mrs Russell Sage fractures her wrist at home in New York. Mrs William Gould Brokaw seeks separation on cruelty grounds. Sage and other wealthy women pledge sixty thousand dollars to woman suffrage. Bertha Schultz in Hamburg inherits ten thousand dollars with a condition she never marries a man in intellectual work.
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Prussia
Anne Morgan
Calcutta
C. de H. Benest
England
London
Russell Sage
Witth Avenue
New York City
William Gould Brokaw
United States
Bertha Schultz
Hrmburg
Germany
Notable Dashes and Deeds from a Busy Era
Mrs Ruth May Swift Everst separates from husband Ernest Hammond-lveraz taking their four year old daughter Barbara. Postmaster Furnan Campbell seeks protection from blackmailers threatening his family if he does not pay $600. Chicago remains wet as dry forces fail to push a saloon exclusion vote in April. Fire devastates the Haskell Memorial Home in Battle Creek with three inmates missing, amid suspected incendiary causes. The Senate declares February 12 Lincoln's birthday a legal holiday. A Worcester fire damages two plant sites causing extensive losses and worker layoffs. Lincoln Nebr reports nine foot hotel sheets under debate in the legislature. Boston benefactor Miss Mary Holmes receives a will gift after 25 years service. Philadelphia Education Board linked to Rockefeller funds plans $250,000 endowment with matching $350,000 sought by June 1910. Roosevelt vetoes Census Bill over spoils-system concerns.
Roosevelt Declines Invitation to Calvin Anniversary
Geneva reports that President Roosevelt has declined an invitation to attend the 400th anniversary of John Calvin's birth on July 10 and the unveiling of a monument. The dispatch also notes other items: relief ship Celtic aiding earthquake victims in Naples, U.S. officers banqueted by Peru's president in Lima, and various international notices from London to Berlin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Geneva
Switzerland
John Calvin
U. S
Naples
Italy
Celtic
Catania
Lima
Peru
Callao Harbor
Leguia
Murder charge planned after bakery death in Anbury Park
Thieves entered Robert Weir's Anbury Park bakery and ripped out a gas meter to steal coins. Gas leaked into the building fatally affecting Weir, age sixty, who slept nearby with his St. Bernard. Police infer the dog did not warn due to recognizing the intruders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arena Meter
Robert Weir
Anbury Park
Weir
Smallpox Grips Newton House Prompting Guards
Smallpox appears in the John Brown family of five in Newton, prompting health authorities to station guards at the home and ban family members from leaving the premises. Additional inmates include Mr and Mrs George Crown and Mr and Mrs Uzal Lemin and their child. Brown is the only known sufferer. Two men dead in Paterson, both self inflicted. Max Starr, 69, of Montgomery Street, dead by gas self-harm after illness. A foreigner’s body, about 35, found on Garret Mountain with a revolver and no pay envelope marked Basso.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Brown
Brown
Newton
George Crown
Uzal Lemin
Paterson
Max Starr
Montgomery Street
Garret Mountain
Death at Netherwood Station and Noted New Jersey Editor Passings
William A. Lord of Plainfield died at Netherwood station of heart disease after purchasing a ticket. He was 63 and a silk trades figure born in New York. William Cloke of Trenton State Gazette and editor of State Reports died of apoplexy at 68, a prominent New Jersey newspaper figure born in England. Also announced: West Jersey and Seashore Railroad agents must pay nominal rent for housing and utilities, aligning with interstate law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William A. Lord
Belvidere Avenue
Plainfield
Netherwood
New Jersey Central Railroad
F. W. Westcott
C. B. Lufburrow
Mr. Lord
New York City
William Cloke
Trenton State Gazette
State Reports
Fort
Trenton
Cloke
New Jersey
England
America
West Jersey and Seashore Railroad
Notl
Farmer’s wife crushed by cow kicks near Woodstown
Charles Gabel, a farmer near Woodstown, found his wife in a stable after returning home. Mrs Gabel had lay there for hours with a broken leg caused by a cow kick while tending the yard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Gabel
Woodstown
Mte
Stricken Clergyman Dies After Illness at Church
The fourth Reed child died of diphtheria after heroic efforts to subdue the disease, making three children lost within 36 hours. Mrs Reed showed symptoms while the baby was isolated. Rev John W Smith, stricken with acute indigestion at First M E Church, died after a weeklong illness. he was sixty five and an earnest temperance advocate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Reed
John W. Smith
Mr. Smith
Trenton Man Asks Pardons After Three Year Sentence
At Trenton David Cornell of Albany Park was convicted of complicity in wrecking the Monmouth Trust and Safe Deposit Company and taken to State Prison to serve a three year term. He filed a petition with the Court of Pardons requesting a full pardon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trenton
David Cornell
Albury Park
Monmouth Trust and Safe Deposit Company
State Prison
Court of Pardons
Notorious duo convicted in Mercer Court for attempted pocket picking
Charles Rohrer and John Shevlin were convicted in Mercer Court at Trenton of attempted pocket picking. The trial drew strong attention as the men are well known nationwide and have prior sentences for the same offense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Rohrer
John Shevlin
Mercer Court
Trenton
Soldier killed by Susquehanna train at Bogota
John Haddon, Army of Porto Rico veteran, died two hours after being struck by a Susquehanna and Western train in Bogota. He mentioned a sister who teaches in a New York City school and a mother living in Bainbridge New York. Local notices also report Gloucester City awarding bonds, a new postmaster appointment, wildlife fry releases, a near fatal overdose incident, and county road overseer appointment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Haddon
Porto Rico
Susquehanna and Western
Bogota
New York City
Bainbridge, N. Y
Henderson Cremeans Dies at 115 in West Virginia
Henderson Cremeans, reputedly the oldest man in West Virginia and possibly the United States, died at his grandson Clark Cremeans home near Point Pleasant Mason County aged 115 hours after falling on a roadside while returning from a grocery trip. His mother died at 120 his wife at 101 he had seventy grandchildren 131 great grandchildren and nineteen great great grandchildren and he never tasted liquor or tobacco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henderson Cremeans
West
Household improvements and Finnish summer life notes
Household tips recommend ammonia in water to clean mirrors and windows and wax to prevent dust from soap. A quick alcohol and water rub leaves panes bright. In Finland families summer camp near water, swim, bathe, and rely on public fireplaces and bathing houses at resorts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers' Home Journal
Finland
New York Tribune
Caring For Invalids Hair In Two Arm Braids
An experienced nurse advises arranging a patient’s long hair in two arm braids with cloth ebbons at the top and winding tightly to the ends. This method keeps hair smooth and untangled, requires care only every several days, and minimizes discomfort for the sick person.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis News
Comforting bed shoes and warm stockings for seniors
The article advises giving older adults warm knit stockings and bed shoes to combat poor circulation and cold feet. It suggests knee length Shetland wool or flannel stockings, interlined with flannel, finished with a casing and elastic. For Christmas gifts, red or pink shades with ribbon are recommended.
Old Time Cookery Fragments From Cranberry Pie to Beef Omelet
A collection of vintage kitchen directions including Cranberry Pie with cranberries sugar and boiling water, Cracker Tarts using Boston crackers, Prune Pudding with prunes dates walnuts and eggs, Broiled Sweetbreads prepared with lemon and olive oil, and Beef Omelet seasoned with peppers celery salt or savory then baked and sliced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Playwright Challenges Berrbohm Tree Over Manuscript
A brief quarrel from Harper's Weekly recalls Berrbohm Tree reading a playwright's work with permission. The actor offered few reactions but annotated the manuscript. The playwright protested that the reading was not for free, claiming a year's hard labor, while Tree replied that any judge would grant at least five for the effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berrbohm Tree
Tree
Harper's Weekly
Emigration Decline and Early 20th Century Market Hints
The report notes a January excess of arrivals over departures for the first time since the panic, with 29 651 arrivals and 18 198 excess. It includes wool market optimism, dormant flour trade, scarce spring wheat outlook, and rising industrial activity across the West and South.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Improvements Planned for U S Steel Plant in Dimsley Alabama
A two million dollar program will upgrade the great steel plant of United States Steel Corporation at Dimsley Alabama with new equipment and facilities to boost production. The project involves modernization and expansion efforts scheduled to begin this year under corporate oversight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Steel Corsporation
Dmsley
Ala
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Vanguard
Senator Perking
Telegramo
Ambasil
Texas Oosts Book Concern
Walker- Otis
Gillette
Texas Court
American Railway
Robert Carter
New York American
Edward H. Harriman
National Monetary Commission
Department of Justice
George H. Earle, Jr
Earle
Oakteleh Thorne
George W. Perkins
Stealden
Army
Everst
Ruth May Swift Everst
Gustavus Fr. Swift
Packer
Ernest Hammond-lveraz
Barbara
Bhlicksmulers
Millvilo
Furnan Campbell
Port Elizabeth
Governor Port
Jenver
Tire
Battle Creek
Haskell Memorial Home
Seventh Day Adventist Church
Lincoln
George LD. Webb Granite Construction Company
E. 4
Cowee Elevator Company
Webb Company
Cowee
Neb
Assembly
Mary E. Holmes
Medford
Amos B. Hall
General Education Board
John D. Rockefeller Foundation For Higher Education
CABLE
Heidelberg
University of Heidelberg
Newcastle - On- Tyne
Winston Spencer Churchill
Board of Trade
Spain
Sperry
Vermont
Hampton Roads
B.S. Benson
Brooklyn
Greece
Bucharest
Horace G. Kinowler
Rewmanta
Sdepartive Dle Dita
Nicaragua
Spencer Eddy
Louise
Leopold
Berlin
Tageblatt
Belgium
Philip
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Willandt
Maryland
Parly
Jean Panl Larrens
Baltimore
Yorktown
Vienna
Austria
Slim
Sing
Strohel
Louis de Hofman
Louts de Koffman
William Cloke Deng
Agenta
Bank Wrecker
Pardon
Gloucester City
Gloucester
Stein Brothers
Joseph McArthur, Jr
Tone
J.P. Turner
Davis
Ewen Lake
Alloway
Milton
Louis van Leer, Jr
Ferrell
Hunterdon County
Fao
Enee Tees
Cali
Beall
lea—King
Ee Davis
Pacific Coast
Potatoca
L. I
Jersey
Orange Co
Wiest
Duluth
Lanh
Northwest
Throre
Weat and
Bouth
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