A History of Seven Days Briefs
The item previews seven days of global events in concise bulletins. It notes Panama Canal forts to be named Grant Sherman Randolph and De Lesseps and reports immigration restriction calls by Commissioner William Williams. It also mentions President Taft returning to the White House after a long cross country journey and preparing his annual message to Congress.
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Panama Canal
Grant
Sherman
Randolph
de Lesseps
William Williams
Europe
Taft
White House
Congress
Archbishop Farley to sail for Rome as cardinal
Personal Archbishop Farley of New York asked St Patrick's congregation for prayers and made his last appearance before sailing to Rome to be elevated to cardinal. Governor Plaisted of Maine supports selling Honor in Maine cities and says the state cannot expand until the liquor question is settled.
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Farley
New York
St. Patrick’s Congregation
Rome
Plaisted
Maine
Hqnor
Baseball rumor and college gloom cast shadows on season outlook
A sports chatter predicts Tommy Leach of the Pirates will manage the Reds next year and to pin a deal blocker for Tinker. Princeton shows weak form after Dartmouth, and Yale defeats Brown, signaling a bleak mood. A Highland New York carriage drinker was jailed 30 days in La Crosse Wisconsin.
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Tommy Leach
Pirates
Cincinnati Reds
Chance
Herrmann
Tinker
Cubs
Princeton
Tiger
Dartmouth
Yale
Brown
Carridge
Highland
N. Y
la Crosse
Wis
Multiple 1909 items mix in massachusetts mass trials and elections
General II cost Governor Foss reelection 16828.31 to secretary of state. Bertram Spencer trial for murder began in Springfield. Beattie Jr. loses appeal in Virginia murder case. Pastor Richeson trial set for Jan 15 in Cambridge. Norris urges Canadian pulp tariff extension to 28 nations. Untermyer proposes Sherman law overhaul with federal commission. Three boys killed by dynamite caps in Rochester. Lofaro family murdered in Brooklyn. Weymann wins air race Rheims to Amiens. Sullivan hints at repealing Frawley law in West. A destructive cyclone in Rock County WI kills eight, injures many. Barnes Jr. ordered to produce Albany Journal books. Italians protest false Tripoli reports. Socialists gain nationwide. Blankenburg elected Philadelphia mayor. Lunn comments on Socialists’ governance in Schenectady.
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Foss
Massachusetts
Bertram G. Spencer
Martha B. Blackstone
Springfield
Mass
Virginia Supreme Court
Henry Clay Beattie, Jr
Pastor Richeson
Avis Linnell
Cambridge
Norris
Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Taft
Samuel Untermyer
The
Civic Federation
Rochester
Adolphe Lofaro
Brooklyn
Charles Weymann
Rheims
Amiens
Timothy D. Sullivan
West
New York
Rock County
Wis
William Barnes, Jr
New York Republican State Committee
Journal Company
Albany
Senate
Supreme Court
Joseph A. Kelloggs
Glens Falls
Sulzer
Tripoli
Foreign Officers See Italians in Control of Tripoli City
Nineteenth century dispatches report that foreign officers in Chester at Marseilles believed Italians held Tripoli. Other items note consuls leaving Nanking, a boxing ban matter in England, and various global political moves including Cuba’s leaders and Nobel prize to Maeterlinck.
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Chester
Marseilles
Tripoli
Nanking
Moran
Driscoll
England
Port Said
George
Presi
Gomez
Zayas
Cuba
Notable Figures and Events Across World and U S News
A compilation notes Howard Pyle's death in Florence and Italy defense of Tripoli atrocities, court and anti trust moves, War Department inspections, Congress Canal work oversight, bandit captures at Ogdensburg, Cook Danish lecture denial, Taft Wickersham anti trust talks, Pulitzer school of journalism plans, Maryland racetrack revenue reform, Carncross death, Schumacher brothers arrest in Italy, Reno divorce case, Tarkington civil suit, Wisconsin football fatality, Governor Dix election remarks, Franklin Kansas City strike, and Eugene Norton death and hazing claim.
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Howard Pyle
Florence
Italy
Tripoli
Supreme Court
Stimson
Leonard Wood
Washington
Fort Riley
Kan
Cannon
Congress Committee
Panama
Ogdensburg
N. Y
Canada
Frederick A. Cook
Copenhagen
Taft
Wickersham
Oseph Pulitzer
Maryland
Ohn J. Carncross
Dixey
Philadelphia
Albert Schumacher
Pandora
Ohio
Orr
Reno
L. A
Dix
Utica
Dux N.Y
J. A. Franklin
Kansas City
International Boilermakers and Helpers’ Union
American Locomotive Company
Eugene C. Norton
Dundee
Ill
University of Illinois
Champaign
Missouri Ousts Harvesters in Anti Trust Stampede
The Missouri Supreme Court ousted the International Harvester Company of America and fined it 50000 dollars for violating state anti trust laws. The ruling hinges on testimony by George W Perkins and requires payment and proof of severing ties with International Harvester Company of New Jersey by deadlines. Louisville officials relocate to New York across the Ohio River.
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George W. Perkins
Jefferson City
International Harvester Company of America
Missouri
Supreme Court
Theodore Brace
International Harvester Company of
New Jersey
Harvester Company
George W
Louisville
International Harvester Company
Indiana
Kentucky
Commonwealth
Made Slim by the Knife in Obesity Operation
Philadelphia reports Dr W Wayne Babcock at Samaritan Hospital performed a cutting operation to remove abdominal fat. The procedure labeled resection of abdominal wall for obesity aimed to reduce girth and restore a straight silhouette.
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Philadelphia
W. Wayne Babcock
Samaritan Hospital
Aldermanic Bay
Packers Surrender to Seek Quick Appeal on Sherman Law
Nine indicted meat packers surrendered to U S Marshals in Chicago and asked for an immediate habeas corpus appeal to Circuit Judge Kohisaat to challenge the constitutionality of the Sherman anti trust law before trial. The move aims to bypass trial and take the issue to the Supreme Court.
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Chicago
United States
United States Circuit
C. C. Kohisaat
United States Supreme Court
Remarkable Lung Operation Performed for Tuberculosis
Dr. Robert Le Conte of Philadelphia performed a pioneering lung resection to remove diseased tissue in a tuberculosis patient. The operation, presented before the Clinical Congress of Surgeons of North America, is reported as the first of its kind. The patient shows signs of improved strength after the procedure.
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Philadelphia
Robert le Conte
Clinical Congress of Surgeons of North America
Philadelphia meeting set for January 17 to defend business groups
The Board of Trade of Philadelphia calls national business associations to send delegates to a January 17 meeting in Philadelphia to mark Corporation Day and unite against what it calls unjust attacks on business organizations in the United States.
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Philadelphia
New York
United States
Board of Trade of
Life Savers Service Ends Founding Superintendent
John G. W. Havens of Point Pleasant, a founder and long time New Jersey head of the United States Life-Saving Service Fifth District, is ousted at age 78 after 36 years. Lt Henry G. Hamlet acts as interim superintendent while civil service exams fill the post, with Havens blaming Treasury politics for the removal.
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Trenton
United States Life-saving Service
Washington, D. C
John G. W. Havens
Point Pleasant
Coast Service
Fifth District
Havens
New Jersey
Washington
Henry G. Hamlet
S. I. Kimball
Treasury Department
Pupils protest colored student in Wilbur F. Rose contest
Camden High School faces a senior class protest over Herbert Primas a colored finalist in the Wilbur F. Rose prize oratorical contest. Principal Bryan supports the board of education while offering withdrawals for other finalists and reassigning places. In a separate case Martha Geddes sues to quiet title to seven properties tied to the estate of Mary Marshall with Raub named in the fraud suit.
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Camden
Herbert’ Primas
Wilbur F. Rose
Primas
Bryan
Board of Education
Thomas E. Raub
Mercer County Board of Freeholders
Court of Chancery
Martha Geddes
Mary Marshall
Philadelphia Man Injured As Auto Strikes Rail Tracks
E A Speery of Philadelphia while driving in the Delaware Valley near Lambertville turned to pass a wagon. In the mud his car skidded onto the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks and was struck by an express. He and a companion were slightly injured and the car demolished.
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E. A. Speery
Philadelphia
Delaware Valley
Lambertville
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York Central Fined for Inhumane Cattle Transport
In United States District Court Judge Cross imposed a $200 fine on the New York Central Railroad for failing to properly feed and water cattle while in transit.
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New York Central Railroad
United States District Court
Judge Cross
Death at Home of Camden Man John Cline Aged 57
John Cline 57 of Camden collapsed on a couch upon returning home telling his sister in law Ella Holt that he felt he was dying. He died within two minutes after the remark while resting after leaving work at Camden Iron Works.
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Camden
John Cline
Ella Holt
Cline
Camden Iron Works
New Jersey News Roundup Highlights Local Events
Many counties report crop prices and farming struggles with pumpkins in Salem and Gloucester. Enoch Fogg elected mayor of Woodstown. High Bridge plans a new high school. Deer weighs 240 pounds near Glassboro. Pimm child injured in Glassboro. Dredging news from Maurice River and Canal closure by December 20. Haddonfield votes dry. Egg Harbor City GOP sweep. Gloucester City Hall tower incident with barn owl. Mays opening season concerns for rabbits in Gloucester. Oyster dredging yields many sea horses. James M Foster inheritance traced to Atlantic City. Mount Holly YMCA launches campaign to pay off mortgage. Palmyra pastor Beasley takes Christ P-B-Church post. Orr arrested for forged note in Trenton.
Supreme Court Bans Ben Hur Films for Harper Rights
The Supreme Court ruled that moving picture productions of Ben Hur infringe Harper Brothers copyright. Eighteen bandits attacked Francisco Ibarra's store in Velardena. Ibarra and wife repelled them, killing five and wounding three. An English syndicate offered 13 million for J R Booth’s Canadian paper and lumber empire but was refused. Democrats want anti trust reform and jury trials for indirect contempt. Real estate transfers show rising Italian ownership. Government tests find about one third of foods and drugs adulterated or misbranded. The Southern Furniture Manufacturers Association raised 1325 to push for better Pacific freight rates. The Civic Federation seeks Sherman Act amendments from twenty thousand businessmen. Germany, France and England pressed Cuban officials about damages claims from the war of independence. the State Department remained reticent.
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Supreme Court
Moving “Picture Productions
Harper Bros
Francisco Ibarra
Velardena
Ibarra
Mammoth Paper and Lumber
J. R. Booth
Canada
House Democrats
Washington
Southern Furniture Manufacturers" Association
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pacific Coast
Civic Federation
Senate Committee On Interstate Commerce
Germany
France
England
Cuban Department of State
State Department
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Rudolph Blankenburg
Philadephia
George H. Earle, Jr
U. R. Lunn
Scenectady
Maeterkneck
Crown Prince
Reichstag
Victoria Louise
Kaiserin
Kiel
Boumeliana
Laysan Island
H. W. Henshaw
United States Biological Survey
Belgium
Congo
Great Britain
Grand Duchy of Luxemburg
Scheldt
Asquith
Russia
Persia
Oscar Hammerstein
London
Wa-Fing-fang
Manchuria
Chefoo
Changchow
Lisbon
Portugal
Yuan Shi Kajitsa
Peking
Gen
Chang
Tientsin
Ha-Foreten
Missouri Ousts Harvester Trust
Brace
Packers
Coast Guards
Can
Dutles
Cape May
Enoch
Fogg
Woodstown
High Bridge
Andrew J. Stewart
Glassboro
Rachel
J. Clifford Pimm
Salem County
Delaware & Raritan Canal
Haddonfield
Egg Harbor City
Council of Salem
M. J. Doolittle
Paulsboro
Millvile Gas Light Company
Port Norris
Dividing Creek
Newport
Cedarville
Maurice River
Gloucester City Hall
Cross Keys
Gloucester County
Milton J. Greenman
Wistar Institute
University of Pennsylvania
Seaville
Delaware River
Duck Island
Charles Rosall
Arius
Bordentown
South Jersey
Briggs
Gardner
Maurice River Cove
James M. Foster
Darby
Atlantic City
Woodruff
Mount Holly Y. M. C. A
Main
Garden Streets
Thos. J. Beasley
Oxford University
St. John’s Church
Toledo
Christ P-B-Church
Palmyra
Charles T. Orr
J. M. Wolf
Wolf
Heya Petancke
State
Express
Ceeeeen Ell
Omar Eee
Spitzenburg
Hubbardson
Baldwin
Ben Davis
York
Imperial
Lima
California
Brussels
Virginia
South Carolina
Florida
Orange Co
Ct. Valley
Okra
Fla
North Carolina
Minneapolis
Duluth
Buffalo
Beriey
Afalting
Middle West
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