Roosevelt Speech Seeks Progressive Cure for Trusts and Tariffs
Col Theodore Roosevelt delivered a wholly political keynote in Pittsburgh urging voters to back Gifford Pinchot for senator and Dean Lewis for governor. He attacked the Wilson administration for failing to reduce living costs and congress tariffs, promoting regulatory commissions and a broad Progressive program to curb monopolies while preserving honest business and cooperative labor. The speech outlined six core facts about concentration and monopoly and urged cross party unity to defeat the Democrats.
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Pittsburgh
Theodore Roosevelt
United States
Gifford Pinchot
Dean Lewis
Wilson
Chicago
Roosevelt
Progressive Party
Hoa
Democratic Party
Americans Told to Flee Mexico Amid Huerta Turmoil
Brazilian Minister Senor de Ali veia, representing the United States in Mexico after diplomatic break with General Huerta, sent a private dispatch to the state department Tuesday urging Americans to leave Mexico. He could not interpret his own policy and view Americans to depart.
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Washington
Senor de Aliveiia
Brazil
United States
Huerta
State Department
Snd
Prisoners Paid Over Twenty Thousand In Wisconsin Penitentiaries
More than 620,000 was paid by contractors to prisoners in the Wisconsin penitentiary at Waupun, according to a compilation by President Smith. The figures discuss annual payments and the scale of employment for inmates.
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Madison
Wis
Wuaupun
Smith
State Board of Control
Ames
Woodward
Glenwood Institution
Anamosa
Fort Madison
Iowa
Federal
Smith McPherson
John C. Pollock
District of Kansas
United States Circuit
Walter I. Smith
State Board of Parole
Saunders
Austin J. Philpott
Three Negroes Killed in Laurel Pay Train Robbery
Three black men were shot dead and two injured by a bandit who robbed a pay train near Laurel Mississippi. The attacker has been located several times but remains at large after killing one guard and wounding two others.
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Laurel, Miss
Posea Eceling
Fons
Guns Are Silenced in Puerto Plata Bombardment
The U S gunboat Machias under Navy Dept orders silenced Bordas forces at Puerto Plata Santo Domingo after artillery fire threatened Americans and foreigners. Captain Russell reported the bombardment ceased, asserting no further vessels are needed and that the prompt action reassured noncombatants in the city.
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United States
Machins
Navy Department
Bordas
Santo Domingo
Puerta Plata
Arias
Revolutioniats
Lves
Russell
South Carolina
Puerto Plata
Pierta’ Plata
Americana
Mellen Indicted in Hampden Railway Notes Scheme
Middlesex County grand jury returned two indictments charging conspiracy in floating Hampden railway notes. Defendants include Mellen, Boston, July 1 1908. Indicted with Mosely, Ralph Lilliette and Hampden Investment Company committees. Alleged creation of securities on Hampden Railroad with weak or non substantial security or indorser.
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Mellen
New Haven Railroad
Frederick S. Mosely
Ralph B. Gilliette
Cambridge
Mornday
Middlesex County Grand Jury
Hampden Railways
Hampden Investment Company
Hampden Railroad Corporation
Hampden” Railroad Corporation
MAY INVADE MEXICO Huerta Asks Armistice End
The Mexican crisis deepens as Huerta presses whether the mediation talks break the U S Mexico armistice. Reports claim foreign nationals in Mexico City may be protected by an international force if Huerta flees. Disruptions to the peace could trigger renewed hostilities and international intervention fears.
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Dresden
Puerto Mexico
Conde
Huerta
Mexico City
Niagara
State Department
Senor de Oliveira
Victoriano Huerta
Niagara Falls
Ont
Huertas
Ab.c
United States
Mexico
Niagara Falla
Cotton Gambling Is Doomed by Lever Bill Passed
Washington July 1 By a vote of 84 to 1921 the house passed the Lever bill to regulate speculation in cotton futures on stock exchanges. The act standardizes cotton grades and requires delivery of the actual contracted grade. It imposes a prohibitory tax on nonconforming deliveries, aiming to curb hob-tailed cotton and ensure contract compliance.
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Washington
House
Telegraphic Notes from Tokyo to London and Washington
Tokyo reports Henry Willard Denison, legal adviser to Japan’s foreign affairs, critically ill at St Luke’s in Washington. Senator Lewis requests naming one of three new dreadnoughts for Illinois. Secretary Daniels refers the issue to the General Navy Board in London. Also announced is the death of Stanley Portal Hyatt, English writer and explorer, aged thirty-seven, who fought in the 1904 Philippine campaign with his brother Ayman Hyatt, experiences later in a book.
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Japan
Henry Willard Denison
Department of Foreign Affairs
Bt. Luke's Hospital
Washington
Lewis
Navy Department
Congress
Illinois
Daniels
General Navy Board
London
Stanley Portal Hyatt
Ayman Hyatt
Philippines
Marye Named U S Envoy to Russia by Wilson
President Wilson sent to the Senate the nomination of George T. Marye of San Francisco and Washington to be United States ambassador to Russia. Marye, a retired stock broker and former president of the San Francisco stock exchange, was born in Baltimore in 1849 and educated in Cambridge Paris Berlin and Barcelona.
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George T. Marye
San Francisco
United States
Russi
Senate
Wilson
Russia
Marye
San Francisco Stock Exchange
Baltimore
Mr. Marye
Cambridge
Englard
Paris
Berlin
Barcelona
University of California
U. S. Express Firm Quits After 7 Years of Service
United States Express Company in New York ends operations at midnight Monday after seven years since inception before the Civil War. About 90 percent of its 16,000 employees have found new positions.
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New York
United States Express Company
Fire destroys Marblehead Time plant in Springfield
Fire in Springfield Missouri destroyed the Marblehead Time company plant with damage estimated at 100000 dollars. After three hours the blaze was controlled but low water pressure and dangerous overhead wires hampered firefighters.
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Marblehead Time Company
J. Paul
Minn
Midway District
French liner La Gasconne ashore off Lisbon coast
The French transatlantic steamer La Gasconne ran aground along the Portuguese coast during a voyage from Bordeaux to Buenos Aires. In Formosa Taoshoku, Count Sakuma, governor general of Formosa, was mortally wounded in combat with head hunters, shot with a poisoned arrow.
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Portugal
la Gasconne
Bordeaux
Buenos Ayres
Count Sakuma
Taoshoku
Formosa
Cherokee Nation Dissolved Amid 600000 Fund Split
The Cherokee Nation, the largest of the five civilized tribes, dissolved as a nation on Tuesday. Tribal funds totaling 600000 dollars are to be distributed among its 41000 members.
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Washington
Cherokee Nation
Five Civilized Tribes
United States Weighs Dominican Intervention Report Circulated
Washington reports say Senor Don I A Carnada Dominican chargé d affaires met with Secretary Bryan at the state department on Wednesday. A circulating report claimed the United States planned to intervene in Dominican affairs following the talks.
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Washington
Don I. A. Carnada
Bryan
State Department
United States
Polar beer injures zoo keeper in heat attack
In St. Louis on July 2 a zookeeper named Henry P. Zimmermann was severely injured when a polar bear attacked him amid the heat. He remains at home with a mangled foot and a severed leg.
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Henry P. 2
Zimmerman
American Heiress Veda Prince Marries Rospigilo Heir
Paris reports Laura Stallo daughter of Edmund K Stallo and heiress to the Standard Oil fortune joined the Rospigilos family by marrying Prince Francesco di Rospigiost on Tuesday.
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Paris
Laura Stallo
Edmund K. Stallo
Rospigilos
Prince Francesco di Rospig-iost
Santo Domingo Rebels Repube
United States Minister Sullivan reported to the state department that revolutionists at San Pedro Macoris were decisively repulsed by the federal forces. No additional details were provided.
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Santo Domingo
Repube
Washington
United States
Sullivan
State Department
San Pedro Macoris
Japs to Withhold Details of Treaty Talks
Tokyo July 2 The Japanese foreign minister said details of treaty negotiations with the United States and Japan would not be made public, resisting disclosure of the California anti alien land measure and related topics.
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U. S
Japan
California
Rural Life Topics Institute at State College in Iowa
The Iowa State College at Ames spends two weeks spreading rural life guidance to farmers, social workers, ministers, teachers, and students. The program, capped by visits from Ernest Thompson Seton and others, aims to attract and keep Iowa’s rural population at home through practical farm and community improvements.
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Iowa State College
Ames
Towa
Bammer School
Iowa
Mfe
Ernest Thompson Seton
Boy Scouts of America
Luther Gullick
New York City
Henry Wallace
James Wilson
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Wilson
Tama County
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