Armour Institute gift and varied 1909 events
Fr W H Hughes notes J Ogden Armour gave 70000 to Armour Institute of Technology. Treasury clerks facing layoffs. Exposition battles among cities for Panama expo. King George expresses grief to British subjects. Senate approves naval bill for 134000000 and adds two dreadnoughts. World events include racial equalization at Washington Sunday school convention and Sherman law probes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bunday. J
Ogden Armour
Armour Institute of Technology
Treasury Department
San Francisco
New Orleans
Washington
Panama
George
Big Lake Ship Sunk In Lake Huron Collision Tragedy
In dense fog the steel steamer Goodyear and the steamship James B. Wood collided off Point Aux Buarques. The Goodyear sank with most hands lost. five survivors were rescued. The Frank H. Good year lies at forty fathoms, with as many as eighteen feared dead. The Wood sustained a broken bow but stayed afloat. Captain Gibson and crew acted to save others as the fog hindered rescue efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank H. Goodyear
Mitchell Transit Company
Lake Huron
Point Aux Buarques
James B. Wood
Gilchrist Transportation Company
Goodyear
Atl
Gibson
Port Huron, Mich
Balloon lands in Michigan after 470 mile flight
St Louis aeronauts H B Honeywell and W F Asmann attempted a new long distance record leaving Thursday afternoon and landing near Shiloh Michigan Friday evening after 22 hours in the air. They covered 470 miles before a dead calm forced abandonment of the Lahm cup bid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Milan
Lake Michigan
H. B. Honeywell
W. F. Asmann
Shiloh
Mich
A. Holland Forbes
Countess Tarnowska Convicted In European Trial
The Countess Maria Tarnowska known as the enchantress was sentenced to eight years in prison for the murder of her husband. Accomplices Prilukoff the lawyer and Dr Naumoff receive ten and three years respectively as the dramatic trial in Venles closes. The case exposed the mind and schemes of the alleged killer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Venles
Europe
Maria Tarnowska
Prilukoff
Naumoff
Tarnowska
Borging
Two youths play death by own action ends in tragedy
In Pittsburgh a revolver placed at a 11 year old Joseph Klein's head by companion John Allen, 17, and another boy led to Klein being shot in the head. Allen admits firing the weapon but says the act was to teach suicide. the gun discharged accidentally. Klein died later at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lada
Joseph Klein
Pittsburg
John Allen
Allen
Klein
Senate votes to build two dreadnought battleships
The Senate passed a naval appropriation bill funding two new dreadnought battleships at a total cost around 134 million dollars, defeating Burton’s amendment for only one vessel. The bill, for the year ending June 30, 1911, includes two battleships, five submarines, six destroyers, and two battlefleets, with various weapon and financing provisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burton
Senate
Johnston
Jones
Game Company
Nun Candide Arrested in Paris on Jewelry Theft Charge
Sister Candide, famed in France for charity work, was seized in Paris on a lar ceny of jewelry claim. Her arrest followed the suicide of Dr. Leon Petit who left incriminating letters, with rumors of liabilities around $800,000 and a career in holy garb that rivals scandal figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sister Candide
Paris
Candide
France
Leon Petit
Mme. Humbert
Cassie Chadwick
Politicians quibble over speakership and reforms
Speaker Cannon vows to hold the speakership until March 4, 1911 unless Republican progressives and Democrats unite to remove him. Senator Dolliver of Town to respond to speeches by Taft Wickersham and Longworth. Ex president Roosevelt not seeking office, not pursuing New York governorship or Senate. Senator Barker of Sparta asserts independence from stalwarts and progressives amid wisps of La Follette ties. Representative Martin of South Dakota praises administration as historic and useful, urging enforcement of anti trust laws.
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Cannon
Dolliver
Town
Senate
Taft
Wickersham
Longworth
Roosevelt
New York
H. W. Barker
Sparta
Wisconsin
House
Money Packages Stolen From Oil City Station
Three Adams Express packages containing 32024.24 dollars were stolen from the Oil City Pennsylvania station while agent John J. Truby loaded baggage for a Buffalo bound train. The money, consigned to the Pennsylvania treasurer in Philadelphia, was wrapped in manila paper and stored behind the ticket counter when the theft occurred after a self locking door was found ajar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oil Ciy
Fennsylvania
Oil City
John J. Truby
Adams Express Company
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
The
Pennsylvania
Truby
Mines to Remain Idle as Illinois Coal Strike Looms
Hindle Operators and men fail to reach terms and the Illinois coal field faces a split convention in Peoria with a suspension in effect since April 1 turning to a strike. Mines likely to stay closed through summer while coal prices in Chicago are expected to rise though Bantero mines remain active to supply the market. United Mine Workers officials have not set a campaign plan or indicated if pump men and mechanics will be called out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hindle
Ullnois
Peoria
Chicago
Oficiala
United Mine Workers
Receivers Named for Chicago Railways Company
Judge Farlin Q Ball in Superior Court set a judgment of 1 344635 against the Chicago Railways Company and Judge Peter B Grosscup in the U S District Court appointed receivers at the request of Westinghouse Electric Company for 63514 Henry R Blair as chairman and John M Roach as president named receivers to protect creditors stock bondholders and city amid a funded debt total of 70840034 50.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Railways Company
Farlin Q. Ball
Big Traction Corporation
Peter 8. Grosscup
United States District Court
Westinghouse Electric Company
Henry R. Blair
John M. Roach
Married Man Shoots Girl Then Kills Himself
Denver real estate dealer Harry Pike shot Miss Maezelle Ritter in Capitol Hill apartments after she refused to marry him. Ritter and Pike were wounded. Pike then went to the Kaiserhof Hotel and shot himself in the lobby, dying from the self-inflicted wound. His wife reportedly lives in Chicago.
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Thenger
Chicago
Trica
Harry Pike
Denver
Nvea
Miss Maezelle Ritter
County Hospital
Pike
Miss Ritter
Capitol Hill
Kaiserhof Hotel
Rollins Pleads Guilty in Smuggling Case
Former New Hampshire governor Frank West Rollins pleaded guilty to smuggling wearing and jewelry valued at $2,000 belonging to himself wife and son. Judge Hand noted the Rollins family standing and imposed a $2,000 fine which was paid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nilnois
Ames
National House
Serena E. Payne
Washington
Rollins
New Hampshire
New York
Frank West Rollins
Europe
Hand
Queen Mother Alexandra Receives Roosevelt at Buckingham
Queen Mother Alexandra received Mr Roosevelt at Buckingham Palace in London for a long chat. She expressed gratitude for American sympathy over her bereavement. Later she received Lord Strathcona, Canada's high commissioner, to convey thanks to the people of Canada for their affection.
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Alexandra
Mr. Roosevelt
Buckingham Palace
London
America
Lord Strathcona
Canada
Ashe
Dominion
Trade and Industry notes yield and trade milestones
Mininegota reports corn production reaching 60 000 000 buah Gla per year with yield higher than Iowa. Morristown New Jersey hosts a squad raiser that sold 25 000 dollars worth of birds to New York hotels and steamship lines. Canada's fiscal year trade hits 667 142 189 dollars, up 20 percent. Deadwood US assay office to buy and ship 6 million dollars annual gold from Homestake to New York. Cassville Wisconsin resident B Candler produced 13 000 pounds honey from 400 colonies with near total personal labor.
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Mininegota
Iowa
Morristown
N. J
New York
Great Steamship Lines
Canada
United States Assay
Deadwood
Homestake
Miss B. Candler
Cassville
Wis
Mise Candler
Babe Under 44 Cars Yet Lives in Syracuse Incident
The two year old son of Ernest Allan narrowly escaped death when a locomotive and forty four cars passed over him near his Syracuse home. The child lay between tracks and was found uninjured aside from a bump after the engine cleared the train.
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New York
Ernest Allan
Syracuse
N. Y
Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Praised by Milwaukee Reader
A Milwaukee woman writes of relief from female troubles and back pain after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She claims doctors warned of a tumor and surgery but the remedy cured her, urging other women to try it before operation. The letter cites many grateful testimonials received by the Pinkham Medicine Company.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Lydia
Pinkham
Tom Sipare Sowie
Hama Lise
First St
Pinkham Medicine Company
Yan
Mass
Lydia HE
Lydia R. Pinkham
Lynn
Fatal Defect in Suitor Choice Cited by Chicago Record-Herald
A fragment reports a man notes a woman’s claim she could marry an old, wealthy man. He asks why not, citing his good temper, no bad habits, and a long-lived family. The remark appears in a Chicago Record-Herald piece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Record-Herald
Doan's Kidney Pills Ad Urges Early Use
An old newspaper ad from Ionia Michigan features testimonial by David P. Corey on Doan's Kidney Pills. It touts kidney trouble relief, backache decline, and full recovery after six months of cane and bed use. Sold by dealers at 60 cents a box, Foater Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doan
David P. Corey
Washington St. Ionia
Mich
Foater-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Literary censorship in Mussina and Russian works
An article in a German paper critiqued czarist censorship, noting censorship of poems and biographies. It cites a poem canceled for praising Russia as a happiness source, a Sumarekov bio denying creative acts, and gods named in Greek myth needing lowercase. It reports a line about solitude led to suppression and a censor’s barb about Siberia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mussina
Russia
Frankfurter’ Zeitung
Sumarekov
Karen
Mars
Cengzer
Czar
Siberia
Tended Concessions in Love Affair Dictate Dukes Demands
The City Journal notes a theatrical line about concessions in love as a duke offers to renounce baccarat if a father will part with another million, illustrating a satire on high society and bargaining within romance.
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Elgin Echo
Naval
Booker T. Washington
Department of Justica
Fowler
New Jersey
United States
Kean
Oliver Spitzer
Illinois Grand Army of the Republic
Free Port
Presbyterian General Assembly
Jeffries-Johnson
Sugar Company
Trust
Tariff Board
Charles Courter Dickinson
Carnegie Trust Company
Omaha
Rock Island
Fraternal Tribunes Insurance
Klaw & Erlanger-Frohman Syndidate
H. C. Havemeyer
la Follette
Lee
James A. Connolly
Senuts
World’s Sunday School Association
Commission
Princeton University
Isaac D. Wyman
South America
King George
Diag
W. J. Bryan
Sunday School Association
Big Lake
Cleveland
Huron
Port Huron
Hugo
Michigan
Poltics
Phil'd'Iphia
Cincinnati
Boston
Brooklyn
Phil'd
Detroit
St. Paul
Milwaukee Ab
Toledo
Columbia
Minne'p
Louisville
Kansas City
St. Joseph
Wichita
Sioux City
Des Moines
Lincoln
Topeka
Traction CO
Chicago Railways Co
Trade and Industry
Babe
Ater
Lydia EB. Pinkham
Postum Cereal Co., Ltd
Battle Creek, Mich
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