Elgin Echo Highlights Early 20th Century News Reel
The Elgin Echo reports on varied topics from 1900s aviation feats to political scandals. It covers Moreton Frewen on the Spanish American war, Glenn Curtiss’s Albany to New York flight, and proposed New York Chicago air prizes. It notes Taft with New York soldiers, graft probes in Illinois, and railroad rate battles. Also mentions a Russian count’s murder motive, a bishopric of Chicago, and Lorimer bribery allegations amid national affairs.
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Ninols
Moreton Frewen
London
Baron Hollowen
Lord Pauncefate
Wayne McVeagh
Senator Lodge
Glenn H. Curtiss
Albany
New York
New York World
Chicago
Taft
Edwin Gould, Jr
Connecticut
Northwestern University Medical Prosecgor
Alma Kellner
Louisville
Court Orders Freeze on Western Freight Rate Rise
Attorney General Wickersham files suit on Sherman act grounds. Judge Dyer restrains twenty five Western railroads from increasing inter state freight rates, citing unlawful agreement without competition. Eastern lines file tariffs with ICC, signaling a nationwide expansion of the rate dispute.
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Western Railroads
United States District
David P. Dyer
Hannibal
United States
United States Circuit
St. Louis
Dyst
Edwin P. Grosvenor
Washington
Frederick N. Judson
George W. Wickersham
William &. Kenyon
Charles A. Houts
Missouri Pueblo Railway
Chicago and Northwestern
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Wabash Railroad
Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul
Miinola Central Railroad
Chicago and Alton Railroad
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Chicago Great Western Railway
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway
St. Louis and
San Francisco
Quincey, Omaha and Kansas City
St. Paul and
Des Moines
Minneapolis and St. Louis
Towa Central Railroad
Fort Dodge, Des Moines and
South
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha
Bigi, Joliet and Eastern Railroad
Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis Railroad Company
Iinois
Chicago, Milwaukee and Gary
Minneapolis, St. Paul
Sault Ste. Marie
Kansas City Southern Railroad
Chicago, Indiana and Southern Railroad
Western Trunk Line Committee
Chicago
Inter- State Commerce Commission
Ohio River
Mississippi
Missouri River
Atlantic Seaboard
Eastern Trunk Lines
Milliner Kills Bookkeeper After Jilting Accusation
Miss Carrie Pritchard a 25 year old milliner employed by J F Ball Bro shot and killed Sam E Ford a bookkeeper for the same firm in his Pollock Louisiana office after accusing him of fickleness and confirming a wedding report to Birdie Long Ford admitted the accusation before clerks intervened she drew a revolver and fired a fatal shot Pritchard was arrested for the slaying.
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Millimer
Pelix
Carrie Pritchard
J. F. Ball & Bro
Sam. E. Ford
Pollock
Pritchard
Ford
Birdie Long
Mias Pritchard
Stampede to Alaska Fans Surge in Northbound Steamship Lines
Officials of steamship companies report Seattle departures to Nome and St Michaels early June will reach 16,000. Prospective prospectors rush to the Iditarod gold fields amid reports of rich finds. Wealthy travelers are forced into steerage as demand outstrips capacity and waiting lines swell beyond the ships’ allotments.
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Alaska
Bering Sea
Seattle
Nome
St. Michaels
German bacteriologist Robert Koch dies in Baden Baden
Professor Robert Koch, famed German scientist, died of heart disease in Baden Baden in his seventy sixth year after a long illness. He pioneered tubercle bacillus coloring, antitoxin for diphtheria, and research into sleeping sickness in Africa, also developing a rat poison gas. He believed his tuberculin prevented and treated tuberculosis in many cases.
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Profesor
Robert Koch
Baden Baden
German East Africa
University of Berlin
Koch
Hig
Wallstein
Bis
Kaiser
Central
Africa
Julia Ward Howe Celebrates 91st Birthday Quietly
Julia Ward Howe turned 91 as flowers, telegrams, and letters poured in from friends worldwide. She spent the day at her Beacon Street home in Boston with family, following a private breakfast hosted by New England women’s clubs for forty-two years.
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Julian Ward Howe
New England Women's Clubs
Har
British Navy Coal Use and Turkish Goat Export Ban
Reports note the navy consumes 3,000,000 tons of coal yearly and Turkey eyes export bans on Angora goats to America and Australia. Turkish Interior Minister drafts regulations. Commander Robert E. Peaty lectured in Berlin for the Berlin Geographical Society with about 200 attendees. The American explorer left Berlin for Rome. the czar secretly attended a theater. Turkish forces under Gen. Shetket repelled Albanian rebels at Katchandis Pass on the 29th, rebels retreating to surrounding mountains.
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America
Australia
Turkey
Robert E. Peaty
Berlin
Berlin Geographical Society
Rome
Albania
Shetket
Katchandis Pass
Treat Falls Dead Former U S Treasurer Charles H Treat
Charles Henry Treat former treasurer of the United States under Theodore Roosevelt died of apoplexy in his Hotel Victoria New York apartment. He was about sixty eight born in Frankfort Maine and survived by his wife and two daughters. A Dartmouth graduate he helped lead Delaware's delegation for Benjamin Harrison and later served as Internal Revenue Collector for Wall Street during the Spanish American War.
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Charles Henry Treat
United States
Roosevelt
Hotel Victoria
New York
Mr. Treat
Frankfort
Robert Treat Paine
Robertreat
Connecticut
Dartmouth College
Delaware
Chicago
Benjamin Harrison
McKinley
Wall Street
Floods Swamp Norwegian Towns and Rail Lines
Phenomenal warmth melts mountain snow in interior Norway causing lakes and rivers to rise to levels not seen since 1860. The town of Lillestrommen near Christiania is submerged and residents seek refuge in upper stories. Widespread railway and crop damage reported.
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Norway
Lillestrommen
Christiania
New York Assembly Defeats Cobb Direct Nomination Bill
A 48 to 94 vote defeated the Cobb compromise direct nomination bill in the New York Assembly after Senate passage. Governor Hughes said he would veto the Meade Phillips primary reform bill, leaving only a possible extraordinary session as hope for direct nomination legislation this year.
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Assembly
Hughes
Senate
New York Assembly
Hughes King
Meade Phillips
Dinamite Bank Robbery at Unity Wisconsin
A bold bank robbery occurred at The State Bank of Unity in Wisconsin. Two men dynamited the safe and escaped with about $2,000. The bank, founded in 1905 with $10,000 capital, had been watched by locals who noted two men lingering near the bank for days.
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Unity
State Bank of Unity
Wis
Church Membership Totals Rise in 1906 Census Report
The 1906 United States census of religious bodies tallies total membership at 32,936,445 with Protestants at 20,287,742 and Roman Catholics at 12,679,142. Proportion in principal cities skews Catholic and Protestant distribution, with major cities showing high church engagement and overall growth since 1890. The five leading cities New York Chicago Philadelphia Boston and St. Louis show notable denominational shares.
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United States
Protestant Episcopal Church
Church of Christ, Scientist
New York
Chicago
Philadelphia
Boston
St. Louis
State Senator Holstlaw Indicted in Legislative Bribery Case
Sangamon County Grand Jury indicted State Senator D W Holstlaw of Iuka Marion County for perjury two counts in a local bribery investigation. State's Attorney Edmund Burke considered evidence against four other men with more indictments likely. the perjury charge rests on Holstlaw's sworn denial of writing a letter to Derby Desk Company salesman J W Knox.
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Sangamon County
Holstlaw
Iuka
D. W. Holstlaw
Tuka
Marion County
Ilinois General Assembly
Edmund Burke
Grand Jury
J. W. Knox
Derby Desk Company
Burke
Knox
Cyclone In East Africa Drowns 500 Plus People
Dispatches from Mozambique report a terrible cyclone sweeping East Africa and adjacent Oceania. More than 500 persons drowned, ships lost, and extensive land damage feared. A single vessel carried 400 miners en route to the Rand mines, all aboard perished.
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East Africa
Oceania
Mozambique
Rand
Rail wage hikes and fare adjustments across 1907 transit network
Boston and Maine plans June 1 fare increase to pre 1907 levels citing higher wages for workers. Chicago Rapid Transit reports a 1 percent drop in accidents since pay as you enter cars, and a 44.4 percent receipts rise, with net gains around $1,000 daily. Steel and trolley firms lift wages, Middle West railroads plan freight and passenger rate bumps, and soft coal miners gain 54 percent in central Pennsylvania. McKees Rocks steel car strike ends with no material results.
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Tuttle
Boston and
Maine
Chicago
Steel Companies
Pittsburg
Steel Trust
Postal Telegraph and Cable Company
Middle West
Pennsylvania
McKees Rocks
Woman of Operation Cured by Lydia E Pinkham's Compound
A testimonial from Mrs Sapin MuLUEN of Elwood Indiana credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing her after three months of illness and failed doctors. She avoided surgery and felt better after one bottle, urging others to choose the remedy for female ailmentss including displacements, inflammation, ulcers, fibroid tumors, irregularities, and nervous prostration. The ad promises confidential advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lydia E.pinkham
Ind
Lydia B. Pinkham
Sapin Muluen
N. B. St. Elwood
Lydia
Pinkham
Nero Defends The Showman Role In Public Display
Side Lights on History quotes Nero explaining his botched intention to entertain the crowd by staging spectacles with Christians as victims. He asserts the aim is to give people what they want, dismissing claims that the display educates the public.
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Nero
Lions
Wil Interent Mothers Cure All Indian Patent Medicine
An advertisement promotes Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children by Allen H. Ohnsted of Le Roy New York. It claims to cure feverishness, headaches, stomach issues, teething troubles, regulate bowels, destroy worms, and break up colds in 24 hours. Sample mailed free.
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Gray
Allen
Ohnsted
le Roy
N. Y
It Is Painful End For Labrador Duck Character
The final Labrador duck expresses distress at its extinction and laments that the carrion crow will endure while its race ends. The dying bird notes the fate of its species and the unlikely future of its kind.
The Midnight Sun Above Norways Arctic Circle
The midnight sun is visible above the horizon for 24 hours at Bodo from June 3 to July 7, at Tromso from May 19 to July 22, and at North Cape from May 12 to July 29. In winter, darkness persists yet is tempered by snow whiteness and northern lights, creating perpetual twilight.
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Polar Circle
Bodo
Tromso
North Cape
Thackeray Joke About Epsom Salts Sailors
A foreign visitor at Epsom Downs notes many men dressed as sailors while Thackeray quips that they are not true sailors but “Epsom salts.” The exchange frames a humorous misidentification of appearance versus reality in a British setting.
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Thackeray
Epsom Downs
St. James
Epsom
FEED CHILDREN On Properly Selected Food-11 Paye Big Dividenits
A mother writes that switching from frequent potatoes with coffee to fruit, Grape-Nuts with cream, Postum, and balanced meals greatly improved her children's health. A teething baby also improved after Grape-Nuts with rich milk. The ad ends noting readers have likely seen similar letters and the slogan There's a Reason.
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Wellville
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