Freight hike rejected by union workers in Elgin Iowa
Freight handlers rejected a planned one cent per hour wage increase. The Elgin Echo notes broader global events from Adams Ward’s death to Taft and Roosevelt debates, wage trends, and rail tariff changes. The item highlights a local labor dispute amid wider economic and political news.
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John Quincy Adams Ward
America
New York
Archbishop O'Connell
Boston
Roosevelt
Taft in St Louis meets farmers and tours city
President Taft arrived in St Louis meeting a reception committee and officials before addressing a farmers convention at 11. He attended a Business Men's League luncheon at the Southern Hotel, then watched opening innings of baseball games at National and American League parks before a Traf fic Club dinner and return to Washington. In Cincinnati a day earlier he dedicated a statue of Theodore Thomas at the May music festival with a large choir and orchestra, praising the conductor and featuring a moving statue in the festival building corridor.
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Taft
St. Louis
Business Men’s League
James Wilson
Hadley
St. Louie
Commercial Club
Farmers’ Convention
Business Men's League
Southern Hotel
National Farmers’ Union
Cincinnati
Theodore Thomas
Chicago
Handel
Liberty
Thesodore Thomas
Thomas
Plan to Raise Freight Rates Across Western Lines
Western railroads file tariffs with the Interstate Commission to take effect June 1, signaling a nationwide rise in freight charges. Wool shipments from Minneapolis to New York increase from 54 to 64 cents per hundredweight, about 20 percent, with Boston up similarly. Hog shipments between Minneapolis St Paul and Chicago rise 2.5 cents per hundred pounds, about 12 percent. Tariffs cover all roads in Western Freight Association territory and will apply simultaneously.
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Senate
Cummins
Atlantic
Interstate Commerce Commission
New York
James A. Patton
House of Lords
Briand
Paris
Western Territory
Atlantic Seaboard
Interstate Commission
Western
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Boston
Chicago
Western Freight Association
Standing of the Clubs in the Major Leagues
National League standings show Pittsburg leading with 9 wins and 3 losses, Cincinnati 5 7, New York 11 4, St. Louis 5 10, Philadelphia 8 4, Brooklyn 6, Chicago 7, Boston 4 9. American League week standings list Philadelphia 8 4, Boston 7 8, Detroit 10, Chicago 6 7, New York 7, Washington 6 11, Cleveland 8 6, St. Louis 3 8.
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Pittsburg
Cincinnati
New York
St. Louis
Phila
Brooklyn
Chicago
Boston
American League
Phila. i
Detroit
Washington
Cleveland
Weston sets new continental walking record
Edward Payson Weston completes his cross continental trek as he steps onto Manhattan Island at 8 35 in the morning, crossing King's Bridge and walking down Broadway toward City Hall amid cheering crowds. The original plan spanned about 3 480 miles from Pacific to Atlantic in ninety days.
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Edward Paysqn Weston
Manhattan Island
King’s Bridge
Spuytendyvil Creek
Broadway
City Hall
Edward Payson Weeton
Sport
Pacific
Atlantic
Aged Philosopher Walks Coast to Coast in Seventy Seven Days
Face of dozens of storms and heat, an old man trudges on despite minor accidents and a sprained ankle. Weston, age 72, completes a transcontinental walk in seventy seven days, not for prize money but as a lesson to American youth on the benefits of walking.
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Weston
America
Colleges News and Notable College Events
Maceester College receives 2500 from Amanda H Moss estate for St Paul schools. Wisconsin summer courses in agriculture and domestic science for first time. Jesse H Ames, Shtocton, a 1907 UW grad, now River Falls Normal history professor. Carnegie Science Hall corner stone at Macalester laid with D N Kingery leading. Purdue’s Cobb Stevens dies at Tallapoosa Ga. George W Scott wins Curtis medal for oratory at Columbia. Wisconsin college summer course on school gardening set June 27 to Aug 6.
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Maceester College
Amanda H. Moss
St. Paul
University of Wisconsin
Jesse H. Ames
Shtocton
River Falls Normal
Carnegie Science Hall
Macalester College
D. N
College of Agriculture
Woman in Trance After Writing Life Story in Ohio
Mrs Bert Turi of Signal Ohio, wife of a farmer, fell into a prolonged sleep trance after dictating her life story to a stenographer. Physicians are baffled as she remains asleep for several days following a vow to her husband to sleep and never awaken.
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Bert Turi
Signal
Columbiana County
Ohio
Skirt
Electric Cars Crash in Ohio Near Urbana
A southbound freight car on the Ohio Electric Railway collided head on with a northbound passenger train near Urbana. Two men were killed, seven people were seriously injured, and eleven received minor injuries as brakes allegedly failed on the freight car. The crew says the downhill run went out of control.
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Ohio Electric Railway
Springfield
Urbana
Ohio
Fraight
New Tariff Imports Grow Brightens Up Eight Months
Government bulletin shows an eight month rise in imports under the new tariff. Manufactures material up 33 percent, finished goods 26 percent, and foodstuffs increased. Comparison spans Aug 1908 to March 31 1909 with the previous year’s months.
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Bureau of Statistics
Comet Drives Man Insane in Orrville Ohio
Fred Bowers of Orrville becomes obsessed with Halley’s comet claiming the Earth will be destroyed by fire on May 17 as the comet tail hits. He is arrested on an insanity charge after refusing to pay for groceries, arguing that the world’s end excuses payment.
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Fred Bowers
Orrville
Ohio
Bowers
Poisoning charge against Foster-mother and husband in case
Acenae Tro of Poisoning Bride. Louis W. Patterton and Mrs Emma A Allen foster-mother were arrested in Arkansas City Kansas on a warrant charging them with causing the death by poison of Mrs Frances Kimmel Patterton wife of G W Patterton a bride of a few months who died suddenly last January.
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Acenae Tro
Louis W. Patterton
Emma A. Allen
Arkansas City
Kan
Frances Kimmel-Patterton
G. W. Patterton
Middleville Post Office Safe Blown Open Heist
Burglars dynamited the Middleville Michigan post office with an ultraglycerin charge, looting about $100 while leaving $500 behind. The interior was wrecked, walls blown, the door hurled across the room and all windows broken in the break-in.
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Middleville
Mich
Knox Jr and bride forgiven in Washington mansion ceremony
The surrender of the Secretary of State to his young son Philander C Knox Jr is completed as the college widow bride is received at the parental mansion on KC Street NW Washington. They were house guests for the weekend.
Shot in quarrel over wages in Forbes North Dakota
Farm hand known as Red shot Dick Mock, farmer, during a dispute over four dollars. Police report lists Forbes, North Dakota, as the scene of the shooting and notes the incident follows a quarrel over wages.
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Red
Dick” Mock
Forbes, N. D
Great Chicago gathering unites Protestant churches for world missions
The national missionary congress in Chicago gathered 3 500 business leaders and foreign missionaries from every U S Protestant denomination except Nevada to set a unified Chicago foreign missions policy. Delegates from all states discussed America s duty to the Orient and goals for Korea and China with leaders including Lord William Kell, Prince T B Yun and U S political figures attending.
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United States
Chicago
National Missionary Congress
Thesay
Auditorum
Lde Union
Nevada
America
Lord William Eell
Earl of Salisbury
T. B. Yun
Karen
Fairbanks
Hadley
Missouri
Mark
Hanly
Indiana
Orchestra Hall
Rey
Arthur M. Sherman
China
W. N. Blair
Korea
Mornay Williams
New York State Board of Charities and Correction
National Congress
Proctor
Christ Episcopal Church
Convicts Given Mother Hubbards in Floyd County
Convicts in Floyd County South Australia were ordered by the County Commissioners to wear mother hubbards after numerous escapes. The convicts resisted but were forced to don the garments and set to work on the streets. British Budget Becomes Law after royal assent ends political turmoil.
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Floyd County
Notable World Events and Tragic Accidents Reported
Tom L. Johnson, former Cleveland mayor, travels to London for health improvement. Prince Frederick Heinrich of Prussia renounces Protestantism, donates fortune to the Roman Catholic Church, and enters a monastery. Argentine consul A Geiger killed in Munich auto crash. wife and consular colleague W Korte and driver injured. King Albert allocates funds for sleep sickness campaign, Belgian Congo hospitals, Congo servant pension, and family relief. Reports from Cape Palmas Liberia describe ongoing clash between natives and Liberian troops. Rev Speare is killed. white residents at risk.
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Tom L. Johnson
Cleveland
Ohio
London
Haig
Europe
Kelsers
Prince Frederick Heinrich
Prussia
A. Geiger
Munteh
W. Korte
Albert
Bulla
Belgian Congo
Congo
Liverpool
Cape Palms
Liberia
Speare
Cape Palmas
Dangur
Well and Strong from Lydia E Pinkham’s Remedy
A reader testimonial praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound restoring health after severe uterine disorders and general illness. The notice includes multiple personal endorsements from women in Iowa and Nebraska and offers free advisory letters from Mr Pinkham. It ends with a Chicago Tribune obituary mention about Mrs Lapsting regretting missing a neighbor's funeral.
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Jefferson
Lowi
Glenwood
Towa
Lydia E.pinkham
Mia
Iowa
Lydia
Pinkham
Pinkbom
Catarrh Cure ads and odd snippets from a century ago
A collage of 19th century ads and quips includes Hall's Catarrh Cure with testimonials, a Toledo druggist lineup, and a humorous exchange about dining with a friend. A traveler recalls real estate gains, noting a graveyard lot1870s style economic reflection.
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