Yale Commencement Day Brings Taft Speech and Honors
Haven Conn June Yale commencement day drew large crowds including President Taft who warned Congress that failure to uphold Republican promises could invite opposition. 721 graduates were analyzed with economics and law among top fields. notable professors named and Princeton Harvard standings noted.
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Hadlew
Gms Hall
Phelps
Lyman Abbott
Princeton Ie
Harvard
Taft
Yale
Congress
Hoe
Reading Company to Raise Wages in Reading Pa
Reading Iron Company announces July 5 wage restoration after February trade downturn. Christian Church convention at Tur per raises funds to aid Congo missionaries with 3000 to 4000 in attendance. Friends push Binger Hermann for Roseburg mayoral nomination. Hermage undecided.
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Reading
Reading Iron Company
Wales
State Convention of the Christian Church
Turper
Bons
Congo
Africa
Binger Hermann
Roseburg
Hermage
Tennessee Prohibition Law Takes Effect Nationwide
Tennessee enacts the four mile law statewide, effective at midnight. It bans selling or serving liquors, wines, ales, or beers as beverages. manufacture prohibition starts January 1, 1910. Nashville clubs plan to operate social clubs to legally provide liquor, while Memphis has issued over fifty social club charters. The drive centered on E. W. Carmack and Governor Patterson, with Patterson opposing statewide ban and Republicans aiding passage.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee
Memphis
Secretary of Siate
United States
E. W. Carmack
Patterson
Murderer Page Kills Himself After Valley Junction Tragedy
The body of Calvin L. Page, who yesterday killed Mr and Mrs Elmer Jamison the parents of his former wife near Valley Junction, was found today near the Jamison home. He had taken his own life.
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Calvin L. Page
Elmer Jamison
Valley Junction
Jamison
Ten Thousand Steel Workers Strike Over Open Shop Order
Pittsburg June 30 more than ten thousand skilled workers members of the Amalgamated Association of Iron Steel and Tin Plate Workers employed by the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company across Pennsylvania Ohio Virginia and Indiana will quit work at midnight as the company open shop order becomes effective. The union plans a firm fight though the trust is said to stand firm.
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Pittsburg
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Plate
American Sheet and Tin Plate Company
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Virginia
Indiana
Amalgamated Association
Alberta Coal Strike Ends After Three Month Stand
In a three month action six thousand coal miners in southern Alberta and southeastern British Columbia vote to accept terms offered by operators ending the strike.
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Winnipeg
Alberta
British Columbia
BAPTISTS RE-ELECT ALL THEIR OFFICERS
Portland June 30 Northern Baptist convention at the White Temple elected its officers with Harry Pratt Judson of the University of Chicago as president for the year. Corvin Shank George Horr and Frank Field named vice presidents. Coleman Biting and Lincoln chosen recording secretary corresponding secretary and treasurer. The process was a formal machine affair with no debate.
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Portland
Northern Baptist Convention
White Temple
Harry Pratt Judson
University of Chicago
Corvin
Shank
Seattle
George Edwin Horr
D. D
Newtown Centre
Mass
Frank Harvey Field
New York
George W. Coleman
Boston
Rev. W. C. Biting
St. Louis
William E. Lincoln
Pittsburg
Miss Marion Lawson Weds Chicago Clubman Lord
Boston notes the marriage of Miss Marion Lawson to James Fuller Lord a Chicago club man and renowned driver. Both known for horse showing success in Chicago and nationwide events. The couple met at a driving club event and were supported by her father Thomas Lawson.
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Boston
Mates
Marion Lawson
Thomas Lawson
James Fuller Lord
Chicago
Miss Lawson
Indictment of Calhoun Sustained
San Francisco judge overruled the motion to set aside the second indictment against Patrick Calhoun president of United Railroads. Trial on bribery charge to a supervisor ended with a jury disagreement.
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San Francisco
Lawler
Patrick Calhoun
The
United Railroads
Explosion victims may all recover at Hull explosion
Surgeons treating five men scalded by the boiler tube explosion on the torpedo boat destroyer Hull yesterday believe all will recover. Cause of the blast not definitely fixed.
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Vanlefo. Cal
William Herve Dies in Salem Duel Case Threatens Life
William Herve, shot and killed Henry Sullivan in a pistol duel at Gates, is gravely ill in the County Jail with authorities fearing he may die any time. His trial is scheduled for next week. Roseburg adopts decorative post street tasting system funded by citizens for posts while the city covers current costs.
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Salem, Or
William Herve
Henry Sullivan
Gates
Roseburg
Will Erect Frame Buildings for Crowds in Kalispel
Kalispel Mont June 30 A joint chamber of commerce and city council committee began three temporary frame buildings to house 300 to 400 people each for the Flathead reservation lands registration. More buildings may be added if needed with a nominal lodging charge to reimburse the treasury.
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Kalispel
Mont
Chamber of Commerce and
City Council
Uncle Sam Calls For His Money
Washington June 29 Secretary MacVeagh ordered a call on National depository banks to return to the treasury about 25 million dollars in government funds. Nine million to be paid by July 15 and sixteen million by August 15. The move will nearly wipe out all government deposits.
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Washington
MacVeagh
National banks seek to retain designation amid funds changes
In a shift affecting multiple National banks, about 37 million dollars are tied to active accounts while totals around 10 million are set to stay in 1000 dollar lots. Banks aim to maintain their National designation amid ongoing financial adjustments and restructuring.
Ford Car No. 2 Wins First Prize
Seattle on June 29 The referee Robert Guggenheim disallowed Shawmut car’s protest over Ford Car No. 2 taking the top prize in the New York to Seattle automobile race. Evidence did not support violations and Ford Car No. 2 receives the trophy cap and $2000 while Shawmut earns $1500 as runner up.
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Seattle
Shawmut
Flest
New York
Robert Guggenheim
Guegenheim
Ford
Chicago Wheat Market Close Report June 30
Chicago wheat prices closed with July at 1.16 and September at 1.17 7 8, December at 1.09 7 8, May at 1.12 7 8.
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Chicago
California Northeastern railroad to Natron line bid likely
Klamath Falls Oregon June 320 The California Northeastern railroad will extend to Natron with a 1 percent grade. Bids for the work will be opened by July 10 and contractors Palmer McBride of San Francisco travel to Klamath Agency to assess conditions for bidding. Giants in rail construction may secure the twenty five mile extension.
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Klamath Falls
California Northeastern Railroad
Natron
Oance
San Francisco
Portland
Odell
Messrs
Palmer & McBride
Klamath Agency
Hoey
W .S. Worden
Harvard Commencement Sees Absence of President Eliot
Cambridge Mass June 30 half a thousand seniors of the class of 1909 received diplomas at Harvard University 273rd commencement day. Alumni and dignitaries attended as Dr Charles W Eliot did not preside for first time in forty years. Walter Cabot Baylies led the twenty fifth anniversary class as chief marshal.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard University
Charles W. Elot
Walter Cabot Baylies
Harvard Yard
Lowell
Brandenberg to Face Trial on Kidnapping Charge
The man once acquitted of grand larceny in New York was rearrested as he left the courtroom and ordered to stand trial in Missouri next week for kidnapping his stepson James Shepard Cxabanse Il. The offense carries a possible life term. he remains jailed at the Tombs in default of $5000 bond awaiting Missouri officers.
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New York
Broughton. Brandenberg
Grover Cleveland
New York Times
St. Louis
James Shepard
Missouri
Mississippi seeks injunction against Standard Oil
Jackson Mississippi June 30. District Attorney Lamb applied for a perpetual injunction to restrain Standard Oil Company from operating in Mississippi and to collect eleven million dollars in penalties for alleged anti trust law violations.
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Jackson
Miss
Lamb
Standard Oil Company
Mississippi
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IFT
Reading Company
Tennes
Page
Fauke
Eugene Springfield
Cottage Grove
Watchword
Hart, Schaffner and Mary
Great
Northwest
Baptists
D. G. Garabrant
Toto
Board of Management
Calhoun
Salem
Kalispell, Mont
Sam
President Taft
Ford Car NO
Klamath
Natron Line
Eliot
Brandenberg
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