Practical education focal point of North Dakota teachers convention
Minot North Dakota December reports on the 1909 North Dakota Educational Association meeting emphasize practical education as the keynote. Educator attendance is high and the program features many addresses. The notable seven member committee report spurs discussion as reform possibilities are debated but no action taken yet.
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Minot
N. D
North Dakota Educational Association
North Dakota
Committee of Seven
Creel says Mexico not unfriendly to United States
Gov. Enrique Creel of Mexico states his mission to the United States yielded gratifying results. He credits the end of Zelaya’s resignation and Madriz’s succession for reducing difficulties and preventing anarchy in Nicaragua. He says Mexico’s asylum grant to a person was not an unfriendly act toward the United States.
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Washington
Enrique Creel
China
Mexico
Nic
Associated An
Creel
Zelaya
Madriz
Nia
United States
Telegraphers May Walk Out
Cincinnati December 30. Telegraph operators of the Cleveland Cincinnati Chicago and St Louis railroad meet with officials of the Order of Railway Telegraphers over wage demands and inclusion of telephone operators. General Manager Van Kinkle declined to say if terms were acceptable but said there would be no strike.
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Cincinnati
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis
Theso
van Kinkle
J. J. Desmody
van Wi
Fire devastates Edinboro structures. no injuries reported
Edinboro Pennsylvania suffered a major fire on December 30 damaging the Ir temple, the Twitchell building, the post office, several department stores and minor structures. No persons were injured and monetary losses are described as heavy.
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Twitchell
Midtbo Seeks Republican Nomination for U.S. Senate
Dec 30 report says N. Midtbo of Donnybrook announces candidacy for the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate in 1910. He declares himself an interrepublican and plans to finish his platform later. In a prior GOP race two years ago he ran for Congress and received 1,856 votes.
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Donnybrook
Man N. Midtt “Ay
Midtbo
Congress
Rescued Mine Superintendent Survives After 28 Hours
McAlster Oklahoma December 30 Supt John Brown emerged alive though unconscious after 28 hours entombed in a smoke filled cut at Boen Darnell Co coal mine. Rescuers might have saved him only if their effort reached him within the hour. Brown a Hartford Ark mining man risked his life to save Angelo Asnicar shot firer entombed after an explosion Tuesday. Asnicar's fate remains unknown.
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McAlster
Okla
Boen Darnell Co
John Brown
Brown
Hartford
Ark
Angelo Asnicar
Greek labor mediator Toscas jailed in Grand Forks.
A. Toscas, Greek overseer for Great Northern laborers, jailed after a Grand Forks arrest on alleged extortion and peonage charges. He faces a hearing amid claims of conspiracies and prior protests from Greeks alleging harassment. Arresting deputies expect further actions.
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Grand Forks
N. D
A. Toscas
Great Northern Railroad
Toscas
Great Northern
Hanson
Devils Lake
Edauah
the Lake Daily
Sante Sone Allin
All Toscay
Washington Leads in Arrests Relative to Population
Census bureau figures released show 682 per 10 000 residents arrested and jailed yearly in 158 large U S cities for 1907. Ninety five percent of arrests relate to drunkenness and Washington, D C heads the list in arrest rate by population.
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Washington
Census Bureau
United States
Flax Reaches Record $2.09 on Minneapolis Exchange
Minneapolis trade notes flax rose to 2.09 percent, a record high for the chamber of commerce era. Officials cite global shortage, especially in the northwest, as the main cause driving the price spike.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Chamber of Commerce
Northwest
Forum Retail Boosts Fargo Sales With Guaranteed Circulation
The Forum advertises large reach with guaranteed circulation over 12,600 daily, urging merchants to showcase wares in its pages. It notes thousands of homes across North Dakota will read store news this season and warns salespeople to use Forum space to reach Fargo shoppers.
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North Cay
Worite
Forum
Fargo
Harsh Ice Sweep Hits New York and Philadelphia Cities
Severe icy conditions sweep across New York Philadelphia and Pittsburgh causing great hardship. Shelters fill as residents face cold and crowded conditions in multiple cities during a harsh spell.
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New York
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Severe Cold Wave Hits Multiple Cities
A deep cold wave brings deaths in Pittsburg and plunges New York into a record chill. Twelve degrees below zero in parts of the region, with trains delayed and shelters crowded as Philadelphia faces heavy snow and a frozen Schuylkill River.
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Pittsburg
Philadelphia
Weather Bureau
Schuylkill
Delaware River
Train Crash Through Trestle Near Kalamazoo
Interurban train plunges through a trestle on Grand Rapids and Indiana tracks east of Kalamazoo. Ambulances and physicians summoned. about a score of people reported injured.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Grand Rapids and
Indiana
Dixie versus Yankee Doodle sparks nation debate
Washington reports Otto Sonneck of the Library of Congress faced hostile mail after claiming Dixie is more prominent than Yankee Doodle in American patriotism. Sonneck defends Yankee Doodle as enduring and vital through 150 years, while noting burlesque tunes have role in national humor. Andrew Carnegie quietly recovers from a Central Park fall, with a knee injury expected to heal in days.
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Washington
North Pole
Otto G. T. Senneck
Division of Music
Library of Congress
New York
Andrew Carnegie
Central Park
Ojibway Indians in Minnesota Swindled
Boston December 30 Professor Warren K Moorhead told the American Anthropological Association that in March he was sent to northern Minnesota to study the Ojibway Indians White Earth Reservation where he found the Indians swindled out of up to 5 million dollars of property. He said inspectors spent too much time in agency offices and not enough among the Indians.
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Boston
American Anthropological Association
Warren K. Moorhead
Philipp Andover Academy
Department of the Interior
Minnesota
White Earth Reservation
Moorhead
Washington
Speculation on Central American Recognitions in Washington
Washington officials consider whether South American republics will recognize the Madriz government at Managu and whether Honduras Costa Rica or other nations will act. Reports say General Toledo is at Manague directing operations as minister of war and Zelaya’s influence shapes potential moves.
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Washington
Madriz
Manguas
State Department
Atte Department
Madrid
United States
Zelaya
Honduras
Madris
Costa Rica
Toledo
Manague
Taft Sees His Niece Married In New York
President Taft travels with Helen Taft Robert Taft and Archibald Butt to New York for the wedding of his niece Miss Louise W Taft to George H Snowden of Seattle at the Taft home in West Forty eighth street The ceremony will be quiet with close relatives present and the couple plan a European honeymoon and residence in Seattle.
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Washington
Taft
Helen
Robert
Archibald Butt
Pennsylvania
New York
Louise W. Taft
Henry W. Taft
George H. Snowden
Seattle
United States
West Forty-eighth Street
Horace Taft
Europe
Honeymoor
Stock Exchange Declared a Trust Dissolved by Kansas Judge
Judge T. C. True of the district court in Kansas City Kansas ruled that the Traders' Live Stock Exchange association operating at the Kansas City stockyards is a trust violating Kansas anti trust law. He ordered the group dissolved following a suit by the Kansas attorney general.
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Kansas City
Kan
T. C. True
District Court
Traders’ Live Stock Exchange Association
Kansas City Stockyards
Kansas
Firemen Heroically Battle Big East New York Blaze
Firefighters aided by smoke overcomes six of their number while saving a family of five foreigners trapped in a burning double tenement on Belmont Avenue East New York. More than twenty people were injured and several believed fatally, as flames swept the crowded building.
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New York
Belmont Avenue
English Earl Percy Dies in Paris
Paris, Dec 30 Earl Percy Henry Algernon George of London a member of the British parliament and former under secretary of state for foreign affairs died here today from acute pleurisy. He had checked into a second class hotel opposite a railway station and a rumor of a duel death was denied by physicians. He arrived last week in perfect health and suffered a chill followed by congestion and pneumonia with two doctors three English nurses present at his death a brother and sister with him.
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Paris
Earl Percy
Henry Algernon George
London
Fmri Percy
Butte Strikers Return to Work in Montana Yard
Butte switchmen ended their strike and returned to work today, with railroads operating with regular force. Reports from St Paul and strike headquarters indicated mixed expectations, but Northern Pacific officials confirmed the crew returned to the yards.
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Butte
St. Paul, Ming
Mont
Brotherhood of Railway
Slade
Northern Pacific Railway
Pueblo Fortunes Figure in Death at County Farm
G Noble once Pueblo’s richest man with wealth estimated between five hundred thousand and one million dollars died today at the county poor farm. He was lavish with his money and held an interest in a large mine embroiled in litigation at the time of his death.
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Pueblo
Col
G. Noble
Fire protection costs per person in U S and Europe
The U S spends 41.65 per person yearly for fire protection while Berlin 26 cents London 19 Milan 17. The Geological Survey attributes the gap to stricter European building rules and more fireproof structures. In 1907 the top 158 cities suffered over 48 million dollars in fire losses and 42 million in insured amounts.
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Berlin
London
U. & Geological Survey
Washington
United States
Milan
United States Geological Survey
Europe
Colonel Gordon Named to Mississippi Legislature
Jackson Mississippi December 30 Colonel James Gordon of Okolona once sought by a 10000 reward dead or alive for alleged Lincoln assassination ties has been named by Governor Noel to succeed the late A J McLaurin in Mississippi's upper house. He had fled to Canada after the war and later returned, taking an oath of allegiance and resuming residence in Chickasaw county.
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Jackson, Miss
United States
Col
James Gordon
Okolona
Noel
A. J. McLaurin
J. Wilkes Booth
Abraham Lincoln
Col. Gordon
Booth
Lincoln
Gordon
Canada
Virginia
New York Cavalry
Endlicks
New York
Chickasaw County
Increase Move to Foreign Fields
Rochester New York December thirty The executive committee of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions reports the movement serves as a recruiting agency to enroll enough well qualified volunteers for North American mission boards. Since 1886 four thousand three hundred forty six volunteers have sailed with 780 in four years before 1902 1000 in the quadrennium to 1906 and 1283 in the four years to Rochester conference, marking steady growth.
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Rochester
N. Y
Student Volunteer Movement of Foreign Missions
Mission Boards of
North America
Toronto
Nashville
Two Toddlers Die In Santa Claus Fire Indiana
In Santa Claus Indiana two children died last night in a house fire beside their Christmas toys. Their mother Mrs. Fred Keller rushed from milking to find them, but smoke choked the rooms and both girls perished within minutes. The older child reportedly touched a stove and lit her clothing before collapsing. Santa Claus lies in Spencer County near the Ohio River.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Santa Claus
Fred Keller
Spencer County
Ohio River
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