State Charities Agent Reveals Child Torture In Illinois
Rev. Charles Virden testified to the Rock Island conference that about 550 child cases have been handled, detailing brutal abuses including burning with hot irons and binding cruelty. He cited sales of children, a Quincy infant left nude in a market basket, and lack of Illinois laws against selling children. He urged stronger protections and reforms.
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Chicago
Ill
Charles Virden
State Board of Charities
State Conference of Charities
Rock Island
Illinois
Quincy
Virden
Alton
Ruthless waste threatens world fuel supply, science urged
London scientist Professor Henry H. Armstrong told the Tron and Steel Institute in Middles borough that global waste of timber iron coal and oil is alarming. He criticized ocean steamers Lusitania and Mauretania for consuming vast coal daily and urged urgent economical fuel research and new methods.
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London
Henry H. Armstrong
City and Guilds of London
Central Institute
Tron and Steel Institute
Middlesborough
Lusitania
Mauretania
Armstrong
Signs of a Cold Winter
New York City reports a farmer interviewed as saying signs point to a hard winter. He cites a heavy nut crop, plentiful wild grapes, a large fruit harvest, and dense corn husks, plus wasps and hornets nesting low and crickets and katydids singing. He urges close observation of nature.
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New York City
Pike County
Pennsylvania
International and Colonial Trade and Infrastructure Highlights
Notes show China buying lumber from British Columbia and New Zealand proving a strong timber market. Italy plans road construction and upgrades. Brazil borrows $10 million in Paris for railways. Oil finds in Orange River Colony signal growth while Newfoundland faces a poor fishery outlook. Great Britain’s railway capital and 1907 earnings are detailed, with increases in New Zealand postal and telegraph activity.
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China
British Columbia
New Zealand
Chile
Japan
Brazil
Paris
Orange River Colony
South Africa
Newfoundland
Italy
Great Britain
Russia
Denmark
Germany
Belgium
Canada
United States
Servia War Fever Ebb and World News Roundup
The item list notes Servia’s war fever abating and the British bound letter mail setting new records. It mentions the Cretan Parliament voting union with Greece, the Haiti president’s wife Mme Nord Alexis dying, Montenegrin credit for war, and various international actions including a China arbitration treaty and anti Austrian Bulgarian German boycott moves.
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Servia
Greece
Mme
Nord Alexis
Haiti
Port Au Prince
Ministry of War
London
New York
Illinois
China
State Department
Root
Constantinople
Durban
Lackawanna Railroad
Herman Ridder
New York City
Democratic National Committee
Haskell
Oklahoma
Java
Bronx Zoological Park
M. A. Augustin Rey
Paris
Cotton Seed Oil Export Growth Hinted For Turkey
Washington reports Ambassador Leishmann in Constantinople says cotton seed oil is now the second largest U S export to Turkey. He notes the Turkish market offers great potential and that broader canvassing could greatly expand sales of this oil in Turkey.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Turkey
Leishmann
Constantinople
America
Engineer Shot Down Near Panama City Florida
Engineer Eugene Wood of a milling concern was shot and killed by Jack Gilbert a naval store operator near Panama City Florida after Wood refused to stop for freight. Gilbert placed a red flag on the track then waited with a gun and fired as Wood left the engine. The incident ends with a fatal shooting attributed to a heated confrontation and a later moralizing proverb from the report.
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Sy Naval
Panama City
Florida
Pensacola
Fla
Eugene Wood
Jack Gilbert
Gilbert
Wood
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Surrey
London Daily Mail
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