Youthful Criminals in Missouri Penitentiary Tale
A reprinted column argues two thirds of Missouri’s Jefferson City inmates are men aged 18 to 25 with little or no useful trade. Citing Mosby and Marx, the piece links idleness to crime, noting literacy varies and blaming lack of work and parental influence for youthful delinquency.
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Amerca
Missouri Penitentiary
Jefferson City
Nto
Thomas Speed Mosby
Missouri
Success Magazine
Gustave Marx
Chicago
Mary Plays Piano in Society A — Contrast in Taste
Cynthia Westover Alden notes in Success Magazine how Mary is asked to perform classical pieces like Chopin or Beethoven at social events while Lucy Smith, an untrained attendee, starts a lively coon song. The contrast highlights manners, taste, and parental commentary on popular music.
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Mary
Mendelssohn
Cynthia Westover Alden
Success Magazine
Lucy Smith
Electric company reports strong year with high profits
A leading electric manufacturer posts gross earnings over 33 million dollars for the year with profits of 4.179 million. The report highlights robust demand for electrical appliances and notes copper production in 1906 at 906.591 million pounds, 18 million pounds above 1905, linking metal output to electrical growth.
Latin inscriptions on Washington agriculture building recut in English
The head of the department of agriculture ordered Latin inscriptions on a Washington building replaced with plain English as most of the Latin is bad. The piece critiques reliance on foreign languages for public monuments and notes cultural trends in opera and tobacco cessation adages.
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Department of Agriculture
Washington
Rome
Fish Wins Temporary Injunction in Union Central Fight
Stuyvesant Fish seeks control of Union Central Railroad by blocking Harriman Harahan voting. Court order enjoins 281 731 shares from voting, leaving 663 269 to determine a majority. Fish accuses Harriman Harahan camp of dummy stockholders and vast conspiracy in a rival bid for four directors.
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Chicago
Stuyvesant Fish
Edward H. Harriman
James T. Harahan
Uinon Central Railroad Co
Harriman-Harahan
Fish
Harriman
Mr. Fish
Harriman- Vlarahan
M. Harahan
Wm. M. Tyall
Superior Court
Road
Union Pacific
Railroad Securities Co
Mutual Life Insurance Co
Illinois
Riots at Japanese Laundry End in Hospital Injuries
In San Francisco on October 15 a drunken logger Joseph King crashed into the Umkebuko laundry at 422 Fall Street. Proprietor Umbekuimbo and employee Omura fought King, sparking a broader melee with white onlookers. Umbekuimbo and Omura were hospitalized with severe head wounds and a shoulder fracture. King was uninjured. A separate report from El, October 16 notes Ralph Parker, a wealthy farmer, committed suicide by Paris green after prolonged illness.
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San Francisco
Joseph King
Umkekubo
Fall Street
Omura
King
Umbekuimbo
Omara
St. Sterling
Ralph Parker
Paris Green Parker
Floods Do Big Damage in Llobregat Valley
Barcelona reports floods cause extensive losses in the Llobregat valley. The latest deluge will cost several million pesetas with crops heavily damaged beyond recovery and many factories damaged or ruined.
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Barcelona
Spain
Llobregat
Robbed of Pearl Necklace during Shopping Tour
New York report says Mrs. Julia Pyle of Katonah Park was robbed of a pearl necklace worth over $2,000 after an extended shopping trip. police investigation underway and no arrests announced.
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New York
Julia Pyle
Katomah Park
Locals Vote to Persist in Telegraphers Strike Nationwide
In New York the Commercial Telegraphers union local unanimously backs continuing the strike against Western Union and Postal Telegraph. Locals in Baltimore Kansas City Denver Salt Lake City San Francisco and others vote to persevere until all demands are met amid clashes with President Small and questions of funding.
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New York
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union
Western Union
Postal Telegraph Companies
Small
General Assembly
Neill
Clowry
Percy Thomas
Daniel Russell
Baltimore
Kansas City
Denver
Salt Lake City
San Francisco
Minnesota Attorney General Cited for Contempt in Rail Rate Case
Edward T. Young attorney general of Minnesota was served with a show cause order issued by Federal Judge Lochren for contempt of court. The alleged contempt stems from mandamus proceedings in Ramsey county district court to force railroads to obey the commodity rate law, whose enforcement the federal court has temporarily enjoined.
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St. Paul, Minn
Edward T. Young
Minnesota
Lochren
District Court
Ramsey County
Mast
Santa Fe Railway Guilty on All Counts
After deliberation the jury found the Santa Fe Railway company guilty on all counts of rebating shipments. The case carries substantial penalties with a maximum fine of 1,100,000 dollars and a minimum of 66,000 dollars.
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Santa Fe Road
Los Angeles
Cal
Santa Fe Railway Company
Sensational Shooting Rocks Huntsville Area
A sensational shooting occurred Friday near New Market Alabama. John Fanning, a prominent citizen, was fatally wounded by Dr A C Allen. Dr Allen surrendered to the sheriff.
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Alabama
Huntsville
Ala
New Market
John Fanning
A. C. Allen
Allen
Rochefort Leaves Interanssignant for La Patrie Editorship
Henri Rochefort, famed French journalist aged 77, severed ties with the Interanssignant which he founded in 1880 and took over as chief editor of La Patrie on Friday.
Marine officer dies by self inflicted gunshot at Annapolis
Second Lieutenant James N Sutton Jr United States Marine Corps is dead at the Naval Academy Marine Barracks from a bullet wound to the head. He and Lieutenants R E Adams and E P Boelker returned to the camp after a dance when Sutton reportedly drew a pistol and fired after officers tried to disarm him. Adams and Roelker were slightly wounded. Sutton 22 son of James N Sutton of Portland Ore formerly a midshipman who resigned in his third class year.
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Annapolis
James N. Sutton, Jr
United States Marine Corps
Naval Academy Marine Barracks
Sutton
R. E. Adams
E. P. Boelker
Marine Camp
Academy
Adams
Roelker
James N. Sutton
Portland
Ore
Nineteen Bodies Recovered From Cyprus Sinking
In Lake Superior off Deer Park the Cyprus steamer went down Friday night. Nineteen crew members were recovered and brought to Sault Ste. Marie. Second Mate C J Pitz of Manitowoc Wis, the sole survivor of 22 aboard, arrived on the tug Schenck. Captain F B Hugick and two firemen remain missing. Pitt has recovered from exposure after washing ashore on a life raft.
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Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Cyprus
Lake Superior
Deer Park
C. J. Pitz
Manitowoc
Wis
Schenck
F. B. Hugick
Mate Pitt
Train collision near Montvale claims one life
A west bound Norfolk and Western passenger train No 3 and an east bound coal train side swiped in a cut near Montvale Virginia at four pm Sunday. One man identified as K P Umbrager express messenger Wytheville Va was killed and about a dozen passengers were injured none seriously. The passengers were returning from the Jamestown exposition.
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Roanoke
Norfolk & Western
Montvale
K. P. Umbrager
Wytheville
Actress Shoots Self During Theater Performance
Gallipolis Ohio Mississippi Texas Guinan leading lady with the Simple Simon company accidentally shot herself in the side during a Thursday night show. The loaded revolver mystery remains. She finished her song before being carried off. Doctors warn of possible blood poisoning but she may recover. In Detroit river a collision between the John W Moore and Queen City sinks Moore. one man killed.
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Gallipolis
Texas Guinan
Simon” Theatrical Company
Miss Guinan
Detroit
Mich
John W. Moore
Moore
Queen City
Detroit River
Burglar Kills Peoria Policeman in Early Duel
Peoria police officer Ed Barrett was shot and killed during a pistol duel with a burglar who had robbed a residence of diamond jewelry worth several thousand dollars. The burglar escaped after the confrontation in the early hours Sunday.
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Peoria
Ed Barrett
Virginia Congressman Dies in Big Stone Gap
Campbell Slemp Nine district Virginia congressman dies Sunday from angina pectoris. He was the sole Republican in Virginia's congressional delegation.
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Virginia
Big Stone Gap
Cubs Clinch World Championship In 2-0 Series Finale
Detroit fall to the Cubs as Chance’s warriors win four straight to claim the title 2 to 0. Mordecai Brown seals the victory with perfect support and the Cubs earn a combined gate over $101,000 with a players' pool of about $55,000.
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Detroit
Mich
Chicago
Chance
Warriors
Mordecai Brown
Hall of Fame
Jennings
Cubs
Brown
Sox
Tigers
Trust Conference Delegates Named by Illinois Governor
Gov Deneen appoints Illinois delegates to the National Trust conference in Chicago on October 23. List includes John Mitchell United Mine Workers James Garner Edmund James and Charles Ridgley among others from labor unions universities and railways.
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Springfield
Deneen
Ilinois
National Trust
Chicago
John Mitchell
United Mine Workers of American
William D. Ryan
Millinois
United Mine Workers of America
Charles Ridgley
James W. Garner
University of I Illinois
Charles Whitney
Waukegan
Benson Wood
Effingham
Edmund J. James
University of Ii
Franklin MacVeagh
John S. Miller
W. J. Calhoun
Abram W. Harris
Northwestern University
Charles G. Dawes
Lusitania Sets New Transatlantic Speed Records
The Cunard liner Lusitania arrived at Sandy Hook lightship at 1 26 a m Friday after a four day twenty hour Daunt's Rock to Sandy Hook run. The ship averaged about 24 knots for the voyage with the last day the fastest at 25 knots amid calm seas.
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New York
Sandy Hook
Daunt's Rock
Lusitania
Cassie Chadwick Dies in Ohio Penitentiary Ward
Cassie Chadwick died in the Ohio penitentiary women's ward on Thursday night at 10 16 after a comatose state. No friends were at her bedside. Her son Emil Hoover was summoned from Cleveland and arrived 15 minutes after she passed.
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Cassie Chadwick
Columbus
Oberlin
Ohio Penitentiary
Chadwick
Emil Hoover
Cleveland
Merchant Crushed Under Auto Near Morenci Michigan
Morenci Michigan report says Arthur Onweller a Lyons Ohio merchant died in an automobile accident Sunday afternoon five miles east of Morenci. He had just bought a new car and was taking his first ride with his wife and two children aboard. The vehicle left the road, plunged into a deep ditch and turned overturning. Onweller was crushed. his wife Mia and one child, a boy, were injured.
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Morenci
Mich
Arthur Onweller
Lyons
Onweller
Mia
Mitchell to quit as head of United Mine Workers
John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers, says in the Journal he will not seek re election. He cites insufficient health to properly attend duties and plans to finish his term through April. He underwent surgery months ago and may need another operation.
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Indianapolis
Ind
John Mitchell
United Mine Workers
United Mine Workers’ Journal
Mitchell
Chicago
la Salle
Mr. Mitchell
United Mine Workers of America
Springfield
Lexington business block destroyed by fire
A fire in Lexington Virginia burned a Hopkins block in the business district early Sunday destroying five firms including the Rock Bridge County News plant. The total loss is estimated at $60,000.
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Lexington
Hopkins
Rock Bridge County News
Six Perish In Burning House in Gloversville N Y
Six members of the Solomons rank family a glove cutter the father and five daughters were suffocated by smoke when their home was destroyed by fire early Sunday in Gloversville New York authorities investigated the cause and noted the rapid spread of flames engulfed the residence leaving little time for escape.
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Gloversville
Solomons
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