Longworth Wife Undergoes White House Appendectomy
Mrs. Alice Longworth, wife of Representative Nicholas Longworth and President Roosevelt’s daughter, underwent an appendectomy at the White House in Washington. The operation, performed by Dr. Finney of Johns Hopkins with Dr. Sophie Nordhuff Jung and Surgeon General Rixey assisting, was successful. She recovered quickly, chatted briefly with relatives, then slept for two hours as President Roosevelt continued his day.
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Alice Longworth
Nicholas Longworth
Roosevelt
White House
Washington, D. C
Finney
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Sophie Nordhuff Jung
Rixey
Navy
Longworth
Fatal Trolley Accident at Acton Ind Claims Shelby Lawyer
D M Sleeth prominent Shelby County attorney died instantly in an interurban wreck at Acton Indiana. Eleven other passengers were seriously injured as the car jumped the track at high speed. survivors say a miracle kept more people from being killed and the injured are expected to recover.
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D. M. Sleeth
Shelby County
Acton
Ind
Quiet at Goldfield Mine Con struction Continue
At Goldfield Nevada fifty six men work at the Mohawk combination mine both underground and at the mill. Over one hundred men signed the Mine Owners Association agreement but few appeared. No mob action occurred and pickets from the union were not strong. No other mines reopened.
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Goldfield
Nev
Mine Owners’ Association
Big Pawnee Fire Destroys Block of Businesses
A large blaze in Pawnee Oklahoma wiped out a full block including the O. P. C. H. department store Weinberg dry goods store Robinson grocery Globe Hotel Mentzer Brothers hardware store Masonic Lodge and the post office with an estimated loss of 200000 dollars.
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Pawnee
Okla
O. P. C. H. Department
Weinberg Dry Goods
Robinson Grocery Store
Globe Hotel
Mentzer Brothers’ Hardware
Masonic Lodge
Swiss Elects Dr Ernest Brenner President for 1908
The Federal Assembly in Berne elected Dr Ernest Brenner radical to serve as president of the Swiss Republic for 1908. Brenner is vice-president of the Federal Council, succeeding Edouard Muller, who is the current chief executive.
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Federal Assembly
Berne
Switzerland
Ernest Brenner
Dr. Brenner
Federal Council
Edouard Muller
Bank Cashier Shoots Himself in Hersher Ill
R E Easton, cashier of the State Bank at Hersher Illinois, killed himself with a revolver. Directors later reported the bank in good condition with no known motive for the act.
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R. E. Easton
Hersher
Ill
Sousa III at Home in New York with Bronchitis
Bandmaster Sousa III John Phillip Sousa is at his Madison Avenue home in New York City suffering bronchitis. He was forced to cancel his Buffalo tour but expects to resume in about three weeks.
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Sousa III
John Phillip Sousa
Madison Avenue
New York City
Buffalo
Cadillac fire destroys Cummer Digging wood alcohol plant
A blaze at Cadillac Michigan wiped out the wood alcohol distillery of the Cummer Digging Company. The total loss reached $100,000 with partial insurance coverage.
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Cadillac, Mich
Cummer, Digging Company
Cadillac
Mich
Mother of Congressman Crumpacker Dies in Indiana
Theophilus Crumpacker's mother, Mrs. Crumpacker, aged 86, died suddenly Wednesday at her Valparaiso home. She had lived in Porter County for sixty years.
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Crumpacker
Theophilus Crumpacker
Congressman Crumpacker
Valparaiso
Ind
Porter County
Indiana Doctor Louis Rice Ends Life in Tempting Crisis
Dr Louis Rice 59 of Madison Indiana shot himself in the temple during personal crisis and died instantly authorities reported. The death underscores a severe mental health crisis facing a physician in rural Indiana.
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Indiana
Louis Rice
Madison
Ind
Insane attack on labor leaders in Massachusetts claims victim
Edward Cohen of Lynn president of the Massachusetts State AFL branch died at Massachusetts General Hospital after an insane man attacked three prominent labor leaders in the statehouse in Boston.
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Edward Cohen
Lynn
Massachusetts
American Federation of Labor
Boston
Massachusetts General Hospital
Railways menace nation say Inland Waterways head
McGee secretary of the Inland Waterways Commission told a Chicago Geographic Society dinner that railways monopolize water routes and threaten the nation, urging federal action to curb control and promote alternative transport.
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McGee
Inland Waterways Commission
Geographic Society
Chicago
Fond Aca
Want Half Pay for Volunteer Officers Urged in Congress
Surviving Civil War volunteers seek a life long half pay retirement list. A committee of volunteer naval officers plans a new measure after a previous failed bill. Circulars go to all surviving volunteer naval officers outlining the long fight to extend benefits to naval volunteers.
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Congress
Navy
Marine Corps
United States
Skyscraper Menace Prompts Fear for City Fire Safety
Collier's Weekly reports the presidents of fire underwriters warn skyscrapers taller than the Washington Monument render standard firefighting and protection obsolete. A New York blaze could cost 1 to 2 billion, with insured losses 20 to 25 cents on the dollar, while panic hazards could overwhelm crowded streets and transportation networks.
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San Francisco
New York
Board of Fire Underwriters
Collier's Weekly
Washington Monument
Babb
Labour unions and solidarity movements across North America
Reports show labor actions from London to Winnipeg including old age pensions support, union organizing in Santa Cruz and Seattle, mine and weighing box disputes, wage discussions in San Francisco, a $50 000 temple plan in Scranton, wage gains in Denver, and safety and injury data from 1906 coal mining. Also notes Miss Marot urging female union organizing, boycotts by Wilkes-Barre workers, Springfield labor political moves, long-time Winnipeg carpenters, low Puerto Rican earnings, new International Spinners districts, and Paris jewelers resisting union recognition and demanding longer days.
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Organized Labor
Seattle
Wash
Ins
Springfield
Canada
Building Trades of
San Francisco
Central Labor Union
Scranton
Denver
Colo
United States
Geological Survey
Fotal
Miss Marot
Woman's Trade Union League of
New York
Wilkes-Barre
Federation of Labor
General Assembly
Carpenters’ Union
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Public library to open with Miss Billa Arnold as librarian
Milford prepares a public library with Miss Billa Arnold named librarian. The sprawling clippings note local deaths, marriages, accidents, legal actions, and civic topics across Indiana towns including Mishawaka, South Bend, Mentone, Perry County, and Evansville, highlighting community losses, civic projects, and notable incidents such as a fatal fall, poisoning, stabbings, and a train injury case.
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Milford
Billa Arnold
Fred Heberer
Evansville
Adam Klaer
Mishawaka
Josiah G. Keltner
South Bend
Mentone
Perry King
Brazil
Monarch
Greenfield resident jailed after horse clipping incident
A fragment notes a Greenfield man nicknamed bb facing prison after a horse clipping incident. Details are unclear with references to a hospital and an ongoing case.
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Greenfield
Roosevelt ends all third term talk
President Roosevelt reiterates he will not accept renomination in a White House statement sent to reporters. The move shocks politicians who expected no formal declaration so soon after the election night pledge. Public figures from Bryan to Cannon weigh in on the surprise and timing of the decision.
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Roosevelt
White House
Lowing
Republican Party
Thaw
Knox
Cannon
la Follette
Balloon flight and railway wreck fill brief news items
An immense balloon named AIP America carried seven passengers from Whrtsfield Mississippi to Canterbury New Hampshire with Leo Stevens as pilot. In California a Northwestern Pacific line train derailed after a sharp curve near Marshall and plunged into Yomales bay. water depth kept all aboard from drowning. In Louisville Kentucky a street riot following a street car strike left two citizens shot and two policemen injured by stones. Harvard University marked Founders Day and its 300th Harvard birth anniversary with speeches by F G Peabody Lyman Abbott and President Eliot. Scotch tubemakers raised prices thirty shillings a top after agreements among tubemakers of the United States Germany and Great Britain.
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Whrtsfield
Miss
Canterbury
N. HE
Leo Stevens
Marshall
Cal
Northwestern Pacific Railroad
Yomales Bay
Louisville
John Harvard
Harvard University
F. G. Peabody
Lyman Abbott
Eliot
Senate and House Adjourn with Bond Inquiry Moves
The Senate met at noon with William P Frye elected president pro tem and discussed bond issue inquiries to the Treasury, while the House, in brief session, welcomed the Oklahoma state greeting and adjourned. Movements to investigate swamp land reclamation and financial stringency were advanced.
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Senate
William P. Frye
Daniel
Clay
Culberson
Secretary of the Treasury
House
Oklahoma
Culverson
Aldrich
Tillman
Committee On Finance
Secretary of Agriculture
Slughes Champions Causes of Poverty at NY Charity Jubilee
Gov Slughes urged tackling poverty causes over effects during a New York Charity Organization Society jubilee. He called the society a democratic agent aimed at eliminating environmental factors causing unnecessary injury and pledged action to improve living conditions and reduce preventable injuries to women.
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Slughes
New York Charities Organization Society
New Phone Technique Uses Chest Vibration
Two St Louis women discover a new phone method avoiding lip contact by placing the transmitter against the body. Dr Alvin M Woodwant of Washington University explains sound vibrations travel through the chest to the lungs and then via the wire, likening the system to a stethoscope principle.
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St. Louis
Alvin M. Woodwant
Washington University
Tie
Common Law to Catch Trust Moves Colorado Attorney General
Colorado Attorney General Dickson embraces the common law as a tool to curb trusts. He filed against a grocers and coal dealers alliance accused of secret monopolistic practices raising food and fuel prices. If proven, an injunction and possible fines or imprisonment may follow. The action accompanies challenge to Railroad Commission Law before the state Supreme Court.
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Dickson
Colorado
State Supreme Court
Price of Fresh Meats Down Across Markets
Since the start of financial stringency the big meat packers have offered a concession of six percent to retailers in fresh meat prices and pushed a seventy percent drop in livestock prices. Retailers typically cut prices three cents per pound.
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Inive
Senate elects Frye pro tem and other Capitol notes
National Capital Notes report Senate names William P. Frye of Maine as president pro tempore after long service. Cortelyou and British ambassador Bryce decline Chicago Real Estate Board banquet invites. McKinley proposes widows pensions up to twelve dollars monthly. Acheson seeks a one dollar per barrel beer tax to fund waterways. Carter introduces postal savings banks offering two percent interest supervised by the Postmaster General and Treasury.
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Senate
William P. Frye
Maine
Treasury
Cortelyou
Bryce
Chicago Real Estate Board
McKinley
Iinois
Acheson
Pennsylvania
United States
Carter
Montana
Secretary of the Treasury
Readjustment signals and stable prices in early 1907
Dun's Review notes improved bank payment activity and fewer commercial defaults as year-end approaches. Despite weak new demand, conditions are encouraging with ample reserves and no violent price declines. See declines in hides wool and costs of iron lumber lead to caution. district 18 failures fall from 23 to 7 liabilities over $5,000.
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Dun
Review of Trade
Trade Improvement Limited to Finances and Retail Demand
Improvement remains mainly in finances with cautious revival in general trade. Some renewed orders, buying for quick shipments, and winter retail demand in the Northwest and South appear, but overall trade stays quiet and industrial activity remains below normal for the season. Bradstreet's reports 232 U S failures the week ending Dec 5, vs 258 the prior week and lower than past years. Canada records 20 failures.
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United States
Canada
Bradstreet
Chicago and Other Markets Report Prices Across Commodities
The report lists bids for cattle hogs and sheep in Chicago St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo and New York with varied ranges for wheat corn oats rye barley and dairy items including butter and eggs All figures show No 2 grades and mixed quality terms across multiple cities indicating market activity and price dispersion.
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Chicago
Ste. St. Louis
Cincinnati
Ste. Detroit
Milwaukee
New York
Rockefeller Adds 82.6 Million to Institute Endowment
John D. Rockefeller pledges 82 600 000 to the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, supplementing prior gifts and creating a permanent fund. The endowment promises a yearly income above 1 600 000, with directors free to use the funds as they see fit to advance the institute since its 141 opening.
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Rockefeller Institute
John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Five Belgian Police Dogs Join New York Force
Five trained Belgian police dogs are added to the New York police. The move aims to bolster street patrols and narcotics and crime enforcement with canine units.
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