Burnham Pushes Rural Parcels Post Bill in Congress
Senator Burnham of New Hampshire introduces a rural parcels post bill in Congress backed by the President and Postmaster General Meyer. The plan creates a domestic rural parcels service with special rates for foodstuffs, dry goods, drugs, books and other merchandise on rural delivery routes serving over 15 million daily users. Postage scales range from 1 cent to 6 cents depending on weight from under two ounces to over twelve ounces.
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Senator Burnham
New Hampshire
Congress
United States
Postma Ter
Meyer
Unions Plan National Labor Convention to Nominate Presidents
Central Federated Union of New York meets to urge Samuel Gompers to call a nationwide labor convention. Delegates would nominate presidential and vice presidential candidates and adopt a platform for a national labor party amid criticism of Supreme Court rulings on labor bans. The meeting stresses unified action to reform constitutional protections and remove opposition to labor interests.
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Central Foderated Union
New York
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Labor Union
United States
Itas
National Labour Party
Supreme d
Daber
Taber
Auto Bales Hay and Cuts Wood Powering Local Jobs
Edward Beldon of Suffield Connecticut using his automobile as a money maker this winter by saving 300 loads of hay and cutting wood and tobacco stalks for multiple jobs. The machine powers saws and wheels are jacked to clear ground, enabling faster work and reduced expenses for Mr Bettott and others.
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Xnankea
Edward Beldon
Suffield
Conn
Bettott
Cut High priced pay and night rider violence described
The text reports Murphy stating reductions in president and general officers pay, a Tb per cent pay cut, and monthly salaries cut to 20 or two shot. Night riders armed and mounted burn barns and assault individuals. A later piece mentions a sweeping hotel regulation and intrusive dining room rules with visible cracks.
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Murphy
Cincmnat
New Orleans
Tavilwae
Alilstie
Peresident View Presidente
Agi Tea
Adwins Dent
Palace Up at Sheriff's Sale In Braddock Avenue
A Braddock Avenue home known as Lovejoy s Folly owned by Francia T Lovejoy Andrew Carnegie s young partner is to be sold by the sheriff within thirty days. The erection began about a decade ago and the garage alone cost about 40 000.
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Sheriff's Sale
Lovejoy
Francia T Lovejjoy
Andrew Carnegie
Braddock Avenue
Pitesburg
Morse Indicted in Dual NY Bank Case Warrants Pending
Charles W Morse faces two indictments returned by the New York district court in connection with Mercantile National Bank dealings. Bench warrants are issued and await his arrival to answer the charges.
Collision of Metropolitan Elevated Trains Injures Many
A collision on the Metropolitan elevated trains left several passengers severely injured and many others cut by shattered glass. Evacuation and attempts at safety were reported as chaotic with efforts to move passengers to safer areas.
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Hirago
Drying the Nation A Prohibition Chronicle 1907
The piece surveys prohibition’s spread across 17 states adding dry cities in 1907 including Atlanta Birmingham and Berkeley and notes Atlanta police shifts after the dry law. It also cites Justice Harlan predicting race war and calls for a large navy as U S policy.
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Harlan
Justice Harlan
United States Supreme Court
Asia
Wages and Labor Moves Across Nations and Unions
An overview notes wage changes in Italy and Scotland, arbitration steps averting a shipyard strike in Honolulu, and union actions in the United States. It highlights the International Brotherhood of Steam Shovel and Dredgemen, a New England organizer for the Amalgamated Meat Cutters, and railway and cooperative trends in Germany and England.
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Hoondlulu
International Brotherhood of Steam
Mns
Glasgow
Arthur W Clark
Roxbury
Mass
New England
Amalgamated
Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen's Union
Germany
England
Midland Railway Company
James Lyon
Boston
Teamsters
Morse in Financial Straits Strapped by Creditors
Charles W Morse financier of the ice combine and Consolidated Steamship Company disappears from New York after creditors seize his property in a suit filed by Charles A Hanna for 243 321. His Fifth Avenue residence is among the attached assets.
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Charles W Morse
Ice Combine
Consolidated Steamship Company
America
New York
Fifth Avenue
Charles A. Hanna
National Bank
Morse’s European departure shadows vast business empire
A court attachment shows Morse as receiver of the National Bank of North America. Reports say he left for Europe after a meteoric rise and rapid control of banks trust companies and insurance firms. His aggregate resources once topped 300 million dollars with fortune estimates around 20 million.
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Iner
National Bank of North America
Morse
Europe
E Morse
Consolidated
Politicians argue over nominations and naval policy
Gov Hughes declines object to a Republican unity expression in New York taft letters urge not to split delegations. Ohio primary legality favors Forakerites. Navy presence in the Orient touted as beneficial. Dominion Coal Company store destroyed in Dominion New Brunswick.
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Hughes
New York
Taft
Parsons
Dover
Republican National Committee
Ohio
Convention
Forakerites
Japan
Pacific
EenGly Ime
Ohio Society
Philadelphia
Breathitt Judge Hargis Slain in Store Shooting
In Breathitt County Kentucky Judge James Hargis was killed at his general store by his son Beach Hargis after a quarrel. The young man, reportedly intoxicated, fired multiple shots including three at point blank range, then two more after his father fell. Town Marshal Goran Smith and Grover Blanton arrested him after a chaotic struggle.
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Pormner County
James Harris
Kentucky
Beach
Hargis
Cather
Son
Bigs Fathers General Store
Goran Smith
Smith
Grover Blanton
Young Hargis
Ike
Indian Veterans Protest Over Identification Measures
From Johannesburg Transvaal 116 Indian ex soldiers hospital bearers protest a Transvaal policy forcing fingerprinting as a residency condition. They petition Earl of Elgin seeking protection and threaten to seek royal orders to be shot on South African battlefields. Several Indian leaders have been jailed for refusing the law.
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Johannesburg
Transvaal
Earl of Elgin
England
India
Woman Suffrage in France Surpasses Signatures Amid Rail Crash
A petition in France for women suffrage gains 60,000 signatures with a goal of 100,000 to present to the chamber via the National Council of Women. In California a derailment near Fettly Station on the Los Angeles to Salt Lake line injures several passengers.
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France
Umber
National Council of” Women
San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake
Fettly Station
Cal
Earl Deyarmouth Loses Hirsh Wife in Private Divorce
The Earl of Yarmouth’s marriage to Miss MH Pittsbury is dissolved by Sir Birrell Barnes in a private Divorce Court hearing in London. The case, undisturbed by defense, lasted about four hours with exclusion of non participants. Reports note unhappiness, excesses, and the countess’s refusal to tolerate her husband’s conduct.
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Birrell Barnes
London
Countess of Yarmouth
MH Pittsbury
Emrl of
Yarmouth
Wedding of Lord Yarmouth and Miss Thaw Delayed Over Settlement
The Pittsburg society wedding of Lord Yarmouth to Miss Thaw was postponed for hours amid negotiations on the marriage settlement with the Thaw family. The Earl reportedly pressed for an increased settlement, with papers drawn up before the ceremony. The Thaw family name has long intrigued associates in Pittsburg and New York.
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Harry—Kendeh—Phaew
Lord Yarmouth
Miss Thaw
Pittsburg
Thaw
New York
Ife
Coal Operators Propose Ten Cent Wage Cut
At a meeting of Pittsburg district soft coal operators a 10 cent per ton wage reduction was approved. A committee left for the miners convention in Indianapolis to push the plan.
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Pittsburg
Indianapolis
Flag of Chesapeake purchased for American bikers in London sale
The historic Chesapeake flag from 1813 was bought in London for 4250 dollars for American buyers led by J P Morgan. At the same sale the Bugle flag tied to the Charge of the Light Brigade was sold for 1500 dollars to parties linked to American buyers.
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America
Chesapeake
Shannon
London
J. P. Morgan
Light Brigade
Balaklava
Senate debates tariff and finance as Panama canal and Alaska exhibit loom
The article surveys debates in the Senate and House over Roosevelt era policy. Topics include Panama canal finances and a sea level alternative, the Aldrich tariff bill, a nonpartisan tariff commission proposal, and amendments to Indian and federal appropriation bills. Prominent figures cited are Teller Beveridge Payne Williams and Brandeis era references.
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Eritleing
Panama
Teller
Senate
Roosevelt
Congréss
House of Representatives
Ce Ness
Joby Sharp Williams
Williams
Medill
Connecticut
Aldrich Financial
Son
Texas
Cahberson
York
House
Tun
Alabama
Reactionares
White House
Republiers Arty
Dr Henry Gibbons Jr. dies in San Francisco car wreck
Scattered OCR reports recount a deadly cyclone near Selhurst Mississippi area with multiple fatalities. Five people burned to death and others injured as a three story rooming house at 11100 Andotte Street in Kansas City collapses amid the chaos.
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Henry Gibbons, Jr
Cooper Medical College
Bancisco
Xelhurst
Miss
Eager
Andotte Street
Kanszaa
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