Cuba Crisis Warned as Taft Bacon Mission Spreads
The article outlines U S plans amid Cuban unrest with Taft and Bacon dispatched to Cuba. It notes Marines around the presidential palace, potential naval intervention to press for peace, and the aim to restore order without annexation while preserving Cuban independence. It mentions ships Marietta Dixie Tacoma Cleveland Newark Minneapolis Louisiana and New Jersey ready to act if needed.
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Washington
United States
Tvenver
Charge
Talma
Colwell
Tuvan
Palma
Pala
Lemlers
Rotts' Ender
Goard
Grusser
Denver
Legation
Oyster Bay
Beacon
Taft
Bonaparte
State
War
Navy
Bacon
Cuba
Roosevelt
Senor Quesada
Antilles
Ming
Trada
Palm A
Des Moines
Havana
Marietta
Dixie
Tacoma
Cleveland
Newark
Minneapolis
Hagan
Louisiana
Virgin
New Jersey
Island Republic
Tnitiat
Santo Domingo
Morales
Roosevelt Aishes
Typhoon Sinks Six Hundred Junk Ships and Harrows Hong Kong
News reports warn of a catastrophic typhoon near Hong Kong with the sea fleet lost and death toll rising to about ten thousand. Rescue efforts by Baluchi and West Kent troops are underway as wreckage is cleared and bodies recovered, with estimates of material damage around twenty million dollars.
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Hongkong
West Kent Regient
Goard
Fatuamen Pass
Ying Fat
Samchua
Australian inventors claim new continuous ore treatment
Australian inventors announce a direct ore to malleable iron process. It uses 20 percent ore concentration and claims about 25 percent saving in smelting energy. The system is described as fully automatic and continuous from ore feeding to final iron product.
Rail and railroads dominate earnings scenes across lines
A Pennsylvania mail train sets speed records from Harrisburg to Altoona in 119 minutes. Erie reports fiscal year earnings above 50 million with cost reductions. Gould lines win Oregon rights of way toward the Snake River. European vs American coach designs spark transit talk.
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Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Altoona
Minots-Central
Chicago
San Francisco
Gould
Oregon
Snake River
Osr
Corvalis
Erie Erie Railroad
Troubled Youths in Grimes City Face Growing Crime Threat
A Chicago charity worker warns that more than 20 000 boys in the city are "worse than homeless" and at risk of becoming criminals or public charges. He notes many live at home or with relatives, roam isolated neighborhoods at night, and strike while police protection is weakest, exploiting darkness and delays to rob victims before officers arrive.
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Chipnwe Iinx
An Grimes
Chicago
Ammunitiona
Indians and Irrigation: Employment for Native Americans on Government Projects
The article discusses Indian labor on major irrigation works in Arizona and Montana. Indians are hired mainly for road building and canal or dam site work, enabling self-support as federal projects progress. In Arizona several hundred Apache workers are involved. in Montana Milk River project plans promise pay from $1 to $2 a day, with Klamath Indians to benefit later as Klamath basin projects commence.
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Arizona
Montank
Montana
Klamath Basin
Klamath
Labor questions and wages across continents in early 1900s record
The report surveys wages and labor conditions from Japan to Porto Rico and Samoa, noting low pay for day laborers and leaf strippers, union activity in Chicago and Milwaukee, and rising union membership. It details conventions, strikes, and the spread of organized labor among farmers, barbers, firemen, and textile workers, with projected employment trends in New York and Texas.
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Japan
Chicago Waiters’ Union
Porto Rico
Maribyrnong
Melbourne
Conl
France
Niagara Falls
Journeymen Barbers' Union
International Brotherhood of Stationary Firemen
Omaha
Neb
Organized Labor
Owens
Milwaukee
Jtarmers’ Union
Texas
New York
Elgin Lord 1819 Pensonal Pioneer Built Public Home
Obituary notes Henry R. Lord of Leroy born March 26, 1819, a longtime Elgin civic leader who funded parks and church work, served as mayor and hospital official, and helped found public institutions. The Old People's Home in Elgin opened to house fifty, with seventeen admitted, on the Lord homestead grounds.
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Elgin Saben
Lord
Lord’s Park
Ayhich
Bisie
Us. C. A
Afr
Leroy
United States
Alfred Tappan
Buffalo
Tess
Wiest and
Awas
Elgin National Watch Factory
Board of Education
Illnois Northern
Henry’ Rkperting
Emmett Ratigan
Exing
Memphis
Harris
Orland
Aw Wail Citi
Wrights
McLeansboro
E. L. James
Decatur
Hantist Church
Charles Holmes
Lake Fork Station
Vena
Vera
J. W. Holliday
Chandlerville
Joliet
Shelby County Board of Supervisors
A. H. Peck
Chicago
National Dental Association
Atlanta
Minneapolis
Medora
Duquoin Opera House
Illinois
Daniel Moslyn
Tockport
Moslyn
Sir Cautey
Illinois Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home
Winds Civil Service Commission
E. Medora Schaeffer
Galesburg
John Adams
Dundee
Scotland
Toronto
George R. Lord
Elgin
Edward Woods
Kankakee
Federal Secret Service
American Steel
Granite City
Christa Tolo
Keller
Carlinville
Miss Compton
Ben Ltoyd
Bentwhler Station
Lloyd
Afrs
Lloyd's
Mary Talson
Gohl-township
Bureau County
Perry
Thomas
Carmi
Louisville
Nashville
William le Duc
McLean County
Chas. Nickel
Chenoa
Hugh Jones
Chester
le Duc
Chenca
Three Highwaymen Foiled In Illinois Train Hold Up
A Chicago to Peoria Stock Island line passenger train was halted by three masked men near Peoria. They tried to seize the engine, but conductor Robert Murray blocked a revolver and the attackers fled after a scuffle. The train with 75 passengers included a traveling salesman carrying 3500 dollars.
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Rock
Chicago
Stock Island Road
Peoria
Robert Murray
Murray
Elgin Asylum Superintendent Cracks Down on Gossip
Dr. Podstata, new Elgin asylum superintendent, bans vulgar gossip among staff. Drugist Samuel Case is the first to lose his job after allowing a discharged worker to gossip in the drug room. Ex-orderly Dean prompted the trouble by visiting and berating management, leading to Case’s dismissal. Governor Deneen intervened to save a medical staff member amid fears of broader purges.
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Podatata
Elgin Asylum
Podstata
F. S. Whitman
Samuel Case
Asylum
Dean
Case
Podstat
Montgomery County Heirs Claim $42 Million German Estate
Armstead Emrick of Montgomery County travels to New York to press claims to a vast Berlin founded estate valued at $42,000,000 in which eight heirs including two Emrick brothers and their Germantown Ohio father are alleged to share. Documents suggest Joseph Emrick died in 1819 and the heirs seek recognition of their claim.
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Montgomery County
Helra
Armstead Emrick
New York City
Germany
Emricks
Eving
Emrick
Germantown
Ohio
John
Joseph Emrick
Berlin
John Jacob Astor
New York
Disappearance Leads to Life Insurance Suit
James Kennedy, a Cousins County dairyman who vanished seven years ago, left $4000 in Modern Woodmen and Court of Honor policies. Under law he is presumed dead, and his widow Saye Haabend tins Deen Miss ini sues the two insurers for payout while the companies contest the claims.
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Saye Haaband
James Kennedy
Cousins County
Champaign
Woodmen
Court of Honor
Kennedy
Lester
Mall
Washlag
Lifes George Hicks Suicide at Park View Hotel
George Hicks a 19 year old night clerk at the Park View hotel in New Orleans died from a gunshot wound to the temple. Propriertor Jordan said Hicks had been drinking with a hotel guest prior to the incident. Hicks hailed from St Louis and his father runs a poultry business in Bone Gap Illinois. Church notes mention Coulterville First Baptist organized by Rev W P Carner of Nashville with support from Southern Illinois pastors as new membership forms are being filled.
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Wisels
George Hicks
St. Louis
Park View
New Orleans
Jordan
Bone Gap
Ill
Coulterville
W. P. Carner
Nashville
First Baptist
Coultervilej
Deceased Congressman Robert R. Hitt Dies at Narragansett Pier
Robert R. Hitt 18 GONE. Prominent Illinois Republican congressman dies at his summer home in Narragansett Pier Rhode Island after a long career in national politics. He served thirteen terms representing his home district in Washington and would have been renominated if not for absence in the same service. Born January 16 1834 in Urbana Ohio he moved with his parents to Ogle County Illinois where he grew to manhood. He was educated at Rock River Seminary and DePauw University.
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Robert Roberts Hitt
Narragansett Pier
R. L
Washington
Hitt
Mount Morris
Tie
Urbana
Ohio
Ogle County
Illinois
Rock River Seminary
de Pauw University
Robert Hitt A Lincoln Grant confidant and diplomat
Robert Hitt served as a key translator and stenographer in Reconstruction era investigations and was appointed by Grant as secretary of the legation and chargé d affaires at Paris in 1874. He later became Assistant Secretary of State under Garfield and was elected repeatedly to the Forty-seventh Congress from Illinois.
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Robert &. Hitt
Lincoln
Grant
Hitt
Legation
Paris
France
Garfield
Ilinois
R. M. A. Hawk
Longenecker Dies Former Chicago State’s Attorney
Joel M. Longenecker longtime Chicago lawyer and former State’s Attorney of Richland County and Olney, Illinois, died after a short illness at his residence. Born January 12, 1847, in Crawford County, he served in the Civil War, studied law, practiced in Olney and Chicago, and held public roles including department commander of the Illinois G A R in 1900.
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Chicago
Joel M. Longenecker
McEwen
Alland
Taw Taw Lake
Joel Fitch Longenecker
Mfo Longesécker
Crawford County
Ulinois
Fifth Sinois Cavalry
Emma Florence Fitchin
Olney
Richland County
Longenecker
Luther Laflin Mills
Mills
Fights For Kidnapped Son In Habeas Corpus Action
Mrs Griswold of Chicago seeks to regain custody of her 4 month old son Tone missing since his abduction in Kankakee county. She travels to Momence with her father and a deputy sheriff to locate the child now said to be with Cora Bailey, sister of the father. Defendants include Bailey and Griswold family members.
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Katherine Griswold
Chicaxco
Momence
Tone
Arthur Griswold
Kankakee County
Chicago
John Talmadge
Griswold
The
Bay
Cora Bailey
John B. Griswold
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New York Labor Bulletin
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Sugs For Life Insurance
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Omillacs Central Harnings
Deacox
Frank B. Whipp
Dennen
Dwinois Central Railroad Company
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