Roosevelt Special Message Attacks Panama Canal Charges
President Roosevelt transmitted a special message to Congress denying corruption in the Panama Canal purchase. He cites headlines from New York World and Indianapolis News alleging an American syndicate profited from the French Panama property. The message notes libel, urges Congress to consider the facts and references Taft and others in the unfolding dispute.
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Public servant accused of blackmail and financial dishonesty
The text accuses a public servant of betrayal and criminal acts including blackmail and theft and cites Mr. Joseph Pulitzer as a guilty party in this instance. It asserts a national duty to bring the villifier to justice and notes the attorney general considers how to proceed against Pulitzer. The president discusses canal and property transactions related to the purchase.
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Joseph Pulitzer
Pulitzer
Voice Returns With Laugh In Titania Tale
A real estate dealer V.4 Campbell from Titania, a town thirty miles west of Mason City, regains speech after laughter from a story told by William Nelson. Campbell had lost his voice years earlier and failed to regain it despite many specialists. While returning home from a day’s work with Nelson, Campbell burst into laughter at a tale, and his speech returned fully.
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Titania
Mason City
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Mr. Nelson
First Aid To The Injured At Grafton
Mrs Winner and a woman who handled an emergency amputated two fingers and fixed the third after Will Botan’s hand was caught in a taw mill machine. With no local doctor available, physicians were contacted but busy. A reputed surgeon later praised the work as expertly done.
Prisoner Shot by Officer in Bank Fraud Escape
John Lawrence alias John Brown was arrested in Waterloo for defrauding banks in Corydon Indiana. En route to Security Savings Bank he fled after cashing a $310 worthless check. Detective Houston pursued and shot Lawrence in the lungs and leg. condition precarious. Authorities say Brown defrauded banks in Nap is Indiana and Iowa.
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John Brown
Waterloo
Corydon
Ind
Security Savings Bank
Lawrence
City
Houston
Brown
Napis
Indiana
Iowa
Wedded Plans End in Tragedy and Escape of Robbers
James Moore and James Roach, freed from Anamosa after robbing the Reinbeck post office, were arrested on new charges of breaking and entering as Sheriff Morricon read warrants. Rose Jurgens, Davenport socialite, became violently insane after her fiancé balked, dying soon after declining the wedding amid prenuptial celebrations.
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James Roach
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Grundy Equity
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Rose’ Jurgens
Davenport
Unusual Gathering Marks Osage Congregational Church’s Jubilee
Fifty years of service by Osage Congregational Church pastors celebrated with clergy and lay joining in event. Festivities ran from Wednesday, December 16, through Monday, featuring reunion of pastors with their wives, reflecting on decades of church life and impact.
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Onylay
Taft Names Knox Secretary of State in Cabinet
Pennsylvania Senator Philander C. Knox to be secretary of state in William Howard Taft's incoming administration. Taft announced the appointment from Augusta, Georgia, saying Knox's services are a cause for congratulation. The note follows Knox's telegram confirming he would accept the premiership of Taft's cabinet.
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William H. Taft
United States
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Judge Taft
Taft comments on ideal attorney general candidates
In remarks, Taft praised a great lawyer who would stand out nationally and abroad, calling him a preeminent American figure. He described Knox as a great attorney general and a leading presidential candidate, recognized in the Senate as a top lawyer. Taft then denied a definite choice for attorney general, noting no decision on George W. Wickersham or any candidate.
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Mr. Knox
Senate
George W. Wickersham
New York
Taft
Bank cashier arrested over large bank defalcation in Somersworth
Somersworth New Hampshire December 17 First National Bank of Somersworth closed after a shortage of eighty five thousand dollars cashier Fred H Varney was arrested for defalcation Varney confessed the loss stemmed from speculation and said he alone was responsible He pleaded not guilty at a hearing before US Commissioner Dodgman and posted ten thousand dollars bail for March district court in Portsmouth.
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United States
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United States District Court
Portsmouth
Simon Elected President in Haiti After Revolution
Port au Prince Haiti Dec 17 General Antoine Simon, leader of the last Haitian revolution, has been unanimously elected president by the Haitian congress. News of the election sparked a huge crowd outside the parliament building with cheers and salutes fired from forts as the gunboat fired a salute in the harbor.
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Outlet to the Gulf sale links Hill rail lines to Texas coast
New York reports leading Colorado and Southern stockholders including Edwin Hawley and president Frank Trumbull announced the road's sale to the Chicago Burlington and Quincy. The Burlington acquisition connects the Hill system to the Gulf of Mexico through the coast, altering prior beliefs that James J. Hill would reach the Gulf via the Missouri Kansas and Texas railroad.
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Colorado and Southern Railway Company
Edwin Hawley
Frank Trumbull
Road
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Round
Burlington
Northern Pacific
Great Northern Railway
Texas
Texas Coast. It Will Bear Practically the Same Relationship To the Hill Ines
Gulf of Mexico
Ilinois Central
Harriman
James J. Hill
Gulf
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad
Grain and Livestock Prices From Minneapolis to Chicago
Grain and provision prices vary across markets with December to May futures. Wheat quotes show Dec at 1.0644 in Minneapolis and around 1.08 in Duluth and Chicago. corn and oats range near 60 cents to 65 cents. Cattle, hogs, and sheep prices listed for St Paul and Chicago markets. hogs around 4.60 to 6.50, cattle to 7.60, and poultry and eggs noted in Chicago data.
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Iowa anticipates push for prohibition and stricter liquor laws
Preparations underway as radical temperance forces claim to shape the Thirty third assembly. They allege strong support for prohibitory amendments and stricter enforcement, with governors and leadership in both houses viewed as uncertain amid factional pressure. Lieutenant Governor Clarke is described as independent and unlikely to be swayed by political arrangements.
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Temperance Eleement
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Senate
Thirty-third General Town Assembly
House of Representatives
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Adel
Mansatfus
Separated Fifty Years Visit By Two English Brothers
David Wilson and James Wilson brothers from Water loo and New Zealand met in Honolulu after fifty years apart. Both traveled about 6000 miles starting the same day and spent a month together before returning home. James is sixty eight, David seventy one in frail health. both born in England.
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James Wilson
Waterloo
New Zealand
Honolulu
Los Angeles
James
England
Iowa youth ends his life in Kansas City hotel
J P Pritchard a nineteen year old son of James G Pritchard a Newell farmer, on a trip toward Oklahoma City, registered at a Kansas City hotel and asked not to be disturbed. The hotel compelled entry at dawn and found him dead, apparently a self inflicted death.
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James G. Pritchard
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Oklahoma City
Logan man dies from gas fumes in Sioux City room
W. W. Musgrove, a wealthy retired farmer from Logan, was killed in Sioux City by inhaling gas fumes. He was found in his room the next morning after being shown there late at night under liquor’s influence, with the gas pipes opened in an apparent attempt to shut off the lighting gas.
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Logan
Sioux City
Flo
Sultan in Attendance in Constantinople Dec 17
In Constantinople on December 17, after a 32 year interval Turkey resumes a second attempt at constitutional government. Nas appears, signaling renewed political activity and possible reforms amid ongoing debates.
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Constantinople
Turkey
Nas
Alleged Criminal Libel Arrest of Star Company Head
John D Rockefeller Jr. filed a charge of criminal libel against S Carvalho of the Star company publishers of the New York American. Carvalho was arraigned in police court and paroled until December 26. The article dated December 17 claimed Rockefeller originated peonage in a stockade and sought to injure his name and credit.
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New York
John D.rockefeller, Jr
S. Carvalho
Star Company
William R. Hearst
New York American
Finn
Carvalho
Mr. Rockefeller
Chicago
J. TD. Rockefeller, Jr
Fatal to Eleven Soldiers at Manila Camp
Eleven soldiers have died and thirteen are seriously ill at Keithley camp on Mindanao Island after drinking calumbic acid in a beverage served as vino at a nearby resort on December 15. An official military inquiry is underway, with the latest death reported December 17.
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Keithley
Mindanao
Roosevelt denies feud over Taft brother Ohio Senate bid
Washington dispatch reports President Roosevelt rejects a printed claim of a quarrel with President-Elect Taft over Charles P Taft's candidacy for Ohio's senatorship. The denial comes as Taft's camps address the matter.
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Death of Major Orlando J. Smith leader of American Press
Dobbs Ferry, N Y Dec 21 Major Orlando Jay Smith president and general manager of the American Press Association died at his Hudson Valley home after a long illness of stomach cancer begun in September He founded the APA in 1882 and led it from its inception to his death A journalist of national reputation he served in the Civil War and later built publisher careers in Terre Haute Chicago and New York He was born June 14 1842 in Indiana and studied at Asbury College later DePauw University
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