Week of world events flatly chronicled in brief
A sweeping roundup notes rioting in New York East Side amid tenant unrest, troop deployments at Muncie, and a spate of incidents. It cites a fatal train collision near East Dubuque, drownings in Jamaica Bay, domestic killings in Michigan and Pennsylvania, a Boise murder acquittal, automotive injuries in St. Louis, white-capping verdicts in Indiana, and the death of Rev. Alois Kaiser. Also covered: Roosevelt era naval policy fallout, Paris court cases, ship incidents, Japanese reserve recalls, British trade slumps, Belgium king's declining health, and regional obituaries and embezzlement arrest.
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East Side
New York
Muncie
Chicago,Burlington & Quincy
Chicago, Great Western
East Dubuque
Jamaica
Leonard Brown
Grand Rapids
Ludington
Mich
Easton
Frank Smith
Boise
Idaho
George A. Pettitone
Steunenberg
Charles H. Moyer
Bessie Turney
Nashville
South Bethany
Alois Kaiser
Chen Shatom' Temple
Baltimore
William Rhinelander
New York City
William C.rhinelander
Albany
Tokyo
Canada
Great Britain
Huddersfield
United States
Belgium
M. Lane
Franklin
Interstate Commerce Commission
San Francisco
Caleb Powers
Georgetown
William Goebel
Pennsylvania
Montandon
Callinsville
Ill
George Steger
Mary Ramsey Wood
Hillsboro
Gre
Augusta Fahri
A. E. Johnson Steamship Agency
Minneapolis
Notable Fires and Trials Mark Turbulent Year
A roundup of 1907 through 1908 incidents including bank explosion in Kansas City causing 16000 dollars in damage and nine injuries. multiple political and legal cases across cities. railroad awards and heroics. notable deaths and society notices. and widespread public disturbances from Ohio to Indiana. Thunderous, compact chronicle of crime, politics, and disasters with named people and places.
Federal measure proposes 0.05% bank deposits tax
Washington reports Rep Hinshaw introduced a bill to guarantee deposits in national banks. It would tax deposits at one twentieth of 1 percent annually until deposits reach 10 million, suspend the tax when reached, and transfer failed banks’ assets to the treasury. It also limits deposits to ten times capital and surplus.
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Washington
Hinshew
House
Treasury
Treasury Department
Treasury Fund
Hirshaw
Oklahoma
Congress
Williamson Case Reversed By Supreme Court Favoring Williamson
Washington reports the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of former Oregon Congressman J N Williamson. He had been charged with unlawfully dividing public lands in Crook County and conspiring with about 100 others. The high court reversed a $500 fine and ten month prison sentence and remanded for a new trial.
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John Brown
G. F.fisher
Roy Signor
Hastings
Neb
Theodore Roosevelt
United States
Witte House
Schampioi Ours
Toronto
Jesse McDonald
Rule
St Louis
Tovis MM. Givernaud
Givernaud Bros
Los Angeles
Cal
Prien”ard
Richmond
Seabord Air Line Railway
Ieas
Charles Becker
Belleville
Russellville
Allizon J. Nailer
Supreme Council of the Ancient Order of Scottish Rite Masons
Southern
Washington
John D. Rockefeller
University of Chicago
Boni de Castellano
Prince Helle de Sagan
Paris
Ulrich Augustus Hoegger
Philadelphia
George M. Gable
Lancaster
Bureau of Navigation
Phillip F. Kramer
Portland
Ore
Isthmian Canal
George Middleton
Western Vaudeville Association
Célia & Oppenheim
Kansas City
Milwaukee
Louisvile
St. Louis
St. Anne’s
Terre Haute
Ind
James G. Stowe
Io South
Roy Howard
Martha Pieray
Des Moines
Metcalf
BE. Pillsbury
Navy Department
Charles Figone
Louis Figone
Antonio Figone
San Francisco
W. Belknap
H. A. Kemp
Charles H. Tidy
Owen Moran
England
Abe Attell
America
Marshal Murdock
The
Wichita Eagle
Victor Murdock
Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company
United States Supreme Court
J. N. Williamson
Oregon
Crook County
Supreme Court of the United States
Williiamson
United States Circuit Court For
Williamson
Supreme Court
Thaw's Second Trial Opens With Insanity Plea
One hundred jurors are summoned for the first days of Harry Thaw's second trial in New York. Thaw, called to the bar, appears as his chief counsel Martin W. Littleton moves to amend the plea to insanity at the time of the crime.
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New York
Harry Thaw
Thaw
Martin W. Littleton
State Democrats Endorse Bryan for Presidency in Oklahoma
The Democratic State Central Committee of Guthrie Oklahoma unanimously endorsed W. J. Bryan's candidacy for the presidency and set a state convention for February 22 at Muskogee.
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Bryan
Guthrie
Okla
Democratic State Central Committee
W. J. Bryan
Muskeree
Senator Allison III Ill at Home in Washington
Senator Allison III of Iowa suffers grip at home in Washington. Officials say his condition causes no alarm and he remains in good spirits as medical checks continue.
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Allison III
Washington
William B. Allison
Iowa
French Prince Sues Count Over Assault suit
Prince Helie te Sagan files assault suit against Count Roni de Castellane in criminal court seeking one franc damages. Case set for January 28 trial.
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Parie
Helie Te Sagan
Roni de Castellane
Representative Boyd Bill Aims Indian Land Sale Funding
Washington lawmaker introduces a bill to authorize payment to the Winnebago Indians and enable sale and conveyance of allotted lands in Nebraska. The treasury would credit the tribe with 833,249 dollars, balancing unappropriated sums from the 1837 treaty and 1870 act, with per capita payments to be issued by the interior department.
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Washingtn
Boyd
Nebraska
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of the Interior
Catarrh Endorsed By Cincinnati Woman After Cure
Annie Catron of 87 Main St Cincinnati Ohio writes that Peruna relieved a severe head and throat catarrh after years of suffering. She describes offensive breath bad stomach and headaches all improved within a month and credits general health gains. She notes Peruna tablets as a solid medicine option and asks doctors for the 1908 Peruna Almanac.
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Annie Catron
Main St
Cincinnati
Ohio
Peruna
Inevitable, so Nelson is dead in mock obituary
Quoted quip from Harper's Weekly hints at Nelson’s demise with a dark pun. The exchange suggests a death by natural causes while playing on the idea of “one foot in the grave.” The source frames the moment as a humorous aside in a periodical.
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Harper's Weekly
Sentence Sermons 3 Holy Tone in the Nation
Fragmented reflections in a terse sermon-like piece argue that self-satisfaction replaces salvation and conscience guides action. The tone shifts between critique of cowardice and call for authentic ideals amid societal decline.
Getrothale West African Betrothal Custom
The text describes West African practice where girls are betrothed at birth to a baby boy slightly older. At age 20 they marry. Girls know no other path to a husband and are generally happy. Wives are patterns of obedience and marriages usually succeed.
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Africa
Stays-Within Shoes With Silk Teggings Good Housekeeping
A reader describes soaking feet from wet footwear until discovering silk teggings worn inside shoes. The silk stockings divert water away, keeping feet dry without hindering walking, unlike rubber boots. The note cites Good Housekeeping as the source.
Socialism In German City Freiburg Public Enterprises
The Freiburg municipality operates a pawsship insurance business theater several restaurants and a newspaper along with a school. A cat can be procured at the onea in that city for nine cents and supper afterward for six cents. Authorities own a cemetery where citizens can be interred cheaply.
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Freiburg
All She Wanted Misses Borrowed Items Tale
A humorous local item describes Mrs Muggerty and Mrs O Fudge, known as habitual borrowers, insisting they dislike troubling others yet still seeking loans. The exchange centers on lending an egg or yolk as a light domestic matter in a neighborly timeout.
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Muggerty
Shure
Good Town to Live in in Klugenberk Germany
A neutral report notes that Klugenberk Germany distributes a flat 50 to every citizen this year from profits of the manntepal brickworks as a generic description of local tax status and municipal wealth.
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Klugenberk
Germany
Manntepal
Salt imports reveal India's vast salt resources
India relies on its vast salt mines with exhaustless deposits in the Punjab as 4,582,784 tons of salt were imported in 1906-07, highlighting the balance between domestic supply and external demand.
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Ndia
India
Purjab
Good Definition and Railways Quotation Notes
A fragmented clipping notes various quotations and facts: a moral maxim about thinking of others, a remark on New York City railways earning one and a half nickels on a busy day, and a Turkish proverb about the devil and idlers. It also references France as responsible for billiards’ origin (Devigne noted to 1672).
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New York City
New York
France
Devigne
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Hamburg
Willan L. Dailey
Denver
Intel
Mr. Dailey
Tiffin
First National Bank
Charles D. Williams
Episcopal Diocese of
Michigan
Detroit
Irving H. Wheatly
Galestown
George W., Eckert
Altentown
Countess of
Yarmouth
Harry K. Thaw
London
Earl of Yarmouth
Russellville, Ky
Edward McGrath
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Stowell Station
Passain River
Sats
New Jersey
Theodore 5. Whitmore
Brooklyn
Lansing
Wiest
Harden-You Moltke
Berlin
Die Zukunft
Charles Carroll] Marsh
Warsaw
Alo
Daughters of Liberty
Waverly Hall
Byron Williamson
Standard
Findlay
Horace Boles
H. L. Storrs
California Safe Deposit and Trust Company
Thomas C. Chamberlain
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Clarence Sturgeon
Louisville
Marider
Indiana Union Traction Company
John Bartham
Fort Gay
W. Va
Samuel Kinser
Duma
St. Petersburg
Hinhaw
Fhaw
Indian Land Sales
Ethel
Jimmy
Scott
Nelson
Dodds
Ealing
Lyon & Healy
Chicago
Diane
Lynn Ticats
Etati Nate Art
Lion & Healy
Florida Times Union
Omaha
U.P
Omaha Commercial College
B. McDonald Hide & Fur CO
Ditica and Warehouse
Omaha Nations Bank
Nommercia
Waor
Alex G. Buchanan & Son
Live
Exchange
Graha
Westam Electrical Company
Western Electrical Company
South Tenth Brrest
Germam American Goffer Cocheze
Rotor
Matthews
Ourah
Hushogan Diock
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