Spelling Reform Debate Prompts Roosevelt Letter
President Roosevelt signals possible permanent adoption of simplified spelling if public approval follows the board’s reforms. The letter urges officials to use 300 words per circular No. 5 and links changes to broader shifts like plow to plow and honor to honor.
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Bryan Talks to the Toilers in Detroit Visit
William Jennings Bryan arrived in Detroit with about a hundred companions over the Grand Trunk. He was welcomed at the Hotel Cadillac by Mayor George Cord and later greeted at the fair grounds. Bryan spoke on labor dignity and the toiler’s place, warning against a leisure class and stressing cultivation of sentiment toward workers. Miner is killed in Joplin area as powder falls from a mine roof. D. J. Stewart, Dan Reese, and Thomas Griffith fatally injured. Frank Hanley killed in the Jersey T drift incident.
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Growers Sell Live Stock in Kansas City Contest
A live stock commission contest began in Kansas City as the Cooperative Live Stock company, formed in Denver last July, started operations. The firm, born from the American National Live Stock association at its April meeting, aims to cut commissions on sheep and hogs by $2 a carload and boycott Chicago and St Joseph exchanges. Local focus centers on S. G. Burnsiffe and E F Ehrke, former Kansas City Live Stock exchange members suspended for selling to the cooperative and pledging below fixed rates. They leased offices in the exchange building and will operate from there.
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Governor Hoch Addresses Osawatomie Anniversary
Osawatomie Kansas marked the fiftieth anniversary of a bat tle celebration with Gov E W Hoch of Kansas as the principal speaker on September 1 The town also recalls its role as the birthplace of Kansas Republicanism and the first Kansas Republican convention in 1855 where Horace Greeley delivered the keynote.
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Republican Party
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Horace Greeley
Alleged Oil Rates Considered Unfair in Indiana
National Petroleum Association has forwarded complaints to the Indiana state railroad commission alleging unjust oil freight classifications. It is charged that petroleum moved from fifth to fourth class within Indiana on November 25, 1599, except where special tariffs apply, causing discrimination.
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Indiana State Railroad Commission
National Petroleum Association
Dignity to the Winds at American Bar Association Meet
In Minneapolis the twenty ninth annual American Bar association meeting closed with a lively session. A big symphony orchestra played while a quartet of young lawyers with entertainment acts mixed with a piste. Staid judges relaxed and joined in college songs and popular airs.
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Pioneer Lumberman Pack Dies in Southampton
George W Pack a pioneer in the northwest lumber trade and former Cleveland resident died Friday at his Southampton summer home. He had lived mainly in Asheville since 1885 and his fortune, over a million dollars, funded many public enterprises there.
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George W Pack
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Rebels wound Russ general in Warsaw shooting
Gen. Tumenoff, commander of a garrison brigade, was wounded but not seriously Sunday by five revolutionists firing revolvers as he left his residence. He helped pacify the Baltic provinces under Gen. Orloff. Fire damages Fulton iron works in San Francisco, causing over 2 million dollars in losses and destroying the foundry.
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Cotton Leads American Exports to World Markets
Washington reports that cotton remains king in U S exports for the just ended fiscal year with raw cotton surpassing 100 million dollars in value and drastically higher than other goods. Europe and China are major buyers and Japan purchases variably. records show 1906 cotton cloth exports to China reached about 29.5 million in value and 24 million more yards than 1905. Chilean President Riesco hosts Secretary Root in Santiago with cordial talks.
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Rosewater Burial Draws Multitudes In Omaha
Edward Rosewater the Omaha Bee proprietor lay in state in the Dee building with Masonic rites and public viewing. Necrology included addresses by Dr. Geo Miller and others, with Norris Brown and Melvin Hopewell among speakers. The body was buried at Forest Lawn cemetery with a final Masonic ceremony.
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Chicago Sanker Arrest Reveals Moroccan Pursuit tale
Paul O. Stensland, president of a Milwaukee Chicago bank, was arrested in Tangier after a transatlantic chase from Chicago. Assistant state attorney Hatary Olsen traced the fugitive through England and Spain, followed to Gibraltar, and back to Tangier where Stensland awaits a warrant.
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Naval Review Stirs Roosevelt on Long Island Sound
On September 4 at Oyster Bay Roosevelt reviewed the largest U S fleet yet assembled in waters off Sagamore Hill. Forty five fighting ships from 16 000 ton Louisiana to torpedo boats and submarines were displayed in three columns. The president praised the naval committee and remarked that every ship is a fighter ready for action. The weather shifted from rain to clear skies as the Mayflower stage and ceremony proceeded.
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Nelson Loses Fight On Foul In Boxing Bout
Goldfield Nevada report details Joe Gans defeating Nelson in the forty second year of boxing history. Nelson pressed in clinches and struck below the belt and in the groin. referee Siler stopped the match and awarded victory to Gans on a foul amid widespread approval.
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Irrigation Congress Opens in Boise with 1000 Delegates
More than 1,000 delegates from about half the states attended the fourteenth annual National Irrigation Congress in Boise Idaho. Vice President Fairbanks received a warm welcome as the assembly opened led by L W Shurtleff of Ogden Utah. Boise Mayor James A Pinney and Governor F R Gooding greeted delegates, with Senator Fred T DuPuis praising Fairbanks for backing arid region reclamation legislation.
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Fred T. Dupuis
Prof Foss to helm Antioch College presidency
A compact news brief lists Prof D Foss of the University of Chicago named to become president of Antioch College. Other items note Frank Hitchcock sailing to Europe, a Willows Bay sanitarium burned, and assorted political and social happenings across the Midwest and West.
Molders win strike in San Francisco foundries
Five hundred molders and care workers at twenty San Francisco foundries walked out seeking a 25 cent daily wage increase. Foundry owners refused the demand.
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