Congressional turmoil marks opening of fifty ninth congress
The fifty ninth Congress opened with Speaker Cannon reelected and President Roosevelt delivering the annual message urging federal oversight of corporations and railroads. Highlights include large appropriations for Chicago lake training facilities and the Panama Canal, Senate ratifying a Denmark extradition treaty, and debates over tax and banking reforms.
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Roosevelt
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Lake Naval Training Station
Chicago
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Panama Canal
Senate
United States
Denmark
Tillman
Allison
Iowa
Gorman
Maryland
Bea
Oklahoma
Indian ‘Territory
Artyons
New Mexico
Tate
Primary Law Fight Looms in Iowa Legislature
Des Moines dispatch notes a looming battle over a statewide primary election bill as lawmakers gather January 1. Senator Lewis leads the election law push with Gov. Cummins backing the plan. Senator Crossley also figures prominently. Railroads plan to drop other disputes to oppose the measure amid debates on education, rail, pure food, and reforms. News covers railroad earnings, bank reports, wolves in Poll County, municipal railway talks, and assorted Iowa topics.
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Russell Woodard
Des Moines
Cummins
Dbut
Lewis
Senate Committee On Elections
Crossley
Senate
Wisconsin
Madison
Michigan
Lansing
Poll County
Elkhart Township
Elkhart
Iowa
Mre
Grover Cleveland
W. M. Weekly
United Brethren Church
Dion
State
Capitol
Heer
W. M. Lewis
Office of
Mosars
C. L. Cook
F. R. Pember
H. JH. Snyder
Bureau of Soils
Washington
Harrison County Farmers’ Mutual Pire Insursance Association
Logan
Zion Norwegian Lutheran Church
Waverly
a+sociation
Waverly Opera House
Iowa National Guard
Turmoil in Russia and revolutionary upheaval
Reports from St. Petersburg describe military and political chaos with troops in Harbin and Baltic unrest. Premier de Witte faces liberal pressure, Gapon condemned to death, a plot to seize the royal treasury exposed, and a Russian minister of war assassinated, signaling intensified revolutionary activity.
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Russia
Harbin
de Witte
Tsarskoe Selo
Baltic
St. Petersburg
Father Gapon
Central Revolutionary Committee
Sakharov
Mixed News Items From National Briefs Across Several Topics
Reported items include Thomas F. Ryan declining to testify before an insurance committee amid threats linked to Equitable stock, Senator John H. Mitchell's death in Portland after dental surgery, and Robert H. McCurdy resigning as Mutual Life Insurance general manager. Also noted are a Mace donian finances accord, Chicago railroads rejecting an eight hour day wage rise demand, Takahira's remarks before departure, a fatal roof collapse at Charing Cross, GOP plans for Panama Canal funding, an explorer's North Pole discovery and a Northwest Passage note, and Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company facing extortion allegations.
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John Tt. Ward
Indiana
Hanly
Berlin
Germany
Chauncey M. Denen
United States Senate
New York
New York Central
Reading
Terpey Central
Root
Brazil
New York City
Marshall Field
Ina Berry
Girard
Kan
Pennsylvania
United States
Ward Secter
Pennsylvania Railroad
Shaw
Treasury Department
Metcalf
Healy
Chicago
Illinois
Iinois
Lake Michigan
Frant C. Farnum
J. W. Kopf
Albert T. Patrick
William Marsh Rice
Foreign Office
Paris
Turkey
Depew
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Trench Senate
Thal
Nebraska Supreme Court
Tinbiut
Joseph S. Bartley
Nebraska
Bartley
John Reedy
Ellen
Neversink Mountain
Third International Congress of American Republics
Rio Janeiro
Frisco
Pratt City
Ala
United Mine Workers of America
Union Pacific Railroad
la Follette
Wisconsin
Mark Twain
Edward
Frank Guthrie
N. D
Wigcone
Michigan
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
King Edward
Ulinats Railroad
Cmmission
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
Pere Marquette
Judson Larmon
Sammel Adams Drake
Kennebunkport
Bright'sisease
New England
Middle West
Thomas F. Ryan
Insurance Investigating Committee
H. Harriman
Equitable
Jerome
John H. Mitchell
Oregon
Good Samaritan Hospital
Portland
Robert H. McCurdy
Mutual Life Insurance Company
Takahira
Tokio
Charing Cross Station
London
Congress
North Pole
Mutual Reserve Jafe Insurance Company
North Pole Reach Marks Historic Ocean Route
The North Magnetic Pole at 80 minutes from King William's Land marks a historic polar voyage by Roald Amundsen. In 1903 aboard the Gjoa, Amundsen navigated the Northwest Passage from Herschel Island to Alaska, enduring extreme cold over 700 miles of overland travel with native guides. He and Captain William Mogg traced magnetic variations and established a station at King William's Land.
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Alaska
Shageway
Ronald Amundaen
Gjoa
Kristianie
Northwest Passage
Ierschell Island
William Mogg
San Trancisco
Ile
Atlantic Ocean
Pacific
Tmersehell
Amundsen
Northwest Passure
Peel
Simpson's Strait
King, William's Land
Dynamite Blast Injures Blacksmith In Minnesota
In St Peter Minnesota on December 1 a fragment of a dynamite charge from a 1903 North Star Creamery accident exploded injuring J. M. Peterson. The blast shattered his forge, deafened him, damaged his face and threatened his sight as he had recently inherited dynamite pipe from Malcomb McDonald’s estate.
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St Peter
Mino
J. M. Peterson
black+smith
North Star Creamery
Malcomb McDonald
Archie McDonald
Fred Reipke
Peterson
Attendance Greatly Increases at State University
The article notes that 1905-1906 attendance and registration percentage at the State University rise beyond the prior year’s figures. Based on last year, total attendance should exceed 1,800, with about 500 more registrations than the previous biennium, signaling roughly a 4 percent gain in two years.
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Carroll
Iowa
Savings
Loan and Trust Company
Jas
State University of Laws
Insurgents Form North Dakota Good Government League
In Fargo on December 11 a meeting of insurgents from nineteen counties led to naming the organization the Republican Good Government League of North Dakota. An executive committee of five will pick a district representative to form legislative and local committees and raise funds to oppose the old gang. The Scandinavian Republican League extended a supportive tender. Speakers included ex-Congressman Spalding and State Senator Maynard Crane.
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Fargo
N. D
Star Chamber
Republican Good Government League of
North Dakota
Scandinavian Republican League
Spalding
Maynard Crane
Colossal Frauds in Naturalization Exposed by Justice Official
Washington reports reveal the full extent of naturalization frauds. Special examiner V C Van Dusen states the frauds are colossal and have grown with the alien population, affecting nearly every city county seat town and territory where such acts have occurred.
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Kennedy
State Board of Health
Washington
Dec
United States
V. C. van Dusen
Department of Justice
Heavy Salvage of a Gulooner Constitution Off Lake Superior
Owners of the freight and passenger steamers C B Moore and A Booth sue for ten thousand dollars for salvage of the schooner Constitution, adrift after the storm fifteen days ago. The vessel, towed by the Victory, was picked up by Moore near the Porcupine mountains and brought to Bayfield. Booth Company has libeled the schooner. U S court to dispose of the claim.
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Mion
Dee II
C. B. Moore
A. Booth
Lake Susperior
Victory
Porcuping Mountains
Bayfield
Booth Company
U. S
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Springfield
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Washington, D. C
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Windsor
Marcus Rogers
Bennington
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William Taylor
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Yates
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Alonzo Conway
St. Louis
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Wisconsin Assembly
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