Panama Canal Toll Exemption Sparks Arbitration Debate
Debate grows over exempting American coastwise vessels from canal tolls as opening approaches. Sir Edward Grey argues the exemption breaches the Clayton-Bulwer terms and Hay-Pauncefote replacement, urging arbitration if repeal fails. Taft backs arbitration but senators split, with some warning against abandoning the Monroe Doctrine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama Canal
Edward Grey
England
Mr. Grey
Ingo
Great Britain
United States
Congress of the United States
Grey
Taft
Congress
Bacon
Burton
Townsend
Canal Committee
Casting Out Devils In Small Village Sermon
A 200 pound college football player preaches Sundays to fund his expenses. At an evening service three disruptive youths prompt the pastor to claim he can cast out devils and succeeds to the congregation's approval. An idle traveling man story follows about nightshirts in a Missouri town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Science Battling Against Science in Murder Tactics
An in-depth look at how advances in science threaten to outpace detection of modern murders. Coroners and officials discuss the typhoid germ threat, cobra death, and the need for a dedicated science bureau to identify crimes with no trace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chemical Laboratory
Chicago
Walter 5. Haines
Ludwig Hektoe
Hektoen
Haines
New Science Bureau
Harry Olson
Investigating the Money Trust and Morgan Power
The piece argues a money trust exists led by J P Morgan and a coterie with $25 billion in bank control. It cites interlocking directorships and a 1907 panic testifying to the need for public reform and possible congressional action to curb Wall Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congressional Committee
Mr. Morgan
Mr. Morgan Ti
Morgan
Lous
Mr. Morgan de
Wall Street
The
Stock Exchange
New York World
New York
Congress
Part of Boom Containing 20,000,000 Feet of Logs at North Yakima
The Cascade Lumber Company plant at North Yakima can mill 200000 feet of lumber daily, showing the vast timber resources in Yakima country. Logs lie in the pond awaiting the saw as the Pacific Northwest timber industry grows, with government conservation not slowing inroads into virgin forests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Yakima
Washington
Cascade Lumber Company
Yakima
United States
Pacific Northwest
West
Rocky Mountain
Middle West
Also Mentioned on This Page
Crooked River
Oregon
Minnesota State Capitol
Oregon Plateau
Deschutes River
Northwest
Wonderland
Koffman
McCormick
Money Trust
London
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!