Fortune Told and Sailor’s Guide from Harper’s Weekly
A collection of brief items including a Chicago Record-Herald fiction excerpt about a man told he will marry and receive a larger anticipated income, tips on small sailboat handling from Country Life in America, humor pieces from Harper’s Weekly about Uncle Eph and a crab in an oyster, a Santa story, barber phrenology joke, Montesquieu quotation, a lawyer’s charges joke, and light quips about weather and manners.
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Lenis
Yan
Jannyz
Chicago Record- Herald
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Darky
Massa Kern
Abdun
Harper’s Weekly
Bill aims to curb watered stock in interstate firms
Senate introduces broad securities regulation bill by Dolliver. It targets future stock and bond issues by railroads telegraph and telephone firms engaged in interstate commerce. The measure seeks government scrutiny to prevent over capitalization and stock watering, stabilizing railway securities and guarding lawful enterprise.
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Washington
Senate
Dolliver
United States
Former Senator Says Morgan Funded Panama Purchase
Ex Senator Millard of Nebraska testifies that the Panama canal purchase money went to J J Morgan & Co and related firms, not to the French government as President Roosevelt claimed. Millard says William Nelson Cromwell controlled the deal and refused to name his client to the Senate Interoceanic Canals Committee.
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Panama Purchase
Omaha
Seb
Dee
Panama Canal
Hoosevelt
J. J. Morgan & Co
Wiliam Nelson Cromwell
J. H. Millard
Nebraska
Senate
Committee
Carnegie subpoenaed for testimony before tax committee
Washington Dec 10 Andrew Carnegie has been subpoenaed to appear before the House Ways and Means Committee to testify in tariff revision hearings. The subpoena was served by the House sergeant at arms and return date to be set later to fit Carnegie's convenience. Hale heads Senate caucus with Maine Senator elected chair of Republican group.
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House Ways and Means
Washington
Andrew Carnegie
House Ways and Means Committee
Carnegie
House
Hale
Senate
Senator Hale
Maine
al- Meoa
Iowa
Senators Angered by Secret Service Passage in Roosevelt Message
Washington reports that Roosevelt’s annual message to Congress on the Secret Service amendment provoked broad senate and house comment. Democratic and Republican senators debated restoring the old law and barring investigations of congress members by Secret Service, though the issue stayed informal and outside official proceedings.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Senate
House
Secret Service
Steel Men Confer Signals Harmony Over Prices
New York December 10. Material price changes are not expected at the steel manufacturers meeting called by Steel Corporation Chairman Gary. A downward tariff revision seems unlikely to influence railroads delaying rail orders. The consensus favors harmony over price cutting and a dinner at the Waldorf Astoria tonight may include steel buyers, signaling broader participation than in the past.
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New York
Gary
Steel Corporation
C’nner
Waldorf-Astoria
Plan to Aid Trade Here and Abroad
Washington December 11 The national council of commerce organized today in Secretary Straus office aims to boost both foreign and home trade. It envisions a permanent bureau in New York to liaise with government departments and aid commercial interests with timely advice and information. Delegates will be received by the president and by Straus at a reception this evening.
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Washington
National Council of Commercce
Straus
Knox for Cabinet Faces Taft Bid and Hopes
Washington dispatch says Senator Philander C. Knox of Pennsylvania is being seriously considered for secretary of state in Taft's cabinet with favorable support from the president. In Bloomsburg Pennsylvania William H Stiner 44 shot dead his wife 42 then killed himself with a shotgun. Cape Haitien Haiti reports another revolution breaking out in northern towns with fears of spread.
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Knox
Wurions
Mr. Taft
Washington Times
Philander C. Knox
United States
Pennsylvania
Taft
Bloomsburg
Wiliam H. Stiner
Farher
Mary
Haiti
Cape Haitien
River Boomers Visit for Waterways Bond Plan Support
A delegation from the Ohio Valley Intertrade Association led by Jonny Vance and Captain W H Rodgers met President Roosevelt, Speaker Cannon, and Chairman Burton to press for deeper Ohio River waterways improvements and a bond issue. Rodgers introduced Congressman Shiney and Mr Shirley stated bipartisan support. Cannon and Roosevelt urged study of the president’s last message and conservation address as guidance for legislation.
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Cannon
Ohio River
Vance
Shirley
Washington
Dec
Fairbanks
Maney
Ohio Valley Intipraye Meol Association
Jonny Vance
W. HK. Rodgers
Pittsburg
Roosevelt
Te Rivers and Harbors Committee
House
Rogers
White House
Shiney
Louisville
Conservation Congress
Uber
Capitol
Rivers and Harbors Congress Sees Bond Plan Debated
Washington December hearing on a proposed $900 million federal bond issue for internal waterways over ten years. Support comes from President Roosevelt, Taft, Vice President Fairbanks, Andrew Carnegie, James Bryce, Ransdell, and leaders like Clark, Chamberlain, Sanders, Crompers, Hillyer, and Lyman as the congress weighs a nationwide waterways program.
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Rivers and Harbors Congress
Washington
Roosevelt
Taft
Nica
Fairbanks
Andrew Carnegie
Joseph EK
Ransdell
Congress
James Bryce
Seth Low
New York
Joseph E. Ransdell
Champ Clark
Missouri
House of Representatives
George E. Chamberlain
Oregon
J. Y. Sanders
Louisiana
Samuel Crompers
American Federation of Labor
George Hillyer
Plead for Forest Reserves Heard by House Committee
Washington Dec 1 A distinguished assembly testified before the House committees on agriculture urging forest reserves in the White Mountains and Southern Appalachians to protect navigable streams. Governors and officials from Mass, Oregon, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Louisiana, Georgia, Minnesota, California, with Dr. Edward Everett Hale, attended.
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Congressional Committee
Washington
House
White Mountains
Appalachians
Congress
Guild
Massachusetts
Chamberlain
Oregon
Ansel
South Carolina
Waondworth
New Hampshire
Blanchard
Louisiana
Hoke Smith
George
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