Circling the Globe and Courtroom News Review
A church delegation led by Rev C B Woodruff protested Gov Stokes over executive interference in the hanging of John I Schuyler, who has been reprieved three times. Dr Frank Billings announced John D Ryan’s condition not alarming, while Mr Stynn improves slowly. Canadian grain elevators at Port Arthur and Fort William move high grade grain back to supply mills due to backward crop. A New York fire on Fourteenth Street killed and damaged much. 350 horses saved. Southwestern Oil suspends business. refineries near Houston are for sale due to Standard Oil pressure in Texas. Baseball season ends. pennant races shift: National League Chicago ahead, American League Detroit leading. An odd confession from Moran era notes Miss May Sapna confessing love and a tragic double suicide attempt by Tay Vivi and Moran relatives. details unclear due to fragmentary text.
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C. 8. Woodruff
Flemington, N. J
Gov. Stokes
John I. Schuyler
Hunterdon County
Schuyler
Port Arthur
Fort William
New York
Southwestern Oil Company
Houston
Pexes
Standard Oil Company
Texas
Southwestern
Law of
Thetandard
News Nuggets from a Fragmented Era
Witty garbled items report football injuries in Nebraska City and other scattered incidents. Notable entries include a notorious swindler’s death in Columbus, a mid-ocean fire during a fierce storm, passenger evacuations from a burning steamer, and a college fire that destroyed Millersburg Female College with students unharmed.
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Mots Wawley
Nebraska City
Cassie TL. Chadwick
Qhie
Columbus
Lasitania Drake
Urawine
New York
Kemp V. Bigelow
Gay
Buechter
Colorado
W Osborne
Green Canyvon Coal Company
Denver
Ta Pierce
Twuver and Rio Grande Railroad
Tacoma
Pomeroy
Cincinnati
Renova
W. Va
Millersburg Female College
Millersburg
Samson
Montgomery
Ala
France
Antoine Thomas
Cope
Orth
London
Paris
Fred Putt
Ohio
Theada
Work at Panama Quickening Canal Construction Pace
Official Panama figures show canal work accelerating with 4,985,000 cubic yards moved in seven months of 1907, nearly double 1906. Military regime efficiency cited as key, reducing civilian delays and press squabbles. Taft predicted opening around 1915, with New Orleans eyeing 1913 for a Panama Expo tied to Balboa’s discovery anniversary.
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Panama
Culebra
Washington
Taft
New Orleans
Balboa
Panama Isthmus
Mystery Clear: Brooklyn Millionaire Gill Found Dead in Cave
After a year a dispatch from Sandusky, Montana, confirmed the remains of Brooklynsain Sbrahsan Gill. He vanished after selling a ranch and aiding authorities against a gang. his body was discovered charred in a cave 700 feet from the ranch.
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Sbrahsan Gall
Gail
Poulyrsienic Institute
Montum
Gill
Brooklyn
New York
George Cobin
United States
Monsoon
Cobin
Rang GH
Voices From The Coal Bin And Other Oddities
A collection of satirical snippets ranges from a coal bin’s voice to peach crops and seven billion crops, noting fashion and hats, social mores, and national headlines. It jokes about marriage by affinity, Lusitania, Roosevelt children, and laws on marrying a deceased wife’s sister. A Maryland convict laments his wife’s elopement amid occupational confinement.
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Wisconsin
Roosevelt
Magland
Maryland
Cubs and Tigers Fight in Titanic World Series Tie
The Cubs and Tigers battled twelve innings in Chicago with a 3 to 3 tie at darkness on Tuesday afternoon. Chance Evens Up with Jennings in the ninth as both teams clawed for the early lead in a historic clash.
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Chance
Jennings
Cubs
Tigers
Chicago
West Side
Big corn show opens at Chicago Coliseum national expo
The Chicago Coliseum hosts the first national corn exposition with displays from every corn growing state, 16000 dollars in cash prizes and over 50000 in special prizes. The event features corn product exhibits, rural entertainments, a corn goddess temple, state shields, and a corn demon station kitchen. Foreign exhibits and fourteen corn belt states participate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Coliseum
Chicago
Union
Cosmopolitan Harvest in Oklahoma Cotton Fields
Oklahoma cotton fields show a cosmopolitan harvest with four races and five nationalities picking the crop. Japanese laborers, new to the state, join Americans Indians Mexicans Africans in a trial that could expand to northern and eastern counties. Japs were routed from Colorado and Nebraska to join growers and help with tending and chopping as well as picking.
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Olahoma
Colorado
Nebraska
Chen
M. Chuma
Guthrie
Insanity Not Increasing Says New York Alienist
Dr. Carlos F. Macdonald, the New York alienist, discusses the recent sta
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlos F. Macdonald
New York
Pest of Church Cordiality
Miss Laura A. Smith recounts visits to various churches in larger cities to test how welcome strangers feel. She dressed plainly and sought friendly greetings from clergy and congregants, noting how many would speak or offer encouragement to newcomers.
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Laura A. Smith
Seypiiander
Miss Smith
World baseball title ends in no contest after tied score
24,377 spectators watched a dramatic world championship game where Detroit and Chicago battled to a tie in extra innings. Despite a record crowd and high gate receipts of 29162.50, the outcome was declared no contest, sharing the five-game receipts between players. Wild Bill Donovan pitched for Detroit. Overall for Chicago impressed, though he was relieved in the ninth.
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Chicago
Detroit
Radium Found in Simplon Rock Borings
Geneva report states Prof. Joly, after geological tests of rock borings from the Simplon tunnel, found rich radium traces. He theorizes large deposits explain the tunnel’s heat and believes the world supply may be far greater than previously thought.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Joly
Simplon
Europe
Canada to pay Japan for Vancouver riot damages
Canada consents to pay six thousand dollars to Japan for damages from the Vancouver riots. A memorial tablet was unveiled at Gen Grant's birthplace in Point Pleasant Ohio. Trof. Hervey and Cowell of Ashburnham were nominated for Governor of Massachusetts on the Prohibition ticket. Several died in a Port Limon Peru fire destroying four business blocks with a loss of six hundred thousand dollars. The Democratic convention in San Francisco nominated Dr. Edward Robeson Taylor to succeed William H. Langdon as district attorney.
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Canada
Japan
Vancouver
Gen
Grant
Point Pleasant
Clermont County
Ohio
Hervey
Cowell
Ashburnham
Massachusetts
Port Limon
Peru
San Francisco
Edward Robeson Taylor
William H. Langdon
Churches and strangers in cities tested by Miss Smith
Miss Smith's survey tracks how 37 New York and Brooklyn churches greeted her as a stranger seeking affiliation. Only two pastors spoke, five churches had thirteen members engaging, and 32 offered no word. in Boston, one pastor spoke and four members greeted, while four churches said nothing.
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New York
Krooklyn
Boston
Hinetoun
Miss Smith
Ife
Amalgamated Copper Recommends Mine Shutdowns
Amalgamated Copper Company officers urge closing mines until copper market improves due to a large on hand stock and weak demand. Trade circles expect other heavy producers to follow suit as conditions worsen despite Standard Oil efforts to prop up prices and stock standings.
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Cariall Copper
Amalgamated Copper Company
Amaleamated
Amalgamated
Standard Oil
Chicago trades show strong mercantile activity and lower discount hopes
Dun's Review notes sustained commerce in Chicago with higher bank payments and fewer failures than a year ago. Demand rises for iron, steel, railway equipment, machinery and hardware as country merchants bring fall and winter goods. Bank clearings exceed last year’s by 17.5 percent despite tight money. failures with liabilities over $5,000 total four, versus seven a year ago.
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Choice Commercial
Chicago
Dun
Review of Trade
New York Leads Early Spring Orders Amid Slowing Industry
Collections, while driging, show slight improvement at centers as orders for early spring appear. overall business remains light. Industrial activity declines in iron, steel, car manufacturing, electrical goods, shoe making, and copper mining. lumber trading slows with the closed season and tighter money. US weekly business failures fall to 117, Canada shows 2 and 22 in the prior year.
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United States
Hus
FSO Jm
Grain and livestock market prices across major cities
The report lists current prices for cattle hogs sheep and various grains across markets in Indianapolis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York Toledo and more. Notable figures include cattle 3.50 to 4.44, hogs 4.00 to 7.25, wheat No 2 around 1.00 to 1.14, corn No 2 6d to 7d, and rye No 2 8d to 9d with regional variations.
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Umeathy
Prairie
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Sheen
Cincinnati
Detroit
Milwaukee
Noredern
New York
Eays
Toledo
Ube
Onis
Eboy
Dreyfus Retirement Sparks Army Officer Nomination
All Around the Globe notes Major Alfred Dreyfus leaving the French army with a ceremonial nomination to his previous post as commander of artillery at St Denis. Also mentioned is a California movement to form a large negro colony with claimed wealth in the millions behind it. Stuyvesant Fish replies to Harahan’s central railroad influence, denying personal losses and arguing Harahan’s view misses his charge about feeder roles for the Union Pacific.
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Alfred Dreyfus
St. Denis
California
Stuyvesant Fish
Tfarahan
Trvois Central
Harahan
Hig (Fish
Chargea
Harriman
Union Pacific
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Pittebure
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Cleveland
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Wilitlew
Ee Novoluimiary Confesson
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Miss May Sayp
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Tay Vivi
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