Peaceful and Rich Provisioning in Cuba Under US Aid
Gov Charles E Magoon reports to Secretary of War that Cuba has improved to prosperity, with brigandage suppressed and notable progress in sanitation and public works. The second American administration ends with Jose Miguel Gomez’s inauguration. elections conducted without disorder. The provisional government covered ordinary and insurrection costs, and US troops are praised for discipline and cooperation.
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Washington
Charles E. Magoon
Cuba
Jose Miguel Gomez
Republic
Peace Commission
Eltlas
Sland
Goy
Maggyn
Provisional Administration
United States
Thomas H. Harry
Beaten to Death at Capital Lock Nut & Washer Plant
Columbus, Jan Zo-Janes Wolf 55 night watchman at Capital Lock Nut & Washer Co died at Mercy Hospital after being found unconscious in the plant office six hours earlier. He was beaten with a blunt instrument, robbed of 25 dollars a watch and a revolver. Bloodhounds traced a scent to farmer Benjamin Powers’ house, leading to Jesse Hazlett, a washer company boarder and employee, who admitted being at the plant at one o'clock yesterday morning and then returning to the city.
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Columbus
Janes Wolf
Capital Lock Nut & Washer Company
Mercy Hospital
Ofice
Circleville
Benjamon Powers
Jesse Hazlett
Wesher Company
Three More Victims Found in City Dock Disaster
Chicago officials recovered three additional bodies from the George W. Jackson crash off Seventy-flat Street, bringing total recovered to fifty. Police estimate about seventy men may have died in the wreck last Wednesday morning in the Had threat.
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Donovan
Nedy
Mus
Lightship Fleet at Frisco Sails Through Storms
Lightship Otilia and crew reach port amid grim weather after a 125 day voyage from New York. A trio of lightships and three landers completed the journey of over 14 000 miles without mishap. Gen Alexies found guilty in St Petersburg case on extortion charges but acquitted on bribery. fined 5009 and dismissed from service.
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Frisco
San Franeaises
Jan
Otilia
New York
Alexies
St Vetersburg
Golden Rule policing cuts Cleveland arrests by two thirds
Cleveland Chief of Police Kobler defends the Golden Rule policy instituted January 4 1908. He notes 1907 arrests totaled 30478 while 1908 arrests were 14085 a 66 percent decrease. He says less time and property theft and that first offenders avoid prison records, though some police court attorneys dislike the policy for lost fees.
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Cleveland
Kobler
Europe
Kohler
Joint Committee on Conservation Named by Pinchot
The Joint Committee on conservation for the states and federal government to plan further natural resources work is announced by Gifford Pinchot. Members include J N Teal Portland Oregon Paria Gibson Great Falls Montana W K Gavanaugh St Louis W H Milton Sturman Florida Prof Frank W Rane Boston C J Salsbury Salt Lake City Krule Nelson Alexandria Minnesota Newton C Blanchard Shreveport George Hardee Oakland Pinchot chairman and Thomas A Shipp secretary. The gathering also reports a revival panic in St Louis where 14 000 heard Gypsy Smith as a choir of 1 000 sang hymns calming the crowd after a trouble wagons alarm. A separate murder at Hopewell Junction New York ends with the milkman Morse and restaurateur Kitts killed. a watcher Mrs Kliff injured, $420 missing, bloodhounds on trail.
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Washington
Jan
Gifford Pinchot
National Conservation Commission
J. N. Teal
Portland
Ore
Paria Gibson
Great Falls
Mont
W. K. Gavanaugh
St. Louis
W. H. Milton
Sturianna
Pla
Frank W. Rane
Loston
C. J. Salsbury
Salt Lake City
National Ceservatio Commission
Krule Nelson
Alexandria
Minn
Newton C. Blanchard
Shreveport
George (. Hardee
Oakland
Cal
Gitori Pinchot
Chilrman
Thomas A. Shipp
Poughkeepsie
Morgan
Morse
John Kitts
Hopewell
Body Found in an Oil Tank Near Wolf Pen
The body of William Roberts, missing since January 3, was recovered from the bottom of a 200-barrel oil tank near his Wolf Pen home in New Martinsville. He was weighted, his hands bound, and a rifle bullet was found in the back of his head. John Hoepp is under arrest for murder.
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New Martinsville
W.a
William Roberts
Wolf Pen
John Hoepp
Roberts
Republic Founders Speedily Aids Liners in Fatal Collision
Six people died as the steamer Republic smashed with the Florida off Nantucket. Over 1,200 passengers and crew were rescued, mainly by the Baltic after the Republic sank. Florida and Republic crew were saved, with details of the救 survivors broadcast by wireless messages and ships aiding the rescue offshore near Martha’s Vineyard.
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New York
Republic of the
White Star Inc
Florida
Nattucket
Republic
White Star
Siasconset
Revanne
Gresham
Waa
Gay Beach
No Mine Land
Martha's Vineyard Island
Massachusetts
United Wireless Company
Fisher
City of
Memphis
Savannnah
Boston
Sealby
Seneca
Earthquake Thought to Be in Turkestan
St. Petersburg reports a violent earthquake recorded by instruments in Russia and neighboring lands, likely somewhere in Russian Turkestan beyond the Pamirs though direct news is not yet confirmed. Seismographs at Barzhom noted distant shocks, with slow transmission to St. Petersburg. A past Karatagh quake in 1907 killed about 15,000.
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St. Petersburg
Russia
Russian Turkestan
Pamirs
Barzhom
Transcaucasia
Karatagh
Yekaterinburg
Magnetometeorological Observatory
Smyrna
Society of Stage Children Organizes toAdvocate for Child Labor Law Changes
Two hundred stage children met in New York to form the Society of Stage Children aimed at protecting young actors from strict laws and urging passage of a bill separating stage children from factory children. Fifteen year old actor Master Fred Farber was elected president and appointed a nine member committee to Albany to lobby the child labor law committee for reforms benefiting stage children.
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New York
Society of
Stage Children
Fred Farber
Albany
Primate of Canada Arthur Sweatman Dies in Toronto
Most Rev Arthur Sweatman archbishop of Toronto metropolitan of eastern Canada and primate of all Canada died yesterday afternoon at the see house of pronchial pneumonia. He toured England in 1834 studied at Cambridge and joined Canada in 1863 as head of Helmuth School for Boys in London Ontario. He later led as mathematical master of Upper Canada college and in 1876 became creator of Woodstock and Brantford churches. He was elected Bishop of Toronto in Isis and two years ago after Archbishop Gond of Montreal’s death he assumed the highest dignities of the Anglican church in Canada.
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Toronto
Arthur Sweatman
Eastern Canada
All Canada
England
Cambridge University
Canada
Helmuth School For
London
Upper Canada
Woodstock
Brantford
Gond
Montreal
Oscar Hammerstein Faces Reporters in Lively Row
Oscar Hammerstein manager of the Manhattan opera house clashed with two newspaper reporters in New York on Saturday night at the Knickerbocker lobby. The dispute continued to the Jefferson Market police court where a hearing on Hammerstein's complaint was set, but postponed for a week. Both sides were arraigned for the courtroom fight. magistrate said no damage was done.
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Hammerstein
New York
Cra zy Convict Attack and Other News From January
A insane convict at Western Penitentiary attacked a nurse and guard, fatally wounding the guard after a gunshot confrontation. At Cornell University a student electrocuted during Junior Week incidents. The Earl of Leicester, England’s oldest peer, died at Holkham Hall. Milwaukee banker John J. Murphy, 69, vice-president of Milwaukee National Bank, died after a yearlong illness.
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Putlsburg, Fa
Westerns Penitentiary
Biar
Milwaukee
John J. Murphy
Milwaukee National Bank
Wonderberry: Burback Introduces Fruit Superspace Plant
Luther Burback, California plant wizard, unveils the Wonderberry a universal berry that grows in any climate bears in three months and fruits all summer. Burbank credits John Lewis Childs as introducer and promoter as agents sought worldwide for orders. the berry praised as extraordinary and easy to grow for all.
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Luther Burback
California
Burbank
John Lewis/ Childs
Fura Park
Dir. Childs
America
Childs
Fate of Mr Dude and Visa Sly in casual exchange
A brief dialogue fragment shows Mr Dude musing on a fate while noting a resemblance to a carpet at his feet. Visa Sly confirms the comparison and mentions plans to shake it, indicating a casual, improvised exchange with no clear resolving action.
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Dude
Skin eruption cured by Cutiura remedies in 1908
A Winchester woman describes her daughter’s severe eczema spreading from October to February, with itching and yellow weeping lesions. After two doctors failed, she used Cutiura remedies for two weeks and the eruptions cleared. The child, now fourteen, has had no recurrence.
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R. Whitaker
Winchester
Fenn
Porter Drug & Chom
Caryn Sole Prays
Boston
Joy Work And the Other Kind
An essay urges joy in daily labor and links nourishment to performance. It promotes Grape-Nuts as a sustaining breakfast aiding energy and brain function with testimonials and a nod to the Road to Wellville.
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Hearth's Temple
Reed
Wellville
Renson
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