Chicago women inspectors accused of neglect for pink teas
The article reports Chicago women sanitary inspectors facing accusations of neglecting duties in connection with pink tea events. It notes other items about notable women and philanthropy, including Christine Nilsson’s gambling losses, Ruth Bryan Leavitt’s Denver play, Susan B. Anthony estate directions, and various achievements.
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Chicago
Christine Nilsson
Monte Carlo
Ruth Bryan Leavitt
William Jennings Bryan
Denver
Susan B. Anthony
Mack Duck
Hip Sing Tong
New York
Lizzie Johnson
Casey
Annie Shaw
Oregon
Dr. Shaw
Anthony
Evelyn B. Longman
United States Naval Academy
Helen Keller
Sullivan
Macy
Wrentham
Mass
Taylor
Greencastle
Ind
de Pauw University
Insurance Grand Jury Appearance Before NYC Justice
District Attorney Jerome testified before Justice Dowling in the Supreme Court Criminal Branch New York City and requested a special proceeding or action related to an insurance matter before the grand jury.
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Insurance Grand Jury
Jerome
Justice Dowling
Supreme Court
Criminal Branch
New York City
Smuggling on a Battleship Sparks Customs Inquiry
San Francisco Evening Post reports a belief that about 750000 dollars worth of dutiable goods were smuggled ashore in launches from the battleship Oregon before its Bremerton voyage. Customs orders halted the ship and prompted reinspection of baggage, with officials saying no definite illegal importations were confirmed.
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San Francisco
The
Evening Post
Oregon
Bremerton Navy Yard
Bremrnton
Bremerton
War Department
Wells-Fargo Company
Santa Fe Railway
Hamilton
Washington, D. C
Shaw
Treasury Department
Newberry
Navy Department
Orient
Washington
Men Roasted to Death in Keyser Rail Wreck
In Keyser West Virginia two Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers died as a runaway yard engine plowed into second division cabooses on a sidetrack. The flames consumed Conductor Jennings and Brakeman Keyser with cries heard as the jammed wreck sent men to a hospital and, later, to the morgue.
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Keyser
W. Va
Keyser Yards
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Baltimore and Ohio Yard
Jennings
Dynamite Cap Explosion Injures Boy on Railway Line
In Roanoke Virginia a 9 year old boy Bryan son of J E Wilson had his right eye blown out and his right hand mangled by an explosive dynamite cap picked up by an elder brother on the Tidewater railway construction site where workers have used explosives.
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Roanoke
Bryan
J. E. Wilson
Tidewater
Richard Clements
Seaboard Air Line Railway
Dunlop Street
Petersburg
Lottie Lawrence
Charles Kelly
Fairmont
Roosevelt
Norfolk
Portsmouth
Virginia
Portsmouth Business Men's Association
N. Bender Schmitt
William C. Ford
Norfolk and Western
Richmond
Suffolk
J. M. Atrheart
Cave Springs
J. C Jones
Bessie M. Jones
The
Southwest Grocery Company
W. L. Andrews
Fe, Tatterson & Co
Randolph Market Company
Biele Aaa Quaranti Ty Aggega Tl
Philippines Commission member debunks Japan buying islands claim
Gen Bates F Smith of the Philippines Commission, who arrived aboard the Mongolia, stated there is no truth to reports that Japan would buy the Philippines. He said Filipinos would not welcome a change of ownership as he heads toward San Francisco.
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Honolulu
Bates F. Smith
Philippines Commission
Mongolia
San Francisco
Japan
Philippines
Transfer of Standard Oil Kentucky property to Indiana company
In Indianapolis a special report notes the transfer of property from the Standard Oil Company of Kentucky to the Indiana company, signaling the Kentucky firm’s withdrawal from the state. The local manager declined comment and a nominal consideration of 1 is stated.
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Indianapolis
Standard Oil Company of
Kentucky
Indiana
Sentenced to Hang, Now Set Free
In Chicago Joseph Briggs, once found guilty of murder and sentenced to be hanged, was acquitted of the murder of Hans Peterson, who was killed during a robbery nearly a year ago. Briggs had sought a new trial claiming state witnesses testified falsely and that he deserved another chance.
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Chicago
Ill
Joseph Briggs
Hans Peterson
Briggs
Inshort World News Roundup on Curbs and Conflicts
John Alexander Dowie curses his wife and son and vows to drive them from Zion Overseer Zolivia lists 2.5 million dollars in Dowie expenditures The Philippines fear sale to Japan Taft denies issues Rumors Prof Adolph Gluck bets 25000 for truth for a year Supreme Court Kansas City Live Stock Exchange ruled a trust Fire in Pittsburg typhoid epidemic 247 cases New Progressive Alliance forms in Chicago Eloba misadventure and elopements in New York Torrington and Brooklyn notes Key political and business maneuvers across cities including Boston Montgomery and Albany
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John Alexander Dowie
Zion
Zolivia
Dowie
Taft
Japan
Adolph Gluck
Chicago
Supreme Court of Kansas
Kansas City Live Stock Exchange
Pittsburg
P. C. Fitzgerald
Charles Hays
Elizabeth Pennington
Warren Smith
Torrington
Alva E. Roche
Neisze van der Velde
Brooklyn
Robert G. Procter
Senator Lodge
Boston
New York
Loyal Legion
Lee
Appomatox
Peter Hansen
North Tacoma
Wash
Thomas Johnson
Confederate Congress
Montgomery County
Roosevelt
Washington
Louis Fitzgerald
Morris C. Mengis
Mengis
Maryland
Fuller Syndicate
Higgins
Minnesota
Albert W. Bartlett
Pinault
New York Chamber of Commerce
Baltimore
New York Central and
Hudson River Railroad
William R. Hearst
William C. Inman
Leon
Edwin C. Swift
Quincy House
Republic Gin Company
Nebraska
Indiana
Iowa
Western Maryland Railroad
Martin Van't Hof
Grind Rapids
Mich
Alfred Walter
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
J. M. Barr
Seaboard Air Line
McCurdy
Mutual Life Insurance Company
General Assembly
Albany
St. Louis
Philadelphia
Oakland
Cal
Union of Employes
Varied 178 elects win in Russian provinces and British bye race noted
Constitutional Democrats gain in 28 of 51 Russian provinces amid a British bye election where Liberal H Pearson defeats the Marquis of Graham despite Lady Mary Hamilton’s opposition. Eleven bodies recovered from a curiere mine disaster stir public anger at mine management and engineers.
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Constitutional Democrats
H. Pearson
Marquis of Graham
Mary Hamilton
England
Curiere
House of Lords
Black Sea
Mount Vesuvius Rages as Naples Feels Devastation
Cable reports describe a terror filled day as Mount Vesuvius erupts with lava streams, ashes, and floods of lava devastating towns around Naples. Death toll unverified but reported over 500 with many injured as several villages are evacuated and roads disrupted.
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Naples
Mount Vesuvius
San Guiseppe
St. Anne
Ottajano
San Giorgio
Cremona
Portici
Resina
Torre del Greco
Torre Annunziato
Soma Vesuviana
Boscotre Case
Gulf of Naples
San Sebastino
Vesuvius
Towboat Hoxie Explodes On Ohio River At Portland
The boiler of the towboat Hoxie exploded off Portland Ohio while the vessel was returning north with empty barges. The boat sank within five minutes. Pittsburgh man John Morgan drowned after being thrown overboard. Joseph Wheeler and Edward McGunningan were fatally burned and scalded. An unknown Ravenswood man and John Casey of Pittsburgh were badly scalded but expected to recover. Capt J A Woodford commanded the Hoxie for Monongahela Coal and Coke Co.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
Hoxie
Pittsburg
Ohio River
Portland
John Morgan
Joseph Wheeler
Edward McGunningan
Ravenswood
John Casey
J. A. Woodford
Charleston
Monongahela Consolidated Coal and Coke Company
Fingerprint system adopted to identify recruits
Washington D C Special The War Department formally adopts fingerprints for identifying army recruits and deserters replacing the Bertillon system after reviewing identification methods. The move follows a department report on identification systems.
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Washington, D. C
War Department
Disappearances and accidents across Tidewater era news
The report details Mabel Nash missing from Frederickburg after leaving for an errand, plus multiple incidents including tobacco trade shifts in Caroline County, two railroad dynamite accidents near Roanoke, a fatal runover near Petersburg, a kerosene lamp explosion, long illness of a boy in Fairmont, a dangerous hospital case and local government changes in Woodstock and Spottsylvania.
PERSONAL GLEANINGS. Notable figures and deaths of the era
Ex Mayor Van Wreck of New York aims to make Paris his home. Secretary Root will voyage to South America next summer aboard the cruiser Charleston. Artist Jean Baptiste Millet dies in Paris, brother of Millet the famous painter. E S Curtis of Washington studies American Indian photography. Andrew McConnell plans to place libraries in small Southern towns. Actor-singer William H. McDonald dies in Springfield at 72, co founder of the original Bostonians. Howard Edwards named president of Rhode Island Agricultural College. Rev Dr John Watson Ian MacLaren will lecture in the Western Theological Seminary next year. Rev William Howe, founder of Tremont Temple, celebrates his 10th birthday in 1906 and resides in Cambridge. James M Breslin, famed hotel man, dies in New York aged 72. Senator Allison of Iowa, 43 years in Congress, 33 in the Senate, is the senior senator. Dr Paul G Wooley accepts directorship of Siam's proposed pathological laboratory.
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Root
South American
Charleston
Jean Baptiste Millet
Jean Francois Millet
Paris
E. S. Curtis
Washington
Andrew McConnell
William H. McDonald
Bostonians
Springfield
Mass
Rhode Island Agricultural College
Howard Edwards
Michigan Agricultural College
John Watson
Ian MacLaren
Liverpool
England
Western Theological Seminary
William Howe
Tremont Temple
Boston
Cambridge
James M. Breslin
New York
Chicago
St Louis
Allison
Iowa
Lie
Congress
Senate
Paul G. Wooley
Sermim Laboratory
Bureau of Science
Philippines
Siam
Global and Domestic News Snapshots Mixed
Philadelphia plans sub warfare, Washington eyed as model city, an ice palace for Chicago next year, Somerville to open a co operative bank. unrest in Russia grows, old Constitution ship to be repaired for 1000. Colon faces water famine, Russia must raise 500 million this year. town legislature probes life insurers. Portugal railways run at 48 percent cost recovery. immigration may hit high water mark this year. British Legion of Frontiers to form for imperial defense. winter storms cause over 4 million in ship cargo damage. Magistrate Crane rules tenants must follow janitor rules. Columbia students back phonetic spelling per Carnegie. contraband on routes in Southwest during mail weighing. Rio Grande Railway system to be fully electric soon.
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Chicago
Somerville
Mass
Russia
Colon
Jong Dreath
Portugal
British Legion of Frontiers
Crane
New York City
Columbia
Andrew Carnegie
Rio Grande
Rumford Postal Cards Plant Powers Nation
Rumford houses the nation’s postal card production with about 50 million cards monthly. Cards are produced for distribution to central points, then routed to smaller stations, supporting nationwide mail service.
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Rumford
Poinis Ie
Meppersg
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George Nash
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