Roosevelt speaks on trusts and national control at Pilgrim monument
In Provincetown Massachusetts on August 22 President Roosevelt urged stronger federal oversight of interstate corporations, praised Puritan heritage, and warned against excessive individualism while stressing the need for national action to curb monopolies and protect workers.
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Provincetown
Mass
Roosevelt
Pilgrim Memorial Monument
BE. H. Harriman
Mr. Harriman
United States
Ireland
Europe
Virginia
Masachusetts
Massachusetts
Bride Drops Obey From Ceremony in Kentucky-Nevada Match
Booth Bend Indiana reports Miss Lousa Hardin of Kentucky refused to have the word obey used in the marriage rite. Stephen O. Prescott a wealthy Nevadan bridegroom elect relinquished his wish to marry under the standard Episcopal service. The unusual dispute ends with a conformity to a simpler ceremony.
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Booth Bend
Ind
Lousa Hardin
Kentucky
Stephen O. Prescott
Nevada
Italian shoots cousin then kills himself in Chicago
Italian man Michael de Train shot Alvina Vultmann seriously wounding her and killed himself. Vultmann was reportedly engaged to De Train. The victim’s cousin Alvina Awald sustained a severe scalp wound but is expected to recover, likely saved by a comb worn in her hair deflecting the bullet.
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Chicago
Micheal de Train
Alvina Vultmann
Alvina Awald
de Train
Miss Vultmann
Miss Awald
Packers Acquire Independent Firm
New York August 22 The controlling interest in the New York Butchers Dressed Meat company capitalized at 1,000,000 has been acquired by the packers and will merge into the combine October 1. Arthur Block president and Aaron Buchbaum treasurer will retire along with most directors.
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New York
New York Butchers’ Dressed Meat Company
Eleventh Avenue
Arthur Block
Aaron Buchbaum
Railroad Lawyer J W De Weese Reported Dying
Lincoln Neb Aug 22 J W De Weese long a leading western railroad attorney and twenty five year Burlington solicitor is reported dying in Minnesota of cancer A Rochester consult and proposed operation were halted when cancer was found
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Lincoln
Neb
J. W. DeWeese
West
Burlington
Minnesota
Rochester
Telegraphers Strife Spreads to Leased Wires
Washington reports no settlement as Charles P. Neill retreats from mediation. Chicago sees expanded strike with leased wire operators in brokerage houses, multiple firms refusing to sign, and 170 AP operators at keys. Losses mount in Chicago produce trade. distress and delays ripple through eggs fruits and shipments.
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Washington
Charles P. Neill
United States Commissioner of Labor
Appeal to Helen Gould by Chicago Western Union workers
Chicago strikers of the Western Union Telegraph company sign a petition to Helen Gould asking aid. They accuse discrimination against women, health violations, unsafe building access, and lack of basic hygienic facilities, urging Gould to intervene for justice and safer conditions.
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Helen Gould
Chicago
Western Union Telegraph Company
Health Department
Jay Gould
Western Union
No Surrender Declared in Telegraph Strike Across Nation
The telegraph strike expands from coast to coast with no surrender stance by both sides. New York shifts action as National President Small of the telegraphers union arrives amid widespread shutdowns. Cities report being tied up, news and business telegrams largely blocked, and striker ranks grow while police notice women pickets in City Hall park. Chicago reports complete cessation of all cable service to and from.
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Liberty
Columbia University
United States
Small
Telegraphers’ Union
South Water Street
Chicago
Chicago Commission
Chicago Butter and Egg Board of Trade
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Michigan
New York
Western Union
City Hall Park
Strikers Entertainment Committee
Tramp Who Attacked Girl Captured by Bloodhounds
A tramp who assaulted Alma Whitehead a 14 year old girl, daughter of Rev J M Whitehead of Turnerville Pa, was pursued by bloodhounds and captured shortly after midnight. Warren Ohio police chief Frank Lowers led the search and the man was taken to Meadville jail for detention.
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Youngstown
Alma Whitehead
J. M. Whitehead
Turnerville
Meadville
Jtan
Frank Tlowers
Warren, O
World Wide Telegraphers Strike Looms Amid Alliance Talks
Chicago reports an imminent world wide telegraphers strike after a year of talks between the Commercial Telegraphers Union of America and England's Telegraphers Clerks association. Sympathy for the present strike is pledged. If English operators refuse to handle American cablegrams, British cable firms will press to maintain transmission, risking a broader European and global walkout.
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Chicago
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union of America
Telegrapher Clerks’ Association of England
Canso
North Sydney
Hearts Content
Nova Scotia
America
England
Telegrapher strike fund plan eyed by AFL directors
In Chicago on August 21 President Small of the telegraphers urges a massive strike fund and predicts a possible ninety day conflict. Five hundred unmarried telegraphers prepare to camp at Desplaines camp meeting grounds subsisting in tents for 15 cents per day per person.
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Chicago
Small
Washington
American Federation of Labor
Desplaines
Telegraphers Dialog With Brokers Over Union Demands
A committee of striking telegraphers visited Chicago brokerage firms that have not signed the union scale and granted a few hours more to accept the demands. Four large firms remain unyielding.
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Chicago
Gompers Entrusted With Telegraphers Strike Adjustment
President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor reported to the federation's executive council that he John Mitchell of Indianapolis and Daniel J. Keefe of Detroit had been entrusted with an effort to secure an honorable settlement to the telegraphers' strike.
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Gompers
Washington
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Federation
John Mitchell
Indianapolis
Daniel J. Keefe
Detroit
Strike Menaces the Chicago Newspapers
Chicago, Aug 21. Labor trouble threatens daily presses as Chicago Newspaper Publishers association and Chicago Typographical union No 16 near an open conflict over a new wage scale. Printers demand concessions while publishers push for an open shop with weekly wages and hourly rates for ad men and linotype work.
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Chicago
Chicago Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Chicago Typographical Union
The
Typographical Union
Murder Plots Uncovered in China Amid Shanghai Tension
A China dispatch reports ongoing unrest in Shanghai with officials claiming thousands of revolutionists hide in foreign quarters shielding them from Chinese courts. New murderous plots against the Manchu regime are being discovered as the situation remains unsatisfactory.
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Berlin
China
Shanghai
Girl Heroine Rescues Father and Two Children at Buzzard's Bay
Miss Frances Lloyd of the summer colony at Buzzard's Bay rowed to a capsized cat boat and saved Henry Winslow of Boston and his two children Caroline seven and Sears five who sank twice. She reached Winslow first then swam for the children and brought them to safety before returning to rescue the exhausted father.
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Mass
Frances Lloyd
Buzzard's Bay
Henry Winslow
Boston
Caroline
Sears
Mr. Winslow
Miss Lloyd
Raid on Fashionable Seashore Hotel Over Poker and Bridge
At Atlantic City on August 21 Acting on a warrant from the Good Citizenship league police raided the Carlton Hotel in Chelsea Cottage district. Proprietor Charles P. Zazzelli was arrested after nightfall though no gambling paraphernalia was found. bail was set at 500 dollars. Reformers allege big games and wealthy visitors were “trimmed” and promise further actions against other hotels.
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Athantic City
Good Citizenship League
Carlton
Chelsea Cottage District
Woodruff
John W. Rughes
Charles P. Zazzelli
Zazzelli
Herman L. Welsh
Benjamin Garrison
League
Chelsea
Monumental New Theater Planned on Central Park Block
Plans filed for a seven story theater with an eleven story extension costing 1 700 000 dollars. The building fronts Central Park on 62nd and 63rd streets with a grand park facing colonnade and five doorways, seating about 2500 plus boxes.
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New York
Sixty-second
Sixthy-third
Central Park
Monkey Balloon Appeals Halted by Humane Agent in Kenosha
Kenosha Wisconsin August 21 The local humane society agent J H Karnes ordered the suspension of monkey balloon ascensions at a city pleasure park citing animal cruelty. Karnes warned park board members that if they proceed they risk enforcement action to protect animals from mistreatment.
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Kenosha
Wis
J. H Karnes
Humane Society
Shey Aes
Karnes
Prices Soar on Curb as Stocks Rally in Early Trading
New York August 21 first prices on the stock market were fractional and irregular at opening but soon showed strength on strong demand for leading issues. By ten minutes in Great Northern preferred rose 3 percent while Reading U P N P and other issues gained 2 percent. Several rail and steel stocks advanced 1 to 2 percent as professionals sold and profits were booked.
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New York
Great Northern
Reading
U. P
N. P
Amalgamated Copper
St. P
Anaconda
Brooklyn Transit
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Republic
Stete
Congress
Department of Justice
Licorice Trust
Packers
Board of Trade
Associated Press
Tramp
Girl
Man
Buzzards’ Bay
Three
Seashore Hotel
Atlantic City
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