Roosevelt Urges Nationwide Conservation Plan
President Roosevelt transmits the first report of the National Conservation Commission. He urges immediate action to conserve natural resources, improve waterways and forests, regulate minerals, and promote public lands policies, stressing common sense and national cooperation for lasting prosperity.
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Washington
United States
Conmicks
Roosevelt
The
Conservation Commission
Conservation Congress
Commonwealth
Canal
Panama Canal
National Conservation Commission
Inland Waterways Commission
Congress
Commission
Conservation Commissions
Noel
Mississippi
Theodore Roosevelt
White House
Bristow Confirmed Senator From Kansas
Topeka Kansas January 28 1907 Joseph W Bristow Republican today was made United States senator by separate votes of the house and senate. A session tomorrow will ratify the election.
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Topeka
Kan
Josephes W Bristow
United States
House
Senate
Wreck of Maine prompts call for national action
Governor Ma goon of the Cuban provisional government urges the U S to remove the wreck of the battleship Maine lying in Havana harbor. He calls it a navigation obstruction and a national and international reproach while noting 68 sailors’ bodies remain aboard and the public debate over its cause fuels delays.
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Washington
Magoon
Provisional Government of
Cuba
Maine
Havana Harbor
United States
Havana
Root Refuses Extradition Request From Russia
Secretary Root has refused to extradite Christian Rudowitz, a Russian, citing the treaty ban on extraditing for political offenses. Testimony in Chicago supported the department's view, despite the Russian government’s vigorous representations. Root will notify Russian authorities in due course.
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Washington
Root
Christian Rudowitz
Rudowitz
Russia
Chicago
Jeff Davis Tries to Stop Stock Gambling
Jefferson Davis in the Senate urged a bill to penalize using mails telegraph or telephone to convey gambling propositions on futures. He denounced the evils of the money power and linked tariff policy to suppressing popular rights while addressing stock gambling in agricultural products.
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Washington
Jefferson Davis
Senate
Davis
Four Die in Texas Hotel Fire Turks Fort Worth
Four men were burned to death and another fatally burned in a hotel fire at the Southern hotel in Fort Worth Texas today. The blaze started by a gasoline stove explosion gutted six nearby frame structures. The dead were not identified yet and several hotel workers suffered minor burns.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Carrie Nation pelted with eggs in London lecture
Mrs Carrie Nation, lecturing in London at Canterbury Music hall, faced a hostile reception. She was pelted with eggs and hissed by the audience. police had to protect her as she left the venue.
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London
Carrie Nation
Canterbury Music Hall
Miss Yockey’s Big Coffin In Kittaning Pa
Miss Dora Yockey died in Kittaning Pennsylvania after a lifelong battle with extreme obesity. At over 600 pounds she required a specially built coffin measuring 47 inches wide and seven feet long. To move it into her house workers removed a window frame and part of the wall.
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Kittaning
Dora Yockey
Census plan to count deaf and blind people approved
The House committee on the census decided to report favorably a joint resolution by Representative Crumpacker of Indiana to take a census of the deaf and blind.
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Washington
House Committee On the Census
Representative Crumpacker
Indiana
Naval program for 1910 approved by House
The House adopted the naval program for fiscal year 1910 and passed the naval appropriation bill totaling 135 million dollars. The only major change was striking out the provision to restore marines to naval vessels, amid heated debate over Japan and defense needs.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Finley
South Carolina
Bartholdt
Missouri
Mr. Tawney
Japan
Lottery winner in South Dakota wins freedom
Mary A. Melser, winner of Tripp county lottery No 1, was granted a divorce for desertion in Platte by Judge E G Smith. She plans to file on her land claim once the time comes, despite concerns that the divorce was to secure eligibility for the $40,000 prize.
Printers Cliques Active in Donnelly Confirmation
Washington reporters say a revival of the old Wahneta and Kickapoo cliques within the labor unions at the great printing establishment has been observed. The Senate committee on printing will not act on these operations and plans to again report Samuel B. Donnelly’s nomination to the Senate with a recommendation for confirmation.
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Washington
Senate
Samuel B. Donnelly
Senate Committee On Printing
Great
Donnelly
Prince Henry Makes Successful Ascent in Military Airship
Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of Emperor William, completed a successful flight in a military airship from Tegel. Major Gruss commanded the balloon as very cold weather surrounded the ascent.
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Berlin
Prince Henry of
Prussia
William
Tegel
Gruss
Fritzi Scheff Faints Twice During Theater Performance
In New York on January 26 Fritzi Scheff star of The Prima Donny at the Knickerbocker fainted twice. She was carried to her St. Regis apartment where understudy Blanche Morrison continued in the role.
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New York
Fritzi Scheff
Knickerbocker
St. Regis
Blanche ‘Morrison
West Coast Floods Halt Roads and Trains Across California and Northwest
Heavy rains and a two week storm flood Stockton and isolate Sacramento. City basements flood while bulkheads shield shops. North to Spokane trains halted as rail washouts and bridges fail. Oregon and Washington lines report blocked routes and stranded passengers. Flood losses loom large across the region.
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California
Stockton
Sacramento
Sacramento River
Angel’s Camp
Portland
Ore
Washington
Oregon
Northern Pacific
Spokane
Odessa
Wash
Great Northern
North Bank
Columbia River
Cascades
Columbia
Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company
Pendleton
Nyorth
Seattle
Buallard
Edmonds
Northwest
Labor Leaders Stand Pat as Gompers Fires Volley at Justice
Washington January 25. Gompers Mitchell and Morrison denounce Judge Wright in the Buck Stove contempt ruling and refuse clemency. They condemn the court for free speech restrictions while defending labor rights and urging continued protest without duplicating court abuse.
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Pat
Gompers
Washington
Goumpers
Mitchell
Morrison
American Federationist
Justice Wright
Samuel Gompers
Wright
Messrs
Crib Fire Horror Attributed to Negro Worker
Chicago January 25. Acting Chief Schuettler said five survivors testified a negro workman entered the crib powder room with a torch just before the explosion. The worker is hospitalized as investigators pursue the cause of the deadly fire.
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Chicago
Schuettler
House Rejects Cap on Naval Ship Increases
The House defeated Burton Ohio amendment to limit naval increase to one battleship by 80 to 160. It then upheld the two battleships provision at 108 to 158 and refused to strike five torpedo boat destroyers from the naval bill, in Washington.
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Washington
House
Burton
Ohio
Widow Sues for 500000 Insurance in Burdette Case
Mrs Susie M Burdette widow of Joshua Burdette pioneer merchant of Creek county filed suit in U S circuit court seeking 500000 life insurance for Burdette who was assassinated at Eufaula in 1906.
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Muskogee
Okla
Susie M. Burdette
Joshua Burdette
Creek County
Fufaula
United States
Burdette
Cincinnati Shocks Spark Quake Rumors Across City
Early morning tremors felt in Cincinnati and suburbs sparked speculation of dynamite blasts. An investigation showed no blasting was occurring. The report also notes the British post office savings bank has over 10,000,000 depositors.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
British Post Office Savings Bank
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