Standard Oil Runs Up the White Flag
Chicago reports government officials will seek the actual appearance of John D. Rockefeller before Judge Landis next Saturday morning. Standard Oil lawyers offered liberal terms to withdraw subpoenas, but District Attorney Sims refused, insisting on full surrender and cooperation.
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Chicago
John D. Rockefeller
Landis
John S Miller
Standard Oil Company
Sims
John Landis
United States
Chandler
Cleveland
Forest Hill
John 8. Miller
Standard Oil
New York
Miller
Qandis
Wisconsin
Indiana
New Jersey
Ockefeller
Rockefeller
Flies Kill Chickens and Young Stock A New Plague
A small black fly in Hutchinson Minnesota has swarmed the region. The bite is poisonous to some and harmless to others. Poultry suffers most as spring chickens die by the hundreds. Birds seek shelter in coops and barns while calves also die. Large poultry raisers fear this year’s profits are ruined. Specimens were sent to the state entomologist.
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Hutchinson
Minn
Kiss called a greater evil than rum by pastor
Dr. L. Bass of Calvary Baptist Church in Cairo Illinois warned July 4 that a kiss is the devil's chief weapon, more ruinous than whisky or drugs. He described kissing as magnetic and explosive, capable of heavenly fire and hellish torment and urged deliverance from the "kissing devil."
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cairo
Ill
L. Bass
Calvary Baptist Church
Hell
Building Collapse Injures 35 in Cincinnati
A building collapsed at Ninth and Main streets in Cincinnati this afternoon. Thirty five persons were seriously injured in the disaster.
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Cincinnati
Ninth and Main Streets
Money Market Report Shows Stronger Rates and Exchange
Money rates rose to 5 percent for prime mercantile paper with the 514 6 percent figures cited. Sterling exchange advanced with demand at 4.87 and 60 day at 4.83.
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New York
Prime Mercantile
Sterling Exchange
Wills Him Money to Uncle Sam in Odd Bequest
A testator in Rochester New York left more than 100,000 to the United States government, sharing proceeds with Theodore Roosevelt and heirs. Real estate would fund a military academy at Galesburg while others endow a fund. Relatives and Galesburg officials contest the will as Attorney General Bonaparte sends District Attorney Bass to protect federal interests.
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Teehester
Maralyst Waa
United States
Theodore Roosevelt
Galessburg
Galesburg
George Shumway
Bonaparte
Bass
Buffalo
Speaks Five Tongues Yet Never Played Miss Rosen Heads to Russia
Elizabeth Rosen aged 17, daughter of the Russian ambassador, will travel to Russia as a passenger next October. She has lived in Washington two years with strict study and multilingual prowess. Her life has centered on music, art, and German French Italian English fluency but little social girlhood.
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Washington
Tober
Russia
America
Elizabeth Rosen
Miss Rosen
Massachusetts
Elizabeth
Elizabeth Reesen
St. Petersburg
Willie Myers builds a motor cycle after odd barter
In Berwick Pennsylvania on July 3 a boy inventor known as Willie Westinhouse Myers swapped an unreliable automobile for a horse then sold the horse to fund a gasoline motor. He successfully tested the newly built motorcycle after trading rags bones marbles pocketknives a goat and a pony for parts and funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berwick
Willie Westinhouse Myers
West Berwick
Willie
Willie Westinghouse
Edison Smith
Chicago reports 50000 criminal operations yearly
Chicago, July 3. Dr. Rudolph W. Holmes, head of a Chicago Medical Society committee, says about 50,000 criminal operations occur annually in Chicago. He cites around 150 hospitals and 25 exposed facilities, noting many births are tied to illicit baby farms and maternity homes.
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Chicago
Rudolph W. Holmes
North State Street
Chicago Medical Society
Couple on mysterious wedding trip aboard sealed plans
Boston dated July 3 reports Mr. and Mrs. Lester J. Charnock of Bridgewater starting a wedding trip with a sealed envelope from the bride's home. The envelope contained tickets and money for expenses and directs the couple to Fall River with the destination remaining secret, known only to the groom's brother. The brother arranged the trip and keeps the secret.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Lester J. Charnock
Bridgewater
Mr. Charnock
Rinilahue Volcano Kills Fifteen Indian Families
From Valdivia Chile reports describe Rinilahue volcano ejecting boiling water, stones, and ashes killing fifteen Indian families and destroying life around the region. A separate Washington dispatch notes a Cheltenham Maryland earthquake lasting an hour, stronger than Kingston but weaker than San Francisco.
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Santiago
Chili
Valdivia Dispatches
Washington
the Geodetic Survey Service
Cheltenham
Maryland
Kingston
San Francisco
Hundred in Line for Chippewa Reservation Land
Cass Lake Minnesota July 3. About one hundred people queued before the land office when the doors opened to file on claims in the Chippewa Indian reservation. Lewis Larson of Fosston, who had led the line since May 22, filed on a valuable farm.
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Cass Lake
Minn
Lewis Larson
Fosston
Monument Unveiled At Fairmount Cemetery Amid Court Fight
In Denver in July a Woodmen of the World ceremony unveiled a monument to head consul F. A. Falkenburg at Fairmount cemetery. Mrs Falkenburg Fallis seeks a permanent injunction in district court to stop using her father’s name on the memorial, arguing it would move or mislabel the grave. If she prevails the stone would remain a tribute and not mark the grave.
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Denver
Fairmount Cemetery
Woodmen
FF. A. Falkenhurg
Falkenburg Fallis
Chained Wife Rescued From Sunlit Stake Cruelty
Mrs. Michael Sabinsky of Du Pont says her husband chained her to a yard stake and left water and food beyond reach to conceal hidden savings. Miners found and freed her. Sabinsky was arrested by state constabulary.
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Wilkesbarre
Michael Sabinsky
du Pont
State Constabulary
Old Maids' Club Disrupted By Pianist Marriage
Chicago reports the disruption of an old maids' club linked to South Side Christian church after pianist Miss Josephine Bently marries Louis Aberge of Lincoln Nebraska. The engagement announcement unsettled the group whose members had pledged to remain single and wait for another woman to wed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Old Maids
Christian Endeavor
South Side Christian Church
Josephine Bently
Louis Aberge
Lincoln
Neb
Miss Warmington’s sneeze breaks spine in odd accident
In Los Angeles Miss Maude Warmington 1448 Figueroa street sneezes causing a lumbar vertebra to dislocate. She endures days of pain before aid arrives and a physician repositions the vertebra in a painful but not serious procedure at a hospital.
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Los Angeles
Cal
California Hospital
Prisoners Overcome Jailer and Escape in Davenport
Davenport Iowa July 3 Roy Lee and Jack Simmons two Black men and Emmet Hodee a white man overpowered the jailer and escaped. Lee was nearly killed on railroad girders while Simmons was captured at Ottawa Ontario with Hodee escaping.
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Davenport
Roy Lee
Jack Simmons
Emmet Hodee
Lee
Simmons
Ottawa
Hoige
Day of the Two-Step Declared Gone by Dances Expert
Philadelphia July 3. Professor Sol Asher, veteran dancing master, says the two-step is outdated and the waltz is the refined dance. He notes at the seashore dances now center on the waltz and the yvar sovienne, with children's dancing following that trend.
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Philadelphia
Sol Asher
Yvar Sovienne
Man Hanged for Assaults at Viaduct
Dalton July 3 Twenty five men seized Deck F Pasey a middle aged white man and self confessed attacker of his one year old stepdaughter from Whitfield county jail and hanged him to a railroad viaduct in a mob action preserving no details beyond the fact of the lynching.
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Dalton
Deck Fpasey
Whitfield County
Mother and baby survive as bullets hit Newark home
New York July 3 Mrs Mike Maglia 26 was shot and killed at 25 Drift Street Newark by her brother in law Lorenz Muaglia during a family quarrel. The infant in her arms was unharmed though bullets struck the woman in the apartments of Mrs Marie Belardina and torn the room.
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New York
Mike Maglia
No. 25
Drift Street
Newark
Lorenz Muaglia
Marie Belardina
Wife 17 Sues Husband 18 for Divorce at Pittsburg
Pittsburg report says Mrs. Albert Coward, age 17, has sued her 18 year old husband for divorce. A court appointed a guardian for Coward to ensure she is heard. The couple eloped to Youngstown Ohio on December 13 1905 and married there same day. The bride was 15 and the groom 16 at the time of marriage. The next morning he deserted her.
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Pittsburg
Albert Coward
Coward
Youngstown
Sons of Norway Vote to Affiliate with Norwegian Brotherhood
Chippewa Falls July 3 The Sons of Norway grand lodge adopts a resolution to affiliate with the Norwegian Brotherhood of Christiania Norway to connect Norwegians worldwide The grand lodge will be the American headquarters A librarian position to issue pamphlets on Norwegian pioneers is created Each lodge in America to elect an assistant to the librarian St Paul LaCrosse Superior and Albert Lea are leading candidates for the next meeting
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Chippewa, Falls
Wis
Sons of Norway Grand Lodge
Norwegian Brotherhood of Christiania
Norway
America
St. Paul
LaCrosse
Superior
Albert Lea
Temperance Legion members grind cigarette butts into mud
Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania July 3 Loyal Temperance Legion members report destroying six thousand seven hundred eighty eight cigar and cigarette butts left on streets during the year by grinding them into mud to render them unusable. Street urchins were seen collecting butts and the anti narcotic division explains the method as a counter to the practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilkesbarre
Loyal Temperance Legion
Human Ostrich Loses His Nail Diet
Paris reports surgeon Doctor Berger at Necker hospital removed nails button hooks needles pins and watch chains from the stomach of a former sword swallower who trained as a human ostrich. He aims to resume the nail diet after recovery.
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Paris
Berger
Necker Hospital
Notes Outstanding Break the Record
Washington on July 3 reports the monthly comptroller’s statement shows total circulation of national bank notes at the close of June 29 reaching $603,788,609 the largest amount outstanding in government history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Comptroller of Currency
National Bank
Probe Beginnings into Telegraph Trust Alleges Anti Trust Ties
Officials will conduct a probe into the alleged telegraph trust to determine the nature and extent of agreements, wages, and costs. The inquiry aims to decide if Congress should oversee the industry and to avoid immunity for either company. San Francisco reports optimism over a short strike as President Roosevelt may intervene. No new workers were hired today by Western Union or the Postal Telegraph.
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Western Unionin
Postal Integrated
Auth
Ritiner
Aveid
Department of Justice
Congress
San Francisco
Roosevelt
Small
Western Union
Postal
Laundry prices rise as Chicago laundries plan increases
Chicago reports a likely summer rise in laundry costs. P F Munger of Munger Laundry cites 26 percent soap price hikes and labor shortages as factors. A Briggs house meeting of the Chicago Laundrymen's club signals price tilts if the national association agrees.
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Chicago
George Ade
P. F. Munger
Munger Laundry Company
Chicago Laundrymen's Association
Chicago Laundrymen's Club
Briggs House
National Laundrymen
Soldier Baker Fired Over Barroom Floor Recital
In New York on July 1 reports say Private William K. Baker of the Twenty third United States Infantry was discharged after a guardhouse incident. He is described as defiant and fond of jokes, having recited a verse titled The Face Upon the Barroom Floor to Lieutenant Duke.
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New York
United States Army
William Sb. Baker
Twentythird United States Infantry
Bill
Department of the Cast
Grant
Mason
Thackeray
William K. Baker
Thomas T. Duke
Duke
Tom
Wife Goes to Clubs He Tends the Children
In Pittsburg on July 1 Judge Marshall Brown heard the divorce case of Ferdinand Enzien who said his wife loved club life and he wished to stay home to care for six children. He even surrendered the latch key claiming her club commitments left him alone at home.
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Pittsburg
Ferdinand Enzien
Marshall Brown
Enzien
Eight year old Viola Boylan found dead in home cellar
Eight year old Viola Boylan missing since last Monday was found murdered and mutilated in a coal bin in her Second Avenue home. Police hunt two young Italians seen near the child days earlier as inquiries continue.
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New York
Viola Boylan
Second Avenue
Dances Himself Into 50000 Suit Over Breach of Promise
Asher P Fischer candy maker faced a $50 000 breach of promise suit after Miss Florence Shapiro alleged three years of attentions and a planned wedding in 1906. A Jersey departure and late night dance preceded an unexpected legal summons at Clinton Hall.
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New York
Jersey
Asher P. Pischer
Pischer
Clinton Hall
Fordan
Fischer
Miss Shapiro
New Jersey
Woman With Whip Doles Out Rough Justice At Canal Bridge
New Jersey tale tells of a middle aged woman who whipped a young man near Kiersted's bridge after he mocked her approach. The driver then left by buggy, reporting the incident to Bloomfield police without revealing her identity.
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New York
Morris Canal
Bloomfield
N. J
Adam
Kiersted
Kiersted’s Bridge
Mining Engineer Dies on Fast Train
Louis P. Buford a mining engineer from Mexico and father of Charles Buford director of the Mexican Central railroad died in a parlor car on the Bay State Limited east bound over the New Haven road. His body was taken off at New Haven and will be forwarded to Mexico.
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New Haven
Conn
Louis
Buford
Mexico
Charles Buford
Mexican Central Railroad
Bay State Limited
New Haven Road
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