Three Cities Start Money Flowing
Washington reports buoyant hopes for a rapid currency resumption as talks with the president and treasury officials plus reports from New York and Boston indicate banks ready to move with financial centers. New York and Montreal move gold into circulation and shipments to the Philadelphia mint accelerate coinage efforts.
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Washington
James B&b. Forgans
Treasury
New York
Boston
Chicago First National Bank
Chicago
Bank of Montreal
London
Irving National Bank
Philadelphia
Monetreal
United States Gold Purchase Reaches £484,000 in England
London November 28 United States purchases £484000 in gold at the Bank of England today. The move underscores ongoing currency and bullion activity as authorities monitor exchange rates and gold reserves.
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London
United
Denatured Christmas Plan Endorsed by Chicago Clubwomen
Chicago women led by Mrs. I S Blackwelder announce a crusade to eliminate gift giving at Christmas. She calls current celebrations a sign of degeneracy in American women and promotes a denatured holiday. Mrs Henrotin urges exchanging notes instead of gifts.
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Chicago
Chicago Women’s Club
I. S. Blackwelder
Bequest of a Dying Child Before Train Tragedy
Nina Hanck a Steubenville girl crushed by a railroad train bequeathed her toys to siblings and asked for gifts for Sylvia Tommy Nettie as she lay in the hospital. She was coasting near home when she swerved to avoid an automobile and met the express at the Cleveland and Pittsburgh line.
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Pittsburg
Mamma
Papa
Sylvia
Tommy
Nettie
Teddy
Nina Hanck
Steubenville
Cleveland and
Day Off for Wives Idea Widens Campaign
New York announces a campaign by Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch urging wives to take a day off each week. She argues the plan benefits wives husbands and children by sharing chores and freeing time to enjoy together.
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New York
Harriet Stanton Blatch
Murdered Wife Dream Revealed by Dream
Oakland police arrest M A Wilkins a stationary engineer for the murder of his wife whose body was found buried in quicklime under a shed at the Wilkins home. A San Francisco friend Mrs J M Anderson reported Wilkins tried to lure her away and in a dream she described the corpse. The sheriff later recovered the body in a trench under an old carpet with arms crossed over the chest.
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San Francisco
Oakland
M. A. Wilkins
Wilkins
J. M. Anderson
Kalamazoo Businessman Shot by Burglars
Horace Davis aged 58 and prominent business man was shot through the heart by burglars early today in Kalamazoo Michigan.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Horace
Davis
Separated Fifteen Times. Court Denies Divorce
Reading Pennsylvania November 28. In a divorce trial, the wife testified she was separated fifteen times and treated cruelly by John H. Good, including being struck and treated like a dog. The jury refused the divorce, finding the wife not adequately mistreated and ruling in favor of the husband.
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Reading
Eee Good
John H. Good
Ife
Kaiser to Seize Polish Estates in Eminent Domain
Berlin reports the Prussian diet opened with Prince Von Buelow reading a throne speech. It notes a budget rise of over 25 million and a looming deficit due to railway costs, with a government loan likely to extend rail systems. The speech forecasts a bill to acquire Polish estates by condemnation, potentially reviving the Polish question.
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Berlin
Prince von Buelow
Six Girls Locked in Vault by Office Boy
Chicago on November 28 six girl stenographers at the American Steel and Wire company were locked inside a cavernous vault at lunch by office boy Willie Osterfelt. The vault door was shut and the combination turned. A rescue party broke through the wall with a pickaxe and crowbar, releasing the six women. One woman suffered nervous shock. the boy was discharged.
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Chicago
American Steel and Wire ‘Company
Willie Osterfelt
Willie
Igirla
A. P. Pratt
Owever
75 Died This Year Climbing the Alps
London report notes 75 deaths in 1907 from Alpine ventures in Italy Switzerland and Austria. Most victims were Swiss and German with Brits and Italians following. Foolhardiness in dangerous ascents without guides or companions cited as chief cause. 350 non fatal accidents recorded. International action urged to restrict dangerous climbs to qualified guides.
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London
Switzerland
France
Italy
Austria
Sinclair scouting for another Jungle
Chicago reports that Upton Sinclair may be working in stockyards to gather material for a new book. Widespread talk says he is pursuing immigrant women in slaughterhouse roles with two Assyrian women among his staff detailing their experiences.
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Chicago
Upton Sinclair
Piper‘ising
Sinclair
Rescues Baby From River Endangers Suitor’s Suit
Walter Jones of Monessen recalls saving a baby cast into the Monongahela river after a boy rushed home with a tale of a woman tossing the child into the water. Jones retrieved a cat but the boy who urged the rescue vanished from the scene.
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Pittsburg
Walter Jones
Monessen
Sie
Jones
Tragic Train Delay Over Infant Death
Mrs. Frank Waliawski of Philadelphia carried her 8 month old daughter in her arms and rode a train toward Chicago. The child died between Wilkes-Barre and Rochester and lay with the mother for over an hour before the death was noticed. The mother, 22, continues to Chicago for burial.
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Buffalo
Frank Waliawski
Twenty-sixth
Dickinson Streets
Philadelphia
Chicago
Lehigh Valley
Rochester
Newly Wedded Pair Handcuffed to Train in Charivari
Edward Vail a stock company leading man and his wife Nellie Finder were seized by friends in Hammond Indiana early this morning. They were handcuffed together bound with ropes and placed on a train bound for Muskegon Michigan as part of a charivari prank.
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Hammond
Ind
Navy
Edward Vail
Nellie Finder
Muskegon
Mich
Bank ex-president attempts suicide after crimes alleged
New York figures report Howard Maxwell former Borough Bank Brooklyn leader tried to cut his throat with a razor and is not expected to survive. Maxwell faced larceny and forgery charges. Also noted, John G Jenkins Jr Jenkins Trust Company president arrested for forgery in the third degree with $10 000 bail. A coroner jury found Charles T Barney ex Knickerbocker Trust president died by his own hand.
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New York
Howard Maxwell
The
Borough Bank
Brooklyn
Maxwell
John G. Jenkins, Jr
Jenkins Trust Company
Barney
Charles T. Barney
Knickerbocker Trust Company
Nurse Steals Babies for Month's Wages Case
In St. Louis on November 28 a mother reported her husband’s two children, Albert W. Johnson Jr. and Charles F. Johnson, and 17 year old housemaid Lorena Myers missing. A note demanded $15 monthly wages for their return. Six hours later police found the trio in a Glendale, Missouri house. Myers claimed intoxication and denied kidnapping. after a meeting with Lt. Governor Charles P. Johnson, the children's grandfather, Myers was discharged from service.
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Albert W. Johnson
Albert W. Johnson, Jr
Charles F. Johnson
Lorena Myers
Mother's Place
Old Orchard
Glendale
Charles P. Johnson
Myers
Lbs
Johnson Service
Farmers Deliver Products in Autos in Salina Kansas
A Kansas farmer and his family embrace autos for daily tasks from transporting wheat to town to hauling groceries and market produce. A southern county youth tests a runabout for a date ride and quickly buys it, praising the car’s ability to traverse prairie roads and hill climbs.
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Salina
Kas
Kansas
Nis
Elks to Hold Next Convention in Dallas
Pittsburg Nov 28 At a grand lodge officers meeting a committee report proposed Dallas Texas as a convention city and the Elks decided to hold the next convention there.
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Pittsburg
Grand Lodge of Elks
Dallas
Tex
the Elks
Chicago Council Tells Order League to Quit
The Chicago city council unanimously urged the Chicago law and order league to drop its campaign against Sunday saloons and let voters decide at the next election. The aldermen called the Sunday closing law obsolete.
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Chicago Council
Order League
Chicago
Chicago Law and Order League
Banks to Resume Payment Soon
Financiers from major cities hold a secret Chicago meeting. Attendees agree the sooner payments resume, with Treasury Department to be informed.
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Chicago
Worst Is Over Says Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller declared that the worst is past regarding the financial situation. He attributed the downturn to several combined causes and expressed confidence in President Roosevelt's motives, with no criticism of any kind.
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Rockefeller
New York
John VD. Rockefeller
Roosevelt
Bankers Expect Currency Payments Resume Within Two Weeks
Chicago bankers from the United States meet at the Union League club to discuss resumption of currency payments. James B. Foran will report to the treasury about the conference. They agreed cash payments to depositors should be restored soon to aid general business and the banking sector.
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Chicago
United States
New York
St. Louis
Kansas City
Union League Club
James B. Forgan
Washington
Treasury Department
Hysterias fading in New York markets says Henry Clews
Henry Clews reports improved conditions in the financial district and notes hysteria has faded. He warns money stringency and credit disruption persist until currency premium and bank reserves rise, while the country adjusts to new conditions and contemplates currency reform ahead of spring.
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Henry Clews
New York
Financial
Congress
Wall Street
Brothers Drown in Sioux River at Sioux Falls
In Sioux Falls South Dakota on November 27 two Taylor brothers aged 8 and 9 drowned in the Sioux River near Harry and Chester. Chief Wade and Special Officer Gamberg led the search and recovered the bodies after extensive effort. Their widowed mother W G Taylor deserted by her husband faces destitution and had previously lived in Mitchell before moving from Texas with six children, four surviving.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
Sioux River
Harry
Chester Taylor
Wade
Gamberg
W. G. Taylor
Texas
Mitchell
Money Market Report from New York November Money Rates
Money firm at ten percent. Prime mercantile paper nominally at ten percent. Sterling exchange weak at 4.86 60 4.86 70 for demand and 4.79 4.79.25 for sixty days.
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New York
Prime Mercantile
Sterling Exchange
Taggart to resign Democratic national chairmanship
In Wrench Lick Indiana on November 25 members of the national Democratic committee discuss timing and venue for the next national convention while Chairman Taggart states he wishes to step down as chair but hopes to remain an Indiana representative on the committee.
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Taggart
Indiana
Arrests Wife for Marrying Two Men in Philadelphia Case
Yetta Alster, a woman with three marriages, is charged with bigamy after selling a farm in Austria, eloping to America with farm hand Caspar Ladislar, and marrying Warragiven Koavia in Bridesburg. District Attorney Jerome helped arrest her in Port Richmond with Isadore Alster identifying her and a daughter present. She remains held on $1,000 bail for a further hearing.
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Philadelphia
America
Caspar Ladislar
Warra
Koavia
Port Richmond
Austria
New York City
Jerome Helps
Jerome
Harry Bozarth
Thomas McCully
Isadore Alster
Yetta Alster
Warragiven Koavia
Bridesburg
Hughes
War hero laborer to win back wife in Boston tale
Captain Charles G. Collins once famed for Boer War heroics works as a pottery apprentice in Boston. He lives as a laborer to rebuild his life and win back Natalie Schenck Collins of Newport, with his father offering to invest if he shows he can work and reform within a year.
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Boston
Charles G. Collins
Collins
Natalie Schenck
Newport
Lemons Declared Medicine In Sunday Sale Ruling
Jefferson City November 25 The supreme court Division 2, in an opinion by Judge Fox, reverses Barry county circuit court and discharges James Campbell. Campbell, who ran an ice cream plant in Monett near the railroad, was fined for selling lemons Sunday. The court accepts lemons as medicine, exempting Sunday sales from the closing law.
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Jefferson City
Supreme Court
Fox
Barry County
James Campbell
Campbell
Monett
Incendiary Fire Kills Thirteen in New York Tenement
Thirteen Italians died and several were injured in a tenement house fire on 109th Street. Police deem the blaze incendiary, with victims found on the top floor amid flames from the lower doors. A recent robbery at saloon owner Cudano’s establishment involved would be robbers awaiting trial.
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New York
Navy
109Th Street
Guiseppe Cudano
Cudano
Shorn Heiress Evelyn Romadka Enters Joliet Prison
Evelyn Romadka wife of a Milwaukee millionaire and former social beauty entered Joliet penitentiary as convict 604 after a burglary career with a black ex convict accomplice. She was stripped of fine clothes and hair in a brief reception, then dressed in prison garb and assigned a cell for a sentence of one to fourteen years.
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Chicago
Evelyn Romadka
Milwaukee
Fortune
Prince Henry
Prussia
Illinois
Joliet
T. J. Caine
Oshkosh
Wis
JURY IN ADAMS CASE DISAGREES IN IDAHO MURDER TRIAL
The Steve Adams murder trial jury was discharged after failing to reach a verdict. Eight jurors favored acquittal and four favored conviction for the Tyler murder in Marble Creek Shoshone county in August 1904. Darrow sought bail and immunity. Sheriff Bailey has a warrant on Adams for a separate murder charge. Hawley said the disagreement will not affect the Tyler case.
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Clarence Darrow
Adams
Colorado
Tyler
Bailey
Shoshone County
Ed Boyle
Darrow
Boise
Pettibone
Hawley
Uncle Sam Opens Teaching Posts in the Philippines
Washington reports the insular affairs department will hold a holiday examination to recruit 300 new teachers for the Philippines. Open to wives and fianc es of current teachers and near relatives, ages 20 to 40. Entrance salary about 1200 dollars yearly.
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Washington
Sam
Philippines
Manila
Department of Insular Affairs
Automobile kills a war near hero
General Henry Edward Colville dies in an automobile accident near London. Colville, recalled from the Boer War due to setbacks among his troops, is identified as the casualty in the incident.
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London
Henry Edward Colville
South Africa
Swedish Minister Seeks Vacation After Treaty Snub
Stockholm November 27. E. A. Gunther the Swedish minister to Norway has requested a few weeks off. He says the Norwegian foreign office failed to notify him when the neutrality treaty was signed and he learned of the matter from newspapers.
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Stockholm
E. A. Gunther
Norway
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