New Year at White House Brings Thousands to Roosevelt Reception
President and Mrs. Roosevelt hosted a New Year’s reception drawing about 8,500 attendees. Diplomats, judges, congressmen, military officers, and the public formed long lines in the White House Blue Room with Mrs. Roosevelt and children mingling amid a warm, orderly crowd.
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Court of Claims
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Senate
House
Marine Corps
District National Guard
Army and Navy
Oil Gusher Sets Record in Sapulpa Field
A new oil gusher near Sapulpa in Indian Territory flowed 1 920 barrels a day, the strongest flow ever recorded in the region. The well came in Tuesday near the city Hmito and marks a record for local fields.
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Sapulpa
I. T
Indian Territory
Hmito
Postal Pay Too Small for Post Office Staff
Washington dispatch notes First Assistant Postmaster General Hitchcock urges new legislation to raise postal salaries and benefits. He proposes six grade levels from 600 to 1200 dollars, promotions by efficiency, 30 days annual leave, and reduced suspensions to attract and retain workers amid rising living costs.
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Washington
Hitchcock
Congress
Post Office Department
Lion Mangles a Trainer During Lion Hunt Act
Toledo reports trainer Harry Ray of the Bostock circus attacked by a lion during a “lion hunt” performance. He fired his pistol as arena doors opened and was taken to St. Vincent's hospital with feared fatal injuries. The audience remained orderly as the show continued.
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Toledo
Harry Ray
Bostock Animal Circus
Ray
St. Vincent’s Hospital
Rich Old Man Murdered in Kansas City Home
Thomas Fanning an 80 year old wealthy property owner living alone at 1813 Olive street was hacked to death on Saturday. His nephew William Lannagan reported the crime and was briefly detained. Robbery not motive. $2700 found in a chest and a $18,000 bank deposit noted on December 8.
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Kansas City
Thomas Fanning
Olive Street
William Lannagan
Collision in East Oakland Kills Contractor George B. Young
An electric car and a western automotive crash in East Oakland on Tuesday killed George B. Young of Alameda, a wealthy contractor and prominent local figure. Injuries also befell Mr and Mrs 4 T Swain of East Oakland and Mr and Mrs L M Martin of Alameda.
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Cal
East Oakland
George B. Young
Alameda
T. Swain
L. M. Martin
Young
Mourning Districtwide after Baltimore & Ohio wreck
Washington in mourning as the Baltimore and Ohio disaster near Terra Cotta claims many lives and injures scores. Officials defend operator Phillips while fault shifts toward the engineer crew. The ICC announces a probe into block signal systems with a Friday hearing in Washington.
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Terra Cotta
Washington Stock Exchange
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Baltimore
Todd
Milton W. Phillips
Takoma Block
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Harry H. Hildebrandt
Ira C. McClelland
Frank F. Hoffmeier
Ralph Rutter
William A. Norris
Interstate Commerce Commission
Southern
Congress
United States
American of Tomorrow Foresees Longer Life and Progress
Dr W J McGee of the St Louis Museum argues in a Columbia University AAAS paper that Americans will live longer grow taller stronger and more humane. He cites current life expectancy around 29 years and notes Rockefeller as a model of future potential.
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W. J. McGee
St. Louis Museum
McGee
To-morrow
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Columbia University
John D. Rockefeller
Mr. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Charles H. Hawes
W. A. Orton
Department of Agriculture
United States
Chicago
E. L. Nichols
Cornell University
F. W. McNair
Michigan School of Mines
William Harper Davis
Lehigh University
Famous Englishwoman Burdett Coutts Dies At 92
Baroness Burdett Coutts died in London at age 92 after illness since Christmas Eve. She was renowned as a major philanthropist and a unique social figure linking Napoleonic and modern eras. Her vast fortune funded wide charitable work and she was beloved nationwide.
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London
Burdett- Coutts
Napoleon
New York Railway Man Dies
Jonah H. White eastern passenger agent of the Atlantic Coast Line railroad died at his New York City home Sunday pass away.
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New York
Jonah H. White
Eastern
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Aked Accepts Fifth Avenue Baptist Call
Rev. Dr. Charles F. Aked, pastor of Pembroke chapel, announced by letter that he will resign to accept the call from the Fifth Avenue Baptist church in New York. He also noted plans to visit New York and Liverpool on December 31.
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New York
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Pembroke Chapel
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Secretary Shaw Sees No Clouds in Treasury Resume
Secretary Shaw presents a 1906 fiscal summary showing receipts at 625 million dollars and expenditures at 565 million, an excess of 59 million. He notes a national surplus growth, increased cash in treasury and banks, and explains the money supply rise despite no tariff change.
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Treasury
Washington
Shaw
Hoever
United States
Notable Events Across the Nation In Brief
A rapid roundup of deaths injuries and incidents including Cardinal Cavagnis and Cardinal Tripep dying in Rome from paralysis Aunt Dorcas Harris aged 129 in Mineral Wells Texas two killed in a Southern railway wreck near Danville Virginia and Captain Joseph E McCullough elected president of the Mississippi Pilots association.
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Cardinal Tripep
Rome
Dorcas Harris
Mineral Wells
Tex
Southern Railway
Danville
Joseph E. McCullough
Mississippi Pilots’ Association
F. W. Troy
Ralph Quinn
Joplin
King Edward
James Bryce
United States
Joe Gans
Kid” Herman
Tonopah
Nev
Alton
McCall
Federal Court
Memphis
Lafollette
Erie
Hudson River
Bert Holman
Sarah Ayres
St. Helen
Ore
Five Tramps Die In Freight Wreck At Floriston Station
Sacramento report says five unidentified men tramps were killed in a freight train wreck at Floriston station a short distance beyond Truckee on Sunday morning.
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Cal
Floriston Station
Truckee
Woman Shot Dead in Bed in Cambridge Area
In Peoria Illinois on December 31 Mrs Henry Anderson widow of a Cambridge farmer was shot in her bed by an unidentified assailant. A Black man arrested at Galva fifteen miles away is being held as the murderer.
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Peoria
Ill
Henry Anderson
Cambridge
Galva
Miners Vote to Strike in Terry Peak Union
Three hundred members of the Terry Peak miners union met in Deadwood South Dakota and voted unanimously to strike if operators do not grant an eight hour work day by January 1. It is said four hundred miners will actually go out.
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Terry Peak
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