Roosevelt’s Address Proposes Broad Federal Powers
Washington December 4 The president’s message to Congress urges expanded federal control of interstate commerce and banking with national incorporation or licensing, tougher anti trust enforcement, publication of accounts, and emergency currency. It calls for elastic currency, a postal savings bank, tax law reform, Porto Rico citizenship, and careful tariff scrutiny. The House forms a larger Banking and Currency Committee led by Fowler. Culberson caucus chair in the Senate with McCreary as vice chair.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Gach
Porto Rico
House
Cannon
Committee On Banking and Currency
Fowler
New Jersey
Senate
C. A. Culberson
Texas
McCreary
Kentucky
Owen
Oklahoma
Panic in Constantinople Over U S Banking Crisis
Financial nerves grip Constantinople as a major American banking house in Stamboul suspends. Liabilities exceed $1,000,000 with assets lower, touching several local firms before the Ottoman bank intervened to avert a wider collapse.
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Constantinople
United States
Stamboul
Boy shoots dog by mistake then wounds girl
In Windfall Indiana on December 4 Miss Clara Clee, 19, lies critically wounded in her grandmother's home after her 14 year old brother Frank, thinking the rifle unloaded, fires at the family dog and the bullet ricochets to her chin. The dog loses an eye. Doctors fear possible dangerous surgery but recovery is possible.
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Ind
Clara Clee
Sarah Runyon
Frank
Clee
Ford Known in Brown County in 1900s Trial
In Nashville Indiana on December 4 Edward Ford, linked to the Monroe county killings of Frank and Joel Mc Cay, faced Brown County trouble from his stamping days. A past whitecap notice, a beating, and a contested testimony over a persimmon seed letter were detailed, suggesting Ford’s deception about seed varieties.
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Nashville
Ind
Edward Ford
Frank
Joel McCay
Monroe County
Brown County
Ford
Persimmons
Fire Incendiary Suspected in Indiana Farm Burn
Fire of unknown origin, attributed to the Black Hand, destroyed the Klein farm near Dyer, Hammond, as Michael Klein fired on an intruder in his pig pen. He wounded the Italian in the rear yard and alerted police. the marauder was hospitalized and later visited by countrymen, with authorities suspecting arson by a member of the same group.
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Hammond
Ind
Honss
Michael Klein
Dyer
Klein
Klela
Final decision in Brookville Bank tax case reached
A ten year sequestered tax dispute in Brookville Indiana ends with a court approved agreement. The total claim totals 18000 dollars with one third cash paid, one third due March 1 and the remainder on May 1.
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Brookville
Ind
Brookville Bank
They Drank to Excess in Sedan Murder Case
In Sedan Indiana on December 4 Joseph Kaman a Hungarian man who months ago killed his bedfellow and slept beside the corpse till morning was sentenced to twenty one years for the killing. The victim Magyan known as Big Joe and Kaman known as Lite Jon shared a shack and were chums though they drank heavily the night before the tragedy.
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Sedan
Ind
Joseph Kaman
Breeders Decide Against West Jockey Club
In Lexington Kentucky prominent thoroughbred breeders met to consider forming a new jockey club to govern Western racing. They concluded Kentucky’s existing racing association suffices and favored cross state talks with racing commissions. A ten breeder committee was formed to pursue this cooperation and assess breeding bureau work.
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Lexington
Jockey Club
Kentucky
Married in Ohio River on ferryboat Charon
Miss Effie Bogardner of Klee Ohio and William Loy of Bellaire Ohio were married aboard the ferryboat Charon between Benwood and Bellaire. Loy had secured a West Virginia license to avoid traveling to St. Clairsville but learned it was invalid for Ohio ceremony. The couple proposed the ferry as the Ohio line sits at low water mark on the river.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Effie Bogardner
Klee
West Virginia
Ohio
Bellaire
Meeting to Launch Jamestown Exposition Reopening
Norfolk leaders plan a Tuesday meeting at the board of trade to push a four month Jamestown Exposition reopening next summer. Chairman George F. Adams reports 75,000 of a 200,000 target raised and hopes to secure federal participation. The event aims to spark a regional economic boom.
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Norfolk
Three Widows Claim $1 Million Estate in Court
Reston reports three widows sue over the estate of Jos. F. Greenough valued at $1,000,000. Mary M. Higgins married Greenough in 1874, Emma Eaton Pomeroy wed him in 1885 and remarried after a 1887 divorce, and Mary D. Kirkus also appears as a claimant though her marriage date is not given.
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Reston
Supreme Court
Jos. F. Greenough
Greenough
Mary M. Higgins
Emma Eaton Pomeroy
Mary D. Kirkus
Danville Moves Toward Dry Town Status
Danville Illinois shows anti saloon league gains with a city order threatening license revocation if women are present or liquor is served after hours. Local option vote expected to decide dry status next spring.
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Danville
Anti-Saloon League
Ilinois
Sandford Wreck Cases Move to Eastern Illinois Federal Court
Through a writ of certiorari from Judge F. M. Wright the damages from the Sandford disaster in January were transferred to the eastern Illinois federal court at Danville for hearing. The Edgar circuit court removal petition by the Big Four was overruled by Judge James W. Craig.
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Sandford
Paris
Til
F. M. Wright
Ilinois
Danville
Ind
Edgar Circuit
Big Four
James W. Craig
Gen Alien Thomas Dies at 77 in Mississippi Home
Gen Alien Thomas longtime United States minister to Venezuela under Cleveland dies at his Waveland Mississippi home aged 77. The obituary notes his service and era and mentions economic prices having risen sharply.
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Alien Thomas
United States
Venezuela
Cleveland
Waveland
Miss
Japanese Ambassador Aoki to Return Home for Verbal Report
Washington dispatch reports Viscount Aoki ambassador from Japan will return home to relay a verbal briefing on immigration and related issues. He stresses no sign of US Japan tensions and expects to depart before Christmas with Mr. Miyaoka acting as chargé d affaires.
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Washington
Viscount Aoki
Japan
United States
State Department
Count Aoki
Department
Aoki
Miyaoka
Rumored Japanese Ambassador Aoki Possible Early Return
Tokyo reports persistent rumors of Viscount Aoki resigning as ambassador to the United States. While the foreign office denies resignation, it acknowledges a possible early return to Japan, with no official statement on the ambassador's future.
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Tokio
Viscount Aoki
United States
Aoki
Japan
Foreign Office
Taft Receives Warm Welcome in St Petersburg
Secretary of War William H. Taft visits St Petersburg meets the duma hears debate on ministerial declaration. He attends a banquet with American officials, assures his world trip does not signal a US policy shift toward peace for all nations.
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St. Petersburg
William H. Taft
Duma
M. Stolypin
Taft
United States
Tsarskoe Selo
Iswolsky
Diplomatic Corps
President Grant
Boulogne
Mrs. Bradley Acquitted in Utah Senator Murder Case
Not guilty verdicts from the jury ended the three week national case. Mrs. Annie M. Bradley was discharged and will travel to Goldfield Nevada to join her sister.
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Washington
Annie M. Bradley
United States
Arthur M. Brown
Utah
Situation Improves in US November Failures
New York December 4 reports Dun and Co statistics show 1180 commercial failures in November with 17,637,011 dollars in defaulted indebtedness. The month's failures decrease by about 10 million in liabilities from October and are near September levels, though losses rise compared with November 1906.
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New York
United States
R. G. Dun & Co
Sensational arrests promised after Houston fire
A Dunn building second story incident uncovered gas pipe sections with turpentine balls and a kerosene soaked mattress among arson evidence. The grand jury has subpoenaed witnesses and insurance officials predict sensational arrests following Sunday night fire that destroyed a theater and other property valued at 750000 dollars.
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Houston
Tex
Dunn
Insurance Company
Rumor of Colombian Invasion Sparks Panamanian Outrage
For three days a circulating rumor claims 500 Colombian soldiers entered Jarédo on the Panama Colombia frontier and imprisoned local authorities. Panamanians react with intense indignation. if true, the report jeopardizes the planned treaty between the two nations.
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Panama
Jaredo
Colombia
Witness Gone Halts Powers Trial in Georgetown
Georgetown Kentucky December 4. Frank Cecil principal witness in the Powers trial absented himself on the day before Thanksgiving and again after being reprimanded by state attorneys on his return Monday he left and has not returned he told acquaintances at the hotel that he would.
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Georgetown
Frank Cecil
Powers
Xttorneys
The Only Piece He Cared About
A lecturer quips on selfishness with a tale of a French couch traveler who learns his valet was killed in a railway crash near Mentone. The courier reports the man’s body scattered, then the count asks for the piece with his trunk keys.
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Paris
Monte Carlo
Mentone
Monsieur
Franceiel
The Old Way and the New
A young Boston woman explains a simple idea using a playful misreading of an egg trick. The scene hints at confusion and humor as she describes perforation and a puzzled response from a friend.
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Boston
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