Move To Save Our Resources Leads Washington Conference Push
James J. Hill of the Great Northern Railroad calls Roosevelt’s governors’ conference on natural resources a major step forward. He urges annual meetings, more focus on ground wealth, and action to save resources, arguing for less Wall Street activity and more farming and mining. He favors nonpolitical forums in places like Springfield or Ithaca for future meetings.
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James J. Hill
Great Northern RE Railroad Company
United States
Washington
Roosevelt
Mr. Hill
New York
New York American
America
Jess
Wall Street
Organization of Governors
Len
Railron
Ooytinate
Fisehair
Dayton
Ifill
Springfield
Ithaca
Red Eyed Kentucky Chicken
George Ladenburger of Dover Kentucky pursues curiosity in a short fragment about a red eyed chicken. The note hints at local intrigue and a quirky rural moment from a Kentucky context.
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George Ladenburger
Dover, Ky
Old Union Soldier Prescott Boynton Arrested in Chase
Prescott Boynton, a retired Union soldier, is held in Knoxville for embezzlement of $10,000 in United States bonds and grand larceny. Accusations date to 1904 and he has eluded capture, reportedly leading officers a merry chase while opening his pension check in a Knoxville post office.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Prescott Boynton
Manitowoc
Wis
United States
Boynton
Louisiana Rejects Prohibition in Baton Rouge
Louisiana will not become a prohibition state during the current assembly. The House 53 to 47 indefinitely postponed the Doussan referendum bill. The Shattuck high license bill passed 82 to 25, setting minimum local licenses at 599 and state licenses at 200, boosting annual state revenue by about 250000 to 200000 dollars.
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Louisiana
Baton Rouge
House of Representatives
House
Yaquis Refuse Surrender. Negotiations Break Off
Yaqui Indians near Hermosillo refuse to surrender arms, breaking off negotiations with the Mexican government. Censored details from Mexico offer no further information on the standoff as of June 17 in Nogales, Arizona.
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Nogales
Ariz
Hermosillo
Recass
Mexico
Husband Shot by Wife After Threat at House Window
In Jasper Missouri on June 17 Charles Ray, a farmer, was shot and killed by his wife Fannie Ray as he returned from the field toward the house. He allegedly said I have got you at a downstairs window before she fired from a second story window with buckshot. A divorce suit has been pending in the breadt court for months.
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Jasper
Charles Ray
Fannie Ray
Ray
Anti-Gambling Law Upheld By Supreme Court
The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled the Amar antirace track statute constitutional in the case State against Simon and Suder. They were charged with a crime related to a race track. Justice Moore did not attend the session, and the bill was passed by the Senate.
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Little Rack Ark
Supreme Court
Simon and Suder
Senate
Death by Own Action Stuns Copemish Treasurer
The body of Frank Bunting thirty five year old treasurer of Olean township was found hanging to a tree near Copemish Michigan. A coroner's jury ruled death by his own action with funds said to be intact and no motive known.
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Copemish
Mich
Frank Bunting
Olean Township
Bunting
Axtell Now Under Bond in Embezzlement Case
Bloomington official Harry Axtell, long viewed as a trusted citizen, is arrested on embezzlement charges as city treasurer. He stayed in sheriff custody for about two and a half hours while his brother C J Axtell sought a $3000 bond. City Attorney Henry C Duncan was instructed to file suit on Axtell's bond to recover the rumored $7000 shortage.
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Axtell
Bloomington
Ind
Harry A. Axtell
C. J. Axtell
Henry C. Duncan
Baseball Scores From National, American Leagues
National League results include Chicago 1 Philadelphia 2 in Chicago, Brooklyn 4 St Louis 2, Boston 6 Pittsburg 1. American League games show Cleveland 3 Washington 9, St Louis 9 Boston 1, Chicago 2 New York 3, Detroit 7 Philadelphia 3. American Association scores list Columbus 1 Minneapolis 7, Louisville 4 Milwaukee 9, Toledo 9 St Paul 8, Indianapolis 4 Kansas City 0, Indianapolis 4 Kansas City 0 in second game.
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Chicago
Philadelphia
Brooklyn
St Louis
Boston
Pittsburg
Cleveland
Washington
St. Louis
New York
Detroit
Columbus
Minneapolis
Louisville
Milwaukee
Toledo
St. Paul
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Hammond enters Republican bid for vice presidency
John Hays Hammond, noted mining engineer and financier from Gloucester Massachusetts, announces his candidacy for the Republican nomination for vice president at the Chicago convention. He rose from mining work in Transvaal to a prominent American figure with international ties and vast wealth.
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John Hays Hammond
Chicago
Mr. Hammond
Hammond
Taft
Diaz
Mexico
Richard Olney
John Hay
Rudyard Kipling
West
Hammond’s perilous path to high office and clemency
A portrait of John Hays Hammond traces his mining career from San Francisco roots to Yale training, then to South Africa where his ties to Rhodes and the Jameson raid shaped a dangerous episode. The article notes his near-fate, political ambitions, and unique history as a man once tried for treason.
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Saxony
San Fran
United States Geological Survey
California
Hamtovt
South Africa
Barnato
Barney Bamato
America
Hammond
Hassand
Cecil Rhodes
Myo
Ms. Leamond
Jose Gabbroao
Pbs
Mr. Hammond
Parish Top Reference in English History and Literature
The article recalls the parish top as a historic royal and village device used to discipline and warm peasants in frost. It cites Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, and the diarist Hvelya noting various mentions and uses of town tops and willow wood in historical practice.
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England
Shakespeare
Ben Jonson
New Inn
Beaumont and Fletcher
German as Throatage: Ruskin on Language in Letters of Dr Brown
John Ruskin is quoted as calling German not a language but throatage, a guttural mode of expression learned from wolves and bears. He mocks its words as stitched together, with letters scrabbled out when people were intoxicated and unable to distinguish tops from bottoms.
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John Ruskin
John Brown
Ruskin
Notable record of Rev Joseph McLeskey’s long ministry
Louisville July 17 report notes the Rev Joseph McLeskey resigning after fifty years in Cumberland Presbyterian ministry. His son Hamp McLeskey and grandson James McLeskey also serve in the same denomination. A silver watch owned by James McLeskey of Jackson, Tennessee, remains a family heirloom, with century-old engravings and a one-quarter carat diamond.
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Louisville
Master's Vineyard
Jos. McLesk
First Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Paducah
Cumberland
South
Tennessee
Joseph McLeskey
Hamp McLeskey
First Cumberland Church
Fulton
Missouri
Cumberland Presbyterians
Jas. McLeskey
Jas, McLeskey
Cumberland Presbyterian Ministry
Obion County
McLeskey
James McLeskey
Jackson, Tenn
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J. J. Hill
Robertus Love
Reform Committee
Great Britain
Jameson
Transvaal
Hammond J
Cairo
Cape
Sandringham Palace
San Francisco
Dom Paul Kruger
Natale Harris
Mississippi
Congress
State Department
Ealy
Prince of Wales
King Edward
Kruger
Pitriot
John Hinys Hammond
Freed
Dom Paul
Hiammond
Guggenheim
Immiense
Massachusetts
Gloucester
New York City
Lakewood
N. J
Mass
New England
Minerican
South Adrien Company
Sann Francisco
Major Hammond
Colonel Hays
John Hays
Sheffield Scientific School
Yale
Frei
Rhodes
Aoa
Johannesburg
Trammonds
South African Republic
Paul Kruger
Cape Colony
Leander Starr Jameson
Boer Republic
Cot. Ballaze Ip
Kentucky
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