Seaboard Receivership Talks Move to Richmond
Danville and Richmond dispatches report counsel for Seaboard Air Line and creditors pursuing a receivership petition. Judge Pritchard and Seaboard lawyers travel to Danville and Richmond as talks continue and a court with wider powers is sought to avoid delays.
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DaAville
Pritchrd
Seaboard
Richmond
Khown
Richmond, Va
Board
Air Line Railway
United District
Waddill
Sant of Receivers
Third
United States
Anti Court
Jiopea
Pritchard
Leigh R. ‘Watts
Danville
Pritchurd
Jeter C. Pritchard
Asheville
Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company
Southern Railway
Peruna praised in letters from Fountainville residents
Philip Kratz and his wife of Fountainville Pa share letters praising Peruna for health relief. Kratz notes recovery from kidney injury and dyspepsia after taking one and one half bottles. He and his wife also report asthma relief and ongoing use without doctors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fountainville
B. Hartman
Peruna
Philip Kratz
Cause For Cheer Outlook For 1908 From Cardinal Gibbons
Cardinal Gibbons in Baltimore on January 2 expressed an optimistic view for 1908. He cited past trials and blessings, noting that divine Providence can turn discouraging appearances into better outcomes. He urged reliance on God’s protection as the year begins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cardinal Gibbons
Baltimore
Cigarette Prohibition Proposal Advances in State Convention
In Lansing the constitutional convention shifted from joking to serious as a proposal to prohibit the manufacture and sale of cigarettes in the state passed through committee and received an initial reading amid renewed opposition and debate during the session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lansing
Mich
Jaw
Witness to Signatures from Doylea Mayor on Kratz
John Donnelly mayor of Doylea town Pennsylvania testifies that he knows Philip Kratz for 25 years and that Kratz signed the statements about Perans in his presence. The statements are believed true in all particulars. Signed Slau ned, John Donnelly, Esq.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Donnelly
Doyleatown
Philip Kratz
Perans
Slauned
Sjohn Donnelly
New York BrooKlyn Blotters Record New Year Violence
A New York police blotter from January 2 reports a surge of killings assaults and accidents in Brooklyn and Manhattan on New Year s Day. Incidents include gas asphyxiation death of Jacob Spriester and wife at Ocean Parkway burglary foregone by a fatal shooting of an intruder at Meserole street and other violent events across boroughs.
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New York
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Jacob Spriesterback
Ocean Parkway
David Jaffa
Meserole Street
Jaffa
Frank Ferese
Michael Schindelle
Carroll Street
Hattie Schubert
Max Schubert
Archibald P. Mitchell
Augusta Herne
West Virginia
West Seventy-First Street
Suit to Oust Leavenworth Mayor and Contempt Citation
Topeka Kansas January 2 A suit to oust Peter Everhardy from the office of mayor of Leavenworth and a contempt citation against Police Captain T J Taylor have been filed in the supreme court by Attorney General Fred B Jackson It charges Everhardy with failure to enforce the prohibition law and Taylor with violating a court order by accepting immunity from saloon keepers tied to Hearne feor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kan
Peter Everhardy
Leavenworth
T. J. Taylor
Supreme Court
Fred 8. Jackson
Taylort
Tragic Deaths Highlight Janurary Reports In Niles And Braddock
In Niles on January 6 a man returned from a visit to find his wife dead from a self inflicted bullet wound beside their two month old baby. she left a note citing illness and despondency. In North Braddock, Pennsylvania an explosion in a United States Steel Edgar Thomson converter killed two and thirteen others were injured.
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Niles
Vateehi
Vaughn
Hirteen
Edgar Thompson Phintoaf
United States Steel Corporation
North Braddock, Fa
New Years Reception at White House Draws Three Hour throng
President Roosevelt greeted a New Year throng at the White House with Mrs. Roosevelt and cabinet members assisting. The event featured diplomats, military officers, and notable political figures, including Admiral Dewey and Ambassador Edmonds, as crowds filed through the East Room and Blue Parlor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
White House
House of Representatives
Cortelyou
la Follette
Big East Room
Blue Parlor
Admiral Brownson
Bureau of Navigation
Navy
Rixey
Congress
Corps of Army
Marine Band
Baron Edmonds Mayor Des Planches
Diplomatic Corps
J. Franklin Bell
Army
Admiral Dewey
Indians Rise in Revolt in Nicaragua
Advices from Boca del Toro say Misquito Indians have risen against the government of President Zelaya. They accuse him of being responsible for their chief’s death. Conditions were tense as a British company seeks to protect its interests in Nicaraguan waters.
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Panama
Bocas del Toro
Bluefields
Nicaragua
Zelaya
Noted Wichita Editor Murdock Dies at Seventy
Wiehlta Kans March 2 The obituary reports the death of Jamsincy Murdock editor and proprietor of the Wiehlta Maal and father of Congressman Victor Murdock aged seventy. The piece notes his prominence among American publishers and mentions potential Navy Department attention to criticisms of methods used by magazines and other writers.
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Wiehita
Kan
Jam
Marsincy Murdock
Wiehlta Maal
Victor Murdock
United States
Oy Navy Depsranemt
Bew
Fragmentary notes on debate over time and length
Disjoint phrases discuss arguments, side positions, and a proposed two hour length. The text is unclear with many garbled segments and lacks concrete details, names, or outcomes to identify a specific event or subject.
Indiana Board Seeks More Visitation Agents for Orphans
Indianapolis January report from the Indiana board of state charities emphasizes the need for more agents to visit nearly three thousand children in family homes. The 5 percent unsatisfactory rate and current staffing limit visits to about half, despite 1,000 yearly homeless children in forty one public wards and 1,600 in orphanages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Board of State Charities
Amos W. Butler
Indiana
Indignua Grain Dealers Gather for Jan Show and Election
Indianapolis hosts the Indignua Grain Dealers association January 8 to 9 in the Board of Trade building. The program includes an annual business meeting elections a corn show with five prize ears and judges from the Corn Growers association certified by Purdue. Senator McCumber will discuss Federal Supervision and Inspection of Grain and Hiram N. Sager of the Chicago Board of Trade will speak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Indignua Grain Dealers’ Association
Board of Trade
Corn Growers’ Association
Purdue University
McCumber
North Dakota
Hiram N. Sager
Chicao Board of Trade
Indiana case against Fox and seven defendants advances
In Columbus Indiana the progress in the state of Indiana versus David Fox Lowell Bowers Jacob Kirk Charles Sylvester Charles Lelly Charles Stall Andrew Stall and Joseph Stall shows more facts than at trial best though attorneys avoid predicting when the whitecap trial will occur. Four defendants are furthered in their own behalf.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ind
State of Indiana
David Fox
Lowell Bowers
Jacob Kirk
Charles Sylvester
Charles Lelly
Charles Stall
Andrew Stall
Joseph Stall
Evik
Tires
Charles Seitz
He Geners
Tournament of Roses Draws 50 000 To Pasadena
Thousands visit Pasadena for the annual Tournament of Roses amid blooms of every hue. A grand floral parade led by the Queg Roses court unfolds for miles. Afternoon chariot races and a huge barbecue at Tournament Park cap the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Queg Roses
Tournament Park
Race Feud Renewed in Vancouver Japanese Fight
Vancouver dispatch reports a violent clash in the Japanese quarter leaving fireman Allen Anderson dying and two others badly wounded after Japanese assailants rushed a trio in uniform. Police made four arrests as dozens attacked the whites with knives and blood stained the storefront.
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Vancouver
B. C
Allen Anderson
Anderson
J. Frost
McDonald
Frost
Iis
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Barcelona
Alfonso
Mand
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Col
Petersburg
J. T. Smith
Arapahoe County
Enver
San Francisco
Tan
Owen Moran
Tne Jand
Abe Attell
Oa America
Bia ‘Weieht
Jeffries
Tiivic
J. Hartman
Philip-Kratz
Cardinat, Gibbons
Mrs. Roosevelt
Cabinet
Ajral
Whitecap
Pasadena
Papadena
Cal
May Sutton
Kniv
Muneie
Indh
Amalgamated Association of Street Railway
Muncie City
Chicago
Anderson and
Marion
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