Roosevelt Seeks Japanese Exclusion Treaty Plan
Washington reports President Roosevelt has a plan to exclude Japanese laborers via a new treaty mirroring China policy, with a provision banning laborers from both nations. Critics fear soft language to appease Japan while Californians push exclusion, and lawmakers weigh military enforcement against school rights.
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Florida and Carolina Resorts Ad Run by Seaboard Line
Seaboard Air Line promotes travel to Florida and Carolina resorts using the shortest quickest route. Includes booklets and travel information from 1,187 Broadway, New York.
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Japan's Army Plans Expansion and Reform for 1907
Tokyo reports a budget plan to cut Manchuria and Korea garrisons to one division each then raise home forces to nineteen divisions. Three new special forces will be created heavy field artillery quick firing artillery and cavalry. No new taxes or loans. Army could reach about 750000 men.
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Rockefeller Builds Private Four Acre Ice Lake at Lakewood
John D. Rockefeller at his Lakewood estate plans an artificial four acre skating lake to be ready by Christmas. A water tower doubles as the lake water source and a watchman on a balcony guards the secluded site behind thick pines and nettles.
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Lakewood
N. J
John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Will contest over Bloodgood H. Cutter estate in Long Island
Augusta nephew John Cutter challenges the will of Bloodgood H. Cutter who died at Little Neck leaving over 1 million dollars. Counsel alleges forgery and a second handwriting clause that disinherits John Cutter Jr. and three siblings. Bible Society and executors seek adjournment while other beneficiaries and executors prepare motions.
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Julia Cornell
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Lewis Henderson
Outbreak Fear in San Francisco over Japanese Exclusion
A newspaper report traces rising anti Japanese sentiment in San Francisco sparked by labor leaders and a provocative publisher. It links hostility to recent school segregation, wartime tensions, and economic fears, warning the public drift toward violence if unchecked.
Lawyer saves seven horses in Greenwich stable fire
A blaze at Joseph Brush’s stable in Greenwich, Connecticut, burned ten horses to death and threatened the shipyards, the steamer General Putnam, and the Indian Harbor Yacht Club. New York lawyer H. Dyer rushed into the flames and rescued seven horses with the loss estimated at $5,000.
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Joseph Brush
General Putnam
Indian Harbor
H. &. Dyer
New York
Mrs Sewell Dies Suddenl y in Washington Visit
Mrs Helen L Sewell widow of U S Senator W J Sewell of New Jersey died suddenly in Washington where she had gone to visit her brother Lieut Col Heyl She lived at 625 Cooper Street Camden for over forty years and was 70 years old. Audemair opera glasses advertised at Spencer's 12 Maiden Lane.
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Camden
Roosevelt message praised as statesman like leader
Tokyo observers hail Roosevelt speech to Congress as worthy of a great ruler. They say San Francisco authorities can yield to the moral weight and justice urged in the message and applaud its civilizing aims.
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Slocum Heroine Cassie McManus Dies in Bellevue
Cassie McManus nurse at Riverside Hospital on North Brother Island who saved seven lives during the Slocum disaster died on a Saturday in Bellevue. Known as Mrs Valencia Craig of 3888 Third Avenue she died penniless and may be buried in Potter's Field without funds for her funeral.
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Fire Lights Up Downtown Building in Massive Blaze
A fire on the third floor of a five story building at 345 Broadway caused 75000 in damage to Weeks Hoskins Manufacturing after spreading to the roof before midnight. Three alarms were sounded and firefighters stopped the blaze after about 30 minutes. The building has burned in past years including earlier incidents in March and two years ago. Broadway car lines were halted for an hour.
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Crazy Quilt Baltimore Judge Critiques President Speech
Judge Peter 5 Grosscup of Chicago, in Baltimore, says the Presidents annual message is a crazy quilt covering many topics, some unimportant. He argues it lacks proportion, mixing small issues with major ones, and that shooting galleries for school children should be left to school directors.
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Peter 5. Grosscup
Chicago
Congress
Robbery and assault near East 22nd Street Station
A woman identified as Mrs Agnes Harrington 42 was robbed after being knocked down near the East 22nd Street Station. She was found bleeding and taken to Bellevue Hospital with a scalp wound and possible skull fracture. Police cited intoxication initially. detectives investigated with several witnesses describing a young man about 20 who seized her money.
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West Forty-eighth Street
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Twenty-second Street
Hooker
Treasury Prepares Early Interest Payout To Aid Banks
The Treasury will prepay roughly 12 million dollars of interest on government bonds due from now to May 1907 without rebate starting December 15 1906. Secretary Shaw cites November surplus revenues and aims to ease money market strain as banks absorb funds at the New York Sub-Treasury.
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Aged Runaways Wed in Kentucky Marriage
Ballard Cale and Mrs. Nancy Jane Wiseman of Cumberland Gap Tenn married in Winchester near Lexington after fleeing relatives. He is 53 and both are on second marriages. They crossed mountains to catch a train and evade pursuit. Omega Oil ad touts relief for rheumatics with a 10c bottle.
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Eight Hurt In Brooklyn Bridge Car Collision
Eight injured in a Brooklyn side collision near the Williamsburg Bridge last night when a Broadway trolley struck a Ralph Avenue car darkened by a snapped wire. Motorman John Carroll and conductor Ernst Selinger were hospitalized with facial and hand injuries. others listed include Frances Blasch, Grace Black, Louis Doumer, Catherine Gallup, Rachel Rosenfeld, and Samuel Ryder. Traffic blocked on the Brooklyn approach for about an hour.
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Willett Street
Louis Doumer
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Allen Street
Ambassador Reid and Mrs Reid Sail to New York
London dispatch says Ambassador White law Reid and Mrs Reid traveled on the Kronprinz Wilhelm from Southampton to New York. John R. Carter will act as Chargé dAffaires in Reid’s absence. Craig W. Wadsworth also sailed from Liverpool aboard the Baltic for New York.
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Daylight Special Dashes From New York to St Louis
The Baltimore and Ohio fast Daylight Special leaves Liberty Street New York at 1:30 A M and 23d Street at 11:50 P M reaching Cincinnati before midnight the same day and arriving in St Louis for breakfast.
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Earthquake Trembles St Vincent Island Wide Shock
A prolonged earthquake lasting 80 seconds rattled Kingstown on December 5, sending residents into panic. Barbados and St Lucia also felt the tremor, with St Lucia reporting the strongest impact. Shocks have continued intermittently since last February.
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Maryland Towns Shaken in Early Morning Tremors
Dispatches from Easton and Cambridge report several earth shocks this morning. Rattling windows marked the first notice at 11:20 with the last at 12:30. Opinions differ whether the tremors were an earthquake or the result of heavy explosions.
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Ambassador Henry White Favored for Paris Posting
Paris newspapers praise Henry White’s transfer from Rome to Paris as ambassador. They emphasize his role as conciliator at the Algeciras Conference and call him persona grata to the French government.
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Chanler Settle in Albany House at State and Eagle
Lieut Governor elect Chanler and Mrs Chanler will spend winter in Albany after taking the Miller residence at State and Eagle Streets opposite the Capitol. The house was once nicknamed the House of Commons during Fred Nixon era when Assembly members lived there.
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Baltic Delayed at Liverpool and Wireless Tower Falls
A severe gale off the coast delays the Baltic from Liverpool to New York. The Machrihanish wireless tower, 450 feet high and weighing 2000 tons, collapsed as part of storm damage while the structure served for wireless communication with America.
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Two Texas Cowboys Try to Lynch Man Aboard Train
In Topeka Kansas on a west bound Santa Fe train two Texas cowboys attempted to hang John E Lewis a Wichita resident who wore a Knights of Pythias pin The rope was placed around his neck three times but he escaped each time by leaping from the moving train Passengers were restrained by the cowboys revolvers and no arrests were made
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Heavy Floods Hit Panama River Discharge Soars
The Gamboa fluviograph recorded the Chagres River discharge at 76 000 gallons per second as Panama suffers interrupted rail service. Mails and passengers reach destinations by canoe, and the administration building is deserted due to train outages. Telegraph lines to the interior are down amid extensive damage feared.
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Elevated Third Avenue crash injures passengers
A rear end collision occurred on the Third Avenue elevated line near 106th Street yesterday afternoon after 8. A South Ferry train stopped at 106th Street and was hit as a City Hall train followed. Two brakes failed and the motor car derailed along the ties. The last car’s rear platform was crushed. about a dozen passengers were frightened and shaken. Both trains were moved to Ninety-ninth Street yards. Police reserves were alerted but found no further action.
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Shipping notices and Vanillin ad brief
Latest shipping news lists arrivals and departures with ships Georgic at Liverpool and Denbigh Hall at Glasgow on November 21 and Baltic sailing from Liverpool on December 6. An advertisement claims Burnett’s Vanilla is pure, noting it has never altered in any part.
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Bruce Elevated to Supreme Court Justice in First District
Albany reports Lieut. Gov. M Linn Bruce appointed by Gov Higgins to the Supreme Court, succeeding ex Justice Morgan J O'Brien who resigned. Bruce will serve until Dec 31 1907 with a salary of 17500 a year, while Hughes learns of the move upon return from Albany.
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Higgins to be here today hinted on not joining Washington conference
Albany December 5 Gov Higgins stated he would travel to New York on private business then return home to Olean for the week. He said he does not plan to go to Washington to join the proposed Republican conference with Governor elect Hughes State Chairman Woodruff and others involved.
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Tariff at Extra Session Agitation by Republicans
Washington dispatch reports Republican tariff revisionists pushing for a spring special session to consider tariff reform. Representative Brick met with the White House but was crowded out. Massachusetts lawmakers led by Ames urge a Republican caucus to press for revision while older conservatives resist change.
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Baltimore and Ohio to Louisville Sleeping Car Service
Train notice announces a sleeping car service from New York to Louisville via Baltimore and Ohio. The schedule lists departures from foot Liberty Street at 9:50 and 10:00 A.M., with a morning departure from Liberty Street.
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