Taft and Gompers dine as federation hugs capital labor
At the National Civic Federation dinner in the Astor Hotel Taft and Gompers declared unity beyond party lines. Taft endorsed enforcing the Sherman act rather than repealing it while acknowledging industrial combinations are needed but must be regulated.
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National Civic Federation
Hotel Astor
William Howard Taft
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Gompers
Taft
United States
Miners’ Union
Civic Federation
Mr. Taft
M. E. Ingalls
Big Four Railroad
Mr. Ingalls
Ingalls
Ingalls and That Held By Mr. Taft
Low
Mitchell
Labor
Protests Against Sunday Afternoon Newspaper Edition
Frank A. Munsey plans a Sunday afternoon edition of The Evening News in Baltimore next Sunday. A broad protest signed by Cardinal Gibbons Johns Hopkins President Remsen and multiple clergy argues the move disturbs Sunday rest and serves no public need, warning of harm to public welfare.
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New York Times
Baltimore
Frank A. Munsey
The
Evening News
Cardinal Gibbons
Remsen
Johns Hopkins University
Adolf Guttmacher
William Rosenau
United States District Attorney
Rose
John T. Stone
Arthur Kinsolving
Oliver Huckel
Old Conductors Dropped On Cash Shortages In Jersey
Plainfield New Jersey December 15 Six veteran Central Railroad of New Jersey conductors were discharged for failing to account for petty cash fares of 10 to 15 cents. The system requires 10 cent excess fares plus punched rebate checks. short hauls allowed exemption from this procedure to avoid delaying trains.
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New York Times
Plainfield
N. J
Fressenger
Central Railroad of
New Jersey
Jersey Central
Hartje Narrowed to Court Contempt Over Alimony
Augustus Hartje, Pittsburgh paper maker, ordered to show cause why he should not be jailed for contempt after defaulting on alimony of 416.66 monthly to his wife Mary Scott Hartje. He claims she misuses funds and neglects their children, while she says he distorts facts. A December 30 hearing will have the Hartje children Scott and Mary testify on parental treatment.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
Penn
Augustus Hartje
Mary Scott Hartje
Hartie
Scott
Hartje
Mary
$89,000 For Son's Defense In Murder Case
Mrs. Lou Ellen Hargis declares she has $89,000 to spend for Beach Hargis's acquittal in the murder of his father. She mortgaged her Jackson residence and went to Irvine for the trial set to begin tomorrow as both sides prepare to present their cases.
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Lexington
Louellen Hargis
Beach Hargis
Longboat Wins Marathon Thriller Over Dorando Pietri
Canadian Indian Tom Longboat defeats Dorando Pietri in a dramatic Madison Square Garden marathon, finishing in 2 45 05 25 after Dorando collapses and is carried from the track. The race draws frenzied crowds, with Italian supporters dismayed and Longboat hailed as a great distance runner. Receipts total 15000 dollars with 3750 to each finalist.
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Madison Square Garden
Thomas Longboat
Dorando Pietri
Dorando
Longboat
London
Italia
Redman
Richard Croker
Bill
Swindlers Reap Harvest At Madison Square Garden
Sham ticket speculators sold worthless passes to a Dorando Longboat footrace crowd at Madison Square Garden last night. Reported protection or neglect by officers allowed continued admission as buyers clamored for entry.
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Madison Square Garden
Mrs Adelbert Hay Seeks Second Marriage Claiming York Widow Status
Philadelphia report states Mrs Adelbert Hay, alleging she is the widow of Secretary Hay’s son who died after a Yale dormitory fall, plans to marry chemist Dr Arthur Kraut at an uncertain date. Her mother recalls an elopement with the late secretary’s son. Rev William Taylor Snyder denied officiating.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Adelbert Hay
John Hay
Yale University
Washington
William Taylor Snyder
Snyder
Elopement in White Plains Couples Wed at Parsonage
Elizabeth Finlay and John Harold McNeilly wed in a runaway ceremony with Rev David W. Forrest at St. Pauls church parsonage. Witnesses were friends. The couple cited romance as the reason, saying they married yesterday and began their honeymoon.
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White Plains
N. Y
Elizabeth B. Finlay
Alexander Finlay
Scarsdale Country Club
John Harold McNeilly
David W. Forrest
St. Paul’s Methodist Protestant Church
McNeilly
Harold
Woman Dies in Thief Hunt at Montclair Farm
Miss Caroline F Mayer 60 pursued a henhouse theft alone after discovering stolen chicks on Valley Road. She collapsed on Valley Road and was pronounced dead from heart disease by Dr James F Brown. Her sisters and prominent Montclair family ties noted.
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New York Times
Montclair
N. J
Caroline F. Mayer
Valley Road
Miss Mayer
Noon
James F. Brown
Nathan Harrison
Erwin Park
Mother Punishes Ranchman in Wyoming Attack
Mrs. Frederick Graf pursued Herbert Arnold after hearing of an assault on her daughter. The ranch owner forced Arnold and two companions from a wagon, shot at him and grazed his face, then hog tied him and lashed him with a quirt until his injuries were severe and life was in danger.
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New York Times
ST. Louis
Buffalo
Wyo
Frederick Graf
Herbert Arnold
Arnold
Governor's Ultimatum on Sunday Closing and Liquor Laws
Delegations from San Antonio and Galveston urged Governor Campbell at Austin to act on enforcing the anti gambling, Sunday closing, and liquor laws. Campbell offered no promises, stressing obedience to laws. He warned that drastic action could follow if orders are not followed next Sunday.
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New York Times
Dallas
Texas
San Antonio
Galveston
Campbell
Austin
Gamba
Miss Robbins Named Custodian of Infant By Will
In Brookline Massachusetts Miss Mary E Robbins an instructor at Simmons College was named guardian of an infant by the terms of a will. A nurse presented a baby claiming the parents had left their child to Miss Robbins and that the nurse had instructions to deliver the infant. The infant remains at Miss Robbins's Brookline apartments as she informs trusted friends of the arrangement.
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New York Times
Boston
Mass
Mary E. Robbins
Brookline
Simmons College
Fenway
Miss Robbins
Boy Frightened to Death in New Jersey
John Tozer Jr. of South Millville died after fright from men felling trees near his home. Physicians diagnosed acute mania produced by progressive nervousness.
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Millville
N. J
John Tozer, Jr
John B. Tozer
South Millville
One Million See Your Ad Daily in Telephone Directory
Classified ad notes mass reach with low rates from Telephone Directory Advertising Co. at 1180 Broadway.
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Adv
Remains Found of Earliest Man in France
Two priests uncover a skull and bones at Chapellé Aux Saints in southwest France, dated to the pleistocene. Paris experts say the skull shows simian features yet a larger brain, suggesting it belongs to the human race rather than an ape, with Neanderthal-like similarities noted.
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New York Times
Paris
Chapellé Aux Saints
France
M. Perrier
Paris Museum of Natural History
Academy of Sciences
Marcellin Boulé
Museum of Natural History
Boulé
Discovery of Pleisto cene Human Remains in France Reported
Dr. C Willard Hayes chief geologist of the Geological Survey said the find in France adds proof that human life existed during the great glacial periods. He cited Neanderthal remains from Germany as an earlier example and noted Europe has yielded most implements from glacial deposits. He doubted American early man discoveries beyond the Lansing skull once thought prehistoric.
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New York Times
Washington
C. Willard Hayes
Geological Survey
France
Europe
Neanderthal
Germany
Dr. Hayes
America
Lansing
Kan
Discovery May Be Important Says Prof Kemp
Prof Kemp of Columbia University discussed reports of Pleistoene human remains in France with reserve. He said such bones could support the missing link idea if from the glacial period and linking monkey and man though he doubted the finding’s significance.
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J. ¥. Kemp
Columbia University
France
West Indies
Canada
J. Kemp
Pulitzer Responds To Roosevelt Attacks On The World
Joseph Pulitzer states he was at sea in October and abroad during the presidential campaign. He says he did not read the Panama story, had no involvement with it, and expects continued critique of Roosevelt's policies regardless of threats to jail. The World remains critical of imperialism and autocratic conduct.
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Joseph Pulitzer
Congress
Pulitzer
Europe
Panama
Mr. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Senate
Panama Canal Company
United States
Crédit Lyonaise of
Paris
Crédit Lyonaise
Four Tafts to Meet Here in Reunion Plan
Charles P. Taft left Cincinnati for New York to meet his brother the President elect. The Ohio senatorial situation will be discussed tomorrow and a reunion of the four Taft brothers is proposed before Judge Taft begins his southern trip.
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New York Times
Cincinnati
Charles P. Taft
New York
Ohio
Taft Brothers
Taft
New Giant Locomotives Ordered by Pennsylvania Railroad
The Pennsylvania Railroad orders fifteen giant locomotives to be built at Juniata awaiting a revival in business. Each engine with tender weighs 384 000 pounds and carries 7 000 gallons of water plus 13 1 2 tons of coal. A prior Pittsburg built sample weighed 204 tons and ran on fast lines west of Pittsburgh.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
Penn
Pennsylvania Railroad
Juniata
Pennsylvania
Train Crews Restored on Pennsylvania Road
The Pennsylvania Road added six engines on the New York division to speed freight as traffic rises. After a long downturn crews were cut back, with engineers becoming firemen and firemen on part time. The Erie Railroad also restored crews on the Delaware and New York divisions with promotions to engineers and conductors.
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Pennsylvania Road
New York
Erie Railroad
Delaware
Stevens Drives Public Works Activity and Contractor Momentum
Albany December 15. State Superintendent of Public Works cites Supt Stevens as energetic in securing contracts once plans arrive and in spurring contractor activity. Officials say statutory limits constrained his actions, but his main achievement was creating sentiment to push statutory officials toward greater project execution.
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New York Times
Albany
Public Works Department
State Superintendent of Public Works
Stevens
Rae
Poverty in Newport Surges Amid Building Boom
Newport suffers higher poverty levels per Miss Harriett Thomas of the Charity Organization Society. Despite new projects including the Vanderbilts funded YMCA home, workers face debt from earlier periods. The Newport Lodge of Elks plans a Christmas drive to aid 700 families, using Al G. Vanderbilt’s Oakland Farm wagons to collect and deliver gifts the day before Christmas.
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New York Times
Newport
R. I
Newport Charity Organization Society
Harriett Thomas
Newport Young Men's Christian Association
Alfred G. Vanderbilt
Newport Lodge of Elks
al G. Vanderbilt
Oakland
Ohio Governor calls special legislative session
Columbus dec 15 Gov Harris issued a proclamation calling a special session of the Legislature to meet at 10 A M on Jan 4. No statement was given on the form of the session or the reasons behind the move as the Senate seat remains unsettled following the vacancy.
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Columbus
Ohio
Harris
Tos
Os Specks
Messes
Cessio
President Assails Canal Deal Critics in Congress Reception
President Roosevelt's canal purchase message drew laughter in the Senate and silence in the House as Congress debated stockholders lists and possible actions against Pulitzer and The New York World. Senators questioned evidence in French documents while Fairbanks addressed the disparities in communications to Congress.
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New York Times
Washington
Roosevelt
Panama Canal
Congress
Senate
House
William Nelson Cromwell
Secretary
New Canal Company
Congressional
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