Roosevelt congress clash over steel deal and Tillman attack
Washington experiences a sharp confrontation as Congress attacks Roosevelt on the Tennessee Coal and Iron absorption by the Steel Trust while the White House blasts Senator Tillman. The Culberson resolution seeks a Judiciary Committee opinion on presidential action in 1907.
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New York Times
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Capitol
White House
Tillman
Senate
Culberson
Judiciary Committee
Steel Trust
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company
Secret Service
House
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Jackson
Long House Debate Over President Message and Secret Service
After seven hours the House adopted a resolution to table references to the Presidents annual message and the special message response. The vote was 212 to 35 with several paired. Debate stressed restraint and avoided personal animus as members discussed Secret Service activity and constitutional privileges. John Sharp Willia ms drew snide remarks as Republicans spoke against the resolution amid limited defense of the President.
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New York Times
Washington
House
Secret Service
Perkins
Select Committee
Tawney
Smith
Iowa
Nacekk
Sherley
John Sharp Williams
Bennet
New York
Gardner
Massachusetts
Southern Railway Fastest Route via Sleep Cars
In Augusta Aiken and South Carolina, the Southern Ry offers the quickest route with through sleep car service. Travel details accessible at the New York office located at 1,200 Broadway.
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Augusta
Aiken
South
N. Y
Broadway
Taft Knox Cabinet Conference Ends as Taft Hints Names Soon
Augusta Ga Jan 8 The Taft Knox Cabinet conference ends with Sen. Taft hinting that Cabinet names will be sent to the Senate for confirmation after March 4. Taft visits Columbia S C and Georgia Gov elect Brown with local delegation call on him. William Loeb Jr visit abandoned. Cromwell may not be summoned.
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Augusta
Taft-Knox
Pennsylvania
Washington
Taft
Senate
Mr. Knox
Columbia
S. C
Joseph M. Brown
Georgia
Taft Today. the Governor-elect Is Making A Tour of the State. Mr. Taft
Savannah River
South Carolina
Beech Island Farmers’ Club
William Loeb, Jr
President Roosevelt
William Nelson Cromwell
Mr. Taft
Opera Singers Rebel Over Customs Duties on Costumes
United States inspectors demand duties from Hammerstein opera singers for imported costumes now in performers hands. Mme Doria leads refusal to pay $350 with jail threat. Other singers Zenatello Sammarco and De Segurola face $820 $300 and $350 bills respectively. Arthur Hammerstein seeks to influence a settlement.
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Mme. Doria
Custom House
Giovanni Zenatello
Mario Sammarco
de Segurola
Zenatelli
Sammarco
Mr. de Segurola
Arthur Hammerstein
Surprise for Mrs Catt Celebrates Suffrage Leader Forty Birthday
Sixty women connected with the suffrage movement gathered at Carrie Chapman Catt home to honor her on the eve of turning fifty. Invitations whispered at the Equal Suffrage League meeting set the surprise at the Hotel Astor. Catt sails February 13 for England then visits Budapest and other centers as movement grows. The State Suffrage Association plans a Yonkers start January 18 with Albany meetings January 25 and 26. A large petition for Congress is not ready until the new session begins.
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Carrie Chapman Catt
International Suffrage Association
London
Count Henri de O Brattengue Sought in Embezzlement Case
New York police and other large cities were asked to locate Harry C Bratten who posed as Count Henri de O Brattengue. Bratten allegedly embezzled 11500 from Pack and Gabryel, agents for American Security Contract Company, after disappearing with cash and negotiable securities. He was described as from an old French family with estates in France and Sweden and once frequented London clubs and Monte Carlo.
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Philadelphia
New York
Harry. C. Bratten
Henri de O’brattengue
France
Sweden
Pack & Gabryel
American Security Contract Company
Bratteh
E. Andrew Gabryel
Bratten
London
Monte Carlo
Nurturing the Family Tree at New York Genealogical Society
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society held its annual meeting at 226 West Fifty-eighth Street. Treasurer Hopper Striker Mott reported zero debt and assets of 100000 dollars while John R. Totten announced plans to register pedigrees to publish a standard authority on American ancestry. The membership obituary list included ex-President Cleveland, Philip Rhinelander, and Herman Knickerbocker Viele.
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The
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
West Fifty-eighth Street
Hopper Striker Mott
John R. Totten
Cleveland
Philip Rhinelander
Herman Knickerbocker Viele
Refined living at high grade board and apartments ad
A daily advertisement in The New York Times promotes high grade board and apartments for refined men and women contact phone 1000 Bryant for arrangements and rates.
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New York Time
Bryant
Tumbled Rocks Down to Kill Rival Road in Arizona Strike
United States suit details Southern Pacific's growing control of the Southwest by purchasing the Phoenix & Eastern and blocking a competing low-grade line to the coast. Witness Frank M. Murphy recounts Atchison leaders votes to sell to Southern Pacific and outlines the protracted rivalry with Union Pacific and Frick Rogers.
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Southern Pacific Railroad
Southwest
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé
Union Pacific-Southern Pacific
Santa Fé
Pacific Coast
United States
Frank B. Kellogg
C. A. Severance
Phoenix & Eastern
Frank M. Murphy
Victor Morawetz
The
Atchison
Southern Pacific
Henry H. Rogers
Henry C. Frick
Union Pacific
Southern
Mr. Rogers
Frick
Messrs. Frick
Rogers
James A. Stillman
California Coast
Murphy
Prescott
Ariz
Arizona
Phoenix
Ash Forks
Maricopa
Prescott & Phoenix
Clark, Kedge & Co
el Paso
Benson
el Paso & Southwestern
Texas Pacific
Berson
Deming
New Mexico
Port Alberquerque
Hutchinson
Kas
Sunday Times Previews Annual Financial Review
Newsletter notice urges readers to place orders with newsdealers to ensure delivery of the Sunday Times features including the Annual Financial Review tomorrow. The advisory highlights timely purchase to avoid missing key sections and commentary.
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Sunday Times
Three Die In Six Story Tenement Fire At Ninth Avenue
A six story tenement at 666 Ninth Avenue erupted in a basement fire just before 11 pm. Three people died, including janitor John Kerr and his 12 year old son, with a third identified victim found on the fourth floor. Two others were badly burned and treated, including James Fay who was carried to a roof exit and hospital.
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Ninth Avenue
Hook and Ladder 4
Langford
John Kerr
John
Kerr
Fay
James
Nicholas Gentner
Gentner
Roosevelt Hospital
F. W. Leikens
W. J. Rogers
Croker
Damae
Alice Brennan
Bradley
Mooney
John Dundara
West Forty-seventh Street
Hammerstein near nervous collapse amid opera woes
Oscar Hammerstein told The Times he feels the strain from Philadelphia opera failures and New York duties. He described being exhausted by demands from artists and managers, and noted rumors of attempts to lure tenor Zenatello away, which he warned Gatti-Casazza about in a written letter. He dismissed any plan to move to the Metropolitan and said the Philadelphia situation remains unchanged.
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Oscar Hammerstein
Times
Manhattan Opera House
Philadelphia
Mr. Hammerstein
New York
United States
Opera
Italian Relief Committee
Metropolitan Opera House
Giovanni Zenatello
Manhattan
Gatti-Casazza
Hammerstein
Signor
Impresario
Earthquake Shakes Evora near Lisbon
Slight earthquake shocks were felt today at Evora, eighty five miles southeast of Lisbon. Evora, capital of Alemtejo province, sits on a height with ramparts and an ancient Roman aqueduct. It is the seat of an Archbishop and has a population over 11,000.
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Evora
Lisbon
Jan
Alemtejo
Sertorius
Father of Trusts Judge Dill Robbed at Hoboken Station
Judge James B. Dill known as the Father of Trusts had $180 in cash and railroad passes stolen from his pocket at Hoboken Station. The Court of Errors jurist, who helped shape New Jersey corporate law and advised on United States Steel Corporation, shared the incident with colleagues.
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New York Times
Trenton
James B. Dill
Court of Errors
Hoboken
Lackawanna
Dill
United States Steel Corporation
Mail Sack With Bonds Stolen In Paris Heist
A delivery wagon on Chaussée d Antin in Paris was robbed of bonds worth $200000 in broad daylight. Police have no leads on the thieves.
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Paris
Chaussée d’Antin
Gas company barred from shutting off supply over bills
Supreme Court Justice Davis granted an ex parte injunction at 130 West Houston Street ordering the New Amsterdam Gas Company to refrain from turning off gas for Joseph Karnial’s dry goods store. The injunction cites two bills totaling 14 dollars at 80 cents rate and requires the company to show cause on January 12 why it should not be made permanent.
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Supreme Court
Davis
Clarence J. Shearn
New Amsterdam Gas Company
Joseph Karnial
West
Houston Street
United States Supreme Court
Texas Capital in Danger
A New York auditing corps warned Governor Campbell and Texas officials that the Capitol building was at imminent risk of explosion. They noted that all Texas National Guard ammunition, under the Adjutant General, was stored in the Capitol basement and urged immediate removal of the explosives.
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New York Times
Dallas
Texas
New York
Austin
Campbell
Texas Capitol
Texas National Guard
Capitol
Hanly warns on county option repeal in final Indiana message
Gov. J Frank Hanly delivers a final Indiana Legislature address urging continued temperance advocacy. He warns that repealing the county option law would shock political forces and cites statistics linking alcohol to crime poverty and disease.
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Indiana
Indianapolis
Ind
J. Frank Hanly
Taft Leaves Presbyterian Church Over Campaign Letter
Cincinnati reports Charles P. Taft severed ties with the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant after a pastor's letter during the national campaign. Taft asked to be released from guaranteeing the pastor’s salary. Dr. Watson’s prior letter to a Chicago minister criticized Taft’s liberal religious views. Mrs. C. P. Taft also withdrew her letter from Church of the Covenant about a month earlier.
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New York Times
Cincinnati
Ohio
Charles. P. Taft
Presbyterian Church of the Covenant
R. L. Watson
Taft
Watson
Chicago
William H. Taft
Charles P. Taft
C. P. Taft
Church of the Covenant
Wright denies divorce suit linking him to French officer
Paris January 8 Wilbur Wright says reports of a divorce suit filed by a French Army lieutenant involve him, a fact he knew nothing about. He has never seen the officer's wife named as plaintiff and dismisses the matter as untrue.
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Wilbur Wright
Paris
America
Moving Picture Toy Featured in Sunday American Preview
The Sunday American promotes a real moving pictures toy available tomorrow free with the paper. It teases Mme Cavalieri beauty secrets and $5 in recipes. It also notes the Lew Fields song Now I’ve Married a Millionaire as a highlight for tomorrow’s issue.
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Sunday American
Mme. Cavalieri
Lew Fields
Ady
Klaw and Dillingham Inspect Newport Cliffs Site
Mare Klaw of Klaw and Erlanger and Charles B Dillingham toured Newport Cliffs areas with J. W. Jordan of the New Cliffs Hotel. They examined sites for a possible combined theatre and hotel to operate in spring through fall. Details are being kept confidential in Newport.
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New York Times
Newport
R. I
Mare Klaw
Klaw & Erlanger
Charles B. Dillingham
J. W. Jordan
New Cliffs
Cliffs
Mr. Jordan
Seaboard Florida Service Highlighted in Ad
Seaboard Florida Ltd offers all Pullmans electric lighted trains on the shortest route and quickest time. Ing. 1,183 B'way. Advertisement promotes premium Florida service with two other high class trains.
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Seaboard
Seaboard Florida Ltd
Springfield High School Girls Strike Over Color Rushing
In Springfield Illinois the faculty suspended February graduates for color rushing prompting a sympathy strike by nine girls who left school and will not return until the boys are reinstated by the school board. The school had earlier expelled six boys who were readmitted after reprimands as an investigation into color rushing was announced.
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New York Times
Springfield
Ill
Springfield High School Today
New Hartford Railroad Shops Cut to Four-Day Week
East Hartford shops employing about 400 men switched to a four days a week schedule of eight hours per day replacing the former nine hours for six days. In New Haven it is understood New York New Haven Hartford shops will also adopt a four day eight hour schedule soon.
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Railroad
Hartford, Conn
East Hartford
New. Haven, Conn
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Moving pictures and beauty tips headline tomorrow
The Sun offers free real moving pictures for all ages tomorrow at the overlook with Mme Cavalleri’s beauty page and $5 in recipes. A featured segment called Millionaire promises entertainment and success tips for readers.
Celtic Steamship Near New York Bound for Pier Arrival
The steamship Celtic, inbound from Liverpool, was reported by Marconi wireless 873 miles east of Sandy Hook at 11 PM yesterday and is due at her pier about 9 AM tomorrow.
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Celtic
Liverpool
Marconi Wireless
Sandy Hook
Spex Best to Florida Special
A cryptic OCR fragment mentions Florida, Broadway and a special event or item titled Spex. Limited readable text lacks clear names, dates, or concrete outcomes to form a full news item.
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Florida
Roosevelt letter ties Tillman to Oregon land scheme
President Roosevelt released a letter to Senator Hale accusing Senator Tillman of questionable conduct in an Oregon land deal. The document outlines Tillman’s connections with the scheme, his use of official envelopes for personal letters, and prompts a Senate investigation into the Secret Service. The letter urges congressional inquiry into agency abuses.
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Senator Hale
Senator Tillman
Oregon
Mr. Hale
Tillinan
Hale
White House
Tillman
Senate Committee On Appropriations
Secret Service
Post Office Department
Teacing Loimwa
Senate
Washington
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Secretary of the Treasury
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Congress
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Immigration Commission
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