France Adds To Turkey Demands In Mitylene Occupation
Admiral Caillard reported marines landed at Mitylene and occupied the Customs without resistance. Turkish authorities cut telegraph lines, while France presses for full guarantees and treaty-right surrender before evacuating Mitylene. The Porte reportedly accepts all French demands, including rebuilding churches and convents.
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Paris
Caillard
Mitylene
Midilli
Constantinople
M. Bapst
Syra
France
Turkey
United States
Athens
France and Russia Seek Conference Over Armenian Reforms
A Cologne Gazette dispatch from St Petersburg reports France and Russia have agreed on common action to push reforms in Armenia and the European Ottoman provinces, guaranteed by the Berlin Treaty. A conference is invited, likely in spring, with potential quick moves depending on developments in Turkey and the Balkans. Germany’s stance is cautious as Paris did not inform the Triple Alliance beforehand. The St Petersburg papers foresee further claims against Turkey by other powers after France. The Russian press welcomes France’s naval show as counter to German influence in Turkey.
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Berlin
St. Petersburg
Cologne
France
Russia
Armenia
Ottoman Empire
Turkey
Balkans
Germany
Paris
United States
Great Britain
Vossische Zeitung
Russa
Greco Romanian rapprochement eyed amid Balkan tensions
Vienna Times correspondent notes Greece and Austria Hungary share interests as Crete issue lingers. A breakdown in the status quo may prompt new arrangements for the High Commissioner and Cretan self rule until union with Greece becomes feasible with reduced risk of wider disturbances.
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London
Vienna
The
Times
Francis Joseph
Austria- Hungary
Balkan Peninsula
Crete
Greece
Russo American Bank to Be Established in St Petersburg
A dispatch from Odessa to The Times reports a Russo American bank is about to be established in St Petersburg, reflecting ongoing financial ties between Russia and the United States.
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London Times
NEW York Times
London
Navy
Odessa
the Times
St. Petersburg
Poland Poland Poland Weir Waters Named as Purest Spri ng Water
The item lists page references and department indices from a newspaper, ending with a bold claim about Poland Poland Poland and a line touting a purest natural spring water in the world. The fragmented OCR ends with the water claim.
BRITISH NAVY'S EFFICIENCY CONTRADICTED IN GERMAN PRESS
London dispatch notes that the Cologne Gazette and the Marine Rundschau rebut German claims that British naval artillery is defective or gunners inefficient. They condemn attempts to mislead German opinion as dangerous and unjustified.
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London TimEs
New York Times
London
Berlin
The
Times
Cologne Gazette
Marine Rundschau
Cologne
Japan Resists Russian Alliance in Far East Talks
London dispatch reports Tokyo journals discussing Russian overtures offering Manchuria status quo in exchange for Korea influence. Japanese editors reject a dual hegemony stating two powers cannot divide Far East supremacy and fear Manchuria absorption. Japan seeks Korea to stay Korean while guarding vital interests.
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London Times
New York Times
London
Tokio
The
Times
Japan
Russia
Manchuria
Korea
Far East
Korea grants land to Japan at Chapokbo near Masampo
By The Associated Press TOKOHAMA, Nov. 7 Korea has allotted 650 acres at Chapokbo near Masampo for a special settlement to be policed by Japan. The land was pegged out by a Russian warship. The Korean veto on grain exports has been withdrawn in deference to Japan's remonstrances.
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Associated Press
Tokohama
Korea
Japan
Chapokbo
Masampo
Secret dispatch warns China on Manchuria by Russian terms
London dispatch reports a Shanghai correspondent states the Chinese Minister in St Petersburg warns Empress Dowager that Russia intends to retain Manchuria. If the Manchurian Convention is denounced, harsher terms will threaten China's independence.
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London
Shanghai
Standard
St. Petersburg
Russia
Manchuria
China
Russia's canal plan from Riga to Kherson
Odessa Times correspondent reports the Russian government weighs a vast waterway joining the Baltic and Black Seas from Riga to Kherson. Large sums may already be spent at Kherson, intended as the canal’s terminus, with strategic and economic benefits for the empire’s agriculture and industry.
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London Times
NEW York Times
London
Odessa
The
Times
Riga
Kherson
Dnieper
Black Sea
Baltic
British Workmen to Attend American Labor Congress
A Liverpool dispatch to The Times reports a mass meeting of trades unionists bidding farewell to delegates chosen for the American Labor Congress. Ben Tillett warned that British and American workers face the same degrading forces and that opposing fellow workers at home could rebound on them.
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London Times
NEW York Times
London
the Times
Liverpool
Ben Tillett
England
French Circular Explained by Waldeck Rousseau
Times from Paris reports that Premier Waldeck Rousseau explained to the Senate that the inquiries were limited to candidates for state appointments. The circular matches the form used since 1879 and was issued by the Prefect of Haute Vienne.
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London Times
New York Times
London
The
Times
Paris
Haute Vienne
M. Waldeck-Rousseau
Senate
Emperor William to honor King Edward on birthday
Berlin reports Emperor William will mark King Edward's birthday with a Potsdam luncheon party. The Times Berlin correspondent notes invitation extended to the British Ambassador, the British Embassy staff, and the Kaiser's Cabinet.
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London Times
NEW York Times
London
William
King Edward
Berlina
The
Times
Potsdam
Pensions for bank employes approved in Philadelphia
Plans for a gratuitous pension fund at Fourth Street National Bank were approved by the board. When an employee is deemed too old to work he will be placed on the pension list regardless of age, with death benefits for families also authorized. The fund is funded solely by the bank each year to cover all pension expenses.
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Philadelphia
Fourth Street National Bank
McCabees' Treasurer Confesses to Theft in Port Huron
Charles D Thompson Supreme Finance Keeper of the Knights of the Maccabees confesses embezzling about 570,000 to cover a failed business venture linked to Thompson Towing and Wrecking. Bonded by major sureties, the order remains protected with no expected loss. Thompson awaits bond-company action while facing possible prosecution.
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Port Huron
Mich
Charles D. Thompson
Supreme Finance
Supreme Tent
Knights of the Maccabees
Thompson
National Surety Company
New York
Fidelity and Depoosit Company
Baltimore
D. P. Mackey
Order
Markey
Supreme Record
George J. Sigle
Supreme Commander
Charles B. Thompson
Iaan Se
Commercial Bank of
Supreme Finance Keeper
Commercial Bank
First National Bank of New York
Association
United States
Thompson Towing and Wrecking Company
Harlem
Lake Superior
French plan to study American industry at new US school
M Bouquet confirms Millerand proposal to establish a French technical school in the United States to study American industrial methods. A central bureau of college would operate from Philadelphia or Chicago with directors guiding students to observe superior methods and new plants. Funding would come from Parliament plus chamber subscriptions with US government and industry cooperation sought.
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Paris
M. Bouquet
Department of Technical Instruction
Ministry of Commerce
M. Millerand
United States
America
England
Germany
Belgium
Philadelphia
Chicago
Saratoga Arcondack Water on Magnificent Hotel Majestic Tables
An advertisement touts Saratoga Arondack Water as prominently present on finely set tables at the Hotel Majestic, suggesting it is favored by refined patrons and “good livers.”
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Saratoga Arondack
Hotel Majestic
Commerce groups push for early year industrial scheme
Commerce, industry associations and major concerns express optimism over a nationwide scheme with many promises already received and hope to implement it early next year.
Congressmen confer with the President in White House meeting
Four Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee Payne Russell Grosvenor and Steele met with President at the White House. They were reticent about the interview but discussed features of the forthcoming message on revenue and tariff. Grosvenor said Ohio results approved current Republican policies and the tariff.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Messrs. Payne
New York
Russell
Connecticut
Grosvenor
Ohio
Steele
Indiana
White House
Bulgarians Delay Stone Rescue Talks Over Leaks
Constantinople reporting no progress in Miss Stone rescue negotiations as Bulgarian side suspends talks. Spencer Eddy and Sir Nicholas O Conor press for resumption via Salonica while secrecy is stressed to avoid provoking bandits. Consul Dickinson laments leaked letters hindering release efforts.
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Stone
Constantinople
Miss Stone
Salonica
Spencer Eddy
United States Legation
Nicholas O’conor
Therapia
Sofia
Bulgaria
Dickinson
Turkey
Ellen M. Stone
Strange Geologic Find Reveals Tropical Fruits in Spitzbergen
Geologists note fossils of tropical fruits in Spitzbergen imply a warmer climate in the past. The Arctic island group, 400 miles NNW of North Cape, once hosted luxuriant vegetation similar to the sixtieth parallel. Heer linked Spitzbergen with Greenland, Franz Josef Land, and Nova Zembia as a former single continent, intensifying questions about Earth’s axis and Arctic climate shifts.
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Spitzbergen
Arctic Ocean
North Cape
Norway
Greenland
Nova Zembia
Scandinavia
Heer
Franz Josef Land
Two South Carolina Shooting Affrays
In Columbia E L Asbill a Lexington lawyer and House member was shot by C W Sollee a merchant and planter. In Edgefield Dr E S Jones and H C Watson a physician and farmer shot each other. both incidents stemmed from a white man supporting a negro in a crop dispute.
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New York Times
Columbia
S. C
E. L. Asbill
House of Representatives
Lexington
C. W. Sollee
Edgefield
E. S. Jones
H. C. Watson
Sollee
Asbill
Dr. Jones
Watson
Baltimore broker arrested for alleged $23000 bank fraud
John K. Messersmith of J K Messersmith & Co a leading cotton broker was arrested in Baltimore on a warrant from Douglas Thomas president of Merchants National Bank accusing him of obtaining 23000 from the bank by false pretenses. Bank officials say bills of lading were deposited as collateral and the goods were not delivered when due.
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Baltimore
John K. Messersmith
J. K. Messersmith & Co
Douglas Thomas
Merchants’ National Bank
Thintaki
Messersmith
Thomas
Poland Poland Poland Poland Adv Water Claim
An advertisement extols a spring water brand using repeated exclamations sobre purity. It markets Poland as a source of the purest natural spring water in the world.
Physician killed while duck hunting near New Rochelle
Dr. C N Spalter of Manhattan was accidentally killed when a naphtha launch with Dr Edward E Tull off Premium Point near New Rochelle crouching low to shoot ducks. The gun discharged as Spalter grabbed it. Tull, thirty five, was held on $1000 bail. Coroner notified. body to morgue. Spalter from Keene New Hampshire.
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New Rochelle
N. Y
C. N. Spalter
West Eighty-second Street
Manhattan
Edward E. Tull
West Hightieth Street
C. Oliver Iselin
Premium Point
Spalter
Keene, N. H
New York
Dr. Tull
Dr. Spalter
Port Chester
Tull
Sergt. Cody
Banning
Davis
Minister de Lanessan Abolishes Mass Attendance on Warships
London reports The Times criticizes M. de Lanessan French naval minister for removing compulsory mass attendance aboard ships and for earlier forbidding crepe draping on Good Friday. Radicals and anti clericals welcome the move as part of a broader church-state debate influencing French fleet actions in the Orient.
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London Times
NEW York Times
London
Paris
The
Times
M. de Lanessan
Gaulois
Turkey
Orient
A Blow at Addicks
Washington announces Robert G. Houston named Collector of Customs for the District of Delaware after a visit from Representative Ball. He succeeds William H. Cooper, appointed by Cleveland.
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Washington
Robert G. Houston
District of
Delaware
Representative Ball
William H. Cooper
Houston
Cleveland
Roosevelt approves anti-Addicks wing in Delaware fight
Wilmington reports say President Roosevelt endorsed the anti-Addicks faction in Delaware politics. He named William H. Heald as Postmaster and Robert G. Houston, two staunch anti-Addicks figures, to key positions. The move signals a fierce campaign next year with internal splits and potential disaffection in Addicks ranks over campaign funding and strategy.
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Wilmington
Del
Robert G. Houston
Delaware
Roosevelt
du Pont
William H. Heald
Addicks
Washington
Robbed by a "Labor" Agent in Cincinnati
Adolf Davzilk, sixty, who traveled from Germany to reunite with his wife in New York, was given a charity pass by the Cincinnati Mayor's Clerk to travel there after paying a non existent employment agency in Doboken. He started with $40, lost all cash, and sought city aid to reach New York in time to meet his wife, who is due to arrive Monday.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Adolf Davzilk
Pittsburg
Schmidt
New York
Germany
Doboken
West Sixth Street
Smuggling Case Ends With Peasley Conviction
W L Peasley and his wife are convicted in Federal court of smuggling. He receives a two year sentence on one count. other indictments are pending. His wife is fined $1 with no imprisonment. Peasley, a former Southern Pacific locomotive engineer, ran smuggled drawn work from Mexico at Del Rio and Eagle Pass for about six years, moving goods to San Antonio and then to dry goods houses in the East and North, totaling an estimated $20,000 annual value.
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New York Times
Austin
Texas
W. L. Peasley
Peasley
Southern Pacific
Mexico
del Rio
Eagle Pass
San Antonio
Rough House at Harvard Ends in Wild Hall Scene
In Memorial Hall Cambridge on November 7 a ginger ale prank sparked a chaotic rally with over a thousand students. They sang cheered stamped smashed dishes and hurled objects as foam sprayed and Yale was mocked in football and music. The disturbance lasted about thirty minutes leaving Memorial Hall marked by the uproar.
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Cambridge
Mass
Memorial Hall
Harvard
Yale
Anti Gorman Movement In Maryland Internal Strife
Special to The New York Times from Baltimore reports slow returns showing Hering leads for Controller with about 360 plurality as 50 Democrats and 44 Republicans compose the House and 17 Democrats to 9 Republicans in the Senate. Official canvass begins with about 200000 ballots cast. Contests loom due to small margins and ballots thrown out in Somerset and Dorchester counties. Independent Democrats seek to counter Gorman by forming a fusion movement amid Gov Smith’s possible bid for Senate, while Republicans would need cross party support to unseat Gorman.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Hering
House
Senate
Baltimore City
United States
McComas
Somerset County
Dorchester County
Independent Democras
Gorman
Smith
Influx of Canadian Hay Warns of Market Shift
The Inter State Commerce Commission heard American Hay Association witnesses warn that rail rates will push Canadian hay into New England, crowding out Middle West production. Dealers from Ohio, Indiana and Illinois described shifting shipments since 1900 when hay freight classes rose. Western markets now dominate while New England access declines, despite farmers' reduced hay output. The panel planned New York testimony and a Denver session to probe regional railroad discrimination.
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New York Times
Chicago
Inter-State Commerce Commission
American Hay Association
Middle West
New England
Ohio
Indiane
Illinois
New York
Eastern and Western
Eastern
Denver
Prisoners Revolt at Leavenworth Ends in Mutiny Violence
At Fort Leavenworth the most successful mutiny yet at Leavenworth’s new penitentiary site led to a pitched battle. A guard was killed and three wounded. a convict died and another fatally wounded. Convicts seized arms, used officers as shields, and looted farm wagons and homes as they fled toward the countryside, with militia called to restore order.
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Leavenworth
Kan
United States Penitentiary
Fort Leavenworth
Federal Penitentiary
Federal Pen
Military Penitentiary
Frank Hines
Carroll
Harmon Bone
Arthur Tellford
Hoffman
Hines
Hofffman
Tellford
Anyother Tower Guard
Charles Burrows
Vilicerg
Burrows
Joseph Waldrup
Quinford
Waldrup
Mr. Hines
Three Panbell Children Die in Kerosenes Lamp Blast
South Norwalk report says Rosie Maggie and Lucy Panbell ages one two and three were burned to death when a kerosene lamp exploded. Their mother Mrs Guy Panbell is hospitalized and likely to die. The fire caused about $500 damage. Poland! Poland! Poland! Poland! ane purest natural spring water in the world.
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New York Times
South Norwolk
Conn
Rosie
Maggie
Lucy Panbell
Guy Panbell
Round Trip Tickets to California Sale at All Offices
Ticket offices 461 287 and 349 Broadway advertise round trip California fares. Diverse routes available with Chicago and North Western Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Hus offices facilitating travel.
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California
Chicago & North-Western
Union -Pacific
Southern Pacific
Hus
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Broadway
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Brooklyn
Maccabees
C. D. Thompson
Port Huron, Mich
Millerand
Ways and Means
Christiania
South Carolina
J. K. Messersmith
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DE Lanessan
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