Pankhurst Speakers at Cooper Union Urge Votes for Women
Militant suffragist leader Mrs. Pankhurst declares she will risk prison and even death to win votes for women. The event at Cooper Union features leaders such as Mrs. Ella Hawley Crossett and Professor John Dewey, with discussions on tactics, civil disobedience, and international prospects for the suffrage movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Pankhurst
Labor Party
Great Britain
Cooper Union
Penkhurst
Ella Hawley Crossett
State Woman Suffrage Association
Harry Hastings
Henry Villard
Harriet Stanton Bletch
James Laidlaw
Percy Stickney Grant
John Brannan
Henry Phipps
Jessie Ashley
Equal Suffrage League
John Dewey
Columbia University
Pankhurst
Winston Churchill
England
Suffraerties
House of Commons
Mrs. Mary Lee
Blatch
Constance Lytton
Alice Paull
Edward
Inez Mulholland
Helen Hay-Greeley
Elizabeth Ellsworth
Striking Waist Makers Backed by Belmont Support
Mrs Belmont attention to the shirtwaist strike grows with suffrage talk and factory conflicts. Leader Solomon Schindler declined to speak yet, while Rose Pastor Stokes urged voting rights and better laws. Ten employers granted demands, but clashes and police rushed to a riot at Schenck avenue and Fulton street as strikers clashed with rival workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. H. P. Belmont
Solomon Schindler
Central Federated Union
Hoffman House
I. B. Hymen
Liberty Avenue
East New York
Schenck Avenue
Fulton Street
Strikes Clash at Acme Factory as Police Intervene
Tense confrontation erupts when male striker supporters surge toward the plant. Panic-stricken managers barricade inside and call police. Officers arrive and use nightsticks while girls retaliate with hatpins, but spraying seltzer and a fire tank quell the disturbance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Acme
Seven Women Hold Meetings for Votes in Jurist Elections
Berlin November 30 seven mass meetings of business women passed resolutions demanding votes for women in selecting judges for trade and commercial tribunals. The tribunals today include four professional jurists as president two employers and two employees elected by tradesmen and merchants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Trade and Commercial Tribunals
Financial remarks outline Panama bonds and treasury balance
Washington reports the presidents message finance section finished with Cabinet scrutiny. It notes a Treasury working balance of 26.5 million and general fund total around 82.1 million, with year to date disbursements 44.3 million more than receipts. Internal revenue from corporate tax is rising and departmental estimates are trimmed. There are 290.6 million Panama bonds authorized but not issued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Treasury
Cannon Foresees Busy Session and Cooperation With President
Speaker Cannon arrived from Chicago and predicted a busy Congress focused on appropriations first. He said Republicans will cooperate with the President to keep spending within revenues and expects major recommendations in the President's message. He noted committees are at work and plans further talks with Taft and party leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Cannon
Chicago
Congress
Committee On Appropriations
Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Taft
House
Mann Seeks Codification of Interstate Commerce Laws
Washington Nov 30 Representative Mann chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee aims to codify amendments to interstate commerce law. He will have his committee gather all amendments into one volume and hopes to present the codification to Congress before the session ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune Bureau
Washington
Mann
Interstate Commerce Committee
Congress
Battery Dan Finn III Under Nervous Breakdown in Broome Street Home
Magistrate Battery Dan Finn is reported seriously ill with a nervous breakdown at his residence 59 Broome Street. Although improved briefly, it is said he cannot resume court duties for some time. Earlier in the year Finn clashed with Police Commissioner Bingham over the police system and his criticisms of arrest incentives were aired before a legislative inquiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dan” Finn
Broome Street
Bingham
Finn
Legislative Committee
Carriage Injures Two in Broadway Collision
Boston former Harvard football player H. E. Kersberg and Miss Madaline Davidson were knocked down by a brougham at Broadway and 4th. Davidson injured, dragged to Criterion Theatre lobby. Kersberg uninjured. Driver William Savin arrested for reckless driving. magistrate fined him $10 after Kersberg declined to press charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. E. Kersberg
Bay State Road
Boston
Harvard
Madaline Davidson
Woodstock
West 43d
Broadway
4Th Street
Kersberg
Miss Davidson
Criterion Theatre
Guidermen
William Savin
No. 134
West 35Th Street
Krotell
MK. Hewitt
No. 166
West Tith Street
Savin
Postal savings banks debated for coming Congress session
The Tribune reports strongSupport grows in Washington for postal savings bank legislation to curb currency issues. Senator Carter of Montana backs a bill to aid currency revision, while Rep Murdock of Kansas pushes for immediate passage. Weeks opposes new measures. Penrose to confer with President Taft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune Bureau
Washington
Postal Savings Bank
Congress
Carter
Montana
Monetary Commission
House
Murdock
Kansas
Representative Weeks
Massachusetts
House Committee On
Penrose
Senate Committee On Post Offices and
Taft
Pinchot Urges Congress to Curb Coal Water Privileges
Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot warns Congress must decide if coal fields and water power rights, still public, should stay in public hands or be sold to private monopolies. He argues development should mix private interest with public control to protect consumers and prevent corporate domination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Gifford Pinchot
Congress
Pinchot
Lyman Abbott
New York
Dr. Abbott
Fusion Board to Decide on Suffolk Water Scheme
At a hearing in New York on the 47000 dollar Suffolk County annex to the Catskill waterworks Joseph Auerbach for the Suffolk County Protective Association asked for an adjournment to February 1 engineers need more time to review before testimony. With a new fusion administration the plan may see little attention and the subject will be reviewed by the new Board of Estimate and Apportionment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suffolk County
Catskill
State Water Supply Commission
No. 2
Broadway
Joseph S. Auerbach
Suffolk County Protective Association
Fusion
Board of Estimate
Farmers Best Year and Meat Prices Highlight 1909 Review
Secretary Wilson reviews 1909 agricultural production as record wealth and farmer prosperity. He notes price disparities in beef across fifty cities and that hog prices better reflect farmer returns. He cites gains from pure food laws and cooperation with manufacturers, emphasizing education for farm families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
New York City
Philadelphia
Buffalo
Boston
Baltimore
Washington
Chicago
Cincinnati
Omaha
Kansas City
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Milwaukee
Detroit
St. Louis
Mobile
San Francisco
Seattle
Denver
Department of Agriculture
Senator Carter Seeks Funds for Federal Irrigation Bonds
Senator Carter of Montana, chairing the Senate Irrigation Committee, argues for ready money to finish federal irrigation projects. He says $50,000,000 to $60,000,000 has been spent with about $59,000,000 more needed, predicting completion in two to three years if funds are provided. He favors transferring $10,000,000 annually to the reclamation fund or warrants against the fund repayable later, citing strong repayment prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune Bureau
Washington
Carter
Montana
Senate Committee On Irrigation
Reclamation Service
Reclamation
Reclamation Fund
Congress
Foreclosure Sale Set for Forty second Street Railway
The United States Circuit Court filed a decree of foreclosure against the Forty second Street Manhattanville and St Nicholas Avenue Railway in a suit by Union Trust Company of New York. If $1 676.92 is not paid within twenty days, all mortgaged real estate and railroad property will be offered for sale by Special Master Robert Grier Monroe on February 1 1910. The decree cites a tax delinquency and that more than half the bondholders requested foreclosure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forty-second Street
Manhattanville & St. Nicholas Avenue
Union Trust Company of New York
United States Circuit Court
Lacombe
Robert Grier Monroe
Doctor Jonnescu introduces new anesthetic mix
Dr Thomas Jonnescu, dean at University of Bucharest, arrived aboard the Kreminzessin Ceetle and plans to demonstrate his hypodermic spinal anesthetic combining strychnine and stovaine. He notes pain elimination above the heart and reports two hour analgesia with minimal impact on heart and respiration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Jonnesco
Jonnesco
Seamen's Hospital
Greenwich
London Lancet
Orthodox Jews condemn reform conference stance on intermarriage
The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations led by Rev. Dr. H. Pereira Mendes repudiates the Conference of American Rabbis. It attacks intermarriage permissibility and Zionist assertions, calling for disavowal of controversial remarks and defending orthodox Jewish positions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations
United States
Canada
H. Pereira Mendes
Central Park West
70Th Street
Conference of American Reform Rabbis
Hebrew Union College
Palestine
Israel
National Civic Federation names committees on mining safety and pensions
At the annual National Civic Federation meeting two days of wage earners insurance talks led President Low to name committees. A mining accident prevention panel chaired by John Hays Hammond includes John Mitchell and Samuel Mather with James Elliott Dr J A Holme and D W Brunton. A wage earners insurance committee led by George W Perkins will study employer liability law harmonization. A pensions for public employees panel chaired by William R Willcox will survey old age funds and potential legislation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Civic Federation
Low
John Hays Hammond
John Mitchell
United Mine Workers of America
Samuel Mather
James Elliott
Southwestern Interstate Coal Operators' Association
J. A. Holme
United States Geological Survey
D. W. Brunton
American Institute of Mining Engineers
George W. Perkins
William R. Willcox
Globe trotter boy meets Taft at White House in 1900s visit
A 14-year-old globetrotter Louis Greenburg tries to see President Taft at the White House during a Cabinet session. He touts earnings from selling papers and bank deposits while recounting travels in Atlantic City and plans to circle the world. Reverend J. W. Van Kirk, touring for brotherhood, visits Taft to discuss world leaders signing his book.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Globe Trotters
White House
Secretary Carpenter
Taft
Globe Trotter
Louis Greenburg
Carpenter
Young Greenburg
Mr. Jeffries
Mr. Gotch
Jeff
Gotech
Atlantic City
Billy Philip
Mr. Morgan
Wall Street
2D Street
New York
Reading
Penn
West Chester Normal School
West Chester
J. W. van Kirk
Mr. Taft
van Kirk
Youngstown
Ohio
Independence Hall
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Brotherhood of Mankind
Little Tim Sullivan Rumors Denied About Meeting Attendance
Alderman Little Tim Sullivan reportedly ill at 22 East 12th Street and not yet home from the West. Officials deny a Sinking Fund Commission meeting at his house and say any illness does not threaten the meeting or city affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sullivan
McGowan
Board of Aldermen
Hot Springs
Aretend
Gompers Get Stay After Contempt Ruling
The Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia granted a stay of execution of its contempt mandate against Samuel Gompers John Mitchell and Frank Morrison of the AFL The stay continues indefinitely pending appeal to the U S Supreme Court
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Court of Appeals of
District of Columbia
Samuel Gompers
John Mitchell
Frank Morrison
American Federation of Labor
Supreme Court of the United States
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mrs. Belmont
Mr. Mann
Dan’’ Finn III
Brougham
Eluvius & Bay
Savoy Hotel
Naples
Rey
Friends of Plan
Fusion Board
Senator Carter
Forty-second Street Line
Washburn
Grosbys
Goup Menar
DR. Jonnesco
Jewish Conference
Civic Federation
Interborough
Auditori
If Manus
L. A
Stewart Building
Wanamaker’s
Wanamaker
America
A. T. Stewart & Co. Hollandis
Fourth Ave
Tenth St
Micawber
Dickens
Little Tim
Gompers
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!