Sixtyith Congress Opens with New Members and Death Notice
The Sixtyith Congress met for its final session with 81 senators present. Senator Pare of Vermont took the oath, while Senator Cummins will be sworn in tomorrow after the death of Senator Allison. Speaker Cannon presided as Sherman entered, praising the Republican victory. New members Foelker, Barnhart, Estopinal, Swuernsey, Martin, Wiley, and Swasey were sworn in amid formalities, with Rainey introducing a canal sale inquiry.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Senate
Pare
Vermont
Cwmmins
Allison
Delliver
Iowa
Waren
Cummins
Herokee
la Follette
Platt
New York
Depew
Moon
Aldrich
Perkins
Naval Affairs Committee
Lefee
Madison Square Garden
Prince Tsi Fu
Legation
Fairbanks
Edward Everett Hale
Gallinger
Teller
Hale
Congress
Cannon
House of Representatives
United States
James S. Shermen
Sherman
19 Foelker
Brooklyn
Dunwell
Hughes
Galeries
Foelker
Calder
Minnority
Champ Clark
Representative Rainey
Illinois
Panama Canal
Committee On
McKinley
Clark
Missouri
Unclear cargo ship report near Whitefin Point in Lake Superior
The fragment notes Captain Healend of Itteremer Dundee arriving to investigate a wardage sighting near Whitefien Point in Lake Superior, possibly linked to the steamer Clemson of Dulvil. The readable text is fragmented and lacks full details of the incident or its outcome.
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Healend
Itteremer Dundee
Lake Superior
Whitefien Point
Clemson
Dulvil
Prizes Totaling Seventeen Thousand Five Hundred Dollars Announced
Paris reports James Gordon Bennett has given the French Aero Club an international aviation cup worth 2500 and three prizes of 5000 each for the first three annual competitions. Victor de Beauclair wins the Santos Dumont prize of 800 for forty eight hours aloft, after a 56 hour flight from Bitterfeld to Casale Pisa.
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Paris
James Gordon Bennett
French
Aero Club
The
Victor de Beauclair
Bitterfeld
Saxony
Saxony, On Saturday On the Balloon Cognac and Landed At Casale-Pisa
Italy
The Kaiser Low in Spirits Amid Seclusion
Potsdam December 7 The Emperor resumed audiences on imperial business after a period of seclusion. He has a cold and is greatly low in spirits, grieved by loss of prestige abroad and at home, and reluctant to converse even with household members. The Empress remains his constant companion and adviser.
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Potsdam
Baron von Rheinbaden
Herr von Valentin
Baron von Rheinbaben
General von Einem
Dr. Bethmann-Hollweg
von Bilow
May acquit Davis in fatal Rustin case
In Omaha on December 7, defense witness Emily Allen testified that she saw Abbie Rice downtown around 4 a.m. buying a paper, countering the prosecutions claim Rice was at a house the night of the murder. Allen, who had not met defense attorneys prior, said her son urged her to testify.
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Omaha
Charles Edward Davis
Frederick T. Rustin
Davis
Emily Allen
Abbie Rice
Rice
Advertising Pays In Barre Church Growth
In Barre Vermont Rev. Francis A H Poole says church advertising revived a moribund congregation. He began with large Sunday ads detailing weekly church progress. The growing flock prompted trustees to plan an expansion doubling the building size.
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the Tribune
Barre
Francis A. H. Poole
First Congregational Church
Poole
Nine-Story Business Block Planned at Broadway and 57th
United States Realty and Improvement Company to build on a 66 by 116.8 foot parcel at 17th Street southeast corner adjoining Broadway Tabernacle. McVicar Gaillard Realty leased to A. T. Demarest & Co for twenty years at nearly one million dollars. Francis H. Kimball to design, site owned by US Realty.
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Broadway
57Th Street
Broadway Tabernacle
56Th Street
17Th Street
McVicar. Gaillard Realty Company
A. T. Demarest & Co
United States Realty and Improvement Company
Willl
Francis H. Kimball
Fifth Avenue
33D Street
Nebraska Divorce Reform Move by Omaha Bar Association
The Omaha Bar Association adopted a resolution urging Nebraska legislators to tighten divorce laws by extending the required legal residence. Currently six months suffices, attracting many Eastern petitioners to Omaha and prompting fears Nebraska could be branded a divorce state.
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The
Tribune
Omaha
Omaha Bar Association
Nebraska
Bar Association
United States Steel Gains Durango Iron Mountain
American interests identified with United States Steel Corporation have taken control of the Durango iron mountain including the iron works of the Durango Iron and Steel Company. Several million dollars are expected to be spent to erect a steel plant at the site. The deposit is described as the continent’s largest high grade iron ore body.
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the Tribune
Durango
Mex
United States Steel Corporatat Ion
Iron Works
Durango Iron and Steel Company
Sir Wilfrid Laurier in wreck at St. Vincent
Sir Wilfrid Laurier Premier of Canada was aboard a Great Northern local when a broken rail derailed two cars near St. Vincent Minnesota. He was shaken but unharmed as other passengers also escaped injury.
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Vincent
Minn
G Reat Northern
St. Paul
St. Vincent
Sir Wilfrid Laurier
Canada
Catholic Institutions Suffer From Fidelity Funding Collapse
A wave of losses hits fifty to sixty Catholic churches seminaries colleges and nunneries as Fidelity Funding Company now in the hands of receiver Thomas F Gilroy Jr faces over 4 500 000 in known liabilities. Keiran led the firm and controlled assets while other related companies funded church projects with 8 to 9 percent financing and 20 year endowment life policies backed by Reliance Life and Security Life.
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Fidelity Funding Company
Thomas F. Gilroy, Jr
Gilroy
P. J. Keiran
Mr. Keiran
Toronto
Buffalo
New York
Washington
Bainbridge Colby
Colby & Goldbeck
Keiran
Colby
Kelran
Reliance Life Insurance Company
Pittsburg
Security Life Insurance Company
Chicago
Columbia Construction Company
Federal Construction Company
McBride Studios
Western Illinois & Iowa Railroad Company
Fidelity Funding
St. Mary’s Academy
Nauvoo
Ill
St. Vincent’s College
St. Thomas Aquinas Church
Cleveland
Keliran
City Club seeks expert review of Manhattan Bridge plans
The City Club asks Mayor McClellan, as chair of the Board of Estimate, to appoint bridge engineers to inspect Manhattan Bridge plans after exposing Queensboro Bridge flaws. Homer Folks cites The Tribune’s coverage and urges safeguards to prevent another costly miscalculation, noting stress limits, added steel, and live-load reductions.
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Queensboro Bridge
Tribune
City Club
McClellan
Board of Estimate
Manhattan Bridge
Homer Folks
Bridge Department
Manhattan
Boller & Hodge
William H. Burr
Pennsylvania Steel Company
Lindenthal
Best
Department of Bridges
Club
the Tribune
Queensboro
Trine
THE
E R Thomas Expelled From New Jersey Club
E R Thomas a former New York banker was expelled from membership in the New Jersey Automobile and Motor Club at Newark after a July West End Long Branch accident in which his car struck a carriage killing horses and injuring the driver. Thomas remained seriously injured with both legs broken as his counsel Charles I McBurney attended a four and a half hour board meeting.
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E. R. Thomas
New York
New Jersey Automobile and Motor Club
Newark
West End
Long Branch
Thomas
Charles I. McBurney
Board of Governors
Stormy Weather Follows Rain and Wind Shifts
A coastal storm delivers 1.66 inches of rain then clears as west winds rise to 36 mph and temperatures fall to 34. The Panama liner Finance is wrecked with only two masts visible after being toppled by sea conditions. Water floods the Battery and a barge is cast adrift near Sandy Hook. A schooner seeks anchorage off Quogue as cold fair weather is forecast for today.
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Sandy Hook
Finance
Bay State
Boston
Newport News
Quogue
Long Island
Burglar Loot Strikes No 45 West 11th Street Residence
Reserves surrounded the block after Ralph C Caples and Mrs Caples found their apartment door jammed by furniture and a broken desk inside. A diamond brooch opera glasses three diamond stickpins an overcoat a gold purse containing $50 and other items were stolen. Entry made from roof via window at No 47 West 11th Street. Neighborhood excitement followed.
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Ralph C. Caples
Daly
New York Central Railroad
No. 47
West 11Th Street
Reprieve for Billik in Illinois murder case
Herman Billik, condemned for the murder of Mary Vrzal, received a reprieve from January 29 by Acting Governor Sherman. Chicago attorney Francis E. Hinckley announced new evidence may free Billik, who reacted with emotion upon news reaching him in jail.
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Springfield
Ill
Herman Billik
Mary Vzral
Sherman
Francis E. Hinckley
Chicago
Billik
Religious Parade Through East Side by St George’s Church
More than 700 members of St George’s Church congregation marched from Rutherford Place and 16th Street through the East Side headed by Rev Dr Dawson and Rev Hugh Birckhead. The line swelled to over 1500 by the church, where Dawson spoke and homeless churchgoers were cared for for the night.
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St. George’s Church
Rutherford Place
16Th Street
Dr. Dawson
Hugh Birckhead
Coach Drivers Vote To Strike In New York
The Liberty Dawn Association of Coach Drivers voted overwhelmingly to strike against the Livery Stable Keepers' Association to push for a union contract. Edwin Gould of the New York District Council of the United Teamsters said a conference with the stable keepers would be sought before the strike takes effect. The vote followed a conference breakdown as keepers refused to sign an agreement including chauffeurs.
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Liberty Dawn Association of Coach Drivers
Livery Stable Keepers’ Association
Edwin Gould
New York
Metz Extends Clerk Hours by One Hour Daily
Controller Metz orders a one hour daily extension for about twelve hundred clerks starting January 4. Work hours become 9 am to 6 pm with a one hour luncheon daily except Saturday from 9 am to 12 m. Objections to the change should be reported to Mr. Mei.
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Metz
Mei
Taft speaks on ballot rights and Southern race policy
President elect Taft tells North Carolinians at the NC Society dinner that states may enact suffrage laws without discrimination while the federal government should stay out of social equality issues. He opposes repealing the Fifteenth Amendment, calls for mass education for the Negro, and says the South must solve its racial problems with local means.
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William Howard Taft
United States
South
North Carolina Society
Mr. Taft
Taft
Judge Taft
Henry W. Taft
Walter H. Page
Hampton Institute
Page
Maine
Vermont
New Hampshire
Pennsylvania
Washington
Old North State
North Carolina
Canadian
Gulf of Mexico
Congress
Postoffice Department
Mason and Dixon
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J. G. Bennett
the Kaiser
Mrs. Rice
Austin
State
IRON
United States Steel Corporation
Minnesota
Portland
Ore
East Side
DEWEY
Dewey & Bonsco
Fulton St
George McAneny
Florida
Atlanta
Birmingham
Memphis
Seaboard Air Ling
New Jersey Automobile Club
West 11Th Street House
Jailer
Him
Andrew Williams
St. George's Church
Union
Ocat
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