Toward race reform and sectional healing in the South
The talk argues that Northern and Southern citizens should not blame each other for slavery’s past but focus on present equal opportunity. It endorses enfranchisement with fair election laws, condemns repealing the Fifteenth Amendment, and urges education and industrial growth to lift both races. Public service legislation for railroads and immigration is urged, with a hopeful view of North South unity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North
South
Republican Party
Lfe
Democratic Party
Africa
Europe
Panama
West Indies
Mr. Finley
Railway
Finley
Old North
J. ¥. Joyner
Joyner
North Carolina
Hugh MacRae
Movement For
Immigrant Labor
MacRae
James H. Dillard
Jeanes Board
Webster
Haynes
Taft
Mr. Page
Mr. Primrose
Mr. Taft
North Carolina Society
Lyman Abbott
the Outlook
Clark Howell
The
Atlanta Constitution
John M. Glenn
Robert C. Ogden
J. H. Kirkland
Benjamin Duke
John A. Fox
Arkansas
John F. Wallace
New York
Mr. Fox
Mr. Wallace
J. F. Kane
Savantary
Charles P. Goodyear
Richmond P. Hobson
Alabama
Duncan W. Fletcher
Florida
Gifford Pinchot
Appalachians
Appalachian
White Mountain
House Committee On the Judiciary
Appalachia
Notable names on civic and social lists in New York
A long roster includes New York figures such as ex-Senator Overman ex-Senator Simmons Dr John Wyeth presidents of various societies governors judges and business leaders from Kentucky Maryland Missouri Ohio Tennessee and Virginia among others. The compilation features prominent lawyers journalists and public servants such as Delancey Nicoll Adolph Ochs Joseph Daly and William G McAdoo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Carolina Society
Bruce le Rice
The
Tennessee Society
George Tucker Harrison
Virginians
Nicholas Murray Butler
Henry Bischoff
John C. Breckinridge
H. B. Baruch
Ray 8. Baker
Patrick Calhoun
Thomas Dixon, Jr
Joseph F. Daly
A. J. Dittenhoefer
Elmer Dover
Frank N. Doubleday
Adolph S. Ochs
James W. Osborne
James A. O'Gorman
Roger A. Pryor, Jr
C. C. Phillips
M. Warley Platzek
Harry C. Pulliam
Herman Ridder
Lindsay Russel
Taft’s Son Debates at Yale in Postal Savings Banks Issue
New Haven December 7 Robert Alphonse Taft son of William H Taft opened as a Yale debater against Shefferd Scientific School in the annual contest on postal savings banks He closed the affirmative arguments and the judges ruled those arguments the winners The event marked Taft’s first notable campus debating appearance
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Tribune
New Haven
Robert Alphonse Taft
William H. Taft
Yale
Shefferd Scientific School
United States
Taft
Alumni Gain Direct Representation on Columbia Board
Alumni of Columbia University won direct representation on the board of trustees after a special committee report. Six alumni trustees will be elected after January 1, 1908, with eligibility limited to graduates of at least ten years. Existing oldest member F. Augustus Schermerhorn resigns to permit a younger alumnus to join. The board also plans a cancer research program and retiring of two professors funded by the Carnegie Foundation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia University
Board of Trustees
Columbia Board of Trustees
Alumni Association
University
Columbia
F. Augustus Schermerhorn
John C. Curtis
T. Mitchell Prudden
Carnegie Foundation
Richard C. Maclaurin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
F. Augustus Sche~merhorn
M. Hartley Dodge
William K. Vanderblit
Alexander Smith Cochran
Clarence H. Mackay
South Great Future Promised At Southern Congress
Washington dec 7 at the first meeting of the Southern Commercial Congress speakers forecast an unparalleled boom in the South. Cabinet members Wright and Straus attended with Georgia’s Hoke Smith among delegations. Straus noted sectionalism fading and the South rising as a commercial force, citing factory output from 1870 to 1905 and strong gains in recent years. Wright analyzed canal effects on trade and warned gains for rivals as well as the region. Dr Wyman praised climate and health progress, including control of yellow fever.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
South
Southern Commercial Congress
Luke E. Wright
Oscar 5. Straus
Commerce and Labor
Congress
Hoke Smith
Georgia
Straus
Wright
Wyman
Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
Panama Canal
Europe
Mr. Wright
Pacific
Atlantic
Gulf States
Gulf Ports
North Atlantic
Mississippi Valley
United States
Brooklyn man on bail shoots self after extortion charge
George Sulker, 49, of 573 Litch Street Brooklyn, released on bail Friday for a $1500 extortion suit against Mrs. Mary Sample of 679 Franklin Ave Brooklyn, shot himself last night. He had made three prior suicide attempts since release. Police say he entered Sample’s apartments in September with two women and threw carbolic acid on her face and body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Sulker
Litch Street
Brooklyn
Mary Sample
Franklin Avenue
Sulker
Cure a Cold in One Day Claim Falls Short
An advertisement promises a one day cure for a cold using laxative bromide quinine tablets with a refund if it fails. The text includes garbled branding and unclear claims about efficacy and a box number 256.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eich
Black Opal Scarf Pins For Men Feature Rare Beauty
Feature on black opal scarf pins highlights iridescent greens blues crimsons and yellows in a dark opal. Describes beauty, masculinity, limited production and exhibits from Lighting Ridge Mine, with prices from a few dollars to hundreds. Public invited to view exhibit of inset gems and jewelry pieces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beauty Inlet
Lighting Ridge
New South
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W. Finley
W. W. Finley
Southern Railway Company
Toastmaster
Ourople
William Nelson Cromwell
Walter H. Page
Jersey City
Chesapake & Ohio
Hot Springs
2D Street
Manhattan
Henry W. Taft
No. 36
West 48Th Street
Tribune
Red Cross
Association For the Conservation of Natural Resources
Gridiron Club
Civic Federation
Ohio Society
Steinway
Steinway & Sons
Steinway Hall
East 14Th Street
Philadelphia
Via
New Jersey Central
Reading
West 23d Street
Liberty Street
Alumni For
Columbia Board
Souths
Straus and
Commercial Congress
E. M. Gattle & CO
Goldsmiths and Jewelers
Fifth Avenue
38Th Street
F. Chauvenet’s
France
John T. Huner
Evergreen
Moffat, Yard & Moffat, Yard & Company
E & Company
Frederick Palmer
Moffat, Yard &Co
Hew York
lewis & @ONGER
Marcus & Co., Jewelers
5Th Avenue
45Th Street
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