Senate considers pay raise for President and other actions
The Senate discussed a bill to raise the President’s salary from 50 000 to 100 000 and the Vice President’s from 12 000 to 25 000. It reviewed military and diplomatic issues including marine corps duties and an embassy site in Paris. The session adjourned for the holiday recess with many senators heading home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune Mureau
Washington
Senate
Genstor Cullom
Bourne
Davis
Arkansas
Rayner
Committee On Military Affairs
Marine Corps
Congress
Army
Navy
Hale
Committee On Naval Affairs
Naval Organization
Military Committee
Samuel B. Donnelly
York
Elkins
Pratt
Senator Elkins
Donnelly
West Virginia
Lepew
New York
Lodge
Paris
New
Tariff hearing heard on macaroni steel silk and more
Washington delegates at the Ways and Means tariff hearing urged varied changes. J Argetsinger of Rochester pressed for lower duty on macaroni while Charles Searle of Boston sought cuts on high priced steel. Others urged higher postal card duties and free lists for currants filberts and un shelled almonds and walnuts. Virginia lawmakers pushed for higher peanut duties to counter foreign labor costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
J. . Argetsinger
Rochester
Charles P. Searle
Boston
Charles Ruston, Jr
New York
H. M. Rose
Philadelphia
I. Ingham
Beaver Falls
Penn
L. R. Eastman
Dried Fruit Exchange
Matthew Woll
Virginia
Japan
Spain
Bennet bill grants air space to immigrants in transit
Washington December 17 both houses passed the Bennet bill allowing 184 cubic feet of air space to every immigrant arriving in America or sailing in steerage. The measure aims to prevent overcrowding and improve immigrant health, with steamship lines noting reduced deportations and sickness. The act now goes to the President for approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune Bureau
Washington
Congress
Bennet
America
Benmet
Senate
Department of Commerce and Labor
Immigration Commission
Browne Wright See President On Brownsville Inquiry
Herbert Jamvrin Browne the detective who aided the Brownsville incident report met with the President. Secretary Wright also attended as they discussed the response to the Foraker resolution requesting full details of detectives and others used in the Brownsville case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Herbert Jamvrin Browne
Congress
Brownsville
Jony
Wright
Foraker
Plan Postal Changes Board Sends Congress Draft of Reorganization Bill
Washington news reports the final joint commission draft for reorganizing the Post Office Department and postal service. It props a director of posts under the Postmaster General with district superintendents, new fiscal methods, and cheaper postal notes for small sums, to evolve from the current system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Joint Commission
Postofice Department
Postal Service
Congress
Penrose
Carter
Clay
Overstreet
Gardner
New Jersey
Moon
Tennessee
Commission
Central Administration
Te Commission
Ambassador to China proposed in diplomatic bill
Senator Lodge introduced an amendment to raise the American Minister to China to Ambassador, a move seen as a strong compliment to China and likely to strengthen U S China relations. If adopted, Minister Rockhill's pay would rise from 1200 to 375 percent. The measure was sent to the Foreign Relations Committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune Bureau
Washington
Lodge
Senate
China
United States
Rockhill
Committee On Foreign Relations
Conference on Weights and Measures Seeks Uniform Law
Washington December 17 delegates from several states gather at the bureau of standards for a two day conference on weights and measures. Officials warn of fraud through false weights and measures and urge a federal or uniform national law. New York and Massachusetts officials cite multi million dollar annual losses. A committee will draft a bill to present to Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Union
National Organization of Inspectors of Weights and Measures of the
United States
Bureau of Standards
New York
Massachusetts
Congress
Santa Clauses Mail to Be Shut Off
Postmaster General Meyer will not renew the 1947 order allowing delivery of letters to Santa Claus charities. Complaints say cases cannot be checked and gifts reach unworthy recipients. Santa letters will be sent to Dead Letters unless senders’ addresses appear. over fifty thousand such letters are received annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Meyer
Santa Claus
President Receives Adeline Genee at White House
Danish dancer Adeline Genee of The Soul Kiss company was received by President Roosevelt today. A private White House visit may occur this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Adeline Genee
Soul Kiss
Roosevelt
White House
Trial in Flushing Probes Real Estate Motive in Hains Case
In Flushing the prosecution challenges the Bayside Yacht Club visit as a real estate errand connected to the murder of William E. Annis. Witnesses including Frederick A. Storm and Charles Birchfield testify to conversations and sightings at the club as lawyers argue whether Thornton J. Hains acted to aid his brother Captain Peter Hains or had other motives. The widow Mrs. Annis changes her stance amid new details, while defense contends a different narrative of the events surrounding the shooting and its lead up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flushing
Thornton J. Hains
Thornton
Peter ©. Hains
Bayside Yacht Club
William E. Annis
Frederick A. Storm
Annis
Darrin
Charles Birchfield
Thornton Hains
Crane
Illiam E
Martin Skura
Frank Ellerson
Yacht Club
Hains Brothers
Sirs. Annis
Thorator J. Hains
Hains
Ripley
White
Zayside
Molly
Birchfield
East 119Th Street
Manhattan
McIntyre
Jespeson
Charles A. Curtis
Princeton, N. J
General Hains
Peter C. Hains, Jr
Baltimore
Orlan c. Cullen
Rockwell
Hainsaid
Mr. Roberts
Captain Hains
Tanning
Thornton Haines
Storm
Roberts
White Youth Lynched Near Monticello
Elmer Hill a white youth aged twenty was lynched by a Russell County mob near Monticello after being charged with assaulting and murdering his thirteen year old cousin Mamie Womack. The body was found hanged four miles from town after he was captured at Monticello jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Lexington
Elmer Hill
Russell County
Monticello
Wayne County
Mamie Womack
Hill
One Head for District Government Proposed in Message
President Roosevelt recommends a new district government with a single governor replacing three commissioners and the creation of municipal departments including housing and labor. The message adds Reynolds's report on District affairs and thanks him for service, along with committee reports on model houses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
District of Columbia
Roosevelt
Congress
James B. Reynolds
Reynolds
Rich Families Exhibit Dolls at Madison Square Garden
An exhibition of toys opens tonight at Madison Square Garden featuring dolls and novelties for the holidays. The Junior Aero Club presents dirigible cars and balloons, with a special stand for expensive dolls donated by wealthy families. Notable contributors include Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Higginson, Mrs. Watson, Mrs. McGibbon, Mrs. Winston Churchill, Mrs. Appleton, and Mrs. Hapgood, plus theatre figures like Mrs. Faversham and Miss Barrymore. Proceeds on the final day aid the Hospital for Crippled Children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison Square Garden
Junior Aero Club
Reginald C. Vanderbilt
Francis J. Higginson
O. W. Watson
Fairmont
W. Va
W. A. McGibbon
Winston Churchill
Daniel Appleton
Norman Hapgood
William Faversham
Ethel Barrymore
Annie Russell
Mme
Gadski
Amelia Bingham
Frances Duncan
Catherine Bieler
Louise Homer
Byrne
William Collier Company
Hospital For Crippled Children
Foulke’s Panama Views Stir Call for Investigation
William Dudley Foulke of Indiana comments on Roosevelt’s Panama Canal letter, defends the President, denounces editors he calls false, and says those who started the scandal should be punished. He advocates an investigation before the bar of justice to resolve the matter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canal
Bar of Justice
The
Tribune
Fittsburg
William Dudley Foulke
Indiana
Roosevelt
Panama Canal
Mr. Foulke
Oklahoma Governor Haskell urges reform on slander case rules
Governor Haskell writes Senator Gore quoting Roosevelt on prosecuting reckless slanderers and character assassins. He proposes an amendment allowing civil or criminal action against a president in the district where the plaintiff resides with service by mailing summons to the District of Columbia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Tribune
Gubrie
Okla
Haskell
Gore
Roosevelt
Congress
United States
District of Columbia
NC Man Acquitted in January Killing Belonging to Prominent Family
Greensboro report says William D. McAdoo cousin of New York financier William McAdoo was acquitted of murder in the death of Edward Allred last January. The evidence indicated the shooting was accidental and McAdoo is heir to a leading North Carolina family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensboro
N. C
William D. McAdoo
William McAdoo
New York
Edward Allred
McAdoo
North Carolina
Glazier Found Dead in Pasadena Hotel Room
Harry Glazier, a Belasco stock company actor, was found dead in his Pasadena hotel room. Death attributed to heart failure, a disease he had simulated during his last nine performances as the Baron in A Parisian Romance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Tribune
Los Angeles
Harry Glazier
Belasco Stock Company
Pasadena
Baron
Trusted Employee Held In Apollo Company Larceny
Frederick Kann secretary treasurer of the Apollo Company was arrested at his home and jailed on larceny and falsifying company books. An alleged $585 shortage emerged after a bankruptcy inventory and a May 8 1907 entry showed a piano player sent on trial to A Freund of 850 Third avenue with a check indorsed by Kann. He promised to explain later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick Kann
Apollo Company
West 38Th Street
West 142d Street
C. Albert Jacob
Kann
Jacob
Louis Lowenstein
A. Freund
Third Avenue
Freund
Hewitt Will Suit Hinges on Noted Eccentricity Claim
In Owego New York today the fight to overturn Frederick C. Hewitt s will began new testimony. Charlotte H Arnot Hewitt s sister presented evidence that Hewitt s quirks and alleged stinginess arose from a diseased mind and peaked during the final year of his life. Servant Rockwell and cook Mrs Rickey contradicted earlier claims and supported some points of the defense. Hewitt s daughter in law Mrs Fannie R Whitney testified that he showed mental deficiencies last year and doubted gifts to church and charity as her mother planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Owego
N. Y
Frederick C. Hewitt
Charlotte H. Arnot
Elmira
Rockwell
Rickey
Hewitt
Fannie R. Whitney
Rochester
Whitney
Mr. Hewitt
Motorman Arrested in Death on Brooklyn Bridge
Neil Brolly, a Fulton street car motorman, was arrested at his Brooklyn home on homicide charges for a collision that fatally injured carpenter Albin Peterson on the Brooklyn Bridge. Peterson died at Brooklyn Hospital after his skull fracture and a heavy timber struck him from above. A laborer nearby, James Agnello, suffered a broken arm from falling debris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neil Brolly
Suydam Place
Brooklyn
Fulton Street
Albin Peterson
Brooklyn Bridge
Peterson
L” Station
Sands Street
James Agnello
Washington Street
55Th Street
Brooklyn Hospital
Mrs Sage and Miss Gould Attend Long Island R R A Dedication
Mrs Russell Sage and Miss Helen Gould led the dedication of the Long Island Railroad Young Men's Christian Association building in Long Island City. The $190 000 structure was funded by Mrs Sage, with Frank Haff receiving the property from LIRR President Peters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell Sage
Helen Gould
New Long Island Railroad
Young Men's Christian Association
Borden and
West Avenues
Long Island City
Sage
Peters
Long Island Railroad
Frank Haff
President Roosevelt Cuts Wives Plea Sentences for Bank Wreckers
President Roosevelt reduced the sentences of Edward P. MacMillan and Charles Menzemer, clerks at the Western Penitentiary, from six years and six months and five years five months to two and a half and two years respectively. The commutation follows wives’ appeals and the cashier T. Lee Clarke’s suicide after alleged bad influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Pittsburg
Roosevelt
Edward P. MacMillan
Charles Menzemer
Western Penitentiary
Enterprise National Bank
MacMillan
Menzemer
T. Lee Clarke
Turkey's Parliament Opens With Diverse Ottoman Assembly
The Sultan declares the new Turkish parliament open as crowds cheer the imperial procession. The senate and chamber of deputies form the legislature with about 250 deputies, drafted by population rules. Members include Arabs Turks Bulgarians Greeks Armenians Jews and more, reflecting a richly diverse Ottoman nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yildiz
Constantinople
Ministry of Justice
Europe
Congressional greeting to Turkish parliament opened
Both Houses of Congress agreed to a resolution directing best wishes and congratulations to the newly convened parliament of Turkey. In Rome the Senate and Chamber of Deputies unanimously adopted motions to send messages of congratulations to the Turkish nation on parliament's opening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Turkey
Congress
Rome
Senate
Chamber of Deputies
New York State sells 5 million highway bonds at premium
State Controller Martin F Glynn sold 5 million dollars of 4 percent New York highway improvement bonds at a premium of 580 176 Albany reports the issue oversubscribed seven and a half times with bids totaling 37 972 20 local banks trusts and securities firms from New York City Albany Rochester and Canton participated in the subscription and purchase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Martin F Glynn
New York State
National City Bank
N. W. Harris & Co
New York
W. B. Sager
Warwick
O'Connor & Kahler
Belmont & Co
Albany Trust Company
Keach, Loew & Co
J. A. Gunn Langley & Lawrence
Seaboard National Bank
Moffatt & White, Farson, Son & Co
W. T. Meredith & Co
Skandia Insurance Company
Renskorf, Lyon & Co
Gilman & Clucas
The
First National Bank
Canton
E. N. Nearing
Brooklyn
the Security Trust Company
Rochester
Union Trust Company
W C Brown Foresees Railroads Growth and Expenditure
W C Brown of New York Central prophesies U S railroad growth and a 7 500 000 000 expenditure over fifteen years to expand and improve facilities. He notes past southern and midwestern construction hardships and praises Boston New England donors while criticizing recent regulations that cut revenue and raise operating costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
United States
Commercial Club
Algonquin Club
W. C. Brown
New York
New York Central Lines
Gould Harriman lines determine rate battle expansion
Telegraph dispatch from Pittsburg reports a rate fight among railroads with Gould Harriman, Frsylvnia, Baltimore and Ohio, and Vanderbilt lines. The Wabash rejects a $8 rate compromise and plans three extra Chicago trains to attract New York travel via Pittsburg, claiming $283 savings. Officials see limited East impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Chicago
Pittsburg
Tribune
Hic
Gould-Harriman Lines
Fr Sylvania
Baltimore & Ohio
Vanderbilt
Wabash
Met
Here
Chiesa
Alleged Kidnapper Defies Police in Jersey City
Frederick N. Dessauer Jr. was arrested in Jersey City on Orange County arrest papers after allegedly abducting his daughter from Middletown. The suspect, who allegedly assaulted his mother-in-law, drew a revolver but was overpowered. He claimed custody of the child and denied guilt as bail was posted for a Criminal Court appearance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick N. Y
Ferdinand Dessauer
Middletown
Lexington Avenue
Jersey City
Orange County
Dessauer
Also Mentioned on This Page
Senator Bourne
Browne
PLAN
Board
Senator Lodge
Sand Letters
GENEE
Aeolian Hall
Aeolian Company
Fifth Avenue
34Th Street
Say Annis
T. J. Hains
Bayside Club
Hainses
Mrs. Annis
Foulke
Panama
William M’adoo
Ruppert’s
Enero Becwest Deelars
Baths
Laborer
Mrs. Sage
Baldwin
Pennsylvania Railroad
Enterprise Bank
Allah
Chile
Dessauer, Jr
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!