Roosevelt invites Canada and Mexico to North American resources conference
President Roosevelt announces a plan for a February 18 conference in Washington to discuss mutual conservation of natural resources across North America. Gifford Pinchot will deliver invitations to Canada and Mexico, with Canada and Mexico designated to send official representatives. The aim is to share knowledge, coordinate policy, and seek concurrent action to protect resources beyond national boundaries. Roosevelt notes previous conferences and emphasizes cross border cooperation and timely action.
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Washington
White House
North America
White Hole
Roosevelt
Canada
Diaz
Mexico
Gifford Pinchot
National Conservation Commission
United States
Pinchot
Mexico City
Taft
Lord Grey
Yes
National Commission
Conservation Commissions
Great Associations
Republic of Mexico
United States Forest Servce
Ohio Senate Candidates Ready for Campaign in Columbus
Congressman Theodore Burton returns to Columbus with Charles P Taft and Senator J R Foraker as other candidates join to begin the bid for the United States Senate. Burton remains optimistic and opposed to the caucus plan, while supporters seek a public question defined before the Legislature. Burton allies propose open voting in the Legislature with the bloc unifying after a 46 vote majority.
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Olumbus
Ohio
Theolore
Burton
Columbus
Charles P. Taft
J. R. Foraker
United States
Olembus
Senate
Gas Kills Prominent Newport Man
Alexander Barker, longtime Newport businessman and bank chair, was found dead in his office. The medical examiner ruled accidental death from illuminating gas escaping a heater. Barker, 66, had been late at the office, likely dozing as the gas escaped. He led A N Barker & Co. lumber firm and was a trustee of Newport Savings Bank.
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Newport
Alexander . Barker
Barker
Iarker
A .N. Barker & Co
May Modify History Professor Finds Etruscan Key
Professor George Hempl of Stanford claims a key to Etruscan tomb inscriptions that could rewrite ancient Italian history and Latin grammar. He says the findings show Etruscans and Romans share origins, descendants of Trojans, altering views of Rome Greece and their languages. PMID: Palo Alto, Dec 27.
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Palo Alto
Cal
George Hempl
Leland Stanford Junior University
Hemp
Professor Hempl
Italy
Professor Hemp
Troy
Jordan
Stanford University
Rome
Greece
Tug broken four dead in Lake Michigan disaster
Telegraph report from Frankfort Michigan says the 15 ton fish tug Rhine was torn apart by a southwest gale near the harbor. Four crew members Henry Han rath Julius Dorry Charles Kibby and Gus Straubel drowned. The wreck occurred about 7 o'clock and no bodies have been recovered.
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Tribune
Frankfort
Mich
Henry Hanrath
Julius Dorry
Charles Kibby
Shocks Hit Virginia City Mont in Seismic Spree
A Virginia City dispatch reports the latest 4:30 PM quake in a week of shocks total. The electric plant shut down, plunging the town into darkness amid rising alarm and more structural damage from cracked walls and falling plaster.
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Butte. Mont
Virginia City
Mont
Youth Ignites Powder In Mine Blast Tragedy
Fairmont West Virginia December 27 Oscar Hart and three companions aged 16 and under living at 931 Belleview and nearby were badly injured when a cigarette stump lit bottle of mine powder exploded. Oscar Hart John Laughlin Elmore Sidwell 16. Jennings Smith 13 Jesse Wilson 14 John Boland 11 among the injured. Several others suffered burns cuts and broken glass injuries. Doctors rushed to treat the wounded and move the severely hurt to hospitals.
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Fairmont
W. Va
Oscar Hart
Belleview
John Laughlin
Elmore Sidwell
Jennings Smith
Jesse Wilson
John Boland
Boland
Wolf in Peoria Chases Man Through City Streets
In Peoria Illinois a large gray wolf attacked Frank Keiffer near a lumber yard and pursued him four blocks to his home. Keiffer killed the animal with a rifle shot through a window, the first wild wolf seen in Peoria in years.
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Peoria
Frank Keiffer
Keiffer
Eye disease at the Naval Academy outbreak
The Naval Academy fights an epidemic of conjunctivitis among midshipmen with several cases reported. Midshipman Henry A. Stephenson of Lincoln, Nebraska, is the most seriously affected and was sent to a Washington hospital yesterday. Treatments include local eye applications amid reports of drug injury, which authorities deny.
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Tribune
Annapolis
Naval Academy
Washington Hospital
Henry A. Stephenson
Lincoln, Neb
Washington
Midshipmen
Stephenson
Nyack Prophet Spangler Vanishes After End of World Prophecy
A Nyack prophet Lee J Spangier predicted the world would end yesterday but disappeared at 4 am and has not been seen since. Followers, including women in white, gathered at Oak Hill Cemetery awaiting doom before being turned away by the cemetery superintendent. Others climbed South Mountain hoping to witness the event, but returned disappointed as time passed with no sign of him.
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Lee J. Spangier
Nyack
Spengier
Oak Hill Cemetery
Spangler
South Mountain
Vagrant Mex Stooss Causes Uproar at St Edmunds Church
A man naming himself Mex Stooss roamed Tremont Avenue area and burst into St. Edmund's Church in the Bronx with a revolver, prompting a police chase. He was disarmed and found with an unloaded weapon, then held for vagrancy and concealed weapon charges with $200 bail. The suspect claimed hunger after not eating for 24 hours and planned to eat borax and talcum powder for supper.
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Mex Stooss
Henry Jordan
Bainbridge Avenue
199Th Street
Tremont Avenue
176Th Street
Morris Avenue
St. Edmund's Protestant Episcopal Church
Mount Hope Place
Bronx
Maher
Tremont Station
Jerome Avenue
Stooss
Morris and
Tremont Avenues
St. Edmund's Episcopal Church
J. C. Smiley
Heney to Investigate Pittsburg Municipal Scandal
Pittsburg reports no new developments as Voters' League claims evidence for additional arrests. Rumor links Francis J. Heney, famed for Oregon land frauds and San Francisco graft cases, to a possible Roosevelt‑backed probe into alleged bribery involving federal institutions and bank depository funds. Preliminary hearings mention $176,000 spent.
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Pittsburg
Voters’ League
League
Francis J. Heney
Oregon
San Francisco
Roosevelt
Washington
Heney
Harry Hunt for Serum In City After Five Hour Search
Dr Samuel Harris of Orange Memorial Hospital in Orange New Jersey spent five hours in the city seeking serum for cerebro spinal meningitis for patient Toby Sandal. He visited Flower Presbyterian Post-Graduate and Bellevue hospitals without success before securing serum from Roosevelt Hospital superintendent Dr Grimshaw. Serum discovered by Dr Simon J Flexner at Rockefeller Institute. Harris rushed back to Grange with the lifesaving serum.
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Samuel Harris
Orange Memorial Hospital
Orange
N. J
Flower Hospital
Presbyterian
Bellevue Hospitals
Board of Health
Harris
Roosevelt Hospital
Grimshaw
Simon J. Flexner
Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research
Grange
Toby Sandal
Valley Road
Romance A Foot Ball Rush Marriage Tale Reveals Yale Romance
The delayed marriage notice of Miss Winifred McMasters daughter of John S McMasters of Winchester Massachusetts and Charles Samuel Smith formerly a Yale freshman of Bridgeport exposes a Yale Harvard football game romance. She travelled to Bridgeport to see the game as guest of Mrs Kenneth McNeil and met Smith at the event. Three days later in the Bridgeport station he urged her to rejoin the train and proceed to New Haven for marriage. Smith age twenty and the bride twenty two will start a business career.
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Tribune
New Haven
Winifred McMasters
John S. McMasters
Winchester
Mass
Charles Samuel Smith
Bridgeport
Yale
Miss McMasters
Kenneth McNeil
Archibald McNeil
Smith
New York City
Fire in R Fulton Cutting's Home Elevator Shaft
At about 1 am a maid at No 24 East 67th Street found a fire in the elevator shaft of R Freiton Cuting’s house. Mr Cutting alerted Fire Headquarters, organized an emergency brigade, and servants on every floor helped. Electric sparks from metal shaft parts ignited wires. firemen broke the wires and extinguished the blaze with slight damage.
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R. Freiton Cuting
East 67Th Street
Peace in Venezuela all classes welcome under Gomez rule
Reports from Caracas indicate harmony under President Gomez with policy aimed at correcting interior injustice and mending ties with foreign powers. Exiled leaders return as prisons clear, exiles sail from Curacao aboard the Zulia, and U S Navy ships move toward La Guayra while a special commissioner travels with the North Carolina.
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Willemstad
Caracas
Venezuela
Gomez
Interior
José de J. Paul
Europe
France
Holland
Zulia
Maracaibo
General Bello
Fort San Carlos
la Guayra
Curacao
Curagao
Gregorio Riera
Castro
Zulla
United States
North Carolina
W. S. Buchanan
Maine
France Named as World's Banker by Wealth of Nation
Paris reports that despite 1908 trade slumps, French wealth grows steadily due to annual savings of about 1 billion dollars. M Leroy Beaulieu estimates national wealth at 45 billion, with foreign income of 360 million from government stocks. Gold reserves rise to 700 million, and Bank of France holds 700 million. Trade balances favor France. tax burden rises with wealth, 1909 budget the highest yet.
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Paris
France
M. Leroy Beaulieu
M. Leroy-Beaulieu
India
Bank of France
Western
Morocco
Relief Society Nears End After Tremendous Aid
San Francisco Relief and Red Cross Society to dissolve as year ends. Since the quake and fire it handled 9.5 million dollars in contributions with 2.5 percent cost. About 400,000 remains to be transferred to charities. The charity fed and sheltered thousands, created eight thousand permanent homes for thirty thousand people, and funded a permanent home for the aged and infirm at 375,000 dollars. New York contributed 2.25 million and Illinois 650,000.
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Tribune
San Francisco
San Francisco Relief and Red Cross Society
New York
Illinois
Greek Patriarch Damianos Dethroned in Jerusalem
The Greek Synod dethroned Damianos the Patriarch of Jerusalem after he refused to resign. He favored reforms for his flock that Turkish rule rejected and the Synod opposed as they would cut church revenues. Troops guard the patriarch in his palace as Constantinople issues instructions.
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Jerusalem
Damianos
Constantinople
John Doran Civil War survivor dies in Meriden
Meriden Connecticut December 27 John Doran a survivor of Major Andersons band who helped defend Fort Sumter died suddenly at his home from heart disease He served as a private seven years after the war and settled in Meriden where he married He leaves a wife six sons and two daughters
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Meriden, Conn
John Doran
Anderson
Fort Sumter
Doran
Riot Kills Eleven Near Amoy Over Opium Edict
Amoy region reports riot at Tungan twenty miles north after natives refused to cease opium poppy planting. One officer and ten civilians dead, five hundred troops dispatched to restore order. Authorities vow to enforce the anti opium edict.
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Amoy
Tungan
Morse Arrest Rumor Tied to Telegraph Family Case
San Diego dispatch reports W G Morse, son of telegraph pioneer S F B Morse, arrested in Trinidad on alleged killing charge. Theodore V Johnston travels from New York to aid Morse. Morse, about 55, previously Yale classmate of Taft, also linked to a 1893 marriage to Jennie Cecil Lyon.
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San Diego
Cal
New York
Theodore V. Johnston
Trinidad
California
William G. Morse
S. F. B. Morse
Telegraph
Taft
Yale
Campbell Ranch
Morse
Mr. Johnson
New Yorker
Oneonta Hotel Burns Threatens City’s Business District
A fire in Oneonta New York destroyed the Arlington Hotel and seven other buildings in the heart of the city early today. Losses reached about 100000 dollars. Occupants of the hotel and surrounding apartments escaped with difficulty, most leaving with little or no clothing as they fled the flames.
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Oneonta
N. Y
Arlington Hotel
Vagrant Claims Fortune Amid Vagrancy Case
William Jefferson Powell, who says he is heir to a fortune, was sentenced in Los Angeles to 180 days in the workhouse on a vagrancy charge. Powell, describing a storied past in the army and navy, says he will come into wealth at age twenty five and details desertions and multiple arrests before his current sentence.
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Los Angeles
William Jefferson Powell
Ava
Baltimore Society
Powell
18Th
Field Artillery
Philippines
Vancouver Barracks
Washington
Army
Navy
United States
Philadelphia
Bremerton Navy Yard
San Diego
Ambassador Griscom Resigns as Italy Envoy
Washington announces the resignation of Lloyd Griscom from his post as Ambassador to Italy, effective March 4. His long diplomatic career included secretary to the Ambassador to Great Britain, secretary of legation at Constantinople, Minister to Persia and Japan, and Ambassador to Brazil before his Japan and Italy postings. President Roosevelt appointed him to Italy on December 19, 1906.
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Washington
Lloyd
Griscom
Italy
Rome
State Department
Great Britain
le Gation
Constantinople
Persia
Japan
Granddaughters of ex president nearly burn in lamp explosion
In Richmond two women, Mrs. Alfred Miles and Miss Julian Tyler, granddaughters of ex president John Tyler, narrowly escaped serious injury when an alcohol lamp exploded while they were filling it. They quickly smothered the flames, suffering severe burns on their hands.
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Tribune
Richmond
Alfred Miles
Julian Tyler
John Tyler
Hollywood
Lyon G. Tyler
William and Mary University
Williamsburg
San Francisco Wins Suit For Oceanfront Land
San Francisco has won a Supreme Court decision securing five blocks of land fronting the ocean and adjacent to Golden Gate Park. The city will clear them of road houses and saloons to establish a park and esplanade along Ocean Boulevard, a project valued at about half a million dollars. The land was claimed by the Hotaling and Sutro estates, but the maps were deemed faulty.
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Telegraph
The
Tribune
San Francisco
Supreme Court
Ocean
Golden Gate Park
Hotaling
Sutro
Ocean Boulevard
Jewelry valued at $6,000 stolen from Mrs Patterson
Paris dispatch reports jewelry valued at six thousand dollars taken from Mrs Ely Patterson formerly Miss Schmitt of St Louis. Police have made one arrest in connection with the theft. Dewey's Wines for New Year s special offer cases sold by Jewels & Sons Co at 134 Fulton St New York.
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Paris
Ely Patterson
Miss Schmitt
St. Louis
Dewey's
Jewes & Sons Co
Fulton St
New York
Sunday show arrests amid citywide license revocation
Protected by court orders managers kept venues open as cops cracked down on Sunday amusements with a few arrests for alleged violations. The events at Manhattan Grand Opera House and other venues featured lectures and “educational” programs while actors faced charges for public impersonations. Clifford Gordon was jailed briefly after an onstage Dutch politician impression, sparking protests from managers and notes on the law’s limits.
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McClellan
Manhattan
Metropolitan Opera Houses
Association of
Vaudeville Managers
Hammerstein
Maurice Goodman
Keith & Proctor
Fifth Avenue House
Grand Opera House
Springer
Mnager
Edward B. la Ferra
Captain Kane
la Ferra
Douglass
Matthews
Ashley
Clifford Gordon
Maher
West 37Th Street
General Bingham
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Synod of Jerusalem
Sumter
Mr. Morse
Jennie Cecil Lyon
Bloomingdale Reformed Church
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68Th Street
Sarah Elizabeth Morse
Beriin
W. G. Morse
Leila Livingston Morse
Cornelia Morse
Franz Rummel
Oneonta Hotel
BURNS
Ambassador Griscom
Tyler
Ocean Front
Hotaling Estates
MR. Hammerstein
Gordon
Percy G. Williams
Pendleton
New York Theatrical Managers’ Protective Association
Williams
Bernard Young
Clara
Thalia Theatre
Olympic Theatre
East Mth Street
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Ted” Faust
Burfeind
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