North American conference urged to conserve natural resources
President Roosevelt proposes a February 18 North American conference at the White House to discuss mutual conservation plans for natural resources. Gifford Pinchot will deliver invitations to Canada and Mexico and consult with their officials, aiming to share knowledge and coordinate action across borders. The effort follows prior Washington conferences and seeks to promote cross-border understanding and joint protection of resources.
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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
Conserva
Supreme Court
Congress
Republic of Mexico
Chaer
Cconveyr
United States Forest
Ser Ice
Chefrmen
Ohio Senate Candidates Ready for Colum bus Campaign
Congressman Theodore Burton returned to Columbus as Charles P Taft and Senator J B Foraker come in to kick off the campaign for United States Senate. Burton opponents push for public questions before the Legislature while some back open voting to unite Republican strength once a 46 vote majority is reached.
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Olumbus
Ohio
Theodore
Burton
Columbus
Charles P. Taft
J. BR. Foraker
United States
Tolembus
Senate
Mr. Burton
Gas Kills Prominent Newport Man
Alexander Barker a longtime Newport business leader and bank trustee was found dead in his office. The medical examiner ruled accidental death from illuminating gas escaping a heater in the office. Barker, 66, led the lumber firm Alexander X Barker & Co and served as a director of Newport Savings Bank.
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Alexander N. Barker
Newport
Alexander Barker
Barker
Alexander X Barker & Co
Newport Savings Bank
May Modify History Professor Solves Etruscan Inscriptions
Palo Alto Cal Dec 27 Professor George Hempl of Stanford claims a key to Etruscan inscriptions on tombs and columns will reshape ancient Italian history and Latin etymology. He says the decipherments erase the view that Etruscans and Romans were different peoples, suggesting both sprang from one Trojan lineage.
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Palo Alto
Cal
George Hempl
Leland Stanford Junior University
Hempl
Professor Hempl
Italy
Troy
Jordan
Stanford University
Hemp
Rome
Greece
Tug Broken Four Dead In Harbor Disaster
A 15 ton fishing tug Rhine from Frankfort Michigan was driven onto the pier amid a southwest gale. The four crewmen Henry Hanrath Julius Dorry Charles Kibby and Gus Straubel perished. The wreck occurred about 7 o clock as the cabin clock stopped and bodies were not recovered. News reached town this morning after the cabin washed ashore on the beach.
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Tribune
Frankfort
Mich
Henry Hanrath
Julius Dorry
Charles Kibby
Series of Shocks Hit Virginia City Mont
A Virginia City dispatch reports the strongest tremor in a week of seismic activity at 4:30 PM. The electric plant failed, plunging the town into darkness while over thirty shocks were recorded last week. Earlier, two quakes within ten minutes forced residents into the streets and caused structural damage.
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Butte
Mont
Virginia City
Youth Ignites Powder In Belleview Tragedy
In Fairmont West Virginia on December 27 Oscar Hart and three companions aged sixteen to eleven were fatally injured or seriously burned after lighting a cigarette stump filled with mine powder. Six youths from Belleview suburb sustained burns cuts and bruises as falling glass caused injuries. Doctors rushed to the scene and moved the most seriously 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 Chase in Peoria Ends as Resident Shoots Wolf Through Window
Frank Keiffer faced a gray wolf that pursued him four blocks through Peoria’s streets before he reached his home and fired, killing the animal with a rifle shot through a window. The confrontation marks the first wild wolf sighting in the area in years.
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Peoria
Ill
Brute
Frank Keiffer
Keiffer
Eye Disease Strikes Naval Academy Midshipmen
Naval Academy authorities fight an outbreak of conjunctivitis among midshipmen in Annapolis. Several cases reported with two severe enough to require transfer to a Washington hospital. Among the affected, Midshipman Henry A. Stephenson of Lincoln Nebraska is described as most seriously affected and was taken to Washington for treatment.
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Tribune
Annapolis
Naval Academy
Washington Hospital
Henry A. Stephenson
Lincoln
Xeb
Nyack Prophet Vanishes After End of World Prediction
Nyack prophet Lee J. Spangier disappeared at 4 a m yesterday and has not been seen since. Followers dressed in white gathered at Oak Hill Cemetery to witness destruction of the world, while others climbed Seth Mountain to await the event. As hours passed with no sign of Spangler, the crowds left in disappointment.
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Lee J. Spangier
Nyack
Spengler
Oak Hill Cemetery
Burying Ground Grove
Spangler
Seth Mountain
Old Mother Earth
Man brandishes pistol in church in Bronx incident
Mex Stooss, claiming no home, ran bareheaded through Tremont and into St Edmund's Church on Mount Hope Place. He flourished a revolver, caused a stampede, and was tackled by Patrolman Maher. The weapon was unloaded. He was charged with vagrancy and held on weapon counts.
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Mex Stooss
Henry Jordan
Bainbridge Avenue
199Th Street
Tremont Avenue
176Th Street
Morris Avenue
Maher
Tremont Station
Jerome Avenue
Stooss
Morris and
Tremont Avenues
St. Edmund's Episcopal Church
J. C. Smiley
Heney to Investigate Pittsburgh Scandal Rumors
Pittsburg reports no new developments in the municipal scandal. The Voters' League says it has evidence for further arrests. Rumor links Francis Heney, famed for Oregon land fraud and San Francisco graft prosecutions, to a possible Roosevelt‑backed investigation into bribery connected with federal depository banks. A preliminary hearing cited $176,000 allegedly spent to influence bank deposits.
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Pittsburg
Voters’ League
League
Francis J. Henery
Oregon
San Francisco
Roosevelt
Washington
Heneyr
Harry Hunt for Serum at Roosevelt Hospital
Dr Samuel Harris of Orange Memorial Hospital spent five hours in the city seeking serum for cerebrospinal meningitis for patient Toby Sandal. After visiting several hospitals he learned Roosevelt Hospital had a serum supply, a discovery from Rockefeller Institute research by Dr Simon J Frexner, and rushed back to Grange with the serum to treat Sandal who was taken ill on Walier Road, Orange two days earlier.
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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. Frexner
Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research
Warris
Grange
Toby Sandal
Walier Road
Romance Afoot After Yale Harvard Game Marriage
Miss Winifred McMasters daughter of John S McMasters of Winchester Mass married Charles Samuel Smith formerly a Yale freshman from Bridgeport. The couple met at the Yale Harvard football game and wed in New Haven after Smith persuaded her at Bridgeport station. Smith 20 and Mrs Smith 22 begin a business career.
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the Tribune
New Haven
Winifred McMasters
John S. McMasters
Winchester
Mass
Charles Samuel Smith
Bridgeport
Yale
Fire damages elevator shaft at 67th Street mansion
At about 1 AM a maid found a fire in the elevator shaft of R. Felton Cutting’s residence, No 4 East 67th Street. Cutting alerted Fire Headquarters, organized an emergency brigade, and servants evacuated and fought the blaze as firefighters arrived. Sparks flew from metal parts, wires were broken, and the fire was quickly extinguished with slight damage.
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R. Felton Cutting
East 67Th Street
Peace in Venezuela All Classes Welcome Gomez Rule
Caracas reports under President Gomez the new administration is restoring justice for inland areas and seeking harmony with outside powers. Exiles return as prisons clear, several former prisoners freed, and exiles depart on the Zulia to La Guaira. U.S. cruiser North Carolina and battleship Maine move toward La Guayra with officials aboard.
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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
Gregorio Riera
Castro
Zulla
Wreless
United States
North Carolina
W. S. Buchanan
Maine
France's wealth rise crowns it world banker title
Paris reports show 1908 trade doldrums but strong French finances. Beaulieu estimates wealth at 45 billion dollars with annual foreign income near 360 million and a per capita figure over 1100. Gold holdings rise as trade balances swing in France's favor, though taxes escalate to fund Morocco and Western Railroad investments.
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Paris
France
M. Leroy Beaulieu
M. Leroy-Beaulieu
India
Bank of France
Morocco
Relief Society to dissolve after handling vast San Francisco funds
The San Francisco Relief and Red Cross Society, which managed about 9.5 million dollars in earthquake aid, will cease operations as the year ends. Only about 400,000 remains to be distributed to charities. The group fed and housed thousands, provided 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 deposed Damianos, the Jerusalem Patriarch, after he refused to resign. He had backed reforms for Greek Christians that Turkish authority had denied, prompting opposition from the Synod which would curb church revenues. Troops guard the patriarch while Constantinople decides further action.
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Jerusalem
Damianos
Constantinople
John Doran Civil War veteran dies at Meriden home
Meriden Connecticut December 27 John Doran a survivor of Major Anderson s battery at Fort Sumter died suddenly at his home this morning of heart disease He served as a private seven years after the war and later 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
Dhy
Doran
Riot near Amoy leaves eleven dead over opium ban
In Tungan north of Amoy locals refused orders to stop opium poppy cultivation triggering a riot. One officer and ten villagers were killed. About five hundred troops were sent to restore order as authorities press to enforce the anti opium edict.
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Amoy
Tungan
Morse to Trinidad to Aid Alleged Mexican Killings Case
Theodore Johnston travels from New York to Trinidad, Lower California, to assist William G Morse, son of telegraph pioneer S F B Morse, who is reportedly under arrest for a Mexican killing. Morse, about 55, previously married Jennie Lyon in 1893, has ties to New York and California mining interests.
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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
Mr. Morse
Jennie Cecil Lyon
Bloomingdale Reformed Church
Boulevard
68Th Street
Sarah Elizabeth Morse
Berlin
W. G. Morse
Leila Livingston Morse
Cornelia Morse
Franz Rummel
Oneonta Hotel Burns and City Fire Ravages Arlington
A fierce early morning blaze in Oneonta New York destroyed the Arlington Hotel and seven other downtown buildings. Loss estimated at $100 000. Occupants escaped with scant attire as fire gutted the structures, others fled from living apartments and hotel rooms with nothing salvageable.
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Oneonta
N. Y
Arlington Hotel
Vagrant Claims He Is Rich and Heir to Fortune
William Jefferson Powell, a self described heir, was sentenced to 180 days in the Los Angeles workhouse on a vagrancy charge. He recounts military service in the 18th Battery and the navy, desertion over a romance in San Diego, and multiple prior arrests before his conviction. Powell says he will reach wealth at age twenty five, three months after release.
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Los Angeles
William Jefferson Powell
Baltimore Society
Powell
Field Artillery
Philippines
Vancouver Barracks
Washington
Army
Navy
United States
Philadelphia
Bremerton Navy Yard
San Diego
Ambassador Griscom Resigns as Italy Envoy
Washington confirms the resignation of Lford Griscom from his post as Ambassador to Italy. His career spanned roles from secretary to the British ambassador to Persia minister to Japan and finally ambassador to Italy, with service dating back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Washington
Lford Griscom
Italy
Rome
State Department
Griscom
Great Britain
Constantinople
Persia
Japan
Erall
Rooseveltt
Granddaughters of ex President Tyler Burned in Lamp Explosion
Mrs Alfred Miles and Miss Julia Tyler granddaughters of John Tyler narrowly survived an alcohol lamp explosion in Richmond as they tried to fill it while lit. Their clothes caught fire but they acted quickly to smother the flames, suffering severe burns to their hands. The incident occurred at Hollywood Cemetery area.
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Tribune
Richmond
Alfred Miles
Julia Tyler
John Tyler
Hollywood
Lyon G. Tyler
William and Mary University
Williamsburg
San Francisco Wins Suit For Oceanfront Land
San Francisco wins a Supreme Court decision securing five blocks of oceanfront land adjoining Golden Gate Park. The Hotaling and Sutro estates lost claims to two blocks, with maps deemed faulty. Valued at about half a million dollars, the city will clear road houses saloons and nickelodeons to create a park and board esplanade along Ocean Boulevard.
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Telegraph
The
Tribune
San Francisco
Supreme Court
Ocean
Golden Gate Park
Hotaling
Sutro
Ocean Boulevard
Jewelry theft trims $9.00 value in Paris report
Paris police report a theft of jewelry valued at 9.00 from Mrs. Ely Patterson formerly Miss Schmitt of St. Louis. One arrest has been made. The note appears amid other advertisements including Dewey’s Wines for New Year’s offering cases priced at 4.00 5.00 and 6.75 per foot from Dewey & Sons Co at 34 Fulton Street New York.
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Paris
Ely Patterson
Miss Schmitt
St. Louis
Dewey's
Dewey & Sons Co
Fulton St
New York
Sunday arrests over Sunday shows highlight city-wide debate
Amid enforcement of the Sunday law a few arrests occurred as venues aimed to present supposedly educational or religious programming. Protests and discussions followed among managers led by Maurice Goodman and the vaudeville group. Clifford Gordon was arrested after an impersonation act, bailed by financier Richard Huneke.
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MaeClellan
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 Sith Street
General Bingham
Gordon
Percy G. Williams
Mr. Pendleton
Pendleton
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Bernard Young
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Olympic Theatre
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Ted” Faust
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