French Opinion on US Japan Ties Misrepresented in Paris
Paris observers challenge sensational Paris newspaper speculation linking US Japan tensions to bonds and black market forecasts. M. Tardieu argues no current war danger, urges peaceful solutions, notes strong Franco American friendship and France’s moral duty to aid pacific resolution.
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Paris
United States
Japan
Manila
Hawaii
Pac
France
Republic
Br. Clemenceau
M. Briand
Count Albert de Mun
M. Ernest Judet
M. Henri Rochefort
M. André Tardieu
Wraldeck-Rousseau
Harvard University
Temps
M. Tardieu
Revue Des Deux Mondes
M. Tar@ien
Commodore Perry
Jepan
California
American Tobacco Company
Corea
China
Austria
Italy
Tokio
British Columbia
Alaska
San Francisco Board of Education
Corean Exclusion League
Jiji Shimpo
Captain Mahan
Pacific
Mr. Taft
Viscount Tani
House of Lords
Panama Canal
M. ‘Ardieu
M. Tar@ieu
Mikado
Formosa
Antung
Monkden
Sin-Min-Tung
S.uch
Algeciras
Grape-Nets Offer Digestive Relief Mentioned in Road to Wellville
Advice promotes Grape-Nets and cream for weak digestion and loss of appetite. It claims grape nets are easily digested, strengthen the digestive organs, and allow a variety of foods with comfort, urging readers to try the regimen without delay. The endorsement is framed as guidance from the Road to Wellville.
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Wellville
Japan's foreign policy outlined in Diet session
Count Hayashi, in a Diet reply, detailed Japan's foreign policy including Canada emigration limits after settlement with Rodolphe Lemieux. He noted progress with the United States, unsettled China talks on rail projects, and Japan's arbitrator role on the Korea Kan Tao boundary dispute. He stressed strict controls on outflow of Japanese abroad.
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Tokio
Hayashi
Diet
America
Canada
Rodolphe Lemieux
Japan
China
Hsin-Min-Tun
Fakomen
Kan-Tao
Corea
Count Hayashi
Fighting at Tabriz sparks renewed clashes and deaths
From Tehran dated January 28, reports say renewed fighting between Constitutionalists and Reactionists has erupted in Tabriz with twenty fatalities. Disorders have also surfaced in Yezd.
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Teheran
Tabriz
Yezd
Imperial ukase sanctions internal loan of 163 million rubles
St. Petersburg reports an imperial ukase authorizing an internal loan of 163 million rubles at four percent in state bank notes redeemable within four years. This replaces a like issue from 1903 04 that has now matured, totaling about 83 million dollars at current exchange.
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St. Petersburg
Three Affrays in Russia Narrate Fatal Riots and Arrests
In Tobolsk two novice railway guards were killed and three mortally wounded while attempting to arrest prowlers along tracks. A bandit was captured as others escaped. In Tashkent revolutionists lured a police captain Miretsky to an ambush, killing him and his orderly. pursuing guards captured them after exchanging fire with a Cossack mail coach. In Elisabethpol Persian highwaymen clashed with rural mounted police, three were killed and one captured.
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Tobolsk
Tashkent
Miretsky
Elisabethpol
Russia
Robson becomes Attorney General in Britain after Walton’s death
London announces Sir W. S. Robson, Solicitor General, will succeed Sir John Lawson Walton as Attorney General following Walton’s recent death. Samuel Thomas Evans, MP for Glamorganshire, is named Solicitor General.
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W. S. Robson
J. L. Walton
S. T. Evans
London
John Lawson Walton
Samuel Thomas Evans
House of Commons
Glamorganshire
Reigning Prince of Lippe Dies in Heidelberg
Count Leopold reigning Prince of Lippe died in Heidelberg on January 28. He was born May 3, 1871, son of Count Ernst Lippe Biesterfeld. Succession disputes preceded his era, with Georgia Schaumburg Lippe contesting and court rulings affecting the Lippe Biesterfeld line.
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Heidelberg
Leopold
Prince of
Lippe
Count Leopold
Count Ernst of
Lippe-Biesterfeld
Georg Schaumburg
Modeste von Unruh
Bourget Critiques Divorce Theme in Paris Play Divorce
Paris January 2 Paul Bourget discussed his play Divorce presented tonight. He warned divorce erodes the family as a social unit and called America a nation where divorce has become an institution. He argued remarriage follows and proposed either indissoluble marriage or free union as solutions.
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Paris
Paul Bourget
America
M. Bourget
London Crew Disgusted By Dull Snark Voyage
Jack London arrived in San Francisco for a brief stay before resuming his world voyage. He informed publishers he must hire a new crew when he sails from Papeete where the Snark is under repair. The original crew grew impatient with the dull routine after the Honolulu to Papeete leg.
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Jack London
San Francisco
Papelle
Snark
London
Honolulu
Papeite
Hart Transfer Begins as Bredon Takes Over Duties in China
Peking reports an imperial rescript transfers duties from Sir Robert Hart, Inspector General of the Chinese Customs Service, to Sir Robert Bredon, the vice inspector general. Hart granted one year sick leave with rank equal to Foreign Board president. Bredon also receives added rank. Hart plans to depart China for England in May.
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Peking
Robert Hart
Chinese Customs Service
Robert Bredon
Foreign Board
Sir Robert Hart
China
England
Protest in Canada over Japan immigration control
Ottawa, Jan. 28. Opposition leader B L Borden charged the government with failing to secure in a Japan treaty a U S inspired immigration control. He urged a resolution opposing any treaty that curtails Parliament's control of immigration while praising Japan and seeking cordial relations.
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Ottawa
B. L. Borden
Japan
United States
Lemieux
Canada
Chinese Indemnity Claims Return as Lodge Bill Advances
Washington dispatch notes resurgent Boxer indemnity claims as the Lodge bill to forgive about 13 million dollars moves in the Senate. China and Japan Trading Co and other claimants push new motions before the House subcommittee, aiming to force further allowances despite State Department opposition.
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Thoune Bureau
Washington
Senate
House
China and Japan Trading Company
Tribune
Burton
Ohio
Kahn and Hayes
California
Burleson
Texas
Committee On Foreign Affairs
China and Japan Company
Crammond Kennedy
Howard Ayers
New York
State Department
Department of State
Sanders leading in Louisiana Democratic primary gains for governor
New Orleans January 28 steady gains for Lieutenant Governor J Y Sanders indicate he won the Democratic state primary and will likely become governor. Sanders carried New Orleans by five thousand to ten thousand six hundred votes while leading Governor Wilkinson about three to two in early state returns. estimates note incomplete results for the night.
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New Orleans
J. Y. Sanders
Louisiana
Sanders
T. S. Wilkinson
Torture Claims Emerge at Illinois State Reformatory
In Pontiac on January 28, the board of managers of the Illinois State Reformatory heard officers recount brutalities inflicted on inmate William Hamlin. He was chained to bars with wrists restrained by handcuffs for hours across three days, then tied up, with his endurance failing after five hours on the final evening. Bishop Samuel Fallows presides. Captain Alexander J. Rene runs the disciplinary side as an investigation proceeds.
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Pontiac
Ill
Ilinois State
Samuel Fallows
St. Paul's Reformed Episcopal Church
Chicago
Board of
Graft and neglect mark inquest into deadly opera house fire
Opening session of the inquest at Boyertown alleges graft and neglect after the January 14 blaze at Rhoads Opera House that killed 169. Evidence shows a blocked main exit by the box office and a 3 foot 1 inch wide stairway. Operator Harry Fisher had minimal instruction in handling calcium light and performed the apparatus publicly only on the fatal night. Owner Dr Thomas Rhoads said the building was inspected after contracting for fire escapes and that a Reading contractor supplied them after the inspector advised whom to use.
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Boyertown
Penn
Rhoads
Opera House
Harry Fisher
Thomas ‘A. Rhoads
Dunn
Reading
Deputies Sustain Moroccan Policy Vote Narrowed
Paris January 28 deputies concluded the Morocco debate with the government policy sustained by 428 to 92. The majority in favor stood at 336 as the session closed.
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Paris
Morocco
Chamber of Deputies
London Theft of Queen Alexandra Miniatures Charged
Leonard Phillips was charged in a police court with stealing three Queen Alexandra miniatures from the engraver’s studio in London. The youth sold the pictures for $10 to a saloonkeeper who aided in their recovery. the items are valued at $1,000.
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London
Leonard Phillips
Queen Alexandra
Phillips
Public Service Commission approves rush hour increase on Third Avenue Elevated
The Public Service Commission ordered a substantial service rise for the Third Avenue Elevated Railroad with effect by February 10. An extra forty nine southbound cars will run 7 to 9 am and ninety eight northbound cars will operate 6 to 7 36 am.
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Third Avenue Elevated
Public Service Commission
New York Association Aids Poor Families in 1908
Urgent appeal notes $20 000 needed to help suffering families. Donations fund coal for widows, warm clothing for shop girls, bedding for invalids, and food for hungry households. Details list amounts and how funds support two dozen households, with leadership credited to Minturn and Cutting of the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor.
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Minturn
Treas
East 22d St
New York
R. Fulton Cutting
NEW York Association For
Little Children
Cardinal Richard Dead in Paris Amid Illness and Funeral Plans
Cardinal Francois Marie Benjace of Paris died after a brief illness from lung congestion. Monsignor Amiette, Coadjutor Archbishop, will succeed as Archbishop of Paris. Due to the separation law, the government will not attend the funeral. body to be laid out as customary following death.
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Francois Marie Benjace
Paris
Janmin Richard
Monsignor
Amiette
Cardinal Francois Marie Benjamin Richard
Nantes
Saint Sulpice
Belley
Guibert
Larisse
Richard
France
Carnot
Order of Ariests
Assumptionist Fathers
Correc
Catholic Missions
Episcopal
M. Denys Cochin
Pius X
Sisters of Charity
Death of Cardinal Richard Shakes Paris and Vatican
Paris mourns Cardinal Richard archbishop of Paris, who died in Paris after a life of church service amid church State tensions. Rome reported the pope knelt in prayer, noting the Cardinal’s expulsion from his home and the unrest surrounding France’s separation of church and state. The funeral is slated for Notre Dame, with condolence messages from President Falliieres.
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Notre Dame
President Falliéres
Boston
Cardinal Gibbons
Cardinal Richard
College of Cardinals
Pope Pius X
Rome
Richard
Paris
Archbishop Williams
France
Merry del Val
St Louis Grows From Trading Post to Great Southwest City
The St. Louis Limited train from New York to St. Louis showcases the city’s rise from a 1764 trading post to a major hub. The Pullman-only service offers hotel like comfort with no extra fare, arriving at the same station as twenty one other railroads and enabling easy connections to Southwest and Mexico. Daily departures include 1.55 PM from New York and other through car options.
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Great Southwest
St. Louis
Atlantic Seaboard
New York
Southwest
Mexico
Simmons resigns from New York water board
J Edward Simmons president of the Board of Water Supply resigns after being urged by Mayor McClellan who asks the Chamber of Commerce to propose three replacements Simmons had been offered the post but declined before accepting amid old quarrels between General Porter and McClellan. The mayor hints the new appointee will be a Democrat and perhaps an engineer with bond funds in sight after next month.
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J. Edward Simmons
Board of Water Supply
Chamber of Commerce
Simmons
Water Board
Board of Fire Underwriters
Manufacturers’ Association
Horace Porter
McClellan
General Porter
Mr. Simmons
General McClellan
George B. McClellan
New York
Mr. Mayer
Ashokan Dam
Nassau Street
New York City
George B. McLellan
State of
Chamber of Commercce
United States
George B. M’clellan
Pet dog saves lives in Great Barrington fire
A pet dog's barking woke J. L. E. Pell and allowed him to rescue his son Everett and artist Robert Clarke from a early morning fire. Clarke nearly suffocated. Pell also saved his wife's jewels. Miss Isabella Cass owned the house which burned with most furnishings. Damage about 25000 dollars. Two firemen narrowly escaped death from a falling chimney.
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Great Barrington
Mass
J. L. E. Pell
Everett
Robert Clarke
New York
Mr. Clarke
Pell
William Tefft
Basques Demand Former Rights Conference in Bilbao
Delegates from the three Basque provinces met secretly in Bilbao on January 28 to decide on united action for full restitution of privileges granted to Basques at the end of the Carlist war of 1808.
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Bilbao
Spain
Witness Stanford Lewis Testifies in Capitol Furnishings Case
Harrisburg reports that Stanford B. Lewis, Huston’s assistant, identified plans and a quantities plan used for Capitol furnishings as the trial of Capitol fraud cases proceeds in Dauphin County court. Lewis, under indictment for conspiracy, is cross examined while Huston’s brother arrives as a witness. officials discuss the architect’s potential testimony.
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Harrisburg
Penn
Stanford B. Lewis
Joseph M. Huston
Capitol
Commonwealth
Dauphin County
Huston
Lewis
P. F. Rothermel
Sanderson
Samuel C. Hustom
Philadelphia
The
James Scarlet
Joan H. Sanderson
William F.F. Snyder
William L. Mathues
James Shumaker
Joan E. Stott
Board of Public Grounds and Buildings
Hustom
Stot
Stott
Mrs Kremer Gets Child In Boston Custody Case
Mrs Maude G Clarke arrested as a New York fugitive over a four year old child's abduction, seeks extradition in Municipal Court. Case paused while New York seeks governor approval. Police had earlier returned the boy to Mrs Sophie Kremer of New York, who had adopted him, then took him back to New York. Arthur De Gouch says Clarke bought the child back from Kremer. he calls the transfer unwarranted.
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Boston
Maude G. Clarke
New York
Mnicipal
W. de Gouch
Guild
Hughes
Ds Gooch
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Illinois Reformatory Inquiry
M. Pichon
Third Avenue
Mer
Pennsylvania Railroad
Bulletin
ST. Louis Limited
Mississippi
J. E. Simmons
Mrs. Kremer
Lazxyer
Corn Products Manufacturing Company
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