Delegates to Chicago Rise in Republican Roll Call
The Tribune updates 218 delegates named for the Republican National Convention with 162 pledged to Taft, 28 to Fairbanks, 8 to Cannon, 4 to Hughes, and 16 uncommitted. Iowa and other states report district and statewide selections, with many districts instructing for Taft and Cannon.
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the Tribune
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Aowcree Tranerinta Sonor
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Grape-Nuts Process Described as Wheat and Barley Snack
The advertisement explains Grape-Nuts is made from wheat and barley baked into 10 lb loaves then sliced and baked again to rock hard pieces ground into granules. The baking process turns starch into a digestible sugar aiding all ages and conditions as a nourishing food. There's a Reason.
Charles H Keep Chosen President Of Rehabilitated Knickerbocker
Voting trustees named Charles H Keep as president of the Knickerbocker Trust Company to lead the revived bank after A Foster Higgins resigned. The board shrank from thirty one to fifteen with five former depositors retained. New directors include Franklin Q Brown Dumont Clarke Edward H Clark J Horace Harding and Charles H Keep. Temporary receivers Ernst Thalmann George L Rives and Henry Ideto to be discharged tomorrow. The bank will reopen Thursday after a five month suspension. Keep, Harvard graduate and former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, previously chaired the Keep Commission to reform executive departments.
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Henry ©. Frick
Myron T Herrick
Lewis Cass Ledyard
Charles Hallam Keep
A. Foster Higgins
Higgins
Charles T. Barney
Knickerbocker
Mr. Barney
Leopold Wallach
Ole
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G. Louis Boissevain
Charles F. Hoffman
William A. Tucker
Payne Whitney
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H. S. Redmond & Co
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American Exchange National Bank
Edward H. Clark
Hearst
J. Horace Harding
C. D. Barney & Co
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Hinsdill Parsons
General Electric Company
Herbert L. Satterlee
Ward, Hayden & Satterlee
Justice Clarke
Ernst Thalmann
George L. Rives
Henry
the Treasury
Banking Department
State of New York
Hughes
Public Service Commission
2D District of New York
Keep
Roosevelt
Washington
Oriental Bank Pays Clearing House In Full
Hugh Kelly president of the Oriental Bank announces the bank has begun paying creditors and has settled its debt to the New York Clearing House in full. After closing January 30 with 1 751 251 28 owed, the bank will announce plans to pay depositors, with payments likely starting this afternoon or tomorrow.
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C F U Delegates in Wrangle Over Graft Probe
Timothy Healey of the Eccentric Firemen's Union pressed for an investigation into alleged illegal transactions totaling $9000 within the Central Federated Union. A Murray Hill Lyceum meeting in 1904 sparked the dispute. The committee plans to probe all graft charges, with expulsion for proven misconduct or for baseless accusations.
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Timothy Healey
Firemen’s Union
Murray Hill Lyceum
Harris
Central Fed Union Seeks City Subway Probe
A committee of the Central Federated Union told Governor Hughes yesterday to order an inquiry into the city's finance department over subway funding. They cited conflicting statements by Controller Metz on starting work and the city’s ability to raise funds. The governor said he cannot act without formal legal charges. The subway committee gathered data for a formal statement to Hughes.
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Hughes
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Metz
Central Federated Union petitions Roosevelt on plumber trades
In Brooklyn Navy Yard wage dispute the Central Federated Union asks the president to restore house plumbers to the classified list after the board of wages moved them to the outside list. The petition notes Navy secretary approval and cites local outsider wages as comparison.
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Navy Yard
Organizing 5 Million Working Women
Miss Leonora O Reilly of the Women's Trade Union League told the Central Federated Union that there are between five and six million working women in the United States and that the league will continue its drive to organize them all. She asked the union to send speakers to a league meeting at Labor Temple on East 14th Street Friday evening. Charles E Russell will speak on Overemployed Women and John Spargo on The Unemployed.
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Women's Trade Union League
Central Federated Union
United States
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Labor Temple
East 14Th Street
Charles E. Russell
John Spargo
Senator Tillman Rises From Illness At Home
United States Senator Ben Tillman, stricken seriously ill at his Columbia home Thursday night, is much better tonight after a good night and restful day. Dr. Hunter reports he may be out in a few days. his wife and son, B. Tillman Jr., stay at his bedside.
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Week in Albany shapes up for anti gambling bills
Albany March 22 anti racetrack gambling bills advance in the Assembly while a campaign for a legislative probe of Attorney General Jackson grows. The Senate faces a potential impeachment route if Jackson is removed, with Governor Hughes constrained to act only on official grounds. Banking reform opposition rises as Senators and Assembly members clash over measures, route changes for a Montreal highway upset some Republicans, and hearings on vivisection and military code reforms loom as adjournment stretches toward May.
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Riis Denounces Tenement House Bills Before West Side YMCA
Jacob A. Riis condemns Sheridan and Strauss tenement house bills and Senator Gilchrist proposals as threats to tenement reform. He cites 461 000 rooms lacking light or air and warns of tuberculosis risk. Riis notes Roosevelt reference draws applause and humor about bets on mentioning the president.
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Weakness Seen in Proposed Subway Bond Exemption
Albany lawmakers warn the Travis-Lee constitutional amendment to exempt subway bonds from the New York City debt limit lacks a safeguard. Without a clause tying extra borrowing to subway use, funds could be diverted to salaries, jobs, and other non subway expenses, threatening the Fourth Avenue line and future subways.
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Travis- Lee
Watertown Power Firm Wins Capital Expansion OK
The Public Service Commission's 2d District approves Watertown Light and Power Company's plan to issue $200,000 in 5 percent gold bonds and $102,000 in stock, overruling Watertown officials who urged a property valuation first. The decision allows incidental expenditures for nonpublic service purposes and notes risks of overcapitalization.
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City of Watertown
Doubling Space Planned for Hotel Astor Extension
Ground is to be broken on April 1 for a Hotel Astor expansion that will nearly double capacity. Fourteen houses will be torn down, increasing bed chambers to over six hundred and bathrooms to more than seven hundred. The ground floor will house a grand hall and a roof garden will be doubled in size with a long continuous promenade.
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45Th Street
Brooklyn Third Rail Breaks Loose injures near Dunham Place
Ninety feet of the third rail at Dunham Place and Broadway, Brooklyn, were torn up last evening. A dozen passengers on the train were thrown to the floor as it stopped suddenly. After a half hour delay, Brook lyn Rapid Transit workers repaired the rail and resumed traffic.
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Automobile torpedoes and naval armor tests face funding limits
Coast artilleryists warn Congress may not fund $100,000 experiments on automobile torpedoes for fort Monroe and Puget Sound and San Francisco Harbor. Tests aim to measure water penetration by twelve inch shells and armor belt adequacy, while a separate case reports Paymaster Skipwith at risk for a $4,000 loss from the U S S Milwaukee robbery awaiting congressional relief.
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Magdalena Bay
Japan invites U S fleet amid diplomatic praise and caution
The St Petersburg report says Japan’s invitation to the American fleet is praised as a shrewd diplomatic move. The Bourse Gazette notes acceptance would attest peaceable Japanese aims despite finances. Paris papers warn of possible war, citing corean and Manchurian interests and a pending exclusion bill debate in Congress.
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Journal Des Débats
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Julius Kahn
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Noten
Penn. R. R. Shops Resume Full Time
The Pennsylvania Railroad shops in Trenton will resume full time operation starting tomorrow. Fifty hours a week will employ over six hundred workers, after months of half-time eight-hour weeks. The move includes planned future increases in work, more hires, and new shops.
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Pennsyivania Railroad Company
Boys Rescued After Capsize In Hudson River
Three boys Ray Tyler Robert Tyler and Mortimer Seaman were overturned in a frail skiff near West Street. They clung to the hull for an hour before Audubon Yacht Club members dragged them from the cold water. They were treated by Dr Quittner and went home two hours later.
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Man Nearly Jumps From Bridge in Delirium Incident
Patrick Burns of 178 Third Avenue Brooklyn near jump from bridge after 4 am yesterday. Burn s attacked by delirium tremens near Brooklyn anchorage. He attempted to scale promenade railing but a patrolman intervened and escorted him to the Wings County Hospital observation ward.
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Nation Fines Heinge and Superintendents for Contempt
A $22,000 fine was levied on F. Augustus Heinge and mine superintendents Frank and Trerin for contempt of court. The amount, tied to violations of an injunction in Butte mining litigation, was sent to the National Treasury in Washington, marking the final extension day granted by Judge Hunt.
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Bodies of canal workers brought from Panama ship
The Panama steamship Alliance from Colon delivered the bodies of David Cooper and W H Sykes to port yesterday. Both men were employed on the canal and died at the hospital at Coleg.
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W. H. Sykes
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Sea tragedies recount New England coast losses
A review of fall and winter marine casualties reports about 1,000 lives lost around New England and Newfoundland. It details wrecks of ten French fishing vessels from St Pierre Miquelon, storms that claimed 25 Newfoundland fishermen, and the St Cuthbert disaster with 14 men perishing. Also noted are the Tolsey wreck near Cape Race, the Mount Temple rescue, and other shipwrecks with crews saved or lost in harsh conditions.
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Boiler Explosion Kills Four and Injures Several
A Delaware and Hudson locomotive exploded as water intake failed, killing two men instantly and fatally injuring a third. The engineer and yard crew died, while a fireman later succumbed, as officials investigate. Coal and fuel fires spread to storage buildings. the night passenger train narrowly avoided the wreck.
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