National Justices Harlan Moody Near Retirement Seen
From Washington and Fort Worth reports indicate Justice Harlan may retire soon due to age and health while Justice Moody is also nearing retirement. Meanwhile the government designates 66 million acres for homesteads with strict residency and cultivation requirements for five years.
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Harlan Nd
Moody
Washington
United States
Harlan and Moody
Harlan
Ely
Mate
Justice Day
Fuller
Taft
Hughes
New York
Lorton
Tennessee
Entrants Charged in New York Conspiracy Case
Washington reports a conspiracy indictment against Dally Sully and Wells and about sixty thousand acres of land entries in the Lander district Colorado made in 1906. The group including several barbers and tenders allegedly defrauded the government through Oil Creek Coal and Northwestern Coal companies. Others named are Samuel W. Gebo Montana Thomas McDonald New York and John Nelson and John B. Wright Wyoming.
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Washington
Dally
Sully
Oeland
Wells
Crento
Lander, Co
Oil Creek Coal Company
Northwestern Coal Company
Samuel W. Gebo
Montana
Thomas McDonald
New York
John Nelson
John B. Wright
Wyoming
Parts of Canal Finished and Progress Report
Washington reports good progress on the Passaic canal project. Colonel Goethals notes four sections completed and excavations easing after each finish. He adds that overall work continues steadily, with more activity at the Culebra cut than ever before.
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Washington
Passata
Goethals
Vnhog
Culebra
Railroads May Refund Wholesale Lumber Overcharges
Washington September 10 an order by the interstate commerce commission involves refunds to shippers of lumber from the territory to other states. An overcharge of 2 cents per 100 pounds was collected by several railroads.
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Washington
Mmerce
Taft Has Heard Ballinger
Beverly Massachusetts September 11. President Taft ended a conference with Secretary Ballinger and declined to comment on the cabinet dispute. Ballinger has gone back to Washington and will not see the president again until September 29 in Seattle unless he can reach Colorado for the Gunnison irrigation meeting.
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Washington
Colorado
Montana
New Mexico
Oregon
Wash
Wyoming
Utah
Taft
Ballinger
Beverly
Mase
Seattle
Gunnison
Secretive Beverly Secretary Delays Taft Conference in Boston
Great secrecy at Beverly capital grows as the secretary stays in Boston with Mr Lawlor assistant attorney general for the Interior department awaiting a chance to renew deliberations with President Taft.
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Beverly
Taft
Boston
Lawlor
Interior Department
Foreign Capital for Peru Bond Purchase Reported
United States minister at Lima Leslie Coombs reports to the State Department that a London syndicate including the Bank of London and Peru London Bank of South America & Mexico and W R Grace & Co with Baring Brothers and a German bank along with Spitzer of Paris has purchased about 1 500 000 dollars in bonds of the Electric Tram and Electric Lighting company.
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Peru
Washington
Leslie Coombs
United States
Lima
State Department
London
Bank of London
London Bank of South
Rear Admiral Sperry to Retire on Retired List
Rear Admiral Sperry will be placed on the retired list tomorrow according to naval announcements. The move marks the end of his active service as a senior naval officer.
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Sperry
Roada
Ballinger and Wickersham settle on certificate redemption plan
Secretary Ballinger says no more certificates will be issued under the canal plan. Outstanding certificates issued by the reclamation service will be redeemed at full face value and paid in cash as money becomes available in the reclamation fund. He expects redemption to occur in the near future.
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Washington
Ballinger
Wickersham
Reclamation Service
Observatory to rise on Mount Whitney for science
Washington reports the Smithsonian plans a high altitude observatory atop Mount Whitney California at over 14000 feet for meteorological and astronomical work. Construction is hindered by transporting materials up steep mule trails and narrow rocky paths.
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High Point
Washington
Mount Whitney
California
Smithsonian Institution
Studying Up Coal Cases
Special Agent Sheridan of the land office will conduct the government case at the hearing on consolidated coal land disputes. Hearings begin in October at Washington as records are completed and the investigation proceeds.
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Washington
Sheridan
The
Land Office
Boundary dispute between Peru and Bolivia nears settlement
Washington dispatch reports Bolivia’s congress referred the boundary issue to its executive department for settlement. The move is seen as a hopeful sign of direct understanding between Bolivia and Peru.
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Washington
Peru
Bolivia
Lapaz
Bolivian Congress
Executive Department
Navy signs two shipyard contracts for Pearl drydocks and collier
Acting Secretary Winthrop signed contracts with the San Francisco Bridge Company to build the Pearl drydocks in Hawaii for 1 700 000 dollars and with the Maryland Steel Company of Sparrows Point to construct a fleet collier for 889 000 dollars.
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Washington
San Francisco
Cotton Crop Ginnings Reach 877552 Bales This Year
Census bulletin shows cotton baling through September 1 at 877,552 running bales, compared with 402,229 for the same period last year. The release dates from Weekiowana region note progress through early September.
Census Jobs to Fill in 18th Decennial Work
Washington sept 7 the census bureau plans a large hiring in connection with the 18th census. The first examination will be held January 1 and many vacancies will be created.
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Washington
En O
Yellow Fever Reported in Venezuela Port
Surgeon General in Washington received a cable reporting yellow fever appearance at La Guaira Venezuela. The alert urges health authorities to monitor port entries and implement anti fever measures as the case is confirmed.
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Venezuela
Washington
Genee
Oe Marine Hospital Corps
Cable
la Guayra
Harriman Funeral Quietly Follows Arden Estate Death
Edward Henry Harriman was buried on the Arden hillside after private services at the Harriman home and a public memorial at St. John s church. Executives and thousands of Harriman employees attended or observed from outside the church as pallbearers carried the casket amid lilies and crimson roses.
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Arden
N. Y
Ramapo Woods
Edward Henry Herriman
Wall Street
New York
J. Holmes McGuiness
Harriman
Tower Hill
St. John’s Church
Charles D. Simons
McGuiness
G. Nelson
Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Grace Church
Taft Day Parade to Greet President in Chicago
Chicago plans Taft day with a public school holiday. Officials expect 160000 children to greet President Taft as his special train arrives and after he tours the city the parade will pass through parks with seating for 150000 children. Taft remains in Chicago from 11 15 a m to 2 45 am Friday before departing for Milwaukee.
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Chicago
Taft
Board of Education
Milwaukee
Practical Joke Wins Farm in Spokane Lottery
Miss Etta Ross, a stenographer from Hamilton Ohio employed by Slayback Hart, has drawn a 160 acre tract in the government land lottery at Spokane Washington. She and Miss Blanche Maguire were in Spokane on a pleasure trip when they paid 25 cents to enter. Ross is one of three Ohioans to win a free quarter section.
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Hamilton
Ohio
Etta Ross
Slayback & Hart
Spokane
Wash
Miss Ross
Blanche Maguire
Rosa
Strange Fish Caught Off New Jersey Coast
A nine by twelve foot fish, first of its kind along the coast in 54 years, was netted at the Highlands and brought ashore at Galilee three miles north. Captain Daniel Gas a and crew, with Captain Cook aboard, had the monstrous catch alive with one young fish.
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New York
Cook
West End
Long Branch
Highlands
Galilee
Here
Daniel Gasa
Whaling, Plows and a World of Odd Facts
A collage of early 20th century notes reports annual whale catch near 150, motor steam plows entering India with oneLondon-made unit plowing ten to fifteen acres daily. England loses 120000 infants yearly, largely to maternal neglect. Representative John Tener of Pennsylvania noted as tallest in new Congress, while Jack Tener the pitcher is named. Mexican elder Jose Guadalupe Aleud allegedly 189 years old. Woolwich trains soldiers in trades amid ordnance college workshops. Sea Island cotton dominates Florida output and exports, mainly to the UK and France. Sir Edward Elgar loves chemistry and cycling, with kite flying memories. The Royal British Radium Institute advances radium bromide tubes for medical use. East Rutherford gains a Chinese editor Yak Lee of Yale. The nonpartisan local paper vows balance in coverage.
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John K. Tener
Pennsylvania
New
Congress
Tener
Washington
Jack Tener
Jose Gaadaloupe Aleud
Jalestitlan
Jalisco
Mexico
Woolwich
England
War Office
Ordnance College
Sea Island
Middle Florida
United States
Peninsular State
Florida
United Kingdom
France
New York
Edward Elgar
Royal British Radium Institute
East Rutherford
N. J
Borough Weekly
Yak Lee
Yale
Hie
Lee
Duchess Leads IO Education of Working Girls
The Duchess presided at the 13th annual drill competition for the National Physical Recreation Society pupils. She awarded challenge shields and medals while the society, chaired by King Edward as patron, provides hundreds of instructors and gymnasia for working girls seeking physical education.
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Een
National Physical Recreation Society
King Edward
Society
Pore Old Dad Poem Seeks Acknowledgment For Father
A nostalgic verse laments the lack of tribute to fathers while praising mothers. The anonymous poem urges writers to give space to the laboring father, bent and wrinkled yet devoted, alongside the cherished mother in a sober, heartfelt homage.
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Saletly
Father
Laughter deemed undignified in Persia and other notices
A collage of brief notes covers Persian laughter as undignified, licenses for wireless experiments in East Africa, Spanish quarry towns near Valiecas, medical treatment access, and Denver’s municipal publishing. It mentions chrome tanning in Madras for skins including snakes, and Labrador Eskimos adopting a football game with sealskin balls and sling tackles in Ungava.
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Ungava
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