Exposing Crooked Insurance Firms in California and West
The Argonaut denounces crooked tire insurers posturing as solvent while failing to pay debts after the San Francisco disaster. It notes a statewide move to cancel current insurance with crooked companies, followed by California cities and western states ending policies and shifting to solvent firms. East coast authorities are pressed to reveal true solvency.
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Argonaut
San Francisco
Eastern Insurance
Lninke
San Diego
California
Washington
Oregon
Sacramento
Banko
Oakland
Santa Cruz
Leser
Commerce boom 1005 0 shows record national trade surge
Washington reports a record 83 billion total US commerce for the year, with exports surpassing imports by over 500 million and a strong rise in manufactured exports by 57 million from the previous year. Breadstuffs provisions cottons and mineral oil exports total nearly 891 million, up 199 million.
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Washington
United States
Ayneresn
Bany
An Excuse for New York The World Defends Thaw White Affair
The New York World shifts to excuse the Thaw White affair arguing New York’s diversity explains the scandal. It claims Thaw’s shooting and White’s ties to chorus girls reflect the city’s typical mix of wealth poverty vice and virtue with broad out-of-town agreement on the issue.
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New York World
The
World
New York
Union
City
Thaw
White
Madison Square tragedy reflects New York character and fears
The passage argues that urban life typifies New York through rumors of harm in schools and crimes like Josephine Terranova's act, noting vast citywide exposure to sensational events. It contends that vast moral contrasts exist among the population and that the tragedy underscores the city’s complex identity.
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East Side
Department of Health
Josephine Terranova
New York
San Francisco
Madison Square
Stockmen Call for Cooperation Against Commission Trust
A historical editorial urges stockmen across Oregon Texas and national markets to unite against the Cooperatic Commission. It denounces big commission houses that levy tribute on every market entrant and advocates producer cooperatives as the only remedy to the perceived trust power in Chicago Omaha St Joseph and Kansas City.
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Umatilla County
Oregon
Deaf Smith County
Texas
Chicago
Omaha
St. Joe
Kansas City
Tarifa
Spain
Gibraltar
Commission Trust
Combine
Rebate of Another Kind in Bay State Gas Case
Boston dispatch reports Henry H. Rogers of Standard Oil must pay the receiver of Bay State Gas at least half of 4.5 million dollars profit from the New England Gas and Coke deal. Judge Putnam orders Rogers to surrender about 2.26 million, with Moorfield Story named master to determine exact share. The case, heard by master Nusten Browne, followed secret proceedings in 1905 to shield Rogers from publicity.
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Thomas W. Lawson
Associated Press
Boston
Henry HH. Rogers
Standard
Bay State Gas Company
Delinyere
New England Gas and Coke
Bay State
Rogers
Putnam
United States
George Wharton Peoper
Pepper
Pugam
Moorfield Story
C A Nusten Browne
Badger
Spurious Art Objects Warned By British Museum Curator
Charles BE Reed curator of madiae val art objects in the British Museum, arrived in New York from Liverpool. He warned that fraudsters foist spurious works of art in Europe and abroad. He said skilled forgers create tempting pieces sold at high prices. On a voyage from Liverpool two men showed purchases and asked his opinion, and he told them the items were worthless.
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Charles BE. Reed
British Museum
New York
Liverpool
Europe
Cardfor
LONGWORTHS LAURELS AND CONGRESS RACE FOR PRIMARY
The piece notes Theodore Horstman, a Cincinnati lawyer, challenging Congress member Longworth after his entry into the president’s circle. Horstman and allies plan a fight at the primaries and convention, accusing Longworth of not embodying the revived Republican spirit. Longworth has yet to respond.
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Wiseacres
Longworth
Cincinnati
Theodore Horstman
Fine
Congress
Horstman
Frent
Republican Party
Myr
Cost of Burning Marty and Cranmer’s Executions
Transcribed bill records the 1555 burning of Latimer Ridley and Archbishop Cranmer, noting wood costs, carriage, labor, and restraints. The text cites a 1699 Memoire and links to Oxford manuscripts, reflecting religious persecution and archival discovery.
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Cranmer
Latmer
Ridley
Oxford University
Horn Ridley
Latimer
RICHEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD
A bill in the House of Representatives proposes dividing Osage Nation funds and lands among 1800 members. The Osage would share about 4 million dollars in treasury funds and over 1 million acres, with ongoing distributions only after the interior secretary confirms individual management capability.
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Home of Representatives
Treasury
Treasury Funda
Secretary of the Interior
Spain Prospering Amid Trade Boom and Currency Rise
Spain enjoys a business boom with the aliver po seta rising from 10 to 17 cents. By year end it may near par with the franc at 19 cents. In Candie custom revenue doubled in 1809, and 100000 men who once joined colonial army recruitment stayed home. About $75 million in capital supported mining and cotton mills amid rising mineral output. The Argonaut notes the peninsula waking up in Yankee style.
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Spain
Eady
Fragmentary Verse Reflection From a Quixotic Text
A garbled excerpt reads as a mishmash of phrases about poets birth and vanity. It muses on greatness, flirtation, and a mocking view of men’s true size, with scattered typos and unclear context.
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Pendleton
East Oregonian Publishing Company
Scrippe-MeeRie News Association
East Oregonian
B. B. Rich
Hotel
Portland
Hotel Perkins
Frazier’s Book Store
Stockmen
Cooperatic Commission Company
Longworths Laurels
Marty
Pati
Alwaye
St. Claire
Lewis Hunter
Furnisher
Bingham Springs
Blue Mountain
Blue Mountains
Umatlila
Court House
Oren
Northwestern Gas and Electric Co
Corner Court
Frank B. Clapton & Co
London & Lancashire Fire Inguierce
North British & Mercantile Ins
Royal Insurance Co
Alliance Assurance Co
C. RF. Bowlsby
J. Hardwick
Bowman Building
Railroad Street
C. E. Bowlsby
Pendleton Roller Mills
Bynrs
Mrs
Indy
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