Congress Debates War Policy and District of Columbia Reform
In a chaotic session the Senate and House wrestle with the Brownsville affair, postal savings bank bill, and a President’s message on DC governance. Members challenge Secretary of War work, investigate secret service agents, and discuss church of the District to appoint a three‑member executive board. Christmas adjournment reduces quorum as war claims and routine business proceed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Acta
Coorem
Alduiet
Brownsville
Postal Savings Bank
Senate
District of Columbia
Iin
Hnese
Iree
Ozer
Pasar
I Saeet
Pher Benafs
Venture of Gideon Hope and a Desolate Mill Town
Gideon Hope confronts Albert Tremaine in the ruined industrial town built by Tremaine. He accuses the pool of investors of wrecking the mill and seeks justice by exposing Percival Kane. Tremaine’s daughter Clare confronts him, urging action to undo the harm and aid the rightful beneficiaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Tremaine
Mr. Tremaine
Gideon
Tremaine
Uhle
Dreamine
Gidon
Elim
Burt Steko
Perey
Kane
Percy Kane
Gideon Hope
French President Attacked in Paris Street Stroll
President Fallieres escaped unharmed after a man leaped from behind near Rue de l Etoile and tried to seize his beard. Secretaries and Colonel Lasson restrained the assailant, who was identified as Jean Mattis, a 24 year old cafe waiter from Savoie. Police found Royalist literature and signs of a lone, but suspected plot, though evidence of a larger conspiracy was not yet established.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armand Fallieres
France
M. Ramonssou
Lawson
Elysee Palace
Rue de l'Etoile
Paris
Malderes
Lasson
Ramondou
Fallieres
Jean Mattis
Walter
Department of Savoie
General Mercier
Duke of Orleans
Patrie Francaise
Mattle
Mattis
No football schedule dispute between Iowa and Minnesota ends talks
Reports say no fall game will be played as Iowa and Minnesota stall over site. Alfredo De Oro wins world three cushion billiards title final block 150 107 with Eveston. Umpire bribery allegations arise from New York Chicago playoff. Pulliam elected NL president. Heidler reelected secretary.
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Iowa
Minnesota
An the Gophers
Minneapolis
Iowa City
Alfredo de Oro
Cuba
Thomas A. Eveston
St. Louis
de Oro
Eveston
Demarest
Chicago
Maines
Rum and
Johnstone
New York
Naional
Harry Pulliam
the Nations Baseball Tenge
Association
John Heidler
Freeport
Wisconsin-Lilinoin
Chicago Business Recovery Signals Broad Upturn
Dominant features in business circles indicate sustained recovery in activity and confidence. Bank payments remain high, holiday goods sales surge, and manufacturers gain from steel plant expansion at Gary and rail improvements. Grain, lumber, and livestock movements rise with fluctuating prices. recent Dun’s findings show mixed details across districts.
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Gary
Chicago
Dun's
Commodity Prices and Trade Updates Across Cities
The report lists live cattle hogs and grain prices in Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee and New York with values for cattle hogs sheep and crops. It notes timber industry consolidation opposition and a reforestation push by the C A South Timber Company and foreclosure sale of the Northwestern Cooperative Coal and Dock Company assets to Northern Dredge Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Sierra
Detroit
Milwaukee
Northwestern Timber
Duluth
C. A. South Timber Company
Minneapolia
America
Northwestern Cooperative Coal and Dock Company
Ashland
Wis
Northern Dredge Company
Dakotas
Minnesota
Lews
Wisconsin
Teamuit
Cosgrew
See Wien
Ethels Debut at White House Ball 1902
Miss Ethel Roosevelt debuts in the White House East Room with 60 debutantes, guests from every region, and a male contingent of Harvard students, foreign attaches, and army officers. The event features her sister Alice Roosevelt Longworth and attendance by prominent family and guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White House
Ethel Roosevelt
East
Alice Roosevelt- Longworth
Mike
Harvard
J. Ellen Roosevelt
Kean
Nat Sim King
Robert Bacon
Charles A. Munn
Richard Wayne Parker
Herbert Wadsworth
Roosevelt
Mins Ethel
Themore
Kermit Roosevelt
Amiong the Dane
Trade of World Falls Off In United States Commerce
The United States shares a global downturn in 1908 with reduced imports and exports. Of twenty five major nations, all but four show lower exports, and nearly two thirds report falling imports. Argentina Spain Greece and Sweden are exceptions on exports. overall U S trade declines totaled about 800 million in imports and 150 million in exports, with Europe and North America most affected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Argentina
Spain
Greece
Sweden
Europe
North America
Will of Jacob Schonacker Set Aside for Insanity
In Norwalk Ohio a jury in Common Pleas Court nullified the will of Jacob Schonacker aged eighty three ruling he was insane when drawn. The estate valued about ten thousand dollars largely to two sons Joseph and Frederick with smaller bequests to a daughter and others. Testimony claimed the father believed in witchcraft and doctors linked such belief to insanity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob Schonacker
Common Pleas
Norwalk
Ohio
Joseph
Frederick
Pastor Ends Life With Razor in Buchanan
A Buchanan North Dakota Congregational pastor Rev Robert C Dougherty is found dead in his apartment by a visiting party after he failed to appear for worship. He lies in a pool of blood with a razor in hand and a rambling note on a table dated December 23. He had borrowed a neighbor's revolver earlier that day but did not use it. Dougherty formerly worked in Kansas City.
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Texas Gulf Coast
Texas
Portland
Gregory
Tarpon
Rockport
Bay
Kansas City Star
Gulf Coast
Galveston
Addiiton
W. J. Bryan
Gov. Hogg
Artesian
Brawnaville
Apartme
Robert C. Dougherty
Congregational
Buchanan
N. D
Buchanan State Bank
Dougherty
Kansas City
Declared a success by J W Jennings in Imperial Valley
A fragmentary imperial valley report notes J W Jennings experimenter declares success as court sessions in New York run late into the night while U S production counts list November vessels and a proposed bridge project by Pennsylvania over Hell Gate linking Port Morris to Long Island with a 1000 foot center span.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Imperial Valley
J. W. Jennings
Court of Bipecial Sessions
New York
United States
Porto Rios
Washington
Hell Gate
Port Morris
York
Long Island
John FP. McClookey
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Othet Benate Sewetim
Billa
DOW
Boutives Pacific Railroad Company
Fort Muse Shams Reservation
California
Payne
New Tore
Weldon J. Cobb
Allence
Oman
Evan
Ae Bane
Percival Keene
Poyal
Percival Keane
Hope
Samustid
Maeecees
Theo Germuch
Ted Coeet
Marthmillionaire
Cihire Tremaine
Walt
Gideon Hops
Ife
Srong
Ruskin
Frederic Harrison
Rankin
Wordsworth
Tha ‘Happy Warrior
F.W. Fitspatrick
International Society of Building Commissioners
Enya
S.eld
Ethel
Pastor
Razor
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