Taft Hosts International Peace Then Signs Arbitration Treaties
At the White House Taft hosted a dinner honoring Admiral Count Togo and welcomed Japan to the world peace effort. In the library he presided as two arbitration pacts with Great Britain and with France were signed, signaling a push to end potential wars.
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Taft
Japan
Count Togo
White House
United States
Great Britain
France
Great World Movement For International Peace
Multiple Legal and Transport Incidents Across Nation
Commissioner Valentine faces removal from government service over charges by Indian Affairs head. Joseph Farr sues for libel and slander after recent logging role. US circuit court enjoins American Tobacco defendants per Supreme Court mandate. Anchor Line steamer Columbia sails to New York after iceberg collision near Newfoundland with bow damages. Pennsylvania Flyer passengers escape injury when train derailment causes minor bruises. Des Moines streetcar strike ends after injunction to resume service. A man in Marshall NL is fined for drinking on a Big Four train. companion escapes through a car window.
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Robert G. Valentine
Indian Affairs
Joseph Farr
Yeesau Service
United States Circuit Court
New York City
United States Supreme Court
American Tobacco Company
Columbia
New York
Glasgow
Newfoundland
Marshall
Multiple National News Snippets Across 1907 Panama and Crises
Reports cover the Panama Canal Culebra cut slides widening excavation by 5 257 281 cubic yards. Roosevelt testifies on Tennessee Coal and Iron absorption averting panic. Obituaries cite Li s Charles Thorp at Fulton Hospital. Fatal shootings in Olivia Minnesota and Chicago murder confession by Joseph Vacek Jr. Senate condemns police third degree tactics. Moyer elected WF Minners president at Butte. Coast drowning rescue attempt at Coney Island. Navy Lt Charles E Brillhart found dead at Hotel Astor New York.
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Culebra
Panama Canal
Theodore Roosevelt
Congressional Committee of Inquiry
United States Steel Corporation
New York City
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company
Anvil wins Detroit M. and M. trot with Geers driving
Anvil, bay stallion owned by Frank Jones of Memphis, driven by Pop Geers, claimed the 10,000 stake in straight heats marking Geers fifth M. and M. victory. Miss Stokes owned by W. E. D. Stokes of New York won the futurity trot honors at Detroit earning 5,400 after dropping the first heat. Jusice Brooke received 3,100 and Main Lear 800.
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Thre
Detroit
Anvil
Pop” Geers
Geers
Frank Jones
Memphis, Tenn
Miss Stokes
W. E. D. Stokes
New York
Jusice Brooke
Main Lear
Elks appoint Edward Righter as chief judiciary counsel
Personal Grand Exalted Ruler John P. Sullivan announces Edward Righter of New Orleans to serve as chief judiciary counsel of the grand lodge. The report notes the ceremony details and greetings from officials, presenting a formal leadership appointment.
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John P. Sullivan
The
Elks
Edward Righter
New Orleans
Grand Lodge
Chile to build two Dreadnought battleships for Chili
The Chilean government accepts Armstrong Whitworth of New Castle on Tyne bid to construct two Dreadnought class battleships. A Colombia Peru clash in Caqueta leaves heavy casualties for the Colombians. Talks between Germany and France show progress toward settlement in the Moroccan dispute. In Haiti rival forces seize Port au Prince before German and British marines restore order after riots killing forty.
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Armstrong, Whitworth & Co
New Castle-on-Tyne
Chili
Germany
France
Jules Cambon
Berlin
Maj. von Kiderlen-Waechter
Port-au-Prince
Haiti
84 Year Old Woman Drowns in Naperville Quarry
Mrs Melcher Brown aged 84 leapt into a flooded stone quarry at Naperville and drowned after visiting a neighbor to write a letter to her son Louis Brown of Chicago. The act followed her grief over a missing granddaughter and living alone.
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Aurora
Melcher Brown
Naperville
John Miller
Louis Brown
Chicago
Centralia
St. Elmo
J. Stout
Resinol Soap and Ointment Praised in Philadelphia Ad
A Philadelphia reader testifies that after using two cakes of Resinol Soap and part of a jar of Resinol Ointment his long standing skin sores cleared. The ad touts Resinol Ointment as a universal remedy free from lead or mercury, non irritating, physicians endorse it, and it is sold nationwide by druggists.
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T. K. Mathieu
Philadelphia
Resinol Chemical Co
Baltimore
Cat Tale Sparks Mystery and a Kicked Cat
Felix Smith of Easton buys a cat for five ducks promising it would chase rats. The house stays full of rats despite the cat’s efforts. He hides and witnesses rats bowing to the cat before one night he kicks the cat out, per a Boston Post wrap.
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Felix Smith
Easton
Felix
Boston Post
Mosquito Nuisance and Screen Treatment Report
A reader recounts severe mosquito issues last summer and describes a homemade screen treatment. By rubbing kerosene on woolen cloth across both sides of the wire mesh, they achieved lasting relief. The smell lasts minutes, and the oil preserves screens and repels flies.
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Good Housekeeping Magazine
Judge lauds Grape-Nuts as breakfast staple in opinion
A staged letter attributed to a judge from the Sunflower State extols Grape-Nuts for five years as a daily staple, claiming it replaces pastry, aids complexion, and provides a superior breakfast to meat. The note, signed by Postum Co. of Battle Creek, urges readers to consult The Road to Wellville.
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Sunflower State
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Meyer
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George P. McCabe
Department of Agriculture
House
Doctor Wiley's
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Charles A. White
Lorimer Committee
William M. Rossel
Illinois
Hol Hull
Springfield
White
Lorimer
United States Senate
Indiana Harbor
Freman
Des Moines
de Graff
District Court
City Railway
Charles Thorp
Fulton
Mo.) State Hospital
Thorp
William Wolff
Cora
Wolff
Olivia, Minn
Edward Corey
Corey
Miss Wolff
Joseph Vacek, Jr
Joseph Vacek
Vacek
Moyer, Haywood
McNamara
Senate Select Committee
Borah
Charles H. Moyer
Western Federation of Miners
Butte
Mont
Coney Island
N. Y
Fannie Westerman
Charles Edgar Brillhart
Navy Department
Hotel Astor
Laura G. Smith
Republican City
Neb
Alfred D. Adson
University of Nebraska
Castle Rock
Boulder Canyon
Colorado
Nicholson
Caqueta
Colombia
Sangamon
W. E. Neuberger
Bloomington
Illinois Homeopathic Association
McCullough
University of Ilinois
College of Medicine
General Assembly
Litchfield
Lorin Gilbert
Henry Gilbert
Raymond
Belvidere
Scott Clark
Rockford and Interurban Railway Company
Sterling
Fred Hague
Corliss
A. H. French
United States Navy
Casey
Roy Williamson
Vandahale
East St. Louis
Cairo
James Bevard
St. Louis
Rockford
Arthur BE. Fisher
United
Vienna
Lee Murrell
Mound City
Rock Island
Central Park
Geneseo
E. A. Fritzy
Janesville
John M. O’brien
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Rock River
McGee's Point
National City
Cahokia Creek
Mississippi River
Anna
Illinois Central
Seminole Limited
Cobden
Limited
Ilinois Central
Hardin
Alois Bullier
Bank of Hardin
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George W. Maston
Alabama
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John Williams
South State Street
Kansas
Freeport
Edward Fishburn
John Haley
Pecatonica River
Carnegie Commission
Charleston
Belle A. Mansfield
Iown
Waukegan
W. F. Grace
Lake County
State Asylum Commission
Ethel Richardson
George Stanz
Joliet
Edmund M. Allen
First Earth
Union Station
Robinson
William Mack
State Automobile Association
Pontiac
Richfield
Albert Swedeberg
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