Taft's Chicago Visit Draws Big Welcome and Ball Game
President Taft receives a warm Chicago welcome and views a mass school review of 150000 children along the boulevards. He joins a Cubs Giants game in chair 12 behind the bench with 2809 Hamilton club members and attends a banker luncheon and evening events before departing for Milwaukee. The day closes with a naval autopsy finding no inconsistency with self harm in Lieut Sutton's death.
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Commercial Club
Bankers’ Ball
Chicago
Bill
Taft
United States
Lake Shore
Garfield Boulevard
Mr. Taft
Commercal Club
Art Institute
Hamilton Club
Cubs
Giants
Republican Party
Congress Hotel
Orchestra Hall
Northwestern
Milwaukee
Steamship firms to face grand jury probe in New York
In New York on September 16 the federal grand jury began sessions to probe alleged rebates by the Holland American Steamship Company and possible price fixing with other lines. Witnesses connected to the Holland American line were subpoenaed but had not appeared. Assistant District Attorney Crim leads the steamship cases.
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New York
Federal Grand Jury
Holland-American Steamship Company
Holland-American Line Wa
Holland-American Line
Crim
Holland-American
A. Gips
W. van Doorn
Gov Johnson Under Knife in Rochester
Gov Johnson underwent a nearly three hour operation in Rochester Minnesota. Surgeons removed an old abdominal abscess with a fistula and a hernia growth. After the procedure he regained consciousness and asked for Mrs Johnson. Doctors reported the operation highly successful though longer and more complex than anticipated.
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Rochester
Minn
Johnson
Mayo
Murder mystery as Florence Weber found in Tuscarawas River
Miss Florence Weber, 20, disappeared after a telephone summons and was found dead in the Tuscarawas river. Her father suspects murder and body abandonment. coroner investigates whether death was foul play or suicide. Weber recently worked for Cleveland's Cuyahoga Telephone Co. Ballinger improves. interior secretary hopes to return soon. Miners' union of Kentucky appeals circuit court over Judge Cochran's injunction against hiring miners at Stearns Coal in Stearns, Kentucky.
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Janal Dover
Florence Weber
Tuscarawas River
Ballinger
Washington
Wallinger
Department of the Interior
Department
Cincinnati
Miners’ Union of Kentucky
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Cochran
Stearns Coal Company
Stearns
May Stop Big Prize Fight in New York
If District Attorney Jerome’s decision holds, the scheduled bout between Stanley Ketchel and Sam Langford at the Fairmont Athletic Club may be canceled tonight in New York City. Legal action could prevent the prize fight between the two boxers.
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New York
Jerome
Stanley Ketchel
Sam Langford
Fairmont Athletic Club
Death by Own Action Shocks Union Trust Leaders
New York reports Directors await word to explain the death by own action of John W. Castles president. His body was found in Grand Union hotel with a razor wound. Nervous breakdown tied to his withdrawal from Guaranty Trust presidency earlier this year after resisting Harriman dictates. Castles sought to buy Harriman holdings and resigned, anticipating trouble with the railroad king.
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New York
The
Union Trust Company
John W. Castles
Grand Union Hotel
Guaranty Trust Company
Castles
E. H. Harriman
Mutual Life Company
Harriman
Railroad King
Girl's Chum Fears Violence Over Detroit Murder
Detroit. reward for the killer of Maybelle Millman rises to 1000 as police receive a hair comb and gloves from Peter Hayden, claimed to belong to the victim. Martha Henning, Millman’s chum, fears returning to work in Detroit due to potential threats, though no concrete threats are known.
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Detroit
Mich
Maybelle Millman
Peter F. Hayden
Millman
Martha Henning
Ann Arbor
Maybelle Milman
Dolton sewer project proposal reviewed at special meeting
The Dolton Board of Trustees held a September 15 1909 special meeting to act on an ordinance for a connected sewer system including main sub mains and laterals with concrete bulkheads manholes catch basins and connections from Calumet River south bank along Park Avenue to village limits. The Board of Local Improvements submitted an ordinance and estimate naming streets such as Irven Berger Frederica Sanderson Chicago Park Court Grant 147th Place and 148th Street and detailed the cost estimate for constructing the sewer system and laterals across numerous avenues and streets in Dolton Illinois.
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Thomas Harper
George H. Schaefer
Dalton
Calumet River
Park Avenue
Board of Local Improvements
Dolton
Irven Avenue
Lincoln Avenue
Berger Street
Same
Frederica Street
Greenwood Avenue
Sanderson Avenue
Chicago Street
148Th Street
Berger Avenue
144Th Place
Park Court
Margaret Street
Engle Street
Grant Street
Cook County
Illinois
138Th Street
Linecoln Avenue
128Th Street
198Th Street
Forest Avenue
Kanawha Avenue
Washington Avenue
Main Street
Sheridan Avenue
Oak Street
Ann Street
Ann Hy
188Th Street
158Th Street
Tryen Avenue
Crash on Archer avenue injures seven. glass cuts many
Chicago reports seven seriously injured when a crowded Archer avenue car collides with a heavily laden moving van on Butler street. Windows shatter, several women faint, and the injured are taken to People's hospital.
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Chicago
Archer Avenue
Butler Street
People’s Hospital
Spencer Eddy Resigns From Diplomatic Service
Spencer FY Eddy of Chicago has sent in his resignation from the diplomatic corps to President Taft in Bucharest Romania on September 16. The move ends his long tenure in the U.S. diplomatic establishment and follows years of service in European posts.
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Spencer Eddy
Bucharest
Romania
Spencer Fy, Eddy
Chicago
Taft
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Speare
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Arlington
Lieut
Navy Department
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Gov. Johnson
J. W. Castles
Cook
Fred J. Ehlert
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Frank C. Lund
Julius Heidenreich
Charles W. Dickelman
John S. Harter
Wright
Manneheim
Germany
Frankfort
Prince August William
Orville Wright
Berlin
Mr. Wright
Bath
Neosho
Henry W. Estes
Benjamin Marshall
Mrs. Roosevelt
Switzerland
Paris
Theodore Roosevelt
Ethel
Venice
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Miss Carow
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