Roosevelt Attacks Rich Powers Over Corporate Control
In Provincetown Massachusetts President Roosevelt speaks at the Cape Cod Pilgrims Memorial site laying ceremony with Governor Guild. He urges stronger national regulation of interstate corporations and supports a national incorporation law to curb monopolies while safeguarding legitimate business. He warns against allowing great fortunes built on privilege and calls for enhanced federal oversight of railroads and major firms.
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Provincetown
Mass
Aus
Toosevelt
Cape Cod
Roosevelt
Han
Long Point
Moors Routed by French Army Fronts Sixteen Miles in Morocco
In a four hour battle at Casa Blanca Morocco Moorish tribesmen aided by Moroccan troops and spahis were pushed back by French forces. Casualties were heavy on both sides with a dozen horses killed and many wounded. The action started at sunrise and ended with the tribesmen retreating by noon as French artillery and the cruiser Globe aided the defense.
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Casa Blanca
Morocco
Drude
Gloive
Cound
Nswoho
Dende
Nied
Taft outlines political faith in packed Memorial Hall
Columbus August 20 secretary of war William Howard Taft delivered a political confession of faith at Memorial hall in a speech under the Buckeye Republican club. He backed tariff revision and stricter anti trust enforcement while praising President Roosevelt and condemning repressive measures against capital. He favored a graduated inheritance tax as a check on growing fortunes and urged firm action against rebate abuses.
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Columbus
Ohio
William Howard Taft
Memorial Hall
Buckeye Republican Club
Taft
Harris
United States
Republican Party
Hys
Iale
Roosevelt
Sizer
Wreck Reports Killings After Iron Mountain Derailment
Reports say a fast Iron Mountain passenger train derailed near Alicia Arkansas last night with several dead and many injured though an Iron Mountain official denied any injuries. Separate dispatch says President Earling of the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul railroad is ill at his summer home in Oconomowoc Wisconsin after a possible insect bite caused blood poisoning.
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Iron Mountain Road
Arkansas
St. Louis
Aus
Alicia
Ark
Iron Mountain System
Oconomowoe
Wis
A. J. Earling
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Road
Oconomowoc
Prince William of Sweden Honored at Jamestown Exposition
Prince William of Sweden received a grand welcome at Jamestown Exposition in Hampton Roads. The Swedish cruiser Fylgia arrived after Cape Henry, delivering the prince and officers. A day of receptions, banquets, a fete champetre, and a dance followed with thousands of Swedish-Americans and expo officials in attendance.
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William of Sweden
Norfolk
Prince William of Sweden
Fylgia
Miniter
Sweden
Prines
Prince William
Cape Henry
Capes
Jamestown Exposition Grounds
Hampton Roads
Fylg
Fort Monroe
Evans
Great Prince
Exposition
Jamestown Exposition
President Tucker
The
Exposition Company
Harrington
U.S. N
Fred D. Grant
12Th
United States Cavalry
Discovery Island
Iles of Entertain
Prince
New York State Building
Fernstrom
Army and Navy Club
Colorado magnate Ziegler tours Colorado matches Palmer’s philanthropy
Deputy sheriff Ziegler recounts two week mountain vacation with wife Mrs Ziegler visiting Denver Colorado Springs Cripple Creek and other Colorado sites. In Colorado Springs he tours William J Palmer estate praising his philanthropy and wealth. Palmer funds road building in Cheyenne Canyon Garden of the Gods Glen Eyre and maintains a grand Glen Eyre mansion. He built the Colorado Short Line to Cripple Creek and owns it. Governor Hughes welcomes a baby girl in Albany.
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Ziegler
Colorado
Coronel Palmer
Colorado Springs
Cheyenne Canon
Garden of the Gods
Glen Eyre
Pennsylvania
Palmer
Cripple Creek
Government ownership calls strike funds and action
President Sylvester J. Small of the Commercial Telegraphers Union urged U S and Canadian governments to seize control of Western Union and Postal telegraph lines. He announced two funds a general strike fund and a campaign fund to win government action and called for a congressional inquiry into company practices. He also paused a planned cable operators strike to avoid international issues.
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Chicago
Sylvester J. Small
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union of America
United States
Canada
Western Union and Postal Companies
Small
Smal
MAY JOIN TROOPS EARLIER IN IOWA REPORT
Kermit Roosevelt, president Theodore Roosevelt's son, is reported to join Troops A B C and D of the 13th cavalry in Iowa rather than at Rock Island arsenal where the units are due to arrive Saturday. He would travel with the command under Captain Fithugh Lee and Lieutenant Phil Sheridan, aides to the president.
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Kermit Roosevelt
Iowa
13Th Cavalry
Rock Island Arsenal
Port Sheridan
Fithugh Lee
Phil Sheridan
Roosevelt
Fort Riley
Kan
Exploding Gas Hurts Nine in Milwaukee District
Nine persons were injured in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as three gas explosions from leaking mains caused a panic in the wholesale district on Michigan Street between Broadway and East Water Street. None died. Many windows were shattered and several fires started near the river end of the sewer. firefighters responded.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Michigan Street
Broadway
East Water Street
Girl Brutally Assaulted in Menominee After Attack
Rose Gallatin, 114, daughter of John Gallatin, was assaulted near Menominee Wisconsin last night. She was struck, several teeth knocked out, and left unconscious in a grain field. An assailant used a bicycle to escape as teams approached. Three suspects have been arrested and a lynching is talked of.
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Menominee
Wis
Rose Gallatin
John Gallatin
Deneen to Address Mayors Convention
Bloomington Michigan August 20 The program committee met yesterday to arrange the annual convention of the Illinois Mayors Association to be held September 10 and 11. Governor Deneen was selected for an address on Deep Waterways of Illinois. Mayor OConor Peoria will speak on City Parks and Mayor Marstiller Geneva on Health Commissioners of Municipalities.
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Illinois
Bloomington
Minofis Mayors’ Association
Deneen
Llnois
O’conor
Peoria
Marstiller
Geneva
Harvester Suit Is Stopped in Kansas
In Atchison Kansas on August 20 the attorney general’s anti trust suit against the International Harvester company to oust it from the state was adjourned after the state’s witnesses disappointed and the session was ended. Evidence will be taken again over the state.
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Kansas
Atchison, Kas
International Harvester Company
Rail Stocks Decline as Market Dulls After Mixed Open
New York stocks opened slightly mixed on August 20, with Union Pacific rising 1 percent and Reading down 14x before quickly recovering. Liquidation hit local traction shares and metal stocks, as several leaders fell a point or more. The market grew dull after the first half hour and a brief rally failed to hold.
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New York
Union Pacific
Reading
Illinois Weekly Weather: Warm Showers and Thunderstorms
The Illinois weekly bulletin for the week ending August 14 reports mean temperatures slightly above normal with highs reaching 94 in the southern district on the 16th and lows at 52 on the 13th. Rainfall exceeded seasonal averages, mostly from thunderstorms, with several stations recording over an inch and destructive winds noted on the 16th and 17th. Bright sunshine was deficient, averaging about 55 percent statewide.
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Illinois
Rock Islanders Go to Farmers Picnic at Lyford's Grove
Rock Islanders plan to attend the annual farmers picnic at Lyford's Grove near Port Byron tomorrow. Speaker Shurtleff of the Illinois House and Supt W E B Taylor of Watertown hospital will be among the leading speakers. Baseball games will be held morning and afternoon. The steamer J P Pearson has been chartered and will leave Moline at 9 o clock in the morning for Port Byron.
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Lyford’s Grove
Port Byron
Shurtleff
Illinois House of Representatives
W. EB. Taylor
Watertown Hospital
J. P. Pearson
Moline
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Department of Justice
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William J. Palmer
Grand Tome
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Charles E. Hughes
Executive Mansion
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Acme Packet Company
West End Athletic Club
Second Presbyterian Church of
Davenport
Linwood
LeClaire
Tri-City
Baptist Young People’s Union
J. S
Muses Line
Baptist Church
Lyon
H. S. Ruby
S. Shannon
Hennepin Canal
Kahike
Alystery
Telegraphers
Postal
Western Union
Rencades
Wisconsin
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