News of the Week Bites From All Corners Of the World
A rapid roundup notes deaths and marriages abroad and at home. Lady Curzon dies in London, Miss Grace Howe McKinley wed in Fort Des Moines, Maimed figures include John W. Gampitt and Alfred Belt, while political and crime news spans Missouri, Kansas, and Kentucky. Typhoid in Ipswich. fires in Nishni Novgorod. World events include Port Arthur verdicts, labor shifts, and public notices.
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Curzon
India
Mary Leiter
Levi Z. Leiter
Chicago
London
Washington
Grace Howe McKinley
President McKinley
Fort Des Moines
Capt. Heldt
Eleventh Cavalry
William McKinley
John W. Gampitt
Surratt
Lincoln
Indianapolis
Ind
Frank B. Fulkerson
Congress
St. Joseph
Benjamin T. Redman
United States
Cincinnati
O. Alfred Belt
Cecil Rhodes
South Africa
Metcalf
Department of Commerce
California
Edmund W. Pettus
Pettus
Alabama
Selma
Ipswich
S. C
Henry Melvin
Oakland
Cal
of the Elks
Denver
Baron Speck von Sternbers
Boston
Wilson
Archie Irvine
Thomas
Cestos
Wyoming
FP. Neely
Leavenworth
Kan
John Hay
New Election Ordered In Russia Amid Autocracy Restore
Russia’s first experiment in parliamentary government ends as two imperial ukases dissolve the parliament and declare extraordinary security in St Petersburg. The measures delay elections to March 5, 1907, hint at universal suffrage to dilute liberal and socialist influence, Stolypin becomes premier, Goremykin ousted, and parliamentarians plan Viborg assembly and possible sea evacuation to Sweden if blocked.
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St. Petersburg
Russia
Senate
Nicholas
Peterhof
Ukase
Council of Ministers
M. Goremykin
M. Stolypin
M. Stichinsky
Associated Press
Viborg
Gulf of Finland
Sweden
Colorado fish egg crop tops state record for 1906
Denver dispatch reports State Game and Fish Commissioner Woodard released a bulletin detailing a 1906 fish egg haul of 48,624,000 for hatcheries across Colorado. Hatcheries in Durango Glenwood Springs Gunnison Emerald Lakes Steamboat Springs and Denver, plus Grand County at Hot Sulphur Springs, received allocations totaling 524,000 dollars. The Grand county hatchery is a new facility with 2,000,000 egg capacity and signals a bright future for fishing.
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Denver
Game and Fish
Woodard
Grand County
Phur
Durango
Cc Secore
Colorado
Hot Sulpher Springs
Organized Against Labor in Germany and Austria
The Deutsche Arbeitver Zeitung reports talks between German and Austrian employers to form an international union protecting business from labor. The plan includes aiding firms facing strikes and resisting labor movements sending large delegations to neighboring countries to support strikers.
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Berlin
Deutsche Arbeitver Zeitung
Employers of Labor
Germany
Austria
Santos Dumont Builds Enormous Bird Flying Machine
Santos Dumont starts experiments with a new flying machine shaped like a giant bird. It measures 300 feet long, weighs 320 pounds, and uses a twenty four horsepower motor. Initial flights use a balloon tether. a balloonless attempt is planned after Aero Club sets a date.
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Paris
Santos Dumont
M. Dumont
Aero Club
Russell Sage Dies at Cedarcroft in Long Island Country Home
New York financier Russell Sage died suddenly at Cedarcroft Lawrence Long Island from heart failure amid old age complications. He would have turned ninety on August 4, leaving a vast fortune estimated at 75 to 100 million dollars and holdings in Missouri Pacific Manhattan Elevated and Western Union Telegraph Company. He collapsed after a sinking spell at noon and died at 4 30 p m with wife Mrs Sage and several physicians present. Sage rose from poverty to wealth becoming a leading merchant, statesman, financier, and railroad magnate.
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New York
Russell Sage
Cedarcroft
Lawrence
Long Island
Sage
Col
J. J. Slocum
Robert Letch
Theodore
Janeway
J. Carl Schmuck
John P. Munn
Congress
Gould
Missouri Pacific Railway Company
Manhattan Elevated Railway Company
Western Union Telegraph Company
Young Theodore Roosevelt Jr to spend weeks near Yampa Colorado
Theodore Roosevelt Jr son of the President will vacation on Williams river in Routt and Rio Blanco counties about twenty five miles west of Yampa. He will camp for two to three weeks in August with two Harvard graduates and guided by Jake Borah. The party plans a long stay at Kelly lodge on the South Fork seeking bear wild cats and lions and may remain until deer hunting season opens.
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Yampa
Colo
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Williams River
Routt
Rio Blanco
Colorado
Shaun Kelly
Kelly Lodge
South Fork
The
Williams
Tom Trevenen
Roosevelt
Kelly
Lode
Harvard
Theodore, Jr
Thhey
Jake Borah
Hille
Churchill Opens Campaign for New Hampshire Governor
Winston Churchill, novelist, formally began his Republican bid in Concord for New Hampshire governor. His platform centers on non interference of corporations in state politics. Churchill hailed Theodore Roosevelt as the man who led America in this second war for independence.
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Concord
N. H
Winston Churchill
New Hampshire
Churchill
United States
Americana
Theodore Roosevelt
Post Office Clerks Salaries Raised in Colorado Cities
The post office department authorized salary promotions for postal clerks in Colorado. Cities include Aspen Canon City Colorado Springs Cripple Creek Fort Collins Grand Junction Greeley La Junta Leadville Longmont Loveland Montrose Pueblo Rocky Ford Salida Silverton Trinidad with new annual pay up to 1 200 dollars and various raises starting at 500 to 900 dollars.
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Washington
Colorado
Aspen
Canon City
Colorado Springs
Criple Creek
Fort Colins
Grand Junction
Greeley
la Junta
Leadville
Longmont
Loveland
Montrose
Pueblo
Rocky Ford
Salida
Silverton
Trinidad
Frog Weather Prophecy Blamed On Frog Not Farmer
James Wilson discusses old farming ideas and recalls a Connecticut farmhand who trusted a frog to predict weather. The tale ends with a soaking shower proving the frog unreliable and shifting blame from man to amphibian.
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James Wilson
Connecticut
De Floy era? Kidney Pills And House Staples Ad Bundles
A long clipped advertisement text extols De Wane Defiance Starch and Defoance by extolling kidney pills plus a mix of modern household tips and quotes. It lists Mrs Mary Wagner from Bridgeport praising a kidney cure after five boxes and notes prices, sellers, and brands. The piece includes miscellaneous proverbs and a joke about a boy and a horse.
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Mary Wagner
Kossuth Ave
Bridgeport
Conn
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
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Colon
Panama
Nishni Novgorod
Burton
Supreme Court of the United States
Rose
Kansas City
Kansas Supreme Court
Attorney General
Federal Supreme Court
Wind River Reservation
Port Arthur
Stoessel
Gen. Fock
Wisconsin Legislative Insurance Investigating Committee
State Supreme Court
William J. Bryan
Louisville
Syzran
Christopher Spindleman
Hargis-Callahan
Beattyville
St. Louis
Ide
Manila
War Department
Philippine Treasury
San Francisco
Ashland
Wis
Yemen
Chicago & Alton Railway Company
John N. Faithorn
F. A. Wann
United States Court of Appeals
New York Central Railroad Company
Indiana
John R. Walsh
Chicago National Bank
Federal Grand Jury
Cleveland
Standard Oil Company
William Stryker
Woodson Norvell
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Vinita
Paris Journal
Poland
Voronezh
Martin Flynn
Peoples’ Savings Bank
Des Moines
Department of Commerce and Labor
Taft
Greenwood
Levis
George McNeems
Harry Levin
Socorro
New Mexico
Philadelphia
Elks
George A. Bartlett
Treasury Department
Salvador
Tokio
Yokohama
Brotherhood of American Yeomen
Marblehead
Guatemala
Honduras
Mexico
August Rosenberg
Seattle
Wash
Altona
Prussia
William
Cronstadt
Chouknin
A. Shetenko
Sevastopol
Gen Ide
Philippines
Organized Against Labor
Nestor
Financiers
Congressman Hogg
H. M. Hoge
Judge Kerr
Robert Kerr
Republican Congressional Committee
H. M. Hogg
Hogs
Ume
Teddy
Frog
Herbert Spencer
Euripides
Johnny
Sterne
Dodds
Saiser
Riiz
Ehie Chaise
Sibby
Libby, McNeill & Libby
Southwest
Missouri
Br M.kl&t
W. S. ST. George General Passenger
M. K.& T. R. Wainwright
G. A. McNutt
Mowom Hoare, Kacsasitr
Soutin
Defiance
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