Roosevelt letter backs Neill Reynolds packing house report
President Roosevelt forwarded the Neill Reynolds inquiry to Congress with a supportive letter to Chairman Wadsworth. He notes no substantive conflict with the Agriculture Department’s findings on Chicago meat packing, urges broader federal meat inspection for interstate and foreign commerce, and cites reforms underway in Libby Swift Armour and Nelson Morris plants to secure safer practices. The note stresses the need for permanent, radical inspection powers despite potential short-term economic disruption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wadsworth
House Committee On Agriculture
Roosevelt
Chicago
Washington
D. C
Department of Agriculture
Neill-Reynolds
Agricultural Department Everts
Mr. Wadsworth
Neill
Reynolds
Congress
Messrs
Agricultural Department
Stewart Neill
Libby
Nelson Morris
Armour’s
Swift’s
Armour's
Libby’s
Bureau of Animal Industry
Theodore Roosevelt
Collision on Iron Mountain kills fireman near Mengo
A Friday collision on the Iron Mountain road near Mengo Missouri 115 miles south of here killed a fireman and Injured three trainmen. The northbound train halted to allow the southbound to pass when the southbound rammed into it wrecking both engines. No passengers were hurt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Iron Mountain Road
Mengo
Here
Chicago Packers Move Rumors Stir Gary Ind Stockyards
Rumors circulated that a London backed stockyard may be built near Gary Indiana adjacent to United States Steel land with six Chicago plants to move to Indiana. City officials threaten permits and inspectors cost near 1 000 000 while mayor seeks federal input on meat purity and a joint pathologists committee.
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Chicago
Ill
Thomas J. Lipton
London
Gary
Ind
United States Steel Corporation
Indiana
Little Calumet
Peter Bartzen
Perry L. Hedrick
Bartzen
Dunne
Secretary of Agriculture
James Wilson
Wilson
Harvest labor pay cut sparks call for 2500 workers
Kansas City reports that the state free labor bureau chief Carl Schweizer received a letter from Topeka manager T B Gerow seeking 2,500 harvesters for Kansas wheat. Wages drop from 2 to 3.50 per day last year to 1.50 to 2 this year. Governor Ide mentions Manila province forming to gain city representation in the Filipino assembly, revising the plan for Manila to have no representation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Carl Schweizer
State Free Labor Bureau
T. B. Gerow
Topeka
Kansas Free Labor Bureau
Kansas
Ide
Manila
Filipino Assembly
District of Columbia
National Assembly
Postmaster Wyman Ordered to Show Cause in Mail Seizure Case
In St Louis on Friday Judge Finkelnberg granted a motion by Mississippi Valley Trust Company acting as receiver for several failures to turn over mail. Postmaster Frank Wyman was ordered to appear in court next Tuesday to show cause why the mail for American Reserve Bond North American Investment and Colonial Securities should not be handed to the receiver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Finkelnberg
United States Circuit
Mississippi Valley Trust Company
American Reserve Bond Company
North American Investment Company
Colonial Securities Company
Frank Wyman
Wyman
Colorado Items From State News Broad Summary
A Colorado roundup reports on a state forestry course at the State Agricultural College a large Fourth of July fund drive in Central City and a Colorado Springs Christian Endeavor convention set for June 14 to 17. It notes deaths, a snow slide in Summit county, rural route expansion for Monte Vista, a new Elbert commercial club, a Denver Pioneer ladies aid picnic, many marriage licenses, salary increase for Bishop Olmstead, a Kentucky saddle horse sale to General Palmer, Kremmling’s Moffat road celebrations, Fremont mine upgrades at Colorado Fuel and Iron, a notable old cottonwood tree in Greeley, beet growers seeking rail access at Lone Tree, a National Letter Carriers home site study at Colorado Springs, mining drilling contests in Boulder, a large State Normal School alumni reunion, extensive fish rearing by Dal DeWeese, a Silver Plume aerial tramway project, lightning injury near Pueblo, Denver school scholarships, Gunnison tunnel progress, a pardoned Cripple Creek saloonkeeper, and pro forma compliance with Sunday closing laws.
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State Agricultural College
Central City
State Christian Endeavor Convention
Colorado Springs
Thomas McCasland
Equitable Life
Denver
St. Louis
Montezuma
Summit County
Monte Vista
Elbert
A. G. Cornforth
J. E. Meyer
Colorado Pioneers’ Ladies’ Aid Society
Eliteh
Episcopal Church of Colorado
Charles 3
Olmstead
Kentucky
W. J. Palmer
David Castleman
Kremmling
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
Fremont
Greeley
Abigail Dunham
Lone Tree
National Letter Carriers’ Association
Boulder
Chautauqua Auditorium
Dal DeWeese
Grape Creek
Canon City
Leavenworth Mountain
Silver Plume
Pueblo
Fisher
St. Charles
Howard Moore
Moore
East Denver High School
Calla McCausland
University of Colorado
Edith Sawyer
Colorado College
Joseph Weinberger
Jacob J. Lieberman
University of Denver
Methodist Churches of Denver
Irene Lloyd
Roy Correa
Cripple Creek
Leeds
Teller County
McDonald
League of
Anti- Saloon League of
Colorado
Asmussen
Denver delegates assure support for Jewish Hospital pavilion
Denver delegates to the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives report backing for a new $10,000 women’s pavilion and a $6,000 chapel at East Colfax Avenue. Ground is broken and buildings are to be finished by fall. A trades school, English instruction for patients, and a post discharge loan fund are proposed with early financial pledges from Philadelphia Chicago and St Louis totaling about $20,200.
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Denver
National Jewish Hospital For
Chicago
East Colfax Avenue
Alfred Muller
Hospital Association
Baron de Hirschland
Samuel Grabfelder
Philadelphia
Colorado
America
Grabfel
St. Louis
GORMAN'S SUCCESSOR IN THE U S SENATE NAMED
Baltimore news reports Governor Edwin Warfield appointed former Maryland governor William Kinkey Whyte to fill the United States Senate seat vacated by the late Sen ator Arthur Pue Gorman. Whyte, aged eighty two, takes office to serve until January 1908 and then until March 1909 for a full term. Whyte had previously been governor in 1871 and a U S senator in 1874.
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Baltimore
William Kinkney Whyte
Arthur Pue Gorman
Maryland Democracy
United States
Edwin Warfield
Gorman
United States Senate
Whyte
Senate
Maryland
Presbyterians seek site for Colorado college in 193? synod meeting
In Colorado Springs, the Presbyterian Synod committee reviewed offers from Denver Delta Canon City Pueblo Grand Junction La Junta and Rocky Ford to host a new Presbyterian college. Seventeen of eighteen members attended and a sub committee of five will examine inducements and report to the eighteen in October for action at the synod conference starting October 9.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Presbyterian Synod of
Colorado
Wyoming
Presbyterian Group of Colleges
Alamo Hotel
Denver
Delta
Canon City
Pueblo
Grand Junction
la Junta
Rocky Ford
J. L. Weaver
E. W. Work
Royal Gorge Interurban railway progress update
The Canon City and Royal Gorge Interurban railway reports payday along the line with nearly 20000 dollars distributed to workers and local merchants. Nine miles of roadbed are finished, bridge abutments nearly in place, five steel bridges due this week, track laying expected in ten days, ties delivered, and telegraph poles ready to install.
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Denver
Canon City
Royal Gorge
Dead man found near Ouray Colorado in snow
A New s special from Ouray reports a stranger found frozen in the snow by David Foster and W J Schroder near the Yankee Girl mine buildings after a snowslide. The body lay buried except for the head left arm and leg. Identity unknown but suspected to be Frank Schwartz. He was about forty feet from the Red Mountain road.
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Denver
Ouray
David Foster
W. J. Schroder
Frank Schwartz
Red Mountain Railroad Mining and Smelting Company
Yankee Girl
Red Mountain
Wireless mast connects coast to east by wireless link
A 216 foot mast was erected on Russian Hill by a local wireless telegraph company. The structure will serve as a San Francisco station linking with a Colorado branch, creating a wireless connection between the coast and the East.
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San Francisco
Russian Hill
Wireless
Colorado
Seven Years Ago Rochester Chemist Found Notable Kidney Remedy
William A Franklin of Franklin Palmer Chemical Co Rochester recounts using Deans Kidney Pills seven years ago to treat kidney failure. He cites back pain relief after three boxes and overall cure of irregular kidney secretions, noting the pills sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo for 50 cents a box.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rochester
William A. Franklin
Franklin & Palmer Chemical Co
N. Y
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Diamond Dealer's Mistake
A man tests an unset diamond in a jeweler shop and questions its quality. The jeweler criticizes its fire and cut, noting a near flaw but suggests a finer stone. The customer reveals the gem was on approval from an assistant, deposits $40, and asks for a refund to cancel the deal.
Odd Eating Customs Across Cultures
The piece catalogues peculiar eating habits from various societies. Peazilians avoid eating while drinking and vice versa, Tartars pull guests to drink, Maldive islanders dine in private, Ardra nobles share a cup, the King of Loango dines separately, Filipinos seek companions before meals, Kamchinka hosts heat guests with excess food, and Tahitians eat in isolation with each person’s own basket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ardra
Loango
Kamchinka
Food to Build Babies With Grape-Nuts Nourishes Growth
A Colorado mother credits Grape-Nuts with restoring her ill infant's strength after pneumonia brain fever and teething. After a Kansas City visit, feeding the juice and milk then Grape-Nuts helped the child gain weight and vitality. She notes her daughter thrived on the same food and promotes Grape-Nuts and cream as nourishing for children. The ad cites Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan and references The Road to Wellville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado
Kansas City
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Champion Woman Ball Thrower Sets 204-Foot Record
Miss Margery Belle of the University of Chicago high school claims the world’s best women’s baseball throw with 204 feet 2 inches breaking the six foot two inch previous mark. Belle, campus champion, throws with manlike technique and full arm swing. The report notes the prior holder was from Smith College.
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Margery Belle
the Unity of Chicago High School
Smith College
Belle
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Jewish Hospital
Colorado Institution For Care of Consumptives
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Royal Gorge Railway
Human Cigar Co
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Geo. A. Fullen
Saat Ba Lawrence
H. Wilson
Brown Cares Hotel
Hous Tineke
Unos Depot
Be Per Day Hotel
West
Dian
Oxford Hotel
Union Depot
Mon Morse
Mar
E. E. Burlingame & CO
Lawrence St
Cole
Reeves
Toth
Dune
A. T. Lew ‘Lewis ‘H Son Dry Goods Co
NAVY
Navy Khecrulting
Pioneer Building
Postoffice
Colorado House
Gutshall
Lawrence
Nock & Garside Manufacturers
Wasee St
Denver, Colo
Howard E. Burton
Leadville
Sference
Carbonate National Bank
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