Roosevelt taunts Delavan Smith over Panama Canal critique
President Roosevelt singles out Delavan Smith of the Indianapolis News for harsh critique of the Panama Canal sale to the United States. The article notes Roosevelt’s sharp language and broader targeting of editors William Randolph Hearst’s Sun and others amid ongoing political battles over canal property and related finances.
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Ne Springs
Roosevelt
Annanias Club
Delavan Smith
Indianapolis News
Fairbanks
Panama Canal
United States
Vare
Douglas Robinson
Charles P. Taft
William Dudley Foulke
Indiana
Civil Service Commission
Foulke
William al Batman
New York
San
Sun
Odie
Buch
LAMBASTS UNCLE JOE Governor Guild Attacks Speaker
Boston dispatch reports Governor Curtis Guild criticizes Speaker in a magazine piece, accusing him of blocking an emergency arms bill that could have saved soldiers in the Spanish American War and the Philippine insurrection. He blasts the Speaker’s methods and character amid wartime critiques.
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Boston
Mass
Uncle Joe
Curtis Guild
Congress
Evans Refuses Gift House in Los Angeles
Rear Admiral Bob Evans, retired, declines a proposed gift house from Los Angeles donors after being named chairman of the Los Angeles Harbor Company. He states the people who know him will understand he does not want to be placed in a position of accepting a house or any other present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Bob Evans
F. McArule
Twe
T.sn.l
National Correspondence School of Railroading
Michigan Ave
30Th St
Chicago
Champ Clark Chosen Minority Leader in House Caucus
In Washington Champ Clark of Missouri was named minority leader by a unanimous vote of Democratic members. The suggestion came from retiring minority leader Senator elect John Sharp Williams of Mississippi.
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Washington
Champ Clark
Missouri
House of Representatives
Clark
John Sharp Williams
Mississippi
Sea Claims Fifty Dead in Severe North Atlantic Storm
Halifax special reports more than fifty seamen have died recently off the upper North Atlantic coast due to an unprecedented storm. The toll may be higher, with ships reporting heavy losses at sea.
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Halifax
N. S
North Atlantic
Airship Contest Planned in Berlin and Cologne 1909
The Sixth German Aeronautical League announces international contests to be held in Berlin and Cologne in 1909 open to various flying machines.
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Frankfor-on-the-Main
Cable
German Aeronautical League
Berlin
Cologne
John W Gates to Run Circus in Texas Galveston
John W Gates announces a new independent circus venture to tour with the Bostock Animal Shows and Rhoda Royal horses. The show, linked to his New York Hippodrome experience, will be the largest tented event outside the combine and represents about 2 million dollars in investment.
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Galveston
John W. Gates
Combine
Bostock
Rhoda Royal
Gates
New York Hippodrome
Beveridge Plans GOP Reorganization After Goodrich Exit
Indianapolis dispatch reports James B. Goodrich resigns as Republican State Central Committee chairman, signaling a party overhaul to be led soon by Senator Beveridge with plans to reorganize the GOP structure.
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Beveridge
Indianapolis
Ind
James B. Goodrich
Republican State Central Committee
Sea Fighter Coghlan Dies After Long Navy Career
Rear Admiral Joseph Bullock Coghlan U S N retired died suddenly at 64 in New Rochelle after a long naval service from West Point era through the Spanish American War and Navy Yard commands. His recital of the poem Hoeh der Kaiser sparked controversy with German authorities years earlier.
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New York
Joseph Bullock Coghlan
New Rochelle
Coshian
Charles Chamberlain
Sutton Manor
Apparous
Coghlan
Frankfort
United States Naval Academy
Muntia Tay
Goring
Raleizh
Owas
Mire Island Navy Yard
League Ishimd Payvy Yard
Puget Sound Naval Station
Naval Air College
Manila
Thaw’s Prison Writings Spur Free-Status Plea
Harry Ik Thaw’s prison tale A Beginner in the Alps appears in Eastern publication. Reproduced here at the request of Thaw’s mother and sister to show that one deemed insane could write sensible work. Friends say Mrs. William Thaw and her daughter vow to continue efforts to free Larry from the asylum.
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Pittsburg
Harry Ik. Thaw
Alps
Thaw
William Thaw
Larry
Panic at a Funeral in Wabash House Floor Collapse
At the funeral of Mrs. Della Dunfee in Wabash a floor collapse sent mourners into panic. The residence floor gave way while viewing the body. no injuries were reported and the casket was moved safely. Mrs. Dunfee weighed 500 pounds and was noted as Wabash County's largest woman.
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Wabash, Ind
Della Dunfee
Wabash Counts
District of Columbia ends segregated service in public venues
A decision by Corporation Counsel Thomas requires hotels restaurants cafes ice cream parlors soda shops and barber shops in Washington DC to serve colored persons in the same room and at the same price as white patrons.
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Washington, D. C
Thomas
District of Columbia
Dance to Raise Divorce Cash in Lynn
Mayo B&B sponsor a subscription dance in Lynn Massachusetts to fund banker Breed’s divorce expense. Tickets cost five dollars each and are selling rapidly as Breed aims to sell one thousand tickets.
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Lynn
Mass
Mayo B&b
Breed
Stephenson Declares $106,000 Spent on Senate Primary
United States Senator Stephenson reports spending 106000 to win renomination in the Milwaukee area primaries. The filing details the amount used in the race and the campaign effort to secure renomination.
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Senate
Milwaukee
Special
United States
Stephenson
Mother Slayer Acquitted in Chicago Portrait Case
In Chicago a coroner's verdict exonerates Estelle Stout in the shooting of Henry Hornberger after a dispute over a portrait. Spectators cheered as Stout proclaimed innocence while Hornberger's widow cried out for punishment. Stout said she fired as her sister struggled with Hornberger, believing he threatened to kill them.
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Chicago
Estelle Stout
Henry H. Wernberger
Miss Stout
Hornberger
George Chambers
West Adams Street
Miss Stont
Sister-Defense Fatal Shooting in Chicago
Miss Mstelie Stout shot and killed Penny Hornberger during a confrontation over a deceased sister’s portrait. Stout says she fired to save her sister Miss Stout from an armed assailant. both women were taken to the police station where Stout grew hysterical upon learning Hornberger’s death.
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Chicaso
al Legen
Siscer
Mstelie Stout
Penny Hornberer
Aveni
Enhareginsei Corn
A. Chomubers
Stet
Hornberger
Miss Stout
Arkansas Diamond Field Found in Pike County
Arkansas Diamond Company filed articles of incorporation after acquiring the Pike county diamond field in Arkansas. A report by John T. Fuller, former manager of DeBeers mines in South Africa, notes a discovery of 510 diamonds, surface and wash, surpassing African mine yields for a comparable period. The field’s diamond-bearing rock is peridotite and occurs in a pipe like South Africa’s, resembling its essential characteristics.
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Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas Diamond Company
Pike County
Arkansas
John T. Fuller
DeBeers Company
South Africa
Assassin Kills Gen Ismail Mahir Pasha in Constantinople
Gen Ismail Mahir Pasha a former aide to the sultan who investigated the army revolt last May and was seen as a spy of the old regime was assassinated in the Stambouli district of the city.
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Constantinople
Ismail Mahir Pasha
Stambouli
Elopement Shock at U S Indian School Carlisle
A sensational tale from the Carlisle Indian School reports Joseph Twin a Cherokee and Lystia Wahoo a Winnebago planning to elope. Twin a former baseball player and staff member sought permission from Superintendent Friedman but left with his fiancée after hours in an automobile.
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Carlisle
States Indian School
Joseph Twin
Lystia Wahoo
Twin
Rover
Friedman
Joseph
Lystin
Liystia Wahoo
Prudence
C. M. Stauffer
Priscilla
Jover
Ade’s Horses Fail To Win at Livestock Show
Chicago writer and Kentland farmer George Ade watched two horses Barons Best and Baron’s Heir fail to win ribbons at the livestock show. Judges awarded the Clydesdale championship to Alexander Galbraith of DeKalb Indiana, and Ladylike was named champion mare.
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Chicago
George Ade
Kentland
Ind
Oval
Baron Best
Baron
Alexander Galbraith
DeKalb
Roosevelt narrowly escapes as fire wagon jams brakes
Washington Special President Roosevelt nearly suffers injury when a heavy fire hose cart driven by Lieut. J. B. Lyons halts to prevent a collision with the President's carriage. The five horses charged past before Lyons pulled them up, the wagon sustaining slight damage as firemen responded to a fire at Representative Frank O. Lowden's home.
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Washington
Roosevelt
J. B. Lyons
Frank O. Lowden
Illinois
Bachelors Worse Than Booze Sparks Temperance Rally
Miss Leonora Lake of St. Louis stirred 2,000 temperance reformers in Lynn Massachusetts by declaring she now considers bachelors worse than liquor, denouncing men who run drink dives as the country’s greater evil.
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Lynn
Mass
Leonora Lake
St. Louis
Reading Pa. winter forecast via goosebone reading
A winter forecast from Reading Pennsylvania cites Eliis A. Hartz lineage predicting cold and stormy weather from December 15 to February 1, followed by a mild spell, then renewed storms until spring. Two severe snows expected to disrupt rail traffic and long periods with subzero temps plus a large ice crop anticipated.
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Reading
Eliis A. Hartz
Special Auto Race Plan Aboard Cross-Continent Event
Seattle special reports that Alaska Yukon and Pacific directors urge M. Robert Guggenheim to use his American Automobile Club influence to back a New York to Seattle race with a trophy for the winner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Wash
Special
Alaska
Yukon
Pacific
M. Robert Guggenheim
American Automobile Club
New York
Taft Offers Burton Treasury Secretary Portfolio
Washington special representative Theodore Burton of Cleveland has been offered the treasury secretary post by President elect Taft and is weighing the proposal.
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Burton
Washington, D. C
Theodore Burton
Cleveland
Taft
Secretary of the Treasury
Garden of the Gods Given to City by Perkins Heirs
The Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs will become city property by gift from the children of the late Charles E Perkins ex president of the Burlington railroad. Perkins acquired the tract in 1879 and kept it open to the public as his wish was to keep the scenic area accessible to all.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Charles E. Perkins
Burlington Railroad
Perkins
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