Roosevelt Sees Sound Business Conditions in 60th Congress Speech
President Roosevelt declares business conditions sound yet warns against hoarding money and calls for stronger currency safeguards. He urges national incorporation or licensing of railroads, updated anti trust measures, civil service style supervision of large interstate firms, postal savings banks, and expanded coast defenses and naval readiness.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Parcel Post
Department of Justice
Interstate Commerce Commission
Busibus
Fire destroys tobacco barn north of Lawrenceburg
William Stephenson of Lawrenceburg reports his barn and 75 acres of tobacco burned to ashes in suspected arson. He moved from Kentucky seven months ago after alleged pressure from the Society of Equity and received threatening letters and a cash offer to halt planting. The loss is estimated at 3500 dollars and investigators pursue possible incendiary motives linked to tobacco interests.
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Lawrenceburg
Ind
William Stephenson
Here
American Tobacco Company
Course in Love Making Sparks War in Greenfield Illinois
In Greenfield Illinois a high school project on love making sparks a local uproar. Superintendent H G Russell and his wife will lead a 23 pupil class including 10 girls in a study of courtship through literature. The course aims to teach both defense and offense in romance.
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Greenfield
H. G. Russell
Russell
Indiana official urges stricter powder laws after Fontanet blast
Indianapolis special report states State Factory Inspector Blakely, in his report to Governor Hanly on the Fontanet Dupont mills explosion, calls for tighter Indiana powder manufacturing laws. He cannot fix blame for the blast, finds the cause unexplained, and labels the company as careless though noting some precautions. He rejects the hot box theory.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Hanly
Dupont
Fontanet
Blakely
Indiana
Britain Faces Unrest in Natal Over Zulu Conflict
Pietermaritzburg Cable reports murders and outrages in Zululand, including the killing of two chiefs allied to Great Britain. The Governor issues a proclamation to strengthen forces in Zulu land and calls on all to aid in restoring order.
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Pietermaritzburg
Zululand
Great Britain
Natal
Ban on Mo and Miss Vienna Cable Emigration Caution
Government warns against emigrating to Missouri and Mississippi unless Austrian sources confirm safety. Action follows complaints about the treatment of Austrian workers in those states.
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Vienna
Missouri
Mississippi
Plan Gift for Mitchell in Hazleton Fund Drive
A movement in Hazleton Pennsylvania aims to raise twenty thousand dollars among the United Mine Workers of America as a testimonial to John Mitchell upon his retirement as union president.
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Hazleton, Pa
United Mine Workers of America
John Mitchell
Death of Oscar II. Sweden’s King Dies at Palace in Stockholm
Stockholm reports the death of King Oscar II at 9 10 Sunday morning in the royal palace. His passing prompts Oscar Gustave Adolph, Duke of Varmland, to take oath as Gustav V in the afternoon and assume the throne for Sweden.
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Stockholm
Oscar II
Sweden
Sophia
Oscar Gustave
Oscar Gustave Adolphe
Varmland
Council of State
Grustave V
Gustave V
Grand Gallery
Lindman
Princes of the Blood
Carl
Oscar
Vermiand
Gustave
Napoleon
Bernadette
Europe
United States
Great Briton
Norway
Presbyterians May Adopt Church Textbooks In Des Moines
National missionary conference in Des Moines debates adopting Presbyterian Church textbooks to replace International books after ten years of Sunday school attendance without adequate Bible knowledge.
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Des Moines
Presbyterian Church
National Missionary Conference
Girl and Brother to Hang in Kidnaping Case
Nicolina Gebbia and her brother Leonardo Gebbia have been sentenced to death by hanging as accessories to the murder and kidnapping of eight year old Walter Lamana in Helenville Louisiana. The pair participated in a plot that resulted in the boy's abduction last spring.
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Helenville
Nicolina Gebbia
Leonardo
Walter Lamana
Gebbias
Taft's Mother Dies After Prolonged Illness
Milbury Massachusetts Sunday morning Yoda special death at the bedside of Mrs Louisa Maria Taft mother of William H Taft secretary of war announced after a week of expected decline.
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Taft
Milbury
Mass
Louisa Maria Taft
William H. Taft
Lynch Mob Slays In Genoa After Rent Dispute
In Genoa Italy Giuseppe Quattrocchi and his wife kill their landlord Anthony Bianchi his wife and nursing baby and three older children. A mob captures the couple and executes them before an electric trolley in a deadly train-line mob justice ending with both spouses torn apart by the car wheels.
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Genoa
Italy
Giuseppe Quattrocchi
Anthony Bianchi
Goldfield Labor Rally Blames President Roosevelt Over Mines
A Goldfield Nevada special reprints a union appeal denouncing President Roosevelt for sending federal troops to mines. The statement condemns the use of troops and scrip, cites the Monongah WV disaster, and urges workers nationwide to protest the federal action and capitalist control.
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Goldfield
Nev
Western Federation of Miners
Roosevelt
West Virginia
Esmeralda County
Wells Fargo Express Company
Monongiah
W. Va
Monongah
Government halts twenty dollar gold piece due to edge defect
Philadelphia report states the new twenty dollar gold pieces are discontinued until new dies are finished. About 123000 coins have circulated. The defect is a rough wire edge from high pressure to form the concave design. New dies are being crafted to fix the edge while preserving the existing design.
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Philadelphia
Roosevelt Declines More Terms Amid Public Support
President Roosevelt reportedly told Samuel Watts that he cannot serve beyond his present term and is grateful for American support, adding that somebody else must carry on the work. The remark, seen by many as settling doubts about his intentions, reflects Pennsylvania backing.
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Supreme Court
Department of Justice
Mississippi
Columbia
Pacific
Atlantic
Gulf
Congress
Canada
Teddy
Washington
Roosevelt
Samuel Watts
Pennsylvania
Monongah Mine Disaster Strikes West Virginia
Five hundred men entombed after a double explosion at Consolidated Coal Mines Nos 6 and bordering the West Fork river near Monongah. Rescue efforts continue as authorities fear most men are dead and could take weeks to recover while families wait near the shafts.
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Monongah
W. Va
Consolidated Coal Company
West Fork River
Buffalo Bill Denies Pact With Gould in Divorce Saga
Buffalo Bill Cody says he heard Howard Gould paid English witness Helen Mar for her testimony and that Gould offered 50 000 to testify. He denies ties to Katherine Clemmons and notes Miss Mar described confidences about Clemmons.
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Cody
Gould
Denver
Col
Howard Gould
Helen Mar
Miss Mar
William F. Cody
Buffalo Bill
Katherine Clemmons
Miss Clemmons
Col. Cody
Berlin Ban On Mormon Public Meetings
Hessian authorities restrict Mormon emissaries from Salt Lake City who aimed to persuade girls to join their church in Germany after Saxony set a similar precedent.
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Berlin
Saxony
Germany
Salt Lake City
Chicago Lands G. O. P. Convention
The Republican national committee selected the Chicago Coliseum as the site for the 1908 party convention, to be held on June 16.
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Chicago
Washington
Republican National Committee
Chicago Colliseum
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