Change Postal Laws Proposed to Eliminate Assistant Postmaster General
Washington considers abolishing the four assistant postmaster general offices and creating a director of posts with seven assistants to oversee a reorganized postal service in fifteen districts. The joint congressional investigation committee bills propose continuity of policy, new district superintendents, and minor law changes to modernize accounting and management.
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Washington, D. C
Postal Service
United States
Joint Postal Investigation Committee of Congress
Congress
Commission
Post- Office Department
Meyer
Penrose
Pennsylvania
Dolliver
Iowa
Clay
Georgia
Overstreet
Indiana
Gardner
New Jersey
Moon
Horrific Jubilee in Vienna Honors Emperor Francis Joseph
A diamond jubilee celebration in Vienna dazzled the city with electric lights and searchlights. Enormous crowds caused a deadly crush with four killed and about 140 injured, while officials planned decorations for 3,400 recipients.
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Hofburg
Census Study Predicts 12 Million Census Cost
Director North states the next U S census will cost 12 930 000 dollars, only 410 000 more than 1900. He cites foreign born growth and language barriers as key challenges while urging merit based clerk appointments from eligibles lists despite non competitive exam requirements.
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United States
Washington, D. C
North
Rich purse for preacher 40 000 given to Grace Church rector
The Rev Dr William R Huntington rector of Grace Church New York received a voluntary sum exceeding 40 000 from his congregation as a token of esteem on his seventieth birthday and after 25 years of ministry. He planned to resign but was urged to stay on.
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Grace Church
New York
New York City
William R. Huntington
Huntington
Counterfeit $5 Silver Certificate Warns Birmingham Banks
Banks in Birmingham Alabama warn customers after the discovery of a counterfeit five dollar silver certificate. The note features an imperfect Indian head and a curved "Washington, 1, C." line, with the mill and overall design closely resembling the genuine bill. Authorities urge vigilance as rumors of more fakes circulate.
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Birmingham
Ala
Washington, 1, C
American fleet returns toward home on world voyage
The 16 ship fleet led by Rear Admiral Sperry heads from Manila toward Colombo and Suez after nearly a year abroad. Ports from Colombo to Gibraltar host receptions as the fleet plans to reach Hampton Roads or New York by February 22 after covering about 42,227 miles.
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Manila
Philippine Islands
Sperry
Hampton Roads
Japan
China
Oriest
Mediterranean
Europe
Manila Bay
Colombo
Ceylona
Suez
Suez Canal
Port Said
Athens
Tripoli
Ville Franche
Marseilles
Genoa
Leghorn
Malta
Naples
Algiers
Gibraltar
New York
United States
Paul Revere Ride Not Yet Made Says Letter Publication
New York publisher Walter Benjamin releases a letter from John Hancock to Elbridge Gerry dated Lexington April 18 1775 at 9 oclock claiming Hancock knew British troops moved toward Concord at that hour which would have aroused Middlesex before Revere supposedly rode to raise the alarm.
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New York City
Walter Benjamin
Paul Revere
Longfellow
Mr. Benjamin
John Hancock
Elbridge Gerry
Lexington
Revere
Medford Town
Concord Road
Benjamin
Hancock
Committee of Safety
Concord
Middlesex
Secretary Straus to preside at Southern Commercial Congress
Secretary of Commerce and Labor Straus will preside over the Southern Commercial Congress in Washington on December 7 and 8. Others to perform the duty later include Philip Werline of New Orleans, J. E. Smith of St. Louis, C. H. Davis of Petersburg, and Judge George Hillyer of Atlanta.
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George Hillyer
Montgomery
Ala
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Straus
Washington
Philip Werline
The
Progressive Union
New Orleans
J. E. Smith
Business Men's League
St. Louis
C. H. Davis
Chamber of Commerce
Petersburg
Atlanta
Roosevelt
White House
Gordon Leech
New York
Rickeard CG. Morse
International Young Men's Christian Association
Commerce and Labor
Massive Cottonwood River Flood Leaves 3000 Homeless in Guthrie
After a 48 hour downpour the Cottonwood river and tributaries overflowed, flooding homes in Guthrie Oklahoma. The river rose one foot higher than its historic maximum, leaving about 3,000 residents homeless and seeking shelter as water covered vast areas.
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Guthrie
Oklo
Japan and U S Agreed Notes Exchanged on Far East Policies
In Washington the United States and Japan exchanged diplomatic notes defining their Far East policies. The exchange, witnessed by officials, is a moral reaffirmation rather than a treaty and aims to support peaceful Pacific development without Senate action.
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Washington, D. C
Elihu Root
United States
Kogoro Takahira
Japan
Far East
Root
Bacon
Masanao Hanihara
Babcock
Senate
China
Tang Shao Yi
State Department
Kentucky Counties Day Reports Dry and Wet Counties
A Kentucky anti saloon league statement says 93 of 119 counties are dry, 21 partially dry, and 4 entirely wet with a county vote in court. Four wholly wet counties are Jefferson Louisville Kenton Campbell and Nelson. Scott County’s local option result is being contested in court.
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Louisville
Kentucky
Kentucky Anti-Saloon League
Jefferson
Kenton
Campbell
Nelson
Scott
Divorce Rates Rise Across United States, Census Reports
The census compiles twenty year divorce and marriage data from 1887 to 1906 showing divorces rising faster than population. By 1906 the rate was 82 per 100000 with 945625 divorces from 1887 to 1906 and 12882044 marriages in that period.
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Washington, D. C
United States
138 Killed in Pennsylvania Mine Disaster
In Marianna Pennsylvania the Marianna and Agnes coal mines of the Pittsburg Buffalo Coal Company suffered a catastrophic explosion entombing more than 133 miners. Rescue efforts reached the shaft but bodies were found scattered and unmoved, with air denied by damaged ventilation. Authorities weigh gas pocket ignition or gas seepage from a Fulton farm well as possible causes.
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Pittsburg
Marianna
Pittsburg-Buffalo Coal Company
Rachel
Thompson
Ten-Mile Creek
United States Laboratory and Testing Station
Fulton Farm
Washington County
Pennsylvania
Fatal Rear End Collision Dispatch
In Birmingham area Alan J. N. Gaston a conductor was killed and three others injured when a rear engine struck the caboose of the forward train on the Southern railway forty miles west of Birmingham. Both engine and caboose rolled down a high embankment.
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Birmingham
Alan J. N. Gaston
Southern Railway
Pope’s Condition Worsens. Vatican Audiences Suspended
At Rome the pope’s condition has deteriorated with fever, forcing all Vatican audiences to be suspended indefinitely. Physicians say the illness is not serious, but public concern grows as the pontiff remains in bed.
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Rome
Italy
Vatican
Haitian capital in peril as rebels near Port au Prince
Dispatches to the state department indicate revolutionists under Auguste Simagn are advancing on Port au Prince. The Nord Alexis government and the city are likely to fall as the Haitian capital comes under threat.
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Washington, D. C
State Department
Auguste Simagn
Nord Alexis
Port-Au- Prince
Invention to Propel Airships by Denver Inventor
In Denver Colorado Thomas H Cates claims a tubular double propeller powered by an electric motor that provides lifting and propulsion for airships. Eight six foot tubes with a drifting capacity of 2400 pounds and a total weight of 1590 pounds will be built. The propeller draws in air and throws it under the craft like steamer screws.
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Denver
Col
Thomas H. Cates
Germany backs Japanese American accord says Berlin
The German foreign office welcomed the Japanese American agreement on China and the status quo. Washington says Berlin approved it fully as aligned with German interests and a large scale of liberality and goodwill.
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America
Berlin
Germany
State Department
Washington
German Foreign Office
China
Far East
United States
Foreign Office
Japan
Standard Oil Fined Faces Supreme Court Writ Request
Government asks Supreme Court to issue a writ of certiorari on the Standard Oil rebate case. Attorney General Bonaparte filed the petition seeking review of the Seventh Circuit reversal of Judge Landis ruling, which fined Standard Oil $29,000,000. Granting the writ would delay the court’s decision until after the holidays.
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Supreme Court
Washington, D. C
Bonaparte
Supreme Court of the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals
Seventh Circuit
Landis
Standard Oil Company
Loan Company Fails in Macon Georgia Receiver Appointed
Equitable Bank and Loan Company of Macon closed its doors and a receiver, R. L. Anderson, was named by Judge Felton of Bibb superior court. Mobilities about $110,000. assets range from $60,000 to $70,000. The firm operated as a building and loan association, not a strict bank.
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Equitable Bank and Loan Company
Macon
R. L. Anderson
Felton
Bible Superior Court
Postal deficit hits record level in 1908 report
Postmaster General Meyer reports a 1908 deficit of 16 975 222 dollars on receipts of 203 361 886 dollars with 37 056 dollars loss from fire and burglary. He urges a director of posts and rural route expansion to gain revenue and aid farmers via a limited parcel post pilot in up to four countries.
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Washington, D. C
Meyer
Department
Postal Service
United States
Congress
Estimated Cotton Crop Total Reaches 12.8 Million
The report gives the estimated total cotton crop at 12,800,000 bales. It notes figures refer to actual growth and exclude linters repacks and similar additions.
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New Orleans
Times-Democrat
Alabama
Arkansas
Georgia
Florida
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Mississippi
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Co & Ba
Six Men Die In Oakwood Salt Mine Shaft Incident
In Detroit area Oakwood six workers were suffocated when a ventilation can tube clogged at about 200 feet down the shaft. The air supply failed and the shaft filled with gas while they toiled in the salt mine project.
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Detroit
Mich
Oakwood
MANY CHINAMEN ESCAPE AT SAN FRANCISCO DOCK
Twenty one of 116 Chinese detainees at the Pacific Mail dock escaped from the Second and Brannan streets sheds as immigration officers weighed entry. Four were recaptured in Chinatown and others pursued as guards cut wire netting and bars to slide down a water pipe.
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San Francisco
Cal
Pacific Mail Dock
United States
Second
Brannan Streets
Chinatown
Night Riders Indicted in Captain Rankin Case
Nineteen indictments allege involvement of night rider gang members in the murder of Captain Quentin Rankin of Union City Tennessee. The grand jury issued the charges after Rankin was hanged and shot during a Walnut Log lynching and began probing night rider raids in the Reelfoot Lake region.
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Captain Rankin
Union City
Tenn
Quentin Rankin
Walnut Log
Rankin
Reelfoot Lake
Tenngsee
British naval plans exceed combined strength of two powers
The House of Commons heard Premier Asquith unveil naval plans designed to push Britain’s fleet beyond the combined strength of any two nations by one percent. The question of including the United States remained unresolved as he declined to state his stance.
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House of Commons
Asquith
United States
San Francisco
Francis J. Henry
Chicago
Laing Ching Kwai
Sherman House
Mary Isabel Mead
Florence
N. J
Miss Mead
Joseph Orscher
New York City
Orscher
Washington
National Conservative Commission
Southern Commercial Congress
South
National Rivers and Harbors Congress
National Council of Commerce
Commission On Country Life
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U.S
U. S
Pacific
Pope
Haiti
Night Riders
Gifford Pinchot
Commercelal
Appalachiin Range
Inntern
Utah
Secretary of the Navy
Bethlehem
Carnegie
Midvale
Diplomatic Corps
Fairbanks
Charles S. Bromwell
Archibald Butt
Hunington Wilson
Admiral Dewey
Navy Department
John F. Weston
Philippine Forces
Department of California
Fred A. Smith
W. P. Duvall
Philippine Command
Rockhill
Pokin
International Opium Commission
Shanghai
Strauss
Department of Commerce and Labor
Immmeration Service
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