President Cassatt Dies in Philadelphia at 67
Alexander Johnston Cassatt president of the Pennsylvania Railroad died suddenly at his Philadelphia home from heart disease. He had suffered illness for a year and contracted a whooping cough from his grandchildren in Bar Harbor. His death followed a rapid heart attack with his wife and daughter at his side.
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Philadelphia
Alexander Johnston Cassatt
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Cassatt
Wir
Bar Harbor
Haverford
ME Cassatt
Daghter
W. H. Lunkett Stewart
Europe
Interstate Commerce Commission
Officials Indicted Over Prussian Bond Transaction
New York figures George W. Perkins and Charles S. Fairchild were indicted for forgery in the third degree by the grand jury. The case centers on a Prussian bond transaction and a false statement by the New York Life Insurance company to satisfy Prussia’s government. Perkins appeared in court and posted $10,000 bail. Fairchild is in Europe.
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New York
George W. Perkins
New York Life Insurance Company
Charles S.fairchild
Secretary of the Treasury
New York Life Insurance’ Company
Prussia
Perkins
Fairchild
Europe
Relief Ships Available for Chinese Famine Mission
Quartermaster General Humphrey informs Secretary Taft two transports, the Buford and the Warren, at San Francisco, ready to carry relief supplies to famine sufferers in China. Taft will seek congressional authorization to use one vessel for the relief mission.
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Washington
Humphrey
Taft
Buford
Warren
San Francisco
Congress
Griscom to Leave for Rome as Ambassador to Italy
United States ambassador to Brazil Lloyd C Griscom paid his farewell visit on President Penta before departing January 2 to assume the post of ambassador to Italy.
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Griscom
Rome
Rio
Ty Janeiro
Lloyd C. Griscom
United States
Brazil
President ‘Penta
Italy
Brownsville Shooting Witnesses Testify in Riot Inquiry
George W Rendall and wife testified in the Purdy investigation in Brownsville Texas about soldiers firing from the garrison during the riot night. Mrs Kate Leahy and Herbert Elkins corroborated, with 20 citizens testifying to similar accounts. Photographs of bullets and a Springfield army bullet found in a mirror will be sent to Washington. The inquiry set to finish Saturday.
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Brownsville
Texas
George W. Rendall
Sy Fort Brown
Kate Leahy
Herbert’ Elkins
Scotland Rail Collision Kills 16 As Snow Dislocates Line
In Scotland near Arbroath a rail road collision caused by drifting snow left 16 dead and more than 20 injured on Friday. Police and railway officials investigated as trains were halted and rescue operations continued through the night.
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Scotland
Dundee
Arbroath
Progress of the Canadian West in Rail Growth and Settlement
The article notes rapid railroad expansion in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta, with over 11 000 miles by 1906 and 100 million dollars in construction impact. It highlights easing costs of living, rising grain output, new elevators and towns, and 189 064 settlers this year including 57 796 Americans choosing the Canadian West.
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Great Lakes
Canadian Pacific Railway
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Canada
West
Western
Senator Tillman Tops Lecturers In Pay on Platform
Prominent on the lecture circuit Senator Tillman of South Carolina reportedly earns more per year on platform talks than any other American speaker. An authoritative figure cites his net proceeds this year at 25000 from lecturing with a history of steady demand across seasons. Over the past four years he has saved more than 60000 from lecturing earnings. Henry Watterson and Champ Stark are noted as other high earners in this field.
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Senator Tillman
Senator Tillbarat
Henry Watterson
Champ Stark
Missouri
Brandreth's Pills Blood Purifier Ad Card
An advertisement promotes Brandreth's Pills as a superior blood purifier. It claims impurity harms happiness and health and urges daily use of one or two pills to purify blood, noting the product’s long history and wide availability in plain or sugar coated form.
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Brandreth
Wight
French Psychology Lecturer Tours U S Demonstrating Dual Identity Myth
Marie Pierre Feliux Janet, a University of Paris professor of experimental psychology, travels the United States giving lectures. The public widely regards him as a hypnotist, though his core aim is to show hysteria victims may embody two distinct persons.
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Marie Pierre Feliux Janet
University of Paris
United States
Hand Made Goods and Remedies Advertisements
A collage of consumer notices praises Castoria for infants and teething, plus remedies like Garfield Tea and laxative Bromine tablets. It quotes Oscar Straus on hand made articles and craftsmanship, contrasting machine made goods with personal artistic expression.
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Oscar
Straus
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
First Japanese Youth Joins Schoolship St Mary's Crew
Kattern Ariyoshi, 17, becomes the first Japanese youth admitted to the St Marys schoolship crew after securing a guardian, Captain Osborn, who will guide him through training. Ariyoshi, a three year veteran of the revenue cutter service in the Pacific, weighs staying in the United States against returning to Japan after graduation, hoping the experience aids merchant marine service. He says he would return promptly if Japan enters a war.
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St. Mary’s
Kattern’ Ariyoshi
Ariyoshi
Revenue Cutter Service
Pacific
Capt. Osborn
Osborn
Artyoshi
Japan
United States
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Pennsylvania Railroad
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Grove
Tryon Edwards
Defiance
Avery Bottie
Fiysy Ds
F.p.lewis
Peoria
Nichols
ST. Louis Seed CO
N. 4Th St
St. Louis, Mo
Wee
Jaques Mfg. CO
Chicago
Gulf Coast
Panhandle
D. Falfurrias Immigration Company
Kansas City
DRS. Thornton & Minor
Oak
Kansas CO
St. Lou
Carterser Pills
reMhacn
Ely
Ely Brothers
Warren Street
W.N. U
Free Farms
Ottawa
Crawford
Ninth Street
Milo B. Stevens & CO
Washington, D.C
Cleveland
Detroit
Cold Water
Siloux City
Iowa
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