Roosevelt to call congress in extraordinary session on November 9
President Roosevelt plans an extraordinary session starting November 9 to tackle the Cuban treaty and tariff issues. Democrats gain time to push tariff questions while Republicans aim to limit debate after the regular session begins December 7. Rural Free Delivery is debated amid post office scandal talk, with rural interests insisting on maintenance and growth.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Street Cars Run Again in Dubuque After Guarded Return
Dubuque Iowa street cars resumed Sunday service with four militia companies guarding the company’s property. There was no disturbance reported as operations continued normally.
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Dubuque
King Peter Praises Belgrade Gala Reception Program
Geneva reports King Peter expresses satisfaction with the Belgrade reception plan. The event will feature a gala theater performance marking the visit and its ceremonial significance.
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Peter
Geneva
Belgrade
Jews Denounce Russia Rally in Hyde Park
Thousands of East End Jews gathered in Hyde Park London to protest the Kishinev massacre. Speakers in Yiddish denounced the Russian government and resolutions expressing sympathy with the victims were adopted unanimously.
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London
East End
Hyde Park
King Peter I Named Serbia's Monarch After Belgrade Coup
An official Gazette note proclaims Peter Karageorgevitch king of Serbia, vowing to avenge King Alexander and Queen Draga. Russia welcomes the accession but urges investigation of the regicides and warns against punishing the Serbian nation as a whole. Religious co religionists pray for the departed rulers and blessing on King Peter’s reign.
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ST. Petersburg
Peter Karageorgevitch
Servia
Peter
Alexander
Draga
Belgrade
Balkan
Russia
Kingdom of
Servian
Peter I
Odessa Jews Safe, New Police Chief Vows
General Arsf eff, Odessa's new police prefect, told a rabbis delegation that Jews in Odessa may pursue their occupations without fearing anti-Semitic outbreaks.
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Odassa
ST. Peterspurg
Arsfeff
Odessa
Harriman Net in Control
Salt Lake City dispatch reports the Harriman system will not direct Clark road operations though traffic arrangements between the Salt Lake to Los Angeles line and Harriman roads exist. The Clark road will trade with all roads entering Salt Lake City per official Tribune statement.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
the Tribune
Clark
Salt Lake
Los Angeles
Metcalf Removed Over Printing Money Order Contract Bias
Postmaster General dismisses James T. Metcalfe, superintendent of the money order system, after findings of actions favoring Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford over lowest bidder Paul Herman of Rutherford New Jersey. The letter cites involvement with Herman and a bid withdrawal suggestion, signaling potential conflict of interest and improper influence in awarding the contract.
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Washington
James T. Metcalfe
Post Office Department
Paul Herman
Rutherford
N. J
Wynkoop-Hallenbeck- Crawford Company
New York
Metcalfe
Payne
Postoffice Department
Wynkoop-Hallenbeck-Crawford Company
Herman
Hermann
Wynkoop-Hallenbeck-Crawford
Mr. Herman
Wynee
General Wynee
Wynkoop
Hallenbeck-Crawford Company
Council Probe Into Dalton Street Railway Friction
A select council special committee investigates an accusation that eight members conspired to extort 400 dollars each from the Dalton Street Railway company. The council's last meeting failed to pass the franchise due to a broken quorum by opponents.
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Scranton
Select Council
Dalton Street Railway Company
Aid Sought for Flood Sufferers by Court of Honor
Springfield Illinois A L L Hereford supreme chancellor of the Court of Honor asks local courts to aid flood victims in Missouri Iowa and Illinois who have lost homes and property to the disaster.
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Springfield
Ill
A. Ll. Hereford
Court of Honor
Missouri
Iowa
Illinois
Death Toll Rising as Heppner Search Expands
Heppner reports show the death list growing beyond prior estimates with many shifts of workers and corpses found nine miles away. The tally of identified and buried bodies may reach two hundred. Otis Bullis of Tower City, North Dakota, aged 28, is added to the missing.
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Heppner
Cal
Otis Bullis
Tower City
N. D
Live Stock Market Report from South Omaha
Cattle market shows general steadiness with light and handy weights selling firmer while heavy cattle draggy. Hogs open about 2 1/2 to 5 cents lower with bearish close. Sheep quotes for clipped stock and various grades listed, with lambs and feeders priced across multiple categories.
Cattle and hog markets hold steady amid mixed livestock quotes
Cattle market unchanged with native steers at 3505 15 dollars and Texas and Indian steers at 2750 4.25. Texas cows at 200 4.75 and stockers 225 4.40. Hogs steady with bulk sales around 5.90 to 6.00 per hundredweight and packers at 5.85. Sheep and lambs show minor movement with lambs near 4.25 to 6.90 and ewes around 5.00.
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Texas
Cleveland denies any bid to return to politics
The World quotes former President Cleveland from Princeton denying any interest in a fourth presidential candidacy. He says he has no desire to reenter political life and aims to live peacefully with his family, has not contacted or been contacted by any political leaders, and expects no nomination efforts in any state.
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New York
the World
Princeton
N. J
Cleveland
Washington
Two Negroes Shoot Bridge Carpenters on Santa Fe Freight
In Hutchinson Kansas John Newman of West Plains Missouri was shot and killed and Robert Moss, also from West Plains, wounded on a Santa Fe freight train early Friday as they walked toward harvest fields after quitting a bridge van. The assailants, two African American men, attempted to rob them leading to a fight.
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Hutchinson
Kan
John Newman
West Plains
Robert Moss
Death of William C. Van Benthuysen World editor
William C. Van Benthuysen of the World editorial staff died Friday at about 47. He leaves a widow, three sons, and two daughters.
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New York
Wiliam C. van Benthuysen
the World
Czar Accepts Kroushevan Book on Bessarabia
The czar has accepted a copy of M. Kroushevan's Bessarabia book, editor of an anti Semitic paper in Kishinev. The report from St. Petersburg dated June 17 says Kroushevan was attacked by Jews in a street there and stabbed in the neck by a former student of a polytechnical school.
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Kroushevan
ST. Petersburg
Czar
Novoe Vremya
Bessarabia
M. Kroushevan
Kishinev
Kteff
Ten Die as Trains Collide West of Cedar Falls
Ten people killed and two seriously wounded in a double train wreck one mile west of Raymond hill on the Illinois Central. The eastbound passenger and westbound freight crashed due to a misunderstood order. Waterloo engineers Griffin and Stoneman among the dead. seven bodies recovered by relief train.
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Waterloo
Cedar Falls
Rawmond
Illinois Central
John R. Griffin
D. J. Bantz
F. L. Groom
Dubuque
Charles Morran
Independence
George Hurd
Raymond Hill
Aittle
Hanna denies vice presidential bid no matter the nomination
Senator M A Hanna reiterates he is not a candidate for vice president and would decline any nomination. He says his ambitions lie away from the White House and has no interest in the role. Colonel Myron T Herrick also says his sole aim is to be Ohio governor and calls the VP talk ill timed.
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Cleveland
M A. Hanna
White House
Myron T. Herrick
Ohio
Herrick
Cable Ready for Alaska Puget Sound Link
General Greeley reports 580 miles of submarine cable from New York to Seattle. Remaining 750 miles will be shipped in August. First long seamless rubber cable made in the United States. Captain Edgar Russell sails to Seattle for laying work, followed by Colonel James Allen in August to supervise.
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Washington
General Greeley
Puget Sound
Alaska
New York
Seattle
United States
Edgar Russell
Signal Corps
James Allen
Robbers Take the Stamps at Rhodes Post Office
Des Moines reports thieves broke into the Rhodes Marshall County post office twenty miles northeast and looted all stamps held by the postmaster. Loss expected to reach 31,000 dollars.
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Des Moines
Rhodes
Marshall County
Flooding Drives Families From Fraser River Farms
Vancouver reports widespread inundation as the Fraser river spills over un dyked low land. Farmhands lose contact with communities, and areas above the Pitt river see hundreds of acres of meadow land flooded. Mission residents move household goods to higher ground by boat or canoe as river floors flood.
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Vancouver
B. C
Fraser River
Pitt River
Mission
The Foolish Virgins and a Sunday School Quiz
Bishop Potter amuses friends with a tale of visiting a Sunday school class. He asks a bright little girl who are the foolish virgins and she replies The answer is Thomas didn't get married.
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Potter
Thomas
Red Cross Ball Blue laundry soap sale at grocers
A brief advertisement urges readers to use Red Cross Ball Blue to keep clothes white. Available at grocers for 5 cents a package.
Pocket Picking Declares Labor Of The Hand
The great Inventor states one labor must be done by hand. A reporter asks what it is and the answer is pocket picking with a ghoulish grin.
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Porter
Hall's Catarrh Cure and a Buncha Marriages in Michigan
William Hulbert of Buchanan Michigan has married for the seventh time before age sixty. Of his seven wives two come from one family and two from another, with three losses to death or divorce. The seventh wife was won via an advertisement in an Eastern paper. Hulbert is a stonemason noted for nerve. Defiance Starch outsells competing brands due to quantity and quality, storekeepers report.
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William Hulbert
Buchanan
Mich
Hulbett
Dr Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer Elusive Cure Claims
An advertisement promises Stops the Cough and Works Off the Cold with Bromo Quinine Tablets and a $3.00 trial bottle of Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Restor er. It asserts reform is good but reformers err and urges readers to send to Philadelphia for the remedy.
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Price .E
Dr. Kline
BR. Kipre
Arch Street
Philadelphia
Cure for Consumption in infallible medicing
N. W. Samus of Dveen Grove New Jersey advertises a cure for consumption as an infallible medicine for coughs and colds dated February 17, 1900.
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N. W. Samus
Dvean Grove
N. J
Youthful Bishop Fawcett Joins Episcopacy in Quincy
Rev. Dr M Edward Fawcett is elected Protestant Episcopal bishop of Quincy becoming one of the churchs youngest bishops. Born November 1 1865 in New Hartford he studied at Northwestern University and moved from the Methodist to the Episcopal Church in 1896 after serving as lay reader and rector at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer Elgin.
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M Edward Fawcett
Quincy
Methodist Church
Dr. Fawcett
New Hartford
Northwestern University
Methodist Episcopal Church
Episcopal Church of the Redeemer
Elgin
Kaiser's souvenir bark strip seals Empress injury memory
A bark strip placed in the Kaiser Wilhelm room recalls the Kaiser's action in Grunewald on March 27 1903 when he used the bark to finish the first temporary bandage on the Kaiserin s broken arm. The strip rests among silver and gold artifacts with a museum label explaining the incident.
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Hohenzollern Museum
Ormuz
Ind
Grunewald
Kaiserin
Grape-Nuts touted as powerful brain food in testimonial
A former court stenographer narrates recovery from a nervous breakdown after relying on Grape-Nuts. He credits regular use for mental strength during murder case testimony and urges others to consider the product, citing digestion as proof it suits even weak stomachs. The ad notes a recipe book included in each package.
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State Hospital For
Lincoln
Neb
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
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