Canal plans and education shifts spark 1907 reform talk
A Panamanian canal update notes rising excavation, labor costs, and Colonel Goethals defend expenses for health and work output. Miraflores replaces La Boca dam plan benefiting security, while a nation wide push funds agricultural teaching in public schools with $80,000 per state. Protests against open plains cattle and sheep farming reach President Roosevelt as naval and museum news surface.
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Wilel
Panama
Montis
Goethals
Congress
Miraflores
la Bom
la Beta
la Boca
Miraiores
Trade conditions show mixed signals amid labor worries
The Don's Review of Trade reports mortality in certain sectors rising versus a year ago while bank deposits and unemployed funds pile up. Coal labor troubles and looming railroad tariff changes dampen sentiment, though manufacturing demand remains cautious and construction picks up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Don
Trade and Crop Notes Mark Modest Improvement
New York reports irregular weather with warm spells and heavy rains while retail demand fluctuates. Cotton goods show price bottoms, wool orders rise, and carpets and silk ribbons see strong auction sales. Fall buying improves in New York Chicago and St Louis with better regional retail in the Southwest and Northwest. Pig iron quotas fail to steady markets and business failures in the U S for the week ending May 14 total 281 compared with 288 last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Chicago
St. Louis
Southwest
Northwest
United States
Canada
Tradstreet
Labor News From Around the World
A survey of international labor trends notes UK union membership around 1,200,000 with 4.3 percent unemployment over 1887 to 1906, amid organizing efforts in Mexico and Canada. It recounts new unions, eight hour laws, street lighting campaigns in Minnesota, and a growing international brass molders union with 10,000 members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Master Barbers’ Association
San Francisco
Cal
Associaon
Minneapolis
Los Angeles
Washington, D. C
Minn
France
Federation of French Manufacturers and
International Brass Molders’ Union of North America
The
International
Canada
Railiway
Ontario
Quebec
Alberta
British Columbia
New York State Labor Department
New York City
South
Texas
Oklahoma
Virginia
Tennessee
North Carolina
Alabama
Arkansas
Baltimore
Mad
United States Supreme Court
Chicago Cattle Prices and Grain Quotes Across Markets
A dense listing shows regional cattle quotes and grain prices for Chicago, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Detroit, New York, Milwaukee, Buffalo, and Toledo. Prices cover hogs, sheep, wheat No. 2, corn No. 2 and mixed grades, oats, rye, butter, and eggs with ranges indicating supply quality from fair to prime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Sheen
Bsc
Herre
Ste
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
New York
Toledo
Busts of Franklin and Washington at London American Embassy
Fire at Jamestown exposition grounds destroys arts and crafts village and several buildings. Reports claim 2,000 killed and thirty-six villages pillaged in northern Persia. New York City selects design for a skyscraper to house most municipal departments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamestown, Exposition
Persia
New York City
Debates, school fireproofing and college news across Minnesota
A Dakota Wesleyan team defeats Hamline in Hamline debates while St Olaf tops Gustavus Adolphus with a negative on municipal ownership. St Paul aldermen pass fireproof school rules. Rev Edwin A Schnell becomes Iowa Wesleyan president. James A Bull, longtime Minnesota agricultural advocate, dies in Edina Mills. A Wessington Springs seminary building is replaced at 20 840 dollars and Werlington contracts a 25 034 dollar school project. Minneapolis education board overrules Health Officer Hall and reinstates Roy Larsen at Seward school despite no vaccination. Wahpeton School of Science affiliates with North Dakota Agricultural College enabling junior entry and two years to graduate. Lindsley Pilkey case continues as Judge Simpson orders reinstatement. Nebraska State University Senate seeks resignations from two athletic board members over football policy changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dakota Wesleyan University
Hamline University
Hamline
St. Paul Aldermen
St. Olaf College of
Northfield
Gustavus Adolphus College of
St Peter
St. Olaf
Edwin A. Schnell
la Porte
Ind
Iowa Wesleyan University
Mount Pleasant
James A. Bull
Minnesota State Agricultural School
Edina Mills
Minneapolis
Wessington Springs
D. C
Wersington
Minneapolis Board of Education
P. M. Hall
Roy Larsen
Seward
Board of Trustees
State School of Science
Wahpeton
North Dakota Agricultural College
School of Science
Agricultural College
Lindsley
Pilkey
Simpson
Young Pilkey Conil Fipal
Nebraska State University Senate
A. T. Lees
T. L. Bolton
University Athletic Board
Lees
New York
Chronology of Historic Events and Births Listed
A fragmented list recounts dates and events from 128 to 1906, including foundations, battles, wars, political moves, and notable births and deaths. Notable items reference London fishmongers, Armada movements, royal battles, American independence actions, Napoleonic eras, and disasters in Quebec and Montreal.
Belgium Rail Disaster Kills Fifty Pilgrims Near Contich
A catastrophic Antwerp express collision with a pilgrims train near Contich caused about fifty deaths and over a hundred injuries. Surgeons and nurses, aided by Antwerp teams, converted the Contich station into a makeshift hospital as the wreckage was cleared and victims were transported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belgium
Contich
Antwerp
Hard Luck Tales Across Midwestern Waters and West
Reports of drowning near St Charles Missouri as brothers Benjamin and Joseph Henness perish while saving their sibling. A Brainerd Minnesota survey crew finds a decomposed corpse of an unknown man in a swamp, believed dead about two years. Ten Kenosha Wisconsin residents undergo Pasteur treatment in Chicago after hydrophobia from a playful bull pup. Mrs Patrick Joyce dies of a nosebleed at Waterloo Town after two weeks of hemorrhage. Charles Ankeny, old prospector, dies alone in the Black Hills mountains near Sheridan South Dakota after a long heart-related collapse. his body found days later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin
Joseph Henness
O'Fallon
Quivre
St. Charles
Brainerd
Minn
Kenosha
Wis
Pasteur
Chicago
Waterloo
Town
Patrick Joyce
Ilinois Central
Charles Ankeny
Black Hills
Sheridan
Pennington County
S. D
Ankeney
Presbyterian General Assembly Opens in Kansas City
The one hundred and twentieth General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America convened in Kansas City with leaders and foreign missionaries present. The retiring moderator delivered a sermon urging church collaboration to resist secular influences and evangelize across native and immigrant populations. The Chicago Presbyterians published church growth statistics showing total membership around 230,000 with major allocations to missions, education, and Sabbath work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church In
America
Twentieth General Assembly
Presbyterian Church
United States
Convention Wall
Kansas City
Willam Henry Roberts
Philadelphia
Roberts
Europe
God
Father
Jesus Christ
Christ
Lim
General Assembly
Loterior
Chicago
Presbyteria Church
Presbyterian
Fei Telephone settles Butte strike after 15 months
The Fei Telephone Company in Butte Montana ends a fifteen month line workers strike by conceding nearly all demands. The firm also drops several injunction suits used to jail union leaders, while a boycott had crippled service as merchants avoided using phones for fear of lost trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fei Telephone Company
Butte, Mount
Igbor
Crop fears rise as floods hit the South and unions plow fields
Farmers Co operative and Educational Union members start plowing cotton to hedge against a potential overcrop. Flood damage in the Southwest compounds losses while the New Haven railroad reports its largest quarterly deficit since the panic, at 668,537. Leaders of a new prosperity group negotiate with manufacturers to redirect price hikes to worker reemployment amid a cost of living decline of 12 percent, with declines in breadstuffs and other goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rednee Cotton
South
Farmers Co-operative and Educational Union
Descit
New Elaven
New Haven
Traction Bonds Wasted, New York Receiver Says
Receiver Whitridge reports about 36 million dollars paid for Third Avenue Street Railway bonds were wasted. No funds were spent on improvements, and now it is impossible to recover any money for bondholders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitridge
Third Avenue Street Railroay
New York
Senate winds through broad war over bills and adjournment
The Senate postponed further consideration of the Brownsville affair to December and debated voting on Foraker’s bill. It passed the House bill restoring In God We Trust on coins, and moved through currency, agriculture, and defense measures. The House sent to conference the Vreeland currency bill and general deficiency bill, while senators pushed for a quick adjournment and further tariff revision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brownsville
Senate
Foraker
Calberson
Texas
Rarner
Col
Willan FP
Stewart
Committee
House
Agricultural and Post Office
Court of Claims
Vreeland
Committee On Finance
Aldrich
Military Academy
Keifer
Ohio
Sherwood
Striet
United States
Appalachian Mountains
White Mountains
New Hampshire
Maine
Carter
Nostal Savings Bank
Inland Ways Commission
Minnesota
Committee of Ways and Means
Heyburn
Tolabo
Bulkeley
Connecticut
Twenty-fifth Infantry
National Capital Notes Summary of Early 20th Century Deals
A parcels past convention between the United States and The Netherlands takes effect July 1. Senate adopts naval appropriation bill with a $122 002 715 item. Secretary Garfield approves San Francisco 2001 Lake Eleanor Hetch Hetchy reservoir site for city water. House elections committee decides Anthony Michalek Sabath and Statler Kunz contests favor sitting members. President transmits Root proposal for an international opium investigation in the Far East with $20 000 funding and Shanghai commissioners to be sent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Netherlands
Senate
San Francisco
Lake Eleanor
Hetch Hetchy Valley
Yosemite National Park
Secretary of the Interior
Garfield
House
Anthony Michalek
Tihnoss
Versi
Sabath
Statler H. Kunz
Tlinois
McGavin
Congress
Root
Far East
Shanghai Inn
Notable New England figures and political figures in brief
Ex governor Frederick Holbrook of Brattleboro Vermont marks his ninety fifth birthday and remains among the last Civil War governors. Rev Dr Manning elected rector of Trinity Church New York guides one million dollar parish revenues. Rev F K Fisher in Boston preaches for modest clerical salaries. John S Leech named public printer by Roosevelt. Ignatius J Danly named for Nebraska at large. Victor C Vaughan heads American Physicians. Florida Senator William James Bevan dies in Washington. Bryan death noted as seventh Senate death in a year side by side with Morgan, Pulton, Mallory, Latimer, Proctor and White.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Massachusetts
Mecklenburg
N. C
Congress
United States
Napoleon I
Legion of Honor
England
Bonaparte
Napoleon F
Anholt
Denmark
Antoinette Crown Blackwell
Rochester
N.Y
South Carolina
Pendleton
Cape Diamond
Quebec
Free Church of Scotland
Daniel O'Connell
Liberator
Genos
Italy
County Kerry
Ireland
Smith O’brien
House of Commons
Montebello
Richmond
New York
Buffalo
Jeferson Davis
Fortress Monroe
Nar “Holeon L
Paris
Donald A. Macdonald
Ontario
New England
Frederick Holbrook
Bratfieboro
Holbrook
Bulewool
Vermont Savings Bank
Tolbrook
Lincoln
Grant
Ile
William Thomas Manning
Trinity Church
Morgan Dix
Manning
DR Manning
Trinity
United States Senate
William James Bevan
Florida
Washington
Browerd
Mallory
Bryan
Ber
Senate
Morgan
Pwttns
Maljbory
Latimer
Proctor and White
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Dink
Wille Green
Charlie. Brown
Sam
Wes
Roosevelt
American Huwane Association
Sydney Richmond Taber
Caroline Earle White
Mary Howe Totten
Navy Department
Abua Clark
Clark
Boston
Charles Bottineau
Mississippi
Turtle Mountain
North Dakota
Z. B. Bottineau
Nye
Bottineau
N. BD
United States National Museum
Stephen Decatur Smith
Wilson
S. Decatur Smith. de
Commodore Stephen Decatur
Richard Somers
Tripoli
Army
Navy
Rhode Island
Degray
Japan
United Kingdom
Mexico
Franklin
London
Fenonson Gleces
London T Fishmongers’ Company
Dae Tasos
Battle of Strutton
Queen Apke
Fort Sandusky
Oho
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Alexandria
Egypt
Louis Riel
Riel
Suakim
Manchester Ship Canal
Gen. Butler
Duke
South Africa
Michigan
Church
Dr. Roberts
Presbyterian General Assembly
New National Prosperity Association
Bradystreet
Work OF Congress
National
Fred B. Fisher
Temple Street
F. K. Fisher
Odist
John S. Leech
Bloomington
Philippines
Senane Collom
Biers
Victor C. Vaughan
Ann Arbor
Mich
Association of American Physicians
Nebraska
Ignatius J. Dany
Wm. Jennings Brian
United
Ste Dauo
Cir Attorneys
Omaha
Ignatius J.pux N
WiHian H. Crane
George Ade
Father and the Boys
Segain
Mr. Crane
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