Supreme Court Rules Adair Wrong To Fire Labor Member
The Supreme Court held Adair could discharge an employee for union membership, overturning a lower ruling and affirming the right of employers to act based on membership in labor organizations. Justice McKenna dissented defending the labor protection law. Other items note the liquidation of the National Bank of North America and railroad accidents with injuries in Ohio and Cincinnati.
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Washington
Adair
Louisville &, Nashville Railroad Company
Congress
Mckenna
Supreme Court
United States District Court
Eastern District of
Kentucky
Souteville & Nashville Railroad Company
Coppage
Chicago
Haring
Mail Thieves Take $5000 in New Orleans Robbery
Daring armed robbers held up a United States mail wagon on the Queen & Crescent route near downtown New Orleans. Two men stopped the wagon and rifled at least two mail sacks, stealing about $5,000 while the driver and clerk were held at gunpoint. No injuries reported. Police detained driver 8 J Smith and clerk Barney Simmons for questioning.
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New Orleans
United States
Cincinnati
Queen & Crescent
Post Office
Barney Simmons
J. Smith
Buenos Ayres Crowns 1907 Budget After Senate Impasse
Excitement in Buenos Ayres as an executive decree closes the extraordinary sessions. The 1907 budget is enacted for the year amid senate obstruction by non attendance. President Alcorta says the country will remain tranquil and that the government can enforce its decisions.
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Buenos Ayres
Congress
Senate
Alcorta
Cyclone Sweeps Tennessee Killing One Near Sweetwater
A cyclone swept Pond Creek valley near Sweetwater Tennessee on January 28 killing James M Cassidy of Blue Springs and injuring five others. Cassidy’s wife was fatally injured and their home was demolished. Edward Everett of Pond Creek lost his house with three children and his wife badly hurt while Everett survived unscathed.
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Sweetwater
Tenn
Pond Creek Valley
James M. Cassidy
Blue Springs
Edward Everett
Pond Creek
Everett
Back at Work as Mills Resume at PottaVillo
Two open hearth furnaces restarted in PottaVillo Pennsylvania on Monday along with full operation in the 19 inch and 33 inch rolling mill departments of the Eastern Steel Company. The Beles Cagnaron company collieries employ many workers following a restart. A man suicided at Woodlawn cemetery by ingesting poison after grief over his wife’s death. William Caldwell, son of James E. Caldwell, president of Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph, died by his own action at his father's residence.
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Pottavillo
Eastern Steel Company
Iso
Beles Cagnaron On
Kitts
Conirda
Woodlawn
Nashville, Tenn
William Caldwell
James E. Caldwell
The
Cumberland"Telephone and Telegraph Company
Wealthy medical figures die rich with last words and fortunes
The British Medical Journal notes dramatic last words from doctors and lawyers including Nothnage and Darwin. It lists fortunes left by peers and medical men such as Blandell Jenner, Gull, Armitage, Wilson, and Clark, totaling several hundred thousand pounds to over a third of a million.
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Nothnage
British Medical Journal
Traube
Lacock
Cuvier
Charles Bell
Dyce Davidson
Aberdeen
Astley Cooper
Bright
Chambers
Benjamin Brodie
Oliver Goldsmith
William Hunter
Pasteur
Darwin
Mirabeau
Cabanis
Lord Brampton
Murphy
K. C
Atill
Blandell
Wil Mam Jenner
Wil Mam Gull
T. R. Armitage
Erasmus Wilson
Andrew Clark
Modern Hindu Woman in Lahore Changes Rise in Social Norms
The Punjab Journal notes a shift in Lahore as native gentlemen allow ayahs to air children and some bold men take wives out in the evening. A woman of position was seen with her husband on a railway platform wearing English attire and appearing unveiled, signaling relaxed traditional restrictions.
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Lahore
Punjab Journal
Official Accident on the Railway Cries Of the Injured Storkholders
A garbled exchange cites Mr Dustin Stax claiming the railway suffers from an accident with cries of injured stakeholders. The dialogue notes confusion about the incident and the president of the road is referenced in fragmented terms.
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Dustin Stax
The
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Monuments Plan Spurs Dante Tomb Lounging Rivalry
The Italian Dante society proposes twin lamps for Florence Santa Croce and Ravenna Dante tombs as symbols of enduring fame. Florence bears Polenta arms, Ravenna uses Alighieri marks, with mutual funding reflecting Dante’s exile and wanderings between cities.
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Dante
Dante Society
Florence
Ravenna
Santa Croce
Florentines
Venice
Hell
Florentine
Guido Novello da Polenta
the Alighieri
Rome
Fienole
Easton Printer Granny Snyder Faces Repeated Narrow Escapes
Easton Pa. Granville B Snyder known as Granny, a longtime local printer, recounts a life of near misses from childhood to adulthood. He survived a 110 foot fall, near drownings, a copperhead bite, a hand snag on a moving coal train, and risky firearm accidents, insisting he was destined for a natural death.
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Easton
Granville B. Snyder
Granny
Mount Ida
Lehigh Canal
Peter M. Correll
Bank Street
Ureless
Copperhead
Lehigh
James Herring
New Jersey Central Railroad
Fourth Street
Death Over Falls After Canoe Trip Tragedy
Alfred Jackson a 22 year old Providence clerk dies frozen at the Pawtucket river falls after his foot traps under a rock while brothers Arthur 20 and Hart T Mathewson 19 from East Providence were carried over in a canoe. Rescuers fight cold water for hours but fail to save him as others are saved.
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Providence
Clerk Ie
Falla
Alfred Jackson
Pawtucket
Pawstucket
Jackson
Arthur
Hart T. Mathewson
East Providence
Alfred
Mathewson
Rhode Island
Adelard Potvin
Lfe
Ike
Clinton Westcott
Iad
German Railway Stations Feature Restaurants in Waiting Areas
Readers note that most German railway stations include dining facilities in the main waiting rooms. The trend shows rail hubs offering on site eateries as a standard amenity for travelers.
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Germany
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John W
Gates
Toilers’ Organization
McKenna—Railroad
New York
National Bank of North America
Charles A. Hanna
National Bank Examiner
Ridgely
William F. Havemeyer
Salem
Youngstown & Ohio Electric Railway
Cullen
Here
Martin
Garfield Pines
Tennessee
Giotto
Lepahan
Persia
Nan
Man
Brother
Bryan
John Strook
Gort
Kansas City
Frank Bebleich Heson
Emhergency Hospital
Schietch
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