Beef Prices Rise Amid U S Shortage in 1907
New York reports a beef supply squeeze with prices up one to two cents per hundred pounds. By early June 1907 the cost was about one third higher as packers warn of shortages and potential imports from England. Chicago confirms prices for beef and canned meats will rise by one to two cents per pound due to cattle and canning shortages.
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Nhew York
United States
Seatila
England
Chicago
Chicago Packers
Jersey Hubby Wins Prize for Economy
A wife recounts frugal household methods used to save money. The husband tightens spending by counting groceries, limiting staples, and tracking cups of tea and coffee. He reportedly left home when more than $20 a week was requested for expenses.
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Widsen
Eckhard divorce petition filed in New Jersey chancery court
Mrs Minnie Eckhard seeks a divorce from Henry Eckhard citing cruelty and control. Married October 7, 1885, they separated after he left the home following disputes over allowances, finances, and household management. She alleges rigid frugality and miserliness harmed their 11 year old son and daily life.
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New York
Mra
Minnie Eckhard
Henry Eckhard
New Jersey Chancery Court
Ludil Cottegors
Eckhard
Ars
Furniture van plummets 200 feet at Palisades fall
A heavily damaged furniture van drawn by three horses tumbled 200 feet down the Palisades near Alpine opposite Yonkers. Driver James Ladine survived with chest and rib injuries after the crash, while the horses and load were destroyed. Police witnessed dust plumes suggesting a massive impact.
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New York
James Dadine
Palisades
Alpine
Yonkers
Hudson
Ue Beach
Pancakes Spark Grievance in Connecticut Employment Case
Waterbury June 10. Grace Schoemaker allegedly consumed 23 pancakes and a large slice of fried ham as a working sample of appetite. Miss Sarah Peck Judson, owner of Judson Inn Watertown, claims forty one months wages at ten dollars per month for serving as the house employee. The case notes she woke boarders with large feet, and disputes include chores ranging from lawn mowing to feeding chickens and pushing a wheelbarrow.
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Waterbury
Conn
Grace Schoemaker
Sarah Peck Judson
Judson Inn
Watertown
Dervish Wins Ocean Race In Bermuda Shield
In Hamilton Bermuda on June 10 the schooner yacht Dervish owned by Commodore Henry Morse of the Corinthian Yacht Club won the Marblehead to Hamilton ocean race in class B. She finished at 12 49 in the morning with no other class B boats in sight at daylight. Union Pacific Issue Declared by Directors.
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Dervish
Hamilton
Bermuda
Henry Morse
Corinthian Yacht Club
Marblehead
President's Africa hunting trip plan announced
Washington reports outline Secretary Loeb and President Roosevelt plans for a prolonged Africa hunting expedition preparing for Cairo to Lake Victoria routes. The trip aims to be long, away from civilization, with guides, minimal press presence, and possible distinguished participants.
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Washington
Loeb
Roosevelt
Kermit
Harvard University
Africa
United States
Taft
Germany
England
New York
Cairo
Upper Nile
Lakes Albert
Victoria Nianza
Bombasa
British East Africa
Cape-to-Cairo
Europe
Mediterranean
Nile
Chicago
Boy Swims Miles to Save Three Lives in Sea Rescue
Selby Harrington a 14 year old Georgetown youth swam two miles through stormy Chincoteague bay to save his sisters and cousin after a small boat capsized. He reached shore almost exhausted and then, with local fishermen, returned to rescue the three others.
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Georgetown
Del
Selby M. Harrington
Chincoteague Bay
Harrington
Wlor- Fe
Ruth
Clarice Harrington
Selby
Embezzlers Sentenced to Ten Years in Penitentiary
Pittsburg June 3 Henry Reiher and John Young former paying teller and auditor were sentenced to ten years each in the penitentiary for the embezzlement of 1 105 000 from the Farmers Deposit National Bank.
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Pittsburg
Farmers’ Deposit National Bank
Henry Reiher
John Young
Cat Attacks Leave Five Hurt in Brooklyn Street Rampage
A large gray stray cat ran through a Brooklyn street injuring five people before being killed with a club. Victims were advised to seek pasteur treatment. In other notes, Sal Halley Willis of the United States Geological Survey cites China's coal reserves at about 605.6 billion tons.
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New York
Brooklyn
Pasteur
Sal Halley Willis
United States Geological Survey
North
China
Eight Killed In A Street Car Collision At Annapolis
An Annapolis street car wreck on the Washington Baltimore and Annapolis Electric line left eight dead and many injured. The general manager W E Slaughter was badly hurt but recovering. Officials fault confusion in orders for the collision as the cause and promise further investigation.
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Annapolis
Washington
Baltimore
French Praise Iowa Girl's Voice at Debut
Paris June 9 Miss Flora Wilson daughter of James Wilson United States secretary of agriculture a pupil of Jean De Reszke had a successful debut at a concert in the Gaveau hall Society and prominent members of the American colony were present Miss Wilson possesses a voice of pleasing quality and she was repeatedly encored.
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Paris
Flora Wilson
James Wilson
United States
Roosevelt Reappoints River Commission Members
President Roosevelt, unable to secure congressional action on inland waterways, reappointed the River Commission during a June conference of governors. The action preserves continuity of commission work as the nation faces continued waterway concerns.
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Washington
Conference of Governors
Congress
Roosevelt
Woman to Probe White Slavery Traffic Abroad
Washington plans for the first time to send a woman to Europe to investigate the traffic in girls brought to the United States for immoral purposes. Officials refuse to name the investigator, saying advance notice would jeopardize success. The probe targets organized networks and officials suspected of protection while noting many entrants are dupes or undesirable immigrants.
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Washington
Europe
United States
O Ae
Sama
Bank Clearings Show Continued Gains in New York
Bank clearings across leading centers rose with a one day timing shift affecting weekly returns. For five days ending Thursday the total was 205,108,000, down 20.3 percent from six days last year and 18.9 percent from 1906. Removing the extra day, average daily clearings for June reach 451,085,000 versus 455,144,000 a year ago, a sign of improvement led by New York City due to stock market activity.
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New York
Dan
New York City
Montana Cities Cut Off From Outside World by Floods
Salt Lake City reports Butte and Holonaang in Montana are practically cut off as heavy rains flood central Montana streams and rivers. Rail traffic is disrupted, waters overflow lands threaten bridges and cause washouts along multiple rail lines.
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Salt Lake City
Holonaang
Butte
Mont
Clarksford
Missouri
Yale Crew Ban On Actress And Ice Cream Parlor Angers Team
Gales Ferry Connecticut June 8 Yale crew coach John Kennedy bans both actresses and ice cream from training. Miss Dallas Tyler Frohman companion has leased Captain Kit Brown's old store beside the quarters for an ice cream parlor and plans to earn summer pennies from cavemen and their friends at crew quarters. Kennedy reminded oarsmen that neither ice cream nor actresses belong in routine training.
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Conn
Yale
John Kennedy
Dallas Tyler
Frohman
Seve Yeers
Kit Brown
Kennedy
Raymond Hitchcock Faces Charges of Little Accusers
New York June. Raymond Hitchcock, the comedian, was brought to the criminal branch of the supreme court to answer charges by three young girls. In a prior trial on similar charges the case collapsed, Hitchcock was remanded to Tombs Prison without bail as the session adjourned until next Monday after Hitchcock’s counsel conferred with the justice following the first juror’s selection.
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New York
Raymond Hilthcock
Supreme Court
Hitchcock
Tombs
Esperanto Taken Up by Good Templars
Washington June 8 The introductory of Esperanto the world language in the census of study of the Order of Good Templars was debated by delegates at the convention. Interpreters would be needed to explain speeches to foreign delegates after each English address.
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Washington
Order of Good Templars
Typhoon wrecking SPS kills 270 near landfall
Wistorid B C June 6 The Cane Gjan Australian liner Mangia haw arrived with news of a wrecking Typhoon disaster near Thure day to land. About 20 Australian pearl divers were lost and 270 other crewmen from Malays Manila Japanese Kanokan perished or were missing. Survivors recount harrowing experiences as ships burned and sharks waited for exhausted survivors to fall overboard.
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Wistorid
B.C
Austral Tivateine
Thureday
Thorts
Manila
Seatac
DROWNED IN FORTY FOOT POND NEAR JAMAICA BAY ON WEDDING EVE
New York June 6. Jonnie al prin, age 11, drowned at Forty-foot Pond Jamaica Bay while out with his sweetheart Mish Yond creek. He swam beyond three yards before a cramp pulled him under. Miss Halprin and bystanders tried to help but could not reach the bottom. Several young men diving failed to save him.
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New York
Jonnie Alprin
Tsadore Mirkinson
Jamaica Bay
Mirkinson
Mish Yond Creek
Mise Halprin
Ald Coudh
Miss Halprin
Baron Says Woman Jilted Him in Paris Society
Paris report details a Swedish baron denying engagement to Mrs. Chance, wife of Dr. Chance, and threatening suit for breach of promise after her London marriage. Mrs. Chance asserts no engagement existed, noting a written acknowledgment that the baron had no claim.
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Baron
Paris
Chance
London
King
Chicago
Socialists protest King Edward visit to Russia
In the House of Commons socialists and labor members denounced King Edward's planned state visit to Russia. They warned of Muscovite horrors but opposed only the state visit while privately accepting a personal visit to Emperor Nicholas. The motion condemning the visit failed by 285 to 69.
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London
House of Commons
Edward
Russia
Nicholas
Great Britain
Fin Majesty
Police raid nets prisoners in Gotham gambling sweep
New York June 6 A spectacular raid on two West Forty-seventh street houses probed gambling operations. Police dashed up in autos and arrested 68 prisoners as crowds gathered. revolvers were drawn and a large cache of gambling paraphernalia seized from the raided homes, one previously owned by Honest John Kelly.
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New York
West Forty-seventh Street
Theater District
Walch
Honest John" Kelly
Flood threat to utopian metropolis in Dickens inspired tale
In St. Louis on June 6 a curious float voyage unfolds as J. W. Appleton of Missouri Point, Mo. drifts down the Mississippi with family, 12 pigs, three cows, two horses and poultry aboard a raft built for flood relief. The raft, an enormous railing enclosement, aims for high ground as floodwaters cover Appleton’s farm. Food for people and animals accompanies the expedition, which has yet to land.
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Marionity
Muldrow
Charles Dickens
Mark Twain
Scudder
Martin Chuzzlewit
Mulberry
J. W. Appleton
Missouri Point
Mississippi River
Appleton
H. P. Belmont Gravely Ill Feared to Undergo Operation
Oliver H. P. Belmont is reported gravely ill with appendicitis at Brockhurst Villa Meadowbrook L I and may require an operation. The news comes from New York on June 6.
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H. P. Belmont
New York
Oliver HP
Pele Mount
Brockhurst Villa
Meadowbrook
Two Boys Drown In Swollen Hooper Creek
Adama Nebraska, June 6. George and Scott Burke, sons of a local farmer, drowned last evening in Hooper creek which had swollen greatly from recent rains. The tragedy occurred near their home as floodwaters rose after a period of rainfall.
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Adama
George
Scott Burke
Hooper Creek
Heir of 10 Million Estate Vows to Help 20000 People
Los Angeles news reports on a man who recently inherited a large sum from an aunt and plans to create a trust or program to aid 7,000 to 20,000 people. He aims to establish a while he travels between towns, expressing belief in reshaping lives through philanthropy despite doubts from others.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Jung
Maanchuawig
Barryington
Oble
Tablet Unveiled On Hamburg America Steamer Lincoln Memorial
A ceremony aboard the Hamburg American Line steamer President Lincoln unveiled a tablet bearing Gettysburg Address. Attendees included Governor John Franklin Port of New Jersey, Captain Tanners, Lt. Commander W. S. Stra, President Nicholas Murray Butler, Mrs Kate B E Jones, Warren ew Gon, and Grand Army of the Republic officials and supporters.
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New York
Grand Army
Hamburg
Mra
Kate BE. Jones
Women's Fiellef Corse
Warren Ew Gon
Grand Army of the Republic
Murder charge in case of wealthy Kansas City horseman
John Mason a well known Kansas City horseman disappeared January 3 and was found murdered. His body exhumed in Camden Point Missouri showed two fractured skull wounds. Jewelry linked to Mason found in pawnshop. suspect Wix, from a prominent family, named as last person seen with Mason. Mason’s uncle is a Missouri postmaster at Butler.
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Serseee
Tassaoe
John Mason
Kansas City
Mason
Camden Point
Minsouri
Hin
Mason Waa
Wix
Maron
Neem
Missouri
Butler
One-Prohibition Vote Nominates Sheriff Candidate
Roy C. Sullivan, defeated for sheriff nomination on the Republican ticket in the recent primaries, received a single vote for sheriff on the Prohibition ballot. He believes he was the only county man voting Prohibition who backed him, which would place him in nomination and prepare for a fall race.
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Cherokee, Ie
Roy C. Sullivan
Iowa Student Goes Insane in California
Waterloo IA student P C V Canfeld, studying at Leland Stanford Jr University, suddenly became insane while in the university library. He was overpowered and taken to San Jose by the lunacy commission.
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Iowa
California
San Francisco
Waterloo
Leland Stanford, Jr
San Jose
Flooded Rivers Ravage Crops Around Onawa Iowa
Heavy rainfall over two weeks flooded the West Fork and Sioux rivers near Onawa Iowa. Crops in the valleys and on the Hats suffered extensive damage before waters began to recede, with some corn acreage potentially replanted.
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Onawa
West Fork
Sioux
Condition Of Crops On Percentage Basis
Des Moines Ta June George A Wells secretary of the Omaha Grain Dealers association and crop expert issues his first report noting overall better conditions than last June despite heavy precipitation. He lists growing conditions versus last year with winter wheat 102 percent spring wheat 98 barley 102 oats 102 and compares acreage with winter wheat 104 oats 101 barley 101 rye 90 and flax 90.
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Des Moines
George A. Wella
Omaha Grain Dealers’ Association
Action to Set Aside Deed for $75 000
Sensational developments surround an effort by heirs of Dante Francia to set aside the deed to the Francis property valued at 75,000. Fletcher Brown, agent for the Preachers' Aid, visited the Francis home and took papers. he was cited to appear and explain the action.
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Heira
Dantet Francia
Francis
Preachers’ Aid
Fletcher Brown
Inday
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