President Orders Cut in Canal Zone Expenses
The president orders radical economy in the Isthmian Canal Commission, abolishing the auditor's office and placing auditing under the War Department. Purchasing duties go to an army officer while Joseph Bucklin remains secretary at 10000 a year. Several officials resign or are reassigned as the administration seeks to reduce spending.
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War Department
Army
Joseph Bucklin
Bishop
New York
Asthmus
David R. Ross
Ernest S. Benson
Maj. Hodges
Engineering Corps
Taft
Commission
Congress
Controversy Over Fairbanks Birthplace in Memoir
Indiana sons debate the birth cabin of Vice President Fairbanks based on a sketch and a claimed authentic photo from W H Smiths Life and Speeches. William Wolff Smith disputes the autobiography as inaccurate, alleging the cabin sketch was memory based and later embellished.
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Fairbanks
Indiana
Charles Warren Fairbanks
W. H. Smith
William Wolff Smith
Mr. Fairbanks
Tragic Fate Blights Life of Ambassador Speck von Sternburg
The German ambassador Baron Speck von Sternburg faces a disfiguring cancerous facial growth ending a promising career and social prospects for his American wife. Doctors worldwide seek cures as he undergoes treatment in health resorts and German spas while speculation of recall fades after a German foreign office denial.
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Baron Speck von Sternburg
Germany
India
Europe
Washington
Congress
Speck von Sternburg
Sternburg
Foreign Office
White House Undergoing Exterior Cleaning and Painting
The White House, with twenty painters at work, is being cleaned of a century of white lead paint. Virginia sandstone walls have suffered from dampness, heating limits, and peeling coatings. After scraping, the exterior will receive new coats of finish over several months.
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White House
Oyster Bay
Adama
President
Walla
Fair Play and the German Tariff Agreement Debated
A lengthy critique argues the German pact enables under valuation of exports and lets foreign producers undermine American industry. It cites the Chicago Tribune and American Economist praising fair play while condemning concessions that could shift tariff control to foreign interests and harm U S labor and production.
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Chicago Tribune
Economist
Tribune
Cedar Rapids Republican
Cedar Rapids
Cleveland’s tariff stance cited as main Democratic issue
A Mass letter-writer argues former President Cleveland, now 70, clings to old issues. He says Cleveland ignores postwar changes and should yield to Bryan and Hearst who now lead the party. The writer notes Cleveland’s outdated views and mocks his relevance.
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Mr. Cleveland
White House
Bryan
Hearst
Cleveland
Grover
Faherman
German tariff deal seen as stab at protectionism
The Washington Post argues the Germany pact undermines the protective tariff system by allowing Germany to sell more competitively in the United States. It claims a universal, fair treatment basis is violated and that extending such concessions to other nations would erode protection, except for Britain.
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The
Chicago Tribune
Germany
the Tribune
United States
Tribune
Cedar Rapids
Europe
State Department
Treasury Department
Washington Post
the Post
Congress
Great Britain
Tariff Debate and Protection Advocates
A letter argues the Dingley tariff protected infant industries and wages, warning that removing protection would invite cheap foreign goods, wage cuts, and business stagnation. It defends ongoing prosperity under tariffs and rebukes the Journal for opposing them.
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Chicago Journal
Europe
Churlington Hawkeye
Increases in Some Areas Under New Ohio Law
Statewide reports show saloon numbers did not drop as expected under the Aikin tax law. In six months there were 9,565 saloons paying half year taxes totaling 4,781,508 dollars, with some counties actually reporting rises while overall declines remained modest.
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Columbus, O
Treasuries
Colored strike breaker shot at Charter Oak mine boarding house
Aaron G Bowman, a colored strike breaker at Charter Oak mine, was shot in bed by a Winchester rifle through the house wall. The wound is in his shoulder blade and back. he is expected to recover. Miners in the area claim the shooting is part of nightly violence against strikebreakers. Mine manager Ebersbach offers $500 for the arrestee and conviction.
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Pomeroy
Aaron G. Bowman
Charter Oak
Willis Hill
Ebersbach
Bowman
House Was Stripped Urbana
During a heavy electrical storm in Urbana the Englehart residence suffered severe damage as the roof was torn off doors ripped from hinges and windows shattered yet the family escaped harm. The storm caused widespread damage across the county.
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Urbana
Englehart
Trust Members Are Sentenced in Ohio Antitrust Case
Toledo Common Pleas Judge Morris sentenced brick and lumber men convicted of violating the Valentin anti trust law and the bridge agents who pleaded guilty to infractions. The brickmen pay 1000 dollars and costs each. The lumbermen and the bridge agents serve six months in the workhouse and pay the costs.
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Toledo
Man amputates own tongue in cancer bid near Tremont City
John Geroa a Dellas Station resident and brain elevator man reportedly asked his doctor to operate and family to remove the cancerous growth then performed the self operation cutting his tongue completely just above the tonsils. He remains in critical condition.
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Springfield
John Geroa
Dellas Station
Tremont City
Practical Application of the Personae Non Gratae Principle
The text outlines a new German agreement stating that the general rule for personae gratae covers special agents and confidential agents dispatched by the treasury to investigate customs administration questions. It asks what occurs if these officials become personae non gratae due to overseas concerns about assessing the true values of German experts, as implied by the illustration.
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Treasury Department
Springfield Wins Bid for Next Ohio Odd Fellows Convention
The sixth annual session of the Ohio Odd Fellows ends with Springfield chosen to host the next convention. Newark and Enat Liverpool also sought the venue, but Springfield prevailed on the third ballot after officers elected last December were installed.
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Springfield
Toledo
Ohio
Odd Fellows
Newark
Enat
Liverpool
Speingfeld
New Serum Fails to Save Boy in Ohio Hospital
In Columbus at a Protestant hospital a new serum was tried on ten year old Arthur Vrego of Commercial Point after a foot wound became infected. The treatment, from a wet bench of India ink, was applied too late and did not prevent the malady.
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Columbus
Iacksew
Arthur Vrego
Commerclet
India
Missing Delaware infant found under heavy soap box
Mrs Prat Shannon launched a search for her 2 1/2 month old daughter in Delaware. A box weighing 80 pounds pinioned the child and caused severe injuries with the skin of the leg peeled. doctors fear possible death from internal injuries.
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Delaware
Prat Shannon
Seeing a Light in a Free Trade Letter to the Records
In a Philadelphia Record letter Mr A B Farquhar argues for tariff reductions and a general reciprocity system in competing products. He says manufacturers see light and will recognize the harm of current duties, implying further tariff ripping and competition would worsen their position.
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Philadelphia Record
A. B. Farquhar
Mr. Farquhar
Formed Living Chain Ends in Tragedy at Creek
Piqua Ohio farmers forming a living chain searched for Orville Apple aged years and found his body in Trotton's creek at dawn. The boy evidently had fallen into the stream.
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Piqua
Trotton's Creek
Turtle head cut off shocks Zanceville crowd
In Zanceville a man reports a bizarre incident where a turtle head was severed for two hours while the body was prepared for soup. One of the onlookers, OW Chrlaiman, is noted in connection with the event.
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Zanceville
Chrlaiman
Child injured decorating grandmother's grave in Marion
Four year old Marguerite Uncapher, daughter of J. V. Uncapher, was faintly injured in Marion when she fell on a moss jar at her grandmother's grave and severed an artery in her right wrist.
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Marion, O
Marguerite
J. V. Uncapher
Ohio Eide-to-Be Defrauded Widow via Mail Rings Arrests
Cleveland authorities arrest Mr and Mrs M E Link of 1575 East Twenty second Street on charges of using the mails to defraud an Oklahoma widow in a matrimonial scam. The woman impersonated a prospective bride and collected 40 dollars for railroad fare to meet the would be groom Thomas E Green Lookeba Oklahoma Territory. Green allegedly learned of the plot and sought help while postal inspectors trace the money order paid to Edith Clark and later deposited to Link's account, leading to the couple's arrest.
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Cleveland
Oklahoma
M. BE. Link
East Twenty-second Street
Lookeba
O. T
Rieke de
Edith Clark
Kansas City
H. B., Lambert
Link
Young girl details alleged abuse at Ohio mental reform school
Rosie Seigle, 15, confined seven months at Columbus facility for the feeble minded, asks Probate Judge Griffith not to return her. She accuses staff of water cures during a hysteric episode, beatings with sticks, dragging by the hair, solitary confinement with little milk, and isolation in a straight jacket. She says she asked her father in June to remove her.
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Youngs
Rosie Seigle
Columbus
Griffith
American Shipbuilding Company seeks court protection amid second strike
Lorain Ohio reports the American Shipbuilding Company has filed to obtain federal protection against property damage and violence toward employees after a renewed walkout. The U S court in Cleveland issued separate injunctions against each striker, with 125 orders forbidding interference with the company or its workers.
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Lorain
The
American Shipbuilding Co
United States Court
Cleveland
Hermon Sues Ex-Representative Jackson for 35000
Fremont Ohio resident Ridley Hermon former president of the Hermon Dry Goods Co sues ex Congress A H Jackson for 35000 claiming failure to honor a contract after Hermon sold and delivered 370 shares in the Hermon Co.
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Fremont
O.—Ridley Hermon
Tunmtil
Hermon Dry Qools Co
Weaings
A. H Jackson
Hermon
Jackson
Hermon Co
Destructive Fire Ravages Leesburg Knights Block
A major blaze struck the Knights of Pythias block on East Main street Leesburg Ohio destroying ten buildings and leaving losses estimated from 30000 to 340000 with post office spared and insurance coverage in place.
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Leesburg, O
Knights of Pythias
East Main Street
Ohio Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs Adopts Resolutions
At the seventh annual convention in Toledo resolutions deploring the poverty of President Roosevelt to word the colored actions of the 25th Infantry stationed at Brownsville Texas were unanimously adopted at the closing session.
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Toledo
Roosevelt
Infantesy
Brownsville
Tex
Ohio Federation of Coluvot
Acre
Portamouth Storm Strikes Notable Pairs
Portamouth reports two lightning incidents during a storm injuring O Mra Orin Russell wife of a weaver worker and Mra Carl Ricker wife of a prominent manufacturer both rendered unconscious with their condition improving later.
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Orin Russell
Huhtning
Carl Ricker
Ughtning Atriking
Water works and sewerage systems near rifle range to be ready
Port Clinton Ohio reports the water works street lighting and sewerage systems at the rifle ranged were inspected by Cal Miller of Columbus. All three systems are expected to be in operation next week.
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Port Clinton
Oeetele Light
Cal. Miller
Columbus
Woman Seeks 10000 For Eye Injury At Reder Grocery
Akron woman Catherine Wearstley files an amended petition against Reder Grocery Co seeking 10000 after a can of molasses sold by the firm exploded as she opened it, destroying the sight of one eye.
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Akron, O
Catherine Wearstley
Reder Grocery Co
Roter Co
Springfield man left speechless after Sunday stroke
O W H Barber of 132 Linden Avenue became speechless Sunday evening following a stroke. Friends say the attack occurred during a heat wave and left him unable to speak, though no other injuries were reported.
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W. H. Barber
Linden Avenue
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