Roosevelt Home Welcome Draws Vast New York Crowd
Former President Theodore Roosevelt returns to the United States from abroad to a nonpartisan, massive welcome in New York. A flotilla greeted him in quarantine as Mayor Gaynor and dignitaries welcomed Roosevelt and party at Battery Park. A state reception followed with speeches before a city parade up Broadway and Fifth Avenue led by Rough Riders and police units.
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New York
Phéddore Roosevelt
Colonel Roosevelt
Twenty-third Street
Battery
Manhattan Island
Roosevelt
Gaynor
Battery Park
Taft
Mounted Police
Robert Hunter
Oklahoma City
Broadway
Fourth Street
Fifth Avenue
Fifty-ninth Street
Women candidates on Wisconsin ballots new ruling
Wisconsin Attorney General Frank L. Gilbert declares any woman resident may have her name placed on the official ballot for any county office. He leaves open whether women can hold county offices besides superintendent of schools, a question to be decided by the supreme court. The matter arose in Ashland County with deputy treasurer Nellie M. Archibald seeking county treasurer. In Omaha a riot after a suspected Greek boarding car robbery left Nicholas Jimika fatally shot and 16 Greeks arrested.
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Madison
Wis
Frank L. Gilbert
Wisconsin
Supreme Court
Ashland County
Nellie. M. Archibald
Omaha
Neb
Nicholas Jimika
South Omaha
Billion Dollar Deal Under Federal Fire
New York June 16 President Wilson and Vice President Bogart of United Wireless Telegraph Co were taken into custody by U S Marshal Henkel at the companys Broadway office and arraigned on charges of mail misuse Chief Post Office Inspector Mayer accuses a stock manipulation plan that raised the firms apparent market value to 1 billion dollars while real assets were about 400 thousand He says one officer has cleared 5 million There are 28 000 stockholders who were misled into believing the company had near 7 million in surplus though operating expenses were not met Wilson and Bogart were released on bond.
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New York
Wilson
Bogart
United Wireless Telegraph Company
United States
Henkel
Broadway
Shields
Post Office
Mayer
Wilson and Bogart
Wild Beasts Freed Terrorize Edensburg After Circus Wreck
A Frank A. Robbins circus train with 15 cars wrecked near Edensburg Pennsylvania. Lions elephant leopard hyena jaguar and ibex escaped. Several workers injured taken to Altoona hospitals. Authorities fear roaming beasts as farmers search the countryside.
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Edensburg
Frank A. Robbins
Cambria & Cresson
Pennsylvania Railroad
Altoona
Taft greeted by grand Marietta welcome on college jubilee
President Taft arrived in Marietta Ohio for the diamond jubilee of Marietta College. A 21 gun salute marked the arrival as 2 000 schoolchildren with flags and flowers joined crowds shouting and cheering. He spoke at Muskingum Park on The History of the Northwest Territory and praised the 1787 ordinance as a fundamental instrument of law second only to the U S Constitution.
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Marietta
Taft
Marietta College
Muskingum Park
Northwest Territory
Territory
United States
Resolution Seeks Conspiracy Facts Against Steel Giants
Washington June 17. The house adopted a measure on judiciary committee recommendation asking the attorney general for information tending to show a conspiracy in restraint of trade among major steel firms including Carnegie Steel United States Steel National Tube and others. The resolution seeks facts on coal railway banks and insurers alleged to have conspired with United States Steel to raise iron and steel costs for consumers.
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Washington
Carnegie Steel Company
Federal Steel Company
American Tin Plate Company
National Tube Company
American Bridge Company
American Steel and Wire Company
American Steel Hoop Company
United States Steel Corporation
House
Committee On Judiciary
Paper Firm Head Indicted for Postal Card Bribery
Federal grand jury indicts Peter G. Thomson president of Champion Coated Paper Co. Hamilton Ohio, accusing him of attempted bribery related to supplying government paper for postal cards.
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Washington
Federal Grand
Peter G. Thomson
Champion Coated Paper Company
Hamilton, C
Earthquake Shakes Madrid Cordova and Almeria
A quake lasting four to ten seconds was felt across Madrid and simultaneously in Cordova and Almeria in Andalusia. No casualties reported but some houses in Almeria were damaged.
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Madrid
Cordova
Almeria
Andalusia
Indict Cotton Men Under Sherman Anti-Trust Law
James A. Patten and six others were indicted by a federal grand jury under the Sherman act for conspiracy to control cotton prices. Bail set at 5,000 dollars each and bonds posted through National Surety. defendants include W P Brown Frank B Hayne Eugene C Scales Sidney J Herman Robert M Thompson and Charles A Kittle Morris R Rothschild. The indictment, filed in U S circuit court, covers five counts and asserts a conspiracy with cotton spinners and manufacturers to monopolize the raw material market. The case stems from the 1910 cotton market rise and will proceed to trial next fall.
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New York
James A. Patten
Chicago
Hough
National Surety Company
W. P. Brown
New Orleans
Frank B. Hayne
Eugene C. Scales
Texas
Sidney J. Herman
Robert M. Thompson
Charles A. Kittle
Morris R. Rothschild
Mississippi
United States Circuit Court
United States
John C. Spooner
Henry Wellman
Joseph P. Cotton
Taft
South
Gillett halts Jeffries Johnson fight in San Francisco
Governor James N. Gillett ordered court action to prevent the Jeffries Johnson heavyweight bout slated for July 4 in San Francisco. He directed two militia companies be ready to intervene if city police fail to stop the Langford Kaufman bout and warned of prosecutions if the match proceeds.
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San Francisco
James N. Gillett
James J. Jeffries
Jack Johnson
A. S. Webb
Goldfield
Jeffries-Johnson
Tex Rickard
Morris Sullivan
Gillett
Louis Blot
Lauck
Kaufman
Langford
J. N. Gillett
Peary Returns From Europe and Denies Cook News
Commander Robert E. Peary, aboard the Mauretania, says he has heard nothing about Doctor Cook and has no idea of his location. He vows not to lead another polar expedition and predicts Captain Bartlett may lead a South Pole voyage next year, noting an easier route with plotted ice-free advances within about a hundred miles.
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New York
Robert EB. Peary
Mauretania
Doctor Cook
Bartlett
South Pole
Largest U S court judgment for alien labor import
A Tucson jury awarded a Los Angeles construction company $45,000 in a case over attempting to bring 45 alien workers into the United States. The $1,000 per alien penalty sets a record as the largest judgment in a government labor import prosecution.
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Washington
United States
Department of Commerce and Labor
Tucson
Aziz
Los Angeles
Acquits Dr Ida M Guthrie in Dynaiting Case
Dr Ida May Guthrie of Carthage Ill is acquitted by a Newton jury on dynamiting charges tied to the Newton area house where her former admirer Dr Alexander Hall and his bride slept. Guthrie said she was in Prairie City that night to locate a site and heard Hall was moving. She then left for Carthage after the trial.
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Des Moines
Ida May Guthrie
Carthage
Ill
Newton
Alexander Hall
Guthrie
Prairie City
Hall
Spirit of American Diplomacy Aims to End Wars
Secretary Knox told the University of Pennsylvania that American diplomacy should upbuild neighboring nations and promote peaceful development rather than fund wars. He argued the nation’s traditions favor peaceful progress and a broader international role in aiding the backward.
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Philadelphia
Knox
University of Pennsylvania
Congress Achieves Vast Legislative Record This Session
A Union era style summary lauds Congress for fulfilling nearly all Republican pledges from the last platform. It highlights tariff reform, federal railroads power, stock watering curbs, injunction limits, natural resource conservation, and a broad internal waterway improvement program.
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Washington
Congress
Republican Party
A Serious Kidney Trouble Case From Barnesville
Henry Palmer of Cole and Walnut Streets in Barnesville Ohio describes severe back pain from army hardships. He reports swelling, dizziness, and blood-tinged urine before using Dean's Kidney Pills. He credits the treatment with rapid improvement and lasting health. The ad promotes Dean's Kidney Pills at 50 cents a box from Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
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Henry Palmer
Cole and Walnut Srs
Barnesville
Dean
Dean’s
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Knox Will Not Resign From Taft Cabinet Now
Secretary of State Knox rejects circulating rumors of a gubernatorial bid in Pennsylvania. He states President urged him not to permit his name to run for governor at Harrisburg convention, leaving Tener as the likely candidate instead.
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Washington
Philander C. Knox
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
John K. Tener
Congress
Keystone State
Miss A. Contends Over Delicate Fawn Skirt
A fragment from Success Magazine notes Miss A. wearing a delicate fawn skirt desired by others. One friend pleads to bequeath the skirt claiming it matches her waist, while Miss A. dismisses it as worn out and useless.
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Miss. A
Miss A
Success Magazine
Cuticura Remedies Promoted for Skin and Hair Care
An advertisement extols Cuticura Soap and Ointment for skin and scalp ailments including itching burning and hair loss. Potter Drug & Chem Corp of Boston notes they supply the remedies and offer a free 32 page book on skin and hair on request. The piece also includes a political cartoon caption about renaming a newspaper the Appendix.
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Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Boston
Mass
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad and Local Anecdotes
A compilation of vintage ads and humorous vignettes including a Hall’s Catarrh Cure promotion offering a hundred dollar reward and 75 cent bottles. The page also features jokes about collar buttons named for Cook and Peary, a doctor anecdote on whitewash, and social chatter about a town church foundation ceremony.
Determined Woman Finds Food Cure in Grape-Nuts
A Salisbury Missouri woman credits Grape-Nuts with ending sudden cramps nausea and vomiting after other remedies failed. She notes gradual relief from sick stomach and now eats freely. Her husband promotes the product to customers and physicians, praising its scientific preparation.
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Salisbury
Chicago
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United Wireless Company
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Peary
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Ida M. Guthrie
Close
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Madriz
Nicaragua
Bluefields
Venus
Olivares
Managua
State Department
Southeastern
Knapp
Interstate Commerce Commission
Labor Neill
Media Ton Board
Erdman Nct
Skin Beauty
F. J. Cheney & CO
Re. Oo
F. J. Cheney
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
Toledo
O. Hall
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