Global Briefs Highlight Royal Birth and Uproar in 1906 Era
Queen Victoria of Spain welcomed a prince with nationwide celebrations, while strikes in San Francisco escalated into violence as police guard disrupted transit. In international items, Mexico receded from war aims with Guatemala, and unrest spread from Europe to the Americas as fires, crimes, trials, and parliamentary moves populated the day’s news.
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Victoria
Spain
San Francisco
Mexico
Guatemala
Jose Lima
Salvador
Legation
New York
International Mercantile Marine Company
Orlando B. Willcox
National Soldiers’ Home
Washington
Coburg
Ont
Aurora Wittebort
University
Kansas City
Edwardsville
Harry Cole
Butte
Cole
Michael Pendergast
Sterling
Ill
W. R. Fulton
Wichita
Kan
Fulton
Flemingsburg
T. B. Rider
Hot Springs
Ark
A. N. Williams
Thomas S. Marshall
William J. Bryan
Illlnois State Board of Agriculture
United States
East St. Louis
Chicago National Bank
John R. Walsh
W. J. Bryan
Penn-Wyoming Copper Company
Grand Encampment
Wyo
Stromboli
Abraham Hummel
Dodge-Morse
Master Builders' Association of
Berlin
A. Krech
Graf Walderwee
Anid Ocean
Wiliam Schellhas
Winona
Minn
Irvine L. Lenroot
Superior
Win
Texas
Elkins
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Rairoad
Res Burgia
Price of a Broken Switch Destroys Shriners Train at Honda
A Southern Pacific wreck near Honda California killed at least 39 people and injured many after a switch defect caused a Shriners special train to derail. Fire and scalding steam followed as passengers and crew faced brutal, chaotic scenes with casualties including victims from Reading Pennsylvania and others. The disaster ranks as the worst on the coast in living memory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Barbara
Cal
Shriners
Southern Pacific Coast Line
Honda
Rajah Temple
Reading
California
San Luis Obispo
Pacific Beach
Fatal Shooting at Home in Maysville Murder Case
Frank Albright, prominent Maysville merchant, was shot in bed by his mother in law Mrs. Sarah Connally with a double barrel shotgun after a drunken spree. Connally admits the killing and says he abused his wife and children before the deadly act. she has been arrested.
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William D. Haywood
Steunenberg
Boise
Idaho
Sidney C. Love
Chicago
W. H. Kemble
Clay Kemble
Philadelphia
New York
Europe
Hardy Islands
South Sea
Vancouver
Manuka
Gibson
Allegheny
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Hamlin Avenue
Jones Station
Hamilton
Chesapeake & Ohio Flyer
Louisville
Lexington
John Hibben
Princeton
Princeton University
Montana
Welch's Spur
Clow
St. Louis
Marseilles
San Jose Ignacio
Uruguay
San Francisco
George W. Burchell
National Board of Underwriters
May Floyd
Piqua
Ban Upling
Puerto Cortez
Honduras
Guatemala City
Thomas C. Platt
Drug Trust
Indianapolis
United States Circuit Court For
District of Indiana
United States
John B. Kealing
Maysville
Ala
Frank Albright
Sarah. Connally
Albright
Huntsville
Mrs. Connally
Guests Make The Hotel
A discussion from Hotel World contrasts modern hotels with colonial taverns. It argues today’s traveler benefits from modern comforts and sociability driven by contemporary demands, while old inns were suited to their era with closer traveler connections and slower travel.
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Hotel World
Monument to Money Makers in London Tally of Gains and Costs
The Pall Mall Gazette flags the London monument as a profit source for the city corpora tion with an estimated current surplus of about 500 dollars. Visitor tolls yield 2700 dollars, booklet sales about 70 dollars, while internal painting costs 500 dollars and gas and water 60 and 250 dollars. Wages clothing total 1300 dollars and a pension fund grant 225 dollars.
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London
Pope
Pall Mall Gazette
Changed Opinion Of Guffeigh Sparks Public Debate
Mrs Van Snibbs reportedly altered her view of Guffeigh, once saying he lacked brains and now calling him one of the brightest men she has met. The remark followed a whispered exchange at the Bingsons about her attire and youth versus style.
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van Snibbs
Guffeigh
Bingsons
Indian views on organ and life lessons in old sod house
A composite excerpt sketches Eastman on learning by listening to a piano like box and a child’s view of teaching, alongside ad copy praising a laxative and quackish health claims. It closes with a meditation on self discipline from Schiller and a George Eliot question about life’s purpose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles A. Eastman
Stomach on Strike Prompts Pink Pills Cure Claim
Claim that Dr Williams Pink Pills cured a Lowell Massachusetts woman of long stomach trouble and backaches. Ad extols pills for anemia rheumatism neuralgia and paralysis and notes price and mail order from Schenectady New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williams
Mary ‘Stackpole
Liberty Street
Lowell
Mass
Dr. Williams
Buried Dead Playmate in Bowdoin Mall Tragedy
Sydney Preble, 15, shot Morris Heath, 18, after a boyish quarrel two weeks earlier in Bowdoin Mall Brunswick. Heath’s body buried under leaves was found by his father M. S. Heath. Preble confessed upon arrest.
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Brunswick
Maine
Sydney Preble
Morris Heath
Bowdoin Mall
M. S. Heath
Preble
Fire destroys four story building on Desplaines street
Fire caused about 100000 dollars in losses at a four story Desplaines street building housing the Chicago Feather Duster Co. Investigators suspect an explosion from an adjacent building started the blaze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Desplaines Street
Chicago Feather Duster Co
Finance and Poetry Tie by Capitalization in Verse
A witty remark by Mr. Comrox links finance and poetry through capitalization and phrasing. The Washington Star quips that both arts hinge on how things sound and look.
Boston Judge Quips on Bulger Visit and Epidermis
A Boston judge quotes a visitor about Bulger saying he failed the speaker. The exchange centers on unkind remarks and a humorous aside about an epidermis, reflecting local courtroom humor.
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Bulger
Boston
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Croydon
England
Palmer
Robert Cheat
Josez D. Dosal
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad
George Worthington
Nebraska
Henry Potter
North Coast Limited
Northern Pacific Railway
Mont
James Clow
James Sullivan
George Vincent Fosbery
Geo F. Arenth
Charles F. Turner
Ottawa
Toronto
Joseph Turcott
Laplante
Osconda
Mich
Turcott
Bonaparte
International Harvester Company
Baltimore
Susan B. Anthony
Palatine Hill
Rome
National Association For the Study and Prevention
Frank Billings
George de Mare
Maud Witteborn
Ohio
Foraker
Senate
A. L. Harris
H. A. Cooper
Wisconsin
Wood
Haywood
Edmund C. Ross
Kansas
Andrew Johnson
Albuquerque
N. M
John William January
Charles W. Anderson
Barnesboro
Black Hand
Tommy Burns
Los Angeles
Jack” O'Brien
Pacific Athletic Club
Poitou
H. Clay Pierce
Waters- Pierce Oil Company
Magoon
Hague
Antonio de Bustamente
Gonzalo de Queseda
Manuel Sanguily
Orestes Ferrera
St. Paul
Jamaica
Kingston
Honolulu
Buford
Mary Vito
Maria Brignoli
Giovanni Vito
Maj. Boykin
Orange
Tex
Clyde St. Clair
Independence
van Tappan
James Henry Smith
St. Luke's
George Grant Mason
William Smith Mason
St. Louisans
Federal Grand Jury
Denver
Col
Mra
Annie M. Bradley
Arthur Brown
Garland Moore
Clara West
Springfield
William A. Clark, Jr
Clark
Garfield
Schiller
George Eliot
la Crosse
Wis
W. Vancamp
B. O. Ellsworth
Rosa Wright
Mississippi
Vancamp
Ellsworth
Mobile
Boots del Toro
Panama
Bristol, Tenn
Felix Kidd
McArthur Brothers’ Construction Co
Alta Pass
N.C
Kidd
Andrew Malanoy
Cedar Grove
Bostonese
Cincinnati
Carter
Cteiut Coe
Ant Asr
Asa
Asdraisat
Hicks
Doug Oteeen
Reig
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