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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1908
Page
7
The United States cuts duties on French champagne by 20 percent while France suspends maximum duties on American cottonseed oil machinery and other goods. Final signing awaited at the state department with details not yet released.
Paris reports negotiations with the United States on a commercial agreement have progressed well. France has extended the decree allowing Porto Rican coffee to enter at the minimum duty until February 1, reflecting optimism that a satisfactory settlement will be reached for both nations.
In New York on January 3, employers report few building trades strikes likely this year. Many unions renew agreements at current wages while others finalize deals. The Employers' association notes some unions prefer renewal, hoping industry conditions improve despite a bleak outlook. Arbitration has kept wage cuts to a minimum and may become a permanent feature.
A large temperance pledge drive claims 125 000 workers will quit drinking as of January 1 on the Northwestern. The plan aims to retain non drinking men who pledge to abstain and to influence others to join the movement.
Unclear text indicates January warrants issued by Chicago authorities to arrest multiple hotel and restaurant keepers cited for operating beyond city ordinances. Prosecution to proceed in same manner as prior cases.
Chicago January 3 a national bureau of health planned by leading US specialists and backed by President Roosevelt may join federal departments within the year. The goal is to halve the national death rate. Professor Irving Fisher of Yale announced plans at the University of Chicago as head of a committee of 100 scientists. The group includes prominent figures in health research and organization.
Mrs. John Van Ness Roberts, a prominent New York social figure, is dying after self-administered strychnine as a heart stimulant. Coroner Acri telli and physicians found her unconscious with two doctors in attendance at her apartment.
A warrant was issued in Detroit police court charging Lieutenant R. F. Hazgard of the Seventh Infantry U. S. A. at Fort Wayne with forging the name of Colonel Daniel Gornman to a check. The alleged act occurred in Detroit on January 4.
Des Moines reports University president G Stanley Halli of Clark University told 1,400 Iowa teachers at a state convention that there are too many women in schools and that American society is becoming effeminized. He urged a new movement for men as principals with male staff under them.
The Patrie in Paris runs a bold alarmist story under a large headline asking where the Japanese fleet is and reports sightings of a fleet cruising off Haw. The piece reflects wartime tension and newspaper bravura in a condensed digest.
A Broadway restaurant in New York began permitting women to smoke in public dining rooms on New Year’s Eve and the plan proved so successful that other major hotels and Fifth Avenue eateries may not adopt the practice for the present, say managers.
Governor Folk rushed into a residence near the governor’s mansion in Jefferson City Missouri to help drag out a family and assist firefighters until flames halted salvage work. He then directed the firemen in the street during the blaze. In Boise Idaho the Pettibone trial reached its final day as Judge Hilton prepared the defense’s argument.
In compliance with a new law eight hours work for graph operators leads the Wisconsin traffic line to remove graph instruments in half of stations. Towns in the vicinity will lose telegraph service with Stanley becoming the sole station between Penn Falls and Owen, affecting Thorp Boyd Catlett and nearby areas.
Berlin police raided a Charlottenburg house and arrested seventeen central party members under the Prussian law banning activity by Russian political agents.
Washington reports the December earth excavation on the Panama Canal reached 83,000 cubic yards per worker, totaling about 2,200,089 cubic yards for the month. The figure marks an increase of roughly 360,000 cubic yards from November and shows a rise over the prior month.
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