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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1906
Page
2
Roosevelts agenda stalled as Congress blocks simplified spelling
The House voted to block simplified spelling in congressional documents while approving higher salaries for the vice president speaker and cabinet members to 12000 a year. Roosevelt pressed for Porto Rico citizenship and native troops while praising Governor Winthrop as senate nominees were confirmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Representatives
Roosevelt
House
Congress
Porto Rico
Winthrop
San Juan Harbor
Senate
William H. Moody
Massachusetts
Supreme Court of the United States
Charles J. Bonaparte
Maryland
Victor H. Metcalf
California
Navy
Oscar S. Straus
New York
Commerce
Burrows
Reed Smoot
Taft
War Department
United States
Dubois
Idaho
Chaos Across Cities as Riots, Fires, and Riots Roil World Events
A wide range of chaotic incidents are reported. Vati hosts riot at the French embassy in Rome while garrison forces push back. Paris quiet, but provinces see disturbances. Russia Poland reports suppression at heavy human cost. A Seattle steamer Dix sinking blamed on officers. license revoked. A Manchu woman in Victoria claims throne of China. Burlington Vermont American House block fire destroys property about 40000 dollars. U S Navy Captain Z L Tanner dies in Washington from heart failure. Streetcar workers in Portland riotous. 150 ar yeasts arrested. Burglary case in New Kensington ends with Officer Lemon wounding a suspect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Limited
Canton
Col. Plotta
Radon
Russian Poland
Will Bywaters
Virginia
Ethel Strothers
Tracey Kilgallen
Chicago
Amos A. L. Smith
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Appleton
Manistique
Ireland
Lake Superior
Port Arthur
Dubassoff
Morocco
Thierry
Kleiber
Jules Ferry
Victor Hugo
Count Lamsdorff
Russia
Kolle
Bern University
Switzerland
Cottom
Lowell
Mass
United States
Montana
Newport News
Otto Young
Cardinal Gibbons
Leopold
Congo
Roosevelt
Peary
National Geographical Society
Margaret Gates
Shortsville
N. Y
Jeremiah Curtin
Bristol
Bright
Fred King
Masonic Lodge of
la Crosse
Wis
Nogi
Col. Vega
Ecuador
Ayancay
Martha Hurt
Salina
Kan
Enrique Creel
Chihauhuu
Angie Birdsong
Butler
Mississippi
Miller
First National Bank
Wakanda
S. C
R. M. G Brown
Washington
Montana Supreme Court
John D. Spreckles
San Dilego
Cal
Yuma
Ariz
Los Angeles
Yellowstone Park
Central Freight Traffic Association
Illinois Supreme Court
Prince Albert
Antonio Cassiggiano
Irvington
Brownsville
Vatican
Rome
France
Paris
Murray
Seattle
Percy A. Lermond
Victoria
B. C
China
Frank Coonrad
Burlington
Z. L. Tanner
Alexander Greger
Rio de Janeiro
Rochelles du Porzies
Portland
Ore
Nation
Mary Neenon
New Kensington
James J. Lemon
Mimer Kuhn
Albert
Romigz
Andrew Carnegie pledges endowment amid Pittsburgh tax objections
Pittsburgh headlines report Andrew Carnegie planning a $5 million gift to the $6 million Carnegie Institute while city taxpayers resist running costs. Plagues of typhoid strain hospitals as 400 cases overwhelm public facilities. Cardinal Richard’s remarks may ease church state separation tensions in Paris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew
Carnegie
Guthrie
Pittsburg
Carnegie Institute
Richard
Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Leopold
Congo
Standard Oil Company
William A. Herron
Peoria Savings Bank
Interstate Commerce Commission
Western
Northwestern
Cardinal Gibbons
America
France
Majestic Theater
Chicago
Andrew Carnegie
National Civic Federation
New York
Melville Ek.ngalls
W. K. Vanderbilt
Take Success
Long Island
Oscar
Sweden
Stockholm
Reichstag
London
House of Commons
Charles H. Mears & Co
Wisconsin State Senate
Wisconsin
Brazil
A. Para
Father C & Quinn
St Agnes Church
Atlantic Highlands N. J
Bridget Riley
Housexeeter
St. Agnes
Transvaal
William L. Brown
New York Daily News
Great Barrington
Mass
United States Steel Corporation
Gary
Ind
Flames Destroyed a New York Central Train
Rochester reports a Buffalo local train wreck east of Palmyra when a second freight rear collided with the first. The Buffalo local arrived amid a wreck, two engines derailed, and the baggage car set the passenger train ablaze. The engineer Harris of Rochester was fatally injured and buried under wreckage. רבות
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rochester
N. Y
New York Central
Buffalo
New York
Palmyra
Harris
Fuel famine crisis widens across northwest states
The Interstate Commerce Commission begins a Minneapolis inquiry and legislators in Minnesota North and South Dakota and Montana may review fuel shortages. Railroads rush coal deliveries while weather threatens motive power with blizzards and possible loss of life as Great Northern and Northern Pacific move coal to relieve shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Minn
Northwest
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Minnesota
North
South Dakota
Montana
Northwestern
Grezgt Northern
Grand Forks
Northern Pacific
N. D
Great Northern
Insurance firms pledge election funds refunds
Nashville Insurance Commissioner Folk was assured by New York Life and Mutual Life of New York that any funds expended to aid administration ticket trustees will be refunded. The assurance came during discussions held Monday in Nashville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville, Tenn
Folk
New York Life Insurance Co
The
Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York
Death of Gen John M Hood in Baltimore
Gen John M Hood president of United Railways and Electric Co and former Western Maryland Railroad head died last night in Baltimore He served in the Confederate army in the Civil War and was wounded several times
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Hood
Baltimore
United Railways& Electric Co
Western Maryland Railroad Co
Gould Interests
Senate Receives Three Roosevelt Messages on Canal Lands and Navy
In the Senate on the 17th three messages from President Roosevelt were received and read. One related to the Panama Canal, another to public land frauds, and a third to Navy personnel. The Indian appropriation bill was taken up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
Panama Canal
Aunt Betty Freeman Celebrates 113th Birthday in Madison Township
Madison township resident Elizabeth Freeman known as Aunt Betty marks her 113th birthday. Born in 1793 near Connellsville, she has lived through three centuries, married at 23 to William Freeman, and raised 11 children with 55 grandchildren and multiple great grandchildren. She smokes a pipe, reads the Bible daily, and remains active and healthy in the Presbyterian faith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty
Elizabeth Freeman
Madison Township
United States
William Freeman
Freeman
Presbyterian Church
Clarion
Baltimore Sun
Milk From the Cow Tree Told by Globe Trotter
A globe trotter touts the palo de vaca or cow tree as a source of real milk found on mountain slopes. Humboldt is cited praising its nourishing milk that oozes from the trunk, rich in fat sugar casein and phosphates, comparable to rich cream. He notes locations in Canary Islands Memerara and Ceylon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tropics
Globe Trotter
Humboldt
South America
Canary Islands
Memerara
Ceylon
Markets in Various Cities Report Mixed Grain and Livestock Prices
New York prices show flour at 4.10 to 4.40 per barrel and wheat No 2 red at 78?c. Corn No 2 at 53c. Oats 394 to 44c. Cattle steers 3.75 to 5.90 with veals 5.00 to 9.00. Sheep 3.25 to 5.50 and lambs 7.00 to 8.00. Hogs 64.60 to 6.75. Similar listings from Cleveland Toledo and East Buffalo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Minnesota
Cleveland
York State
East Buffalo
Market Report Pittsburg Cattle and Hogs Prices
Pittsburg market notes cattle Choice steers bringing 5.75 to 6.00 with fair 4.10 to 4.40. Sheep Prime wethers 5.50 to 5.65, lambs 25.00 to 7.75. Hogs Yorkers 6.55 to 6.0.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
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Dalton
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Globe
Congressional News
Pennsylvania
Toledo
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