Senator Tillman Attacks Advisers Over Railroad Charge
Senator Tillman denounces administration advisers including Secretary Root and Senator Knox as railroad sympathizers and urges cautious reform. Lodge replies with a measured speech while the Senate adopts a joint resolution directing the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate discrimination and restraint of trade by railroads.
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Senate
Tillman
Senate Committee On Interstate Commerce
Interstate Commerce Commission
Root
Knox
Pennsylvania Railroad
Lodge
Polygamy Seen as Great Menace by Senator Dubois
At the Sanga club banquet in Springfield Illinois honoring Lincoln’s birthday Senator Fred T Du Bois of Idaho labeled polygamy the greatest menace to American civilization. He tied polygamy to Mormon power and drew parallels with slavery while praising Roosevelt and the era of Lincoln and Washington. He linked Apostle Reed Smoot to polygamy as inseparable as slave ownership from slavery.
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United States
Fred T. Dubois
Idaho
Sangamon Club
Springfield
Ill
Lincoln
Dubois
Apostle Reed
Smoot
Roosevelt
Washington
Turkey Promises Action After Arrest of American Women
Representative Ryan reports Turkey will wipe out the insult tied to the arrest of Miss N Stern of Buffalo and Miss Ann Snyder of Cedar Rapids. Minister Leishman at Constantinople demanded dismissal of the officer and police chief and a personal apology from the governor of Pera. Turkish officials agreed to comply with these demands.
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Turkey
Ryan
N. Y
Root
United States
Leishman
Constantinople
N. €. Stern
Buffalo
Ann Snyder
Cedar Rapids
New York
Para
Winfield Man Sentenced for Contempt of Court
In Winfield district court Art Schmidt was fined 500 dollars and sentenced to six months in jail for contempt of court for violating an injunction against liquor sales. He was tried and convicted by Judge C. J. Swarts. An appeal will go to the state supreme court.
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Winfield
Art’ Schmidt
C. J. Swarts
Supreme Court
Reassurance for Chinese Guests in Boston Banquet
Governor Curtis Guild hosted Chinese commissioners at the Algonquin Club Boston with speakers including Richard Olney Tuan Fung and Harvard President Charles W Eliot. Eliot urged mutual exchange and education while stressing friendship and trade as paths to lasting ties.
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Curtis Guild
State of
Massachusetts
Bos
China
Tai Hung Chi
Eliot
Harvard University
Governor Johnson Says Ten Thousand Dollars Is Sufficient
Governor John A. Johnson told a Duluth audience that no man should earn more than ten thousand dollars a year if he lives rightly. He criticized money as the sole measure of success and warned against a billion dollar ambition, arguing the nation’s future depends on character over wealth.
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Minnesota
John A. Johnson
Duluth
Minn
Johnson
Annapolis Graduation Quietly Celebrated in New Armory
Secretary of the Navy Charles S. S. Oonaparte delivered diplomas to 101 members of the class of 1906 at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. A crowd of about 2,500 attended, including families from across the country. The ceremony, held in a grand armory, was impressive yet subdued due to current conditions at the academy. The secretary’s speech was brief and did not address those conditions.
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Naval Academy
Annapelis
Charles. S.oonaparte
Academy
Goulds' fortune dwindle as Castellane talks settle
Count Bont de Castellane and the countess negotiate over finances to shape the upcoming bill of complaint. A mutual consent decree is expected likely to grant separation and possible later divorce after three years under French law. The count is excluded from the Castellane mansion while the countess holds the children and a separate domicile.
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Castellane
Congressmen push limited federal building plan for Nebraska
Congressmen discuss a public building bill with a proposed federal construction fund of twelve to fifteen million dollars. Bills have been filed to build in seven Nebraska cities Grand Island Norfolk Kearney Plattsmouth North Platte West Point and York. Nebraska may receive two or three buildings under the economy plan due to state apportionment limits.
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Congressmn Hinson
House
Senate
Nebraska
Grand Island
Norfolk
Kearney
Plattsmouth
North Platte
West Point
York
One conspirator sentenced in land fraud case
Harry Welsh of Davenport Nebraska pleaded guilty to conspiracy in procuring fraudulent land filings within the U B L and C company enclosure. Judge Munger fined him 150 dollars and ordered six months in Douglas County jail to begin immediately.
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U. B. 1. Land and Cattle Company
Munger
United States District Court
Douglas County
East Room White House Wedding History and Style
The East Room at the White House has long hosted prominent social events and weddings since the 1818 rebuilding. It remains a grand setting for receptions and notable ceremonies, including high profile nuptials in past decades.
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Longworth-Roosevelt
White House
Presoyar
Mormon Oaths Probed At Reed Smoot Hearings
Witnesses in the Reed Smoot case testified on Mormon endowments and oaths at the Utah senator hearings. Professor Walter Wolfe, a former Mormon, described vows of chastity sacrifice and vengeance tied to temple rites and to vows against avenging blood of the prophet, claimed as repeated for others and for deceased individuals.
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Congress
Iskely
Walter N. Wolfe
Brigham Young College
Logan
Utah
Wolfe
Benjamin Cruft
Florence Reynolds
Provo
Mexico
Professor Wolfe
Temple
Mr. Carlisle
Reds Riot in Russia Overthrow at Cabaret Schlusselberg
Reds seized the Cabaret Schlusselberg on the Nevsky River in St Petersburg and bombed an assembly of workers. They then fired on panicked inmates, killing two and wounding eighteen, one fatally. Military detachments and police cordoned the district, with a few rebels offering desultory resistance as troops arrived.
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Schlusselberg- Chaussen
Nevsky River
St.Petersburg
Gift of Gobelin tapestry to Miss Alice Roosevelt
The French government presented Miss Alice Roosevelt with a Gobelin tapestry titled Justice. Offered by M Jusser and the French ambassador in Washington, it arrives amid a plan to send modest gifts from European powers to the president's daughter. The tapestry is an invaluable, specially commissioned piece for the French government.
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Alice Roosevelt
Gobelin
Roosevelt
M. Jusserand
Washington
America
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