Roosevelt Aids Health Move Likely National Health Law
Dr Charles A N Reed says President Roosevelt will propose to Congress a national health law and indorsement to back public welfare health measures. He urges doctors to campaign for sanitation, cancer, tuberculosis and typhoid prevention, noting river pollution and the Ohio watershed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Congress
American Medical Association
New York Academy of Medicine
Charles A. N. Reed
Cincinnati
Association
Reed
United States
Ohio
National Board of Health
Army
Navy
Panama Canal
South Dakota Edges Huron 11 to 0 on Vermillion Field
QODS BENDS defeats Huron College 11 to 0 in Vermillion marking their second football win. The report also notes auto racing results at Montana State Fair and Aqueduct stakes wins, plus college football prospects and other sports results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Dakota University
Huron College
Vermillion
Montana
Dickinson
Brockton
Mass
George G
Major Delmar
Lillian R
David Shaw
Cleveland
Columbus
Margaret O
Moran
Eddie Slanlon
San Francisco
Hanlon
West
New York Americanus
Devin
Barry
Arthur Irwin
New York Americans
Irwin
Hal Chase
Rube Waddell
Timeline of notable events from 1519 to 1907 across biographical, political, and explorative milestones
A compiled chronology lists key occurrences: Cortes in Cholula. Massachusetts charter annulled. Penn’s rights seized. Philadelphia wintered. Peggy Stewart tea destroyed. first Congress adjourned. Minute Men formed. Aeneas wreck. Russia-Britain war. Moscow recaptured. Perry's Erie arrival. Rose captured. Bulwark action. Erie Canal completed. Rochester’s first paper. Croton works. Lucy Walker disaster. Northwest Passage voyage. Woman's Suffrage convention. Franklin party remains. Grand Trunk line. Monroe oil. Quebec fire. Winchester cemetery. San Francisco quake. ritualism debate. Holmes becomes premier. Lansdowne appointed. Ohio elections. Queen Victoria Eugenie born. Brooks consecrated. Perseverance ship loss. divorce canon. Roosevelt visits North Carolina and Birmingham. Knickerbocker Trust suspension.
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Cortez
Cholula
Massachusetts
William Penn
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Peggy Stewart
Annapolis
Congress
Minute Men
Newfoundland
Russia
Great Britain
Moscow
Perry
Harrison
Gaines
Erie
United States
Rose
Bulwark
Albany
Rochester
N. Y
Croton
New York
Lucy Walker
New Albany
Northwest Passage
McClure
Investigator
Woman's Suffrage Party
Worcester
Mass
Sir John Franklin
Great Fish River
Buck
Arctic Ocean
Two Pacific Pirates Draw Fiji Official to Peru
Fiji Acting Attorney General G C Alexander heads to Callao Peru seeking details on a piracy case involving J Mortelmans and T Skerrett held in Servia. They allegedly forced the captain and mate of the schooner Neuve Tigre to walk the plank, renamed the vessel White Nose, and drifted to Anampama Lagoon in the Gilbert Islands where the stolen ship lies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. C. Alexander
Fiji Islands
Callao
Peru
Spains
J. Mortelmans
T. Skerrett
Servia
Neuvre Tigre
Minnesota and South Dakota growth plans and crime trial
Minneapolis eyes a million dollar gas plant to cut price to 80 cents per thousand. Land Commissioner Co. predicts sale of 5,000 acres of Meade County land this fall. Minnesota butter output rises by 9,009,090 pounds to 87,044,817 for 1907. Charles W Morse faces U.S. court for illegal banking tied to Bank of North America failure. Minnesota Grain Bureau records September car inspections at 23,765 with peak 1,200 in a day, citing good roads and market prices as factors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Land Commissioner Co
South Dakota
Meade County
Minnesota
Charles W. Morse
American Ice Company
Consolidated Steamship Company
New York
United States Circuit Court
Bank of North America
Minnesota Bureau of Grain Inspection
New York Life Of Wealth Inspires Banking Defalcations
Ex banker Edward P. Moxey warns that Broadway’s wealth and excess corrupts young bankers across the country. He cites lavish hotels, gowns, cars, and restaurants as the lure that teaches defalcation and gambling as normal finance. He argues the New England conscience erodes as city life blurs lines between acceptable handling of others money and personal gain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gotham
White Light
Broadway
Long Acre Square
Edward P. Moxey
United States Department of Justice
Moxey
New York
New England
Woman A Cook Not A Voter Says Apostolic Delegate
Mgr. Diomede Falcone, apostolic delegate to the United States, at Archbishop Glennon’s residence in St. Louis, urges women to mind their homes and families rather than seek political involvement. He says a wife should attend to her husband’s home duties and ensure meals are well cooked, asserting women would be happier if focused on domestic life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mgr
Diomede Falcone
United States
Glennon
St. Louis
Prohibition Cuts Arrests Reported by Atlanta Mayor
At the League of American Municipalities meeting Mayor Joyner of Atlanta cited court and police records showing a more than 50 percent drop in arrests for drunkenness and misdemeanors linked to drink since Prohibition began.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
League of American Municipalities
Joyner
Atlanta
Doctors Testing Condemned Food in New York
A four month study in New York City has involved three doctors and an expert chemist testing benzoic acid on themselves to assess its safety in canned foods. Doctors Lucas Ringer and Harvey along with Chemist Edward OBrien each ingested 60 grains seeking clear effects, with results described as minimal so far.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Lucas, Ringer and
Harvey
Edward O’brien
Labor Unions and Industrial Developments Across Regions
The report surveys union activity and labor issues from Albany to Australia. It notes Ireland employment, Canadian industrial injuries, Yorkshire anti non union tactics, Boston cigar workers’ assessments, and union meetings in Guelph. It covers New Zealand union growth, Teamsters amalgamation rejection, and funds for boot and shoe workers. It mentions Walla Walla free text books, Australian maritime federation, Stettin shipyard lockout, San Francisco union wage scale, and state conventions in Lowell. It also highlights pensions, millinery as women’s work, and Oklahoma mining and New York child labor enforcement shifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lethbridge
Canada
Yorkshire
England
Miners’ Federation
Boston
Mass
Cigar Makers’ Union
Bricklayers
Stonemasons
Guelph
New Zealand
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
United Teamsters of America
Boot and Shoe Workers’ International
Union Men of
Walla Walla
Wash
Board of Education
Maritime Federation
Australia
Sydney
San Francisco
Gpographical Union
Massachusetts
Steam Engineers’ Union
Lowell
International Cotton Spinners’ Union
Samuel Ross
New Bedford
International Typographical Union
America
United States
Mine Workers’ Union
New York
State Department of Labor
Bureau of Mercantile Inspection
Pharmacy building funds sought at State University
Pharmacists of Minnesota ask the Legislature for 100000 dollars to build a new pharmacy facility at the State University. Prussian policy now grants equal footing to girls in higher education and allows women to matriculate in universities. Walter M. Wood takes charge of a new YMCA building in Philadelphia to push supplemental education through night classes for those unable to pay upfront. Supt. Maxwell of New York public schools urges more playgrounds and baths, arguing directed games aid moral and hygienic well being. Charles Mix county in South Dakota launches compulsory education enforcement, with Yankton Sioux Steve Blaine jailed briefly before agreeing his children must attend school, and several white parents likely to follow.
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Philadelphia
Walter M. Wood
Chicago
Supt. Maxwell
New York Public Schools
Playground Association of America
Carnegie Libraries
New York
Charles Mix County
South Dakota
Steve Blaine
Wagner
Blaine
Locust Plague Roils South America with Swarms
Vast regions of Argentina Bolivia Brazil Paraguay and Uruguay face mounting locust invasions in a third season of widespread swarms. Governments deploy massive commissions and arsenic spray to halt billions of eggs and roving hoppers as the insects devastate vegetation and threaten cattle sustenance.
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South America
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Paraguay
Uruguay
Amazon Basin
Chaco
Republic
Newquen
Patagonia
Evangelist Fined for Improper Sermon Language
The Rev. Walt Holcombe of Cartersville Ga was fined 500 dollars for using indecent language in the pulpit while women were present. The Court of Appeals affirmed the lower court verdict describing the act as an indecent test by a gospel minister in a house of worship before about 4000 worshipers, directed at a female member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walt Holcombe
Sam LP. Jones
Cartersville
Court of Appeals
Hedin Finds Trans-Himalaya and Rivers Source Claims
Simla telegraph reports Sven Hedin’s Tibet journey where he identifies sources of major rivers including Brahmaputra and Indus. He claims discovery of a vast Trans Himalaya range, higher passes, and bare slopes with scant rain. He also notes confrontations with Tibetan and Chinese officials and proposes the name Trans Himalaya. Meanwhile Colorado Fuel and Iron adopts expansion to supply railroad equipment west of the Missouri, Gould interests exit, and John D. Rockefeller to name managers, signaling oil and steel trust rivalry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sven Hedin
Forbidden Land
Tibet
Simla
London Times
Brahmapetra
Indus
Bongba
Mount Everest
Himalayan Range
Hedin
Trans- Himalaya
OU Trust
Daters Steel
Ccolorado Fuel and Iron Company
Missouri River
Gould
Joh Dy Rockefeller
Oil Trust
Steel Trust
Notable Federal Moves on Pouren Case and Other Navy Bits
Secretary Root seeks rehearing in the Pouren extradition dispute citing affidavits of political offense. Roosevelt reportedly resisted citizens urging refugee policy changes. Forest fire losses and prevention costs are detailed, plus 2 cent postage to Britain and a plan to use the Washington Monument as a wireless test site. Cruiser Colorado damage update and immigration probe of Mormon converts follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jan Pouren
New York
Russia
Root
Pouren
Friends of
Jacob Schiff
America
Pouren Defense Conference
William English Walling
Roosevelt
Department of the Refugee
Navy Department
Washington Monument
Washington
Eiffel Tower
Algeria
Morocco
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QODS
Grand Trunk Railway
Brockville
Ontario
Monroe County
Michigan
Quebec
Stonewall Jackson
Winchester
Episcopal Conference
Simon Hugh Holmes
Nova Scotia
Marquis of Lansdowne
Queen Victoria Eugenie of
Spain
Phillips Brooks
Perseverance
Arctic
Episcopal
North Carolina
Birmingham
Ala
Knickerbocker Trust Company of
Boy
Captain
Mate
Trade and Industry
Great White Way
Falconio
Prohibition
Ireland
Vulcan
Stettin
Germany
Pharmacists of
The
State University
Evangelist
Georgian Court of Appeals
W. J. McGee
Department of Agriculture
Forestry Bureau
United Kingdom
Great Britain and Ireland
Colorado
Double Bluff
Puget Sound
Bremerton Navy Yard
Board of Immigration
Liverpool
Rte
Army and Navy Life
A. T L. Key
Fore River
War College
Newport
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