Weather and historical notes fragment from January issue
Weather forecast lists fair tonight in the northeast with much colder conditions and a cold wave, brisk westerly winds. In history notes for Jan 23, 196, William Pitt the younger and Joe Clymer are noted, plus a brief line on the Tehuantepec railroad and an astronomical event with moonrise in the evening.
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Otho IT
Italy
William Pitt
Chatham
Fox
Burke
North
Sheridan
Heing
Trumph
Europe
Joe Clymer
Aigner
Penn
Sylvania
Morrinville
Philadelphia
Tehuantepec National Railroad
Ocean
Dia
Don’t Cheer Boys Flip Flop Over Taft and Captain Phillips
An old newspaper style column contrasts Secretary Taft with Captain Phillips, noting a flip flop in political stance and urging restraint and dignity. It recalls Captain Phillips command at Santiago and references Jamey Whitcomb Riley. The piece criticizes leadership shifts, suggests the ex-forak faction leader bears blame, and ends with a quip about a dramatic pivot.
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Taft
Phillips
Texas
Santiago
Forak
Feld
Ible
Lip
Jamey Whitcomb Riley
Taft Roosevelt Rift Marks GOP Splits In Public Writings
A collage of political barbs targets Taft Roosevelt and Foraker, noting shifting stances, insider feuds, and satire about leadership. The piece mocks claims of discovery, jokes about Italian politics, and hints at upcoming party tensions and editorial shifts.
Roosevelt’s Law Clash Over Treaty Open Senate Debate
Critics argued the president overstepped constitutional bounds by presenting a treaty as a finished act without Senate assent. They noted German and U.S. references to ratification processes, pressed for open session, and referred the matter to the Finance Committee for possible legislation linked to tariffs and customs administration.
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Senate
Arston
National Board of Trade
United States
Heyburn
McLaurin
Teller
Gallinger
Committee On Finance
Congress
Secretary Root notes amendments to customs law in 1907
Secretary Root reports transmittal of the new temporary commercial agreement with Germany signed in 2007 and related executive amendments. The memo details proposed changes in invoice valuation, duties on undervaluation, fraud presumptions, and clerical error rules, with authority limits and refunds, plus provisions on paying duties below invoice value.
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Root
United States
Germany
American Commission
Waite
Secretary of the Treasury
Mmtet
Ing Lawa
Treasumy
Kogoro Takahira Japanese Ambassador Biography
Baron Kogoro Takuhira long served as Japan's ambassador to the United States and led diplomatic duties in peer negotiations. He held posts as minister to Italy and Austria and spent years in America before joining his government’s diplomatic department. He spoke English fluently.
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Baron Kogoro Takuhira
Viscount Rott
Japan
Teen
Milkido
Siplomptiet
Taly
Austria
America
Local option debate stirs Ohio church leaders and lawmakers
Rev Waakon denounces the Anti Saloon League and Prohibition as hypocritical while urging personal conscience on liquor. President Welch defends churches against outside ministers and ties tax, home rule, and employment fears to the bill. A massive lobbying effort follows as Dry supporters promote Beatty & Long shoe sale.
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Franked Ai Rf Kifera
Kell
W. Kramer
Eantenn Alitance
Dayton
Conen
Cara
Cincinnat
Waakon
Mquor
AnthSaloon Imague
AnthSaloon League
New England
Prohibition
Anti-saloon League
Ohio
Welch
Ohio Wesleyan
Hix
Criles
W. Blair
Portsmouth
A. Godfrey
London
L. D. Liley
Columbus
P. A. Baker
The
Ant Saloon League
Senate
Statehouse
Railroad settles for cold coach injury in Georgia
Miss Ida Benjamin of Rome Georgia received a $1000 check from the Central of Georgia Railroad after suing over a Christmas 1900 cold coach ride. She complained the car was unheated and the conductor ignored protests, leading to months of illness. The railroad appealed but finally settled.
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Rome
Ida Benjamin
Central of Georgia Railroad
Benjamin
Atlanta
Macon
Central
Dissolution of Amalgamated Glans Workers Union
Judge Phil Lips ruled the Amalgamated Glans Workers union restraint of trade and illegal in merging four trades cutters mattteyers blowers and gatherers. He granted the petitioners dissolution and division of the funds in the treasury amounting to 110000 amid claims of minority discrimination by blowers and gatherers in the amalgamated body.
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Cleveland
Phillips
Amalgamated
Glans Workers’ Union
Ite
Juge
Cutters
Matteyers
Ilegal
Ghost Walks Shock Findlay Town Over Apparition
In Findlay Ohio residents report a real ghost seen near a hatch and manor, waving a mysterious light. The light appears where a boy was shot five years ago, flickers at night, and vanishes as crowds gather to investigate the eerie phenomenon.
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Findlay
Ohio Girls Testify in Federal Mail Case
New York January 23. Fred L. Stockford a floorwalker in the Simpson Crawford store was tried in federal court today with Laura Blocher Mary EB Rayl Goldie G Ethews and Schaeffer of Wheeling and Martins Ferry Ohio testifying about receiving unprintable letters. Letters sent from New York bore signatures of Jeanette B. Williams and Madge Parks. The letters instructed a code using every nth letter to convey a hidden message that formed the basis of the complaints. Stockford allegedly visted Wheeling meeting the girls as the uncle of Madge Parks and giving presents. Cases to be submitted to the jury tomorrow. Try Clover Leaf flour for your next DAT and you WILL have no other.
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New York
Wheeling
W. Va
Corey
Penn
Martin’s Ferry
Ohio
Fred L. Stockford
Simpson-Crawford
Chatfield
Federal Criminal Court
Laura Blocher
Mary EB
Rayl
Goldie G Ethews
Schaeffer
Martins Ferry
Jeanette B. Williams
Madge Parks
Stockford
Divorce Trial Abandoned After Suspicious Death in Bangor
The Jan 26 divorce case of Pearl Turner versus Mark Turner in Bangor Ny was halted after authorities learned by telephone that Pearl Turner shot and killed herself at her father Charles Mausard's home. Turner had accused Pearl of cruelty and nonsupport in the divorce filing, prompting the court to suspend proceedings as investigators review the tragedy.
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Albangorade
Sirs
Pearl Turner
Mark
Turner
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Beatty & Long
Try Admira
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China Cabinet
Peat
Oak Dresser
Eae Cher
C. W. McClain Company
I. M. Hayter & Co
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T. and A
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D. A. Terry
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