Election of Felix Romero as Mexico's supreme court president
The Troy weekly notes Felix Romero's election to the presidency of Mexico's supreme court. It mentions Alexander Sutherland, famed Light Brigade bugler, living in Denver at ninety four, who wants to attend the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St Louis. It also cites Cuba reciprocity lowering US revenue to six to eight million dollars last fiscal year and reflects on mutual experiences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Felix Romero
Supreme Court of the Republic of Mexico
Alexander Sutherland
Light Brigade
Balaklava
Denver
Col
St. Louis
Cuba
United States
Morals Queried Over Gorros at World Fair
Editorial argues that igorrotes displayed at the World’s Fair threaten civilized morals. It condemns dressing them in pants as a display of savage life, calling it fraud and an offense to good morals, taste, and sense.
World’s fair artisans would be gratified by daily visitor delight
If the men and women who conceived and fashioned the incalculable beauties of stone canvas and landscape at the World’s fair could witness every day the delight manifested by thousands of visitors they would be gratified, if not repaid, for their labors of mind and hand.
Cornell President Urges Graduation Marriages
President Schurman of Cornell University told graduates to marry and dismiss bachelor froth. He warned against club life and claimed the idea would earn respect from women. The remark draws praise for candor and thought-provoking views on mature partnerships.
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Schurman
Cornell University
Japanese Education Reform Moves to English Letters
The text notes that Japanese education will be eased by abandoning their unique writing system. Ten years ago universities started reform, and next year public schools will begin using English letters, a change expected to spread widely thereafter.
Steamboat Gambling Robberies Warned By Editors
Visit ors to St Louis are urged to avoid steamboat excursions as gamblers on board prey on passengers. They fleeced visitors with sure-thing games and resort to robbery, while police aboard allegedly fail to intervene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Steamboat General Slocum Disaster Attributed To Accident
The General Slocum tragedy is described as an accident rather than a deliberate fire trap. The report says the disaster could have been averted with vigilant watchmen throughout the vessel and functional life saving appliances on board.
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General Slocum
Pasteurizing Plant Open In St Louis City
The pasteurizing plant of the St Louis Pure Milk commission is now in operation with twelve distribution depots opened across the city. The commission consists of charitable citizens who financed the enterprise, while the plant was installed by Mr Nathan Straus of New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St Louis Pure Milk Commission
Nathan Straus
New York
Russia’s Slowness Marks Path to Future Triumphs
The text notes Russia’s pride in deliberate pace and certainty, suggesting early victories are modest and Russia remains mysterious about future moves. It implies that when Russia is ready, significant achievements could be pulled off, underscoring a cautious, patient strategic posture.
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Russia
World’s fair attractions described in grand prose
An ornate reflection extols the World’s fair through a series of vivid contrasts. The main picture is magnified, architecture grand, adornments crown hill summits, and exhibits, flowers, craftsmanship, and exotic works captivate. It highlights nature’s grandeur with stately trees framing the scene behind the rain picture.
New York Firms Move Against Race Track Gambling
Large New York concerns begin to discipline staff seen at race tracks or pool rooms. The move aims to curb gambling temptations that have caused many defaulters and embezzlers to fall. The policy, described as overdue, reflects wider national action.
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New York
Minnesota Republicans Name State Ticket at St Paul Convention
A convention at St Paul named a complete state ticket and adjourned in good nature. A coroner’s jury investigating the deaths during the Victor riots charges Charles H. Moyer and W. D. Haywood with murder and inciting riot. President Moyer appoints Col. Theodore A. Bingham as brigadier general effective July 6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnesota
Bingham
Santos-Dumont
Paris
St. Louis
Daniel Decatur Emmett
Dixie
Mount View
Mount Vernon
Elks Lodge No
A. G. Fields
Russia
Alexander H. Walker
Auckland
New Zealand
John Hays
Muscoda
Wis
Kearsarge
Cherbourg
France
Mixed World War Update And Local Incidents
Reports from the Russian war office through the 30th describe Japanese concentration near Hai Cheng with Gen Kuroki at Oggin. Skirmishes rage at Mo Tien and Fen Shui passes amid heavy rain. The Japanese consul at Gensan notes torpedo boats fired on the port, sinking the steamship Koun and the sailing vessel Seitsu. Other dispatches mention Port Arthur, Yale winning the varsity eight, a lynching in Cartersville, and rising fire-preserver orders in New York after the Slocum disaster.
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Russian War Office
Hai Cheng
Kuroki
Oggin
Mo Tien Pass
Fen Shui Pass
Gensan
Korea
Koun
Seitsu
St. Petersburg
Stoessel
Port Arthur
Witthoeft
Yale
Harvard
John Jones
Banister
Cartersville
A. W. Fite
New York
Kamimu
Vladivostok
Tsu
Sea of Japan
Tokio
London Chronicle
Kai-Ping
Lias- Yang
Fidelity Savings association placed in hands of receiver
The Fidelity Savings association of Denver Cal went into the hands of a receiver on the first. Liabilities are placed at over a million dollars. The Haytien incident with France is reported as satisfactorily adjusted. The French foreign office received word from Fort au Prince that President Nord of Haiti offered a complete apology for the indignity to the French minister.
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Fidelity Savings Association
Denver
Cal
France
Haytien
Fort-Au- Prince
Nord
Haiti
Prohibition Chairman Denies Swallow Nomination T
Oliver W. Stewart asserts Dr. Silas C. Swallow did not decline the prohibition presidential nomination and denies that party managers reengaged Tomlinson Hall in Indianapolis or that delegates would be reassembled. The report includes multiple other 1910s era incidents and arrests.
Train swept by tornado kills baggage man in Illinois
A Chicago Peoria and St. Louis passenger train was lifted from the tracks two miles north of Oakford by a cyclone Tuesday evening. Baggageman Wiley was killed and many passengers injured as coaches somersaulted down a trestle and wreckage scattered. Engineer S Martin and fireman Swarberg escaped, drives to Petersburg for medical aid as relief trains rushed to the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver W. Stewart
Prohibition National Committee
Silas C. Swallow
Prohibition
Tomlinson Hall
Indianapolis
Charles H. Moyer
Western Federation of Miners
Bell
Teller County
Col
Cripple Creek
Yale
William Henry Goodwin
Burnside, Conn
Ralph W. Armstrong
Hayesville
Connecticut
Northfield
Mass
Goodwin
Armstrong
Chicago
Peoria
Aberdeen
Scotland
Largo Bay
Wewaka
I. T
Henry Stewart
Mary Stewart
Jim Gaines
Leonard Wilson
United States
Boston & Maine Railroad
Charleston
Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union
Department of Agriculture
Department of Justice
Texas
Chas. Lasor
George White
Bradford
South Avenue
A. T. Mahan
United States Navy
Imperial Federation League
John Colomb
M. P
Louis Lucio
Trinidad
Chamber of Communes of
Hayti
Bijou
James Robinson
Prior Fork
Vinita
I T
Robinson
Jos. H. Lewis
Frankfort
Court of Appeals
Chicago, St. Paul
Minneapolis & Omaha
Brandon
S. C
Lewis Skogue
Springfield
Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis
Oakford
Martin
S. Martin
Pecan Run
Petersburg
Havana
Wiley
Swarberg
Were On Board the Norge Newspaper Card
Mrs Henry Corneliusen and five children traveling from Norway to join her husband aboard the Norge when she foundered. The husband had lived in Superior five years and recently saved enough to provide for his family.
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Norge
Superior
Wis
Henry Corneliusen
Norway
Lightning kills Mr De Hart and child near Alto Pass
During a thunderstorm, Mr. Monroe De Hart his eight year old daughter and neighbors' children sheltered under a tree on Ed Clark's farm five miles east of Alto Pass. A lightning bolt struck the tree killing De Hart and the girl and badly shocking the others. One boy suffered severe splinter injuries and hair scorched. The family had just left the tree moments before the fatal strike.
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Monroe de Hart
Ed Clark
Alto Pass
Mr. Clark
Belleville Clergy and Mayor Lead Vice Crusade
Rev. Father James Gough of St. Luke's catechizes Belleville parents to guard daughters from nightly street walking and unsafe resorts. He cites alarming street activity pushing once virtuous young women toward immoral resorts in nearby St. Louis as police and city leaders join the effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Father James Gough
St. Luke’s Catholic Church
Kern
Belleville
Father Gough
St. Louis
Arm found at Duquoin building site mystery
Workmen renovating a building for B. A. Jeffers in Duquoin uncovered a left arm from elbow to knuckles, apparently a woman's, with skin particles clinging to the bones. The discovery is a complete mystery and investigators will seek clues to learn the facts.
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B. A. Jeffers
Duquoin
Man Hurt In Explosive Boiler Accident At Venice
John Doyle walked into Venice claiming he was blown up in a stationary boiler explosion. He appeared badly injured with holes in his anatomy and arms in slings. He was transported to Be nardsville County Hospital and pronounced a total wreck by attendants.
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John Doyle
Venice
Be@nardsville
Harvard man arrested for posting slips on half dollars
D T Phelan of Harvard posted advertising slips on United States half dollars to trade the money for clothing. He was arrested in Chicago, a brother of Harvard’s mayor, and admitted affixing the slips. Phelan was released on bond.
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United States
D. T. Phelan
Harvard
Chicago
Phelan
Cannon Explosion Injures Four in Colfax Incident
A premature cannon explosion at Colfax injures four men Leo Chapman Roy Harris Fred Grending and Ralph Hester who were using a broomstick ramrod with a baseball bat. Powder and ramrod fragments struck their bodies causing serious injuries.
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Colfax
Leo Chapman
Roy Harris
Fred Grending
Ralph Hester
Chester Prison To Continue Brick Manufacture Under Old Law
Under the attorney general's advice Chester prison will keep making brick and the other industries will use convict labor as before, pending a decision brought by Lawyer Mayer of Chicago in the United States Supreme Court.
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Chester
Mayer
Chicago
United States Supreme Court
St Clair Coal Railroad Co Incorporation Filed in Illinois
Articles of incorporation for the St Clair Coal Railroad Co. with principal office in East St. Louis have been filed at Springfield. The line is to be built from Collinsville in Madison County south and southwest to the northwest quarter of section 10, township 2, in St. Clair County.
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St Clair Coal Railroad Co
East St. Louis
Springfield
Collinsville
Madison County
County of St. Clair
Man Found Wounded on Train Roof in Joliet
Emmet Newmann of St. Louis was found dying on the roof of a Chicago and Alton baggage car at Joliet with a bullet in his head and another in his chest. He was en route from Chicago to St. Louis when discovered.
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Emmet Newmann
St. Louis
Chicago & Alcom
Joliet
St.Louis
Chicago
Tragedy Near East St. Louis Drowns After Fall
Lee Crossett a teamster fell from a bridge into Cahokia creek near the National Stock Yards in East St. Louis and drowned before friends nearby could reach him.
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Lee Crossett
Cahokia Creek
National Stock Yards
Switchman Crushed to Death in Jacksonville Fire
Mrs. Ida Taggart, 74, fatally burned at Jacksonville when her dress caught fire from a gasoline stove and flames enveloped her instantly. She was working over the stove at the time.
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Switchman
Ida Taggart
Jacksonville
Quarrel Ends in Fatal Stabbing at Kinney
Cumberland Judson, 20, fatally stabbed Bert Owens, 22, after a quarrel at Kinney. Owens suffered four wounds including a throat stab wound. Police investigations continue into the early morning incident.
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Cumberland Judson
Bert Owens
Kinney
Bliss Proposed as Missouri Mathematics Professor
G A Bliss an instructor in trigonometry at the University of Chicago proposed for a professorship of mathematics at Missouri University. The move signals a significant academic staff shift within the Missouri university system.
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Missouri
G.A. Bliss
University of Chicago
Missouri University
Weather And The Crops Report On Midwest To Pacific Regions
Washington July 6 The Weather Bureau summary notes unseasonably cool weather in the lake region and central valleys slowed winter wheat harvest in Missouri and Kansas with reports of damage in shock and rust in several states. Rain distribution varied with drought relief in the south, but north Pacific coast needs moisture and corn and oats show mixed progress.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Lake Region
Rocky Mountain
Pacific Coast
Rocky Mountains
Missouri
Red River
South Atlantic
East Gulf States
North Pacific Coast
Nebraska
Kansas
Corn Belt
Mississippi River
Ohio Valley
Oregon
Minnesota
Oklahoma
Texas
Mississippi
Ohio
Middle Atlantic
New England
Fire at the World's Fair Threatens Jerusalem Exhibit
A 2:20 a.m. fire in the American cafe within the Jerusalem concession at the World’s Fair grounds spread toward Festival hall and the west pavilion. West winds drove embers across Art hill as Hale’s and fair department crews battled the blaze. Quick action confined damage to the cafe, with losses about $15,000 aided by soaked exhibits.
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St. Louis
Jerusalem
Festival Hall
West Pavilion
Theeparks
Art Hill
Hale
World's Fair Fire Department
Taina
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G. A. Coleman
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