Roosevelt Guests at Nairobi Banquet in British East Africa
Theodore Roosevelt and his son were honored guests at a Nairobi banquet hosted by Ederick J. Jackson governor of British East Africa with 75 attendees. Captain Anderson delivered the welcome and presented a gift carved from an elephant tusk. Roosevelt thanked the hosts and spoke on hospitality, colonization, and a plea for fair treatment of blacks.
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Nairobi
British East Africa
Theodore Roosevelt
Ermit
Ederick J. Jackson
Ritish East Africa
Captainnderson
Imer
United States
City Prepares to Meet Strike with Strikebreakers
Chicago August 4 active preparations by street railway officials to meet a strike. Old power houses are being fitted up as sleeping quarters for strikebreakers. E. L. Reed, who was...
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Ano Street Railway Company
Chicago
E. L. Reed
Who
Latham Fails Crossing Channel With Monoplane Flight
Hubert Latham attempts to cross the English Channel from Calais in his flying machine. A ten mile overwater glide ends when the engine fails and he is rescued by a French torpedo boat. Louis Bleriot’s successful crossing is noted after Latham’s mishap.
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Hubert Latham
English Channel
Calais
France
London
Latham
Louis Bleriot
Flirtation Cause of Death Drowns After Step from Steamer
Charles McVey, a local pugilist from Vinton, fell from the Helen Blair steamer near Muscatine Iowa and drowned while flirting with a girl on the upper deck. He sank before a lifeboat could reach him and the body was not recovered.
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Charles McVey
Muscatine
Helen Blair
Vinton
Refuses to Surrender Davis Williams in Shipboard Fight
In Provincetown Massachusetts on August 4 a state police attempt to arrest Davis W. Williams of Marietta Georgia failed after F e r admiral Schroeder refused to surrender him. Williams had been involved in a chow ing bout on the battleship Vermont Friday night that left his opponent Harrison M Foster badly injured and later dead. Both men were negro mess hands aboard the ship.
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Williams Provincetown
Mass
Schroeder
Davis W. Williams
Marietta Ga
Williams
Vermont
Harrison IH. Foster
Auto Demonstration Crash Injures Four in West Union
A LaCrosse demonstrator loses steering on a new car in West Union Iowa and crashes into a steep bank. Jans Blunt, his wife Maude Blunt, and Clyde Blunt are pinned beneath the vehicle with burns and injuries. Maude sustains a broken arm and spinal injury while the others suffer burns and bruises. the son escapes unharmed. The machine was moving slowly at eight to ten miles an hour.
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West Union
LaCrosse
Jans Blunt
Maude Blunt
Clyde Blunt
Wheat rally fades as rust threat recedes in Chicago trade
In Chicago on August 3, wheat prices fell further as northwest reports reduce black rust risk to the spring sown crop. Sept wheat at 1.02, corn mixed around 64 to 64 4, oats steady near 75 to 89 cents, and pork and lard priced lower for September contracts. Cash markets show No 2 hard wheat at 1.05 to 1.07 and No 2 corn at 68 to 68 1/2 cents.
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Chicago
South Omaha Livestock Prices and Receipts Report
South Omaha stock market report for August 3 shows cattle receipts at about 10 500 with native steers 4.50 to 7.10, cows and heifers 3.00 to 5.25, western steers 3.50 to 5.60, feeders 2.75 to 5.10, calves 8.25 to 6.75, bulls 3.00 to 4.75. Hog receipts 3 500 with prices 5 10 higher. heavies 7.40 to 7.70, mixed 7.50 to 7.55, lights 7.50 to 7.70, pigs 6.00 to 7.25, bulk 7.50 to 7.55. Sheep receipts 10 500 steady to weaker. yearlings 4.75 to 5.40, wethers 4.00 to 4.85, ewes 3.76 to 4.50, lambs 6.50 to 7.50.
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South Omaha
Chicago Live Stock Prices and Receipts Report
Chicago Aug 3 cattle receipts 3000 steady beeves 4.40 7.50 cows and heifers 4.25 6.35 stockers and feeders 3.19 5.10 westerns 4.00 6.00 hogs receipts 11000 closing weak top 7.95 mixed and butchers 7.25 7.90 good to choice heavy 7.45 7.95 rough heavy 7.15 7.35 light 7.80 7.80 bulk 7.45 7.75 pigs 6.70 7.55 sheep receipts 15000 steady sheep 3.00 5.30 lambs 4.50 7.20
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Chicago
Firemen Tournament and Eagle Convention Fill Davenport
Davenport hosts the Iowa state firemen’s tournament and the Order of Eagles state convention. Mayor George W. Scott welcomed visitors while President B. A. Darnell of Oskaloosa spoke. The parade opened the firemen’s event with eight paid and eighteen volunteer departments and about 2000 marchers. Races on the mile track will run four days.
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Lun
The
Order of Eagles
George W. Scott
Eagles
BE. A. Darnell
Oskaloosa
Woman to keep Iowa freight agent post
Des Moines reports seven town leaders defend Miss Esther E. Petrson, the Burlington Oakley freight and express agent, after C. W. Ramsey claimed a woman cannot perform the job and urged the railroad commissioners to intervene.
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Des Moines
Esther E. Petrson
Iowa
Miss Peterson
Burlington
Oakley
C. W. Ramsey
Board of Railroad Commissioners
Des Moines Official Faces Assault Charge
Councilman John L. Hamery, head of the public safety department, will answer in Justice Cope's court to a charge of assault and battery filed by liquor reformer John B. Hammond. The information stems from a forcible ejection incident.
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Hamery
Des Moines
John L. Hamery
Department of Public Safety
Cope
John B. Hammond
Redormer
Sand Flies Ravage Muscatine In Unprecedented Plague
A fierce sand fly storm overwhelmed Muscatine on August 4 with billions of insects driven ashore from nearby islands. The swarms extinguished street lamps and forced residents to stay off downtown streets to avoid being attacked by the maddened pests.
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Muscatine
Woldman Heir to Cincinnati Fortune in Will
George Woldman of Burlington and his sister Ella Woods are named heirs to a $100 estate left by their Cincinnati uncle Patch Hara. Woldman travels to Cincinnati to claim the fortune after notification of his heir status.
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Burlington
George Woldman
Ella Woods
Patch ‘Hara
Cincinnati
Woldman
Cincinc
Don Jaime Denies Interfering With Spanish Throne
Don Jaime, the pretender to the Spanish throne, states he has no role in the crisis and would retire to lower Austria. He calls the party a party of order and says he will not lead Spaniards against Spaniards or risk the country’s welfare. He suggests returning only to restore order if revolutionaries oust King Alfonso or needed for the country’s welfare.
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Don Jaime
Tore
Aus
Spain
Alfonso
His Appetite and Gotrox’s Self Disciplinary Strike
A quoted exchange notes Gotrox’s habit of clinging to possessions until a higher priority tests him. The line asserts he has truly separated himself from what he valued most by resisting appetite as a measure of character.
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Old Gotrox
New York
Drowning Tragedy In Elm Lake Ends Summer Trip
In Clarion Iowa Mrs C Bennett Hazel Hudelison and Eva Porter drowned at Elm Lake after a row boat sank during a return trip from a lake excursion by a dozen girls. The gasoline launch overturned as the row boat began to sink and all on board perished except three who were rescued.
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Clarion
Bennett
Hazel Hudeligon
Eva Porter
Elm Lake
What Fried Liver Is Good For
A guest at an Atchison home stayed five weeks after arriving for three days. She praised fried liver as tasty like all meats, then ate it at every meal. That night and for days after fried liver appeared on the menu until she finally packed her trunk and left.
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Atchison
Atchison Globe
Chicago hog and cattle market summary of Aug 4 1909
Market report shows hog receipts about 15 000 with prices strong to 5 higher than yesterday. Cattle and sheep receipts around 14 000 and 2 000 with mixed movement, prices steady to higher for cattle and steady for sheep. Estimated receipts for tomorrow near 15 000 hogs and 12 00 cattle, with shipments and beves and stockers noted.
Senate Agrees to Vote on Tariff Report Tomorrow
Western senators back the conference report and push a concurrent resolution to raise duties on boots shoes and harness to 10 percent. The move alters the dressings to apply the higher rate to leather from cattle hides skins calfskin and related items. Senator Aldrich notes the presidents power to gather enforcement statistics may prove broader and more effective than first drafted.
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Washington
Senate
Aldrich
House
Dutia
Newlands
To Complete Reclamation Policy Stressed
Secretary Ballinger in Portland says the government will likely finish ongoing reclamation projects rather than start new ones. With $11,000,000 available and new works costing about $15,000,000, he outlined a limited funding plan after meetings with Director Newell and district engineers.
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Portland
Ore
Ballinger
F. H. Newell
Reclamation Department
Heinze Brothers Win Dismissal in Bankruptcy Case
Otto C. Heinze and his brother Arthur P. Heinze prevail as Judge Hand dismisses the bankruptcy petition against Otto C. Heinze & Co. The ruling finds the suit unjustified and ends the litigation in New York.
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Heinzes
New York
Otto C. Heinze
Arthur P
Hand
Otto C. Heinze & Go
Recruits Join Steel Strikers at McKees Rocks
The strike at McKees Rocks grows as 155 workers sent by a Hudson River company to finish cars for the new Manhattan subway join the strike action at Pi Pittsburg on August 4.
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Pi Pittsburg
McKees Rocks
Hudson Rive Company
Manhattan Subway
Harriman Health Improves. Likely Return by Sept. 10
Private advices from New York report H. Harriman's health greatly improved, better than in years. He is expected to reach here from abroad around September 10.
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Harriman
New York
H. Harriman
Mr. Ha
Cashier Held for Shortage of Orr Cotton Mills
Cath Harris, secretary and assistant cashier at the Orr cotton mills in Anderson, is held on breach of trust charges as auditors report a $50,000 shortage in the company books.
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Anderson
8. C
Cath Harris
Orr Cotton Mills
Hannibal Strike Settled Amicably at Atlas Portland Works
In Hannibal Missouri on August 4 a dispute at the Atlas Portland Cement company's works over a strike was resolved amicably between the parties.
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Hannibal
Hannibal, Mo
Atlas Portland
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