Moors Attack Again Faces Repulse at Casablanca
Casablanca Aug 10 Moors renewed their assault on Casablanca but were repulsed by heavy warship fire. Moorish losses estimated around 2,000 with 5,000 to 6,000 tribesmen seen near General de's camp. French and Spanish naval forces sustained fire. reports of Mazagan bombardment unsettled. Tangier and Mogador reports vary.
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Mazagan
Casablanca
Tangier
General de
Casalanca
Muley Amin
France
Mogador
Morocco
Paris
Philibert
Thomson
du Chayla
Galilee
Forbin
Sanastian
Leanto
Cadiz
Work of wreckers wrecks Indiana Har t line near Danville
One man is dead and three train crew members from Chicago are injured after saboteurs set a stone on a switch on the Big Four Indiana Harbor division near Danville Illinois. The rear of a northbound train derailed at speed, killing or maiming livestock and causing extensive damage. No crew member aboard the derailed train was fatally hurt.
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Danville
Indiana Hart Division
Big Four Railway
Edward T. Bates
John Burnschein
Eman Cooper
Chicago
Narrow Escape of Yachtsmen From Lake Michigan Storm
Three members of the Columbia Yacht Club drifted for hours in a damaged boat named Stella on Lake Michigan. At the foot of Randolph Street the crew Captain J Bates, Albert C Donovan a University of Chicago student and Harry Hammond a plumbing dealer were nearly exhausted after losing the rudder and mainmast in a storm.
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Chicago
Lake Michigan
Coumbia Yacht Club
Stella
Randolph
Typhoid Fear Shuts Wells In Jumbus Indiana
Following an oath by Mrs. Sandifer typhoid concerns the local board of health sealed the well at the former Sandifer property. The well is blocked from further use and the site has been leased to other tenants.
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Jumbus
Ind
Ban on the Teddy Bear in New York summer school
New York teachers in the sewing department of the NYU summer school ban Teddy bears as a distraction. Educators fear the old fashioned doll may fade from classrooms as students shift focus to the bear and its craze. Mrs. Jessup notes girls once sewed doll clothes now center on Teddy bear, reducing hands on activity.
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New York
Summer School
New York University
Manhattan
Jessup
Woman Sues for 10000 Over Wire Shock on Whitehall
Mrs. Maude B. Orr of Atlanta sues Georgia Railway and Electric for 10000 damages claiming a live wire disrobed her when a broken guy wire touched her belt on Whitehall Street. She alleges physical injuries and humiliation from the shock.
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Atlanta
Maude
Orr
The
Georgia Railway and Electric Company
Apple Shippers Association Adjourns to Meet in Niagara Falls
Atlantic City Aug 10 The executive committee reported a good apple crop prospect and the International Apple Shippers Association adjourned to meet next year in Niagara Falls William L Wagner of Chicago was elected president of the association.
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Atlantic City
N. J
International Apple Shippers Association
Niagara Falls
William L. Wagner
Chicago
Markets Show Chicago Board of Trade Quotations
Chicago and East Buffalo price reports list Wheat Corn Oats Pork Lard Short Ribs and live stock figures. The record covers opening highs, lows and closes for futures, cash grain classes, and livestock receipts with ranges for hogs cattle sheep and veal across markets and dates.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Mayor Taylor of San Francisco Named Interim Leader
Dr Edward Robeson Taylor chosen to fill the unexpired term of Eugene Schmitz, convicted of extortion. He has led Hastings College of Law since 1899, helped frame the San Francisco charter, and is known as a writer and poet. He is 59, born in Illinois, educated in Missouri and California, a medical graduate and legally learned. A Democrat, he pledges a nonpartisan administration.
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Edward Robeson Taylor
San Francisco
Eugene KE. Schmitz
Hastings College of Law
Taylor
Ilinois
Missouri
California
Tie Up of Telegraph Strikes Chicago and Elsewhere
Telegraph operators across Chicago and other cities walk out crippling Western Union lines. Kansas City Helena Omaha Salt Lake City Denver New Orleans El Paso and others join in sympathy as union leaders discuss the move. President Small cautions Omaha against a broader strike while Chicago accuses a push for a closed shop.
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Chicago
Western Union Company
Western Union
Kansas City
Helena
Mont
Salt Lake City
Denver
Colorado Springs
Colo
Detroit
Dallas
Tex
Fort Worth
New Orleans
Postal Company
el Paso
Omaha
Small
Telegraphers’ Union
Western Union exec cites Los Angeles strike cause
Colonel Clowry, president and general manager, states that on July 23 an operator at Los Angeles was involved in the events triggering the strike at Los Angeles and Chicago. He provides details on the communications firm’s stance and actions in response to the disruption.
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New York
Clowry
Western Union Telegraph Company
Los Angeles
Chicago
Navy gun records face British boast in Channel fleet note
Washington reports that the navy department has long kept naval gunnery records private to avoid provoking rivals. After Britain’s Channel fleet fired at the king present and scored nineteen hits in twenty one shots, U S gunners compare favorably though exact calibers and speeds vary.
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Washington
Ifor
Navy Department
United States
Channel
Edward
Atlantic Fleet gunnery records set by six inch guns
A Maryland gunner hit eleven times in one minute with six inch guns. Ohio fired a six inch gun at 10.81 hits per minute with perfect score. Maine achieved a perfect score at 1041 per minute. Missouri gauge held 10.30 hits per minute, all on target.
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Maryland
Ohio
Maine
Missouri
Lightning Strikes Kill Young Man in Altoona Home
Aug 10 Altoona Pa. Harry Koof er 24 was killed when lightning pierced the roof and struck him in his bedroom at his father’s Brush Mountain farm. His mother nearby suffered a severe shock. the uncle died in a field on the same property ten years earlier.
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Altoona
Harry Koofer
Brush Mountain
Koofer
Weather Forecast Signals Showers Across Midwest
Official forecast tracks showers across Illinois Indiana and Wisconsin with cooler air. Michigan and Iowa also expect rain with fresh southeast winds strengthening tonight.
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Illinois
Indiana
Michigan
Wisconsin
Iowa
Mrs. Bradley Sought Bail Failed Slayers John Brown Utah
Washington August 8. Efforts to secure the fifteen thousand dollar bail failed. Mrs Anna M Bradley the slayer of ex Senator Arthur Brown of Utah has been returned to the District jail to await trial in about two months. She has been in a local hospital for three weeks where a successful operation was performed.
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Bradley
Washington
Anna M. Bradley
Arthur Brown
Utah
Fire at Chile brewery kills and injures dozens
A massive fire at a Santargo Chile brewery caused heavy loss of life as carbonic acid pipes exploded, killing or wounding about forty including firemen and policemen. In Danville a Neff family incident reports a four year old died after ingesting medicines left accessible, despite medical intervention.
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Santargo
Chile
Danville
Lik
Edward Neff
Egyptian Obelisks and Their Ancient Journeys to New York
The obelisk in Central Park was brought to the United States in 1880 and set up at the temple of the Sun in Heliopolis around 1831 B C by Thermes III. Emperor Augustus moved the obelisk twenty three years before Christ to Alexandria, then it was brought to New York. About forty two obelisks are known worldwide, though many are broken or destroyed.
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Central Park
Heliopolis
Egypt
B. C
Thermes III
Christ
Augustus
Thames
London
Alexandria
New York
New York American
Chicago Market Hogs and Cattle Report of August 10 1907
Chicago market update shows hog receipts around 9000 with prices from 85 80 to 86 45 for light to mixed packers and 86 35 to 86 45 for pigs. Cattle receipts 5000 and sheep 2500, with overall market unchanged for cattle and steady for sheep. tomorrow’s trend expected 5 higher.
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Genly
Yesteroe Close Ask
Chicago
Time and Fairness Promise in a Square Deal
A terse note asserts you will receive a square deal and encourages timely action. It emphasizes fairness and prompt response, implying equitable treatment in dealings without extra conditions.
Quantrell Alive as John Sharp in Vancouver Island Region
Bill Quantrell, famed Civil War guerrilla leader, is reportedly alive under the name John Sharp at Quatsino on Vancouver Island. Locals J B Duffy and R F Montgomery identify him, noting Sharp recalls Quantrell raids and tears at hearsay of his own death in Louisville.
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Victoria
B. C
Bill Quantrell
Quantrell
Kentucky
Quatsino
Vancouver Island
John Sharp
J. B. Duffy
Duffy
Michigan
West Vancouver
Tees
Joh
Coal Harbor
Sharp
Quentrell
Kansas
R. F. Montgomery
Fort Worth
Tex
H. O. Berg
Question of Quantrell's death and burial clarified
Kansas City reports recount Rev. Thomas Cobb's claim that Bill Quantrell died in Louisville's Sisters Hospital after Civil War service. Cobb recalls seeing Quantrell under an alias Captain Clark and notes a hospital death witnessed by Quantrell's men, with burial in a Catholic church believed to be accurate.
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Kansas City
Bill Quantrell
Sisters
Louisville
Thomas Cobb
Methodist Episcopal Church
Oklahoma
Quantrell
Kentucky
Colonel Folsom
Quartrell
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Drude
Chicago Grain
East Buffalo
N. Y
Dunning & Stevens
Live Stock Commission
Veale—Best
Mayor Taylor
Oakland
Cal
Samuel J. Small
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union
Frisco
Uncle Sam
John A. Babcock
North American Commission Company
Quutesinc
British America
OF Sharp
South America
Texas
Oregon
British Columbia
Quantreil
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