Elkins Signals Support for Regulating Railroad Rates
Senator Elkins, head of the interstate commerce committee, outlines a limited rate fixing power for the Interstate Commerce Commission. He proposes a statute allowing review by courts and a reduction to the maximum rate that would be reasonable and lawful if set by the railways. He believes the measure could solve the long running rail rate dispute.
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Washington
Elkins
Committee On Interstate Commerce
Commission
Iter
Interstate Commerce Commission
Circuit Court of the
United States
Aend
Proceedings in Congress Trumps Reading of Roosevelt Message
Senate session devoted hours to the president's annual message with close attention amid applause in the House. Preliminary steps moved to secure emergency funds for the Panama Canal as a protest from Illinois Fifth district was referred to a regular election committee.
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Washington
Dec.g
Senate
Roosevelt
Congress
House
Panama Canal
Fifth
Illinois
Crazed Woman Surrenders After Ammonia Fort Siege
Mrs. Berry at Girard Kansas held a railway coach fort in a Frisco line toilet room from last Friday until today. She used ammonia fumes to deter rescuers and fired once without effect. She ate two apples after four days with no food while threatening anyone near her fort. The incident occurred as reports tied to local politics and Russian Jewish sympathy surfaced.
Vanderlip Advocates Pension Study Leader of National City Bank
Prink A. Vanderlip, vice president of the National City Bank of New York, promotes scientific study of old age pensions for workingmen. Born in Illinois, age forty one, he rose from farm life to a machine shop, then journalist and financial editor, later private secretary to Secretary Lyman J. Gage.
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Prink A. Vanderlip
National City Bank of New York
United States Treasury
Vanderlip
Illinois
Chicago
Secretary of the Treasury
Lyman J. Gage
Mark Twain 70th Birthday Banquet At Delmonico's
New York December 6. Mark Twain was guest of honor at a Delmonico's banquet hosted by Colonel George Harvey in honor of his 70th birthday. About 170 authors attended including many women. A cable from England signed by forty writers and letters from President Roosevelt were among the tributes. Twain joked about his ascent to the seventy and his promised explanations of his method.
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New York
Mark Twain
Delmonico’s
George Harvey
England
Roosevelt
Joel Chandler Harris
W. DD. Howells
Richard Watson Gilder
Henry van Dyke
Brander Matthews
Weir Mitchell
Kate Douglas Wiggin
John Kendrick Bangs
Amelia Barr
Hamilton W. Mabie
Caroline Wells
Irving Bacheller
Andrew Carnegie
George W. Cable
Hopkinson Smith
Agnes Repplier
Virginia I Razér Boyle
Students oppose football ban at Columbia meeting
Columbia students voted against abolishing football and urged the student organizations committee to reinstate the sport on Columbia’s list and maintain football at least until the intercollegiate rules meeting next spring. Team members argued for removing brutality and keeping the game in a remodeled form.
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New York
Columbia
Football Association
Intercollegiate Committee On Rules
Post Office Reports Surge in Rural Free Delivery Routes
Washington dispatch notes the Post Office Department reports 652 new rural free delivery routes started in November, bringing total routes in operation to 34,516. More than 4,000 petitions await action.
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Washington
Post Office Department
How He Reached Old Age Through Routine Habits
The humorist recounts his path to old age, stressing a life of strict routines starting before age 40. He cites regular sleep patterns, disciplined dieting, limited smoking, varied drinking, and minimal medicine use, noting a long, uneventful health history and a quirk about past coffee and bread timings. He recalls his father’s drug store and his own early medical approach as economy and habit.
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Ile
Standard Oil Trust
Morals and the strenuous life debated in Chicago remarks
The piece reflects on welfare of a strenuous life, moral stock, and duties after age thirty. It notes a Chicago request to donate old French court documents to the Chicago Historical Society, blocked by Judge Perrin. It also reports Woodbury Kane, noted New York socialite and yachtsman, dying at his West Forty-seventh Street home.
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Kipline
Republic
Chicago
Belleville
Dee
Valentine Smith
Chicere
St. Clair
New York
Woodbury Kane
Elob
West Forty-seventh Street
Kane
DeLaney Kane
Rough Riders
Frosty start as New Orleans records first kill
New Orleans reports a killing frost on December 6 with a low of 32.8 degrees. The cold snap previously dipped below this level before December 5 but only twice in history.
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Prost
New Orleans
Markets open steady with mixed cattle and strong sheep tone
Chicago December 6 1905 market report shows mixed cattle at 84 70 to 85 00 for feeders heavy shipping grades 84 65 to 85 05, cattle receipts 32000 hogs 32400 pigs and porkers ranges. sheep receipts 22000 with steady to higher prices, overall market viewed as steady to weak for cattle while sheep stay firm.
Great Loot of Gems Traced in New York Murder Tale
A nine month police hunt for jewels valued at over 200000 continues as a Birmingham theft linked to Paris jewelers Clottauer is examined in court. In a separate case at 112 West 26th Street a human skull and twenty bones are found in a cellar. coroner cites murder with a skull fracture and missing teeth.
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New York
Continents
John Doe
Giottaver
Clottaverros
England
Glottauer
Birmingham
United States
Clottauer
Eighth Avenue
Commons
Seholer
Admiral Togo to Visit Foreign Waters Next Year
San Francisco December 6 Minister Griscom diplomat from the United States in Tokio confirms Admiral Togo plans to lead a Japanese fleet to England and the United States next year. He will travel via the Suez canal for pleasure and return to Tokio after a three year absence. General Luke E. Wright governor of the Philippines also arrived on the Manchuria to attend railroad bids opening in the islands.
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Griscom
United States
Tokio
Togo
England
To #0
Suez Canal
New York
Luke E. Wright
Philippines
Manchuria
Washington
Islands
North Dakota Farmer Murders Brother in Barn Killing
In Overly area farmer Edward Frank Guthrie was killed by his brother in a barn on the Guthrie farm. The assailant confessed to a physician after a fit of anger tied to alleged abuse. He was taken to Bottineau for detention.
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Edward Frank Guthrie
Overly
Guthrie
Bottineau
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Thos. Hardy
George Meredith
Alfred Austein
Arthur Balfour
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Anthony Hope
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