Made in Germany artificial gems loom in New York show
A German gem expert leads a Natural History Museum display on manufactured precious stones. Forty stones tested include artificial sapphires and topazes, with artificial sapphires praised for beauty but topazes deemed impractical due to abundance of natural stones. Fischer, president of the Society of Jewelers and Gold Silver Smiths, sees potential as a business but doubts wide impact.
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Germany
Stafrom
Fischer
Militant anti license crowd rebuked in Newburgh case
In Newburgh New York on January 20 Justice Marschauser rebuked militant temperance supporters who flooded the court with letters as a saloon license election was proposed. He warned that contempt of court would be met with severity if such disruptions repeated.
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Ewbburgh
N. Y
Newh
Joseph Maruser
Marschauser
Udge Marschauser
Deserter Horigan Noted for Reenlistments Since 1892
The report cites Patrick Horrigan, a noted deserter who fled repeatedly after enlisting in 1892 at Grand Rapids Michigan. He has been pursued by recruiters as the army notes he has escaped thirteen times and rejoined under false names before vanishing again after his latest assignment.
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Gton
Patrick Hor
Nd Rapids
Mich
Horrigan
Regi
Army to receive latest spring rifle and ammo by Feb 15
Washington reports regular troops including Alaska units will be equipped with the newest army rifle and high velocity ammunition by February 15. Orders note accelerated production at arsenals and reveal press rate details for the new arms.
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Ashington
Alaska
Nehes
W. E.shallenberger
Chicago
Washington
Hotel Colenso
Farm Memorandum Totals Butter and Eggs Receipts
Ter and Eggs Paying Crops. eenfield Ind Jan 20 Mrs N Day kept a 1907 memorandum of cash received from butter and eggs after family table needs were supplied. Butter receipts totaled 232.46 and eggs 150.81, sum 383.27, more than 6 day.
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Eenfield
Ind
Mra
N. Day
Tragic Stairway Fall Claims Young Vernon Man
A Vernon man aged twenty one fell down stairs at Miller Hall four miles south of town and died instantly after his head struck the floor. The incident left the community and local youths in shock.
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Vernon
Jon
Edward N
Miller Hall
Glassblower Clarence Hayes Charged with Murder of Wife
Clarence Hayes, a glassblower, was arrested on a charge of murdering his wife aged twenty eight. The case follows a history of family difficulties and appears linked to prior charges of failure to support. Hayes was arraigned in police court.
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Ton
Clarence Hayes
Hayes
Fly
Guardian Named for Michigan Millionaire Father Ward
Franklin H has been appointed guardian of Henry Clay Ward of Mt. Pleasant Michigan a leading millionaire luminary in the state. The appointment followed a hearing before a judge in Lapeer Michigan in January.
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Mtac
Mich
Franklin H
Henry Clay Ward
Michigan
Prown
Lapeer
Minnesota Official Resigns to Run for Congress
James T. M. Minnesota, second assistant general, after a conference with Roosevelt, announced his resignation from his post next summer to pursue again the candidacy for Congress.
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Congress
James T. M. Minnesota
Roosevelt
Mion
Min
Illinois Anti League to launch spring campaign with evangelist and official support
Sunday to Fight the Saloon reports plans for a spring anti saloon campaign led by evangelist Billy ay with Governor Jank Hanly of Indiana and assistant attorney general W Ett joining the effort in Illinois.
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Pringfield
Billy” Ay
J. Jank Hanly
Indiana
Wett
Ilinois Anti- League
New York Granted Uplift as Court Backs City Ads
Justice Leventritt of the New York Supreme Court dismissed the Fifth Avenue Coach Co suit seeking to stop municipal removal of exterior bus advertising. The decision upholds an aldermanic ordinance granting city power to regulate garish signs on double deck electric buses plying Fifth Avenue.
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New York
Leventritt
Supreme Court
Fifth Avenue Coach Company
Fifth Avenue
Board of Aldermen
NERVE OF A POLISH LABORER
Polish laborer Paul Globa, crushed by a thousand pounds of steel, tore his hand free and threw it into a furnace at a Milwaukee foundry. He watched it burn before being taken to a hospital.
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Milwaukee
Paul Globa
Globa
Managing Editor Found Dead Near Rail Line
George Satterthwaite former Wichita Eagle managing editor was found dead near railroad tracks two miles east of Syracuse Kansas. His nude body showed he walked in cold snow from where his clothes lay two miles away. His father owned the Douglas Tribune in Kansas.
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Syracuse
Kan
George Satterthwaite
The
Wichita (Kan
Two workers killed by fall at New Britain Gas plant
In New Britain Connecticut on January 20 Thomas J. Kelley twenty three a boilermaker fell ninety feet from a staging at the new gas plant and died instantly. William McAvoy twenty seven a helper sustained injuries and died at a hospital an hour later. Kelley hailed from Camden New Jersey and McAvoy had come from Providence Rhode Island a year earlier.
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New Britain
Conn
New Britain Gas Company
Thomas J. Kelley
William McAvoy
Whesley
Camden
N. J
McAvoy
Providence
R. LL
Girl says she was kidnapped and kept as slave in China town
Pittsburg reports Lorence Livingstone aged sixteen in police hands after a raid on a house occupied by Lee Ping in the Chinese quarter. She claims she was abducted from Cincinnati at age nine and endured years of enslavement passing among several Chinese captors across the country.
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Pittsburg
Lorence Livingstone
Lee Ping
Cincinnati
Death of Pioneer Nebraskan
Isaac N. Hascall long time Nebraska lawyer and former acting governor dies at St. Josephs hospital at seventy seven after paralysis. He served forty two years in the state and helped shape the Nebraska constitutional convention voting to establish free soil in Nebraska.
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Omaha
Neb
Isaac N. Hascall
Nebraska
St. Joseph's Hospital
Hascall
Doctor in Madison in critical condition after appendicitis operation
Madison Wis Jan 18 Dr DPD B Collins a well known physician who has long opposed surgical operations especially appendicitis is in a critical condition at Madison General hospital following an appendectomy. Collins had three attacks before he submitted to the knife.
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Madison
Wis
DPD
B. Collins
Madison General Hospital
Collins
Fire disaster buries 24 unidentified Rhoades Opera House dead
The bodies of twenty four unidentified dead from the Rhoades Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, have been buried.
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Boyertown
Stricken at a Dance in Peoria
Mrs. R. L. O Neill wife of a traveling salesman for National Lead company St Louis died at home 305 Franklin street after falling ill during a dance hosted by the twentieth Century Railway Clerks association in Peoria Illinois.
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Peoria, al
Twentieth Century Railway Clerks’ Association
R. L. O'Neill
National Lead Company
St. Louis
Franklin Street
Remarkable Winter Weather in Portland Sets Records
In Portland Maine on January 20 a midwinter day reached near 40 degrees F at the Weather Bureau and unofficial readings surpassed that mark making it one of the most remarkable midwinter conditions in the city’s history.
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Portland
United States Weather Bureau
Gardener Falls Into Beaver Pond Then Dies at Bronx Zoo
Joseph Maher, a Bronx zoo gardener, leaped from a falling tree to escape a pit of bears and was killed instantly when his head struck the tank edge at the beaver pond.
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New York
Joseph Maher
Bronx Zoo
Charles Emory Smith Dies at 65 in Philadelphia
Charles Emory Smith editor of The Press, former United States minister to Russia and postmaster general, died at his Philadelphia home at age sixty five. The loss marks the end of a prominent career in journalism and public service.
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Charles Emory Smith
Philadelphia
The
Fress
United States
Russia
Richard McCurdy Rumored to Return to New York
Rumor in New York states Richard McCurdy, former president of Mutual Life Insurance and exiled after the insurance scandal, is aboard an Atlantic bound for New York. The report places him returning to the city amid ongoing scrutiny.
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Richard McCurdy
New York
Mutual Life Insurance Company
Lehigh Valley Reduces Work Week to Forty Hours
Notice posted at Easton shops announces a forty hour work week. About 604 men are affected. The cut applies to the Lehigh Valley railroad's local shops in Easton Pennsylvania.
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Easton
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Child Nearly Strangled in Vincennes Trunk Accident
Five year old Bayliss Cloud, son of Mr and Mrs Bayliss Cloud of Vincennes Indiana, was found unconscious after becoming caught by the neck under a heavy trunk while searching for his stockings. Physicians say he would have died in a few minutes.
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Vincennes
Ind
Bayliss Cloud
Shallenberger
Wright
Suffragette Riots Rally Downing Street Arrests Reported
Rioters at Downing Street clash with police, many suffragettes arrested and sent down for three weeks. Other notes include J P Morgan denies control of Equitable Life, Goldfield mining probe sought by House Labor. Stedman dies in New York at seventy five.
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Downing Street
London
J. P. Morgan & Co
Equitable Life Assurance Society
New York
New
House Committee On Labor
Edmund Clarence Stedman
Greensburg
Stahl Glass Company
Benito Legarda
Pablo Ocampo
Congress
Philippines
San Francisco
American Writing Paper Company
Holyoke
Mass
Catherine Loren
Sterling, Jr
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Guatemala Northern Railway
Latin America
Atlantic
Pacific Oceans
Guatemala City
Victoria
Australia
Raisali
Morocco
Mulaj Hafid
Abd-el- Aziz
Disasters to Come Warn of Anarchy from Speculation
Chicago reports Dr J F Crowell former Wall Street Journal editor warns that speculative excess will spark upheaval in America. He cites encroachment into manufacturing agriculture transportation and banking as danger and says corporate greed fuels discontent rivaling pre revolutionary France albeit more severe here.
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J. F. Crowell
America
Chicago
Wall Street Journal
American Association For the Advancement of Science
New York Sun
Crowell
R. T. Crane
United States
Novel submarine carrier planned by Japanese officials
It is reported that a new vessel is to be built by Messrs Vickers Sons and Maxim for Japan. The ship will transport two submarines under construction and be capable of taking the submarines into action.
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Messrs. Vickers, Sons & Maxim
Japan
Baby Show by Clubwomen to Tackle Divorce Myths
San Francisco clubwomen plan a baby show to counterclaims that clubs cause divorces. A New York World dispatch notes the event aims to illustrate that club activities do not lead to marital breakdowns.
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San Francisco
New York World
Roosevelts acrostic rebukes at White House in Jan letters
A Washington correspondent notes in the New York Herald that in five January 4 letters President Roosevelt rebuked and praised many officials. The list includes army and navy figures, generals, sailors, officers, and bureaucrats labeled as exaggerators, informers, dissidents, or cliques.
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White House
Roosevelt
Washington
New York Herald
Secretary of the Navy
Secretary of War
Chief of
House Committee On
Monument planned for famed oarsman Ned Hanlan
James C. Rice of Columbia University returns from Ned Hanlan funeral in Toronto and outlines a plan to erect a memorial monument. Toronto leaders back public subscriptions and city funding, with Rice leading a $100 pledge, plus Columbia subscriptions and a Hanlan memorial course near Hanlan’s cottage to honor the oarsman who popularized rowing.
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James C. Rice
Columbia
New York
Toronto
Ned Hanlan
New York Times
Rice
Hanlan
Francis S. Bangs
Courtney
Hanlan Memorial
Manlan Point
Ned
Tailor shop and jewelry on liner Europa headline
The Europa liner built at Belfast will feature a tailor shop and modiste parlor guided by London and Paris artists. American tailors and on board jewelry store offer clothing and stones without London searches, boosting elegance and possibly dampening ocean flirtations.
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Herr Balin
Belfast
London
Paris
New York Times
Berlin
Doodletown Bight Case Ends With Judge Swoon
A burglar pleads for mercy over a comic monogram request and begs to be sent to Doodletown On Popolopen creek. The judge sways faintly, the officer collapses, and the crook dies while tragedy and satire collide in court. Source cites Thomas R. Ybarra in the New York Times.
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Doodletown
Popolopen Creek
Thomas R. Ybarra
New York Times
Incorporation Notice for The George H Paul Company
A notice of incorporation declares The George H Paul Company organized in 1908 with capital stock 850000 dollars, 25000 preferred and 25000 common. It outlines business aims to own buy and lease real estate across the United States Canada and Mexico, develop minerals, operate mills and elevators, and run passenger cars for land seekers, with a five-member board and annual elections beginning January 1908 at Washington Iowa.
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George H. Paul Tee
Bad Bunlnee
Iowa
United States
Canada
Republic of Mexico
Executive Council
State of
Washington
Board of Directors
Mob tar and feathering prompts special grand jury
Farmington Iowa January 20 a special grand jury was convened to investigate the mob action that tarred and feathered editor Rockwell Sheriff C E Jamison of Keosauqua has secured many prominent witnesses.
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Farmington
Iowa
Rockwell
C. E. Jamison
Keosauqua
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