King Edward Attends Dorchester House Dinner for Longworth
London June 13 King Edward attended a Dorchester House dinner and reception for Representative and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. The event drew notable guests including cabinet ministers diplomats and prominent English society figures. Also present were Miss Reid Duke of Richmond and Gordon Duchess of Buccleuch Marlborough Noxbourghe and several others.
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Ambassador Reid
Mrs
Nicholas Longworth
London
Reid
Dorcester House
King Edward
Roosevelt
United States
Park Lane
Dorchester House
Edward
Lord Granand
Holford
Longworth
Nobia
Miss Reid
Duke of Richmond and
Gordon
Duchess of
Diplomatic Corps
Admiral Fournier
Earl
Powis
Countess of
Gosford
Lord Curzon of
Ridgeley Carter
Delancey Jay
Dorchester House Gala Showcases Royal Guests and Orchids
A lavish Dorchester House reception featured King Edward and guests including the Duchess of Marlborough and the Duke of Westminster. The dining hall displayed Alexandra orchids with hundred-strong musical entertainment led by famed vocalists and a Rigoletto finale. Separately, Michigan Supreme Court issues habeas corpus for Edward Reed over a Sunday baseball case in Flint.
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Dorchester House
Stanhope Gate
Hyde Park
Park Lane
Reid
Duchess of Marlborough
Duchess of
King Edward
Lansing
Mich
Supreme Court
Business Section Burned in Davenport and Leclaire Fire
A fire damaged the business section of Leclaire Louisiana and Davenport Iowa. Buildings destroyed included the hotel Knights of Pythias hall and several stores. Loss estimated at 75 building value and 40 000 in stock, partly insured. Fifteen guests attended a table at the Davenport event.
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Davenport
Leclaire
Knights of Pythias’ Hall
Seversl
Home for a third trial in murder case arrives in Fort Wayne
Charles Dunn, held for the 1920 murder of 10 year old Alice Cothrell, reaches Fort Wayne from Michigan City for a third trial. He is described as a model prisoner, strong and calm, near six years in confinement, and hopeful his innocence will prevail. His elderly insane wife, in Richmond, is cited as a personal strain.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Charles Dunn
Michigan City
Alice Cothrell
Din
Dunn
Injin
Sheriff Grice
Richmond
Long Trolley Trip Planned Between Chicago and St Louis
Bloomington Illinois June 1 A limited train by trolley between Chicago and St Louis will operate within the coming year if plans by the Illinois Traction company succeed. The train to be named The Corn Belt will use three new large cars with latest improvements between Springfield and St Louis until northern gaps are finished, then run through Chicago to St Louis.
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Bloomington
Chicago
St. Louis
Illinois Traction Company
Springfield
Illinois
Indiana
Missouri
Electric Interurban
Thirteen French Canadian Children Pose by Saint Lawrence Home
A photograph shows thirteen robust French Canadian children including twins, in front of a St. Lawrence bank home. The note mentions a 1800 Quebec law granting 100 acres to fathers with twelve living children and references a beneficiary named S400 Tamiliea.
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The
St. Lawrence
Quebec
Packers Guilty in Kansas City Rebates Case Trial
A Kansas City jury found Armour & Co. Swift & Co. Cudahy & Co. and Nelson Morris Packing Co. guilty on rebate charges for accepting concessions from the Burlington railroad on shipments to New York for export. Sentencing was postponed until railway defendants are tried. The case centered on a 28 cent rate vs 35 cent legal tariff and involved contracts defending the through rate arrangement.
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Kansas City
Chicago
Armour & Co. Swift & Co
Cudahy & Co
Nelson Morris Packing Company
Burlington Railway
New York
Germany
Interstate Commerce Commission
Burlington
Lehigh Valley
Grand Trunk and Western
Toledo
St. Louis and
Detroit Woman Fined for Fast Driving in Birmingham
In Birmingham Michigan on June 13 Adele Blinn of Detroit was fined 20 dollars plus 7.40 dollars costs by Justice Campbell for speeding the "whiz wagon." Attorney Lynch of Pontiac sought a reduction and a delay, but the court kept the fine. The woman aimed to collect funds from friends to keep her father from knowing, yet the court remained firm.
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Birmingham
Mich
Adele Blinn
Detroit
Justice Campbell
Lynch
Pontiac
Papa Blinn
Dawes Commission Finds More Cherokee Babies for Allotments
Muskogee correspondent reports that the Dawes commission uncovers many new Cherokee births eligible for allotment after the roll closed. The Curtis bill enrolls children born before March 4, 1906, with about 4,000 added since April 16 and more to come. An estimated 4,000 will receive $650 cash instead of land, depleting the nation treasury of about $4,000,000.
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Dawes Commission
Muskogee
Kansas City Journal
Apple Hoses Blooming Roses In A Kansas Apple Tree
The Topeka Capital notes in Salina Kansas an apple tree bearing rose blossoms. Buds from a white rosebush were grafted onto the tree, producing white flowers with light brown streaks. Leaves resemble both apple and rose, but none are a perfect match.
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Salina
Kan
Topeka
Coal Miners Return to Work in Harrisburg Area
Five O G A coal mines resume operations in Harrisburg with others to start once improvements finish. Workers continue on a 51 cent scale pending settlement of the 1/2 cent differential between Saline and Williamson counties.
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Harrisburg
O'Gara Coal Company
Saline
Williamson
Railways Now On Trial in Rebates Case
The Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad faces trial for alleged unlawful rebates on export shipments to Armour and Co., Swift and Co., Cudahy and Co., and Nelson. The case targets rebates given to rival lines in the packing-house products trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago, Burlington and Quincey Railroad Company
Armour & Co
Swift & Co
Cudahy & Co
Nelson
Witness Vanishes From Hotel In Hospital Inquiry
Rev. Walter A. Evans, key grand jury witness in the hospital investigation, disappeared from his hotel in Kankakee. He testified for two hours and was to continue his hearing. he volunteered rather than being subpoenaed. The probe also targets the local undertaking business tied to about five thousand dollars yearly revenue and alleged gifts to state employees. A Chicago volunteer witness on the hospital coal contract is expected to arrive.
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Kankakee
Walter A. Evans
Evans
Chicago
Man Arrested After Wife Agnes Adair Die Falls From Window
English bricklayer Campbell Adair is arrested after Agnes Adair falls to her death from a fifth floor front window at 220 East 127th Street. Neighbor James Smith recalls screams overhead as detectives report Adair barricaded himself in his room.
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New York
Campbell
Adair
Agnes
East One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Street
James Smoith
Adair Apartments
Will Sue Traders Company Policyholders in San Francisco
San Francisco policyholders in Traders Insurance of Chicago plan to sue to compel payment. Reportedly they seek redress through legal action over disputed claims and unpaid policies. The move follows interruptions in coverage and settlement delays affecting many insured residents.
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San Francisco
Chicago
Traders’ Insurance Company, of
Nine incorporators named to organize claims collection group
Policy holders approved forming a corporation to collect their claims. Nine incorporators were authorized to prepare preliminaries and draft articles of incorporation after learning the Chicago receiver refused to provide information on the Trader's Insurance Company finances.
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Chicago
Tnsurances
Freight classification debate over frog skins in rail rates
Rural agents in New Orleans ask how frog skins should be classified for freight rates. The issue is whether they count as wild animal hides bird skins or fish or as leather for double rates. Dealers ship them east for pocketbook cover production, prompting demand for uniform treatment.
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New Orleans
Dune Bi
Death mystery near arrest in Miss Volreis case
Sioux Falls reports an arrest may follow the death of 16 year old Agnes Volreis. She had worked as a domestic for Moses Kaufman, a brewer, and died days ago under alleged brutal conditions. In Lincoln, Neb a railway extension completed links Burlington with the Great Northern, last spike driven by J Bennell, improving southwest to northwest service.
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Sioux Falls
S&s
June
Agne Volreis
Lincoln
Neb
Stous City-Ashland
Great Northern Railway
J. Bignell
Tincoln
Burlington
Hnk
Great Northern
Roosevelt Uncle Ill at Sayville Home
There is no improvement in the condition of Robert B. Roosevelt uncle of the president who is ill at his Sayville home and physicians report only a small chance of recovery.
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Sayville
S. 1
Robert B. Roosevelt
Market notes on 1906 Chicago hogs and cattle prices
Chicago markets show mixed hogs and cattle with receipts and shipments from June 13 15 1906. Prices range for light hogs mixed packers and heavy ships, cattle beves cows and feeders, with notes from Beach Wickham Co and McCall Bros agents.
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Yesterdyy Av Light
STEE
Chicago
Beach-Wickham Co
McCall Bros
Nationwide meat inspection debate rocks Congress
Washington June 1. Mondell of Wyoming denounces sensationalism in Reynolds report on packing houses and urges careful, factual discussion of federal inspection. Slayden of Texas criticizes how the report was presented, while a Massachusetts man brands packers as responsible for unsafe practices and profiteering. The debate touches on costs of inspection and impact on cattle markets and export trade.
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Washington
Neill Reynolds
Paing
Chicago
Mondell
Slayden
Texas
Reynolds
Bay State
Massachusetts
Jury wants the books in contempt against several executives
A feder al grand jury in New York asked Judge Lacom to hold William H Allister of American tobacco William F E Ransot of MacAndrew Forbes and John S Young of John Young Co Baltimore in contempt for failing to produce subpoenaed books and records returnable June 4 They appeared but did not reveal the data claiming possession and personal as well as official material The judge set Saturday to argue proceeding against the men
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New York
Feder Grand Jury
Lacom
Abidge
William H. M Allister
American Bacco Company
William FE
Ransot
MacAndrew & Forbes
Johns. Young
John Young & Co
Baltimore
Howev
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Kiven
Duchesses
Hkailways
McPherson
Congress
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Traders’ CO
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Packers
Wyoming
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Beef Meng
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