Expect vote in fortnight on reciprocity measure
Senator Penrose chief of the Senate Finance Committee travels to the White House to reassure Taft of favorable progress on the reciprocity bill. He forecasts a final Senate vote within two weeks with a large margin and no Root amendment, while a daily session schedule and intensified opposition oratory are expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate Finance Committee
White House
Taft
Washington
Penrose
Senate
Messare
Baseball Scores From Recent Games Across The Circuits
The data lists several doubleheader style box scores with teams including New York St. Louis Pittsburgh Chicago Philadelphia Cincinnati and Brooklyn. Runs hits and errors are partially recorded with pitchers named Drucke Marquard Myers Wil rest en and others. Weather rain affected a Cincinnati Brooklyn game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Steele and Bresnahan
Pittsburg
St. Louis
R. H. EB
Drucke
Marquard, Myers and
Wil
R. H.bresten
Krown
Griffen
Kling
Camnitz
Simon
Chicago
R. H
Philadelphia
Moore
Chalmers
Dooin
Reulbach
Archer
Cincinnati
Brooklyn
Roster Snatches and Team Pairings Across League Cities
Fragmentary lines show teams and players listed by city and association. Names such as Scott Black Young Sullivan Coombs Lapp appear with varied scores and codes, followed by mentions of Boston Cleveland New York Detroit Rain and related pairings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
R. H.E. Chicago
Scott, Black, Young and Sullivan
Coombs and
Lapp
Boston
R. H
Kansas City Organized Games Postponed
In Kansas City, two other games were postponed amid a truncated event slate. Details on rescheduled dates or participating teams were not available in the readable text.
Balloon ascent at Cote Missouri by Prof Lowe reports
Fifty years ago Sunday June 18 a War balloon ascended at Washington with telegraphic messages sent by Professor Lowe from Cote Missouri. Captain Nathaniel Gordon of the ship Erie faced trial in New York on charges of slave trading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cote
Lowe
Washington
Nathaniel Gordon
Erie
New York
Cooke Testifies in Own Defense Denies Big Four Embezzlement
Edgar Cooke took the stand to deny embezzling 24000 from the Big Four railway and to repudiate claims he gave Mrs Ford packages with money. He asserted Warriner was not short and offered to prove it. A witness Mrs Mattie McDermott sought revenge against Couden, hailing Cooke's honesty while suggesting possible past schemes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Edgar Cooke
Big Four Railway
Charles L. Warriner
Jeannette Stewart-Ford
Aoe Ge Aee Cooke
Warriner
Cooke
Iir
Bie
Ford
New York
Big Four
Mattie McDermont
Morrow, O
Frank M. Couden
Warren County
Couden
Bandits Rob Labor Camp Near Erie Seizing Over $2000
Six armed men entered a Bessemer road labor camp near Erie at 2 a m chloroformed twenty or more workers and escaped with more than $2000. Masks hid the robbers as they rifled trunks killing no one and scattering to avoid capture. Police and locals search for the bandits as 24 men remained at the camp after payday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erie
Bessemer Road
Pittsburg
Vast Panama explosions planned to clear canal route
Washington reports canal diggers on the isthmus will use 10,000,000 pounds of dynamite in the next year for excavation. The canal commission awarded the contract, with prices ranging from 12.23 to 18.82 dollars per hundred pounds. In Nevada a mine blast in Goldfield kills one man and grisks three others in Blair's Pittsburg Silver Peak tunnel.
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Panama
Washington
Canal Commission
Goldfield
Nev
Joe Buste
Butte
Mont
Pittsburg
Blair
Weather forecast by region in Midwest states
Indiana sees thunder showers today with unsettled conditions tomorrow and brisk variable winds. Minolta reports thunder showers today with cooler western areas and generally fair conditions tomorrow with moderate to brisk winds. Wisconsin expects thunder showers today and fair weather tomorrow with moderate to brisk northerly winds becoming variable.
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Indiana
Minolta
Wisconsin
Cox Indictment Quashed by Cincinnati Judge
Judge William B. Dickson again quashes the revived perjury indictment against George B. Cox. Affidavits claiming bias were filed, but court rules ruling stood as based on a rehearing motion filed before the affidavits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
William B. Dickson
George B. Cox
Dickson
Fish as a protein source and brain food
Dr Y discusses fish as a protein rich food with phosphorus and other nutrients. Fresh fish offers high protein and fewer disease risks but spoils quickly. Canned gal mon is preferred. salted and dried fish endure longer. Bread pairs best with fish. bread and fish outperform mixed diets.
Maine A Mere Shell Emerges From Wreck Exposing Warship
Havana reports the Maine wreck rising as cofferdam water dips ten and a half feet revealing most of the spar deck and aft guns. Engineers note corroded iron and exposed interior structures making salvage unlikely while no bodies are found in docks or superstructures.
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Havana
Maine
Supreme Court ruling triggers oil industry reorganization
Kansas roots oil trust ruling declares three Standard Oil subsidiaries must reorganize. Defendants include Standard Oil Company of Indiana Standard Oil Company of Kanaw Kansas Prairie Oils and Gas Company acts as transporter and purchaser in the chain feeding Standard Oil Company of Kansas which refines and delivers products to Standard Oil Company of Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kan
State Supreme Court
Standard Oil Company
Oil Industries
Nanene
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
Standrd OW Company
Kanaug
Prairie Oils and Gas Company
Prairie Oil and Gas Company
Transportation Ompdy
Standard Oil Company of Kansas
Standard Oi Company of
Mexican export duty removed for cattle shipments
The Mexican government scrapped the export duty of five pesos per head on cattle, easing obligations for San Antonio shipper contracts tied to Mexican ranches. The relief benefits cattle traders awaiting delivery under Mexican market terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Iheatre Dte
Mexico
Fifty Years Ago Today in the Nation and States Abridged
Fragmentary notes recount historical events dated June 17 across decades. Mentions New York, Richmond, Va Bowenville, New Creek, and other places with uncertain details and names. broader references to past days and figures surface without clear context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Richmond
Bownville
Eebee Herry
Lost voucher mystery in early 1900s Day portrait case
Charles Denby writes from Vienna detailing a long lost voucher tied to a Day portrait. Disbursing officer Thomas Morrison recalls a secrecy order and a cashier’s quiet handling as a federal inquiry unfolds into a discrepancy in a secret fund and the $1,000 variation in the Day portrait expenditure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Committee On Expenditures
State Department
Thomas Morrison
Hamlin
Morrison
Mr. Hamlin
Mr Morrison
Charles Denby
United States
Vienna
Willian H. Miehgel
Secretary of State
Out
Goef
Next Mal
Root
Denby
Day
Silver wedding feast draws Taft family to White House
Miss Della C. Torrey known as Aunt Della heads to Washington for the silver wedding anniversary of her nephew Taft. President Taft and family members including Horace Taft and Robert Taft join relatives from Lincoln era to celebrate with invited former presidential kin at the White House.
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Waerhington
Della C. Torrey
Della
Whignton
Win
Delia
Robert
Millbury
Washineton
Taft
Horace Taft
New Eneland
Tody
McKinley
Supreme court rules liquor trade voids life policy
New Slaven Conn June 17 By a supreme court decision it is held that an insurance company need not honor a policy for a member who enters the liquor trade John Burna joined United Workmen but kept paying assessments A death claim of 2000 was denied because liquor dealers are forbidden life insurance by the order and the ruling upheld the denial
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New Slaven
Conn
Jone
Supreme Court
John Burna
United Workmen
Burned Steamer North Week Raised in Buffalo Dock Fire
The steamship North Week of the Northern Steamship Line, burned and sunk at her dock two weeks ago, has been refloated. Marine insurers and line officers will survey the vessel. early inspection shows no serious hull damage, no plates sprung, and engines and boilers in good condition. Initial loss estimate of 500000 likely trimmed to about 250000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
Northern Steamhip Line
Drought Hits Midwest as Storms Misses Area
Showers expected over eastern Missouri and western Illinois failed to arrive while heat spiked in the upper Mississippi and lower Ohio valleys. Severe weather struck Kansas and Oklahoma with heavy rain in the Jim River valley, where drought rages. Tulsa telegram reports crops burning under 109 degree heat. Mason City High School, built seven years ago for 75000, burned after a lightning strike. insurance set at 58000. Charles D Sheldon is sentenced to five years in prison for client funds misappropriation.
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St. Louis
Missouri
Ihernh Tlinois
Mississippi
Ohio River Valley
Kansas
Oklahoma
Jim River Valley
Tulsa
Okla
Kan Sas
Mason City
Mason City High School
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Mane
Rayal
Kansas Roots Oil Trust
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Wish Ineton
Cheney
Dante
Ted
Concord
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Disbursivg
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Consular Service
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Montreal
Charles D. Sheldon
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