Roosevelt Continues Alabama Tour After St Augustine Visit
President Roosevelt spent Sunday in St Augustine attention focused on church services and a salt water bath at Anastasia followed by travel toward Mobile. In Jacksonville he addressed the Board of Trade and spoke briefly at a negro Baptist academy before returning to St Augustine in the late afternoon.
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Presbyterian Memorial Church
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Loeb
Rixey
John Mellhenny
John Greenway
Fort Marion
Anastasia
United States
Ponce de Leon
Board of Trade
Jacksonville
Negro Baptist Academy
President Discusses Panama Canal Duty and Hemisphere Policy
The Jacksonville Board of Trade hears the president’s address on the Panama Canal as a world duty for the United States in the western hemisphere. He warns against the timid and weak, urges naval strength, and notes the need to police the canal and protect strategic points. The speech links canal interest to Caribbean stakes and U.S. duties toward South American states.
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Jacksonville
Caribbean Sea
United States
Sockless Simpson Dies a Colorful Kansas Statesman
Jerry Simpson known as Sockless Simpson dies at 6 05 am in Wichita after weeks of illness. Born in New Brunswick he sailed on Great Lakes ships for 23 years before moving to Kansas to farm and enter politics. He served in Congress 1891 95 and 1897 99 and was famed for wit and reform zeal.
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Jerry Simpson
New Brunswick
Gov Folk Mansion Destroyed By Overnight Fire
Jefferson City Missouri October 23 The Governors mansion burned early this morning around 3 o clock Gov Folk his wife and guests escaped to a nearby hotel with no injuries reported The cause and extent of the fire were not immediately known and investigators began work at once
Interference Doctrine Stated With Emphasis on Nonaggression
The speaker asserts the nation has no aim of aggression toward any republic or colony to the south. He says intervention would occur only to prevent serious damage and to benefit the peoples involved. He notes occupying a strong position may force action to prevent another power taking on the duty.
Illinois Delegates Appointed
Governor Deneen appoints Mrs. Sarah Franklin and Mrs. M. E. Holland of Chicago as delegates to the National Prison Congress in Lincoln Nebraska from October 21 to 26.
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Deneen
Sarah Franklin
M. E. Holland
Chicago
National Prison Congress
Lineon
Neb
Victim of a Foot Ball Game
John C. Dondero aged 27 died from injuries received during a football game in Jewett City Willimantic Connecticut on October 23 honoring the incident as a fatal athletic accident.
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John C. Dondero
Jewett City
Lieutenant U S Grant 3d
Lieutenant Grant, a White House military attaché, is the son of Brigadier General Frederick Dent Grant and grandson of General U S Grant. A West Point graduate, he ranked highly in his class and is known as U S Grant 3d since his uncle U S Grant 2d is alive.
Michigan beet sugar campaign shows strong farmer cooperation
In Bay City Michigan on October 23 reports say beet sugar making quality and quantity delight both farmers and manufacturers. Farmers limit acreage to manageable amounts aiding campaign efficiency and boosting factory prospects. The German American factory alone contracts 2 200 growers on about 7 000 acres. Jerome seeks re election after governor replies with regret unable to attend due to official duties.
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Michigan
Woman held as a brute in Fort Scott case
Mrs Belle Riggin is held without bail for the murder of her 6 year old stepson Herbert Riggin. The boy's father George F Riggin was discharged as testimony did not implicate him. Three physicians testified to severe neglect and bruising, noting lack of nourishment as the direct death cause.
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Fort Secott
Kan
Belle Riggin
Herbert Riggin
Geo. F. Riggin
Tawney Questions Arizona and New Mexico Statehood
Representative Tawney of Minnesota traveling with a western study party said conditions are not ripe for admitting Arizona or New Mexico. He advised ceasing statehood agitation for the territories for now and noted many lawmakers would not vote for joint statehood without visiting Arizona.
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Tawney
Minnesota
Arizona
New Mexico
Prescott, A. T
Congress
Folk declines New York speaking invitation in October telegram
Governor Folk of Missouri sent a telegram from Jefferson City on October 23 declining an invitation to address a New York audience backing the candidacy of a district attorney. He cited prior engagements as the reason for not appearing.
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Gotham
Jefferson City
Joseph W. Folk
New York City
Consul Denies Purity Conference Export Claim
Washington on October 25 Consul James W Davidson of Antung Manchuria called the National Purity Conference assertion at LaCrosse Wisconsin that Japanese and Chinese girls are exported to the United States for immoral purposes under British supervision as preposterous He said neither government allows such exports and no policy permits it.
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James W. Davidson
Antung
Manchuria
LaCrosse
Wis
United States
Shanghai
Singapore
Death of a Pioneer Teacher in Beloit Wisconsin
Beloit Beloit Oct 28 Sereno T Merrill aged 0 years is dead. He came to Beloit in 1846 and was Beloit college first teacher and lifelong trustee. He built Beloit first paper mills and was in iron industry and other business. He held city offices and served in the Wisconsin legislature in 1875 and 1877.
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Sereno T. Merrill
Beloit College
Wisconsin
Miners Return as Driver Boy Remains Idle in Hazelton
Hazelton miners of G. B. Markle & Co resume work after a weeklong strike. The driver boy who sparked the stoppage stays idle while a conciliation board settles his wage dispute. The workers claim he quit over not receiving standard pay.
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Hazelton
G. B. Markle & Co
Peace Celebrated Across Russian Empire In Thanksgiving Service
In St. Petersburg and across the empire a service of thanksgiving marked the end of peace. Festal masses followed, with the emperor's rescript read to the court and the Kazan cathedral celebration attended by ministers and high officials.
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Kazan
Leishman Protests Retrial in Constantinople
United States minister Leishman sent a note to the Porte protesting the retrial of Ghirkis Vartanian. The note rebukes assurances that judicial proceedings would be suspended while the question of United States protection is settled.
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Constantinople
United States
Porte
Ghirkis Vartanian
Vartanian
No Special Privilege for Chicago in Milwaukee Trade
Milwaukee officials announce that all regular outside exchanges including St. Louis Kansas City Minneapolis and Duluth will receive the one six teenth rate of commission on trades negotiated through the Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce ending Chicago traders prior privilege.
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Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce
Baking Powder Use Backed by Scientists
Scientists warn that some baking powders containing alum transfer alum to the stomach. They say foods baked with alum powder may be partly indigestible and unhealthy, urging careful choice of leavening agents.
Simpson Near Death in Wichita as Death Looms
In Wichita Kansas on October 25 Ex Representative Jerry Simpson nears death after a severe hemorrhage and a lighter one. Doctors fear he may live only a few more hours as death again looms for the third time this week.
Chicago Market Report Hogs and Sheep Prices 1906
Chicago market notes show hog receipts around 35000 with slow Saturday prospects and mixed packing grades. Sheep receipts near 42000 remain steady with cattle and westerns shown. prior week totals and official receipts indicate a generally steady market with some declines and regional price ranges.
Steamer Progress Reaches Port After Great Lakes Storm
Reports from Chicago and Ludington detail a devastating Great Lakes storm. Twenty one deaths and forty two vessels damaged or lost. Survivors from the schooner J. W. Jones were brought to Ludington. two crewmen drowned. Progress arrives in port after 16 days missing, with 15 crew aboard. In another incident a body was recovered from a fish net. seven drownings occur in a Delaware River launch collision near Beverly New Jersey.
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Mich
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Ever Olfsen
Louis Fredreksen
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Sheldon
Lorain
Four To Be Hanged at Once in Nevada Pair
In Reno a group of four men T F Gorman J I Severner Fred Roberts and A L Linderman will be hanged at the Carser penitentiary on November 17 for murder in Humboldt County Nevada. The four, twice convicted of killing Jack Welch, were denied another hearing by the state supreme court.
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Nev
T. F. Gorman
San Francisco
J. I. Severner
California
Fred Roberts
St. Louis
A. L. Linderman
Rank Williams
Stockton
Cal
Carser Penitentiary
Jack Welch
Humboldt County
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