Monetary report on Panama bond issue stalls tariffs and reform
Beverly Mass August reports continued bargaining among lawmakers and officials over monetary system reforms. President Taft, Senator Aldrich, and Secretary MacVeagh discuss delaying new securities and Panama Canal bond issues to allow the monetary commission to prepare recommendations, with tax and tariff plans and treasury reorganizations under consideration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beverly
Mass
Ers
Raft Nade
Taledin
Nelson W. Aldrich
Treasury
MacVeagh
Aldrich
Jong Tacit Aght
Bst
Rammisaton
Ar ‘Tall
Uf Congress
Monetary Commission
Feinite
Congress
Behild
Sesatin Alrhigh
Panama Canal
Dermaan
Aldriech
Thompson Denies Buyout of Pan American Railroad
Ambassador David H Thompson denies reports he purchased the Pan American Railroad for 10 million dollars acting as agent for H Harriman He says no connection to Harriman and no railroad purchase pending though he has sought to own the line He would own 9.6 million if the deal closes and an extension through Guatemala is planned. Los Angeles denial by Pan American official says most stockholders reside there and D P Doaks is president
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wexico City
David H Thompson
Pn-American
H. Harriman
Ambassador Thompson
Pan-American Railroad
Guatemala
Harriman
Los Angeles
Cal
J. M. Noeland
Tere
D. P. Doaks
Taft Awaiting Reports on Alaska Cunningham Claim Inquiry
Boston dispatch reports President Taft awaits Washington Seattle summaries on the Cunningham coal land claims in Alaska and the Interior Department link to the Glavis affidavit. No action will be taken until special agents finish their review. The president seeks no implied misconduct by Ballinger but hints at possible minor cabinet changes after investigation.
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Boston
Asperial
Bevarly
Taft
Washingon
Seattle
Cunningham Coal
Alaska
Imerloc
Beverly
Louis FR. Glavis
General Land Office
Bamtinger
Tafthan
Ballinger
Peres
Banda
Bia
Bleece
Forest Advice
Interior Department
First National Conservation Congress Opens in Seattle
Delegates from across the United States and Canada gather at Alaska-Yukon- Pacific Exposition Auditorium for speeches of welcome and an address by Joseph X. Teal. Teal lauds Gifford Pinchot and cites President Taft as a conservation movement ally. Ballinger avoids attending amid ongoing factional tension with Pinchot. officials say he is avoiding controversy.
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Seattle
Wasa
Arg
National Conservation Congress
United States
Canada
Joseph X. Teal
Oregon Conneryion Commission
Teal
Gifford Pinchot
Taft
George C. Pardee
California
Spokane Irrigation Congress
Ballinger
Jana Potley
Tromotera
Congress
Pinchot
Kluttad
Beatile
Escaped the Murder Farm Victim Alive in Nebraska
Waukesha Wis Aug 26 Rettlinger who was thought dead as a Belle Gunness victim at Laporte Ind is alive on a farm near Freeport Nebraska a letter received today reports. Also mentions travel fare to Baltimore and return train tickets with limited validity on weekends via a railroad line.
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Hir. Gunness
Waukesha
Wis
X. Rettlinger
Belle Gunness
Laporte
Ind
Freeport
Nebr
Bedlam at Riverside Prison As Inmates Wait Forty Days for Work
A Washington dispatch reports Riverside penitentiary holds about 1,300 convicts with only 3 percent at work. Each convict faces a forty day wait between tasks, leading to brooding, mental strain, and calls for county sanity commissions to remove hopelessly insane prisoners to institutions. Warden Franches seeks permanent sanity commissions to separate inmates who deteriorate, freeing space for the employed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Pittsburg
Riverside Penitentiary
John Franches
Western Penitentiary
Pennsylvania
Frandlen
Western
A108 IN SEARCH FOR RADIUM
Denver merchant Thomas F. Welsh sent six dollars to Victor C. Alderson president of the State School of Mines to aid radium research in Colorado The fund will cover ore analysis costs from prospectors who suspect radium in the state Welsh also urged other prospectors and miners to join the search for the rare mineral across Colorado
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Denver
Colo
Thomas F. Waleh
Victor C. Alderson
State School of Mines
Colorado
Walgh
Welsh
Hurricane Nears Coast With Heavy Seas Off North Carolina
The West Indian hurricane approaches the coast with a calm before the storm. Beaufort reports low, heavy clouds and a high sea, signaling intensified weather and dangerous conditions offshore.
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North Carolina
Beaufort, N
Medicated Garbage Debate Sparks Flour Talk
A heated discussion centers on chemical preservation of food with salting and bleaching flour. Remeen Beard voices a verdict while Dr Wiley weighs in on the harmlessness of treated comestibles amid claims of harmful additives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Remeen Beard
Wiley
Cattle Teeth Cleaned In New Dairy Venture At Wardene
Special to The Wardene reports W Kersey Schoepf, a Glendale summer resident and wealthy traction man, begins a dairy project with a 75000 herd of fillblood Jerseys. Two farmers tend the cattle each morning while a suit and grooming routine is introduced. The piece also covers a Roosevelt era nutrition debate and an association vote endorsing benzoate of soda as a food preservative amid controversy.
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Ave
W. Kersey Schoepf
Glendale
Denver
Colo
Roosevelt
Remsen
Association of State
National Food and Dairy Departments
Wilson
Department of Agriculture
Floyd W. Robinson
Lansing
Mich
Remsen Beard
Lenzonte
Taft
Schorpt
Mc. Schoepf
Bride of Rich Patient Weds In Cripple Creek
In Cripple Creek Colorado, Miss Ida Clark, superintendent of Cripple Creek district hospital, married a prominent mine magnate known as Millar. Millar, long a pioneer in the gold camp, recently inherited estates in Scotland valued at about 2.9 million dollars.
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Washington
Colorado Springs
Colo
Wilson to Succeed Thompson as Ambassador to Mexico
Washington sources report Henry Lane Wilson, American minister to Belgium, will be named ambassador to Mexico to replace David Thompson. Wilson has been notified by the State Department and is winding up duties in Brussels before departing for the post. The Mexican government, while regretting Thompson’s departure, approves the appointment and has notified the United States.
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New York
Washington
Wilson
United States
Heroic engineer's run in Wasnington summit mishap
New York Aug. With his right eye cut by glass from a broken cup engineer Andrew Horn of Jersey City ran the fast Bernardsville express from Hoboken to Summit New Jersey at full speed to Summit station. He was rushed to a hospital for treatment and doctors fear loss of sight in both eyes.
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Breefus
Wasnington Foss
New York
Andrew Horn
Jersey City
Hoboken
Summit
N. J
Summit Station
Jewel Thieves at Rheims Hotel Room Break-In
In Rheims on August 26 a hotel room belonging to Mr H B Livingston of New York was entered and jewelry valued at 4000 dollars was stolen. Mrs Livingston left her jewels on the dressing table while washing and forgot to secure them, returning to find them missing.
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Warbingtom Pont Malone
Mery Holland
Saranac Hotel
Boston
Mrs. Livingstone
New York
Rheims
H. B. Livingston
Diplomats Clash at Toledo Banquet Over Precedence
Spanish minister Marquis de Villalobar was hosted at a Toledo banquet during his visit for the King Wamba carnival while Mexican Ambassador Don Francisco Leon de la Barra was barred by a misunderstanding over rank. The dispute arose after both parties agreed to attend and the Spanish minister asserted precedence as a royal representative. De la Barra canceled to avoid complication. King Alfonso’s envoy sent greetings.
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Senor de la Barra
Mexico
Toledo
American State Department
Senor de la Harra
Spain
Howard
Ohio
Marquis de Vilalobar
Alfonso
Millionaire Byers Dies in Exile in France
A. M. Byers & Co president Dallas Byers died in Dinard France after fleeing to Europe when indicted for bribing Pittsburgh councilmen to close a street for a plant expansion. Gov. Folk had predicted he would die friendless and alone. Byers, a Yale ’98 graduate and former track athlete, suffered paralysis before death.
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Washington Post
Pittsburg
Dallas
Byers
A. M. Byers & Co
Dinard
France
Europe
Joseph W. Folk
Missouri
St. Louis
Yale
Trade reciprocity debate at Sheffield dinner
Judge Elbert H. Gary of United States Steel told Sheffield chamber of commerce that U S and England should pursue mutual trade freedom. He noted rising American iron and steel trade, urged fair reciprocity, and said protection in one country while free elsewhere is unfair. He supported global free trade with reciprocal relations among nations.
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Sheffield
England
Chamber of Commerce
Elbert H. Gary
United States Steel Corporation
Gary
United States
Amariman Better Dr Lyle Reports 100 Percent Improvement
Dr Lyle announces a patient shows full recovery after a general nervous breakdown labeled and treated with rest. A pacific railway chief retreats to a Hin Mountain top home to escape prying eyes and visitors. A crank seeking millions is stopped as stock markets slump.
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Dr. Lyle
Pacific Railway
Hin
Paralyzed Harriman estate amid stock market collapse tale
Within the Ramapo Mountains Arden Place, Mr. Harriman lies largely isolated as guards patrol the grounds. Doctors report improved condition and a desire to resume work on his mountain home. His children, including Walter Harriman, arrive as the market slides with Union Pacific and Southern Pacific among the biggest losers. A Chicago man named John Deyo is detained trying to reach the mansion. A separate New York tragedy follows as Florence Wood, 19, dies after a boy named Frank Williamson shoots her then himself with a toy revolver on Decatur Street, Brooklyn, leaving a note to his mother expressing love and remorse.
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Arden
Harriman
bin Estate
Florence
Lovers
Walter Averill Harriman
Chicago
Charles T. "Ford
Lie Mountain
John Deyo
Wabash Avenue
New York
Aus
Hardman
Marviman
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
New York Central
Reading
United States Steel
Washington Port
Bulel
Frank
Florence Wood
Decatur Street
Brooklyn
Frank’ Williamson
Marlon Street
Frank Grent
Loorence
Weir
Parloor
Slater
Ter
Mlorence
Saratoga Park
Strathcona Hotel Fire Powers Niagara Frontiersmen Escape
Niagara on the Lake Ontario Aug 36 The Strathcona Hotel at Chatauqua Park near Niagara frontier was destroyed by fire today. About 150 guests lost belongings but all escaped unharmed. Many guests were outside bathing or golfing when the blaze started.
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Strathcona
Niagara
Niagara On
Lake
Ontario
Chatauqua Park
Niagara Frontier
Sti
Convicts Go Mad in Prison and Other Notices
The page lists varied items from criminal cases to local society notes. Mentions include suspicions and confessions, a murder dream, an adoption, a civic debate over precedence, and upcoming events such as regattas and horse shows, with brief references to officials and local figures.
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Pames
Beverly
Ballinger
E. E. Harriman
Wilson
Latham
Guardemen
Sutton
Eston
Aime
DeBar
Cupid
Atlantic Feet
Isthmian Canal Board
Blemp
Kent
Winancial
W. Morse
Ching
Cleveland
Detroit
Clothier
Manassas
Ulabor
Sons of Veterans
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Hal Aldrich
Panama
Postal Savings Bank
Tariff Commission
Atariote
Mienetery
Senate
Mraldiah
Will Gail
Enatoy Anirich
Commission
Unitedt Staten
Avdrion
Frankie
Promiecn
Vie Lauer
Ar Res Lanema Canal Company
Seevers
Ph Cengrass
Fortune
Hortick
Thompson
Aft
Pierce
Deor
Conservation Congress
Baltimore
Hetarn
Bedlam
Thomas F. ‘Walah
Ira Hemeen
Russell H. Chittenden
New Haven, Ho
Conn. Or
Sonnm. Leng
Hvanscon. Tis
Christian H. Herter
New Haven
Charles A. L. Reed
Remeen
Marquis
Versionar
Eus
H. W. Wiley
Lop Gude
John Doyle
Sub
Orbia
Duke of
Veragua
Christopher Columbus
Henry L. Wilson
Villalobar
de la Barra
Hitch
Millionaire
Gov. Folk
Atlantic City
Cape May
Wildwood
Seean Cit
Bea Isle City
Pennsylvania Railroad
Delaware River Bridge
Fuiday
Ramapo
Robert S. Lovett
Lovett
Usless
Miers
Mars
Norfolk Navy Yard
Ber
Florenca
de Urious
Sip
Baltiente
Boters
Harpers
Sereeneere
Bpouaceain
Betheny Plain
Bleriot
Rams Barrier
Count de Lambert
Wright
Betheny
Raetme
Hubert Larhain
English
le Mans
Paulhan
Curtles
Gana
Nile
Bercord Sol Pitteent
Ian
M. Reth
Beth
Lwse
Serlerset
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