Heyburn Joins Scott Petition Circulating For Meeting In February
Idaho senator Heyburn backs a petition calling a mid February meeting of the Republican National Committee to accept Cortelyou resignation as Postmaster General and elect a new chairman. Senators Heyburn and Scott push for party control over administration influence while debates over leadership continue.
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Cortelyou
Senator Heburn
Idaho
Allel
Cortelyous
Ignatier
Harry S New
Indianapoli
I & Nates Weyburn
Scott
National Committee
President Roosevelt to speak at Lawton statue unveiling in Indianapolis
President Roosevelt plans a trip to Indianapolis for the unveiling of the Don Henry W Lawton monument. He will deliver a speech at the ceremonies, addressing war veterans and recalling recent history, with local organizers led by Representative Overstreet and business leaders from the Commercial Club and Board of Trade.
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Lawton
Indianapolis
Roosevelt
No Need of Chinese Labor Declared in Isthmus Work
A California starter of the City of Senators and Representatives urged the President that Chinese labor is unnecessary for canal work. He praised current laborers as well-suited and effective, asserting they outperform Jamaica Negroes or Chinese workers. Washington Harvard Club officers were elected at University Club, naming Edward Lander as president and others as officers. Natchez seeks a warship for Mardi Gras harbor celebrations, urged to the President. Delegates to the Merchant Tanners National Protective Association will visit the White House February 10.
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Starter Guint
California
Isthamus
Panarme
Congress
Jamaica
Washington
Harvard Club
Washington Aiarveal
University Club
Edward Lander
Frank W Hackett
Charles J Bonipart
Robert Bacon
Samml F Emmons
Freeman Abbe
Jobh Wo Dasidge
Pickering Dodge
Noi
Amitte
EL Keith H F Dupont
Dupont
Frederick B Ames
Bow Frater
Natchez
Williams and
Humphreys
Mississippi
White House
Merchant Taitors
National Protective Assocation of America
Sereno H Payne
Syracuse
House
Ways and Means
Payne
New Yorker
Mark Twain
Order of Purity and Perfection
Knowland
Panama
Panama Canal
Panama Canal Zone
Panama Canal Strip
Knowladd
Isdo
Teddy
Rnowlton
Roosevelt
Japanese Children Case Ties to San Francisco School Board
In a case linked to the US Japan treaty, San Francisco prosecutors seek to enforce rights of Japanese schoolchildren. The District Attorney and officials consider paring papers in both city and district counts, with the San Francisco Board of Education named a party. Carnegie Institution Year Book release noted. President's decree renews twenty percent tariff cut affecting imports, with cited sites on American imports.
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United States
Japan
San Francisco
Devlin
San France
Bonaparte
Branl
Big Jinelre
Pennatod
Cuba's Pacification Costs Push Budget Past Four Million
New York reports that estimates by the War Department place the cost of transporting and maintaining the Cuban pacification army from September to June at over 4 million dollars, with Cuba repaying in monthly installments. Costs are driven chiefly by chartered transports and railroad moves, while subsistence, medical, and signal corps expenses remain modest. The return timing is unsettled and contingent on Cuban developments.
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War Department
Army of Cuban Pacification
Cuba
United States
Havana
Quartermaster's Department of the Army
Medical Department
Signal Corps
Quartermaster's Department
Atlantic Coast
New York
Newport News
Quartermaster General
Congress
Quartermaster’s Department
Senator Clark Optimistic On Full Cribs and High Wages
Washington dispatch reports Senator Clark of Montana predicts a bright outlook with full employment and high wages. He cites railroads, mines, and commerce thriving, calls for flexible currency, and opposes Wall Street speculation while urging timely relief measures through forthcoming legislation.
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Senator Clark
Montana
Rockefeller
Amelia
Washington
Clark
George Gould
Attack on Sherman Law constitutionality in tobacco trust case
Testimony closed today in the tobacco trust case involving MacAndrews & Forbes Co and The J Young Company with Carl Jungbluth and Howard Young as presidents. Defense seeks dismissal on technical grounds and hints at challenging Sherman act as unconstitutional, arguing it infringes private business control and deprives property without due compensation. The motion to dismiss was denied.
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Tobacco Trust
New York
MacAndrews & Forbes Co
J . Young Company
Carl Jungbluth
Howard HE Young
Deny Arrest Report At La Junta In Soldier Shooting Case
Police deny a report that a negro soldier was arrested in La Junta Colorado for the shooting of Capt Edgar Macklin at Fort Heno. The man sought was seized in Topeka last week but released. he is believed to have gone west from there.
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Macklin
la Junta
Colo
Edgar Macklin
Fort Heno
Gkla
Topeka
South Carolina Senate Indorses Roosevelt Brownsville Action
The South Carolina Senate voted 21 to 16 to adopt a resolution endorsing the president’s position in the Brownsville matter. The measure asks the state’s congressional delegation to back this course and support dismissal of colored troops.
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South Carolina
Columbia S. C
Tadiy
Roosevelt
Brownsville
Congress
Bulgaria bans emigration to America for peasants and laborers
Reported by Minister Jackson at Athens to the State Department the Bulgarian Sobranje approved by princely ukase has passed a law barring the issue of passports to Bulgarian peasants and laborers who seek to emigrate to the United States.
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Bulgaria
Jackson
Athens
State Department
Ukase
America
Pennsylvania Promotions Elect McCrea to Multiple Rail Posts
Philadelphia announces Jane James McCrea elected president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and named president of the Pennsylvania Company and of the Pittsburg Cincinnati Chicago and St Louis Railway to succeed A J Cassatt. Promotions raise several vice presidents and officers, with McCabe added as a director and executive committee member. board weighs salary increases.
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Philadelphia
Jane
James McCrea
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Pennsylvania Company
Pittsburg
Cincinnati, Chicago and
Treasury
Accounting
Daniel T McCabe
Pennsylvania Lines
Will Defend Colored Soldiers at Mass Meeting
A mass meeting of colored persons will be held at True Reformers Hall tonight to oppose the President’s discharge without honor of a Twenty-fifth Infantry battalion. Principal address by Thomas L Jones with speakers Dr L Carruthers R R Horner Dr W W Bishon Johnson Dr M W D Morman Hichyfet Stewart NB Marshall W Calvin Chase and Dr Walter H Brooks. National airs to be sung.
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Twenty-fifth Infantry
True Reformers' Hall
Thomas L Jone
L Carruthers
R R Horner
W.W. Bishon Johnson
M W. D Morman
Hichyfet Stewart
NB. Marshall
W. Calvin Chase
Walter H. Brooks
Pacific Squadron Bolstered as Warships Move West
Washington reports four formidable Atlantic ships including the Kentucky and Kearsarge will join the Pacific Squadron, with the New Orleans Marblehead Albany and Wisconsin to be commissioned. The fleet strength at Mare Island Navy Yard will more than double, shifting from Atlantic to Pacific deployment.
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Washington
Vadlejo
Cal
Mare Island Navy Yard
Batte
Kentucky
Kearsarge
New Orleans
Marblehead
Albany
Wisconsin
Atlantic
Pacific
Italians Herded In Peonage Case In West Virginia
Fifteen Italian citizens were allegedly forced to work under armed guard near Raleigh West Virginia after being lured from Hoboken. They faced imprisonment and starvation before release. the Italian embassy and Secretary Root intervened leading to their release and ongoing wage and transport claims against the lumber company.
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State Department
West Virginia
Italiens
Raleigh
W. V
Italien
Hoboken
vMage
Lumber Company
Pietro Liberti
Jersey City
Liberti
Root
New York
Philadelphia
Paymaster Lukesh Arrested In Vallejo Scandal
Special to The Washington Post Vallejo California paymaster George M Lukesh once attached to the Buffalo but later detached and ordered to Mare Island to settle accounts was arrested after a multi day spree. He was sent to the receiving ship Independence and later confined on the prison ship Manila where he remains in the wardroom. Lukesh is a known naval figure previously court martialed in Yokohama and reduced ten numbers. President Roosevelt urged dismissal from the service at that time. Saheb said to be wealthy.
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Washington Post
Vallejo
Cal
Jane
George M. Lukesh
Buffalo
Mare Island
Lukeshta
Independence
Manila
Lukesh
Naval Service
Yokohama
Roosevelt
Saheb 4
New System of Gun Fire for Ship Vir ginia Trial
By direction of the Secretary of the Navy a new gun fire control system is being installed on the battleship Virginia. If the experiment succeeds it will be used on other ships. Tests focus on the fire control method rather than transmitting instruments, which are reportedly satisfactory.
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Secretary of the Navy
Virginia
Army Orders Grant Leaves and Transfers Across Commands
Military notices list leaves of absence for Second Lieutenant Kenneth F Williams and Ensigns Osburn Kibbee Moves and Kibbee assigned to various yards and stations. Naval vessel movements include arrivals at Guantanamo and Mapils, and sailings from Cienfuegos and Sydney with additional duty placements and assignments across the Atlantic fleet.
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Cbm Thomas
Virginia
United Gate Atlantic
WH Emory
Ohio
United States Atlantic
Fesi
EH & Jackson
Hancock
Navy Yard
New York City
Buffalo
A Gardiner
Navy Department
Washington, DC, &E
Norry
Washington,dc
Pressey
Brooklyn
Randsabush
Bureau
Washington, D. C
Kenson Ord
Venter
Osburn
Bureau of Steam Engineering
Washington, DC
Kibbee
Independence
Mare Taland
Del
C . Moves
Yankton
Guantanamo
Chattanooga
Cleveland
Cienfuegos
Havana
Morris
Vernandins
Key Wear
Potonine
Sydney
Nova Bertin
Bay of Talanda
Connecticut
Bampton Roads
Culebra
Repairing cyclone damage to forts and ships after Gulf storm
Army and navy officials have nearly completed damage estimates for fort and ship repairs caused by the Gulf cyclone. Requested appropriations include 264000 for Fort Morgan and Fort Barrancas, 23000 for Fort St Phillips quarters, and 20000 to repair the Gloucester and related vessels.
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Humphrey
Congress
Fort Morgan
Mobile Bay
Fort Barran‘eas
Pendacola
Fort St Phillips
Mississippi River
Pensacola
Capps
Naval Militia
Tela de Luzon
National Guard mobilization reforms urged for rapid wartime readiness
New mobilization regulations endorsed by Assistant Secretary of War Olver aim to prevent failures seen in 1898 by requiring states to maintain minimum militia strength and provide arms clothing quartermasters stores and tenting. States must recruit equip and deliver troops to central depots so the national government can call up a ready force at short notice.
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Natonal Guard
Olver
War Department
Promotion for Gallantry in Leyte Engagement
Manila January 9 Major General Wood recommends Corp Seth L Weld of Company L Eighth Infantry for a Medal of Honor and a commission in the Philippines for conspicuous gallantry in the Leyte action with the Pulajanes on May 42 1906. Capt Samuel Y Hamill is recommended for brevet major for gallantry in the same action while severely wounded he held off the Pulajanes with bayonet and gun butt and rescued two wounded comrades.
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Manila
Seth L. Weld
Eighth Infantry
Wood
Philippines
Leyte
Samuel Y Hami
Weld
Navy Yard Worker Injured After Street Car Fall
Michael Sullivan aged sixty two of Vienna Virginia an employee of the Washington Navy Yard fell from a street car at Divet and B streets southwest last night and sustained a crushed arm He was taken to the Emergency Hospital Physicians say his age may slow healing.
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Navy Yard
Michael Sullivan
Vienna
Washington Navy Yard
Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges Promise Health Benefits
An advertisement extols charcoal as a safe purifier for the stomach and bowels. It touts Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges as the best value, claiming they improve complexion breath and blood, aid digestion, and detoxify the mouth throat and liver with daily use. A Buffalo physician endorses them and a free trial offer asks readers to send name and address to Stuart Co. Marne Mich.
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Stuart
Buffalo
A. Start Co
Stuart Bldg
Maranal, Mich
Senate Talks on Pronunciation and Panama Canal Echoes
In a Senate exchange Senator Daniel of Virginia jokes about Philippine pronunciation and the evolving spellings of words as a House party praises sanitary gains at the Panama Canal Zone. The report recounts Senator Elkins recalling Schofield in Missouri and his path to West Virginia politics, including a wartime rise and future re election.
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Benster Stephen B Wiking
West Virginia
Ohio
Royte
Missouri
John M. Schofield
Senator Elkins
Mississippi River
Schofield
Steve
Ike
Benaiment
Frome
Schofields
Hke
Owego Victory Moves Political Winds in Senate Talk
The Capitol discusses the Owego election as a gauge of upcoming political trends. A New York representative notes the loss of town supervisor majorities signals possible shifts in the presidential race next year. Wisconsin Senator La Follette and colleagues exchange light remarks during a Senate lunch hour.
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Rayner
Maryland
Senate
Foster
Louisiana
Thomas C Platts
Owego
Capitol
New York
New England
Ucking
Owexo
Straus Plans Dinner To Promote Team Work
Secretary of Commerce and Labor Oscar Straus announces a January 12 dinner for his leading labor candidates and aides to foster team work. Guests include Assistant Secretary Lawrence O Murray and all bureau heads with their wives, as Strang shapes duties in the new office.
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Danner
Canates
Oscar & Straus
Commerce
Labor
Lawrence O Murray
Department
Strang
Fortify Against Seasonal Illness Says Duffy’s Malt Whiskey
The item urges protecting the lungs and avoiding disease as seasons change. It links digestive health and strong resistance to preventing grip and pneumonia, recommending Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey to aid digestion, nerve tone, and immune defense, with cautions about authentic labeling and bottle quality.
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Duffy
Duffy Malt | Whiskey Co
Rochester
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