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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1908
Page
25
A National Board of Trade gathering discusses postal savings bank plans and broader commercial progress. Debate centers on government role, incorporation of capital, and promoting national prosperity through public literature and trade treaties.
Oscar 8 Straus and Frank P. Sargent protest misapprehensions about the division of information created by Congress to aid immigrant settlement. Citizens seek advice on cough remedies marriage and presidential nominations while requests for rheumatism resorts and coin premiums flood the office.
New York reports Mme Goriachkowskala Alexandeyna, a famed Novor Vremya correspondent, sought to form a company to produce imperial jam. Officials including Rosenthal and Rosenthal questioned her claims while she insisted she is not a cook. The Russian consul general and archbishop were drawn into the curious tale of culinary ambition and political intrigue.
Admiral Evans will have twenty hours of daylight to pass the Straits as the fleet trains for Magellan. The Moran tug completed a 76 day Pacific voyage from Panama after a long Atlantic run. Capt Phillips notes storms were few, and the voyage demonstrated the ship’s strength and weather luck.
A 23 A strong Italian quake struck Calabria causing deaths and damage. Bianco Brancaleone Bruzzino and Ferrazzano suffered severest shaking and many homes were wrecked. People fled homes to open fields or grottos as a harsher aftershock followed.
Special to The Washington Post Bethienm Pa Jan 22 On his death bed John Fitter aged seventy five confessed to Squire Haus that his daughter Etta who was suspected to save committed death by her own action thirteen years ago met death at his hands and that he assisted by the daughter a few years before Pad murdered her child and buried it in their back yard Wetter was arrested thirty five years ago for throwing a nofay to an out of a hotel the fall killing him but was acquitted
In a Portage Pa raid, Carmelo Cavalli Rosario Degrazio and Giuseppe Feiormo were seized after a months long manhunt. A prior arrest of Francesco Tribes and a South Fork boarding house keeper Imbessi tied to the 294 robbery is noted. Campbell and driver Charles Bays were attacked near Portage July 30 with $3750 seized and Hays killed.
The Columbia Theater hosts Henry W. Savage’s revue of musical comedy stars Raymond Hitchcock in A Yankee Tourist with Flora Zabelle and Helen Hale. Also billed are Eddie Foy in The Orchid with a rich cast, plus Lew Dockstader and Deadwood Dicks Last Shot coming to town.
New York, Jan 23 testimony in a Supreme Court case details Wu Ting-fang’s role as financier for a mining concession scheme tied to the America-China Development Company and the Chinese Railway Syndicate. The saga covers deposits, bonds, contract buybacks in 1905, warnings, and alleged pressure involving officials and prominent figures.
Fragmentary remarks describe Jenator Platt discussing escalating actions to fund an ambitious syndicate led by Whitridge Brice and associates. The plan proposed assessing members up to 400 or 5000 dollars to raise about 100000, with promises of new participants and a reorganization labeled the Chinese Railway Syndicate, referred to by Brice as the Diamond Necklace.
In a letter to Alexander H Revell, William Jennings Bryan Saye denies authorship of a proposed bank deposit protection plan. He notes a friend sent him a newspaper copy containing your article, and states he has no patent on the plan. The idea was suggested to him, not originated by him.
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