Johns Hopkins plans $2 million drive for expansion
Rockefeller offers $250 000 toward a $2 000 000 endowment to add schools of law teaching engineering and preventive medicine to Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. Trustees and alumni form a committee to raise the funds by Dec 31 1910 and move the university to Homewood with a new college program and a large athletic field and botanical gardens.
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John DO. Rockefeller
Baltimore Institution of Learning
United States
John D. Rockefeller
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
Johns Hopkins
Medical School
Homewood
General Education Board
John D. Rockefeller Foundation For Higher Education
Taft
Mic Oupport
Jeweled Walking Sticks Enter Fashion for Men
A reported trend features jeweled walking sticks for men with ornate heads. One stick with a remarkable jewel fetched about $1,000, illustrating luxe accessorizing in the era.
Duty on Cattle Ties to All Major Industries
A political essay argues that tariffs on hides cattle and beef influence shoe prices and domestic supply. It notes removal of the 15 percent hide duty increased imports without lowering prices due to demand and packer control. The piece suggests lowering duties on meat and cattle, while observing shoe imports rising from England as a paradoxical effect of free trade.
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Lodge
Senate
Canada
Mesxive
Enaiind
Ford
England
Study of potato raising to aid exports abroad
The United States Department of Agriculture will dispatch special agent Eugene Grubb from Carbondale Colorado to Europe to study potato growing. The goal is to explain why European yields exceed U.S. averages and to test improved seed and cultivation methods to reduce potato imports and save agricultural dollars.
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Europe
United States Department of Agriculture
Department
Eugene Grubb
Carbondale
Colo
United States
Lord Roseberr
England
Germany
Department of Agriculture
Free Raw Material and Free Trade Doctrine
The author argues that all goods, from watches to meat, are raw material in a chain of reciprocal buying and selling. By treating every manufactured item as raw material to someone else, free raw material implies free trade, shaping the entire industrial system around buying to live and selling to others.
Corporations Should Form Their Own Political Party
Major J F Hanson president of the Central of Georgia Railroad urges a new political party for corporations to press for fair government treatment of invested capital. He claims about four hundred percent of corporations in the United States could sway national policy and balance power. A second note mentions Professor Herman Schultz recording thunder and storm sounds on Nauvoo Island for the Passion play at Oberammergau.
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J. F. Hanson
Central of Georgia Railroad Company
Republican Party
Georgia
Macon
United States
Major Hansen
Herman Schultz
Newark, N. J
Nauvoo Island
Long Island Sound
Confederate Memories Day Observance Acknowledged in New Orleans
General Wilkin E. Mickle adjutant of the Confederate Veterans issued a directive directing that on April 27 a one hour observance be held. The notice calls for veterans to gather in New Orleans for the commemoration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilkin E. Mickle
New Orleans
Hich Meen
Taft Fought Tariff Logic Citing Philippines Trade Gap
In Providence Taft argued for tariff bills as just, noting free trade with the Philippines and high duties on Canada. He contrasted Philippines $20,000,000 with Canada’s $242,000,000 total trade last year, calling it inconsistent protection for American workers and a jab at pauper labor. The piece quotes Henry George and remarks on ultimate consumers.
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Philippines
Canada
Henry George
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Carstens Packing Co
Aberdeen
Washington
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Robert Mantell
Sam Bernard
Geo. M. Cohan
Chauncey Olcott
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Blanche Bates
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