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Newspaper
Albion New Era
Location
Albion, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1909
Page
3
President Taft presents a broad foreign policy overview with arbitration cases, Pan American relations, and disputes with Venezuela and Nicaragua. He details canal costs, tariff mechanisms, civil service reforms, and calls for economic measures, naval planning, and postal savings banks, while urging budget tightening and legislative measures.
The United States has provided extensive pension and care programs for veterans and dependents. By June 30, 1908 total disbursements reached 3.75 billion dollars with major sums for Civil War and other wars. In 1908 about 152.96 million was paid to 951,687 pensioners, with Ohio Pennsylvania and New York leading state disbursements. Pensioners abroad number in the many thousands across 63 countries.
Archer Christian, son of a Richmond banker, was fatally injured as UVA played Georgetown in Washington. In response, Georgetown canceled all remaining games for the season.
The 1900 census lists 10,460,000 foreign born residents composing 13.7 percent of the population. Earlier years show 1890 at 14.8 percent, 1880 at 13.3 percent, 1870 at 14.4 percent, 1860 at 13.2 percent, and 1850 at 9.7 percent.
Kentucky bred stallions Salvator Ben Strome St. Blaise and Sir Dixon died in recent weeks. Sir Thomas Lipton reaches an Americas Cup race agreement with the New York Yacht Club for 1911. Dan Stuart, famed promoter of Corbett-Fitzsimmons, dies at 65 in New York. Sam Hildreth plans rest and Buenos Aires trip. European trotting grows. John Aiken sets new American track record in Atlanta. Hamburg Belle dies in Thomasville from pneumonia. Yale weighs 2056 pounds for Princeton Harvard clash. Kreigh Collins, famed tennis figure, killed by streetcar in Chicago. Basketball rules panel adopts changes including umpire and referee duties.
Richmond Mrs Richard Lane burned when clothing caught fire from an open gas stove. Lawrenceburg reports twenty three appendicitis cases linked to lime in city pumps. Courtland Koontz, Richmond carpenter, fractured spine from a fall, may live as a cripple. Winamac woman burned to death from kerosene explosion while pouring fuel. A. E Price of Grant Park owns over ten thousand labeled bird eggs with values up to 250 each.
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