Taft Cabinet Denial and Senate Tariff Debate Report
Washington Postmaster General Hitchcock denied resigning from Taft's cabinet amid rumors. Senator Bailey, ill with typhoid fever, may miss Senate tariff votes. House Judiciary seeks DOJ ruling on electoral college size. Taft condemns lynching in Howard University address. Lindbergh accuses big business money power in the House probe, urging disclosure of holdings. Westinghouse Commerce Court says ICC lacks jurisdiction over railroads’ switch connections in Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hitchcock
Taft
Ufe
Bailey
Washington
Senate
Wall Street
House
Money Trust
Lindbergh
Minnesota
New Jersey Court Rules Against Female Voting Rights
A New Jersey Supreme Court opinion declares the state constitution does not grant women the right to vote. The report notes ongoing debates on suffrage, with nearby states and national figures pushing for or opposing equal voting rights amid broader political shifts.
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Kalisch
New Jersey Supreme Court
New Jersey
Iowa City rifle team wins national title in intercity league
The High school team from Iowa City won the championship of the United States in the Intercity High School Rifle league by defeating Deering High School of Portland Me. Iowa City set a new interscholastic indoor rifle record with 972 points, Burns of Iowa City set an individual mark with 198. Also reported: bridge testing crash near Muscatine. multiple pension awards to Iowans. plans for hospital and university building in Mason City. divorces, corporate filings, and various local notices across the state.
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Iowa City
United States
Deering High School
Portland
Burns
Deering
Cones’ Lake
Muscatine
John Adams
Ottumwa
Clearfield
Mary A. Tharnish
Edwin H. Ward
Marion
Albert H. Browning
Mount Vernon
Rebecca A. Adams
Ferry
Loren M. Coon
Turkey River
Dubuque
Memorial University
Mason City
Sisters of Mercy
Lucretia Tomes
Robert E. Jones
Hoya
Des Moines Sunday School Athletic Association
Drake Stadium
McColm
Iowa Wesleyan
Mount Pleasant
Iowa
Perry Tantlinger
Lisbon
Edward Dennis
Knights of Pythias
Elmer Griggs
Story County
Patent Office
Taft
Daniel v. Adium
Missouri Valley
Ozro J. Kramer
Schaller
Grenville M. Dodge
Council Blutts
Des Moines
Anne Gray
Wylie Pratt
North
W. D. Sinner
Sixteenth
High Streets
Ursula S. Yeager
Emmet County
Joseph J. Yeager
Rock Island Railroad
State Supreme Court
St. Patrick's Catholic Church of
Monti
Waterloo
Conroy
Fort Dodge
Estherville
Iimmetsburg
Clear Lake
Humboldt
Ackley
Bishop Horn
Evangelical Association For Town
Cedar Falls
Oskalooga
Sumner
State Board of Health
Doyd
L. J. Pentecost
Pacific National Bank of
Tacoma
Wash
Park Inn
Mc.Gregor
Sioux Falls
S. D
J. J. Drummond
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Maquoketa
Postoffice Department
Ray
Long
California Junction
Missouri Valley Hospital
Modale
John Reed
Clinton
Amimona
A. Lundgren
Aram Drages
Chicago and Northwestern
Sac County
Coon Valley
Charles Miller
Marshall County
Abraham Lincoln
Liscomb
Charles H. Martin
John W. Patterson
Corwith
Titanic Sinks After Collision Near Iceberg
Distress signals from the Titanic reached the Virginia at 12 27 A M after the ship struck an iceberg off Cape Race N F Immediate assistance was requested and women were being put into lifeboats. The vessel commanded 1300 passengers with notable figures listed among the travelers.
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Cape Race
N. F
Titanic
White Star
Mner
Southampton
New York
F. D. Miller
Consolidate American Academy
Rome
Maj
Archibald Butt
Taft
C. M. Hays
Grand Trunk Railway
J. Bruce Ismay
White Star Line
Henry B. Harris
American Theatrical
W. T.stead
Isador Straus
John Jacob
Lincoln's Cousin Dies in Iowa Tragic Family Link
Marshalltown reports the death this week of Charles Miller of Liscomb Marshall County removing a close kin to Abraham Lincoln. Miller and Lincoln were childhood friends in Kentucky. their mothers were cousins and shared the same name Nancey Hanks before marriage.
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Marshalltown
Towa
Charlies Miller
Liscomb
Marshall County
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Miller
Kentucky
Nancey Hanks
Charge of Bigamy Filed Against Mason City Husband
Mrs. Sarah B. Hasty files bigamy charges in Mason City accusing Charles Hasty of a 1910 marriage and undisclosed wife with three children in Peoria Illinois. She recalls their May 49 1910 Storm Lake ceremony and states she has a one year old baby.
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Mason City
Sarah B. Hasty
Charles Hasty
Peoria
Ill
Fire Destroys a Depot in Lenox
Lightning struck the C B and Q depot in Lenox setting oil barrels ablaze. The building suffered total loss as a large freight consignment fueled the fire.
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Lenox
Lamoni To Host 1913 L D S Conference Vote
By invitation of lamps of Lamoni Iowa the Re organized Latter Day Saints in session here voted to hold the 1913 annual conference in Lamoni. Lamoni is the second to Independence as a major church center in Iowa.
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Conference of Reorganized Latter Day Saints
Independence
Kan
Lamoni
Boy of 19 committed to Knoxville inebriate hospital
Pred Dexter a 19 year old Des Moines lad, described by his mother as a confirmed user of drugs and liquor, was committed by Judge Mc Henry to the inebriate hospital at Knoxville after confessing to deputies that he uses five different drugs.
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Cope Fiend
Des Moines
Lenox Wins the Debate In Intercollegiate Contest
In an intercollegiate debate at Hopkinton between Dubuque German colleges and Lenox college a unanimous decision favored Lenox. The subject was the parcels post system as advocated by ex Postmaster Meyer should be adopted.
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Lenox
Hopkinton
Dubuque German Colleges
Lenox College
Meyer
Bootlegger Fined for Bootlegging by Judge Clyde
Charles Clty Claude Duncan fined 300 dollars by Judge Clyde in Lamont student First Ames. George J Thompson mal shusbandry student Lay mont Ta captured the fine gold medal awarded by Wayne Dinsmora secretary of the Percheron Society of America for best judging of draft horses by sophomores.
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Charles Clty
Claude Duncan
Clyde
Lamont
Ames
George J
Believer Gifford Pinchot Laughs at Political Tale
At his brother's Park Avenue home in New York, Gifford Pinchot listened to a political story prepared by a reporter. He laughed and offered a quip about belief, recalling the old Italian peasant who loves birds too much to eat them.
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Gifford Pinchot
Park Avenue
New York
Cure of Acne Through Cuticura Remedies
A Chicago reader reports three years of facial acne improved after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment following a booklet guide. The testimonial states red pimples with white matter, sleepless nights, and initial remedies failing, then rapid relief and complete cure over a few weeks. A free sample and 82‑page book offered by Cuticura through Boston.
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G. Baumel
W. 20Th Place
Chicago
Ill
In the Clutches of a Loan Shark Rewording Query
Night editor suggests shortening the line by replacing clutches with jaws to keep the sense while trimming characters. The phrase would read In the Jaws of a Loan Shark to fit the length constraint.
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Department of Justice
House Committee On Judiciary
Aon
Howard University
Commerce Court
Westingts
Interstate Commerce Commission
Baltimore & Ohio and
Norfolk & Western
Ohio
Cincinnati & Columbus Traction Company
Saratoga
N. WY
W. Beattie Nesbit
Farmers’ National Bank of Toronto, Ont
Arizona State Senate
The
Order of Owls
Supreme
Otis G. Sofield
Royal Owl of America
Cleveland, C
Yale Aero Club
New Haven, Conn
Yale
George Ebtargh
Aye
Hay Thy
Warren S. Stone
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Supreme Court of California At
San Francisco
Claus Spreckles
Goodyear Rubber Company
Akron
Baltimore
New York City
Roosevelt
Tay City
Earl Brewer
Greenville
Miss
Michigan
Lansing
Chase S. Osborn
Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association
St. Paul
Theodore Roosevelt
Champ Clark
Illnois
Benjator LaFollette
Arkansas
St. Francis Basin
Memphis
Golden Lake
Ark
Chiriqui Peak
Bocas del Toro
Panama
Olsvik
Fort Morgan
Mobile
Aja
New Mexico
Lucero
Trujillo
Montoya
Cordova
Clara Barton
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Glen Echo
William Cooper Proctor
Cincinnati
Charlotte Elizabeth Proctor
Princeton University
Princeton
WN. J
A. L. Marshall
Doras Id, Keen
Philadelphia
Seattle
Alaska
Mount Blackburn
William Booth
Salvation Army of the World
Frederick Dent Grant
Buckingham
St. Luke's Hospital
Robert Abbe
Kh Hawk Eye
Grinnell
Migs Mayme
Butler
Elikh
Ocean
Mr. Miller
Council Bluffs
M. A. Gallagher
Gallagher Hotel
Temas
Snes & Organoadores
Washington, D. C
Brilslols River
Pride
Pulis & Johnson
Lat
Montana
Leclerc Med
Havrestock
Hampstead
Londom
Gulf Coast
Gulf Coast Bulletin
Allison Richey Land Co
Carter Bldg
Houston
Tex
Central
Alberta
North America
Gale
John Ross & Son
Edmonton
Saskatchewan
Goose Lake
Regina
Flood Land Co
Carter
Nna
Panet
Western Canada
Thrasher
Lloydminster
Desig
Fanedon
Maa Gove
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