Addressing government officials in Washington
Washington social code prescribes formal forms to greet officials. Officials’ wives are simply Mrs. [Surname], and titles respect rank from Mr. President to Mr. Secretary and beyond. A recent State Department order specifies correspondence to The Honorable The Secretary of State.
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Ashington
Washington
Army
Navy
Mgr
Taft
Senator Black
Gen. Blank
State
Treasury
War
Interior
Agriculture
Commerce
Minster
Hfr
Supreme Court
United States
Rani
State Department
Secretary of State
Commerce Dept Faces Central American Shipping Row
Nagel's Department sparked a dispute as Assistant Secretary McHarg asserted the US would issue clearance papers to ships plying between the United States and Central and South American ports despite ongoing insurrections. He cited statutes and warned customs collectors could face damages if they detained ships when no war existed. The move did not appear to wreck diplomacy.
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State Department
McHare
Department of Commerce and Labor
United States
Atlee
Hoyt
Chamberlain
Cleveland
McHarg
Taft Baffles the Secret Service Men
President Taft shocked Washington by walking unguarded through busy streets, often with a cabinet official, and even visiting the Capitol on a Sabbath. He was seen with his brother Charles P Taft in the Capitol corridors while dressed casually in a sack coat and gray sweater, impersonating a private citizen.
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Taft
Secret Service
Wilkle
Washington
Mak
White House
Wilkie
Charles P. Taft
Capitol
Alonzo Stewart
Senate
Pennsylvania Avenue
Ashington
President Taft
Clarence Edwards
Weather Man and Cards Across a Train Compartment
Four travelers bound east from Chicago discuss weather forecasts in a lively train compartment. A mild man among them quietly distributes visiting cards reading Willis L. Moore Chief of the Weather Bureau Washington. The scene hints at identities and a pivotal departure toward New York.
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Weather Bureau
Fenneylvania
Chicago
Panama
New York
Harrisburg
Willis L. Moore
Washibegton
Brown Tail Moth War Rages Through New England Fields
New England races the brown tail moth as farmers and scientists battle a rising infestation. Massachusetts reports heavy orchard and forest damage with eggs laid by the pest and caterpillars defoliating trees from July into autumn. The invasion, traced to 1890 Somerville origins, has spread to New Hampshire and Connecticut, threatening Bartlett buds and numerous crops while studies compare costs of oats versus milk in calf feeding.
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New England
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Connecticut
Holland
France
Somerville
Mass
Cambridge
Europe
Mediterranean
Sweden
Lower
White Mountains
Brown Tail
Gypsy
North Carolina
Keep Off Vermin in Poultry Flocks
Essentials to protect poultry from ice and mites include cedar or sassafras poles for roasts to deter vermin and tobacco smoke to kill lice.
Improvised power from a mowing machine setup
A method to gain horse power for light work by anchoring a disassembled mower between heavy planks fastened to ground stakes. The drive wheel becomes a vertical shaft with a timber and lead pole forming a sweep setup. Gas pipes serve as toggling rods connected to the pitman shaft, leaving the ratchet intact for non interfering use, common in Joplin and Pittsburg coal districts for draining strip pits.
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Joplin
Pittsburg
Kan
Cummins Backs Progressives in Iowa States Race
Senator Albert B. Cummins urged progressives to win seats in Washington and Iowa state offices at a Des Moines banquet. He endorsed Prouty and Byers, challenged standpatters like Aldrich and Hull, and pledged to push progressive candidates in all districts while remaining loyal to the Republican Party. Over 600 attended as speakers included George Clarke and Warren Garst.
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Des Moines
Albert B. Cummins
Washington
Iowa
Congress
Seyventh
J. A. T. Hull
Indorses
Prouty
S. F. Prouty
Captain Hull
Byers
Ninta
Walter I. Smith
Towa
State House
Cummins
Republican Party
Aldrich
Cannon
Hale
Dalzell
Hull
Taft
George Clarks
Adel
Warren Garst
KF. Prouty
W. H. Berry
W. Byers
Henry Wallace
Ho. Addison
Western Canada land trek stirs Iowa farmers toward homesteads
An Iowa man discusses moving to Saskatchewan with family to buy land cheaper and keep roots intact. He explains why a large wave of Midwestern farmers is crossing into Canada, seeking five times the land for similar money and preserving family ties, despite renouncing Old Glory for a new flag.
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Iowa
Winnipeg
Canada
Dominion
Saskatchewan
Sona
America
Kansas
Minnesota
Mid-West
Canadian
the King
Toronto
Ontario
Globe
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Nagel’s Department
Maine
Rhode Island
Old Bay State
Richards Ghosen
Boston
Ellen H. Richards
American Home Economics Association
Simmons College
Scott
Sioux City
Western
Bureau of Labor
Burroughs
Mr. Merchant
Catholic Standard and Times
Whigley
Allen
Plores
Wrigley
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