Democats Fight Coffee Duty and Taft Involvemen in Washington
Long Washington roundup covers Democratic opposition to a coffee duty, a Fairbanks bust in the Senate gallery, proposed constitutional inauguration date change, and tariff details. Notes on Taft’s stance, Stephenson election charges, and various personal and political movements fill the week’s political snapshot.
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Washington
Congress
Fairbanks
Senate
Hobart
Henry
No. 153
Speckes Cannon
United States
Cannon
Treasury Department
McKinley
Taft
House
Stephenson
Wisconsin
Time will tell Roosevelt remark on roving banner
A varied youth audience heard former President Roosevelt say time will tell as a young man boasted carrying a Roosevelt banner in two campaigns. The miners conference in Philadelphia adjourned without agreement, signaling likely strike action. In Michigan, John W. Wallace beat D W Lazelle ten straight games in a 20 year card duel at Mancelona. A tornado that struck Brinkley Arkansas killed over thirty and injured sixty. Kingdon Gould, son of George Gould, was elected director of Missouri Pacific Railway. Nebraska senate defeated a pill to enact the initiative and referendum 17 to 16. United Mine Workers district No 11 delegates elected W P Rollins president and Dewy David Kinley of Illinois named for a national finance post.
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Salvador
Nicaragua
William S. Maines
Rhode Island Retail Liquor Dealers’ Association
John D. Rockefeller
C. A. Culver
Beloit College
United States
Zelaya
Emery
James Christiansen
Utah
Fitzgerald
John G. Porter
Washington
Philippines
George M. Dunn
Omaha
Interstate Commerce Commission
Philadelphia
Court of Appeals of
District of Columbia
Justice Gould
Samuel Gompers
Buck Stove & Range Company
Dayton
Chicago
Gifford Pinchot
United States Forest Service
Feett Ince
Fairmount
W. Va
Nantucket Sound
Horatio Hall
H. F. Dimmock
Georgia
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Andersonvills
Capt. Wirz
New York City
Peter Augustus Jay
Newport
Tokyo
Susan Alexander McCook
John McGaqh
Madrid
Spain
A. B. Anderson
Indianapolis
United States District Court
New York Assembly
Ways and
Father Erasmus Anston
St. Stanislaus Church
Newark
N. J
Honduras
Guatemala
Costa Rica
Central America
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
Republic Oil Company
Missouri Supreme Court
Keneas
Jeames
Roosevelt
John W. Wallace
D. W. Lazelle
Mancelona
Mich
Wallace
Brinkley
Ark
Kingdon Gould
George Gould
Missouri Pacific Railway Company
Nebraska Senate
United Mine Workers of America
Terre Haute
Ind
W. P. Rollins
Linton
Dewy David Kinley
School of Economics
University of Illinois
Ecmimiiss Fo Filetra
Iowa News Highlights From Logan to Clinton Region
The 1908 Logan school board was re elected without a dissenting vote with W L Stern and W H Wood to short term posts and G H Harvey and C A Balter for long terms. Winterset bank ownership shifted as Pp J Cunningham A B Shriver and B H Orvis acquired control. Tipton elected a unanimous school board with J E Bartly and O Wilson reelected. Thomas Willey committed suicide near Climbing Hill. Almont Finke, 12, located in St Louis after disappearing from Clinton. A Brandeis led committee probes hospital management amid patient complaints. HH EB Swoop bought Kinne department store in Storm Lake moving to oversee. J R Bowman, famed Iowa educator, died in Ann Arbor. body to Davenport for burial. St Mary’s Marshalltown plans church improvements including a tower completion and new organ after a profitable ten day fair. County plan for Ames experimental station advances with corn scoring contest for boys. Frank Johnson of Marshalltown sues attorney Bennett for 8000 claiming false arrest over mortgaged property. Clinton police hold Allen King, charged with theft in Scott County. King, formerly in reform school and local jail, worked for Horace Mason near Long Grove.
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Independent School District
Logan
W. L. Stern
W. H. Wood
G. H. Harvey
C. A. Balter
Winterset
Pp. J. Cunningham
A. B. Shriver
B. H. Orvis
First National Bank
Tipton
J. E. Bartly
O. Wilson
Thomas Willey
Climbing Hill
Woodbury
Almont Finke
Clinton
Pottawattamie County
HH. EB. Swoop
Marathon
Webb
Davenport
Bowman
Iowa
Lyons High School
B. J. Heffin
Clinton Business College
St. Mary's Catholic Church
Marshalltown
J. J. Witzpatrick
D. D
Dupuque
St. Mary’s
Ames Agricultural College
Nelson
Ames
Agricultural School
Frank Johnson
W.T. Bennett
I. C. Tolley
Johnson
Bennett
Allen King
Scott County
King
Reform School
Horace Mason
Long Grove
Kills His Sisters Single Board Bill in Des Moines
A Des Moines report details a fatal shooting at a Scott street home where Ralph Brooks, 17, shot Evril Brooks, 19, his sister, after a revolver was reloaded during a gathering. The tragedy occurred amid a playful dispute over ownership of a knife and revolvers, with witnesses including Clark Ryder and B. A. Roop.
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Coinncil Bluffs
Evril Brooks
Ralph Brooks
Scott Street
Brooks
Clark Ryder
4& Closet
Young Brooks
B. A. Roop
Roop
Miss Brooks
Sullivan
Ralph
High Sister
Clarkson to Serve Out Term As Port Collector
President Taft dispatches cordial regards via Colonel Loeb who is sworn in as collector to General James S. Clarkson, surveyor of the port, confirming Clarkson will serve his term. Loeb retains E. V. Sherman as secretary in the collector's office.
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Clarkson
New York
Taft
Loeb
James S. Clarkson
General Clarkson
Republican National Committee
Clainnati
Ohio
E. V. Sherman
Sherman
Mrs Morse Bankrupt After Husband's Losses
New York reports Mrs Charles W Morse, wife of the former banker and promoter, confirms her husband’s fortune was wiped out and that she sold her furs and jewels to meet obligations from his legal fees after the recent trial.
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Morse
New York
Charles W. Morse
Fort Laramie ranchman kills wife and daughter in Cheyenne
Cheyenne. Posey Ryan a Fort Laramie ranchman killed his wife and daughter during dinner in a Cheyenne restaurant. Mrs Ryan had come to Cheyenne last week and begun divorce proceedings. Ryan offered no resistance to arrest and told police he expected to hang.
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Cheyenne
Posey Ryan
Fort Laramie
Suicide by Rifle Threat in Brainard Business Spot
Joseph H. Roch a local businessman in Brainard Nebraska threatened an employee with death if interference occurred then committed suicide at his business place by hanging a rifle on a hook and firing into his body smashing the scene with a fatal instant death.
Steel Men Walk Out in Wage Dispute at Steel Plant
About eleven hundred workers at the American Steel Company in Granite City walked out from the foundry over a wage disagreement. The strike halts foundry operations and may disrupt production.
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Granite City
American’ Steel Company
Transport Logan Grounding Near Honolulu Harbor
The United States army transport Logan, sailing from San Francisco on March 6, ran aground while entering Honolulu harbor. The vessel sustained no damage and was later floated free.
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Logan
Honolulu
United States Army
San Francisco
Banquet Guests Spill War Talk at Lambs Club
Rear Admiral Charles Sperry and other naval officers dined at the Lambs club banquet. Reporters were barred, but Augustus Thomas quoted Sperry as saying there is a general interest in fleet affairs and the speech touched on naval matters amid the wartime mood.
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New York
Charles, & Sperry
The
Lambs Club
Augustus Thomas
Shepherd of the Lambs
Admiral Sperry
Paris prank ends year as banker rides camel
A Paris banker, M. X., was hoaxed by an anonymous note claiming he would run a new government bank in Morocco. Believing the tale, he rode a camel in Jardin d Acclimatation, drawing surprised smiles from spectators as he toured the park and fled his friends to avoid embarrassment.
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Paris
Paria
M. X
Morocco
Cuticura Cures Man of Severe Skin Eczema
Capt. George P. Bliss of Morris Manitoba reports a cured case after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. He describes years of itchy scaly sores on the ankles and two running sores that prevented wearing shoes before treatment. The cure occurred within ten days for boots and about three weeks for complete relief.
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George P. Bliss
Morris
Manitoba
Mar
Potter Drug & Chem, Corp
Solo Propa
Moston
Fatal Catastrophe in a Baltimore Cold Case
A Baltimore American item reports a distressed wife speaking to a doctor about her husband’s dangerous cold and the fear the illness may become fatal. The young doctor fears the cost implied by the wife’s remark about the bill.
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Baltimore American
Marine Eye Remedy and Termer One Quack Quinine Ad
An old newspaper fragment promotes Marine Eye Remedy as a trusted eye treatment and lauds quack remedies. It touts “LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE” and quotes various aphorisms, warning readers about ineffective cures while urging purchase of these patent medicines.
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J. Kieran
Fidviey-fince = Company of New York
Pittsborg
Battee
Robert O. Bailey
Franklin MacVeagh
Secretary of the Treasury
Bailey
Leena
Ill
National Capital
Arthur C. Harper
Los Angeles
Cal
Optimist Club of America
Senator Beveridge
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Theodore Roosevelt
Outlook
Count Arthur Cassini
St. Petersburg
Ruth Leavitt
William Jennings Bryan
Lincoln, Neb
General News
Iowa News
Council Bluff
Whipple
Des Moines
Board of Educational Control
de Wolf
Moon
van Law
Allen
Pocahontas
H. W. Seerley
State Normal School
Cedar Falls
Iowa City
Board of Regents
State University
Board of Trustees
Carroll
W. D. Jamieson
Byers
Secretary of State
Supreme Court
Polk County
Harford
Indianola
Judiciary Committee
House of Representatives
Linn
Meredith
Cuticura
Eczema
Wendell Phillips
Romo
H.W
Bishop
Allan
le Roy
BTS
Dr.d.jayne
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