Washington tariff drive to run through session fights
Democratic senators will press tariff legislation through the current session with Senator Simmons chosen to lead the effort. Navy Secretary Meyer orders the cruiser Birmingham to the ice fields in the Atlantic to report ice conditions twice daily. Senator Crawford accuses former interior secretary Hitchock of aiding a timber land swap with Santa Fe rails. Interstate Commission rules a railroad wharf serving the public becomes a public terminal. President Taft plans a Beverly vacation around July 1 regardless of politics. Vice President Sherman signs a resolution for the people’s election of senators, sent to states for ratification. McCabe and Representative Nelson clash during meat inspection hearings. The Clayton anti injunction bill passes the House 244 to 81, barring federal courts from issuing injunctions without notice.
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House
Washington
Battleship Texas launched at Newport News
A long list of 1910s era items reports the launch of the battleship Texas at Newport News Virginia named by Miss Claudia Lyon. It notes other incidents including a kidnapping suspect found in Colorado Springs and a chain of political and legal upsets nationwide.
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Texas
United States Navy
Newport News
Mies Claudia Lyon
Danish Crown Proclaimed in Copenhagen Amid Mourning
Foreign Christian X was proclaimed king of Denmark from the palace balcony in Copenhagen before a huge crowd. King Frederick VIII lies in state at Christiansborg after dying in Hamburg. Consul General Louis Henry Ayme, who survived the Martinique disaster and reported it to the United States, died at Lisbon. Octave Garnier, leader of the Paris motor bandits, was killed at a villa outside Paris after a long standoff with police.
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Christian X
Denmark
Copenhagen
Royal Palace
Frederick VIII
Hamburg
Germany
Christianborg Palace
Louis Henry Ayme
Lisbon
Portugal
Mgr. Ayme
Martinique
United States
Octave Garnier
Bornet
Paris
Vallet
Republican convention names eight delegates at Provo Utah
At the Utah Republican state convention in Provo eight delegates were named to Chicago and instructed for President Taft. Debs of Indiana was nominated for president by the Socialists in Indianapolis on the first ballot, with Emil Belden of Wisconsin also named. Michigan delegates to the convention were mentioned in the report.
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Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Crand
Harrisburg
Homer ©. Stuntz
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Minneapolis
Provo
Utah
Chicago
Taft
Eugene V. Debs
Indiana
Socialists In National Convention
Indianapolis
Emil Beldel
Wisconsin
T Ie
Campaigning Drives Tuberculosis Death Decline Across Cities
In cities like New York Boston Cleveland and Chicago and states including Massachusetts Rhode Island and Connecticut the fall in tuberculosis deaths outpaces the nation’s 18.7 percent drop from 1901 to 1910. The National Association notes factors such as urban change sanitation housing and a strong anti tuberculosis campaign contributing to the trend. It foresees further declines as care provisions expand. The piece also recounts a quip about constitutional limits from a young Thomas B Reed.
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New York
Boston
Cleveland
Chicago
Massachusetts
Rhode Ialand
Connecticut
National Association For the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis
Association
Backache and Joints Sufferers Warned of Kidney Ties
Doan's Kidney Pills touted as remedy for rheumatism linked to weak kidneys. Anthony Ruf of Chippewa Falls Wisconsin reports severe stiffness and near paralysis, hospitalized, then gradual recovery after using Doan's Kidney Pills. Ad notes 50 stores and Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
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Alethe
Doan
Anthony Ruf
W. Elm St
Chipipewa Falls
Wis
Physician Advises Cuticura Remedies
Four years ago a wrist and shin eruption itched and burned, scratching caused bleeding, then the skin healed with red feverish flesh. Diagnosed as dry eczema, an ointment failed until Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills were used. The disease progressed before Cuticura cured the skin and left no symptoms since. The writer urges others with skin diseases to try Cuticura Boxp and Ointment.
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Fison
Danish King Frederick VII dies. Crown Prince proclaimed king
Flags across Europe drop to half mast as Copenhagen proclaims Crown Prince Christian king after the death of Frederick VI. The late king’s body is to lie in Christianborg Chapel with funeral May 24 at Roskilde Cathedral. Dowager Queen Louise and three children accompany the remains from Hamburg to Copenhagen aboard the Dannebrog. The Danish royal entourage travels with formal honors. British mourning follows.
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Europe
Hamburg
Copenhagen
Christian
Denmark
Frederick VI
Christianborg Palace
Roskilde
Germany
Louise
Frederick VII
Lubec
Gustav
Tagmar
Thyra
Acta
Travemunds
Neustedt Bay
Dannebrog
Frederick
Hamburg Hof
Seventh
Imperial German Infantry
Louige
Hiveria
Queen Louise
Count Kronberg
Hamburg Hof Hotel
Dix Pétah
War Bank Notes and a Safe Zurich Stockpile
The Swiss National Bank in Zurich completed printing twenty franc war notes for 6 million dollars in Geneva. They will not circulate unless war breaks out in Europe, with police guarding the printing offices. The notes are stored in Zurich bank cellars. A separate anecdote features a question about women governing, followed by a quip about keeping quiet in a deaf and dumb institution.
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Swiss National Bank
Zurich
Geneva
Europe
Bank of Zurich
Jewels Recovered From Flower Bed At Kingston Court
A general servant faced Kingston on Thames police court charged with stealing from her mistress of Ivydeane Southborough road Surbiton London. A pearl pin and a pearl and diamond ring were missed. Rewards and notices failed to restore items before police found jewelry in a flower-bed and the remainder in the prisoner’s bedroom after questioning.
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Kingston-on-Thames
Ivydeane
Southborough Road
Surbiton
London
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Birmingham
Ica
Ethan Allen Hitchcock
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Mass
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State Department
George P. McCabe
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Clarence Pierce Brokaw
Colorado Springs
Bernard Newman
Loma
N. C
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Schuettler
Anthony Czarneck
McKinley
Superior Court
Seventh Regiment
Michigan Central Railroad
Chapman & Co
Hammond
Ind
Mra. J. W. Mitchell
Pierre
James. Coleman
National
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Carroll County
Hillaville
Sentetica
Allen
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la Crosse
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Okla
Imma Goldman
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International Sunshine Society
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Steel Corporation
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McPherson
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N. J
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Ironwood
Mich
National Wholesale Grocers’ Association
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Lee
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Kinloch Park
Mark Twain
Hannibal
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Mark Allison Matthews
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Fiona
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Powell
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Alabastine Company
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Rand Rapids
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