PAGS LIABILITY BILL Faces Supreme Court Review
The liability of common carriers bill passed the House on April 1 and was approved by the Senate with no amendments. It broadens carrier liability beyond railroads, abolishes strict common law limits on personal injury recoveries, allows recovery for injuries caused by a co worker’s negligence, and reduces damages when the plaintiff contributed to the injury. Debate touched on campaign contributions and the Harriman fund in 1904.
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Roosevelt urges Congress on the danger of anarchy
President Roosevelt warns Congress that suppressing anarchy must take priority over all else. He forwards a legal review by Attorney General Bonaparte and directs Postmaster General to bar publications promoting anarchist ideas. The message cites sedition and argues federal action may be needed.
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Taft in a Corset Prompts Girth Reduction Claim
New York report claims Secretary Taft will wear a corset to shrink his waist to 40 inches, with Mme Jacques vowing further slimming for Roosevelt. The audacious promise envisions a procession of belted, slender figures from the Capitol to the White House as a publicity stunt.
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Skunk Fur Farm Planned Near Crandon Wisconsin
Crandon Wisconsin author Tom Jenkins plans a skunk farm once frost ends. He will enclose about 50 by 60 feet with a high wire fence to rear skunks for fur. Jenkins cites rising fur prices and jokes about earning money while noting local protests by society women.
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Rapid Growth of Japanese Population Rise Noted
Tokyo reports Japan's population around 49.27 million native born, with 800,000 Japanese abroad at end of 1906 and rising. Excluding China and Korea, 136,000 in Asia and near territories, 690 in Europe, 70,000 in Australia and Pacific, 90,000 in the United States. Japanese papers tout progress amid birth-rate concerns. In Media, Pa., a cigarette fire from two years ago ignited a road and Crum Creek leak spill, burning Crum Lynne mills. Chester National Bank sues pipeline for 56,000 in losses.
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Eugenics Society Promotes Conscious Race Culture in London
London reports describe Eugenics as a new science of conscious race culture led by Perf Francis Dalton nephew of Darwin. The Eugenics Education Society aims to teach Englishmen to breed scientifically and to oppose unfit marriages, with proposals ranging from taxation relief to compulsory prohibition of marrying the unfit, and even deportation for those failing state fitness tests.
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SASSING BACK GIVES LOCKLAND BOY A CONCRETE BATH
Carl Guth aged 18 son of a Lockland locksmith was shoved into a tub of concrete by foreman Samuel House during a canal lock project. The boy, soaked and muddy, swore out a warrant and House was arrested. Mayor Clifford fined House ten dollars and costs for disorderly conduct.
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Should Be in Prime at Eighty
Bishop Samuel Fallows argues in The Mission of Pain at St Pauls Reformed Episcopal church that eighty marks the prime of life while forty to forty six are the current climaxes He says a man should ideally live to a hundred or more and that people should not be ashamed of longer years in earthly existence.
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Turn Backward and Garden Dream Amid Turbulent Times
A fragmented 19th century style column blends a child’s garden scene with sharp social satire. A lyric about tending a garden mixes with mock editorial on the fate of the girl graduate and national ideals, citing Whitelaw Reid and remarks on divorce, chastity, and societal expectations. The piece shifts to reflective verse about youth and the sea, then notes public square politics and a botany joke, concluding with a slightly mangled stock advertise fragment.
Formerly Interne Hospital State Uni versity of Iowa
Formerly interne hospital state university of Iowa, house phone Black, office 263 Black. Atlan.
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