Uplift Plan Among Girl Workers Fails
Washington bureau workers faced embarrassment as 25 000 women in government service resisted uplift efforts by New York society women and the National Civic Federation. The plan aimed to contact 40 workers after closures but provoked indignation as patronizing attitudes were rejected.
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Washington
New York
National Civic Federation of Women
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Treasury
Civic Federation of Women
Manhattan
Bureau
Federation Committee
Fishy butter mystery blamed on cream oxidation
A long official bulletin from Washington declares butter sometimes tastes fishy due to a slow chemical change in cream during ripening. After testing tri methylamin, oidium natis, and lactis aerogenes with no alibi, experts say acid and oxygen drive the oxidation. The fix is pasteurized sweet cream butter.
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Middle West
Latta’s New Suit Startles Congress in Washington
Secretary Latta, the White House messenger to Congress, recently appeared in a sharp sack suit instead of his usual black frock coat. The change surprised lawmakers as Latta delivered Roosevelt’s messages with unexpected ease, prompting jokes about his infrequent trips and wardrobe habits.
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Washington
President Latta
Mr. Latta
White House
Houses of Congress
Latta
Senate
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Aldrich to Quit Senate at End of Term
Rhode Island senior senator Elson W Aldrich announces he will not seek reelection when his fifth term ends March 4 1911 He seeks to push a tariff bill and major financial reorganizations and plans nationwide lectures to explain monetary plans and bank relations in Chicago St Louis Kansas City and other centers.
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Aldrich
Senate
Elson W. Drich
Rhode Island
United States
Mr. Aldrich
National Planetary Commission
Commission
Monetary Commission
Nicholas Murray Butler
Chicago
St. Leuis
Kansas City
Edgar L Brown Survives 62 Mile Lake Ontario Crossing
Edgar L Brown rode a flat bottom punt across Lake Ontario during a gale, bailing with a tomato can for much of the journey. The craft swamped near shore, he collapsed, then walked to Cobourg, later traveling to Port Hope by train, while Canadian papers hailed his ordeal. The pontoon boat Ontario was later claimed by farmer Michael Burns and Brown planned to return the scene to port.
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Rochester
Edgar L. Brown
Ontario
Charlotte
Michael Burns
Burns
Brown
Round Pond
Canadian
Grafton
Cobourg
Port Huron
Port Hope
John Keon
P. J. Rigney
Edgar
Woman saves coworker from deadly loom accident
Marguerite Albertis Lacey, 17, a Columbus shirt factory worker, risks her life to free William Street who is caught in a rapidly turning belt. She grabs him by the legs and stops the machine, then helps summon aid. Street is taken to St Luke's hospital. Lacey faints from the ordeal.
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Chicago
Columbus Shirt
Market Street
Marguerite Albertis Lacey
William Street
Street
Miss Lacey
St. Luke's Hospital
Music Charms Snakes in Marshalltown Tale of Boys
In Marshalltown Iowa 12 year old Hart Smith and nine year old John Smith used a violin to charm and capture 12 garter snakes. They played mournful tunes learned from their father’s instrument at snake holes and snakes emerged to bask and listen. Belts for girls and necklaces for boys followed.
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Marshalltown
Hart Smith
John
Walter Smith
Warning in Sleep Saves Train at Waldron Illinois
Marshall Pollenger living within 200 feet of the Big Four tracks near Waldron reported a broken rail after hearing a peculiar click at 5 20 am. He alerted the depot agent who found a broken rail on a dangerous curve south of the Kankakee river bridge just in time to flag a Chicago bound passenger train speeding 50 miles an hour.
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Kankakee
Marshall Pollenger
Waldron
Kankakee River
Glories of New Haven Elm Trees Dying From Neglect
Elm beetles and neglect have killed about half of New Haven 16000 trees, risking the citys famed greenery and the nickname Jim City. Prof Henry Graves leads a civic drive to assign care to a park commission, noting earlier sprayers killed many fine specimens. The elm rows and Temple street arch once defined the citys beauty from 1759 planting through 1839 and major gatherings, with a 1893 storm and a 1990 commission replacing losses.
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New Haven
Jim City
Eli
Henry Graves
Yale School of Forestry
Graves
University
Jared Micott
Henry T. Blake
Franklin Bowditch Dexter
Yale
Tm Street
Pierpont
Leonard Eaton
Center Church
Pierbont
William Cooper
Jonathan Edwards
Locke
Liebnitz
Sarah Pierpont
Blake
Dexter
Elm Street
Samuel Peters
Connecticut
London
New England
America
Mr. Peters
Manasseh Cutler
Garth
Common Council
James Hillhouse
Hillhouse Avenue
Atwater
Temple Street
Grave Street
Hillhouse Farm
Ogden Edwards
New York City
Henry Baldwin
Supreme Court of the United States
Worthington Flocker
Gov. Edwards
Hillhouse
Caroline Shipman
Garnet Duncan
Louisville
Elias Shipman
Quinnipiac Club
Chapel Street
the Common Council
Is Country Without Germs A Paradise of Cleanliness
A Philadelphia physician recently returned from Jamaica reports an astonishing lack of germs on the island. He notes no antiseptics or instrument sterilization are used in Kingston hospital and infection rarely interrupts healing. He warns that if such practices spread to Philadelphia hospitals, serious blood poisoning could follow. He adds that germ-free islands may not last as travel and disease travel advance.
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Philadelphia
Jamaica
Kingston
United States
Europe
Berns
South Sea Islands
Fire Rips Apartment Building Prompting Quick Heroic Feats
Reports describe a major blaze in an apartment building with extensive property loss and multiple escapes. Witnesses recall a remarkable collective effort as residents on the second floor aided each other to carry out the plane, signaling unprecedented cooperation in this incident.
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Persia
Uncle Sam
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Animal Industry
Ises
Lake Ontario
Ibial
Workman
Asewains
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