Army and Postal Budget Proposals Stir Congress
Washington announces postal service estimates totaling 306 million for the next year, backing a major parcel post expansion. Army appropriations rise to 106 million as Secretary Garrison unveils the military establishment needs. Redfield seeks 100 thousand to enforce alien fishing laws with new vessels and crew. Houston requests 25 million for agricultural programs.
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Washington
Congress
Burleson
Madden
Linois
War Department
Garrison
House
Alaskan
Redfield
Department of Commerce
Houston
Lumber Is Worth Billion In 1909 Census Report
Washington reports lumber ranked third in value among U S products in 1909. The industry had 44 804 establishments with total capital of 1 182 330 552 dollars. It employed 797 825 people earning 367 863 055 dollars in salaries and wages. Products valued at 1 160 644 628 dollars. Elementary contributions to value 5 667 950 dollars from firms making furniture, refrigerators, boxes, pianos and organs views.
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Washington
United States
Census Bureau
Pastor Weds By Mail Aims For Brazil Missionary Union
Louis, Nov 28. After a courtship by mail with letters traveling 000 miles and taking a month to arrive, Miss Tillie Plackemere heiress to a large St. Charles county estate plans to marry Rev Adolph Flor a Lutheran missionary in Brazil. She will be joined by three young women who will wed missionaries at one ceremony.
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Louis
Tilli+s Plackemere
St. Charles County
Brazil
Adolph Flor
King George orders guards in plain clothes
London reports King George directs guarda officers off duty to wear black coats and silk hats in streets near Buckingham Palace. In Mexico a military train with 150 soldiers was blown up at El Salado, sixty miles south of Battilio with unknown casualties. President Wilson's family joined the White House Thanksgiving dinner as guests slipped in unseen.
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Kling
London
King George
the Express
Guarda
Buckingham Palace
Mexico City
el Salado
Battilio
Washington
President Wilson
White House
Francis Bowes Sayre
Currency reform bill faces lengthy Senate debate in unfinished business
Washington November 25 The currency bill with amendments from the divided Senate Banking and Currency Committee is laid before the Senate as unfinished business. Owen and Hitchcock lead divergent views while administration supporters push the measure, with final vote not expected before February 1. The weeklong speaking pace continues through the special session alongside other Senate actions on Hetch Hetchy water rights and a government railroad in Alaska.
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Washington
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Senate
Owen
Hitchcock
House
San Francisco
Hetch Hetchy
Alaska
Gompers Re-elected AFL President at Seattle Session
Samuel Gompers was re-elected president of the American Federation of Labor at the closing session. John Mitchell retired as fifth vice-president. Also reported: a fatal attic fire in Fairfield involving C Siblys family and injuries to Mrs Sibly. Alfred Davis killed in Iowa car crash. William A Wells of St Paul ice company found guilty in Hastings district court.
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Seattle
Wash
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
John Mitchell
Fairfield
Neb
C. Sibly
Sibly
Glenwood
Alfred Davis
Iowa Institution
St. Paul
Minn
William A. Wells
Hastings
Des Moines shuts down saloons after court ruling
In Des Moines Iowa the state supreme court ruled on Saturday that all saloons must close immediately. Within an hour officers served notices to quit, and by 5 20 pm virtually every one of the roughly ninety saloons had closed their doors.
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Des Moines
Iowa Supreme Court
Scott's Polar Ald Weds
London reports Commander Bruce, second in command of Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition, married Dorothy Boot with other expedition officers present.
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Scott
London
Bruce
Dorothy Boot
Station Robbed by Bandit in Lake City
La Crosse Wis Nov 27 W Martin station agent for the St Paul road at Lake City Minn was held up at the point of a revolver by a robber who entered the station and took 81 from the safe and escaped.
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la Crosse
Wis
W. Martin
St. Paul Road
Lake City
Minn
Food trust war drives egg price probe and bills in Congress
Washington November 26. Attorney General McReynolds orders a nationwide inquiry into the cold storage combine amid rising egg prices. The probe will assess storage, entry and exit prices, and total production by district while possible prosecutions under pure food and anti trust laws loom. Senator Bristow backs the charge, noting eggs cost 45 to 50 cents a dozen though bought earlier at 18 to 20 cents.
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Washington
Food Trust
McReynolds
Congress
Department of Justice
Department
Senator Bristow
PRESS BLAKE DIVORCE CASE
New York November 26 application for a referee to hear testimony in the separation suit by Mrs Joseph A Blake and her husband a surgeon was made before Justice Seabury. Avengers claim 11th victim as they pursue 12 suspects in the murder case of Francisco Maderno Brooklyn fruit inspector Joseph Farina.
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New York
Joseph A. Blake
Seabury
Avengers
Francisco Maderno
Joseph Farina
Brooklyn
Earle Flies In To New York November 27
Ferdinand Pinney Earle was not aboard the steam ship Finland. Counsel for his first wife Mrs Emmile Fishbacher were present with a writ of habeas corpus for Harold their son.
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Earle
New York
Ferdinand Pinney Earle
Finland
Emmile Fishbacher
Harold
Frisco Failure Blamed on Bankers Commissions and Yoakum
St Louis reports the Interstate Commerce Commission's four day inquiry will show the Frisco failure stemmed from fictitious debt of 40 million created by large commissions to bankers and brokers and profits to feeders promoters. It cites B I Yoakum as promoter and builder profiting on Texas feeder lines sold to Frisco at high prices. About 32 million of the 244 million funded debt went to commissions and over 7 million to Yoakum and associates. Average broker commission was 12.6 percent with Yoakum profits ranging from ten to over 100 percent.
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St. Louis
Interstate Commerce Commission
Congress
Ita Management
B. I. Yoakum
Texas
Commission
Yoakum
Frisco
TWO U S AVIATORS SLAIN IN FATAL FLIGHT
Two U S army aviators Lieutenants Kelly and Ellington are killed in a early morning flight at the aviation camp. They took off after seven and within twenty minutes their single machine lost control at about eighty feet, witnesses report.
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San Diego
Cal
Kelly
Ellington
United States Army Aviation
Writ Demands Harold Earle in Supreme Court
Henry Welling ton Wack acting for Mrs Marie Emma Fishbacher Earle obtained a writ of habeas corpus from Supreme Court Justice Glegerich ordering F Pinney Earle to produce eight year old Harold Earle in the New York Supreme Court. Earle, the artist, is due in New York today and attorneys will be at the piers to serve the writ. He is charged with kidnaping the boy.
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New York
Henry Wellington Wack
Marie Emma Fishbacher Earle
F. Pinney Earle
Supreme Court
Glegerich
Earle
Harold Earle
Lead keel cast for Shamrock IV at Gosport ceremony
In Gosport England on November 27 the lead keel for Shamrock IV, Lipton’s yacht aiming to defend the America’s Cup, was cast with Sir Thomas Lipton and guests present. In Natal Durban three East Indians were killed and twenty wounded in a police clash at Esperanza sugar cane district on the south coast.
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Gosport
England
Thomas Lipton
Durban
Natal
Union of South Africa
Esperanza
Rebels and Federals Clash Near Juarez Front
At Juarez after 24 hours of fighting rebels and federals hold roughly the same ground. General Villa claims complete victory, reporting captured artillery and three trains. Salazar’s patriots are said to have suffered severe losses. Salazar killed, and 2000-man force nearly annihilated. General Ortega and Colonel Urbina's movements described. wounded flow to Juarez. Red Cross aid appeal for wounded.
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Paso
Tex
Juarez
Villa
Pancho Villa
Red Cross
Salazar
Zaragosa
Rodriguez
Bauche
Medina
Jefetas, Armas
Ortega
Porfirio Talamantes
Sonora
Vila
Tierra Blanca
Juarea
Cuartel
Zaragoza
Coahuila
Agulles
Tomas Urbina
Urbina
Clint
Ysleta
Juan N. Medina
American Red Cross
Mesa
Booth Brothers Meet After 17 Years in New York
Bramwell Booth and Ballington Booth, estranged for 17 years, shook hands at a private luncheon in New York hosted by Rev Alden L. Bennett, a mutual friend.
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Booth Brothers
New York
Bramwell Booth
Ballington Booth
Alden L. Bennett
Five Die In Grand Trunk Train Collision Near Belle River
Five persons reported killed in a Grand Trunk railroad crash near Belle River Ontario involving two passenger trains, one identified as the Atlantic Coast Limited. Authorities are investigating the collision and provisional casualty figures were released from Detroit.
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Detroit
Mich
Grand Trunk Railroad
Belle River
Atlantic Coast
Buckeye Boys Corn Special Heads to Washington
Thousands of Ohio boys prize winners travel from Cleveland Cincinnati Columbus Toledo and other cities on Pennsylvania Lines for a December trip to Washington D C. The Buckeye Boys Corn Special is organized by Ohio Agricultural Commission with state officials and Commission members aboard. Stops include Pittsburgh Harrisburg Philadelphia and other points with a program featuring receptions, entertainment, and a meeting with President Wilson and national leaders.
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Ohio
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Columbu
Toledo
Pennsylvania
Washington, D. C
Agricultural Commission of Ohio
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Harrisburg
Commission
Allegheny Mountains
Washington
Wilson
Uryan
National Capital
Fascination of the Poppy and Opium Effects on Animals
The French Gazette des Hopitaux reports Francis Garnier findings from 1873 China on poppy culture causing a wax shortage in Yunnan and animals reacting to opium. Bees lose taste after two seasons. rats die waiting for fumes in an opium refinery after loss of owner, illustrating opium's grip on creatures and humans.
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Gazette Des Hopitaux
Francis Garnier
China
Garnier
Yunnan
Weight Counting Machine for Transfers by Weight
Several electric railway companies including Detroit and Philadelphia use a weighing machine for transfers. The device can count items from 125,000 ounces to 15 pounds, with capacities from eight to six tons, the Electric Railway Journal reports.
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Detroit
Philadelphia
Electric Railway Journal
Arranging a Program on Crimson Gulch Circuit
A vaudeville exchange notes a blonde performer who sang on the Crimson Gulch circuit and jokes about safety. She says her husband performs a sharpshooting act and that having him precede her guarantees politeness on the bill.
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Crimson Gulch
Rough on Dad at Baby's First Adoring Crowd
A bemused mother notes a baby resembles his father as a warm weather cheer spreads. The piece mentions Hewitt as a singer and Jewett joining a grand opera company.
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Dad
Baby
Tucker
Hewitt
Jewett
Writing to Charliet Yeu in Good Old Summertime
An item recalls a seaside note in a 1920s or earlier scene. A speaker reports engagement news and a romantic complication with Helen, noting a party at a house tomorrow night with a ten cent limit. Other lines mention a wife out of town and declaring possession of Bo. Several friendly rivals are named as other good fellows.
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Blake
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Navy
Joseph W. Strachan
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State Commission
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Helen
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