Taft as a Funmaker in Petersburg and Charlotte
Washington corresp describes President Taft using a practical joke on a bored reporter during a trip to Petersburg Virginia and Charlotte North Carolina. Taft invites reporters into his private car after a public luncheon, arranges beds for six men, and playfully scolds Jim the journalist as he later greets him at the next stop.
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Jim
Taft
Peetersburg
Charlotte
N.C
Petersburg
Taft Party
Panama
Archibald Butt
Ounee
Archie
Mr. Taft
United States
Washington Cor
New York World
Tomb Beneath Lawn Planned by Arizona Miner
Ocean Park California trustees grant Ennis F Kellner permission to bury himself and wife beneath his lawn on St Marks boulevard and Coeur d Alene street. The Globe Bank and Savings Co president says neighbors consent, body to lie in a copper casket, marked only by a monument of Arizona porphyry.
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Ocean Park
Cal
Arizona
St. Mark’s Boulevard
Coeur d’Alene Street
City Trustees
Los Angeles
Ennis F. Kellner
Kellner
Globe Bank and Savings Company
Globe, Ariz
Horned Toad Hatpins From Texas Toads To Be Made
Two thousand horned toads from Texas are being chlorroformed and metalized at a Waukegan Illinois plant to form into hatpins. Each pin requires a fresh toad and the firm plans to produce fifty thousand pins for the fad seeking appeal to women.
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Texas
Waukegan
Ill
Powerful testing machine could reshape bridge construction in U S
Engineers describe a new 10 million pound capacity vertical compression test machine to be built for the U S Geological Survey in Philadelphia. They argue it would have revealed weaknesses in the Quebec bridge and could test entire bridge columns, spurring Congress to authorize even larger future systems.
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Civil
Philadelphia
United States Geological Survey
United States
Quebec
Quebec Bridge
Watertown Arsenal
Watertown
H. Emery
Stamford
Conn
Geological Survey
Congress
Department of Geological Survey
Teller
Emery
New York Times
Memorial Park Planned for Jefferson Davis Birth Farm
A Kentucky farm portion where Jefferson Davis was born is bought by a southerners association. It will become a park to preserve a memorial to the president of the Southern Confederacy.
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Jefferson Davis
Kentucky
South Carolina to Present Elaborate Silver Service to New Battleship
The Palmetto State plans a fifty three piece silver service for the South Carolina, detailing a Revolutionary history with indigenous flora. Designs reject Civil War references. bidders must submit by June 10 at Columbia, featuring three principal scenes and nautical themed motifs.
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South Carolina
Ansel
Columbia
Palmetto State
Jasper
Fort Moultrie
Francis Marion
Piedmont
Mississippi
New York Times
Polly in the Auto The Fad Parrot Fashion on Broadway
A green parrot with scarlet trim rides in a brown roadster on Broadway among three stylish women. The bird perches atop the tonneau door and roams the back of the chauffeur seat, drawing fashion approbation for parrot wear in the car.
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Broadway
New York
Mexico as a Cattle Country Expands Beef Output
G. B. McDermott of Nacozari described Mexico as rapidly becoming the continent’s great cattle country. In Houston he noted U S farmers and sheepmen push cattlemen into northern Mexico, drawing cattle from the United States and lifting beef quality across the republic.
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Mexico
G. B. McDermott
Nacozari
Houston
Tex
United States
Republic
Tree planting in Center County Pennsylvania
Landowners in Center county are planting trees on denuded hills as a practical step toward reforestation. A workforce is planting 250 000 white pine saplings from the state nursery at Greenwood Furnace on the Whipple place near Pine Grove Mills under the direction of Mr Morton of the state forestry department.
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Pennsylvania
Center County
Whipple Place
Pine Grove Mills
Greenwood Furnace
Morton
State Forestry Department
Balloon ascent plan aims at Mars contact from ten miles up
Aeronaut Leo Stevens and Professor David P. Todd outline a training and flight scheme for a high altitude balloon voyage next September. They plan water ballast, amino aluminum capsules, ten miles of wire for Earth contact, and a ground link via barograph while ascending beyond five miles.
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Leo Stevens
New York
Amherst College
David P. Todd
Mars
Earth
Stevens
Amherst
Springfield
Mass
France
New York Sin
Bronze Shoes Move Society In New Footwear
Mrs Arthur Scott Burden introduces bronze shoes and slippers as a fashionable novelty. The suede trend fades, bronze footwear complements bright gowns, and the look gains attention for both day and evening wear.
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Arthur Scott Burden
Tribute to George Meredith Remembrance Poem
Joyce Kilmer writes in the New York Sun that George Meredith died May 18 1909. The verse lauds his life as a lens to conscience and worth while pondering life and death.
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George Meredith
Earth
Joyce Kilmer
New York
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