Taft Plans Reclamation Bond to Fund Arid Lands
The brief outlines Tafts first annual message proposing a bond issues to aid reclamation of arid lands and to retain federal control over water power sites.
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11 Nov 1909
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph in Bluefield, West Virginia
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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1909
Page
1
Taft Receives Large Richmond Welcome On 13000 Mile Tour
President Taft concluded a 13000 mile journey with a major Richmond reception. He outlined proposed legislative priorities including land reclamation water power and coal lands management anti trust and postal savings bank reforms while urging government control to keep key resources from monopolies. Governor Swanson and Mayor Richardson led the welcome and the day featured talks to the Virginia State Press Association and a delegation of colored citizens. Secretary of the Navy accompanied the president on the final leg of the trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Congress
Taft
Interstate Commerce Tribunal
Wilmington
Swanson
Richardson
Executive Mansion
Virginia State Press Association
Kitchin
North Carolina
Wilquington
President visits Confederate museum and Lincoln era sites
Myer meets the president during festive events and tours. The president critiques a Confederate museum Jefferson Davis portrait, tours St Johns Church, recalls his Cincinnati court reporting days, and urges African Americans to work the soil as agriculture holds national wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myer
Confederate Museum
Jefferson Davis
War Department
Washington
St. John's Churea
Patrick Henry
Press Association
Cincinnati
Taft Returns to White House After Westward Journey
President Taft sleeps tonight in the White House after a three month tour across the west and southwest. He left August 6 amid cheering crowds and, despite a fast dash by automobile, encountered no demonstration at the grounds as Special Police kept spectators back.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Taft
White House
Capital
Mr. Taft
Fred Carpenter
Col
Spencer Cosby
Archie Butt
Sands
Conference on Prevention of Infant Mortality Opens in New Haven
The American Academy of Medicine hosts a national two day conference in New Haven starting tomorrow. Four sessions cover medical prevention, philanthropic prevention led by Edward T. Devine, institutional prevention with Homer Folks, and educational focus led by Prof. C A Winslow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Conn
American Academy of Medicine
J. H. Mison Knox
Johns Hopkins Medical School
Edward T. Devine
New York
Columbia University
Homer Folks
New York State Charities Aid Association
Educational
C. A. KE. Winslow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
First Civil War Veteran to Be Reinterred in Boston
The body of Charles A. Taylor of Lowell Massachusetts the first Civil War soldier killed in the conflict will be exhumed from New Methodist burying ground near Baltimore and sent to Boston next week. The governor of Massachusetts will receive the body and follow legislature directives on disposal. Taylor served in the Sixth Massachusetts regiment and was killed April 19 1861 when his unit was attacked at Baltimore. A ceremonial removal is planned as an important public event in Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Charles A. Taylor
Lowell
Mass
New Methodist Burying Ground
Boston
Massachusetts
Taylor
Massachusetts Regiment of Infantry
President and
Pratt Streets
Cotton up again as market opens higher
New York trading saw renewed bullish excitement after a sharp break. By midday prices rose 31 to 33 points with January at 14.95 and May at 15.10 as the market opened.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Virginia Methodist Conference opens amid prohibition debate
Bishop Morrison presided at the 27th annual Virginia M E Church South session in Newport News with three hundred delegates attending. Statewide prohibition emerged as the foremost issue at the opening meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Methodists
Newport News
Morrison
Virginia Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Taft Returns to Piled Desk and New Tariff Law
President Taft arrives in Washington to find a desk full of vacancies in public office and a new tariff law on his hands. He plans to leave tonight for Middletown Connecticut for Wesleyan University inauguration, with brief return to Norfolk for a waterways convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Taft
Supreme Court
Justice Peckham
China
the Treasury
Germany
France
Canada
Middletown
Conn
Shanklin
Wesleyan University
New Haven
Congress
Norfolk
White House
Philippines
Carpenter
Washington and Cumberland Wedding Unites Notables
Society in Washington and Baltimore attended the Cumberland ceremony for Miss Ettchen Wellington and Mr. Boyd A. Reinhart. The bride is the daughter of former Senator George L. Wellington, and the groom is the son of West Virginia landowner Edward Hess Reinhart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellington
Boyd A. Reinhart
Cumberland
Washington
Baltimore
Ettchen Wellington
United States
George Ll. Wellington
Reinhart
Edward Hess Reinhart
West Virginia
Virginia Postmasters Meet in Norfolk for State Association Gather
Postmasters from Virginia cities of first class convened in Norfolk for the annual state association meeting. S. B. Carney of Pass City called the session to order and presided as the gathering continues tomorrow to discuss duties and improvements in the postal service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
State Association
Virginia
S. B. Carney
Pass City
Schiller Birthplace Celebrated Across Germany Today
Germany observes the 150th birthday of Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller with nationwide celebrations. Berlin Vienna and Weimar mark events while Bach religious and civic groups honor the poet. The birthplace at Marbach becomes a pilgrimage site and Weimar hosts week long theatre tributes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Germany
Schiller
Vienna
Austria
Marbach
Wurtemburg
Johann Christop Friedrich von Schiller
Europe
Weimer
Goethe
Wallenstein
Marie Stuart
Orleans
Messina
Weimar
Schblier
Wrnter
Austra
Bank vice president's embezzlement case opens in federal court
Madison, November 10. Philip Allen Jr. faces a preliminary federal hearing over alleged embezzlement of 168000 from the First National Bank of Mineral Point, which shut its doors in October after a bank examination. Allen's aide cashier Frank Hanscombe died by suicide a week later. Hanscombe's mother-in-law, Mrs. John Gray, died upon learning of his death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
Philip Allen, Jr
First National Bank of Mineral Point
Allen
Wisconsin
Frank E. Hanscombe
Wek
Hanscombe
John Gray
Priest Mulhearn Attacked at Martins Ferry Rectory
Father C A Mulhearn pastor of St Marys Catholic Church Martins Ferry Ohio was assaulted after answering a rectory door knock. A stranger in a dark suit knocked him down kicked him and fled. Police search ongoing as priest recovers and allegations tie attack to union strike tensions with his parish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeling
W. Va
C. A. Mulhearn
St. Mary's Catholic Church
Martins Ferry
Ohio
Father Mulhearn
Brother at Richmond Receives a Letter on Paris Murders
William Burlingham of Richmond learns his brother Fred Burlingham, linked to the Steinheil murders in Paris, is cleared after being questioned. Fred traveled with mountain climbers in Switzerland when the crimes occurred, later surrendering and offering alibi. The latest letter says he has no fear of renewed involvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Navy
William Burlingham
Chesapeake and Ohio Coal and Coke Company
Fred Burlingham
Steimieil
Paris
Mme
Steinheil
Inlaw
Mme, Japy
Burlingham
Switzerland
L'Ilustration
2 Pictorial Magazine
Newspper
Cook Excites Interest at Steinheil Trial in Paris
Paris, Nov 10 A key witness Marietta Wolf a cook in the Steinheil household drew the court through a maze of inconsistent statements. The judge pressed her on the Steinheil home the green ledge lease and alleged lovers while she claimed Madame Steinheil adored her artist husband and that Adolphe Steinheil knew nothing of the alleged intrigues. She also hinted the husband had an opium habit as Madame Steinheil protested at times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Marietta Wolf
Steinheil
Madame Steinel
Madame Steinheil
Adolphe Steinheil
New Light Thrown On Steinheil Mystery
Paris witnesses favor the defendant in the Steinheil murder trial as Marietta Wolfe and her son Alexander add new testimony. The Steinheil nurse retracts a prior statement about simulated illness and Maurice Borderel testifies to belief in her innocence. The state’s circumstantial case weakens and a new investigation may be ordered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Mme. Steinheil
Marrieta Wolfe
Steinheil
Alxander
Steinheils
Maurice Borderel
Madame Steinheil
Libre Parole
Patria
Open Letter Demands Hearing on Faure Death Plot Claim
Louis Antheline Gregor, tied to anti Dreyfus circles, writes to Judge De Valls demanding to be heard on claims of foul play in ex president Felix Faure’s death. He asserts opposition to Dreyfus case revision and references the 1908 canonization scene with Major Dreyfus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Felix Faure
Federation Delegates Score Steel Trust
Jerome Jones of Atlanta calls the Canada for Canadians movement the national plague at the American Federation of Labor convention in Toronto. He cites the Quebec congress as offended by the movement and says the federation will help eradicate its influence with united labor action. The convention sees possible clashes over the electrical workers dispute and Mary Hayes of Cleveland may present the secessionists case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
Can
Jerome Jones
Atlanta
Canada
Canadian Federation of Labor
American Federation of Labor
Jones
Canadian Trades Congress
Quebec
Canadian Trade Congress
P. J. McArdle
Amalgamated Association of — Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
United States Steel Corporation
Mary Hayes
Cleveland
Alaska Northern Railway announces plan to reach Iditarod coal fields
Spokane officials led by Oscar Green Laboree announce a 450 mile main line from Resurrection Bay to Fairbanks with a 300 mile Susitna branch to Iditarod and a 36 mile Mantoo ska coal fields spur. Estimated cost is 30 million dollars with three year completion. Laboree denies Morgan interests, cites Spokane ownership and local incorporators Turner Miller Morrison and Laboree. Seventy two miles already in operation with 2000 workers. southern terminus to relocate from Seward to Resurrection Bay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spokane
Wash
Oscar Green Laboree
Alaska Northern Railway Company
Alaska Central
Resurrection Bay
Fairbanks
Susitna Station
Kuskuim
Iditarod
Mantooska
Laberee
Morgan
J. Piepont Morgan
Alaska Northern
United States
Turner
R. D. Miller
Bb. H. Morrison
Fairfield
Seward
Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Montana
Absolute Divorce Granted to Margaret Frohman
Margaret Frohman wife of Daniel Frohman New York theatrical manager won an absolute decree of divorce on November 10. The hearing lasted twenty five minutes with one witness for the plaintiff and a document by Daniel Frohman waiving rights to answer read in court. Grounds cited non support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reno
Margaretington Frohman
Daniel Frohma@n
New York
Daniel Fronman
Mrs U S Grant Dies In San Diego At Fifty Three
Mrs U S Grant wife of the son of the late President Grant died in San Diego California today from apoplexy after years of invalidism. She was fifty three and survived by her husband and five children Mrs V U S Macey Lieut Macey USN Chaffey Grant V Julia Dent Grant and Minnie Grant
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandiego
Cal
U. S. Grant
President Grant
Gassaway Company A to be Mustered Out Amid Turmoil
Governor Glasscock released an interview clarifying the Gassaway incident with West Virginia National Guard Company A. Captain Moore is relieved, sergeant in command, and enlisted men to be honorably discharged or transferred. He defends local citizens and downplays reported mutiny and violence while noting officers’ unfitness and poor duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
Glasscock
Gassaway
West Virginia National Guard
Moore
Simmons
Rvice
Fime
Aca
Gassaway Company
Flassaway
Roosevelt asked for mayor run. boom backs him for senate
New York reports Theodore Roosevelt declined a 1909 mayoral bid after being urged by Republican leaders led by Herbert Parsons. Otto Bannard launched a push to make Roosevelt next senator to succeed Chauncey M. Depew, with Parsons noting Roosevelt could win if he accepted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Herbert Parsons
Otto T. Bannard
Roosevelt
United States
Jchauncey M. Depew
Bannard
Milwaukee
Parsons
Baynard
Depey
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Charles Taylor
Middletown, Conn
Virginia Postmasters
Weather Forecast
Mecca
Alps
Cook
Ker
Federation
Steel Trust
Canadians” Movement
Alaska Northern Railway
Krogaway
Company A
Depew
Kaynard
Paresons
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