Wine Riots Spread Across French Champagne Districts
April 112 reports agitation rising in France as Senate led to delimitations fights in champagne regions. Rioters burn property and oppose merchants importing grapes from Aube and other departments for Marne champagne. Troops dispatched while Premier Monis defers delimitation to the Council of State.
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MIT 50th Birthday Banquet Ends Tech Congress
The MIT anniversary banquet closing a technology congress drew over 300 club members to the Technology Union. President Maclaurin, Frank Sprague, Dean Burton, and Frank Rand spoke to an applauding crowd, with Sprague’s address drawing the greatest attention.
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Engineers and Edison Discuss Romance and Reality of Electrics
The talk traces the rise of electrification in rail transport and storage batteries, detailing a engineers bold gambles to win capital and trust. Sprague urges engineers as adventurers risking fortune to advance science while Maclaurin notes the growth of engineering disciplines since Tech’s early days.
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Wizard
New York
Chicago
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Popular election bill to be reported to House
Washington April 12. A bill for popular election of United States Senators will be reported to the House tomorrow. Democratic leaders expect the measure to be rushed through among the first of the party measures.
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Washington
United States
House
Women Avoid Operations Say Lydia E Pinkham Helped
A Paw Paw Michigan woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with avoiding surgery after seven months of treatment failed and a four week hospital stay. She reports she recovered, regained strength, and now does her own housework. The letter urges other women with female complaints to try the product.
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Lydia FE
Pinkham
Paw Paw
Mich
Ann Arbor
Lydia E. Pinkham
Chigan
Arrests in Austria End Year’s Hunt for Brothers Goldberg
A yearlong manhunt for Joseph known as Joe the Red and his brother Jacob Goldberg ended in an Austrian jail. Boston Inspector Thomas Lynch reported locating the brothers and preparing repatriation papers for their return after the February 1910 robbery of Samuel E. Allian’s jewelry store at 1113 Washington Street, where $15,000 in gems were stolen.
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Boston
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Austria
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The Goldbergs Fugitives From Boston Arrested Elsewhere
The Goldbergs fled after bail in Boston for burglary charges, traveling from New York to Canada and England, then to Austria and Galicia before Scotland Yard aided by admissions from accomplices located them in London. They faced charges in New York and Boston but escaped. extradition hurdles remain.
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Grand Old Man Guest At Cambridge Prohibition Dinner
Deacon Edward Kendall of Cambridge, famed as the grand old man of Massachusetts prohibition, was honored at a Bowdoin Square Baptist Tabernacle dinner attended by about 300 people, mainly women. John B. Lewis led the event with speakers from out of town including Cora Frances Stoddard and J A Nicholls among others.
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John M. Fisher
Alfred Noon
Herbert BE. Phinney
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Robert H. Magwood
Frances Hill
Ernest L. Tiffany
J. Franklin Briggs
John A. Nicholls
Sweatshop probe targets Boston basement dresswork
Boston Board of Health action against sweatshop conditions led inspectors to a Minot Street basement by dressmaker Rosenburg. They found 25 workers in a 26 by 12 foot room sewing Easter dresses and ordered 15 workers removed to avert court action.
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Reciprocity Bill Given to Congress
Washington April 12 Two tariff measures urged by the Democratic House were introduced by Chairman Underwood of Ways and Means. One, Canadian reciprocity, mirrors the McCall bill except for a clause allowing ongoing negotiations. The second bill would place about 100 currently dutiable articles on the free list. The reciprocity bill will be called up Friday.
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Democratic House
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Free list bill adds agricultural and food goods to concessions
The free list bill aims to placate farmers for losses under the Canadian agreement and includes agricultural implements such as plows and harvesters, boots and shoes, barbed wire, various meats, cereals, flour, timber, and sewing machines, with repair parts and leather goods also listed.
Budget May Be Tied Up by Questioned City Bill
Boston's annual appropriation bill for 1910 11 totaling over 19 million dollars may be invalid and sent back to the City Council by the Mayor. The council added 3000 for a foot bridge over Fort Point channel at Dover street to aid Dover street bridge repairs, while the Mayor says he did not approve that item. The Mayor has referred the issue to the law department.
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Despondent 63-Year-Old Kills Self With Two Revolvers
Frederick Carpenter, 63, a well to do River Head Long Island resident, crawled from a sick bed and fired two bullets from revolvers he took from a bureau drawer. He died at home as a nurse and brother failed to reach him. Despondent over poor post operative recovery.
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River Head
Long Island
Easy to Acquire Youthful Complexion
Mrs Mae Martyn a San Francisco Bulletin beauty expert advises a powder free approach. She touts a simple lotion made from four ounces spurmax in half a pint hot water with glycerine to soften whiten and brighten dull skin and remove a painted look.
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Mae Martyn
San Francisco Bulletin
Tornado Destroys Two Towns in Midwest Toll Rises
A violent storm with tornado force winds swept Western Missouri and Kansas, killing 19 people and injuring nearly 100. It wiped out two towns, damaged numerous buildings, and disrupted telephone and telegraph service across the region.
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Tornado Toll Rising Across Kansas and Oklahoma Towns
The storm ravaged towns from Whiting Oklahoma to Eskridge Kansas. Eight killed at Big Heart plus multiple deaths at Powhattan and Manville, with extensive damage, injuries, and wrecked schools. Telegraph and telephone lines collapsed, delaying rescue as crews work to restore connections.
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Otis Mellett
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