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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1910
Page
10
A confidential war department memo to Congress, later made public, warns the United States faces severe military under strength lacking manpower, organization, and supplies. It urges a permanent defense council and expanded standing forces to deter invasion and ready coast and homeland defenses.
Reports from the western front describe a decisive victory for rebels as federal troops near La Junta capitulated after a prolonged engagement. Casualties are unconfirmed and authorities caution details are scarce due to battlefield remoteness. A remnant of federal troops reportedly surrendered and were allowed to move toward Chihuahua, while rail officials reported limited access in the area. In Washington Senate action paused on a financial claim matter as a vote to strike French spoliation claims failed by 27 to 71 with Vice President absent. Separately Yonkers, Melville Delancey Son known as El Per vis died at his home after years of poor health.
Col Theodore Roosevelt spoke to 700 Harvard government class members on Politics urging graduates to enter public life. He praised combining study with practical work, criticized backroom nomination tactics, and urged young alumni to work with fellow citizens for national progress.
The Hague Peace Conference inspired the American Society for Judicial Settlement of International Disputes to hold a three day meeting. Attended by the U S president and top American citizens with emissaries from Europe, the gathering aims to establish mechanisms for settling disputes outside war.
The article recounts Col Theodore Hersese urging strong U S defenses at the Panama Canal. He says peace relies on a capable army and navy and rejects foreign partnerships to operate the canal, praising Andrew Carnegie and other laborers for promoting tranquility among nations.
Sabathan Marl Ward, thirty, who robbed Paradise Bank in Paradise Kansas of 2500, killed himself when surrounded by a posse of farmers 14 miles north. Women Voters to Assemble in Tacoma Washington plan for the first national convention January 14 with delegates from equal suffrage states. Saco Savings Bank in Saco Maine closed after state examiner review. bank chartered 1369 and has about 1.4 million in assets. Washington Chandler P Anderson named counselor to succeed Henry M. Hoyt at the state department.
Andrew Carnegie forms a perpetual peace fund with 10 million dollars in bonds and 27 trustees including former cabinet members and U S leaders. Elihu Root chosen as chief and Elihu Hay as president while Taft serves as honorary president. Revenue of half a million yearly to hasten abolition of international war with funds to advance peace and tackle the next evils.
In Philadelphia the United States Circuit Court heard arguments on whether the decree should state that the government’s charge that Reading and Jersey Central. Erie and New York Susquehanna and Western formed an illegal combination be dismissed without prejudice. The government notes the 63 percent control of unmined anthracite by the merged Reading Jersey Central and argues potential future action. Temple Iron Co is urged to be declared a combination and for railroads to be enjoined from continuing the merger or transferring interests. Decree expected next Tuesday.
New York President Seth Low opened the eleventh annual National Civic Federation session outlining key issues for three days including corporate regulation railroad and municipal utility controls compensation for industrial accidents and arbitration. Delegates from across the states gather in a broad business and professional representative body. Daylight bank robbery reported in Prue Oklahoma as cashier J H Comer is relieved of cash with unknown total. The schooner Stephen C Love of Thomaston Maine abandoned in Massachusetts Bay in sinking condition with frostbitten crew rescued by the steamship A W Perry.
The Hadley Commission chaired by President Arthur T. Hadley met in New York to study federal regulation of railway securities. Intercity Commerce officials, state railway commissioners, and named attendees from Chicago, St Louis, New York, and Madison examined options to bypass opposition and create a bill framework.
The Missouri mint crop last year reached 7 652 pounds enabling 1 224 320 juleps and eclipse the Kentucky claim as home of the mint julep while St Louis Star notes vast un taxed moonshine use and local flourish in romance and poetry linking Kentucky, mint, and whisky culture.
A patient recounts years of pale illness from coffee and caffeine in coffee. After switching to Postum the narrator notes improved appetite headache relief and overall strength within weeks and months. He credits Postum with his current health and weight of 148 pounds.
Interior department officials announce indictments against seven Colorado men Samuel N. Baker Homer A. Gibson John Gould R W Rose Frank Whites J A Wright and C A Woody for using mafis in an irrigation scheme described as wildly and flagrantly fraudulent. San Francisco investigations into contraband Chinese on the steamship Manchuria are said to reveal a large Orientals traffic involving white men. Chicago reports a fatal fire on a Harrison street tenement causing multiple injuries.
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