News of the Week Interesting Items From Across the World
A Kansas City judge orders 200 railroad laborers fed in court after the Chicago Great Western refuses to pay weeks of wages. Oklahoma City census shows 64,203 residents, up 540 percent since 1900. Tulsa and Muskogee populations rise sharply. Various political, legal, and criminal items include secret-service raids on opium, a $75,000 army air service appropriation, and a broken journal causing a Wichita train derailment with no serious injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur
Lee’s Summit
Criminal Court of
Kansas City
Chicago Great Western Railroad Company
Brown
New York, Central Railroad
West
East
Oklahoma Supreme Court
Guthrie
Oklahoma City
Nebraska Republican Convention
Taft
New York
Kansas
Post Office Department
Washington
Maine
Southwest
Congress
Army
Navy
Webb City
Dr. Crippen
Ethel le Neve
Canada
Fortress Monroe
United States
Nebraska
Republic County
Fidelity Trust Company
Louisville
August Rooke
Tulsa
Muskogee
Texas
O. B. Colquitt
Bascom Thomas
Gen. Lightfoot
Hocking
Farmersburg
Ind
Wichita
Kaw
Ilinois Central Railroad Company
Ira G. Rawn
Nebraska officials pursue ouster of Omaha police leaders
Gov. Shellenberger directs Attorney General Thompson to seek ouster suits against Omaha chief of police and police commissioners for alleged failure to enforce the law. The move follows charges of lax enforcement amid city governance concerns.
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Shellenberger
Nebraska
Thompson
Omaha
Kansas State Board of Health
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Minnesota
Hutchinson
Kan
Cummins
Iowa
Des Moines
Kansas Railroad Commissioners
Interstate Commerce Commission
St. Louis
Foreign Affairs around the World this Week
The English king sails with the fleet to observe a sham battle while Cuba faces another uprising. Revolutionary veterans lead about twenty followers in woods as troops pursue. Japan endures devastating quakes and a sinking mountain near Hokkaido and Usu Bay. The Daily Express cites a Pekin dispatch claiming China invites Lord Kitchener to lead its army. Twenty one Mormon missionaries are detained in Berlin and escorted to the frontier. Grand Trunk railway workers accept arbitration terms offered by Canadian officials.
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Hokkaido
Japan
Bay of Usu
London Daily Express
Pekin
China
Lord Kitchener
Berlin
Grand Trunk
Various Political and Legal News Items From Early 1900s
A compilation of brief notes mentions Warren G. Harding securing the Ohio Republican gubernatorial nomination on the third ballot, Bryan campaigning for local option supporters, J. R. Burton being sued over Texas ranch profits, and Debs recovering from intestinal obstruction. Also noted are plans to raise the Maine wreck, a Fort Leavenworth prisoner killed escaping, officials' Alaska trip, a mob execution in Texas, a Fort Leavenworth court-martial, a Des Moines minister offering free wedding services, Mrs. Wadsworth’s horse record, a Galveston conference on an independent Gulf railroad, James Keene sued post market collapse, Hatred Chase Jordan’s death, Roosevelt's Kansas City stop, Chicago’s Three Million Club expansion plans, Hobson warning of war with Japan, and other regional items.
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Nebraska
Bryan
J. R. Burton
United States
Kansas
Texas
Eugene Debs
John Arbuckle
Navy Department
Maine
Havana Harbor
William J. Laughlin
Federal Penitentiary
Fort Leavenworth
Wickersham
Commerce and Labor
Nagel
Alaska
Henry Gentry
Balton
Tex
Mitchell
H. B. Smith
Philippines
Des Moines
Wadsworth
New York Society
Galveston
Soston
Oklahoma City
Gulf
James R. Keene
Wall Street
Lathrop, Haskins & Company
Hocking Pool
Chase Jordan
Hyde
Swope
Kansas City
Col. Roosevelt
Osawatomie
Kan
Chicago
Three Million Club
Illinois
Hobson
Kissing
Japan
Missouri Dwarf Jimmie Holderby Dies at Kirksville
Jimmie Holderby a 28 year old man three feet six inches tall died at his father G R Hold derby's home in Kirksville Missouri He worked as a driver for the ice business and was famed for his dress and cane He contrasted with eight foot six inches Miss Ella Ewing nearby and drew local attention. Labor Commissioner J C A Hiller launches a Missouri home coming crusade urging Missourians farming elsewhere to return with pamphlets to be mailed statewide.
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Missouri
Jimmie” Holderby
G. R. Holderby
Kirksville
Jimmie
Scotland County
Ella Ewing
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver
Adair
Scotland
Canada
J. C. A. Hiller
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Hiller
Missouri National Guard Nevada Camp Noted As Top Training Event
In the Army and Navy Register, Capt. Howell of the Sixth United States Infantry lauds Missouri National Guard’s Nevada camp from July 2 to 17 as one of the best ever. He credits Adjt. Gen. Rumbold for conceiving and driving the camp, alongside the first field army district creation by the War Department in 1910.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army and Navy Register
Missouri National Guard
Nevada
Howell
Sixth
United States Infantry
Field Army District
War Department
G. O
National Guard
National Guard of
Missouri
Adjt
Rumbold
Marshfield Forms Good Roads Society For State Highway
A Good Roads society was organized at Marshfield with Dr. Beaty as president. Committees were appointed to inspect routes from St. Louis to Springfield along the Ozark region. They will study practical paths through Webster county and report at a soon meeting where the state highway engineer is expected to explain details.
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Good Roads Society
Marshfield
Dr. Beaty
St. Louis
Springfield
Ozark
Webster County
Hill Talks on Good Roads at Chautauqua
Curtis Hill of Columbia, state highway engineer, spoke before two thousand people at the Chili cothe Chautauqua on the links between public roads and social life. He warned that neglect of roads harms transportation and the social and educational environment of country life.
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Curtis Hill
Columbia
Chillicothe Chautauqua
Beardless Barley Sought by Missouri Experts
Experts at the University of Missouri agronomy department with H B Derr of the U S Department of Agriculture and Dean F B Mumford coordinate with the bureau of plant industry to raise seed of beardless barley.
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Agricultural College of
University of Missouri
H.B. Derr
United States Department of Agriculture
F. B. Mumford
Missouri College of Agriculture
Bureau of Plant Industry
Judge rules Webb City local option election valid
Judge Argus Cox of the Springfield court of appeals overruled the motion to release Harvey Leach from Jasper county jail in Carthage. Leach is held on a charge of selling whisky in violation of local option laws. The decision upholds the Webb City local option election held last March as valid in every way.
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Harvey Leach
Jasper County
Carthage
Argus Cox
Springfield Court of Appeals
Webb City
Campaign for Better Eggs Expands Across Missouri
Dr. Cutler leads a state wide drive sending 8 000 information cards to egg buyers in towns and cities. The campaign cites laws guiding farmers and dealers and reports remarkable results with a 100 percent quality improvement in eggs sent in from Missouri.
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Cutler
Produce Exchange
Missouri
Enlarge Lathrop Hall Dining Rooms Planned
Plans were submitted to the University of Missouri curators to enlarge Lathrop hall dining rooms to seat 100 more students. The basement space under the west bay windows will house a short order restaurant after eight, maintaining regular board rates of 1.75 to 2.20 per week.
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University of Missouri
Lathrop Hall
Pioneer agriculturist George H. Shepherd dies at home
George H. Shepherd, a renowned state authority on agriculture and horticulture, died at his home near Lamonte where he ran a nursery for fifty years. He served as a Union soldier in the Civil War.
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George H. Shepherd
Popcorn Crop Totals Revealed for 1909 Production
Advance figures from the 1910 Red Book of the Bureau of Labor Statistics place the popcorn crop of 114 counties at 5 550 000 pounds for 1909. If all had been sold the farmers would have earned 166 500 dollars at three cents a pound. With half sent to market 83 250 dollars flowed to farmers.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
Missouri College Plans New Veterinary Laboratory
Plans for a $10 000 veterinary laboratory for the University of Missouri College of Agriculture are completed and bids will be received. The building will be used exclusively for veterinary work on the state farm. Ground has been broken for a hog cholera serum building east of the beef cattle barn on the state farm.
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College of Agriculture
University of Missouri
Record oats crop in Adair County exceeds all years
Adair county harvest sets a new record with yields nearly double prior highs. J. T. Inbody of Kinloch stock farm near Kirksville reports a 40 acre field averaging about 80 bushels per acre.
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Adair County
J. T. Inbody
Big Kinloch
Kirksville
Missouri Editors in New York Buy Linotype for Papers
West Plains editor W. H. Zorn of the Howell County Gazette traveled to New York to purchase a linotype and other improvements for his plant. He noted several Missouri editors have been there recently to acquire modern equipment, including Arthur Thrower of the Dunklin Democrat, Samuel Davis of the Citizen Democrat, and Louis Jobe of the Bloomfield Indicator.
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Missouri
New York
W. H. Zorn
West Plains
Howell County Gazette
Amd
Zorn
Arthur Thrower
Dunklin Democrat
Kennett
Samuel Davis
The
Citizen Democrat
Popular Bluff
Louis Jobe
Bloomfield Indicator
Robbery of Illinois Central by Car Repair Schemes
Chicago testimony before Master in Chancery Rosewell B. Mason exposed a scheme to defraud the Illinois Central Railway of at least $1,000,000 through padded car repair bills. Harold A. Sims, former superintendent of Memphis Car Company, testified that Illinois Central officials and the repair firm colluded, bribed inspectors, and used stolen material from good order cars to repair bad order cars, with plants built from pilfered components.
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Chicago
Illinois
Illinois Central Railway
Rosewell B. Mason
Rawn
Harold A. Sims
Memphis Car Company
Illinois Central
Repair Company
Republicans Initiate 1 Million Taft Speech Campaign
The Republican congressional campaign committee starts education efforts to keep the House majority. Plans include mailing 1,000,000 copies of Taft Lincoln Day speech and his defense of the Payne Aldrich act. Western bureau in Chicago to be led by Congressman McKinley.
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New York
N. Y
House of Representatives
Republican Congressional Campaign Committee
St. James
Taft
Payne Aldrich
Chicago
McKinley
Telegraphers Get a Raise in Missouri Pacific Dispute
The board of arbitration under the Erdman Act announced a 6 percent pay increase or about five dollars per month for Missouri Pacific railroad telegraph operators. The award is binding on both the railroad and its 1,200 telegraphers.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Board of Arbitration
Erdman
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Russian Appellate Court Fines Christian Scientist Healers
Berlin reports the Russian appellate court ruled healing by Christian Scientists a misdemeanor punishable by fine or imprisonment. One German adherent of Mrs Eddy was prosecuted for practicing without a medical license, fined, and appealed. Higher courts upheld the conviction as legal.
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Berlin
Germany
Mrs. Eddy
Warranted Fraud Targeting Native Children In Tahlequah
Six federal warrants issued in Muskogee for individuals accused of fraud at the Cherokee payment in Tahlequah. They allegedly cashed government checks belonging to Indian minors and did not remit the funds. Seventy more similar cases are under investigation. suspects’ names are withheld.
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Muskogee
Oklahoma
Tahlequah
Priest Marries Negro Couple in Columbia Church
Father T. J. Lloyd, pastor of a white Catholic church in Columbia, conducts the first interracial wedding in the city’s white church history.
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Columbia
T. J. Lloyd
Catholic Church
Engineers Inspect Butler to Rockville Electric Line Route
Albert Bunn and William Doane tour proposed Butler to Rockville line routes. Bunn plans several surveys before final route. Builders expect to open one of Kansas coal fields. promoters say funding and equipment are secured and construction will begin soon.
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Albert Bunn
Kansas City
William Doane
Butler
Rockville
Mr. Bunn
Missouri Bar Elects Officers at New Elms Hotel
In Excelsior Springs the Missouri State Bar association adjourned after electing officers. New president J J Vineyard of Kansas City, new treasurer E M Grossman of St Louis, and Lee Montgomery of Sedalia named to posts.
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Vineyard
Excelsior Springs
Missouri
Missouri State Bar Association
New Elms
J. J. Vineyard
Kansas City
E.M Grossman
St. Louis
Lee Montgomery
Sedalia
Rain and Cooler in Denver Storm Breaks Drought
A heavy rain with an electric storm swept Denver and vicinity, breaking a multiweek drought. Temperatures dropped noticeably as the storm moved through the area.
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Denver
Colorado
Nebraska Jurist George Baker Lake Dies at 84
Omaha judge George Baker Lake longtime jurist in Nebraska died at his home at age 84. He succumbed after a period of intense heat contributed to his death.
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Nebraska
Omaha
George Baker Lake
Pat O Rourke Named Hodcarriers Union President
An eight year old scholar identifies Pat O Rourke as the president of the Hodcarriers union after observing a teacher climb a ladder with a burden. The exchange frames the moment as a parable-like learning scene.
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Pat O'Rourke
The
Hodcarriers Union
Resinol Ointment Praised in Letters from Readers
A reader letter from Mrs. I. E. Cameron of Augusta Maine credits Resinol Ointment with healing a six month leg ulcer after four weeks of treatment and notes no recurrence six months later. Another letter from Mrs. F. Cox of Chicago commends Resinol Ointment and Soap for curing her baby's eczema and cites relief from itching and pain.
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I. E. Cameron
Augusta
F. Cox
Chicago
Tit for Tat in a Literary Married Pair
A couple, Mr. and Mrs. Gluppins, contribute to rival town papers. He objects to Bertha's phrase well-known fact, she counters with self-evident. The exchange reveals their playful critique of writing habits.
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Horace
Epidemic of Itch in Welsh Village
A Dowlais outbreak in the 1900s affected many families with severe itch. Doctors failed to cure until the Cuticura line was used, prompting claims of complete recovery after a few days. The letter from Thomas Hugh of Chicago endorses long-term use.
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Dowlais
South Wales
Thomas Hugh
West Huron St
Chicago, IL
Man pleads guilty over stolen melons in court
In a humorous exchange from the Atlanta Constitution a prisoner confesses to stealing melons and asks for mercy, claiming the sheriff did not give him a chance to eat them. The judge questions the grounds for mercy as the prisoner cites his untimely opportunity to consume the fruit.
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Atlanta Constitution
Pennyhat Lesson for Girls Says Value Is in Mind
A cheeky line warns that sticking a $17 hat on a 17 cent head does not raise the head's value. The quip emphasizes that price tags do not define worth.
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Warren G. Harding
Ohio Republican State Convention
Granad
Nevada Camp
Good Road Society
Hill
Republican Committee
Missouri Pacific
Science Healers
Resinol Chemical Co
Baltimore
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