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Congressional actions include Wickersham not ordering dismissal of Standard Oil indictments but seeking a further grand jury probe in Dallas. British protest over Panama Canal Act toll exemptions presented to Knox. Rep Lewis pushes for lower parcels post rates after backing passage. Over 20,000 navy yard workers under civil service. Hitchcock allocates 300000 parcels post funds to 1600 post offices. U S suit against Col Gaynor family settled for 125000. Taft sends second message urging tariff reform and internal improvements. Senate fight looms over railway valuation bill with Progressive backing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wickersham
Standard Oil
Dallas
Tex
Great Britain
Edward Grey
State Knox
James Bryce
Lewis
Maryland
United States
Civil Service
Taft
Hitchcock
John F. Gaynor
Savannah Harbor
Congress
Senate
House
First prize awarded at Minneapolis wheat expo
Joseph P Nash and Charles Bridge man of Clyde Park Montana won five thousand dollars for best five bushels of wheat at the Northwestern Products Exposition in Minneapolis Minnesota. Ninety patients were saved by sisters when flames struck St Francis hospital in Peoria Illinois all saved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph P. Nash
Charles Bridgeman
Clyde Park
Mont
Minneapolis
Minn
St. Francis Hospital
Peoria
New Jersey
Sidna Allen
Hillsville
Carroll County
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Chicago
St. Louis
Sanford
Ind
James Ecton
Rosedale
Kan
Elizabe Lang
Logansport
Indianapolis
Great Western Insurance Company of
Kansas City
International Life of
St. Louis Woman Fatally Stabbed on Wabash Train
Leona Sherer of St. Louis was stabbed on a Wabash passenger train near Centralia on her way from Kansas City to St. Louis. The assailant, an insane Greek, was arrested after stabbing himself with the same knife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leona Sherer
St. Louis
Centralia
Kansas City
Philadelphia
Housekeepers’ League
Frank Pierson
Hopkins
Lola Pierson
New York Comptroller
The
States Monument Commission
Daniel E. Sickles
Cincinnati
Gibson
Bendigs- Latham Company
W. L. Douglas Shoe Company
Missouri Pacific Railway
Union Trust Building
M. J. Wright
Chicago
Lima
Ohio
Herbert Mowery
Taft
White House
Joseph Patton
Wichita
Kan
Maude of Norway undergoes London surgery
Foreign Affairs notes Maude of Norway recently had a surgical operation in London and will recover. Reports also say the British battleship Centurion sank an unknown steamer off Devonport with no serious damage to the battleship. A London rumor says the Irish crown jewels were replaced after their 1907 theft. A pigeon imported to Canada escaped and, in 12 days, flew the Atlantic back to its origin. The European war scare prompts Russian frontier peasants to liquidate possessions.
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Eee Maude
Norway
London
Centurion
Devonport
England
Canada
Atlantic Ocean
Europe
Notable Kansas and national notes from Erie to Washington
Mrs. Mary Campbell, 87, mother of Representative P. P. Campbell, lies in danger after a pelvic fracture at her Erie Kansas home. Taft named president of American Red Cross. Swallow reappointed postmaster at Fort Leavenworth. Yale Law School professorship anticipated after Taft presidency. Arthur Capper pledges no contest for Kansas governor. Balloonist John Watts returns to Kansas City. E L Cornelius named as Senate sergeant at arms successor. Jonal Scott Hartley dies from appendicitis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Campbell
P. P. Campbell
Erie
Taft
American National Red Cross Society
Guy A. Swallow
Fort
Leavenworth
Kaw
New York
Yale Law School
Arthur Capper
Kansas
John Watts
Kansas City
Dusseldorf
Missouri Grange asks Wilson to appoint Waters as secretary of agriculture
At Kirksville the Missouri state Grange passed a resolution urging President elect Wilson to name H J Waters of the Kansas Agricultural College as secretary of agriculture. Officers were elected including Master C O Raine and secretary Lulu Fuqua. In a separate matter two judges on a bench debate over a St Joseph circuit seat, with Amick and Mayer awaiting a supreme court ruling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waters
Missouri State Grange
Kirksville
Wilson
H. J. Waters
Kansas Agricultural College
C. O. Raine
Canton
John Ellis
Lagrange
J. T. Phillips
Ewing
William James
New London
James Cox
Pleasant Hill
EB. J. Bayer
Chesterfield
J. A. Miller
Hannibal
Lulu Fuqua
J. L. Gilchrist
Shellbina
Ceres
George White
Maywood
Flora
Hattie Lillard
Williamstown
Pomona
T. R. McDermott
Charles H. Mayer
St. Joseph
W. K. Amick
Amick
Hadley
L. J. Eastin
Eastin
Mayer
M S U Wins Seven Prizes at Chicago Livestock Show
Missouri cattle makers sweep prizes at the International Live Stock Show in Chicago. Disputer the Hereford yearling, Queen Councillor the Aberdeen Angus calf, and top honors in best three of the get of a sire led a series of firsts and thirds for Missouri including multiple Hereford, Angus, and cross breed placements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Missouri
Chicago
Missouri
Platte County Soil Report Details County's Soils
A Washington D C soil survey of Platte county Missouri by the bureau of soils and University of Missouri describes 15 soil types, their agricultural uses, and a map showing soil types, towns, farms, churches, schools, roads and streams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Platte County
Soil Survey
Missouri
Bureau of Soils
Department of Agriculture
Washington
University of Missouri
Health Advocates Meet in Fulton
Health advocates gather as the Missouri Health Society of District No 3 meets in Fulton to promote preventive medicine and educate residents on stamping out contagious diseases across Audrain, Benton, Boone, Callaway, Camden, Cole, Cooper, Gasconade, Howard, Maries, Miller, Moniteau, Morgan, Osage and Pettis counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fulton
Missouri Health Society of District No. 3
Audrain
Benton
Boone
Callaway
Camden
Cole
Cooper, Gasconade
Howard, Maries
Miller, Moniteau
Morgan, Osage
Pettis
Bachelors Warned by County Official on Marital Status
H. C. Gilbert of the county court reports findings from an investigation showing 90 percent of men at the Jackson county home have never married. He did not have comparable statistics for women but notes a larger share of women also have not been married.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. C. Gilbert
Jackson County
Newspaper Writer E C Hall Dies at 31 in Lexington
E C Hall a Kansas City and St Louis newspaper writer died in Lexington recently of pneumonia at age 31. He was known for his work in the Missouri journalism scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. C. Hall
Kansas City
St. Louis
Lexington
Mexican War Veteran James S. Barker Dies at 92
James S. Barker, a Mexican War veteran aged 92, died recently in Shelbina. He served in the Mexican War and lived a long, honored life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James S. Barker
Shelbina
Prize Cow a Money Maker
Carlotta Pontiac a seven year old Jersey dairy cow owned by the college of agriculture at the University of Missouri completed a year long milk and butter test with 23593 pounds of milk and 708 pounds of butter. Her butter sold for a little over $200 plus skim milk valued at $30. If milk had sold at six cents a quart the value would be $700 but the milk was sold as separated milk. Feed during the test cost $94.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlotta Pontiac
Jersey
College of Agriculture
University of Missouri
Charles E. Wright Dies After Despondent Attempt
Charles E. Wright cut his throat in the Elks club library in Kansas City and died at German hospital. He had been despondent over notoriety from a November 19 motor car crash in which he was hurt and a woman was injured slightly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles E. Wright
Elks’ Club
Kansas City
Wright
Two Die in Missouri Mine Disaster
Peter Dunn aged 55 was killed in a stope slide at the Bulldog mine Neck City Missouri. His son Michael Dunn aged 25 died shortly after from injuries sustained in the same incident at Webb City hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Peter Dunn
Michael Dunn
Webb City
Neck City
Missouri Bar Delegate Named for National Association Meeting
N. T. Gentry of Columbia has been notified of his appointment as delegate of the Missouri Bar to the National Bar Association meeting in Baltimore on August 11.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. T. Gentry
Missouri Bar
Columbia
National Bar Association
Baltimore
Student dies after knife attack at Morrisville
Bryan Crane, 16, son of Dr T B V Crane of Springfield, died in Burge Deaconess hospital from wounds inflicted by Marshall Copeland 26, married, at Morrisville. Copeland, studying for the ministry, attacked after several students teased him. Both were Methodist college students in Morrisville. Copeland’s home is in southeast Missouri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryan Crane
T. B. V. Crane
Springfield
Burge
Marshall Copeland
Morrisville
Copeland
Crane
Methodist College
Missouri
Women dominate Phi Beta Kappa at Missouri
The University of Missouri honor society selections show four of five top students in the class of 1903 are women. Recipients named for the highest scholarship honors include Winfred H. Hawkins Maryville Fern Helen Rusk Windsor Alma Steele Webb City and Josephine Dunlap Sutton New London Conn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Missouri
Winfred H. Hawkins
Maryville
Fern Helen Rusk
Windsor
Kenneth Craddock Sears
la Plata
Alma Steele
Webb City
Josephine Dunlap Sutton
New London
Conn
Promoters Warn Against Bank Stock Purchases
State Bank Commissioner Swanger warns the public not to buy stock in proposed banks unless the seller is personally known. He notes several promoter organized institutions recently formed have turned out badly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Bank
Swanger
Plan to Help Inebriates Restroom Jail Lock for Inmates
A restroom with a jail lock on the door is prepared for inebriates drug fiends and others under police notice. A city hall section will be used pending a new building. Reform follows deaths of prisoners wrongly classified as intoxicated or drug fiends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Writ Ousts Boxing Club From Springfield Charter
Springfield court of appeals grants writ of mandamus ousting the Queen City Athletic club from its charter. The decision sounds the death knell to boxing in Springfield as the court cannot serve the Springfield Athletic club because its officers have departed the city.
Missouri fruit station reports successful Ben Davis Jonathan cross
After 12 years of trials at the Missouri Fruit Experiment Station in Mountain Grove researchers announce a successful cross between the Ben Davis and Jonathan apple varieties. The new hybrid aims to combine Ben Davis vigor with Jonathan flavor.
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Cross Davis
Jonathan
Missouri Fruit Experiment Station
Mountain Grove
Ben Davis
End to a Daviess County Pioneer
Josep Whitt a pioneer citizen of Daviess county died at his home five miles southwest of Gallatin from heart disease Funeral arrangements will be announced locally.
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Daviess County
Josep Whitt
Gallatin
Visiting Committee Inspects Missouri School of Mines
The visiting committee of the Forty seventh General Assembly of Missouri led by Senator Thomas Lysaght and Representatives-elect A. A. Vitt and A. W. Teel, with secretary M. W. Rider, inspected the School of Mines and Metallurgy and the State Geological Survey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rolla
Fortyseventh General Assembly
Missouri
Thomas Lysaght
A. A. Vitt
Franklin County
A. W. Teel
Clark County
M. W. Rider
School of Mines and Metallurgy
State Geological Survey
Missouri Educator Appointed US Rural Education Rep
Prof. Harold W. Foght head of rural education at Kirksville Normal school is named special representative of the U S Bureau of Education. He will study rural school systems in Denmark Holland and Germany and plans to go abroad before year’s end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Harold W. Foght
Department of Rural Education
Kirksville Normal School
United States Bureau of Education
Denmark
Holland
Germany
Frisco Runs December Farmers Institute at Springfield
The Frisco railroad agricultural department opens a month long institute for Ozark farmers in Springfield. Lectures by competent authorities will be held forenoon and afternoon each weekday in December.
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Frisco
Frisco Railroad
Ozark
Springfield
Sculptor Zoinay Lectures to Missouri Students
St. Louis sculptor George I. Zoinay, former head of the art department at the 1904 St. Louis world’s fair, spoke at Missouri University convocation and lectured to Columbia art students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George I. Zoinay
St. Louis
Missouri University
Columbia
Retired Sedalia Farmer Felix McGaw Dies at 83
Felix McGaw, 83, a retired Sedalia farmer, died recently. He is survived by four children. John H. McGaw, secretary of the Postmen and Letter Carriers Association of Missouri, is noted in connection with the family.
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Sedalia
Felix McGaw
John H. McGaw
Postmen's and Letter ‘Carriers
Association of Missouri,s
How Banks Hit the Farmer at the Money Trust Hearing
J H Griesel of Griesel and Rogers testified that fixing interest rates on money traded on the New York stock exchange would force country banks to keep money at home. He said banks currently lend 20 to 25 million dollars daily to the exchange, using surplus cash from rural banks to sustain at home rates.
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New York
Washington
Money Trust
J. H. Greisel
Griesel & Rogers
New York Stock Exchange
Griesel
Stock Exchange
Mystery at McPherson Swedish couple found dying
In McPherson Kansas an elderly Swedish couple Nels Rosengren age 83 and his wife 75 were found by officers with the woman dead and the man dying. Carbolic acid suspected but murder or suicide unclear. House locked, key inside, money untouched. Inquest to be held.
Kansan Killed His Employer in Dodge City
A. G. Kuhlman, thresherman, was shot and killed by Fay A. White, one of his employees. White, jailed here, signed a confession but may plead unwritten law. Kuhlman's wife and family live in Quincy, Illinois, and she has requested the body be sent there. White recently arrived from Lakin, Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dodge City
Kan
A. G. Kuhlman
Fay A. White
White
Quincy
Ill
Lakin
Banker Acquitted in La Cygne Bite Case
Frederick W. Pullman president of Linn County Bank in La Cygne lost part of his ear in a fight with Amos W. Rush cashier of La Cygne State Bank. Rush was charged with mayhem but jury found him not guilty after about two and a half hours deliberation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Cygne
Kan
Amos Rush
Mound City
Frederick W. Pullman
Linn County Bank
Amos W. Rush
Servia recalls minister to Austria Vienna recall signals break
Belgrade orders V Simics the Servian minister to Austria recalled with no explanation given. The move is seen as a formal severing of diplomatic relations with Austria-Hungary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Belgrade
Austria
V. Simics
Austria-Hungary
Forced Down Prices of Eggs by Philadelphia League
The Housekeepers' League victory lowers egg price to 24 cents a dozen after selling 150000 dozen at that price. Two large retail chains matched the 24 cent rate, cutting prices by 20 to 6 cents per dozen from previous levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Housekeepers’ League
League
Fire at Randall's Island Children’s Hospital
A nurse discovers a cellar fire in a one story children's hospital on Randall's Island sending flames and smoke through the building. Firefighters extinguish the blaze with no reports of serious injuries to the more than a hundred crippled boys and girls ages up to 14.
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Children’s Hospital
New York
Miss Reilly
Randall's Island
Wreck injures twenty on railroad train in Indiana
Twenty passengers were injured but none seriously when three coaches of a Cleveland Cincinnati Chicago and St Louis train derailed near Sanford Indiana eight miles from Terre Haute. Firemen and rescuers worked at the scene as authorities investigated the cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terre Haute
Ind
Chicago & St. Louisa
Sanford
Five Die As Freight Train Wreck Hits Cumberland
A Baltimore and Ohio freight train derailed after a high speed run down the Allegheny Mountains near Cumberland Maryland. Four trainmen and an unidentified trespasser were killed and six other trainmen injured, two seriously, in the wreck releasing a deadly blast of wreckage and smoke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cumberland
Baltimore & Ohio
Allegheny Mountains
Eight Hour Day for Women Proposed in Washington
Senator La Follette introduces a bill limiting women in the District of Columbia to an eight hour work day and a six day work week in factories. The measure aims to regulate labor conditions for female workers in the capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
District of Columbia
Senator la Follette
Trouble in Dining Room at Torpidville Tavern
Landlord recalls a near altercation in the dining room where two waitresses, Maxine and Sylphie, argued about etiquette and their beaus. The skirmish ended without firings as the ladies reconciled, washing ketchup and broken glass from their hair and moving on.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Torpidville
Maxine
Sylphie
Mebby
Kansas City Sun
Transmigrating Turkey Inspires Humorous Metempsychosis
George Ade recalls a frosty November on an Indiana farm when a plump turkey sparked his belief in transmigration. He imagined the bird becoming a famous humorist after its death, highlighting a playful meditation on life and destiny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turkey
Indiana
George Ade
Four-flusher Men and Postmarital Household Duties
Quotable remarks discuss men who court via flattery then expect domestic labor after marriage. The speaker contrasts promises of sunny affection with the reality of cooking, mending, and endless housekeeping tasks in a candid social note.
Countryman's Nation water cart remark
A London Sketch caption depicts a farmer praising cleverness in a wagon setup to deter boys from hanging on behind. The scene shows a water cart and a practical modification attributed to Lannon chaps, highlighting rural wit and craft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Halbert
London
Just Before the Battle Dialogue Exchange
In a wartime vignette a couple banters about marriage. A woman quips she would marry anyone who asks if she were the narrator, and the man questions the timing amid looming conflict. The scene captures tension and pragmatic humor.
Man and the world’s most fascinating woman ideal
A compact reflection on pursuing fascination as a concept, contrasting aspiration and near attainment. The meditation pivots on the idea of the “most fascinating woman” as an elusive target, suggesting humility in striving for admiration and influence.
Charity at Home Not Worth Major Fuss Says Narrator
A terse remark notes that some charity starting locally may not deserve heavy attention. The line implies caution about overestimating small scale aid efforts.
Never Tires Of the Food That Restored Her to Health
A young woman credits Grape-Nuts with curing two years of illness including indigestion and inflammatory rheumatism. After trying diets and remedies, she began eating Grape-Nuts with cream or milk and quickly improved, gaining weight and strength. The ad claims Grape-Nuts aids digestion and health, with Postum Co. as sponsor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cole
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
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Foreign Affairs
Charlies E. Wright
Mcpherson, Kan
Kansan
Servia
Dr. Pierce
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