News of the Week Interesting Items From Around the World
National Capital reports Lorimer defense led by Senator Paynter of Kentucky in the Senate. New Orleans 1915 exposition bill contains $1,000,000 for a government exhibit. Ways and Means favors a permanent tariff board. National Progressive League announced in Washington backed by lawmakers to push popular government. U S Supreme Court to decide Virginia West Virginia debt apportionment. Navy program includes two battleships two colliers eight destroyers and four submarines.
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New Orleans
Bisids
Virginia
West Virginia
Supreme Court of the United States
House Committee On Naval Affairs
Missouri game law amendment proposes season for coons
The report notes a proposed closed season for coons and possums and even the humble skunk as part of Missouri game law amendments. It mentions committees in Kansas City to mark Westport battle field with a monument and lists other varied national items from indictments in Adams County to a possible Pacific fleet.
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Adams Country
Missouri
Kansas City
Westport Battle Field
Leadville
Tampa
Fla
Leavenworth
Paul W. Beck
Army Signal Corps
Pacific Ocean
Congress
California Assembly
National League of Democratic Clubs
Indianapolis
Tennessee
United States
J. B. Frazier
Lake Lea
Roy Williams
Macon County
Lusitania
Underwood
House
Taft to Speak At Kansas State Fair In Hutchinson
A dispatch notes President Taft accepted an invitation to address the Kansas state fair at Hutchinson on September 25 or 26. Other items include a plague affecting foreign legations in Pekin and U S talks on Galapagos Islands acquisition.
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Taft
Hutchinson
Kas
Pekin
United States
Galapagos Islands
Ecuador
State Department
Woolworth
Broadway
Barclay Street
Park Place
New York
World-Survey Highlights From Far East Trade and War News
A Harbin dispatch reports Mongolian Jerboa hunters as plague carriers into Manchuria while a 37 day journey links Tsuruga to world travel by Trans-Siberian rail. The Hornet seizure by the Tacoma signals a new U S policy end to revolutionary party meddling in the Americas.
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Tsuruga
Harbin
Jerboa
Mongolia
Manchuria
Honduras
Tacoma
United States
Central
South American
Canadian Reciprocity Nears Passage in Taft Plan
President Taft sent to Congress a reciprocal trade pact between Canada and the United States. It would free exchange of wheat grains dairy products fresh fruits vegetables fish eggs poultry cattle sheep and other live animals plus printing paper and pulp wood exports. Reactions split along party lines with protectionists opposing insurgents mixed and Democrats supportive.
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Washington
Taft
Congress
Canada
United States
Republican Party
Farmer Har v Wadleigh shoots neighbors in Formosa
Har vey Wadleigh, a middle aged Formosa farmer, killed Willis Bales and his wife near Formosa, then attempted to kill a third, before being arrested in Mankato. Neighbors say he had recently become insane after inheriting property from his late father.
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Formosa
Kas
Harvey Wadleigh
Wadleigh
Willis Bales
Mankato
Ballinger Report Delay Sparks House Fight
Representative Hitchcock of Nebraska demanded an investigation into irregular proceedings that delayed the Ballinger Pinchot committee report by 49 days. Speaker Cannon defended the chair as debate grew acrimonious and the House nearly unanimously backed a Rules Committee investigation.
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Washington
Hitchcock
Nebraska
House of Representatives
Ballinger-Pinchot Investigation Committee
House
Cannon
Committee On Rules
Glenn Curtiss A Water Bird
San Diego reports one of aviation history’s feats as Glenn H. Curtiss rises from San Diego Bay with his hydroplane. He achieves this four times, lifting from the water as easily as from land and then returning to the bay with equal ease.
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San Diego
Cal
Glenn H. Curtiss
San Diego Bay
Curtiss
Aviator flies with six passengers in cross country record
Roger Sommer piloted a large bi plane carrying six passengers at about 100 feet above the aero drome, then flew to Romilly and back setting a new cross country passenger flight record and establishing four new marks for total weight in flight. Suffrage wins in California Senate move toward woman voting amendment.
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Douzy
France
Roger Sommer
Romilly
California
Senate
Sacramento
Cal
Assembly
Cook Claims Polar Reach More Positive Than Ever
After a period of silence Dr. Frederick A. Cook presented himself to the Harlem based UsTman American Pioneer club stating he is more confident than before that he attained the North Pole.
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Patterson
Tennesse
Robert E. Peary
North Pole
Cook
New York
Frederick A. Cook
Tole UsTman
Missouri Legislature Moves To Pass Key Reforms
Missouri lawmakers push major measures in Jefferson City. House and Senate advance a package including a commission plan for third class cities, ethics probes, and new licensing rules for liquor sellers. Panama Expo location favored as New Orleans. A bill to tax patent medicine peddlers at 300 dollars biannually is proposed.
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Jefferson City
Missouri
House
McRoberts
Congress
Champ Clark
Springfield
Joplin
Fear
Dunwoody
Senate
Alice of Miller
Hull
Jefferson
Immigration Commissioners
Farris
Game and Fish Department
Jesse Tolerton
Mississippi
United States
New Orleans
Phelps
Missouri Pacific
Pheps
Carthage
Pleasant Hill
Burford
Reynolds
Jesse Tollerton
Pickler
Kirksville
Adair County
Lafayette County
Houx
Office of
Hotel Inspec
Legislative Club
Crank
No More Convict Labor Push Surges in Penitentiary Committee
The penitentiary committee holds almost daily meetings as indications grow that convict labor will be ended. Proponents press for reforms while opponents caution about economic impact and public safety.
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Penitentiary Committee
Dean's Kidney Pills Urged For Kidney Health
The ad warns of grave danger from neglecting kidneys and urges immediate use of Doan's Kidney Pills. It cites W P Miller of Pender Nebraska who says he spent over 1000 dollars without cure until Doan's helped. 50 cents a box, Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Nature
Bright
Dean
W. P. Miller
Pender
Nebr
Doan
Dean’s
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Bishop Gailor and the Memphis Charity Ball
A Memphis man challenged Bishop Thomas F. Gailor of Tennessee about charity balls asking if they are reverent. The bishop replied with humor that if dancing in full canonicals would help others he would dance the whole length of Memphis.
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Tennessee
Thomas F. Gailor
Memphis
Bishop Gailor
Resinol Praised for Pruritus and Skin Ailments
A Philadelphia reader testimonial touts Resinol as the perfect remedy for pruritus and itching skin conditions. It claims rapid relief of a stubborn pruritus vulvae case and a severe eczema, endorsing its continued indispensability.
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F. C. Imes
Philadelphia
A Girl's Way
A man named George presses a romance as a woman rebuffs him insisting she does not meet his standards. He cites her family as a factor, while she affirms her care but rejects the match to avoid offense to her mother and sisters.
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George
Cornwallville, N
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia Pinkham
Wm. Boughton
Cornwallville
N. Y
Greene Co
E. Peskheen
Sounds Noisy. Gerald and Geraldine Exchange Quips
Brief dialogue captures a humorous clash over loud attire and missed calls. A remark about illusions and life adds a reflective line attributed to Mark Twain, framing a witty domestic moment.
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Gerald
Geraldine
Red Cross Ball Blue Ad Slogan and Price
An old advertisement urges using Red Cross Ball Blue in every home. It promotes a large 2 oz package for five cents, and includes a playful line about not hiding a tallow dip to change its nature with an arc light.
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RED Cross
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Committee On Elections
Senator Paynter
Kentucky
Clarence Watson
Balters
Louise Lesco
Kansas
Cherryvale
John P. White
Oskaloosa
Tom
Lewis
United Mine Workers
White
Senator la Follette
Wisconsin
David Graham Phillips
Fitzhugh C. Goldsborough
Belleven Hospital
J. P. Morgan
Wall Street
George B. Cortelyou
the Treasury
Paul Morton
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Fred Warren
Girard
Walter A. Dipley
Goldie Smith
Marshfield
Stanley Ketchel
Emanuel F. Heisler
Weekly
Sun
Kans
Sixth Kansas Cavalry
William Barnes, Jr
Albany
Theodore Roosevelt
Republican State Committee
Ezra P. Prentice
Pennsylvania Society
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie Institute of Research At
Caroline B. Martin
Ocey W. M. Snead
Ballinger
Nation
Glenn Curtiss
THE
Missouri Legislature
Tor
Senate Committee On Education
Buford
State Game and Fish Department
Mark Twain
Carter
Ray
West Indies
Meltkeriz
Panama Canal
Bermuda
America
Mapai
Hamburg-American Line
P.O
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N
Pensacola
Florida
Pensacola R “4
Springfield Post Card Co
Dept. 2
Ohio
Bell System
BELL
Telephone
Dianaon Cloods Huddler
Natick
Mass
Lydia E. Trend
Nathan B. Greaton
No. Main St
Natick,Mass
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