National Capital Notes on Taxes Foods Prices and Politics
National Capital items report 6 365 000 fewer hogs on farms and 2 100 000 fewer beef cattle from last year. Taft seeks funds for tariff commission scientific study. Republican insurgents back admin rail legislation conservation postal savings banks and anti injunctions. F L Thompson resigns as senator from South Dakota, W E Purcell named in. US Supreme Court rules for Pullman in Kansas capital tax suit. Postal savings bank bill moves in Senate. House to investigate high food prices. Rep Clark of Missouri proposes rules elected by House. Senator Lodge blames Chicago packers for high meat prices and wants action. Wickersham urges against abandoning Union Pacific merger suit.
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Agricultural Department
Taft
Congress
Tariff Commission
House
F. L. Thompson
South Dakota
W. E. Purcell
Supreme Court of the United States
Pullman Car Company
Kansas
Postal Savings Bank
Senate
House of Representatives
Clark
Missouri
Committee On Rules
Senator Lodge
Massachusetts
Chicago
Wickersham
Union Pacific
Kansas and national notes on agriculture and industry
A Kansas State conference at Manhattan on February 12 will discuss better pastures to boost livestock. Oklahoma City offers 3000000 to Schwarzschild Sulzberger for a new plant. The Mexican National Packing Co. goes to receivership. Browder mine explosion in Kentucky kills 35. Kansas City cattle rise 50 to 75 cents per cwt hogs 30 to 40 cents. Altur Oklahoma votes 200000 in bonds for water works. Sixty railroads deny 32000 firemen wage demands. Dowie estate dining hall at Whitelake becomes a dance hall. Missouri plans a agricultural journalism course at the University of Missouri. Springfield plans a Missouri Land congress auditorium. Mount Wilson astronomers photograph comet 1910 with three tails 50000000 miles long. First Church of Christ Scientist in Kansas City nearly destroyed by fire. Labor and farmer unions urged by Samuel Gompers to give ten cents to fight the steel trust. Prof. Hunter places 130000 insect specimens at 47000 value. Kansas Day banquet in Topeka sells 600 tickets on state celebration. Chicago Packers raise meat price one cent a pound in response to anti meat crusade. Prof. Hunter notes the common housefly fuels typhoid concerns.
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Kansas Agricultural College
Manhattan
Oklahoma City
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger Packing Company
Mexican National Packing Company
Browder
Drakesboro
Kansas City
Altur
Ben MacDhui
John Alexander Dowie
Whitelake
Muskegon
Mich
University of Missouri
Springfield
Missouri Land Congress
Mount Wilson
Church of Christ Scientists
United States
Samuel Gompers
American Federation
Steel Trust
Hunter
University of Kansas
Kansas Day Club
Topeka
Chicago
Prof
Department of
Entomology
Multiple Kansas and Colorado notices amid mining disaster and economic plans
Reports cover a range of items from a 7a dissolution of a Chicago meat trust to a mining explosion at the Primero mine near Trinidad Colorado with eight bodies recovered and 79 believed dead. Kansas vital stats show 171 deaths and 106 births in Atchison County. Deposits in Kansas banks rise by 2.25 million to 99.51 million. Wyandotte County asks Santa Fe to sell tickets to Kansas City to boost rail map status. Proposals for Arkansas Valley road from Newton to Denver and beyond. Harvard Prof White cites substitutes for meat and packers aim to curb slaughter to keep prices high. Peary Arctic Club and National Geographic plan a South Pole expedition.
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Chicago
2 Sakacom Company
Gid
Primero
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
Atchison County
Kan
Wyandotte
Kansas
Santa Fe Railroad Company
Arkansas Valley
Newton
Denver
Kansas City
Trinidad
Col
Peary Arctic Club of
New York
National Geographic Society
South Pole
Revolts in Korea and Zelaya Exile Border Belgium
Reports mention a revolt against Japan spreading in Korea with fears of general uprising. Former President Zelaya leaves Mexico City and plans to reside in Belgium after sailing from Vera Cruz.
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Zelaya
Mexico City
Vera Cruz
Belgium
Korea
Seine
Paris
Wilson
Society For the Study of
London
St. Petersburg
South
Phonagan
Halley
Knox
Zelala
Nicaragua
Mexico
Cook
Germany
Oklahoma Governor Haskell accused of misusing funds
Affidavits filed in the Oklahoma legislature allege Gov. Haskell violated state constitution and laws by mismanaging and misappropriating public funds. Other items note Wanamaker offering aid for flood victims in Paris, and various political and legal developments including a landmark Tennessee case and Rhodes scholarship appointment.
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Oklahoma
Gov
Haskell
Rodman Wanamaker
Bacon
Paris
Purcell
North Dakota
Senate
Ballinger-Pinchot
Duncan B. Cooper
Robert J
Carmack
Tennessee
Supreme Court
William Goebel
Frankfort
Frank G. Bristow
Senator Bristow
Baker University
George A. Trigg
Charles H. Burgess
Gates County
Weekly Democrat
Butler Daily Democrat
Butler
E. Mathews
Webb City
Southwest Lumber Dealers’ Association
Kansas City
John G. Paxton
Swope
Dr. Hyde
Logan O. Swope
St. Louis Post- Dispatch
Charles M. Harger
Abilene, Kak
Warriner Confesses Big Four Cash Theft Fallout Trial Details
In Cincinnati a former Big Four treasurer Warriner testifies in the Mrs. Jeanette Steward Ford case naming Comstock as $10,500 short and claiming he covered losses with stolen funds. He cites $200,000 gambled in New York and failed investments that cost tens of thousands.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Frank D. Comstock
Kanawha Dispatch
Peoria
Ill
Big Four Railroad
Warriner
Charles L. Warriner
Jeanette Timmings
Ford
Common Pleas
Swing
Comstock
Treasury Cooke
Henry Crews & Co
New York
Mutual Mining Company of
Kentucky
Joplin Dry Majority in Jasper County Rises
Joplin's wet vote totaled 814 in last week's local option, but dry wins prevailed in Carterville 123, Carthage 172, and countywide 1 188. Outlying precincts still pending could push the dry margin higher as Jasper county votes pattern to ban saloons, with Webb City going dry narrowly.
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Joplin
Missouri
Carthage
Carterville
Jasper County
Impf
Webb City
Boy survives gunshot to the head in St Louis independence day incident
Freddy Schaefering, six, suffered a bullet lodged in his brain after a revolver misfire during July 3 celebrations. He remained alive and agile after doctors deemed surgery too risky and his family brought him home to Hull Place. X rays revealed the bullet's location but no operation was performed.
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St. Louis
North St. Louis
Freddy Schaefering
Freddy
Hull Place
Banking Board Under Fire in Guthrie for Fees
A Oklahoma House resolution by Rep George W Patridge demands the state banking board disclose expenditures from the state banking fund for attorneys fees and legal services not rendered by the attorney general. It cites a pattern of ignoring the attorney general and asks each board member to name attorneys, services, and reasons for not calling the AG.
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Guthrie
Oklahoma
House
George W. Patridge
State Banking Board
State Banking Fund
Typhoid Strikes Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary
A new typhoid case brings total at Leavenworth federal prison to five with one death, Richard Brung, a Black inmate, and one patient dangerously ill. Officials and Dr Yohe are taking steps to curb the outbreak amid city typhoid concerns linked to Missouri river water.
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Leavenworth
Kansas
Federal Penitentiary
Richard Brung
Missouri
Leavenworth City
A. L. Yohe
Ship subsidy bill advances in House committee
The Humphrey ship subsidy bill was ordered favorably reported by the House committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries by a vote of ten to seven in Washington D C.
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Washington, D. C
House Committee On Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Nashville lawyer tapped to lead Ballinger defense
John J. VerTree of Nashville, a Tennessee bar leader and Taft ally, has been asked to take charge of the defense in the Ballinger congressional investigation in Washington, D. C.
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Ballinger
Washington, D. C
John J. Vertrees
Nashville
Tennessee
Taft
War Department plan seeks 24-foot Aransas Pass harbor channel
A proposal to deepen Aransas Pass harbor in Texas with a 24 foot channel at a cost of 277 500 dollars has been recommended to Congress by the War Department.
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Aransas Pass
Washington, D. C
Aransas Pass Harbor
Texas
Congress
War Department
MISS MORGAN PLANS NEW UNION APPROACH
Miss Anne Morgan daughter of Pierpont Morgan who aided the shirtwaist strike in New York expresses belief that current women’s labor organizations harm the cause through socialist leanings and abusive leadership She intends to reorganize women workers on a different basis while pursuing the same objective.
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New York
Anne Morgan
Pierpont Morgan
Miss Morgan
The New Neuritis
A physician recalls neuritis as a fashionable craze, mocking its ubiquity in society chatter. He notes many figures and events cited as neuritis symptoms, predicting neuritis clubs will spread across Sedalia and Duluth.
Concentrated Formula Claimed To Cure Many This Winter
A vintage health ad notes a concentrated preparation sold in half pint vials with airtight cases. It is marketed in teaspoonful doses as a pine product and labeled Con centrated. The maker claims it cured hundreds here last winter.
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Ace Caine
Dairy Association CO
Rallied to the Defense and a Parlor Maid Joke
Walter Lonsdale defends Dr. Cook with joking ferocity. He packs for Copenhagen and remarks on the parlor maid defense. A mistress questions her husband’s hours as the maid retorts about his bath and early bed.
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Walter Lonsdale
Calendar lesson on divisions of time misread by child
A teacher asks how days are divided and a boardinghouse girl answers with a comical list of days paired with foods. The scene from Youeh's Companion captures a child's humorous misinterpretation of the week's structure.
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Youehs
Jim's Cost a Dollar More
Richard Le Gallienne entertains editors in New York and recalls a schoolboy who asked for his autograph. The boy returned at breakfast and traded yesterday's autograph for a dollar with the punch line involving Jim Jeffries.
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Jim
Richard le Gallienne
New York
le Gallienne
Jim Jeffries
Her Idea of Discipline in School
A Cleveland Leader Sunday Magazine vignette shows a teacher enforcing order in a Baltimore primary class. She chastises a laughing student, who explains he was thinking of something, and she warns him not to laugh again in school.
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Baltimore
Sunday Magazine
The
Cleveland Leader
Doctor’s Advice Sparks Fashion Cure in Yonkers
A Yonkers Statesman snippet portrays a woman deemed poorly by a husband who asks what she needs. The doctor’s brisk reply reframes care as a hat and a dress, underscoring a lighthearted view on remedies and appearances.
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Yonkers Statesman
Emerson Quote On Better Homes And Education
A classical line lauds improvement through better homes books tools and outlook, praising a hopeful path and crowning virtue with laurels in a timeless moral cadence.
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Emerson
Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days with Pazo Ointment
Guaranteed to cure itching pain bleeding or protruding piles in 6 to 14 days or money returned. 50 cents.
Cemetery janitors cultivate vegetables in graveyard mold
A brief note reports cemetery workers forming small plots to raise vegetables in the rich soil of the graveyard. The activity appears informal and consists of a few caretakers tending seedlings and harvests within the grounds.
Allens Long Balsam Quote Appears in Ad Copy
A fragment from an old advertisement features a truncated quote praising opportunity and a price note of one dollar. The snippet includes a quotation attributed to Emerson about gates and tension, framed as promotional prose.
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Emerson
Red Cross Ball Blue and 5 Cent Housewares Ad
An old advertisement notes Red Cross Ball Blue used in white clothes, a large 2 oz. package selling for five cents. The copy also cheekily suggests it might improve pound cake when hit with an ax and mentions Lewis Single Binder cigars priced at five cents, replacing former 10 cent brands.
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Freddie Schaefering
Leavenworth Penitentiary
Missouri River
Duchess of Manchester
Edna May
Biarritz
Lord Curzon
House of Lords
John D
Harry Lehr
John Jacob Astor
Sedalia
Duluth
Dodds
Allen
Carter
Lyndonville, Vt
John J. Brown & Son
Boston
Mass
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San Diego Union
Iéc
Parker
Kansas City Directory
Deere Implements and Velie
John Deere Plow CO
Grand Ave
Arthur C. Pee Sal
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