Interesting World News Condensed For Our Readers
National Capital reports passage of a bill for purchasing or building American embassies legations and consulates abroad The Panama Canal must be fortified Col Goethals told the House Appropriations Committee A dental corps is included in the army appropriation bill A San Francisco wireless operator spoke with a station in Japan 5700 miles away Administration senators learn the White House position on the Canadian reciprocity agreement Sen Cullom praises Illinois voters integrity A 2 million memorial to Abraham Lincoln is proposed The case of Senator Lorimer is questioned by Senator Root Postal savings banks could expand to 500 more U S cities if funds allow Postmaster General Hitchcock comments on early postal savings results
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House
Panama Canal
Col. Goethals
Army
House Committee On Appropriations
Senate
San Francisco
Choji Shimosa
Japan
Taft
Crane
Carter
Capitol
White House
Congress
Cullom
Illinois
Abraham Lincoln
Shelby M. Cullom
William Lorimer
Root
United States
Hitchcock
Kansas Voters Decide on Woman Suffrage Expansion
The article reviews state actions across Kansas and neighboring states on suffrage and political measures. It notes a constitutional amendment passed by the Kansas House and adopted by the Senate, plus related political moves in Iowa and New Orleans. It also reports a fatal freight yard explosion in Texas, and census data on Kansas manufacturing in 1909.
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Kansas
House
Senate
Iowa House of Representatives
Harding
Dolliver
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Smithville
Tex
San Francisco
Senate Committee On Industrial Expositions
Mexico
Wells-Fargo Express Company
Republic
New Orleans
Kansas Senate
Kansans face anti trust bill and building height rule
Reports cover W L Chapman L C Grimes and Al Brown of Shawnee to return to Mexico for trial on land title fraud charges. A Kansas anti trust bill proposes $100 a day fines for price fixing and possible state expulsion. Chicago building heights to cap at 200 feet after Sept 1.
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W. L. Chapman
L. C. Grimes
al Brown
Shawnee
Mexico
Kansas Senate
Kansas
Chicago
Kansas House
State
Washington
Senate Committee On Industrial
Panama
Mercury
Venus
Mars
Earth
Percival Lowell
Lowell Observatory
New York
Russia Mobilizes Army to Halt Plague Invasion Threat
The vast Russian force is ready to mobilize to defend frontiers from a bubonic plague danger linked to Manchuria and China. The report notes U S relations with Mexico after an incident near Juarez and a planned State Department inquiry led by ambassador Henry Lane Wilson. Information from Shanghai warns thousands starve with many dead unburied and 2 000 000 at risk without prompt relief. negotiations continue between the government and revolutionary forces, mediated by Capt. Davis of the USS Tacoma. Aviator Say competes for the Aerial League prize flying 60 kilometers, covering 42 miles in 32 minutes with a biplane. Abdul Hamid, ex-sultan of Turkey, has gone insane and killed two wives, now confined in irons.
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Russia
Ncessary
Manchuria
China
Mexico
Red Cross
Juarez
Henry Lane Wilson
Mexico City
State Department
Shanghai
Davis
United States
Tacoma
Say
Abdul Hamid
Turkey
Washington enfranchised women recall reshapes mayoral race
Mayor Hiram C. Gill, elected by 3500 plurality last March, was recalled by a plurality about 4000 influenced by newly enfranchised women in Washington. Other items note Missouri capitol burned by lightning with records lost, and aviation border patrol plans by Gen. Wood with an aeroplane.
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Hiram C. Gill
Washington
Missouri State Capitol
Jefferson City
House of Representative
Senate
House of Representatives
Senate Chamber
George P. McLean
Connecticut
Dowie Son Claims Maniacal Father Died Mentally Unfit
A. J. Gladstone Dowie accuses his father John Alexander Dowie of mania and mental illness in later life. He also says his mother Mrs. Dowie is currently in a sanitarium for a nervous breakdown amid Zion City troubles over oysters candy and tobacco.
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Battle Creek
Michigan
John Alexander Dowie
A. J. Gladstone Dowie
Elijah
Dowie
Twelfth Streets
Chicago
Oklahoma City Declared State Capital By Supreme Court
Oklahoma City is declared the permanent state capital by a majority of the state supreme court. Guthrie plans to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Justice R. L. Williams writes the majority opinion with Chief Justice Turner and Justice Hayes concurring. Justice Kane and Justice Dunn dissent on capital location and repeal implications.
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State Supreme Court
Guthrie
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Oklhoma
United States Supreme Court
R. L. Williams
Turner
Hayes
Kane
Justice Dunn
Weather Helps Panama Work
In January total excavation for the Panama Canal reached 2,772,170 cubic yards, up from 2,448,097 in December despite fewer working days. January rainfall was .34 inch versus 14.43 inches in December. Concrete laid fell to 137,960 cubic yards from 150,176 in December. Dams and locks filling totaled 544,610 cubic yards in January, up from 520,601 in December.
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Washington, D. C
Panama Canal
Two More Aviators Die in French Flight Test
In Douai France two aviators named Noel and Dela Torre were killed during a military aeroplane test conducted before War Department experts. The deaths raise the official death toll for the ongoing aviation project.
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Douai
France
Noel
Delatorre
War Department
Tax Roads at Own Figures in Arkansas Rail Rates Fight
Senator Logan introduces a bill directing the state tax commission to list railroad property on the tax books at the same figures used in federal court to set freight and passenger rates. The move would raise railroad assessments from 65 million to about 125 million dollars.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Old Railroad Commission
Logan
State Tax Commission
Santa Fe Seeks College Bred Indians for Railroad Roles
Denver Colorado. Charles B Dagenett supervisor of the United States Indian service in Denver says the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railroad will place as many college bred Indians as possible in various departments of the road.
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Santa Fe
Denver
Colorado
Charles B. Dagenett
United States Indian Service
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
Explosion on the Gunboat Dolphin at Fort Au Prince
A cablegram to the state department reports an explosion on the gunboat Dolphin at Fort Au Prince injuring two crew members. Captain Lawn, in command, confirms the incident and details are being verified.
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Washington, D. C
Dolphin
Fort Au Prince
State Department
Lawn
Advocates Pushing Militia Pay Bill Before House
Maj. Gen Leonard Wood testified before the militia committee to support a bill establishing an organized national militia on a pay basis. The testimony urged funding and structure for a paid militia system nationwide.
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Washington, D. C
Leonard Wood
Militia Committee of the House
Exonrate Oil Exoneration Reaches Hampton's Magazine
The Standard Oil Company files libel suits for 250000 and 100000 against Hampton's Magazine and Cleveland Moffett over a February article alleging glucose and candy sales tied to impure materials. Retracted letters from Moffett and Hampton's promise correction in the March issue.
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New York
Standard Oil Company
Hampton’s
Cleveland Moffett
Philadelphia
Shearman & Sterling
Broadway
Hamptons Magazine
West Thirty-fifth St
Standard of
Hampton’s Magazine
Cassidy
Moffett
Mr. Moffett
Benj. B. Hampton
Broadway Magazine, Inc
Judge Holds City Attorney to Answer Grand Jury Questions
In Danville the circuit court of Judge Kimbrough rules City Attorney Jones must respond to all grand jury questions about vote selling. The decision cites US Supreme Court immunity for witnesses before grand juries and strikes down city election law as unconstitutional, limiting questioning to events within eighteen months. The probe continues with more witnesses summoned and potential indictments looming.
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Danville
Kimbrough
Circuit
Jones
Supreme Court of the United States
Taal Volcano Toll Reaches 700 Killed in Philippines
Gov. Forbes reports 700 deaths in Talisay from Taal eruption and aftershocks in Batangas as 5000 ruined. Relief is imperative to prevent further suffering amid mud flows and crop destruction across the affected area.
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Washington
Taal
Philippines
Talisay
Batangas
War Department
Forbes
Philippine Islands
Philippine
Decies Honeymoon in Egypt
New York reports Lord and Lady Bow Miss Vivien Gould plan a February 7 wedding and will honeymoon in Egypt. They depart February 18 aboard the Cunard liner Carmania and will spend a few days in Cairo before touring Upper Egypt’s sites.
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New York
Vivien Gould
Egypt
America
Cunard
Carmania
Cairo
Upper Egypt
Missouri Legislature Grapples With Capitol Move and Bond Plan
In Jefferson City the Missouri Senate met in the circuit court room while choosing new meeting places for the two houses. The Senate will use the Supreme Court division No. 1 room and the House St. Peter's hall. Bills propose a $3,000,000 bond issue for a new state capitol and a capital location fight intensifies. Other actions include stock-yard rates, a capitol fire service pardon push, and a senate resolution for an extra congressional session. Twins born to Secretary of State Cornelius Roach and Mrs Roach add to the state’s census.
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Jefferson City
The
Senate
Jacob F. Gmelich
Supreme Court
House
St. Peter’s Hall
St. Louis
Missouri
St. Louis County
Sedalia
State Fair Association
Kansas City
Duckett and
Bowers
Hadley
Capitol
Henry Andre
Penitentiary Fire Department
Congress
Wilson
Paroled Negro Boy Forgery Convict Freed by Governor
Will Marshall, a Black youth convicted of forgery in Missouri County in December 1908, sentenced to five years in the penitentiary, was paroled by Governor Hadley.
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Will Marshall
Mo County
Hadley
Puggles and Jessie Turn Down Courtship Offer
In a light hearted exchange a man named Puggles offers marriage and wealth to Jessie who rejects both with a quip that his fortune is too small and his hand too large. The playful banter highlights social humor of personal proposals.
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Puggles
Jessie
Painful finger nails cured by Cuticura ointment
Mrs. J. J. Horton of Katonah New York describes long history of painful finger nail inflammations with repeated nail loss. After trying doctors prescriptions and irritant ointments she used Cuticura Soap and Ointment nightly, noting rapid improvement and no recurrence by September 21 following the April 13 1910 testimonial.
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J. J. Horton
Katonah
N. Y
The Lord's Advertisement Quest in a Bazaar Tale
Willie visits his nurse who shows bright scripture texts on her walls. His aunt gives him a dime to spend at a bazaar, and Willie explains he seeks one of the Lord's advertisements like Mary has in her room.
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Willie
Mary
Friendly Match Quote Sparks Golf Diction Debate
A London Telegraph remark recalls a Scotsman and opponent clash over a so called friendly match in golf. The exchange highlights sport etiquette and the friction between casual play and formal scoring in the game.
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London Telegraph
Constituents Question Lawmaker's Holiday Use
A constituent asks how the member of Congress is spending the holidays. The reply notes the member is at home, not in Washington, amid questions over vacation duties and legislative work.
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Congress
Washington
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Standard Oil’ Company
New ‘York City
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Africa
Missouri Legislature
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Gardner
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