National and World Notes From Washington to Nicaragua
National Capital items report Rockefeller stock gains as congress debates tax and anti trust actions. Taft taps court judges while Peary withholds polar proofs awaiting secrecy. Roosevelt may tour the West as campaign efforts proceed. Historic letters surface in Washington and Estrada’s Nicaragua situation draws official notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Rockefeller
Standard Oil
Garner
Pensylvania
Republican Congressional Campaign Committee
Roosevelt
Taft
Senate
Court of Customs Appeals
Robert M. Montgomery
William H. Hunt
James F. Smith
Orion M. Barber
Marion Devries
Naval Committee
House
Peary
Standard Oil Company
United States Supreme Court
Miller
Kansas
Sisson
Mississippi
House of Representatives
Washington
Martha Washington
Mary Todd Lincoln
Jefferson
Lafayette
Postal Savings Bank
Representative DeArmond
Missouri
State Department
Nicaragua
Madriz
Gettysburg
Secretary of War
Robert E. Peary
North Pole
House Committee On Naval Affairs
Multistate News Catches From Across The Nation
A carload of babies from New York foundlings sent to New Orleans for adoption. Hogs in Kansas City fetch up to 10.25 per cwt, double two years ago. Eleven indictments against Dr. Hyde in the Swope case for murder and poisoning. Kansas Missouri mine owners form protective association. Forty Fifth Coast Artillery ordered to Philadelphia to guard mint and government property. Henryetta Oklahoma reports a 500 barrel daily oil well. Western Union offers night telegrams at daytime 50 word rate. A snowslide at Rogers Pass kills 50 workers clearing track. Seven hundred miners in Joplin strike for higher pay. Chicago Great Western freight moved from St Joseph to Parnell. Woman arrested in Sedalia for sending objectionable letters by mail. Kansas Editorial Association elects H C Sticher president. W Y Morgan as vice president. Missouri Supreme Court upholds St Joseph charter. Kansas City Terminal Railway files $50 million mortgage in Wyandotte County.
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Foundling
New York
New Orleans
Kansas City
Hyde
Swope
Kansas- Missouri
Forty-Fifth Coast Artillery
Philadelphia
Mint
Henryetta
Western Union Telegraph Company
Rogers Pass
Canadian Pacific
Rocky Mountain
Joplin
Chicago Great Western
St. Joseph
Parnell
Sedalia
Kansas Bictorial Association
Wichita
H. C. Sticher
Belleville Telescope
W. Y. Morgan
Missouri Supreme Court
Kansas City Terminal Railway Company
Wyandotte County
Kan
Regional flash: accidents, politics and economy across states
Train wreck near Hoxie kills a fireman and injures three crewmen. Two Sedalia women die in a Cascade snow slide. A Mississippi preacher assaults a policeman. Oklahoma pays $2.69 million in bank liquidation. remaining liabilities near $963k. Silk train with guards moves San Francisco to New York. Unidentified woman's body found in Hannibal reservoir. Santa Fe to resume 3 cent mile fares in Oklahoma. Hypnosis claim leads to $35k theft. Wheat fed to oats near Wellington. Kansas sees 43 strikes last year, 34 settled amicably. $382,895 wages lost. Boston winter period theaters spend $2.75 million. Topeka woman shoots streetcar conductor. Hogs hit $10 per cwt at Kansas City. Judge orders grand jury to probe Dallas mob killing. A 16-pound baby with full teeth born at Poplar Bluff. Cannon supporters back Payne tariff in Danville. Wichita plans a 700-foot Roosevelt memorial obelisk. Two linemen attacked by mad dog in Wellington. Kansas Audubon pushes anti harming birds bill. Eastern Oklahoma Traction chartered for 251 miles of interurban line. Philadelphia sympathy strike swells to 100,000 workers.
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Hoxie
Ark
Sedalia
J. H. Finnell
L. M Latrich
Great Northern
Cascade
Wash
Greenwood
Miss
State Bank Commissioner of Oklahoma
Columbia Bank and Trust Company of
Oklahoma City
Japan
San Francisco
New York
Tvere
Boston
Topeka
Kan
Kansas City
Sea
Grand Jury
Dallas
Tex
Poplar Bluff
Joseph Cannon
Danville
Ill
Payne
Wichita
Theodore Roosevelt
Wellington
Kansas Audubon Society
Eastern Oklahoma Traction Company of
Muskogee
Oklahoma
Philadelphia
First aeroplane collision at Mourmelon France reported
The first air collision occurred at Mourmelon France both aircraft wrecked but the aviators escaped. Separately a mob attacked the American legation in Bogota Colombia after trouble with a street railroad manager with no injuries to Americans. Leaders of a Nicaraguan revolutionary faction ask U S intervention. The world’s first regular air navigation service to open May 15 in Munich Bavaria.
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Mourmelon
France
Bogota
Colombia
Nicaragua
United States
Munich
Bavaria
Paralysis patient Senator Daniel shows slight improvement
Senator Daniel of Virginia suffered a minor paralysis attack. Physicians say he will recover. Other notes include John W. Gates offering 5000 for a 90 foot whale, Mrs. Mary Svacina dying at 101 in Omaha, Oklahoma cost assessment on Gov Haskell, Byron Church indicted, Thomas C Platt deceased, Dr Hyde jailed awaiting bail, W J Bryan planning a Lincoln weekly anti-saloon paper, a Carthage MO murder conviction, and Haskell OK mayor jailed for liquor sale.
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Daniel
Virginia
John W. Gates
Port Arthur
Sabine
Tex
Mary Svacina
Omaha
Neb
Bohemia
Haskell
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
Byron Church
Holyrood
Kan
Thomas C. Platt
New York
Senate
United States Express Company
Dr. Hyde
Kansas City
W. J. Bryan
Lincoln
William Williams
Carthage
State Tax Valuation in Missouri Rises in 1910
Jefferson City reports total taxable wealth in Missouri reaches 1 482 930 283 dollars for 1910. Real estate stands at 1 118 206 067 dollars and personal property at 364 724 216 dollars, with an overall increase of 103 281 610 dollars from 1909. Battery A in St Louis awaits 2 238 26 dollars back pay, while Missouri volunteers gain 565 47 more than initial Spanish American War claims.
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Jefferson City
John P. Gordon
Missouri
City of
St. Louis
United States
C. C. Calhoun
Hadley
Adjutant General
Court of Claims
Leeper House Sold to Clarke and Corder in Chillicothe
The Leeper house a leading Chillicothe hotel was sold to Bert Clarke and Harry Corder. They plan to invest 50000 dollars to remodel and refurnish the property.
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Leeper
Chillicothe
Bert Clarke
Harry Corder
Missouri Gas Consumption Hits New High in 1909
Advance data from the 1910 Red Book of the Bureau of Labor Statistics show Missouri cities and towns consume nearly 7.7 million dollars worth of manufactured gas by products and natural gas annually. The 1909 total gas consumption reached about 18.35 billion cubic feet, a notable rise from 1908.
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Missouri
Bureau of Labor Statistics
J. C. Hiller
Wart disease threatens new potato crop import risk
Officials of the agricultural department warn of wart disease as a new enemy to potatoes. It is spreading in Europe and could be introduced into the United States at any time, damaging tubers with large rough warts and possibly destroying crops for years if the fungus reaches the soil.
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Washington, D. C
Agricultural Department
Europe
United States
National Farmers Union to Convene in St Louis
President Charles 9 Barrett of the National Farmers Union calls a national convention of farmers in St. Louis from May 7 to 8 to discuss national and state legislation. Bureaus will be established at different capitals to voice farmers demands and to improve farm attractiveness and feed supply for the nation.
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Atlanta
Charles 9. Barrett
National Farmers’ Union
St. Louis
Gas Causes Throat Ailments Cited By Dr Emley
Fort Scott Kansas report on a tuberculosis exhibit and lectures by Dr S C Emley of the University of Kansas. He argues pure air sanitary houses and sunshine prevent TB and that the use of natural gas increases throat illnesses including tonsillitis and other afflictions.
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Fort Scott
Kansas
S. C. Emley
University of Kansas
Emley
Grocer says food is cheaper nationwide
Wilkesbarre, Pa. President Robert M. Bursk of the wholesalers of Pennsylvania and Delaware told the annual convention that removing eggs butter meats lard and cold storage controlled foods shows current food prices are lower than at any time in twenty years.
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Wilkesbarre
Robert M. Bursk
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Oklahoma Dream City Bill Killed in House Vote
The Dream City Bill by Senator Campbell Russell aimed to create a model state capital district, nicknamed New Jerusalem. It failed in the Oklahoma House, eight votes short of the constitutional majority.
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Guthrie
Okla
Campbell Russell
Warner
New Jerusalem
Oklahoma
House of Representatives
Fire devastates Mexico & Orient shops in Fairview blaze
A locomotive spark ignited a fire at the Kansas City Mexico Orient railroad repair shops in Fairview Oklahoma. Loss estimated at 100000 dollars. Repairs will be limited until the main shops are rebuilt in Wichita.
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Wichita
Kan
Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railroad
Fairview
Contract Awarded for Pueblo Irrigation System
Announcement from Colorado Southern Irrigation and Canon City Florence Pueblo Water company shows Kenefick Quigley Russell of Kansas City Mo. awarded the contract for construction of their irrigation system for 12,987,000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pueblo
Colorado
Colorado Southern Irrigation Company
Canon City, Florence and Pueblo
Wickersham Seeks Bigger Budget for Oklahoma Land Frauds
Co Attorney General Wickersham asked Congress to raise funds from 325000 to 50000 for Western Oklahoma prosecutions of land frauds by federal officials.
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Wickersham
Washington, DC
Congress
Oklahoma
Iola approves commission form in all wards
Iola Kansas voters approved the commission form of government by a majority of 213 votes as the measure carried in every ward across the city.
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Iola
Tuberculosis Sunday Planned in Topeka Churches
Topeka Kansas holds Tuberculosis Sunday on April 24 with ministers preaching on prevention and distributing tuberculosis literature across city churches.
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Topeka
Kan
Hog prices hit new high at Kansas City market
Hogs sold at the Kansas City livestock market for 19.55 a hundredweight marking the sixth record broken this year. Receipts totaled 6,500 head, about one third of last year’s volume for the same day.
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Kansas City
Giraffe’s Grand Plan to Dress as Man Costs Too Much
A whimsical tale sees a giraffe plotting to wear human clothes. He calculates collars would cost ten dollars each and decides the plan is too costly to pursue.
Doctor cures scalp disease with Cuticura remedies
Miss Jessie F. Buchanan of Hamilton Georgia recalls suffering scalp disease as a child for months with hair loss. A doctor recommended Cuticura Remedies and cured the condition in weeks. She reports continued benefit for a hand breakout and no further scalp trouble since.
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Jessie F. Buchanan
Hamilton, Ga
Barnum Endorses Cuticura Remedies For Three Seasons
P T Barnum, famed circus impresario, states he kept Cuticura Remedies in his medicine chest during three recent seasons and can certify their effectiveness in every use.
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Barnum
P. T. Barnum
Not Willing to Commit Himself
A classroom scene shows Freddie Brown delaying how to compare the adjective clean. He stalls with mother is clean and father is cleaner, prompting guidance from the teacher. He finally mentions auntie with uncertainty and a humorous pause awaits his next reply.
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Freddie Brown
Freddie
Two Women Slip in Slushy Crossing Scene Angers Onlookers
In a Philadelphia Ledger account, two well dressed young women slipped and fell together in a slushy crossing. They got up wet and angry as an observer taunted them with “Wring out, wild belles,” a remark condemned by all who heard.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Proverbial advertising claims for Lydia E Pinkham’s remedy
The letter urges readers to try Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, arguing its testimonials are genuine and trustworthy after 30 years of publication. It targets sick women or those who know one, questioning the delay in trying the remedy and promoting its proven reputation.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
George May
Lydia Einkham
E. F. Hayes
Washington St
Boston
Mass
W. K. Howsun
Eastview Ave
Cin
Cinnati
Ohio
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Free Employment Bureau
Cape Girardeau
Springfield
Hannibal
National Farm Congress
Farmers’ Union
K. U
Grocer
Dream City
Bill
Mexico & Orient
Fairview, Ok
Colorado Irrigation Company
Ostetter
Carter
Philo Hay Spec. Co
Newark, N
W. K. Housh
Bia
Pinkman
Spohn Medical CO
Goshen
Indiana
Theodor C. Peltzer
Gearritt Bidg
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