Important News Notes Of A Week Condensed For Busy Readers
A sweep of brief items covers Wilbur Chapman and Charlies Alexander’s Australia trip, Mrs. W. F. Goodspeed and Miss Helen Deshier’s round-the-world journey, and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt’s European return. Other notes include appointments and resignations in U S government, marriages, diplomatic visits, a royal fall, and a hospital update on John G Carlisle.
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Wilbur Chapman
Charlies Alexander
Australia
Orient
Victoria
B. C
China
W. F. Goodspeed
Helen Deshier
Columbus
New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Beggie Wood Aspinwall
Newburg
N. Y
Hayden W. Wagner
Dekalb
James L. Davenport
Vespasian Warner
Taft
W. Z. Mills
New Mexico Supreme Court
Baron Hosen
United States
Kronprinzess
Cecilie
Cherbourg
Annette Gardner Munro
Portland
Ore
University of Rochester
Warner
Duke of Roxburghe
Maj. Goelet
Admiral Seymour
John G. Carlisle
St. Vincent's Hospital
Cook's Arctic Claims Evidence Held by Secretary
Dr Frederick A Cook plans to submit records to the University of Copenhagen to prove his April 1908 North Pole claim. Walter Lonsdale, his secretary, possessed the documents when he sailed from New York aboard the United States for Denmark.
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Frederick A. Cook
University of Copenhagen
Borth Pole
Walter Lonsdale
Cook
New York
United States
Denmark
House of Commons
Cherry
Ill
Chicago
Puritan
South Chicago
Zelaya
Princeton
Corinto
France
Washington
Brooklyn
Fie
Assorted 1909-10 News Items From American Ledger
Thomas Giddings assistant Weigher in New Jersey is charged with conspiracy over fig imports. Taft delays message to Congress as House convenes. Col. James Dobbs survives lynching attempt after fatal shooting. Emmeline Parkhurst urges forceful suffrage methods in Chicago. Philadelphia baseball club sold to Horace Fogel syndicate. John Kling linked to new deal. Grave robbers take infant of Hatfield Conrad in Montana. Major Bulkey, longtime Baltimore & Ohio official, dies in Baltimore at 79.
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Thomas ©. Giddings
New Jerk Estonia House
Loeb
Taft
Congress
James H. Dobbs
Columbus, Il
William Thompson
Chicago
Emmeline Parkhurst
Philadelphia National Baseball Club
Horace 8. Fogel
John Kling
Hatfield Conrad
Highland Cemetery
Great Falls
Mont
H. D. Bulkey
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
Baltimore
Margaret Smith
Minnie Wright
Rochester
Salvation Army
St. Luke’s Hospital
University of Colorado
United States
Simon Guggenheim
Boulder
Col
Guggenheim
Baker
University
Children's Aid Society of
New York
College Equel Suffrage League
Washington
England
Alice Paul
Mooresville
N. J
London
William McCormick
Moody Biblical Institute
St. Paul
Cherry
Wright Company of
Albany
White House
Ithaca
Augustus E. Willson
Kentucky
Lexington
Immigration Bureau
Lusitania
Queenstown
Atlantic
Christian Church
Beaver
Okla
R. R. Coffen
Ballinger Tells Of Year s Work
Ballinger outlines public lands policy emphasizing private enterprise under federal supervision and calls for remedial legislation. He urges continued aggressive land fraud prosecutions, outlines reclamation funding needs, and notes reorganizing the Indian bureau while advancing park management and water rights policies.
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Hitchcock
Garfield
Congress
Reclamation Service
Reclamation
Indian Bureau
Ballinger
New York
Chicago
Omaha
St. Louis
San Francisco
Yellowstone
Yosemite National Parks
Maneuver scene shows foraga groom and bucket exchange
On Maneuvers Army Service Corps N o 0 in charge asks for a regulation for extra rations for eight horses. The groom admits none but offers a bucket, creating a brief, period style moment from military life.
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Army Service Corps
N.o
Foraga
Good for Something Subbubs Swamp Hurst Purchase
Brooklyn Life notes a conversation about plans for a land lot bought in Swamp Hurst. Commute proposes turning the site into a fishing preserve, signaling a hopeful, practical use of the property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swamphurst
Brooklyn
Lost Registered Letters Found in Queer Place
Five registered letters from Schuyler vanished on The Overland Limited near November 5. The pouch catcher failed, the pouch fell under the wheels, and the letters were scattered along the track. The missing package was later found intact on the tracks near Council Bluffs, recovered by a car cleaver. Posts and officials investigated, noting the route’s track quality. A separate report cites Stockholm tuberculosis figures and U S school shortages for open air TB facilities.
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Schuyler
Omaha
Postofice
L. A. Thompson
Council Bluffs
Ita
Union Pacific
Boy's Essay on Clothing From a London School Extract
An early student essay argues clothing is essential for all. It contrasts savages or natives wearing little with Eskimos who wear more to endure extreme cold. It notes skating year round, the risk of catching cold, and mentions hats coats trousers and women’s hats and belts to mark gender.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
State Department
Wright
London
Fez Pressing at Markets Across Turkish Towns
The article notes fez shops thrive in Turkish markets where the brimless caps are pressed for a few cents. It explains religious practice requiring the head to be covered during prayer, so a brimless fez fits the requirement and is used during prayers.
Secret workers The Plan Upon Which Coffee Operates
A Memphis wife relates her husband’s health improvement after quitting coffee and using Postum. She says stopping coffee cured stomach and heart troubles and that the husband gained thirty-five pounds. She notes initial taste issues but boiling longer improved it and urges others to switch. The letter promotes The Road to Wellville and the book There’s a Reason with new anecdotes appearing periodically.
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Memphis
Wellville
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Genera News
Great Dairy State
Grange
N. J. Bachelder
National Grange
Ministerial Association of
John W. Day
First Presbyterian Church
Day
Doctor Chappel
Iowa Weather and Crop Service
Board of Supervisors
Scott County
Davenport
A. E. Kepford
Grand Army of the Republic
David Chamberlain
Paul I. van Order
Donald Macrae
Frank R. Fisher
Waterloo
Frederick 5. Hird
Roy 0. Littlejohn
Fifty-third Infantry
Independence
Agag
Iowa National Guard
Logan
B. R. Bennett
Creston
Fifty-fifth Regiment
Summit Park
Clinton County
Iowa League
Polk County
Gete
Historical Department
Herbert Quick
Virginia
Air Lanes
Oregon
Harry EB. Hopper
Indianola
H. Bentley
Vancouver Island
BE. C. Messerole
Farmers’ Grain Dealers’ Association of Iowa
Commercial Club
Rinabarger
Benedict
J. W. Rinabarger
Still College of Osteopathy
Newton
Jessie M. Wright
Adel
Northwestern
Great Western
Dea Moines
T. Fred Henry
Coliseum
Secretary of the Interior
Richard A. Ballinger
James R. Garfield
Continental
Europe
Queer Place
Stockholm
Sweden
National Association For the Study and Prevention of
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