Taft's Message Outlines Economic and Policy Stances
President Taft sends a broad message to Congress calling for enforcement of existing laws, improved administration, and domestic investment. He favors permanent tariff board, defers new tariff action, supports ship subsidies, civil service expansion, Panama Canal fortification, court reform, postal savings banks, and stricter immigration enforcement. James Tunney of Balltimore and Gulfport dies suddenly while attending a court spectator event in Harrison County.
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Taft
Congress
Supreme Court
South America
Tariff Board
He ii
Civil Service
Engineer
Panama Canal
Culebra
United States
Ellis Island
New York
Interstate Commerce Commission
James Tunney
Balltimore
Gulfport
Miss
Harrison County
Mary Baker Eddy Laid To Rest In Simple Funeral
Rev Mary Baker Eddy was buried at Mount Auburn after a small service at Chestnut Hill attended by family household members and notable followers. The ceremony included a reading from the Bible and Science and Health, with about 120 present before the casket was moved to the vault and mausoleum.
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Christian Science Church and Publishing Society
Greater
Boston
Mary Baker Eddy
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Chestnut Hill
Amon
R cv. GeoTge Waslington
Baas Glover
Leed
S. C
Mary Baker Glover
George Washington Glover, Jr
E. J. Foster
Watertown
Mary Baker G. Eddy
Eddy
Henry M. Baker
Bow
N. H
John B. Baker
New York
Rufus
Calvin A. Frye
Laura Sargent
Adam H. Dickey
I. C. Tomlinson
William R. Rathven
Martha Wilcox
Porter Charlton Extradition Surrender Granted
Secretary Knox ordered Porter Charlton surrendered to Italy for trial in the Lake Como murder case. The action upholds the extradition treaty despite Italy denying US requests to extradite its citizens. The insanity question is deemed a judicial matter for the courts, not the department.
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Italy
Charlton
Knox
Porter Charlton
Lake Como
United States
London fiend Jack the Ripper found in California
Jack Shaw 50, claimed to be the famed Jack the Ripper, is detained in the Los Angeles County Hospital insane ward after London police alerted by the Legal Aid Society. He admitted fleeing England fifteen years ago amid arrest fears and is under investigation of his past life and alleged murder attempt on Edith Tyson.
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London
California
England
Jack the Ripper
Whitechapel
Jack Shaw
Los Angeles
Cal
Shaw
Legal Aid Society
Edith Tyson
Last Session of the Gist Congress Hailed Speaker Clark
Congress opens its last session of the Gist era with Champ Clark as the expected next speaker. Both houses convene for a hurried session as they face constitutional expiration in three months and focus on swift passage of large appropriation bills for Indian service and federal departments.
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Senate
Cannon
House
Champ Clark
Congress
House of Representatives
Democratic Party
Indian Service
District of Columbia
Taft
Exact Division Likely in 1911 Senate On Floor
The 1911 Senate is expected to feature an exact party split on the floor with 50 Republican seats and 43 Democratic seats if no further deaths alter the line up before March 4. Current Republicans La Follette Jones Burton Bristow Root Crawford and others occupy domestic seats in the Cherokee strip.
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Senate
Chamber
House
la Follette
Jones
Burton
Bristow
Root
Crawford
Cherokee Strip
Cotton Market Explodes After Government Crop Forecast
Traders at the New Orleans Cotton Exchange surged into a buying frenzy after Friday’s Department of Agriculture estimate. Futures advanced 84 to 39 points in active positions as the forecasted season output and past crops were cited. The Agriculture Department put total cotton production at 11,426,000 bales, compared with 1909’s 10,004,949 and 1908’s 13,587,306.
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New Orleans
Girl's Fall Stuns Shoppers Near Textile Building
Harley Riley reports a tragic incident where Adele Aurora leapt from a ninth floor window in a crowded downtown shopping area. The death appears self-inflicted amid unconfirmed heartbreak, witnessed by many passersby.
700 Foot Fall Ends Life Of Salida Ingenious Youth
Walter Archer a 17 year old inventor from Salida California died in a home made aeroplane accident when he plunged 700 feet. His parents buried him at the crash site as he wished and burned the wreckage on the grave.
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Walter Archer
Salida
Cal
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Soba Boos
Bears
J. L. Williams
Buena Vista, Ga
Fort Valley Lumber Co
Myers
Stover
Samson
Avery’s
Mallary Mill Supply CO
Cherry St
Macon
MR. Taft
Mrs. Eddy
Sack the Ripper
GIST
Wilson Cotton
Butler, Ga
Harley Riley
Adele Aurora
Globe Tailoring C
Bulding
Cincinnat
J. F. Cox
H. H. Pierce
COX & Pierce
Daughters of the Confederacy
H. P
Wallace
Agricultural and Mechanical School
J. M
Collum
Americus
Gai
Fountain Warehouse
Taylor County
Butler
J. C. McCants
Scalesman
A. C. Chancellor Co's
A. C Chanellor Company
Columbus, Ga
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