Taft Eyes Dinner With Tariff Conferees Amid Raw Materials Debate
President Taft invites all Republican tariff conference members to dinner at the White House as he pushes for votes to reduce or abolish duties on raw materials. Senator Crane and Senator Aldrich discuss the matter. Speaker Cannon cautions on pursuing an unpopular conference report while indicating no break in Senate House relations.
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Washington
Taft
Tariff Conference Committee
Crane
Aldrich
Cannon
Tariff Conference
White House
Dwight
N. Y
House
Senate
Bristow
Cummins
Borah
Idaho
Capitol
Pretender Don Carlos of Bourbon Dies in Lombardy
Don Carlos of Bourbon, claimant to the Spanish throne, dies after a long illness with paralysis in Varesse, Lombardy. His death follows months of ailment and residence away from Rome.
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Don Carlos
Bourbon
Rome
Don Carlos of Bourbon
Varesg
Lombardy
Weston Arrives San Francisco Five Days Behind Schedule
Edward Payson Weston reaches Sixteenth Street station Oakland and crosses by boat to San Francisco. He is five days behind his planned timetable.
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Weston
San Francisco
Edward Payson
Sixteenth Street
Anderson in Saddle as Real Mayor of Fostoria
In Fostoria Ohio on July 15 Judge Baldwin in common pleas court at Tiffin issued an order enjoining Charles Gebert once council president and installed mayor by the council from interfering with Congressman Anderson in performing his duties as mayor.
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Fostoria
Anderson
Washington
Baldwin
Common Pleas Court
Tiffin
Charles Gebert
East Buffalo and Chicago Markets Report on Cattle and Hogs
The notice lists livestock prices by city including East Buffalo Chicago Pittsburg and Cincinnati with cattle steers hogs sheep and lambs and calves. Prices show bid ranges for various classes such as beef cattle milkers and springers and feeder stock along with grain futures.
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East Buffalo
Chicago
Pittsburg
Boston
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Delaine
Kentucky
Indiana
Cleveland
Toledo
Taft Predicts Good Measure On Tariff Concessions
Washington July 1 Taft leads White House talks to shape the Payne Aldrich tariff and a new corporation tax. Conferees aim to reduce the corporation tax from 2 percent to a lower rate while protecting mutual life insurance interests and seeking a compromise on electric light carbon, window glass and metal schedules. The president expects a conciliated tariff measure for his signature with a conference report due by late next week.
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Washington
White House
Taft
Senate
House
Cie
Puzzle questions test teachers' mental qualifications
Prepared by the State School Commissioner the list of exam questions given at the county teachers examination for elementary certificates on July 3. Questions cover geography climate imports and exports with Mexico Italian commerce and cities Great Lakes cities Switzerland coast indentations mining states and products.
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State Commissioner of Public Schools
Amazon River
Mexico
Italy
Great Lakes
Switzerland
Atlantic
United States
Fragmentary OCR Leaves Scattered Local Terms
Readable fragments reference places Delaware Cincinnati and terms like mandamus and tabernacle. No coherent event or person identified. requires more text to form a proper news item.
Digestive organs and effects of exercise in physiology
A concise outline covers organs aiding digestion and their functions, how exercise affects lungs heart skin brain and liver, roles of olfactory optic and auditory nerves, the claim that exercise preserves capacity, liver location and function, nicotine properties, blood changes and their nature, infectious versus contagious diseases with examples, teeth care rules, and how bold postures affect the skeleton.
Victor Hugo Love Letters Reveal Bold Confession
Adele learns Hugo harbors a secret greater than all others. He pauses, then admits his great secret: he loves her. She echoes the admission, declaring her own love in a moment of poetic unison.
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Victor Hugo
Adele
Victor
Explosion kills three at Holy Rosary Catholic celebration
A bomb exploded during a postponed St John’s day celebration at a vacant lot opposite Holy Rosary Church in Kansas City. Three people died instantly and many others were injured while two policemen were knocked down. A man seated in a distant window was badly injured and not expected to recover. The blast occurred as hundreds gathered for the pyrotechnic portion of the event.
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Kansas City
St. John's Day
Holy Rosary Catholic Church
Senator Dean Praises Saloon Regulation Law
Fremont senator Thomas A. Dean visited Columbus and announced reports on his saloon regulation bill show it will achieve much good by ridding the state of undesirable saloons. He notes the better class of saloonkeepers are pleased with the measure.
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Dean
Columbus, CO
Thomas A. Dean
Fremont
Columbus
United States History Topics and Key Questions
A study prompt covering contrasts between southern and northern colonies, New Jersey settlement history up to the Revolution, four Revolutionary figures, framing and adoption of the Constitution, battles and notable facts, Oregon Territory settlement and U S acquisition, a directive to omit statements on certain figures, Civil War era Trent Affair and Fort Sumter, titles and selection of presiding officers in both Houses, and definitions of free trade and protection.
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New Jersey
Yorktown
San Juan
New Orleans
Antietam
Quebec
Oregon Territory
United States
Marquette
Ericsson
Harper’s Ferry
Concord
Trent
Fort Sumter
House of Congress
Theory and Practice in Teacher Training Topics
A series of questions exploring attention development pupil discipline school hygiene and health teacher influence on emotions and public school law. It asks for definitions comparisons and Justifications including Ohio compulsory attendance teacher contracts and the value of examinations and incentives.
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Ohio
Horace Mann
Perry
Examiners Set Oral Exam in Reading Skills
Examiners will conduct an oral examination in reading to assess comprehension and fluency. The session aims to evaluate decoding, articulation, and oral response accuracy for participants.
Arithmetic Puzzles from a High School Clock and Time
Problems cover profit calculation discount factor LCM and GCD, interest doubling time, cistern refill and water waste, proportion form, classroom space for 12 pupils per desk capacity, and questions on standard time including noon in New York and Columbus Ohio and the base meridian for time differences.
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New York City
Columbus
Writing Will Be Graded From the Manuscript
A note on assessment states that writing quality will be judged from the manuscript in its original orthography. It underscores careful transcription and fidelity to historic spelling as the basis for grading.
Literature eight short items quiz prompts
A list of literary tasks including definitions distinctions metaphors and author studies. It covers poetry verse and doggerel differences the themes in Evangeline and Princess Tennyson Shakespeare Roman plays five notable children's authors with works, Stevenson lines, pronunciation, Mark Twain real name and humorist role, Civil War era literature, Milton selections for schools, and Plato dialogues period and class of literature.
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Tongfellow
Evangeline
Tennyson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Idol
Lanier
Ichabod Crane
Agassiz
Mark Twain
Grammar questions on a poetry excerpt
The text lists grammar tasks based on a verse about tears and autumn fields. It asks clause counts, phrase modifiers, parsing of italicized words, parts of speech, pronoun use, verb classification, adjectives, compound elements, noun plurals, singular plural forms, and auxiliary meanings, with instructions to analyze subordinate connects and forms.
Opinions of Others and a Naval Discharge Notice
Owen Fellham states that opinions of others vary due to ignorance envy and partiality. By direction of the British admiralty all foreigners in British shipyards who are not naturalized are being discharged.
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Owen Fellham
British Admiralty
Phonetics tasks on sounds and spelling classification
A set of transcription and spelling exercises asking to classify elementary sounds assign letters to sounds, define phonetic spelling, derive three words with origins, diacritically mark five or more words, and spell tricky terms for examiner pronunciation including librarian Adirondack formerly chat.
Wonderfi l service and global news reach of a great paper
A reverent note praises a modern newspaper’s vast foreign and domestic news network. It highlights correspondents across continents and the cooperative AP system, stressing reliability and world coverage.
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Europe
Asia
Africa
South America
Australia
Sea
Arctic
Uch
Tarhicago Recorderald
United
States
New York Herald
New York World
New York
Journal of Commerce
Associated Press
Recorp-Herald 89
Tyorld
Women in Trousers in Champery Swiss Village
In Champery Switzerland the women wear trousers and waistcoats instead of skirts. The only badge of their sex is a scarf knotted in their hair with bright red ends over their shoulders. They work outdoors performing similar labor as men and found trousers easier for work long ago.
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Champery
Canton
Valois
Switzerland
Line of Least Resistance Motto Quotes Diner Habits
A Kansas City Journal quips that a man will study a menu for half an hour before ordering a steak or pore over summer resort folders and still pick his usual spot. The remark riffs on indecision and routine in everyday choices.
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Kansas City Journal
Mystery of the Sardines Delights a Five Year Old
A Boston Transcript excerpt shows Mabel five asking how sardine cans are opened during lunch with her mother explaining that larger fish sometimes eat sardines. The dialogue captures a charming child question and a simple parental answer.
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Mabel
Mother
Mamma
Boston Transcript
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