Wickersham Explains Commodities Clause Power to Extend Transport
Washington May 4 Attorney General Wickersham interprets the Supreme Court commodities clause ruling. He says Congress can extend the ban to commodities mined manufactured or produced by a carrier in which it holds stock to prevent evasion while ownership at transport time decides prohibited transport.
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Congress
Supreme Court
Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Wickersham
Justice White
Borah Warns Republicans To Continue Roosevelt Policies
Idaho Senator Borah in a May 4 speech on the income tax praised Theodore Roosevelt for shaping the Republican party and warned that without adherence to those principles the party would lose power. He rejected the notion that the party could abandon Roosevelt’s program and retain public support.
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Borah
Roosevelt
Washington
Senator Borah
Idaho
Theodore Roosevelt
Republican Party
Ross County Vote Wet Election Marks Disorder
Ross County in Ohio voted about 1800 in favor of the wet option under the Rose county unit law. The day featured widespread disorder and rioting with dozens of arrests. Police and dry supporters faced off against wets as Company H and sheriff deputies kept the peace.
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Rose
Chillicothe
Ross County
Rose County
Yaple
Company H
Fourth Regiment
O. N
Swope
John W Goldberry
Mechanical Engineers Begin Annual Convention in Washington
May 4 report notes the American Society of Mechanical Engineers with 8 455 members opens its annual spring meeting in Washington. Also dated May 4 Tacoma revenue cutter arrives at Gibraltar en route to the Pacific via Suez, bound for Alexandretta to safeguard American interests.
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Mechanical Engineers
Washington
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
America
Tacoma
Gibraltar
Pacific Coast
Suez Canal
Alexandretta
Americaa
Medals for Ohioans Carnegie Hero Awards 1908 09
The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission awarded 23 Bronze Silver medals and $10,000 to aid families for heroism since the last meeting. Ohio recipients include Eugene Heinze Columbus and John Falter Columbus rescues from ice and drowning. Elizabeth McGee of Hoskinaville received a silver medal plus mortgage liquidation funds and ongoing support.
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Carnegie Hero Commissionn
Buckeye
Pittsburg
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
Relief Fund
Lick
Imine
Pocahontas
Consolidated Colliery Company
Switchback
Ohio
Eugene Heinze
Cleveland
Salvation Army
Heinze
Dena M. Schmidt
Buelah Beach
John Falter
Columbus
Falter
Harry McCune
John A. Koontz
Philo
Lean Lautenschlager
J. F. A. Lautenschlager
Lehmann D. Lautenschlager
Four Men Drowned In Tuscarawas River Boat Capsize
A pleasure party of six set out in a motor boat on the swollen Tuscarawas River near Coshocton Ohio. The boat capsized in the swift current and four men Frank Randles George Callentine Welby Cullison and John Childs perished. Two others Christian Hall and Ivan Loos were rescued. Callentine had just married.
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Tuscarawas River
Coshocton
Frank Randles
George Callentine
Welby Cullison
John Childs
Christian Hall
Ivan Loos
Hall
Loos
Callentine
Drowning Has Sad Sequel in Coshocton
Four bodies remain unrecovered after a motorboat overturning on Sunday in Coshocton Ohio. Frank Randles George Callentine Wilby Cullison and John Childs drowned. Mrs B Callahan Childs aunt is insane from cries and may not recover. Randles mother seriously ill with doubtful recovery.
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Coshocton
Frank Randles
George Callentine
Wilby Cullison
John Childs
B. Callahan
Childs
Randles
Roosevelt Expedition Lions Rise in Wami Hunt
Nairobi May 4 Theodore Roosevelt bagged a lion at Wami near Kapiti bringing his total to three lions and one lioness on the present expedition Kermit Roosevelt also downed a cheetah The latest kill by Mr Roosevelt was brought down at close range his rifle saved the lives of his mounted escort from an infuriated beast
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Nairobi
British East Africa
Theodore Roosevelt
Wami
Kapiti
Kermit Roosevelt
Court of Appeals Reverses Railroad Rebates Conviction
The United States circuit court of appeals reversed a district court ruling in a case against the Atchison Topeka Santa Fe Railway. The company was found guilty of granting rebates and was sentenced to pay fines totaling 330000.
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United States Court of Appeals
San Francisco
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
District Court
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company
Peace Congress Opens in Chicago With Wide International Scope
Delegates from many countries gather in Chicago for the second national peace congress. The event highlights broad international scope and will run from May 3 until Wednesday evening.
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Chicago
United States
Taft Names Ambassadors
Oscar S Straus, former secretary of commerce and labor, named ambassador to Turkey. William W Rockhill chosen as ambassador to Russia. Straus wired his acceptance from New York.
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Taft
Washington
Oscar
Straus
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Turkey
W. W. Rockbilk
Russia
New York
Turkish Empire Adopts Mehmed V After Dethroning Abdul Hamid II
The Sheik ul Islam announces Mehmed Reshad Effendi as Sultan Mehmed V by popular will. Abdul Hamid II is dethroned after a national assembly decree, with the sultan choosing to stay near his birthplace. The transfer of power is marked by a fidelity ceremony at the war office.
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Sheikul-Islam
Wiii
Allah
Mohemmed Reshad Effendi
Constantinople
Mehmed V
Abdul’ Hamid II
Meherymed Reshad Effendi
Mahmet
Turkey
House of
Osman
Thempire
Sheik-Ul-Islam
Mohemmed Reshad Fftendi
Sheik
Abdul Hamid
Abdul
National Assembly
Abdul Hamid II
Yildiz
Cheraghan
Dolmabagtsche
Galata
Mohemmed Reschad
Serskerat
Top-Kappu
Coal Operator Gilbert Preston Dies by Self Inflicted Shot
Gilbert D. Preston president of the Interstate Coal and Coke Company shot and killed himself in his Hawthorne street home. He had left his wife and 14 year old son moments earlier in apparently good spirits. Preston had 20 years with Johnson Coal Mining and helped form Interstate after reorganizations with Lorain Coal. Worries over business and grief for his young daughter, who died a year ago, are cited as causes.
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Gilbert D. Preston
Columbus
Interstate Coal and Coke Company
Hawthorne Street
Preston
Johnson Coal Mining Company
Lorain Coal and Dock Company
Interstate Company
Aged Minister Whitlock Dies at 76 in Delaware
Rev. Dr. W. F. Whitlock, 76, longtime Methodist Episcopal clergyman, died at his Delaware home. He briefly served as acting president of Ohio Wesleyan University and sat on the church conference committee. His brothers, both ministers, resided in Danville Illinois and Fostoria Ohio. Toledo Mayor Brand Whitlock was his nephew.
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Whitlock
Delaware
W. F. Whitlock
Methodist Episcopal Church
Ohio Wesleyan University
Church Conference
Danville
Ill
Fostoria
Brand Whitlock
Toledo
Whitlock Rites At Gray Chapel Draw Large Delaware Assembly
The last solemn rites for Dr. William F. Whitlock were held at Gray chapel this afternoon in Delaware Ohio. The funeral drew the largest crowd ever seen in the city.
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Delaware
Willam F. Whitlock
Gray Chapel
Great Wind Storm Leaves Hundreds Dead Across Southern States
Report from Louisville on May 1 estimates 175 to 200 deaths from a massive wind storm sweeping the Mississippi Valley. Tennessee towns list dozens of fatalities in Youngs Crossing Fayetteville Noblesville Hardeman county Medina Clarksville Centerville Franklin Hillsboro Somerville Laconia Bells Quito Giles county and Horn Lake Mississippi. Arkansas and Missouri also report multiple deaths with widespread injuries and property damage.
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Louisville
Mississippi Valley
Mississippi
Arkansas
Kentucky
Alabama
Missouri
Tennessee
Youngs Crossing
Fayetteville
Noblesville
Hardeman County
Medina
Clarksville
Centerville
Franklin
Hillsboro
Somerville
Laconia
Bells
Quito
Giles County
Horn Lake
Hartsell
Golden
Georgia
Atlanta
Brinkley
West Marion
Weakley
Vic
Windstorm Rips Through Portsmouth Damaging Biggs House
A May 1 windstorm hit Portsmouth and nearby areas causing extensive damage estimated in the thousands. Telegraph and telephone wires were down and a large portion of the Biggs House roof was torn away exposing third floor rooms to the weather.
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Portsmouth
Biggs
Market prices dump across cities for cattle, hogs, and grains
East Buffalo, Chicago, Pittsburg, Cleveland, Boston, Cincinnati, and Toledo report current livestock and grain quotes. Cattle, hogs, sheep, lambs, and calves show varied ranges with steers and cows priced per market. wheat corn oats and cloverseed cited with no clear assembly.
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East Buffalo
Chicago
C. Pittsburg
Cleveland
Boston
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Delaine
Kentucky
Indiana
Problems for Teachers Prepared by State Commissioner
Questions test mental qualifications of teachers seeking elementary certificates in public schools. Topics include daily prep, ongoing professional study, school discipline, choosing a suitable school, forming a program, effects of acting on character, and sociology by Jackmar with prompts on social order, progress, socialism, inequality, and crime causes.
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Ustor
State Commissioner of Public Schools
Jackmar
Geography quiz prompts on global regions and trade
A list of ten geography questions covering polar circles tropics tides animal life distribution cultivated crops US exports to England Africa to the US France imports and exports leading European Asia routes, city growth, and locating Manchuria Thibet and major cities Alexandria Sitka Winnipeg Melbourne Madras Rio de Janeiro.
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Tropics
United States
England
Africa
France
Europe
Asia
New York
East Indies
Manchuria
Thibet
Alexandria
Sitka
Winnipeg
Melbourne
Madras
Rio Janeiro
Arithmetic Problems From a School Page
A list of math problems covers siding a barn priced per thousand, evaluating better money offers at 8 percent, calculating circle measurements, dividing decimals, percent gain on hardware, fencing a field by rods, composing a fourth grade reasoning problem, marking shoes for desired profit, coal tonnage on land, and taxation rate per thousand of assessment with individual example.
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Mr X
Grammar exercise on verb forms and clauses
The prompt presents a grammar exercise about verb forms and clauses. It requests classification of sentence form and function, pronoun declines with syntax, subjunctive past of holds in passive voice, past perfect of speaks, participle sentences, parsing verbs in a quoted sentence, classes of conjunctions with examples, other parts of speech that can introduce clauses, a sentence showing nouns in three cases, seven uses of a certain word, and further morphological notes.
Language exercise on pronoun choice and politeness
The passage presents options to choose between reliable and respectable in describing a girl or lady. It asks for a concise business letter ordering school supplies, not longer than ten lines, with full heading, signature, and envelope address.
Anatomy review questions from physiology text
A set of questions asks to name body cavities and organs, locate bones and pleura, describe stomach shape and body side, define absorption and absorbent vessels, identify taste areas, contrast secretion and reflex actions, explain Haversian canals and heart valves, describe teeth and dentition, and discuss temperance as a personal or social issue.
Explorations and figures in early American history brief
Survey prompts outline topics on Spanish exploration in the Americas, notable colonial figures like Roger Williams and William Penn, differences between Northern and Southern colonists, resources in the Revolution, territorial acquisitions, key political issues, Civil War generals, slavery topics, fiscal and constitutional questions, and how U S diplomats gain posts.
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America
Roger Williams
William Penn
Peter Stuyvesant
Nathaniel Bacon
England
United States
Reading Exam Oral Test Given by Examiners
Examiners will conduct an oral examination in reading to assess comprehension and fluency. The session focuses on pronunciation, phrasing, and interpretation of provided texts.
Classic English and American Literature prompts
A list of literature study prompts asking for authors and works from Elizabethan and Victorian eras. Tasks include naming writers and works, synopses of English classics, poets of nature, biographical notes on Macaulay, questions about Deserted Village and others, Evangeline analysis, and recommendations for home reading.
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Alacaulay
Deserted Village
Tam O’shanter
Guy Mannering
Ben Hur
Evangeline
Jared Sparks
eGorge Bancroft
Francis Parkman
Helen Hunt Jackson
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Writing. Writing Will Be Graded From The Manuscript
The note states that writing quality will be assessed based on manuscript orthography, emphasizing accuracy of spelling and punctuation as the primary scoring criteria. It implies careful transcription and fidelity to original word forms.
Elementary sound theory and diacritics exercise
This fragment outlines questions on elementary sounds in English, counting sounds, different phonetic values of letters, eight common diacritic marks, suffix meanings ness ity dom age, and a spelling list for examiner pronunciation including many multisyllabic and proper nouns.
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Los Angeles
Buchanan
Turks and Armenians and Europe Seaport Contrast
The piece discusses enduring Armenian Turkish hostilities and their roots in theology and state law. It argues massacres arise from defiance of secular sovereignty and predicts changes only after Turkey adopts parliamentary governance. It also notes Hamburg as Europe’s greatest continental seaport despite its distance from the sea.
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Near East
Turkey
Choheda
Hamburg
Europe
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