Battle of Names in Washington and a Living Fossil Toad
A Washington dispatch notes debate over restoring the name White House over Executive Mansion with Taft preferring simplicity and Congress split on pomp. The column also tells of Rameses the toad found 500 feet underground in Butte, appears ancient, and dies after a green aging life under fast modern conditions.
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Washington Dispatch
the Tribune
Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Congress
Gaya
New York Sun
Sun
Madison
Executive
Taft
House
William Everett
Yale
Harvard
Rameses Jr
Egypt
Rameses
Butte, Mont
Bronx
April dividends show industrial gains and new wireless plan
April payments total over 123 million dollars, about 10 million above last year. Industrial dividends rise nearly 5 million from 1908, while interest and railroad earnings meet obligations. Prospects include municipal wireless stations linking cities, with Philadelphia leading. Morocco faces renewed unrest though hopes for calm remain. Clermont contract awarded to recreate Fulton’s boat for the tercentenary. A Buenos Aires to New York walker vows to complete his 12 year journey, despite doubts.
Women Need Organization to Gain Respect and Fair Pay
The text argues that women require organizing to gain self-respect and self-confidence, secure fair wages, and stand with male colleagues. It claims unions level the field against tyrannical forewomen, ensure wage protection, sick and unemployment benefits, and provide democratic training for political action, stressing women’s greater need for these gains.
Hang On Till Your Luck Turns in a Chicago Grocery Saga
In one of the world’s largest wholesale houses in Chicago, two young partners invest $500 each in a big grocery store. The boom fails, debt rises, and one partner sells his stake for $200 as the other’s business eventually prospers, while a broken man seeks credit and the survivor’s cautious choices shape the tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Baka
Taft Panama canal study backs lock system over sea level
Taft commission 26 representatives report in New York that the lock plan remains superior to sea level. They warn changing would cost 200 million dollars and delay completion about ten years, while praising Gatun dam foundations and saying the canal could finish within five years.
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New York
Panama Canal
Gatun
Taft
Panama
Canal
Panama Railway Steamship Line
J. A. Goulden
Panama Committee
Mr. Goulden
Gatun Dam
H. F. Conroy
Pacific
Wrights Honored With Gold Medal In London
In London the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain awarded Wilbur and Orville Wright of Dayton Ohio its first gold medal for aeroplanists. The brothers, greeted with cheers and applause, received warm eulogies and three cheers from the audience.
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London
Institution of Civil Engineers
Aeronautical Society of Great Britain
Wilbur
Orville Wright
Aeroplanists
Dayton
Ohio
Wright Brothers
Katherine Wright
Hiram Maxim
Baden- Powell
Cody
Radica
Baden-Powell
Col. J. Ki. Capper
War Office
Aeronautical
Gather
Edward Purkis
Frost
Coiles
Easher
Rits
The
Aeronautical Society
Louis J Owens Dies of Sleeping Sickness in City Hospital
A public notice reports the death of Louis J Owens at a local city hospital from sleeping sickness diagnosed by physicians. The origin of the disease remains unclear though he asserted no tropical exposure.
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Cerned Riatiness
Louis Louis
George
J. Owens
Gt.Louis
Tropics
Dutch Gift Ship Promises Friendship Feature for America
A newly launched Dutch vessel described as a queer looking craft is presented as a token of friendship to the United States. The ship is expected to be a principal attraction at an October event, with its rigging and fittings noted in reports.
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Holland
Eet
Amsterdam
Netherlands
America
Wyoming News in Briefs From Laramie to Douglas
The itemized Wyoming column reports on Union Pacific rail plans near Cheyenne and Laramie, a jail release in Albany County, deaths of Florence Buckingham in California and Mrs Sarah W Pease in Battle Creek, a cattle dipping order in Laramie Natrona and Converse counties, a new railroad emergency hospital in Laramie, and a push to form a state volunteer firemen’s association. It notes Hereford ranch subdivision near Cheyenne and a manslaughter sentence for Tenac Maki and Charles Maki. Also mentions a planned Big Horn river canon boat trip by Pearl Andrews and a legislative drafting error that may nullify elk protection.
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Union
Colorado
Cheyenne
Albany
A. D. Judson
Presbyterian Church
Evanston
Omaha
Union Pacific Rolling Mills
Laramie
Florence Buckingham
Rawlins
San Jose
Cal
Lyceum Course
Chicago
Pflueging
Natrona
Converse
Wyoming
Casper
Douglas
Agnes Wergeland
University of Wyoming
England
Norway
Women's Clubs of
London
United States
Elizabeth Russell Beacham
Scotland
Free Range
Henry Altman
Daniel McAlvane
Tenac
Maki
Charles Maki
Gus Kotilla
Frontier
Kotilla
Senate
Supreme Court
Sarah ‘W. Pease
Wallace Pease
Alb County
Alice Pease
Battle Creek
Midij
Pease
Gras
N. K. Boswell
Laramie County
Coun
Endures long drought growing alfalfa seed on dry land
Colorado Agricultural College report explains alfalfa seed production on dry land can be profitable with proper moisture management, row planting, thinning, and irrigation only as needed. It cites Rocky Ford 1908 as proof of high yields with minimal irrigation and notes dry conditions yield vigorous seed with fewer weeds.
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P. K. Blinn
Colorado
Agricultural College
Rocky Ford
Turkestan
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Storma
Philadelphia Ea
Morocco
Rassall
Robert Fulton
Buenos Aires
South America
Howard Berth Pete
George Patne
Wrights
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