Taft press calls for faster action on pledges
Washington February 16. President Taft urged Senate leaders to push administration measures while the House handles appropriations. The postal savings bank bill, tangled by Root and Smoot amendments, faces a conference and possible rearrangement. The railroad bill will advance with minimal changes, conservation bills are to be fast tracked, and statehood legislation will get attention after the postal bill. The session ended with an exhausted calendar and no clear outcome on the postal savings bank bill.
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Washington
Taft
Senate
White House
House
Postal Savings Bank
Ate
Alagkan
Committee On Interstate Commerce
Judiciary Committee
Severe storm causes wide havoc across regions
A fierce storm swept West and Midwest with hurricane winds and blizzard conditions. It reached Oklahoma and Texas, caused power and building damage, delayed trains, and sparked livestock losses amid heavy sleet and snowfall across multiple states.
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Chicago
Oklahoma
Texas
Kansas
Iowa
Arkansas
Minnesota
Rocky Mountain
Colorado
Wyoming
Missouri
Bancroft Johnson Re elected Leader Of National League
Byron Bancroft Johnson was re elected president secretary and treasurer of the American league at a salary of 25 000 a year. The agreement renewing the league arrangement since 1900 extends for twenty years.
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Ban Johnson
National League
Chicago
Byron Bancroft Johnson
American League
Roosevelt Traces Congo Elephant Hunt to Khartoum Stop
From Gondokoro Sudan on the Upper Nile February 16 Col Roosevelt presses toward Khartoum awaiting a planned visit to Europe. He aims to hunt elephants on the Congo side of Bar El Jebel delaying his arrival here to Friday. Mrs Roosevelt will meet him in Khartoum and they expect to sail for New York mid June.
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Gondokoro
Sudan
Upper Nile
Roosevelt
Khartoum
Europe
Congo
Bar el Jebel
New York
Porbes Lays Claim To Bantam Title
New York report states Harry Forbes of Chisago, who defeated Joe Coster and Johnny Coulon, asserts his right to the bantamweight claim and offers a $1,000 forfeit to defend a former title. Forbes’ claim rests on his win over Conlon, who was bantam champion at the time of defeat.
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Porbes
New York
Harry Forbes
Chisago
Joe Coster
Johnny Coulon
Ringskin
Forbes
Min
Conlon
Sparker’s Fate Revealed by Sausage Mystery
In Los Angeles on February 14 a man discovers a metal fragment in a sausage prompting a police check. License clues point to Anna Bell, a young city woman, amid a curious inquiry about Sparker the dog.
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Sparker
Los Angles
Los Angeles
Cal
G. B. Sewright
Bewright
Anna Bell
Thie Cly
Sewright
Miss Bell
Sparker Ls
Ballinger and Glavis in Washington Inquiry Play
Washington February 16 The Val Nzer Pinchot investigation committee met three hours in session and adjourned to Friday. Attorney Vertress for Ballinger pressed cross examination of Glavis amid letters and telegrams about forest service calls. The man from the West, Ballinger’s opponents fear his strong narrative could seal Ballinger’s fate.
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Washington
Glavis
Interior Department
Nelson
Congressional Committee
Forester
Gravis
Ballinger
West
Congress
Train wreck injures eight near Madison South Dakota
A Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul passenger train leaving Madison at 1 AM bound for Bronx City wrecked four miles south of town when four coaches left the track and turned over. Eight persons were injured though none killed as the cars were dragged for about forty rods.
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South Dakota
Madison
Dak
Chicago, Milwaukee
Bt. Paw
Bronx City
How Carnegie Started With a $10 000 Loan
Chicago, February 16. Andrew Carnegie recalls his first $10,000 gain from borrowing a few hundred dollars at $5 a week and paying back steadily. He shares how a railroad associate offered a stake in a scheme, enabling him to invest in stock and move toward wealth.
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Chicago
Andrew Carnégie
Carnegie
California
Leach
Pullman Palace
Mellon
Pylvania Railroad
Woodruffee
Andy
Moe
MUGGSY ARRESTED BEFORE BATTLE IN VICTOR
Victor Colorado February 16. A planned twenty round boxing match between Monte Dale St Louis and Muggsy Cheyenne was halted by police. Both fighters were arrested and to be released in the morning as Colorado law requires contests only at incorporated clubs paying a license. The Detroit club is a temporary group organized to fund a trip to the Detroit grand lodge meeting.
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Victor
Colo
Monte Dale
St. Louis
Muggsy
Ccheyenne
Colorado
Detroit
Victor Elke
Victor Lodge
Lynch Dedicates New Printers Home Library
James M. Lynch of Indianapolis, president of the International Typographical Union, delivered the dedication address in Colorado Springs for the new library addition to the Union Printers' Home. He called the home a justification for the union’s existence and noted many labor leaders attended. The library is described as one of the finest of its kind in the country.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
James M. Lynch
Indianapolis
International Typographical Union
London Paris Aerial Service Planned for Next Year
The Paris London Paris Aerial company announced negotiations for shed sites at Dover and aims to run a regular trans continental service within a year. The line will operate using both dirigibles and aeroplanes.
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London
Dover
Young Turks Fear Death of Abdul
In Constantinople on February 18 the government plans a European alienist to examine Abdul Wahid the deposed Sultan exiled at Salonika and starving himself. Guards surround him. officials fear suicide and fear that his death would implicate the regime.
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Abdul
Constantinople
Abdul Wamid
Salonika
Yarb Doctor As Swope Family Physician
In Kansas City on February 16 a man named Ghassing Hatred Chas Jordan described himself as a minister of medicines and doctor for liver and gall stones. He testified in a slander suit involving Dr Hyde and John G Paxton, executor of the Swope estate, claiming he earned from ten to twenty thousand dollars by treating Swope family members with a herb “yarba” mix. He said he tested the remedy by chewing it to judge poison.
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Kansas City
Chas
B. Jordan
Swbpe
Dr. Hyde
John G. Paxton
Swope Estate
Jordan
Two Greeks Fatally Burned by Oil Plant Blast
Holly Colorado February 16 Two Greeks Frank and Phillip Tesprin were probably fatally burned this morning in an explosion at a local facility.
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Holly
Colo
Frank
Phillip Tesprin
Last Session Looms as Lords Open Amid Somber Ceremony
London February 16 opening of what may be the last hereditary Lords session draws a crowd of peers and society figures. The scene highlights the looming curbs on Lords power with figures like Herbert Gladstone and Ramsay MacDonald noted among arrivals and the Royal Commission handling opening duties.
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London
House of Lords
Great Britain
Henry F. Stephenson
Earl of Waldegrave
Lord Dennan
Herbert Gladstone
Main
Royal Commissioners
House of Commons
Laborite
Ramsay, MacDonald
Labor Party
Niece of Elkins Almost Succumbs in Self Inflicted Wound
Misa Agnes Elkins, niece of Senator Stephen B Elkins, shot herself in the Wil lards hotel room in Kansas City. A bullet pierced near her heart but she is expected to recover. She left two letters blaming obstruction of a stage career by the senator and estate executor. She had recently left New York after a failed offer from a theatrical manager and earlier sued the Metropolitan Street Railway for injuries.
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Kansas City
Misa Agnes Elkina
Stephen B. Elkina
West Virginia
Willards Hotel
Hota Henad
Misa Biking
Mre
J. No Tahley
Hovel
Senator Eikins
Miss Elkins
New York
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
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Yarb
Swope
Tonorant
Elkins
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