Educators Convene After Ten Month Gap
A group of educators meets for the first time in ten months to discuss actions and binding measures related to ongoing educational reforms and policy updates.
23 Apr 1909
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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1909
Page
1
A group of educators meets for the first time in ten months to discuss actions and binding measures related to ongoing educational reforms and policy updates.
The article reports James A Patten's withdrawal from wheat trading as prices fell about nine cents in a week. Bulls and bears dominated a volatile session with heavy liquidation and rumors about Patten's secret purchases or exits.
Youngstown New York April 22 A breach opened today in the Niagara ice jam that had held the lower river for ten days causing about a million dollars in damage. Explosions of 160 pounds of dynamite cleared a channel by dusk after engineers Kunz and crew labored all day widening a path through the jam.
Chicago April 22 Dustin Farnum faced a grueling cross examination in a deposition connected to Howard Gould suit alleging Mrs Katherine Gould misconduct. Farnum denied the charges and stated Mrs Gould always acted properly, with details about a Hartford meeting and a St Regis luncheon discussed in the testimony.
The Delta Beta fraternity of city high schools met in secret session prompting students to challenge the new Ohio law banning student secret fraternities. The matter was referred to the laws committee after a report to the superintendent and board.
Amid mounting excitement in Washington delegates vote for president general and officers of the American Revolution Daughters of the American Revolution. Balloting began in the afternoon tellers count votes by night with a morning report expected. Candidates include Mrs Story and Mrs Scott with vice presidential candidates Mrs Amos J Draper and Mrs Miranda B Tulloch. Midnight tally shows less than one third counted.
The Bureau of Insular Affairs invites bids for 1 million dollars of Manila sewer and waterworks construction bonds, issued under an act of Congress, by the direction of the secretary of war and the Philippine island government.
Mercer county authorities face a baffling double incident as James H. Boyle known as the Witla Kidnapper shows illness in his cell and an outside plan to free him is thwarted. A ladder was found under Boyle cell window and a hospital stay followed amid suspicions of a prepared escape note carried by Boyle.
Special Dispatch reports in Columbus that Thomas H. B. Jones of Ironton was elected warden by unanimous vote at the penitentiary managers meeting. He succeeds O. B. Gould who retires May 1 after five years in the post. Gould becomes a board member. other officials named include Deputy Warden Charlies Resch and a list of department heads across multiple towns.
Former President Theodore Roosevelt heads from Mombasa at 2:30 PM with his party toward Kapiti Plains station for a shooting trip at Sir Alfred Pease’s ranch. F. J. Jackson escorts the party. Roosevelt telegraphs King Edward and the German Emperor praising hospitality and German interests in East Africa.
President Taft attended a regular session of Temple Masonic Lodge in Washington. He was made a Mason at sight in Cincinnati in February and witnessed the third degree for several candidates. Taft may attend Miami university centennial on June 17 in Oxford and medals to the Wright brothers in Dayton the same day.
In Flushing New York on April 22 the defense camp faced a motion after Dr I S Manson an alienist said Captain Peter C Hains Jr is not insane now but the defense will argue insanity at the time of the shooting. Hains lawyers censured the physician for the remark and he partly denied making it. Two jurors were secured today.
Constantinople reports a coup as the sultan suffers brain trouble and the grand vizier's government resignations spark a congress of deputies. The assembly votes to depose the sultan by 136 to 59 while the sultan's heir, Rechad Effendi, remains a prisoner at Yildiz Kiosk.
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