Notable life events of Christ recalled in Lenten series
The Rev. Sydney Strong of Seattle prepares a six article Lenten series for The Commercial Tribune. This first piece presents scriptural life events of Jesus in readable modern language, including his Jerusalem pilgrimage, temple teaching, baptism by John, temptation in the wilderness, and refusals of Satan.
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Commercial Tribune
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Queen Anne Congregational Church
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Jerusalem
Jesus
Temple
Banquet Row Over Dickinson Honor Divides Chicago Democrats
In Chicago a Democratic Iroquois club banquet honors Jacob M Dickinson secretary of war under Taft. Former Mayor Dunne balks at attending calling Dickinson’s shift to the Republicans inconsistent. Dickinson denies leaving the party. He vows belief in a strong navy and peaceful world relations under Taft.
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Chicago
Jacob M. Dickinson
Taft
Dickinson
Dunhe
Illinois Central
J. T. Harahan
Germans Oppose Liberian Plans
Berlin reports that German trading circles suspect a U S plan to annex Liberia after granting a protectorate. The Rhenish Westphalian Gazette discusses American conquest policy and warns the government to monitor the move as the foreign office is informed of the conditions behind the proposal for a special American commission to Liberia.
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Berlin
Washington
Liberia
United States
Foreign Office
Woman protest over arrest in forgery case in St Louis
In St Louis on March 6 the Women’s Christian Temperance Union denounced police arrest methods after Hildegard Hallen was charged with second degree forgery. Hallen, a stenographer, was taken from her home by detectives and held while information was issued. The case centers on notarized signatures on seven deeds of trust connected to her former employer M Dwight Fortner. Fortner, Lil Kenny’s brother in law, is identified as the broker in the dispute.
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ST. Louis
Hildegard Hallen
M. Dwight Fortner
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Miss Hallen
Julian Avenue
F. B. Ingalls
Fortner
Lil
Jim Wiliam
Kenny
Ghurgh Scandal Public Through Injunction Suit
Chicago March 6 A bitter church dispute emerges in a suit seeking to stop publication of a confession by Mrs Mary Lavender to Rev Edward B Crawford pastor of Woodlawn Park Methodist church The complaint accuses Crawford of malicious distortion and betrayal of the confession and notes a resigned pastor from Western Avenue Methodist church Judge Barnes refused the injunction for lack of notice.
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Chicago
John Lavender
Edward B. Crawford
Woodlawn Park Methodist Church
Mary Lavender
Crawford
BE. B. Crawford
John D. Leek
Western Avenue Methodist Church
Barnes
Disgraceful Saloon Brawl in Walnut Street
A row at Elmer's Saloon on Walnut Street near Sixth yesterday left two men clashing with a bartender and proprietor William Elmer. A knife appeared, a blackjack struck, and the couple slipped out a side door with police arriving afterward.
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Walnut Street
Sixth
William Elmer
Foraker Receives Silver Loving Cup in Washington
Former Senator Joseph B. Foraker was presented a nearly twenty inch, 100 ounce silver loving cup by negro residents of Washington at the Metropolitan A. M. E. church. The gift honors his fight in the U S senate to restore the Twenty-fifth Infantry battalion to the army after Brownsville Texans shooting incident. The cup bears the inscription They ask for justice not because they are negroes but because they are men.
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Washington
Joseph B. Foraker
United States Senate
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Brownsville
Tex
Roosevelt Receives No Callers in Oyster Bay
Ex-President Roosevelt spent the day indoors reading and handling correspondence, then afternoon chores in the woods behind his home. Oyster Bay residents plan a farewell reception for him and Mrs. Roosevelt on the eve of his departure.
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Roosevelt
Night Riders Sued for 25000 Damages in Covington Case
Frank Eckler of Cincinnati sues eleven alleged night riders in U S court at Covington seeking 25000 for injuries from a March 25 1908 raid in Harrison and Pendleton counties. He names John and James Riddle James and Everett Aulick James Lang Alfred Collier Ford Colvin Tod and Charles Jones Kirby Hamilton and Jesse Allen. He says he was forced from his home at gunpoint and kept prisoner before being released with a warning and forced to relocate. Attorneys Myers and Howard represent Eckler.
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Frank Eckler
Harrison County
Cincinnati
Covington
John
James Riddle
James and
Everett Aulick
James Lang
Alfred Collier
Ford Colvin
Tod
Charles Jones
Kirby Hamilton
Jesse Allen
Eckler
Pendleton County
Myers & Howard
Venezuelan envoy reports Castro banned from Venezuela
Paris report states Senor Jose Paul says President Gomez prohibited Cipriano Castro and wife from entering Venezuela. Castro may seek contact with Zelaya in Nicaragua to rally Venezuelan partisans, but Paul doubts success. French cable director M Brun sails to La Guayra to negotiate with Caracas, aiming at Franco-Venezuela arbitration on pending disputes.
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Senor Jose Paul
Europe
Berlin
Gomez
Cipriano Castro
Venezuela
Castro
Nicaragua
Zelaya
Senor Paul
M. Brun
France
Guadeloupe
la Guayra
Wealthy Woman Marries Her Chauffeur in Sacramento
Mrs. A. Van Voorhies, 55, a prominent Sacramento widow and one of the city's wealthiest residents, wed Arnold Patterson, 30, her chauffeur of about a year, at the bride's mother's home. The romance began after Patterson was seriously injured last summer and Mrs. Van Voorhies showed care and devotion that led to marriage.
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Sacramento
Cal
A. van Voorhies
Arnold Patterson
Shelby County Votes Dry in Local Option Election
Shelby County Indiana votes dry at the local option election by a majority of 750. Seventeen saloons are affected. Across Indiana thirty one counties have voted against saloons and only one in favor of license.
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Shelbyville
Ind
Shelby County
Indiana
Fires Twice at Cuban General Emilio Nunez
In Havana on March 6 an assailant, Jose Cisneros, fired two shots at General Emilio Nunez ex governor of Havana Province as he walked on San Miguel street. Cisneros, with a long standing grudge, was arrested claiming he chose the day because Nunez’s daughter Maris was to marry Edgar Ravel son of a sugar planter. Nunez, who governed Havana during the recent American intervention, had a prior assassination attempt two years earlier.
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Emilio Nunez
San Miguel Street
Jose Cisneros
General Nunez
Cisneros
Maris
Edgar Ravel
Ohio river liquor sale ruling shocks Ohio towns
In Columbus county court Judge W. W. Hole ruled liquor can be sold on a houseboat on the Ohio river without violating the law. William Savers was fined by Mayor Crawford and appealed. the decision holds the law does not cover such a contingency. City forces may seek a higher court review.
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East Liverpool
Columbiana County
W. W. Hole
Ohio River
William Savers
Savers
Crawford
Life term given in Michigan murder case
Elton Baldwin was sentenced to life imprisonment by Judge Padgham in Allegan Michigan after pleading guilty to murdering his mother Mary Baldwin on Thursday morning. The ruling marks the end of a fatal case that captivated the local community.
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Allegan
Mich
Elton Baldwin
Mary Baldwin
Padgham
Trial of Cooper case nears close with jurors elated
Nashville dispatch reports the Cooper trial nearly finished after three attorneys on each side prep for Monday arguments. The jury may hear closing remarks by McCain and state and defense leaders. Testimony touched on Carmack’s movements and notes from Colonel Cooper.
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Commercial Tribune
Nashville
Tenn
Cooper
Fitzhugh
Washington
Garner
Meeks
Anderson
McCain
Oxford News editor John F. Fenton dies at 61
John F. Fenton editor and proprietor of The Oxford News died at his Oxford home of heart failure after weeks of illness. A Brown county native and former school superintendent in Germantown Coshocton and New Vienna he bought The Oxford News in 1901. He is survived by a widow and three children. They will take place in
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Hamilton
John F. Fenton
Oxford News
Oxford
Fenton
Brown County
Germantown
Coshocton
New Vienna
Six Taft Cabinet Members Take Oath of Office
Six members of President Taft’s cabinet were sworn in at the White House cabinet room with Chief Justice Fuller administering the oath. Knox Hitchcock Meyer Ballinger Wilson Nagel and Huntington H. Wilson took the oath. Wickersham was sworn yesterday and Dickinson and MacVeagh would arrive soon. Taft issued a call for a special session of Congress on March 15 to receive executive communications. The article notes the oath ceremony and the proclamation for an extraordinary session without specifying its purpose.
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Taft
White House
Justice Fuller
Supreme Court of the United States
Philander C. Knox
Frank H. Hitchcock
George von Lengerke Meyer
Navy
Richard A. Ballinger
Interior
James Wilson
Agriculture
Charles Nagel
Commerce and Labor
Carpenter
Burton
Ohio
Richard D. Harlan
Justice Harlan
Supreme Court
John Barrett
Bureau of American Republics
Huntington H. Wilson
J. C. O'Loughlin
Knox
Robert Bacon
Department
Wilson
Sixty-first Congress
United States of America
Congress of the
United States
William Howard Taft
William H. Taft
Pp. C. Knox
Depew Proposes Move to Change Inauguration Date
Senator Depew introduces a constitutional amendment to move the presidential inauguration from March 4 to the last Wednesday of April during a brief Senate session. The measure awaits referral to the privileges and elections committee. Executive business followed the eight minute session before adjournment. Nominations for Leob, Winthrop, McDowell, Kippenbrook, Burns and Carr were confirmed in executive session as the new cabinet and officials were named.
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Washington
Senate
Committee On Privileges and Elections
Congress
William Loeb, Jr
New York
Beekman Winthrop
Navy
John P. McDowell
Williston
N. C
Oliver C. Kippenbrook
Gregory
S. D
Thomas Co. Burns
Don M. Carr
Canton, O
Richard Ballinger
Interier
Patrick Escapes Routine Prison Work in Ossining
In Ossining on March 6, Warden Frost relieves Albert T. Patrick from routine labor as a life prisoner. Patrick may use the law library and his cell resembles a law office. The appellate division grants two weeks to file a brief as the court considers his liberty motion.
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Ossining
Frost
Albert T. Patrick
Biggest whipping post day in Delaware history
On March 6 in Wilmington eighteen culprits were whipped at the workhouse for offenses chiefly larceny. A cat-o-nine-tails was used and the total lashes reached 255, though none suffered severe punishment.
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Wilmington
Del
Delaware
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