Taft Message Sees Limited Time For Action
President Taft's message to the Sixty-First Congress drew respectful attention yet few members expect rapid action before the session ends March 4. Secretary Lata delivered the lengthy report as senators and representatives read or listened, while three new Senators Swanson Terrell and Youngs were sworn in. Both houses adjourned early until noon tomorrow.
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Washington
Congress
Taft
Lata
Prat
Senate
Claude Swanson
Virginia
John W. Daniel
Joseph M. Terrell
Georgia
A. 8. Clay
LaFayette Youngs
Iowa
J. P. Dolliver
Negro Bandit Shot To Death On Westbound Train
On a Frisco St Louis Limited train near Memphis, Jack Thomas of Blytheville Arkansas robbed passengers in a frontier style hold up before railroad watchman A B Walton shot him dead. Victims were relieved of purses and trinkets as the train crossed the Mississippi river bridge.
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Memphis
Tenn
Jack Thomas
Blytheville
Ark
A. B. Walton
St. Louis
Mississippi River
Thomas
Walton
Aviation Dialect Avis Latest Talk
A Cleveland Plain Dealer piece riffs on aviator slang as sports writing voice. It samples a playful sky route description with fanciful terms and cartoonish moves, asking how a six starter might sound in this colorful diction.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Sky
le Blanc
Pretty Boy
Gay Paree
Foggle
Graviation
Restrictions on Immigration Should Be Reconsidered
Washington reports the final five line summary: sentiment calls wave of restrictions for economic reasons. The immigration commission urges restricting unskilled labor while acknowledging wage and living costs effects as ten workers enter basic industries. The commission expired today after three years of study producing about forty volumes.
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Washington
Immigration Commission
Congress
Dr Cook admits uncertainty over reaching the North Pole
New York reports that Dr Sred lek A Cook the Brooklyn explorer says in a Hampton magazine excerpt he does not know if he reached the pole. He plans to return to the United States with his wife and children by December 22 and reflects on the psychological toll of his voyage and the value of public trust.
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New York
Sredlek A. Cook
Brooklyn
Hampton’s
North Pole
Pole
Cook
To a D Husband in Hour of Need
Attorneys for the defense in the Menlo Moore trial say Mrs. Moore will testify for her husband. Moore pleads insanity over the Gibson shooting at Union Station on Oct 3 as witnesses describe the events and Moore’s demeanor in court.
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Vincennes
Menlo Moore
Mahaker
Union Station
Langering
Moore
Gibson
Briquette From Ore Dust Shows Waste Savings
Pittsburg December 6 officers of the Carnegie Company and United States Steel Corporation witnessed the first briquette made from ore dust in a special plant. The briquette will become pig iron and conserve ore dust previously wasted by winds, potentially saving millions of dollars in production costs.
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Pittsburg
Carnegie Company
United States Steel Corporation
Romance Ends With New Jersey Teen Lovers’ Mountain Flight
Dee Tallban and Heatrice Sanders, both 17, fled Newark after parents objected to their union. They lived six weeks in a Catskill cave, eking out a rough life, then moved to Yonkers before police arrested them for vagrancy. Their families relented, and in Newark they finally wed after obtaining a license.
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Newark
Dee
Lavere Tallban
Heatrice Sanders
Catskill Mountains
New York
Tallman
Yonkers
What Kind of Tree Is a Christmas Tree
A playful verse asks children to name the true Christmas tree by noting what it is not. It playfully rejects orange, plum, and pear as possible trees and explores options like popcorn, candles, spangles, and candy, concluding that the Christmas tree is, in fact, a Christmas tree full of goodies from Santa.
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Santa
Santa Claus
Blind Justice Gets Twisted in Athens Court
In Athens Georgia today the complainant was jailed not the defendant in a city court gaming case. The jury found Hunter a white man not guilty and said the prosecution was malicious with costs to be paid. Whitehead could not pay and was jailed. A motion for a new trial was considered though he was not on trial.
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Athens
Hunter
L. C. Whitehead
Whitehead
Discharges Man Defending Him In Murder Trial
Adstiy Gleaves on trial for murder in St Louis questions jurors himself against judge and appointed counsel. He killed his boyhood friend Alfred Hunter four months earlier amid poverty that led to his defense by August Walz. Gleaves asked jurors for a square deal and fair treatment despite inability to hire counsel.
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ST. Louis
Gleaves
Alfred H. Hunter
August Walz
Politicians Busy in Old England Election Push
In a flurry of activity across the realm, leaders from multiple parties cornered the timetable for upcoming work. Arthur J. Balfour addressed a large Albert Hall gathering defending government policy as opposed by Redmond supporters.
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Old England
London
Dec
Arthur J. Balfour
House of Commons
Albert Hall
Een
John Redmond
Asquith
Reading
Lloyd- George
Cardiff
John E B. Relmond
Dublin
Winston Spencer Churchill
Ireland
Bristol
John Burns
Local Government Board
Battersea
Austin Chamberlain
Ashton
Nobody Wants Cook's Story in London Suburb Hideaway
Dr. Frederick A. Cook is living in seclusion at a Cloudisburg boarding house and has written a new story to regain favor in America. He sought to sell to London magazines with a $1,000 offer, but editors declined. He reportedly arrived in the United States in November to finalize an arrangement with Hampton's magazine for the history story, traveling via Canada, meeting publishers at Troy, then returning to Europe.
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New York
Frederick A. Cook
Cloudisburg
London
Court confession of no jurisdiction in May Starkweather case
Denver juvenile court acknowledged it cannot compel May Starkweather to rise from bed after she refused meals and began a hunger strike. Parents filed a complaint alleging the 16 year old, healthy by all accounts, would starve rather than perform household work or obtain food. The filing claims May has persisted in her threat, and the court said it could not force her to get up.
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Denver
Col
May Starkweather
May
Atlanta Man Pawns Coffin
Atlanta man M. L. Brennan pawned his coffin as the high cost of living rose. He had bought it for town use, then needed cash and took the coffin to a pawn shop. He planned to redeem the pledge after obtaining the ticket and money.
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Atlanta
Tollay
M. L. Breman
Brennan
Awful mistake of M S Browns found dead in bed
Clarence and Charles Brown aged 12 and 9 of Sycamore were found dead in their bed in Rockford Dec 6. The mother, Mrs Brown, allegedly gave tartar emetic believing it to be Epsom salts, a reported tragic mishap.
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Rockford, Ill
Clarence
Charles Brown
Sycamore
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