Washington News Roundup From The White House
Taft completes speech accepting nomination and appears in office after a week. House orders Commerce and Labor probe into the anthracite strike. Sherley bill moves toward passage as the strongest pure food and drug measure yet. Steel Trust Inquiry cites J P Morgan Co overcharges and calls for corrective legislation. White House defense of contested Chicago Convention seats issued. Army transports that carried the Rough Riders to Santiago to be scrapped.
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Taft
Department of Commerce and Labor
House
Sherley
Steel Trust Investigating Committee
J. P. Morgan & Co
Chicago
White House
United States Army
Rough Rider
Santiago
Notable Tennessee governor nomination and assorted society notices
Personal Benton McMillin named as Tennessee Democratic governor candidate while Gov Wilson stays neutral. Mrs Sarah Wilson aged 91 celebrated in Fanwood New Jersey. Harry K Thaw suffers ptomaine poisoning at Matteawan Asylum. Canned corn blamed. Fanny Denham Rouse dies in Ohioville New York aged 81, oldest actress in America. W V Forbes ill on Nashawena Island recovering. Gov Wilson declines to influence nominations in New York or elsewhere. Rhode Island Republicans deny Aldrich Senate recall. Captain H E Bixby found dead in St Louis at 86. taught Mark Twain steamboating. Piscel Balais of Trenton proposed to Rosa Razca at 9, married 18 hours later.
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Benton McMillin
Sarah Wilson
Wilson
Fanwood
N. J
Harry K. Thaw
Matteawan Asylum
Fanny Denham Rouse
America
Ohioville
N. Y
W. V. Forbes
Philippines
Nashawena
New York
Rhode Island
Nelson W. Aldrich
United States Senate
H. E. Bixby
Mark Twain
St. Louis
Piscel Balais
Trenton
Rosa
Razca
Mount Baker Marathon winner Hagard completes 26 miles
Harvey Hagard of Glacier wins the Mount Baker Marathon in Bellingham Washington with a time of 7 hours 34 minutes. The report also notes baseball distractions in Cleveland and the suspension of jockey Frank Wooten for reckless riding on Steadfast in the Atlantic. Stakes at Liverpool feature Ledoux, bantamweight champion, preparing to come to America after recent KO of Digger Stanley.
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Pittsburgh Pirates
Bellingham
Wash
Harvey Haggard
Glacier
Mount Baker
Frank Wooten
Atlantic
Liverpool
Ledoux
Great Britain
France
Digger Stanley
America
Timber cut in Minnesota tops two billion feet in 1912
The Northern Pine Association estimates Minnesota timber harvest will reach 2,000,000,000 feet for 1912. Walter Gibb, former head of Frederick Loeser & Co., leaves an estate about 10,000,000 to his wife. Isidore Cousino, a French Canadian, dies in Erie Michigan leaving 93 descendants including 50 grandchildren. Detailed Beef Trust dissolution plans are filed with the Government. Beer consumption in Chicago declines by 35,000 barrels in the last fiscal year. The Southern Hotel of St. Louis closes its doors forever. Col. Huff of Magen Georgia plans to urge Congress to probe Judge Speer over his bankrupt estate case.
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Northern Pine Association
Minnesota
Walter Gibb
Brooklyn
Frederick Loeser & Co
Isidore Cousino
Erie
Mich
Beef Trust
Chicago
Old Southern Hotel
St. Louis
Col. Huff
Magen
Noted surgeon Dr M H Richardson dies in Boston after 86 years practice
The report lists multiple brief items including the death of Dr M H Richardson of Boston after 86 years in surgery and other incidents across states. It mentions acts of self harm, marriages, shootings, a fatal balloon flight, prison life, theft recoveries, and alleged police graft figures.
International and Imperial Headlines Underlying Global Turmoil
The report covers peace talks with Italy announced by the Turkish government, high profile deaths and legal cases in Paris and London, Emperor Yoshihito’s accession in Japan and related mourning, prizefighter Kid McCoy’s prison bail appeal, a Canadian pursuit ending in confession, and various global incidents including the Titanic inquiry, Mexican affairs, Haitian unrest, yellow fever quarantines, and auctioned Cromwell letters.
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Italy
James A. Bridgeman
Minnie Berhard
Milwaukee
Paris
Mme. Bloch
Yoshihito
Japan
Empire
Mat Sunita
Kid” McCoy
London
Reid
North-Western Mounted Police
Canada
Will Ropp
Calgary
Alberta
Francis Joseph
Austria
von Blaschke
British Board of Trade
Capt. Smith
Duff Gordon
Ismay
State Department
Madero
Mexico
Orozco
Haiti
Georgia Jury Frees Mrs. Grace in Not Guilty Verdict
Atlanta Daizy Opie Grace, wealthy Philadelphia resident, is declared not guilty by a Georgia jury after three hours of deliberation in a case where her husband, paralyzed by a gunshot wound, sought divorce and claimed she attempted to kill him for a $25 000 life policy.
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Atlanta
Daisy Opie Grace
Grace
Philadelphia
Beef prices reach record highs at Chicago stock yards
Chicago reports beef selling at the highest prices ever reached with figures from retail dealers. Five months earlier Porterhouse steak was 30 cents, sirloin 20 cents, round steak 15 cents, lamb chops 15, veal cutlets 20, pork chops 16 cents. New York follows with meat price hikes and restaurants adding five cents to steak and chop dishes.
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Chicago
Peef Trust
Porterhouse
New York
Aid Refugees From Mexico Senate Resolution
Senate passes a resolution authorizing a $100000 appropriation to the Secretary of War to transport American refugees from Mexico to locations in the United States. Senator Bailey introduced the measure as attention to the Mexican situation grew after a El Paso newspaper publisher wired an invitation to Senate to visit El Paso and confer on plans for a coming crisis.
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Washington
Secretary of War
Mexico
United States
Senate
Bailey
Congress
el Paso
United States Senate
House committee backs Peru atrocity report resuming inquiry
Washington. The House committee on foreign affairs will report favorably the McCall resolution asking the State Department for information on atrocities against Indians in the Putumayo rubber district of Peru and the existence of peonage in that region. The House will accept the report of the foreign affairs committee.
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Washington
House Committee On Foreign Affairs
McCall
State Department
Putumayo
Peru
House
Foreign Affairs Committee
Famous Old Frigate Santee Sold for 3610 in Philadelphia
The U S Santee one of the navy's oldest sailing frigates sold to Joseph G Hunter for 3610. Laid down in 1820 she served long in the naval service and was repaired before the Civil War before serving the Naval Academy.
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Santee
Philadelphia
Washington
U. S
Joseph G Hunter
Naval Academy
Real Estate and Public Works News in New Jersey
The itemized report notes church fund drives, a five year resignation of a Rahway school sewing teacher, trolley fare reductions sought from the Public Service Corporation, a Grand Jury hold on Peter Kalanzis for firearm charges, and rescue of a young boy from water. It also covers a Bridgeton Millville rail plan, a girls municipal bath turnout in Passaic, a fatal coal car incident at Port Johnson, hospital leadership changes in Perth Amboy, a Weehawken pins incident, and traffic and property notices across multiple counties.
Revival of Trade Predicted by Record Crops Outlook
New York reports large prospects for a trade revival tied to forecast record crops. Dun's notes trade movements show normal volume with slight weekly bank clearing declines from a New York loss, but gains at other centers. Rail earnings rise 18 percent year over year for the first half of the month. Foreign trade remains high as New York weekly totals reach 33.25 million, up from last year and 1910 levels.
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New York
Dun's
New York City
Milk Wholesale Price Report in New York Markets
The wholesale milk price stands at 34 cents per quart in the 26e zone, equating to $1.71 for a 40 quart can. This item reflects current regional pricing for dairy suppliers and distributors.
Lesson on Mark's calm amid storm and Gadara encounter
A church lesson reflects on Jesus crossing the lake after hosting a crowd, resting through a storm he rebukes with gentle authority, and the Gadara demoniac who is healed. It contrasts faith and fear and notes the mission to the healed man and his return home.
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Jesus
Land of
Gadara
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