Taft’s congressional message reviews foreign policy and finances
President Taft presents his annual message outlining U S relations with foreign governments including arbitration cases with Great Britain and plans for fisheries boundaries. He details revenue deficits, Panama Canal funding by bonds, civil service reforms, tariff board creation, naval spending cuts, and calls for judicial procedure reform.
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Washington
D. C
Taft
Congress
Senate
House of Representatives
United States
Great Britain
North Atlantic
Permanent Court of Arbitration
the Hague
Hague
Canada
Passamaquoddy Bay
North Pacific
Japan
Russia
The
London
Congo
Germany
Liberia
Department of State
Messares
Caget
Turkey
Pacific
Bolivia
Peru
Republiic
Diaz
Mexico
Venezuela
Panama
Sallora
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Nigaragua
Alsop & Co
Chile
Edward VII
Zalaya
Nicaragua
Zelaya
Central America
Far East
China
Mr. Taft
Siam
Secretary of State
Department
Secretary of the Treasury
Panama Canal
Spooner
Record of scattered 1910 era news items from a newspaper page
A collage of brief items reports rising cotton prices and hydrophobia death in New York City, Archibald Dickson, comments by Dr. Cook, a silk fibre discovery in Germany, Trinity Church fire in Weat New Brighton, police dogs in Paris quelling a mob, a $1,000,000 vault theft at Tortllo National Bank, a rate dispute at Ice Trust, bicycle spies targeting independents, a Black Hand letter threat to Casley John, Archbishop Farley laying a cornerstone, Panama Canal cost overrun notes, Yale football receipts, lacrosse in schools, cross country team developments, Berlin Aero Club data, university presidents urging football reform, Tony Arte retirement rumors, Harry L. Hillman hired at Dartmouth, trotting horse breeding vote, Davis lawn tennis cup staying in Australia, Ketchel to fight Papke, and Pierre Lorillard’s death in New Jersey.
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Archibald Dickson
New York City
Commander Peary
9. I
Paris
Casley John
Yale
Robert M. Thompson
Cornell
Columbia
Princeton
Berlin Aero Club
Chicago
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Hanva
Tony Arte
Harry L. Hillman
New York
Australia
Messia
McLoughlin
Long
Ketchel
Pontiac
Pierre Lorillard
Raucocas Std
New Jersey
New Unions Form and Growth in Allied Trades
The item lists multiple union developments including a new bricklayers union in Aberdeen 8 D, a chauffeurs and helpers union in San Francisco, a Salt Lake Typographical Union campaign for 1911, and San Francisco seeking a convention. It notes Brewery Workers rising from 10 000 to 36 000 in twelve years, the Blacksmiths seeking an eight hour day, and Cloak and Skirt Makers Union No 56 in Boston enrolling 660 members in seventeen months. Sacramento Carpenters 564 members and $10 000 in credit. Boston teamsters forming for a new line of work. Spain's 1997 union membership at 32 612. Austrian Woodworkers income rising from 10000 in 1902 to 148500 in 1908 with expenditures increasing. Working women in England rapidly joining unions with nearly 200 000 enrolled.
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Aberdeen
Vancouver
B.C
San Francisco
Salt Lake
International Union
Brewery Workers’ International
International‘Blacksmiths’ Union
Cloak and Skirt Makers’ Union
Boston
Mass
Carpenters Union
Sacramento
Cal
Teamsters
Spain
Taft lists legislative needs and Alaska proposal
President Taft calls for amendments to trust and commerce acts, post office reforms, postal savings banks, maritime lines to Americas and Asia, New Mexico Arizona statehood, Alaska territorial governance, and public health bureau reforms. He cites economic prosperity and rising prices with gold as money, urging practical legislation and voter finance disclosures. A separate brief notes banker A P Oliver of Climax Ga guilty of bigamy and sentenced to four years.
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District of Columbia
Post Office Department
Postoffice Department
Congress
Atlantic Seaboard
South America
United States
China
Japan
Philippines
New Mexico
Arizona
Alaska
Taft
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Bureau of
House of Representatives
United State
Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company
William H. Taft
A. P. Oliver
Climax
Bainbridge
A. D. Oliver
Bank of Climax
Clark
Superior Court
Oliver
No. 1
Georgia
Hunted burglars wound heir to textile firm in Radnor
Walter Erben, twenty two, son of a wealthy textile manufacturer, was shot by burglars who entered his father's Radnor home. His gun discharged in the fall, wounding his left leg. He was taken to Bryn Mawr Hospital with a poor chance of recovery.
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O Vhgiun
Radnor
Walter Erben
Bryn Mawr Hospital
Nttle
Artist Shoots Self in Hotel Grattan
John K Souther an Erie Pa artist aged thirty nine shot himself in the head at the Hotel Grattan in Washington DC He left a note for his wife saying he had lost much money in the recent panic and that she would be better off without him Souther had lived in Washington since moving from Erie nineteen years ago and leaves a wife and three children.
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Souther
Washington
D. C
White
John K. Souther
Hotel
Gratton
Erie
Knox Sends Passports to Zelaya Envoy
The United States severed diplomatic relations with Nicaragua after President Zelaya executed two American citizens. Secretary Knox sent a passport to the Nicaraguan Charge d Affaires, signaling a punitive step. The note claims Zelaya violated Washington conventions and damaged Republican institutions, with threats of accountability for the dead men and a postponed indemnity decision.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Nicaragua
Zelaya
Washington
State Department
LeRoy Cannon
Leonard Grace
Managua
Knox
Cannon and Grace
Mexico
Mr. Knox
Senor Felipe Rodriguez
Taft
Senor Rodriguez
Henry Caldera
Mr Knox
Bogart Ends Lien After Serving Divorce Papers
Sergeant Major Samuel B Bogart of the Third Cavalry, U S A, was found dead with a note calling for an end to an ill spent life near For Sam Houston. The note names his brother Robert Bogart of New York. A prior suit over Henry P Pratt Jr.’s estate linked Bogart to a 1897 marriage claim against Catherine P Laff of Dedham.
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Piaf, Jr
Wersall
San Antonio
Texas
Sergenant
Samuel B. Bogart
Boston
Mass
Catherine Pyaff
Ir Dedham
Henry P. Pratt Jr
Lexington
Stabs Girl in Heart as Father Helps Escape
In Vincennes Indiana Oscar Savage stabbed twenty year old Etta Burba to death at her home after attacking her father Jasper Burba a miller who tried to intervene. Etta defended her father with a bottle. Savage then plunged a long knife into Etta's heart, killing her almost instantly.
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Wooer
Vincennes
Ind
Preacher Burned At Stake In Georgia Mob Action
In Cochran Georgia John Harvard a Negro preacher was shot and then captured by a mob and burned alive with a large pile of wood. The incident followed an earlier shooting in which David Booth a Hawkinsville businessman fired at Harvard in his wagon after his mule team spooked. Booth’s wife was killed and his mother in law beaten badly in Brooklyn New York Patrick Rafferty is held for questioning.
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Cochran
John Harvard
Will ‘Ta Booth
Booth
Hawkinsville
Harvard
Hig
Patrick H. Rafferty
Brooklyn
N. Y
Two Joya Drowned Gunning in Cotuit Harbor
In Cotuit harbor a heavy northwest gale capsized a boat killing Musa Robert Coteridge sixteen, Llewellyn Wright fifteen, and two others. The incident occurred while they were gunning in the harbor.
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Joya
Cotuit
Musa
Robert Coteridge
Llewellyn Wright
Grim Paris Alarm over British Election
The report notes grave concern in Paris about Britain’s approaching election. It cites mixed predictions from Unionists and Liberals in England, Premier Balfour opposing a proposed raw cotton tax as a breach of fiscal reform.
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Great Britain
Columbia
Teneriffe
Vilages
Las Flores
Taft
Washington, D. C
Norfolk
Hampton
London Spectator
Horace MH. Warton
Justice Peckham
England
Balfour
Pilgrims
London
J. R. Carter
Servite Aumayia
Bulgaria
Pasadena Fixes Municipal Electricity Rate At Three Cents
Pasadena Council sets municipal power at three cents per kilowatt hour. Manager Kolner hails it as the lowest U S rate and a win for municipal ownership, promising bond interest and a sinking fund. Nearby items note financial loans in New York, a retiring U S canal official, and other brief city reports.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Pasadena Council
United States
C. W. Kolner
George Crocker’s Will Funds Cancer Research At Columbia
The will of George Crocker provides Columbia University with about 1.5 million dollars to create the George Crocker Special Research Fund for cancer cause, prevention, and cure research. Crocker left Darlington New Jersey estate and a New York City house valued near 1.6 million together with smaller bequests to kin and staff.
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N.J
New York City
fAy
George Crocker
Charles Crocker
California
Sixty-fourth Street
Columbia University
Rocker
Columbia
N. J
Crocker
Mr. Crocker
William H. Crocker
Caliifornia
Charlca B. Alexander
Jennie Crocker
C. T. Crocker
Lee
Hils
Pierce Not Guilty in False Swearing Case in Texas
H Clay Pierce was found not guilty by a Texas jury after Judge Calhoun ruled he was immune from trial. Texas property from Waters-Pierce Oil Co sold at public auction to S W Fordyce and associates for 1431 dollars. Security Oil Co to John Sealey for 83000. Navarre Refining Co to Sealey for 750000 as part of anti trust and ouster proceedings.
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Austin
Texas
H. Clay Pierce
Calhoun
Pierce
Missouri
Waters-Pierce Oil Company
S. W. Fordyce and Associates
St. Louia
Security Oil Company
John Sealey
Galveston
Navarre Refining Company
Corsicana
Sealey
New American Peeress Becomes Lady Greville
The former Mrs. Henry S. Kerr of New York, married to Captain Charlies Greville, becomes Lady Greville on the death of her father in law Lord Greville. She is a Grace cousin and niece of the late William F. R. Grace, former two terms mayor.
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London
Henry S. Kerr
New York City
Charlies Greville
Lord Greville
Greville
John W. Grace
New York
William FR. Grace
Three Graces
Doctor Held With His Wife in Nebraska Poison Case
Dr Loren Dorey and his wife Dora Dorey of Columbus Nebraska are held by a Coroner’s jury in St Louis pending grand jury action over alleged involvement in the death of William J Erder. Arsenic reported in Erder’s body. Fourteen witnesses identify Mrs Dorey as Erder’s wife.
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St. Louis
Dr. Warren
Washington
D. C.) University
William J. Erder
Dora A. Boxey
Loren E. Dorey
Columbus
Neb
Dora B. Dorey
Norfolk and Southern Sold at Court Auction in Norfolk
The Norfolk and Southern Railway property and franchises were sold at a U S court auction in Norfolk, Virginia. Mars den J. Perry and Rathbone Gardner of Providence led the reorganization group paying 8.5 million dollars, with the next bid of 8.1 million by R T Thorp for Philadelphia interests.
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Norfolk
Marsden J. Perry
Providence
R. L
Rathbone Gardner
Norfolk and Southern Railway Company
United States
R. T. Thorp
Philadelphia
New Jersey State News Reports Industrial Prosperity and Dangers
A New Jersey State Bureau of Statistics report notes a return to prosperity in 2127 manufacturers with 1909 productivity after 1908 factory closures. It lists ownership types, worker demographics, and child-labor trends, then covers the Delaware River deeper waterways push, a Clinton rabies scare, Dr. Pierre Banker’s death, a Hackensack murder case attempt, Hudson tunnel fatality, a Bayonne truant rescue, a Spring Lake electric light tragedy, and a Millville theft of electric current.
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Winton C. Garrison
State Bureau of Statistics of Labor
Trenton
Garrison
New Jersey
Williamstown to add two physicians statewide
In all parts of the state Williamstown will gain two more physicians. The Gloucester City Council named James Tige as police chief and Charles Moore as constable. The Williams town Glass Works will run machine shops at night. A youth gang from Pleasantville plundered George Leach’s general store to nearly ten thousand dollars in goods.
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Robanna
Ethel Burroughs
Cross Keys
Nicholas Corson
Ocean City
Williamstown Glass Works
John Bintliff
Mathis
Justice Stevenson
Beverly
Forsell
Delanco
New Anesthetic Demonstrated by Prof Ionnesco in NYC
Professor Thomas Ionnesco of Bucharest showcased a new anaesthetic method at a New York hospital. Four patients underwent operations fully conscious with no pain as fifty surgeons observed the test.
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New York City
Thomas Ionnesco
Bucharest
Cotton Exchange Condemned by Commissioner Report
The Commissioner of Corporations declared the New York Cotton Exchange condemned for dealing in futures, reporting to President Taft and urging action against speculative practices.
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Cotton Exchange
Tne
Taft
Commissioner of Corporations
New York Cotton Exchange
Paris Revolts Over Flesh for Food Proposal
The report notes Paris protests a proposal to use dog flesh for food while air charts and other items are discussed. It also mentions Secretary Knox ruling Zelaya violated military codes and international law in shooting two Americans.
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Clinton
Wesley Hoffman
Paris
Berlin Aero Club
Knox
Zelaya
Shonts
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
New York City
Percival Lowell
Marys
McClellan
Coler
America
Rameses I
Cook
James R. Mann
Chicago
Canada
Frank White Named Director of Education for Philippine Islands
Professor Frank White appointed Director of Education for the Philippine Islands succeeding Dr. Barrows who has resigned. White, former Assistant Director of Education, was raised in Nebraska and graduated from the University of Chicago in 1900 before going to the Philippines in 1901.
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Frank White
Philippine Islands
Barrows
White
Nebraska
University of Chicago
Philippines
Reunited Couple Barnett Spyder Remarries in Brooklyn
After a fifteen year separation Barnett Spyder and his former wife renewed their marriage in Brooklyn New York with a quiet ceremony.
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Barnett Spyder
Brooklyn
N.Y
Taft Orders Examinations for Diplomatic Appointments
President Taft approves a plan by Secretary Knox creating a board of examiners for Secre taries and higher-class secretaryships. Examinations in international law modern language U. S. resources and history will determine fitness with oral and written tests, plus a physical exam. Candidates aged 21 to 50 considered for promotion and state representation balanced.
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Washington, D. C
Taft
Knox
Enos
United States
Washington
Enbligh
Europe
Far East
Department
Troops Quell Tin Plate Strike in Bridgeport Ohio
After three days of clashes at the Aetna-Standard plant of the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company, 1500 militia seized mills and martial law was declared. Fifty thousand sightseers filled streets as Vice-Presidents Larkin and Lewis of the Amalgamated Association met Joshua Bishop of the Ohio Board of Arbitration.
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Bridgeport
Ohio
Aetna-Standard
American Sheet and Tin Plate Company
Larkin and
Lewis
Amalgamated Association of Tron, Steel and Tin Plate Workers
Joshua Bishop
Ohio State Board of Arbitration
Youths Shot by Accidental Impulse in South Bend
Clarence Lichty a fourteen year old threatens to shoot two companions Donald Foster and Carl McCormick thirteen. Lichty fires buckshot wounding Foster critically while McCormick is only lightly hurt. Lichty was held by a probation officer and cites a sudden inexplicable impulse to shoot.
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South Bend
Ind
Clarence Lichty
Donald Foster
Carl McCormick
Foster
McCormick
Lichty
Briller
New Slavery for Negro Says Liquor Links Race
Seaborn Wright of Georgia told the National Anti-Saloon League conference in Chicago that there never was a race problem in the South, only a liquor problem. He argued saloons must not return to the South and claimed liquor laws criminalized selling to slaves, exposing them to debauchery.
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Chicago
South
Seaborn Wright
Georgia
National Anti-Saloon League
North
Ruef Released on Bonds After Court Shooting Incident
Abraham Ruef, long target of San Francisco politics, is freed from county jail on bonds totaling 300000. He had been jailed since November 13 1908 after the shooting of District Attorney Francis J Heney in the courtroom.
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San Francisco
Cali
Abraham Ruef
Francis J. Heney
Ruef
Butter Market Notes on Prices and Costs
Process butter buyers report dull demand and prices stay within narrow ranges. High manufacturing costs weigh on margins as supply burdens grow, while the variety’s appeal hinges on quality results rather than bargain pricing.
Bolivian Senator Killed in Senate Duel
Senator Fernandez Molina was shot in the head by Senator Adolfo Trigo Acha during a morning debate over Montes promotion to general. Molina died instantly, following a quarrel that led to a revolver duel in the Bolivian capital.
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Acha
Ua Paz
Bolivia
Fernandez Molina
Adolfo Trigo Acha
Senate
Montes
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