Washington week in review ends with key votes and trials
In Washington, House leaders push to defeat the Root amendment on the Canadian reciprocity bill while the Senate backs direct election of senators. Eulogies for Maine Representative Allen are delivered. The monitor Puritan to be sold. The Bristow amendment passes with the Vice President casting the deciding vote. The Lorimer committee subpoenas Illinois figures. Japan gains right to try Atkins in Yokohama. Gary testifies on business protection. Senate finance adds Root amendment then reports out the reciprocity bill without recommendation.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Senate
Representative Allen
Maine
Bristow
Lorimer
Illinois
Japan
Atkins
Yokohama
Senate Finance Committee
Stanley
Elbert H. Gary
Congressmen's Death Shocks Nation and Texas Marriage Noted
Congressman's death follows a Texas marriage to his secretary in April as he left Washington to aband on public life. both still receive pay. Professor Wells renowned sociologist of Dartmouth dies in Hanover New Hampshire. Carrie Nation's estate valued at 10000 dollars. Theodore Stanton says suffrage legislation to be introduced in Parliament after returning from Portugal. Taft oversees 175000 Sunday school parade in Brooklyn then lacrosse at Crescent Club and speaks to Cotton seed Crushers on Canadian reciprocity bill before midnight return to Washington.
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Texas
Washington
Davis C. Wells
Dartmouth College
Hanover
N. H
Carrie Nation
Theodore Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Portugal
Taft
Brooklyn
Crescent Athletic Club
Cottonseed Crushers’ Convention
New York Briefs Round Up Bail and Elections
Magistrate Freschi fixes bail at 25000 for Ethel Conrad and Lillian Graham after a shooting involving W. E. Stokes. Special mov ie color films rush planned. Bryan and Hearst back Champ Clark for President. Army aviation school prep at College Park. Osborn and Van Kennen publish prison department report. Colonial ferry struck by lightning. Hoboken commission form vote set for June 27. Dr Edwin Bray charged with forgery. Mary Rodrigues dies at 123 in Bakersfield. New police three platoon system starts in New York. Filibuster fears prompt New Orleans surveillance. Wong Suey arrested with 2000 dollars opium.
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W. J. Bryan
W. R. Hearst
Champ Clark
Army
College Park
Army Aviation School
William Church Osborn
George E. van Kennen
Dix
New York State
Albany
Colonial
Saybrook
Old Lyme
Conn
Hoboken
Edwin Bray
Swampscot
Mass
James W. Keown
Lynn
Mary Rodrigues
Bakersfield
Cal
Mexico
New York
New Orleans
Central America
Wong Suey
San Francisco
International and regional briefings across 1900s events
A wide range of incidents are reported from Vienna to London. Wissens bach suffers a fatal fall in Vienna while Castro’s agents move toward Venezuela. A significant transatlantic race starts from Johannestal with only one finisher amid storms. Crons tadt hosts Atlantic fleet sailors during Whit Monday celebrations in St Petersburg. A London elevator accident claims a prominent’s little daughter at Grosvenor square. The Rome peace congress date shifts to September 25. Mexican prisoners freed at Chihuahua after capture by federals. Birkbeck bank in London resumes payments promising 50 percent. Canada Italy steamship service bill gains approval. Caracas reacts to omitted invitation to Venezuela’s independence centennial. Yellow fever in West Africa and plague in Amoy, China. The European battleship fleet reaches Cronstadt. Belgium’s Schollaert resigns with cabinet. Albert receives resignation. Paris Archbishop opposes ex-Premier Rouvier funeral rites. London coronation rehearsals and Westminster Abbey rites proceed. Birkbeck bank in High Holborn may face 3.75 million dollar deficiency. Quito National Exposition building exhibits destroyed by fire.
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Luxemburg
Wissenbach
Vienna
Cipriano Castro
Santander
Venezela
Johannesthal
Germany
Iandpainter
Magdelburg
Cronstadt
Whitmonday
St Petersburg
Marshall Roberts
Marshall O. Roberts
New York
Grosvenor Square
London
Rome
Casas Grandes
Chihuahua
Abram Gonzales
Birkbeck Bank of London
Italian Parliamentary Commission
Canada
Italy
Schollaert
Belgium
Albert
Paris
Rouvier
Westminster Abbey
Birkbeck Bank
High Holborn
England
Quito
Diversified 1910 News Highlights From Across States
United States industrial output rose with 1910 coke production at an all time high. A Wisconsin drowning tragedy of four girls in a lake near Appleton followed by a failed Baldwin Locomotive Works strike outcome. Massachusetts direct nominations bill to be signed by Governor Foss. New York Presbytery pacific resolutions drawn by Rev. Dr. Wylie and disputed by Rev. Dr. Fox. Justice Harlan urged optimism to New York legislators. Pittsburgh federal probe into coal deals tied to United States Steel. A Philadelphia strike of 10,000 workers at Baldwin Loco. A Trenton suit claims Dr. Emery Marvel sewed forceps into Mrs. Eva Folsom. Clergy deaths in California from runaway horses. New York Assembly kills Le Beau commission form Buffalo. Hotel Gotham Aquor sale approved. Taft visits Brooklyn Sunday school parade and addresses 120,000 children.
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Sargent Gymnasium
Cambridge
Mass
Appleton
Wis
United States
New York
Jowett
Fifth Avenue
Fox
American Bible Society
Supreme Court
Harlan
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Foss
Massachusetts
Pittsburg Coal Company
Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke Company
United States Steel Corporation
Pittsburg
Philadelphia
Trenton
Emery Marvel
Atlantic City
Eva Folsom
Cecil Marrack
St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church
Ross
Cal
New York Assembly
Buffalo
Gotham
Taft
Brooklyn
Uncle John Roams California With Hoaxing Banter
Margaret endures Uncle John and Aunt Eliza as he guides a young Iowa guest into misinformed tours of prunes and a papier mache ranch. The group travels through a hotel, dining room, and corridors while Uncle John flirts with light deception, revealing a plan to visit Jenkins and his ranch with Margaret.
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John
California
Margaret
Eliza
Uncle John
Jack Jenkins
Mr.Livingston
Iowa
Mr. Jenkins
Jenkins
How Cloves Grow The Spice Islands Spice Trade History
Cloves are unexpanded buds from a 30 foot evergreen tree native to the Spice Islands in the Indian Ocean. They start pale, turn green, then red before harvest. Drying exposes them to wood smoke and sun, giving dark brown color for market. Cloves powered early oriental trade and Western commerce since ancient times.
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Indian Archipelago
Spice Islands
Where He Hit Her
A young couple living on the second floor overheard incessant quarreling from downstairs. The wife announces to John that the man had struck his partner again, and she believes the final blow occurred in the pantry after sounds of running through the house.
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Margaret
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
Uncle John
Hilda
John
Eliza
Iowa
Mr. Livingston
Middle West
No Rain Hurts Wheat Belt Crops Across Grain Regions
Weather reports show no rain across the Western corn and wheat region with little comfort for growers. Estimates peg Oklahoma Nebraska and Texas wheat at 122 million bushels, below last year, while oats face damage in Illinois and Nebraska amid drought and heat and hay prices rise.
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St. Louis
Kansas City
Nebraska
Ohio
Oklahoma
Texas
Updike
Omaha
Kansas
Mllnois
Ilinois
Mattoon
Jjl
Fatal Albany Chemical Works blast leaves multiple dead
An explosion in the Albany Chemical Works distilling room on Van Rensselaer Island killed one man and left another missing and presumed dead while six others are in serious condition. Fire risk endangered Standard Oil and Texas oil storage, with about 4,000,000 gallons of oil at stake. Frank F. Adams, superintendent, vanished inside while John J. Flannigan died hours later from injuries.
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Albany
N. J
Albany Chemical Works
van Rensselaer Island
Standard
Texas Oil Companies
Standard Oil Company
Frank F. Adams
John J. Flannigan
West Point Graduates 83 From Military Academy
Eighty three young men were graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point and received commissions. Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of War, handed diplomas and commissions as bad weather stopped the tent graduation. Stimson and General Barry spoke briefly. Philip Bracken Fleming of Nebraska was the honor man, with loud applause also for Thomas Jonathan Jackson Christian, grandson of General Stonewall Jackson.
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West Point
N. Y
The
Military Academy
United States Army
Henry L. Stimson
Stimson
General Barry
Philip Bracken Fleming
Nebraska
Thomas Jonathan Jackson Christian
Stonewall Jackson
Legacy for Suffrage Trust Established in New Jersey
In Mount Holly New Jersey the will of Rebecca Battinger of Moorestown directs $5000 be held in trust with annual income paid to the Woman's National Suffrage Association until women gain voting rights in all states. The trust principal then goes to a niece.
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Mount Holly
N. J
Rebeccas
Leir Battinger
Moorestown
Woman's National Suffrage Association
Auto Races Banned on Dirt Track after Hawthorne Death
Chicago Motor Club bans dirt track racing after coroner’s jury investigates Marcel Basle death at Hawthorne Track. The ruling follows an inquiry into the fatal accident and related safety concerns at the dirt course.
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Baar
Chicago
Chicago Motor Club
Marcel Basle
Hawthorne Track
CP Rail to Spend 30 Million on Winnipeg Extensions
The Canadian Pacific railway said it will spend 30 million dollars on extensions and improvements this summer in Winnipeg. The plan includes track work and facility upgrades aimed at expanding service and efficiency.
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Winnipeg
Canadian Pacific Railway
Downfall of Samaria in a Sunday School Lesson
The June 18 1911 lesson on 2 Kings 17 18 details Hoshea's troubled reign Samaria's siege and fall to Assyria Shalmaneser IV and Sargon II the northern kingdom's idolatry and covenant breach Israel's devotion failed amid dire peril and prophetic urging toward repentance.
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Hoshea
Ahaz
Beecher
Hastings
Samaria
Jerusalem
Hezekiah
Judah
Assyria
Babylon
Shalmaneser IV
Sargon II
Merodach-baladan
Egypt
Saboka
Prophets
Isaish
Hosea
Micah
Ephriam
Isaiah
Shalmaneser
Professor Rogers
Hoshen
Lfe
Israel
Molech
We Lose Choice Gifts Says Rev Dr Partridge
The Baptist preacher Rev Dr W G Partridge from Pittsburg argues that people miss the best gifts because they do not truly desire them and will not pay the cost. He urges earnest effort and sacrifice to obtain valuable blessings.
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W. G. Partridge
Baptist
Pittsburg
Religion a Joy Brightness of a Christian Career
Dr William Spurgeon Evangelist in London argues religion is not gloom but the bright outcome of a Christian life. He frames faith as joy and purpose rather than sorrowful paces along life’s path.
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Amnjoy
Willam Spurgeon
London
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Freschi
Ethel Conrad
Lillian Graham
W. E. Stokes
Miss Conrad
Rc Reign
Caracas
Great Britain
Venezuela
West Africa
Amoy
China
Europe
Russia
Huimier
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