Payne tariff bill passes House amid wide duty changes
After three years of debate the Payne tariff bill cleared the House 217 to 161 with one Republican voting no and four Louisiana Democrats voting yes. Key amendments shifted petroleum to the free list, cut tea, raised duties on barley, barley malt, charcoal, iron, and pineapples in crates, and aimed to curb tobacco and lumber loopholes. Fifty-five Republicans supported free lumber, thirty-eight Democrats opposed.
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Washington, D. C
House of Representatives
Austin
Tennessee
Louisiana
Champ Clark
Turkey
House
Liberal Sunday League Forms Against Blue Laws
Prominent New Yorkers including Alfred G. Vanderbilt and August Belmont organize the Liberal Sunday League to advocate a looser interpretation of Sunday laws and seek Sunday declared a legal holiday in the state. Governors meeting yields a platform urging public airing of ideas and tolerance of modern views.
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New York City
Alfred G. Vanderbilt August Belmont
League
Prominent Men Decline Federal Positions Under Taft
Washington reports President Taft’s difficulty filling posts as three high profile figures decline offers. Former Senator Hemenway of Indiana and former Senator Fulton of Oregon were considered for a China mission after Hemenway declined earlier. Former Representative Aron declined four federal posts, former Vice President Fairbanks will not enter federal service, and Hemenway also declined. All will remain in politics.
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Taft
Washington, D. C
China
Fulton
Oregon
Hemenway
Indiana
Arson
Fairbanks
Theatre War Probable as Shuberts Break With Managers
New York reports that the Shubert brothers withdrew from the theatrical managers association signaling a coming conflict with Klaw and Erlanger Nixon Zimmerman Frohman and Hayman. A new managers group will include Belasco Fiske and the Shuberts to lead the fight.
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Belasco
Fiske
Shuberts
Old Trust
New York City
Mensrs
Shubert
Theatrical Managers’ Association
The
Tribune
Schuberts
Klaw & Erlanger
Nixon &Zimmerman
Charles Frohman
al Hayman
Noted Novelist Crawford Dies at Italian Home
F Marion Crawford, renowned novelist born 1864, died at his Italian residence Sorrento. Illness traced to influenza with fevers weakening him, death peaceful with family present. His final words were I enter serenely into eternity as daughter read Plato's Dialogues per his request.
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F. Marion Crawford
Sorrenton
Mary
Marion Crawford
Crawford
Mr. Crawford
Sugar Refining Company Satisfies Duty to Government
The American Sugar Refining Company of New York paid 1 239 088 dollars owed after a circuit court finding that the sugar was underweighed. The duty total includes 342 960 dollars previously settled. Los Angeles and Washington items note charity efforts and church donation misplacement.
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American Sugar Refining Company
New York City
Loeb
American Sugar Refining Company of
New York
United States Circuit Court
Arkansas Representative Proposes Post Office Compensation Bill
Representative Alsace of Arkansas introduces a bill to pay postmasters 100 percent of the first fifty dollars of receipts and 60 percent of additional receipts, with a maximum compensation of $26. Clinton reports a six year old, Fred Bell, jailed on a murder charge for the shooting death of three year old Ethel Thomas.
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Washington, D
Alsace
Arkansas
Clinton
Fred Bell
Union County
Ethel Thomas
Tenement District Swept by Fire Displacing 2000
A fire swept Manchester New Hampshire’s southern house district near a square mile, largely foreign workers in mills and shoe factories. Loss estimated around 1,000,000 dollars. Fully 2,000 people homeless.
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Manchester
N. H
Girl’s Joke Overdose Poisoned Teacher in School
W. F. Shippe, a Frederick County teacher in Winchester Virginia, was the victim of a dangerous prank when a student offered him a drugged apple. The girl aimed to make him sleepy but administered a lethal overdose. Shippe survived the incident.
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Winchester
W. F. Shippe
Frederick County
Senate Toughens Kidnapping and Blackmail Penalties
Albany measures raise kidnapping maximum to fifty years and boost blackmail extortion and Black Hand penalties to twenty five years, advancing through the senate.
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Albany
N. W
Senate
New Designs Planned for Uniform American Money Portraits
Washington to grace the one dollar note under a plan approved by Assistant Secretary Coolidge to standardize notes and coin certificates. The system aims to reduce confusion by using nine denominations with fixed portraits and consistent designs across all notes of each class. Portraits chosen include Washington Lincoln Cleveland Jackson Grant Franklin Chase Hamilton with other positions to follow.
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Washington, D. C
Treasury
Coolidge
United States
Treasury Department
Washington
Lincoln
Cleveland
Jackson
Grant
Franklin
Salmon P. Chase
Alexander Hamilton
Radium to Cure Cancer Experiment in Paris
A $5,000 speck of radium is sewn into a woman's stomach at the Pasteur Institute to treat cancer. Dr. Roux performs the operation using a tiny glass tube and monitors the patient for 48 hours as healing begins. If no inflammation or mortification appears in a month, cancer may be considered destroyed. The method promises repeated use of radium without losing potency.
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Paris
France
Pasteur Institute
Roux
Pasteur
State Troops to Undergo Second National Guard Inspection
The war department plans a second inspection of the National Guard by a military board to assess disciplined instruction and efficiency for field service, in addition to the current review of arms uniform and equipment. The timing targets active field service periods for evaluation.
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Washington, D C
War Department
Military Board
National Guard
Doctor questions link between health and regular habits
Dr Sheldon Leavitt of the Right Living League argues that health does not depend on regular routines and urges embracing irregular habits. He claims city boys endured wartime hardships better than country youths because they lacked rigid patterns and could function after breaks in routine.
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Chicago
Sheldon Leavitt
Right Living League
Black Hand extortion trap nets Atlanta ringleader
Asa G. Candler of Atlanta received a blackmail threat demanding 85 000 or death. The wealthy citizen set a trap and captured Daniel W. Johnson Jr, a member of his Sunday school class, who confessed after being captured and jailed awaiting grand jury indictment.
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Asa G. Candler
Atlanta
Asa G. G. Candler
Daniel W. Johnson, Jr
Mr. Candler
Roosevelt in Italy meets King in Messina aboard Re Umberto
Theodore Roosevelt met King Victor Emmanuel on the battleship Re Umberto in Messina harbor. The king thanked the American people for earthquake relief as Roosevelt toured the ruins. They spoke warmly, and crowds cheered Viva America as Roosevelt continued toward Mombasa aboard the Admiral.
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Africa
Messina
Italy
Theodore Roosevelt
Victor Emmanuel
Roosevelt
Admiral
Mombasa
America
Purchased Press a Menace Says Dr Holt
Dr Hamilton Holt editor of the New York Independent and Hague conference member warns in Kansas City that subsidized papers threaten public service. He argues papers must show character and integrity, and that independent papers gain public confidence as party allegiance fades.
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Hamilton Holt
Kansas City
New York Independent
Dr. Holt
Independent
Elephant Kills Keeper at Des Moines Circus
In Des Moines Iowa the elephant Tom in the Yankee Robinson circus winter quarters killed keeper Charles Bellew age 44 after seizing him and tossing him into the air. The beast trampled the area uprooting trees destroying wagons and a bridge before police fired forty bullets to subdue it.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Tom
Charles Bellew
Bellew
Loss of Six Lives From Steamship Explosion Near Port Simon
Captain Frank Hansen of United Fruit reports six dead from a Sarina explosion aboard the Hamburg American line ship at Port Simon. Five black laborers and one sailor burned in the hold. most cargo, mainly cotton, thrown overboard and damaged as flames were checked.
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New Orleans
Frank Hansen
United Fruit Company
Ellis
British Honduras
Port Simon
Buried Shapely Treasure Found in Lexington Lot
Workmen digging a post hole in an abandoned Lexington lot uncovered a brass kettle with 8500 dollars in gold and silver buried for about 50 years. The lot once belonged to J. C. Dewitt, who died years ago and is thought to have burned the money. The property recently sold at a commissioner’s sale for 116 dollars.
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Lexington
J. C. Dewitt
Citizenship Cancelled for Kerner and Wife Goldman
Judge Hazel of the United States circuit court granted an order cancelling the citizenship papers of Jacob A. Kerner. The order also deprives Kerner and his wife Emma Goldman, socialist leader, of all rights of citizenship in Buffalo New York.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Hazel
United States Circuit Court
Jacob A. Kerner
Kerner
Ema Goldman
Twins Cause Two Deaths Near Bouquet Farm
William Heddringer, a farmer near Bouquet, loses his mother-in-law to heart disease from excitement after the twins arrive. He then goes to the barn and shoots himself, dying alongside his mother-in-law.
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Pittsburg
William Heddringer
Bouquet
Heddringer
Mrs Sampson Freed By Jury In Lyons Trial
Mrs Georgia Allyn Sampson was acquitted of murdering her husband Harry Sampson in Lyons New York after a lengthy trial. The jury delivered a verdict of not guilty and she was immediately set free.
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Lyons
N. Y
Georgia Allyn Sampson
Harry Sampson
Rules for Druggists State Board of Pharmacy Speci fy Lawful Drugs
Atlanta regulations outline strict enforcement of the new pure drugs act. The board will issue 30 day warnings to violators before prosecutions. certain narcotics and preparations are banned from general sale without prescriptions. Cotton seed oil labeling and labelling rules for paregoric are clarified. veterinary remedies need professional prescription. Wholesale druggists must have licensed in charge.
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Atlanta
State Board of Pharmacy
Tom
Hudson
State Commissioner of Agriculture
T. A. Cheatham
Paregoric
Paris
Last Convict Lease Money Paid to Georgia From Lease Ends
Atlanta announces the final convict lease payment to the state for the quarter ending March 31, 1909. Secretary Goodloe Yancey of the prison commission reports the due amount is 93162.20 dollars, to be paid within ten days after notices go out. Funds cover penitentiary expenses first. counties not using convicts for school may not receive usual distributions.
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Atlanta
Goodloe Yancey
Prison Commission
Penitentiary Department
Parole Recommendations From Georgia Prison Commission
Atlanta reports the prison commission declines clemency for Lewis Millicons and Sam Taylor both under death sentences. It favors parole for John Blasingame and outlines multiple commutations and paroles including Nat Carswell Felix Bell and others across Fulton Oglethorpe Hart and more with various terms.
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Atlanta
Prison Commission
Smith
Lewis Millicons
Clay County
Sam Taylor
Coweta County
John Blasingame
Murray County
Will N. Osborn
Nat Carswell
Fulton County
Thomas Kemp
Marion County
Felix Bell
Oglethorpe County
Sally Johnson
Hart County
A. L. Frierson
Lowndes
Ashley McDuffie
Wilcox
Will Morgan
Jasper
Andy Hollingsworth
Liberty
Light Locckett
Polk
Eugene Romney
Bibb
Bigamy
Helen Drew
Mitchell
Southern Music Festival in Atlanta With Caruso
Bailroads grant reduced rates to Atlanta for a major May festival featuring Enrico Caruso and ten other artists. The Dresden Philharmonic leads a 70 piece orchestra with a 500 voice local chorus in Atlanta’s new eight thousand seat auditorium with state wide significance and festive citywide display.
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Atlanta
Enrico Caruso
Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra
Dresden
Germany
All America
Caruso
Georgia News Items Include Soil Survey Visit and Tariff Fears
Dr J A Bonsteel will visit Savannah on April 19 for a soil survey of Chatham County as part of an eastern district inspection tour of southern states. Georgia loses tick work chief A J Payne to North Dakota and Montana while E M Nybert leads Georgia efforts. Two insurers are barred by Comptroller General Wright for nonconforming capital placement. the Lumber Underwriters’ NY group is barred per Lloyds. A Morgan syndicate move on independent Georgia fertilizer firms is discussed, with possible summer bill for a Ben Futral medal. A Warrenton fire destroys the county courthouse and Wicker residence, over $60 000 in losses. Hebard Cypress to spend over $200,000 on Waycross mills with Okefenokee timber routes costing near $1,000,000. Georgia farmers’ use of German kainit and muriate potash prompts tariff fears that could cost about $400,000 yearly. Commissioner Hudson urged Congress to oppose higher duties.
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J. A. Bonsteel
Savannah
Chatham County
Bonsteel
United States Agricultural Department
United States
A. J. Payne
Federal Department of Agriculture
Georgia
North Dakota
Montana
E. M Nybert
W. A. Wright
Colonel Wright
Royal Casualty Company
St. Louis
Lumber Underwriters’ Association of
New York
Lloyd's Agency
Atlanta
Repreresentatives
J. P. Morgan Syndicate
Morgan
Ben Futral
Griffin
Futral
C. W. Cason
Warrenton
W. L. Wicker
R. J. Lockett
Hebard Cypress Company
Waycross
Okefenokee
Commissiondorifgédda Cdhirgert Submissioner of Agriculture
T. G. Hudson
Hudson
Congress
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Chalmers Smith
Mothers’ Congress
Roscoe Methodist Episcopal Church
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Cheatham
Southern Musical Festival
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