Tariff bill pass sparks party rifts in Senate
Insurgent Republican Beveridge led criticism of the tariff measure while Aldrich defended party fidelity. The bill passed 34 to 4 amid debate on free tobacco sales in hand and new internal revenue record requirements as a wave of partisan tension and past protests resurfaced.
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Washinton
D. C
Senate
Heveridge
Indiana
Brisae
Arkansas
Crown
Nebraska
Market
Clapp
Minnesota
Crawford
South Dakota
Cumins
Jows
Dolliver
Iowa
la Folerite
Wisconsin
Nelson
Menery
Louisiana
Beveridge
Haveridge
Aldrich
Ite Crawford
Rhode Island
Bradley
Internal Revenue Service
Kentucky
Tenessee
Tramp Saves 200 Lives on Rio Grande Train
In Canon City Colorado an unknown tramp alerted the engine crew to a dangerous track condition two miles east of Swal lows near a westbound Rio Grande train. The rescue saved over 200 passengers as the toadbed showed serious underlining and two miles of danger. The unnoticed hero was not rewarded for his bravery.
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Canon City
Colo
Rio Grande
Swallows
Texas to probe yellow fever in Cuba by Brumby
Governor Campbell sends Dr. W L Brumby state health officer to Cuba to assess yellow fever conditions. Upon return he will report quarantine measures Texas should adopt against Cuba and Mexico to protect Texans.
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Texas
Dallas
W. L. Brumby
Campbell
Cuba
Brumby
Mexico
Prohibition Losses Hit Wisconsin Brewers and Distillers
The dry wave severely reduced Wisconsin brewers and distillers and the local internal revenue office reports a drop in tax receipts to 822000.92 for the year ending June 30. The article notes substantial business declines and hardships faced by the industry under prohibition.
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Wisconsin
Milwanteun Wis
Internal Revenue Office
Train Overturned In Kansas River Floods
A catastrophic train crash occurs as a Santa Fe line derails near Po Mona Kansas after floods from swollen Missouri valley waters. Ten coaches involved. four toppled from track with three days’ worth of cars left abandoned. No clear details on injuries or casualties are provided in this fragment.
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Santa Fe
Kansas
Tny
Missouri Valley
Froml
Po- Mona
Hygienic School Books Urge Better Surroundings for Pupils
In Denver a National Educational Association convention speaker William W Hastings urged that no teacher with a bent spine or coughing should teach. He insisted the city bears responsibility for deteriorated minds and bodies in pupils and called for integrating physical education with academics. Teachers echoed the push for wider playgrounds and more bodily activity in schools.
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Denver
Col
William W. Hastings
Springfield
Mass
National Educational Association
Rockefeller Reaches Seventy With Health and Wealth
Cleveland, Ohio. John D Rockefeller has reached seventy years of age. Born on a New York farm near Richford, Tioga county, he rose from penniless farmer’s boy to a world renowned financier. He is enjoying rugged old age, in good health, and received congratulatory telegrams and callers. His birthday was spent attending to business and playing golf.
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Cleveland
Ohio
John DD. Rockefeller
Richford
Tioga County
New York
Rockefeller
Record of Giant Cheese Displayed in Utica
Utica, N Y. The eraEry cheese ever manufactured in the lohawk valley shipped to a Chicago firm by the local cold storage company. The cheese was built in the usual shape but measured 32 inches high and 45 inches in diameter and weighed 1 950 pounds. It took about ten tons of milk to produce it and it was pressed into shape in a cheese factory where it was bought by a Chicago firm through a cold storage company.
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Utica
N. Y
Memphis Woman Charged With Attempted Suicide Test Case
For the first time in Memphis a young woman is formally charged with attempted self destruction. The arrest followed medical treatment at the city hospital after the incident. The case will test the Tennessee statute making attempted death by own action a felony and outlining heavy penalties.
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Memphis
Tenn
Tennessee
Governor Deems State Food Fit for Officers and Inmates
Topeka Kans Governor W R Stubbs says state institution staff should eat the same meals provided to inmates He insists meals must meet standards for both workers and wards If officers cannot eat state food they should buy provisions He argues the policy reflects care for children and invalids in institutions.
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Topeka
Kans
W. R. Stubbs
Statue Planned in New Orleans for Founder Bienville
After nearly two centuries the first Bienville statue will occupy a public square in New Orleans. A small Bienville figure already stands in the Louisiana Historical Society exhibit room as the model for a larger statue to be created.
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New Orleans
Bienville
Louisiana Historical Society
Women Convicts May Be Taken From Roads
Protests by humanitarians lead DeSoto parish officials to consider ending road labor for women convicts. The plan would move inmates back to the jail in Mansfield to finish their sentences after a flood of petitions against road work.
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Mansfield
DeSoto Parish
Pius Will Contested as Niece Seek Restitution of Bishop Adams Fortunes
Three nieces of the late Bishop Adams threaten an amicable adjustment suit to reclaim their uncle’s fortune from the Vatican which holds the will placing all assets with Monsignor Sarto the future pope. Justice Mills orders Thaw transferred from Matteawan to White Plains jail in a potential change of venue standoff with Justice Gaynor. Charleston post office receipts total 151538.20 for the year, a record, up nearly 8000 from last year. British pensions grant 125 dollars yearly to Dickens granddaughters Mary Dorothy and Bessie for their grandfather’s literary eminence.
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Pius
Adams
Vatican
Monsignor Sarto
Justice Mills
Harry K. Thaw
Matteawan
White Plains
Thaw
Mills
Gaynor
Charleston
8. C
Mary
Dorothy
Bessie Dickens
Charles Dickens
Taft Plans Western Trip and Savannah Visit
President Taft outlined tentative fall travel from Beverly, Washington to the west with stops including Denver, Salt Lake, Spokane, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles and more. He hopes to visit Macon and Savannah on return, with a river trip aboard Tamacraw and an automobile tour proposed, following invitations from local leaders.
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Philadelphia
Taft
Diaz
Mexico
el Paso
Texas
Beverly
Wash
Denver
Salt Lake
Spokane
Seattle
Portland
Ore
San Francisco
Los Angeles
G. Arthur Gordon
Charles A. Strong
Augusta
Rockefeller Gives $10 Million to General Education Board
New York City John D Rockefeller increases his gifts to the General Education Board by 10 million dollars and frees the fund from perpetuity. Frederic T Gates, chairman, says total gifts reach 62 million. The gift lets the board distribute principal by two thirds vote to meet growing educational needs and contemplates possible future change if the foundation’s purpose becomes obsolete.
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Rockefeller
General Education Board
New York City
John D. Rockefeller
Frederick T. Gates
Mr. Rockefeller
Gates
Rockefeller Foundation
Man With Twenty Four Wives Sentenced After Bigamy Saga
In San Francisco John Madson, accused of bigamy, is under police custody. Authorities say he wed ten women and engaged to four teen others, totaling twenty four duped partners who mostly were widowed or divorced middle aged women. He deserted each bride shortly after marriage. trial may occur in Stockton where one wife lives.
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San Francisco
Cal
John Madson
America
Madson
Jonesburg
Ark
Gettysburg
Ohio
New Orleans
Stockton
Consul Attacked by Mob in La Paz Over Boundary Decision
Bolivian mob stones the Argentine legation in La Paz after President Alcorta's boundary ruling on Peru Bolivia sparks upheaval. Troops deployed to guard the Argentine minister as crowds rage in the streets.
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Legation
la Paz
Bolivia
Alcorta
Peru
Elevator allowance barred by interstate commerce decision
The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled the Nashville elevator allowance for hay grain and grain products discriminatory. Georgia complainants claimed carriers favored Nashville flow from Ohio and Mississippi crossings to the southeast, stifling competition. The commission ordered carriers to stop the Nashville allowance by September 1 and to file conforming tariffs.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington, D. C
Nashville
Tenn
Atlanta
Georgia
Oho
Mississippi River
Trafic
Fish Kills Mosquitoes Tip Minnows Swim on Water Surface
United States imports fish into the Panama Canal Zone to eat mosquitoes. The fish, tip minnows, feed at the water surface with mouths adapted for algae and surface swarming. They swim in large schools, never exceed 1.5 inches, and inhabit stagnant to brackish waters. Their larval predation is linked to Barbados’ malaria absence.
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Washington
Barbadoes
Bristol Votes for Liquor Wets Win Narrowly in Va
Bristol Virginia voters backed liquor by 489 to 401 in a hotly contested local option election. The wets claim the victory will slow statewide prohibition efforts in Virginia and signal a broader southern reclaiming effort after prior Petersburg success.
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Virginia
Bristol
South
Petersburg
Taft and Ambassadors Promote Peace at Champlain Celebration
In Bluff Point Vermont President Taft Ambassador Jusserand and Bryce of Great Britain and other officials joined the three hundredth anniversary observance of Lake Champlain discovery. They urged peaceful relations and pledged their nations to avoid war under the shadow of historic Fort Ticonderoga.
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Taft
Jusserand
Bryce
Bluff Point
France
Great Britain
Dickinson
Uriu
Japan
Lake Champlain
Old Ticonderoga
Farmers Lose 30 Million Yearly Warns Local Union Speech
Colonel Leonidas F. Scott editor of the Conyers Free Press spoke to Oak Grove Local Farmers Union in Conyers Georgia. He warned the south loses thirty million dollars annually due to careless cotton bale packing.
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Colonel Scott
Farmers’ Union
Conyers
Leonidas F. Scott
Conyers Free Press
Oak Grove
South
NYSE Guarded Against Plot to Blow Up Building
New York City police and plainclothes officers patrolled the New York Stock Exchange after word of a dynamite plot. A large force maintained perimeter around the handsome building to prevent any attack.
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New York Stock Exchange
New York City
Stock Exchange
New Cotton Pest Reported in Louisiana Fields
Farmers across Logansport and surrounding areas report a new pest called the Mexican flea infesting cotton fields in large numbers and causing damage surpassing that of the boll weevil. Local growers seek guidance on control measures and potential economic impact.
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Louisiana
Logansport
States to Regulate Trusts in Interstate Commerce
In Paducah Kentucky George W Wickersham US attorney general urged Congress to enact nationally created incorporations to handle interstate business. He outlined state and federal avenues to regulate foreign corporations, including licensure and stock ownership rules, and warned of legal complexity in interstate traffic.
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Mr. Wickersham
Paducah
Congress
State Bar Association
George W. Wickersham
United States
Wickersham
Justice Harlan
United States Supreme Court
Economy on Isthmus Ends Carriage Use for Officials
Washington reports a Taft era economy wave reaching the isthmian canal zone. Colonel Goethals orders discontinuation of government carriages and directs sale of transport gear except limited public business surveys. The commission now auctions 80 000 to 100 000 of old iron and steel left by the French.
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Washington
D. C
Taft
Isthmian Canal Zone
Goethals
Canal Commission
Commission
New Hydrophobia Theory Emerges From Penn Research
Physicians at the University of Pennsylvania reveal experiments suggesting a radically different cause for hydrophobia. Dr. Charles W. Dulles notes results may overturn nearly all current theories, though publication was planned for next spring. The findings promise a potential revolution in understanding the disease.
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University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Charles W. Dulles
University
Fasting Record Broken by Mrs Hoag in Los Angeles
Mrs Lillian D Hoag of Los Angeles reportedly fasted forty nine days with no food, surpassing former record of forty one days held by Chicago teacher Etta Priscilla Grove. The lengthy fast aimed to combat illness and yielded results beyond expectations.
Expensive Tauren Railroad Opens in Austria
Emperor Francis Joseph inaugurated the Alpine Tauren line linking Gastein and Spittal in a grand ceremony. Despite a 30 mile span, construction cost 62 500 000 and eight years were needed for the Tauren tunnel, reducing travel distance between central Europe and the Adriatic.
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Gastein
Austria
Tauren
Spittal
Francis Joseph
Central
Europe
Adriatic
Governor Brown Warns of Financial Breakers Ahead
Brown warns of a looming deficit of about 200000 with only 41726 left in the treasury. He cites two potential remedies: borrowing funds or freeing near-beer tax revenue of 227896.24. The near-beer fund, restricted to convicts’ care, could avert urgent obligations and meet demands from universities and state schools. He sent a special message urging legislative action.
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Brown
General Assembly
University
School For the Blind
School For the Deaf
Governor Brown Pushes Codification Of State Laws
Governor Brown sent to the general assembly a special message on codifying the state's laws. Judge John L. Hopkins reports that he has codified all statutes since 1895, expanding the code by 949 sections to create a volume of 1,178 pages. He notes many laws are amended or repealed and urges action to codify fourteen volumes of session laws.
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Brown
General Assembly
John L. Hopkins
Atlanta
Hopkins
Near Beer Money Dispute Heads to Legislature
A Greene representative introduces a resolution asking that 230000 dollars from near beer tax be placed in the state treasury to cover incidental expenses. Current law earmarks the fund for a prison farm and other convict system costs, but the prison commission has dropped plans for a farm. The measure may gain general assembly support.
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McWhirter
Greene
Prison Commission
General Assembly
Lawmakers debate bills on gambling taxes and agricultural offices
Georgia lawmakers discuss Barrett's bill banning bets and wagers in the state and a tax book requirement for county tax collectors. A measure creates a county agriculture and horticulture commissioner and a dog tax proposal seeks fees of 2 for male dogs and 6 for female dogs. A congressmen’s cotton statistics request moves forward while Joe Hill Hall takes ten days' leave for Pacific coast business.
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Atlanta
Barrett of
Stephens
Barrett
General Judiciary Committee
Georgia
Fulton
Messrs
Alexander, Brown and MecElreath
Cordell
Elbert
General Agricultural Committee
Vinson
Baldwin
Congress
Joe Hill Hall
Bibb
Pacific Coast
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Savannah
Macon
Corporation Control
U. S
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