House Rejected Direct Election Bill and Probe Updates
House refused to accept the direct senate election bill and sent it to conference after a 172 to 112 vote. Taft urged stronger pure food laws while warning against drug frauds. The wool tariff revision advanced in the Senate, with cross party support, and Lorimer investigation testimony tied Edward Hines to a $10,000 contribution.
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House of Representatives
United States
Senate
Bristow
House
Congress
Taft
United States Supreme Court
United States Senate
Committee On Finance
Cyrus H. McCormick
International Harvester Company
Lorimer Investigation Committee
Washington
Edward Hines
The
Harvester Company
William Lorimer
Engagement Announced for Katherine Brown and Chester Barnett
West Virginia heiress Katherine Brown gets engaged to Lieut. Chester P. Barnett of the Fifteenth Cavalry U S A F O Melcher of Chicago, Rock Island vice president, and his 12 year old daughter were slightly hurt in a derailment near MacFarland Kansas.
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Henry Gassaway Davis
West Virginia
Katherine Brown
Chester P. Barnett
Fifteenth Cavalry
F. O. Melcher
Chicago
Rock Island
Guardian banker James A Mathews compared to Taft resurfaces
In a Cleveland Leader tale, Assistant Treasurer James A Mathews of the Guardian bank is teased for resembling President Taft. A dinner with Mr and Mrs Frank Harmon and their daughter leads Dorothy Harmon to say she does not see the likeness in his face, ending the joke.
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James A. Mathews
Guardian Bank
Taft
Dorothy
Uncle Jim
Cheveland
Leader
The Old Gag on Ladies Harem Skirts
Miss Lillian B. Rowe at a Denver writers dinner quips about the harem skirt. She predicts the old gag from the 1840s may return as scamsters target women with ads promising tips to prevent fringed bottoms.
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Lillian B. Rowe
Denver
Fashion and equality debate in Puck quip
A Puck cartoon caption argues that men can easily slip into clothes while women, due to effort and time, face toil and expense. It questions whether legal gender equality can reset social racing toward a fair outcome.
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Puck
Deaf beggar hears in joke doorway incident
A Milwaukee flat dweller recalls a humorous episode when a deaf and dumb applicant knocked at his door seeking aid. He found the envelope and, despite anger, slammed the door and laughed as the moment passed. The piece muses on the value of the human voice with quotes from Longfellow and Socrates.
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Lambert
White River
Arkansas
Milwaukee
Ald
Australia marks 141st anniversary of Cook landing
Historic event notes Australia commemorating the 141st anniversary of Captain Cook's landing at Botany Bay in 1770. HM Endeavor, a 370 ton barque, first entered the inlet now known for its plants and harbor views. The flag was hoisted, then unfurled again with gun salutes.
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Australia
Captain Cook
Endeavor
Sting Raya Harbor
Botany Bay
Mind Shapes Digestion The Curious Pavlovian Link
A historical excerpt explains how the mind affects digestion. It cites Pavlov style experiments showing that anticipation triggers digestive juices even without food reaching the stomach. The piece urges a calm, pleasant meal mindset to enhance digestion.
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National
New York
Yonkers Refining Companies
National Sugar Refining Company of New Jersey
Henry O. Havemeyer
American Sugar Refining Company
Horace Havemeyer
Chouse of Representatives
West
Francis
Ohio
Yale
New Haven
Conn
Standard Oil
American Tobacco
Boston
Christian Sandborg
Frank T. Luce
Orchester
Mass.) Congregational Church
Marshall Scofield
New York Institute For the Deaf and Dumb
Misa Ella M. Hopkins
Catherine Pederson
Lee O'Neil
Browne
Ottawa
Robert B. Wilson
Louis D. Hirsheimer
Pittsburg
Frank Trout
Archibald B. Johnson
Forty-Sixth General Assembly
Edmund Burke
Springfield
Charles M. Brewer
Sixth Field Artillery
Fort Riley, Kan
War Department
Duca Delgi Abruzzi
Genoa
Naples
Madeira
Alice Lafflin
Electric Company
Niagara Falla
Bartlett Richards
Nebraska
Hastings
Neb
Rochester
Minn
Carpenter
United States District Court
J. Ogden Armour
Fred A. Allen
Luke Lea
Tennessee
Georgetown
University Hospital
Baptist World Alliance
Philadelphia
John Clifford
England
James Proctor Knott
Kentucky
Lebanon, Ky
George V
Westminster Abbey
London
Old Abbey
Anselmo Braamcamp
Republic of
Portugal
Constitutional Assembly
Great Britain
Buckingham Palace
Emperor Nicholas
Rockhill
St. Petersburg
Rockbill
Constantinople
Memset
Bigpeed
Hope Arngnes
Iforyour Spohn Medical CO
Fiseritis Ang. Boshen
IMD
U.S. A
Householder
Socrates
Eer
Jiggs
Wiggs
Witten
Postum Certal Ca., Ltd
Pawlov
Pavloff
Adda
Reaso
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