Global Happenings Note Taft Urges Rural Credits
A compact roundup covers Roddenberg on the House floor, Jack Johnson’s Chicago marriage to Lucille Cameron, Britain’s protest note to the US over Panama tolls, a railroad car order to abolish a common tower, and Taft's push for rural credits. Other items include Stimson’s war report, Parkins' Progressives move, strikes in New Jersey, and assorted political and crime notes.
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Roddenberg
Georgia
House of Representatives
Jack Johnson
Lucille Cameron
Chicago
Imnols
United States
Public figures and gifts in 1910s notes mix of charity and society
Figures from Governor Wilson and Joseph Tumulty report large letter totals and a Morgan library gift booklet priced at 100 dollars. Philadelphias rapid transit chief Mitten is hospitalized awaiting surgery at Johns Hopkins. New York philanthropy networks plan a social service bureau linking agencies. James Stillman quietly gifts 100000 to Paris School of Fine Arts. Bowery Savings forecloses on Daniel Sickley home mortgage for 118000. Alexandria Washington Masonic lodge prepares Washington death centenary observances with masons traveling to Mount Vernon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Galloway
Dominion of Canada
Canada
Waterloo
Winnipeg
Moses Willard Bartlett
State Teachers’ College
Cedar Falls
Fairview
First Congregational Church
James K.’ Snowden
Bartlett
R. A. Pearson
Ames
State Historical Society of
Iowa
A. I. Bakke
L. ©. Cooley
Mason City
B. F. Felt, Jr
Spencer
H. H. Hadley
Nevada
Lorin Stucky
Des Moines
Herbert H. Waller
Stratford
Mary E. Flinn
Sioux City
Royal and Girls’ Home
City
Woman’s Home Missionary Society
Woman's Foreign Missionary, Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Iowa Implement Dealers’ Association
E. P. Armknecht
Java
Levi Oaks
Burlington Tracks
Osceola
Oaks
Henry Disher
Davenport
Ho Jury
Dubuque
Edward Jaeger
Cecilia Louis
Postal Savings Bank
Stephen Eason, Jr
Alton
Remsen
Omaha
Story County
A. L. Wheeler
Frank
James Kozbeck
Iowa City
Knoxville
K. P. Hall
Security Savings Bank
Perry
Frank @. Pierce
Calvary
Guy &. Logan
B. T. Carroll
Logan
National Guard
Rifle Gange
Lke
Glenwood
Mills County
Iowa Beef Producers’ Association
John Nolen
Cambridge
Mass
Keokuk
Commercial Club
Clear Lake
EB. T. Armstrong
Charles City
R. A. Folk
Republican
Record
Maquoksata
Southeastern Town Horticulturist Society
West Liberty
George Eden
Lone Tree
Town Falls
Creston
Southwestern Laws Horticultural Society
Giles Inman
Conductor Inman
Milwaukee Road
F. M. Crane Company
Soldier River
Galcon
Decorah
Henry Berglan
Newton
George
Phinney
Waverly
Joseph Goss
People's Savings Bank
George Hillett
N. W. Ry
Carlottte
Roach & Musser Sash and Door
Muscatine
M. Jusserand
United States
French Institute
New York
James Stillman
School of Fine Arts
Paris
Daniel B. Sickley
Bowery Savings Bank
Supreme Court
Alexandria-Washington
Wall Street Money Trust Probed Loans and Rates
Washington authorities questioned how fixed interest rates on Wall Street loans could curb financial troubles. Griesel testified that millions are loaned daily by New York banks over the telephone, with major lenders including National City Bank Chase National and Bank of Commerce. Turner described six percent as standard, while noting large daily totals and the potential impact of high rates on money flow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Money Trust
J.H. Griesel
Griesel & Rogers
New York
New York Stock Exchange
Consolidated Stock Exchange
Consolidated
Consolidated Exchange
Miguel DeAguero
Samuel UN
Griesel
J. F. Morgan & Co
National City Bank
Chase National
Bank of Commerce
GC. W. Turner
Ioana
Stock Exchange
Prince Luitpold of Bavaria Dies at 91
Luitpold, prince regent of Bavaria, died in Munich at age ninety-one after months of ill health. He had served as a German military leader and, in 1886, became regent when King Ludwig III and King Otto were incapacitated. Known for a simple life, he seldom rose late and avoided pomp.
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Munich
Bavaria
Luitpold
Ludwig III
Otto
Francis Joseph
Serb Minister Recalled Sparks Vienna War Anxiety
London Dec 14 The Servian minister to Austria M Simics was recalled by Belgrade. The recall created uproar in Vienna where war with Servia was seen as a certainty amid mounting tension and confusion over the Austro-Serbian situation.
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Servia
London
Austria
M. Simics
Belgrade
Vienna
Troops Ordered to Honolulu from Pacific Coast
Washington December 14. Secretary of War Stimson issued orders for the removal of the Twenty-fifth Infantry and Coast Artillery Companies Ten Sixty eight and Seventy-five from the Pacific coast to Honolulu.
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Honolulu
Washington
Stimson
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Coast Artillery
Pacific Coast
Fire Loss 2 1,000,000 in Bayonne Oil Tanks Blaze
Fire in Bayonne New Jersey destroyed three large Standard Oil oil tanks and a substantial building housing valuable machinery. The loss was estimated at 1,000,000 dollars. The fire occurred Thursday, December 14.
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Bayonne
N. J
Standard Oil Company
Kansas Receives 33000 Inheritance Tax On Dexter Estate
Dexter heirs pay Kansas 33000 after the death of Henry Dexter of New York. The 2 million estate included 600000 in Kansas railroad stock. The tax was collected Thursday in Topake.
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Kansas
Topake
Kan
State of
Henry Dexter
New York
Dexter
Lost trousers in poker game lead to arrest in Detroit
William Verne appeared in a Detroit police court wearing a dress coat and underwear after losing his trousers in a poker game the night before. He had wagered his cash, watch, and diamonds in the bet, and when cleaned out he quit the game to go home in his remaining attire. The bank refused to loan him the trousers and he was arrested.
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William Verne
Detroit
William
Two Guesses by a Proud Father and Doctor
A comic exchange in Harper's Weekly features a proud father asking if the newborn is a boy or a girl. The doctor offers two guesses and hints at the difficulty of predicting the gender, prompting playful back and forth between the characters.
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Harper's Weekly
No Call for Anxiety in Tramp Money Exchange
A citizen hands money to a tramp and seeks assurance it will not be used for unworthy purposes. The tramp questions whether the money would be wasted on food and clothes, challenging the claimant’s expectations. The fragment ends with a tense exchange over the money’s use.
Never Tires Of the Food That Restored Her to Health
A young Cole woman writes of two years of illness from indigestion and rheumatism. After trying various diets, she credits Grape-Nuts with restoring her health, gaining weight and strength, and ending rheumatism. She continues to eat it daily and notes digestion improvements, with a brief endorsement and a prompt to read The Road to Wellville.
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Cole
Postum Co
Battle Crash
Mich
Wellville
Pkga
Ady
Also Mentioned on This Page
Great Britain
Panama Canal
Howard Grey
Knox
Bryce
MacVeagh
Treasury Department
Taft
Wilson
Carl Alsberg
Bureau of Drugs and Plants
Bureau of Chemistry
Harvey W. Wiley
Henry L. Stimson
George W. Parkins
Progressive National Committee
Progressiva Party
Lile
New York City
Susquehanna Railroad
Erie Railroad
Shadyside
Edgewater
Benjamin F. Shively
Indiana
Senator Snively
Richard H. Townley
Nebraska
Lincoln Hospital
William H. Quigley
Carpenters’ Union
Indianapolis
Hold
Misa Leona Sherer
St. Louis
V. Matia
Centralia
Matla
Jane Perkins
Unteol County
Tehnassee
Kansas City
Nathaniel P. Simpron
Bimpoon
Wythaville
Sidna Allen
Hillsville
Allen
Foster
Dora
Alaska Steamshin Company
Seaward
Alaska
John F. Gaynor
Savannah Harbor
Thomas Adams
Sheffield
Samuel Williamson
Interstate Commerce Commission
Union Stockyards and Transit Company of Chicago
United States Supreme Court
Pfaelzer & Sona, Packers
Carrie Chapman Catt
Equal Suffrage Club
Woodrow Wilson
Roosevelt
Jacob Dunn
Peter Dunn
Lesley Davenport
Ford Mine
Cincinnati
National Baseball League
Thomas J. Lynch
Jim Flynn
Luther McCarty
Los Angeles
Iowafnews
Lee County
Carroll
Sylvester Slattery
Fort Madison
Slattery
Anamosa
Adjutant General
Camp Dodge
Rifle Range
Bert Erb
Jenning
M. &. Kneeland
Britt Tribune
Edwin M. Bailey
George S. and
BH. D. Wellemeyer
George L
The
Spirit Lake Herald
J. Pierpont Morgan
T. BH. Mitten
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Social Service Exchange
Jone
Pujo
Wall Street
Prince OF
Dean
Michigan
Sherman Ave
Corunna
Michanys
Doan
Ney Dost
Epiles Foster-Milburn CO
Bolfet
Rastus
Sab
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