News of a Week in Condensed Form at Home and Abroad
A weekly digest notes Senator Lifayett Lifayetts Young of Iowa delivering his maiden senate speech, opposing Cummins rule change. Humorist Melville da Lancy Landon is critically ill in Yonkers at 71. T L Lewis reportedly re-elected United Mine Workers president by 30,000 majority. Howard Van Wyck Rossiter dies in Flushing after months of illness. Beatrice Turnbull fights for a share of J Baldwin estate in Los Angeles court. Secretary Dickinson urges expanded aero nautical gear, noting U S lag in army aviation.
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Lifayetts Young
Iowa
Senate
Cumming
House
Melville da Lancy Landon
Perkins
Yonkers
N. Y
T. L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Howard van Wyck Rossiter
New York Central Wines
Flushing
L. I
Beatrice Anita Baldwin Turnbull
Beb
J. Baldwin
Rives
Los Angeles
Cal
Dickinson
Congress
United States
International Disputes Conference and Wire Bucket Shop Raids
The American Society for Judicial Settlement of International Disputes hosts a three day Washington conference. Federal raids close Capital Investment company offices and four Chicago branches amid reports of a $10 million annual private wire bucket shop business. Several other items include Harvard speech by Theodore Roosevelt urging politics, Star Pointer horse death, and various regional incidents and census figures.
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American Society For Judicial Settlement of
Washington
Capital Investment Company
Chicago
Aurora
Joliat
Harvard
Theodore Roosevelt
Star Pointer
Rosewood Stock Farm
Maury County
Tennessee
J. A. Murphy
New York
Mexican Revolutioniata
Juarez
Bart Ward
State Bank of
Paradise
Kan
Census, Bureau
United States
West Point
Barry
Government of
Honduras
Honduran
Ottawa Free Press
London
George
Sergi
Charles Wieneke
Jason Bonner
Newcastle
Ind
Georges L. Fox
Brooklyn
World Tidings From War Debates To Disasters
Thomnnd McKinney of Battle Creek Michigan appeals to four state governors seeking execution by electric chair after 65 years of blindness and possible loss of speech. Reports cover federal stock and bond regulation hearings in New York, Mary Baker Eddy estate to the mother church, Andrew Carnegie gifting 10 million in bonds for world peace, war department secrecy, Colorado mall prosecutions, coal mine disaster near Norton Virginia with twelve dead, Thomas Navin death in Detroit, Roosevelt criticizing modern anarchism, and other national and regional updates.
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Thomnnd Mckinney
Battle Creek
Mish
Stocks and Bonds Commission
Taft
New York City
Arthur T. Hadisy
Yate
Mary Baker G. Eddy
Concord
N. H
Augusta Stetson
New York
Andrew Carnegie
Washington
War Department
House of Representatives
House
Colorado
United States
Interior Department
Bond Coal Company
Greene
Norton
Thomas J. Navin
Michigan Republican State ‘Central Committee
Detroit
Jackson
Bobby” Leach
Niagara Falls
Falla
Reichstag
Berta
Germany
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Herr Kuhert
Theodore Roosevelt
New Haven
Conn
Landle
John A. Brown
Olympia
Bligh Island
Prince Wiliam Sound
Valdez
Alaska
Missouri Supreme Court
Mort Holman
Pika County
Eugene Tucker
Green County
Manchuria
Bert
Corbin
Union Savings, Building and Trust Company of Horse
Idaho
Big Springs
Robert Emerson Davie
Boston
National Senate
Cummins
Iowa
Bix
U S Savings Deposits Exceed Four Billion Dollars
Washington reports more than 9,000,000 depositors hold over 4 billion dollars in U S savings banks. Depositors rose by over 200,000 last year, with total deposits up 357 million in twelve months. Average account about 445 dollars, roughly 26 dollars higher than a year prior.
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Ashington
United States
Armenian girl recalls escape from Mussulman harem to become American minister
Berniza Baherion, an Armenian girl, recounts fleeing a Turkish harem six years ago disguised as a servant. She plans to return to Constantinople as an American citizen, an unordained minister, and a trained nurse after completing post graduate study in London. Her tale covers family conversion, imprisonment, and escape routes via Alexandria to London and New York before studying in Lincoln Nebraska.
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Turkey
Berniza Baherion
Constantinople
Seventh Day Adventist Sanitarium
London City Hospital
England
London Hospital
Miss Baherson
Alexandrata
Doctor George
America
Alexandria
London
New York
Lincoln
Neb
Adventist School
Union College
White House Season Opens with Diplomatic and Judicial Receptions
The season at the White House is set with a January 10 diplomatic corps reception and a January 24 judiciary reception followed by the Supreme Court dinner. February 7 serves congressional circles with a private taft-initiated dinner, then a February 21 state function reception for army and navy. The Alpine audience is noted as particularly brilliant.
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Ormal
White House
Taft
Supreme Court
Justice Hughes
Hughes
Army
Navy
Health Expert Endorses Dangerous Games Belief
R HARVEY W WILEY, chief chemist, promotes a controversial view that a few deaths in football, baseball, and other sports are preferable to producing a timid race. He argues danger educates youths to be bold and capable, claiming outdoor, vigorous games are essential for children, with city children constrained compared to country peers.
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R. Harvey W. Wiley
Department of Agriculture
Doctor Wiley
Wiley
Labora
Secret 450000 Man Army Needed Says Dickinson Report
Secretary of War Dickinson warned in a secret House report that the United States stood unready for war with a standing army of only about 150,000 to 180,000 men, lacking equipment and unity. He urged raising the regulars to 450,000, building a permanent defense council, and stocking war supplies, while noting militia disorder and coast defense shortfalls. The House refused to receive the document as secret, but it later became public, prompting debate on national defense policy and mobilization needs.
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Washington
Jacob M. Dickinson
House
United States
California
Dickinson
Congress
Council of Defense
Mr. Dickinson
Atlantic
Gulf
Pacific
Gulf Coast
Pacific Coast
Rebels Whip Diaz's Troops Near La Junta Fight
Rebels defeat Diaz's federal troops in a several hour engagement at La Junta near Minaca on the Mexico Northwestern and Orient railroads. About 150 federal survivors surrendered and were allowed to depart toward Chihuahua as telegraph lines were cut, leaving few battle details.
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el Paso
la Junta
Minaca
Mexico Northwestern
Orient
Chihuahua
Saco Savings Bank Closes After Trustees Meet
The Saco Savings Bank in Saco Maine shut its doors Friday following a conference between trustees and a state examiner. Chartered in 1869 the bank has operated for 41 years with assets valued around 1.4 million dollars.
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Saco
Saco Savings Bank
Hoyt Successor Appointed Counselor of State Dept
Washington Chandler P. Anderson of New York was Friday appointed counselor of the state department to succeed the late Henry M. Hoyt.
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Hoyt
Washington
Chandler P. Anderson
New York
State Department
Henry M. Hoyt
Two World Famous Grannies Visit United States
The Rochester Post-Express lauds two renowned grandmothers, Sarah Badt and Helen Terry, as distinguished visitors. It notes Sarah Badt’s retirement from active life and Helen Terry’s continued vitality, including Shakespearean lecturing and a celebrated stage career with vivid features and a famed velvet voice.
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Rochester Post Hixpress
Sarah’ Hardt
Dilen Terry
Actrens
Hllen Terry
Henry Irying
Hogland
Misa Terry
Sue
Portia
Beatrice
Volla
Roparland
Saved Old Lady Hair and Itching Relieved by Cuthura
A reader recalls a long battle with a scalp eruption called scrama where hair fell out. Two doctors failed to help until Cuticura Soap and Ointment were used, restoring hair on a seventy four year old. The writer also notes eczema on the feet improved after ongoing use of Cuticura products. Sept. 30, 1809.
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S. Hilsworth
Hiram, Ma
Witty exchange about faith in medicine between Mr Knocker and Agent
Mr Knocker notes little faith in a medicine while the Agent asks if it cured him. Mr Knocker replies it cured him even of that faith. The dialogue is a brief humorous exchange highlighting skepticism and sly triumph.
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Mr. Knocker
Taste Sensitivity Differences From University Experiments
University of Kansas trials show the average person can taste quinine in one part per 52 000 parts water. Detectable levels include salt at one part per 640 of squid and sugar at 228 parts of water with soda at 48. Women generally detected smaller amounts than men.
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University of Kansas
Health Restored by Right Food Grape-Nuts
A Michigan woman chronicles a years long struggle with indigestion and nerve trouble after surgery. She credits two months on Grape-Nuts with restoring appetite, steady nerves, energy, and the will to work, and urges readers to try the food and read The Road to Wellville.
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Michigan
Wellville
Eivey
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