Premier Asquith aims to shorten Parliament term
Reported items include a government plan to shorten the duration of parliament due March 29, a duel in Nice between Dr Duyden and Captain Van Langendonck, and Vesuvius erupting with lava and ash. Also notes justice department handling beef trust evidence, embassy building bill, and various political and crime updates.
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Asquith
House of Commons
House of Lords
Duyden
van Langendonck
Hippodrome
Nice
France
Department of Justice
Pierre Garven
Hudson County
New Jersey
Beef Trust
Washington
Lowden
Foreign Affairs Committee
London
Charles W. Fairbanks
Pilgrim Society
Earl of Salsbury
Bunker Hill
Mr. Fairbanks
Spring outlook good despite trade drawbacks
Trade ups and downs mark the season with a brighter spring outlook. Notable items include Champ Clark's sixtieth birthday, railways pressed by severe winter power issues, and a stalled postal savings bank bill in committee.
Washington News in January 1910 Reports Coal Movements and Legislation
January 1910 commerce data show heavy eastward coal and coke movement. Two Chippewa chiefs from Orr Minnesota die in lodging house gas incident. Senate passes patent court bill establishing five justices. State department horse shoeing cost criticized. post office bill clears House. agricultural bill allotted 3.5 million. Senate and House sessions last hours. Bixby questioned on Missouri river improvements from Sioux City to St Louis.
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Internal Commerce
Department of Commerce and Labor
Washington
Orr, Minn
Congress
Bois Forte
Court of Patents
Senate
United States Supreme Court
State Department
Hamlin and Clark
House
Secretary of State
Mr. Mann
William H. Bixby
Senate Committee On Commerce
Sioux City
St. Louis
Kansas City
Political and Personal News Highlights of the Era
The house committee refused to reward Commander Peary without proof of discovery. Ex-Senator Platt of New York dies of diabetes. Louis Klopsch editor of the Christian Herald is dead. Rep Hinshaw of Nebraska declines to commit on reelection. Former Senator Foraker attacks the constitutionality of a corporation tax law in a supreme court filing. The president may press the house to pass the senate postal savings bank bill feature he sought.
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Champ Clark
House of Representatives
Postal Savings Bank
House
John P. Cudahy
Kansas City
Belle Fourche
South Dakota
Senator Platt
New York
United States Express
Enrico Caruso
Smith
Iowa
Red Oak
German Geographical Society
United States
Great Britain
Antarctic
Belmore Brown
Mount McKinley
Cook
Tacoma
Nebraska
Supreme Court
Montgomery Ward
Chicago
Los Angeles
Wellington
Wash
Beveridge
Peary
Platt
Louis Klopsch
The
Christian Herald
Hinshaw
Congress
Foraker
Senate Postal Savings Bank
Iowa Good Roads Move Spurs Public Road Reform
Iowa state moves raise public road reform with the Good Roads Association organizing county road meetings and pushing bills to require public bids on large road structures. Other items note post office petition, dispatch about Belle Hobbs, and road-related fund drives across several towns.
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State Good Roads Association
Boards of Supervisors
Good Roads R
Iowa
Albion Post Office
Postal Department
Washington
Belle Hobbs
Hobbs
Republican State Central Committee
Des Moines
Cummins and Dolliver
Smith Bros
Chicago
Iowa Central
Marshalltown
George Leise
E. F. Crouse
Liscomb
John R. Lynch
Green Mountain
Weise
Crouse
Lynch
Herman Joos
Peter J. Joos
Dubuque
Great Western
F. H. Boucher
Boucher
F. E. Judd
F. R. Gaynor
le Mars
Gaynor
Mary Rowe
Waterloo
Mason City
Iowa National Guard
Col
Chantland
Ft. Dodge
Mary Comstock
A. C. Blackman
Sac City
G. C. Wright
the Baptist Church
Alden
Roosevelt Returns from Africa Jungles to Khartum Greeting Crowd
Col Theodore Roosevelt arrived in Khartum Egypt on Monday greeted by Gen Sir Reginald Wingate Mrs Roosevelt and Miss Ethel plus many correspondents and friends marking completion of a grueling Africa trek noted for abundant big game and absence of illness.
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Africa
Livingstone
Stanley
Col. Roosevelt
Reginald Wingate
Roosevelt
New York
Naples
Azores
Gibraltar
Victor Emmanuel
Mombasa
British East Africa
W. H. McMillan’s
Juja
McMillan's
Heatley Ranch
Heatley
McMillan
Nairobi
Kijabe
Souk
Lake Naivasha
Naivasha
Nyeri
Kenya
Guaso Nguisho
Londiant
Port Kisuma
Lake Victoria
Nyanza
Entebbe
Uganda
Kisuma
Kampala
Kinsinga
Hoima
Kisingo
Butiaba
Wadelai
Kongo
Nimule
Gondokoro
Upper Sudan
Khartum
Renk
Nile
Ethel
Alexandria
Paris
Vienna
University of Berlin
Christiania
London
Dead Perfection Value and Vices Noted in Lodge
The Atchison Globe notes a man once praised for no vices should acquire a vice or two. It suggests that membership in a lodge and displaying plumes and badges is preferable to mere perfection.
Growth of Trees: Oak Elm and Willow Heights
A young oak increases three feet in three years while an elm grows eight feet three inches and a willow nine feet three inches in the same period.
Careful of Others' Feelings Wedding Quip
A playful exchange about planning a wedding with the speaker joking that they must consider other fiances before setting a date. The remark reflects humorous, lighthearted tone in a dating or relationship context.
Mexican miser dies. will tattooed on his breast
A Mexican man recently deceased left a will tattooed on his chest. His heirs faced delays as the document needed copying before burial.
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Opinions on where love lives draw rules of the heart
A Chicago man argues the love germ dwells in the nervous system center while another declares the liver the seat of affection. The debate reveals shifting beliefs about bodily origins of love with no agreed conclusion.
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Chicago
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Mabray
Council Bluffs
Tschaikovsky
General Estrada
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Kansas State Editorial Association
Southampton
Broadway
168Th Street
Pat Crowe
Clinton
Crowe
Cudahy
Jack” Cudahy
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M. Lanz & Sons
Pittsburg
Edna
Hawkeye State News
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Delaware County
Novinger
Paul Gillette
Mulberry Street
Dirosso
Igazio Crovito
John C. Payne
Ilinois
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Payne
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Iowa City
Centerville
Adams
State University At Iowa College of Applied Science
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Burlington
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Otis Nugent
Auto Club
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O. B. Wheeler
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George H. Richmond
Mary Demange
State Center
Ernest Demange
Reformatory
Mitchellville
State College For the Blind
Vinton
Flora Robinson
William (. McArthur
United States Circuit Court
Edward R. Mason
Joseph Huth
Clay County
Clay Center
Leach Farm
A. E. Maine
Lillian Valentine
Casey
Sixth Avenue
Jesse Copeland
Andrew D. Roseboom
Hartley
North Dakota
Fort Madison
John Y. Cooper
Lasper County
A. V. Cooper
Prairie City
J. F. Grace
Dunlap
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Fraser
Fort Dodge
Des
Frontier City
Egypt
England
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Gordon Memorial College
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Gordon Drive
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Cairo
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