Venezuela elects Gomez president amid prisoner releases
Across continents news notes report Juan Vicente Gomez elected constitutional president of Venezuela for a four year term by congress with all political prisoners released in his honor. Other items include Bjornson’s coffin in Paris bound for Copenhagen and the pope receiving the dying monsignor’s family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Juan Vicente Gomez
Venezuela
Congress
Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Paris
Copenhagen
Vatican
Mgr
Guglielmo Piffert
Apostolic Palace
Pius IX
Ecclestiastic
Naples
Fetelle Reid
Bay of Naples
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Washington
Miss Reid
Lettieri
Iowa News Highlights Atoning Murders and Fires in 1910 Era
The report covers a violent assault on Ella Summers near Henderson with acid burns, broader Iowa incidents including mouldy corn causing cattle disease, a damaged Storm Lake bell, Des Moines city growth figures, a major will contest in Iowa City, Elk lodge move in Mason City, and multiple local crimes, fires, and civic notes across counties.
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J. A. Stonebraker
Henderson
Ella Summers
Miss Summers
Summers
Winneshiek County
Storm Lake
Des Moines
District Court
Iowa City
Ed C. Powers
E. D. Powers
Mason City Elks Lodge
Main
Seventh Streets
Frank Rice
Eddyville
Florence Ross
Mitchell
Perry
Dallas County
Iowa
Odd Fellows’ Convention
Charles City
Mason City
Orphans’ Home
Joyce
Milwaukee
Templeton
Roy Cumms
Clinton
Chicago
Minnie F. Harris
Cresco
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Humboldt
Dakota City
U. S. Grant
F. V. Vacey
Tarkio
Albia
Vacey
McPherson
Davenport
Milton Travich
Dam Karuga
Seevers
Newton
Birth of Daughter for Senator Beveridge Marks Family Milestone
A daughter was born to Senator and Mrs Beveridge, the second child from the senator’s second marriage. The first child is a son aged about twenty months. President Taft sent to the Senate the nomination of Carl Rasch of Montana to be United States district judge there. Rasch has been assisting Interior Secretary Ballinger during the Ballinger Pinchot inquiry.
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Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Norway
Roosevelt
Paris
Hale
Senate
United States
Nebraska Supreme Court
Indiana
Mulga
Alabama
Burlington
Lincoln Yards
Lincoln
Nebr
Tahoma
Seattle
Alaska
Portland
Henry Willington Smith
Lee
Mass
Erie Railway
New York
Supreme Bench
Julius Brewer
Congressman Pollard
Nebraska
Joseph F. O'Connell
Massachusetts
Albert Estopinal
Louisiana
House
Snator Chamberlain
Oregon
Congress
Iowa Railroad Commission
Harry K. Thaw
Stanford White
Matteawan
Supreme Court
Brooklyn
Atlantic Seaboard
Interstate Commerce Commission
John W. Kern
Democratic Convention
Thomas F. Walsh
Colorado
Supreme Court of Missouri
R. J. House
Kansas City Board of Trade
Kansas
Thomas Bailey
National Bank
Chatworth
Chicago
Gov. Hughes
Supreme Court of the United States
8. F. Balliet
Des Moines
Tonopah
Nev
San Francisco
Local Stock Exchange
Steel, Miller & Co
Corinth
Migs
Columbus
Mississippi
Interstate Commerce Report
Iowa
Ottumwa
James W. Boling
Samuel Bradley
O. W. Calkins
J. H. Campbell
E. H. Cole
R. M. Creighton
A. E. Hatterhow
L. R. McCann
T. P. Pierce
Anna Eldredge Sherry
Gilbert Nelson
Adams Express Company
Albia
Nelson
Art Russell
Withrow
Jesse A. Quick
Prairie City
Mary Guthrie
Carthage
Ill
Alexander Hall
Quick
George R. Struble
Toledo
George W. White
Norwalk
Abraham Anderson
James Strain
Dubuque
Fler
Joseph Hutchinson
Manchester
Manchester and
Onedin Railroad
Harrisburg
Guttenberg
Dubungque
A. J. Sweeny
Council Bluffs
William Thiessen
Ogden
Standard Lumber Company
George Eldridge
Marshalltown
A. Cooper
Britt
Raniély
Beveridge
Taft
Carl Rasch
Montana
Rasch
Secretary of the Interior
Ballinger
Ballinger-Pinchot
West Point
Weston
Military Academy
Secretary of War
Brown and
Burkett
Commercial Club
Peter W. Peterson
Clay County
South Dakota
Peterson
Tariff Clash Pushes Canadian Frontier on Wheat Trade
Thomas C. Shotwell reports from New York on Taft's tariff fight with Canada. He cites 160,000 to 250,000 American farmers likely crossing into the Canadian northwest in 1910, filling U S vacancies with European and urban workers. Canada grows agrarian influence and may supply U S wheat. tariff removal for cattle and wheat is urged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas C. Shotwell
America
New York
Canada
Taft
Canadian Northwest
United States
Europe
Dominions
Crisis provides lesson in family humor
A boy’s antics prompt his father to intervene with a joke about a crisis. The seven year old Bobby explains to his father that a crisis means a baby, whether a boy or a girl, revealing a child's candid understanding in a light moment from a Judge humorous column.
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Bobby
Papa
From Pain to Pleasure a Quick Transition
A Boulder Colorado reader, Geo. E. Ames, D. D. 8, reports using Resinol on a months old child with a widespread rash resembling eczema. After applying the sample, the infant’s discomfort subsided quickly, with full recovery in two days and the mother expressing heartfelt gratitude.
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Geo. E. Ames
D. D
Boulder
Colo
Domestic Notes and Murine Ad Parody
A fragmented domestic note contains a quip about drunkenness and explosions by a wife. It includes odd advertising mockups for Murine Eye Remedy Co with cheesy slogans and a Henry Drummond quote about love and living abundantly.
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Murine
Murine Eye Remedy Co
Chicago
Perry Oavie Painkille Advertises Cure All
An old advertisement proclaims Perry Oavie Painkille as “an ounce of on” and “a pound of cure” for bowel troubles wounds colds and other ills. The fragmentary copy suggests patent medicine marketing common in historical newspapers.
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Perry oAvie
Mothers Slipper Sparks Early Impressions
A reflective line notes that some initial thoughts were formed by a mother's slipper, suggesting intimate childhood memory shaping perception. The piece hints at family influence and personal perspective without detailing events or names.
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Reno
Fa Packer
Union
Southern Pacific
Herrin
Robert E. Peary
England
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Brown
United States Senate
South Sea Islands
House Democrats
Bryan
Nebraska City
National School of Forestry
Tom Taggart
St. Louis
Sherman
Iowa News
Gladwin
Court House
Logan
J. H. Strock
New Sharon
Henry Drummond
Dodds
Carter
Douglas
I. W. L. Douglas
Douglas Na
Dweie Wackens Denier
Seria
Grant County Lands
Orego
Sre
Beakinn
Hoon Rine Land Cent Co
Ord Street
Says
T. Louis & Ca
Thos. Shaw
Minnesota
Surmsow & Skiaos
Duluth
AO Gat Bank
Ghishome
Ghia
Tha Aodicatt
Arthur Larson
Rapid City
Beaver Lake District
Land
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NSETH
Ryley
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Wits
Standard of Company
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