10 Mar 1913
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Newspaper
Fayetteville Daily
Location
Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1913
Page
1
Special message to the Kansas legislature urges abolishing the current system and establishing a commission form of government. The plan proposes eight to sixteen members meeting monthly to transact state business including law enactment.
Special to The Daily from Little Rock on March 10 reports Senator Futrall being elected president pro tempore and potentially becoming governor, while President Oldham may refuse to call a special election, making a contest likely. The KID BAND tickets are available at the Lyre Monday or Tuesday night.
In Alexandria Egypt on March 10 J P Morgan long ill in hotel Carries, Porfirio Diaz listed among Adriatica’s passengers bound for New York Diaz will stop in France where he will be met by a group of young Mexican Army officers ready to escort him home. The item notes the voyage and political backdrop in a terse travel snippet.
Governor Robinson resigns amid unsettled revenue bills and cabinet changes. President Oldham becomes acting governor with hints of a possible election, while the story is noted as needing discredit due to constitutional concerns. Also previews Arthur Johnson led film features at the Ozark tomorrow night.
A belated letter from a thirteen year old boy on a distant ocean islandto a woman friend expresses hopeful wishes for the new year. He mentions resolutions, leather gifts, and a hoped temperate life while lamenting delayed letters and a fragile health. He signs with earnest sincerity.
Miss Geraldine Bowman, an eastern art student, paraded a five foot wolfskin muff through the shopping district to prove women can wear anything and get away with it. She carried the rug in view, strolling with ease among noon shoppers as classmates doubted but observers saw only a stylish accessory.
The city spent 662.77 million dollars in 1912 with a cash balance of 543 thousand at year start 1913. Receipts totaled 523.14 million, led by 153.89 million from taxes and water rents and 33.46 million from sales of stock and bonds. The redemption of revenue bonds came to 168.59 million and interest on city debt to 40.19 million.
A twelve hour battle ends with Mexican rebels occupying Naco, Mexico, as Federal garrison evacuates toward Agua Prieta after a truce. Reports say several Federals are missing, with unknown casualties, while Mexican rebels push toward No Bales cutting supplies and looting stores near the border.
Rome report says Pope Pius X is much better today as fever subsides. Doctors classify illness as influenza and expect quick recovery, though grief over his sister's death adds sorrow to his health crisis.
Family of President Madero repudiates a denial alleging the death occurred after an attempted rescue by Señora Madero. The minister of war in Mexico City issued the charge yesterday.
Drunken soldiers paraded Agua Prieta streets shouting for Madero. Americans and other foreigners fled to Douglass fearing attack. A benefit show by the Kid Band offered for 10 Codis at Lyrle Monday and Tuesday night.
Washington dispatch reports Speaker Champ Clark will not meet William Jennings Bryan over diplomatic and consular appointments. Clark will present Missouri names directly to President Wilson, who will decide which suggestions to send to Cabinet members. Bryan may influence the Speaker’s elections, but final authority rests with Wilson.
A 19th century account recalls Queen Victoria's alleged intolerance toward women's rights. A 1870 anecdote alleges a prominent English matron urged suppressing the movement, describing it as mad folly, with the queen purportedly enraged and calling for action against the push for women’s rights.
Farmer Turmut's good market day ends with the loss of a cloth bought for a suit. His wife blames him, telling the vicar, who later asks Turmut about the cloth. He answers with a wry, philosophical joke about waiting for it in the night.
A Montreal man notorious for eccentricity barricaded himself in an uptown hotel, killing a policeman and wounding a detective chief before being captured and deemed insane. In Russia a bank convoy ambush ended with five bandits killed after a bomb destroyed their cottage. police authorities now permit bombs to end sieges to protect officers.
A cheerful agent parades a string of cheap items in a businessman's private office. He offers a glass cutter for 25 cents, a vacuum cleaner, a phonograph, a camera, and a $428 automobile, each met with dismissive feuding until the man buys a plane cutter for a quarter and tells the agent to leave. The scene ends with the agent thanking him for the sale.
In London, hundreds of militants attacked the royal carriage route from Buckingham Palace to Parliament, forcing entry and hurling papers at the royal coach. Police arrested several protesters as a crowd gathered near St James's Park, with the incident provoking alarm and a tense scene along the street.
London reports militants charged after arson attacks destroy the passenger station of the Great Western and Central Hallways at Saudadeytony Buckinghshire. Placard bearing Votes for Women found among the ruins, Croxley Green station also partly burned. Suspect group believed to be of Mayflower origin. A feature on the radio tomorrow titled rené groLeN BYMPHONY with a captain OF ARK slated for broadcast.
Roosevelt secures favorable posting as secretary of the navy amid cabinet reshuffle. Details remain vague as officials confirm the move in Washington with no formal ceremony announced.
A notice seeks the return of a lost pocket hook with a reward of 19 dollars offered. The ad mentions Marty Cortabning, P. Moore, and real estate security as part of a separate wanted ad, urging readers to place a notice in The Daily.
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