Dissensions Over Mormon Leader Joseph F. Smith Cause National Alarm
In Salt Lake City the church faces a rising internal dispute as two prominent figures charge Joseph F. Smith with using tithes for personal gain and manipulating church finance. Opposition links to Reed Smoot’s Senate seat and broader political and financial maneuvers, drawing in Thomas Kearns and Frank J. Cannon as key players.
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Salt Lake City
Joseph F. Smith
Mormon Church
Utah
Smith
Temple
Tabernacle
Reed Smoot
United States Senate
Apostle of
Congress
United States
Thomas Kearns
Frank J. Cannon
George Sutherland
Smoot
Kearns
Cannon
Africa
Canno
American Party
Brigham Young
Alfred Wilson Reports Farm Yields And Profits
Alfred Wilson writes from his home farm detailing profits of 9.15 from expenses and 18.85 from a single ploughing. He reports yields of two fields with wheat totaling 19 500 bushels on his various farms and oats with barley around 5 000 to 6 000 bushels. He adds agents of the government can provide full information on rates.
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Indian Head
Department of the Interior
Ottawa
Canada
Alfred Wilson
Coppered the Prophet Weather Almanac Trick
A Jersey store scene features Thompson the weather almanac prophet who predicts fair weather. A cigar seller bets rain before noon. Thompson is drenched by a sudden shower, learns the liar almanac was wrong, and pays the dollar plus another if the teller reveals how the forecast was known.
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Thompson
New York Press
Jersey
Cigar
Old World Oddities From the Courtroom to the Poor
A Sunderland bullock roasted for 12 hours over coke was served to 500 paupers yet remained uncooked. At Highgate police court 13 tenants in Sydney Road Hornsey live rent free as landlords never called. In London, Quenton Ashlyn, a noted musical entertainer, joins Torrey and Alexander in religious conversion and leaves his career.
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Sunderland
Highgate
Sydney Road
Hornsey
London
Torrey
Alexander
Quenton Ashlyn
How to Make a Vegetable Garden by Edith Loring Fullerton
A practical guide for home gardeners by an amateur author. The book covers soil breaking, fertilization, planting, growth, cultivation and table preparation with recipes. It includes a helpful planting table with times, depths and maturity dates, illustrated with tailored photographs.
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Edith Loring Fullerton
Doubleday, Page & Co
New York City
Ugly remark at boarding house exposed in Times-Democrat
A sharp line from the N O Times Democrat notes a boarding house remark about two other ladies and a woman described as ugly by an unnamed speaker. The quote contrasts blunt judgment with social chatter from a local boarding house setting.
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N. O. Times-Democrat
Against Rate Reduction in Georgia Rail Travel
In Atlanta the proposed three to two cent per mile passenger rate cut by J Pope Brown faced united opposition from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers the Order of Railway Conductors and several unions including blacksmiths machinists telegraphers boilermakers railway trainmen carpenters joiners clerks and carmen An attorney for the groups argued the cut would hurt state prosperity reduce railroad employment and lower wages The Travelers Protective Association also protested claiming fewer trains and pooled service would result
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Atlanta
J. Pope Brown
Georgia Railroad Commission
Georgia
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
The
Travelers’ Protective Association
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Ohio
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Smurthwaite
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Penrose
Senate Committee On Privileges and Elections
Ules
American Party of
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Hagman
Crowant
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