Taft Calls for International Inquiry on Cost of Living
President Taft urged Congress to authorize an international conference to study rising living costs and to form plans for global inquiry. He proposed a federal commission to investigate industrial relations and urged nonpartisan, comprehensive methods to inform public opinion and prompt reforms.
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Washington
Taft
Congress
Commission On Industrial Relations
Dabar
United States
Railway Stock and Bonds Commission
Austria
Belgium
Canada
Denmark
France
Germany
Great Britain
Italy
Netherlands
England
New York
Erdman
Bureaus of Labor
Ireland
J. Franklin Jameson
Department of Historical Research
Carnegie Institution of Washington
American Historical Association
WM. H. Taft
White House
Taft Urges Alaska Laws Rail Link Commission and Leases
President Taft sent to Congress a message urging a government railroad in Alaska, a commission form of government, and leasing of coal and phosphate lands. He calls for reclamation reform, five years cultivation for homesteads, and federal control of water power sites with direct leases to promote development and curb private monopoly. The message outlines plans to classify public lands and use lease revenues for local projects.
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Washington
Taft
Congress
Alaska
United States
Fisher
Senate
House of Representatives
Secretary of the Interior
Australia
New Zealand
Nova Scotia
Bering River
Matanuska
Imperial Valley
Colorado River
Arizona
Mexico
State Department
Southern Pacific Railroad
Brie
Gen. Marshall
United States Army
Reclamation Service
Bureau of National Parks
Lincoln Life to House in Alaska Coal and Rail Plan
President Taft urges Congress to back a government built trunk railroad from Seward to the Matanuska coal fields and Yukon valley, to foster Alaska development and supply navy coal, with a commission of engineers to study routes and existing lines. He supports federal control of water power sites and a national parks bureau, plus international cost of living inquiry and a national industrial relations commission.
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Matanuska
Bering River
Morgan- Guggenheim
Controller Bay
Aforgan- Guggenheim
Cordova
Seward
Kestirevtia Bay
Bins
United States
Woosvsten Teaching Grom Cad Cog
LHLO
Alaska
Yukon
Tanana
Alaska Central
Matunuckie
Motanmebe
Arctic
Canital
Pacific
Orean
Secretary of the Interior
T Suppest
Conoresa
Navy
North Pacific
Bureau of National Parks
Yellowstone Park
Yosemite
Grand Canyon
Colorado
Glacier National Park
Mount Rainier National Park
Yellowstone
British submarine A 3 sinks with all hands after collision
Portsmouth England February 2 The British submarine A 3 is lost with the entire crew after colliding with the gunboat Hazard during torpedo exercises. Eleven crewmen aboard plus three lieutenants aboard as instructors drown, totaling fourteen deaths. The A 3 lies on Princeton shoal after the disaster, with gas observed on the surface.
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Portsmouth
Eng
le Admiralty
Hazard
British Navy
Princeton
Queenstown
Plymouth
Western Gas Construction Factory Reaches Full Operation
After months of limited runs the Western Gas Construction plant operates at full capacity with all departments in ten hour shifts. The pattern shop continues overtime. An $80,000 contract cited by The Sentinel has arrived, plus several smaller contracts are being fulfilled.
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Western Gas Construction Company
The
Sentinel
Blackford Farmers Meet Set for February Sessions
Hartford City Ind Feb 2 Programs for the twenty second annual meeting of the Blackford county farmers institute to be held February 6 and 7 in the circuit court room have just been issued by the officers of the association. The institute convenes next Tuesday and will be in session two days.
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Hartford City
Ind
Blackford County Farmers’ Institute
Circuit Court Room
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Vashington
Lower
Western Gas Works
Blackford Farkmers
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