Taft Philippine dinner highlights political ties
Washington March 2 A Taft Philippine expedition themed dinner at the Willard hotel drew seven U S senators and twenty four House members among other notables. The event recalled the 1906 voyage with marriages forming notable bonds including Longworth Roosevelt Cockran and Swase Sherley engaged or betrothed. Taft praised the party and invited them to the White House, linking the mission to future administrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philippines
Mabel Boardman
McKinley
Umnols
United States
House of
Orient
Taft
Nicholas Longworth
Alice Roosevelt
Bourke Cockran
Sliss Ide
Ide
Philippine Commission
Cockran
Swaser Sherley
Kentucky
Bliss Minnon Critton
Staten Island
Willard Hotel
Inaugural Casualty at Washington Ball Event
In Washington on March 2 a carnival ball was set to be held in the pension building when Melville Swann a carpenter fell fifteen feet from a scaffold striking his head on a stone floor. He died from a fractured skull. Separately flames broke out in the inaugural decorations at the Regent hotel on Pennsylvania avenue but caused no damage to the building.
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Washington
Melville Swann
Regent
Pennylvania Avenue
Inaugural Innovation Parade Participants
Washington March 2. For the first time in the nation wives of the president and vice president will take part in an inaugural parade. Mrs. Teffi and Mrs. Sherman will accompany their husbands from the Capitol after the inauguration and proceed to the White House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washiton
Attine
Tefi
Sherman
Capitol
White House
Gar Crushes Three Miners
A mining incident in Oklahoma City region leaves three miners dead when two coal cars break loose. The runaway cars derail and pull a miner under an inclined section, causing fatal injuries as rescue efforts begin.
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Gar
Oklahoma Cy
Okla
a@phrea inc
Ren
Aviseo
Shel
Back to Work at Candee Rubber after Jan Closure
March 2 report says Candee Rubber resumed operations after a closure since January 30. The company aims to reopen production and bring 1,500 workers back to the plant as it relaunches activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ute
Haven
Xing. Besa
Thy L. Candee Rubber Com? Ae
Fragmentary remark on speech and feeling torn apart
Fragmentary OCR text shows a speaker describing a first time speaking and feeling torn or frightened, with garbled surrounding phrases about Thadorn and others. The passage lacks clear names, dates, or places to establish a full event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thadorn
Cure for Baby Eczema Claims Cuticura Remedies Heal
Mrs. W. M. Comerer of Burnt Cabins Pa reports that her two month old son suffered severe eczema until Cuticura Remedies cured him after costly doctor treatments failed. She praises Cuticura Soap Ointment Resolvent and Pills and offers to share a photograph from age fifteen months showing clear skin. She urges others to use Cuticura if similar trouble recurs and notes global sales and depot addresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. M. Comerer
London
Charterhouse Sq
Paris
Rune de la Paix
Australia
Ht. Towns Co
Sydney
South Africa
Lennon, Ltd
Cape Town
Natal
Potter Drug & Chem, Corp
Sole Prona
Columbus Ave
Boston
Cuticura
America's Homecoming Fleet Returns in Glory
The Baltimore American quotes Josh Wink praising the world circling homecoming of the American fleet. The piece extols the ships, crews, and diplomacy, noting how the battleships have spread friendship, earned respect, and boosted the nation's stature. It celebrates a peaceful voyage and longs for homecoming to secure lasting global glory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Josh Wink
Baltimore American
Incredible Heart Labor Daily Revealed in Calculations
Historical note describes heart muscle as tireless, capable of lifting five tons per hour and moving blood vast distances. Dr. Richardson’s figures estimate 69 beats per minute at nine feet per beat, totaling about seven miles of blood flow per hour and over 5 million miles in a lifetime, with over eight billion heartbeats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Richardson
Laws Fight Over Subsoil Rights At Resina Excavation
In Herculaneum, near modern villages Vortici and Resina, Italy seeks to resolve property rights as it excavates a buried city. A pending law would claim eminent domain over subsoil ground and any buried treasures, challenging local landowners who hold surface titles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herculaneum
Vortici
Resina
First Appendicitis Operation in 1885 Denver Hospital
In January 1885 at St. Luke's hospital Denver a young Davenport Indiana woman became the first recorded patient to have the vermiform appendix removed An experimental extreme procedure that filled a gap in medical writings and sparked note from Migexive about the case
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St. Luke's Hospital
Denver
Davenport
Mans
De Luxe Special carries Behan Busy Bees to Washington
Chicago dispatch notes the De Luxe Special departure from Chicago carrying Louis J. Behan and a large Hamilton Club Republican party toward Washington for inaugural events. Governor Dunne and staff travel, with aims to showcase capital life and influence political prospects. The piece also lists medical-occupational commission appointees and notes Lieutenant Governor Oglesby becomes acting governor at 1 PM.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Louis J. Behan
Republican National Committee
Hamilton Club
Minois
Washington
Deneen
Springfield
Fred W. Upham
William Stayward
Edward J. Brundage
Pennsylvania
Baltimore and Ohio
Marquis Eaton
Touch of
Capital Life
Taft Rates Roosevelt Among Washington and Lincoln
William H. Taft, asked for an estimate of Theodore Roosevelt, said it was hard to judge with deep affection. He added he believes future historians will place Roosevelt with Washington and Lincoln, as a providential figure for a crisis in the nation's history rivaling the Revolution and Civil War.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McKinley
Senator Cullom
William B. McKinley
Congress
Lorimer
Deneen
Deneeen
Hopkins
Edward D. Shurtleff
Frank O. Lowden
Washington
Taft
Ilinois
Theodore Roosevelt
William H. Taft
Lincoln
Priest's Plea for Thief in Chicago Court
Henry Vasey, a confessed church thief who shot at Father Janes K. Fielding of Corpus Christi Church, was held to the grand jury by Municipal Judge Beitler. Instead of prosecution, the priest urged mercy and asked to take Vasey for rehabilitation in a hospital to enable communication with his relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Henry Vasey
Janes K. Fielding
Corpus Christi Church
Beitler
Vasey
Father Fielding
Miners Demand Pledge Could Be Refused
New York March 2 A pamphlet said to be approved by coal operators indicates that when the miners present demands this month they will be refused The three year agreement expires March 321 Reports say the miners will seek official recognition higher wages shorter hours and other concessions
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Monuments Planned for Senator Allison by Iowa Schools
Des Moines Iowa March 2 Iowa school children will erect two monuments to the memory of Senator William B Allison Today which would have been the eightieth birthday of the statesman in every school of the state the half million children will bring a voluntary contribution of ten cents One monument will be erected here and the other in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Willam B. Allison
the Statesman
Washington
Jail dime novel reader held after derailment claim
Cleveland youth Arthur French seventeen is jailed after a detective says he tried to derail a Northern Ohio Traction company car twenty feet from a bridge. French admitted reading wild west and detective fiction and voiced defiance, saying let them do their worst.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Northern Ohio Traction Company
Arthur French
French
Aliens Defeat Exclusion Act Report Urges Funding
Washington reports outline the joint immigration commission findings as of March 1909. It cites failures of exclusion laws, the importation of white slaves, and alien criminality studies. The panel requests $250000 to continue work begun February 1907, with detailed city and industrial area inquiries nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Joint Commission On Immigration
Congress
New York City
Vatican Lion Escapes Near Pope at Lourdes Shrine
Vatican confirms a lion escaped its cage and neared the Lourdes shrine entrance while the pope prayed last Friday. Guards prevented the animal from entering as the pope laughed, remarking even beasts living in the Vatican might crave freedom but would not eat on the first Friday in Lent.
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Rome
Vatican
Lourdes
Michael Angelo Tree Damaged by Rome Storm
A severe Rome storm damaged the railroad station roof and toppled parts of the Michael Angelo cypress in the Church of Marian Angeli, a tree planted 350 years ago by the famed sculptor and painter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Michael Angelo
Matthews, Nephew of Police Chief, Slays Friend in Neenah
In Neenah Wisconsin on March 2 John Matthews nephew of the city police chief shot and killed his best friend Charles Salomon in a store. Three other men narrowly escaped. Matthews, captured in a field near the city, said he did not know why he fired the fatal shot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neenah
Wis
John Matthews
Charles Salomon
Matthews
Split on steelpool report as merger riles lawmakers
Washington March 2 The senate committee on judiciary voted to report a disagreement on the resolution for an investigation of the absorption of Tennessee Coal and Iron by United States Steel. Some senators drafted a report calling the merger a Sherman act violation and rebuking Roosevelt, while others supported the opposite view.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Committee On Judiciary
Tennessee Coal and Tron Company
United States Steel Corporation
Roosevelt
Planter Goes Insane After Tobacco Sale Blockage
Nashville Tennessee March 2 Thomas Knight a planter became insane here and attempted to kill his children. He lost his mind because he could not sell his tobacco tied up in the pool of the tobacco association.
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Nashville
Tenn
Thomas Knight
Knight
Pool of the Tobacco Association
Death of famed turfman B J Lucky Baldwin at Santa Anita
Los Angeles March 2 noted turfman B J Lucky Baldwin died at his Santa Anita ranch after pneumonia. Ill health was accelerated by the Baldwin hotel fire, theater blaze, and recent California anti race track legislation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Cal
B. J
Lucky
Baldwin
Santa Anita Ranch
Santa Anita
California
World’s Largest Endeavor Union Grows Vast in Numbers
The Pennsylvanian Christian Endeavor union claims the title of the world’s largest, with 4 600 societies and nearly 235 000 members across its network.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Endeavor Union
Pennsylvanian Christian Endeavor Union
Ten of Opium Seized in Spokane Area
Customs officers seized one ton of smuggled opium at Laurier near the international boundary line, as the seizure was reported from Spokane Washington on March 2. The operation involved federal agents and highlights ongoing efforts to curb illicit drug trafficking along border regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spokane
Waush
Laurier
Foley's Honey and Tar Ad Cautions on Safe Cough Remedy
Questioning risk in using unknown cough remedies, the ad touts Foley's Honey and Tar as a safe, effective cure for stubborn coughs and colds. It claims no harmful drugs and urges readers to insist on the genuine product from H. J. Moogh and Wa. F. Juangkungz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foley
H. J. Moogh
Wa. F. Juagkungz
Simple Remedy for La Grippe
La grippe coughs are dangerous as they frequently develop into pneumonia. Foley's Honey and Tar not only stops the cough but heals and strengthens the lungs so that no serious results need be feared. The genuine Foley's Honey and Tar contains no harmful drugs and is in a yellow package. Refuse substitutes, H. J. Moogk and Wri. F. Jungkuns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. J. Moogk
Wri
F. Jungkuns
Pano et piano note on Grove Street Laty
Fragmentary journal column hints at music shop or advertisement by Harries M Burbsck. Mentions piano and radio items with address 6 Grove Bt Lat. No clear event or outcome. reads as truncated promotional note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harries M. Burbsck
Pano Et Piano
Iadio
Grove
Mixed Up Messages From Faded Entertainment Memoir
A fragmented reminiscence features Mr Cum rox and a Washington Post quote about seasonal entertainments. The speaker recalls mixed signals about extravagance, praise for food and music, and a note on public notices while describing artistic struggles and critic wife remarks on sketches and paintings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Cum. Rox
Washington Post
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Honolulu
Manchuria
Japan
Arpenter
Scaffolcn
Deeneen
Lfe
Geneen
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William T. Taft
Albert J. Hopkins
Occupational Disease Commission
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George W. Webster
State Board of Health
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David Ross
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Edgar T. Davies
James Simpson
Marshall Meld & Co
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Steelpool Report
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Lewis
Eagle Lye
Maple City
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