Political and foreign briefing from Washington and abroad
Senate likely to pass Sulloway pension bill. London denies Bryce resignation. Anhui famine worsening per Shanghai Red Cross cable. House advances Moon Will judiciary amendment and passes bills on military preparedness and post office funding. Court allows simultaneous criminal and dissolution actions against bathtub trust. Ballinger probe renewed. Dexter Savings Bank closed. Pope gout denial. Spokane alien labor ban upheld. Crowder named judge advocate general. Zacatecas inquiry into Farfel case. Five killed in Batavia Central collision. Lodge caucus nomination in Massachusetts. Beattie suicide. militia artillery funding added.
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National Tribune
London
Bryce
United States
Anhui
China
Shanghai
American National Red Cross Society
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Bathtub Trust
United States Circuit Court
Elgil
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Richard A. Ballinger
Purcell
Joint Congressional Committee
Gifford Pinchot
Dexter
State Bank
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Spokane
Wash
Hinkley
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Missouri
G.B. Davis
Zacatecas
J. A. Far- Fell
Mexico City
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National League For Medical Freedom
House Committee On Interstate Commerce
Batavia
N. Y
Lodge
Mascathusetts
Henry ©. Beatt
National Light and Improvement Company of
St. Louis
House Committee On
Many geopolitical and political items in brief
Conditions worsen in famine district of China. Will of Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy declared gold. Western railroads seek right to raise rates. Senator Elking estates valued at $20,000,000. Iowa politics call for less strife. Judson. Clements named chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission. House votes to abolish second deputy pensions commissioner. Charles F. Johnson elected U S senator from Maine. Vienna population 2,004,201. Canal supply bids seen high. Texas prohibition issue to voters. Pension office fire causes minor loss. Paul Morton dies in New York. Champ Clark nominated for Speaker. Honduran debt plan hints at protectorate status. Senator Fletcher attacks Ballinger. North Dakota elects McCumber and Gronna as senators. Dutch press discuss Netherlands fortification proposals. Michigan legislature chooses Townsend to succeed Rows. Kansas proposes railroad valuation bill. Iowa backs New Orleans for 1915 Panama Exposition. Brower indicted for perjury. Hitchcock praises progressive work in Nebraska. De Olivares named diplomat. Martial law in Rio crushed. decree ends. A counterfeit $10 bill reported by Wichita. Scarlet fever causes panic among New York's social elite. Colorado urban population grows 16.6 percent. 42% of state population gain. Mill owners fear idle spindles. Arkwright club recommendations. Aldrich banking revision plan submitted. Naval affairs committee to decide on battleships and colliers. Forty-nine men sent to penitentiary for selling liquor to Indians. Judiciary committee bill opposes retrials on technicalities.
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Mary Baker Eddy
Reilroads
Trunk
Elking
Carroll
Iowa
Judson
Clements
Interstate Commerce Commission
House
Charles F. Johnson
Waterville
United States
Vienna
Colquitt
Texas
Washington
Paul Morton
Equitable Life Assurance Society
New York
Champ Clark
Fletcher
Ballinger
North Dakota
Porter
J. McCumber
Ashe J. Gronna
Netherlands
Michigan House
Senate
Charles B. Townsend
Birrows
Tower House
Kansas
Iowa House of Representatives
New Orleans
San Francisco
Grand
William L. Brower
Northern Bank of
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Joseph E. de Olivares
Missouri
Madras
Managua
Rio Janeiro
Wilkie
Secret Service
Wichita
Kana
Colorado
Arkwright Club
Boston
Nelson W. Aldrich
National Monetary Commission
Naval Affairs Committee
Meyer
William E. Johnson
House Committee On Judiciary
Governor declares prohibition policy in Alabama
The report notes a proclamation by Alabama's new governor against prohibition failures, while Democrats in New York caucus nominate W F Sheehan for senator. Nelson Aldrich presents a plan for national bank legislation. Democrats nationally rally in Baltimore but launch no presidential bid. Fitzsimmons and wife now in avaucheyne. Walter Smith named judge of the eighth judicial circuit. Nebraska senate largely supports Mitch as U S senator, with one dissent. Secretary Royse of the state banking board suggests changes to the Nebraska guaranty of deposit law. Briand referenced as target of a story.
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Alabama
Democrats
New York
W. F. Sheehan
House committees named for Thirty-fourth Iowa assembly
Speaker Stillman announced standing committees with Goodykoontz Boone leading ways and means Moore Linn Appropriations King Sioux judiciary Fourt Allamakee roads and highways list includes Cunningham Buena Vista Harding Woodbury etc. Thirty committees cover education health agriculture labor and public works with many named chairmen and districts across Iowa.
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Des Moines
Stillman
Thirty-fourth
General Assembly
Goodykoontw
Boone
Moore
Linn
King of Sioux
Fourt
Allamakee
Ways and Means
Coodykaont
Kiny
Sioux
Agriculture
Cunningham
Buena Vista
Iowa Issues Report on Pardons and Public Bills
The annual Iowa pardon and remissions report released by Gov. B. F. Carroll covers pardons suspensions restorations revocations commutations and remissions. It notes a first US Senator ballot in the Thirty-fourth General Assembly with figures for Porter Young Punk Kenyon Garst Byers Feeley Frankie and others, plus a joint session outcome. Senator Sullivan introduces bills on streetcar design district judges in Polk county assistants to county attorneys and salary increases for county prosecutors. Robert Qdendahl proposes uniform bridge construction. Personal property in Polk County rose by 1.5 million in 1910 per tax records, with total taxable value at about 375,000.
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Dea Moines
Qov
B. F. Carroll
Thirty- Third General Assembly
Board of Parole -2S
Board of Parole
Board of Controls
Board of
United States
J. B. Dolliver
Senate
House
General Assembly
Iowa
Hse
Claude’ R. Porter
Lafe Young
A. B. Punk
Kenyon
Warren Garst
W. H. Byers
Sullivan
Polk County
George L. Dobson
Lew Burpett
Carnegie Adds 40 Million Donation to Research Fund
Andrew Carnegie announced a 40 million dollar gift to the Carnegie Institution of Research at Washington, bringing total endowment to 25 million. He said the institute had cleared a ship captain of blame by proving Admiralty charts misled the vessel. He noted Prof Hale’s discovery of 60,000 new worlds from Mt. Wilson and announced a 40 inch lens telescope under construction. Carnegie predicted vast future revelations from Hale and said the institution would repay tenfold in service while exploring Portland cement production and concrete formulas. He praised the yacht Carnegie for correcting global observations and diversifying science.
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New York
Carnegie
Carnegie Institution of Research
Washington
Institute
Admiralty
Prof
Hale
Mt. Wilson
California
Mt. Wilson Observatory
Mr. Carnegie
Mr. Wilson
Callileo
Copernicus
Buenos Ayres
Roosevelt to Succeed Morton as Equitable Life President
Davenport based George Sternsdorff, general agent for Equitable Life, predicts Theodore Roosevelt will become president of the Equitable Life Insurance Society, staking his reputation on the prophecy after knowing Paul Morton well.
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Equitable Life
Davenport
Theodore Roosevelt
Paul Morton
The
George Sternsdorff
Insurance Society
Mr. Morton
Praise Morton's Life Regulation Adoption
The text notes unanimous adoption by directors of the Equitable Life Assurance Society Equitable Trust Company and Merchants Trust Company and by the executive committee of the Association of Life Insurance Presidents praising Paul Morton life and mourning his death.
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Morton
New York
Paul Morton
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Equitable Trust Company
Mercantile Trust Company
Association of Life Insurance Presidents
Veto by Taft on chatman relief bill innavy case
President Taft vetoed a bill to aid Clarence Frederick Chatman an enlisted man dishonorably discharged from the United States Navy Roosevelt had vetoed a similar bill.
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Washington
Taft
Clarence Frederick Chatman
United States Navy
Roosevelt
Forty Polish Miners Die in Russian Poland Fire
A Russian Poland dispatch reports a fire at the Casimir colliery near So nowice causing forty miners to perish. Three hundred sixty others escaped the blaze.
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Berlin
Sonowice
Poland
Tost
Casimir
New Orleans favored for Panama Exposition site
Washington reports the Panama exposition fight favored New Orleans. The House exposition committee approved the New Orleans site by a nine to six vote, marking the opening rounds in the decision for the Panama show location at that location.
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New Orleans
Washington
Exposition Committee
Cela
Panama
Growth in Western Canada towns linked to farms and railways
A traveler notes western Canada towns along railway lines show prosperity or decline based on local industry and surrounding agriculture. The Winnipeg Free Press and Edmonton Bulletin reporters documented growth in hundreds of towns over the past few years, driven by agriculture and related industry. The article highlights cities of ten to fifteen thousand, climate, markets, and government efforts to attract settlers with free literature from Canadian agents.
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Canada
Winnipeg Free Press
Edmonton Bulletin
Western
Coust
Dominion
Chief cause of ill health says a famous physician
A renowned doctor states that constant thinking about health leads to ill health. He notes restless, worried youths over sleep, food, and exercise wear themselves out by never giving a moment’s peace.
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TRAV
One Way to Look at it Jinks and Blinks Dialog
A curt exchange between Jinks and Blinks reveals a joke about patience in love and a courtroom cue. The judge stands as the implied audience to the comic line about being refused before finding a girl who would accept him.
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Jinks
Surprise plans and holiday card offer from local group
A fragmentary note mentions a plan for a Christmas surprise and an offer for free sample post cards. The text cites beauty and embossed cards by a club based at 731 Jackson St Topeka, inviting stamps and samples.
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POST
Colerg
Art-Po Club
Jackson St
Topeka
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