HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK PERSONAL CHAMPION CROWNED
Calvin Demarest defeats George Sutton in New York to claim the billiards championship with a 500 to 78 score. News notes cover royalty visiting England, a new American ambassador to Italy arriving in Rome, and shifts in cotton futures criticism by Commissioner Knox Smith. Cyclone damages Terre Haute, a Cherry mine disaster probe, and various professional society meetings are reported. Also listed are a Monaca steel plant strike, a rail wreck near Lewisville injuring messengers, naval budget cautions, Nicaragua's exiled president, Morgan's Equitable stake, Lord's power struggle, and railroad mergers unraveling.
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Calvin Demarest
George Sutton
New York
Wilhelmina of Holland
Prince Henry
England
Joto G. A Leishman
Italy
Roma
Herbert Knox Smith
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Cherry Mine
St. Paul Coal Company
Frank Buck
Tred H. Buck
Alexander Rosenjack
Cherry Wince
Mat Trancisco
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Taft
American Red Cross
Washington
Key West
Elsewbers
Lake Michigan
Crowley
Lewisville
Ind
Meyer
Navy Yards
Pacific
Zelaya
Nicaragua
United States
State Department
Grove
Cannon
Tt Ia
Inquitable
New York City
Prolific list of early 20th century incidents and trials
Reports from Chicago to Milwaukee recount a wide array of events. A University of Chicago historian dies of blood poisoning after an ulcerated tooth. Ohio troops deploy to Bridgeport to quell Aetna-Standard plant strike violence. Williamson county sees race tensions after a miner murder and attacks on American residents. A ship linked to an Arctic expedition is safe in Bonne Bay amid other national headlines.
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Joseph Warren
University of Chicago
Maud Radford Warren
Chicago
Amrina
Belmont County
Harmon
Seventh
Ohio National Guard
Bridgeport
Aetna-Standard
American Sheet & Tin Plats Company
John R. Bradley
Frederick A. Cook
Newfoundland
Bonne Bay
Stawokia
Athol
Mass
Toledo
Ohio
Grace Frosch
W. S. Evans
Orrville (O.) Courier
New York City
Brooklyn
Sleop
Hinman Knowlton
South Framingham
Patrick Cox
County Mayo
Ireland
Edward Murray
Teachers’ College of
Columbia University
Helen Hartley Jenkins
Senate
Lewis Mericke
Joseph Myers
Merickel
Joan Masterson Burke
America
Omaha
Neb
New York
J. Pierpont Morgan
Equitable Life Assurance Company
Thomas ¥. Ryan
James H. Hyde
Nicaragua
Prairie
Philadelphia
Albany
Yorktown
Tts
Warriven Republic
Albert I. Patrick
Rice
Minnie Sprong
Fresno
Cal
Ruth
Frank D. Holland
Holland
National Society For the Promotion of Industrial Education
Milwaukee
New Railways in Central Canada
The Portland Oregonian cartoon on immigration to Canada highlights thousands of American farmers leaving the U S for Western Canadian land this fall. About 70 000 farmers may take $70 000 000 in cash and effects, with reasons including cheaper fertile land and perceived safety of law and markets. Railways aiding settlement include Canadian Pacific Canadian Northern and Grand Trunk Pacific. Government agents in the U S offer information to settlers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland Oregonian
Portland
Oregon
U. S
Cangola
Canadas
Middle West
Canada
United States
Canadian Parifte
Canadian Northern
Grand Trunk Pacific
Congress opens Sixty-First with brief social sessions
Washington reports the Upper and Lower Houses meeting for the first regular session of the Sixty First Congress. The day was largely social with limited business. The Senate spoke for 13 minutes debating noon sessions while the House swore in W W McCr(id)e and conducted a standard opening roll call. The president will deliver the annual message tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Senate
Bailey
House
W. W. McCredie
Francis W. Cushman
Flsor
Garner
Customs Service
Hitchcock
Neb
General Land Office
Mann
Hamilton Mich
New Mexico
Arizona
Johnson
N. D
DeArmond
Lassiter
Greg
Backache to Kidney Pain Prompts Special Remedy
Thompson Watkins, a professional nurse from Parsons Kansas, cites relief from back twinges and irregular kidney secretions after using Deans Kidney Pills. The ad urges readers to remember the Dean's brand and notes price at 30 cents per box, with distribution through Faster Bilburn Company of Buffalo New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thompson Watkins
Dean's
Taft Talks On Interstate Commerce Act Amendments
President Taft held a lengthy conference with Attorney General Wickersham and Secretary Nagel on a special message to Congress. The document outlines changes believed necessary to make the interstate commerce act more effective and will be sent within ten days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Taft
Wickersham
Nagel
Department of Commerce and Labor
Congress
Taft Open to European Postal Clearing Plan
President Taft showed interest in a European backed scheme for international postal savings bank clearances with foreign banks. Louis Schwarz of Finanz Sind Handelsrevue urged the idea, and Taft asked for details on the system as currently tried.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
Europe
Wshington
Louis Schwarz
Finanz-Sind-Handelsrevue
Vienna
Berlin
A Hint Astonished the Company at Dinner
A dining scene recounts how a topic of professional mortality among lawyers arose and a dean, deaf and amused, offered grace. A guest notes “we have lost six eminent barristers in as many months” as the cloth is removed. The dean’s brief prayer thanks the mercy.
Archery Gains Popularity Among London Women
At a London archery tournament 300 women participated as the sport grows in appeal. It is praised by London physicians as beneficial for nerves. American women have not embraced the sport, but renewed interest abroad may influence the United States.
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Lurton
Cincinnati, D
Bornce H. Luston
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Nashville
Tenn
Taft
United States Supreme Court
London
Calamh Cure Reward Notice and Patent Remedy Snippet
An OCR fragment shows a dubious reward offer and health product claims. Mentions F J Cheney Co Toledo selling cures, warnings from Winslow and Maryin wholesalers, and various patent remedy lines. The text mixes quack claims with unrelated ad phrases and quotes.
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