Washington Moves: Sith Nominated Brigadier General
President Taft sent to the Senate the nomination of Colonel George R. Sith as brigadier general assistant paymaster general. Interstate Commerce Commission evidence shows massive profits by nine main express companies. Mexico reports to Taft describe harsh conditions amid Diaz era uprisings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
George R. Sith
Interstate Commerce Commission
Mexico
Taft
Diaz
Millionaire John Jay McDevitt Seeks Democratic Nomination in Wilkes-Barre
Personal John Jay McDevitt, famed as a "millionaire for a day" in Wilkes Barre, pursues the Democratic nomination for Congress in the district. King Alfonso and Queen Victoria plan a Vienna visit for the Archduke Carlos wedding. Mrs Henry A Robinson cites conventionality snobbishness and toadyism as barriers to women suffrage.
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John Jay McDevitt
Wilkes Barre
Congress
King Alfonso
Queen Victoria
Vienna
Archduke Carlos
Henry A. Robinson
Trading of Fournier by Chicago A L club announced
Sporting Manager Callahan of the Chicago American League club announced the purchase of Jules Fournier, a utility Infielder, from the Boston Americans. Abolition of slavery on the diamond is proclaimed in the first official bulletin issued by William Abbott Witman, president of the new United Stat League of baseball clubs. Bitty Papke and Frank Montell of Pawtucket have been matched to fight twenty rounds in Sacramento on February 22 next.
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Callahan
Jules Fournier
Boston Americans
Frank P. Nohowel
Columbia University
William Abbott Witman
United ‘Btat League of Baseball
Bitty Papke
Frank Montell
Pawtucket
R. I
Sacramento
Revoked dance hall license tops New York notes
Multiple items from the era. The Hay Market dance hall license in New York is canceled. Jersey City bans water troughs due to glanders. Milliners foresee small hats. Equitable Life plans rebuilding after a fire. Allison MacFarland faces electrocurial sentence in Newark. Federal grand jury indicts 32 in dynamite conspiracy probe. Ohio allows 3/4 verdicts in civil cases. Mock bank shortfall in Pomona. Pan-Presbyterian leader questions Christian nation status. Steel executives hide government papers. Mrs. Myra Shourds seeks immunity for husband. Port Pond Gay Long Island sale stakes a huge harbor project. Roosevelt and La Follette split hurts Progressive support. Express firms show interlocking holdings.
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Haymarket
New York
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Allison MacFarland
Newark
N. J
Thiry
Federal Grand Jury
Indianapolis
Ohio
Harl Bronard
American National Bank
Pomona
Cal
George F. Pentecost
Pan-Presbyterian Alliance
United States
Gary
United States Steel Corporation
Baackes
American Steel and Wire Company
Myra, Shourds
Merchants’ Union Trust Company
Philadelphia
Long Island
Port Pond Gay
Montauk Point
Lawrence strike ends under joint committee pressure
A joint committee of the Masdachu selts Legislature intensively pushed to end the Lawrence strike. Across the border conditions in Mexico worsen prompting more U.S. troops to be rushed to the border. The era of widespread labor and political turmoil continues as authorities respond to multiple incidents and demands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Masdachuselts
Lawrence
Mexico
United States
George de Hart
New Brunswick
N. C
Dix
I. Wycker
Onondaga County
F. M. Ryan
International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
David Graham Phillips
Global turmoil and royal meet amid war fears
Floods kill many in Portugal and Spain hamper relief. King Alfonso plans a July meeting with President Fallieres in Biarritz as tensions rise. Martinique reports no damage after a quake while Berlin hints on China policy. In other news, Irish Home Rule speech in Belfast, Yuan rumor of dictatorship, and shifts in Persia, Mexico, and Arabia.
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Portugal
Spain
Alfonso
Fallieres
France
Biarritz
Martinique
Berlin
China
Churchill
Belfast
Peking
Yuan
W. Morgan Shuster
Persia
London
Edward Grey
Chihuahua
Mexico
Lawrence County License Court Opens Amid Liquor Battle
Fifty-two applicants, led by temperance groups and hotel owners, face off as Judge William E. Porter convenes License Court in New Castle. A bitter, yearlong drive over whether Lawrence County may license saloons and hotels reveals economic and social shifts, with notable changes in crime, jail costs, and business activity.
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New Castle
William E. Porter
Lawrence County
Pennsylvania and Saloon League
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Standard Brewing Company
Ohio
Pennsylvania
War Spirit at Connellsville Pa
Veterans of the Spanish War in Connellsville Pennsylvania rally wartime spirit as Western Pennsylvania state troops may be sent to the Mexican border. Captain A. R. Kidd and Company D receive widespread enlistment interest as veterans express eagerness to go to the front.
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Connellsville
Pennsylvania
A. R. Kidd
Bearded Vower John H. Kidney Dies at 79
Stamford man famed for vowing not to cut beard or hair until Bryan seated in the White House dies at Noroton Soldiers Home at age 79. He kept the vow for decades, surprising the town when he finally had his beard and hair trimmed about a year before his death.
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Stamford
Conn
John H. Kidney
William Jennings Bryan
Mr. Bryan
White House
Soldiers Home
Noroton
War echoes and advances from Fort Donelson to West Virginia
The Nashville American summarizes Civil War news from Union and Confederate fronts including Grant’s victory at Fort Donelson, Price’s Missouri withdrawal, occupation shifts at Springfield Bowling Green and Donelson, Irish and British responses, and political actions in Ohio and West Virginia with notices of military seizures, evacuations, and amnesty orders.
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Price
Missouri
Fremont
Hunter
Halleck
Springfield
Ozark
Wilson Creek
Curtis
Danville
Greensborough
N. C
Davis
Col
Reggin
Fort Henry
Tennessee River
Paris
Tennessee
West Virginia
Wheeling
Virginia
United States
Senate
Bowling Green
Johnson
Hardee
Gen. Lander
Blooming Gap
Col. Carroll
Unger
Gen
Dunning
New Creek
Hamilton Fish
Bishop Ames
Washington
Kentucky
D. C. Buell
Big Barren River
Turchin
Loomis
Buell
Venus Island Point
Savannah River
Fort Pulaski
Grant
Fort Donelson
Foote
McClernand
Smith
Floyd
Pillow
Buckner
Tilghman
North
General Grant
Sterling Price
Warsa
Iowa
Stubbs
Sugar Creek
Arkansas
First
Missouri Cavalry
Fourth
Major Bowen
Bowen
Tennessee Confederate
Ohio
Henry and
Donelson
Great Britain
Confederate Provisional Compress
Richmond
W. G. Chapman
Constipation Ad Claims Dr Pierce Pellets Cure
An old advertisement asserts constipation causes serious ailments and that Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets fully cure with one laxative and three for cathartic use. The copy links “salt of lie” quote to emphasize forthright remedies and touts efficacy. The tone matches historical medical advertising.
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Pierce
The Difference Between Editor and Office Boy
The quotation contrasts roles in a newsroom, noting the editor and office boy share job elements. It humorously suggests the editor fills waste baskets while the office boy empties them, highlighting the blurred lines between the two positions. Life magazine captioned the exchange.
Tarkington invites Bennett to morning walk in Indianapolis
Effete Briton Booth Tarkington jokes with Arnold Bennett at Tarkington's home in Indianapolis. He proposes a ten mile walk at 6 AM, but Bennett replies he does not walk in his sleep. The exchange captures their witty social banter during a visit.
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Booth Tarkington
Arnold Bennett
Indianapolis
What the Copy Boy Wrote
Representative Dan Anthony of Kansas, publisher of the Leavenworth Times, gave an office boy a broken type writer and asked him to fill a page with a single sentence. The boy wrote continually, filling the page with the sentence Who the invented school, showing dedication to practice.
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Dan Anthony
Kansas
The
Leavenworth Times
Anthony
Washington Herald
Dark stars described as numerous faint lights in space
The passage explains that many stars emit little light or heat and have faded from their former brightness. These so called dark stars were never bright like the countless luminous stars, and over ages their heat has radiated away into space, leaving them dark.
Printing in China and early printing methods
The piece notes that China practiced printing 2400 years ago with block printing and later experimented with movable type by the tenth century. It asserts printing was established in China long before Europe, with some uncertainty about exact dates but clear evidence of early, evolving techniques.
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China
Europe
Their Names Against Them and Ananian Lineage
Fragmented lines discuss Ananias and Anania, noting no descendants for Ananias but others bearing the name Anania or Ananian. It suggests Anacreonte may trace lineage to a Greek singer of women and wine, and likens him to his poetic brother Pinfar whose sons carry on names.
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Ananias
Anania
Ananian
Anacreonte
Pin‘far
Wood for Lead Pencils Rise in Cedar Wood Demand
The annual pencil output in the country exceeds 320,000,000 units, using cedar wood. Cedar supplies weigh about 100,000 tons, with nearly three-fourths of a cent worth of wood per pencil. Cedar planks and fence rails are selling as surplus stock.
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la Vollette
Kansas City
Wilbur Scrudders
Johnstown
McCabe
Department of Agriculture
Florida Everglades
Fulton County
William B. McKinley
Republican Congressional Campaign Committee
Charles W. Morse
Edward Lazansky
Albany
Gray
Trenton
Steel Trust
United States Military Academy
West Point
Turkey
Scutari
Askoy
Wisabeth Reef
Pacific Ocean
General Orozco
Abraham Gonzales
Braullis Arnandez
Vasquez Gomez
Kullabke
Kieft
Russia
Teheran
Hedeidah
Arabia
Rome
Jahaneh
Nashville American
Fishing Creek
Newport News
Luther V. Bell
General Hooker
Federal Army
Budd’s Ferry
Maryland
Earl Russell
Earl of Stanhope
Charlestown
England
Russell
Stanhorpe
Edwin M. Stanton
Lincoln Grant
Carter
Fas
Woodlawn Nurseries
Rochester
N. Y
Watson E. Coleman
Weepington
D.C
B. Wigqrovhe
Hugh Black
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