Nominations and Senate clashes mark a historic week
Representative Champ Clark of Missouri was nominated by acclamation for speaker in the sixty second Congress by 220 of 228 Democrats. Senators debated direct election of senators and the Ballinger case. Public health power expansion faced protests. A boiler explosion aboard the battleship Delaware caused instant death to some and severe burns to others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Champ Clark
Missouri
House
Porah
Clapp
Mieteher
Ballinger
William Lorimer
Senate
Burrows
Borah
House Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Washington
Public Health Service
Delaware
Navy Department
Gore
Notable Obituaries and Appointments in Brief
A series of short notices recount Ellen Terry receiving a New York gold medal for dramatic art, ex President Soto of Costa Rica facing potential blindness in his final days, and the death of Sir Francis Galton in London who would have turned 89 on February 16. Also noted are Mrs. Sara C. Bull of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ole Bull’s widow born in Oxford, New York, and career salaries for James A. Farrell and colleagues at United States Steel. Panama Canal fortification deemed necessary by Lewis Nixon. and Redmond’s Irish Parliamentary Party re elected in private session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellen Terry
New York
New Theater
Soto
Costa Rica
Francis Galton
London
Damaraland
South Ovampoland
Sara C. Bull
Ole Bull
Cambridge
Mass
Nicholas
Neva
Colombo
Germany
Barnet
New Orleans
Abonilla
Vlenduras
John Redmond
United Irish League
Dublin
U 3
Kiel
Horace West
Algernon West
Ul 3
Prominent leaders address Baltimore harmony meeting
Champ Clark Governor Harmon of Ohio and Senator Bailey of Texas spoke at a Democratic harmony gathering in Baltimore. The tariff was a major topic. The New York New Haven Hartford railroad ordered conductors to stop card playing on trains and banned children in smoking cars. The match trust surrendered patent rights for a phosphorus substitute amid worker concerns. The New York insurance department released the Equitable Life voting trust and related correspondence involving J P Morgan and trustees. Ex Senator Shaw announced as president of Longacre Electric Light & Power, a $10 million venture aiming to compete with Moison. Morgan & Co. plans a merger with AT&T. they approved the Aldrich bank reform plan. Wickersham criticized executive overreach before the New York Bar. The Union of American Hebrew Congregations urged action to protect rights of Jews from Russia when they return. Provident Savings Life Assurance was bought by Vestal Life Insurance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Champ Clark
Harmon
Ohio
Bailey
Texas
Baltimore
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
State Insurance Department
Alany
Equitable Life
J. P. Morgan
Morgan J. O’brien
George W. Perkins
Lewis Cass Ledyard
Mr. Morgan
James I. Shaw
Boston
New York
Longacre Electric Light & Power Company
J. P. Morgan & Co
American Telephone & Telegraph Company
Aldrich Bank
Wickersham
New York Bar Association
Union of American Hebrew Congregations
Taft
Congress
Russia
Provident Savings Life Assurance Society
Vestal Life Insurance Company
Grand Central trotting circuit tees up 450000 prize money
The Grand Central trotting circuit announces dates and 450000 prize money. Union Fill Na Jy suffers neck fracture after weeks of ignorance. A Philadelphia meeting adopts a resolution disapproving Governor Tener’s inaugural recommendation for compulsory arbitration law. Maine legislature selects Charles F. Johnson to succeed Wa Gong Hale as U.S. senator. New Yorks street commissioner William T. Bawards earns a Carnegie medal for arresting a shooter of Mayor Gaynor. Railway workers push for higher freight rates before the ICC. Governor Dix asks prison head Cornelius V. Collings to resign, he refuses. A flyer lands aboard the Pennsylvania in San Francisco bay then departs. Butter and egg prices fall while meat costs rise. Dartmouth tops Princeton 6-3 in hockey. Arkwright Club curtails New England cotton mill production 25 percent.
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Grand Central
George Strube
Union Fill
Na Jy
Tener
II Marrisburg
Philadelphia
Joint Boards of Adjustment
Pennsylvania
Buffalo
Pittsburg
Erie
Charles F. Johnson
Waterville
United States
Maine
Wagone Hale
William T. Bawards
New York City
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
James J. Gallagher
Gaynor
P. H. Morrissey
Interstate Commerce Commission
Global News Flash From A World at War And unrest
A wide scan of international events reports a bank deficit in London linked to Crippen finances, a deadly Polish coal mine fire, suffrage protests in London dispersed by police, bubonic plague death in Pekin, mass moves from Manchuria, and castaway survivors near Australia. Elsewhere, Dominican cross-border tensions, U.S. steps to curb hostilities, Germanys tax debate, a Havana court mock crime, Portuguese and Spanish diplomacy, Lima aviation record, and German naval incidents unfold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charing ‘Cross Bank
London
Dr. Crippen
Sosnowice
Downing Street
Pekin
Manchuria
St. Paul’s Island
Albany
West Australia
Hayti
United States
Ecuador
Hague
Reichstag
Havana
Cuba
Mijeres
Pino Guerra
Senhor
Bernardino Machado
Canalejas
Spain
Portugal
Taft demands fortification for Panama Canal
President Taft urged naval fortifications for the Panama project stating the canal must be protected by treaty and force. He argued defense costs would run about 12 million initial and 0.5 million annually, and pressed Congress to fund a fortification program to deter war and protect U.S. interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
N. Y
United States
Panama Canal
Taft
Pennsylvania Society
Congress
Hotel Astor
Martinique
War Department
Shields Stirs Tempest in Greensburg Courtroom
Westmoreland County Sheriff Shields, a giant of a man, railed at accusers in the Hitchman coal probe in Greensburg Pa. He denounced officials and coal operators, claiming the inquiry was a setup by coal interests. The courtroom erupted as attorneys and officials struggled to quiet him during the dramatic session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensburg
John D. Hitchman
Sherrif
Shields
Westmoreland County
Sheriff Shields
Biethie
Foss Weakens on Lodge Credentials
Boston reports indicate Governor Foss signed to seat Lodge in the U S Senate despite earlier declarations opposing Lodge credentials. The formal action affixed his signature to Lodge's certificate of election, certifying Lodge as the state’s senator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foss
Boston
Mass
Coovernor Tuvenew N. Foss
Henry Cabot Lodge
United States
Jodge
Lodge
New Bill Wilnot Pension Teachers in Florida
Minor changes to the school code were approved by the Harrisburg commissioners shaping a bill for presentation to the legislature. The revisions would exempt veteran teachers from some examinations while others remain required. Ex-State Treasurer Arrested in Bismarck for embezzlement of 360 400 of state funds. hearing set with bond at 10,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bismarck
N. D
Bickford
Capitol
Cleaning Day Hints From Domestic Expert
Practical tips on keeping surfaces clean and preparing paste for carpet laying and wall papering. Advice includes using rubber goloshes, washing soda paste with fuller’s earth for stains, skim milk in paste for papering, and methylated spirits with powdered india to polish mirrors.
Liver with fat pork lardoons in tomato gravy
Cut fat salt pork into lardoons and insert into fresh calf liver. Cook with butter onion pepper herbs and tomato sauce in a water bath for an hour, turning liver. Finish on stove, brown, then boil gravy briefly, strain, thicken, and pour over the liver.
The Narrow Skirt and Fashion Change
The piece argues that fashion backward and forward may doom the narrow skirt and hint at a return of the crinoline, but notes women value hygiene and comfort in moderately narrow skirts, suggesting a quick discard is unlikely despite trends.
Russian Rocks and Spiced Fruit Cake Recipe
A vintage recipe lists one and a half cups brown sugar, one cup butter, three eggs beaten separately, one teaspoon soda dissolved in boiling water, two and three-fourths cups flour, a pinch of salt, one teaspoon cinnamon, one half teaspoon cloves, one teaspoon vanilla, one third pound English walnuts, three fourths pound seeded raisins, fill tablespoon and drop into a buttered pan.
Eggless Crullers from an old kitchen recipe
A vintage instruction describes making Eggless Crullers with grated raw potato one cup sugar one cup milk cream of tartar soda salt nutmeg and flour. Roll thin strips twist fry in hot lard roll in sugar while hot. The note says potato swells during cooking and they will not soak fat.
Date Gems Biscuit Recipe Instructions
Date Gems batter blends one egg yolk with salt. Fold in half a pint of yolk plus two cups of flour and baking powder, then add oil or butter. Beat in whipped egg white. Bake briskly for twenty minutes.
Olive oil trick for better buckwheat cakes
For hot cakes add a tablespoonful of olive oil to the batter when making buckwheat cornmeal or other griddle cakes. It will not affect the taste but will give a delicate brown to the cakes and eliminate the need to grease the griddle.
Plum Loaf Baking Instructions
When bread is ready for the tins, take out a loaf, roll thin, and sprinkle with sugar. Roll out two or three times and work in a cup of raisins. Bake as usual.
Nightly notes from a busy era with quaint quips
A collage of short items from a past era includes a World War era dinner remark about patriotism a humorous trencherman quip about practicing eating and owning a gun a comic exchange with Miss Brush and Farmer Gobel a line about birds and field pests plus a sales pitch for Harmlins Wizardi and a sharp line about suffragettes and office power reflecting gender humor and social commentary of the time.
Cure a Cold in One Day Patent Cure Claim
Ad promises rapid relief from cold symptoms with laxative bromide tablets and Woolford sanitary lotion. Mentions E W Grove signature on boxes and 25 cent price. Warns against shady reputations while linking modern life to materialism.
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E.W. Grove
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