Senator Clarke elected Senate president pro tem in 1911
The Four Corners of the Earth deliver news from the Sixty-second Congress. Senator Jamies P. Clarke of Arkansas was chosen President pro tem over Senator Lacon of Georgia. President Wilson rejected Bryan and Fletcher from Florida, signaling limited patronage access. He will meet only invited office seekers and announced several White House routine changes as the Sixty-second Congress adjourned sine die with two major supply bills looming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamies P. Clarke
Arkansas
Senate
Lacon
Georgia
Wilson
Bryan
Fletcher
Florida
White House
Sixty-second Congress
Caruso testifies in Brooklyn case over blackhand threat
Tenor Enrico Caruso testified in Brooklyn against a man charged with attempting to extort $15,000 from him using blackhand threats. Florence Gair, heiress, plans a Manhattan clinic for poor children with infantile paralysis, modeled after her Brooklyn center. First request by Taft on arrival in Augusta was his golf sticks, with a match against Harry Lauder. In Hamilton, Ohio, Mr and Mrs William Riley welcomed twins named Woodrow Wilson and Thomas Marshall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enrico Caruso
Brooklyn
Florence Gair
Manhattan
Taft
Augusta
Harry Lauder
William Riley
Hamilton
Ohio
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Marshall
Packey McFarland Outboxes Jack Britton At Madison Square Garden
Boxing star Packey McFarland defeated Jack Britton in a ten round bout at Madison Square Garden, coast to an easy victory. Abel R. Kiviat won indoor running crown by beating Ted Meredith of the University of Pennsylvania in a sensational board-floor race in New York. Sir Thomas Lipton again challenged for the America's Cup with Shamrock IV as his challenger. A R Farbush set a world record for starting a fire by friction in thirty seconds at the Sportsman's show, but produced no blaze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Packey McFarland
Packey
Chicago Stockyards
Jack Britton
Madison Square Garden
New York
Abel R. Kiviat
Sir Thomas
A. R. Farbush
Boy Scouts of America
Multiple Early 20th Century Political and Local News Items
A roundup of brief items notes Governor Walter E. Clark resigning Alaska, Massachusetts House rejecting woman suffrage, Myron T. Herrick leaving as American Ambassador to France, and Joseph P. Tumulty starting work at 8 B daily. Connecticut leases land for a state game bird farm. last of the Connecticut Shakers depart Enfield for Lebanon New York. Uncle Joe Cannon sells his Fithian Illinois farm for 100000, bought in 1880 for 10000. Maine House blocks a woman suffrage referendum after Senate approval. A. W. Fowles and fellow Auburn officials win in Maine’s Progressive sweep, West Virginia Governor Henry D. Hatfield declares for suffrage. Harry Jones flies mail NYC to Bridgeport in 30 minutes over 35 miles. Seattle rejects single tax charter amendment two to one. Twenty six Italian stowaways found aboard Cedric. Frank Van Duyne shoots a fish duck near Boonton New Jersey. a thirteen inch pickerel found in the crop. Wilson parents’ graves decorated as Columbia, South Carolina prepared for inauguration. Chicago hosts noisy inauguration demonstrations. White Plains Railroad Avenue fireswept causing $100000 loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter E. Clark
Alaska
Massachusetts House
Myron T. Herrick
France
Joseph P. Tumulty
Wilson
Connecticut Fish and Game Commission
Enfield
Lebanon
N. Y
Joe Cannon
Fithian
Ill
Mr. Cannon
Maine House
Senate
Progressive Party
Maine
A. W. Fowles
Auburn
Henry D. Hattfield
West Virginia
Harry Jones
New Haven
Anty Drudge Smoothes Over a Domestic Difficulty
A wife pleads for help with dirty clothes from auto work while Anty Drudge promotes Fels Naptha Soap as the solution. The ad copy touts the soap’s grease cutting power in cool or lukewarm water without boiling or hard rubbing, aimed at women who wash workwear.
Earns His Salary in Crowded White House Start
Washington report notes President Wilson endures long days as office seekers flood the White House. Civil service fears focus on demotion rather than dismissal, with staff changes amid efforts to keep operations intact while preserving the building’s architecture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White House
George Clinton
Washington
Wilson
Executive Mansion
City of
United States
Civil Service
New Linens and Towels Sale List Mixes Damask and Linen
A local advertisement catalogs linens including Ileacht table linen at 18 by 27 inches, 35 and 42.50. hemstitched embroidered linen pillow cases at 21 1 4 by 36 inches, 1 75 per pair. Mack towels at 19 by 38 inches, heavy, bleached, soft, 12 ec. all linen hack towels 25c. hemstitched damask border towels 42 by 25 inches, 1.00. Barnsley linen crash toweling 10c yard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heid Mack
Hemstadt
Barnsley
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Earth
Seven Seas
John
Anty Drudge
THE
Wallace Dry Goods Company
J. C. Wallace & Son
Proprietors
St. Clair, Rinn & Co
Blatchford
Syracuse Farm Implements
Indiana, Pa
Water St
Cunningham & Fisher
W. St. “Rusus
South Mahonna Township
Frank Fb. Winsheimer
Omer City
Watson & Watson
Attorneya
Catherine F. Snyder
Fourth Ward
iTndinut
Thollamn County
Mpke
Richard W. Watsom
Deposit Bank Building
Tudman
MR. Wilson
Charles D. Hilles
Joseph P.tumulty
Chicago
Hia
Roosevelt
Boggs & Buhl
Pittsburgh
Godfrey Marshall
W. W
Daugherty
Philadelphia St
Steving
Strealis
Philadelphia Street
Bell
American Union
Hils
W. O. Lutman
Green Township
Ollen W. Lutman
Ola Graffius
Lily Lutman
Pxeecutrixes
Cookport
Brelywart's
Indiana
Indiana Hardware
Vogel Bros
North Sixth St
Detrick
Frantz Bros. Millers and General Merchants
Rossmoyne, Pa
Penna
Arnold
North Charleroi
Marianna
Mt. Lebanon Township
Port Vue
Blairsville
Washington Investment Company Incorporated
First National Bank
DE. Thompson
Pittsburg, Pa
Blairsville and
Parcel Post
Philo. St
Levine
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