Tie Service Still Effective Trooper Brings Prisoner North
In Canada’s northwest a lone trooper marches to arrest an Indian fur trapper who abandoned a baby on a polar island. He defeats elements and distance to deliver the offender to justice, illustrating the enduring role of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police amid a shifting empire.
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Montreal
Canada
Great Northwest
Dominion
Royal Northwest Mounted ‘Police
Ottawa
Mounted Police
New Canada
Britain
Justce
Northwest
Hudson’s Bay Company
Rupert’s Land
Prairie Northwest
Northwest Colony
Rugby
Cambridge
Prairies
North
Arctic Circle
Polar
Great
Sone
Arctic
Come
Long Mackenzie River Trek Ends With Life Sentence
A British trooper and an Indian prisoner paddled 1200 miles up the Mackenzie River, through Great Slave Lake to Regina, where the Indian began a life sentence after a grueling journey amid wilderness and rapids.
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Savage Altting
Lesk
Mackenzie River
Great Slave Lake
Smith Rapids
Athabasca Lake
Regina
Don'ts About Care of Babel Death Rate Warning
Reports of infantile deaths in Indiana for July and August prompt a warning to mothers about heat related hazards. The Iowa death rate is cited as a caution, with guidance to avoid overfeeding, use certified milk, provide fresh air, dress loosely, and monitor summer digestive troubles to prevent fatalities.
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Indiana
State Board of Health
Iowa
Payn e Aldrich tariff yields record 1910 revenue
Washington Aug 8 The first full year under the Payne Aldrich tariff shows ordinary receipts totaling 578 850 816 with customs 335 117 208 and internal revenue 271 120 142 plus 72 980 783 from corporation tax and 51 252 551 from miscellaneous. Disbursements ran 658 366 187 including 33 284 008 for Panama Canal. The year’s revenue exceeds 1907 by about 75 million and cites improved tariff administration and port service at New York.
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Washington
Treasury
Hillis
Payne- Aldrich
Panama Canal
New York
Bailey Boomed for President in 1913 bid
Galveston Texas August 8. Friends of Senator Joseph W Bailey began a presidential boom to counter attacks he faces at the convention on Tuesday. Delegates arrived with banners rallying "Bailey for President 1912" while Bailey's backers plan to discredit him at the convention. The state executive committee meets Monday. The convention will nominate.
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Galveston
Tex
Joseph W. Bailey
Bailey
Blackmail Charge in August Smith Case at Brewery
William Kopp testifies that August Smith demanded his wages and a two month grocery bill under threat of prison. He says Smith took all his earnings and, after pleading poverty, borrowed from a cousin to cover food costs. Smith faces blackmail charges with Mrs. Smith to be charged as well. trial set for police court Tuesday.
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William Kopp
Prospect Street
Mamie Smith
August Smith
Kopp
Smith
Shine
South Iuinois Street
Curfew Law Enforcement Campaign Aims to Shield Children
The Childrens' aid association with police cooperation plans a curfew drive to keep all under 15 off city streets at night from March 1 to August 31. Officials cite parental ignorance for many violations and note fines from 1 to 10 dollars for guardians who let minors out after curfew whistles. Five whistles will be placed citywide and blown at 9 oclock to enforce compliance.
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Childrens’ Aid Association
Police Department
Aid Association
Joy ride over flowers and chairs ends in arrest
In Kokomo Indiana on a Saturday Roy Noakes and Charles McGabhe attempted a joy ride in Willis Dye's machine parked at the Chautauqua grounds. They cranked it up and zigzagged over flower beds chairs and other items before park gates closed and the pair fled. They were later arrested on no charge of drunkenness.
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Kokomo
Ind
Roy Noakes
Charles McGabhe
Willis Dye
Chautauqua
Governor Welcomes Union Delegates at Typographical Convention
Delegates from across the United States opened the fifty sixth annual International Typographical Union convention in Dreamland pavilion Minneapolis. Governor Eberhart acting Mayor Van Nest and leaders greeted participants as James M. Lynch was introduced by Andrew Anderson and the convention organized. The afternoon featured sight-seeing with a three cornered bid for the next venue from San Francisco Salt Lake City and Houston Tex.
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Minneapolis
Minn
United States
Ffty
International Typographical Union
Dreamland Pavilion
J. W. Hanrahan
Eberhart
van Nest
James M. Lynch
Andrew Anderson
San Francisco
Salt Lake City
Houston
Tex
Pang Yon prospers in Wash business in Shelbyville
Shelbyville Aug 8 pang Yon plans to leave for China after building a laundry business that sustains him and his wife for life. He has accumulated enough to secure their retirement in his homeland.
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Pang Yon
Shelbyville
Ind
China
Wright urged for governorship in Tennessee race
Political friends of Gen. Luke E. Wright urge him to run for governor of Tennessee as Gov. Patterson faces pressure to quit a third-term bid. Patterson’s supporters warn of defeat amid anger over his pardon of Duncan B. Cooper in the Carmack murder case.
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Memphis
Tenn
Luke E. Wright
Tennessee
Patterson
Duncan B. Cooper
E. W. Carmack
Gallantry on crowded trolley costs man his life
New York report recalls John Wohllberr aged 56 who rose to yield his seat to a woman on a Brooklyn car. As the car lurched he stepped to the rear platform and was thrown from the running board to the pavement, losing his life in the accident. The incident is described as an act of gallantry in giving up his seat.
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New York
John Wohllberr
Wohllberr
Brooklyn
Cigarets Smoking Debate Divides Washington Society
Washington society fumes over anti cigaret crusade with many insiders defending women smokers as fashionable. Clergy condemn the habit, noting it spans diplomats wives and socialites, while cases of cigaret use and even theft highlight the era's public moral tensions.
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Washington
Aug
Morrison nominated by acclamation at Ninth district Dem convention
Martin A Morrison of Frankfort won the Ninth district Democratic nomination by acclamation at Lebanon Indiana. The platform urged tariff revision to revenue basis, prohibition of liquor into dry areas, a one dollar per day pension, praised Gov. Marshall and Shively, endorsed Kern, and denounced Cannonism and Payne Aldrich. Morrison said his opponent E E Neal would back Cannon for speaker if elected.
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Lebanon
Ind
Martin A Morrison
Frankfort
Ninth District
Benjamin F. McKee
Gov. Marshall
Benjamin F. Shively
Iidorse
John W. Kern
Maj
David F. Allen
M. Ralston
R. C. Houston
Morrison
E. E. Neal
Cannon
Payne
Dalzell
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Sisters of Good
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Children’s Aid Association Plans
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Pierces
Golden Discovery
Burgheim
N. Ilinola
Rick’s
Optical Department
Registered Optician Services
Townsend
Vonnegut Hardware Co
East
Washington Street
State Life Insurance Co
Cigaret
Canon
Canon Austin
St. Thomas Episcopal Church
Eugene Hannon
Church of the Immaculate Conception
LA Pres
Kern
Shively
Marshall and
Dollar
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Tof
WYETH
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Rochester, N
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