Tariff Board Expansion Sparks House Battle
Washington on May 16 a bitter fight looms over the sundry civil appropriation bill with debate focused on a $250000 item to empower the tariff board to gather data at home and abroad for the president. Critics call it a hidden tariff commission and oppose it as new legislation while Beveridge in the Senate backs the measure.
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Washington
Tariff Board
Tariff Commission
Rutes Committee
Beveridge
Daizell
Fennsy Tranta
Rules
Senate
Indiana
Belgian Count to Dairying in Minnesota Colony
Count Leopold De Rabtane will farm land in Minneapolis area as part of a Belgian noble settlement. He travels with 35 Belgians including a wealthy partner Henry Van Meerdeek to Radium Minnesota near Thief River Falls, led by Rev. G N Van Der Veldom to promote Catholic colonization. The party includes cash to buy farms and plans immediate farming operations.
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ST. Paul
Belgium
Leopold de Rabtane
Minneapolis
Henry van Meerdeek
Union
Radium
Minn
Thief Aver Falls
Warren
Minnesota Catholic Colonization Society
Minnesota
G. N. van der Veldom
Man of 75 slain while milking cow
In Derbyshire the death of 75 year old John Massey, a retired Dalbury farmer, is linked to a suspected robbery. His body was found near a shed after an apparent struggle. A cut trousers pocket and two suspicious men arrested mark the early investigation.
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London
South Darbyshire
John Massey
Dalbury
Derby
Rock Hills
Masser
Massey
Woman's Rights Tour To Go By Big Wagon
American college girls plan a northwest campaign aboard prairie wagon gypsy tours to advocate woman suffrage. Led by Elsa Ueland, a Minnesota graduate, the idea mirrors English efforts and targets South Dakota where votes for women is a campaign issue.
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Los Angeles
Northwest
Elsa Uelifd
University of Minnesota
New York
Miss Ueland
Mise Ray Cestehna
England
South’ Dakota
Butler Plays De Pauw On Irwin Field This Afternoon
Butler meets De Pauw at Irwin field this afternoon at 3 o'clock with batteries Butler Browder and Parker. A closely contested game is expected as both teams advance.
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de Butler
Deer Thinks Her Wotherts Slain By Own Action At Bronx Zoo
The two month old fawn Violet at the Bronx Zoo leaped from a ledge onto a picket fence after witnessing stress on her mother. Zoo workers, led by Barney McEnroe, pulled her free but she died minutes later. Officials cited it as death by own action amid tensions over the mother's hoof care and nearby veterinary attempts.
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New York
Zoo
Violet
Bronx Zoological Park
Barney McEnroe
McEnroe
Corner stone stolen from Maywood seminary wall
Chicago May 16 The corner stone of the Lutheran Theological seminary in Maywood, laid two weeks ago, has been stolen from the wall. Village marshal John Kamphouse is seeking the thieves. The box enclosed in the corner stone contained only papers and cards.
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Chicago
Lutheran Theological Seminary
Maywood
John Kamphouse
Engaged to Wed Girl Ordered Back to School
New York May 16 Miss Gussie Hobler a tall pretty girl nearly 17 engaged to be married is ordered by Magistrate Krotel to return to Cannon Street Public School to finish 130 days of attendance. Her fiancé Morris Seigel Jr seeks to obtain working papers. truant officer Mrs Joyce says papers missing due to a technicality.
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New York
Gussie Hobler
Columbia Street
Cannon Street Public School
Morris Seigel, Jr
Krotel
Essex Market Court
Graft Trial Draws Politicians to Chicago Court
May 16. In Chicago a crowded courtroom heard the Browne graft case as Representative Lee O Neill Browne faced an indictment charging paying 1000 dollars to vote William Lorimer into the U S Senate. Grand jury probes widen to Michael Link and Illinois Manufacturing ties, with State’s Attorney Burke pressing to reveal legislative methods.
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Chicago
McSurely
Lee O'Neil Browne
Browne
Charles A. White
William Lorimer
United States
Sangawon County
Cape Michael S. Link
Cook County
Lorimer
Link
Ink
Burke
Sangamon County
John M. Glenn
Illnois
Beauty fasters yield to hunger in Gardez City pact
Three beauty fasters from Gardez City L L decided that it was better to break the 17 day fast than endure longer pangs of hunger. Mrs Keble Trask of Philadelphia Miss Anna Townsend and Miss Marian McKellar said the fast would improve health and endured three days without food. They agreed to eat a large breakfast and abandon the fast after three days.
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New York
Gardez City
L.L
Keble Trask
Philadelphia
Anna Townsend
Marian McKellar
Miss Townsend
Charity Goes Amiss Big Man Is Charitable Read
A stout traveling man in a Washington Street car notices a poor old man crying over a mortgage document for 1300 dollars. He gives ten dollars, then the old man buys children's goods, shares more money, and drives away, revealing the lender is prosperous yet crying from dust.
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Big Man
Washington
Irvington
Good Year For Bibles By Annual Report
New York May 16 The ninety fourth annual report of the American Bible Society shows that last year the total issue of publications at home and abroad amounted to 226 831. A further 1 427 247 came from the Bible House New York and 1 399 384 from the society s agencies abroad being printed on mission presses in Turkey Syria Siam China and Japan. These issues consist of 327 620 Bibles 545 743 New Testaments and 1 955 452 pamphlets. The total issues of Bibles by the society in 94 years amount to 87 206 182.
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New York
American Bible Society
Bible ‘House
Solehy
Turkey
Syria
Siam
China
Japan
Society
Second District convention opens in Bloomington banquet
The Second congressional district convention opens with a Lincoln league banquet in Bloomington Indiana on Monday night. Judge Enoch G Hogate will be toastmaster and speakers include ex-Congressman John C Chaney Will Mays Sullivan James Wade Ennison Judge Charles E Henderson and John Edwards Mitchell. The convention opens Tuesday afternoon with John Edwards presiding.
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Bloomington
Ind
Lincoln League
Enoch G. Hogate
John C. Chaney
Sullivan
Will Mays
James
Wade Ennison
Vincennes
Charles E. Henderson
Bloomfield
John Edwards Mitchell
John Edwards
President Taft Signs Mine Bureau Bill
President Taft signed the bill creating a bureau of mines in the department of commerce and labor to supervise mining work. No head was decided. Prof. John E Holmes, director of the geological survey, has been mentioned for the post.
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Washington
Taft Monday
Bureau of Mines
Department of Commerce and Labor
John E. Holmes
Geological Survey
Probe of Express Companies Desirable
Washington May 16 Representative Sabath of Milnoin introduced in the house a resolution calling for a speedy investigation of all express companies. A six member committee, three from the senate and three from the house, would probe stock ownership, other interests, competition with the post offices, and other business aspects.
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Washington
Sabath
Milnoin
House
Senate
Pawn with Ten Dollar Gold Coin Sparks Private Drama
A shabby man pawns a ten dollar gold coin for four dollars at a shop. He nervously presents a wrapped precious keepsake, likely a diamond or similar, and departs with a ticket. The pawnbroker notes the coin has been pawned before and remarks some people borrow on coins rather than jewelry.
Enlistments Rise at Indianapolis Navy Station in May
May enlistments at the Indianapolis navy recruiting station surge past April totals with 14 recruits already recorded, signaling a rapid increase. The month is not half gone and the station expects to eclipse records from the past five years.
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Navy
Indianapolis
Canary recaptured by mechanical bird lure in Connecticut
In Stamford May 16 a pet canary escaped after a cat toppled its cage. Owner Joseph Mechaley used a wind-up mechanical canary in his shop to lure the real bird to a tree then hauled it to a second floor window. After sustained singing the canary returned to its cage.
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Stamford, Conn
Mr. Mechaley
Woollen Leads Republican Charge For Criminal Judge Seat
William Watson Woollen, dean of the Marion county bar, is running actively for the Republican nomination for criminal judge. Once a late starter, his supporters say he is gaining rapidly. Incumbent Judge James A. Pritchard seeks re nomination based on his court record.
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William Watson Woollen
Marion County
Woollen
James A. Pritchard
Indiana Conference of Home Missionary Convention Opens
Marion Indiana May 16 extensive preparations for the Indiana conference of the Home Missionary Convention to be held in the city Wednesday and Thursday. To secure strong speaking talent the southern and central conferences along with the northwest and north Indiana conferences will follow one another.
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Marion
Ind
Indiana
Haag's Liver Pills Promised To Clear Complexions
A 19th century advertisement urges reading the reporter's question about pimples and bad complexions. It links skin troubles to stomach issues, torpid liver, and impure blood, claiming only a three to six months course can cure them. Haag's Liver Pills are recommended as the best remedy, sold in 25c, 50c, and $1 boxes by Julius A. Haag of Indianapolis.
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Haag
Julius A. Haag
Indianapolis
Ind
Speech on the Republican Party Echoes in Native Dialect
A courthouse reporter transcribes a disgusted speaker aligned with the G O P who derides the party as only using the colored man before elections. He recalls a circus water-fetching boy story to illustrate how the elephant is overused, fatigued, and misdirected by party rhetoric, with implied frustration at political manipulation.
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Indiana Avenue
Dan Linitus
Republican Party
Smithy Worker Aims for U.S. Senate in Missouri
John F. Breckenridge, lodging in St. Joseph at 3204 West Colorado Avenue and working in Smithy shop at 421 Union Avenue, seeks nominations for U.S. senator. He wrote to Secretary of State Roach in Jefferson City for filing forms and fees, declaring his bid in the Democratic arena. Breckenridge believes smithy labor does not hinder a Washington career and cites a near-win in a five year ago bid for Congress in East St. Louis. He has visited St. Joseph for two years and feels prepared to contest the fall race with a credible chance.
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Joseph
John F. Breckenridge
Colorado Avenue
W. J. Haspel
Unois Avenue
Roach
Jeffer
Son City
Breckenridge
Washington
East St. Louis
Ill
St. Joseph
Missouri
Camp changes name to Twenty-seventh Indiana battery camp
The former McGee-Hennerson camp of the United Spanish War Veterans adopts the name Twenty-seventh Indiana battery camp after a Saturday night meeting at the Denison hotel.
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McGee-Hennerson
United Spanish War Veterans
Denison Hotel
Traction Co Local Trains Serve On The Hour
Traction Company operates hourly local trains from Indianapolis to Lebanon Frankfort Lafayette Crawfordsville Greenfield town Cambridge City Hichmana caetie Danville Greencastle Brazil and Terre Haute. Limited trains depart at 10 45 a m and 5 45 p m with extensions to Dayton Columbus and Richmond rail links.
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Richmond
Dayton
Columbus
Zanexville
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