International notes and political unrest dominate headlines
The Russian foreign office has not acted on the US memorandum on neutralizing the Manchurian railroad. Canada and European powers weigh responses as ministers of finance and war review proposals. Frederick A. Cook notebooks arrive in Copenhagen for examination. Alfred Hudson dies from injuries in suffragette clashes outside the Colliseum as Sir Edward Grey speaks inside. Maurice Hewlett launches a two column manifesto appealing to English workingmen.
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United States
Finance
Russia
Frederick A. Cook
Copenhagen
Hector Salmonson
Maurice Henry Hewlett
England
Alfred Hudson
Colliseum
Edward Grey
Hudson
Omaha’s Wool Market Win Noted in Salt Lake Resolutions
The Natural Wool Growers Association adopts resolutions in Salt Lake praising Omaha’s efforts to establish a wool market. The report also covers investigations into interior and forestry departments and freight-shipper issues tied to the Baltimore & Ohio and Pennsylvania systems.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Natural Wool Growers’ Association
Salt Lake
House
Interior and Forestry Departments
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
J. C. Mabray
Big Store
Federal Grand Jury
Council Bluffs
New York
Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton Memorial Association
E. Burt Methodist
Rome
Methodist Episcopal Institute
Anna Elizabeth Philpott
Washington
Albert Pike
Iowa
D. C
Cannon
United States
Buenos Ayres
Walter Lonsdale
Frederick A. Coe
Cook
Bordeaux
France
Leon de la Grange
Various National News Items From Early 1909 Dispatches
Omaha Indians vote against a proposed merger during a council at Walthill. President Taft seeks a Alaska trip after congress adjourns. Captain Charles E. Vreeland nominated for rear admiral. Scott Antarctic expedition funded with English aid. Automatic sugar scales tested in Boston. Freight car shortage tallies 24,054. C H Ackert resigns from Southern Railway. Secretaries and executives linked to sugar fraud inquiries. Darius Mills dies in California. Mrs. Reid connected to ambassador. Ptomaine peaches kill nine in Sawtelle, California. Taft buys Philadelphia ballpark for 250,000 with long lease option. U S Supreme Court voids Minneapolis ticket ordinance.
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Walthill
Taft
Benate
Charles E. Vreeland
Navy
Scott
South Pole
Tatt
Alaska
Territory
Congress
Treasury Department
New York
Boston
United States
America Railway Association
C. H. Ackert
The
Southern Railway
Finley
Southern
Federal Grand Jury
Charles R. Helke
American Sugar Refining Company
Charles Schmidt
Mike Jordan
Teresa Barnhart
Akron
Barnhart
Darius Ogden Mills
California
Reid
Great Britain
San Francisco
Sawtelle
Cal
Washington
W. A. Gorman
St. Louis, Rock, Mountain & Pacific Railroad
Raton
N. M
Charles P. Taft
Cincinnati
Ball Club
Milbrae
Justice Day
Supreme Court of the United States
City of
Minneapolis, Minn
Minneapolis Street Railway Company
Hitchcock Considers Senate Run as Primary Urges Pension Plan
Representative Hitchcock of Omaha hints at a future senatorial candidacy to succeed Burkett while friends expect a formal announcement later. Congress may pass a law mandating compulsory retirement for superannuated federal workers with pensions, as MacVeagh directs Brown to draft a plan. Public health and marine hospital service officials note nationwide health gains, and December 1909-10 fiscal results show a $2.11 million year end balance. Taft and Mrs. Taft hosted a major diplomatic corps reception with about 1,500 guests. Senator Crawford seeks a Commerce and Labor inquiry into rising living costs, with officials ready to provide data if Congress funds the study.
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Hitchcock
Omaha
United States
Burkett
House
Congress
MacVeagh
Herbert D. Brown
White House
Taft
Diplomatic Corps
Crawford
South Dakota
Department of Commerce and Labor
Department
Canada Wheat Boom Promises Global Price Impact
Reports from Central Canadian grain fields show a 1909 crop with high quantity and quality. Saskatchewan leads with near 90 million bushels from 400,000 acres, while yields of 25 to 60 bushels per acre are repeatedly noted. The vast potential of future wheat areas is highlighted as Canada strengthens its role in world markets.
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Canada
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Russia
India
United States
Lord Grey
Canadian West
Senator Beveridge Reflects on Snow and Solomon
The speaker cites Solomon praising winter while an Indianapolis man jokes that wealth and status shape views on beauty. A stone cutter remark underscores class perspective on snow and tradition during Christmas.
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Beveridge
Solomon
Indianapolis
Jerusalem
Marine Eye Remedies Ad Promises Eye Health
An illustrated Eye Book offers guidance on eye trouble and proper Marine Eye Remedies. The Marine company claims their product soothes pain and strengthens weak eyes and sells the remedy for 60 cents, recommended for adults and babies with scaly eyelids and granulation.
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Marine Eye Remedy Co
Chica
A Question to Be Considered on Plagiarism
Senator Sorghum weighs when a choice between being interesting or original forces action. The remark centers on permissible limits of copying and originality in writing.
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Senator Sorghum
Wit and Wisdom in Marriage and Sermons
A pithy reflection notes that a man's cleverness is often aided by a clever wife and that sermons rest on texts while political speech rests on pretexts, capturing a concise moral observation.
Persistent cough risks and vintage medicine prices cited
A triek ing cough may become permanent unless treated. Allen's Lung Balsam is advertised as a remedy. a 25 cent bottle suffices, with larger sizes offered at 60 and 1.00 dollar. The snippet also quotes a sentiment on happiness in later life from Alexander Bain.
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Allen
Alexander Bain
Dr J H Rindeaub Specialtat Opinion Page Note
A fragment quotes Dr J H Rindeaub noting that enforcing a wife's prayers for her husband’s salvation is harder than persuading him to change behavior. The snippet is part of a broader opinion or advice section.
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Awoman
Splace
Boy in Sunday Clothes Feels Uneasy in Photo
A small boy sits stiff in his Sunday attire, eyes averted as a photographer captures a rare, uneasy moment in the churchyard setting. The image highlights youthful nerves amid formal dress and ceremonial hush.
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Sh Vk Fantee
Jury Finds Andy Jones Guilty on Most Counts in National Bank Case
Fargo, Jan 18. After two hours of judge Amidon’s charge and numerous objections, the jury convicted Andy Jones on all but one of fifteen counts alleging embezzlement misapplication and false entries. Bail raised to 50,000. Jones in U. S. Marshal custody awaiting sentencing.
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Fargo
N. D
Charles F. Amidon
Edward Bengerud
United States
Andy Jones
Jones
C. F. Amidon
U. S
Lamphere confession ties Gunness murders to grave
The Post-Dispatch reports Ray Lamphere who died in Michigan City penitentiary confessed on his deathbed to knowing the Gunness crimes. He described aiding Mrs. Gunness in disposing of three men and revealing details of chloroform, an axe, and cash found at the la Porte property.
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St. Louis
Post-Dispatch
Ray Lamphere
Michigan City
Ind
Belle Gunness
LaPorte
Lamphere
Post- Dispatch
Gunness
Hegelin
South Dakota
Royal Family Seeks to Avoid Lawsuits Over Leopold Fortune
Brussels report says the royal family except Princess Louise plans to avert lawsuits and scandal in distributing Leopold's fortune. The aim is to prevent public legal action and maintain royal reputation amid the settlement discussions.
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Brussels
Louise
Leopold
Burglars Strangle Nurse in Millbrook Mansion Robbery
In Millbrook New York on January 14 Sarah Bramer employed by Mr and Mrs Barnes Compton was strangled by burglars who looted the Compton mansion of jewelry valued at 10000 dollars. The case is under investigation with local authorities pursuing suspects.
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Millbrook
Sarah Bramer
Barnes Compton
Compton Mansion
Aetfee
Theatrical People in Fire Run from Damaged Hotel
Theatrical people at a Chicago hotel faced a fire on January 13. Most were scantily dressed as they fled into the street. Firemen rescued several from the blaze at the Richmond hotel, with some damage reported to the building.
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Chicago
pRichmond
Seri
Fuzzy Frank-Lady Enter Exchange Over Water Access
The dialogue sketches a domestic exchange where Fuzzy Frank asks for water and Lady directs him to the tunny bler and the pump. The speaker implies a request for assistance while the other offers object descriptions and a procedural response.
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Fuzzy Frank
Burning skin cure claim for Cuticura remedies
Mrs Edward Nenning of Watertown New York describes severe eczema over head to feet four years earlier. After a six week bed confinement she used Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent and recovered fully in three weeks with good sleep and no further illness.
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Edward Nenning
Saling St. Watertown
N. Y
Why Willie Questions Respect For Parents
A teacher rebukes Willie for lacking reverence to his parents, lamenting Western manners. Willie retorts that his mother’s daily hairdo and his father’s yellow plush hat show vanity in parents. The exchange comments on cultural norms of deference.
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Willie
China
Japan
Yale Men In Town Find Harvard Closed For Yale Fans
In Cambridge on the morning of the Yale Harvard game two New Haven students meet a grave undergraduate. They ask where Harvard University is and he replies they have locked it up because so many Yale men are in town.
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Harvard
Cambridge
New Haven
Yale
Real Art in the Exchange on Children and Deception
A wry exchange mocks manipulation and inherited cunning as mothers share common rules for shaping other people’s children, noting how rhetoric learned in college contrasts with natural methods and highlighting views on upbringing and deceit.
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Smith
Woman Doctor Links Coffee to Ills and Enduring Headaches
A woman describes a long battle with neuralgic headaches, weighing 140 pounds at her worst, until a female doctor advised Postum. After two weeks on Postum she gained weight and felt headaches fade, later claiming she is free of neuralgic pain and her mind is clearer.
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Ismay
Montana
Home and Foreign Intelligence
Bae
Qualayter
Western Canada
J. H. Rindeaub
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