President proposes currency reform and broad reforms
The message urges currency system overhaul, expands interstate commerce control, and calls for stronger antitrust measures. It backs postal savings banks, parcel post expansion, labor protections, eight hour workday goals, higher judges’ salaries, forest conservation, pure food laws, statehood for New Mexico and Arizona, and Puerto Rican citizenship. It also recommends naval expansion and faster shipbuilding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Currency Commission
Panama Canal
United States
Interstate Commerce Commission
Congress
Supreme Court
Statehood
New Mexico
Arizona
Porto Rico
Navy
General Board For the Navy
Rob Portland Bank Robbers Loot East Side Bank
Five masked men robbed the East Side Bank in Portland Oregon at 5 45 last night taking fourteen thousand dollars in gold silver and currency The leader forced President Newhall and his son to surrender The raid lasted two minutes with two men inside handling sacks while three waited outside Detectives and police hunt the culprits a deputy sheriff found two hundred dollars in gold pieces dropped during the escape
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
East Side
Newhall
Frank Beatty
Root Defends Career After Washington Supreme Court Resignation
Former Justice Milo A. Root breaks silence after resigning from the Washington Supreme Court. He denies corruption, credits a long- trusted friend, and questions a judge’s involvement in a railway letters matter. A bar committee plans a thorough, possibly drastic, report on all charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Wash
Supreme Court
State of Washington
Milo A. Root
Mr. Root
Bar Committee
Plans for Great Roosevelt Hunt in Africa
President Roosevelt announced a Africa hunting expedition prepared by the Smithsonian Institution to gather natural history materials for the National Museum. He will fund his own expenses. The party aims to reach Mombasa in April and proceed to Victoria Nyanza and the Nile toward Khartoum, arriving around April 1910.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Walcott
Smithsonian Institution
Africa
National Museum
Mombasa
Victoria Nyanza
Nile
Khartoum
Immense Profits for Standard Oil Revealed in Court
New York December 8 government figures in the federal suit to dissolve Standard Oil show that the Continental Company a Standard subsidiary earned 115 percent on 400000 capital, and Standard Oil Company of Indiana with 1000000 capital earned 55000000 from 1899 to 1906 as John D Archbold testified.
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New York
Standard Oil Company
Standard
John D. Archbold
Government Inquisitor
Continental Company
Middle West
Indiana
Champ Clark Chosen House Minority Leader Unanimously
Washington December 8 Representative Champ Clark of Missouri was chosen minority leader of the House by a caucus of Democratic members. Clark's election was unanimous.
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Champ Clark
Washington
Missouri
House of Representatives
Clark
New Steam Roller Plant at Chas H Collins Co
The Chas H Collins Co plans a steam roller plant to grind and crush feed for customers at reduced prices. A ten horse power electric motor will power the mill with a steam boiler and coil heated grain feed through a spiral screw. A smaller grinder for chicken feed will also be added.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. H. Collins Co
Kennewick greenhouse rising west of Collins Co
E M Stockman builds a large greenhouse in the Union addition west of Collins Commission Co. The 150 by 160 foot structure will front Front Street with a glassed section and furnace area under way. Heating plant cost about 700 dollars and plants are planned for the first section by year end. The depot rail location promises town advertising and supplies for local and surrounding areas including radishes lettuce rhubarb and mushrooms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. M. Stockman
Umion
Collins Commission Co
Front St
First International Bank Kennewick financial condition 1908
Report of financial condition for the First International Bank of Kennewick Washington as of November 27 1908 shows total assets of 41182 54 with loans 16918 17 overdrafts 403 55 bonds and securities 1056 28 cash on hand 2546 96 other items totaling 41182 54 The bank’s capital stock 25000 deposits 16727 29 cashier’s checks 455 25 and other liabilities complete the statement.
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First International Bank
Kennewick
Wash
State of Washington
Local business and health notes from town
P C Palmer auditor of Cascade Lumber visits on inspection. St Paul Lumber conducts annual yard inventory. Mrs G I Mottinger remains in dangerous condition from typhoid fever with fever over 100 degrees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. C. Palmer
Cascade Lumber Company
St. Paul Lumber Company
G. I. Mottinger
Oddities of Color Blindness Across Perceptual Variants
The article explains how color blindness affects color distinction in red green and violet categories. It describes how red blind, green blind, and violet blind individuals perceive the American flag differently, including areas such as stripes and star field, with notes on total color blindness yielding yellowish brown and dark brown tones.
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Postal Savings Banks
Parcel Post
ROB Poirtland Bank
Root
Washington Bar Association
Great Roosevelt
County of Benton
H.E. Johnson
H. E. Johnson
S. M. Lockerby
C. W. Lockerby
C. O. Anderson
Wasi
Ull’s
Coats
J. E. Tull
Panamas
Woman’s Home Companion
McClure’s Magazine the Kennewick Courier
Courier
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