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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1910
Page
1
President William Howard Taft presented three major messages to Congress today outlining policy priorities and legislative recommendations. The addresses covered fiscal policy, international affairs, and domestic reforms, signaling the administration’s agenda for the coming session.
President Taft arrives to a warm reception as the National Conservation Congress opens in St Paul. He pledges practical conservation, urges specific remedies over generalities, and backs a congressional solution on water site control between states and the federal government.
The Lawrence fire department held its regular monthly practice at the National Bank corner. They washed down Winthrop Street south of the bank and demonstrated three water streams reaching high as the building, showcasing one of the fastest departments in the state.
Gifford Pinchot began a contested push for control of the National Conservation Congress as it opens its five day convention in St Paul Minnesota. A commission was formed to unite state commissions with the national body and officers were chosen with G E Comindra of Nebraska named president and J C Gipe of Washington secretary.
Job Gilliland born 1810 in New York reached centenarian status in Willow Springs township Kansas. He attributes health to free eating and one medicine a whiskey herb infusion. Former tobacco user for 45 years quit later. Married 1836 to Amanda Campbell and helped arbitrate Ohio Michigan boundary disputes. Father of fourteen with five surviving.
A rider on a New Jersey car line jumped from a moving streetcar to recover his hat. He landed with a tumble, but picked up the hat and continued on his way.
A Fide monument will be erected in Oak Hill cemetery for deceased members of Company H. The fourteen foot high Bedford granite monument features a life sized Spanish War veteran on a pedestal with a brass name plate for all deceased members and a dedicatory inscription noting the unit and campaigns. Foundation work begins this week with makers F M Rice & Company of Kansas City and a top sculptor.
Doctor W G Silom of Old Forge reports a baby girl born to Mr and Mrs James Payne of Music weighing one pound twelve ounces at birth and twenty nine ounces now after three weeks the infant is described as well formed and smaller than a recent sibling weighing one pound fifteen ounces born to Mr and Mrs Charles Burbee of East Templeton Massachusetts.
London reports Roosevelt's Omaha speech calling for U S fortification of the Panama Canal. The Westminister Gazette brands Friday's stance as a direct rejection of the 1911 terms guaranteeing canal neutrality. The paper concedes U S military control may be needed but urges diplomatic changes rather than repudiation of commitments.
C W Post of Battle Creek Michigan filed a suit in the U S district court of the eastern district of Missouri against the American Federation of Labor and the Buck Stove Range Co of St Louis to restrain officers of the latter from carrying out an alleged improvident agreement with the federation to make St Louis institutions closed shops. The case is a suit in equity and includes defendants Samuel Gempers president John Mitchell vice president Frank Morris secretary and other officers of the federation.
Eight Spanish War veterans dined at Anderson's restaurant last night in town for Captain Adna G. Clarke newly elected Senior Vice Commander of the Spanish War Veterans. Attendees included Wilder Metcalf Krause Oscar Brownlee and others as they shared stories of the war days and plans for stronger camaraderie. David Anderson M Cone and Tug Wilson faced police court for drunkenness with fines totaling eight dollars and fifty cents each.
Walter Bell of Lawrence, son of J H Bell, wowed Denver audiences with his pastoral symphony at Eliteh's Garden concert honoring Colorado composers. The 32 year old composer drew praise from the Denver Daily News for originality and beauty, marking an epoch in Western music and earning comparisons to Payne and Chadwick. Bell lived in Lawrence nineteen years.
Mrs A B Folks II, about 80, was stricken with paralysis last Saturday night at her Kentucky street home and is in serious condition. Her three daughters have been notified and will arrive soon. She has one son, Willig K Folks, of this city.
Partly cloudy conditions give way to showers tonight or Tuesday across Kansas. Cooler readings expected especially in the southeast region.
Three Montana bound players join Haskell Institute as coach Caldwell shapes a strong lineup. The squad targets tough midwest foes including Texas and Nebraska, with daily practices, a training table, and a busy travel schedule promising a bright fall.
Portland observers report a meteor at least 100 feet wide traveling over the Willamette valley around noon and believed to have struck west of McMinnville. Sightings were confirmed from Mount Angel and Salem with a smoky tail and a 16 foot long illumination. Smithsonian may locate the meteor.
Fred Lee of Columbia and Ray Ghormley of Hutchinson, Kansas, recently returned from a low cost European tour. They rode bikes across England and the continent to see the Passion Play and historic sites, earning passage back via a cattle boat trip to Montreal. Lee will graduate from the University this spring and enter the ministry.
Monday morning at 9 sixty oclock the principals of various schools in Lawrence will meet in Superintendent Smiths office. At 10 30 all teachers of the city schools will gather. Attendees are urged to attend as plans for the school year will be laid and discussed.
Democratic candidate for state printer T. J. Hudson traveled from Fredonia to southern Kansas where he noted extreme dryness and no rainfall in the past week. He reported it was not raining when he left home this morning.
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President Stanley and fifteen University directors convene at an old Lawrence church to plan the next school year as the Kansas Yearly Meeting of Friends gathers delegates from Kansas Missouri Texas and Oklahoma. The program lists director and ministry meetings business sessions worship and committee discussions over several days.
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