Wilson Declines Taft Offers as He Takes Office
The piece notes Woodrow Wilson declined Taft’s offers of a warship trip to Panama access to the White House prior to his presidency and cabinet guidance. It describes Wilson’s plan to run his administration independently and cites crowding Democrats awaiting appointments in Washington. It also covers remarks on House rules, belated gifts to Mrs Taft, and Nick Longworth’s response to losing his seat.
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Scientist flooded with bedbugs after ad request
Professor Quaintance, renowned entomologist at Washington, faced a flood of bedbug inquiries after placing a cheap ad offering bedbugs at 1 cent each. The unsolicited responses poured in from across the United States, with people shipping bags and boxes of bedbugs to his lab.
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Economeic
Washington
Sami
Quaintance
United States
Drydock at Pearl Harbor Seen Doomed by Mud Foundation
Naval engineers believe the Pearl Harbor drydock project faces failure due to an unstable mud foundation. Rear Admiral W C Cowles reports the middle section broke free upward and that cofferdam piling is badly damaged. The $10 million project has already spent over $3 million on dredging and 60 percent of the $3.4 million construction appropriation used.
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Fast Paris London Flight Sets Quick Channel Record
French aviator Marcel G Brindejone des Moulinais crossed the channel in fog from Paris to London in about 3 hours 21 minutes. He took off at 9 15 am from Paris, landed Calais at 10 50 am, resumed at noon and arrived London at 1 36 pm, covering 287 miles at 94 mph.
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London
Marcel G. Brindejone Des Moulinais
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Channel
Bryan Calls on Taft at White House
William Jennings Bryan visited the White House unaccompanied and spoke with President Taft for a time in the executive offices, signaling a private discussion during his journey to join the Wilson cabinet as secretary of state.
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Washington
William 4. Bryan
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Bryan
Future humans may lose hair teeth and toes says professor
Professor Frederick Starr of the University of Chicago Anthropology Department told his class that future humans may be without hair teeth and the little toe due to predigested foods hats and shoes. He argued hair and teeth serve no current defense and will become curiosities as evolution continues.
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Frederick Starr
Department of Anthropology
University of Chicago
India Plant Could Replace Wood In Paper Making
At London’s Royal Society of Arts a new material from Hedychium coronarium, a native Indian plant, is proposed to replace wood pulp for paper. If cultivated widely, forests would remain intact while newspapers could be printed on this substitute that resembles paper. Rev. F M Hallock of Bakersville Conn reports a parcel post eel surprise from Long Island. He opened an elongated package containing a squirming eel mass, frozen at sending, thawing at the parsonage.
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Royal Society of Arts
London
Parcel Post
F. M. Hallock
Methodist Church
Bakersville
United States
Senate Narrowly Adopts Adjournment After Schedule Mixup
Washington March 4 senators nearly lose a day when the Senate adjourned at 2 50 oclock after discovering it was still on the Sunday March 2 legislative day. The session was halted and then resumed with Senator Lodge preventing the loss of a calendar day caused by a Saturday Sunday recess.
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Senate
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Courtesy as Duty and Benefit in Neighborly Conduct
The passage argues that courtesy mirrors honesty and should avoid sharp speech and rough manners. It compares speaking indulgently to stealing from a neighbor and claims courteous behavior yields social and personal payoffs.
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