Taft nominates Kerens to Austria post and Lurton for Supreme Court
National headlines note Richard Kerens of St. Louis named ambassador to Austria by the president and A S Van Valkenburgh reappointed U S district attorney for western Missouri. Judge Horace H Lorton confirmed as associate justice. After January 1 treasury will accept only U S government bonds for bank deposits. The National Pure Food Association seeks congressional inquiry into old food methods and crop information. Senate judiciary panel favors Lurton for the Supreme Court despite his age over 66.
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National Capitol
Taft
Austria
Senate
Richard ¢. Kerens
St. Louis
A. S. van Valkenburgh
Kansas City
United States
Missouri
Horace H. Lorton
United States Supreme Court
Treasury Department
Secretary of the Treasury
National Pure Food Association
Congress
Senate Committee On Judiciary
Lurton
Supreme Court
Water loss and gas blast hit multiple states
A string of incidents across Kansas and nearby states reports a $75,000 loss from fire caused by frozen pipes in Hill City Kansas, a fourth gas explosion in Topeka injuring a Missouri and Kansas Telephone Co electrician, and various legal actions. Other items include sugar fraud investigations in New York grand jury, Harry Thaw denied writ of error, potential $250 million Sherman Act damages against Standard Oil, Enid Oklahoma’s first commission government election, and unrest from Grand Canyon style clashes. Also noted are railway wage demands, government employee bail in sugar cases, an army horse show at Fort Leavenworth, and lawsuits involving Fort Leavenworth bankers, drought and cold in Wyoming, bank disputes in Oklahoma City, and forest land lawsuits in New Mexico.
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Hill City
Kan
Topeka
Missouri and Kansas Telephone Company
New York
Sugar Trust
Justice McKenna
Supreme Court of the United States
Harry Thaw
Matteawan
Standard Oil Company
Enid
Grand Canea
Ler
Fort Leavenworth
Oklahoma City
Young
Columbia Bank
Farmers’ Institute
Lawrence
Crabtree
The
Agricultural College
Jackson
National Good Roads Association
Grayson H. Osborne
Daniel C. Abbott
Bankers Colony
Federal Penitentiary
Stubbs
Kansas
Washington
Wyoming
Citizens State Bank of Geronimo
New Mexico Lumber Company
Unclear OCR News Snippets Span Multiple Stories
A garbled OCR dump covers varied items including transit in East St. Louis, Yale admission shifts, a proposed $2 million farming school, a Missouri local option case, fires at Fort Scott, Tulsa killings linked to past crim es, Indian Democratic committee, prize steer at Missouri college, Tulsa bank dispute, Kansas City station bonds, switchmen strike concerns, Estrada in Nicaragua, Dr Cook polar claims doubt, Belgium throne succession, aviator Panthans Paris flight, London Salome censorship, and a Nutcracker pretender note.
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East St. Louis
Yale
Bema University
Daviess County
Daily
Weekly
Tribune and Monitor
Monitor Binding and Printing Company
Fort Scott
Kaw
Notable Obits and Affairs From the Nation
A roundup of notable deaths and events includes Col. W A Harris former U S senator from Kansas dying of heart disease in Chicago where he aided at a livestock show Ernest Stout a Nebraska farmer convicted of murder gives $1000 to the victim's three children before entering the penitentiary M F Burke an insurance solicitor from Meadville Mo found dead in a St Joseph hotel possibly from heart disease Louis Mierolt the aviator injured in Constantinople is in a Vienna hospital Maj Gen Walter F Salter who served under Grant dies in Salt Lake City Col Cicero P Baring oldest Kansas auctioneer dies while crying a farm sale near Salina Leopold I king of Belgium and Europe’s richest monarch dies in a collapse that stunned doctors Gifford Pinchot declines Michigan University presidency and remains in forestry service Danny Deerskin claimed to be 100 and last Mohican descendant dies in Vineland N J Gen Fred D Grant will move to the East command with New York HQ Fritjoff Nansen abandons Cook pole claims and backs Peary Gov Haskell of Oklahoma suffers acute indigestion with gall stones likely, operation possible.
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Col. W. A. Harris
United States
Kansas
Chicago
Ernest Stout
Grand Island
Neb
Joseph Richeson
M. F. Burke
Meadville
St. Joseph
Louis Mierolt
Vienna
Constantinople
Walter F. Salter
Grant
Sherman
Salt Lake City
Cicero P. Baring
Salina
Leopold I
Belgium
Europe
Gifford Pinchot
Forestry Service
University of Michigan
Danny Deerskin
Mohican
Vineland
N. J
Fred D. Grant
Copenhagen University Rejects Cook Pole Claim
The University of Copenhagen and its examining committee concluded Dr Frederick A Cook failed to prove his North Pole discovery claim. The consistory adopted a report stating Cook's notebooks show no original observations and provide no proof he reached the pole, echoing prior newspaper accounts.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
University of Copenhagen
Frederick A. Cook
North Pole
Cook
Stromeren
Ehairit
New York Herald
Americans Flock to Canada for Homestead Claims
In the ten months ending October 9, 1909, Americans from nearly all states and territories filed homestead entries in Canada, according to Ottawa interior department officials. With November and December pending, the year’s total is expected to exceed 11,000 applicants, with Delaware Mississippi and the District of Columbia the only U S regions not represented.
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Ottawa
Ontario
United States
Canada
Interior Department
Delaware
Mississippi
District of Columbia
Jackson To Prosecute Packers In Kansas City Case
Topeka Kansas. A strong rumor says Attorney General Jackson will sue the Kansas City packers for anti trust law violations. Officials decline comment though an administration source confirms contemplation of action. A law passed last winter could allow the state to take the packing houses as receiver if a case is proven.
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Topeka
Kansas
Capitol
Jackson
Kansas City Packers
Kansas City
Kan
Kansas Agriculture Meeting in Topeka Set for January Dates
The thirty ninth annual meeting of the Kansas state board of agriculture will be held in Topeka on January 12 13 and 14.
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Kansas Agriculture Meeting
Topeka
Kansas
Kansas State Board of Agriculture
Kansas must have gas first says Topeka officials
In Topeka Prof W C Toad state sanitary engineer and M F Amrine were sent to gather evidence on the natural gas situation. Kansas towns claim priority as early receivers of gas and argue they must be supplied before Kansas City and St Joseph Missouri.
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Topeka
Kan
W. C. Toad
M. F. Amrine
Stubbs
Feshite
Kansas
Kansas City
St. Joseph
Foraker Advises On Tax Resistance In Cincinnati
Ex Senator Josep B. Foraker denounced the corporation tax before hundreds of Cincinnati business leaders. He called the tax absolutely unjust and urged listeners to refuse payment, arguing the statute is unconstitutional.
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Foraker
Cincinnati
Ohio
Josep B. Foraker
Cook Cleared Up 100000 In Radio Regions Claim
New York Dr Frederick A Cook shows he is ahead by 80 000 to 100 000 on his trip to the radio regions despite being branded an impostor by his lawyer Henry Well ington Wack.
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Cook
New York
N. Y
Frederick A. Cook
Henry Wellington Wack
Indicted for Smuggling in New York Lace Case
A federal grand jury in New York has returned 27 indictments against dressmakers, milliners and lace importers charged with conspiracy to defraud the government by smuggling.
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New York, N. Y
Federal Grand
Missouri State Capital Items and Industry Output
Brief mentions from Jefferson City outline Missouri manufacturing in 1908. Boot and shoe industry led value and employment totals, with 11,993 workers and $26,149,940 in production. Tobacco and packing houses followed in value, and Kansas City reported the strongest 1908 manufacturing total at $48,492,974 with leading sectors including printing and publishing. Attorney General Major opines on fines and forfeitures and a landmark rate case heads to the U.S. Supreme Court next February. Governor Hadley optimistic on river improvements and a $50 million federal appropriation for Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio rivers and lake to Gulf project.
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Fuoi
Missouri
Kansas City
Supreme Court of the United States
Major
Supreme Court
Fat Year for Canadian West Harvests 1909 Boosts Farmers
The article reports a record 1909 harvest in Western Canada with wheat and other crops yielding massive sums. It notes 7 million people in Canada, large land settlement from the United States, rising rail and elevator capacity in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta, and government homesteads and land offers fueling settlement and optimism about future grain and livestock production.
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United States
Canada
Winnipeg
Rocky Mountains
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Fort William
Port Arthur
Great Lakes
Ontario
Prairie Provinces
Western Provinces
Ambiguous Car Talk Fragments From Unknown Source
Fragmentary notes describe a traveler from San Francisco and a reference to someone on a road all season. No clear event, date, or identities are established. text appears as stray dialogue or transcription noise with limited factual content.
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San Francisco
Tuberculosis Exhibition Travels Across States
After a whirlwind campaign against consumption in Charleston the American tuberculosis exhibition of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis opened another movement in Greenville South Carolina. After January 1 the work will continue in Columbia DC with the state legislature session and an appropriation sought to fight tuberculosis. An exhibition has closed a Colorado campaign and now tours Oklahoma with plans for a state wide battle and a future Arkansas stop.
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Charleston
National Association For the Study and Prevention of
Greenville
S.C
Columbia
D. C
Enorta
National Association
Colorado
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Balmwort and Sarsaparilla Compound Tonic
A well known medical man recommends a tonic to improve appetite and digestion. Mix one ounce compound fluid balmwort with one ounce syrup sarsaparilla in a half pint of good whiskey and take a tablespoonful three to six times daily. Also touted as a system cleanser.
General laments being outgenerated by foe
In a tense exchange, a general notes the enemy has outgenerated them, while another officer asks how this happened. The grim realization follows that the opponent has secured control of the cable office ahead of their side.
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Caramba
Worth Its Weight in Gold
An eclectic ad paragraph promotes Pettit's Eye Salve for tired eyes and eye strain, touting soothing properties from a Buffalo, New York druggist listing Howard Bros. The piece hints at wisdom and youth contrasts, then abruptly shifts to quotes and assorted product mentions including Hamline Wizard Oil and Pleasant Pellets.
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Pettit
Howard Bros
Buffalo, Y
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Tom Taggart
Missouri College of Agricultture
Sedalia
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American Federation of Labor
St Paul
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Estrada
Nicaragua
Madriz
Zelaya
Michael Nichoalievitcher
Nicholas
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Leopold
Albert
Panthan
Paris
Strauss
Salome
Convent Garden
London
Zelayan
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Elliott W. Major
Jesse A. Tolerton
Game and Fish
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Persia
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Jas. J. Hill
Canadian Club
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Canadian Mounted Police
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Lumsden
Thomas Shaw
West
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Piere
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