Senators Urge Veto On Measure May Delay Adjournment
Madison reports Senators Kleczka Jodenstab and Weigle of Milwaukee urged Governor McGovern to veto a reapportionment bill that would create new senatorial and assembly districts. They called the plan a gerrymander and questioned constitutionality. The governor did not commit. The legislature may delay adjournment into next week as lawmakers push through other measures including work on nonpartisan judicial elections and a controversial income tax amid broad debates on cost of living and public inquiries.
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Madison
Kleczka
Jtodenatab
Weigle
Milwaukee
Cams
McGovern
Jovere
Elx Qgis
Thad
Mary Ann
la Follette
Board of
Public Attairs
Graduate Pazz State Examination Record
A college reports an unusual achievement as all members of a class successfully pass the state poaza examination, marking a notable academic performance for the institution.
Pralapa Decision jf Standard Oil Case
Future conventions of the Wisconsin State Bar will include a session on public and professional subjects. The motion was adopted at Milwaukee, made by Chief Justice John B. Winslow, aiming to boost state lawyer participation and interest.
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Wisconsin State Bar Association
Milwaukee
John B. Winslow
State Supreme Court
Women Campaign Plans Issued By Wisconsin Suffrage Group
The Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Association's state central committee led by G A Wipke announces a vigilant dignified statewide campaign using suffrage representatives. Meetings will be in halls, churches or parlors with no street corner speakers. The purse is strained as the Equality League seeks funds to support street meetings and public address efforts.
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Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Association
Ita
State Central Committee
G. A. Wipke
State Central Committee OF
MES
G. A. Hipke
Political Equency League of Wisconsin Hae
Isaac Stephenson
H. A. J. Upham
Charles W. Norris
Mitchell Park
Henry C. Lyman
Normal School Plans Big Milwaukee Addition
Lake Park district Milwaukee residents will receive a model school for their children. At the normal school regents annual meeting a 70000 addition to the Milwaukee Normal school and a 9000 improving grounds project for La Crosse were approved. Officers elected included Theodora Kronsbage as president and John Herrington as vice president. Land will be secured at Fall Claire for the new normal school. No successor was elected to President Salisbury at Whitewater.
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Lake Park
Milwaukee
Normal School
Milwaukee Normal School
Model School
Theodora Kronsbage
John Herrington
Oshkosh
Wiram Kittle
Madison
Superior
River Falls
Stevens Point
la Crosse
Fall Claire
Salisbury
Whitewater Normal School
Badger Population Suffers Convention Addresses Abstractors
The Wisconsin Association of Abstractors met to discuss migratory pressures on agriculture and land interests. Secretary of State Frear spoke on the link between abstractors and landed property. Officers elected included President E. T. Dithmar of Barahoo and Vice-President Skinner of Watertown.
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Badger
Wisconsin
Canada
Wisconsin Association of Abstractors
Frear
E. T. Dithmar
Barahoo
Skinner
Watertown
Newlands Proposes Interstate Trade Commission for Railroads
Senator Newlands of Nevada urges a five member Interstate Commerce styled body to oversee major industrials and railroads. The plan creates a nonpartisan commission to regulate corporations with interstate receipts over 9 million, requiring public filings and allowing registration cancellation for unfair practices and anti competitive behavior.
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Keap
Washington
Interstate Trade Commission
Interstate Commerce Commineion
Senate
Newlanda
Nevada
Standard Oil and Tobacco
Newlands
Pareau
Department of Commerce and Labor
Bureau
Commission of Interstate Trade
Commissioner of Comporations
Few
Avias
Eagle
Whitelion
United States
Sterman
Gary
Steel Corporation
Ie Great Corporation
Intereft
Heroic brakeman saves boy from raging Susquehanna
Frederick Stoker a Delaware Lackawanna & Western brakeman leaped from a moving train to rescue a boy struggling in midstream. The engine driver kept pace as Stoker swam out and dragged the boy to shore, with passengers cheering and the train pausing briefly before continuing. The boy survived submersion despite the river’s dangerous current.
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Delaware, Lackawanni & Western
Kingston
Frederick Stoker
Ind
Stoker
Susquehanna
Roma
Didrot
Toledo Blade
Heat Wave Strains Cities as Death Toll Rises
Chicago endures record heat with 101 degree high and 65 deaths linked to the spell. St Louis reports dozens more heat deaths while Philadelphia and New York tally rising fatalities. Milk prices may spike due to pasture shortages as heat continues across markets.
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Chicago
St. Louis
Philadelphia
New York
Chilengo
St. Louie
Mille Dealera
Panadelphia
Tely
Trainometer promises instant speed readout on trains
An inventor from New York, H Waymouth Prance, patents a penny activated trainometer similar to car speedometers. A metal case with a knob fitted in each compartment connects to the axle to display current speed, locking once a penny is removed. It aims to show sixty or seventy miles per hour and up says express speeds for travelers.
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New York American
Saga
H. Waymouth Prance
London
Mr. Prance
Splendid Inspection Car Concept Described
A railway inspection car combines a hand car frame with automobile wheels and a rear truck powered by a geared automobile engine via shaft drive. The unit, noted in Popular Mechanics, showcases an effective propulsion mechanism using mixed components from two transport modes.
Second Fatal Cholera Case In New York City
New York health officials report the second cholera suspect from the Abruzzi arrives on the Duca D'Abruzza. Anna Vita, 32, immigrant, dies after arrival. Dr A H Doty confirms no alarm and notes a ten day detention period after a Washington conference with Sturgeon Wyman.
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New York
Washington
Sturgeon Wyman
A. H. Doty
Anna Vita
Telephone Supersedes Telegraph in Block System Mileage
The Interstate Commerce Commission released a bulletin on January 7 1911 detailing U S rail mileage operated under the block system as of January 1 1911. Total road length was 1209 miles automatic 17718 miles, and 335387.6 miles manual with year over year gains of 473.8 miles automatic and 2037.4 miles manual, yielding a 5511.1 mile increase. The report notes a sharp rise in telephone aided blocking, naming Pennsylvania and four roads where telephone blocking is used for all manual work: Santa Fe Rock Island Chicago Milwaukee Puget Sound and Seaboard Air Line, with further increases on Atlantic Coast Line Chicago Northwestern Erie Evansville Terra Haute Louisville Nashville and Cleveland Cincinnati Chicago St Louis.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
United States
Pennsylvania
Santa Fe
Rock Island
Chicago
Milwaukee
Puget Sound
Chicago & Northwestern
Erie
Evansville
Terra Haute
Louisville
Nashville
Cleveland
Cincinnati
St Louis
Railway tunnel through Jungfrau rock advances daily
Steadily progressing tunnel work under the Jungfrau in Switzerland advances 10 to 12 feet daily through solid Monch rock. The projected Jungfraujoch station at 3450 meters elevation is expected to be reached by Navemor.
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Jungfrau
Switzerland
Monch
Jungfraujsch
Navemor
Veteran Leaves Service After Fifty Years at North British
David Hulehtsoo retires from the North British Railroad after five decades on the face plate. As a engine driver for forty years he never had an accident yet recalls a passenger train colliding with his goods train and a later crash that killed a fireman and three passengers. He also survived the 1879 Tay bridge disaster, recalling the wind’s fury as he held the engine together and keeping a keepsake walking stick carved from bridge timber.
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David Hulehtsoo
North British Railroad Company
Baa
Freman
Neensia
Hutcalson
Tay Ridge
Quakertown Lantern Railroad Revival Plans Proclaimed
A dispatch from Doylestown reports the Quakertown & Lantern railroad is revived for passenger and freight service. Leaders plan a storage battery car for hourly trips between Quakertown and Riegelsville, with a small steam engine for freight. The passenger car will link with the Reading railway at Quakertown and with the trolley road to Riegelsville.
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Quakertown & Lantern Railroad
Doylestown
Quakertown
Riegelsville
Reading Railway
Towns Laid Out by Railroad Across Canada and Santa Fe Lines
The Canadian Pacific began laying out forty new towns on a recently built branch this past year and plans fifty more towns along the Santa Fe lines this year, signaling rapid expansion and settlement tied to rail transportation.
Long Railway Trains at Jackson Street Crossing
Engineers of the era of wood burning locomotives would be surprised at modern trains. Yesterday a single locomotive pulled 101 empty gondolas westward and earlier in the week another run of 134 gondolas occurred. The latter train stretched over 6,360 feet.
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Jackson Street
New York Central
Batavia News
State News in Brief Wisconsin fire welfare and local incidents
A Wisconsin Fire Prevention meeting notes firs lessee impact and public sentiment for fire law enforcement. Milestones from Marinette to Neenah report municipal efforts, wind damage in Brick, crop prospects in central Wisconsin, and accidents in Portage Racine and Eau Claire. Crimes in Neenah, Sheboygan, and Kenosha, plus a Watertown federal building cornerstone and a fatal automobile crash near Little Chute.
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Green Lake
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Fire Prevention Association
T. R. Weddell
Chicago
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