Prices, trends, and oddities in a winter column
The Marshfield Times winter feature surveys rising costs and social chatter, noting higher living expenses, scherzando quips about piano tuners and wireless instruments, and curio items on farming, fashion strikes, transport, and global price trends. It highlights food prices, a shift to frugality, and public reactions from New Jersey, Berlin, and the Atlantic lines amid a broader talk of austerity and humor.
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Berlin
Germany
Pinchot Accuses Ballinger of Deceit and Dismissal Demand
Glifford Pinchot, ousted chief forester, testifies before the Ballinger Pinchot committee charging Interior Secretary Ballinger with falsehood and disloyalty to Taft and the public. He says Ballinger aimed to overturn Roosevelt conservation policies and restore water power sites to private control, wrecking public property safeguards. The hearing, dramatic and tense, continues as executive session reviews Taft’s differing account.
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Washington
Glifford Pinchot
Forester
Ballinger-Pinchot
K. A. Ballinger
Taft
Roosevelt
Ballinger
Mr. Pinchot
Baliinger
Pinechot
Reclamation Service
Cunningham
Pincehot
Forest Service
Glavin
Tam
Glavis
Balinger
Hfe
Pitchot
Pinchot
Kenosha Manufacturer Frost Dies at 68 in Wisconsin
Charles N. Frost, 68, president of Frost Manufacturing Company and associate of the late Z G Simmons, died at his Kenosha home. He was widely known among braga manufacturers nationwide.
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Kenosha
Wis
Fab
Charles N. Frost
Frost Manufacturing Company
Dnd
Z. G. Simmons
Mr. Frost
Biggest World Warship Plan Proposed by Navy Secretary
Secretary of the Navy Meyer told the House Naval Committee he plans a world record battleship of at least 32 009 tons displacement costing about 18 400 000 to make the United States the leading naval power. The committee welcomed the radical naval advance and discussed the plan in a private session. Meyer said the U S should not follow rivals in naval progress.
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Washington
United States
Meyer
House Naval Committee
Congress
Trouble in D. A. R. Circles Over Impeachment Threats
Washington says Mrs. Matthew T. Scott, president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution, faces impeachment threats from insurgents after firing Miss Agnes Gerald, a D. A. R. headquarters clerk, who has hired an attorney and may seek damages. Supporters claim Mrs. Scott lacked authority and the discharge violated the organization’s constitution.
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Washington
Matthew T. Scott
Bloomington
Daughters of the American Revolution
Mrs. Scott
Agnes Gerald
Miss Gerald
Ague
Navy shakeup begins at Chelsea hospital
Boston reports the first signs of a Navy shakeup tied to a court martial of Paymaster Auld and Surgeon Robnett. Secretary of the Navy orders Dr. H. E. Ames removed as director of the U S naval hospital at Chelsea and recalled to Washington to await further instructions. Ames was the chief complainant in the Auld Robnett Cawles investigation.
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Boston
Charleston Navy Yard
Auld
Robnett
Secretary of the Navy
H. E. Ames
United States Naval Hospital
Chelsea
Ames
Washington
Auld-Robnett-Cawles
Bowling Tourney Opens in Wayne Gardens Hall
Detroit observer reports the tenth annual American Bowling Congress tournament opening in Wayne Gardens Hall with speeches by Goy Warner Mayor Breitmeyer and other dignitaries. Over 2,000 attendees from 120 cities in the US and Canada gathered as the two-week national meet begins.
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Detroit
Mick
Goy
Warner
Breitmeyer
American Bowling Congress
Wayne Gardens
Canada
Belmont Weds Miss Robson in Private New York Ceremony
August Belmont and Eleanor Robson were married at the bride’s home 202 West Seventy-seventh Street with a small group of intimate friends. Officiating were Mgr. Lavelle and Rev. Father Byrnes. The bride is Catholic and Belmont an Episcopalian. The bride’s hand was given by her cousin Charles Robinson Smith.
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New York
Belmont
Eleanor Robson
West Seventy-seventh Street
Mgr. Lavelle
Father Byrnes
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Poison shielding drug linked to Swope case
Reports from Drs Ludw ig Hektaen Walter Haiges and Victor Vaughan indicate a second poison was mixed with the atrychnine in Col Thomas H Swope and Chrisman Swope’s veers. Scientists term this a mask or shield. An ex soldier in Nebraska was sentenced to hang for murder. Strikers burned to death in Pointe a Pitre as fires engulfed cave fields. soldiers recovered bodies.
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Kansas City
Ludwig Hektaen
Walter Haiges
Victor Vaughan
Swope
Col
Thomas H. Swope
Chrisman Swope
Scientiata
Aineworth
Neb
Harrington
Walter Riefenberg
Joseph Davis
Rifenberg
Pointe A Pitre
Aggeral
Felda
Postoffice Replies to Wilder on Second Class Rates
Washington denounces G W Wilder and the Periodical Publishers Association for misstatements on second class postal rates. The department argues length of haul drives costs, notes magazines average 1,048 miles vs newspapers 291, and says no extra compensation is paid for fast mail trains.
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Washington
Postoffice Department
G. W. Wilder
Periodical Publishers’ Association of America
Wilder
Association
Love drama near fatal aboard California cruiser
Miss Emma Schwab, 19, leaped into San Francisco bay to avoid an alleged romance pressure from a marine on the cruiser California. A sailor in uniform jumped after her and both were rescued by lifeboat crews as the sailor struggled in the water. The case follows a complaint from Emma’s mother demanding action against the marine believed responsible.
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San Francisco
California
Emma Schwab
H Wl
Couiser
Taft's Cousin Raymond Dies in Florence
Florence reports the death of Freeborn Fair child Raymond, a Boston lawyer and cousin of President Taft, who traveled with his young daughter. His sister Miss Raymond of Paris and his daughter will sail to America for the funeral. In Cairo Illinois, five National Guard companies were withdrawn after a conference with military and local officials, deemed unnecessary to keep troops amid potential danger.
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Florence
Freeborn Fairchild Raymond
Boston
Taft
Miss Raymond
Paris
St. Louis
America
Cairo
National Guard
Tramp Rescues Child Wins Half Interest Reward
In Galveston Texas a record filing shows Sam Jennings transferring a half interest in the Valvedero ranch in Jet Davis county to Francis R. Strome. Strome, a stranger to the area, saved six year old Little May Jennings from death under an engine on railroad tracks and receives the reward as partial payment. the ranch is valued between 700000 and 1000000 dollars. Strome, about fifty, formerly a machinist from Illinois, had fallen on hard times after his wife’s death and had been drifting westward seeking California.
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Galveston
Tex
Valvedero Ranch
Jett Davis County
Sam Jennings
Francis R. Strome
Strome
Mttle May Jennings
Col. Jennings
Ilinoia
California
Alpine
Vaughn and Hull Arrested in Poisoning Case in Missouri
Warrant issued by Adair county circuit court leads to the arrest of Mrs Alma Proctor Vaughn and Dr Juanes R Hull on charges of murdering Prof Vaghn by strychnine poisoning. Vaughn posts 25000 bond and returns to Monroe City for hearing likely May 16. Hull held on 7500 bond and to be brought to Kirksville.
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Kirksville
Adair County
Alma Proctor Vaughn
Juanes R. Hull
Monroe City
John T.vaghn
Vaughn
Mull
Hull
Mrs. Vaughn
Talk of Medical Schools Opens Annual AMA Conferences
Chicago February 28 two councils of medical education and medical liaison of the American Medical Association opened their annual conferences at the Congress hotel. Dr Arthur D B Bevan of Bush Medical College opened with the address joined by Elmer E Brown US education commissioner Henry S Pritchett of the Carnegie Foundation J G Schurman of Cornell and Dean C Vaughan of Michigan. Tomorrow will feature Ernest Freund Roscoe Pound Henry Olson and H B Pavill with the final day for reports and business.
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Chicago
American Medical Association
Congress Hotel
Arthur DB. Bevan
Bush Medical College
Elmer E. Brown
United States Commissioner of Education
Henry S. Pritchett
Carnegie Foundation
J. G. Schurman
Cornell
C. Vaughan
University of Michigan
Ernest Freund
Roscoe Pound
University of Chicago
Henry Olson
Municipal Court
H. B.pavill
Near-fatal scare for Olive Sanders in Indiana snow
In Brookville Indiana on February 28 Miss Olive Sanders was found seemingly dead in a barnyard snow bank after her sister discovered her absence from the house. Neighbors comforted the sister while the coroner delayed five hours before arriving. The body was moved indoors and revived before burial plans.
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Brookville
Ind
Olive Sanders
Miss Sanders
State Happenings: O'Boyle mystery and county notes
Skeleton found years ago under a rock on Michael O'Boyle’s farm may be his, despite doubt about identification after his San Diego death. The Pleas ant Hill News reports local tales, court verdicts include John Bradley’s murder conviction, and incidents from La Crosse to Milwaukee show cold weather wrecks, taxes, fires, and obituaries.
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Michael O'Boyle
O'Boyle
San Diego
Val
W. D. Conner
David Marney
Madison
Supreme Court
John Bradley
Cutford L. Staith
Somers
Kenosha County
Rial
Bradley
Smith
la Crosse
Sparta
Maurice Crosse
Mitwaukes County
Forest
Wood
Taylor
Fortage
Wankéuba
Bayfield
Shebogan
Ripon
Milwaukee Road
Bight
Marinette
Ralere
Main Street
Cook
Norwegian Lutheran Church of America
Bethel Lutheran
Gustav Stearns
Milwaukee
John 7. Baker
Antisaloon League Today
Big Spring
Fair Oaka
Blooming Grove
Mayer
West Water Street
Hillsboro
J. Finley Shreve
Greenwood Township
Finley
Hezekiah Shreve
Stevens Point
Jacob Patchy
Presbyterian Church
Ohio
Indiana
Wiscoraln
Racine
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