Governor Vessey urges careful state budget for growth
Governor Vessey tells South Dakota lawmakers to maintain last session’s appropriations while avoiding waste. He endorses need for health, convict earnings programs, stronger law enforcement, and an immigration publicity plan, urges constitutional convention steps, and calls for governor’s residence funding.
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State Board of Health
South Dakota
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Maes Routh Dakota
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Morris name only for caucus selection in South Dakota
The House caucus on Tuesday chose E. C. Issenhuth as speaker candidate after C. J. Morris moved for him. Other offices filled include chief clerk W. H. Burden and first assistant clerk W. C. Notemeyer. Senate caucus selected A. J. Lockhart as president and Geo. Van Camp as secretary among other posts. Syria to get its first telephone system linking Lebanon mountain towns.
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State House
South Dakota
Highmore
John Bibelheimer
D. H. Smith
Hand
Edward Moscrip
Lincoln
Geo. McKay
Clark
John Reirson
Davison
Herbert Demolignon
Wentworth
Roy Far
Joe Patterson
Arthur McCalmont
Glenn Nye
Bartine
A. J.lockhart
Deuel
Geo. VanCamp
Hyde
Fagg Carlisle
Stanley
Madison Valentine
Lawrence
Bill
Barnard Vessey
Jerauld
Leonard Robertson
Spink
John McDonald
Beadle
James Julien
Ole Nicholson
Dean McGregor
McCook
Paul Tibbitts
Yankton
Orson Stout
Pierre
Syria
Lebanot Mountains
Taft Greets World at White House New Year Reception
President Taft and Mrs. Taft hosted the White House New Year reception for diplomats judges and government officials. A grand ceremony featured foreign ambassadors in court dress and a public line where Taft warmly greeted thousands despite cold weather. The event closed with a private dining room reception for guests and a final wave to the crowd.
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Marine Band
Pennsylvania Avenue
Watt
Taft
Sherman
Baron Hongelmuller von Wengervar
United States
Marchese Cusani Confalonieri
Joaquin Bernardo Calvo
O Ue
H. H. Bryn
Norway
Edward Douglass White
Supreme Court
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Washington
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Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States
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Spanish War Veterans
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Son of the
Oldest Inhabitants Association
District of Columbia
Secret Service
Archie Butt
Mock Marriage Is Held Legal in Mercer Island
At a New Year party attorney A. J. Tennant staged a jokey ceremony joining Charles Beeks, a Vancouver banker, and Jeanne P. Hartman on Mercer Island. Prosecuting Attorney George F. Vanderveer later confirmed Tennant is a justice of the peace for Mercer Precinct and the ceremony is legally binding.
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Seattle
Wash
A. J. Tennant
Mercer Island
Mr. Tennant
Mercer Precinct
Supreme Court Upholds Bank Guaranty Laws
The U S Supreme Court declared the guaranty laws of Oklahoma Nebraska and Kansas constitutional. Justice Holmes stated the state assessment to fund bank deposits serves public welfare and fits police powers, despite arguments that it takes private property without compensation.
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Washington
D. C
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Kansas
Supreme Court of the
United States
Justice Holmes
Justic Holmes
Holmes
Supreme Court Rules Contract Labor Law Unconstitutional
The U S Supreme Court under Justice Hughes ruled the contract labor law unconstitutional. It held that criminalizing laborers who quit before advancing money serves as a dangerous instrument of coercion and a presumption of fraud, especially harming the poor and ignorant.
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Washington, D. C
Supreme Court of the United States
Hughes
Supreme Court
Patent Office Sees Aeronautics Boom in Applications
The patent office reports a surge in aeronautics related filings with about ninety applications monthly, roughly three each day, covering machines and control methods.
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J. T. Morrow
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