Taft Discusses Naming Judges and Judicial Independence
Taft urged appointive life tenure for judges at a Montreal address, arguing popular will is preserved by executive selection. He warned elective systems degrade court quality, citing direct nomination and primaries as reforms, while endorsing impeachment or recall only after due process.
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Montreal
Canada
William H. Taft
Americanar Association
United States
Vat
Switzerland
Taft
Congress
Federal
Hughes
Justice Hughes
Republican Party
Ile
Ife
Senate
House
Life Restored For Two Hours In Drowning Rescue
Edgar Monjo, twenty, was pronounced dead after drowning at Babylon I New York but revived briefly by Dr. Wynkoop using an electrical device to stimulate his heart and respiration. Monjo later succumbed despite two hours of resumed function. his wife and relatives witnessed the ordeal as the physician reported limited success and his own inexperience with human patients.
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New York
Edgar Manjo
Babylon
I. 1
Tr. I W. Wynkoop
Monjo
Lewis Monjo
Wall Street
Commodore Searle
Babylon Yacht Club
Susan Searle
Searle
Wynkoop
Manjo
Married men dominate in crime study with one exception
New York report from the district attorney shows among 2,857 convicted men last year 2,068 were unmarried and 784 married. The sole exception is suicides where married men outnumber single three to one. Over nine years married offenders total 7,670 versus 18,406 for singles.
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New York
District Attorney’s Office
Canova H H Schulte Takes Assistant Cashier Post
Canova S DP H H Schulte formerly agent for J H W Quest lumber here and then Hurley agent has accepted the position of assistant cashier at the People's State Bank and will assume new duties.
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Canova
S. DP
H. H. Schulte
J. H W. Quest Lumber Company
Hurley
People’s State Bank
Woman In Cumberland Tries Poison After Family Turmoil
Lydia Bury, 47, widow of Columbus W Bury, swallowed three bichloride of mercury tablets in Cumberland. She tried to persuade her four year old son George to join her, but he fled. Her children William and John are in Baltimore industrial school. Neighbors and relatives report despondency after her husband’s death over a year ago. A physician treated her after the overdose, and recovery is possible.
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Cumberland, Md
Lydia Bury
Columbus W Bury
Western Maryland Hospital
George
William
John
St. Marys
Baltimore
Scotland to House New Church Academy in Lealand
Sioux Falls reports that the Synod of the Reformed Church of the Northwest has chosen Lealand, with Scotland offering a vacant academy building. After committee approval, the academy will open as a leading regional institution serving South Dakota and neighboring states.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
South Dakota
Synod of the Reformed Church of the Northwest
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Synod
Lealand
Scotland
Northwest
Prairie Fire Follows Steps On Match And Bison
John Robinson a rancher near town stepped on a match while working between hay stacks and unintentionally started a prairie fire. The blaze set dry grass and hay alight spreading quickly across twenty five square miles. Farmers and ranchers fought the fire but much hay and winter pasture were destroyed.
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John Robinson
Robinson
No-Simile Language: George Aubrey and the Ochre Mine Remark
A clipped quotation depicts George Aubrey’s remark about an acquaintance risking all in an ochre mine. Dr Smeltzer humorously compares a financier to a cow’s pocket and lightly mocks the financier’s slender appearance, as recounted by a Merry Sixty Club listener via the New York Press.
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George Aubrey
Water Wagon Note at Philadelphia Bachelors Ball
A rain of make believe snakes was a feature designed to scare the fleur girls at the Philadelphia bachelors ball. The stunt likely frightened only some of the bachelors, as reported by the Pittsburg Press.
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Pittsburg Press
Hall's Catarrh Cure advertised with reward offer
The notice offers one hundred dollars for unrecoverable catarrh cases cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It lists I J Cheney Co Toledo as makers and Nat Bank of Boa Ee E lecto Ohio as a guarantor. It states Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and bloodstream impact and promises testimonials free with price 75 cents per bottle. It also mentions Bull's Pomy Pills for constipation.
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Hall
I. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
FL J. Cheney
Hhis
NAT
Bank OF Boa EE Electo
Ohio
All Drugeists
Discoverers uncover twenty mile long Olympic cave in Washington
John M. Gilgore and Robert Reid report a twenty mile long cave in the Olympic mountains. They traversed fourteen hours through vast rooms, noting domed gypsum chambers, a large stone ruin vault, skulls and bones, zodiac lizards, and a wind current to a sunlit exit twenty miles south of the entrance. They plan further study with University of Washington students.
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Seattle
Wash
John M. Gilgore
Robert Reid
Woodsmenu
Olympic Mountains
Gilgore
Reid
Curios
The
State University
Dried apples save ship in Mediterranean near calamity
Captain recalls a Strathclyde voyage when dried apples plugged a large hole in the starboard side after an Italian commandant and crew nearly aborted evacuation. Bags of fruit swelled to stem water influx, allowing pumps to finish, and all aboard survived as the vessel docked amid cheers.
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William Watt
Strathclyde
Mediterranean
Chianti
Mie
Patras
Marseilles
Commandante
Rochefort’s High Earnings from La Lanterne
London reports Henri Rochefort once earned about 2400 dollars weekly from La Lanterne after writing most of the paper. Initial sales reached 60 000 copies, doubling by the fourth issue, with directors each taking 62000 dollars yearly for supervision. No other journalist matched such pay.
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London
Henri Rochefort
la Lanterne
Rochefort
Army Navy Game Set For New York Polo Grounds
The army and navy football clash will be played at the New York Polo Grounds on November 29. The matchup was arranged at a conference including Secretary Daniels Assistant Secretary Breckenridge and the athletic directors of both schools.
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New York
Washington, D. C
Army and Navy
New York Polo Grounds
Daniels
Breckenridge
Aunt Mary is Unraveling Slips A Child Screams
A child witnesses her aunt removing rat hair ornaments and cries for her mother that Aunt Mary is unraveling. The piece also notes Liberia has twenty two rubber tree species and remarks on early rising. W C Willis of Minneapolis attended Mitchell Rural Life Conference sessions and returned home. Formerly with Brookings agriculture school, he now edits Northwest Farmstead.
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Mary
Negro Republic
Liberia
W. C. Willis
Minneapolis
Mitchell
Rural Life Conference
School of Agriculture
Brookings
Northwest Farmstead
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Kirksville
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Grand Rapids
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Meca
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