Payne Bill to Win Votes for Women Says Harrison
Washington March 27 Congressman Harrison New York declares the Payne tariff bill burdens women with new taxes on tea coffee gloves and stockings arguing it could affect women’s suffrage while Longworth Ohio defends the measure as a pledge fulfillment and a top to bottom tariff revision Sessions begin at 10 am to speed debate and the bill is laid before the house with a record vote possible on amendments
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Washington, D. C
Harrison
New York
America
New Democratic
Committee On Ways and Means
Longworth
United States
Smith
Iowa
Rules Committee
House
Dalzell
Ways and Means
Rules
Recall election delivers reform victory in Los Angeles mayor race
George Alexander, municipal league reform candidate, defeated Socialist Wheeler two to one in Los Angeles at yesterday’s recall election. The campaign was one of California’s bitterest, and the recall marked a historic first against a city mayor with party lines blurred.
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Los Angeles
Cal
George Alexander
Municipal League and Reform
Wheeler
California
Vacancy at West Point Seeks Cadet Appointment
Washington March 2 A vacancy in West Point from the second district will occur next year and the secretary of war has invited Congressman Dawson to file his recommendation. Eligibility requires age 17 to 22 and height 5 ft 4 in at 17 or 5 ft 5 in at 18. Entrance exams test educational fitness, especially in higher mathematics.
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Washington, D. C
West Point
Secretary of War
Dawson
Congressman Dawson
Jowan 10 Confer With President Over Tax and Tariff Changes
Washington reports that Senator Cummins will meet the president to discuss amending the income tax measure within the tariff bill. The fate of the proposal hinges on Supreme Court changes and Smith of Iowa wielding pivotal influence on committee votes and potential separate votes on items like hides and lumber.
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J.C. Welliver
Washington, D. C
Cummins
Supreme Court
House
Ways and Means Committee
Senate
Smith
Boyle Woman Denies Whitla Kidnaping Ties
Mercer, Pa March 27 Mrs James Boyle arrives with detectives denies being Anna McDermott of Chicago and says other stories are untrue She and husband face abduction charges and a Mercer jail stay before May trial. in Pittsburg Whitla case updates follow.
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Mercer
James Boyle
Valencia
Pittsburg
Boyle
Campbell
Anna McDermott
Chicago
Helen
New York
Whitla
Cleveland
Sharon
Cochran
James P. Whitla
McLean
Madison
Wis
Assembly
Eliot Denounces Football Playing At Harvard
Cambridge Mass March 27. In his final annual report to Harvard overseers covering the year ending Oct 1 1908 President Eliot again urges a three year course for arts and sciences. He notes gifts to the university total 691 896 and again denounces football as a demoralizing spectacle and unfit for college sport.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard College
Eliot
Harvard
Taft Takes First Day Off For Golf At Chevy Chase
President Taft abandoned official duties for recreation with a golf game at Chevy Chase club links. Vice President Sherman challenged him. Brigadier General Clarence R. Edwards and Captain Archibald W. Butt joined the outing.
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Washington, D. C
Taft
Sherman
Chevy Chase Club Links
Clarence R. Edwards
Insular Bureau
Archibald W. Butt
Baltusrol Clubhouse Burned Near Summit
Fire swept the Baltusrol Golf club house three miles from Summit in Newark New Jersey early today. The building valued at $100000 was destroyed with six club members escaping in scant clothing. In Salem Massachusetts the Carr Leather Co plant also burned today causing about $250000 in losses.
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Newark
N. J
Baltusrol
Summitt
Salem
Mass
Carr Leather Co
Utilities Bills Move in Senate as Adjournment Closer
Des Moines March 27 The senate spent the morning on utilities bills with votes delayed. Measures include bills to destroy weeds on highways and to limit cocaine sales. A final bill on state institutions totals 515 700 dollars. The House amended the adjournment date to April 9 and sent the resolution back to the senate.
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Des Moines
Senate
Smith
Mitchell
Gilliland
van Law
Senate Committee On Appropriations
Board of Control
House
Navy Denies Explosion on Mississippi at Guantanamo
Reports claimed a disastrous explosion aboard the battleship Mississippi. Authorities in Guantanamo Cuba and Navy Department issued reassurances that the ship is at anchor and no mishap occurred, with Captain Harlo confirming the ship’s safe status.
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Guantanamo
Cuba
Mississippi
Naval Station
Navy Department
Washington, D. C
Department
Guantanamo Naval Station
Harlo
Robbers Driven Off by Citizens at Melvin Bank
Four dynamite charges blew in the First National bank at dawn in Melvin Iowa but citizens armed with shotguns routed the attempt to break into the vault. The bandits fled on a handcar later found near Hartley Iowa.
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Melvin
First National Bank
Hartley
Iowa
Wide Awake Merchants of Muscatine Fashion Number
The Journal invites readers to study a 1909 fashion number with spring and summer apparel ideas. Five Muscatine merchants advertise in the issue, with messages to the buying public. Readers are urged to read ads carefully to save dollars on spring shopping.
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Muscatine
Passengers quarantined as smallpox scare hits ships
Two steerage passengers on the Merion from Liverpool are found with smallpox. Six hundred thirty aboard face vaccination by physicians at Marcus Hook while quarantine crews isolate two Russian patients and monitor the rest aboard the ship. The Providence steamer, disabled near Point Judith, was towed to Newport with most passengers unaware of the incident. Wireless calls aided the tow.
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Newport
R. I
Providence
Point Judith
Commonwealth
Philadelphia
Marcus Hook
American Line
Merion
Liverpool
Anthracite Coal Prices Reduced By Railroads
New York March 27 coal carrying railroads announce the usual spring reduction of fifty cents per ton in the prices of anthracite coal.
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New York
N. Y
Sixteen Shoes Fail During Army Endurance Walk
Mobile Alabama March 27 On the last lap of an 1800 mile endurance walk under U S army direction T R Deckrow of Company A Signal Corps Fort Sheridan dragged into Mobile saying I have worn out eight pairs of army shoes since I began the test He added I am dead tired and it was all I could do to reach this city Deckrow left for a gulf port today.
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Mobile
Ala
United States Army
T. R. Deckrow
Company A
Signal Corps
Fort Sheridan
Sault Sainte Marie, Mich
Deckrow
Gulf Port
Re organize HOH Trust plan new seven million capital
New company to take over A Booth Co assets debts and business Chicago March 27 P A Valentine arrives to outline a seven million capital plan He will contribute one million for distribution among 150 banks holding Booth paper The rest of claims will be satisfied with bonds and stock in the reorganized firm
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Chicago
Ill
P. A. Valentine
New York
A. Booth & Co
Valentine
Booth & Co
Want a Woman's Car With Exclusive Coach
The public service commission orders Interborough Rapid Transit to show cause within ten days why the rear car of each express train should not be reserved for women and children. A public hearing will be held with leading women orators likely to attend. The Women's Municipal League transportation committee led by Gabrielle S. Mulliner advocates a reserved car due to alleged mistreatment of women in crowded cars.
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New
Gabrielle S. Mulliner
Michigan Hits Phone Cos. Over Control of Ry. Commission
Lansing March 27 The house passed a bill making telephone companies common carriers and under the state railway commission by 51 to 22 Representative H B Baker opposed amendments and Representative D G F Warne warned it would fail in court calling it unconstitutional in many features
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Lansing
Mich
State Railway Commission
House
H. B. Baker
D. G. F. Warne
Weather forecast for Iowa and Illinois regions
Iowa fair tonight and Sunday with increasing clouds and a chance of rain or snow in the extreme west. Illinois generally fair in the north with possible rain in the south late tonight or Sunday. Sunrise 5 43. Sunset 6 1L Moonset 12 13 a m.
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Iowa
Illinois
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