Tafts Travel Record Grows to New High
President Taft completed a 24 state tour adding about 15 000 miles to his official travel, bringing his total since 1900 to 298 728 miles. The president has traveled continuously on government pay since becoming a Philippine commissioner, with a $25 000 annual allotment for getting around since anti pass legislation reduced free transport.
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Ashington
William Howard Taft
United States
Union
Washington
McKinley
Taft
Orient
Mr. Taft
Uncle Sam
Congress
Forestry Service as a Training Power in Government Work
The Forest Service emerges as a training powerhouse for government careers with forestry as a post graduate academy. Young workers shift from treasury and agriculture to industry, railroads and colleges after gaining field experience, while the masthead of the service supplies practical theory and practice to graduates seeking outside employment.
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Ncle Sam
Crest Service
iInterState—commerce Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Treasury
Post Office
Agricultural Department and Geographical Survey
Forest Service
Forestry Bureau
Uncle Sam
Bureau
Army discipline improves in court-martial trials
Brigadier General BE H Crowder reports that the last fiscal year saw 3851 general courts martial the lowest since the Spanish American War and a drop of 1355 from the prior year. Summary trials also fell by 9193 as troops moved to maneuvers reducing formal punishments.
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BE. H. Crowder
Judge Advocate
Crowder
Immigration Chief Urges Universal Chinese Registration
Commissioner General Keefe reports rising Chinese arrivals in the United States via Canada, urging universal registration and an export law for unregistered Celestials. He backs broader action by Congress as part of a plan to regulate entry and residency.
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United States
Keefe
Nagel
Department of Commerce and Labor
Canadian
Dominion
Canada
Congress
Hawaii
Wealthy Elburn family scandal ends in Chicago wandering daughter
Mary Green daughter of Clarence and Mrs. Green of Elburn eloped with Mary Shopman a barber from Chicago after meeting the Negro elevator operator at the Chicago Hospital. Jacob Gorham the grandfather disinherited her from his fortune and published her omission in town records. Shopman killed himself with carbolic acid after telephoning a friend for permission to free her. The grandmother and mother expressed willingness to help, while Gorham repudiated the granddaughter.
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Chicago
Grant Shopman
Elburn
Clarence ‘Green
Jacob Gorham
St Charles
Shopman
Mrs. Green
Mule kicks ruin worker in Spokane court case
Spokane laborer Frank Castor sues Columbia Contract Co owner of the mule Dynamiite for 20000 dollars alleging the animal’s freakish kicks caused permanent injury. The mule kicked Castor three times after breaking from a corral injuring his arm hand and ribs.
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Spokane
Wash
Frank Castor
Columbia Contract Company
Castor
Des Moines Opens Municipal Matrimonial Bureau
Des Moines creates a city bureau titled clearing house for lonely souls with Edward C. Lytton as general manager and an advisory board including Dr H Baylor Mayor James Hanna Horace Susong and Lytton. Women seek husbands to send names addresses and photos to form a waiting list for matched couples. Mayor Hanna offers free marriage for couples matched through the bureau.
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Des Moines
Edward C. Lytton
Lonely Souls
Cty
James Hanna
Horace Susong
Lytton
Hanna
Roan
Plutarch the Goat Sparks a Village Courtship
Miss Cherrie Vale rescues a goat named Plutarch from village scorn. An auto accident kills the pet, and Fred Gleason pays damages. He later replaces the goat, seeking pardon through a prospective marriage with Miss Vale, while her father jokes about the match.
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Cherrie Vale
Plutarch
Billy
Hirm
Misa Cherrie
Plutarch Vale
Tonneau
Swat
Halcyons
Killados
Fred Glea
Broker Vale
Cherrie
Plutarcy
Miss Cherrie
Eghe
Mr. Vale
Street talk on wax sales and fear at the top and bottom
In a terse exchange on the street a seller explains buying wax at the top to prevent brain fever and selling at the bottom due to cold feet, hinting at risk and hesitation in a quick, clipped street vignette.
Passage Reflects on Mortality of Great Works
An aphoristic meditation on human achievement and memory. It laments that even the noblest deeds fade as time erodes monuments, echoing Ausonius on mortality and the transience of monumental efforts.
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Trass
Ausonius
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