Treasury and Post Office Claim Strong Government Finances
The document outlines the federal fiscal year ending June 30 2711 showing substantial general fund receipts, postal revenues, and debt totals. It highlights efficiency gains in the Treasury, a plan to eliminate positions without firing workers, and urges monetary reform via a national banking system proposal.
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General
Gotes
United States
Fuimiuma Canal
Panama Canals
Traen Beer
Pgi
Pirnaman Cmd
Itd
Panama Canal
Treasury Department
Office of the Treasury
Washington
Department
Treasury
Wool Schedule Reform Urged by Tariff Board Findings
President Taft backs the tariff board's conclusion that the Payne Aldrich wool schedule is indefensible and urges immediate revision. The board finds duties on raw wool and wool goods exceed the cost of production overseas, leaving only four importable items. Taft favors valuing raw wool by contents and applying graduated ad valorem for woolen manufactures, while the board offers no fixed rates.
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Tariff Board
Taft
Congress
Washington
Payne Aldrich
Pressure from foreign powers on Chinese peace talks
Shanghai reports consuls from various nations urging Wu Ting Fang and Tang Shao Yi to seek peace while remaining neutral. Yuan Shih Kai telegrams a truce order as the conference reaches a critical phase. Wu demands a republic. Tang awaits Pekin, and a firm stance by Yuan may end the uncertainty.
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Shanghai
Wu Ting Fang
Tang Shao Yi
Yuan Shih Kai
Peking
Yuan Shib Kai
Her Children Testify as Mrs Galloup Is jailed
Huntingdon Pa Dec 21 Mrs Sadie Galloup is committed to prison without bail on an accessory murder charge in the case of Benjamin Galloup. Inquest testimony from her children states Frank M Calhoun hid in the Galloup home awaiting an opportunity to kill Benjamin Galloup.
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Huntingdon
Sadie Galloup
Benjamin Galloup
Frank M. Calhoun
Dynamite Plot Fails Against Hutchison Laymon Home
Edward Smith, a farmer from near Stineaville, is a fugitive from justice after Laymon swore out an affidavit charging him with placing a stick and a half of dynamite beneath Laymon’s home four miles west of Stineaville. The fuse failed to detonate.
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Bloomington
Ind
Hutchison Laymon
Stineaville
Edward Smith
Laymon
Smith
Upton Sinclair Divorce Suit Set for Retried Proceeding
Author and Socialist Upton Sinclair faces a retrial of his divorce suit, with the proceedings rescheduled to determine the dissolution of his marriage amid prior petitions and contested grounds. The case involves claims of incompatibility and disputed separations between Sinclair and his spouse.
Mistrial in Upton Sinclair Divorce Case
Upton Sinclair's divorce suit must be reheard after Supreme Court Justice Davis refused to confirm Referee Kelley's report. The referee allowed Sinclair to testify about alleged relations with Harry Kemp, which the court deemed improper under divorce trial rules. The case is referred to another referee.
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New York
Upton Sinclair
Supreme Court
Davis
Kelley
Meta Fuller Sinclair
Sinclair
Harry Kemp
House Accepts Senate Resolution on Sulzer Note
The House concurred with a milder Senate substitute ending the Sulzer resolution dispute over Russia in a near unanimous vote. Sulzer claimed Taft publicity shaped impressions of Russian objections, while Harrison pressed for sources of the press reports about the resolution insulting Russia.
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Washington
Senate
Sulzer
House
Russia
Taft
Committee On Foreign Affairs
Francis Burton Harrison
New York
Mr. Sulzer
Paris Divorce Granted After Professor’s Alleged Affairs
Mme Langevin wins separation in Paris divorce court citing her husband, a College of France physics professor, over alleged relations with Mme Curie. The case stirred France, triggering duels among partisans of the principals.
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Paris
Mme. Langevin
College of France
Mme. Curie
France
Clara Barton Birthday Observed on Christmas Day
Clara Barton will be ninety years old on Christmas Day. Born in 1821 in Oxford Massachusetts to Judge Stephen Barton who fought under Mad Anthony Wayne. Her nursing work for the Union army during the Civil War made her a public figure.
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Clara Barton
Washington
America
Miss Barton
Oxford
Mass
Stephen Barton
Anthony’ Wayne
Assembly Accepts Plan for Five-Member Commission
Teheran reports the assembly has endorsed the foreign minster's proposal to appoint a five deputy commission with full powers to handle Russia's ultimatums. The decision marks a coordinated diplomatic approach amid tensions with Russia.
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Teheran
Mayor Shank Cuts Prices With City Market Sales
Indianapolis dispatch reports Mayor Shank plans deep discounts on Christmas trees walnuts turkeys and chickens to ease living costs. Carey L. Smith supplied the 25 cent trees from Scott county and the 1911 crop walnuts at 15 cents per pound. City market will host New York dressed turkeys at 20 cents a pound and milk fed chickens at 15 to 20 cents per pound with mincemeat at 10 cents per pound.
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Indianapolis
Shank
Carey L. Smith
Scott County
Smith
New York
Five robbers attempt to blow Middlebury bank safe
Five men raided Middlebury ten miles northeast of Goshen in Indiana. They shot at the town hall, captured night watchman Ellis Hughes, tied him to a chair, and built a fire to keep him warm. They fired ten horses in an attempt to blow the safe, then fled toward Goshen on a handcar before alarms reached police.
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Goshen
Ind
Middlebury
Pred Hixon
Ellis Hughes
Hughes
Governor Pardons Edward Astman for Prison Work
Governor Marshall issues a full pardon to Edward Astman a life prisoner in Michigan City Indiana for murder. Astman now seventy six and had been convicted in Johnson County in 1890 for killing a woman. He earned the pardon by making all the iron work for prison cells saving the state thousands of dollars. Former Warden Reid and Warden Fogarty supported the request.
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Indianapolis
Marshall
Edward Astman
Michigan City
Tie
Johnson County
Astman
Reid
Fogarty
Missing Secretary in Terre Haute Financial Trek
Terre Haute Ind Dec 21 Joseph Miller secretary of the German Savings and Loan association is missing Mayor Louis Gerhardt treasurer seeks information Miller has not been in his office since Nov 11 and the fate of the association's affairs is uncertain due to his absence.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Joseph Miller
German Savines and Loan Association
Louis Gerhardt
Miller
Republican State Committee to Meet in December
Edwin M. Lee, Republican state chairman, calls a state committee meeting for December 27. The session will plan reorganization and set dates for district chairman elections and a subsequent meeting of the new committee to choose a state chairman.
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Republican’ Committee
Indianapolis
Edwin M. Lee
Official weights and measures stolen in South Bend
In South Bend Indiana on December 21 officials report the official weights and measures for the city have been stolen from the public market. Peddlers blamed for the theft claim market officials drove them out of business.
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South Bend
Ind
Thieves Loot Parish Mite Boxes in Petersburg
In Petersburg Indiana on December 21 thieves forced entry into the local Methodist church and stole 600 pennies from the Sunday school mite boxes.
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Petersburg
Ind
Methodist
Federal suit claims Keystone Watch Case monopoly
The federal government files in the eastern district of Pennsylvania a petition in equity against the Keystone Watch Case company alleging a Sherman act violation. It charges the firm by purchasing and absorbing competitors has gained a practical nationwide monopoly in the watch case business.
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Watch Case Trust
Philadelphia
Circuit Court
Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Keystone Watch Case Company
Keystone Company
Colonel Spencer Cosby Heads Army Aids List
Washington officials announce that Colonel Spencer Cosby and Major Archibald Butt head the president’s army aid list. Butt serves as special aide to the president, both representing the army.
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Washington
White House
Spencer Cosby
Archibald Butt
Army
Clergyman Ritcheson maims self in jail amid murder trial
In Boston at Charles Street Jail the Reverend Clarence W. Y. Richeson, awaiting trial for the murder of his former sweetheart Avis Linnell, injured himself with a sharpened tin fragment. Four physicians treated him and saved his life, with experts unsure of suicide intent. The trial remains set for January 15 as sanity inquiries are considered.
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Boston
Charles Street
Clarence WY. T. Richeson
Avis Linnell
Richeson
Pelletier
Billy Delaney Dies at Home in Oakland Veteran Trainer
TERSE TELEGRAMS report Billy Delaney, famed trainer of champions, dying at his Oakland home. Other items note first presidential button consignment reaching Washington, Turkey Italy war settlement talks, Moroccan and Congo accords by French chamber, mutiny on Newport training ship, Taft cornerstone for blind settlement house in New York, extensive snow across the trans Mississippi, Krupp building a 15 inch gun, Huston granted parole from prison, vandal damages on a historic painting in the Senate, and suspected tacit understandings among French, English and Turkish interests in North Africa.
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Oakland
Cal
Governor Marshall
Washington
Salonika
Turkey
Italy
French Chamber of Deputies
Morocco
French Congo
Newport
Taft
New York
trans-Missouri
Rocky Mountains
Texas
Mexico
Krupp
Essen
Joseph M. Huston
Pennsylvania
Board of Pardons
Lake Erie
Senate
Oasis
Djanet
Tripoli
Bay of
Sollum
Germany
Ninety Mile Gale Wrecks Gulf Coast Widespread Damage
Reports from New Orleans and Gulf Coast towns describe a violent gale driving up to ninety miles an hour. Widespread railroad, telegraph, and telephone disruptions. ships ashore at Pensacola and Gulfport. washouts and destroyed cargo. Car service failed in Alabama. coastal erosion and high tides worsen losses.
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New Orleans
Gulf Coast
Here
Pensacola
Fla
Gulfport
Mobile
Mississippi
West Florida
Georgia
Atlanta
Birmingham
Montgomery
Alabama
Miss
Fifty Indictments in Lee County Political Fraud Case
A special grand jury in Jonesville Virginia under Judge Skeen has issued fifty indictments in a probe of Lee County political frauds. The panel, active since December 4, reports bribed voters aided by immunity, with anticipated further disqualifications and claims that 15 000 to 20 000 dollars were spent buying votes in the last election.
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Jonesville
Skeen
Lee
Lee County
Death of Rose Estinge Linked to Stage World
Rose Estinge, once an associate of Edwin Booth and the Wallacks and a friend to many actors, died at the Brunswick Home in Amityville L I after a stroke. She was born in Philadelphia in November 1835 and had lived under Actors Fund care for months.
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Rose Estinge
New York
Edwin Booth
Wallacks
Brunswick Home
Amityville
L. I
Actors’ Fund of America
Philadelphia
Notorious Murderers Reprieved
Governor Deneen issues reprieves for Frank Shiblawski Ewald Shiblawski Philip Sommerling and Thomas Schultz in the Chicago murder case of truck farmer F Guelzo. The stay delays hanging until Feb 16 to allow appeals to the supreme court.
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Springfield
Deneen
Frank
Ewald Shiblawski
Philip Sommerling
Thomas Schultz
Chicago
F. Guelzo
Supreme Court
Electric Bitters touted as cure in 1906 notice
A 1906 ad claims lightning kills few and contrasts with liver disease dangers. It tells of Robert Madeen from West Burlington Indiana, a virulent liver trouble patient cured after eight months by Electric Bitters, praised as a premier stomach liver nerve and kidney remedy and blood purifier. Only 300 units at Knoefel Drag Company.
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Robert Madeen
West Burlington
Knoefel Drag Company
McCoy Knocks Crox En Cold In Paris Bout
Kid McCoy scores a decisive knockout over Harry Crox en in the third round of a ten round boxing match held in Paris. The victory adds another win for McCoy against Crox en in major city rings.
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Kid McCoy
Harry Croxen
Paris
Market quotations Indianapolis grain and livestock
Indianapolis grain and livestock prices list cash bids for wheat corn oats hay cattle hogs sheep and lambs with receipts. Cincinnati Chicago East Buffalo and Toledo quotes included for wheat corn oats cattle hogs sheep and lambs with ranges and cash figures.
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Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Chicago
East Buffalo
Weather Across Regions Reports Rain or Snow
Observations from United States weather bureaus at 8 p m yesterday indicate rain or snow across multiple regions. The terse bulletin notes unsettled conditions with precipitation as the primary feature of the report.
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United States Weather
Dr King’s New Discovery Cures Severe Coughs
A Monacadine man credits Dr King’s New Discovery with saving his wife from a severe bronchial illness and dreadful cough. He says she improved quickly after starting the remedy and was soon well. The ad claims are for coughs, colds, hemorrhages, and asthma with a free trial bottle and Knoefel Drug Company guarantee.
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Béto
O. M. Brown
Monacadine
Ala
Dr King
Dr. King
Knoefel Drag Company
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