Roosevelt Denies Taft Progressive Label in Kentucky Speech
Colonel Roosevelt challenged President Taft’s claim to be progressive in a Louisville speech. He labeled Taft reactionary in parts while reviewing current administrations and criticizing them. The tour spanned West Virginia Kentucky Illinois and Pennsylvania with Roosevelt delivering fifteen speeches that day mostly from railroad car platforms.
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Louisville
Taft
Roosevelt
West Virginia
Kentucky
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Withering Fire Halts Campa at Parral Victory
Madero forces win first northern campaign clash defeating Liberal General Campa at Parral. Campa, with about 2000 under Villa Tollez Unbina and Soto, opens dawn artillery duel then withdraws after heavy casualties including three killed and twelve wounded and the loss of a large gun.
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Jiminez
Mexico
Madero
Campa
Parral
Pancho Villa
Villa
Tollez
Unbina
Soto
Aviator Rodgers Dies In California Air Crash
Galbraith P. Rodgers, first to fly solo across the American continent, was killed in Long Beach California when his Wright biplane plunged from about 200 feet. He was buried in the wreck with fatal neck injuries and severe body damage. He lived only moments after the crash.
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Rodgers
Long Beach
Cal
Galbraith P. Rodgers
Wright
Gettysburg Fifty Year Celebration Fund Passed by House
A 50 000 appropriation to enable the federal government to join in the Gettysburg fiftieth anniversary celebration passed the House on Tuesday. Representative Lamb of Virginia the only Confederate veteran in Congress urged the measure in a spirited appeal amid cheers.
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Washington
Gettysburg
House
Representative Lamb
Virginia
Wu Ting Fang to Return as Chinese Ambassador
London reports Wu Ting Fang likely to become Chinese ambassador to Washington. He previously served as minister of justice in the republican cabinet and previously held the post of minister to the United States.
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Wu Ting Fang
London
Pekina
The
Daily Telegraph
Washington
Republican
United States
Vatican refuses 2 million lire for pope Easter pilgrimage film
Rome officials reject a mov ing picture bid of 2 000 000 lire about capturing the pope during the Easter pilgrimage. The offer, estimated at $400 000, is described as the largest for a series of pictures.
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Rome
Vatican
Koombana Missing Steamer Fate After Wreck Found
Wreckage recovered off the coast of Western Australia appears to seal the fate of all aboard the British steamer Koombana. Fifty passengers and eighty crew members are reported missing since the steep typhoon struck the northwest coast in the last week of March.
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Perth
Western Australia
Geal
Postmaster General Allows Undelivered Mail Be Sent to Municipalities
Washington Postmaster General Hitchcock approves sending undelivered items such as picture cards newspapers magazines and other periodicals to municipal authorities for distribution through hospitals asylums or reformatory institutions. Previously these matters were sent to the dead letter office in Washington.
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Washington
Hitchcock
Robert G. Ross Funnels Candidacy Across States
Nebraska Republican Democratic candidate Robert G. Ross of Lexington presses his bid beyond his state, sending his photographs and platform to eastern newspapers. A New York wire reports the materials are received with mixed clarity and interest.
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Omaha
Nebraska
United States
Robert G. Ross
Lexington
Neb
Commonwealth
New York
Panama Pacific Exposition Opens February 20 1915
The Panama Pacific exposition in San Francisco will open on February 20, 1915 and close on December 4, 1915, marking a season of forty-one weeks.
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San Francisco
Taft Campaign Concedes Wisconsin Delegates to LaFollette
Milwaukee manager E S Philipp concedes to LaFollette twenty three of twenty six Republican delegates in Wisconsin, signaling a decisive shift in Taft's Wisconsin primary standings and the delegate race.
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Wisconsin
LaFollette
Milwaukee
Wis
E. S. Philipp
Taft
Nebraska in Brief Highlights March State Affairs
March state spending at the university totaled 105 603 37 dollars excluding building costs. Judge J J Sullivan appointed to hear Ball v state over Cherry county land for school fund. Conservation congress postponed to fall hoping for Gif ford Pinchot. Governor’s deputy warden appointment denied until after Leavenworth visit. Bridges on Elk Horn River washed away. two men rescued after five hours clinging to a tree. Ira A Hogan arraigned for horse theft. bond set at 500 dollars. Funeral train logistics used to move a body from Avoca Richfield to Omaha. Star mail route Tecumseh to Cook rejected for weather and schedule reasons. Debating league first series nearly complete. district champions to face off in April. National guard inspection shortfalls forced by cold weather addressed. full enrollment achieved after excuses accepted. Hebron man fined 50 dollars for selling unlicensed policies. State railway commission report delayed. printing underway. Duck-poor reports from Ceresco duck ponds. hunters disappointed. Nebraska won intercollegiate wrestling title over Iowa. McCormack defeated by O Connor. Platte river bridge damage noted with several culverts washed out. Southwest Nebraska annual declamatory contest draws large crowds. Cambridge and Holdrege medalists listed.
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Secretary of State
State University
J. J. Sullivan
Omaha
Ball
Cherry County
State Conservation Congress
Lincoln
Gifford Pinchot
L. B. Fuller
Aldrich
James T. Dawson
Penitentiary
Leavenworth
McClaughry
Arlington
Fremont
Elkhorn
James Sutton
Will Jurgensen
Ira A. Hogan
Kearney
Walthill
Charles Reilly
Richfield
Johnson
Avoca
Wood River
Neb
Washington
Dispatch
Post Office Department
Tecumseh
Cook
Nebraska High School
University of Nebraska
Penn
Nebraska National Guard
Adjutant General’s Office
Elmer T. Stalcup
Hebron
Willmore
Nebraska
State Railway Commission
Clark Perkins
A. B. Allen
Ceresco
Lincoln Journal
B. A. George
Platte River
Rock Island
Belleville
Kas
St. Joseph
Burlington
Nebraska University
Iowa University
Corn
Temple Theater
McCook
Ethelyne Druse
Cambridge
Flyod Shepherd
Holdrege
Mar. Toe
Seay Wae
Global and Domestic Political and Trade Updates of the Era
The report lists diverse items: post offices expanding savings banks starting May 1, a children’s bureau bill failing in the senate, a massive pension bill push, lectures by Dr. Wiley, and a $250,000 appropriation for a 1913 negro exposition. It notes crop germination concerns, a Tennessee senator’s death, get rich quick schemes losses, meat packers trial, and Vermont Taft delegates. It also covers coal strikes, a Manila fire at Standard Oil, and Milwaukee nonpartisan election shifts amid national politics.
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Washington
House
Department of Commerce and Labor
Hitchcock
Postal Savings Bank
Senate
Harvey W. Wiley
Maine
California
Lincoln
Henry
Texas
Bureau of Plant Industry
Department of Agriculture
R. L. Taylor
United States
Tennessee
Gallistones
Rucker
Colorado
Francis
Ohio
Multiple News Items From United States Papers
Union carpenters strike in Des Moines as nation reports census figures showing Catholics rise to 15,015,539. A Nebraska prison riot and a senator attacked in Wisconsin are noted along with other varied 1912 era updates.
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Des Moines
United States
Norfolk
Argentina
J. W. Jenney
Harvey F. Sprague
San Francisco
Salmon City
Idaho
Anti-Saloon League of Maryland
House of Delegates
Peking
Nanking
New York
London
Minnehaha
Illinois
Ohio State Republican Committee
Taft
New Englan
T. T. Kelley
Lincoln
Neb
Catholic Woman’s Club of
Chicago
Deneen
Postofice
Strong Friday
Nebraska Penitentiary
Davis
A. G. Bitterly
Denver
Senator Gore
Oklahoma
Charles Schomulin
Waukesha
Wis
Levee Break Floods Cairo Illinois Cornbelt Areas
The Mobile and Ohio levee burst on the Cairo drainage district flooding Urbandale and Future City. 150 to 200 houses in flood path with 1,500 laborers and Cairo residents fighting seven miles of levee to avert disaster. No lives lost but flood damage estimated at ten million dollars across eastern Nebraska and related washouts.
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Cairo
Ill
Mobile & Ohio
Flood Menace Persists as Mississippis Flood Spreads
Reported levee breaks near Chester Illinois flood 30 000 acres of farmland. Memphis warned to move to high ground as river levels threaten the levees. Death toll rises to seven with three railroad workers near Fulton Kentucky and two drowned near Clarksville Tennessee. Hickman and Columbus suffer heavy damage with thousands displaced and food running short. Across five states 300 000 acres flood and 9 000 more left untilled amid fears of further levee failure.
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St. Louis
Chester
Ill
Memphis
Fulton
Clarksville
Tenn
Columbus
New Madrid
Sma
Kentucky
Tennessee
Missouri
Arkansas
Mississippi
Valleys Are Miniature Seas Threaten Nebraska Floods
The Platte and Elk Horn valleys in eastern Nebraska are described as miniature seas with widespread flooding. A special carload of boats was dispatched to Waterloo and Valley at the urgent request of Banker Waldron, who warned that loss of life could result without immediate aid.
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Omaha
Platte
Elkhorn
Nebraska
Waterloo and
Valley
Waldron
Dam breaks flood hits Albert Lea families
A large portion of the new Fountain Lake dam under construction failed on Saturday flooding lower Fountain Lake area. About one third of Albert Lea, Minnesota, is inundated with water. The disaster prompted evacuation concerns and emergency response as residents face property damage and interrupted utilities.
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Albert Lea
Minn
Fountain Lake
Flood Toll in Five Days Tops State History
No lives have been lost so far in the five day flood, the worst in state history. Many suffer exposure and property loss cannot yet be estimated.
Marooned Party Rescued Near Schuyler Bridge
Two groups totaling thirty men and several women were rescued Saturday from the Burlington bridge and embankment south of Schuyler Nebraska. They had been marooned since Thursday, exposed to rising water for two days and a night, after the embankment and bridge spans were swept away.
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David City
Neb
Burlington
Schuyler
Four Feet In Ten Hours At Yutan Neb River Record
The Platte River rose four feet in ten hours beginning 9 a m at Yutan Nebraska. By 7 p m it stood two and a half feet above the Friday high water mark, breaking all records since 1881. Water fell six inches by 10 p m and eighteen inches overnight before rising again. Cause of the rise is unknown as waters crept toward Yutan.
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Yutan
Neb
Platte
Marooned Families Face Hunger Amid Platte River Floods
Waterloo Nebraska confronts a flood from the Platte and Elkhorn rivers that eight miles wide and five to eight feet deep. Homes, a lumber yard, and a grain elevator were swept away or burned as residents sought shelter on roofs and in trees. Thousands of dollars in losses mount while food and supplies run short for evacuated families.
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Nebraska
Platte River
Fdany
Waterloo
Neb
Platte
Elkhorn
Bluff
Governor H adley to aid flood victims in Missouri
The governor received telegraphic appeals from the New Madrid mayor and Representative Conrad asking state help for flood sufferers. He wired State Senator Oliver to assess needs and said the national guard can supply tents and may be called out if state troops can assist the displaced residents.
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Hadley
Jefferson City
New Madrid
Conrad
Oliver
Prescott County
Missouri National Guard
National Guard
Food Shortage Persists as Trains Reach Hickman
Hope rises for relief as passenger service nears Hickman Kentucky with 4000 loaves moved to wagons and driven into the city. Submerged areas reveal only roof peaks while merchants shift goods to higher ground and set up improvised stores.
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Hickman
State Aid for Bridges Proposed After Platte Floods
State Engineer Price expects many applications for state aid to build or repair bridges over the Platte Elkhorn and Loup rivers following floods. The Cronin bill from the last session would require the state to cover half the cost of bridges over streams wider than 175 feet.
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Lincoln
Price
Platte
Elkhorn
Loup
Cronin
Bridge damage halts rail line between Fremont and Columbus area
Eight spans of the Northwestern Lincoln line bridge are cut and miles of Union Pacific track between Fremont and Columbus and Fremont and Valley must be replaced. Local railroad yards show intense activity as repair materials are gathered and prepared for work.
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Fremont
Union Pacific
Columbus
Valley
Trains Delayed as Routes Shift Between Lincoln and Omaha
Lincoln to Omaha service rerouted via Napier and Rule due to Washouts on the Oreapolis line. Sunday trains traversed 200 miles to cover the 55 mile Lincoln Omaha leg causing about five hours of delays per trip.
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Omaha
Lincoln
Burlington
Oreapolis
Napier
Rule
Neb
Kansas City-Billings
Norfolk Flood Swamps City as River Rises Four Inches
Two hundred homes flooded in Norfolk Nebraska as floodwaters pushed families from their houses. Boats navigate business streets while the Norfolk River rises about four inches.
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Norfolk
Neb
Nor
Submerged land loss cited in Hammond dairy report
A fragmented note from Hammond Indiana describes a quarter million loss due to submerged land and ice gorge conditions. It references Schneider and farmland in the vicinity of the Chicago area with implications for local property.
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Hammond
Ind
Mice Gorge
Schneider
Tracks Under Water as Platte River Floods Nebraska Line
Platte River overflow floods Burlington tracks in South Bend Nebraska for the first time in the section's history. Water recedes eighteen inches in five hours. About 400 feet of Rock Island track near Nereig washed out and bridge piles damaged.
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South Bend
Platte River
Burlington
Rock Island
Nereig
Woman Seeks Relief for Hysterical Pain and Nerves
A patient from Walcott Dakota reports relief after using Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound for back pain and nervous distress. The letter praises the medicine and notes the woman regained health.
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Platea
Vousness
Mary Halsteap
E. Pinkham
Walcott
N. Dakota
Syd
Pinkham
Amelia Dabl
Walcot
Dakota
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
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Hubert M LaFollette
Plattsmouth
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John C. Trouton
Hyers
John Strong
Nebraska State Penitentiary
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George W. Baker
Tilton
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