Two Japanese Deportees Return to Japan on Yedo Maru
The two Japanese arrested for purchasing photographs of Fortifications at Manila were released by order of Secretary of War Dickinson and deported on the Yedo Maru to Japan. The deportation was arranged by the Japanese consul, acting officially.
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Manilla
Dickinson
Japan
Roosevelt
Gifford Pinchot
Genoa
Mr. Pinchot
Pinchot
Africa
Copenhagen
Vatican
Vienna
Standard Oil Company
Cardinal Moran
Ireland
Dublin
Many US and world events noted in brief items
The article lists diverse items including a Omaha fire loss near a million dollars, Roosevelt telegrams, Nebraska court changes, dry and wet towns, canal fortifications, a dinner at the White House, deaths and legal actions, strikes in Chicago and Yonkers, naval builds in France, political trials in Berlin, a suicide in San Francisco, Justice Brewer's burial, coal mine suspensions, and Ballinger Pinchot tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
New York State Methodist Conference
Roosevelt
Nebraska
Supreme Court
Washington
Panama Canal Company
Michigan
Congress
White House
George H. Williams
Grant
Portland
Oregon
Cornelia Woolman
Helena
Mont
United States
Trenton
N. J
Chicago
French Chamber of Deputies
Great Britain
Germany
Richard Barah
Vorwaerts
Berlin
J. A. Durfee
San Francisco
Justice Brewer
Leavenworth
Kas
Illinois
Yonkers
N. Y
Taft
American Tobacco Company
Stemmeries
Louisville
Iowa
Ballinger-Pinchot
Indiana Governor to Probe Charges Against United States Steel
Reports in the House on the Administration rail bill. rain in Chicago pits caused grain price drops. Nicholls seeks details on Mexico slavery charges. New York Central raises wages for all employees. Mabray and gang convicted of swindling in Council Bluffs. Nye-Schneider-Fowler elevator fire in Omaha destroys half a million. Justice Moody improving likely back by fall. Philadelphia streetcar strike enters six weeks with no end in sight.
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Marshall
Indiana
United States” ‘Steel | Company
Chicago
Nicholls
Mexico
New York Central
John C. Mabray
Council Bluffs
Nye-Schneider-Fowler
Omaha
Justice Moody
Justice Brewer
Standard Oil
Mississippi
House
Roosevelt
Philadelphia
Taft Dances at Navy Relief Society Event
President Taft attends a charity hall event at the navy yard with Secretary Meyer receiving him. A sailor exhibition drill features Mayflower Dolphin and navy yard crews while Taft dances briefly with his sister in law Mrs Louis Moore. Florida battleship launch planned May 12 at New York yard.
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Taft
Navy Relief Society
Navy Yard
Meyer
Dolphin
Louis Moore
Senate
Committee On the Judiciary
Borah
Stevenns Institute
Institute of Technology
Hoboken
N. J
United States
Florida
New York Navy Yard
New York
Connecticut
Notable Figures and Events in a Rapidly Shifting Era
A roundup of prominent figures and happenings: Theodore Roosevelt as Rome’s leading figure. New York State Senator Conger resigning. J. J. Hill meeting President Taft. Mt McKinley expedition progress. Mrs. W. J. Bryan rushing home for her grandchild. global interest in the Johnson Jeffries fight. President Lewis of the mine workers optimistic about suspensions. Taft cabinet pleased with finances. Robert Peary ending polar expeditions. Joseph Sears of Dedham fathering 34 children. Justice Brewer dies in Washington. French Mediterranean squadron under Vice Admiral Fournier issued. coal miners strike broad but nearing settlement. Weston the walker ahead of schedule by eleven days. Denmark’s King Frederick calls the U S a model for all nations. James J Hill predicts major railroad traffic congestion next season.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Rome
Conger
New York
J. J. Hill
Taft
Mt. McKinley
W. J. Bryan
Johnson-Jeffries
Lewis
Robert E. Peary
Chicago
Joseph Sears
Dedham
Mass
David J. Brewer
United States Supreme Court
Washington
Fournier
Mediterranean
Weston
Frederick
Denmark
United States
James J. Hill
Nebraska town wet or dry changes tally
In Nebraska at Omaha the tally shows 70 of 120 towns now wet. Twenty four changes occurred with fourteen dry towns going wet and ten wet towns going dry. Havelock a suburb of Lincoln is among those becoming dry.
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Nebraska
Omaha
Havelock
Lincoln
Clayton Re-Elected Mayor of St. Joseph
Alvah P. Clayton Democrat was re-elected mayor of St. Joseph by 2,504 votes. His opponent, Frank B. Fulkerson Republican police commissioner, ran on a strict law enforcement platform.
Beveridge Endorsed At Indiana Republican Convention
Indiana Republicans opened the 1910 campaign by naming a state ticket aside from governor and lieutenant governor and adopting a platform favoring a protective tariff tariff commission conservation Roosevelt policies and Taft administration. Senator Beveridge's congressional record was enthusiastically endorsed.
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Beveridge
Indianapolis
Indiana
Roosevelt
Taft
Congress
School Seeks Applicants for Principalship Positions
A local district advertises multiple principalship openings with a large field of applicants. The notice requests qualified candidates to apply, outlining required credentials and submission deadlines for the positions.
Applicants Seek Principals for Three State Normal Schools
Twenty applications have been filed for principal positions at Peru Chadron and Wayne normal schools. Chadron’s school is not yet built and Wayne will await legislative maintenance funds. Names include J A Beattie United States Commissioner Columbus and W R Jackson University Place for Wayne. D W Hayes Alliance and S R Martin St Paul for Chadron.
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Peru
Chadron
Wayne
Chadron School
State Normal Board
Bishop
Shellhorn
McDonald
J. A. Beat
Custer County
Shallenberger
Railroad Property Valuation Report Highlights State Mileage
R C Hurd chief engineer leads the valuation effort under the Lincoln NewsThree act reporting four railroads filed complete statements and four partial. Ninety six structure plans bring total to 443 while 83 miles of construction profits raise roadway to 1505 miles including terminals. Inspections cover 2727 miles of roadway with five large terminals and 16 mechanical plants. Right of way studied to 1582 miles across 42 towns. Total miles investigated reach 3452. Expense to date stands at 13028.01 from a 40000 appropriation.
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R. C. Hurd
Lincoln News
Hastings Independent Telephone Rates Approved
The railway commission granted Hastings Independent Telephone's request to raise rates despite a protest from Hastings physicians who pledged to switch to Bell. Nine doctors have since asked to withdraw their names from the protest.
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Hastings
Railway Commission
State Fair Plans Music And Air Show Acts
Secretary Mellor has scored the Lombardo Symphony band of forty four pieces and an opera company of twenty four voices for the next state fair. Negotiations continue for aeroplane flights with Wrights and Curtiss inquiries. A week of air shows could cost about ten thousand dollars, with the board likely capping at five thousand.
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Lombardo
Appeal Sustained Against Increased Insurance Assessments
The Lancaster county appeal of Bankers' Life Western Fire and Farmers' and Merchants' Insurance companies from an increase in assessment has been sustained.
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Bankers’ Life
Western Fire
Farmers’ and Merchants’ Insurance Companies
Lancaster County
Addison Wait Enters Republican Bid for Secretary of State
Addison Wait, deputy secretary of state, formally announces his candidacy for the Republican nomination for secretary of state. He positions himself as a reformist choice and seeks to join the state’s top election and administrative post.
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Addison Wait
University Tests Iron Sulphate to Kill Dandelions
University officials launched a spring experiment to eradicate dandelions on campus using iron sulphate sprayed on the plants. A pilot at the farm last summer showed promising results.
Fees of Supreme Court Recorded by Clerk Lindsay
H C Lindsay, clerk of the supreme court, filed with the governor a statement of fees collected from July 2, 1909, to April 1, 1910. The report shows total collections of 1,987 dollars and 15 cents.
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Supreme Court
H. C.lindsay
Governor Shallenberger to attend Nebraska City reception
Governor Shallenberger accepted an invitation to a reception and ball to be given by the T P A of Nebraska City on May 6. He will attend with his staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shallenberger
Nebraska City
New Normal School case headed to supreme court
Attorneys for Burlington and Alliance agreed to submit the injunction fight over Chadron's new normal school site to the state supreme court for final adjudication. Judge Frost ordered an indemnity claim for Chadron withdrawn after Chadron counsel's suggestion. The case centers on land title, timing of sewer work, and which board governs the project with a $35 000 appropriation.
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New’ Normal School
Chadron
Supreme Court
K Griggs
Burlington
Flansburg
Alliance
Grant. Martin
F. M. Hall
A. W. Crites
Normal Board
Thompson
Fire Damage Hits Nebraska Forest Reserve Near Dunning
D Clem Deaver reports a prairie fire in western Nebraska damaged the government forest reserve along the Loup and Dismal rivers. The wind carried fire across the Loup in three places despite guards, harming young trees. locals foresee regrowth as farmers continue planting trees to reclaim worn eastern lands.
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D. Clem Deaver
The
Conservation Congress
Dunning
Loup
Deaver
Forest Service
Nebraska
Governor Shallenberger orders exemption certificates board action
The state board of optometry is instructed by the governor to issue certificates of exemption from examination to eligible individuals, without attaching the board's opinion about the recipient. The directive follows a state legal department decision and applies to those entitled to exemptions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Legal Department of the State
Shallenberger
State Board of Optometry
Clarkson Man Registers High Horsepower Car
Anton Pravak of Clarkson registered the second largest automobile in state records. The seventy horsepower vehicle follows a ninety horsepower machine registered last year, marking notable power for local autos.
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Anton Pravak
Clarkson
Secretary of State
Testing Seed Corn Campaign Aims to Reach Farmers
The campaign to encourage farmers to test seed corn has been thorough. Commercial clubs in Omaha and Lincoln promoted the effort, universities assisted, and State Superintendent Bishop urged county superintendents and teachers to support the work.
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Omaha
Lincoln
Bishop
Railroads slow to report property values for state assessment
Reports of railroad property values to the State Board of Assessment arrive slowly. County assessors have submitted valuations under the terminal tax law in only a few cases.
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State Board of Assessment
Fish Car Heads Northwest For Fish Planting
Fish Commissioner O'Brien and Game Warden Guilus departed with the state fish car to the northwestern area to plant fish.
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O’brien
Guilus
Conductor Cited Over Fare Dispute on Rock Island
W D Champlain a Rock Island conductor faces April 8 appearance before the State Railway Commission. He is to show cause why he should not be prosecuted for charging F H Dunham more than 2 cents a mile. The complaint notes Dunham paid Mayberry to Beatrice with 70 cents extra plus a 25 cent rebate check he had already paid.
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W. D. Champlain
Rock Island
State Railway Commission
F. H. Dunham
Commission
Dunham
Mayberry
Beatrice
Socialists Win Milwaukee Mayoral Race in Historic Plurality
Emil Seidel elected Milwaukee mayor as socialists sweep city and county. Seidel vows cautious governance, tax fairness for corporations, and open discussion within the party. Victor Berger hails the result as a stage in a broader progressive movement. Seidel's 7,109 plurality stands as a Milwaukee municipal record aside from 1898.
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Milwaukee
Socialist-Democratic ‘Party
Emil Seidel
Cialist
Socialist Party
Victor L. Berger
Seidel
Berger
Mil“waukee
Social Democratic Party
David S. Rose
Grover Cleveland Monument Erected in Princeton Cemetery
A monument to ex-President Grover Cleveland and a marble slab marking daughter Ruth Cleveland’s grave were completed Wednesday in Princeton Cemetery. The inscriptions note birth Caldwell New Jersey and death Princeton New Jersey for Grover Cleveland without detailing his presidency.
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Princeton
N. J
United States
Grover Cleveland
Caldwell
Ruth Cleveland
Ex-Governor George W. Glick In Serious Condition
Report from Lakeland Florida indicates former Kansas Governor George W. Glick is in serious condition after a broken hip. At 82 he faces failing heart action and intensified suffering, marking the only Democrat to lead the state as chief executive.
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Atchison, Eas
George W. Glick
Lakeland
Fla
Glick
Kansas
Judge Brewers Will Filed
Washington reports no estimated value in the will of the late United States Supreme Court Justice Brewer, filed for probate Wednesday.
Nebraska municipal returns show wets leading in towns
Second day returns from Lincoln indicate wets and drys running neck and neck in Nebraska elections. Of 17 towns reporting 84 dry and 92 wet, mostly small towns with no major changes. Kearney County claims all incorporated towns are now dry.
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Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska
Kearney
Bryan Denies Reports On Return To U S In San Juan
William J. Bryan on a Puerto Rico tour Wednesday denied certain reports about his U S plans. He would not start a prohibition paper and would not seek the Senate, saying a House rules change pleases him.
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San Juan
William J. Bryan
United States
Senate
House of Representatives
Daredevil knife work ends rattler threat
Denver reports recount a plainsman tale of Dick Haynes who battled a diamond rattlesnake with a knife. He nicked the snake but was bitten on the thumb, prompting a retreat to camp where whisky was poured and he vowed never to chase rattlers again.
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Denver
Col
Dick Haynes
A Saloon Standoff Over Pat Murphy Beating
In a Westside longshore saloon a large Irishman claims to have beaten Pat Murphy. A smaller Irishman bursts in shouting the bar dispute, challenging the culprit who confesses aloud, while the crowd watches the comic scene unfold.
Miss Juliet Points Wins $1500 Study Scholarship
Miss Juliet Points, fresh from a General Federation of Women's Clubs award, will sail in June for Europe to study two years. She plans to study the English industrial revolution at a British university and conduct research at the British Museum. She will compare English and Continental conditions with the United States.
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Juliet Points
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
England
Europe
British Museum
Miss Points
United States Immigration Commission
Lydia Pinkham Remedies Help Knoxville Woman
Knoxville Iowa resident Mrs Chara Frangs reports relief after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills for years of lower right side pain weakness and night restlessness The ad claims the remedy cured thousands and offers free advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Mass for readers seeking help.
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Knoxville
Iowa
Pinkham
Chara Frangs
R.P.D
No. 3
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia BE
Lynn
Mass
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Ween
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NEW Normal School
Lydia B. Pinkham
Sloan
G. T. Roberts
Resaca
R.F.D
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Liniment
Price &Co
Sloan’s Hook
Dr. Earl
Boston, Mass
Carter’s. Little
Western Canada
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Ilinois
Ans
Saclatchewan
Canada
Senemely
Tobe
Wan
Alberta
Lway
Ba't of Immigration
Ottawa
Bennett Room
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