Airships Clash Over Niagara In Global War Tale
In Wells style prologue a German aerial fleet led by Prince Exdorf Abort plans an assault on New York using Zeppelins and drachenflegers. Bert, a runaway balloon rider, is swept into Niagara battle zones as Asiatic airships and American forces collide in a sprawling, world war at air height.
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Germany
United States
Prince Exdorf
Bert Smullwiyas
Edna Bunthorne
Grubb
Bert
Butteridge
North Sea
Vaterland
Dagship
Kurt
New York
Graf von Winterfeld
Lutteridge
Prince
Brooklyn Bridge
Wetterhorn
America
Labrador
Karl Albert
Graf Zeppelin
Bernese Oberland
Franconian Park
North India
Niagara
Asia
Pacific
Buffalo
Great
Britain
France
East
West
Rocky Mountains
Niagara City
Sfire
Hohenzollern
Betn
Zeppellin
Zeppelin
Anglo-American Power Company
Goat Island
Eliée
Conservation of Scenery Bill Aimed at National Parks
A Civic Association endorses Smoot’s conservation bill to create a bureau of national parks and protect scenic areas from commercial exploitation. Taft and Fisher criticize scattered park legislation and call for centralized authority to manage all parks. The department outlines economical ditch digging methods for wet timbered lands, noting costs differ by method and ground conditions.
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American Civic Association
Congress
Smoot
Utah
Taft
Misher Hoa
Interior Department
Fisher
Money Trust Inquiry Aims Wider Government Investigation
The money trust probe led by Rep Charles Lindbergh and Rep Robert Lee Tillery seeks to examine not only the control of finances by major corporations in New York but also campaign fund contributions from national banks, interstate railways, and industrial firms. Representative Henry is chair of the Rules Committee and advocates a broad inquiry. he has criticized extravagant displays by American ambassadors abroad.
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Charles August Lindbergh
Minnesota
Robert Lee Tleary
Texas
Tion
Henry Sg
House
Lindbergh
New York City
Henry
National Mothers Congress Meets in Dallas With Ambitious Program
The sixteenth annual National Mothers Congress gathers in Dallas Texas from March 21 to 23. The program includes a nationwide drive to unite home and school and to expand playgrounds, with reforms aimed at aiding wage earning youths. The association also advocates education for both sexes.
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The
Mothers’ Congress
National Mothers’ Congress
Dallas
Tex
Te Association
Enlarging British Navy Adds Torpedo Boat Destroyers
British shipbuilders were invited to tender for modern torpedo boat destroyers though no funding was set in the naval estimates. Prominent English naval men have long urged fast seagoing destroyers to counter modern cruisers. The Admiralty also orders three larger submarines armed with two quick firers emerging through hatchways before submerging.
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Nst
Admiralty
Taft Invited to Address Massachusetts Legislature
Massachusetts legislature unanimously invited President Taft to address its lower house this month indicating strong official welcome. The invitation reflects ongoing ties between the executive and state government.
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Taft
Bay State
Massachusetts
Ditching with dynamite pursued in federal experiment
Reports to Secretary of Agriculture Wilson explore ditch construction by dynamite in six to twelve foot wide channels and three to six foot deep, indicating successful results from department experiments in Washington.
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Secretary of Agriculture
Wilsonart
Washington
Department
Peat Seen as Major Fuel in U S Future
Charles A. Davis of the federal bureau of mines in Washington predicts peat could see wide use in the United States within years. He values the country's peat at about 40 billion dollars and notes its potential as a domestic fuel.
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Treat
Ireland
United States
Charles A. Davis
Federal Bureau of Mines
Washington
Centennial Year Daughters of 1812 Seek New Members
Daughters of 1812 nationwide celebrate the 100th anniversary of the war era with a June 18 commemoration. Eligible women over eighteen of good character who can show direct descent from a Civil, military, or naval ancestor involved in the 1812 conflict may join. national office is in New York City.
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Daughters of 1812
Congress
United States Daughters of 1812
New York City
Million Women Voters Eligible in Western States
Estimates to Washington indicate nearly one million women will be eligible to vote for president this year. The six western states California Colorado Idaho Utah Washington and Wyoming have granted equal suffrage to women.
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Washington
United States
Caliorni, Coloriado
Idaho
Utah
Wyoming
Postal Savings Banks expand under Hitchcock plan
Postmaster General Hitchcock notes deposits reaching 1,004,000 over nine weeks in U S postal savings banks. Deposits are recorded on certificates of deposit at selected post offices with strong management histories. The system, now used by over 6,000 banks as depositories, aims to improve efficiency and local office control.
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Postal Savings Banks
Hitchcock
United States
cMcent
postoMics departMent
Postal Service
Citizenship for Mrs Blatch
Mrs Harriet Stanton Platch a suffragist leader expects to become an American citizen on March 26 She was born in the United States but lost her citizenship by marrying British subject Henry Blatch of Basingstoke England She is president of the Equality League of Self Supporting Women with about 25000 members
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Blatch
Harriet Stanton Platch
Henry Blatch
Basingstoke
England
Equality League of Self Supporting Women
Milwaukee Socialists Tie Cost of Living To Re election Theme
Milwaukee mayoral hopeful Emil Seldel campaigns on the high cost of living as the central issue for re election. The platform demands municipal control of business utilities and contracts while stressing living and labor as the people’s vital welfare.
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Milwaukee
Seldel
Socialists of
Tmoy
Emil Seldel
Wild Animals Fear Man in Forests and Homes
Pittsburgh naturalist George Shiras III argues after 35 years in the American wilderness that domesticated animals in captivity pose greater danger to humans than wild beasts. He notes bears may defend cubs but no longer threaten with overwhelming force where firearms prevail, while mosquitoes and black flies remain less fearsome than man with a gun. The predator now fears man more than other forest creatures.
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American
Gulf of Mexico
Hudson Bay
Alaska
George Shiras
Pittsburgh
Shiras
Ita
Marvelous seven story skeleton rises in 120 hours
In Chicago a steel erector gang built a 50 by 100 foot skeleton for a seven story structure. The project used 400 tons of steel and a ten ton derrick with a sixty foot boom. Erection required four lifts of the derrick and a seven man crew led by a foreman with signaling and hooker on roles.
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Avhate Tac Probebtys
Chicago
Aigo
Taxed Wed Unwed and Funerals in Imperial Revenue
In William III era Sir John Sinclair notes taxes on marriages births deaths and widowers. The public revenue from these taxes averaged £51,618 per year, a significant item when the kingdom’s revenue was about £5,500,000 annually.
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Sir John Sinclair
British Empire
William Iit
Kingdom
Kansas City Times
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H.g.wells
Macmillan Company
Robert L. Henry
Hourg
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