Idaho Sparks Chronicle of State News Items
W L Huyette of Jerome named deputy state commissioner and examiner. Idaho W C T U proposes abolishing capital punishment. Boise hosts third annual Chautauqua June 19 to 29. 11 year old Mildred Street er injured on a Boise roundhouse turntable. Boise voters back 90,000 improvement bond reissue. 305 dairy cows arrive in Wendell from Wisconsin, largest east-west bulk shipment. Don H Bank devises under 2 1/2 dollar irrigation measuring box. Boise plans flourish with improvement associations. prizes total 550 dollars. Staten Moss of Payette shot in calf while adjusting weapon. Salmon river Can al project progresses. water from Chalk Creek to reclaim land. Idaho Northern extension track laying toward Horseshoe Bend. grade complete. Harry Sprague, safeblower, returning from San Francisco. penitence noted. Idaho dairy industry boosted by Buhl cheese factory. more pending with shipments. Mrs Lee Miller known as Beatrice Fairfax widower in Spokane death case. Trainmen mourn Mrs Ryan longtime Glenns Ferry eating house manager. later Cokeville. thousands of acres in Bannock and Bear Lake may reopen to entry if congress acts. Twin Falls Fremont Bingham Lincoln orchards thriving. strong fruit yield forecast. Amby Shaw and Louis Stephenson convict in Luxton market and Idaho Falls Junk case. six months jail for Shaw, training school for Stephenson. L D Blackwell returns to South Boise after six weeks missing, no memory of disappearance. New concrete bridge to cost thousands over Crow Creek in Idaho Falls. sixty foot span. city beautification efforts. W F Morton loses right hand in Caldwell box factory accident. Mountain States buys controlling interest in McCammon Telephone Co. company absorbed last week.
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San Francisco Hospital
Crow Creek
Ice Barrier Prevented Rescue Of Passengers
Senate testimony recounts how a vast ice field blocked rescue efforts for the Titanic disaster. Mount Temple captain said the Titanic rushed at 21 knots through ice despite proximity warnings and that position reports were inaccurate. Also notes Ismay’s boat decisions and the sailors awaiting funds after the hearing.
Major Thomas Rhoades Acts as Military Aid to Taft
Major Thomas Rhoades serves as military aide to President Taft, filling the vacancy created by Major Butt's death.
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Major Rhdades
Taft
Major Butt
Titanic scale overlooked by Yuarltee cheer For Ismay
Bruce Ismay, managing director of the International Mercantile Marine company, was cheered amid remarks about the enormous size of the Titanic. The report hints at public reaction to the ship's scale and the companies involved.
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Bruce Ismay
International Mercantile Marine Company
Iceberg scene noted with Titanic victims said to drift south
A wireless intercept reported by North German Lloyd liner Princess Irene says another ship, not named, saw an iceberg fifty miles from the Titanic wreck where more than a dozen lifebelts wearers lay dead in groups at its base. The officers believe the men froze while clinging to the ice as they drifted south, with no retrieval attempted.
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Tech Titanic
North Atlantic
Senate
James H. Moore
Mount Temple
Calia
Moore
New York
Scouting Group Plans Crepe Decoration for Astor
The American Boy Scouts executive committee led by officers including the late Colonel John Jacob Astor orders all troops to decorate colors guidons and sidearms with crepe for thirty days in memory of Astor.
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New York
The
American Boy Scouts
John Jacob Astor
Astor
Taft Eulogizes Grant Family at Banquet
President Taft paid tribute twice in New York to the Grant family. He memorialized Major General Frederick Dent Grant and praised Ulysses S Grant for leading the Union to victory in the Civil War. The event followed earlier memorial exercises.
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Taft
Grant
New York
Frederick Dent Grant
The
United States
France Establishes Protectorate in Morocco
In Rambouillet a cabinet meeting chose General Lyantey as resident French governor of Morocco, following a decision to establish a protectorate due to conditions there. In Shanghai Republicans attack residents with queues, cutting off the appendages. In Cananea four men die in a mine cave-in and rescue attempts fail for the remaining two. In Salinas highbinders invade a room and kill three Chinese players, wounding a fourth.
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Salinas
Cal
New Jersey Enacts Compulsory Tuberculosis Segregation Law
The New Jersey legislature passed a landmark tuberculosis law, signed by Governor Wilson, granting courts power to force segregation of patients who refuse state health regulations. Counties must create special facilities within six months, with a state subsidy of $3 per week per patient for those unable to pay.
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National Association For the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis
New Jersey
Wilson
State Board of Health
State Treasury
Baby Recovers After Cuticura Soap and Ointment Cure
Mrs Noble Tubman of Dodson Montana describes six weeks of severe skin sores on her six month old baby resolved after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. She reports hair loss and sleepless nights before quick improvement and eventual full recovery. Free sample offer for Cuticura reads at Cuticura Dept L Boston.
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Noble Tubman
Dodson, Mont
Dept. L
Boston
Boy's Question About Co Coanuta Grows On Trees
A child asks his father if co coanuta grows on trees, the father affirms then quips about monkeys. An aside promotes Garfield Tea as a mild laxative. The note also observes a kitten’s friskiness and two kinds of ambition.
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Willie
Hoston
Free Advice to Sick Women from Lydia E Pinkham Co
Public offer from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co promising confidential, woman-to-woman correspondence for medical advice. Encourages letters to Lynn Massachusetts for private illness discussion and a free 80 page Text Book obtainable by mail.
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Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Mass
Lydia KR
Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn,Maza. Ie
Lydia
E.—Pinkham
No wedding attendance cited in local chatter
Bill Squeezer denies going to Judge Podger's wedding amid a joking notice of no cards. Bates' wife is described as a suffragette by principle who voted against him when he ran for office.
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Bill Squeezer
Bodle
Podger
Bates
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