Abdication Decided as China Faces Turning Point
Reports from Washington say Hitchcock will urge government control of U S telegraph lines as part of the postal service. In China, Peking notes a practical abdication plan with retirement to labor and a government meeting to finalize details, while Nanking signals a new turning point as unrest and potential bloodshed loom.
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Washington
United States
Postal Service
Congress
Intehcock
White House
Hitchcock
Newark
Peking
Nanking
Breach Grows In Missouri Democratic Ranks
In St Louis the split between Champ Clark supporters and Folk backers widens as Missouri Democrats choose February 20 for the state convention at Joplin. Folk faction had pushed for a March date, intensifying the factional clash within the party.
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St. Louis
Champ Clark
Joseph W. Folk
Missouri
Democratic State Committee
Joplin
Nebraska man out on bail in Milwaukee perjury case
John F. Rowell a Denver mining stock salesman and ex Lincoln resident was arrested in Milwaukee on perjury charges tied to the death of Mrs. Ida B Nelson of Lincoln. He was released on bail after his company furnished the bond and his attorney from the west investigated the case. Bail reduced from 3000 to 1000.
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Milwaukee
Wis
John F. Rowell
Denver
Lincoln, Neb
Ida B Nelson
Lincoln
Ball
Troops Bound for China Guard Peking Rail Line
The United States transport Logan has sailed with a battalion of infantry for China. On arrival they will guard the Tang Shan to Lanchow section of the Peking railroad against possible attacks by imperialist or Republican forces. In Dallas three deaths and three new meningitis cases in 24 hours prompt officials to report an improving outlook for rapid control.
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Manila
United States
Logan
China
Peking
Tang-Shan
Lanchow
Dallas
Tex
Bank Robbers Frustrated In Dale Oklahoma Heist
Two men entered the Dale State bank in Dale Oklahoma on Friday and at gunpoint demanded cash. Vice-President Patten, nearby in the rear, fired at the robbers who fled with the bank’s funds.
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Shawnee
Okla
Dale State Bank
Dale
Patten
Democrats Gather for Fargo Get Together
Prominent Democrats will attend a Fargo meeting this week. Notables linked to the event include William J. Bryan along with Governors Judson Harmon of Ohio Edwin L Norris of Montana and John Burke of North Dakota. Burke is rumored as a potential vice presidential aspirant if Harmon secures the nomination.
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Fargo
N. D
United States
William J. Bryan
Judson Harmon
Ohio
Edwin L. Norris
Montana
John Burke
North Dakota
Harmon
Vital statistics for 1911 reveal accidents and suicides as top death causes
The state board of health reports 11 499 total deaths and 28 839 births for 1911 with males 13 987 and females 12 852. Major death causes include accidents 222 and suicide 142, railroads 101, pneumonia 1 258, infantile diseases 1 343, heart disease 1 110, tuberculosis 44, cancer 521, and diabetes 0.
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State Board of Health
Theshohe
Merging of Phowes Creates Lincoln Bell System Tie
The Nebraska Railway Commission approves a merger between Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph and Bell properties in 22 counties. Lincoln pays 2205 750 dollars in preferred stock and acquires Bell holdings in Plattsmouth, Nebraska City, Goldenrod and Butler County. The deal also allows issuing 3 million dollars in 5 percent preferred stock. Governor Aldrich to send delegates to the National Child Labor convention in Louisville on January 25.
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Railway Commission
Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph Company
Independent Telephone Company
Bell Companies
South Platte Country
Nebraska Bell Telephone Company
Webster
Adams County
Lincoln Company
Bell
Lincoln Concern
State Railway Commission
Richardson
Nemaha
Cass
Otae
Saunders
Pawnee
Johnson Lancaster
Gage
Jefferson
Thayer Nuckolls
Clay
Hamilton
York
Polk
Butler
Seward
Saline
Fillmore
Adams
The
Plattsmouth Telephone Company
Nebraska City Telephone Company
Goldenrod Telephone Company
Butler County Telephone Company
Supreme Court
Yemtin
Weta Fanariranal Taland
Tore. Sy
Aldrich
Louisville
A L. Williams
Frank L. Haller
Omaha
B. M. Stonebraker
Lincoln Trost
Lincoln
George A. Beecher
Kearney
Bank officials plead not guilty in federal embezzlement case
Merly Daft and Lawrence Daft, cashier and assistant cashier of the Greenwood bank, appeared before Judge Munger and pleaded not guilty to embezzlement and falsifying books. Cases postponed to the May term.
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Merly
Albert D Welpton
Lawrence H. Daft
Greenwood Bank
Munger
General William H Jewell Dies in Florida
Omaha's Col B W Jewell wires friends of the death of his brother General William H Jewell at Orlando Florida. Both fought in the Civil War with honor and advancement with William Henry as a Confederate general and B Wood as a U S Army colonel.
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Douglas County
B. W. Jewell
Omaha
Sovereign Finance Committee
Woodmen of the World
William H. Jewell
Orlando
Fla
William Henry
B Wood
District Court Sentences Ilaury Earl for Life in Vialt Shooting
Judge Thomas sentences Ilaury Earl to life in the penitentiary for shooting Charles Vialt proprietor of the Vidland rooming house. Fred Mathiser, merchant, fined 3100 and costs for assault on Wierman Wasnier. Mathisan convicted of assault on two counts shooting with intent to kill and shooting with intent to wound.
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Dodse
Thomas
Ilaury Earl
Charles Vialt
Vidland
Fred Mathiser
Wierman Wasnier
Math'ssen
State agricultural college reports Nebraska corn lead and Kansas wheat edge
In 1911 instructors compare state yields with Nebraska producing 28 1000 more bushels of corn than Kansas and Kansas wheat surpassing Nebraska by 4 million bushels. Population differences noted and potato crop values cited show Kansas and Nebraska agricultural output and valuations.
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State Agricultural College
Nebraska
Kanas Tue Jaywawkers
Kansas
PeruNebraska Teacher Injured in Cincinnati Incident
Fred Everett 23 a school teacher from Peru Nebraska was found at Third street and Central avenue Cincinnati with a broken jaw a facial bruise and a scalp wound He could not recall how he was hurt while en route from New York to St Louis.
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Cincinnati
Fred Everett
Peru
Neb
New York
St Louis
Third Street
Central Avenue
Local youths arraigned on liquor charge in Phelps County
Milo Williams Emil Gustavson and Frank Zellers were arraigned before Police Judge G H Johnson on a liquor selling without a license charge and pleaded not guilty. They were bound over without bail. In Greeley County P H McCarthy, en route from Shamrock Kansas to his old home, was reported to be in a railroad wreck with both arms and a leg broken.
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Phelps County
Milo Williams
Emil Gustavson
Frank Zellers
G. H. Johnson
Greeley County
Greeley
P. H McCarthy
Shamrock
Nervy Children Capture Desperate Burglar
A burglar hid behind a screen in a New York mansion as the family followed a day of music lessons from eight in the morning to twelve twelve fifteen. The intruder, frightened by footsteps, cried for mercy and was captured when the porch-climber begged for police.
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New York
Woman's Way at Convention Stirred by Wives Cheers
A humorous exchange notes how at a national convention men cheered a candidate while his wife claimed wives cheered longer. The column references a Louisville Courier-Journal quote and a witty aside about scouting and family life in a humorous column.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Hamlet Glass and Fashion in Ophelia’s View
Fragmentary dialogue hints at Ophelia’s perception of Hamlet through fashion and status. The exchange suggests she treats him as a peer when she calls him Lord Hamlet, implying social hierarchy and personal regard in the scene.
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Ophelia
Hamlet
Lord Hamlet
Cream of Rye breakfast cereal offer with free spoon
An old advertisement promotes Cream of Rye as a healthy energy breakfast option. It highlights reduced cost of living and promises a free silver spoon in every package, urging readers to ask their grocer for a package.
Gamps’s Bed-Business Fails from Sympathy
The cartoon joke notes Gamps failed in bed-manufacturing due to excessive sympathy. A separate ad promotes Cole's Carbon salve for burns and cuts, claiming quick healing and scar prevention, priced 25 cents and 50 cents with free sample requests to J W Cole & Co.
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Gamps
Cole
J. W. Cole & Co
Black River Falls
Wis
Plan Big Bryan Feed at Lincoln Club Meeting
The Lincoln Bryan club voted to host a bigger birthday feed for William J. Bryan, with 25 of about 2,000 members present at the annual meeting. Nels P. Hansen of the city was named state food commissioner, succeeding the late W. R. Jackson, and will assume duties immediately.
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William J. Bryan
Lincoln Bryan Club
Nels P. Hansen
Lancaster County Republican Committee
W. R. Jackson
Hansen
Three Men Taken to Montana by Governor Aldrich
Requisitions for the return to Montana of G. B. McCarrick Frank Furlong and Ed Sayers were issued by Governor Aldrich. The three men broke jail at Bozeman and were captured at Grand Island. The Mortgage Record Gage County. The mortgage report of Gage county for the year 1911 lists farm mortgages filed 296 for 839866.71 and farm mortgages released 302 for 617132.49 city mortgages filed 218 for 281998.20 and city mortgages released 274 for 214209.39 Coal Bills About Same. Coal bills for state institutions December totals near last year varies from 229 at Geneva girls industrial home to 2265 at Hastings hospital for the insane with total just over 10000. May Bring Larson Back. Saunders County Oscar Larson of Wahoo located in Denver may be brought back to answer charges of statutory rape.
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Montana
Lancaster County
G. B. McCarrick
Frank Furlong
Ed Sayers
Aldrich
Bozeman
Grand Island
Gage County
Cowles
Geneva Girls
Hastings Hospital
Larson
Saunders County
Oscar Larson
Wahoo
Denver
Col
Why are you rushing around today for my wife
The notice lists assorted patent medicines and remedies pushed for sale in the Louisville Courier Journal with claims to cure consumption, coughs, stomach and liver ailments and a quip on Womans greatness. It mentions Hamlins Wizard Oil Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets Druggists refund policy and Grove’s syrup with a fire loss forecast for 1911.
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Louisville Courier~Journal
Law Clarifies gasoline gravity import ban
State oil inspector finds that bringing into the state for any purpose gasoline below the gravity standard of 62 is prohibited by law even when used for power. Typhoid cases rise among University of Nebraska students with over eighty cases reported in Lincoln by mid January. The Board of Public Lands and Buildings now faces a dispute over returning mental hospital patients to Douglas County citing lack of local care and legal objections invalidate the proposed moves.
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Attorney General’s Office
State University
Lincoln
Board of Public Lands and Buildings
Lincoln Asylum For the Insane
Douglas County
Former Union Fire officers to be prosecuted in good time
Former officers of the Union Fire Insurance Company who drew the displeasure of the state auditor during the transfer of the business to Woodmen Fire Insurance Company will be prosecuted in good time.
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Union Fire Insurance Company
Woodmen ¥Ire Insurance Company
State Board Probes Lincoln Water Contamination Inquiry
The State Board of Health pressed Lincoln officials to explain why the city was ignored in the recent epidemic investigation linked to contaminated water from a city well. It will review why reports to the board were not promptly submitted and determine accountability.
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State Board of Health
Lincoln
Tragic death on Missouri Pacific track in Otoe County
A Missouri Pacific track walker named Sheeley was fatally injured when caught by a northbound passenger train while attempting to alight on a bridge. The incident occurred near Otoe County, with details reported in The Wyoming Inquirer. Governor Carey of Wyoming asked Governor Aldrich about Nebraska wolf bounty funding, noting no current bounty law. Nebraska previously approved a $3,000 bounty in 1885 after an 1881 act. Holdrege establishes an agricultural department in high school, led by J. G. McMillan from Ames Agricultural College, marking a Pioneer move in Nebraska education.
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Otoe County
Sheeley
Missouri Pacific
Wyoming
Joseph 3. Carey
Aldrich
Nebraska
Fuller
Phelps County
Mholdrege Board of Education
Minnesota
Holdrege
J. G McMillan
Ames Agricultural College
Nebraska Memorial Association organizes officers
The Nebraska Memorial association, an auxiliary to the State Historical society, completes its setup by electing John L. Webster of Omaha as president Robert Harvey of St. Paul as vice president and Clarence Paine of Lincoln as secretary treasurer. Tim Sedgwick of York, contracted for printing and binding the senate journals, says some copies will be ready in a few days.
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Nebraska Memorial Association
State Historical Society
John L. Webster
Omaha
Robert Harvey
St. Paul
Clarence §. Paine
Lincoln
Senate
Tim Sedgwick
York
Secretary of State
State Historical Society Elects Officers
The State Historical Society elected officers including John L. Webster as president, Robert Harvey of St. Paul as vice president, S. C. Bassett of Gibbon as second vice president, C. S. Paine of Lincoln as secretary, and C. L. Gelshardt as treasurer.
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M. McGapfin
Pub
Empire
Maine
Lington
Navana Harbor
Colird Burd
Corps of Engineers
Ates Army
H. Lelebyy
Staten
Health Board
Phowes
Robert Elliott
Earl
Forward
Howard
Pierce
H.W. Grove
Canada
State Board
Samuel Tytcher
Pamplin
Castor
Centaur Company
Bears
New Memorial Association
Kansas City
Ga Company
Hostelter
Hostetter
Carter
Carters
Brown
Sampletree
Jonn IL
Brown & Sor
Boston
Sherman Nursery Co
Charles City
Jazie
Wigheaentey
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