Premiers clash over Lords reform and wars erupt
In the House of Commons Asquith outlines resolutions to shorten parliament. Duyden and Van Langendonck duel at Nice, their reconciliation follows. Vesuvius erupts with stones, ash and lava. Justice accepts Garven’s offer to send beef trust indictments to Washington.
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Asquith
House of Commons
House of Lords
Duyden
van Langendonck
Nice
France
Doyden
Vesuvius
Department of Justice
Pierre Garven
Hudson County
New Jersey
Beef Trust
Washington
Lowden
Foreign Affairs Committee
London
Charles W. Fairbanks
Pilgrim Society
Earl of Salsbury
Bunker Hill
Spring outlook bright amid trade winds and politics
Trade gains bring hope for the country while spring prospects look favorable. Congress leader Champ Clark turns sixty with congratulations as winter heavy on rail power leaves lines strained.
January 1910 Commerce Movements Highlight Coal and Coke Flows
January 1910 statistics from the department of commerce and labor show heavy eastward movements of coal and coke. The passage notes congressional actions on patents, post office funding, and Missouri river improvements with Colonel William N. Bixby examined by a senate committee. Two Chippewa chiefs died from illuminating gas in Washington lodging.
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Internal Commerce
Department of Commerce and Labor
Washington
Orr, Minn
Congress
Bols Forte
Court of Patents
Senate
United States Supreme Court
State Department
Hamlin and Clark
Secretary of State
Mr. Mann (Ui
House
William N. Bixby
Senate Committee On Commerce
Sioux City
St. Louis
Kansas City
Political and Personal News Snippets from Earlier Era
The text lists brief items including the House committee’s refusal to reward Commander Peary without proof of discovery, ex Senator Platt of New York dying from diabetes, Louis Klopsch editor of the Christian Herald dead, Representative Hinshaw of Nebraska declining to commit to re election, a Supreme Court brief on constitutionality of a corporate tax law by Former Senator Foraker, and the president's influence sought to push a postal savings bank feature into the Senate bill.
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Champ Clark
House of Representatives
Postal Savings Bank
House
John P. Cudahy
Iansas City
Belle Fourche
South Dakota
Senator Platt
New York
United States Express
Enrico Caruso
Smith
Iowa
Red Oak
German Geographical Society
United States
Great Britain
Antarctic
Belmore Brown
Mount McKinley
Cook
Tacoma
Nebraska
Supreme
Montgomery Ward
Chicago
Los “Angeles
Wellington
Wash
Beveridge
Peary
Platt
Louis Klopsch
The
Christian*Herald
Hinshaw
Congress
Supreme ‘Court
Foraker
Senate Postal Savings Bank
Escape from Death Swift for Boatmen
Fremont reports a perilous river accident as A N Phinney and Alex Bailey nearly drowned while laying a ferry cable across the Platte. The boat capsized in ice filled water with Phinney clinging to the cable and Bailey swept downstream before being rescued on a sandbar by linemen laying a new wire for Saunders County phones.
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Fremont
A. N. Phinney
Alex Bailey
Platte River
Phinney
Bailey
Zlore
Saunders
Summer Session Preparations Advance Under Crabtree Plan
President Crabtree aims to make the summer session the largest in school history. Circulars have been sent statewide to superintendents teachers and graduates about the summer school bulletin now in press. Many students have applied for information rooms are being engaged and plans for commencement work are underway beginning Wednesday May 25 and ending May 31.
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Periu
Crabtree
Trappers Suffer Fire Loss After Camp Burnout
Lyons Walter Barker and Eddie Rseich, two young trappers, lost their camp and gear when a camp stove fire spread in a high wind burning their tent and fur catch worth twenty dollars. They had planned a two week stay for more trapping profits. Ministers Oppose Sunday Baseball in Fremont. Fremont ministers oppose Sunday games as plans for Evangelist Billy Sunday revival meetings relate to football league joining.
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Lyons
Walter Barker
Eddie Rseich
Blackbird Creek
Fremont
Billy
Ball League
Initiative on Hastings spring ballot April five
Hastings voters will decide on the initiative and referendum at the annual spring election on April 5. A petition with over 15 percent of the city’s total vote signatures has been filed with the city clerk to allow voters to accept or reject the measure.
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Hastings
McCook High School Seniors Strike Over Rules
McCook seniors protest what they call a despotic rule of the superintendent and principal. After three suspensions given for unclear reasons, the entire class quits, with most planning to complete the year at a different school.
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McCook
McCook High School
Mica Plant Is Started at Grand Island
Forty nine workers join Grand Island's new mica factory in the Kelso broom works building. The company expects to hire about twice as many next week as production expands and more machinery is installed. Max Wolf sails to France to buy draft horses for Albion market.
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Grand Island
Kelso Broom Works
Europe
Albion
Max. Wolf
France
Fullerton Motes Plans Bonds For New High School Building
Fullerton Motes reports the school district bond election passed with 306 in favor and 42 against for 83 000 dollars to build two new high school rooms. Bonds issued in 1000 dollar denominations payable over twenty years with 5 percent interest and an option to pay after five years.
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Fullerton Motes
Fullerton
Doctor Kinsey Denies Cure For Incurable Boy
North Platte boy Harry Brockman aged 15 travels to Omaha with his father to meet Dr Ben W Kinsey head of the United Doctors Kinsey reviews the case and says the spine deformity is incurable by medical treatment The doctor refuses to take payment and states he seeks only cures to maintain his practice in crowded Neville block offices on 16th and Harney streets.
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United
Harry Brockman
North Platte
Omaha
Ben W. Kinsey
United Doctors
Henry
Harry
Dr. Kinsey
United Doctors’ Institute
Neville Block
16Th and
Harney Streets
Prescription touted as winter cough cure
An advertisement claims a “Famous Cough and Cold Prescription” cures hundreds of colds and coughs in 24 hours. It instructs mixing glycerine pine concentrate and whiskey, with dosage after meals and at night, and warns to obtain the genuine pine product from druggists.
A New Version of the Washington Cherry Tree Tale
Senator Beveridge recounted at an Indianapolis dinner a boy’s ignorance of Washington’s cherry tree story and his familiarity with Solomon’s wisdom. The crowd contrasted tales as a streetcar remark linked circulation claims and a maid’s proposal joke sparked by a misread newspaper. A closing quip warned of an inevitable wagon to the county infirmary.
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George Washington
Beveridge
Indianapolis
Solomon
Nebraska Happenings Chronicle Local Campaigns and Crimes
News notes from Beatrice, Beatrice council orders park land condemnation. Wymore battles pool halls with acely AL Bus movement. Farmers bank of Sutherland forms with $10,000 capital. Hickman trustees contested by anti saloon caucus. Saunders county resident Henry Norrell dies of apoplexy in Memphis. Weeping Water grants electric franchise for power to Serve Avoca Louisville Nehawka. Palmyra squirrel bites Mrs Sweet. killed and head sent to Chicago. Fremont plans Mathews ferry on Platte pending bridge repairs. North wing bid awarded to Crossley over Knutzen Isdell. Swede Home insurer moves to Stromsburg. Buffalo county inheritance tax yields $8,874 for highways. Omaha opens outdoor baby camp with nurse support. Central College gift funds agriculture school with $6,000 from Hord. seeks $5,000 more. Beatrice resident Mrs Van Ness injured in fall. Columbus votes 15,000 for new city hall and 10,000 for water works extension.
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Wymcre
Farmers’ Bank of Sutherland
Hickman
Lyons
Henry H. Norrell
Saunders County
Memphis
Beatrice
Table Rock
Baerstetta
Ge. KK. Wilkins
Grand Island
Kearney
Weeping Water
Avoca
Louisville
Nehawhka
C. A. Sweet
Palmyra
Pasteur Institute
Chicago
Fremont Commercial Club
Vlatte River
Scandinavian Insurance Company
Stromsburg
Buffalo County
George Meisner
Omaha
Visiting Nurse Association
T. B Jford
Nebraska Central College
Central City
J Learning
Hord
W. G. van Ness
Columbus
New City Hall
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Nicholas Tschaikovsky
Madame Breshkovskaya
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Mabray
Council Bluffs
Tschaikovsky
St. Petersburg
General Estrada
Kansas
Wichita
Kansas State Editorial Association
Southampton
Broadway
168Th Street
Pat Crowe
Clinton
Crowe
Cudahy
Jack Cudahy
Jere Lillis
M. Lanz & Sons
Pittsburg
Bank of
Ann
Big Boy
Reid
the Earth Monthly
Chicago News
Cleveland
Peru
Geru Faxip
Psi
Jeremy Collier
Alen'a
John Deere
John Deere Plow CO
Omaha, Neb
Bertschy Motor CO
Counocil Bluffts
al Fzl
Taft’s
Douglas St
Neb
Fe Swapsos Co
Varnam St
Myers-Dillon Drug CO
Townsend
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Millard Hotel
T. Dod Bt
Omaha Oftnion
Depon Rome Miller
Berischy Motor CO
Western Electric Company
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