Titanic inquiry nears final stage as wireless reforms urged
Senate committee probing the Titanic disaster plans to conclude its inquiry. Bruce Ismay to be questioned on regulations to prevent a repeat, while Marconi and others urge tighter wireless standards for sea travel. Officers and crew of the sunken ship return home to England.
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Washington
Senate
England
Bruce Ismay
International Mercantile Marine
Guglielmo Marconi
F. M. Sammis
American Marconi Company
Bride and Cottam
Hugh Woolner
Boxhall
Floods Threaten as Rivers Rise Across St Louis Area
Flood conditions grow dire with the gauge at 29.5 feet up 1.4 feet and near danger. Heavy rains swell the region with creeks out of banks in St Louis county. In Cairo drainage district residents forced to abandon homes again as Ohio and Mississippi waters spill through unpatched levee breaches.
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St. Louis
Cairo
Ohio
Mississippi
Riot at Zion City prayer meeting escalates violence
Rioting broke out at a Zion City prayer meeting in Ili noon Monday after an employee of an independent manufacturing firm attacked about 200 church members. Both men and women were beaten with clubs and black jacks, with several seriously injured as tensions between workers and Dowie followers intensified.
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Zion City
Ili
Zion
John Alexander Dowie
Titanic Disaster Survival Figures Regarding Women
An official from White Star Line explains that many women aboard the Titanic were saved and about 300 women were lost, compared with 1,200 men. He notes 300 of the men have been found so far.
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New York
White Star Line
Fire destroys Morningside College building in Sioux City
A major blaze at Morningside College in Sioux City Iowa destroyed the main building Monday night, with an estimated loss of 200000. Firemen could not battle the flames due to low water pressure. Only a few boots rescued by students forming chains were saved.
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Morningside
Sioux City
Morningside College
Death of Chicago Philanthropist
Chicago Dr. Daniel Campbell Pearsons, aged ninety two, who in recent years donated more than five million dollars to small colleges mainly in the middle west, died in a sanitarium after a life of giving despite a poor personal means.
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Chicago
Daniel Campbell
Methodist ministers seek to lift dances and cards ban
The Chicago Methodist Ministers association passes a memorial urging the general conference in Minneapolis to lift the ban on dancing card playing and theater going, leaving intact restrictions on the use or promotion of intoxicating liquor.
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Chicago
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Minneapolis
Chicago Methodist Ministers’ ’Association
No Jurisdiction Over Titanic Victims Mystery
The text notes the absence of a treaty with Great Britain complicating possession of valuables on recovered Titanic victims. It states the state department may be unable to help relatives obtain items found on bodies brought to Halifax. Property would be governed by British Canadian law.
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Washington
Great Britain
State Department
Halifax
Condensed Washington Roundup Of Daily News
British Ambassador Bryce departs Washington bound for New Zealand via San Francisco. Senator Hitchcock backs a two wireless operators bill for sea vessels. Kinkaid supports opening Fort Niobrara abandoned reserve to settlement. Alaska home rule bill passes local government. Tang Shao Yi agrees to western loan cancellation terms. Senator Brown urges detaining cadet commander Yates at Nebraska University. Percy and Dumphreys push $1.5 million levee repair for early Mississippi planting.
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Bryce
Washington
San Francisco
New Zealand
Hitchcock
Kinkaid
Public Lands Committee
Fort Niobrara
Alaska
House
Tang Shao Yi
China
United States
Great Britain
Germany
France
Brown
War Stimson
Halsey IX Yates
University of Nebraska
Percy
Dumphreys
Mississippi
Senate
Multiple World News Snapshots from 1911 Era Local Papers
Brief items report a missing religious leader Dr Osman Hanish in Chicago, Burlington track washed away in Iowa, Minnesota ends intercollegiate baseball, 54 mutinous seamen from the Olympic at Portsmouth, burial of Justin McCarthy in London, submarines and orders near San Diego, debate challenge from Governor Haskell to Roosevelt, Scout crepe memorials for Titanic victim John Jacob Astor, tornado deaths near Kansas Oklahoma, famine in China threatening 1.1 million, John Duncan’s death in Macomb Illinois, Cerro Gordo Democrats oppose Champ Clark, great Damascus fire damage, Confederate memorial day observed in the deep south, Denver & Rio Grande title transfer to federal government, Kearney remains moved to Arlington, Titanic victims aboard Mackay Bennett to Halifax, Corbin embezzlement sentence, Irish party endorses Asquith home rule bill.
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Ottoman Hanish
Madaznan
Chicago
Missouri River
Burlington
Folsom
Iowa
Athletic Board of Control
University of Minnesota
Olympic
Portsmouth
Eng
Justin McCarthy
Hemstead Cemetery
London
Maryland
Whipple
San Pedro
Cal
San Diego
Haskell
Oklahoma
Roosevelt
Boy Scouts In America
John Jacob Astor
Kansas-Oklahoma
Central China Famine Relief Committee
Klang Su
Anhuji
John Duncan
Macomb, Ill
Cerro Gordo County
Champ Clark
Great Bazaar
Damascus
Turkey
Alabama
Mississippi
Florida
Georgia
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
Colorado
Philip Kearney
Battle of
Chantilly
Third Army Corps
Army of the Potomac
Trinity Churchyard
City Hall
New York
Arlington
Washington
Mackay Bennett
Halifax
N. S
Leavenworth
Fred A. Corbin
Reynolds
Neb
Irish Nationalist Party
Dublin
Asquith
House of Commons
Nberal
Strikes and disasters across cities in early 1912 scenes
Sing Sing inmates strike over food. Mary Fournier named Minnesota delegate to socialist convention in Indianapolis. Bryan predicts Roosevelt Taft split may yield a third Republican candidate. Arbor Day observed in Iowa. Louisiana flood losses estimated at 15 million. Olympic abandons New York trip after shipyard strike as wrecks and fires injure several. Western Union tax seizure approved in Idaho. tornadoes kill and injure across Texas and Nebraska. Manila and Tepic revolts clash with heavy casualties amid political trials and police crackdowns.
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Sing Sing
Mary Fournier
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Socialist Party
Indianapolis
Tampa
Fla
Bryan
Carroll
Iowa
Louisiana
Olympic
Ryde Isle of Wight
New York
Antwerp
Edward Bradshaw
Altoona
Kan
St Mark's
Venice
Spokane Chronicle
E H Rothrock
Western Union Telegraph Company
Idaho
O M. Vanduyn
Union Pacific
North Loup
James Davis
Ord
Texas Panhandle
J Gombenni
Metropolitan Brick Company
Canton
Mexico
Tepic
Zapatistas
Edar Rapids
Taft
Albert I. Cummins
Bowery
Mary Peterson
Missouri Pacific
Omaha
Washington Public School
Kansas City
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Illinois
United Mine Workers
William Nicholson Taft
Cusack
Nebraska National Guard
United States
Maryland
California
J. Frank Morris
First Baptist Church of
Fort Worth
Tex
City of Mexico
Alfredo Robles Dominguez
Madero
Roosevelt Leads Progressives in Nebraska Primary Returns
Early returns show Theodore Roosevelt leading the Republican presidential vote by about 60 percent with Champ Clark ahead of Wilson. Norris leads for Senator, Shallenberger tops Democrat rivals, Howell over Rosewater for national committeeman, and Aldrich well ahead of Newton for governor. Delegates pledged vary, with Bryan influence strong among Democrats and Taft lagging in most counties.
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Douglas
Lancaster
Roosevelt
Champ Clark
Wilson
Norris
Shallenberger
Howell
Rosewater
Hall
Fanning
Morehead
Aldrich
Newton
Clark
W. J. Bryan
Hitchcock
Webster
Don L. Love
Judge Perry
Taft
Election Returns in Nebraska Senate Districts Reported
In seventeen of twenty-eight senatorial districts both parties’ nominees are named. Nine districts show incomplete returns, and the Thirteenth (Douglas county) awaits official results. Asterisked districts have complete returns.
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Douglas County
Walter Reichel
Henry Gerdes
H H. Bartling
W.B Banning
J. K. P Goodfellow
E. Pleek
George I’. Wolz
H. D. Schotteger
H. P. Shumway
M. &. Wilcox
Meirs
Todenhoff
Charles Krumback
H. C. Williamson
Maxner
Henry Scheale
W. H. Smith
H. W. Hoagland
J. R. Marshall
Spirk
Bartos
Baker
Cox
Ed Wiliams
Ams
Harmood
West
F. F. Carruthers
Will Brookley
Coats
Hunter
Allen
Robertson
Hoagland
Silver
Miles
Cordeal
White
Bushee
Aptegrove
von Farrell
Reynolds
Ball
Brewster
Winter Wheat In Fair Condition In Nebraska
Winter wheat in Nebraska counties remains in fair condition despite cracking ground from heavy snows. Prof. C W Pugsley of the Experiment Station urges rolling the ground with a corrugated roller to boost yield and reduce cracking, and cautions farmers not to prematurely plow under crops.
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Douglas County
Nebraska
C. W. Puglsey
Nebraska Experiment Station
Puglsey
The
Commercial Club of
Omaha
Marriage ties blur lines in Sterling wedding
Johnson County notes Charles B Morris and Miss Henrice Lewis wed after obtaining a license. The couple come from a complex family: Miss Lewis is daughter of Rev John Lewis by his first wife. Morris is son of Mrs Lewis by the preacher, whose own wife is Morris’s stepmother. Rev Lewis is both father-in-law and stepfather to the bride.
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Johnson County
Charles B. Morrisson
Henrice Lewis
Sterling
Miss Lewis
John Lewis
Morrison
Lewis
Mr Lewis
Multiple thefts target flour stacks in Broken Bow
A gang of burglars hit two Broken Bow groceries, stealing an estimated 1 800 pounds of flour. A flour trail ran from the warehouses through an alley toward Eighth Avenue, but the thieves vanished. In other notes, wolves captured in Tecumseh and a Titanic warning saved a life in Alliance. The Lancaster Supreme Court session set for May 6 to May 10 will hear cases including Enterprise Irrigation vs Tri-State Land. A sealed 1896 letter to Deputy Sheriff Harry Martin surfaced, and state crime and public finance items wrap the week.
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Custer County
Broken Bow
Eighth Avenue
State Supreme Court
Lancaster County
Enterprise Irrigation Company
Tri-State Land Company
Dog Saves Farmer's Life in Lancaster County
John Rothmann a farm hand on Arthur Deinert’s Lancaster County farm was thrown by a large bull. A big shepherd dog attacked the bull driving it off and Rothmann sustained a broken collar bone a dislocated shoulder fractured ribs and serious facial lacerations. He was transported to Lincoln for treatment and recovery is expected.
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Lancaster County
John Rothmann
Arthur Deinert
Rothmann
Lincoln
Doan's Kidney Pills Cure Chronic Kidney Pain
Mrs. Carrie Sommer of Chicago reports severe kidney and back pain from a cold. After doctor visits failed, she used Doan's Kidney Pills and was fully cured, with no recurrence for eight years. Doan's advertised by Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
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Carrie’Sommer
Hamilton Ave
Chicago
Ill
Dean
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
How Old Was He
A country schoolboy tale shows a boy with uncertain age who earns his teacher's affection. She jokes she will kiss him, and he replies he is old enough to enjoy it, highlighting a humorous moment from Mack's National Monthly.
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Mack
National Monthly
Correction Quote Sparks Debate on Government Form
In a Washington Star exchange, an economist warns of drifting toward paternal government, while a suffragette corrects him, insisting the term maternal better captures the intended dynamic. The brief debate centers on gendered governance labels.
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Washington Star
Pa knows Willie-Paw craving discretion in trouble
A cryptic line hints at hidden judgment as a small man and a seeker of trouble clash with implied consequences. The text suggests caution and the weighing of intent in a tense moment.
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Willie
Paw
Leap Year Girl and a Bachelor in a Comic View
A playful quip on love and luck with humorous asides about a leap year romance. Garfield Tea is praised for easing a list of ailments while staying home is lauded as a virtue worth practicing.
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Fred Jacka
Tecumseh
Box Butte County
B VU Shepherd
John Sampy
York County
Harry Martin
Woodbine
Randall
Superior
Hostetter
Leves
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