Washington Briefs On Statehood and Politics
The house passed the joint resolution admitting Arizona and New Mexico to immediate statehood with a pending vote on their constitutions. Senate inquiries covered Standard Oil prosecutions and Lorimer election contests. Roosevelt faced criticism over arbitration remarks. Treasures list tax and rail issues, and local events include a 1400 Bible placement in Omaha hotels and the Colorado national park proclamation.
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Washington
Arizona
New Mexico
House
Standard Oil Company
Supreme Court
Senate
Pomerene
Frye
Congress
Maine
Wilson
Department of Agriculture
Bonds and diplomacy dominate early talks in world affairs
The first postal savings bank bonds will be issued soon as bids pour in for 50 million dollars of 3 percent Panama bonds. Diplomats in Mexico City take steps to protect residents while Taft rejects a pardon for Walsh and Morse. MacVeagh faces accusations over creosote duties and Root’s reciprocity amendment meets opposition. Insurrectos fight on as armistice lingers, and La Follette pushes Lorimer case. The Reformed church elects J James I Good as president amid debate on union with Presbyterians. Katherine Elkins sails with family for Europe aboard the Kaiserin while Oregon Washington Railroad sells 25 million dollars in gold bonds guaranteed by Union Pacific.
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Postal Savings Bank
Panama
Mexico City
Taft
Walsh
Morse
MacVeagh
Carnegie Endowment Fund For
William Carren
St. Louis
Senator Root
la Follette
Lorimer
Senate
Reformed Church
General Synod of the Reformed Church of the United States
J. James I. Good
Dayton
Katherine Elkins
Stephen B. Elkins
Europe
Billy” Hitt of
Lofs
Elkins
Young Hitt
Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company
Union Pacific Railroad
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
Baring Brothers & Co
Contempt Charges May Be Revived In Lords Debate
Viscount Morley moved the second reading of the veto bill in the house of lords. The announcement of the accession of a new emperor of Abyssinia was premature. Contempt charges against Gompers Morrison and Mitchell may be revived.
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Gompers
Morrison
Mitchell
Viscount Morley
House of Lords
Abyssinia
Iowa City Deaths and Trials Highlight Iowa News
A broad Iowa roundup reports John M. Seydel dies at 86 in Iowa City. Corydon fire devastates business district. Dr Jennie Christ elected president of Iowa society of medical women in Des Moines. numerous legal cases, accidents, and civic notes across the state.
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John M. Seydel
Iowa City
Corydon
Jennie Christ
Ames
Iowa Society of Medical Women
Sesson
Des Moines
J. G. Emerson
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
Ora D. Edick
Eldora
David Anderson
Buchanan County
Dana Anderson
Otterville
Theodore Tippe
Dubuque
John Weerle
Andrew Cassidy
Monticello
State Board of Education
John Fox
Glenwood
George W. Thomas
Boone
Muscatine County
Eagles of
Kiron
Denison
Iowa
George F. Trogdon
Cedar Rapids
Rock Island
Traer
Edward Bruce
Grace Donlevy
Neal Institutes
Charles Young
Thomas McGrath
Ottumwa
J. N. Wine
Burlington
St. Louis
Congressman Haughen
Clear Lake
Manchester
Richard W. Fields
St. Paul
Des
Rodney
Thomas Simons
Cemetery Association of
Delhi
J. F. Merry
David Conn
Keokuk
Conn
Clean Sanitary Floors with Varnish Benefits
Varnish acts as a sanitary agent by enabling easy cleaning of floor surfaces. Varnished floors keep dust and microbes from the air, are attractive, and cost less than carpet. The National Association of Varnish Manufacturers offers a free booklet “Modern Floors” via 636 The Bourse, Philadelphia.
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National Association of Varnish Manufacturers
The
Bourse
Philadelphia
Penn
Like the Other Chicks in Cleveland Circles
Charles T. Rose a Cleveland banker and Masonic figure is a noted chicken enthusiast. He finds his daughter Helen age three had followed him into the incubator house and asked which chick was hers.
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Charles T. Rose
Cleveland
Rhode Island
Defiance Starch Ad Promises Fair Trial
A vintage ad invites customers to try Defiance Starch for both hot and cold starching with a money back guarantee if performance is unsatisfactory. The copy urges a fair test and notes grocers will refund.
Weather and ads mingle in a fragmented 1900s edition
The clipped text blends jokes about an army ambush, a patent remedy claiming to regulate the river and cure headaches, a remark on nonmonotony of weather, a tobacco ad for Lewis' Single Binder cigars with a 11,500,000 annual sale figure, and a quip about brains and use.
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Lewis
Doctrors Fail to Help Her in Wisconsin Patient Claims Cure
Mrs Heritan Stern of Pound Wisconsin writes that after fourteen years of ailments including dyspepsia and female troubles she was cured by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She endorses the medicine and offers to publish the testimonial. She invites others to seek advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Pound
Wis
Lydia E. Pinkham
Heritan Stern
Lydia EB. Pinkham
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Andrew Carnegie
Faimly
Scotland
Pachuca
Christian Herald
Tait
Theodore Roosevelt
John W. Foster
Interstate Commerce Commission
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Gideons
Omaha
New York City
Diaz
Grace Dexter Bryan
W. J. Bryan
Richard Hargreaves
Lincoln
Texas Railroad Commission
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway
Louis D. Brandeis
Countess Szechnyi
Gladys Vanderbilt
Budapest
Trans- Mississippi Commercial Congress
Kansas City
Oklahoma City
United States
Annie Parros
Pittsburg
Colorado National Park
Mesa County
Colo
Anthony Howard Hunkle
Hot Springs
United Presbyterian Men's Movement
First Presbyterian Church
Zelda M. Striker
Sadaske Fujita
Dolphin
J. M. Parks
Los Angeles Iron Workers’ Union
Bart J. Connors
Los Angeles
Hall of Records
Steel Trust
Bureau of Corporations
United States Steel Corporation
Beverly W. Dunn
Dunnite
Southern Railway
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Geographical Survey
Chicago
Harney National Forest
South Dakota
Black Hills Forest
Iowa News
National Educational Association
San Francisco
Homer R. Seerley
Iowa State Normal School
W. O. Riddell
C. A. Fullerton
Cedar Falls
E. C. Bishop
B. J. Horchem
O. P. Bastwick
Clinton
William H. Black
Denver
Smith McPherson
Creston
Louisville Light Artillery
State Historical Department
E. B. Howe
O. H. P. Shoemaker
Stella Thorne
Iowa State College
Buchanan
Blackhawk
Andrew Law
Margaret Elliott
Harry
Frank
S. B. Garry
Searsboro
Keuhner
John Spaulding
Perry
A. Kinney
Spaulding
State Railway Commission
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway
Carlisle-Allerton
State Historical Society
Benjamin Shambaugh
Leander Clark
Tama
American Concrete Company
Belle Plaine
Grover Adams
Rock Island Railway Company
Centerville
Adams
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Bagley
Walter Fifield
Concord
N. H
Fred Dunning
Geneva
Esther Brannen
L. W. Littig
Davenport
Iowa State Medical Society
House of Delegates
Teacher
Little Willie
Garfield
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