World News Roundup on Tariffs and Campaign Finance
The article reviews recent federal action on tariffs and government funding. It notes the steel and wool bills failed to override Taft's veto in the Senate, and the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill failed over the veto. It covers Odell’s testimony on Harriman in 1904 and Taft seeking $400,000 for fur seal treaty enforcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
House
Taft
Commerce Court
Odell
New York
Harriman
White House
Roosevelt
Congress
Great Britain
Japan
Darrow acquitted in McNamara juror bribery case
Domestic Clarence Darrow, Chicago lawyer, is acquitted by a Los Angeles jury of attempting to corrupt a prospective juror in the McNamara murder trial. Another indictment for bribing the first juror sworn in the case remains.
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Clarence
Darrow
Chicago
Los Angeles
Cal
McNamara
Robert ¥. Bain
Virginia executes Virginia convict in electric chair
Virginia Christian, the first woman to be executed by electric chair in Virginia, is put to death in Richmond for the murder and robbery of her employer Mrs Ida Virginia Belote in Hampton on March 13, 1912. Governor Mann refused clemency amid Chicago pleas.
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Virginia Christian
Virginia
Richmond
Mann
Chicago
Ida Virginia Belote
Hampton
McAdoo launches nationwide cash collection plan for campaigns
Acting DNC chair William G McAdoo with Governor Wilson approval unveils a new system to gather campaign subscriptions from all regions via banks and trust companies. In Providence Rhode Island Colonel Roosevelt issues a first post nomination speech urging New England leadership in the Progressive movement and criticizes both major parties as boss ridden.
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William G. McAdoo
Democratic National Committee
Wilson
New England
Providence
R. I
Roosevelt
Chicago
Prominent Figures Suffer and Die in Early Washington News
In Baltimore, Personel Mine, wife of a Russian count, injured in a serious automobile crash. In Washington, Passed Assistant Surgeon T B Mc Clintie of the marine hospital service dies of spotted fever contracted while fighting the disease in Montana. In Philadelphia, William Gustavus Fischer, famed hymn writer, dies after brief illness.
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Helene D'Orrovant
Washington
Baltimore
T. B. McClintie
Marine Hospital Service
Montana
William Gustavus Fischer
Philadelphia
Mexican Revolt and U S Cavalry Post Tensioned at Big Bend
Reports from Mexico City and Washington note rebel actions in Michoacan and Oaxaca with executions and looting, while U S authorities promise to pursue murderers of Rowan Ayres. Major Sedgwick Rice’s Third Cavalry detachment in the Big Bend area will remain in place to deter Mexican rebel forces and preserve order.
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Rice
Third U. S. Cavalry
Big Bend
Mexico City
Puruandiro
Michoacan
Republic
el Imparcial
Jose Mora
Emiliano Zapata
Oaxaca
Washington
Wilson
State Department
Rowan Ayres
Cincinnati
Mexico
Ayres
United States
Steever
War Department
Sedgwick Rice
Third Cavalry
New Mexico
Major Rice
Kidnap Plots Target Schepps in Rosenthal Case
Sam Schepps, linked as paymaster to the Rosenthal killers, was rushed to West Side police prison after two kidnap attempts by detectives. Attacks on him occurred on a train and at Grand Central, with District Attorney Whitman opposing removal by force. Schepps, held as a witness, claimed he saw the killers paid and implicated Police Lieutenant Becker.
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New York
Sam Schepps
Herman Rosenthal
Westside
Schepps
Whitman
Albany
Grand Central Station
Forty Third Street
Gillen
Dietrich, Hauser
McMahon
Gallagher
Central Office
Scheenos
Louis Libby
Jack Sullivan
Jacob Reich
Schenos
Kiting Rosenthal
Becker
Rose
Webber
Vallon
Bold Day Theft Strikes Toledo Office of Navigation Co
A theft at the Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Company office in Toledo on Monday yielded nearly $1,000 in currency and checks. The culprit returned $100 to the firm an hour later via a third party.
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Toledo
Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Company
Nomination of Clinton W Howard as Western District Judge
President Taft sent the nomination to the Senate for Clinton W Howard of Bellingham to be judge for the western district of Washington. He would succeed Cornelius H Hanford.
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Hanford
Washington
Taft
Senate
Clinton W Howard
Bellingham
Wash
Cornelius H. Hanford
Boiled Rice and Lettuce Centered Salad Variations
A collection of lettuce based dressings and salads featuring cold boiled rice with beets olives and mayonnaise plus variations using spinach peppers onions cream sauce and capers. Includes shrimp and cream cheese based ideas served on lettuce with concise preparation notes.
Using Water to Cool Food With Evaporation
The article explains cooling by evaporation, wrapping a water pitcher in a saturated cloth to drop its temperature. It describes cooling a food receptacle by using a wet box with a constant drip, made from a wooden box, cotton batting, coarse cloth, and an automatic water supply from a perforated pan. The method relies on evaporation to draw heat away.
Steamed Figs With Rice
Clean rice and boil until tender then drain. Steam figs until tender then mold rice, arrange figs around the base and serve with hard sauce. This dessert blends soft citrus notes with warm, buttery textures for a delicate finish.
Ecg Cutlets or Croquettes
Thick white sauce with butter flour and milk seasoned, then folded with two hard boiled egg whites and yolks passed through a sieve. Add pickle pepper or parsley, cool, shape like cutlets, dip in egg and crumbs, fry until brown served on parsley or shredded lettuce.
Bouquet Salad Card Style Assembly
Line a dish with crisp lettuce leaves. Place two halved hard boiled eggs in the center and trim to stand. Add very red tomatoes arranged on the leaves. Insert olives between tomato slices and add the dressing just before serving for a wholesome attractive salad.
Advertising snippets on love, cures, and cigars
A collage of ad phrases notes that a girl should not boast of past loves, promotes Cole's Carbolisalve as a cure for piles available at druggists, extols Lewis Single Binder cigars for sixteen years, and lightly remarks on appetite and attraction in women.
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Cole
Best of It Fox Hunt Brag Sparks Magazine Deal
John Burroughs and brother Eden hunted foxes in the Catskills at Hobart. Eden shot the fox and earned five dollars for the skin, while John wrote the account and received seventy five dollars from a magazine. The exchange highlights differing rewards for the same event.
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John Burroughs
Eden Burroughs
Catskills
Hobart
Eden
Nimrod
Slabsides
John
Carrying 't Too Far As Scientific Management Backfires
A NY Tribune report cites R Marriott Thompson of San Francisco warning against excess in scientific management. It recounts Hussler who, in a grand wedding, used his zeal for efficiency to push a bishop and canon from the altar, claiming one man suffices for the task.
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R. Marriott Thompson
San Francisco
The
New York Tribune
Hussler
Wealth of Wakely-Whirly Astonishes Observers
The figure of Wakely-Whirly is described as making an immense income, possibly exceeding his wife’s spending capacity, prompting astonishment among observers.
Wise Doctor Endorses Postum For Convalescents
A physician recounts using Postum instead of coffee in his family and with patients. He notes improved health, broad store adoption, and frequent use in convalescence from pneumonia and typhoid. The letter, from the Postum Company, is offered as a reference.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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