World in Review of 1910s Crisis and Reform Notes
A weekly digest lists key items from the era. The fourth assistant postmaster general reports growth in rural delivery and urges parcel post on rural routes. Hitchcock proposes government acquisition of telegraph lines. Lorimer admits loaning Browne funds for 1910 trials. Carnegie testifies on imperialism and stock jobbers. Stimson and Weaver test New York harbor guns in zero weather. guns functioned satisfactorily.
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Stimson
Weaver
Washington
New York
Prorestic Morse Weakens as He Heads to Hot Springs
Prorestic Charles W. Morse grows weaker daily as officials at Fort McPherson question his ability to endure the planned trip to Hot Springs.
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Charles W. Morse
Hot Springs
Fort McPherson
New York
Army General Hospital
Ark
Taft
Wickersham
Martial Law as Militia Quells Lawrence Mill Riots
In Lawrence Massachusetts militia under Col BE L Sweetser seized control of the mill district after riots tied to a wage cut from 56 to 54 hours. Arrests numbered thirty, about a dozen workers injured, police used clubs and water hoses before bayonet charges restored order amid mill fires and sporadic clashes at Wood Worsted, Prospect Woolen, Washington, and Pacific mills.
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Lawrence
Mass
BE. L. Sweetser
Shuirty Wwousauu
Wood
Prospect Woolen
Washington Mills
Pacific Cotton Mills
Washington Mill
Randlett
Supreme Court Upholds Employers Liability Law of 1908
The Supreme Court of the United States sustained the constitutionality of the 1908 employers liability act. The decision allows state courts to enforce the act when local laws permit, marking a full victory for Congress in regulating relations between interstate railroads and their employees despite the old fellow servant rule. Justice Vandevanter authored the unanimous opinion.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Congress
Justice Vandevanter
Missing Heiress Violet Buehler Found Working as Servant
Violet Buehler, once hailed as a New York heiress, was found in an upper East Side tenement working as a servant after fleeing Chicago last November. Her mother and foster mother planned to travel to claim her, while Violet expressed affection for waiter John Clune and avoided questions about returning home. In Children's Court Justice Olmstead questioned her, she said she ran away to see what life was like.
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New York
Violet Buehler
Chicago
Upper East Side
Violet
John Clune
Jack
Children’s Court
Olmstead
The One to be Pleased Cartoon Dialogue
A humorous exchange shows De Jaw and De Paw debating roast pork. De Jaw admits loving it yet notes his wife’s dog refuses to eat it, creating a light domestic joke about culinary preference and pet manners.
The Sermon Ends In a Blow Up
A small girl, listening to a long sermon by a famed preacher, asks to go home. The mother delays, and after the third interruption the child blurts that the preacher “has gone and blowed himself up again,” implying another explosive exit.
Pain Stops With Cole's Carboni Salve
Advertisement notes Cole's Carboni salve heals burns and cuts quickly and prevents scars, priced 25c and 50c with free samples by J. W. Cole & Co., Black River Falls Wisconsin. Also mentions Tramlins Wizard Oil for colds and Laxative Bromide Tablets with Grove's signature guarantee and a quip about people worrying others.
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J. W. Cole & Co
Black River Falls
Wis
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Hitchcock
Postal Service
William Lorimer
Senate Investigating Committee
Lee O'Neil Browne
Andrew Carnegie
House “Steel Trust
Philippines
Wall Street
Prorestic
L. O. Eshelby ‘Tobacco Company
Cincinnati
Burley Tobacco Society
Mshelby Company
Kentucky
Pennsylvania Railroad
Linden Avenue
Torresdale
Church Davison
Republian Party of
New York State
Rochester
Kansas City Gas Company
Kansas City
A G. Boyce
Winnipeg
Man
J. B. Snead
Worth
Tex
Fort Worth
J B Snead
Amarillo
Royce
Indiana
Kansas
Milwaukee
McDonald
State of
New Mexico
Clark
Alaska
Equitable Life
New York City
August Belmont & Co
Portland
Maine
Harry Elgin Webster
Gpie County
Bessie Kent Webster
Webster
American Woolen Company
Lawrence, Mass
Niagara Falls
N. Y
D. J McCarthy
J. Ogden Armour
Carpenter
Mr. Armour
Halifax Herald
Halifax
N. S
United States
Ruchonnet
Senlis
Paris
Peking
Jehol
Red Sea
Empire
King George
Queen Mary
India
Peninsular and Oriental
Medina
France
Russ
Gelatz
Odessa
Black Sea
Robert Bacon
Harvard University
V.s. Supreme Court
Employers’ Act of
Drogas
B. W. Grove
Carter
C.A. A Hiles & CO
W. 14Th St
Tongs
Laws
Wrathon
Coleman
Washington, D.C
R. V.pierce
Pierce
Dr. Pierce
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
R. V. Pierce
Prestes Buffalo
Drakes
Deer Creek
James Whitcomb Riley
Riley
Will Vawter
James Whitcomb
Vawter
Book News
Doman
Saturday Evening Post
Bose
Chicago Record Herald
Bobbs-Merrill
Meaner University
Union Square
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