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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1912
Page
2
Washington readies probes into a new money trust amid calls to summon packing industry leaders, after acquittals in Chicago. The Senate passed the steel bill with minor changes, while trials, naval funding, and political speeches unfold across a city and nation.
President Taft warns Gen Orozco not to interfere with Americans leaving Mexico. United States Consul Freeman orders Americans at Villardena to flee to Durango. U S troops camp at Guantanamo as Cuba sees a possible long, bloody clash. Yuan Shih Kai outlines plans for a German‑style army built on conscription.
Personal through representative William Francia Murray Boston invited Dr Harvey W Wiley pure food authority to be chief health officer. The doctor will consider the offer. Rev Mrs C C Babcock of Fort William Canada accepts call to pastorate of First Christian Erie. Word from New Orleans says Dr Edwin B Craighan president Tulane has accepted presidency of University of Montana.
U S dispatches report Cuban black movements gaining ground with Governor Gomez’s forces. Secretary of War today ships 5 000 Krag rifles and 1 000 000 rounds to Gomez for rurales and volunteers. The Solace hospital ship is ordered to Guantanamo for potential landing parties. A band led by General Egtenoz reportedly burned La Maya near Santiago, a town of 4 000.
Washington reports the House passed two steamship bills closing ports to violators of the Sherman act and mandating wireless equipment on ocean and Great Lakes steamers carrying over fifty people. The Senate backed a pension for Rear Admiral Schley’s widow and naval committees proposed eight ships, new admiral grades, defense counsel, wireless stations funding, and removal of an eight hour clause.
In Columbus on June 5 the Ohio Republican state convention elected six delegates at large to the Republican national convention. Early skirmishing between Taft and Roosevelt supporters ended with a Taft victory. Taft also led in district caucuses with eleven of twenty-one committeemen and held majorities on the credentials and resolutions committees.
Fire in Stamboul the Mohammedan section of Constantinople destroyed vast areas with enormous damage. The Akbir Kapusi region was obliterated and nearly all of the area burned.
In a domestic scene quoted from Her Advantages, Buggs’s habit of storming out unsettles his wife while she asserts her authority at home. The exchange highlights power dynamics and the tension between public reputation and private control.
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