Taft memorializes Major Butt amid national theater tribute
President Taft delivered an emotional tribute at Major Archibald Butt's memorial service in Washington hosted by Masons. The week also reports state department stance on land claims in Mexico, postal service reforms, and various labor strikes and local incidents across the nation.
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National Theater
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Department of State
Mexico
Battleship Utah Scores 100 In Target Practice At 11000 Yards
The battleship Utah achieved a maximum 100 with 12 inch guns on a target 11 000 yards distant. It marks the first score of this caliber by a new dreadnought. Various labor, political, and legal items follow including rail strike actions in Chicago and the government suit against United States Steel.
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Utah
Provisional Mexican Leader Claimed Amid Rebel Threats
Foreign Emilio Vasquez Gomez is proclaimed provisional president of Mexico as Gen. Pascual Orozco marches with rebels toward the federal base at Torreón. Juarez is named provisional capital, likely moved to Chihuahua. The czarina in St Petersburg suffers melancholia and constant surveillance is reported. A Turkish mine disaster at Smyrna causes heavy loss of life in the Turkish Italian conflict.
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Mexico
Pascual Orozco
Torreon
Juarez
Chihuahua
St. Petersburg
Texas
Smyrna
Asiatic Turkey
Roosevelt renounces eight Massachusetts delegates at large
Colonel Roosevelt withdraws his claim to the eight Massachusetts delegates at large and signals via telegraph from Oyster Bay that he expects them to back Taft. Taft and Roosevelt each carried 18 of the 36 delegates. the party result leaves the Taft slate trailing in the delegate race. Foss wins the nine Democratic at large delegates and Champ Clark leads in the Twenty-eighth district.
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Massachusetts
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Taft
Foss
Champ Clark
Papal Delegate Arrives in New York After Rome Assignment
Personal Rt. Rev. Monsignor Cievanni Bonzano, titular archbishop of Mitylene and new papal delegate to the United States, arrived aboard the Koenig Albert from Rome and was formally received at St. Patrick's Cathedral by Cardinal Farley. Mrs. Edward B. Robert, her daughter Miss Georgette Madill and niece Miss Elizabeth N. Allen of St. Louis plan to sail for England on June 6.
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Mitylene
United States
Cardinal Falconio
New York
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St. Patrick’s Cathedral
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Robert
Georgette Madill
Elizabeth N. Allen
St. Louis
England
Six Men Held After Schoolhouse Slaying
Harry Leonard of Upland dies from a fractured skull after a fight at Bailey schoolhouse in Blackford County. Fred and Nelson Edwards, with four others, are under arrest in Hartford City. coroner investigation underway.
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Upland
Blackford County
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Nelson Edwards
Leonard
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Edwards Boys
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Moses [Ve
Jesse Holcomb
John Ellis
William Huffman
Adopt New Optometry Standard In Indiana
The state optometry board at the state house adopted a licensing standard effective January 1, 1915, aligning with New York. Applicants must have a four year high school diploma plus two years college optometry training, or a one year college plus one year under a licensed optometrist. C. M. Jenkins was elected president, M. T. Jay secretary, and John H. Ellis treasurer.
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State
Optometry Board
Statehouse
New York
College of Optometry
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Richmond
M. T. Jay
Portland
John H. Ellis
South Bend
Parr Suffers Fifth Fire in Five Years at Parr
A blaze in Parr, Indiana, destroyed the Parr Creamery buildings and a Griffith barber shop and restaurant and Gilmore’s poolroom. The creamery, valued at 5,000 with 4,500 insured, lost 450 pounds of butter. The fire, likely incendiary, began at the rear of the creamery and is the village’s fifth fire in five years.
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Titanic Fund Gift From Kikthaweenund Chapter
The Kikthaweenund Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution forwards five dollars to President Taft for a Titanic victims memorial fund. This marks the chapter's first contribution to the monument project.
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Anderson
Kikthaweenund
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Taft
Roof Falls In Gas Plant. Four Men Hurt
Four men were fatally injured when a concrete roof being erected on the Northern Indiana Gas and Electric plant sub station in Hammond fell to the ground. The collapse was caused by a knotted beam that failed to bear the strain.
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Northern Indiana Gas and Electric Company
Marshal Raids Blind Tiger Seizes Beer in Portland
City officers led by Marshal George W. Tieben raid a suspected blind tiger on May 7. Fifty pint bottles of beer are confiscated and John Ferris is arrested. Additional locations suspected of illegal liquor selling were found closed following his May 1 inauguration.
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John Ferris
George W. Tieben
Pickpocket takes $1060 from farmer at Union station
Muncie reports a pickpocket relieved T. R. Robe, a wealthy farmer of Oakville area, of $1090 as he alighted the L. E. & W. train at Union station. A separate depot incident shortly before saw another man lose eight dollars.
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Union Station
T. R. Robe
Oakville
Robe
Car Cuts Body in Tweath on Rail Line West of South Bend
John Gleason aged 52 was struck and killed by an electric car on the Chicago South Bend and South Shore Railway while walking the tracks from Laporte toward South Bend. His body was cut in two and brought to South Bend.
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John Gleason
Chicago
South Shore Railway
Gleason
Laporte
Reverend Charles Martz Ends Life in Rain Barrel
Arcadia reports Rev. Charles Martz sixty years old and a thirty year minister of the Christian church died by his own action. He had recently shown signs of insanity and let himself down headfirst into a barrel of rain water under the eaves of his home.
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Arcadia
Charles Martz
Christian Church
Nelson uncovers massive beef conspiracy in government
Wisconsin Representative John M. Nelson says a secret inquiry found a vast plot linking beef packers with unnamed Agriculture Department officials. He cites orders to inspectors enabling diseased cattle to be killed and sold weekly, with inspectors resigning to avoid complicity. An investigation and hearings are planned in Congress.
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New York
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Omaha
John M. Nelson
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House Committee On Expenditures
International Red Cross Conference Opens in Washington
President Taft presided at the opening of the ninth international Red Cross conference held outside Europe in the Pan-American Union building Washington. Delegates from Japan China Siam India South Africa and European nations attended the two thirty opening with Ernest P. Bicknell presiding. Taft delivered the welcome address as foreign representatives offered responses and the Red Cross exhibition pavilion opened.
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Taft
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China
Siam
India
South Africa
American Conference Committee
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Red Cross
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CAPTAIN B. S. OSBON DEAD
Captain Bradley Sillick Osbon longtime Arctic club secretary dies at eighty five after a month long illness. He aided Doctor Cook’s polar efforts and plotted an expedition to recover proof of the north pole. Civil war veteran who claimed to sent Fort Sumter dispatch to the state department.
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New York
Bradley Sillick Osbon
Arctic Club
Osbon
Doctor Cook
North Pole
Fort Sumter
State Department
Anderson
Earthquake Shocks Recorded Near Fordham University
A severe quake shock was recorded at Fordham University Monday. Vibrations began after two and ceased near four. The needle showed a southwest direction and the quake was estimated to be 3,000 to 4,000 miles from New York.
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Fordham University
New York
Aluminum Trust Hit With Sherman Act Dissolution
Assistant Attorney General Chantland will file Friday in Pittsburgh Pa a suit seeking the dissolution of the aluminum trust as a restraint of trade and violation of the Sherman law.
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Washington
Aluminum Trust
Chantland
Department of Justice
Pittsburgh
Indiana Brevities Highlight Island Rescue and Marital Ads
In Evansville Mount Vernon man Pery Tichenor and his wife found a twelve year old girl unnamed on a small Ohio river island. She said she had been abandoned to die. later police learned she left with two young men and another girl by motor boat. A separate item notes Marion Hodges advertising for a bride. a New Harmony resident is chosen to wed July 4, with secrecy until the day. Another brief reports Myrtle Hisler, one year old, drowned in a water bucket in Indianapolis. Richmond details a $304 theft by several young colored women and the arrest of Della Cluxton with $270 found. Terre Haute notes Buena Vista Marshall resigning as president of the board of public safety. E Z Hanks named to the board of park commissioners.
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Multiple Local News Items Span Fires Scandal and Deaths
Union City reports the death of Ann Parent after a train trip near Lexington as her body returns home. In Ladoga a veneer mill fire destroys property worth about 50000 dollars, with partial insurance. Evansville deputy weights inspector finds tampered scales in Lake post office and threatens charges if not removed. Winchester hosts the Seventh district Pythian Sisters convention with Grand Chancellor Hart delivering the address and 15 candidates receiving degree work. Vincennes sees Herbert Smith and Mamie Neiss dispute a marriage license. Sullivan charges Everett E. Chambers with embezzling 100 dollars from a miners local treasury. Shelbyville census shows 7228 children, with gains in the city and small losses in unions. Evansville Mary McMillan, unable to walk, testifies in a damage suit while carried in by stretcher.
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Seventh District
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Anderson
No More Of That Medicine
A Yonkers physician once prescribed a dubious remedy to a chronicly complaining cook. He gave her a sauce with game sauce English mustard and cayenne pepper to drink in one swallow, and two weeks later she again suffered pain on a different side. She refused further samples saying water alone won’t quench her thirst.
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N. Y
Mary
Saturday Evening Post
Water dog stock joke sparks a buyer’s instinct
An amused observer notes a financial operator shopping for a dog and immediately requests a water dog, joking that he sees it as a stock proposition. The exchange highlights how a business mind colors even personal choices.
Cure for eczema with Cuticura remedies cited
A reader from Waukegan Illinois describes a three year winter eczema outbreak covering the body and limbs. After trying many treatments, she used Cuticura Soap and Ointment along with Resolvent for four months and reports complete cure with restored sleep and lasting results. The note urges samples via Cuticura Department L Boston.
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Sarah Calkins
Waukegan, Hl
Dept. L
Boston
Saving Steps
A dialogue note from Harper's Bazar cites a dramatic exchange about distance and space. The agent concedes the house lies over a mile from the station yet stresses the rooms are small so the baby can be moved only eight feet from the crib.
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Gibson
Harper’s Bazar
Kill the Flies Now and Prevent Disease Ad
A daily fly killer promises disease prevention by killing thousands all season. Sold at dealers for 15 cents each or six prepaid for $1.00. Address H. Somers 150 De Kalb Ave Brooklyn NY.
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de Kalb Av
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Silence and Money: The Notion of Value in Speech
A skeptical glance at the saying money talks and silence is golden. The piece explores how monetary influence shapes discourse and the paradox of valuation in communication, with brief asides on culture and ethics.
Mrs Wimslow Teething Syrup Promises Quick Relief
An advertisement promotes Mrs Wimslow's Soothing Syrup for Children a teething remedy claiming to soften gums reduce inflammation ease pain and cure wind colic priced at 25 cents per bottle.
Learning What Proves Useless Across Many People
A reflective observation notes many individuals inhabit and study things that yield no practical benefit. The article considers how widespread this pursuit is and hints at changing priorities toward useful knowledge.
Garfield Tea Offers Hope for Dyspeptics
A hopeful note promises relief for dyspeptics with Garfield Tea, contrasting despair with a suggested remedy and renewed confidence in relief.
Sermon Interrupted by Hungry Man in Atlanta Church
In Atlanta on May 7 Rev John D Robbins of Trinity Southern Methodist church began a charity sermon when a ragged man approached the chancel rail and begged for five cents saying he was hungry.
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Atlanta, Ga
John D. Robbins
Trinity Southern Methodist Church
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