Global Briefs Highlight Tariff Talk And Taft Plans
The item summarizes multiple events: Senator Cummins proposes an income tax within the Payne Aldrich tariff plan. Taft orders an inquiry into Harriman railroad charges. Tillman sparks a Washington scene. census bill conference rejection over McCumber amendment. Scott of Kansas drafts a wheat duty repeal. Aldrich and Daniel debate the tariff. Secretary Wilson cites no wheat shortage but blames Patten’s corner. Taft may travel if given $25,000 annual expenses. Daughters of the American Revolution convene in Washington. Taft pledges AFL support for worker uplift.
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Cummins
Iowa
Payne Aldrich
Taft
Wickersham
Harriman Railroads
Utah
Tillman
South Carolina
Washington
Senate
McCumber
Scott
Kansas
House
Aldrich
Republicang
Daniel
Wilson
James A. Patten
Congress
West
Alaska
Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Continental Hall
American Federation of Labor
Liberal commission heads Falkner named president
Roland P. Falkner accepted the president’s tender of membership on the Liberian commission and will serve as chairman. Other notable items include Duncan A. Fletcher elected U S senator by Florida’s legislature, and H Percival Dodge named minister to Morocco succeeding Gummere.
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Roland P. Falkner
Duncan A. Wletcher
United States
Florida
H. Percival Dodge
Boston
Salvador
Morocco
Gummere
Roland Post Falkner
Porto Rico
Liberia
Charles D. Hillis
Dobbs Ferry
N. Y
the Treasury
Louis A. Coolidge
Sherman
Ambassader Jusserand
Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Washington
Robert S. MacArthur
Calvary Baptist Church
New York
Col
John Hicks
Chile
State Department
Joseph H. Choate
Manhattan
Hudson-Fulton
Henry
Philadelphia
Miller
American envoy skips Paris Catholic wedding in April
Henry White refuses to attend the Paris Catholic ceremony on April 29, keeping his daughter Muriel White from marrying Count Herman Scherr Thoss due to Cardinal Koon’s stance on the Episcopal wedding. A House resolution by Representative Helm hints at Cuba annexation. An Interstate Commerce Commission report records 184 killed and 2,924 injured in three months of train accidents. Anthracite mine talks in New York aim to resolve worker disputes. Col. Jacob Augur dies of apoplexy at Fort McKinley. Counsel for Capt. Peter Hains Jr. comments on his client’s trial. Salusupahly Ppane among Des Moines seven mentions.
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Henry White
America
France
Paris
Muriel White
Herman Scherr Thoss
Cardinal Koon
Cuba
Representative Helm
Kentucky
Interstate Commerce Commission
New York
Jacob Augur
Taft
Fort Mc.Kinley
Philippines
Peter ©. Hains, Jr
William B. Annis
Salusupahly
Des Moines
Multiple World News Snippets Mixed From United States Dispatches
The report lists diverse events including the Charles Levi Woodbury schooner being captured by the Canadian cruiser Kestrel for poaching and taken to Vancouver, a major wave of injuries from a northern Ohio storm, political and diplomatic updates from Turkey to Cuba, and several local incidents across the United States. It notes Roosevelt’s East Africa trip prep, oil firm appeals, and various court actions, protests, and societal notices with many named persons and places.
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Charles Levi Woodbury
Kestrel
Vancouver
Young Woman's Christian Association
St. Paul
Canada
Detroit
Cleveland
Ashtabula
Ohio
Helen Boyle
Willie Whitlam
Anna McDermott
Chicago
London
Turkey
Theodore Roosevelt
Mombasa
British East Africa
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company
Landis
Taft
Oliver
War Department
Union Oil Company of California
Santa Barbara
Pacific Ocean
Baronakahira
Senor de la Carra
Baron Takahira
James W. van Cleave
St. Louis
Citizens’ Industrial Alliance
Bucks Stove & Range Company
Samuel Gompers
John Mitchell
United States Navy
Ilinois
Eber Ward
Mackinaw City
Mich
Netherlands
Venezuela
Castro
Iowa Electrical Association
Cedar Rapids
Jessie Brown
Jacksonville
Fla
Earl P. Adams
Elizabeth Bagley
Paris
United States
Dickinson
Panama
Humphrey
Peoria
Iowa Central Railway Company
Houston
Tex
Houston of Company
Waters-Pierce Company
Texas
Ada
Okla
A. L. Bobbitt
William Loeb
New York
Constantinople
Havana
Kan
Braddock
Peter C. Hains, Jr
William BE. Annis
Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of the West
Ottawa
Kaw
Ballinger
Grand Trunk
Grand Rapids
Rose Fenner
Oklahoma
United States Circuit of Appeals
United States Circuit Court of Oklahoma
de Murrer
Danville
Joe" Cannon
Jules Cambon
Germany
Order of the Red Eagle
W. W. Mitchell
Bandite
Ill
Guadeloupe
Ath Senora Castro
Avaband
Mischievous youths and a barn fire claim a boy
A distressed boy recounts thieving at Schwarz’s grocery with friends. They chased a dog, cribbed peaches, smoked grapevine cigarettes, and caused a barn fire at Schmitt’s orchard while the delivery boy struck him. He ends wishing to die from the ache of pain.
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Schwarz’ Grocery
Schmitt
Bohemian Magazine
Perfectly Reckless Pastor Takes Vacation Visitor Refusal
A church votes for their pastor to take a vacation and a brother-worker in a neighboring village plans to visit. On Sunday morning the visitor is asked to lead in prayer but replies he is on his vacation, prompting a quiet, humorous moment preserved in the Ladies' Home Journal.
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Martin ‘Mease
Peru
Mt. Pleasant
Henry
Ution
Ladies' Home Journal
Lane's Family Medicine Tonic Laxative Tea Ad
A vintage ad promotes Lane's Family Medicine as a tonic laxative tea that claims to clear the head ease pain in the back or side and restore strength. It asserts superiority for stomach and bowels and lists druggists and dealers as sellers for 25 cents.
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Lane
Unlikely tale in a dining fish joke
In The Bohemian, Jonah jokes his wife would doubt a tale of visiting a fish dinner after an encounter with a whale. The quip plays on biblical fish and dinner puns.
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Whale
Jonah
Allen’s Foot-Ease testimonial in Camden ad
A reader testimonial from Mia of Camden New Jersey says Allen’s Foot-Ease cured her burning itching and painful feet after trying it and buying a new supply. Sold by all druggists for 26 cents.
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Allen
Mia
W. J. Walker
Camden
N. J
Deception. Kiss Someone Against Will Belief Questioned
A Brooklyn Life quote explores mistaken intimacy with a wry line: “Did a man ever kiss you against your will?” “No, but some have thought they did,” reflecting on perception versus consent in social pressure.
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Brooklyn
Marine Eye Remedy Promises Relief for Eye Pain
A historical ad claims Red, Weak, Weary, Watery Hyer relief by Marine Eye Remedy compounded by five physicians and compliant with Pure Food and Drug Laws. It touts soothing effects, urges purchase at druggists, and includes other pediatric syrups and teething aids.
Tor Catarrh of the Throat Years Standing
Mrs W Pray of 260 Twelfth St Brooklyn NY reports long standing catarrh of the throat improved after following directions and using one bottle with continued use as a spring tonic. She notes throat and head cleared and no condition returned at present.
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Tor
Mrs.w. Pray
Twelfth St
Brooklyn
Potato boasts in a playful vintage pamphlet
A humorous boast extols the potato as a maker of dextrine for postage stamps the starch for collars vegetable ivory from potato pulp dried leaves for smoking potato spirit for fortifying wines and as a sweet syrup found in cocoa honey butter and lard The piece ends with a cheeky assertion that even the corpulent cannot escape the potato's influence.
One Thing She Was Sure Of
Grace and her mother clash as Grace resists a kiss from a persistent suitor. The mother scolds, insisting on propriety while Grace questions the social pressure surrounding romance.
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Grace
Mother
Remarkable Old Remedy Helps Vanquish Woman’s Ailments
Testimony claims hundreds of thousands of U S women benefited from a famed remedy made from roots and herbs over thirty years ago by a woman to relieve women's suffering. Read what these women say.
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United States
Camden
N. J
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia EB. Pinkham
Erie
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Washington News
General News
Iowa News
Leonagd Losh
Woodbine
Losh
Glen Maxwell
Amés
Ricketts
Nevada
Ames
Maxwell
Marshalltown
Waterloo
Illinois Central
Ottumwa
Membee
Syrian Christian Association
Keokuk
Boone
Humboldt
Johnson County
S. C. Hanson Lumber Company
Perry
H. C. Moolin & Co
Wapello County
Joseph Leighton
Lamoille
Hiram Jarrard
Muscatine County
H. Roy Sigler
Mason City
Minneapolis
Sioux City
al Nson
Dubuque
Arnold Sanders
Afton
Lacona
Elks
Nicholas
C. M. Swearingen
Roscoe Williams
Sidney
Fred Brand
Boyd Allen
Monona County
Wilbur Baker
Blanche Carl
Farragut
Masonic Fraternity of
Corning
Jlanning
St. John's Day
J. A. T. Hull
Pattee Park Commission
Henry C. Johnson
Deborah
Aberdeen
S D
A. M. Lundgard
Omaha & Council Bluffe Street Railway Company
Council Bluffs
C. M. Miller
Iowa City
Madrid
Christian Science Church
Sheldon
Emmettsburg
State Board of Control
Fort Madison
Washington Township
Atlantic Lodge
Grand Lodge
Los Angeles
John Hardiman
Court House
Centerville
Webster City
A. T. Hull
R. G. Tucker
Karl Heiderman
John Apple
Newton
Europe
William H. Swain
Onawa
B. Y. Walker
van Wert
Griswold
Catalpa
Joe Fagg
Eldora
Board of Supervisors
Kossuth County
Citizens’ National Bank of New Hartford
Carroll
Muscatine Slough
Frank Healy
le Mars
William Hilcott
Deep Creek
Wigin
Emmetteburg
Quowa
Mould
Ve. Hanh
N'T
Clarence Dubb
Miss Sharply
Watson FE. Coleman
West Prington DS Co
Lydia
E. Pinkham
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