World Roundup of Happenings in Brief News Notes
A global summary notes Senator Hale's resolution to remove the constitutional bar on Knox as secretary of state in Taft's cabinet, Taft and Sherman declared elected president and vice president, Roosevelt views on income tax and a Japan square deal, Panama and Panama Canal debates, and assorted international and domestic items including fires, stabbings, shipwrecks, and political shifts across the United States and abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hale
Senate
Knox
Taft
Congress
Sherman
United States
Roosevelt
Stevens
Minnesota
Bacon
Panaya
House Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
House
White House
Stanton
California
Panama
Rubney
Secretary of the Treasury
William B. Allison
Iowa
Dolliver
Cummins
Taft Arrives in New Orleans En Route to Cincinnati
President-elect Taft arrives in New Orleans from Panama and will be entertained until Saturday before traveling to Cincinnati. Roosevelt denies striking a young woman on a ride weeks ago. Jack Binns dodges photographers on arrival in Liverpool. Santa Fe engineer Baldwin saves 100 passengers in Los Angeles. Cortelyou may head Consolidated Gas in New York after cabinet service. Elihu Root health trip at Hot Springs declines Arkansas invite. Bryan not hurt in Tampa auto accident. denies report.
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Taft
New Orleans
Panama
Louisiana
Cincinnati
Roosevelt
Jack” Binns
Hero of the Republic
Liverpool
Baldwin
Santa Fe
Los Angeles
Cal
Cortelyou
Consolidated Gas Company
New York
United States
Elihu Rooi
Hot Springs
Joint Assembly
William J. Bryan
Tampa
Mia
Royal welcomes in Berlin ripple through England
King Edward and Queen Alexandra visit the Kaiser in Berlin drawing praise from Britons who see closer Britain Germany ties. Denmark marks 250th anniversary of repelling Swedish attack on Copenhagen during King Gustavus era. New York health department campaigns against expectoration with 160 plus subway arrests. Eight year old May Estilla Flats ends her life in Bolivar Pennsylvania as her father watches. William Nelson Cromwell testifies before New York grand jury on Panama Canal deal tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward
Alexandra
Berlin
Great Britain
Germany
Denmark
Copenhagen
Charles Gustavus
New York City
Health Department
Estilla Flats
Bolivar, Pa
Wiliam Nelson Cromwell
New York
Panama
Iowa News Summary: scattered reports from Clarinda to Des Moines
A wide array of Iowa items: a wolf hunt near Clarinda, a new automobile garage planned for Dowss, Ovlweth starts a glove factory next Monday, Madrid booster banquet, Parsifal company touring the state, and English lines of the play. Injuries from a Mason City explosion. a Sac City grain company organized. fines for illegal liquor sales in Pleasant Plain.
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Clarinda
Dowss
Ovlweth
Madrid
Edward Brown
Mason City
Farmers’ Grain Company
Sac City
Sac County
David Mealey
Fred
Pleasant Plain
Colored Y. M. C. A
Buxton
Russian miner Oberman commits suicide in jail after train riot
Des Moines February 12 Martin Oberman a Russian miner who on a Great Western train near Bondurant Wednesday stabbed three passengers then hanged himself in the county jail last night. He looped a rope around a jail bar and strangled himself while jailers were away. Oberman had been released from an insane asylum in Chicago and was being sent to Kansas City.
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Chicago
Buffalo
N. Y
Roanoke
Madrid
Havana
Spain
Cuba
United States
Martin Oberman
Iowa
Ernest Richards
Parkersburg
S. Dawson
G. Logan
Smith Matterfeld
Duquesne
Taft
J. M. Dickinson
Tennessee
Dickinson
George Gunnell
St. Andrews Church
Philadelphia
Toledo
Cyrus Townsend Brady
Kansans City
State Highway Commission
Harold Vanderbilt
New York
Harvard
Vanderbilt
Boston
Great Britain
Armour & Co
Federal Grand Jury
Muskogee
Okla
Benton
National Bank
Canadian Pacific Railway
Bow River
Alberta
Illinois Central
Coldwater
Miss
Chicago Flyer
Indiana Central ‘Traction Company
South Bend
Huntington
Warsaw
Cunard Line
Mauretania
Niner
Trussia
Turkey
Clara Rosen
Ottumwa
Tan
Agnes Brewer
Miyoshi Brogan
Ann Arbor
Mich
Garfield
Interior Department
House
Secret Service
Robley D. Evans
Russia
Japan
Germany
France
Austria
England
Jack D. Isham
Marion
David 8. Rose
Milwaukee
Samuel Dickey
Albion College
George V. Parks
Pueblo
Col
Pueblo Traction Company
Pueblo, Coh
Parke
William
Kaltenback
Rock Rapids
Wisconsin
Mail and Express
Bih
L. J. Trernagle
Anamosa
Hogan
Martin
Decorah
Brand
Jouge Hobson
Flow Hogan
August
August Lowfke
Charles City
Panta
Iowa City
Galveston
Wii Mitchell
David Mitchell
Murray
Clarke County
Idaho
Chariton
Grinnell
Pella
Silver City
What Cheer
Sidney
Manchester
Commercial Club
Waukon
Fairfield
Woodward
Mason City
Fairport
Muscatine
Folk
Missouri
Hanley
Indiana
Harlan
Iowa Association of Southern California
Los Angeles
Joseph Isaac
Walker
Fle
Tom Wiggins
Lorimer
Burlington
Great Western Crossing
Osceola
John ¥. Marshall
Des Moines
Redman
Denver
Clarion
North
South Dakota
M. N. Johnson
Coek
Crawford Hoed
Ir Waukon
James Kagar Snowden
Congregational
Quedar Falls
Rock Falls
Henury Wolfe
Phil ‘Tiberu
Indies
Pomeroy
First National Bank of
Burt
McMahon
L. C. Smith
H. O. Buell
C.D Smith
Lemmon
Waverly
Iowa House Committee On Rules
Yowa Association of Cement Users
Atate
Atate College
Ames
Ingine
Great Western
Bondurant
I. O. Reilly
Oberman
Aherman
Kansas City
House Raises The Question Over Knox Transfer
Washington February 12 The House discussed repeal of the law blocking Senator Knox’s transfer to the state department and there were doubts if even with repeal he could be appointed since the constitution forbids a salary increase during a congressman’s term, with no provision about later salary reductions.
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Washington, D. C
House
Knox
State Department
Congress
Man jailed for bigamy fined and ordered to wed Indian bride
In Helena Montana February 12 Thomas Hanby a former South Carolinian was convicted in federal court of bigamy. He received a $100 fine six months in jail and was ordered to marry Mary LaBrech a Blackfoot woman. The second marriage was void due to the first. Judge Hunt directed the marshal to arrange the marriage immediately with a justice of the peace performing the ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
Mont
Thomas Hanby
M Hanby
Mary LaBrech
Hunt
United States
Secret Service Bill Reported to Senate
Washington February 12 A report from the appropriations committee covers the president’s statements on congress toward funding the secret service. Senator Hemenway introduced the report noting the president was not justified in his message to congress on the matter.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Committee On Appropriations
Congreve
Hemenway
Con- Brega
Taft Lands in New Orleans and Paraded Ashore
President elect Taft landed in New Orleans at 8 p m. The parade in his honor formed and moved after he came ashore. He will travel to Washington from Cincinnati Tuesday to confer on canal engineers' report and then return to Cincinnati Wednesday.
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Taft
New Orleans
Presiantelect
Prestientelect
Washington
Cincinnati
Texas Wrecked Train Burns Fatalities Reported
Muskogee Oklahoma February 12 Engineer Fred D Horne of Dennison Texas died after a Missouri Kansas and Texas collision in which one other man was killed and the train burned Fireman Nelson of Dennison also injured and unaccounted for believed trapped under debris
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Texas
Muskogee
Okla
Fred D. Horne
Dennison
Tex
Nelson
Hutchinson Mayor and Police Chief Ousted Over Tax on Illicit Resorts
Topeka Feb 12 The Hutchinson mayor J T Harsha and police chief W H Dix are ousted from office for levying a tribute on joints illicit saloons and other resorts. The city will be enjoined from exercising corporate rights.
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Topeka
Kan
J.T. Harsha
Hutchinson
W. H. Dixon
Woman Suffrage Up in Nebraska Senate Vote
Lincoln Neb Feb 12 The Nebraska state senate ordered the woman suffrage bill en stu ssed for a third reading by 16 to 15 after a morning of full committee debate. Two senators were absent and 17 votes are needed to pass the measure.
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Lincoln
Neb
Senate
Pioneers' testament to Western Canada success in 1893 letter
Laurens Bisser of Wheatwyn Sask recounts arriving with little to start farming, taking up land in Loon Creek, building homesteads, and expanding to a thriving operation with 160 acres per partner. He praises hard work, ownership of a large tract, modern gear, and a rising grain export, noting excellent yields of 27 to 35 bushels per acre and no frost in six years. He credits the Great West with opportunity, free government, and stable crops enabling a comfortable living.
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Bisser ‘Bros
Western Canada
Loon Creek
Alwys
Lorens Bisser
O. Wheatwyn
The Tactful Suitor in Trenton and Munyon Cold Cure
A youth in Trenton boasts of gaining ground with a young woman by convincing her father to lend him 40 dollars amid a long courtship. The young woman counters that his approach was poor. The note also mentions Prof. Munyon selling a 26 cent Cold Cure with a money-back guarantee and a free magazine almanac offered by the Munyon Company in Philadelphia.
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Trenton
Alice
Walker
Harper’s Weekly
Prof. Munyon
United States
Munyon
Almanac
Munyon Company
Philadelphia
Fragmentary admonition echoes through Buffalo News tale
A rough, imperfect excerpt portrays a taunting threat directed at a person described with contemptuous terms. The passage mentions a corner at Ferry and Main streets and alludes to political figures and controversial methods, but the text remains garbled and unclear.
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Ferry
Kingdom Comé
Anzie
Buffalo News
Book Form Meaning in Public Speech Elucidated
The speaker explains that going to “put his play book form” means to write the work in book form by dividing the material into chapters and placing them between covers, clarifying the process as composing a finished, bound edition. The remark underscores converting a script into a published, bound book.
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Caserden Mannufacturing Company
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Starry Davenport
Tama
Hiteman Post
John Cain
Parnell
Gilcon
Sioux City
Rogers Coal
Gypsum
Saint Singh
Eldora
America
Malcom Gillett
Sheffield Brick and Tile Company
Greenfield Transcript
Canon City
Randall County
Nebraska
Hannah Dries
Cresco
Thomas Robinson
Dallor
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