Doings of Day and Week Happenings Abroad
A digest from Washington notes 850 plus bills introduced in the Senate and House with many pensions likely blocked this session. Congress may adjourn midweek around Christmas as talks center on interstate commerce, anti-trust laws, and natural resource conservation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Appropriations Committee
House
Congress
Cannon
Medical Corps of the Navy
Bureau of Construction and Repair
Bureau of Ordinance
Admiral Mason
Nicaragua
Bowers Southern Dredging Company
Jimmie
Galveston
Sayville
N. Y
William Tucker
Mr. Tuker
Tuckertown
Jack
Leonard
Amarillo
Texas Winter Wheat Outlook Reports Higher Acreage
The bureau of statistics notes Texas planned wheat area at 1 295 000 acres, up 40 percent from 1908, with December 1 condition at 89 versus a ten year average of 94. National condition is 85.3, vs 91.5 average.
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Bureau of Statistics of the Agricultural Department
Texas
United States
War Office Demands Finland Pay Share of Russo-Japanese War Costs
Maj. Gen. Borotkin announces that Finland must cover a proportional portion of 24.5 million dollars from the total 1.5 billion spent on the Russo Japanese war. Elsewhere Zelaya reportedly to surrender within three weeks and U S policy puzzles over Nicaragua.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Borotkin
War Office
Finland
No Harm in a Kiss Says Bertie-But
Dialog hints at playful flirtation between Bertie-But and Nellie-No with a cautious push for discretion. Nellie-No resists while Bertie-But pursues light amusement, reflecting social tact and courting norms in a humorous exchange.
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Bertie
Nellie
Cold remedy recipe uses whiskey glycerine pine compound
A dated home remedy mixes half a pint of whiskey with two ounces glycerine and a half ounce Concentrated pine compound. Shake the bottle and dose every four hours. Drugstores supply the ingredients or obtain them from wholesalers. Concentrated pine comes in half ounce air tight bottles labeled Concentrated. Describes a fast acting remedy.
Duty Society Owes to Unfortunates and Tuberculosis
Dr Woods Hutchinson of New York argues consumption is mainly a poor man's disease. He notes incipient TB patients can buy limited fresh air and cure by money, and that 65 percent of U S consumptives are too poor for proper treatment. Without sanitarium care, infection and neglect costs rise two to threefold.
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Woods Hutchinson
New York City
United States
Fishing Extraordinary Story From a Virginia Flood Tale
A Washington Times anecdote recounts Gen Reuben Lind say Walker of the Confederate army waiting for breakfast while his enslaved servant Sam hauls a fish. Sam jokes he will bring the other half once he catches it, describing the flounder as half white like raw meat.
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Representative Flood
Virginia
Reuben Lindsay Walker
Sam
Massa
Reuben
Washington Times
His Retort
A humorous exchange from Pearson's Weekly notes a doctor’s rebuke about smoking causing heart trouble and a jab about black eyes from meddling. The quip contrasts medical advice with a sharp retort on personal interference.
Habit's Chain Breaks Through Coffee to Postum Switch
A woman from Indiana details lifelong coffee use causing dyspepsia and illness until she switched to Postum. She notes improved health, no stomach trouble, and a breakfast routine change. The ad promotes a booklet The Road to Wellville and asserts four new poems from the time are genuine and full of human interest.
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Wellville
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Shiner Oil Mill
D. C
Bismark
J. H. Heubner
Wolters Bros
Opera House
Albert Berckenhoff
the City Saloon
August Schramm
F. T. Fehrenkamp
Moulton
Moulton, Texas
Washington
Representative Creager
Oklahoma
Court of Claims
Bailey
Federal
Smith
Ballinger
Stamford
George Crocker
Columbia University
Indiana
Mary Crocker Burton Harrison
New York Supreme Court
Frederick R. Rice
Chicago
Rice
Phoenix Insurance Company of
Brooklyn
Calhoun
Henry Clay Pierce
Waters Pierce Oil Company
Daniel A. Goodsell
Methodist Episcopal Church
Louise W. Taft
Henry W. Taft
Seattle
George H. Snowden
Wash
Yale
Kansas City
Henry E. Agar
Princeton
Ind
Sahn Benito
Tex
Agar
Michigan City
Cotton Crop Report
Cotton Exchange
New Orleans
Department of Agriculture
State of
Managua
Zelaya
Monsignor
Amiette
Paris
Leopold
Brussels
China
St. Petersburg
Harbin
Manchuria
Russia
Russo Chinese Bank
Chinese Eastern Railway
Taft
Newzance
Karmley
Pearson's Weekly
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