Coal barge captain and brood on the Edith
New York report highlights Capt. George W Vedder and wife on the coal barge Edith as they welcome their twelfth child Frederick Ellis Vedders. The family, rooted in river and canal boats, embodies a life without rent and shore life perils, with several children already captaining or married to barge crews.
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New York
Ulttle Vedderg
Sam
George W. Vedders
Vedders
Rondout
N. Y
Lockport
Edith
Patterson & Browns
Broadway
Ells Island
Power House
The
Immigration Bureau
Capt. Ve
James Vedders
Frank
Central Park
James
Lida
Florence
Hattie Larsen
Cora
Peart McKivey
Elizabeth
Annie Lane
Emma
William Vedders
Priscilla
George Vedders
Frederick R. Zerps
Ice Fishing Opens on Winnipesogee and Nearby Lakes
Laconia New Hampshire reports the ice fishing season is underway on Lake Winnipesogee and adjacent waters. Open trout and salmon season runs January 1 to June, with fishing parties forming camps for two to three weeks. The new law limits daily catches and prohibits sale of ice fish.
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Laconia
N. H
Winnipisseogee
Winni\Pisseogee
Winnipisseogea
Big Lake
Wells
Meredith
Alton Bay
Champion Flapjack Eater of the World Declared
Vladimore Larsen a ranch hand near Antelope eastern Oregon proves a prodigious appetite for hot cakes. At Brogan ranch Tom Kenny bets five dollars Larsen eats 22 for breakfast and could reach 75 to 100 if motivated. Kenny backs Larsen as a world champion flapjack eater.
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Portland
Oreg
Vladimore Larsen
Antelope
Oregon
Brogan Ranch
Larsen
Kenny
Music Teachers' National Association Meets in Chicago
At the thirty first annual convention in Chicago two hundred delegates gathered as President Abram Harris of Northwestern University urged music as a civilizing force for Americans. He lamented music's small role in education and called for integrating musical studies with other college courses to uplift students. The report also notes a physician’s humorous cartoon captions on exercise and garden work.
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Chicago
Abram Harris
Northwestern University
Music Teachers’ National Association
Harris
King Edward Wins Four First Prizes at Smithfield Show
King Edward earns four first prizes for cattle exhibits at Smithfield. The monarch is a tenant farmer who pays substantial annual rent and taxes on his holdings.
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Edward
Smithfield
Ballinger Prepares Major Fight Over Pinchot Outlook
Richard Ballinger, secretary of the interior, gears up for a hard battle as Gifford Pinchot tests his position after Taft dismissed him as forester. The clash lines include Roosevelt forces, Guggenheims connections, and administration support amid a shifting House committee fate. Ballinger, Iowa born and 62, once Seattle mayor, 1907 land office commissioner, seeks to counter Pinchot and allied interests.
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Richard Achilles Ballinger
Interior
Gifford Pinchot
Taft
Forester
Mr. Ballinger
Pinchot
Ballinger
Dolliver
Congressional Investigating Committee
Joe
Cannon
House Committee
Glavis
Guggenheims
Wickersham
Roosevelt
Les
Col. Roosevelt
Match king Barber battles Senator Dick over tariff stand and Fairroads
Ohio industrialist and Akron landmark Barber challenges Dick to public debate on tariff schedules and government control of Fairroads. Once sued for back taxes, Barber built a fortune from matches and donated heavily to St Pauls church. Born 1841 in Middlebury, he rose from poverty to lead Diamond Match Company.
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Ohio
Columbus
Match Trust
Akron
Charles Dick
Illinois
Nationalien
Senator Dick
Barber
America
Mr. Barber
Middlebury
Diamond Match Company
Spain's Minister Recalled to Lisbon Amid Diplomatic Stir
The arquis de Villalobar, Spain's minister to Washington, is reported transferred to Lisbon after clashes over a rule separating ministers from ambassadors. He denies discontent, saying his government asked him to move but preferred to remain in the United States. The incident sparked diplomatic speculation in Madrid and Washington.
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Arquis de Villalobar
Washington
Lisbon
Associated Press
Madrid
State Department
Taft
Alfonso
Spain
Portugal
United States
Halley's Comet Sparks Lowell Earth Doom Debate
Professor Percival Lowell of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff Arizona challenges Halley’s comet as a doom omen. He proposes a distant dying star drifting toward Earth will eventually draw our planet into the sun’s melting pot, predicting stages from faint visibility to a close approach before end times.
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Percival Lowell
Lowell Observatory
Flagstaff
Ariz
Prof
Lowell
Halley
Earth
Jupiter
Wonderful Praise For Perma Household Remedy From Orienta Wife
Mrs. Maria Goertz of Orienta Oklahoma reports improved health after using Perma medicines and Dr Hartman’s advice. She says weight rose from 100 to 110 pounds and credits the remedy with curing chronic catarrh and enabling housework. Her husband and children also benefited from asthma earache and stomach catarrh relief.
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Perma
Maria Goertz
Orienta
Oklahoma
Hartman
Oatmeal Exports Highlight Quaker Oats Market
A historical note on Quaker Oats shipping hundreds of thousands of cases to Britain and Europe. It explains why Americans export in large volumes while English and Scottish diets favor oatmeal as a staple, praising Quaker Oats for cleanliness and flavor.
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Newcastle
Scotland
Quaker Oats Company
Great Britain
Europe
Taft’s NC farmers tale of discontent
President Taft told a Florence North Carolina audience a story about chronic discontent among farmers. He cited pine stews and weather woes as causes, noting Providence cares for all even as a farmer complains about his potatoes.
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Taft
Florence
N. C
North Carolina
Joseph
Washington Post
God’s house seen by child sparks party guess
Julia asks whose big house on the corner is and learns it is God’s house. Later she sees lit windows on Sunday and proclaims that God must be having a party. The playful remark reflects a child’s innocent inference about church as a festive place.
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Julia
Postum Cited By Topeka Woman As Cure For Insomnia
A Topeka woman credits Postum with curing years of insomnia and nervousness linked to coffee. She quit coffee abruptly, switched to Postum, and reports sleep improved within weeks and has remained sound for six years without medicine. The letter promotes The Road to Wellville booklet and notes new testimonials appear periodically.
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Topeka
Postum
Wellville
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