Civic Activity in Many Forms and Methods
The piece argues a new civic spirit across the United States and Europe, led by surveys, city plans, campaigns, and permanent organizations. It compares social diagnosis to medical diagnosis, urging data on conditions like infant mortality, playground safety, delinquency, and industrial accidents to inform targeted civic action.
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Henry S. Curtis
United States
Germany
City Plain
Permitnent
Dortor
Record of Severe Weather and Calamities in Early November 1911
A sequence of events notes a deep fall in temperature, a 1911 November 11 date, and a forecast toward 1912. It reports a brutal Nanking slaughter by imperial troops, a major cyclone across multiple states with deaths and crop losses, and a 64 degree one day drop in Chicago with widespread blizzards and livestock marooning across Nebraska to Oklahoma.
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Nanking
China
Wisconsin
Michigan
Illinois
Indiana
Missouri
Chicago
Nebraska
Colorado
Iowa
Wyoming
Dakotas
Oklahoma
Maxims With Morals and Moral Reflections
A compact fragment listing sayings from Beecher Publius Syrus Juvenal Ruskin and others. It presents notes on virtue merit friendship nobility and the idea that many great efforts come from collective support. The passage also touches on humanity and the influence of love on family life.
Roosevelt on Peace and Justice in National Policy
The excerpt presents Theodore Roosevelt arguing that peace must serve justice and be right, not merely chosen for expediency. He recalls supporting strong naval power to deter conflict and preserve peace, emphasizing that nations should fear causing harm rather than be compelled by favors.
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Uncle Sam
Theodoure Roosevelt
Great Lakes Storm Kills Eight as Cold Wave Follows
Severe cyclone and blizzard raged across southern Wisconsin, Illinois and the Great Lakes area. Eight deaths are confirmed with extensive property loss from tornadoes and high winds. Chicago reports heat and cold extremes with frozen victims and missing men on Lake Michigan.
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Wisconsin
Illinois
Great Lakes
Chicago
Oxferville
Rock County
Milton
Virginia
Springfield
Janesville
Wis
Lake Michigan
Central Illlinois
Easton
Peoria
Towa
Ottumwa
North Dakota
Grand Forks
Indiana
Ohio
Michigan
Missouri
Kansas
Kansas City
Parcels Post Plan Favored By Incoming Congress
Indications show the next Congress will back a parcels post plan. The Post Office notes 12 cents per pound for ordinary parcels and 16 cents for a 12 cent rate on pack nets, with international parcels at 12 cents per pound. Many favor a phased rollout similar to postal banks.
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Congress
Sidney Directory Highlights Local Officials and Clubs
The Sidney directory lists state officers federal posts and local bodies. It covers the US land offices post office and numerous civic groups including commercial club fire department church parishes and fraternal orders with meeting details and officers.
Platts Widow Weds Aviator In Secret Ceremony
Mrs L J Platt widow of Senator Thomas Collier Platt eloped with aviator W B Atwater after a meet at Mineola last summer. They drove from Central Valley to Suffern, wed by a justice of the peace, and now live in seclusion at Central Valley. They plan to go to California this week as Atwater joins Curtiss aviation school.
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L. J. Platt
Thomas Collier Platt
W. B Atwater
Mineola
Delay Action on Strike on Rock Island System
The threatened walkout by Rock Island shop employees was postponed three weeks. General manager F N Tinsman informed shopmen chair J W Duff that the railroad would not negotiate with the workers as a federation.
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Rock Island
F. N. Tinsman
Rock Island System
J. W. Duff
Tinsman
Taft to address high cost of living and tariff report
President Taft plans a special message to Congress to transmit the tariff board’s wool and cotton schedules and renew his parcels post proposal. Officials say the board will find that the middleman, not tariffs, largely drives the high cost of living.
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Taft
Congress
Tariff Board
Bradstreet's notes mixed trace currents in futures
Bradstreet's report indicates changes in trace currents are not strongly marked with overall turnover fair to good and largely aimed at near future distribution rather than stocking up. The south shows the principal gain while other regions remain steadier.
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Bradstreet’s
Judge Lumphrey issues injunction on Illinois Central strike
In the United States Circuit Court Judge Lumphrey restrains the striking Illinois Central Railroad employees from picketing the shops and from using any method of intimidation.
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Lumphrey
United States Circuit
The
Illinois Central Railroad
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