Daily World Summary of Curent Events
A wide brief notes Swedish dirigible torpedo plans electricity powered. Turkish authorities urged to withdraw from Persian frontier. Holloway prison suffragettes confined for 24 hours though defiant. Peru Bolivia border dispute currency plans and arbitration fallout. Taft tariff talks and convention plans interweave with Knapp and Keffer notes. Various world scenes include German politics, mayoral and naval shifts, rail and banking moves, and Thaw trial echoes.
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Constantinople
Orth
Uiemtul
Holloway
London
Bolivia
Alcorta
Argentina
von Buelow
Reichstag
Koelnische Zeitung
Casimir Badent
Vienna
Count Casimir Badent
Poland
Mailed Fist Of The President Faces Congress
President Taft ready to veto the Lari bill if it betrays Republican pledges. He plans to mobilize House support to pressure the conference committee, aiming for party unity and a general tariff reduction. The strategy centers on direct dealings with the committee, avoiding public battles until the report is in.
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Evelyn Thaw
James J. Hill
McKinley
Taft
Warren Keffer
Lincoln
Neb
Detroit
Catholic Educational Association
Pittsburg
Low Angeles
Parle
Rome
Panama Canal
Washington, Jefferson
Tincoln
Taftara
Thawa Pant
Philadelphia
Japan
Korea
Beoul
Bolivia
Peru
Chitso
Germany
Congress
Aldrich
Kinkaid
Secretary of
Hal J. Moshy
C. M. Perkin
Bpokane
Wash
Omaha
New York
Prince von Buelow
von Rechmann-l Hollweg
Taylor and
Frazier
Tennesse
Ernest L. Everett
Box Butte County
Nob
Denver
Mary Copley Thew
Harry K. Thaw
John D. Rockefeller
General Education Board
Rockefeller
Washington, D. C
House of Representatives
Clapp
Minnesota
House
Duta
Senate
Honda
Washington
White House
Minneapolia
St. Paul
North
South Dakota
Iowa
Wisconsin
Conference Committee
Bound to cross the channel plane trip plan stated
Calais reports Herbert Latham the aeroplanist who has announced a flight across the channel in his monoplane has returned from Paris and says he has wagers totaling 3400 dollars that he will cross the channel in his airship before August 1.
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Calais
France
Herbert Latham
Tt Im
Latham Hs
Socialists denounce czar as crowds gather in mourning
In Copenhagen socialists dress in black to mock the czar amid his approaching visit. The Young Socialista editor is jailed for incendiary pieces about King Frederic and Emperor Nicholas. In El Paso a bullfight at Chihuahua Provincial circus caused a panic when a bull escaped and leapt into the stands, injuring several spectators.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Hes
Russia
Young Socialista
Frederjem
Nicholas
EL Paso
Teras
Nesta
Crane Nominated as Minister to China by Taft
Chicago businessman Charles R. Crane of Crane & Co. is named by President Taft as minister to China. Crane, wealthy and well traveled, is regarded as a top Far East authority with Russia knowledge and longstanding reform activity in Chicago governance.
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Far East
Washington City
Taft
Charles R. Crane
Crane &Co
Chicago
China
Crane
J. L. Crane
Gueb
Clane
Russia
Professor Williams
Yale
Air. Crane
State Department
United States
Japan
Grane
Grover Cleveland
Municipal Voters’ League of Chicago
Improve Consular Service Policy From Washington
Washington reports a new policy enforcing merit in all U S consular offices from top to bottom. The administration declares there will be no purely ceremonial appointments and aims to raise the consular service to the level of foreign rivals. Despite past improvements, officials concede progress has been slower than in some trading competitors.
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Washington, D. C
Foreign Service
United States
State Department
Diplomatic Service
Consular Office
Amists' Wives Form Union In Bigamy Robbery Case
In San Francisco on July 17, the wives of Christian Johnson alias Madson have formed a corporation to recover funds he allegedly stole from engaged women. They elected Mrs. Josephine Henning of Oakland as president, plan legal action to seize Johnson's assets and pursue other charges of bigamy to keep him in jail.
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San Francisco
Christian Johnson
Madson
Johnson
Josephine Henning
Oakland
Ten Drowned In New York Bay Boat Capsized In Squall
Ten people die when the excursion sloop Roxana capsizes in a sudden squall off Lower New York Bay. Captain Samuelson and 12 survivors rescued by tug Lamont as a frantic drill saves those still afloat. Names of the dead include Selina Sameason Ella Olsen Olga Knudson and others from New York and Brooklyn.
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New York
N. Y
New York “Bay
Samuelson
Ulmer Bede
Brooklyn
Grooklyn
Midland Beach
Staten Island
Lamont
Keyes
Selina Sameason
Ella Olsen
Flatbush
L. J
Olga
Selma Knudson
John Christensen
Abraham Jamison
Alice Engleson
Peter Spiesson
John Thompson
Printing reform plan targets branch offices in Washington
Congressman Tawney of Minnesota pressed a plan after a talk with officials to centralize all government printing in the Government Printing Office. The move would abolish long established branch print shops in the post office, commerce, labor, interior and other departments to cut costs.
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Tawney
Washington
D. C
Taft
Minnesota
Postoffice, Commerce and Labor Interior
Mrs Eddy Reaches 88 Amid Death Rumors In Boston
Mrs Mary Baker G Eddy founder of Christian Science marked her 88th birthday in Chestnut Hill Boston despite circulating death reports. Close aides say she maintained her routine reading writing and a daily drive after lunch a habit she has kept since moving from Concord New Hampshire to Brookline two years ago.
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Boston
Mass
Mary’ Baker G. Eddy
Christian Science
Chestnut Hill
Taft Eyes Meeting With Diaz in Unusual Presidential Tie
Washington reports President Taft and President Diaz of Mexico are near a practical arrangement for a historic encounter. Taft, never having met his Mexican counterpart, and his cabinet weigh the logistics of arranging this notable event, while officials regard it as a significant diplomatic step.
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Washington, D.C
Taft
Ding
Mexico
Jong
Loing Ao
Spoken from Experience in a Grammar Class
In a grammar class the teacher asks for words ending with ous. A student jokes that pious is full of plot, turning a lesson into a humorous moment about dangerous hazardous explanations and wordplay.
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Bobby
Laymen Fight TB Surge in Public Campaigns
National Association figures show almost 60 percent of the active anti consumption effort is carried by laymen. The proportion has tripled over the last four years as public volunteers join medical drives against tuberculosis.
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National Association For the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis
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Panama
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Richard Attenborough
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Valentine
Jewel H. Auber
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
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Big Lion
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New York Bay
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