Taft Praises Tariff Board and Urges Permanent Commission
President Taft spoke in St Louis praising the tariff board as an investigator not an expert panel. He cited its thorough pulp and newsprint cost study and urged establishing a permanent tariff commission to provide impartial, detailed facts for policy decisions.
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St. Louis
Taft
Tariff Board
Congress
Henry C. Emery
Alvin Sanders
Breeders’ Gazette
Reynolds
the Treasury
Roosevelt
Page
University of California
University of Virginia
Emery
W. M. Howard
Georgia
Howard
Canada
United States
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce and Labor
Bureau of Corporations
Ways and Means Committee
Board
Mr. Taft
Ways and Means
Ways and Means and Finance
Senate
Tariff Commission Association
Why We Have Fires and How They Start
A discussion on common fire causes cites carelessness in factories with dirt and oily waste, careless match use, bad wiring, cluttered halls, and nocturnal hazards like tenants lighting candles or matches to fetch coal. It notes dark basements, oil stoves, and old lamps as frequent triggers, urging caution.
Wealthy Lady Loses Courtship To Saintly Bishop
A famed bachelor bishop once courted by a rich widow who sent many notes and gifts. She offered wealth, but the bishop replied that she should give wealth to the needy, heart to the Lord, and hand to the man who asks. The tactic ended her pursuit.
A Modern Tendency in Public Discourse
A dialogue notes a shift toward practical concerns in modern thought. It contrasts past abstract questions such as love and conversion with current queries about whisky beer and living on benzoate of soda, highlighting a pragmatic public outlook.
No doubt About It. Teacher to pupil on the Alps crossing
A Sidney Bulletin quip compares Hannibal’s Alps crossing to a dogged road crossing. The cartoon-style line frames a playful view of solving puzzles with a savvy, straight answer about crossing challenges.
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Alps
Sydney Bulletin
Hatteras Naval Victory Opens North Carolina Coast
The August 1861 battle off Cape Hatteras marked the first major naval victory of the Civil War. Flag Officer Stringham led a fleet including the Minnesota Wabash and Susquehanna against Fort Hatteras and Fort Clark. After heavy bombardment and tactical moves, Confederate defenses fell, with 600 troops captured and the coast opened to Union naval dominance.
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Henever
United States Navy
Commodore Stringham
Hatteras
North Carolina
Winslow Wis
Sounds
North
Stringham
Minnesota
Wabash
Cumberland
Susquehanna
Pawnee
Monticello
Harriet Lane
Ben Butler
Fort Hatteras
John Oies
Erners
Fort Clark
Butler
Newhern
Barron
W. F. Martin
Ellis
The
New York Tribune
United States
Atlantic
Potomac
Pacific
Fremont
Ulysses S. Grant
Missouri
McClellan
Washington
Lexington
Mulligan
Bennett's Mills
Notice of Sale of Coal and Minerals in Sullivan Indiana
Guardian of Christiana Walters advertises a court supervised sale of coal and mineral rights on 80 acres in Sullivan County Indiana. The sale includes mining privileges, surface rights up to 10 acres, railroad access, and related facilities with full testing, construction, and operation rights. Cash sale subject to court approval. First insertion Sept 13 1911.
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Sulllivan Circuit Court
Christiana Walters
Walter F. Wood
Sullivan
Sullivan County
Indiana
Christiana Waltert
Low one way fares to Pacific Coast Points
The Evansville route offers one way tickets from Sullivan to Pacific Coast Points including Colorado Texas Utah with California points $33.90 and Oregon Washington points $34.55. Through sleeping cars from Chicago and St. Louis daily. Also low round trip homeseekers excursions to Southwest and South on the first and third Tuesdays monthly.
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Sullivan
Pacific Coast
Colorado
Texas
Utah
California
Oregon-Washington
Chicago
St. Louis
South
Southwest
Mine bosses acquitted in Cass township blast case
Harry Harvey and Mike Eaton, Mine bosses for the Vandalia Coal Company, were found not guilty by a circuit court jury in a charge of blowing up a coal mine on Josiah Stanley’s farm in Cass township near Dugger. The prosecuting witness testified the company had the mine blown up after deeded it back to him and he began mining.
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Harry Harvey
Mike Eaton
Vandalia Coal Company
Josiah Stanley
Cass Township
Dugger
Stanley
Robertson Burge Returns From Gordon Nebraska
Robertson Burge spent the summer with his son in Gordon Nebraska and returned to this city last week and was in Sullivan Thursday.
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Robertson Burge
Gordon, Neb
Sullivan
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George L. Kilmer
American Press Association
Atteras
Putin
Hatteras Island
Fort Morgan
Tnd
Navy
Boone Court House
Virginia
Nathaniel Lyon
New York
Beauregard
Thomas 4. Morris
Daniel E. Sickles
Sickles
Gettysburg
John T. Booker
Eastern
Illinois
Evansville
T. E. Hoover
Sullivan, Ind
W. H. Richardson
Ill
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