Taft Urges Higher Army Pay and Expanded Service Roles
Secretary Taft released his annual report to Congress advocating higher enlisted pay and increased noncommissioned officers pay to improve recruiting and retention. He backs a naval pay system, a general service corps, and the creation of a Bagula regimental post in the Philippines, plus expanding Fort McKinley and funding military estimates up by 11.58 million dollars. He praises Secretary Stanton and urges a statue in Washington.
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Washington
Tafta
Congress
Abe
Ban
Bagula
Phillipines
Fort McKinley
Manila
Edward M. Stanton
Stanton
Roosevelt letters condemn Brownson act over hospital ships
President Roosevelt released two letters to Secretary Metcalf detailing his view on Rear Admiral Willard R. Brownson’s resignation and the navy’s hospital ship command. He condemns Brownson’s conduct as unseemly and improper, stresses loyalty to the Navy, and defends assigning medical officers to hospital ships.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Willard R. Brownson
Metcalf
Admiral Brownson
Navy Department
Navy
Cars Run In Muncie After Guard Deployment
Muncie Indiana on January 7 sees streetcar service resume on regular schedules run by local men with no guards. National Guard units remain in quarters while 500 sworn deputies patrol. No disturbances as Elwood Marion and Anderson report limited or no car service and mixed strike activity.
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Muncie
Int
Ines
Indiana National Guard
Elwood
Marion
Anderson
Probing Mine Disasters Near Fairmont
The joint Investigation and inquest into the Nongoh Moh Nongah mine disaster opens in Fairmont West Virginia county courthouse. About 100 witnesses will testify over three to five days. Coroner E B Ames Prosecuting Attorney S B Lowe and State Mine Inspector J W Paul lead the inquiry.
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Fairmont
W. Va
Ames
Lowe
J. W. Paul
West Virginia
Cat Saves Lives and Dies in Staten Island Fire
A Grant City Staten Island couple awoke to a cat scratching at their door and saw their house on fire. They escaped through a second story window as the floor collapsed and the home burned. The cat died in the ruins while saving the Haywoods.
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New York
Joseph H. Haywood
Grant City
Staten Island
The Old Jockey Remembers Bravest Days of the Turf
An aging jockey recalls the golden era, weighing in daily at the mill, and the craft, gear, and grit of past champions. He lampoons modern seats, reflects on stewards, and shares tales of rivalries, close calls, and stubborn loyalty to horse and rider.
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Tom
Sloan
John Osborne
Custance
Challoners
Tom Cannon
Tinman
Stern
Best Time to Buy Perfume
A woman who never used perfume seeks to choose a scent for her rooms and wardrobe. The saleswoman advises waiting for a headache to test perfumes, since all fragrances affect the nerves differently. Choose what is most restful and suited to the individual.
Maiden by the brook inspires a fisher’s confession
By Byron Williams a humorous fishing poem describes meeting a pretty maiden by a brook. He teases her wandering, notes her beauty and golden hair, and learns she fishes without gear. Despite the odd method she uses, she captivates him and catches his heart.
Wit and whimsy from a past column of quips
A collage of witty lines and vignettes on aging fools, traveling carpenters, dogs, stubborn optimists, and social quirks. It plays on satire of marriage, manners, and everyday oddities with jokes about old age, fashion, and humorous observations from a bygone era.
No Danger On Night In Subdued Light
A fragmented column mixes a romantic vignette with a spoof on fortune tellers, then shifts to brief items noting social topics, a Christmas plea, and a finance blip. It closes with a short note on human ascent limits and a weathered local stock item. The prose spans playful fiction, occult critique, and scattered notices.
Autumn Sighs and Humorous Lines from a Rural Verse
A rustic monologue blends sentimental verses about a father and his child with playful rural witticisms. The speaker laments summer's end and a son grown, interleaving reflections on love, marriage, and gifting, interspersed with brief quips about life, work, and seasonal change.
Snake story on Morll Neb Mall hits hundred rattlers
Last Sunday while driving on Towes Flats residents encountered a den of snakes. After they tired of killing the reptiles they stacked exactly one hundred rats and a few blue rirs and two prairie queens. The day proved rough for snakes and for the people involved at Morrill Nebraska Mall.
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Tows Flats
Morrill
Neb
Snake tile tests lead to tally of local snake kills
R W Ratcliff of Lelia Lake tested snake tiles on the street and counted 42 kitten swakes this year while his son Gus killed 62. They were mostly water moccasins with one rattler. The Clarendon Banner-Stockman calls Ratcliff deserving of a dog. Henry Lege accompanied his lame teeth to Clinton threatening sub traction in St Peter Missouri Herald.
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R. W. Ratcliff
Lelia Lake
Gus
Ratcliff
Henry Lege
Clinton
Peter (Mo
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