Tariff inquiry looms as Taft seeks expand board power
Washington diary notes that President Taft may win $250,000 for a tariff board expansion to study links between prices and duties. Republicans waver between delaying major measures and embracing new authority for tariff experts, while Aldrich and Root surface as potential Senate leaders amid talk of a nominal chief and ongoing internal party maneuvering.
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Washington
President’s Tariff Board
Taft
Congress
Tariff Board
United States
Havens
Rochester
Aldridge
Republican Congress
White House
House
Senator Root
Senate
New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Root
Elihu Root
Aldrich
Rhode Islander
United States Senate
Ft. Aero Sat
Big Mission Rally Attracts 4500 Delegates In Chicago
In Chicago from May 3 for four days the Layman's National Missionary Congress drew about 4500 delegates from across the United States. Prominent figures including former Vice-President Fairbanks and governors attended. The gathering concluded a nationwide missionary campaign and adopted a national missionary policy to be presented at the Edinburgh World Missionary Conference.
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Chicago
National Missionary Congress
America
Fairbanks
Methodist Episcopal Church
United States
Dolliver
Iowa
Beveridge
Indiana
Teller
Colorado
States
Hadley
Missouri
Yates
Illinois
Hanley
Buffalo
Will Again Revise Tariff Through Tariff Board Funding
The House Committee on Appropriations plans to insert 250000 dollars in the sundry civil bill for the Tariff Board created by the Payne Aldrich Act. The board will study differences in production costs between the United States and foreign markets to guide tariff adjustments and fulfill the party platform pledge.
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House Committee On Appropriations
Tariff Board
Payne Aldrich
Washington
Congress
House
Senate
Taft
Tawney
United States
Eveybody
Cruel Tortures Reported in Nicaragua Crisis
A letter to the American consul in Managua details cruelties by Estrada forces in Nicaragua. Arellano cites suspensions from thumbs, whipping, and hangings aimed at coercing confessions about aid to Calixto Talaveras Guerrillas. Nineteen cases are listed with names of victims and one man shot.
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Washington
Managua
Nicaragua
Isthmian Republic
Senor Castrillo
Estrada
Mr. Arellano
Mandaimo
Granda
Calixto Talaveras
Mandalmo
Arellano
Will Lift Bribery Scandal In Illinois Case
State's Attorney Wayman to bring Representative Charles A. White of O in Fallon before the special grand jury to repeat his confession that he was paid a thousand dollars for voting for William Lorimer as U S senator and later received nine hundred as his share in a general corruption fund. Downstate lawmakers named by White including Henry A Shepard Joseph Clark Michael Link and Lee O Neil Browne are expected to appear. The bribery case will be pursued vigorously as the jury probes the full extent of the scandal.
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Chicago
Wayman
Charles A. White
O'Fallon
William Lorimer
United States
White
Henry A. Shepherd
Jerseyville
Joseph 8. Clark
Vandalia
Michael Link
Mitchell
Lee O'Neil Browne
Ottawa
Roosevelt Endorses Taft and Names Loeb as New York Governor
The Washington Post reports Theodore Roosevelt writes to President Taft and others endorsing the Taft administration. He selects William Loeb Jr. as New York governor hopeful, the port collector, while stating his plan to remain in private life is final.
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Prince ’T. H. Yun
Korea
J A. MacDonald
The
Toronto Globe
Robert EB. Speer
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions
William J. Schiefelin
Ctizens’ Union of
New York
Alfréd BE. Marling
Mornay Williams
New York State Board of Charities
Clement Chase
Omaha
Howard A. Kelly
Baltimore
Samuel B. Capen
Boston
John R. Pepper
Memphis
Tenn
H. M. Beardsley
Kansas City
George Sherwood Holdy
India
Robert H. Gardiner
Col
Elijah W. Halford
President Harrison
Thomas Tippey
William H. Lewis
Seattle
Washington
Washington Post
Theodore
Roosevelt
Taft
Charles B. Hughes
William Loeb, Jr
Port of New York
President Taft
Root
Loeb
Col. Roosevelt
Morgan County farmer and daughter held to federal grand jury
J A Campbell a wealthy Morgan county farmer and his daughter Mrs Mabel Addison were held to the federal grand jury to answer a charge of conducting a fraudulent matrimonial scheme. May Day in Paris passed quietly as government precautions kept demonstrations from running. The General Federation of Labor did not attempt to carry out its threatened demonstration.
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Jefferson City
J. A. Campbell
Morgan County
Mabel Addison
Paris
General Federation of Labor
Trade to Still Heavy as Crops Loom in 1890s Outlook
R G Dun reports trade remains irregular but volume stays heavy. Pig iron demand cool with more furnaces shutting down. coke producers curtail output by about 100000 tons since March. Rail and finished goods show mixed activity. dry goods steadier, cotton goods firmer, shoe makers report new orders for fall, leather prices rise 2-3 cents, hides supply steadying the market.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
Weekly Review of Trade
Pennsylvania
Boston
Failures and Exports Report Weekly US Canada Trade
Bradstreet notes U S and Canada weekly business failures with 189 in the week ended April 28, down from 193 last week and far below 1909. Wheat and flour exports reach 2 059 289 bushels. 43 weeks total 122 231 437 bushels. Corn exports for the week 518 814 bushels. 43 weeks total 25 292 531 bushels.
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New York
Bradstreet
BAYL
United States
Canada
Tobacco Market News from Louisville Auction Week
Louisville April 30 The total offerings last week reached 1374 hogsheads with 483 burley and 891 dark types. Burley were small in volume with fair quality and condition, color scarce, and overall market stronger driving slight price gains for medium red leaf.
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Louisville
Livestock Prices Mixed at Cincinnati Market
The market shows varied quotes across steers heifers cows and calves with heaviest cattle around 8 500 to 9 75 per hundredweight. Sows and pigs fetch about 7 50 to 9 60 while calves and shopyard stock range from fair to choice with notable highs and lows recorded in the session.
Grain Market Report Opened With Mixed Prices
The Cincinnati market shows mixed grain prices with flour varieties ranging around five dollars and rye and corn bids varying. No clear trend emerges as Winter patent flour and several rye and corn grades display fluctuating quotes amid typographical errors in the source.
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Cincinnati
Northwestern
City
Wealthy Newcomer Wins Fame Despite Silence
Mrs Wise questions the new millionaire's popularity while Mr Wise notes his wealth as the true reason, saying he can pay the freight despite poor expression.
Itchy Burning Relief In A Day With Cuticura Remedies
A New York City resident reports dramatic relief from a severe all over body itch after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment from March night to April 1. The customer, Frank Gridley of 325 East 43rd Street, cites rapid improvement and endorses Potter Drug & Chem. Corp. as sole props.
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Frank Gridley
East 43Rd Street
New York City
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Boston
Mass
Gentlemen Two Street Cleaners in Altercation
Two city sanitation workers argued while driving carts along upper Broadway. A red faced man demanded the other move, calling him inferior. The reply claimed greater gentility and noted differing duties as they argued amid a disreputable scene.
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Upper Broadway
New York Press
Do His Cuffs Need a Shave
An old laundry advertisement touts Easy Task Laundry Soap as a solution to yellowing collars and cuffs stained by rosin and caustic washes. It claims the soap cleans fabrics without extra cost and saves clothes, time, and health.
A Witty Bishop
A Philadelphia physician recalls the late Bishop Foss who visited for a trifling ailment. The doctor quips for the bishop to talk in his sleep and the bishop replies he talks in other people's sleep, claiming to be a divine.
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Foss
Philadelphia
Poetic tribute and wry quips amuse a crowd
Observers share captions from poems and jokes about authorship and publishing. A public celebration features a poet whose final work is noted as his last poem. Side comments from Leslie's Weekly and the Washington Star echo dark humor about publishing and domestic life.
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Leslie’s Weekly
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Testant Episcopal Church
Charles P Anderson
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J. Campbell White
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