Governor Urges Repeal of the Sunday Rest Law
Governor Hawley’s message to Idaho’s Eleventh legislature calls for repeal of the Sunday rest law while supporting local option unchanged. He urges a constitutional convention, a state tax commission, a new revenue law, limits on bonding, a fixed levy for state institutions, and expanded judgeships. The annual message also notes land and road improvements, land board reforms, and funding adjustments for education and rural schools.
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Boise
James H. Hawley
Hawley
Congress
San Francisco
Panama Canal
Revenue Law Commission
Supreme Court
State Board of Examiners
State Purchasing Board
Supervisory Board of Engineers
State Land Board
Land Board
Walters
Serata
Takeis
Turkiye Quake Triggers Fatalities and Fissures in Vyerny
A massive quake in Russian Turkestan rattled Vyerny and surrounding areas from 4:00 to 4:30 AM causing extensive destruction and casualties. Great fissures opened, most stores and homes in Vyerny were destroyed, and communications are disrupted. The death toll is not yet known.
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Tashkent
Russia
Russian Turkestan
Vyerny
Semiryetchensk
Anarchists Incinerated in East End Fire Fight
Public excitement grows as police and soldiers overtake the Sidney Street tenement. The last stand of the anarchist gang ends with a blaze and their deaths. authorities recover parts of a body believed to be Peter the painter. No papers reveal the gang’s broader operations.
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London
East End
Sidney Street
Peter
Sheepmen Demand a Square Deal at Woolgrowers Convention
Archbishop Alexander Christie opened the National Woolgrowers convention in Portland. Former President Wilson of Douglas Wyoming received applause after urging a square deal and tariff reform. He cited a suit of clothes costing 60 dollars that cost him eight dollars to illustrate tariff aims. President Gooding of Idaho delivered his annual address.
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Portland
Alexander Christie
Wilson
Douglas
Wyoming
Gooding
Idaho
Illinois Legislature Opens With Reform Promises
The forty seventh Illinois legislature convened in Springfield promising public welfare advances after ring rule abolition. Expected measures include civil service extension, initiative and referendum, corrupt practices act, election law changes, and reforms to local government and mining laws. Reapportionment and county option loom as major fights.
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Springfield
Ill
Illinois
Americans Accused of Financing Central American Revolutions
Chicago and Washington reports reveal a plotted funding network for revolutions in Central America. New York capitalists and Northern Mexican and Honduran mine owners allegedly financed filibuster plots and planned expeditions. A multi million dollar fund was said to back the effort, with Gustavo Madero linked to pushing authorities to act. DOJ agents scramble to monitor neutrality law violations as investigations continue.
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Central America
Chicago
Record-Herald Today
New York
Mexico
Honduras
Department of Justice
Department
United States
Gustavo Madero
Francisco I. Madero
Washington
Chicago Dispatch
Good Roads Boosters to Meet This Evening
Bannock County Good Roads association members are urged to attend a 8 o'clock meeting at the Y M C A Commercial club rooms to hear President Sherman of the Intermountain Good Roads association discuss road laws for the Idaho legislature. The Commercial club also meets tonight to welcome Sherman and discuss measures for the session.
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Pocatello Commercial Club
Bannock County Good Roads Association
Sherman
The
Intermountain Good Roads Association
Idaho
Pocatello
C. B. Steely
West
Good Roads Leaders Visit City for 1911 Convention Talk
F E R Sherman of Buhl and William Wallin meet with local road boosters in Pocatello and discuss 11th session legislation. A citizens meeting at the Y M C A rooms aims to rally support as Sherman attends the Bannock county group gathering and outlines proposed state laws on road taxation contracts and public highways.
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E. R. Sherman
Buhl
Intermountain Good Roads Association
William Wallin
Pocatello
Wallin
Steely
Bannock County Good Roads Association
Commercial Club
Sherman
Gate City
Twin Falls
Boise
State Association of County Commissioners
Fined for Rebating Philadelphia Firms Hit with $40,000 Penalties
Judge Hol land in the United States district court imposed fines of forty thousand dollars each on the Philadelphia and Reading railway Lehigh Valley Railroad and Bethlehem Steel for unlawful rebating. The government prosecuted the case and the defendants say they will appeal.
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Philadelphia
Holland
United States District Court
Philadelphia and Reading Railway
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
Bethlehem Steel Company
White Resigns Presidency of Allis-Chalmers. Call Named Successor
New York news confirms W. H. White has resigned as president of Allis-Chalmers. D. W. Call, formerly assistant to the president of American Steel Foundry, is chosen to succeed him.
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New York
W. H. Whiteside
Allis-Chalmers Company
D. W. Call
American Steel Foundry Company
Embezzler Templeton Sentenced in Blair County Court
Chambers C Templeton once a state senator and attorney from Tyrone Pa pleaded guilty to forgery and embezzlement of seventy five thousand dollars from clients. He was sentenced to three to twelve years in the state penitentiary.
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Hollidaysburg
Chambers C. Templeton
Tyrone
Blair County Court
Eastern Ontario Dairy Men's Association Opens in Perth
In Perth Ontario the annual convention of the Eastern Ontario Dairy men's association began today with a large attendance. The three day sessions will cover vital questions for Canadian dairy men and others handling dairy farm products.
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Perth
Ont
Eastern Ontario Dairymen’s Association
Fatal collision today at Cheney crushes five lives
A Burlington No. 2 delay at Cheney caused a northeast bound North Coast Limited to ram a waiting train. Five men died, one dying, three injured, two Pullmans destroyed, and many others injured as the locomotive plowed through the standing train.
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Spokane
Burlington
Cheney
North Coast Limited
North Coast
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