Center of Population Prediction Winds Westward
The census center of population is expected to move slightly west from its 1890 position near Columbus Indiana, defying earlier consensus. The West has surged with rail expansion irrigation and new towns while eastern cities gain migrants from coal regions and steel belts, offsetting western growth.
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Columbus
Ind
Toledo Blade
West
Seattle
Pennsylvania
Lake Erie
Far West
Health rules clash with prejudice spark Barletta riot
Cholera plagues parts of Italy, officials curb spread with precautions. A riot broke out in Barletta after health measures drew the ire of locals, threatening the health office and highlighting gaps between enlightenment and persistent ignorance in disease control.
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Italy
Barletta
October Wild Walks Open The Open air Vacations
Those who saved vacations for October are praised as the month offers prime walking weather. The article extols late summer foliage and brisk mornings, urging readers to extend open air vacation habits into winter and enjoy the outdoors.
World wheat crop seen near record 1910 estimate
The 1910 wheat crop is projected at just under 3.5 billion bushels, nearly the largest harvest on record. Last year set the record, about 150 million bushels above 1910. The U S accounts for more than half of the shortage, with Russia also below last year but holding more old wheat than in 1909.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Russia
Government orders large batch of rifle silencers
The United States government orders another large installment of firearm silencers to mute gunfire. Experiments are under way with silencers for cannon, suggesting future battles may be marked by shouting and tumult rather than loud gunfire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Accidental Buffalo Shooting by Boy Highlights Care Needed
A twelve year old Buffalo boy received a rifle as a gift from his father and, within minutes, shot and killed his mother. Authorities stress the accident was preventable and emphasize that given opportunity and invitation, accidents will happen.
Hippo Meat Project Sparks Tasteful Debate
The expicurean world awaits updates on a project to produce hippo meat fed on water hyacinth noting it may rival terrapin in appeal. The unusual option stirs curiosity among critics and supporters alike.
Woman Pleads Theft to Feed Her Children
A woman charged with stealing silk stockings pleads she committed the act to feed her children. The report notes ongoing advances in infant health science and reflects on social pressures behind petty crime.
Taft Ends New York Vacation and Dinner Plans
President Taft concluded a three day stay in New York and headed back to Washington. He invited Mayor Gaynor to a White House dinner to honor a Tokio official, a move seen as potential though not decisive discussion on Supreme Court appointments. Taft pursued updates on New York state affairs and met with Lloyd Griscom and Otto Barnard regarding the Stimson candidacy.
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White House
Tokio
Supreme Court
New York
Taft
Washington
Pennsylvania
Gaynor
Mr. Taft
New York State
Lloyd Griscom
Stimson
Besieged by Lynchers in Illinois Suburb
McLeansboro Illinois reports a 25 year old Logan Hinds from Flannigan township barricaded in an old house after beating Neal Lamfrey’s wife with a club in a quarrel. Hinds fled and took refuge as infuriated neighbors surrounded the structure seeking to lynch him.
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McLeansboro
Logan Hinds
Flannigan Township
Here
Hinds
Neal Lamfrey
Lamfrey
Senator Dolliver Dies in Fort Dodge Iowa
Des Moines Iowa Senator Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver senior senator from Iowa died suddenly at his Fort Dodge home during a routine examination. He had been ill a week with acute rial dilation before the fatal moment as his wife and three children were present.
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Des Moines
Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver
Iowa
Fort Dodge
Dolliver
Supreme Court Upholds Little Primary Law In Espey Case
The Illinois supreme court sustained the demurrer to Charles W. Espey's petition seeking to force the state board of canvassers to place his name on the November ballot for the First district house seat. The demurrer was upheld and the petition dismissed.
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Springfield
Supreme Court
Espey
House of Representatives
Senate
Illinois General Assembly
Charles W. Espey
State Board of Canvassers
Jails Opium Smugglers In El Paso Case
In El Paso the fall federal court session ended with the breakup of two opium smuggling rings. Leader C B Stevenson, using many aliases, was convicted of smuggling and sentenced to 18 months at Fort Leavenworth. Six others were convicted, receiving jail terms and heavy fines.
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el Paso
Tex
Federal Court
C. B. Stevenson
Federal
Fort Leavenworth
Curtiss Plans New Monoplane Test at Belmont Park
Curtiss prepares to test a new single wing racing aeroplane at Belmont Park Hammondsport N Y. The chassis mirrors the Curtiss biplane design features a 150 square foot surface and a 65 horsepower engine expected to push speeds above 80 miles per hour.
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Hammondsport
N. Y
Glenn H. Curtiss
Belmont Park
Official Tells of Bribe Involving Iron Pipe Purchase
Springfield report says Dallas City highway commissioner W D Shain told State's Attorney Burke that J R Finkelstein, president of Greenburg Iron Co of Terre Haute Ind, offered 15 percent commission if iron pipes were bought for the county. Shain showed letters from Greenburg Iron and recounted a Springfield meeting with Shain, Smith, and Finkelstein, who allegedly paid his railroad transportation.
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Springfield, Lll
W. D. Shain
Dallas City
Burke
J. R. Finkelstein
Greenburg Iron Company
Terre Haute
Ind
Shain
William Smith
Finkelstein
Springfield
Jackson politician and distiller shot dead in doorway
In Jackson Kentucky Matt Crawford, a politician and distiller, was fired on from a bush by four assailants, killing him instantly as he stepped from his home. Rumors of lynching circulate amid high excitement over the murder.
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Jackson
Matt Crawford
Crawford
Taft Leaves Beverly for New York After Vacation
President Taft ends vacation on the North Shore and returns to the White House in good health. He is reported to be several pounds heavier than when he arrived around July 1 after golfing and recreational activities this summer.
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Beverly
Mass
Taft
New York
White House
North Shore
Stanley Ketchel Slain Near Conway Missouri
World middleweight champion Stanley Ketchel was shot in the right lung by Walter Dipley near Conway Missouri. Dipley confessed the killing saying fear for his life. Ketchel died later in Springfield hospital as the suspect was captured near Niangua Webster County. Burial plans reported for Grand Avenue.
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Springfield
Stanley Ketchel
Walter A. Hurtz
Conway
Walter Dipley
Niangua
Webster County
Dipley
Ketchel
R. P. Dickerson
Here
Dechel
Grand Ay Od
Land Fraud Charged in Alaska Coal Lands Case
Washington officials under R A Ballinger announce indictments against seven men charged with conspiring to defraud over valuable Alaska coal lands. Indictments returned by the Seattle federal grand jury name C F Munday A H Stracey Archie W Shields E E Siegler Cornelius Christopher George Simmonds Mortimer Sweeney, tied to the English Stracey and Christopher Simmonds groups.
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Washington
R. A. Ballinger
Secretary of the Interior
Alaska
Federal Grand Jury
Seattle
Interior Department
Ballinger
C. F. Munday
A. H. Stracey
Archie W. Shields
E. E. Siegler
Cornelius Christopher
George Simmonds
Mortimer Sweeney
Christopher-Simmonds
Preparing for Land Sale in Eastern Oklahoma
In Muskogee Oklahoma commissioner J George Wright and staff detail plans after interior secretary R A Ballinger approves regulations for selling unalloted lands of the five civilized tribes. More than 2 090 000 acres are to be offered with staged payments: 25 percent due at sale closure, 25 percent after six months, and the remaining balance after 18 months.
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Muskogee
Okla
R. A. Ballinger
Five Civilized Tribes
J. George Wright
Oklahoma
New Arctic Peak Claim Exceeds McKinley in Height
Seattle reports Thomas J. Riggs Jr., a government engineer on the Alaska boundary project, believes he has found the continent’s highest mountain far north of the Arctic Circle, surpassing Mount McKinley by nearly 2000 feet.
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Seattle
Wesh
Thomas J. Riggs, Jr
Alaska
Arctic Circle
Mount McKinley
Alaska Peak
Wellman and crew abandon airship America at sea
After two days amid a gale the Wellman expedition faced a wrecked ship and a lifeboat escape. Walter Wellman and five crew members were rescued by the Royal Mail Steamer Trent about 400 miles off North Carolina as their airship America drifted away as a gas-filled derelict.
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New York
Walter Wellman
America
Royal Mail
Trent
North Carolina
Thrilling rescue by wireless from drifting airship
Airship America crew wished to abandon the balloon. Wireless between America and the Trent guided a perilous lifeboat launch. The lifeboat was dropped, leaking a small hole, injuring two crewmen as the vessel was towed to safety at sea. The airship, blown off course, was abandoned.
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Irwin
Ginsburg
America
Jack Irwin
Louis Loud
Wellman
Big Farm Operator Dead in Missouri Rankin Passes
David Rankin, head of the world’s largest farm, died in Tarkio Missouri after paralysis struck last Saturday. Born May 28 1825 in Sullivan County Indiana he was 85 plus and a pioneer farmer who moved from Illinois in 1831 and Missouri in the late 1870s. He owned about 30000 acres across Iowa Missouri and Nebraska with assets near 3500000 and was a noted benefactor to education and philanthropy.
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St. Joseph
David Rankin
Tarkio
Rankin
Missouri
Sullivan County
Indiana
Illinois
Iowa
Nebraska
Storm Sweeps Florida Causes Widespread Damage
A destructive storm swept the Florida peninsula causing several million dollars in damage. Forty thousand square miles south of Jacksonville lost outside communication for over 24 hours. Reported hurricane winds and falling barometers stretched from Tampa to St. Augustine. The orange crop and trucking industry likely ruined. Eastern coast feared heavy loss of life and great property damage. Maximum wind reached 70 miles per hour.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Florida Peninsula
Tampa
St. Augustine
Hands Cracked and Healed by Cuticura Remedies
An elderly man from South Effingham New Hampshire recounts yearlong hand sores that bled and burned until using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment. Within a week his hands were healed and have remained free of pain, with a neighbor's child also cured.
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John W. Hasty
History of Red Cross Seal and Tuberculosis Campaigns
The origin of charity stamps traces to 1862 Boston soldiers relief funds, then the 1907 Delaware anti tuberculosis effort raised 3000 in three weeks. In 1908 the American Red Cross ran the first national tuberculosis stamp drive raising 1,365,000, followed by 250,000 in 1909. The 1910 slogan is A Million for Tuberculosis From Red Cross Seals in 1910.
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Red Cross
Boston
Delaware Anti
English Lord Heard Baffled by Child’s Cry at Dinner
A fire eating father raised a boy who loathed England yet the boy ate with a nurse while a genuine English lord dined in the room. Conversation paused at twenty past and a child’s treble cried Fe Fi Fo Fum, I smell the blood of an English man, shocking the noble guest.
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England
The Way It Looked Hat Banter with Mayonnaise Joke
Mrs. Benham asks how the hat looks while Benham jokes that it features mayonnaise dressing. The quip turns on a playful visual pun about a fashion item.
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B W. Jarvis
Gras Arasse
uePy Fatman
Totes
Wes
Pe Fay Rose
Iowa Solon
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State Board of Examiners
Texas
Curtiss
Kentucky
Pugilist
Florida
Ruth
Benham
Post
Postum Cereal Company, Ltd
Battle Creek, Mich
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