Senators Must Get On Record On Tariff Fights
Senate Republicans face forced record votes on tariff schedules revised by the House as Senator Stone of Missouri leads a drive to discharge the finance committee from consideration. The wool duties bill and free list bill loom, with possible references to cotton. debate could stretch into August or September as insurgents weigh support for Democratic revisions. The president is expected to back House positions in conference on the Canadian treaty.
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Washington
Senate
House
Stone
Finance Committee
Doll Wer
Pardon Granted to Christ Christianson in South Dakota
Sioux Falls June 1 Christ Christianson released from Sioux Falls penitentiary after nearly fifteen years for murder. He returned to his brother in Clark County. Widely believed innocent by investigators, the case centered on his wife’s death found in a grave near the family home. Trial relied on circumstantial evidence.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
State Board of Pardons
Christ Christianson
Clark County
Christianson
Arrested for Carrying Off Sister in Lexington Neb
Frank Bellamy attempted to remove his eleven year old sister from the home of John Corkin. They started from town with her in his buggy when screams attracted attention. Chief Malcum in an automobile overtook them about a mile away. Bellamy was jailed and will have a hearing today. The girl returned to the Corkin home.
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Lexington
Neb
Frank Bellamy
John Corkin
Malcum
Bellamy
Corkin
Pittsburg Coal Lands Sold to United States Steel
Pittsburg Coal company plans to sell 7600 acres of improved Connersville coking coal and 10000 acres of undeveloped coal lands to United States Steel for 19.5 million dollars. The deal stakes a major expansion of steel industry assets in the region.
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Pittsburg
June
Pittsburg Coal Company
Connersville
United States Steel Corporation
German shoemaker loses wallet near Algona wedding
Frank Prens of Algona, a German shoemaker, carried $1,800 in a wallet and is missing the item after attending a German wedding five miles out of town. Authorities have not established whether it was lost or robbed. He is anxiously seeking clues about the missing funds.
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Algona
Frank Prens
Begging the Price in a Moral Exchange
A downtown morning encounter shows a man refusing a panhandler’s plea for money for his wife and children. The beggar taunts him with the possibility he lies, while the pedestrian condemns liquor and mocks the notion of helping the “good” by funding drink. The exchange ends with the beggar challenging the caller to reconsider before worrying about anything else.
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Lim
Boston Traveler
Telephone Blunders and a police chief mixups
A Portland businessman fended off a rib joke after a misdialed call asking mistaking him for a butcher. The tale expands to an Oakland chief of police who insulted a caller before realizing she sought a butcher, not him.
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Portland
Adam
Blank
Oakland
Cal
Chief of Police
Portland Oregonian
A Man Who Knew Everything Thiers on Universal Competence
Thiers, famed French statesman, is depicted as craving universal recognition of his own competence. In a quip about a Serres manufactory director candidate he quips I am not made for that part then laughs. He notes a man raised high could not fit a post yet says I do know chemistry.
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Thiers
Mgr
Gabriel Hanotaux
France
Serres
Sam
Champion Egg Layers Among Insects Explained
The text notes that while many insects are prolific, the order Isoptera or white ants surpass them all. Dr. Howard explains they are not true ants and not white, with some African females growing very large and swollen with eggs. Egg-laying rates reach about sixty per minute, over 80,000 daily.
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Howard
Rooms to Set Signs In Paris
A Boston Post note explains Paris dwellings use color coded signs. White cards indicate furnished rooms for let while yellow cards signal unfurnished lodgings available, guiding passersby to the right listings.
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Paris
Ron
Boston Post
When Knighthood Was in Flower
A humorous exchange between Mrs Knightight and Mrs Liteknight about mending a torn Sunday coat using heavy tools like a hammer, chisel, pincers, and rivets as they discuss repairing the garment for the children.
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Knighthood
Easter Way in Hand to Mouth Living
A fragment from the Baltimore American features a punny exchange about poverty and budgeting. One speaker says life is dreadfully precarious, another explains he lives from hand to foot as his tradesman husband covers the bills.
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Baltimore American
Stumble Upon Them Not by Appointment Light and Joy
A fragment quotes Gerald Massey on unexpected encounters with light and joy. The lines describe how joy appears suddenly when least awaited, turning a corner of life into a welcoming greeting.
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Gerald Magsey
Quote on bravery from Car lyle about impossibility
A succinct proverb notes that impossibility has no home in a brave man's vocabulary. Carlyle asserts courage over limitations, framing perseverance as a defining trait of true bravery.
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Carlyle
Lumber Combine Probe Opens as Judge Landis Takes Testimony
Chicago June 5 Judge Landis who fined Standard Oil 29000000 prepares to hear lumber inquiry starting today A special panel is chosen to probe the western lumber industry Prosecutor Sims withholds strategy but it is expected Frederick Weyerhaeuser head of the alleged combine will testify
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Landis
Chicago
Standard Oil
West
Sims
Frederick Weyerhaeuser
Chautauqua Offers Band Concert and Opera Singers
On opening, Thavin leads a 25 member Thavian International Band in an afternoon concert. Evening program features Grand Opera Singers including Max Bing performing scenes from Faust and Il Trovatore in elaborate costumes with orchestral accompaniment under Thavin. A spectacular metropolitan style show arrives as a big city attraction at readers doors.
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Chautauqua
Max Bing
Thavia
Thavin
Captain Mazenowith Death From Biplane Flight
St Petersburg June 5 Captain Mazenowith an army aviator, sought to escape a death sentence by turning his biplane over from 2000 feet. He was crushed in the fall, and a letter to a friend before the flight showed he planned to die rather than face execution.
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St. Petersburg
Mazenowith
Mazenowitch
Must Check Their Guns Feud Witnesses Fight
Muskogee county court house will be searched for weapons as the grand jury probes the Parum feud. W E Disney county attorney ordered the search to prevent gunfire when feud factions face each other. Over forty witnesses subpoenaed. E A Maxwell, third victim, died in a hospital.
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Muskogee
Okla
Muskogee County Court House
Grand Jury
W. E. Disney
E. A. Maxwell
Porum
Italians Threaten Kansas Town Over Labor Dispute
A telegram from Selden Sheridan county reports Italian railroad workers terrorizing Topeka. Attorney General Dawson promised protection and asked immigration authorities to arrange deportation under immigration laws prohibiting foreigners from demonstrations.
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Kansas Town
Topeka
Dawson
Selden
Sheridan County
A Grand Day for Women Belle Kearney at Chautauqua
Belle Kearney famed traveler and advocate for womankind is booked for Chautauqua. She has met European rulers and notable figures, addressed the Berlin International Congress of Women, Shanghai Educational Association, and Yokohama Japanese Women convention. Endorsed by reformers including Isabel Somerset and Anna Shaw, she is expected to draw a large audience and inspire both men and women.
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Yokohama
Miss Kearney
Europe
Lebanon
Miss. Kearney
Chautauqua
John Sharpe Williams
Isabel Somerset
Co. Geo
W. Bain
Anna Shaw
Weather Crop Report Des Moines Iowa June 4 1911
Weather report for Des Moines Iowa covering the week ending June 4 1911 notes an unusually favorable season with moderate to very high temperatures and heavy rains on Thursday and Friday. Average temps ran 4 to 6 degrees above normal, rainfall mostly below normal though some areas saw heavy showers. Corn and other crops advanced in growth and overall condition was good, except southeastern counties with lighter rainfall. Small ears are forming with shorter straw and the bay crop is expected light, though improvements occurred in areas with heavy showers.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Prizefighter Killed. Portland Woman Wounded in Oregon Shooting
Louis Long, a prize fighter, was killed after being shot by the husband of a woman named Riley in Bend, Oregon. Mrs. Riley of Portland was seriously wounded as she tried to escape in an automobile pursued by Riley in a second car. Riley surrendered after Jong's car broke down.
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Bend
Ore
Louis Long
Riley
Portland
Jong
Long
Meat Packers Cite New Decisions In Court Pleadings
In Chicago on June 5 J Ogden Armour and other meat packers charged with conspiracy in restraint of trade filed written arguments citing recent oil and tobacco decisions as ground for a rehearing on a motion to quash indictments in the invat cases.
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Chicago
J. Ogden Armour
United States District Court
Horse's Kick Fat to a Boy Hartville Mo June 6
Willard Reese nine years old son of Nellie Reese at Odin seven miles west died from injuries received when a horse kicked him.
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Hartville
Willard Reese
Nellie Reese
Odin
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