Dems in caucus set two thirds rule and tariff debate
Washington Democrats adopt a two thirds rule for party discipline in the House while the Ways and Means Committee faults the Payne tariff bill as crude and costly. Congress opens debate amid expected tough slog. rule may mimic Dingley pacing.
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France
Father Reunites With Kidnapped Boy in Cleveland Hotel
A Cleveland hotel lobby reunion ends a nationwide kidnapping case. Willard Whitla Jr. is today returned to his father after being smuggled from Sharon to Warren and finally to Cleveland. The father and two boys who helped guide the boy to the Hollenden hotel followed a ransom plan. The boy, wearing smoked glasses and a tan cap, was recognized by two teens on the car and led to his father.
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Homecoming of Willie Whitla Draws Sharon Crowd
Sharon Pennsylvania residents fill streets and Whitla lawn as Willie Whitla returns with his father after being missing. A parade led by local guards and the Buhl Rifles band accompanied the family home where 5000 gathered amid cheers and speeches. Authorities arrest two suspects in Cleveland and Governor Stuart offers a 15000 dollar reward for the kidnappers.
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Whitla Kidnapers Nabbed After Cash Confession
Cleveland police arrest a man and a woman believed to be Billy Whitla’s kidnapers. Nine thousand eight hundred dollars in pink-taped currency, stamped Lawrence Saratoga N Y, is found on the woman and tied to the case. Attorney J P Whitla vows to press conviction as Billy Whitla helped point the suspects to officers.
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Foundation of Tenochtitlan and the City of Mexico
A historical tale recounts how Aztecs founded Tenochtitlan on a lake bed where an eagle on a cactus devoured a serpent. Terracing the lake, building structures, and raising the Teocalli temple began in 1216 and completed in 1325, marking the official founding of the City of Mexico.
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Mexico
Rosary Magazine
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Taft names Lloyd Bowers as solicitor general
President Taft selects Lloyd Bowers of Chicago to become solicitor general of the Department of Justice, succeeding Henry M. Hoyt. Also noted are Roosevelt and son Kermit sailing for Africa to hunt big game, Judge Hayward declining a post, Miss Mary Garden's marriage plans, Yale reception for Taft, George T. Oliver chosen to fill Knox’s term, Harriman announcing retirement.
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Mary Garden
Prince Marcodato
Russia
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George T. Oliver
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Philander C. Knox
Kk. H. Harriman
Los Angeles
Notable Executions and Global News Highlights
The report covers Gov. Hughes denying clemency for Mrs. Mary Farmer who faces electrocution. It also notes Ernest Bicknell's return from Italy, ex-president Cipriano Castro’s travel to Bordeaux, and Aida Hilton’s eye injury from tabasco. Additional items include a Virginia crime, a California scientist burn, a London robbery, Roosevelt's safari, a kidnapping arrest, Canada's northern police voyage, Cuban constitutional claims, census funding request.
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Ernest Bicknell
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Bordeaux
France
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Aida Hilton
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Congress
Newspaper Career Ends as Joseph Swan Dies at Desk
Joseph Swan, long time Associated Press marine reporter in New York City, collapsed at his ship news office in the Battery. The 40 year veteran had recently shown heart weakness and was cautioned against overexertion.
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Records filed to dissolve Standard Oil in U S circuit court
Nineteen typewritten volumes with 25 000 pages of testimony and 1 500 exhibits were filed in the U S circuit court in St Louis to dissolve the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey The documents summarize hearings by Special Examiner Franklin Ferris in New York Chicago and other cities The testimony will be reviewed and arguments heard in St Louis on April 5.
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United States Circuit Court
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Chicago
Poster couple still on street in New York Herald
The verse depicts Jane O'Ryan as the poster girl and her companion standing on a cold New York thoroughfare as snow whirls around. Children hurry home from school while wind bites and passersby ignore the scene.
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New York Herald
String Ball Lures Frugal Shopper Aboard Domestic Economy
A child recalls saving string from store packages to wind into a ball and plans a tiny bag to hold it. The scene, voiced in a comic back and forth, highlights thrift and playful domestic economy from a New York Weekly feature.
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New York Weekly
Prodigality ends as flowers seek conserving resources
A witty Chicago Tribune quip compares flowers in the desert to wasting sweetness on the air, declaring a need to stop profligacy and conserve natural resources. The line imagines the flora sighing at wasteful beauty as the desert air remains indifferent.
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Speedometer Pitch Sparks Car Chase Gag
A comic exchange shows an agent offering a speedometer to a chauffeur to prove driving speed, while the chauffeur notes police can already tell speed, in a Cleveland Leader style snippet.
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Cleveland
Ostrich Farming Sees Profits in Australia
A new ostrich industry emerges at Nardoo and Coonambie Australia with 120 birds on a farm. Incubation uses deeper egg drawers and 102 degree hatch temperature. Early care needs green food. feathers yield about 40 dollars per bird annually with black white and drab colors, males commanding the highest value.
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Nardoo
Coonambie
Native Maiden Calls Newcomer A Civil Engineer
In the Far West a Native Maiden scolds a Newcomer for his presence saying the place is rude. She mocks him by labeling him a civil engineer amid their brief exchange.
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Far West
Seek Natural Feeding Ground Whitefish Fry Housed in Kingston
Whitefish fry hatched in a United States hatchery at Kingston New York are released and almost immediately move to their natural feeding ground along the northern shore of Lake Ontario proving their instinct to migrate.
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Kingston
N. Y
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Ontario
Foreign Birds in Connecticut
The Connecticut game commission imported and liberated sixty five thousand Hungarian partridges in the last two years, a bird about twice the size of the quail, as part of wildlife initiatives.
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Connecticut
Connecticut Game Commission
Markets Report Across Cities Reflect Varied Prices
New York prices show easy money at 1.42 percent and sterling at 4.88.10. Grain and live stock values fluctuate with Minnesota flour patents at 5.60 to 6.00 and cattle found steady with lambs near 7.25 to 8.40. Cleveland notes mixed wheat at 1.24 and hogs around 7.05, while Toledo and Buffalo report steady or modest gains in cattle, hogs, and sheep across multiple grades.
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