Senate Approves Tax Amendment Amid Tariff Debate
Washington July 6 The Senate devoted its day to the tariff bill provisions and the Brown tax amendment. The income tax resolution, submitted to state legislatures, was adopted after three hours of debate. Bailey's opposition over a convention route failed as Brown's amendment passed unanimously. Cigar tax increases were defeated, while tobacco duties and Beveridge anti coupon provisions moved forward.
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Washington
Senate
Rayner
United States
Finance Committee
House
McCumber
Northwest
Senator Brown
Congress
Bailey
Subcommittee On Finance
Food Law Under Fire at National Hearing on Food Additives
Washington July 6 The national board of food and drug inspection held a general hearing on the pure food law provisions. Proponents for small chemical quantities argue preservation of food and health safety. Government experts counter with experiments showing deleterious effects from additives.
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National Board of Inspection
Washington
National Board of Food and Drug Inspection
Department of Agriculture
War secretary authorized to loan tents for encampment
A senate passed house resolution authorizes the secretary of war to loan cots and tents for the forty third national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic to be held in Salt Lake City Utah.
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Washington
Secretary of War
House
Senate
Forty Third National
Grand Army of the Republic
Salt Lake
Utah
No Canadian Railway Strike Reaches Winnipeg
Winnipeg on July 6 reports that the Canadian Northern railway engineers will not strike as issues are settled. All discharged engineers will be reinstated and wages raised to the schedule demanded by the engineers association.
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Winnipeg
Canadian Northern Railway
Aen
Man Mistakes Acid for Whisky Dies in Salisbury
Police officer L. D. O Kelley drank carbolic acid from a bottle he mistook for whisky and died within forty minutes in Salisbury on July 6. The incident prompted warnings about mislabeling and hazardous substances.
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Salisbury
N. C
L. D. O’kelley
Contagion Spread By Apparently Healthy Children
Health officials warn contagion often spreads from children who seem well rather than those known to be sick. In scarlet fever and diphtheria germs can be present even without symptoms, making it dangerous for healthy children to mingle with carriers.
Balcony Collapse Injures Ten At Swiss Hotel Parade
A balcony at the Swiss hotel in San Jose California collapsed during a parade crowd of fifty or more spectators. Ten people were injured with four men and six women in serious condition as the structure gave way onto the sidewalk.
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San Jose
Cal
Extreme Weather Delays Corn Harvest and Apple Crop Decline in Iowa
Des Moines reports reflect a week of weather extremes. Heavy southern rains delayed cornfield cleaning and led to substantial acreage abandoned, while oats, barley, rye and wheat headed well in the north. Potatoes and garden crops thrifty. fruit condition down but apples expected to be fair. Crop summaries compare July 1 1909 to prior years with corn at 92 percent, apples 76, and area planted about 102 percent of 1908.
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Des Moines
Chappel
Iowa Weather and Crop Service
Georgia Re-Elects Clay as U S Senator in Georgia
Georgia lawmakers in separate sessions chosen Alexander Stephens Clay for another term as United States senator. A joint session will ratify the choice and hear his national issues address. Clay, born September 25, 1853 in Cobb County, was admitted to the bar in 1877 and held state leadership roles before his 1896 Senate election.
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Atlanta
United States
Alexander Stephens Clay
Democrats
Georgia
Senator Clay
Cobb County
State Assembly
State Senate
State Democratic Executive Committee
John B. Gordon
Ex-Eureka Mayor Killed in Emeryville Auto Meet
C G Stafford former Eureka mayor was killed in the seventh race at the Emeryville track when N E B Silva's car crashed and overturned. Silva was injured, breaking his nose, and another unidentified man was struck and left unconscious while trying to cross the track.
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Oakland
Cal
C. G. Stafford
Eureka
N. E B. Silva
Emeryville
Silva
Stafford
Brandenburg in St Louis faces fraud charge over alleged child removal
Brandenburg in St Louis is slated for arraignment on a fraud charge for allegedly enticing a minor away from the child’s parent. The second case concerns allegedly taking James Shepard Cabanne III from St Louis to San Francisco, with the boy’s mother now identified as Mrs Brandenburg.
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Brandenburg
St. Louis
Broughton Brandenburg
New York
Grover Cleveland
James Shepard Cabanne
San Francisco
Good Roads Congress Metts
Seattle July 6 The National Good Roads congress met at the Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition M O Eldridge of Washington spoke on earth sand clay and gravel roads Andrew Rinker of Minneapolis discussed successful wood block pavements in that city
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Good Roads Congress
Seattle
Wash
National Good Roads Congress
M. O. Eldridge
Washington
Andrew Rinker
Minneapolis
Moro outlaw band wiped out near Patian Jolo Island
Manila July 6 Captain George L Bryram of the Sixth United States Cavalry teamed with a mosquito fleet under Lieutenant Commander Signor to wipe out the Moro outlaw chief Jikiri and his band near Patian, Jolo Island. American casualties included one private killed and three officers and twenty enlisted men and one sailor wounded.
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Manila
Patian
Jolo Island
Jikiri
George L. Bryram
Sixth
United States Cavalry
Signor
Six Die in South Boston House Fire
In Richmond Virginia on July 6 H F Stange a Confederate veteran and five Hamlett children Vernie fourteen Beatrice seven Violet six Cecil three and Henry eighteen months died in a house fire at the Hamlett home in South Boston A child was hurled from a window and seriously injured and is expected to die
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Richmon
H. F. Stange
Farmhand Held for Triple Murder in Aberdeen
Emil Vietor, a farmhand in Aberdeen South Carolina, arrested on suspicion of murdering J. W. Christie his wife and daughter Mildred and fifteen year old Michael Ron vane, held to await court action.
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Aberdeen
S. C
Emil Vicetor
J. W. Christie
Mildred
Michael Ronvane
Wealthy Mrs De Noire Held In Immigration Detention
Counsel for Vera De Noire says the immigrant detainee is a native of Iowa and lived there until age seventeen. She formerly resided in Long Branch before arriving from Hong Kong for investigation into her alien status and entrance qualifications in the United States.
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Seattle
Wash
Vera de Noire
Hong Kong
Iowa
Long Branch
Taft Delivers Address at Norwich 250th Celebration
President Taft spoke at Norwich Connecticut marking the town’s 250th anniversary. He urged freedom of religious belief and the right of individuals to worship as they choose amid a historic open air pageant tracing Mohegan and Narragansett wars, colonial acquisition, Washington’s welcome, and Civil War returnees.
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Norwich
Conn
Taft
Old
New England
Norwich Town
Uneas
Washington
Chinese Seek Protection After Sigel Murder Agitation
Chinese communities in several cities fear for personal safety due to the Sigel murder in New York. Wealthy New York Chinese leaders traveled to Washington to request special protection from the U.S. government. The Chinese chargé d affaires Ou presented concerns to Acting Secretary Wilson, with the matter referred to New York's governor for action.
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Sigel
Washington
New York
Legation
United States
Mr. Ou
Wilson
Martial Law Raised Across Caucasus Except Tiflis
An imperial ukase declares martial law throughout the Caucasus except in the Tiflis district where life is insecure and robberies and kidnappings remain common.
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St. Petersburg
Caucasus
Tiflis
Markets in Chicago Hogs and Cattle Mixed Prices July 6 1909
Chicago markets report strong cattle demand and steady hogs with price ranges across light mixed and heavy packer grades. Estimated receipts and shipments for hogs cattle and sheep detailed, with Tuesday market showing slight shifts and regional constants.
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Texas
Suffragists Elect Officers At National Convention
The National Woman Suffrage Association elected officers including President Rev. Anna H Shaw and corresponding secretary Kate M Gordon. Gordon accepted re election reluctantly and may resign after months. Next meeting place undecided between Sioux Falls and Washington with Washington favored by general officers.
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Kate M. Gordon
Sioux Falls
Washington
Seattle
Wash
The
National Woman Suffrage Association
Anna H. Shaw
Moylan
Rachel Foster Avery
Swarthmore
Florence Kelley
New York
New Orleans
Ing
Ella 8. Stewart
Chicago
Harriet Taylor Upton
Warren
Laura Clay
Lexington
Alice Stone Blackwell
Boston
Gordon
Frances Squire Potter
University of Minnesota
Palmer clarifies flirtation remarks at Harvard lecture
Boston reports Professor George H. Palmer of Harvard says his address was misunderstood. He states he only urged making pleasure a good backdrop to study and finding innocent flirting to be harmless if it enhances happiness and does not undermine serious work.
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Boston
George H. Palmer
Harvard University
Children Burned to Death in South Dakota House
In Centerville Louisiana two Wendland children Merna four and Muriel two perished in a house fire near Oelrichs South Dakota. Mrs Wendland was working in the garden when the fire started and could not reach the home in time. The parents Albert and Mrs Wendland had traveled to South Dakota last December.
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Centervide
Albert Wendland
Oelrichs
Wendland
O. A. Tweedy
Union Savings Bank
South Dakota
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Moro
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Richmond
Mrs. de Noie
Beach-Wickham Grain Company
Srcere Sega
John A. Babcock
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Anna
Shaw Ghosen
Mrs. Taylor Upton
Palmer
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