Tariff Bill in House Today
Taft urges speedy passage of the Payne tariff bill in an extraordinary session to revise the Dingley act. The president emphasizes prompt action for national business interests and notes new revenue ideas from his inaugural address. Committees named include Ways and Means and Rules with multiple members listed.
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Washington
House
Cannon
Committee On
Representative Cushman
Taft
Sixty-First Congress
Senate
House of Representatives
Congress
William H. Taft
Dalzell
Pennsylvania
Smith
Iowa
Clark
Missouri
Fitzgerald
New York
Taft Indicates Congress May Sit on June 17
President Taft expects Congress to be in session June 17 and has not yet answered an invitation to attend Miami University centennial ceremonies in Ohio on that date. The list of lawmakers shown includes Payne New York Dalzell Pennsylvania McCall Massachusetts Hill Connecticut soutell Illinois Needham California Calderhead Kansas Fordney Michigan Gaines West Virginia Cushman Washington Longworth Ohio Crumpacker Indiana Clark Missouri Harrison New York Broussard Louisiana Underwood Alabama Griggs Georgia Pell North Carolina Randall Texas.
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New York
Dalzell
Pennsylvania
McCall
Massachusetts
Hill
Connecticut
Soutell
Ilinois
Needham
California
Calderhead
Kansas
Fordney
Michigan
Gaines
West Virginia
Cushman
Washington
Longworth
Ohio
Crumpacker
Indiana
Clark
Missouri
Harrison
Broussard
Louisiana
Underwood
Alabama
Griggs
Georgia
Pell
North Carolina
Randall
Texas
Congress
Taft
Miami University
Dickinson to Visit New Orleans on Panama Canal Trip
Secretary of War J M Dickinson accepts invitation from the New Orleans Progressive Union to stop in New Orleans during his trip to the Panama canal, signaling a brief visit on the official tour.
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Dickinson
New Orleans
J. M. Dickinson
George Thorn dike Angell dies at eighty six in Boston
George Thorn dike Angell a longtime leader of humane education died in Boston at eighty six. He founded and led the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and for twenty years headed the American Humane Educational Association. Alimony action also noted in New York court ruling.
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Boston
Jated
George Thorndike Angell
United States
Angell
Massachusetts Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
American Humane Educational Association
Roosevelt Rifle Match Pits Father Against Son
In Oyster Bay on March 17 former President Theodore Roosevelt and his son Kermit competed in a rifle match. The young Roosevelt nearly matched his father’s score in a spirited contest.
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Kermit Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
N. Y
Roosevelt
Kermit
Jealous German landowner kills two rivals in duels
Berlin reports Herr Milg, a wealthy landowner near Hohanaus, challenged army officers over suspicions about his wife. Lieutenant Von Buttlar and a prominent army surgeon were shot dead in back to back duels, the surgeon succeeding the lieutenant in the same day.
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Berlin
Eisenach
Schutabar Milg
Hohanaus
Herr Milg
von Buttlar
Germany
Mila
Tierr Mila
Wipe Out Black Hand Society Planned by Italian Community
At Cesare Conti's home in New York a meeting of well to do Italians planned a secret society to recruit from respectable Italians in New York and Italy. The group aims to eradicate the Mafia and Black Hand blackmail gangs infesting the country.
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New York
Cesare Conti
Italy
French Strike Spreads Across Telegraph and Postal Services
Paris reports a growing strike among telegraph, telephone, and postal workers. Services nationwide are demoralized with France largely cut off from foreign communication except for the United States. Mail sacks arrive unsorted causing millions of delayed letters as meetings in Lyon Lille Havre and Brest show support for strikers. At Brest workers will keep to the minimum while others may abandon their keys.
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Paris
United States
France
Lyon
Lille
Havre
Brest
Christian Scientists Win Senate Amendment in Missouri Healing Bill
In Jefferson City the senate judiciary committee endorsed an amendment to a bill restricting divine healing. The change would exempt those practicing religious tenets without claiming medical knowledge, as long as quarantine rules for contagious diseases remain untouched. A petition with about fifty thousand signatures opposed the original proposal was presented.
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Senate
Missouri
Jefferson City
Christian Scientists of
Senate Judiciary Committee
Dinner Pail Defends Des Moines Worker Against Hold Up
Des Moines laborer A. H. Cotton used an empty dinner pail to confront two men attempting a holdup near the Minneapolis and St. Louis roundhouse on his way home. Cotton described the assailants as wearing soldier uniforms.
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Des Moines
A. H. Cotton
Minneapolis and
St. Louis
Cotton
Pupil Remembers Teacher Pays for European Trip
Beloit Wisconsin March 17 Professor A W Burr retired Beloit academy principal received a check from a former student now in business in the east. A letter accompanied the gift inviting him to take a trip to Europe with his daughter Miss Caroline Burr. They plan to start in a few weeks.
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Europe
Beloit
Wis
A. W. Burr
Beloit Academy
East
Caroline Burr
Snell Will Case Reheard After Supreme Court Ruling
Attorneys for Richard Snell, son of the late eccentric millionaire Tom Snell, left Clinton for Springfield to file a petition in the supreme court seeking a rehearing after the court upheld the will as valid.
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Clinton
Richard Snell
Tom Snell
Springfield
Supreme Court
A Tale of a Goat Ends Litigation by Presented Mascot
Skellig Mohr the Kerry goat, famed for Massachusetts court battles over ownership, was presented to the battleship Vermont as its mascot in Boston on March 17. Imported by Colonel Roger F Scannell in 1906, the goat accompanied him through Knights of St. Brendan faction fights, writs of replevin, injunctions, counter suits and appeals.
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Battleship
Boston
Skellig Mohr
Kerry
Ireland
Massachusetts
Vermont
Roger F Scannell
Knights of St. Brendan
Scannell
Pack of
Charities Refuse New Consumptives for Los Angeles
City and county charitable groups adopt a resolution urging all U S associations to stop sending consumptives to Los Angeles. If more arrive, local groups will return them immediately to their point of origin.
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Los Angeles
Cal
United States
Henry Clay Cullom Dies at 70 in Peoria
Henry Clay Cullom brother of Senator Cullom died at his daughter's home Mrs. G. H. Chimpff in Peoria after a stroke. He was born in 1859 in Tazewell county and served as Joliet postmaster and later as federal land agent in Minnesota and California.
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Peoria
Henry Clay Cullom
Senator Cullom
G. H. Chimpff
Cullom
Tazewell County
Joliet
Minnesota
California
Hogs and cattle markets report for Chicago March 17 1909
Estimated receipts total 74 000 with yesterday's leftovers 5934 and shipments 8328. Hog prices largely 5 to 10 higher with light and mixed packers at 6 15 to 6 95 and heavy shipping grades 6 65 to 6 95. Cattle and sheep totals around 35 000 with mixed price moves, western cattle steady to 5 50, native sheep 3 15 to 5 65, lambs 5 50 to 7 80, market weak to 10 lower in spots. Furnished by Beach Wickham Grain Co. Chicago Postal Telegraph Bidg.
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Texas
Chaloner Gun Dispute Ends in Death at Cobham VA
John Arm strong Chaloner former husband of Amelie Rives engaged in a scuffle for a revolver with John Gillard at “Merry Mills” near Cobham Virginia. Gillard was killed by a discharged weapon but a coroner jury ruled death accidental during an effort to protect Mrs Gillard from her abusive husband.
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Cobham
John Armstrong Chaloner
Amelie Rives
John Gillard
Merry Mills
Gillard
Virginia
Australia
Chaloner
Princess Troubetskoy
New York State
Charlottesville
Charge Cooper Jury Today Delays Carmack Murder Trial
Nashville March 17. The Cooper Sharp murder trial for ex Senator BE Carmack faced another delay as Judge Hart did not charge the jury until today. The lengthy instruction set totals about 30 000 words, the longest ever given in Tennessee. Attorney General McCain predicted a possible disagreement only for Sharp, with conviction expected for the others.
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Nashville
Tenn
Cooper Sharp
United States
BE. W. Carmack
Hart
Tennessee
McCain
John Sharp
White Eggs and Eyes: Nesting Habits in Dark Holes
White eggs are laid mostly by birds that build nests in dark holes and prefer shaded sites. The observation notes how nesting behavior relates to eye color and habitat, indicating limited light exposure.
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North American Live Stock Commission Company
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