RailRoad Bill Steams Ahead in Taft Program Push
Washington May 16 The house passage of the railroad bill brightens Taft’s program though several amendments face senate rejection. Key points include interstate commerce control telegraph and telephone supervision and physical valuation while long and short haul and pooling rules stir fight. Taft remains optimistic saying railroad and postal savings bills are likely to pass. An energy focus centers on post office savings bank legislation and anti injunction efforts with cabinet level pressure cited to press through the measures. The Senate begins new inquiries into franking abuses with a broadened scope beyond tariff pamphlets.
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Taft
Postal Savings Bank
Washington
House
Wickersham
Interstate Commerce Commission
Supreme Court
New Commerce Court
Attorney General
Commerce Court
Senate
Post Office Committee
Planus
Railroad and Postal Savings Bank
Art
Passaic
Manufacturers’ Association
House Post Office Committee
White House
Congress
Stone
Important men rally to short ballot movement
The short ballot movement gains traction across the nation with support from Governor Hughes and Charlies W. Eliot. It argues a reduced number of elective offices curbs machine politics and improves voter effectiveness, citing examples from Indiana Colorado Texas and Montana.
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Hughes
New York
Charlies W. Eliot
Harvard
The Short Ballot and How It Shapes Elections
An advocate argues the long ballot concentrates power with party bosses. Reducing elective offices enables clearer public discussion and genuine choice. The short ballot, the author contends, makes governance more responsive to the people.
Democracy means people control not endless elections
The text argues that electing many officials makes citizenship a profession and excludes most people from participation, claiming democracy is control by the people rather than constant elections.
We Hold Twenty Elections in One Day
The speaker remarks that holding twenty elections daily in the United States marks a bold but flawed practice. He notes voters need a short ballot movement to explain the plan’s inefficacy, predicting the Englishman will call such efforts foolish.
A Dream That Faded In Grandma's Own Romance
A grandmother recalls a youthful romance with Elisha, a farm hand, who left to seek his fortunes while she waited years for him. She refused a marriage to Mr. Baxter, a politician, and finally realized Elisha had become a plain, ordinary man. She ended up marrying Baxter, her eventual husband and the girl's grandfather.
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Elisha
Father
Mr. Baxter
Congress
Boonton
Illinois wheat hurt by April frosts and floods
Illinois reports 11 percent of winter wheat planted for 1910 harvest killed by Hessian fly and floods. Total seeded 1,174,700 acres, leaving 1,049,413 for harvest. March warmth lifted fruit prospects but frosts on April 22 to 24 cooled expectations, with apples in the southern division forecast at one quarter to one half a crop.
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Springfield
State Board of Agriculture
J. K. Dickerson
Foley Kidney Remedy Ad Promotes Health
An old ad urges early use of Foley's Kidney Remedy to maintain kidney health and avert serious illness. Lemmon's Pharmacy and McElroy Kinney Drug Co. are listed as distributors.
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Foley
Lemmon’s Pharmacy
McEl Kinney Drug Co
Tries to Kill Children in Chicago Home
Mary Christ kissed her four children aged five, four, two, and a nursing babe, then opened every gas jet at 1856 Burling Street in Chicago to asphyxiate them. A neighbor smelled gas and summoned help while the mother ingested carbolic acid and died within minutes. The children survived. The couple reportedly had an unhappy marriage.
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Chicago
Mary Christ
Burling Street
Foley Kidney Pills Praised by Illinois Veteran
Mr Isaac Cook of Kewanee Illinois and commander of the Julius A Pratt Post reports relief from long standing backache kidney pains after using Foley Kidney Pills. He states the tablets eliminated bladder misery and plans to recommend them widely through Lemmon's Pharmacy and McElhinney Drug Co.
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Isaac Cook
Above
Kewanee, Ill
Lioness maims her keeper at Coney Island show
Duchess the lioness savagely struck trainer Peter Taylor during a Dreamland performance at Bostock's animal show in Dreamland Coney Island. Taylor suffered a severe arm wound, while bystanders with spears forced the animal away to save him.
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New York
Duchess
Peter Taylor
Dreamland
Coney Island
Taylor
Hall's Catarrh Cure testimonial and oath 1886
Frank J. Cheney of J. Cheney & Co. files an oath promising 100 dollars for each catarrh case cured or not by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary A. W. Gleason certifies December 6, 1886. Advertisement notes testimonials, Toledo Ohio, Hall's Pills for constipation, sold by all druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank J. Cheney
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Plot to burn mission in Changsha stirs Hunan
Advices from Changsha report the Yale mission there placarded for destruction by fire but the plan has not been carried out. Foreigners who were returning to Changsha are now diving in boats on the river under protection of Chinese authorities or their own flags.
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Pekin
Changsha
Hunan
Yale
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Lindsey
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Short Ballot Organization
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Montana
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Goodby
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Illinois
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Dept. UL
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W. A. White
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China
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Lemmons Pharmacy
McElhinney Drug Co
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J. J. Kellogg
South Side Square
E. J. Harpibier
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Butterfield & Frame
Special Collection Department
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Washington, Lowa
Eficher & Livingston
LAW
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Wires Temple Building
Washington, Is
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Lawyers
Opposite Journal
W. M. Keeley
E.D. Morrison
P. J. Hanley
Over Crail
Tabalee
D. F. Macon
Macon
Towa
Austin Sutherland
Dr. D. Arthaud
Osteopath
Kirksville
Postoiice
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West Washington Street
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Cook & Sherman's Drug Store
Ihington
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