Taft Message Emphasizes Trade, Economy and Prosperity
President Taft's congressional message champions broad welfare aims, urges tariff restraint to prevent business disruption, and pledges to expand American trade abroad. It highlights domestic efficiency, reform of bureaus, and labor protections while viewing Canada and Latin America as avenues for growth. Sullivan named interim judge to succeed Dill.
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Near East
Turkey
United States
South America
Canada
Dominion
Maring
Congress
Obituaries and funeral notices from Washington area leaders
Multiple death announcements and funeral plans across the Washington DC area for December 1910. Names include Joseph C Ruth, Irene F Brown, Catharine Griffin Noyce, Rosh, John A Luttrell, John E Mason, Margaret W Morrow, Archibald Small, Annie Van Dike, Elizabeth Yates, with funeral dates and locations at St Marys Church Congressional Cemetery First Baptist Church Hines undertakers and local residences.
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Joseph C
Regina
Santos Ruth
Bladensburg Road
D. C
St Mary's Church
St Mary's Cemetery
Alth
Potomac Council
Bro. Jos
St. Mary's Church
Iridas
Chase Colimmbus
William B Daly
Brown
Milton Q
Irene IF
Brown Fee Warrend
Fifteenth Street
Congressional Cemetery
Baltimore
Griffin
EH Street
Catharine
George Griffin Noyce
Kraemer
Sunda
Luttrell
John A Luttrell
First Baptist Church
Stateenth
Streets
Mason
Fredericksburg
John E Mason
Kate Kearney Henry Mason
Morrow
George Washington Hospital
Margaret W. Morrow
A FB
T M Shaughnessy
Hines
Fourteenth Street
Philadelphia
Norfolk
Alexandria
Forest Glen
Archibald
van Dike
Annie van Dike
D. W. Middleton
Woodley
Yates
Sibley Hospital
Elizabeth Co
Henry Yates
Warrenton
Funeral Directors and Embalmers Directory Listing
A legacy-style city directory excerpt lists numerous funeral directors and embalmers with their shops, chapels, and contact numbers. Entries include names such as GEO. P. ZURHORST, J. WILLIAM LEE, JOHN R. WRIGHT CO, HARVEY'S SONS, WM. H. SARDO & Co, THOS. A. SERGEON, COSTELLO, PUMPHREY & SON, FRANK GETER'S SONS, WR. SPEARE, and others with addresses on streets like 14th Street NW and F Street NW and phone numbers like Main 1395, North 47, and 4280. The list emphasizes first-class service, commodious chapels, and moderate prices.
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Geo
P. Zurhorst
East Canitol
J. William Lee
Pennesa
John R. Wright CO
Tench St
R. F. Harvey's Sons
Fourteenth ST NW
Commodium Chapel Telephone North
WM. H. Sardo & Co
Embalmere
W. R. Pumphrey & Son
Srember
Stonw
Maryland
Meenas
F Street
N. W
Frank A Speare
Ant
Government spending up again as 1912 budget outlined
Treasury Secretary MacVeagh submitted the 1912 fiscal year appropriations totaling 2749414,841 to Congress. The plan increases naval and public works funding, lists building projects in Washington and Isthmian Canal defense, and allocates funds to War Interior Treasury Agriculture Navy and others with no postal deficiency figures yet.
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War Department
Interior Department
Treasury Department
Agriculture
Navy Department
Commerce and Saler
District of Columbia
Legislative
Justice
State
Interstate Commerce Commission
Post Office Department
Richmond
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Washington
State, Justice, and Commerce and Labor
Isthmian Canal
Canal Zone
Senators Sworn In After Death of Three Colleagues
Congress opened with Clauda Swanson Joseph Terrell and Lefeyette Young sworn as metators to replace late senators Cas Jel Clay and Dolliver who died during the Teves. The reading of the President's message was the only business. The Senate adjourned after adopting resolutions of regret. Both chambers planned noon sessions today.
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Clauda A. Swanson
Joseph MM. Terrell
Lefeyette Young
Cas Jel
Clay
Dolliver
Senate
Claude A. Swanson
Daniel
Virginia
Joseph M. Terrell
Georgia
Lafayette Young
Congress
Samuel L. Gilmore
Lauuisiana
William W. Foulkrod
Pennsylvania
Walter P. Brownlow
Tennegaee
Charlos G. Terrell
Massachusetts
Taft
Taft's Reform Message and Congressional Reading
President Taft's address advocates tariff reform, rail valuation, and economy while endorsing insurgent ideas. The message was read in both chambers with little attention, as most members had studied the text beforehand. The House began prayerlessly due to a snowstorm. several oaths of office were administered in the Senate, and four members who died were remembered. The full message appears on pages 10 to 12.
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Congress
Income Tax Victory Prompts Legislator’s Optimism
Senator Norris Brown, author of a proposed income tax constitutional amendment, predicts at least four of five opposed states will ratify in coming sessions. He cites governors largely favoring action and notes eight states already ratified while New York Rhode Island Massachusetts Virginia and Louisiana still oppose.
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Brown
Hes
Oled Foss
Massachusetts
Ias
Alabama
South Carolina
Illinois
Maryland
Kentucky
Mississippi
Oklahoma
Georgia
New York
Rhode Island
Virginia
Louisiana
LICENSED TO MARRY MULTIPLE COUPLES IN THIS LIST
A historic notice lists numerous marriage licenses featuring pairs such as Sammel J. Bwoengy with Alice Burns and Rey G Freeland with Bernard Irving, including ages and locations from Virginia to Maryland. The document names multiple clergymen presiding over these marriage ceremonies and shows a broad spread of ages and towns in the regional registry.
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Sammel J. Bwoengy
Alice
Burns
Rey G Freeland Ter
Bernard Irving
Charlottesville
Alma €. Jackson
Elkins
W. Va
DG. Macleod
John Caputo
Jennie Cale
Ignatiug Fealey
Harry J. Sullivan
Grace
Bentley
John Reid Shannon
John Reid Shannon. ‘Wade H Wood, 9, and Malle S. Williams
Ambert Courthoune
James N. Mitchell
Louise V. Gordon
James M. Little
James E. Stuart
Vivian G Meade
White Port
Charles T. Warner
James McD Moffett
Louise
Bannett
D Thomas
William
Little Holtinberger
George A. Miller
James J. Corcoran
Baltimore
Annie L. Davis
M. J. Kennedy
John Lippeld
Esther R. Speanburg
G. C Bratenahl
Health Office Record and Death Notices Amalgamated
Health office records show listed births with parents and infant genders along with a sequence of deaths and ages at various DC area addresses. The section ends with a note from The Hague about a potential visit by the King and Queen of England, per a special cable to The Washington Post.
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George V
Holland
Washington Post
Hague
States General
England
New Pastor Selected for Hamline Methodist Church
Through Bishop Anderson the Rev J M M Gray was named successor to Rev Dr Charles Guthrie as pastor of Hamline M E Church in this city. Gray will deliver his first sermon in January. He is years old and studied at Dickinson College and Drew Theological Seminary.
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Anderson
J. M. M. Gray
Baltimore Methodist Episcopal Church
Charles ] Guthrie
Hamline M. E
Gray
Dickinson College
Drew Theological Seminary
Hood's Sarsaparilla Restores Health for Abscesses
John Wallace of the Y M C A in Pittston Pa credits Hood's Sarsaparilla with fast relief from five abdominal abscesses. Confined thirteen weeks, he says improvement began immediately and the abscesses began to heal after starting the medicine, taken until full recovery.
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Hood
John Wallace
Pittston
Massachusetts Cities Vote in Statewide Mayoral Shifts
Fifteen Massachusetts cities held annual elections with eleven mayors seeking reelection. nine won, including Marlboro Democrat J J Shaughnessy and Holyoke Republican John J White. Glou cester returns to no license while Haverhill resumes prohibition. Marlboro, Northampton, Holyoke, Pittsfield switch from Republican to Democratic control though Marlboro kept a Republican mayor. Taunton did not elect a mayor.
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Boston
Massachusetts
W. H. Macinnes
Pittsfeld
W. H. Clifford
Brockton
J. J. Shaughnessy
Marlboro
M. Fred O'Connell
Gloueddter
Haverhill
Foss to Resume Fight for Lodge Reelection
Boston December 6 Gov elect Eugene N Foss returns from Washington and says he will campaign actively to support Senator Henry Cabot Lodge in the race for reelection. He plans speeches in New Bedford Fall River Lynn and other parts of Massachusetts and will urge a special election to fill his Fourteenth district seat after his January 5 inauguration. He notes Governor Draper left the decision to call the special election to Foss who is due to resign January 4.
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Washington
Eugene N. Foss
United States
Henry Cabot Lodge
Mr. Foss
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Fall River
Lodge
Lynn
Foss
Congress
Fourteenth
Draper
Tha
Contest notices challenge Hamilton County GOP slate
In Cincinnati on December 6 formal notices of contest were filed against three State senators and seven State representatives elect. The complaints allege more than 4,000 legal votes were cast in Cincinnati and Hamilton County on November 8 and that a fair count would have elected the Democratic candidates, contesting the entire Republican delegation.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Hamilton County
General Assembly of
Foes of graft to speak at National Press Club
Gov elect Hiram Johnson of California Fremont Older editor of the San Francisco Bulletin and Rudolph Spreckels proprietor of the San Francisco Call headline a program at the National Press Club to recount how San Francisco was freed from graft. Older describes his kidnapping by ringsters and a 30 mile ordeal before rescue by his wife and loyal friends.
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Hiram Johnson
California
Fremont Older
San Francisco Bulletin
Rudolph Spreckels
San Francisco Call
National Press Club
Golden Gate City
Older
Ringsters
Jury Awards $25 to Plaintiff in Laundry Injury Case
In Circuit Court No. 3 Justice Barnard yesterday the jury directed to verdict for the defendant collected for plaintiff Flossie M. Clements and gave her $25 after ruling that contributory negligence and assumed risk due to her familiarity with the tangled machinery led to the injury. Attorneys Crandell Mackey J. McCarrington and Hayden Johnson filed notice of appeal.
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Justice Barnard
Flossie May Clements
Miss Clements
Model Laundry Company
Crandell Mackey
J. Mct. Carrington
Hayden Johnson
Quack Doctor Suppressed by Judge Pugh
Judge Pugh in police court barred Byrd known as Doc from dispensing a nostrum to a devoted colored following. He claimed to have a recipe from an old Cherokee Indian including juniper phalaam red pepper mandrake peppermint sassafras. Byrd’s attorney was Thamaa L. Jones.
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Pugh
Byrd
District of Columbia
Thamaa L. Jones
Fewer New Public Buildings in Illinois Measures
Chairman Bartholdt opposes omnibus public building bills and will back only essential projects. State Rep Robert E Wilson of Illinois testifies before Senate subcommittee probing bribery charges tied to Senator William Lorimer's election.
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Bartholdt
Lorimer
Robert E. Wilson
Ilinois
Senate
William Lorimer
Taft Nominates Garrett for Venezuela Post in Senate
President Taft sent to the Senate a slate of nominations including John W. Garrett of Baltimore to be Minister to Venezuela. Garrett currently serves as secretary of the embassy at Rome and has a long diplomatic career. Other picks include Frederick W. Lehmann for solicitor general and Alexander Dunnett for United States attorney in Vermont, with reappointment of John C. Ames as Chicago customs collector.
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Senate
Frederick W. Lehmann
St. Louza
United States
Lloyd W. Bowers
John W. Garrett
Baltimore
Venezuela
Garrett
Rome
Princeton University
Legation
Thé
Hague
Netherelands
Luxemburg
Berlin
Charles 5. Wilson
Bangor
Alexander
Dunnett
Vermont
District of
E. H
Randolph
Louisiana
John C. Ames
Chicago
Navy May Get Dentists In Permanent Navy Corps
A House naval affairs committee proposal would add 30 dentists as a permanent Navy corps with automatic promotion paths to lieutenant commander and other ranks after seven years. Age limits would shift to 32. The same session covers Indian contract inquiries and a Senate-criticized attorney case, while flood relief in Paria seeks $1,160,000.
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Navy
House Committee On Naval Affairs
House
Dental Corps
Weather Storm Shifts East With Heavy Snow Across Regions
The Great Western storm moves toward the southern New Jersey coast bringing heavy snow from southern New York into western Virginia and West Virginia. Snow also reaches southern New England and parts of the Middle Atlantic, with temperatures generally below average and winds shifting from northeast to northwest. Storm warnings posted from Eastport to Edenton, with northeast winds and a forecast of continued snow into Wednesday for New England and eastern New York.
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