Taft Ohio trip expands amid La Follette talk and dinner shifts
President Taft plans an extended Ohio visit from late January into February delaying his annual White House dinner to February 2. Warren G Harding criticized La Follette invasion as overplayed while Taft allies seek to energize Republican strength in Ohio with Cleveland Columbus and Akron stops.
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Supreme Court
White House
Warren G. Harding
Senator la Follette
Taft
la Follette
Ohio
Cleveland
Columbus
Akron
Oho
Warren T. Harding
Hard Thn
Fafta
MD Hong
Prialdent
van Laur Sfurs
Obituaries list with multiple notices and dates
The page contains several death notices and funeral details for individuals including Margaret Ross, Sarah M wife of Rab, Rolland te, William G Vince, Henristta, and others. Dates range December 7 to December 28 with addresses in Washington areas and Norfolk VA, noting funeral times and places.
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Yoma
Margaret
Ross
Finlan
Manta
Cailimle
Davera
Howard
Sarah M
Rab Rat
Thunwlay
Itv
William G Vince
Ames Place
Rochester
Worch
Sam Henristta Whdow
Chriathan Worth
E Street Northwest
Peace Dinner Attendance Question Stirs BartholdtInquiry
Representative Bartholdt of St Louis questions value of attending a New York peace dinner after visiting the White House and remarks on whether discussion will actualize peace. A Farm Magazine poll shows La Follette leading Roosevelt and Taft nationwide for the Presidency with strong Midwest support. The survey also favors direct primaries and a lower tariff.
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Taft
Bartholdt
St . Louis
Interparliamentary Union
New York
White House
Farm Magazine
United States
la Follette
Yeaterday
Farm and Home Maga Saine
Roosevelt
le Follette
Middle West
Wisconsin
New England
South
Ohio
Maine
Connecticut
United
La Follette Talks Trusts and Tariff in Toledo Speech
Wisconsin progressive leader Robert La Follette warned in Toledo that trust directors biased by private interests evade public will. He cited Chauncey Depew as a dummy investor and argued for tariff reform to lower living costs, denouncing the Payne-Aldrich tariff as harmful to the people while endorsing selective duties to balance production costs.
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Toledo
Ohio
la Follatte
Chauncey M Depew
Wisconsin
Cleve Juana
United States
Payne-Aldrich
Reyes 20 Military Prison Arrival in Santiago
Reyes, 20, arrived tonight at the Santiago military prison. The car he traveled in was dropped in the freight yards and the prisoner was led along a quiet route with no demonstra tions observed.
Rearranging Government for Economy and Efficiency
A speaker urges a multi year effort to reorganize departments and bureaus to cut waste. He calls for cross‑department comparisons, streamlined purchasing, and a formal budget, arguing only trained economists can reform the government structure for true savings. He favors continuing the economy commission’s scientific study beyond a single year.
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England
White
Muden
Congress
Thie Economy Commission
Tron
Labor, Tariff, and Industrial Welfare Debates Stir Rappaport Session
Proceedings from a Raleigh session feature Secretary Taft tariff policy defense, support for the tariff board, and calls for a federal commission on industrial diseases. Henry C Emery questions production-based pricing while H L Willis and H Seager push protection of labor rights. Wallace and Rubinow urge better treatment of workers.
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Jwue
Treasury
ManVengh
Easton
The
Economic Association
Taft
Tariff Board
Henry C Emery
Hl Park Willis
George Washington University
Hi. V Robinson
University of Miynnenaia
United States
Democratic Party
American Association For Labor
Raleigh
Henry Seager
Columba University
Ta Federal Commission On Industrial Diseases
John H. Wallace
Washington State
F M Rubinow
Bureau of Labor
Rats as shrewd as mer in psychology meet findings
Prof Perrin of the University of Chicago compares rodent and human reasoning before the American Psychological Association at George Washington University Medical School. The session includes readings by scholars from Vassar, Wellesley, Johns Hopkins, Penn, Utah, Wyoming, and others, with Dr Shepherd Ivory Franz presiding and delivering an address on New Phrenology.
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Rof. Perrin
C Perrin
University of Chicago
American Psychological Association
George Washington University Medical School
W. Ruediger
University of Ghica
George R Wells
Johna Hopdina University
Edwina Abbott
Vassar Collers
Margaret Flot Washburn
Vassar College
Heanor A McCramble
Wellesley Sellese
E Ball
University of Texas
Medical School
FM Urban
University of Pennsylvania
Raymond Dodge
Waleyan University
Huey
Jone Wookies University
Joseph Peterson
University of Utah
Minz Florence Hielardzon
University of Wyoming
Trigant Burrow
Johns Hopkins University
Shepherd Ivory Franz
Government Hospital For the Insane
Origin of Bosses Discussed by Jane Addams at Address
Jane Addams of Chicago addressed the American Sociological Society on the rise and fall of political ward bosses. She linked early support from peers to later power, urged open air recreation in urban communities, and praised public schools as a national melting pot. Dr W Hetherington followed with remarks from the Joseph Fets endowment.
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Ward Heeler
Thera
Kit Edder
Tole Wan
American Scatological Society
Jane Addame
Chirazo
Chicago
Hinky Dink McKenna
John" Conghiin
Big
Powers
Thair Nower
Miss Addams
Aldermatt
Addame
W Hetherington
Joseph Fets Endowment
Geologists Make Merry Lantern Slide Cartoons at Banquet
Members of the Geological Society of America from nearly every state attended the banquet at the Ebbitt House. John M Clark of New York acted as toastmaster while speakers included Otis Smith Frank D Adams HP Cushing BE Emerson and others in a humorous lantern slide program featuring caricatures of scientists and institutions.
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Geological Society of America
Ebbitt House
John M Clark
New York
Otis Smith
Frank D Adams
HP Cushing
BE Emerson
H P Cushing
Western Reserve University
Cleveland
Mona Liss
EO Hovey
American Museum of Natural History
K Ebergon
Amherst University
Raw Brock
George Otis Sraith
United States Survey
FD Adama
McGill University
Montreal
H Jz Fairchilds
Society
W. B Clark
Suhns Hopkins
Not Candidate How Ex President Roosevelt Letter
A Philadelphia ward workers group boosts Roosevelt for the Presidency while he states he is not a candidate for office at the present time. John H Mogent, head of the Republican League of Workers, acknowledges the letter but will not declare his stance until a meeting next week. The item notes the La Follette faction’s collapse after lack of financial support.
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Washington
New York
Philadelphia
New York ‘Times
Col Roosevelt
Republican
Roosevelt
John H Mogent
Republican League of Workers
Roosévelt
la Follette
Bethell elected president of major telephone companies
Frank H Bethell, vice president of Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania and associated firms, is chosen president of the Oil Telephone Company of Pennsylvania and partner companies including Chesapeake and Potomac, Atlantic Telegraph and Telephone, and Diamond State Telephone. Bethell succeeds Union N Bethel as chair for the boards, marking a rise in a career beginning with New York and Delaware ventures and spanning Washington, Philadelphia, and Baltimore operations. The consolidation positions Bethell to oversee over 1.25 million telephone stations with a $175 million investment and 31,600 employees.
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Philadelphia
Frank H. Bethell
Bell ‘Telephone Company of Pennsylvania
Associated Companies
Oil Telephone Company of Pennsylvania
Dekaware
Atlantic Telegraph and Telephone Company
Diamond State Telephone Company
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Union N Bethel
Thoes Companies
Frank H Bethell
Washington
New York
Haat
Tnion Nobie Bettell
Newburg
Ind
America
Union NW
Frank H
Hanover College
Anton Noble Bethel
Columbia School of Law
District_of Columbia
Supreme Court of the United States
West
New York and
New Jersey Company
Brooklyn
New York Telephone Company
Baltimore
tHeas
Pennsylvania
Japan
Bethell
Mikado
Bethel
Chesapeake and Patoinec Telephone Company
Bell Telephones Company
Central District
Erinting Telephone
Pittsburgh
Maryland Telephone Company
Shoot Girl Dead in Road Lyons Ga
Five white men were jailed in Toombs county after the shooting of Mise Newsom, a 22 or 30 year old girl, who reportedly refused a piano request at a country store. The incident occurred Monday night as the men allegedly left the store with plans or intent to escort Newsom to her home. Spivey, owner of the store, heard a gunshot as Newsom fell along the road, with authorities placing the men in jail pending investigation.
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Lyons
Mise Nettle Newson
Toombs
John ‘Toole
Bud’ Eason
James Mazon
Master
Miss Newsom
Spivey
Deaths and memorials from local health office records
A health office listing documents numerous deaths and memorial references. Names include Elizabeth Holland aged 74, Providence region residents, and others such as Katharine Maloy, Theodors Trausemann, Agnes Dew Slater, and James Washington. Ages vary. locations include Fourth Street, Newton Street, and Adams Street areas.
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Suan Dugger
Ghapinet
Holland
St. We
Patna
Ghrard
Ing Vines
Providence
Dinner plans stir debate over peace at cardinal’s dinner
Bartholdt of Missouri contends a peace dinner will proceed, while Hinsberger and others cite Cardinal Gibbons’s absence. Letters reveal past pleas for arbitration among English-speaking nations and ties to Christmas peace messaging.
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Bartholdt
Missouri
Hinsbeiwer
William EB. Short
S Burtholdt
Logue
Ireland
Vaughan
England
Chaamastide
Willy
City Extends Boundaries Amid Uncertain Annexation
Washington Post report from King Street Alexandria details Mayor Patt signing an annexation ordinance to extend corporate limits amid legal testing and later reconsideration. Separate items note a court case against Bertram Seaton, election of officers for Alexandria Washington Tyodge, and a new charter for Sheldrake Manufacturing Company Inc to produce graphophones with capital ranges.
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Ashington Post. Bureau
Tos King Street
Alexandria
Paff
Ftndon
Paft
Wednee- Jay Morging
Patt
Counci
St Ehna
Bertram Seaton
Wiliam F Seston
Seaton
Sheldrake Manufacturing Company Inc
State Corporation Commission
Ihe
Henry L Sheldrake
Pres
Virginia corporate charter updates and capital increases
The document lists multiple Virginia entities receiving charter amendments and capital stock changes. Fauquier County Agricultural Society Toc Marshell Delaplane Warrenton and others update capital from 25 000 to 30 000. Luber & Co. Tee. expands its charter. Rosslyn Gas Company raises capital from 100 000 to 200 000. An international building and loan association case involves Howard W Smith as receiver with a court directive to pay.
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Fred J Brennan
William N Roach Jr
Afl of Washington
Fauguier County Agricultural Society
Toc Marshell
LM Luttrell
Delaplane Val P G Richards
Warrenton
Comers
Mar Ball
C.“Luber & Cou
Tee
Rosslyn Gaa
Rosslyn
Alexandria County
Ty the
Alexandris
Corporation Court
Howard W Smith
Refunct International Building and Loan Aasptiation
Insolvent WHI Declares Dividend After Insolvency
A stockholder notes a dividend of 0 percent as the firm WHI, now insolvent, faces mandatory outlay of 0000. The announcement signals the second position after insolvency and the need for capital by creditors.
Licensed to Marry in Virginia and Nearby States
A garbled roster lists multiple couples and clergymen with varied ages and towns under a marriage license notice. Names include Charles H Murphs of Roanoke and Praca M Galwell of Harrooturg, with numerous other pairs and officiants, spanning Virginia locations such as Manastay, Clinton, White Sulphur Springs, and Culpeper, plus references to Rev James Montgomery and Rev F Gowsn.
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Charles H. Murphs
Roanoke Va
Praca M
Galwell
Harrooturg
Ueki Ernest H
Gallem
Katherine Naylir
Clinton
Die Bratters
Clara
Manastay
Charles
Bonds
Andrew L. Guesade
Apf
Richey
Rev ‘Gugtse de & 'Ste Monnet Gris
Joma
Afton
Jemea & Marr Gemet
Wiliam J
Royle
Margaret Mo Fates
Gowsn
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Ohta
Pisard
Claneais
Zurhorst
WM. H. Sardo & CO
Sungral
Pumphrey & Eon
Fonfrau
Phapel
Marylend Liemise
Rockvilla Phonie
Frank Grier’s Sons
Eiget
R F. Harvey
Freee
Wsprap
Morgan
Standard Oil
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Wali
Norwalk
Horlick
Kalon Wine CO
Thars
Ody
Mass Jans Addams
T. B
Brother
Chesapeake and ‘Potomac Company
Chiles | Offier
Brothers
Mumman
Praga
Health Office Record
Lily Ville
Witham
May Cock
Crowell
Folia
Kathryn le Dorie
Hitlay
Heory
Mice M
Cole
Eledier
Martha
Reid
Jerry
Mary Mahaney
Hiwerd
Mona G.st Boy
Jokx F
Margaret Bradigan
Bamusl
Luring Keates
Serge
Moy
James
Ophelle Davidson
Wilbert
Addie Garner
Nathan
Mary Diem
Gilver
Matic Woodwin
Taree Hay
Reles
Manods
Waward
Kemper
Samuel W. Pitts
Charles B Swan
J Edward Shion
Alfred G .Abler
Donald Aitcheson
Charles Tennesgon
C Page Waller
William HM Charles
George W Zacharyile
Samuel H Wrade
Reva
R. Harris & Co
the Jewelers
Rene Chalice
Peet
Sasessoosees
Barbey
Bluestein Co
Eiyaar
Rai Po
Tours
Timi
the Locomobile Company of America
Connecticut Avenue
Washington, DC
Raleigh 12Th
Pennsylvania Avenue
E. L. Weston, Mamger
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