Arkansas Rep Denounces Peary as Faker in Naval Debate
Representative Macon of Arkansas denounced Captain Robert E. Peary as a faker and urged he be driven from the naval service. He attacked Peary and Cook on North Pole claims, criticized Peary Arctic Club, and insulted two New York editors as know-it-alls and pennywise critics. Moore defended Peary and pointed to heroism of Hobson and Dewey while slamming the Arkansas accusation as unjust and outrageous.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas
San Juan Hill
Moore
Macon
Robert E. Peary
Naval Service
Peary
J. Hampton Moore
Pennsylvania
Hoe
Mr. Macon
Capt. Hobson
Dewey
Manila Bay
Methodist Church
Pero
New York
Cook
Taft
Committee On Naval Affairs
Mr. Moore
Capt. Peary
America
Sanders
Virginia
Mr Macon
Kistermann
Wisconsin
Graham
Miinois
Congress
Committee of Inquiry
Ballinger
Sarah
North
South
Ceins
Wilk
Senate
Kefyre
Cure for eczema on child’s disfigured face advertised
A Nebraska mother recounts how her baby Gilbert suffered severe eczema from infancy, his face raw and scarred until using Cuticura Remedies. After consulting doctors in Chicago, the family tried Cuticura Soap and Ointment, reporting dramatic improvement within four weeks. The ad promotes the products and a free 32 page health book from Potter Drug & Chem Corp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilbert
Chicago
Sigmed
H. Albrecht
West Point
Neb
Potter Drug & Chem Corp
Columbus Ave
Boston
Siete
Har Bealgh
Senate Debates Civil Government for Porto Rico Amend
Congress discusses a constitutional amendment on the Negro question, Borah leading a push for a vote before adjournment. Debates span reciprocity, civil government for Porto Rico, and Army and naval bill amendments. Moore praises Peary and criticizes Macon. Graham defends Bal linger while noting Taft cabinet status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Borah
Heybuen
Depew
Porto Rico
House Rejects Senate Salary Rise For Top Secretary
The House voted 130 to 52 against raising the secretary’s pay and kept the current $6.00 attached to the position. The bill moves back to conference as Republicans majority joined Democrats in opposing the Senate amendment. A compromise to set the salary at 37,500 is anticipated, while conferees were barred from accepting the Senate plan to create an additional Assistant Secretary in Commerce and Labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teporta
Tha Senato
Senate
House
Department of Commerce and Labor
TILLMAN FOR LORIMER VOTES AGAINST UNSEATING
Senator Tillman announced he would vote against the resolution to unseat Senator Lorimer after studying the record and listening to Senator Bailey's speech in his defense. He admitted changing his position from bitter opposition to support, saying there was no proof of bribery linking Lorimer. Democrats in the Senate remain urged to oppose the unseating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tillman
Lormer
Bailey
Lorimer
Senate
Tilman
Porto Rico Bill Stalls Over Citizenship Provision
The Porto Rico civil government bill delays citizenship for residents. The House passed the measure and sent it to the Senate where Mr. Root warned of strong opposition. He urged careful Senate consideration due to the import of granting citizenship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porto Rico
House
Senate
Root
Capitol Briefs Preview: Forged Letter and House Spats
The Capitol briefs cover Rep Sulzer disputing a forged letter urging Kennedy to back Sheehan over him, and a heated clash in the Territories committee with Lloyd Southwick Wickersham and Breele amid a hearing on exempting the Copper River and Northwestern Railway from Alaska railroad taxes. Parsons and Marshall urged action to abrogate the 1833 treaty for discrimination against Jews. Capt Lambert of Galesburg was named to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers board of managers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sulzer
New York
Kennedy
Sheehan
Albany
Military Affairs Committee
House of Representatives
House Committee On Territories
Russia
United States
Parsons
Louis Marshall
New York City
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Lucius Lambert
Galesburg i
House Committee On Military Affairs
Thomas J Wenderson
Princeton TH
National Home For Disabled Volunteer
Soviers
Republicans Push for Permanent Washington Headquarters
Washington chatter centers on opening a permanent Republican headquarters in the capital ahead of Taft's renomination. Advocates cite Hanna era organization as a model, with an acting chairman and full staff to unite factions, coordinate literature, and influence patronage and delegate selection before the 1920 convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican National Committee
Washington
Franklin Murphy
New Jersey
Naonal
Republican Organization
K Hanna
Elmer Dover
National Committee
Hanna
McKinley
Mark Hanna
Taft
Sqyne
Congress
Whites House
Hanna National Committee
Roosevelt
Perry Heath
William McKinley
Scott
Senate
Scotty
Hanne
Republican Party
National Republican
Defends loan of cruiser Boston by Navy official
Secretary Meyer in a mandamus response argues the Navy need not accept any bid for the condemned cruiser Boston and may dispose of the vessel at its discretion for U.S. best interests. He questions the court’s jurisdiction over a discretionary sale and notes the ship’s loan to Oregon’s governor for militia use, advising Goldberg to seek relief in the Court of Claims or state courts where the vessel is held.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie BI. Shaw
Treasury
Iowa
Washington
Leslie
Shaw
Willard
Senator Young
Meyer
A. Goldberg
Vancouver
B. C
Boston
Navy Department
United States
Oregon
Goldberg
United States Court of Claims
Hypnotism Fails as Hotel Robbery Fleeing Bandit Escapes
A masked bandit at the Hotel Frederick on West Fifty-sixth Street attempted a robbery with a revolver. Clerk Robert G. Barnard, who had studied hypnotism, tried to hypnotize the attacker as shots grazed his hand. The robber and two accomplices fled in a waiting car, guests alerted by the gunfire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Fredrick
West Fifty-sixth Street
Broadway
Robert G. Barnard
Barnard
Senate Arm y Bill Cuts Militia Detail and Dental Corps Vote
The Senate amendment to the army appropriation would add 612 officers with 60 for militia duties, but the House reduced the increase to 230 officers with 3 to the quartermaster department. Debates featured Hay accusing promotion motive and Hobson arguing against a large standing army. The House rejected creating a dental corps and defeated a Senate retirement parity for assistant paymasters clerks 60 to 0.
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Senate
House
Hay
Virginia
Hobson
Alabama
Neutenanta
Opposition to New Mexico Constitution Appeals to President Taft
Anti saloon groups and women’s temperance leaders urge President Taft to block New Mexico statehood under the proposed constitution alleging corruption in its passage. Former Senator Henry Blair and S E Nicholson present objections at the White House, with plans to testify before the House Committee on Territories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Mexico
Taft
Antisaloon League
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
White House
Henry Blair
Maryland
S. E. Nicholson
Antisaloon League of America
Margaret Dye Ellis
Enmima
Shelton
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Alleged Mob Leader Yields in Ohio Lynch Case
Newark Ohio February 16 Clarence Timmons on trial for first degree murder in the lynching of Carl Etherington a temperance detective here in July today pleaded guilty to manslaughter The prosecuting attorney said his action was voluntary and the sentence was deferred until Monday Timmons is the third alleged mob leader to be found guilty of manslaughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
Ohio
Clarence Timmons
Carl’ Etherington
Smythe
Timmons
Hotels lists guests at Arlington and other hotels
The page catalogs names of travelers and guests staying at hotels in multiple cities including Arlington, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, California, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and a note of a foreign guest Miss Eden Terry in London. It reads like a society hotel register with numerous Mrs and Mr entries and affiliations to St James, Ebbitt, Shoreham, Raleigh, Riggs, Willard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
H. C. Whitcomb
San Francisco
St. James
HM. Post
Carrie Poat
Los Angeles
Edward Wolf
Barnst
Dayton
BRE
Prangylvanias HL
Wohlsen
Albert Wohlsen
Ter
H. Bi, Corning
M. Ledge
Cartiaie
Fence
Sauter
Scranton
Rallen
Tennessee
S. K. Ragan
Chattanooga
W. W. Talbert
Memphis
Ariing
Virgintaw
D, Murray
Norfolk
James BY Mans and Wife
J. C
Borah Assails North Wins Aid Of Southerners
Senator Borah argues for direct election of senators and declares prejudice against Negroes exists in the North as well as the South. He criticizes the Sutherland amendment as a device to kill the resolution and predicts a two thirds vote to pass today with cross regional support. The debate extends into this morning before the final vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Root
Borah
Senate
South
North
Idaho
Rott
Sutherland
Congress
Crane
Sacramento
Cal
Gates
Moonshine Plant Raided in Southern Berkshire Hills
Revenue officers raided a remote Berkshire County moonshine operation at the old Berkshire Pleasure Inn in West Otis. Nathan B Kalman and Abraham Kravitz pleaded not guilty to illicit distilling as hearings were continued to February 23.
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Berkshire Hills
Springfield, Marys
Berkshire Hill
United States
John L. Rice
Nathan
Kalman
Abraham Kravitz
New York
Russia
Old Berkshire Pleasure Inn
West Otis
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Explorer
Congress Condensed
Howse
Illinois
Capitol
George S. Legare
Charleston
South Carolina
Georgetown College Law School
Legare
Legareig
Democrat
Democratic Party
Champ Clark
Gov
Harmon
Clark
Indiana
James Energy Watson
Watson
Belgium
Portugal
Atlee Pomerene
Gridiron Club
Pomerene
Iitte
Pomprene
Canton
Woolana Woolens
J. van Ingen & Co
York
Arlington Hotel Annex
Department
Invader
Temperance People Lodge
Eden Terry
London
England
Southland
Summer Hotel
Wille
Wilbur
Wilbur & Sons
Philadelphia, Pa
Royal Cook Book
ROYAL
Martine
Trenton
N. J
James Martine
Canada
Dr. Lyon
Alaska
New Willard Hotel
Beverly B Dobbs
Alaska Camera Manor
Dobbs
Pacific
Dibbs
T. Arthur Smith
Ebbitt
Willard Dewsstands
NEW National
Henry B. Harris
Robert Edeson
Charles Frohman
George Ate
Bedbloe
Fat Fiske
Becky Sharp
Creatore
Seata
Bec
Me Pane
Matewny
College Life
Noltie Nichola
Gerald Griffin & CO
Swat Milligan
Georgettis
Lynch & Zeller
Dustin Farnum and Company
Ray Cox
Yvette
Bay
Georgetown University Dramatic Association
Piay
J D McCarthy
S.J
Polumbia
Droop's
Atinen
Robert Hilliard
Eek
John Cort
Carter Leslie
Rupert Fughes
Henry W Savage
Boston Symphony Orchestra
AK Piedler
National Theater
Alwin Schroeder
Sala
Droop’n Musicatore
Golden Crook
Crook
THE
Beauty Trust
Comedienne
NEW Lyceum
At-Pany
Watermeton Trust
the Ducklings
Academy
Crippen
McFadden
Flonzaley
Shoreham Hotel
T. Arthur Smilth’s
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