Veto Bill Advances Amid Asquith Victory Cheers
London reports premi er Asquith receives a rousing ovation as the veto bill, aimed at curbing the Lords, clears its first reading by 237 to 31. Unionists urge compromise while opposition leaders threaten further action and potential prorogation to confront Lords reform efforts. The scene ends with debates over a second chamber and possible constitutional crisis.
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Churchill
Additio
Austen Chamberlain
House of Lords
London
Asquith
House of Commons
Lberal
Lords
Frederick Smith
George Wyndham
Lord Lansdowne
Upner
Obituaries Notice Miniatures From Washington DC Area
Sudden deaths reported for WALLACE G. BONE CLARA MEYERS Fenton Bradford Theodore Lewis Jr MICHAEL F McCarthy VIRGIE MITCHELL Annie Smith Charles Smith Tuohy with funeral details at St Aloysius St Patrick's Mount Olivet and local undertakers noting private interments and church services planned across February 1911. Names include Bone Bradford Holbrook McCarthy Mitchell Tuohy Smith and Tuohy with ceremonies at 2 pm and 9 am schedules and multiple churches and cemeteries referenced.
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Bone
Wallace G. Bone
Joseph Gacher
Daniel
Mary McCarthy
Castle Island
County Kerry
Ireland
D. Scanlon
K Street
St Aloysius’ Church
Mitchell
M Street
Virgie Mitchell
King
J. Oliver Mitchell
Hidward
Virginia King
Fairview
Smith
Annie
Charles Smith
Charles H Hurdle
J. William Lee
Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest
St. Patrick’s Church
Padgett’s
Eleventh Street
St Peter's Church
Mount Olivet
Telegraphing and Insertion Across Major Newspapers
Notice states arrangements permit simultaneous insertion across listed newspapers without extra charges for Invertion or telegraphing, covering Cincinnati Enquirer Providence Journal Cleveland Plain Dealer Syracuse Post Standard Abbage Recara-Herald St Paul Pioneer Press Buffalo Courier Rochester Herald New York Times St Louis Republic Reston Globe Pittsburgh Dispatch Philadelphia Public Ledger.
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Washington Post
Cincinnati Enquirer
Providence Journal
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Syracuse Post- Standard
Abbage Recara-Herald
St Paul Pioneer Press
Puffalo Courier
Rorhester Herald
New York Times
St Louis Republic
Reston Globe
Titsburg Dispatch
Philadelphia
Public
Lefiger
Roosevelt Urges Referendum in Chicago Tour
Theodore Roosevelt spoke at multiple venues in Chicago on February 22 appealing for nationalism and citizen duty. He endorsed initiative and referendum and a constitutional change to elect senators by popular vote, drawing strong support from foreign born attendees and a crowd of about 3,000 boy scouts.
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Chicago
Theodore Roosevelt
Washington
Lincoln
Col. Roosevelt
Auditorium Theater
Union Learne Club
Orchestra Hall
Hull House
Board of Trade
First Regiment
Scovta
Roosevelt
Haitian Regiments Clash In Cape Haitien Riot
Government troops clashed with rebels in Cape Haitien with one soldier killed and ten wounded. Gen Jean Gilles restored order as President Simon walked to the conflict site. Haitian ministers say rebels burned Quanaminthe to avoid capture and that executions were court martialed, not massacres. The revolt is now suppressed and peace is restored nationwide.
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Cape Haitien
Haiti
Jean Gilles
Simon
H. Pauleus Sannen
Quanaminthe
Ifone
Jacmel
Port Au Prince
Three Train Bandits Caught Near Dahlonega
Gainesville Ga Feb 22 Three men arrested after a three day search for a bandit gang that robbed the Southern Railway fast mail train at White Sulphur Springs last Saturday. More than 12000 in money and jewelry recovered. A suspect arrested near Dahlonega identified as a ringleader known as John Anderson implicated others but provided few details.
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White Sulphur Springs
Gainesville
Southern Railway
Pahlonoga
Edwards
Lumpkin
Dahlonega
Serral
Tohn & Anderson
Hearst Opposes Magazine Tax and Postage Rise
William Randolph Hearst declares higher magazine postage would raise education costs and opposes the government tax plan. He argues cheap magazine distribution supports public education, citing corporate taxes and income tax stances while criticizing post office inefficiencies and costs. He notes private carriers and Canadian rates prove magazines can be profitably distributed at low prices.
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Mr. Taft
Postoffice Department
Post Office Department
United States
Evening ‘Journal
New York American
Mail and Express
Pennsylvania Railroad
United States Post Office Department
Express
United States Treasury
WM. Randolpl
Maine Representative Claims Ample U S Pulp Wood Supplies
Jon Norris, chairman of the American Publishers' Association paper committee, testified before the Senate finance committee on Canadian reciprocity. He said newspapers pay $6,000,000 more annually for print paper than under normal conditions and cited a 92.60 per ton rise since the Payne-Aldrich tariff act. Swasey of Maine disputed the idea of a paper trust as Norris spoke for eleven local mills. The hearing on opposition to Canadian reciprocity continued at 10 o'clock.
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Jon Norris
American Publishers’ Association
Senate Committee On Finance
Swasey
Maine
John Norris
Herman Ridder
New York
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Hastings
Department of Justice
Gen Davis argues suicide attempts not punished by Army justice
General George B. Davis states that since the U S armed forces were organized no officer or enlisted man has ever been court marshaled for attempting suicide He notes that in both Army and Navy the act is treated as a crime yet has never been officially recognized as such Clergy leaders in Washington condemn suicide as criminal and call for punishment while Germany’s Emperor William pardoned a veteran in a lesson that American practice differs.
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America
Washington
William
United States
Navy
Germany
George B. Davis
United States Army
Army
Negry
Count Hans von Fpreil
Russell
St. Patrick’s Church
A. G. B. Pierce
All Souls’ Unitarian Church
Father Russell
Pierce
Priest Links Tompkinsville Rectory to Cardinal by Wireless
In Tompkinsville Maryland a Catholic priest used a wireless station at the rectory to send a greeting to Cardinal James Gibbons in Baltimore. The message was received at Sparrows Point and the cardinal replied, praising Father Myer and his congregation for the first test of their new wireless setup.
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Tompkinsville
Baltimore
Charles County
Cardinal Gibbons
James Cardinal Gibbons
RV. J. Amyer
Sparrows Point
United Wireless Telegraph Company
Father Myer
J. A. Myer
Card “Gibbons
J. B. Henry
Bill Nye Day Celebrated by North Carolina Schools
North Carolina schools marked Bill Nye Day with hour long programs organized by the Bill Nye memorial committee. Students urged to donate a penny for the memorial fund, raising several thousand dollars for a memorial building at Stonewall Jackson Training School. The event, led by the North Carolina Press Association, honored a private citizen and echoed the late humorist’s memory.
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North Carolina
Washingington
Charlotte
N. C
Eerry
Bill Nye
Stonewall Jackson
North Carolina Press Association
Craig-y-Nos
North Carolina Mountain Home
Rumors On Senate Deadlock Dismissed In Albany Brief
Albany reports rumors of a settlement next week carry little credence as insurgents keep scattering votes. No change expected this week. Montana and Iowa legislatures also voted without electing a senator.
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Albany
Montana
Iowa
Health Office Record Deaths Listing Various Individuals
Health office record lists multiple deceased individuals with ages and addresses including Mary T Russell 404 South street southeast 40, Michael O Connell 2497 18th street aw 0, George C Chapman Homeopathic Hospital 64, Walter Moffatt US Soldiers Home BD C 493, Williamson US 3 Soldiers Home DC 60, Michael F McCarty 222 K Street NW 2, Fitchard A Tarr 1442 H Street NW 60, Fannie Levin 800 6th Street SW 76, Margaret Daugherty 904 Q Street NE 3 days, Infant of Benjamin and Elizabeth Gorden Jamina Tethert Home for Aged and Infirm 9 years, Clinton Morgan Emergency Hospital 33, James Holmes Home for Aged and infirm 43, Mitchell Powe 200 Pat NW 59, Robert Young 1526 Florida Avenue NW 34, Alice Veney 1626 43d Court NW 62, Mary F Boswell 158 Quander Street SE 56, Irene Brown 717 Oakdale Place 3, May Catherine Warren 3202 17th Street SE 1, Joseph Hashing 1905 Alst MW 1 year, Tntant of Joseph and Eugenia Wert 50 Capitol East, Iny City.
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Mary T. Russell
Micheal O. Connell
18Th St
George C. Chapman
Homeopathic Hospital
Summerlin
D. C
Walter Moffatt
Ron “Williamson
Michael F. McCarty
K St. Nw
Fitchard A. Tarr
H St. Nw
Fannie Levin
6Th St. Sw
Margaret Daugherty
Benjamin and
Elizabeth Gorden
Jamina Tethert
Clinton Morgan
James Holmes
En Mitchell Powe
Pat
Robert Young
Fla
Ave
Alice Veney
Mary F. Boswell
Quander St
Irene Brown
Oakdale Pi
May Catherine Warren
Joseph Hashing
Joseph and
Eugenia Wert
Capitol E
Iny City
Japanese Treaty Held Up By Hale
Pacific coast senators and Secretary Knox debate ratification of the Japanese treaty. Lodge plans an executive session as protests pour in, amid assurances that immigration terms will be handled by diplomatic notes and that Japanese cooperation has reduced labor immigration.
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Hale
Washington
Knox
Senate Committee On Foreign Affairs
Japan
Baron Uchida
Taft
United States
Senate
Lodge
Beveridge
Lorimer
Pacific Coast
Foreign Relations Committee
Indifference in Seattle highlights treaty impact on Japanese settlers
Seattle, Feb. 32. Despite the city housing the largest Japanese colony in the United States, about 10,000 Japanese in and near Seattle, the new treaty has been met with indifference. A growing trade with Japan has Merchants leaning toward closer relations, while bills in the legislature would permit Japanese to own land in the state.
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Seattle
Wash
United States
Orient
Puget Sound
Oregon Governor Opposes Japanese Immigration Treaty
Gov Oswald West of Oregon denounces Japan treaty terms that omit immigration limits. He calls the nation a white man's country and says allowing Japanese workers would flood the United States, urging immediate blocking of such influx.
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Salem, Oreg
Japan
Oswald West
Oregon
London council shelves remove vulgar American works
A London county council education subcommittee proposed a revised list for school libraries. Biographies of Abraham Lincoln Benjamin Franklin and George Washington and the book From Log Cabin to White House were struck off for being overly crude and written in American vulgar English. The report was referred back to the subcommittee.
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London
Education Committee
London County Council
Abraham Lincoln
Benjamin Franfin
George Washington
Log Cabin
White House
John Dennish Pender
Subcommittee
Philadelphia teacher drowns self attempt in Atlantic surf
Mrs. Mary Carter Boyer, aged Philadelphia school teacher, slipped from her Hotel Breyport room in Atlantic City while deranged and attempted to drown herself in the breakers. Night clerk Thomas Downing and guests rescued her, she was taken to city hospital and slowly recovering. Mental strain followed family deaths and illness.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Breyport
Mary Carter Boyer
Philadelphia
Thomas Downing
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Asa
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M. I. Falvey
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New Orleans
Kalon Wine CO
Ben. Mos
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Hearst
William R. Hearst
Mr. Hearst
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Mr. Graves
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Judicial Department
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Chamberlain
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Mexico
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Surf
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N. Y. Ave
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A. F. Fox Company
Henry
Straus, Gunst & Go. Distilers and Distibuters
Richmond
House of Q
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