Taft Attacks Foes of Pact and Praises Trade Link
President Taft told Chicago's Western Economic Society that opposition to Canadian reciprocity arises from lumber and paper interests, not farmers. He urged the public to back the pact, citing Cuba and Porto Rico as successful reciprocity examples and predicting Senate passage with broad popular support.
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Chicago
Taft
Western Economic Society
Lumber Trust
United States Senate
Senate
Washington
United States
Cuba
Porto Rico
Philippines
Philippine Islands
Hamlin demands public scrutiny of state portrait spend
Representative Hamlin of Missouri, chairing a subcommittee, vows to force publicity on a $2,450 portrait expense charged to the secret emergency fund for State Department use. He schedules a hearing next Tuesday with former Secretary Root as witness, warning of a possible break with the State Department over fiscal transparency and potential statutory amendments.
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House
State Department
Subcommittee
Root
Harolin
Missouri
Representative Hamlin
Knox
Hamlin
Congress
Albert Rosenthal
Wiamiin
Rosenthal
Day
Morrison
Division of Accounts
Youks
Department
Ghouls Seized Williams Jewelry After Fatal Maryland Crash
Wealthy Baltimore automobile manufacturer Richard Oliver C. Williams died in a May 18 crash near Berwyn Maryland leaving jewelry worth 335 dollars missing. Police traced the loss to local pawnshops as relatives delayed reporting to care for Miss Helen Griffith injured in the collision. Detectives will question witnesses as they pursue suspects seen at the scene and search for the three stone ring and cuff buttons initials A C W EB CW valued 300 and 5 respectively.
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Richard C. C. Williams
Griffith
Richard Oliver C. Williams
Baltimore
Beryn
Williams
Helen ‘Griffith
Berwyn
EB. C.W
Gema
Wiliams
Miss Griffith
Miss Griffiths
Pimico
Packers Seek New Hearing On Meat Conspiracy Case
Chicago June 3 J Ogden Armour and other meat packers charged with conspiring in restraint of trade filed written arguments in U S district court seeking a re hearing on a motion to quash the indictments. They argue the Sherman act as construed by the Supreme Court makes enforcement too indefinite for criminal pros ecutio n and that the indictments may be wholly insufficient.
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Chicago
Reciprocity in Canada trade pact wins big vote
A Washington Post telegraphic summary reports a West state poll of 10,000 newspapers showing 3,113 in favor and 1,127 against the Taft negotiated reciprocity with Canada. Boston Chamber endorses Canadian reciprocity and urges Senate passage.
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Apedal
Washington Post
Chicago
Canada
Congress
Taft
Boston
Boston Chamber of Commerce
Board of Directors
Senate
Gompers Calls Peace Conference in Labor Dispute
President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor has intervened in the jurisdictional fight between the International Protective Association of Steamfitters and the United Association of plumbers and Steamfitters. Chicago leaders from both sides were summoned to a peace conference in Cincinnati tomorrow afternoon.
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Chicago
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
International Protective Association of Steamfillers
United Association of Plumbers and Steamfitters
Cincinnati
Gomperg
Davis memory honored with Confederate memorial observances
On Jefferson Davis birthday Confederate memorial day was observed across the South. Major cities closed cotton exchanges and banks as parades and ceremonies took place. Daughters of the Confederacy unveiled monuments in Macon Georgia and Norfolk Virginia, with cross of honor events in Lexington and a speech by Rev. John McG. at Woodstock. Veterans from Tidewater Virginia joined a Franklin monument event and a garden of graves decoration elsewhere.
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New Orleans
Jefferson Davis
South
Boards of Trade
Daughters of the Confederacy
Macon
Cleveland
Fifty-second Virginia Infantry
Lexington
William S&s Hammond
Woodstock
Culpeper
Rodenberry
Georgia
Hospitals clash over new building for Emergency Hospital
Georgetown and George Washington Hospitals rally to halt a large modern hospital. They argue emergency care can be shared by the two university hospitals and other facilities, saving money while Congress considers federal funding.
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Georgetown
George Washington
Judson
George Washington University
Board of Charities
Board of Charities of
Congress
Iemergency Hospital
Georgetown University
University Hospitals
Hospital site clash prompts transfer proposal in DC
Debates on replacing the Emergency Hospital. Dr Borden of George Washington University Medical Faculty appeals to Reach of Charities to fund part of the hospital, arguing GWU Hospital would handle emergency work cheaper and better. Dr Kober supports Georgetown University Hospital, opposing rebuilding. officials cite central location near car lines and rivers, with current government aid and federal allocations for hospital support.
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Kober
Board of Charities
Woc Borden
Medical
George Washington Triniversity
Border
Georgetown University Hospital
Borden
Potomac River
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Congress
Boardman
Oter
Dr. Borden
Chauffeur Scheib in Preliminary Hearing on Wife’s Death
New York June Henry A Scheib the chauffeur charged with killing his wife Lillian was sent back to the Tombs for further examination next Tuesday A coroner physician testified the body found in the bathroom showed no signs of violence The key witness is six year old Eileen McCrombie who says she saw Scheib near the flat on Sunday and the state hopes she can bolster the case Against him the lungs were dissolved and stomach contents withheld pending analysis authorities say the study will take ten days to two weeks
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New York
Henry A. Schelb
Lillian
Lehane
Xamie
Scheib Apartments
Scheib
Eileen McCrombie
Dougherty
Child
Beheib
Russell
East Seventy-ninth Street
Schelbs
Eileen
Stanley
Schelb
Mrs. Schelb
Schieb
Maria Ocampo Says Diaz Woman Forced Resignation
Mexico City June 3 Maria Ocampo an Oaxaca Indian woman serving Mme Porfirio Diaz claims Senora Diaz guided the president to sign his resignation and arranged its dispatch. She says Diaz fled at 4 am with his family amid fears of assassination after Diaz resisted but yielded to his wife. The episode follows a second rewritten resignation and violent unrest in the capital.
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Harry H. Dunn
Washington Post
Mexico City
Maria Ocampo
Mme
Porfirio Diaz
Senora Diaz
Chamber of Deputies
Gen. Diaz
Ocampo
Diaz
Cadena Street
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Tariff Board
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Luray
Hetarn
Mountain Lake Park
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Southern Railway
Asheville
North Carolina
Packers
West
Gompers
Movement To
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Maj. Judson
New York Avenue
Seventeenth Street
Treasury Department
George Washington University Hospital
Columbia Heights
George M. Kober
Monday Evening Club
Imperils
Havana
Tast
Madero
de la Barra
Miranda
Tuz Noriega
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Tedame
Madame
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