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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1908
Page
1
The speech condemns dishonest practices and unfair rates while urging tariff revision to protect industry. It promotes public rights, thrift, and rewarding honest labor, and notes the speaker’s visit to Brown University and public addresses on trade policy.
The readable text hints at a commission and legislative action involving revisions to a tax or tariff in a public notice. It mentions hearings, enactment, and references to a committee or department, with vague dates and locations. The fragmentary passage names no clear individuals, organizations, or definite actions.
A Boston inquest opened into Walter Baker's death with testimony about embalming and haste. Dr McFadden and undertaker Ricardo described actions before the coroner’s view, noting absence of arsenic and claimed custom or law issues. Proceedings adjourned to continue, with family and Hurd witnesses referenced.
Column by John Callan O Laughlin reports anarchy in Kentucky and Tennessee amid a tobacco trust battle. Night riders terrorize villages, warehouses burn, and growers face coercive prices. Italian Regio accused of backing the revolt as the governor orders guards and threats of federal intervention rise.
Special to The Washington Pict reports two men posing as patients, George Reinholt and Charles Schiemer, attacked dentist Vr Vorltzschwartz at 2 pm in his office. Reinholt bit the dentist’s neck with a blackjack, the assailants fled, and Reinholt was captured near the stairs after a struggle. He torn admitted to felonious assault and attempted robbery, was jailed on charges, with prior burglary record and Rogue’s Gallery listing.
Accused killer Orchard pleads guilty to murder in the first degree in Judge Fremont Wood's district court. He admits assembling the dynamite bomb that killed former Gov William Steunenberg at his Idaho residence gate. Haywood, Moyer, and others linked to the Western Federation of Miners are named in proceedings with mixed dispositions.
A Toronto woman’s late night call awakened her sister in Hamilton and led to the rescue of her mother, two sisters, and a cousin. The family was found unconscious from coal gas. physicians revived them after the quick response. The mother recalls acting as in a dream with no memory of calling Esther.
The trial of John Avner for the murder of James Conkrill proceeded with the jury deliberating at noon. In a separate case Beech Hargis faced a murder charge against his father as Commonwealth attorneys prepared to proceed, with proceedings adjourned to tomorrow morning.
San Francisco March 19 Judge Dunne discharged former mayor Schmitz after nine months in jail on an extortion indictment. He ordered the case submitted to another jury and noted Schmitz’s release while the legal process resumes.
Oliver Spitzer, dock superintendent at Havemeyer and Elder plant of American Sugar Refining, is tried for conspiring to defraud the government and offering a bribe to Treasury agent Richard Parr. Parr testified that wires were found on scales weighing crude sugar and that Spitzer offered any amount to claim the sales were not fixed. Parr reported the incident, which was later relayed to his partner Brezinakl.
New York March 1 Ambassadors remarks at a New York banquet framed diplomacy between the United States and Japan as based on sincere friendship. Baton Kogoro Sakahira, Japanese ambassador, rejected any idea of a joint anti US alliance and stressed interdependence and peaceful neighborly ties. He noted no current or future questions of magnitude between the nations and recalled the Portsmouth peace as a debt owed to the United States.
Evelyn Thaw plans to file in Supreme Court for an annulment on the ground of Harry Thaw’s alleged insanity at the time of their marriage. Dana Reilly will represent Mrs Thaw with ARuyseil Peabody assisting, and no alimony demand was noted though a potential support claim could be raised. The case arises from a long breach dating to Thaw’s first murder trial and ongoing tensions between Evelyn and Thaw, with testimony expected from Evelyn Thaw and medical experts.
San Francisco reports three deaths and 441 residents saved from almshouse blaze. Nurses and staff hurled into action, carrying elderly patients to safety as the fire, caused by a faulty chimney, destroyed part of the building. Edward Korn, recently operated on, died after removal from the fire scene.
In Hillingham England the entombed miners at Hamstead collier faced a tragic fate after a fire last Wednesday. Despite heroic efforts and round the clock work to remove earth and install cooling and ventilation, the first body was recovered late tonight with no chance of rescue for any others.
Ely New Mark a Japanese was arrested last night after a struggle during which he almost chewed off two fingers of Clinton. Clinton says he was approached by the Japanese who asked him to go to San Francisco to obtain drawings of fortifications. Clinton refused and held on until officers arrived. Post Want Ads.
President Roosevelt pays tribute at the White House to the Congress of Mothers calling mothers the nation’s supreme asset. He criticizes women who shirk domestic duty as he honors soldiers and mothers in a night session.
The speaker extols mothers as the supreme asset of national life, arguing that a wise mother is more vital than any businessman or statesman. He urges duty in wifehood and motherhood, condemns shirking responsibilities, and states love and partnership are the foundation of marriage.
President Roosevelt extols the mother’s role at a White House reception for delegates of the International Congress on the Welfare of the Child. Mrs Roosevelt and Mrs Longworth attend as the President commends mothers as the nation’s key public servants, stressing their devotion and sacrifices.
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