Labor board urged to back Hughes Borah bill
Prominent social and industrial leaders including John Michell and John Ritchell will testify before the House committee on the Hughes Borah measure. They seek to advance a commission on industrial reform and advocate establishing industrial peace through federal action amid labor tensions.
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John Hays Hammond
John Ritchell
Jane Addams
Jqdorse Moore
Hughes Borah Wil
Alpher S Wise
Mina
Congres
Iheas
Bowman
Wikamare
Amity
Meramack
Tf & Nationad
Barates
Wilaon
Ls Aufic
Swtabilahing
Feds
David J Lawla
John T. Marr
Robertlee
Pennsylvania
Aio
Meadir Senate
Ion and Lorimer
Hynosar
Howse
Nillnois
Tuskers
Jot
Clark
Columbia
Division of Economia
Begin Endowment For Interatonal
Fonds for P. O. Inquiry Inadequate Postmaster Influence Probe
A special committee on contingent expenses agreed to fund a proposed investigation into whether postmasters nationwide are aiding political machines to influence or defeat presidential candidates. The committee criticized undue influence and urged detailed inquiry while denying funds for extraneous purposes. Senator Bristow led the complaint and called for a focused inquiry into postmaster activities.
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Spmain
Pustufie
Politcal Eflasariea
Chance for warships poor amid contested naval funding
Readable fragments indicate debate over naval appropriations and potential fleet cutbacks. References to leaders such as Padgett and Laderwood suggest tension in a defense discussion linked to a 42.1 million issue and possible delays or extensions affecting ship procurement and carrier readiness.
Rash Covered Hands and Home Remedies After Persistent Rash
A record recounts months of a severe rash on the hands and thumbs that spread, causing burning, rawness, and bleeding. The sufferer used salves and oils with little relief for weeks, later applying Cure Cure Soap and Ointment with temporary relief before full improvement. The note mentions outreach for cures and free samples from suppliers.
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New York
Jeff Hand
Dugunt
Ikem
Ike & Baby
Sep
Addon
Wool Tariff Fight Divides Democrats and Republicans
Chairman Underwood announces a wool tariff bill aiming for a 50 percent reduction under the Hay Paine Aldrich law. Democrats back the House revision. Republicans likely favor about a 0 percent cut. Senate expected to pass, with Taft facing potential pressure depending on majority positions.
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Underwood
House
Ways and Means
Democrats
Apedsangalon
Taft Starrf
Democrata
Tariff Board
Terft
Sare Board
Senate
Inebriate Hospital Urged by District Officials
Dr Josn Gleeson told the House District committee that establishing an inebriate hospital in the market area would cure drink and drug inmates. He testified as a spokesman for Columbia Heights Citizens association urging Congress to fund the project. Currently drunkards are sent to the Washington Asylum Hospital or the workhouse, where confinement is as criminals. Committee members accompanying Dr Gleeson included W Clements Lancaster Dr BT Birtwell Dr OF Gibbs Dr Lewin P Thompson Dr I Dwattle and J H Stabjer.
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Josn Gleeson
Columbia Heights
Congress
Washington Asylum
Gleeson
W Clements
Coc Lancaster
BT Birtwell
OF Gibbs
Lewin P Thompson
I. Dwattle
J. H Stabjer
Senate blocks out in army posts and parole bill
The Senate rejects abolishing about two army posts and other War Department reforms while reporting the army appropriation bill. The cavalry is to be cut to ten regiments, enlistments set at five years, and several War Department bureaus consolidated. The House passed a parole bill extending life sentences to federal prisoners after fifteen years.
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Senate
War Department
Tagbe
Benair
Malta
Howard
Peersis
Taper General Wickarvinos
Senator Gallinger Warns West Point On Foreign Enlistment
In Senate deliberations on admitting a young Cuban to the Military Academy at West Point Senator Gallinger warns against expanding education for foreigners. He notes two outsiders already there and doubts training Chinese or other foreign youths, though he does not block the admission and the resolution passes.
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Gallinger
West Point
Senate
Military Academy
West Pol
Wapt Point
New Hampshire
End Near in Beef Case Final Defense Plea Before Jury
Chicago march 1 the beef packers trial nears verdict as defense closes with final arguments by m w sorders and john barton payne saying europe awaits the verdict and a guilty finding would unjustly brand the defendants and harm american commerce while no witness testified to higher cream meat or cattle prices.
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Chicago
United States District
George A Carpenter
M W Sorders
John Barton Payne
Pierce Hutler
Carpenter
Europe
United States
Hex
Pain and jealousy drive woman to kill husband in New York
Genevieve Nicodemus a young Melville woman on trial for murder after a quarrel with husband Francis Nicodemus. She claims personal crisis and pain from a carbolic acid wound led her to shoot. He died from the injuries after a street altercation and an attempted suicide by both.
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New York
Genevieve Fom
Melville Nicodemus
Francis
Anteaman
Nicodemus
Mas Nicodemus
Abt
Batsboty
Government finds large potash deposit at Searles Lake
Government scientists report a vast potash deposit at Searles Lake in San Francisco County California. Estimates suggest over 1,000,000 tons ready for commercial use potentially meeting U S demand for about 30 years. Officials stress national independence from German supplies amid past diplomatic strains.
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United States
Acientieta
Searles Lake
San Francisco County
Cal
Geological Survey
Pprenu
Solls
Men Waa
Hoyte Gale
EE Free
Bureau of Sola
Aix
Mackay School of Mines
Reno
Nev
Thelief
Allis
Sumilar
Direatas Smith
Tand Ghief Whitnes
Bureau of
Rosie
Germany
Wiley Attacks Quacks Over Pernicious Remedies
In a Wing Club address at Church of the Epiphany, Dr Hervey W Wiley criticizes manufacturers and purveyors of nostrums. He notes sulfur use in food prep and questions why educated doctors must be licensed while unknown laymen sell dangerous cures.
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America
Hervey W Wiley
Wing Club
Church of the Gpiphany
Jocal Medical Board
Ucenge
Convict Lynched After Attempted Escape Plot
Cochran Ga March 21 1 the mob hanged Tromer Howell a Black convict who had killed guard Chard Joseph Coady and wounded another during a camp escape plan. Howell was being taken to Hawkinsville when armed men seized him and strung him up to a telephone pole amid a volley of bullets.
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Cochran
Negra Covict Tromer Howell
Chard Joseph Coady
Howell
Howe
Iuickis
Hawkinaville
Thie Place
Chief Chemist Controversy Over Manila Bureau Change
In Manila, Dr. C S Hudson and other officials oppose a petition seeking Dr W D Bigelow as chief of the bureau of chemistry. An attempt was made to bring official pressure to bear on signing. Dr Hudson refused to sign and protested the move, calling it an assault on independence.
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C. S. Hudson
W. D. Bigelow
Tadwil
Paul Gaspar
Bureau of Science
Manila
Harvey W Wily
Department of Agriculture
Taft
de Frapr
Philippines
Freer
General Laboratories
Itha Philippine Inlands Medics
Jaince
Chicago
Ruah Medical College
University of Munich
Chenalatry
University of Michigan
Bureau of Chemistry
Wiley
Wilson
W A Bigelow
Friends
Bigelow
Bureau
Hudson
Bigalow
TH Bielow
Secrets From Segal Tells How Ameri can Refinery Was Gained
Attorney Untermyer details how American Sugar Refining Company gained control of the Philadelphia refinery through confidential letters between Washington and a sugar trust figure. The documents show alleged bribery payments and plan to acquire control of the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company, presented as evidence in a Sherman Act criminal case. The letters discuss cooperation to secure a majority stake and practical steps to carry out the takeover.
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Untermyer
American Company
Philadelphia
New York
David
Washington & ‘Homes
Sugar Trust
David Stetson
Stetson
Adolph Segal
Wenneylvania Ugar Refining Company
Thomas
John E . Parsons
American Sugar Refining Company
Crmins
Hands
Congressionalugar
Sponsel
Trust
Vival Y
Samuel Untermyer
Pennaghania
Besal
Guptave Kigsell
Clarity
Wise
Dear Wash
Dave
Bretson
Bega
Dave" Replied That He Could Y | Get It, But Nane da
Segal
Wash
Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company
Express Collision Kills Two on Barnegat Pier
Two people died and several injured when the Long Branch express from Camden struck a standing freight at Barnegat Pier. Dead include Charles Applegate and H C Jones. Fireman, engineer, and baggage crew named, with most aboard surviving. The wreck left engines and baggage car as total loss.
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Toms River
Long Branch
Camden
Hich
Barnegat Pier
Charles Applegate
Feman
H.C Jones
W H. Rogers
Mantaiouing NM
Frank Applegate
Charlo Meredith
EE Cruse
Connecticut Third District Election Contest Report
The article notes a 1910 congressional ballot challenge in Connecticut's Third district to determine Rep. Edwin W Higgins’s seat. Sealed boxes will be opened by the grand committee with counsel for Higgins and contestor Raymond J. Joudoin present.
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House
Yeaturday
Connecticut
Edwin W Higgins
Greatiown Committee No
Higsing
Raymond J. Joudoin
Wife's Love Worth $10,000 in Suit to Mrs Hutchinson
Harry F Hell sues in the Supreme Court for $10,000 damages claiming alienation of affections of his wife. He says he married Miss Hutchinson in Baltimore on December 2, 1910, lived together until 1911, when her mother Mrs Hutchinson Hall allegedly urged his wife to leave home. He asserts her marriage ended March last after his wife was moved by the mother to Wheeling and severed from him.
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Harry F Hell
Thereiot Supreme Court
Hutchinson
Bio Wits
Helen
Hutchinson Hall
Hall
Mise Hutching
Baltimore
Mra EB Coffey
Slater
Avera
Lester
Wheeling
Tragedy in Bayonne as man shoots woman then kills himself
In Bayonne on March 2, 34-year-old John W Groundwater shot Louisa Grt after she rejected him. He then fatally shot himself as she fell on the sidewalk. The girl is expected to recover.
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Bayonne
John W Groundwater
Louisa Gr
Success as Actress Skirvin Breaks Father’s Grip For Stage
Miss Skirvin, daughter of a wealthy Oklahoma City resident, persuades her father to move her from National Park Seminary in Washington to New York to study Greek and Latin and pursue acting. She secrets a transfer, joins a dramatic school, and wins a leading part in a popular farce, performing nightly with bracelets tossed to the audience.
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National Park Seminary
Washington
New York
Oklahoma
Mijas Markuerite Aldrvin
Teo
Mise Skirvin
Oklahoma City
National Park
Miss Skirvin
Poiahome
Shirvin
Mira Bkirvin
Mila Skirvin
Milas Skirvin
Misa Bkirvin
Eldrvin
Potomac Flood Delays Western Maryland Rail Line
Special to The Washington Post Cumberland Md reports flood stage Potomac River hinders traffic as 300 ton rock loosened by rain blocks Western Maryland Railway near Barnum W Va. Workers set off dynamite to clear the obstruction as a temporary bridgework tracks the line. Local officials urge rapid clearance to prevent larger floods.
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Washington
Cumberland
Potomac
Wineres
Western Maryland Railway
Mayor Young
Baltimore
T E
Antahad
Maryland
Barnum
W Va
Gov Dix Grants Pardon to Slayer in Subway Killing
Albany March 21 Gov Charles Dix pardoned Cherlan H Wright of Elizabeth New Jersey who shot and killed Taig Brown in New York on September 30 1910. Wright had pleaded guilty to second degree manslaughter on March 22 1911 and received a sentence of less than two years nor more than seven. Wright claimed self defense stating Brown and four companions attacked him in the Forty second Street subway station. Judge Mulqueen and District Attorney Whitman supported the pardon.
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Albany “ Y
Guy Dix
Cherlan H Wright
Elizabeth
Taig
Brno
New York
Wright
Taulgl
Brown
Forty Second Street
Etalion
Mulqueen
Whitman
Learn Widowhood at Pier
Two South Boston women Mrs Michael Jennings and Mrs Gail learned of widowhood when they went to Yarmouth line pier to greet their husbands believed aboard the wrecked schooner Patrician off Gulf Rock Ledge Jordan Bay Nova Scotia March 5. The survivors arrived on the Boston steamer while the women mourned the loss.
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Boston
Leper Early Takes Job at Port Townsend Station
Leper Early accepts Taft administration offer at Port Townsend Quarantine Station. He will earn 80 dollars monthly for four months, with Tacoma authorities noting the arrangement and provided income details.
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Leper
Port Townsend
Tacoma
Wall
Lepar
Taft
Gas Explosion Kills Four in Dunmore After Main Break
In Dunmore near Scranton two families, seven children and several adults died in a gas explosion traced to a broken main. The blast and ensuing fire leveled three houses and damaged more than twenty dwellings as gas filled the Cavella home area. Authorities say gas from a broken main likely caused the disaster.
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Scranton
Sethoga Mini Peraons
Dunmore
John Cavell
Hoge
Dominick
Lucy Uo
Willan
Musama
Mire Aselan
Mars
Frank
Mary
setUinus
Thes
Cavella
Maine
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General Fit
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Carrera
Omanisatlin Wa
Mes. Taft
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Cena
Japan Society
Dapat Society
Lindsay Russell
Russell
Meany Committee
Tma
Urges Inebriate Hospital
U.S
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Georgia Camp
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Sizty
Excape
Bullete Mins
P. C. Freer
Head of Sugar
B. F. Ball
Girl
Maryland Road
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Palais Royal
Bam, Tog. M
Ladora
Sataar
Wevers
Areback
Corback
Zeta Isu Omar
Jones
Maryment Capi
Mother Goose
Fableland Girls
Jim Warkins
Casein Osokio Ny
Tee
Rose
Ered Tans
Miss c Ryder
Alice Nielsen
Artute
Horen Opera Com
Hk Progrem Nt Ng
Uperm
Theater al
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Lew Dockstader
Jd Grand Opera Witago Gran Cprra CO
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Perponn Ascee
Aida St
van Avien
Tony Ed
Alexandra Viarda
Bride of Messina
Lion National
Zoxiour
Angus Charas Dillegham
Montgomery
Stone
Fiente
Leto
Hamay Watson
Zleeteid Academy
ATR
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Ooite Saeed
Daly
Hig
Lyceum
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Gayety Rose Sydell
Joe Turner
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