Bourne Chief Pruner Investigating Government Expenses
Senator Jonathan Bourne Jr of Oregon heads a subcommittee probing why government outlays exceed prior records. Two New York experts in Washington are conducting silent, thorough overhauls of national accounts for Bourne, with findings not yet public. The effort aims to reform budgeting and curb excess spending, with Taft’s support and wider congressional interest.
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Jonathan Bourne, Jr
Oroson
Taft
Sam
Oregon
Bourne
Igh
New York
Washington
Senate
Fresdeat
Congress
Sirurne
Hemenway
Tudiana
Special Commission
Wtte
Taft's Western Trip Highlights Mount Shasta Snow Peak Views
President Taft travels from Portland to Sacramento with stops at Mount Shasta and Seattle frames as a tour of the West. He notes snow scenes, jokes with aides, and remarks on prosperity and equal opportunity while assessing the Panama plan and Alaska trip prospects alongside health concerns of Mrs. Taft.
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Congress
Iony
Portland
Sacramento
Dunsmuir
Mount Shasta
California
Seattle
Snow Peak
Mr. Taft
Shasta
Colorado
Pikes Peal
Mount Ralaler
Tacoma
Mount Tacoma
Oreg
Mount Hood
Taft
Rainier
Hood
Senator Bourne
Capt
Butt
John Hays Hamm
Panama
Alaska
Dinner Tickets Move Slow At Presidential Banquet
Washington Post reports the Tate Manquet committee struggles as less than half the 800 banquet seats at Shr ing Auditorium for the President’s event on October 1 are sold. A drive to fill remaining tickets follows President’s letter and tariff endorsement, with 25 names requested to secure attendance.
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Sicial
Washington Post
Los Angeles
Cal
Tate Manquet
Shring Auditorium
Ir Ig
Taft Told No Drink at Banquet by Indiana Temperance Group
The Indiana Women's Christian Temperance Association held its 36th annual convention in Muncie and voted to send no formal message to President Taft praising his abstention. A committee chair quipped about finding Taft on the liquor issue, joking that he might have crawled into a 1,209 foot deep hole.
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Washington Post
Munele
Taftay
Indiana Women's Christian Temperance Galen
Muncie
Thomas Marshall
Indiana
Frederick Dent Grant
Chieago
Taft
Anc
Fatt
Taft suspect still held in Portland
The examination of Arthur O. Wright, held since Saturday for attempting to get near President Patt, was continued until Wednesday. Wright faces a concealed weapon charge after police found a revolver and extra ammunition on him. Police say they have investigated his record and are now satisfied he hid evil intentions. He probably will be released.
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Portland
Oreg
Arthur O. Wright
President Patt
Wright
Bla Xecord
Secretary of the Navy may assign surgeon grade to hospital ships
Attorney General Wickersham states the secretary has authority to assign a medical officer not below surgeon to command a naval hospital. The guidance arrives as Solace readiness prompts a potential commanding officer detail, ending past disputes over hospital ship command that once split President Roosevelt and the Navy’s Medical Bureau.
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Secretary of the Navy
Wickersham
Naval Hospital
Sahip
Meyer
Shin Solace
Charleston Navy Yard
Admiral Rixey
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Roosevelt
Sheridan Arrives With 25th Infantry at Port Townsend
The US Army transport Sheridan reached Port Townsend Washington on October 4 bringing nearly 1,000 officers and enlisted men of the Twenty fifth Infantry 100 civilian passengers 16 invalids and a number of enlisted patients and military convicts. Soldiers to be assigned to Fort George Wright near Bookabs and Fort Lawton Seattle. The ship communicated by wireless for the last 2000 miles of the voyage.
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Manila
Port Townsend
Wash
F1th Infantry
United States Army
Sheridan
Fort George Wright
Bookabs
Fort Lawton
Seattle
Ghors AP
Husband and son accused in Portauport murder case
Police arrest John Colter and his father at Portauport after the body of Mrs Solomon Colter, 60, is found at the cliff base. Authorities allege years of abuse by husband and son before her murder and body disposal from a Jel cliff.
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Birchy Cove
Solomon Colter
John Collier
Portauport
Roonevelt Party Heads to Padua After Venice Visit
Miss Ethel Roonevelt and Miss Carow, who have been visiting here for several days with Roonevelt, left Venice this afternoon. They proceeded to Padua to visit the university and the cathedral, traveling directly there.
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Neogore
Velt
Ethel Roonevelt
Carow
Hare
Venice
Padua
Debaters on Suffragettes Clash Over Government Policy
A London debate is highlighted by two leader writers rejecting government actions toward suffragette prisoners. Keir Hardie accuses authorities as leaders discuss medical reports on feeding methods and prison conditions. The Daily News loses two writer editors in protest.
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Washington Fort
Birmingham
Bostessen
Keir Hardie
M. P
House of Commons
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Home Office
Masterman
Hardie
Ruben
Mr. Hardie
Jettera
Benthmartaiste
Gladstone
Home Affairs
Home
H.W. Nevinson
H. M. Brailaford
Daily News
Suffrage activists resign from National Progressive Union
Mrs Olive Pearce Dr Maude Glasgow and Mrs Sophie Aus resigned today as officers of the National Progressive Women's Suffrage Union after a brief open air meeting in New York drew no audience. They cited loose business methods as the reason for leaving, criticizing organizational conduct.
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Washington
New York
Olive Pearce
Maude Glasgow
Metropoltan Ite
National Progressive Women's Suffrage Union
Sophie Aus
Albert Pulitzer dies by his own act in Vienna
Albert Pulitzer brother of Joseph Pulitzer publisher of the New York World, killed himself in Vienna by swallowing poison and shooting himself after refusing attendants. He had suffered neurasthenia and mood swings, and had threatened suicide as he faced differences in temperature and light. His brother Joseph, in Berlin, provided no details. Pulitzer founded the New York Morning Journal but spent years in Europe before a planned return to New York.
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Albert Pulitzer
Joseph Pulitzer
New York World
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Prniak
M Pulitzer
Phyaisians
Mr. Pulitzer
Berlin
Albert
Joseph
New York
New York Morning Journal
Europe
Pulliser
Diplomat's Sister Engaged to Viscount de Chazelle
Paris October 4 announces the engagement of Miss Jeanne Bailly-Blanchard sister of Arthur Bailly-Blanchard senior secretary at the American embassy to Paris to Viscount Perrot de Chazelle formerly ordnance officer to the Duke of Aumale and ex captain in the French army.
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Miss Baily-Blanchard
Viscount , de Chazelle
Paris
Jeanne
Arthur Bailly-Blanchard
Viscount Perrot de Chazelle
Duke of'Aumale
Death by own Action at State Capitol In Hartford Conn
John C. Taylor secretary of the Connecticut Prison Association shot himself at his office in the state capitol. He was about seventy, believed temporarily deranged. A Civil War veteran, he died this afternoon from the fatal shot.
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Hartford
Conn
John C. Taylor
Connecticut Prison’ Asaociation
Bis
State Capitol
Swamp-Root Ad Targets Women for Kidney Health
A period advertisement urges women to consider kidney health, tying kidney trouble to back pain headaches and nervousness. It promotes Swamp Root as a remedy, claims to restore vitality, and offers samples and a one dollar bottle via Dr Kilmer & Co at Binghamton New York.
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Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Ordination Fight Over Archibald Black in New York Presbytery
New York presbytery admitted Rev Archibald Black to the ministry despite liberalism accusations. Dissenters will protest to the synod, aiming to contest his ordination over beliefs on biblical infallibility, the virgin birth, Lazarus, and the Resurrection. Other ordination cases were not moved, and Rev J Rosy Stevenson was resigned and moved to Brown Memorial Church in Baltimore.
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New York
Archibald ‘Black
General Assembly
Black
Lazarus
Presbytery
Pre
J. Rosy Stevenson
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
Brown Memorial Church
Baltimore
Death of William Watson Cunard Steamship chairman dies
South Carolinian William Watson, longtime chairman of the Cunard Steamship Company, died at his country estate today aged 60. Born in Charleston, he built early success in cotton trade in Liverpool and later settled in England becoming a Cunard director sixteen years ago. In New York Edmund ally, once counsel for the Princess de Bagen and noted socialist author, died at Nyack at age 58.
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London
William Watson
Charleston
D. C
England
Liverpool
Cunerdtine
New York
Edmund Ally
Nyack
Princess de Bagen
Dickinson's Son Better After Illness At Belle Meade
Nashville dispatch reports Secretary of War Dickinson visiting his eldest son Overton Dickinson at Belle Meade after a serious heart ailment. Mrs Dickinson arrived from Seattle. Early indications suggest the young man is improving rapidly.
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Nashville
Tern
Dickinson
Washington
Overton Dickinson
Tielle Meade
Seattle
Leaves and Autumn Imagery in Poem and News Briefs
A fragmentary page blends a verse celebrating autumn leaves with a crumpled ocean movement section. The poem by Sohna Joyce imagines fading youth as leaves fall and nature changes color. The rest lists ship arrivals and sailings, routes from New York to London Bremen Cherbourg Plymouth and Hamburg with dates and vessels like Princess, Kaiser Wilhelm II, President Lincoln, and others.
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Joyce
Weashington
D. C
York
Keonprincess
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Trin
Bremen
Minsebahn
London
Noorsien
Beveh
Nesland
New
Yorks
Lamdon—Osianetanks
New York
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Forsiterooure
Hamburg
President Lincoln
Cherbourg
Kateer Wilhelm II
Kaiserin Auguste Victoria
New ‘York
Gueletien
Copentaara
Lisard-Occonte
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Southampton
Wit Tech Flymouth
Adctatte
Will Dock
Thureday
Mable Haland
Grant
Fomburg
Wil
Washington
Crétie
Trois New Yorks
Fpaalee
Genoa
Land Broseated
Japan the East Hustling in Modernizing Tour Guide
A long narrative observes Western tourists in Japan, noting rapid Westernization, improved transport, and mixed accommodations from luxury hotels to native inns. It laments lost traditional scenery, praises modern dining cars, efficient trains, and the busy tourist commerce that funds Japan’s growing global presence while the East remains a busy, evolving landscape.
Tomorrow The Empire of Japan
A compact note surveys Japan as an imperial power and its planned influence in distant territories. It mentions strategic ambitions, regional impact, and potential shifts in power dynamics for observers in Istanbul and beyond.
Tar's Discharge Approved After Navy Court Martial
Navy Department approves findings in the Frank R. Witter court martial case for the Nesin scot capsizing off Halizat Point Mass on August 1. Witter, chief boatswain's mate, is discharged after a six month confinement for inefficent duty. Other enlistees' cases await Secretary Meyer review amid charges of abandoning wrecked sailors. Meanwhile Baltimore orders a marble statue of the birth of the idea of the American flag, by MM. Meries, completed and soon shipped from Paris to America.
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Navy Department
Frank R. Witter
Boxtawale
Nesinscot
Halizat Point
Mass
Bitter
An A
Navy
Meyer
Baltimore
Paris
MM. Meries
America
Two 20,000-Ton Vessels to Receive Parsons Engines
A conference yesterday among Secretary Meyer Admiral Cone and W Capps decided that both new American dreagnozate ships of 3.40 tons displacement will be equipped with Parsons turbine engines. The contracts were recently awarded and the officials had just returned from European shipyards.
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Meyer
Admiral Cone
Bureau of Steam Engineering
W.capps
Bureau of Yards and Docks
United States
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