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Washington
Alexandria
Mall
Washington Post CO
Washington, D. C
Postofice
Paul Block
Avance
New York
Breger ‘Butlaing
Chicago
The Hague and Taft on Peace and Railroads
A 1811 style editorial condemns The Hague tribunal’s lack of use as Italy and Turkey edge toward war and questions international duty. It also covers President Taft’s plea for fair railroad treatment and cites per capita costs in New York and national projects. The piece closes with praise for airship progress in New Jersey and notes the death of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes creator Dr Joseph Bell.
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the Hague
Hague
International Bureau
Turkey
Italy
Modd
Europe
China
Hague Tribunal
International Court
Cartago
Costa Rica
Taft
Pacific Coast
Washington
Governors’ Conference
Supreme Court
Minnesota
Railroads
Meers
Kitty Hawk
Wright Brothers
New Jersey
Robert J. Collier
Collier Estate
Collier
Welch
Wright School of Aviation
Tom Sopwith
Jimmy Hare
Richard Harding Davis
Gerard
Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes
Cost of City Governments in Large Urban Areas
A census Bureau report compares municipal operating costs with national government spending. Eight-year average net cost of governing large cities was about 90,261,995 annually, while national government cost excluding pensions averaged 346,521,283 per year. Per capita city costs ranged from 20.68 to 35.63 dollars, rising with city size.
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New York City
United States
Panama Canal
É&C
Census Bureau
Insurgency and Taft Focus in Chicago Talks
The piece surveys the Chicago insurgency conference, noting it aims to press claims on merit rather than oppose Taft. It predicts possible splits among La Follette followers and Cummins supporters, and questions if insurgents will oppose administration measures in the winter session.
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Chicago
Taft
Northampton
la Follette
Cummins
Columbus Island Landfall Reidentified as Watling Island
A New York Evening Post piece on Columbus Day discusses the long debate over Columbus first landing. It presents Watling Island in the Bahamas as the true landfall, detailing latitude, size, reef features, soil, and a notable inland lake on the coral island named after Captain George Watling.
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New York Evening Post
San Salvador
Colonies School Board
Cat Island
Bahamas
Becher
Gomera
Watnga Island
Watings
George Watling
Great Lake
Bargains in Marriages from the Kansas City ounce
Frederick Aberhold and Capitola Smalley of Valley Falls Kans planned a long wait for marriage. In Kansas City they bought home goods, argued over a carpet, and chose a sunset pattern. A floorwalker and Chester L. Jones arranged the license and Rev W A Rex married them before they returned home.
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Kansas City
Frederick Aberhold
Capitola Smalley
Valley Falls
Kans
Frederick
Capitola
Jones
Fred
Chester L. Jones
W. A. Rex
St. Pauls Reformed Church
Mr. Jones
Mr. Jones As Wit, Meases
Jove
Valley Falla
Second Recall in Seatttle Editor Post
In reply to this morning's Post I cite Alice Stone Blackwell noting the recall of Seattle Mayor Dilling failed to reach a vote. The movement was not women driven. started by a couple whose son was dismissed. Local women groups denied intersecting. attacks by Eastern opponents arose with a cartoon about recall. Washington dispatch dated October 4.
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Seatttle
Alice Stone Blackwell
Dilling
Seattle
Seattle Federation of Women’s Clubs
City Federation of Women's Christian Temperance Unions
Georgia
Dill
Bears
Ing
T. R
J. Hifton
Washington
Clan Macdonald ends long feud and three-headed chieftainship
A century-old Macdonald feud over clan chieftainship ends with a three-head arrangement among Macdonalds of Clanranald Sleat and Glengarry to avoid votes across the dispersed clan. Princess Joseph Lubomirski widow of Duc Decazes dies in Gironde. Her Austrian birth and diplomat lineage are noted along with her children. Lubomirski’s wit wealth and marriages are recounted including a famed Paris nickname and a past finance collapse and recovery.
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Atlantic
Macdonald of
Clanranald
Macdonald
Sleat
Glengarry
Slest
Jack
Taft
Washington
Joseph Lubomirski
Chateau de la Grave
Gironde
Duc Decazes
France
London
von Loewenthal
Europe
Ludovic de Beauvoir
New York
Comte de Patty
Count Dé Sardelys
Isabella Singer
Isaac Singer
Decazes
of Decazes
Gluckbjerg
Denmark
Lubomirski
Paris
Tuileries
Jardine Mobine
M. Boyer
Duchess Decazes
Atlll
Russian
Poland
Boyer
Countess Sardelys
Vaughan
Leopold
Duc Deeases
Aixles
Bains
Marquise DE Fontenoy
Brentwood Company
Human Ostrich Eats Handles in Bureau Feed T
A Concordia Kansas man named Joe Hilbert allegedly swallowed handles from a bureau and other metal objects over a week. Surgeons removed about twenty nails needles bolts screws pins and assorted metal and wood pieces from his stomach. the operation was delicate with a slim chance of recovery.
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Kansas City
Concordia
Joe Hilbert
Polis
Naiis
Hays of Grand Trunk Railways A St Louis Pioneer
Charles M Hays began as a $1 a day clerk in St Louis 87 years ago and rose to president of the Grand Trunk and Grand Trunk Pacific Railways earning about 100000 a year He lauded St Louis as his first love and planned to reside there if he retired His climb took him through the Wabash Missouri Pacific and Atlantic and Pacific lines before leading the transcontinental Canadian project and ties to Sir Charles Smith and King Edward.
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St. Louis
Charles M. Hays
Grand Trunk Railway
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway of Canada
Hays
St. Joseph
Haye
Missouri
Atlantic and Pacific Railway
Missouri Pacific
Atlantic and Pacific
Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific
Wabash Western
Consolidated Wabash System
Terminal Association of
Canada
Grand Trunk
Southern Railway
Charles Qrox Smith
The
Spectator
Rivers Wilson
London Bridge
Edward
England
North Country
Japan
News from the North Poem Fragment and Rhetorical Query
A fragmentary verse line asks about the state of the speaker’s native land and its people. It contemplates timely updates if one is late returning home and seeks truth about current conditions and familiar faces.
Nature Fakers and Animal Oddities Baffle Readers
A Denver Pennsylvania Dispatch item details a pony in Brankside that devoured poultry and later six peeps from a hen’s brood. It also recounts a St Louis Dispatch note about Sis nursing pups and squirrels, with the neighborhood boy’s gunshot ending the mother squirrel. The piece closes with poems about loss and homesickness from Pall Mall Gazette, describing a dying man’s reminiscences and sea memories.
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Denver
Philadelphia
Parke Lutz
Brankside
St. Louis Dispatch
New York
Sis
Annie Brown
North Broadway
Brown
St. Charles
Origin of Heartbeat and Pacemaker Discovery
London reports at the Royal College of Surgeons on heart function with Prof Arthur Keith highlighting a small tissue mass named the pacemaker of the heart as the heartbeat origin. Dr Thomas Lewis adds the main initiation site, with secondary centers able to take over if the primary is damaged.
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London
Cabb
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Arthur Keith
Royal College of Surgeons
Keith
Martin Flack
Thomas Lewis
University College
Alice the Traveler in a Self Made Man’s Library
A Chicago self made businessman shows off a foot library organized by card index, labeling cases Travel Art Science and noting a handsome volume titled Aliece in Wonder land with gold lettering on the back.
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Chicago
Reflections of a Bachelor and National Politics Note
A collage of observations opens with reflections on honesty and self made by a bachelor. It then surveys 1911 gubernatorial races in Massachusetts Rhode Island Maryland Mississippi and Kentucky noting party leanings and potential national impact from Governors races and the 1912 Democratic conventions.
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Gov. Foss
Massachusetts
Leslie
Rhode Island
Maryland
Mississippi
Kentucky
New York
Hugené NI
Foss
Augustus E.willson
Taft
Bryan
Rhoda Island
Uphill Fight Report From Serasote Ohio Time
Albert Blackburn is recovering well as Dr Mobley continues to attend him in what local readers call an uphill fight. The Serasote Ohio Time notes the ongoing medical care and steady improvement.
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Serasote
Ohio
Albert Black-burn
Mob Ley
New York Merchant Sees Slow Trade Outlook in Washington
W P Lewis of New York attends a Washington conference of steamship officials and notes a pessimistic view of the year’s trade. Freight movement, he says, signals reduced shipments and weaker domestic demand, with cotton and lumber volumes down due to high prices and tight credit. He expects little improvement until after Congress adjourns and the presidential campaign ends.
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W. P. Lewis
New York
Washington
Savannah
Frelahta
New England
Congress
Clark Suggested for Supreme Court Vacancy
Joseph E. Goode of Greensboro says President Taft should appoint Walter Clark chief justice of North Carolina to fill the Harlan vacancy. Clark is a progressive Democrat, linked by Bryan to presidential lists, and a Senate candidate with support from Republican progressives.
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Taft
Supreme Court
Jumes Harlan
Walter Clark
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Joseph E. Goode
Greensboro
Ebbitt
Clark
William J. Bryan
Senate
Bourne
Simmons
Praises Senator Vardaman in New Willard Remarks
Cr T Wilson of Corinth, Mississippi, predicts Senator Vardaman will gain esteem among colleagues. He lauds Vardaman as a skilled orator and decisive, noting a striking appearance, a long black hair style, and fearless speech. Wilson contrasts distant reputation with the man known personally, praising his courage against mobs and his readiness to act.
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Vardaman
Senate
New Willard
Cr. T. Wilson
Corinth
Mississippi
John Shaty Williams
Vardamanta
Miniature Washington town visited by coke district attorney
Francis B. James, Cincinnati attorney and Supreme Court counsel in coke cases, describes a small Washington replica town in western Pennsylvania near the Wash ington mining district. He recalls its Washington origin, layout, and pride despite muddy streets and a tiny population.
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Francis B. James
Cincinnati
Supreme Court
Minnesota
Coke
Pennsylvania
New Willard
Washington Mining
Pittsburgh
Washington
George Washington
Fort Duquesne
Washington, D. C
United States Treasury
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