Taft to Push Pensions for Clerks in Economy Plan
President Taft prepares a short session blueprint aiming at government cost cuts and a pension measure for superannuated clerks. He plans to seek bipartisan support, with emphasis on economy across all branches, while balancing anticipated Democratic or Republican House control. He may also push tariffs, ship subsidies, anti injunction laws, and safety measures for rail workers.
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New Tariff Board
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Teriff
Clark
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Kentucky
Sherley
Doctors Watch Suit Seeks 5000 Damages in Attentive Duty Case
Mrs. Chary A. Thomas sues Dr. Arthur Merriam in district court claiming failure to attend during a critical birth, seeking 5000. Attorneys plan to use California precedent. Merriam contends he was not responsible and was present earlier that afternoon. case expected to set district standards, with potential national interest.
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Message of the Hour to Churches of the World
A London address by Pastor Charles T. Russell before about 4,000 listeners at the Brooklyn Tabernacle sermonizes on divine messages through dispensational change. He warns of coming judgments, calls for moral reform, and urges honesty, repentance, and a return to early church simplicity.
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Stolen Girl to Return After Twelve Years
Special to The Washington Post describes Edith May Fairman, aged 19, now a trained nurse in Norwalk Connecticut, planning to live with her father and brother in New York after a twelve year disappearance believed to be a kidnapping. Francis B. Fairman, a Brooklyn businessman, recounts searching five times in Nova Scotia for his daughter and finally locating her. The item also notes Charles P. Taft’s visit with President Taft at the White House and a ride in the afternoon.
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Cincinnati
President Taft
White House
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Nati
The Time is at Hand The Lord’s Kingdom Approaches
Fragmentary religious meditation proclaims a coming empire of light defeating Satan’s westward dominion. The writer envisions a restored earthly reign of justice under the Prince of Light with His elect and bride, promising rewards and judgments for humankind.
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Wins Gunnery Record Delaware Battleship Leads Atlantic Fleet
The Delaware led Atlantic fleet ships in gunnery efficiency after a September target practice off Cape Henry Virginia. At eight months in command the Delaware posted notable scores. standings placed Minnesota Vermont Idaho Nebraska North Dakota New Hampshire South Carolina Rhode Island Louisiana Virginia Mississippi Connecticut Kansas Georgia Michigan as the fleet lineup.
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Potash Tariff Fight Ties U S Germany Talks
Secretary Knox warns of possible maximum tariff on German potash imports if Berlin talks fail to secure fair terms for American contracts worth about 8 million dollars annually. State Department hopes for a diplomatic adjustment as potash buyers and German authorities strain over mining taxes and price controls.
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Eye on Beef Barons Vigilance Tightens Ahead of Prosecution
The Justice Department moves to shield forthcoming indictments of the beef trust. Attorney General Wickersham assigned Charles F. De Woody to head Chicago secret service operations to root out influence and safeguard witnesses. No discontent with Marshall Eberstein. he will transfer to Pittsburg as De Woody oversees Chicago. Wickersham plans to visit Chicago when trials begin with W. & Kenyon and James H. Wilkerson leading the government’s case. The department remains reticent about evidence but vows every link in the chain is intact and witnesses protected.
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Pittsburg
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Mrs Morris and child Die in Rowan Farm Fire
In Rowan county near Salisbury North Carolina on October 3 a fainting spell caused Mrs Henry Morris and her 1-year-old child to burn to death in their home. Mr Morris returned to find the child in the yard head and an arm burned away while the mother lay unconscious on a bed her clothing burned and both had fallen into the fire with the baby in her arms.
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N. C
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Rowan County
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Girl Shot by Brother in Accidental Target Mission
Anna Banvard two, a noted marksman in this region, lay in hospital in serious condition after being accidentally shot by her 16 year old brother Herold at their home in Paterson New Jersey. They had been target shooting with a .22 caliber pistol when he pretended to unload the weapon and pulled the trigger striking her in the side below the shoulder.
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Paterson
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Mize
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Fire destroys Fairmont Creamery plant in Omaha
Early today the five story Fairmont Creamery Company building in Omaha's wholesale district burned, causing an estimated 600000 in damage. Watchman Fred Coufai discovered the blaze at 3 AM and, though severely burned, escaped through a window to the street. President Rushton says the structure and contents are fully insured.
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Omaha
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Fred Coufai
Rushton
Creamery Company
Tragedy on Trestle Claims Gray Couple Near Tuxedo
Mason J. Gray, a 50 year old blacksmith, and his wife Mary L. Gray, aged 41, were killed on a Pennsylvania Railroad freight trestle near Beaver Dam branch, Prince George County, Saturday night around 10 o clock. They had been to Washington market leaving five children at home. A passing lookout found the bodies about midnight after the couple were seen on an electric car near Kenilworth. It is believed they were crossing the trestle when a Baltimore freight train approached and they failed to retreat in time.
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Prince George County
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Kenilworth
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Washington
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Marke Martnick
Baltimore
Pyg in Silk Lived Coffin Buried in Harrisville
A bronze casket lined with silk containing a pug named Rex Housekeeper Fox who belonged to Philadelphia ladder maker George Fox was interred today in the French Burial Ground at Harrisville. Undertaker Samuel Taylor oversaw the funeral as the pet dog of a prominent local family.
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New York Doctor Dies by Self Inflicted Shot Aboard Arabic
Dr John H Nesbitt a senior surgeon with the New York Police Department died by suicide in his stateroom on the steamer Arabic during a voyage from New York to Liverpool Embalmed body to be landed in Liverpool Nesbitt aged 65 had served in the police department since 1884 and had been in poor health for about a year He sailed October 22 from New York to mid ocean off Queenstown on October 30 report said.
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New Cabinet Named in Brazil By President-Elect Fonseca
Rio Janeiro October 36 President-elect Manuel Hermes Fonseca has announced a cabinet list with Baron de Rio Branco as foreign affairs minister Senhor Correa interior minister Dr J J Sea bra public works Pedro Toledo agriculture minister Salles minister of war Gen Barretto and Admiral Laao as minister of marine, outlining key government appointments.
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Dickinson On Way Home From Paris By Steamer
Secretary of War Jacob Dickinson and Mia Dickinson with an American party departed Paris for New York aboard the steamer Friedrich Wilhelm from Havre. Ambassador Bacon and French war department officials bid them farewell at the port.
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Former Portuguese Premier Franco Arrested on Abuse of Power
A Lisbon dispatch reports 32 officers arrested in a military conspiracy against the republic. Former premier Franco, linked to the 198 assassination era, was arrested for abuse of power during his incumbency and later released on bail as the judiciary handles the case. The government approved a new striking rights decree and set an arbitration commission to oversee labor disputes while adopting green and red as national flag colors.
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Meyer greeted in Havana for Guantanamo naval inspection
Secretary of the Navy Meyer arrived in Havana and, greeted by Military Attache Maj Barber and Captain of the Port Aguirre, was driven to the Plaza Hotel. He will begin a train trip to Guantanamo tonight to inspect the naval station and then return to the United States aboard the Delphi.
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Meyer
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Guantenamo
Births in France Surpass Deaths by Big Margin in 1910
Parle reports that in the first half of 1910 births in France exceeded deaths by 21 139. The year 1908 saw deaths outnumber births by 28 202. Births for six months of 1910 exceed deaths by 21 109.
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