Pinchot Attacks Taft On Alaska Controller Bay
Gifford Pinchot charges President Taft leaves the matter untouched in his Controller Bay Alaska message. He says the order favored Ryan interests, denying public notice and enabling monopoly, urging government ownership of harbor lands for development and public protection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Gifford Pinchot
National Conservation Association
Taft
Senate
Controller Bay
Alaska
Pinchot
Mr. Pinchot
Friends of Conservation
Bay
Ryan
Graves
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Congressional Committee
Col. Roosevelt
Ballinger-Pinchat
Controller Hay
Morgan-Guggenheim Syndicate
Washington
Drug craving ends life of Cedar Rapids man
In Cedar Rapids Indiana on July 27 Frank Underwood aged 87 could not conquer his craving for drugs. He wrote a note to his wife asking for forgiveness then drank a two ounce bottle of carbolic acid. His body was found by neighbors last night who detected the odor of drugs. His wife had recently left.
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Cedar Rapids
Frank Underwood
Saeererreas
Controller Railway & Navigation Company
Wey
Five Die in Hamlet Negro Excursion Collision
An excursion train from Durham collided head on with a freight train in Hamlet North Carolina killing five immediately and injuring 50 to 75. Most victims are described as black with seven dead reported later and forty injured in Portsmouth Virginia.
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Hamlet
Durham
N. G
Seaboard Airline
Sherlott
Norfolk
Seaboard Airline Railway
Portsmouth
Nagel Blamed in Seal Slaughter Findings
Dr William T Hornady of the New York Zoological Park told the House Investigating Committee that Secretary Nagel bore practical responsibility for the slaughter of young seals on Pribilov Island. He asserted no distinction was made by age or sex in the culling.
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Washington
William T. Hornady
New York Zoological Park
House
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Nagel
Pribilov Island
Shot by His Rival He Weds After Hospital Visit
William Murray of Yonkers was shot three times by Ray Mitchell whom he refused to marry. Murray then obtained a marriage license at New York City Hall with Helen Combes, while Mitchell remained jailed on an attempted murder charge. Murray planned to return to Yonkers with his bride to explain alleged disappearances and a Telegram summon. Murray left Flower Hospital against doctors’ protests to meet Combes and finalize the license.
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New York
William Murray
Yonkers
Murray
Ray Mitchell
City Hall
Comely
Helen Combes
West Side Court
Longacre Square
Helen
Flower Hospital
Bailey Quits Elections Committee Over Testimony Method
Washington July 27 Senator Bailey resigns from the committee on privileges and elections citing disagreement with senate investigation procedures. He offered no explanation and the resignation was accepted without comment.
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Washington
Senate
Bailey
Committee On Privileges and Elections
Son of Holstlaw Lorimer Witness in Senate Hearing
Washington July 27 The Lorimer committee heard Herschell D Holstlaw son of Senator Holstlaw question whether money was expended to elect Lorimer to the Senate. The elder Holstlaw ill could not appear and the witness sought to substantiate a $2500 payment confession. Cross examination by Lorimer counsel not completed when the committee recessed until 8 pm for the world schedule vote.
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Washington
Lorimer
Senate
Lorimer Committee
Herschell D. Holstlaw
Holstlaw
Penrose
Senator Bristow
Kansas
Catcher Jacobsen Sold to Giants
July 27 Rock Island Three-I league club announced the sale of catcher William Jacobsen to the New York Giants for 3500 dollars. Jacobsen will join New York at the close of the Three-I season.
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Rork Tatand
William Jacobsen
New York
Jacobsen
La Follette Compromise Telegrams Tariff Fight In Senate
Washington July 27 senators heated over wool tariff plans as La Follette's compromise bill passed 48 to 32 with support from democrats and insurgent republicans. The measure lowers raw wool duties to 35 percent ad valorem and trims woolen article duties, while underwood plans shift to cotton revision. House and president debate veto risk as politics shadow the tariff board timetable and a new vote looms.
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Washlington
la Follette
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
Fley
Penrose
Tariff Board
Washington
Taft
House
Underwood
White House
Tme
Brown
Nebraska
la Follete
Ways and Means Committee
Robbers kill and burn man in Illinois Central yards
In Dubuque Iowa July 27 an unidentified man was murdered by highwaymen and his body partly cremated in the Illinois Central yards. Three other men were held up and robbed at roughly the same time. Over 40 suspects were arrested by noon today.
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Dubuque, Ta
Illinois Central Yards
Protest Against Ratification of Anglo American Pact
Dennis Maher president of the Iowa Ancient Order of Hibernians urges national members to oppose ratification of the Anglo American alliance. He asks local branches to forward petitions to senators and representatives protesting any treaty with England and ends with a call for Irish unity against oppression.
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Iowa City
Order of Hibernians
United States
Dennis Maher
Maher
Iowa
Congress
England
Romantic Elopement Ends in Annulment Suit in Manchester
Gene Clute, about forty, and sixteen-year-old Miss Urdin Chambers eloped from Thorpe area to Independence for a marriage by justice of the peace. They were intercepted near Greeley, taken to Thorpe, and the plan to annul was agreed. The girl returned home, and the annulment case is set for October district court term.
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Manchester
Gene Clute
Thorpe and Greeley
Urdin Chambers
Thorpe
Independence
Clute
Doris
Iowa
J. J. Pentony
Pentony
Greeley
Colesbury
Giseley
Deadlock between Germany and France over Morocco persists
The July report says France and Germany remain in stalemate over Moroccan issues. France refuses to evacuate Morocco or cede large African territories for assurances of future peace. Peace advocates warn the danger lies in pressuring Germany and provoking a risky response. Mr and Mrs J W Richards travel to Minneapolis by automobile with their child Edward and his nurse. A cigar advertisement for Gentlemen San Felice 5c is noted.
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France
Germany
Morocco
J. W. Richards
Minneapolis
Master Edward
Johnstone Sets New Endurance Mark for Moonplanes
Chicago aviator Craig Teamstone broke the American endurance record for moonplanes, flying a Martin Monoplane for about 4 hours and 1 minute. He surpassed the previous record by Jim Parmete at San Francisco, with a rate near 80 miles an hour and an altitude around 201 feet.
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Minnela
Lowe
Craig Teamstone
Elvelong Thes Aviation
Jimade
San Francisco
Php Parmetee
Johnstone
2 Year Old Baby Weighs 100 Pounds Stirs Atlanta
Adolph Coda aged 2 years 4 months and weighing 100 pounds created a sensation as he walked with his father from a railroad station to a hotel in Atlanta. The giant child, said to be from Mount Airs Georgia, stands 3 feet 1 inch tall with a 46 inch chest and eats 41 to 9 biscuits per meal while loving sweets.
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Atlanta
Adolph Coda
Mount Airs
Mother in Webster City Attempted Double Tragedy Fueled by TB Fear
Lizzie Jones, grieving over the deaths of two daughters from tuberculosis, seized a revolver in Webster City Iowa and tried to shoot her surviving daughter Mildred. The daughter wrested the gun away and alerted police. The widow was distraught and feared tuberculosis would claim Mildred as well.
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Webster City
Lillian
Lizzie Jones
Mildred
Waterloos Bank Clearings For Week Ending July 27 1911
Bank clearings in Waterloo for the week ending Thursday July 27 1911 total 904 079 81 dollars with daily figures and a monthly estimate for July 1911. Realty transfers show deeds mortgages chattel mortgages and bills of sale for the week ending July 26 1911 and numbers of instruments recorded to date. Decreases from the prior year are noted with 253 fewer instruments.
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Black Hawk County Abstract Company
Waterloo Bank
Banking power probe to study credit and depressions
The House Rules Committee plans to report a resolution next meeting after hearing Representative Lindbergh on a potential banking combination with power to control credit exchanges and deposits and trigger business downturns. The inquiry aims to determine if such a group could cause panics.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Lindbergh
Minnesota
House Rules Committee
Taft Explains Alaska Affair and Controller Bay Row
President Taft declares he alone pushed the enlargement of land elimination to 12 800 acres at Controller Bay Alaska to foster development and rail access. He distances Charles Taft and Richard Ryan from the affair, asserts no monopoly risk, and offers a narrative of the 1909 to 1910 cabinet debates and agency reviews.
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Washington
Traly
Tuft Kent
Senate
Chugach National Forest Reserve
Alaska
Controller Bay
Charles P. Taft
Richard 5. Ryan
Controller Railway & Navigation Company
Morgan-Guggenheim
Ryan
Forestry Bureau
Navy Department
Navy
Controller’ Bay
Secretary of Agriculture
Secretary of the Interior
General Land Office
Controller
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