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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1913
Page
5
The article discusses clock change policy as the legislature gathers for its final day of sessions. Officials debate whether to retain or adjust daylight saving time rules, with implications for scheduling and public routines.
Capital awaits arrival of Wilson amid local speculation and theatre build up as community eyes event marked by prominent figure and possible ceremony. Officials tease plans and crowd expectations rise while details remain scant.
Washington dispatches describe a tight schedule as Woodrow Wilson prepares to be inaugurated and as Congress faces a crowded agenda. The House furthers employer liability and workmen compensation debates while new county bills and judiciary measures loom.
A newspaper report argues Commissioner Lane is a strong Western pick for interior secretary. Supporters claim his western background and conservation views would please Western senators while eastern conservationists might accept him. He is seen as a practical choice likely to become a respected Interior Secretary candidate.
Washington March 2 This day marked President Tafts farewells as he spent his last Sunday in office. He preached at All Souls Unitarian church where he worshipped four years then hosted a final cabinet wives dinner by Secretary MacVeagh and visited Georgetown University as tradition requires. He planned to meet the cabinet tomorrow in a special session and say goodbye to close friends and White House staff. His sermon reflected on the Unitarian faith and its global absorption into the earth.
Washington March 2 Taft tonight commuted the sentence of Charles R Heike secretary and treasurer of the American Sugar Refining company from eight months in New York county penitentiary and a $5000 fine to the fine and costs Heike was convicted of conspiring to defraud the United States by entering dutiable sugar at less than its true cost.
Washington marched through a Sunday session as the Sixty-second Congress labored toward noon Tuesday. Visitors filled the Capitol while Speakers and conferees wrestled over naval policy and a $150,000 appropriation. The one battleship plan clashed with the Senate two battleships, leaving no immediate agreement and prompting potential filibusters as lawmakers pressed to finish the session.
London March 2 public temper rises against suffragettes scenes of disruption in Hyde Park as a mob of about a thousand breaks up a suffragette meeting led by Flora Drummond. Fights erupt and turf is hurled at speakers. police escort suffragettes to safety amid similar clashes at Wimbledon Common with women knocked down and bruised.
Washington March 2 Women prepare for a gala suffrage day with a 5 000 strong procession up Pennsylvania Avenue from the Treasury to Continental Hall. Seven divisions march in allegorical tableaux led by Carrie Chapman Catt, with Miss Inez Mulholland as herald and Mrs Richard Coke Burleson as grand marshal..Events include large theater meetings and discussions on votes for women while focus remains on equal suffrage and related social issues.
Rome March 2. Balkan states pledge immediate and simultaneous cessation of hostilities after signing peace. They demand surrender of Lecutari and Latin, frontier shift from Rodoste to Midia by a military commission, Galport peninsula and Aegean islands ceded to allies, exchange of prisoners, Turkey to pay war indemnity minus debt of Turkish provinces, and a European religious authority with jurisdiction over funds and church ties to oversee prewar agreements.
Ithaca New York March 2 concern mounts over Ernesto Madero Cornell student and brother of Mexico's late president after traveling from Chicago to New York intending to meet family in Havana. He remains with friends in Ithaca and is said to be deeply affected by his brothers deaths and may travel to Havana Tuesday. Phoenix Arizona March 2 a force of Maderistas captured the customs post on the Mexican side of the line after a brief fight. No one was killed or seriously wounded. The action gives Sonora rebels a port of entry and control of Cananea shipping facilities.
Mrs Mabel Mills wife of a San Antonio real estate dealer was robbed of 46500 in Evanston Chicago. She collapsed from a head wound after a stranger door seizure while en route to a physician. Police say her purse contained a pocketbook with the fortune. Her husband confirmed the loss and that she had recently arrived from Texas.
The Huerta regime shows notable improvement in general conditions but expects weeks for full effect. The old Orozco army may be mustered into regular forces while southern Zapatistas threaten to test the administration. In Coahuila, Venustiano Carranza’s camp is said to grow stronger as opposition widens.
Washington March 2 The Senate campaign expenditures committee will make no report upon its exhaustive inquiry into the 1904 campaign expenditures and into the relations of John D Arnold Archield and the Standard Oil Company with members of Congress and federal officers. Members have failed to agree on a report and the matter will be called over to the new Congress.
New York dispatch reports a daring raid by automobile bandits who robbed a Broadway jeweler in the white light district and fled in a taxicab after looting about $7000 in jewelry. One assailant fired on the store owner Moses Bach, injuring him with an ammonia spray. two of three alleged participants escaped, while the chauffeur George Ferguson was arrested. Police seek a fourth suspect, William Anderes, as more arrests follow amid a Senate stalemate delaying Montana nominations and leaving offices unconfirmed.
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