Damnable Indictments Grow From Portland Cartoon Case
Salem May 22 The governor Oswald West denounces the indictment of T Scott Brooke Beck Ames Henry Wemme T A Linthicum H W Pier ong and J A Johnson in Multnomah county for alleged criminal libeling of George Heusner via cartoons during a Portland street railway franchise pursuit He vows to pardon them if convicted and accuses jury foreman T A Ketchum of close ties to Heusner.
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T. Scott Brooke
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ET. Ames
E. Henry Wemme
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H.W. Pierong
J. A. Johnson
Portland
Oswald West
Multnomah County
George Heusner
Heusner
T. A. Ketchum
School Trustee Protests Over Too Much Woman Power
Chicago on May 22 William Rothman member of the board of education protested against appointing four woman principals and assistants claiming the schools would be dominated by feminism. He cited records showing the last man principal was in January 1813 and that 19 women have since held principal roles. Ella Flagg Young the superintendent said names came from an eligible list left by a predecessor and supported equal division of the sexes in principal positions.
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William Rothman
Board of Education
Rothman
Ella Flagg Young
But One Standard Of Ruling Morals In A Temperance Meet
At Odd Fellows hall a Women's Christian Temperance union session featured Mrs HA Mullen discussing The Double Standard of Chastity and Rev Charles Rexford on white slavery. Discussions followed, with questions about whether men hold more license than women and calls for pure fashions and moral action amid social vice as the group argued for equal moral standards.
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Odd Fellows Hall
HA. Mullen
Charles Rexford
Charles A. Rexroad
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Red Light
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Inventor Wickham Dies in Manchester at 83
Horace John Wickham, noted inventor of gun and envelope making machinery, died in Manchester Connecticut on May 22. He developed improvements for several industrial machines and held multiple patents. Wickham’s work advanced mechanical design in envelope production and related tooling.
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Horace John Wickham
One Telephone System Possible for Butte Aims at Consolidation
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph special agent C. G. Cotton arrives from Helena to push a study on a single city system. A two month field survey, house to house canvass, and rental projections precede a June or July appearance by Philip Hamlin before the Butte Chamber of Commerce to outline next steps. The Bell Company cooperates with local leaders as Helena moves toward consolidating two systems amid city growth and blurred boundaries between home and business.
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C. G. Cotton
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company
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Cotton
H.C. Brown
H.C. Plumer
New York
Plumer
Philip Hamlin
Mountain States Company
Denver
Butte Chamber of Commerce
Hamlin
Chamber of Commerce
Plac
Ani Progent
Road House Held Up. One Man Is Killed
In San Francisco area a late night holdup at a outskirts tavern left a gambler dead and a patron wounded. Police pursued bandits including James Bally and Edward Donovan after the shootout at the Road House. Donovan was captured and Bally was believed shot. hospital reports clarified Bally’s status.
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Galatein Stander
William Marks
Regan
Baily
Donovan
Education as a Means to Peace and Citizenship
Report from Trinidad dated May 22 describes Col James Lockett commanding federal forces distributing a multilingual pamphlet urging aliens in Colorado coal fields to naturalize. The pamphlet, issued by the Ethnal Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, aims to spread pro US integration among strikers and mine workers. Also out of Florence, Mary Flavelle of Chicago was attacked on a train near Arezzo, unconscious but alive. In New York, Edmund Gerson, a pioneer of American theatre, died at 65, famed for early Black Crook and Around the World in Eighty Days tours.
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James Lockett
Colorado
United States
Ethunal Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
Lockett
Florence
Italy
Mary | Flavelle
Chicago
Here
Arezzo
Lee J. Kenna
New York
Edmund Gerson
Kerson
Gog
Black Crook
Around the World
Michael Strogoft
Aviation accident mars Prince Henry contest in Hamburg
Hamburg May 22 news reports a serious accident in the Prince Henry aviation contest with three aviators killed earlier this week. Lieutenant Kraft made a forced landing near North Tem, breaking both arms and suffering head and leg injuries while a passenger escaped unharmed. Lieutenant von Thuena won the reliability prize flying a route of 1108 miles in about 1,025 minutes. Mayer, jeweler of 29 W Park, offers watch cleaning services for $1.50 with a one year guarantee.
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Kraft
North- Tem
von Thuena
Rees Cueees
Seattle contractor missing with cash on navy yard job
Seattle May 22 B R Sundall contractor on a government building at Puget Sound navy yard disappeared after leaving home with cash. A rowboat with Sundall's hat was found on the east shore of Take Washington today. Sundall, 36, was in good health and financially well to do.
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B. R. Sundall
Puget, Sound Navy Yard
Sundall
Take
Panama Canal pilots to wear cream canvas uniform
Washington reports the Panama Canal Zone governor Col. Goethals prescribes a cream colored, plain beach cloth uniform for canal pilots. The stet cap adopts a navy petty officer style in the same color with a gilt wreath device bearing the word pilot.
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George W. Goethals
Panama Canal Zone
United States Navy
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