Varied 1912 News Highlights Across Europe and America
A compilation notes eta Lewis urging Governor Wim and party patronage for a senate seat, Turkish mediation hints in peace talks, Barre Wool Co fined 20000 for alien labor law violations, Paris talks between Poincare and Ribot, Austrian Prince investigation after Amasis sinking, Makaroff resigns for ill health, Roosevelt criticizes peacetime War Dept in Boston. Other items cover parole for Jerry Carpenter, Cambridge meeting, pillar boxes attack in London, Philadelphia social aid needs, Christmas hospital injuries in Atlanta, a rat bite peril in Traverse City, Purglar theft tricks in Denver, Akron plant fire, Bert Dalton arrest, Madden reelection charges, General Wood outlines inauguration parade plans, Von Bulow death, six-day race in Reno, mill wages dispute, treasury warning on fake mining company, Whittier relic fire in Amesbury, anti-vice arrests in Cleveland, Russian import tariff continuation, suffragists reach Albany, passing of D. W. Butts.
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Eta Lewis
Wim
Turkey
He Barre Wool Co
Massachusetts
Paris
Poincare
Ribot
France
Prince Line
Montevideo
Russia
M. Makaroff
Boston
Col
Roosevelt
War Department
Jerry Carpenter
Kansas Penitentiary
Stubbs
Cambridge
Mass
National Language Association
Offacignia
rimmeenss-Seasion
London
Philadelphia
Commission of Social Service
Inter-Church Federation of Philadelphia
Atlanta
Clifford Mull
Traverse
Mich
Mull
Denver
Akron
Inernational Harvester Company
House
Andrew Donovan
Leonard Wood
Count von Bulow
Nevada State Line
Starks
Otball Coen ‘Williams
Little Falls
Treasury
Harriet Burnham
Waldo
New York
Aldermanic Committee of Investigation
Georgia
Goethals
Panama Canal
Swensen Bros
Omaha
Luis Fernandez
Orozco
Parral
Cleveland
William M. Duncan
Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad Company
Adelaida Otero Luna
Republican National
Albuerquerque
Santa Fe
Treasury Department
United States Treasury Gold Mining Company
Chicago
New Rochelle N. Ys
Waldorf Miller
John Greenleaf Whittier
Whittier House Association
Amesbury
Arthur C. Frid&k
Minister of Commerce
America
United States Congress
Sulzer
Albany
D. W. Butts
Little Sioux
Mr. Butts
Iowa
Council Bluffs
Preparation
Monosa County
Kansas City
Jowa Dairy School Special Lectures By Experts
The Iowa State Dairy Association, aided by the legislature, is expanding dairy education via Special Dairy Trains. Dairy meetings and lecturer demand have grown statewide, with the first 1913 instruction train to start from Ames on January 13, running over the Northwestern line.
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Des Moines
T Iowa
Iowa State Dairy Association
Iowa
Ames
Slavic Empire Ambition Cited By Archduke
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria Hungary is noted for aiming to build a vast Slav empire. Mexican rebels win a key victory capturing Casas Grandes town. Judge Anderson says some dynamiters are guilty of murder. William Guggenheim's ex wife testifies she was paid to file suit. General Edward J. McClernand will retire at age with brigadier general status.
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Franz Ferdinand
Austro Hungary
Casas Grandes
Anderson
William Guggenheim
Edward J. McClernand
Shopper's Cramp Disease Described By Simeon Ford
Simeon Ford at a New York hotel dinner described a new ailment called shopper's cramp. He said it appears early in December grows violent in mid month and ends on December 24th. Women feel it in arms and limbs while husbands suffer only in the pocket.
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Simeon Ford
New York
Skin Eruption Healed by Cuticura on Baby’s Cheek
Mrs W J Cleland reports a thirteen month old child developed a spreading sore on the cheek that reached the eye and nostrils. After using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment the facial sores soothed and healed in days with no scarring. Sample offered. Boston.
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Kingeley, Mich
Mra
W. J. Cleland
Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
Chickens Prove Trickier Than They Look Says Cartoonist
A Puck cartoon jokes about chicken keeping noting the birds seem easy but expose naivety at every size. It quips that small birds lack knowledge and even medium ones show little intellect, with a comic note about chickens colliding with wire partitions and doorways.
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Puck
Fire at Bank of England Causes Notable First
A fire in the Bank of England London occurred recently in the southeastern section. The flooring and joisting suffered major damage. Bank officials detected and contained the blaze in about 30 minutes with their apparatus. A lieutenant and twelve Irish Guards on duty aided police in cordoning the area.
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Bank of England
London
To Her Incredible Otherwise
He remarks his brother earns more than he can spend, while she exclaims in surprise about where he is employed, joking that he might work in the mint.
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Mint
The Distinction of Words and Deeds
A witty exchange contrasts marriage ideals with deeds versus title deeds. The quip highlights a preference for action over words and for permanence in contracts.
Disgraced: dinner ends with misplaced forks
A reader recounts a family dinner where the father behaves badly, causing embarrassment. The story notes he used three forks and left two unused, illustrating the social missteps and household tension surrounding the meal.
The Bath Knight’s Origin and the London Rite
The London Chronicle recalls that before Charles II the Knight of the Bath endured a ritual bath at the Tower of London then robed and vigil kept till daybreak. He rode to court in robes and was dubbed by the king with sword and spurs for a bath marked act in the fifteenth century. A ragtime philosopher quips lemons are fit only to hand to people.
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Knights of the Bath
Order of the Bath
Charles II
Knight of the Bath
Tower of London
London Chronicle
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