Brief News Notes Reflect Wide Range of Washington Action
A week of national happenings includes a likely abandonment of the Nicaragua protectorate treaty after Senate committee action, reports Britain plans a Bermuda naval base, and House banking panel nearing pass on the administration currency bill. Foresters reveal 125 new plant species. suffragists urge votes for women with assurances from several senators. Washington officials implicated in the Moore affair are removed, while McAdoo proposes $25 million to $50 million in bank deposits to aid crop movement. Senate eyeing homestead law liberalization to 18, and a Washington gale causes deaths and damage as White House windows are blown in amid tariff debate.
Ancient tablet details creation myth at Pennsylvania museum
Newly found tablet in the University of Pennsylvania museum, brought from Babylon, is believed to recount the first story of creation and describe ancient civilization before the Christian era. District Attorney Manwell and two Yuba County deputies were killed in a hop-pickers riot at Durst's hop field in Wheatland. six others were wounded, spurring calls to mobilize the militia. The fusion committee backed John Purroy Mitchell as anti-Tammany mayoral candidate for New York, with debate over unified support across parties. Debris from a cloudburst tangled upper Delaware valley. railroads suffered washouts. Twenty-eight miners burned in a gas dust explosion at Tower City, Pa.. two rescued.
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Museum of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Babylon
Manwell
Yuba County
California
Durst
Wheatland
Fusion Committee
John Purroy Mitchell
New York
Alfalfa Growers to Convene in Springfield
Springfield prepares for the third annual Illinois Alfalfa Growers Association meeting August 19 and 20 led by President A P Grout of Winchester. The agenda includes lectures on alfalfa production across soil types, feeding value, and a banquet, with notable attendees from Grout to editors and farmers from Morrison to Rockford.
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Springfield
Tinois Alfalfa Growers’ Association
A. P. Grout
Winchester
Ilinois Alfalfa Growers’ Association
Illinois
Illinois Alfalfa Growers’ Association
A. N. Abbott
Morrison
Clay
Pervier
Sheffield
Fred L. Harsh
Spring Grove
A. J. Lovejoy
Roscoe
H. J. Anderson
Chandlerville
Prairie Farmer
Chicago
H. E. Young
Farmer's Review
J. P. Mason
Elgin
E. D. Funk
Bloomington
George F. Tullock
Rockford
Charles E. Palmer
Noble
Magill
M. E
Hugh S. Magill
Presbyterian Church
Shelbyville
Illinois Methodists’ Conference
G. S. Tarbox
Arcola
George H. Wilson
Quincy
F. Scott McBride
Anti-Saloon League
Wilson Accepts Ambassador Wilsons Resignation and Names Lind
President Wilson accepted Ambassador Henry Lane Wilsons resignation to take effect October 14 and named John Lind of Minnesota as his personal representative to Mexico City. Lind will advise the embassy and await a stable Mexican administration before formal accreditation. Lind and his wife left for Mexico by rail to join the effort for peace as officials favor constitutional governance over armed revolutions.
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Washington
Wilson
Henry Lane Wilson
Mexico City
John Lind
Minnesota
Bryan
Lind
Huerta
Mexico
West Virginia lawmakers jailed for bribery conviction
Five members of the West Virginia legislature were sentenced by Judge W S O'Brien in Webster Springs. Delegates S A G Rhodes Ruth Duff and H F Asbury received six years in the penitentiary. State Senator B A Smith was given five years and six months and Delegate Dave Hill five years. All five are disqualified for life from holding any public office.
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Webster Springs
W. Va
West Virginia
O’brien
Supreme Court
United States
S. A. G. Rhodes
Ruth Duff
H. F. Asbury
B. A. Smith
Dave Hill
McAdoo invites bankers to discuss government fund deposits
Secretary McAdoo directed telegrams to presidents of clearing house associations in 68 western southern and Pacific coast cities on Monday. The invites seek a representative or committee to Washington to discuss deposit arrangements of government funds to aid moving crops this fall.
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Washington
McAdoo
Clearing House Association
Pacific Coast
Express Rates Ordered Cut by Interstate Commission
Washington on August 6 reports the Interstate Commerce Commission ordered express companies to cut rates by about 16 percent, costing the firms roughly 26 million dollars annually. The move, set to take effect by October 15, 1913, includes notable reforms in business practices. In Salisbury Beach, Mass, a diamond theft targeted Mrs Nelson Morris, wife of the Chicago packer, stealing a 1000 dollar horseshoe pin as she traveled from Maghholia.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Nelson Morris
Salisbury Beach
Mass
Packer
Chicago
Magholia
Bird's Trouble at an End Poultry tale from country fancier
A country fancier abroad on holiday entrusts feeding duties to a maid. An ill prize rooster is thought to suffer infectious soup disease. He orders isolation, but the maid says Jim knocked it with a broomstick, ending the trouble in a flash.
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Jim
London
Eczema on Entire Scalp Prompts Cure Claim
Mrs. Bertha Underwood of Sunfield Michigan reports a six month battle with eczema starting at the scalp, spreading to the body and ears, causing itching and sleep disturbance. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment, with two applications, she notes a great improvement and complete cure within a month. Sample and Skin Book offered by Cuticura via Boston address.
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Sunfield
Mich
Bertha Underwood
Cuticura
Dept
Boston
Obligingly Her at the Baldwin Locomotive Works
A young woman tours the Baldwin locomotive works and asks about the engine boiler. The guide explains that boiling the engine is to make the engine tender. The exchange, in a Pennsylvania Punch Bowl tone, captures curiosity and witty teaching.
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Galdwin Locomotive Works
Pennsylvania
Trolley Axle Bearings Show Minimal Abrasion After 150000 Miles
Measurements on the axles of a New Jersey trolley car reveal bearings resisted abrasion almost perfectly after about 150,000 miles in four years. The report notes precise wear figures and indicates sustained performance under heavy use.
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New Jersey
Knights of Columbus Meet Opens in Boston
Boston August 6 Knights of Columbus and their families about 25000 arrived for the annual supreme convention. The gathering opened with a solemn high mass at Holy Cross Church.
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Knights of Columbus
Boston
Holy Cross
End of Copper Strike Hinted by Detroit Official
F. F. Ingram of Detroit arrived in Lansing to report on the Calumet copper strike to Governor Ferris He expressed confidence the dispute would end soon before departing for Lansing
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Calumet, Mich
F. F. Ingram
Detroit
Lansing
Ferris
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee
State Department
Great Britain
Bermuda Islands
House Banking and Currency Committee
Forest Service
Senate
R. E. Pollock
Weather Bureau
Trenton
N. J
H. L. Heiskell
Office of Meteorology
Daniel J. Carroll
Willis I. Moore
Financial World
United States Senate
National Capital
White House
Stone
Delaware Valley
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
East Brookside
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
Tower City
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Morenci
Clifton Ariz
William Vincent Astor
State of
John Jacob Astor
Jackson Hill Mine No
Sullivan, Ind
Earl Marshall Reid
Edward Hoover
Atlantic City
Kansas
Anthony & Northern
Pratt
Lake
Ae Mor
Flory Manufacturing Company
Bangor
George O. Morris
Greenville, Ill
Morris
Michigan
Federation of Miners
Capitol
New Jersey Board of Health
Edwin H. Hughes
San Francisco
Eberhart
Minnesota Board of Pardons
Matthew H. McNabb
McNab
McNabb
S. Osgood Pell
William Lalmbeer
Long Beach
New York City
James H. Watmough
United States Navy
Ambassador Wilson
Estelle van Fossen
Thelma Roach
Watt Mining Car Company
Barnesville
Andrew Roach
Spain
Hamburger Nachrichten
Standard Oil Company
Roumania
Paris
Gladys Vanderbilt
Count Laszko Szechenyi
Morris Cukor
Aureliano Urrutia
Sutor
Alfalfa Men OF State
Illinois Association
Dunne
John Knies
Breese
Miners’ Examining Board
Henry V. Meeteren
State Game and Fish Commission
B. Bradt
Dekalb
A. D. Gash
State Highway Commission
Bradt
State Bureau of Labor Statistica
State Bureau of Labor Statistics
David Ross
Commission
M. H. Madden
John D. Peters
Carbondale
Frank B. Mott
Galesburg
Madden
P. J. Lucey
Roy 1S
Justice of the Peace
Alex Robinson
Virginia
Attorney General
George
People of
State Supreme Court
Actioneeranchise
Order
Supreme Tribe
Crawfordsville
Ind
William A. Olson
Chiccago
C. C. Coventry
Olney
William Dellert
Indiana
Lucey
High Court
Solons
M’adoo
U. S
Secretary of Treasury
Carter
Irters
John
Humeson
Cette Rees
Standing Rock
Northwest
Ron
Hosea
Jet
Monta
Lie
Wison I. Thompson
Lewistown
Piostionowa
N. Y
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