Dynamics of early 1913 unrest and immigration in U S
A Washington report compiles a sweeping 1912 13 look at martial law in West Virginia mine disputes copper miners strike efforts in Michigan and Oregon border smuggling of orientals immigration policy shifts and labor trials. It notes Moyers probe Moyers trip and a Willard Roosevelt engagement while copper country probes and a broad strike context unfold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Cabin Creek
Paint Creek
Senator Borah
Washington
Michigan
John B. Densmore
Department of Labor Ss
Western Federation of Miners
Royal Navy A E Harboard to Command Discovery Ship
Foreign Lieut A E Harboard of the hydro graphic department of the Royal Navy was appointed to command the ship Discovery which will convey the Stackhouse expedition to King Edward Land in August for explorations. The report notes 24000 executions in Szac huen province in 1913, largely robbers and political offenders. An English vaudeville star Harry Fragson was shot by his father in Paris. The Servian cabinet resigned and the war minister also resigned over budget refusals. The Tasman ashore in the Gulf of Pagua was refloated with help from Taabo Maru. Aymarcas Peru earthquake kills and destroys. rails damaged. Dr S Weir Mitchell dies in Philadelphia. Miss Anna Wheeler dies after a trolley-car crash fright. Representative Cranston refunds $1200 salary, claiming illness. Big Bill Edwards to manage Newark street-cleaning ops. Miss Kate Turner attacked in Charlestown. Eleanor Wilson to appear in Sanctuary in NYC. Paderewski leaves Denver amid Nihilist threats. Gunboat Smith beats Pelkey in San Francisco. McLaughlin elected president of American Historical Association. Chicago chosen for 1914 meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. E. Harboard
Hydrographic Department
Royal Navy of Great Britain
Discovery
Stackhouse
King Edward Land
Untermyer Urges Industrial Commission for Sherman Act Remedy
Samuel Untermyer, counsel for the Pujo committee, told Illinois Manufacturers' Association in Chicago that a powerful federal executive body should administer the Sherman anti trust law to restore business freedom. He criticized Standard Oil dissolution and warned against broad consent decrees, urging Congress to adopt Pujo committee recommendations on banks interlocking directorates exchanges and other reforms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Samuel Untermyer
Illinois Manufacturers’ Association
Untermyer
Pujo
Money Trust
Standard Oil Trust
American ‘Telephone & Telegraph Company
Industrial Commission
Congress
House of Mor
Britain shifts Sir Lionel Carden to Brazil
Sir Lionel Carden, Britain’s minister to Mexico, will be transferred to Rio de Janeiro as minister to Brazil. His Mexico City successor is expected to be Charles Murray Merling, a senior counselor in the British diplomatic service. The move follows friction with Washington over Carden’s credential presentation to Huerta and a quoted interview about American officials in Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Lionel Carden
Mexico
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Lionel
Mexico City
Charles Murray Merling
Turkey
Foreign Office
Washington
Huerta
Wilson
Supreme Court rules labels must state drug derivatives
The Supreme Court held that federal regulations extending the pure food and drugs law require drug labels to list derivatives of drugs beyond those specified by the law. The decision also sustains an Illinois law holding safe deposit companies liable for collecting inheritance taxes or possesssions in patrons' boxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Federal Food and Drugs Board
Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court
Ex-Secretary Indicted Over Forged Check and Pawned Jewelry
Sidney Moulthrop, former private secretary to Senator James Hamilton Lewis, was indicted on charges of forging the senator's name to a $240 check and pawning jewelry entrusted to him.
One Dead In Ship Blast Aboard Geestermunde
New Orleans January 7 report states Frank Osterman chief steward was killed and several others severely injured in an explosion aboard the German tank steamer Geestermunde en route from Baton Rouge to Tampico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Frank Osterman
Baton Rouge
Tampico
Freycinet recalls Berlin talk on Russia and war risk
In his memoirs M. de Freycinet, former French prime minister, recounts a Paris discussion with Count von Munster, the German ambassador. The countess notes William’s pious nature and aversion to war, yet Freycinet urges stronger armaments and closer rapprochement with Russia as defensive policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
M. de Freycinet
France
Count von Munster
Russia
Germany
Bismarck
William
Berlin
Life and labor in Amoy district China weaving rice and kinship
In Amoy district villagers cultivate rice by hand with crude tools, transplanting by hand and weed management done manually. The region yields china s finest rice within thirty miles of Amoy and the soil suits the Chinese lily. Emigration has emptied many villages, leaving old men and boys, while some husbands return years later to adopt a son for lineage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Amoy
China
South
Pagoda of Faithful Wife Marks Seafarers Farewell
The article recalls sailors who leave their homeland to serve in China then die abroad. Wives wait years in vain, while the Southern Sentinel pagoda atop a mountain near Amoy Harbor stands 1800 feet above sea level. It is said to commemorate a wife who died while waiting, so her husband would know of her devotion if he returned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Amoy Harbor
Hearse Not a Pleasure Vehicle in Malden Ruling
Judge Bruce of Malden fined Michael J. Carroll of Roxbury ten dollars for driving a motor hearse over Fellaway boulevard. In Medford he ruled that three black limousines bearing mourners in Carrolls funeral procession did not fall under the Metropolitan park commission ban on pleasure vehicles on the boulevard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Bruce
Malden
Michael J. Carroll
Roxbury
Fellaway Boulevard
Medford
Carroll
Metropolitan Park Commission
Illinois News Roundup Feats and Misfortunes Across State
Multiple Illinois locales report incidents and events including union dance bans at Kewanee New Year ball, miner Walter Yates killed near Herrin, a Greenup druggist pleads guilty, Ursuline seminary dedication in Decatur, Chicago and Alton shops to resume full operation, Big Four agent William Lyford injured, Christensen anniversary in Monmouth, Bowman inheritance tax in Bloomington, Olga Sward deportation from Rockford, Rev Daniels sickness in Mount Vernon, Miss Alice Watson sails to Italy to work with Montessori, Cairo grain dealer Antrim shot, Black Diamond railroad sale in Marion, Paul Waitans sues over wife’s death, George Wilson arrest in Herrin, Rahsmessen confession in Omaha, Abingdon women swing library bonds, and Frank Lawman pursuit near Quincy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kewanee
Bartenders Union
Herrin
Walter Yates
Jeffrey
Here
Greenup
Allenthorp
S. B. Rariden
Toledo
Decatur
Ursuline Sisters
Bloomington
Chicago & Alton
Pana
William Lyford
Big Four Railroad
Ohlman
Monmouth
Peter Christensen
Germany
Treasury of
Illinois
John A. Bowman
Stonington
Henry Bowman
Rockford
Olga Sward
Sweden
America
Mount Vernon
W. F. Daniels
Alice Watson
Italy
Maria Montessori
Miss Watson
Cairo
H. Seymor Antrim
Cairo Board of Trade
Antrim
Presbyterian Church
Marion
Black Diamond
Williamson County
Ed M. Stotlar
Stotlar-Herrin Lumber Company
Pittsburg
Paul Waitans
D. 8
Johnson
Centralia
United Mine Workers
George Wilson
Spokane
Wash
Wilson
St. Louis
Chicago
Chris Rahsmessen
J. P. Murphy
Salvation Army
Omaha
Neb
Metropolis
Ill
Charles Robinson
Rahsmessen
Galesburg
Abingdon
Quincy
Frank Lawman
Montana
Stillwell
Loraine
Lawman
Wonderful Growth of the Canadian West
An extended portrait of Western Canada from Winnipeg, noting fields of grain and pasture, with emphasis on growth, enterprise, and migration. It cites Mayor Deacon of Winnipeg at a Chicago banquet, praising grain production, potential land under plow, and cross-border trade. It discusses British and American influence, immigration of farmers, and the implied unity of Anglo-Saxon elements in developing the prairie provinces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Chicago
Deacon
Prairie Provinces
Prairie
Europe
Cruel Act of Warfare During Fort George Evacuation
A century ago General McClure ordered an evacuation of Fort George after a failed campaign in Lower Canada. He withdrew all troops and left tents and stores. At 80 minutes’ notice he burned 149 of 150 Newark houses, forcing 400 women and children to seek shelter in log huts or Native wigwams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McClure
Lower Canada
Fort George
Newark
Pleas for Patriotism Quip Sparks Billing Irony
A witty exchange highlights public duty and patriotism as a government official jokes that many people must become patriotic enough to stop sending their bills before he acts. The remark underscores concern over civic responsibility and fiscal strain in a humorous tone.
Stale Pie Banter Sparks Laughs at Mrs Hardcrust
A playful exchange in a domestic scene features a pie described as yesterday's and a quip about it becoming tomorrow's if not eaten today. The dialogue highlights lighthearted kitchen humor and character dynamics between the speaker and Mrs. Hardcrust.
Contraries in a Humorous Exchange Over Fame
A quip unfolds about seeking fame and wealth. One speaker notes Jibbs craves fortune, while the other suggests he must work to obtain it. The exchange uses light irony to highlight ambition and effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jibbs
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Bureau of Immigration
Anthony Caminetti
Commissioner General of Immigration
U. S
Department of Justice
Charles H. Moyer
Calumet
Richmond, Va
Madrid
Ambassador Willard
Belle Willard
Kermit Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Ferris
Cunningham
Nesbit
United States
New York
Nevada
Copperfield, Ore
Col
B. K. Lawson
State Penitentiary
Miss Fern Hobbs
West
Lawson
Coast Artillery
Kansas City
Student Volunteer Movement
Journal of Experimental Medicine
Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research
Blueridge Springs
Western Pacific Railroad
Feather River Canyon
California
Julius Rosenwald
Andrew Carnegie
Vincent Astor
Ralph Lopez
Bingham
Utah
Lillian Shaw
Portland
Norfolk
Calumet, Mich
J. P. Morgan & Co
George F. Baker
Wall Street
Stock Exchange
Vulcan
Colorado Springs
Colo
Coryell Leasing Company
Rocky Mountain Fuel Company
John Bind
Chester
Gulf of Mexico
Ojinaga
Ortega
Peking
Szachuen
Harry Fragson
Victor Pott
N. P. Pach‘itch
Gulf of Pagua
Aymarcas
Apurimac
Peru
S. Weir Mitchell
Philadelphia
Anna Wheeler
Worcester
Mass
George C. Cranston
Providence
R. L
Big Bill” Edwards
N. J
E. Graham Wilson
Charlestown
W. Va
Kate Turner
Misa Eleanor Wilson
Ignace Paderewski
Denver
Gunboat
Smith
Arthur Pelkey
San Francisco
Andrew 8. McLaughlin
University of Chicago
American Historical Association
Charleston
D. C
Puro Inquiry
Executive Commission
Britain
Sir Carden
U. K.’S Law
News OF Illinois
Western
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