We Demand Constitutional Amendment Enfranchising Women
A Southern woman, Mrs. Patty R. Jacobs of Birmingham Alabama, received a warm ovation at the National American Woman's Suffrage Association opening session. Delegates from North Carolina and South Carolina were admitted as state organizations join the national body. Dr. Anna Shaw urged calling for a constitutional amendment enfranchising women, marking a shift from asking to demanding.
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United States
Washington
National American Woman's Suffrage Association
Patty R. Jacobs
Birmingham
Ala
North Carolina
South Carolina
Anna Shaw
New Tariff Law Cuts Fifty Million From Annual Revenues
Washington December 1 The customs receipts for November fell by 4.5 million dollars from a year earlier under the new tariff law. If November is a fair test of the law’s effect, annual revenues could drop by fifty million dollars.
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Washington
United States
Special Term Ends as Congress Opens Regular Session
Washington December 1 Congress ended its special term begun April 7 and entered a lengthy regular session expected to last into summer. The Senate worked most of the day while the House held a brief opening. A plan for day and night sessions on the currency bill failed though leaders expect enactment before the holiday. The Senate began work on the currency act and, after slow progress on the Hetch Hetchy bill, called up the currency measure and voted to recess for the evening.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House
Zelaya Agrees to Return as Extradition Debated
In Washington on December 1, the quarrel over Jose Santos Zelaya's presence in the United States appeared resolved as the former Nicaragua president and dictator agreed to return to Barcelona, Spain. He had faced extradition warrants and claimed the murders he was charged with were committed without his knowledge, calling the move a political plot.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Jose Santos Zelaya
Nicaragua
Barcelona
Spain
Zelaya
Blood Poisoning From Frightened Rat Bite At Hotel
Mrs Adams, proprietor of the Commercial Hotel, suffered serious injury after grasping a frightened rat ten days ago. The item mentions her condition as blood poisoning and appeals for remedies. The piece also reviews a book on women and discusses Red Cross Seals, with multiple anecdotes illustrating health charity impact.
Advertisement Accounts Chamberlain's Tablets Benefit Father
Miss Moreardt Campbell of Ft Smith Ark recalls her father’s six year illness when an ad for Chamberlain's Tablets matched his case exactly. He bought a bar of them and his stomach trouble improved. For sale by all dealers.
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Chamberlain
Monarchist Uprising in Portugal Narrowly Suppressed
Lisbon reports reveal fresh details of the October uprising within the Marine barracks. A naval engineer’s confession led to the arrest of about 200 marines, 18 sergeants and several officers after the conspiracy was exposed. The plot, initiated at the Marine barracks, targeted a rapid revolt overnight with a list of conspirators provided to Minister Freitas Ribeiro. The minister inspected the barracks, ordered the arrest of implicated sergeants and the on duty lieutenant who cut telephone wires, and maintained a strict watch through the night. Continho, linked as a chief conspirator and agent of a former monarchist faction, attempted to force an entry with a key but failed.
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Portugal
Freitas Ribeiro
Ribeiro
Republic
Repubic
Teixeira
Joao de Azevedo Coutinho
Cononiracy
Tormier
Manuel
Thi
Hinelf
Continho
Georgia Chamber Maps Three Year State Work Plan
Atlanta, November 29. President C. J. Haden outlines a three year program to advance Georgia's welfare, agriculture, and market conditions. The Georgia Chamber will unify agencies, promote Georgia products for Georgia people, improve roads, schools, and credit, and foster cooperative efforts across counties and industries.
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Atlanta
Georgia Chamber of Commerce
C. J. Haden
State Chamber
Georgia Farmer
Georgia
Haden
Peo
Bishops clash over preachers at baseball games
Bishop Candler criticized South Georgia Conference laymen for attending baseball games with preachers on the bleachers. He claimed many laymen dislike such scenes, while the defense questions canvassing male members. The article also notes a failed plot and a prisoner held on an engineering matter related to the incident.
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Bishop Candler
South Georgia Conference
Athens Man on Panama Canal Letter Reveals Gamboa Dike Blast
The Banner prints a letter from Theodore R. Von der Leith, an Athens native in Panama, detailing the Gamboa Dike blast on Oct 10, 1913. He describes the dynamite charge of 17,650 pounds, the massive water surge, and the crowd of 3,000 to 4,000 observers along the canal. Bunau Varilla, canal observer, calls the blast a clean explosion and credits the United States with the canal’s eventual success.
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Theodore R. von der Leith
Panama
von der Leith
Canal
Empire
Canal Zone
Gamboa Dike
Pire
Gatum Lake
Culebra
Woodrow Wilson
Washington
Colon
Gamboa
Careboa
Central Division
M. Philippe Bunau Varilla
Anngineer
Panama Canal
Pany
United States of America
November and Its Silent October Echoes
The poetry fragment portrays November as a somber season landlocked by icy sun and grieving, leafless trees. Imagery and mood evoke memory, nature’s decline, and life juxtaposed with death, framed as a maritime mystery linked to John Helston's Aphrodite and Other Poes.
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John Helston
Aphrodite
Movement to establish Confucianism as state religion in China
The drive to make Confucianism the state religion in the Republic of China risks harming China itself. It may impede missionaries temporarily, but ultimately the Chinese people will bear the damage.
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Republic of China
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