Barons Plan Cuban Tour After Southern League
Birmingham Alabama August 11 Special The Birmingham club will tour Cuba after the Southern league season. Rey Ryan will manage, thirteen players will go October 1 for fifteen games. If pennant won a possible seven game series with American Association clubs may be staged with Almeida as star. Manager Molesworth and Yuntz will not travel.
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Cuba
Rey Ryan
Barons
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Dilger
Foxen
Prough
Smith
Bud
Dardgrove
McGilvray
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Ellam
Messenger
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McBride
Yarrell
Molesworth
Yuntz
American Association
Alabama
Georgia
Florida
Knox Leaves to Attend Funeral of Mutushito
Secretary of State Knox leaves Washington with Mrs. Knox and RS. Mier to personally represent the president at the funeral of the deceased Japanese emperor. They travel in a special car to Seattle, then board the cruiser Maryland, with further arrivals planned in Yokohama and Honolulu.
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Knox
Fajito Emperor
Yoshihito
Japan
RS. Mier
Far Eastern
State Department
Tokio
Seattle
Maryland
Admiral Reynolds
Yokohama
Pershing
Honolulu
New Postal Plan Edits Move Passes In House Meet Wilson
Washington August 16 Republican Leader Mann fails to push direct Bourne Bristow parcel vote as House adopts Moon substitute for experimental fourth class mail scheme with zone plan. Conference sent to settle, 14 pound limit, 4 to 12 cent rates. Seagirt plan for editors conference with Wilson Daniels McAdoo discussed. Wilson to speak Hoboken and Syracuse. Mrs Sheldon reappears in London. Baltimore man dies of heart trouble during police questioning.
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Mann
Bourne-Bristow
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House
Parrela
Moon
Post Office Committee
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Seagirt
N. Z
Woodrow Wilson
Josephus E. Daniels
North Carolina
Committee On Publicity
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
New York
Wilson
Daniels
William
McAdoo
McCombs
George M. Palmer
Fred B. Lynch
Minnesota
Roosevelt
Hoboken
N. J
Syracuse
New Jersey
Italians Establish Base Near Tripoli
Rome reports Lieutenant General Gariont established a base at Muara about sixty six miles west of Tripoli. Italians cut off a large Tinco Arab force from the Caravan Tortes to the Tunisian frontier after a four mile front battle. Turks retreated leaving numerous dead. Italians suffered six killed and ninety eight wounded.
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Rome
Gariont
Tripoli
Muara
Wireless measure signed by president taft
President Taft signed the radio communication bill into law, enacting America’s portion of the Berlin wireless conference agreement of 1906. The law requires wireless stations to yield to distress signals, regulates shipboard wireless, demands 100 mile instrument radii, and urges amateur licenses and wavelength controls.
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Washington
Taft
America
Berlin
Train Robber Not Yet Landed By Police
Asheville North Carolina August 16 two deputy sheriffs and several police hunted last night for the man who held up Express Messenger E F Carr between Asheville and Baltimore and robbed the safe of under $2000 with no result. Sheriff Williams said police are not actively engaged and Chief Lyerly said detectives from the company will take over the search this afternoon directing the case with Superintendent Sadier of Charlotte.
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Asheville
N. C
E. F. Carr
Baltimore
Wiliams
Lyerly
Sadier
Charlotte
Spare Nobody in Graft Probe
New York August 14 Corporation Counsel Watson named William McMurtie Speer as special counsel to represent the city in the aldermanic investigation of police conditions. Speer is urged to co operate fully with the committee and to pursue graft relentlessly. Mayor Gaynor estimates roughly 1 606 000 dollars a year in graft from news dealers, citing 7500 stands with varying license payments and middlemen.
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New York
Counse
Watson
William McMurtie Speer
Gaynor
Typographical Unions Condemn Chicago Strike at Convention
In Cleveland on August 16 the International Typographical Union endorsed its officers and the Stereotypers and Electrotypers unions for opposing the Chicago pressmen strike. The report condemned the Chicago strike, praised arbitration, and denounced methods used to inflame tensions, while calling for vigilance against union in-fighting and propaganda in printing.
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Cleveland
Ohio
International Typographical Union Today
Chicago
International Typographical Union and Allied Trades Unions
James J. Freel
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Frank W. Long
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Long
Army Bill Sent to Conference After House Battle
Washington August 16 The army appropriation bill passed by the house twice and fought over was sent again to conference. Main differences include abolishing many army posts reducing cavalry forces and extending enlistment from three to five years. Also the provision implementing the fur scale treaty was referred to conference.
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Washington
House
Congress
Nashville Platform Splits on Liquor Policy in Convention
Nashville Tenn August 16 Shortly before 2 oclock this morning the state convention adopted a platform for its gubernatorial candidate Benton McMillin The minority report favored retaining the old four mile liquor law with Nashville Chattanooga and Memphis modifications plus regulation high license and segregation The platform called for a change in liquor manufacture law permitting distilleries but prohibiting free liquor in dry counties The majority cited Woodrow Wilson calling the issue moral and social and left it to the legislature
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Nashville
Tenn
En State
Benton McMillin
Chattanooga
Memphis
Woodrow Wilson
J. G. Schurman Named Minister to Greece
Jacob Gould Schurman, president of Cornell University, has been appointed minister to Greece. He is 68, born in Freetown, P. I., of Dutch descent, educated at Edinburgh, German universities, California, and Yale. He became Cornell president in 1892 and previously chaired the Philippine Commission in 1899.
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Jacob Gould Schurman
Cornell University
Greece
Freetown
P. L
University of Edinburgh
California
Yale
Cornell
Schurman
Philippine Commission
First Thomas County Cotton Bale Reported
Thomasville Ga August 14 special The first bale of cotton for Thomas county this season 191% was brought in by J D Gibbs a well known farmer of the Boston district The bale weighed 540 pounds and was rated good middling It was traced in the farmers union warehouse until sold Eufaula gets first bale Eufaula Ga August 2 special Eufaula received her first bale of the 1912 cotton crop yesterday and it was sold to Dean Moore at 180 cents several cents above Marley quotations This bale was pressed to Eufaula by Webb Sparks a prominent planter from Morris Ga The bale weighed 246 pounds
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Thomasville
J. D. Gibbs
Boston
Farmers’ Union
Eufaula
Dean & Moore
Marley
Webb Sparka
Hig
Morris
Sparks
Provisions and commodities market roundup August 16
Market notes from multiple ports cover pork lard and short ribs prices in Mesa and St. Louis with firm to unchanged quotes. New York imports and exports data show weekly values for silver and gold, while Rice in New Orleans reports better demand and specific sales. Also listed are bagging and hemp twine prices in St. Louis on August 16.
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Upiaga
St. Louia
New York
New Orleans
Honduras
Japan
St. Louis
Piers Epaine
Pevraary
Hester
Seersta Hesraphic
Amercotton
Brazil
India
Britain
Europe
Egypt
United
Appropriation Bill Revised by Committee
Washington August 16 The house appropriations committee revised the legislative executive and judicial appropriation bill removing provisions Taft objected to including abolition of the commerce court and a seven year tenure for government employees The measure was reintroduced but too late for action tonight Chairman Fitzgerald said he would press for a vote tomorrow if possible
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Washington
House
Saas
Taft
Commerce Court
Fitzgerald
Auto turns turtle. three killed in New Jersey crash
White House N J August 16 Mr and Mrs Edward A Horling of Huntington Valley PA and their chauffeur John Kilroy were instantly killed when their car turned turtle at Greybrook two miles from here this afternoon.
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White House
N. J
Edward A. Horling
Huntington Valley
John Kilroy
Greybrook
Cotton The Review of Prices and Crop Prospects
A New York survey discusses the drought impact on cotton, predicting a large harvest potentially surpassing 14,000,000 bales. Bulls and bears argue over price directions as demand in mills and markets adjusts to the sharp drop in raw cotton.
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New York
Texas
Mississippi River
Wail Street
Liverpool
Liverpoo
Lanvarnie
WEEK'S TRADE REVIEWED. What Commercal Agencies Say About Business
R G Dun & Colms weekly review notes continued activity in iron and steel with improved futures yet cautious demand. Basic iron firm at 14 with billets at 23 local. Dry goods show steady activity while cotton goods falter on raw cotton drop. leather and footwear in steady demand. overall market tone cautious pending higher prices. World visible cotton supplies show week-to-week declines and mixed regional movements. Grain movement reports from St Louis and Kansas City show arrivals and shipments. Chicago flour steady to higher with broad market activity.
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New York
R.G. Dun & Colm
Bessemer
Pittsburg
China
Otlit
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