Ambassador Bryce resigns as Taft era ends
Washington sources report James Bryce British ambassador to the United States tendered his resignation and will return to England. An official announcement is expected after discussions with Secretary Knox. Bryce, advancing in years, sought to focus on literary works on South America and Australia New Zealand, while Panama canal toll issues loom as a challenging diplomatic task.
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Washington
James Bryer
United States
England
Bryce
Raft
White House
Taft
Knox Mi I Knox
Riyee
South America
Australia
New Zealand
Panama Canal
Haglang
House of Peers
Commons
Washington Post
American Commonwealth
Grove
London
Pilgrim Society
York
America
Panama
Mr Bryce
Knox
So Efrat
$10,000,000 Fund For Telephone Employees Expanded
A $10,000,000 fund will provide pensions sick benefits and life insurance for about 175,000 Bell associated and Western Union employees and their families. Annual appropriations by AT&T Western Electric and Western Union sustain the plan benefiting over 10,000 southern workers and their colleagues in Cumberland Telephone territory across multiple states. Officials hail the program as a liberal, comprehensive measure funded entirely by company interests.
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Bell
Associated Interests
American Telephone and Telegraph Company and Associated Companies
Western Union Telegraph Company
Western Electric Company
T N Wail
United States
Sermon Preached Woodrow Wilson in Princeton Church
President elect Woodrow Wilson attended a pulpit tribute at First Presbyterian Princeton with Mrs Wilson and the girls. The Rev Sylvester Beach prayed for divine guidance and protection, likening Wilson to Habakuk and praising his resolute, independent spiritual outlook. After services crowds greeted him. in the afternoon Wilson said he would not see callers during a planned retreat, preferring time alone with his family.
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Princeton
N. J
Woodrow Wilson
First Presbyterian Church
Wilson
Jessie
Eleanor Wilson
Sylvester Beach
United States
Mr Beach
Habakuk
William S. McCombs
Chait
McCombs
McAdoo
Earnings of Convicts Families Urged Compensation Plan
At a mass meeting in Baltimore under the American Prison Association, Winch 44 held its annual congress Mrs Maud Ballington Booth of the Volunteers of America urged delegates to push legislation giving compensation to families of convicts during imprisonment. She noted prisoners work for the State and their earnings go to the commonwealth treasury while families often face destitution.
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Baltimore
American Prison Association
Winch 44
Maud Ballington Booth
The
Volunteers of America
JIM HAM LEWIS CONFIDENT OF TOGA
Progressive party members elect of the Illinois legislature are summoned to Chicago for a caucus to name candidates to fill the unexpired term of William Lorimer in the U S senate. James Hamilton Lewis is the party’s primary long term pick and is favored for success. Republican leaders await Governor Deneen’s decision on a possible special session before acting.
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Chicago
Progressive Party
Lilnois
William Lorimer
United States Senate
United States
Illinois
James Hamilton Lewis
Deneen
Jack Johnson Hopes Bond Is Put Up Today
Chicago November 16 Jack Johnson champion pugilist is in the county jail under indictment on violations of the Mann white grave law. He hopes security satisfactory to Federal Judge K M Landis may be furnished tomorrow on a 306000 bond. Several Chicago residents are ready to post real estate to meet the required bond and set Johnson at liberty pending his trial.
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Chicago
Jack Johnson
K. M. Landis
Johnson
Canton Fire Destroys City Section in Night Blaze
A fire in Canton China last night wiped out a large city district. About a thousand houses burned along the wharves and near the river Chu-Kiang. The Post Office and fire brigade station in the district were destroyed as flames spread to Honan Island buildings.
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Canton
China
Chu-Kiang
Honan i. Wo
Woman Indicted for Rifling Mails in Tennessee Case
Nashville report details Mrs M M Parker of McMinnville indicted for robbing the mails. Capias issued but stayed due to health. Parker, daughter of local postmaster A H Faulkner, allegedly opened and discarded letters along the Tullahoma to Sparta branch line. Post office inspectors traced months of missing money and letters, with mental irresponsibility cited as a possible defense.
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Nashville
Tenn
M M Parker
McMinnville
A. H. Faulkner
Parker
Chattanooga
Tullahoma
Sparta
Many Stiletto Stars In Body Of A Woman
Gerrgetown Conn November 10 state policemen and Fairfield county officials continued search for clues to identify the young Italian woman found in a pond Friday. Pierced with nearly a dozen stilettos and wrapped in burlap, the body remained unidentified and the case a mystery. Authorities consider a theory linking the woman to Jennie Cavagneri's Stratford murder over alleged white slave traffic relations.
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Gerrgetown
Conn
Fairfield County
Jennie Cavagneri
Stratford
Lumber Jack Amuck in Trout Lake Attacks Five Men
Paul Felar, a lumberjack, ran amuck in a Trout Lake hotel tonight and fatally wounded five men with a long knife. Two victims were described as perhaps fatally injured. After a bystander mockery provoked him he pulled the knife and attacked all present until Deputy Sheriff Rainey rushed in and overpowered him.
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Sault Ste Marie
Mich
Paul Felar
Trout Lake
Felar
Rainey
Guard Kills Man Wounds Two in Barnwell County
Barnwell South Carolina November 10 Tom Arledge a county jailer killed Jessie Kinard and seriously wounded G W Steven son and Ad Kinard at Stevenson home two miles from Kline Arledge held on murder charge by coroners jury claims self defense.
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Barnwell
8. C
Tom Arledge
Chaingange
Jessie Kinard
G W. Stevenson
Ad Kinard
Stevenson
Kline
Arledge
Dr Bell Surprised At Report Of Death
Rumor spread that Rev William Bell pastor of North Atlanta Baptist church had died Sunday morning. He appeared at services as usual, quelling fear. He explained illness recent two weeks included acute indigestion and is recovering. Bell says he has lived in Atlanta since childhood and has many years left in service to his church.
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William II Bell
North Atlanta
Mr. Bell
Atlanta
Sherman
South
Death summons Dr. Plunkett in Birmingham
Rev. Dr. J. T. Plunkett, 64, pastor of South Highlands Presbyterian, died suddenly at his home after delivering a morning sermon. He had moved to Birmingham from Augusta, Georgia, and was a widely known minister in the state.
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Birmingham
Ala
J. T. Plunkett
South Highlands, Presbyterian Church
Plunkett
South Twentieth Street
Augusta
Grief Stricken Tailor Attempts Suicide in Atlanta
Ely Kasralowitz a middle aged tailor in a Whitehall street store attempted death by self harm when he slashed his throat with a razor at his boarding place 17 Warren Place He was taken to Grady hospital and physicians fear death as he remains unconscious He had received a distressing letter from Russia and kept a watchful eye by friends before the act Ike Cohen proprietor of the boarding house intervened preventing a second wound
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Ely Kasralowitz
Women’s Tailoring
Whitehall Street
Warren Place
Grady Hospital
Atlanta
Kagralonits
Russia
Ike Cohen
Wasralowitas
Kastalowitz
Trail of Blood in Wetumpka Town Race
In Wetumpka Alabama two men die and a third is fatally wounded after a posse pursuit of a Negro suspected in a driving incident that spurred a gunfight. Claude Kidd dies, John Christizberg is fatally wounded, Berney is killed after cabin burn. mob hunts the unknown accomplice.
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Wetumpka
Ala
Elmore County
Floyd
Claude Kidd
Berney
John Christizberg
Chrisitzberg
Kidd
Chsitzberg
150 000 Men Are Sacrificed to War
London reports November 10 with grim tallying of Balkan front actions. Turkish and Bulgarian positions shift as Serbians seize Dibra, with Albania’s fate debated amid amid diplomacy. Cholera sweeps troops near Tchatalla lines as refugees flood Constantinople and Austrian envoy Pallavicini seeks to ease the crisis.
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London
Tchatalja
Monastir
Dibra
Albania
Tehatala
Turkey
Iimmediate
Constantinople
Sofa Tnt
Servia
Austria
Vienna Reich
Europe
Balkan
Tchatalla
Sirkert
Weather Forecasting From Ailing Archive Report
The notice compiles a garbled forecast listing fair and warm conditions across multiple states. It notes fair weather for Washington coast and east regions, with warmer temperatures in the east and south, and mixed cloudy or rainy conditions in states including Texas New Mexico Alabama Mississippi Louisiana Arkansas and Kentucky with Tuesday clearing or cooler spells.
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Georgia
Virginia
North
South Carolina
Alabama
Mississippi
Arkansas
Ae Roe Fair
Tye Mentucky
Ana Piobar
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Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice
Ambassador Bryce
Southern Bell
Bell and Associated Interests
Mr. Beach
Prophet Habakuk
Jim Ham
Lewis
Asia
St. Sofa
Ottoman Empire
DR. Bell
DR. Plunkett
Ely Kastalowitz
Self
Marquis de Pallavicini
Porte
Ikdam
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