Governor Brown Weighs Last Chance for Clay Death Row Appeal
Officials hunt for husband killer to break silence as execution day nears. L. Clay, who shot his wife on May 12, awaits final appeal, with guards watching in the Tower and plans for transfer to murderers row. The doomed man shows no definite breakdown, yet time grows short.
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Eri L. Clay
Cay
Vay
Fu Dong
Clay
Alice
Tie
Brown
Ted
Revive Move 10 Abolish Smoke CNRD Ignation of McMichael
A local session discusses Revive Move 10 aimed at abolishing smoke restrictions and related civic reforms. McMichael is noted in the designation, with emphasis on procedural steps and community impact.
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CNRD
Montclair Library to Sterilize Books for Germ Control
A Montclair report describes a plan to use a sterilizing device between book covers to destroy bacteria. All books on shelves will undergo repeated heat treatment at high temperatures to end germs and ensure a cleaner library environment.
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Montclair
Poisoned candy case linked to Oska
In Copera Kansas Frank McKana of Oskaloosa is jailed on a Federal charge for mailing poisoned candy. Ida Coons, divorced wife of lumber dealer Coons, received a box by mail weeks earlier. The box's appearance prompted police to pursue the case. Federal authorities connected the alleged poison delivery to McKana.
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Copera
Kan
Frank McKana
Oskaloosa
Ving
Ida Coons
Coons
Oska
Bribery Claim Splits Smoke Board and Resigns Inspector
Inspector McMichael alleges agents offered 7800 to back patent smoke cures, prompting his resignation after a tense clash with Commissioner Renfroe. The council moves to abolish the smoke commission, with Smith promising a Monday vote to end the nuisance as cases edge toward enforcement against Candler building Durard’s and the Kimball house.
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Smoke and Gas Commission
McMichael
Charles W. Smith
J. N. Renfroe
Renfroe
McMillan
Candler
Durard’s
Edgewood Avenue
Kimball House
James McMillan
Mr. McMillan
Commissioner Renfroe
Parted by a quarrel, wed fifty years later in Joplin
In Joplin Missouri on December 11 a 72 year old man Isom White and 69 year old widow Lydia Ann Jenkins renewed their courtship after fifty years apart. Both had married again and raised large families during the separation. White's wife died ten years ago and Jenkins was a widow when they resumed their acquaintance and married.
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Joplin
Dev
Isom White
Lydia Ann Jenkins
White
Smothered to Death at Swift Mills in Columbus Georgia
Ben Hammonds a 16 year old African American boy was smothered at Swift mills in Columbus Georgia when he freed a bale of cotton from ties to run it through a hopper to the dyeing department.
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Columbus
Ben Hammonds
Swift Mills
Yale Eyes Taft as Law Professor After Presidency
New Haven Conn December 11 Negotiations between President Taft and Yale Law School may lead to Taft becoming the Kent professor of law after leaving the White House. Yale President Hadley denied Taft had accepted but confirmed an informal conference occurred with no formal action.
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New Haven
Conn
Taft
Yale Law School
Kent
White House
Hadley
Yale
Rail Unions Battle Federal Employers' Liability Act
Southeast railway unions vow ceaseless war against the Louisville and Nashville railroad and the proposed federal employers liability act in Congress. A. B. Lowe of St. Louis, president of the International Brotherhood of Maintenance-of-Way Employees, leads the stance.
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Employers’ Liability Act
Southeast
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Congress
A. B. Lowe
St. Louis
International Brotherhood of Maintenance-of- Way
Mountaineers arrested for threaten president elect Wilson
Three mountain men, Jacob Dunn, Warren Dunn, and Seeley Davenport, were jailed in Newark charged with sending letters threatening President elect Wilson unless paid 5000. Captured after a three week manhunt in New Jersey, they allegedly planned to mail the money by November 24. They deny the charges amid union activity notes.
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Newark
N. J
Woodrow Wilson
United States
Stockton
Jacob Dunn
Warren
Pete
Seeley Davenport
Snake
New Jersey
Secret Service
Lrabee
Butler
Beekman
Wilson
Trenton
P. J. Shadunk
Wharton
Cortelyou
Philadelphia
Teddy
Little Czarevitch Near Death Heir Designate Named
Paris dispatch reports Grand Duke Alexis eight year old heir to the Russian throne near death. A St. Petersburg telegram says Grand Duke Pavlitch, cousin of Czar Nicholas, would likely be named heir designate soon. If Alexis dies, succession would pass outside the immediate family.
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Paris
Alexis
St. Petersburg
Pavlitch
Nicholas
Czarewitch
Macon ministers to press city on vice commission
Macon Georgia ministers plan to urge the city council to appoint a vice commission next week. If denied they will launch an anti vice crusade under the Men and Religion Forward Movement to abolish the wide open district and improve prohibition conditions. All Protestant clergymen unite on this proposal.
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Macon
Men and Religion Forward Movement
12000 Children in Macon Parade Christmas Eve
In Macon Georgia on December 11 plans were completed for a parade of public and Sunday school children on Christmas Eve night. It is expected that about 12000 children will line up and march to the city auditorium while singing carols. Church bells and chimes will ring as the children assemble and proceed through the streets.
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Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Harvey O. Teat
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers
Southeast
Milton A. Smith
Georgia
Smith
Paschal
Atlantic Coast Line
Louisville
Nashville
Macon
Six scrub women believed burned in Cincinnati fire
Firemen and police searched the Union Trust building for six scrubwomen feared dead after flames gutted the upper floors of the sixteen story Union Trust building in Cincinnati Ohio. The blaze began in the Gibson house rear and spread through Foucar's cafe adjoining the Renbigs Lothman building Missouri Pacific and W L Douglas Shoe Company structures.
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Cincinnati
Union Brust
Gibson
Foucar’s Cafe
Renbigs- Lothman
Missouri Pacific
W. L. Douglas Shoe Company
Union Trust
Leading Odd Fellows of State to Speak in Macon
Judge R T Daniel of Griffin deputy grand sire and Grand Master W G Coleman of Atlanta will address a public meeting in Macon tomorrow night in the city auditorium. The Macon Bar Association the mayor and council and other public bodies were invited to attend.
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Macon
R. T. Daniel
Griffin
The
Odd Fellows of the World
W. G. Coleman
Atlanta
Macon Bar Association
Auto Fire Engine For Macon Increases City Fleet
Macon Georgia records that an eight thousand five hundred dollar auto mobile fire engine arrives next week and will join the department. The new machine will be installed at the South Macon station on Christmas Day, expanding Macon’s auto apparatus fleet.
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Macon
South Macon
Bryan 3 Plot To Knife Wilson Bared By Frank P Glass
Frank P Glass, editor of The Birmingham News, reveals that William J Bryan schemed to knife Governor Wilson and Champ Clark to push his own nomination. He traces Bryan’s moves at Baltimore, Wilson’s rise, and predicts Bryan won’t be given a cabinet post unless harmony requires it.
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Bryan
Wilson
Frank P. Glass
Woodrow Wilson
Princeton University
Birmingham News
Montgomery Advertiser
Alabama
William J. Bryan
New Jersey
Champ Clark
Mr. Glass
Baltimore
New York
Gaynor
Nebraska
Glass
Oscar Underwood
Cabinet Place
Mr. Bryan
Clark
Underwood
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James O'Connell
Czarevitch
Ohio
ODD Fellows OF State
Jersey
Moner
Glass Long
Princeton
Great Astern University
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