President Wilson may testify on lobbying charges at Senate
Indignation at the White House grows as Senator Townsend accuses the administration of lobbying for the Underwood tariff. The President contemplates testifying as a private citizen, with Tumulty saying a formal reply is unnecessary but a decision will hinge on counsel and advisers. The White House denies using patronage to sway votes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Townsend
Michigan
Wilson
Senatorial Investigation Committee
White House
United States
Overman
Reed
Walsh
Cummins
Nelson
Cherokee Life Sells Industrial Business
Rome Ga June 7 Cherokee Life Insurance Company sold its industrial business to American National Life of Galveston Texas and will in future devote itself exclusively to selling old line insurance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Cherokee Life Insurance Company
American National Life of
Galveston
Tex
Man Slashes Coat Aboard Street Car In Williamsburg
New York June 7 Edward F Jones 32 of 152 Eckford Street was arraigned for disorderly conduct after a crowd attacked him aboard a crosstown street car. Miss Celia Elting 19 of 182 Ninth Street Long Island City accused him of slashing her coat, half torn with a knife or scissors. Conductor and police intervened and Jones faced bail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Edward F. Jones
Eckford Street
Dodd
Manhattan Avenue Court
Williamsburg
Jones
Celia Elting
Ninth Street
Long Island City
Miss Elting
James Catterson
Manhattan
Norman Avenues
Frank Kline
Greenpoint Avenue
Kline
Woman's Dress to Drive World Insane
Dr wa ruble warns that fashions drive insanity and that without changes the world may have more insane than sane people in a century. He cites alcohol and social ills as major causes, notes universal mental lapses, and urges reducing worry as a remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
W. A. Ruble
College of Medical Evangelists
Loma Linda
Cal.) Sanitarium
$50 for 6 Kisses Is Price Fixed by Court
A man, Ian J. Hayes, was arrested in Los Angeles after six women accused him of seizing hugging and kissing them in public. He pleaded guilty in police court and received a $50 fine or fifty days in jail.
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Los Angeles
Ian J. Hayes
Hayes
Mercantile Place
Spring Street
Sixth
Main Streets
Fined for Nodding at Girl While Asleep
CHICAGO June 7 Judge Gemill fined Ernest Plath for annoying a young woman on a street car. Miss Ethel Wood testified Plath nodded and tipped his hat while asleep. Plath claimed he was asleep and surprised by the arrest. The court ordered a $10 fine and told him to keep awake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Gemill
Ernest Plath
Ethel Wood
Plath
Plat
Locker clubs on Georgia Court of Appeals review
Locker clubs across Georgia await the State Court of Appeals ruling on the Hill City Club case. Rome Superior Court Judge Moses Wright halted the club for alleged liquor evasion of the prohibition law via a locker service check system. The appeal hinges on whether such clubs may pay staff with service checks tied to liquor dispensed from members lockers.
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Georgia
State Court of Appeals
Moses Wright
Rome
Rome Law and Order League
Hill City Club
Superior Court
Court of Appeals
Court of Review
Hill City
League
Elks
Law and Order League
C. L. Wilkerson
Wright
Wrights
Pope Blesses W J Burns At Audience In Rome
In Rome on June 7 W J Burns head of the American Detective Agency and his wife met Pope Pius X. Burns praised the Pope's fine face and strong health noting no sign of recent illness. The Pope blessed the Burns party and offered a special blessing after praising Burns for a life spent aiding justice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
W. J. Burns
Burns
Prince in Love Match to Wed Marie Louise Freese of Los Angeles
Prince Stanislaus Sulkowski of Austria-Hungary announces engagement to Marie Louise Freese of Los Angeles, daughter of August Freese, a large landholder with holdings in Sonora and Sinaloa. The couple, described as a flower of spring, face a union framed as a true love match with a Danube castle as a possible pledge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marie Louise Freese
Los Angeles
Prince Stanislaus Sulkowski
Austria
Danube
Stanislaus Sulkowski
Austria-Hungary
Freese
August Freese
Mexico
Bremen
Sonora
Sinaloa
Registering Cats Is Late Newport Fad
Newport headline notes Miss Edna Frame and aides promoting subscriptions to a fund for a hygienic drinking fountain for horses on Ocean Drive near Theodore M. Davis home. The latest scheme is to register
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Newport
R. I
Edna Frame
Hortense A. Boynton
Newport Humane Research Association
Elizabeth Mackaye
Ocean Drive
Theodore M. Davis
Pencil Stub Left in Office Is Returned
In Washington a medal and note await A L Wechsler of Watertown New York. The lead pencil stub he mailed to Assistant Secretary Roosevelt confirms he is the most honest man in the world as Diogenes sought. The note says he enclosed the pencil left on a stand when a telegram was written and Roosevelt had sent the telegram from Watertown ten days earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
A. L. Wechsler
Watertown
N.Y
Diogenes
Husband Seeks Divorce to Permit Wife to Wed Another
In Sandusky Ohio on June 7 a petition filed by Charles B Miller demands a divorce from Blanche Miller to allow her to marry Fred Jacobs of Tiffin. The couple wed Christmas Day 1897 at Tiffin and have a daughter Irene Idelia aged fourteen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandusky
Ohio
Fred Jacobs
Tiffin
Charles 8. Miller
Blanche Miller
Miller
Atlanta pastors urge package of law again
Prominent Atlanta clergy urge Georgia lawmakers to require certificates of physical mental and moral fitness for marriage applicants. Interviews reveal support for a law to empower ministers to refuse marriages for the unfit and to prevent unfit unions from harming future generations.
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Atlanta
Plan To Go in Canoe From Seattle to Nome Alaska
Arthur D. Simpson and Forrest Clark of San Diego left Seattle in an 18 foot canvas canoe aiming for Nome Alaska. They plan to stay on water except for the Yukon head where White Pass Railroad will be used. They face perilous open passages and rapids, hope to reach Skagway and descend the Yukon, with Norton Sound’s crossing to Nome as the most venturesome part.
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Seattle
Arthur D. Simpson
Forrest Clark
San Diego
Seattle Harbor
Nome
Alaska
Ska
Yukon
White Horse
White Pass
Skagway
Norton Sound
Bathrobe Guards September Morn Display in Chicago
Chicago June 7 A small white bathrobe guards Miss September Morn from police action as Jackson Semmelmeyer art dealers face scrutiny over the painting. The exhibit notes read September Morn Under the New Pure Nude Law and a Bathrobe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Jackson & Semmelmeyer
Chicago Autos Bill 44 in Five Months
CHICAGO June 7 Coroner Hoff man plans a bill to curb motorists from killing pedestrians The Coroner s records show 44 persons were killed by autos in Chicago in the first five months of 1918 up from 20 in the same period last year Last month 13 deaths were due to automobile accidents including pedestrians and drivers
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Chicago
Hoffman
Railroad head refuses guard for Gettysburg veterans
President Baer of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway declined Secretary Garrison’s request to add facilities for veterans gathering at the Gettysburg celebration from July 1 to 4. The line into the camp is a single track. The War Department warns it bears no blame if a tragedy occurs.
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Washington
Baer
Philadelphia
Gettysburg
War Department
The Unfit and Marriage in Clerical View in 1900s
In a sermon, Dr W W Memminger questions who counts as unfit to marry. He argues the unfit should not wed but refuses to label individuals. He notes evolving views on hereditary illness and cautions against definitive judgments by clergy.
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A. R. Holderby
Moore Memorial Presbyterian Church
Georgia
Sociological Society of Georgia
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Senate
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Cherokee Life
Pope
Prince
U.S
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Miss Freese
Sulkowski
Barbara Norman
Bradford Norman
Man
Bathrobe Shields
Chicago Autos
W. W. Memminger
All Saints Episcopal Church
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