Legal battle over Leo Frank case resumes in Georgia
Lawyers clash over new trial motion as Dorsey defends state position and Rosser challenges juror influence. Hearing in the Leo Frank murder case draws minimal crowd at the Capitol with judges and reporters present.
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Woman Descends via Dumbwaiter in High Rise Drop
Mrs Ade laide Regan of 705 West 170th Street returned home to find her key missing. She climbed to the roof and used the dumbwaiter to reach her fifth floor apartment. The device sped down six stories at full speed, leaving her with a broken heel and hospital treatment.
Good-Looking Girls Bad Says Beauty
Milwaukee October 25. A sweet faced girl in District Court challenged views on modern women. Helen Boyle and her sister Kathleen Debrose were arrested on a vagrancy charge pursued by The Big Sisters. The judge altered his probation ruling after her remarks.
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Milwaukee
Gloversville School Bans Fraternities Over Tights Initiation
In Gloversville New York an 18 year old girl forced to walk the street in tights as part of a sorority initiation prompted her parents to complain. The Board of Education barred fraternities and societies from the high school. Fraternities are fighting to survive.
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Board of Education
Thousand Strike in Quarrel Over Button
Wilkes Barre reports 1000 miners at the Bliss mine in Nanticoke refused to descend for the engineer lacking a union button in the Lackawanna Company. The colliery idle, workers out, as strikers demand the engineer pay overdue union dues before returning.
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Bliss
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Nanticoke
Judge Lindsey rejects matinee idol role offer
Denver on October 25 Judge Lindsey said it would be fine to be a matinee idol yet he could imagine Denver enemies in the front row with overripe eggs. The remark came after Oliver Morosco offered him the lead in The Little Offender, a scene portraying a juvenile court session.
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Lindsey
Oliver Morosco
Los Angeles
Elmer Harris
Real Irish Shillalah Is Gift to President
Representative Ansberry of Ohio donated a genuine old blackthorn shillalah to President Wilson. He claimed the stick could whip recalcitrant legislators into line and noted it had been used in many brawls at Donnybrook Fair to bring contrition to hot-headed opponents.
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Washington
Wilson
Ansberry
Ohio
Donnybrook Fair
Pankhurst Captivates New York Audiences With Militant Past
A slight gray woman, Emmeline Pankhurst, wins warm crowds in New York with soft speech and civil charm. She recounts her English militancy while praising American kindness after detention on Ellis Island. Lectures here yield record earnings to fund her suffrage cause.
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Emmeline Pankhurst
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America
George
Asquith
House of Commons
United States
Mrs. Pankhurst
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Ellis Island
Weeping Girl Dies After Sister's Wedding
Chicago report says Anna Cwiak ten years old died from grief over sister Elizabeth’s marriage to John Wriblaski. A wedding dance at a hall near North May and Front streets ended abruptly when organizers learned of Anna’s death. Anna sobbed as the bride walked to the altar, then died after being taken home.
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Anna Cwiak
Holt Avenue
Elizabeth
John Wriblaski
Anna
North May
Front Streets
Mrs. Wriblaski
Hot Iron Brand for Unfit Men
PITTSBURGH Oct 45 Drastic social purity views from Lady Cook formerly Tennessee Claflin of London urge branding unfit men with a hot iron to prevent marriage and mark them as shunned. She compares the idea to the Cain brand and argues many should bear the stigma.
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Pittsburg
Lady Cook
Tennessee Claflin
London
Convict Calls Reuff San Quentin's Angel
James Wilson, a 25 year robbery convict at San Quentin, says Abe Reuf is the Angel of Mercy among the inmates. He reports Reuf commands respect, looks after convicts, and aids them in finding good work upon release.
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San Quentin
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Reuf
Confessed Thief Wears Judge's Coat
STONINGTON CONN Oct 25 Welter Arnold and Joseph Bushrow of Mystic confessed to holding up and robbing Carl A Koelb paymaster of American Vel vet Company of 16000 dollars. They were held without bail by Judge Breed who identified the coat Rushrow wore as stolen from him.
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Stonington, Conn
City to make vagrants raise food for needy
Marquette Mich Oct 25 The municipal truck garden program announced by the Commissioner of the Poor will have twenty acres farmed by vagrants Prisoners meals will feed the poor of the city What the prisoners do not eat will be donated to the poor Two boys figures appear in the report including the murder of a mother by her son in McPherson Kans where a shotgun accident caused a fatality
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Marquette, Mich
Poor Powers
M'Pherson
Kans
Brow
George Post
Strikes Old as 5600 Years Says Sociologist
Cincinnati Oct 25 Professor William Hammond Parker of the University of Cincinnati holds that strikes boycotts and lockouts are not modern but dated back to beyond 3000 B C according to late discoveries Ruth Higgins, 13, travels to Japan to visit Aunt Edith Parker in a missionary family. she is expected to reach in twenty days Columbia Missouri Oct 25
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William Hammond Parker
University of Cincinnati
Japan
Columbia
Ruth Higginbotham
Edith Parker
Queen Mary Expects Another Royal Heir
The Sunday American reports intimate circles expect a royal addition to King George and Queen Mary in late February. Royal doctors have noted frequent visits, explaining the Queen's background presence at recent functions and the monarchy's heightened rejoicing at a possible new heir.
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London
Qet
George
Mary
Connaught-Fife
Salvation Army To Give Girl Baby Away
Jacksonville October 25 Salvation Army to place Mary Hillman Hall age 1 who is without mother or home with a woman willing to adopt Sunday night. The child, bright and loving, has been the Army’s pet since arrival and staff hope to find a steady mother if a permanent home isn’t possible with temporary care.
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Mary Hillman Hall
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Chicago Mayor Declares Indian Ancestry Amid Powwow
Chicago Oct 25 Mayor Harrison announced he is of Indian descent tracing American blood through Pocahontas. The surprise reveal followed a powwow with two braves Bird In the Sky and Star in the Sky, greeted by Governor George Ludieston who escorted the visitors to his office.
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Harrison
Pocahontas
George Ludieston
Parson Robs Newsie To Get Clean Collars
Seattle report details N B Wolfendale an English Congregational preacher arrested for gathering pennies from a news stand to raise cash for laundry and office rent to enter real estate. He argued poverty justified theft.
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Newsie
Seattle
Wolfendale
Eye Rent Is Asked by Attorney in Minnesota
In Minneapolis a jury weighs a suit by Francis Hart an attorney who claims $3240 as fees for aiding blind attorney Thomas D. Schall in his cases Hart says he did the seeing in court for Schall The case highlights the attempted valuation of an attorney's services and the question of work performed by Hart as Schall's adviser and observer.
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Francis
Hart
Thomas D. Schall
Atorney
Schall
Schal
Genevieve Clark Bans Turkey Trot and Modern Dances
Washington dispatch reports Miss Genevieve Clark daughter of the Speaker and Mrs Clark has declared against the turkey trot tango and other ultra modern dances. She will not dance them preferring the waltz two step and the pretty round dances of our grandmothers.
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Washington
Genevieve Clark
Huerta Poised for Mexico Presidency Amid Turmoil
Mexico faces election day with Huerta in control of military police and machinery. Analysts warn a no vote majority keeps him as dictator, while Washington weighs drastic action if Huerta wins. International tension grows as Britain Germany Japan and France show interest. Nuns flee across the border as violence and looting threaten distressed towns.
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The Situation in Mexico Today Heads Toward Huerta Victory
The nation teeters on the eve of a presidential election as Huerta wields control over election machinery and faces a near prisoner like opponent Felix Diaz. Britain France and Germany deploy battleships to the Mexican coast amid tense US Britain relations. Merely arrest of Daniel and Ewvaristo Madero signals intensified revolutionary pressure.
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Germany
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Ewvaristo Madero
Monterey
Henry L. Wilson Attacks Bryan as Diplomatic Failure
Spokane reports Henry Lane Wilson released his August letter resigning as American Ambassador to Mexico. He criticizes Secretary of State Bryan for foreign policy, calls his apology to Britain for a Huerta remark unjust, and accuses Bryan of haste, partisan zeal, and jeopardizing diplomatic efforts.
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Huerta
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Foreign Office
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