Senate panel approves amended Underwood tariff plan draft
The Senate Finance Committee forwarded the amended Underwood tariff bill to a Democratic caucus. The measure adds duties on bananas and beverages but preserves wheat and flour on the free list with a countervailing duty. It aims to raise revenue and shifts some rates, while debates continue over currency legislation and federal banking control.
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Senate Finance Committee
Sens
New Zealand
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Congress
Nelson
Bristow
Vreeland
Weeks
Train wreck injures eleven near Lakeon Kentucky
A mobile and ohio passenger train derailed on a broken rail near Lakeon, Kentucky, sending a Pullman sleeper tumbling. Eleven people were seriously hurt and several others bruised, with victims taken to Calru for treatment.
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Lakeon
Mobile & Oh
Calru
Ice Strike Spreads to Newport and Covington
Cincinnati on June 21 reports the strike by ice company drivers and helpers and ice plant engineers and firemen spreading to Newport and Covington as workers walk out in sympathy and join the national labor action.
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Cincinnati
Newport
Covington
Navy reports first air combat death at Chesapeake Bay
Annapolis Md June 21 The navy confirms Ernkm Billingsley died after being hurled from a disabled biplane 1600 feet above Chesapeake Bay his body fell straight into the water marking the service's first fatal air accident this year.
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Chesapeake Bay
Annapolis
Navy
Billingsley
Militants Guilty in Malicious Damage Conspiracy Case
Six leaders of the militant suffragette movement and one male supporter were found guilty at the Central Criminal Court of conspiracy to commit malicious damage. Sentences ranged from six to twenty one months with one member, Miss Kenney, receiving eighteen months.
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London
Militant Suffragettes
Central Criminal Court
Harriet Kerr
Agnes Lake
Rachel Barrett
Mrs. Saunders
Annie Kenney
Laura Lennox
E. Clayton
Miss Kerr
Miss Lake
Miss Barrett
Miss Lennox
Yale Commencement Grants Nearly 800 Degrees
Yale University conferred nearly 800 degrees at its commencement on Wednesday. Honorary Doctor of Divinity went to Arthur Judson Brown Boyd Vincent Joseph Ho King Twitchell. Doctor of Letters to Alfred Noyes. Doctor of Law to Samuel Oscar Pren tice John Grier Hibben and David Franklin Houston.
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New Haven
Conn
Yale University
Arthur Judson Brown
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions
Boyd Vincent
Protestant Episcopal Church
Joseph Ho
King Twitchell
Yale Corporation
Alfred Noyes
Samuel Oscar Prentice
Conecticut
John Grier Hibben
Princeton University
Meat law expansion targets misbranded interstate meat
Washington reports a major broadening of the pure food and drugs act. Secretaries Houston McAdoo and Redfield stated that meat and meat products in interstate or foreign commerce, previously exempt, may be seized if misbranded or adulterated. The note marks a significant enforcement extension for meat safety.
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Washington
Houston
McAdoo
Redfield
Forest Fires Threaten Northeast Michigan Property
Detroit reports forest fires smoldering for days in northeastern counties now showing signs of breakout and serious property damage threatened as flames spread across the region.
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Michigan Foreste
Detroit
Mich
Hello Girls Strike Reaches St Louis Meeting
June 20 report describes long distance Bell telephone workers from Chicago and Tanras City arriving in St Louis to lobby Aldermen. A welcoming delegation met them at the train station with bellboy and union leaders guiding the effort.
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Ald
St. Louis
Chicago
Tanras City
Ufllelala
Sugar lobby letters widen probe into Lovett and Oxnard
Senate panel moves to compel Robert S. Lovett of New York to explain statements amid claims of a sugar tariff lobby. Private letters from beet sugar interests, pursued by Oxnard and Palmer, allegedly show efforts to defeat tariff reform and influence Taft era policy.
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Washington
Robert S. Lovett
New York
Union Pacific
Union Pacific-Southern
Norris
Senate
Harvey W. Wiley
Taft
California
Idaho
Utah
Colorado
Henry T. Oxnard
Truman G. Palmer
John W. Yerkes
Congress
Overman
Oxnard
Palmer
City Ownership Bill Passes House in Springfield
Springfield Illinois reports the house approved Governor Dunnes municipal ownership bill after two minor amendments likely to be adopted by the senate. If passed by the gen ate, it goes to the governor for signature. Also noted is Missouri heat with 103 degree records and crop damage from lack of rain.
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Springfield
Ill
House
Dunne
Senate
Missouri
Montgomery
Pelkey Trial Opens in Calgary Over McCarty Death
Arthur Pelkey, the prize fighter who fought Luther McCarty in Calgary, began his trial Thursday over the death of McCarty following their May 24 bout.
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Arthur Pelkey
Calgary
Alberta
Luther McCarty
Masked robbers derail Illinois Central express near Glenarm
Two gunmen halted the Diamond Special near Glenarm Illinois three miles north of Springfield at 12:30 a.m. They detached the engine and car, then dynamited the big safe as passengers and crew watched. A pursuing officer was confronted by a bandit who seized his weapon and threatened him.
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Springfield
Ill
Glenarm
Chicago
A. J. Snell
Tom Miller
Clinton
A. 8. Pugh
E. J. Hoepner
Maurice O'Leary
Four Dead in San Francisco Napa & Calistoga Wreck Near Vallejo
Two interurban trains on the San Francisco Napa and Calistoga line collided one mile north of Vallejo on Thursday. Fourteen killed and twenty injured as wreckage trapped passengers beneath splintered wood and twisted steel. Investigators seek misread signals and blame.
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Vallejo
Cal
San Francisco
Napa & Calistoga
Here
H. G. Hunt
George L. Holzworth
San Francis
E. Jonewski
Chris Koch
Miss Gail
J. F. Grabel
E. C. Judd
P. Herbert
Napa
O. McQuaide
San Diego
H. Dayton
William Laurez
B E. Catton
James Hough
C. Richards
Mianticello
One Mile House
Unter den Linden chairs in Berlin charge five pfennigs
The legend Unter den Linden in Berlin marks the backs of garden chairs where a small faced woman collects five pfennigs to allow sitting for the day. If you pay you may stay. if you refuse she scowls and you must leave.
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Berlin
Benutzung
Unter den Linden
The Kaiser Leads Berlin Street Pageant in German Capital
In Berlin the street scene becomes a grand pageant as hundreds of actors and nurses enact daily life while policemen stage manage. A hush falls as the Kaiser appears, horsemen ride along the broad street and crowds chant his name, prompting onlookers to doff hats in solemn tribute.
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Europe
Berlin
Kaiser
Floods drown hundreds at Palatana in Kathiawar
Advices from the stricken district report about 300 drowned including pilgrims around Palatana in Kathiawar peninsula. Separately in Ohio a severe electrical storm killed one, burned many buildings, including two churches and a library, with extensive livestock losses. In Copenhagen King Christian summoned ex Premier Zahle to form a new cabinet after the last ministry resigned June 12. In Des Moines a fire destroyed the 68 Lagerquist Carriage plant with twelve autos burned and a $50,000 loss. In Mason City John Knowles, son of Philadelphia’s assistant postmaster, was arrested for stealing over $1,000 and will be sent to Philadelphia after a Fort Dodge hearing.
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Bombay
Palatana
Kathiawar
Sandusky
Ohio
Copenhagen
Christian
Zahle
Des Moines
Lagerquist Carriage Company
Mason City
John Knowles
George W. Knowles
Philadelphia
Fort Dodge
Suffragist Injured at Ascot During Gold Cup Finish
A male suffragist is fatally injured at Ascot Heath during the gold cup race as he charged the track to disrupt the contest. The revolver in his pocket fires on impact, the bullet lodging in his head. The man is identified as Hewitt, a Trinity College Cambridge student, as the crowd sits in stunned silence. Also, Willie Ritchie cuts ties with manager Billy Nolan over unspecified financial issues.
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Ascot Heath
England
King George
Queen Mary
August Belmont
Tracery
Hewitt
Trinity College, Cambridge
Whalley
Willie Ritchie
Ouste Nolan
San Francisco
Billy Nolan
Taft to Deliver Gettysburg Oration July 4
Taft will deliver the oration at Gettysburg on Independence Day following news that Wilson will not attend the July celebration. In Kalamazoo Michigan an Lake Shore train crash killed one engineer and injured twelve others, a work train collision near the city.
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Taft
Gettysburg
Wilson
Kalamazoo
Mich
Enngineer Huenegult
Lake Shore
Here
French bankers warned against loans to Serbia or Bulgaria
Paris June 21 The French foreign office signaled strong disapproval of any loan by leading French banks to Serbia or Bulgaria until the war ends. Hyde wins big victory New York June 21 Charles H. Hyde, former law partner of Mayor Gaynor, had his bribery conviction overturned by the appellate division of the supreme court.
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Paris
Serbia
Bungaria
Hyde
New York
Charles H. Hyde
Gaynor
Order of the Appellate Division
The
Supreme Court
Berlin Relatives Keep Graves Ten Years Less In Wilmersdorf
Berlin statistics show urban burial demand rising as tenancy for graves drops from thirty to twenty years in Wilmersdorf for adults and to twelve years for children. Officials warn Berlin’s municipal cemetery will exhaust land within twelve years without changes such as cremation. A separate item notes J Stewart of Montpelier Indiana who worked eighteen years as a cigar clerk without pay, accepting only 15 cents after to buy meals.
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Berlin
Wilmersdorf
Montpelier
Ind
J. Stewart
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