Notable events mark year in world history 1912
A 1912 retrospective highlights Balkan War’s upheaval ending Ottoman rule in southeastern Europe, the Titanic disaster with 1519 dead, record air fatalities including Miss Quimby, Wilbur Wright’s death, and major political shifts in China and the US. It notes Sun Yat sen as president, Wilson’s election, Roosevelt’s Progressive party, Carrel’s Nobel, and key Supreme Court rulings on the Union Pacific merger and coal trust.
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New York
Balkan States
Europe
Balkan
Thrace
Dardenelles
Servia
Bulgaria
America
Miss Quimby
Wilbur_ Wright
Dayton
China
Dr. Sun
Harvard
Republican Party
Democratic Party
Woodrow Wilson
Progressive Party
Robley D. Evans
Whitelaw Reid
Herman Rosenthal
Charles A. Becker
Theodore Roosevelt
Milwaukee
John Shrank
Democratic House
Farmers’ Free
Taft
Canada
United States Supreme Court
Union Pacific
Great Railroad
E. H. Harriman
Supreme Court
Anthracite Coal Trust
Death of German Foreign Secretary Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter
Stuttgart, Dec 31 Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, secretary of state for foreign affairs of the German empire, died at his sister’s home after a brief illness. He was 60 and had held the post since June 28 1910 succeeding Wilhelm von Schoen.
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Stuttgart
Germany
Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter
German Empire
von Kiderlen-Waechter
Baroness von Gemmingen
Alfred von Eiderlen-Waechter
Wilhelm von Schoen
France
Store Closes at Noon on New Years Day
Rainbolt, Miss Mary Humston returns home after visiting Chicago. Louis Dobson and Miss Elizabeth Craig borns from Bedford were guests of Miss Mabel Johnson. Bloomington World reports.
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Rainbolt
Louis Dobson
Elizabeth Craig
Bedford
Mabel Johnson
Bloomington
Bricks by Parcels Post in Gary Indiana Sample Delivery
William H. Fyffe Parry a Gary brick dealer sent 1000 heavy paving bricks weighing 6000 pounds to the Gary post office as samples. The bricks wrapped stamped and ready for parcel post delivery on January 1 marking a unusual dispatch.
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Gary
Ind
William H. Fyffe Parry
Parry
Theft of $10000 in furs from La Crosse Fur and Hide
A theft report states more than $10,000 worth of furs were stolen from the La Crosse Fur and Hide company store. There is no evidence of a gang or crew involved.
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la Crosse Fur and Hide Company
Howled With Terror At Crouching Pomeroy Escape Foiled
Boston reports Jesse Pomeroy life prisoner in Charleston prison thwarted after he cut bars with improvised tools and attempted a lights-out escape. A prison cat’s howl alerted Officer Brassil, ending a series of daring but failed jailbreak efforts by the 37 year inmate who killed multiple children in his youth.
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Boston
Liberty
Jesse Pomeroy
Charleston
Brassil
Pomeroy
Massachusetts
Narrow Escape As Broadway Sewer Floods Station
Two hundred laborers nearly drowned as a sewer break flooded the Broadway and Lexington avenue subway shaft at Canal street. Workers fled toward the ends of the 500 foot long tunnel as water rose to 12 feet, weakening planks and threatening the surface street.
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New York
Broadway
New Broadway
Lexington Avenue
Canal Street
Death of Adolph Gotch Follows Bathtub Fall
Adolph Gotch twenty seven brother of Frank Gotch the champion wrestler died in a Dauphine street rooming house New York after groans from a bathroom. Occupants broke in to find him dying on the floor and he died before doctors could arrive Coroner O Hara ruled death from a broken neck caused by falling from the bathtub.
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New York
Adolph Gotch
Frank Gotch
Dauphine Street
Gotch
O’hara
Parcel Post Ready At Local Office For Wednesday Start
Post office prepares to launch parcel post service on Wednesday. Bedford in unit 1971 centers a 50 mile mean radius zone calculating from central post office point. Sender name and address must appear on every parcel with From line. Parcels four ounces or less: one cent per ounce. over four ounces: zone rate per published table. Special delivery available with fees. Fourth class cannot be registered but insured up to fifty dollars with ten cent registry fee. Receipts sent by mail. six month limit on loss claims.
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Bedford
John Doe
Ind
Office of Delivery
Able 10 Be Brought Home
Mrs. S. A. McClung of Williams after an operation at a Louisville hospital is able to return home. Mr. McClung visited the city Tuesday en route to Louisville to accompany her home. The couple plans the trip home on Wednesday.
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S. A. McClung
Williams
Louisville
McClung
Feud Battle Kills Arkell Rose in Wolfe County
Louisville report says on Bloody Creek in Wolfe County Arkell Rose was killed while G B Rose and Grove Campbell were fatally wounded in a feud battle. Authorities investigated the shooting and the feud’s casualties.
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Louisville
Bloody Creek
Wolfe County
Arkell Rose
G. B. Rose
Grove Campbell
Misses Graff Lambrecht Visit Seymour for New Year
Miss Minnie Graff, Miss Ruth Lam brecht and Mr. Charles Lambrecht went to Seymour today to spend New Years with Mr and Mrs Ed Otting.
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Minnie Graff
Ruth Lambrecht
Charles Lambrecht
Seymour
Ed Otting
Turks and Bulgarians in London Peace Talks Falter
After a brief session at St James Palace, Balkan and Turkish plenipotentiaries adjourned with no progress. Osman Nizami Pasha signaled Turkish willingness to concede Macedonia demands but kept Adrianople policy undecided. Bulgarian Daneff warned Adrianople remains E.U. red line while Turks decipher new ciphered instructions. Servian delegates threaten withdrawal if delaying tactics persist.
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London
St. James Palace
Osman Nizami Pasha
Turkey
Macedonia
Adrianople
Daneff
Rechad Pasha
M. Novakovitch
January fall of storms forecast with wind and cold
The period ahead features multiple storm phases from January 3 to 28 with cloudy unsettled skies and falling barometers bringing rain sleet and snow. Heavy snow and cold waves follow a sequence of reactionary and regular storm periods, ending with a rapid temperature rise around January 26.
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Hicks
Centralia Visitors Include Frances Litton and Bunch
Mrs. Anderson Fike of Centralia remembered here as Mrs. Frances Litton visits her mother Mrs. M. C. Clark at 1628 P street with her son Donald R. Litton. They plan to stay until about January 6 then return to Centralia. Miss Thelma Lee of Rivervale visits Miss Hazel Lee on South G street.
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Anderson Fike
Centralia
Frances Litton
M. C. Clark
P. Street
Donald R. Litton
Thelma Lee
Rivervale
Hazel Lee
South G Street
This City
Route to Fort Leavenworth Kept Secret for Prisoners
Thirty eight labor union officials convicted in the dynamite conspiracy receive sentences ranging from seven years to suspended terms. Iron Workers International union head Frank M. Ryan gets seven years. Olaf Tveitmoe and Eugene A. Clancy receive six years each. Court scenes show families appealing for mercy as sentences are read.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Leavenworth
Kay
Frank M. Ryan
Iron Workers’ International Union
Ryan
Olaf Tveitmoe
San Francisco
Los Angeles Times
Eugene A. Clancy
Herbert S. Hoekin
Eigh
Edward Clark
Cincinnati
Hockin
Apepare
Ortie E. McManigal
J. E. McClory
International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
Anderson
Miller
Union
Head-on Collision Injures Seven Near Alton Illinois
A three-vehicle crash near Alton Illinois on December 31 left seven injured, four seriously. Wrecks involved E M Clark of Wood River and residents from Granite City including John Coleman Morris Mechan John McInerney Justice T Jesse Ryan and Charles Warner plus Amelia Roach of East Alton with several listed as seriously injured or expected to die.
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Alton
E. M. Clark
Woor River
Ill
John Coleman
Granite City
Morris Mechan
John McInerney
Amelia Roach
East Alton
Charles. Warner
Virgil Van Arsdale Returns from Kentucky Visit
Virgil Van Arsdale has returned home after visiting relatives in Kentucky.
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Virgil van Arsdale
Kentucky
Tug Driven On Sand Bar Near Sea Isle City
A ocean going tug believed to be the Margaret with three barges in tow was driven onto a sand bar ten miles south of Sea Isle City New Jersey in a heavy storm. One body washed ashore and life savers from the Tatham station struggled to assist but were upset by a heavy sea and swam ashore.
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Sea Isle City
N. J
Margaret
New York
Here
Tathams
Clarence Graff Heads to Seymour After Visit
Clarence Graff, who has been visiting his parents on South I Street during the holidays, left for Seymour to continue his travels.
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Clarence Graff
South I Street
Seymour
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Iron Workers’ Union
Herbert S. Hockin
Detroit
Olaf A. Tveitmoh
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J. E. Munsey
Salt Lake City
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Philip A. Cooley
New Orleans
Frank C. Webb
John H. Barry
St. Louis
Peter J. Smith
Cleveland
Murray L. Pennell
Springfield
Wilford Bert Brown
Kansas City
Paul J. Morrin
Henry W. Legleitner
Denver
Charles N. Beam
Minneapolis
Michael J. Cunnane
Philadelphia
Edward Smythe
Peoria
George Anderson
Michael J. Hannon
Scranton
Ernest G. W. Basel
William J. M’cain
William E. Reddin
Richard H. Houlihan
Frank J. Higgins
Frank K. Painter
Omaha
Fred Sherman
William S. Shupe
James BH. Ray
William C. Bernhardt
Frank E. Phillips
Syracuse
NASA
Charles Wachtmeister
Fred J. Mooney
Duluth
James Cooney
James Coughlin
Patrick F. Farrell
Hiram R. Kline
Muncie
Frank J. Murphy
Tveitmoe
Albert B. Anderson
Fort Leavenworth
United States
Edward Schmidt
Mvtos
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