Arty Chiefs Are All Confident In Election Hype
New York November 4 1912 leaders of the three parties claim victory as polls close tomorrow. Roosevelt backed Progressive claims 24 states 297 electoral votes Wilson 12 states 130 votes doubtful 4 states 104 votes Taft predicted decisive victory in dependable Republican states. Each candidate votes Tuesday then awaits returns Wednesday morning from Oyster Bay Cincinnati and Princeton.
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New York
United States
Solid South
House of Representatives
United States Senate
Suchess
Joseph M. Dixon
Progressve National
Roosevelt
Progressive Party
Hoosevelt
Wilson
William F. McCombs
Taft
Charles D. Hilles
Princeton
Cincinati
Charles P. Taft
Oyster Bay
Maj Gen Robert O Reilly Dies After Weeklong Illness
Maj Gen Robert Maitland O'Reilly longtime surgeon general of the U S Army from 1902 to 1909 and personal physician to former President Grover Cleveland died at his home after a weeklong illness of Brights disease.
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Washington
Robert Maitland O'Reilly
United States Army
Grover Cleveland
Bright
Clown Admits Crime In Singer Murder Case
Chicago report says Charles Newton Conway confessed to killing Sophia G. Singer a week after his wife branded him the slayer. He corroborated her story, exonerated his wife, and detailed a quarrel over an alleged immoral act, using a handkerchief with a doorknob, a razor, and a gag before fleeing to Hammond and Lima, Ohio, where they were arrested.
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Chicago
Sophia G. Singer
Charles Newton Conway
Conway
Sophia
Dresser
Hammond
Lima
Warning of Car Theft Sparks IC Caution to Rail Car Thefts
The interstate commerce commission denounces the practice of railroads failing to promptly return borrowed cars as theft. It warns that the existing car shortage threatens commerce and could recall 1945 07 distress. Recommendations include higher per diem for car use, immediate theft inspections, and speeding up freight trains.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Candidate Held for Fraud in Manhattan Senate Race
New York November 4 arrest of Thomas F Devine a senate candidate in Manhattan Fifteenth district prompts state election board action. He was released by Judge Swann of the court of general sessions on $1000 bail with district attorney consent.
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New York
Thomas F. Devine
Senate
Manhattan
Voorhis
State Board of Elections
Swann
Court of General Sessions
New York City Debt Tops A Billion Dollars
New York state and city figures released by the Merchants' association show New York as a billion dollar city with municipal debt exceeding 1.037 billion dollars. The debt surpasses the national total by several millions with Father Knickerbocker owing more than five times Philadelphia Chicago and Boston combined.
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New York
Merchants’ Association
Father Knickerbocker
Philadelphia
Chicago
Boston
Thirteen Girls Die in Fire at John Brackett Store
London reports a devastating fire at the John Brackett dry goods store in Kensington killing thirteen sales girls who lived on site. Firemen failed to save several as two leaped from windows and perished on the pavement. others died in the flames with many injured and missing.
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London
John Brackett
Kensington
Self-inflicted shooting during Harlem theater act
In a Harlem theater, Thomas A. Mills, performing as a plainsman in a western drama, accidentally shot himself in view of the audience. He is expected to recover.
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New York
Harlem
Thomas A. Mills
Greeks Capture Port of Prevesa in Greece-Achieved Move
London dispatch reports Greco Cretean forces capture Prevesa and nearby Nikopolis as part of widening operations surrounding Adrianople. Bulgarian king Ferdinand assumes command for Adrianople siege while Austria rejects Poineaire peace proposals, signaling broader Balkan tensions.
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Adrianople
Austria
London
Nazim Pasha
Constantinople
Prevesa
Gulf of Arta
Gulf
d’Abruzzi
Nikopolis
Athens
Bulgaria
Sofia
Tchorlu
Salonika
Vienna
Turkish Empire
Balkans
Russia
Balkan
Burney
Thursby
Gibraltar
Near East
Stove suffocates aged couple in Council Bluffs home
In Council Bluffs Iowa on November 4 F Marion Owens aged eighty and his wife seventy five were found dead in their house from coal stove fumes. The incident appears to be accidental asphyxiation.
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Council Bluffs
F.marion Owens
Mexicans Rout Rebel Army Near Cuernavaca Hills
In City of Mexico on November 4, federals engaged in three days of desultory fighting before forcing rebels to abandon the hills near Cuernavaca, capital of Morelos, ending a costly clash.
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City of
Mexico
Cuernavaca
Moreloa
PanamP Pacific Exposition Tower Dominates Skyline
The Administration Building tower will soar 575 feet, flanked by domes and minarets of eight exhibit palaces. From San Francisco harbor it forms the central skyline of the Exposition City, with courts by famed American architects and a grand Court of Elonor beneath a vast arcade at its base.
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San Francisco
America
Grand Court of
Elonor
Meclxim, Mead & White
Little Girls In Persia Birth Brings Widespread Pity
The excerpt describes harsh social norms in Persia where a girl’s birth prompts lament. It notes severe gender inequality from birth, high infant mortality due to women’s ignorance, and early marriages as young as ten or twelve. Some proposed cruel remedies are mentioned but not adopted.
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Persia
The Bold Man and His Forbidden Revolt
A brief fable tells of a bold man who defies rules, misuses doors, scatters orange peels, and disrespects spaces on trains and subways. He ignores no-trespass lines yet dies with a simple, equal tombstone as others.
Nests of Various Birds Habitat Styles and Materials
The excerpt notes woodpeckers nest in holes, nuthatches bluebirds and wrens use tree cavities, crows and hawks build large stick nests high in trees, warblers line cuplike nests, cuckoos doves and grosbeaks use flimsy receptacles, thrushes hide deep in woods using twigs and grape vines..Exchange
Ancient Oak Forest Mine Found in Southern Russia
A recently discovered bed of a river in southern Russia revealed a buried forest of oaks spanning about 200 square kilometers. Trees forty to sixty meters tall, at least eighteen inches in diameter, were found in perfect preservation. The mine holds immense value for cabinet makers due to varied colors from dark brown to pale rose, with 150 thousand ancient oaks turned over for use.
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Russia
Harper's Weekly
Child buried alive in family feud case at Carapolis
Gazelle Stasco, ten, abducted Lucy Luscher, five, from a Luscher porch in Carapolis. She led the girl to a dense wood and buried her alive. Lucy, found unconscious, was taken to hospital in critical condition amid a murder accusation against Stasco. Bloodhounds traced the trail from the Luscher home to a wood where a trench and mound concealed the child.
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Pittsburg
Gazelle Stasco
Lucy Luscher
Luscher
Carapolis
Luschers
Lucy
Frank
Laascher
Lascher
Rich Man Killed in Hunt Near Water Gap
Samuel A. Seitz, a Philadelphia millionaire and junior partner in James H. Seitz & Co., was shot and killed in Cresco, Pa., while pheasant hunting. His companion, 20 year old Joseph A. Murray, son of Dr. B. J. Murray, fired after grabbing a shell in a moment of excitement. The load struck Seitz in the heart.
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Philadelphia
Samuel A. Seitz
James H. Seitz & Co
Cresco
Seitz
Joseph A. Murray
B. J. Murray
Murray
Seita
Financier Burns to Death in Berlin Hotel Fire
St Louis, Nov 4. W C Douglas, a local financier, burned to death as a fire destroyed the Berlin hotel. About 20 others were injured and 150 guests fled in their night clothes. One body was identified as Mrs Helen Harrington-Shepard-Cdnney Abeles, former actress and stenographer, and former wife of James Abeles.
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St. Louis
W. C. Douglas
Berlin
Airs
Helen Harrington-Shepard-Cdnney Abeles
James Abeles
Wife Admits Dual Murder in Missouri Poisonings
Pansy Ellen Lesh, 24, surrendered in Los Angeles claiming she killed two women in Missouri, Mrs. H. M. Quaintance and Mrs. Eliza Coe, both by poison. Police hold her as they investigate the tale.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Pansy Ellen Lesh
Missouri
Greenridge
Sedalia
HE. M. Quaintance
Eliza Coe
Lesh
Artistic Envelope Linings Cultural trend reaches America
An observer notes a new decorative fashion with satin lined envelopes hand painted by Japanese artists. The elaborate process enhances the tearing edge with floral designs, marking a costly novelty once common in Europe but new in the United States.
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Europe
America
Clam Bake Coin Reappears In Steamed Clams
Louis Ludden, at a Winsted clam bake, dropped a $5 gold piece into a partially covered barrel of clams. The barrel was emptied and later the clams were steamed. The lost coin reappeared in a shell with a steamed clam.
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Louis Ludden
Winsted
Connecticut
Remedy Lies With Women Editor’s statement on women’s legal rights
The Delineator editor asserts injustice to women stems from the women themselves. He claims no excuse remains for ignorance of wrong legal conditions, noting newspapers magazines lecturers and club women nationwide expose every injustice promptly.
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The
Delineator
Husband locks wife’s clothes. judge delays case
James J. Fryer of Jersey City is said to have slashed his wife’s clothing because she is “so beautiful it is dangerous for her to go out alone.” Mrs Fryer testified that he kept her fine garments in a chest with five padlocks. Judge Butler postponed the case for a week.
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Jersey City
N. J
Buxom
James J. Fryer
Butler
Saturday Gridiron Scores Across Colleges
West Wisconsin 30 defeats Chicago 12 while Purdue 21 tops Northwestern 6 and Minnesota 13 loses to Illinois 0. Michigan 7 beats South Dakota 6 and Nebraska 7 defeats Missouri 0. Marquette 43 shuts out Loyola 0. Lake Forest 10 over Beloit 7 and Oklahoma 6 edges Kansas 5. Lawrence 59 overwhelms N W college 0. Drake 33 defeats Washington 13 and Ohio State 81 over Case 6. Harvard 16 beats Princeton 6. Carlisle 34 defeats Lehigh 14 while Dartmouth 59 crushes Amherst 0 and Williams 24 down Cornell 10. Lawrace 28 defeats Dorchester 9. Harvard Fresh 14 tops Princeton 0. Vanderbilt 13 defeats Virginia 0 and Brown 12 beats Vermont 7.
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Chicago
Purdue
Northwestern
Minnesota
Illinois
Michigan
South Dakota
Nebraska
Missouri
Marquette
Loyola
Lake Forest
Beloit
Oklahoma
Kansas
Lawrence
N. W. College
Drake
Washington
Ohio State
Case
East
Harvard
Princeton
Carlisle
Lehigh
Dartmouth
Amherst
Williams
Cornell
Lawracuse
Dorchester
Vanderbilt
Virginia
Brown
Vermont
Funeral of Vice President Sherman Attended by Distinguished Guests
Utica honors Vice President James Sherman with a high profile funeral in First Presbyterian Church attended by President Taft Cabinet members and foreign diplomats. Pallbearers include Elihu Root and other Utica fellows. Wilson cancels Fifth Avenue parade in mourning, amid a large state turnout.
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Utica
N. Y
James
Sherman
First Presbyterian Church
Louis H. Holden
Washington
M. W. Striker
Hamilton College
Brokaw
Taft
Cabinet
Mr. Sherman
Forest Hill Cemetery
Babcock
Fayette H. Peck
Senator Root
New York
Fifth Avenue
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson
Passenger Trains Crash in Kansas City Yard Collision
Sixteen people were injured when two west bound Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe passenger trains collided in Kansas City rail yards due to an open switch. A chair car and a buffet car were demolished and a man on No 9 was believed killed as both trains moved slowly into the crash.
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Kansas City, Mo
Santa Fe
Mone
Trooper Kills Mexican Girl in Arizona Incident
Nogales Arizona November 2 A sheriff posse and soldiers searched all day for Andrew Yesbit a private in Troop D Fourth United States Cavalry who killed Francisca Grijalva a Mexican girl and perhaps fatally wounded two Yaqui Indians The section men who went to assist the woman were among the injured parties.
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Nogales
Ariz
Andrew Yesbit
Fourth United States Cavalry
Francisca Grijalva
Jack Johnson Quits Chicago Cafe Ownership
Chicago November 2 heavyweight champion boxer Jack Johnson announced his retirement as a saloonkeeper in Chicago two days earlier. He sold the Cafe de Champion to Henry Starrett who had previously managed the place for him. Johnson’s license expired at midnight and the sale was publicized soon after.
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Jack Johnson
Chicago
Pugilist
Cafe de Champion
Henry Starrett
Johnson
Gen Homer Lea Dies in California Residence
Los Angeles Nov 2 Gen Homer Lea American citizen who advised leaders of the late Chinese rebellion died at his Ocean Park residence.
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Homer Lea
Los Angeles
Cal
Ocean Park
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