Arbitral Congress Backs Zinc Duty Amid Gas Waste Warning
The congress adopted a resolution opposing free zinc ore imports and urging a protective duty. It expressed sympathy for Marianna mine disaster dependents and the company improving mine safety. A discussion on conservation and accident prevention followed, with G W Tracer noting English speaking miners sometimes disregard rules.
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Ame
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Ohio
New York
Congress
H. H. Gregg
Missouri
Marianna
G. W Tracer
Chicago
Anti-Saloon League Leader Indicates Possible Retirement
Theodore Alvord, longtime West Virginia head of the Anti-Saloon League, says he does not plan to leave the state but will retire from the superintendent role once accepted. He notes a resignation has been sent but not yet acted on, and expects a successor to be appointed while he shifts to legislative work in the organization.
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Theodore Alvord
Anti- Saloon League
Parkersburg
W. Va
Dee
Anti-Saloon League
Alvord
Association
West Virginia
Ca&y
League
FIGHT FOR AND AGAINST WOMAN SUFFRAGE
New York reports both suffragists and anti suffragists starting winter campaigns. The Civic Education of Women league led by Mrs. Richard Watson Gilder opened lectures at the Berkeley Lyceum opposing woman suffrage. Speakers included Rev Dr Lyman Abbott and Nicholas Murray Butler.
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New York
League For the Civic Education of Women
Richard Watson Gilder
Berkeley Lyceum
General Assembly
Albany
Lyman Abbott
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
Carnegie Hall
Soo City Wreck Off Newfoundland Claims Many Crew
Wreckage from the Soo City washed ashore at Cape Ray confirming the steamer went down in a gale off Newfoundland. Captain John G. Dillon of Brooklyn commanded the excursion ship. his wife and three children await his return. At least eighteen crew were aboard with reports that the number rose to twenty eight.
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St. Johns
N. F
Cape Ray
Soo City
Great Lakes
Newfoundland
John G. Dillon
Brooklyn
United States
Missouri
Carnegie Hall meeting hints at serious suffrage push
The Carnegie Hall gathering tonight drew many Four Hundred leaders, resembling an opera premiere with ladies like Mrs. Clarence Mackay Mrs. Philip Lydig Mrs. Robert Goelet Mrs. Geo. Gould and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt Jr in attendance as delegates.
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Carnegie Hall
Clarence Mackay
Philip Lydig
Robert Goelet
Geo. Jould
William K. Vanderbilt, Jr
Edwin Booth relics sold by daughter at New York auction
Prominent theater figures and admirers attended the Fifth Avenue Auction Rooms as Mrs. Ignatius J. Grossmann offered Edwin Booth’s personal property. The sale included costumes wigs hats and the Hamlet robe and Richard III suit. A leaden safe from Booth's Theatre corner stone and a life portrait of his father were among items.
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New York
Edwin Booth
Fifth Avenue
Hamlet
Booth
Mr. Booth
Mme. Ristori
Macbeth
Salvini
Academyof Music
Lawrence Barrett
Modjeski
Sir Henry Irving
England
Twentythird Street
Sixth Avenue
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Bluefield, W.va
Princeton Ave
Booker & Crenshaw
Kelly
Moyer Building
Thomas E. Peery
M. D
N. & W. Rallway
Bluefield, W. VA
Bland Street
Arbitration Congress
White Pharmacy Fresh Cut
Xmas Huylers
Wool and Dent
Metropolitan Men’s Furnishing CO
Buding Bland Street
Hopkins & Allen
M. G. Whitlow Hdw. Co
Samuel Turk
West Va
Fifth Avenue Auction Room
Order of Owls
Kinzer's
Schloss Bros. & CO
Baltimore and
Benjamin and Schloss Bros
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