Middlemen Blamed for Soaring Prices and Inefficiency
Secretary Houston told the National Grange the United States farms show less than forty percent of cultivated land well kept and under twelve percent at maximum yield. He decried middlemen who provide no service and urged coordinated federal and state action to fix rural credits and marketing, warning against bonds for farmers and stressing collective effort to restore agricultural equity.
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Manchester
N. H
United States
Houston
Department of Agriculture
National Grange of Patrons of Husbandry
Agricultural Department
Secretary Houston Urges Education and Rural Development
Secretary Houston calls for better educational opportunities to alleviate concerns over natural resource conservation. He argues enlightened attention to conservation and development will relieve worry and stresses organizing life for rural populations to gain the primary advantages towns enjoy.
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Houston
Henry Spencer Sentenced to Death for Rexroat Killing
Chicago reports Henry Spencer, confessed slayer, found guilty of murder in the Rexroat case and sentenced to death. The jury fixed the death penalty after deliberating a little over two hours. Spencer had confessed to many murders but the crime against dancing teacher Mildred Rexroat is central to the verdict. He held a brief defense testimony insisting on the death sentence.
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Chicago
Henry Spencer
Mildred Alliston Rexroat
Spencer
Rexroat
Wayne
Ill
Twenty-Two Dead From Central of Georgia Wreck at Clayton
Clayton Alabama reports twenty-two fatalities from the Central of Georgia passenger train wreck near here. Twelve died at once and ten later. nine more black victims were found in woods today. Railway officials began an investigation into the crash.
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Clayton
Ala
Central of Georgia
Wilson orders mediation aid to settle Southern Pacific strike
President Wilson directed Assistant Commissioner Hauger of mediation to go to New Orleans immediately to help settle the strike of Southern Pacific Railroad operating employees.
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Washington
Wilson
Hauger
New Orleans
Southern Pacific Railroad
Fourteen Men Trapped as Wall Collapse in Cedar Rapids
In Cedar Rapids Iowa Nov 14 a seven story concrete building under construction near completion collapsed onto the roof causing fourteen workers to be buried or trapped. Four men were rescued with serious injuries while hundreds labored with axes shovels and a steam drill to recover others. The structure was being built for Lyman Brothers Company a wholesale firm.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Lyman Brothers Company
Unique suit filed by Allegheny Coal against three miners
Pittsburg November 14 Allegheny Coal Company filed a unique suit in court seeking 500 from each of three miners. The company claims the miners occupied company houses at Hardwick after five days notice to vacate and refused to move, prompting the legal action.
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Pittsburg
Allegheny Coal Company
Coal Company
Hardwick
Southern Pacific Strike Ties Up Louisiana Traffic
New Orleans reports that except for two through passenger trains, Southern Pacific service in Louisiana is shut down due to a engineers and trainmen strike. An embargo blocks freight as cane and rice producers face potential losses while officials seek intervention from President Wilson.
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New Orleans
Southern Pacific Railway
Louisiana
Lafayette
Wilson
Hauger
Southern Pacific
United States
Switchmen’s Union of North America
Growth in Foreign Trade Continues Despite Crude Materials Gap
Washington reports nine months ending September 1915 show exports rising across most categories. Substantial gains appear in foodstuffs partly manufactured, manufactures for further use in manufacturing, and finished manufactures, with a strong US trade balance in each class despite a shortfall in crude materials versus 1912. Continued on page four.
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Washington
United States
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Department of Commerce
Day in Congress Reports Sessions and Debates
The House met at noon and adjourned at 2 pm until noon Monday. Representative Brockson of Delaware defended his state’s whipping post. A Massachusetts and New York peace societies’ resolution urging a naval holiday was presented. Banking committee remained divided on currency bill report.
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House
Brockson
Delaware
Massachusetts
New York
Congress
Two Currency Bills To Go To The Senate
Washington November 14 The administration currency reform bill moves toward the senate with White House disapproval from the six Democrats on the senate banking and currency committee. Senator Hitchcock and five Republicans draft amendments as they aim to send both bills to the senate next week for consideration.
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Washington
Senate
Wilson
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Hitchcock
White House
Federal Reserve Board
Banking and Currency Committee
Owen
Hitchbeck
Taft Pays Respects to President Wilson at White House
Former president William Howard Taft visited the White House unannounced to see President Wilson after lecturing for the National Geographic Society. Wilson directed Taft to be admitted immediately, and the two exchanged greetings before Taft departed, noting the dignity of a professor’s life. A longtime staffer records Taft as the most frequent visitor to the White House in the last fifty years.
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Washington
Taft
White House
National Geographic Society
Forster
Wilson
Mr. Taft
Warrants Dismissed in West Virginia Bribery Case
In Charleston on November 14 special report states warrants against H. Bert Ruster, city board of affairs member, for bribing councilmen to back a fifty year water franchise were dismissed by Justice M. Gilchrist for lack of evidence.
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Charleston
W. Va
H. Bert Ruster
City Board of Affairs
M. Gilchrist
Moyer Heads East as Copper Strike District Expected
President Charles H. Moyer of the Western Federation of Miners hastened from Seattle to the east on November 14 after attending American Federation of Labor conventions. He is believed to proceed directly to the Michigan copper strike region where most strikers belong to his union.
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Moyer
Seattle
Wash
Charles H. Moyer
Western Federation of Miners
American Federation of Labor
East
Michigan
West Virginia Weekend Forecast Brisk and Fair
Weather outlook for West Virginia calls for fair skies and slightly cooler conditions on Saturday with unsettled conditions Sunday. Virginia expects partly cloudy skies and cooler air on Saturday with Sunday remaining partly cloudy across the state.
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West Virginia
Virginia
Mystery vessel in Great Lakes disaster stirs identit y speculation
Port Huron Michigan reports the steamer Major abandoned by its crew after a storm near White Fish Point. June death toll reaches about 256 with vast property losses over five million dollars. Divers struggle against high seas to identify the overturned ship believed to be the Charles F. Price or Regina.
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Port Huron
Mich
Great Lakes
Major
White Fish Point
Lake Superior
Lake Huron
Lake Michigan
Lake Erie
Apple Day Boosts Home Grown Fruit Across Oregon
Oregonians celebrated Apple Day on November 14 in hotels and restaurants to promote home grown fruit with state wide participation and local efforts in Portland and across Oregon.
Infant Mortality Experts Meet in Washington For Four Day Session
Washington November 14 The fourth annual meeting of the American Society for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality opens with many child welfare experts physicians and statisticians present. Dr L Emmett Holt presides. Topics include eugenics parental care infant hygiene feeding and vital statistics in social betterment.
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Washington
American Society For the Study and Prevention
L. Emmett Holt
New York
Max West
United States Children’s Bureau
J. W. Scherescheweky
Public Health Service
W. C. Woodward
District of Columbia
Creasy L. Wilbur
Census Bureau
Cannibalism Suggested To Aid Digestion In Paris
Dr Hugonened dean of the faculty of medicine claims after exhaustive study that cannibalism may be the most digestible food. He proposes it as a cure for indigestion based on his conclusions.
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Paris
Hugonened
Faculty of Medicine
Steamboat Lines Oppose Seamen's Bill at London Conference
German proposals at the International Conference on Safety at Sea meet cool reception from American steamboat men. The American Association of Steamboat Lines has sent no delegation to back the seamen's bill, calling its passage impossible.
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London
American Association of Steamboat Lines
Nilo Wife and 10 Killed by Sok Nilo Wife and 10 Killed by Sok
Cleveland Ohio November 14 Lewis Van Luven sixty eight a farmer living at Harpersfield near Geneva shot and killed his wife in the kitchen then was killed by his son Mathews seventeen in self defense The boy and his nineteen year old sister told police he had threatened to kill the family and kept a shotgun by his side
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Cleveland
Ohio
Lewis van Luven
Harpersfield
Geneva
Mathews
van Luven
Powell Installed as Hobart College President in Geneva
Dr Layman P Powell was formally inaugurated today as president of Hobart College Geneva N Y in a ceremony attended by educators scientists and publicists from across the country The new president previously taught business ethics at New York University He hails from Delaware and studied at Johns Hopkins University the University of Wisconsin and the University of Pennsylvania
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Hobart College
Geneva
N. Y
Layman P. Powell
Hobart
New York University
Delaware
Johns Hopkins University
University of Wisconsin
University of Pennsylvania
Ninety-Six Arrests In Copper Strike Zone
Calumet Michigan November 14 A passenger train on the Duluth South Shore and Atlantic was fired on near Hancock as copper strikers awaited non union miners. Ninety six arrests for picketing injunction violations at Superior mine and noisy parades at Quincy and South Range mines. Lithuanians return to work at Champion mine.
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Calumet
Mich
Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway
Hancock
Superior
Quincy
South Range
Copper Range
Western Federation of Miners
Champion
Plan United Liquor Fight Opens In Columbus
A large gathering in Columbus gathers representatives from most temperance and prohibition groups to form a united organization. Delegates seek amalgamation to plan an educational and legislative campaign against liquor with many noted prohibition advocates in attendance.
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Columbus
Ohio
Anti-Saloon League of America
Mexico's Carranza rejects foreign regulation of internal affairs
General Carranza declares no transactions with foreign powers to manage Mexico's internal affairs. Washington seeks assurances to protect foreign interests if arms embargo is lifted, while Huerta factions weigh U S mediation as talks resume through William Bayard Hale.
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Nogales
Sonora
William Bayard Hale
Wilson
Vistlana Carranza
Huerta
United States
Constitutionalist
Mexico
Caranza
Mr. Hale
Washington
John Lind
O'Shaughnessy
Mexico City
Congress
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