Fresno Dan Identified by Ex Coachman at Identity Hearing
James H. Axford a former Melrose coachman who testified in the Russell estate case said Fresno Dan spoke to him at a hotel in April 1912 and claimed to be him. He recalled a 1909 Melrose police offer offering money for Russell estate details and said he never told anyone about it.
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James H. Axford
Russell
Melrose
Master Pevcy
East Cambridge Court House
Fresno Dan
Axford
Peter McNally
William C. Russell
Scharton
McCarthy
Mass National Guard Wins 12 Inch Rifle Target Practice Title
Washington reports the Massachusetts National Guard led all state militias in 12 inch rifle target practice for 1912. Connecticut won 10 inch, while Florida and New York guards topped eight and six inch rifle events respectively.
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Washington
Massachusetts National Guard
Militia Division
War Department
Connecticut
Florida
New York National Guard
Wholesale Stock Mens Pants At Two Dollars Per Pair
A local store offers about five thousand pairs of wholesale stock pants in styles and colors including black and blue serges worsted stripes Scotch tweeds and cassimeres. Retail value $3.50 to $5.00 per pair. Sale price set at two dollars per pair.
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Santa Clara
Kashgar
Boston
S. H. Harrison Co. Big Sale on Overcoats and Suits
S. H. Harrison Co at 662 672 Washington Street announces wholesale stock of overcoats and suits offered at half retail prices in progress sales event.
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Washington Street
G. O. P. Moves To Promote Woman Suffrage
Republican leaders plan a bill to enact woman suffrage mirroring party pledges after John W. Weeks is declared elected U S Senator from Massachusetts. Weeks winning vote at a joint meeting, takes seat March 4 for six years.
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John W. Weeks
United States
Weeks
Massachusetts
Greenwood
Senate
House
Republicans push public opinion bill on woman suffrage
Since the Weeks election Speaker Cushing Representative Cox Levi Greenwood and others discuss a regular legislative program with woman suffrage among top items. Republicans favor a nonbinding public opinion bill to test state sentiment, extending school committee voters the right to vote on suffrage. The constitutional amendment by women is in the Legislature and referred to the committee on constitutional amendments, which is expected to handle the public opinion bill as well.
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Cushing
Representative Cox
Levi Greenwood
Nine Lost In Wreck Of Russian Bark California
Nine crew members were drowned when the Russian bark California wrecked on the Northumberland coast after a gale off Newcastle on Tyne. Captain Elkhom and seven men were saved. the ship of 2461 tons had just departed Tyne with a full cargo.
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Newcastle - On-Tyne
England
California
Northumberland
Elkhom
Tyne
Freight rate rise on cement suspended by ICC
Washington January 15 the Interstate Commerce Commission suspended until May 15 a proposed rate increase from 50 cents to 60 cents a ton on cement hauled from Pennsylvania production points to destinations in the Northeast by the Central of New Jersey Lackawanna Lehigh Valley and Lehigh and New England railroads.
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Washington
Central of New Jersey
Lackawanna
Lehigh Valley
Lehigh and
New England
Pennsylvania
Interstate Commerce Commission
Weeks Raps Bank System At Boston Jewelers’ Club
Senator-elect John W Weeks told about 200 members of the Boston Jewelers Club at its twenty-fifth anniversary banquet that the United States has the poorest banking and currency system among first class nations and urged currency reform. Mayor Fitzgerald mocked Weeks’ bid for the Senate while pledging state service, with other speakers including Lt. Gov Walsh and jewelers’ leaders from New York and Chicago.
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John W. Weeks
Copley Plaza
Jewelers’ Club of
Boston
Weeks
United States
Massachusetts
Fitzgerald
Chamber of Commerce
David I. Walsh
Grafton D. Cushing
Nehemiah Boynton
Brooklyn
N. Y
John W. Sherwood
Club of Jewelers
New York City
James S. Blake
Boston Jewelers’ Club
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Providence
Chicago
Associations of Jewelers
Governor Sulzer to See Brandt in Clemency Hearing
Albany January 15. Governor Sulzer orders Folke E Brandt former valet of Mortimer Schiff to appear in person at a clemency hearing in the executive chamber Friday on Brandts application for executive clemency.
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Albany
Sulzer
Folke E. Brandt
Mortimer L. Schiff
Clinton
Brandt
Salvation Army Captain to Be Bride
The White Star Line steamer Arabic sailed for Liverpool yesterday with a large general cargo and nearly 300 passengers. Among the saloon passengers was Captain Eva Evans of the Salvation Army who is en route to London to marry an army officer she previously worked with in Cleveland. She is the daughter of Captain Evans formerly attached to the People's Palace in this city.
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White Star Line
Liverpool
Eva Evans
Salvation Army
Miss Evans
London
Army
Cleveland
Captain Evans
People’s Palace
Allen Gang Men Must Go to Chair
The Supreme Court of Virginia refused new trials for Floyd Allen and Claude S. Allen, the Hillsville gunmen convicted of murders at Carroll County courthouse. If Governor Mann does not intervene, they face electrocution next Friday in Richmond.
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Richmond
Supreme Court of Virginia
Floyd Allen
Claude S. Allen
Hillsville
Carroll Courthouse
Mann
Whiskey deemed a necessity in tariff debate
Washington January 15 Former internal revenue commissioner John Y Yerkes argued that whiskey is a necessity while imported wines are a luxury and should bear tariff taxation before the House Ways and Means Committee Sugar refiners beet sugar men California wine producers mineral water importers and others attended the hearing to press their cases
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Washington
John Y. Yerkes
Internal Revenue
House Committee On Ways and Means
California
Leading sugar industry figures lobby for tariff changes
Howard H. Atkins of American Sugar Refining proposed a moderate sugar tariff cut. Henry T. Oxnard and witnesses from California and other states urged tariff protection for beet sugar. R. E. Milling sought bans to save Louisiana sugar. Fernald backed free sugar or lower rates for fruit canning. Arbuckle Brothers and Federal Sugar Refining urged free sugar. California wine trade decried schedules. Victor Whitlock urged brewers’ tariff cuts from 23 to 15 cents or at most 20 percent.
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Howard H. Atkins
American Sugar Refining Company
Henry T. Oxnard
California
Colorado
Montana
Wisconsin
Michigan
R. E. Milling
Franklin
B. M. Fernald
Maine
Arbuckle Brothers
Brooklyn
William A. Jamison
Federal Sugar Refining Company
Frank Cy Lowrey
Victor E. Whitlock
New York
Insane Alien Importation Fine Proposed in Amendment
Washington January 15 news item states that any steam ship company bringing an insane alien into the United States would be liable to a $200 fine under an amendment to existing law.
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Washington
United States
Scott's Emulsion Aids Bronchitis Relief
Promotes relief from bronchial coughs by reducing inflammation and mucus buildup. Aides acute bronchitis by stopping the cough and delivering nourishing energy to the body. Endorsed by Scott & Bowne of Bloomfield New Jersey with a 12 80 notation.
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Scott
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