Exile Ordered as 700 Kiev Jews Face Departure
In Kiev, May 13, 700 Jews are expelled under a resumed order forcing those living illegally to leave the city by June 14. Commission reviews found 850 of about 1,000 cases eligible for expulsion as authorities tighten segregation within the Pale of Settlement.
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Kieff
Russia
Douma
Stolypin
Kieff Commission
Commission
Simmer
Moscow
Nijni-Novigorod
St. Petersburg
Evicted Jewish Families Ordered Out of Washkent Town
In Asiatic Russia at Washkent police decree 40 Jewish families living there illegally must leave within three days, a government action announced May 13.4 authorities say. The order targets residents described as non compliant with local registration rules amid ongoing tensions.
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Washkent
Russia
Sells Sweetheart to Rival for $10 in Philadelphia Case
Miss Helena Jorowski of Philadelphia was sold for $10 to Alexander Papusis in Wilkes Barre hours before her wedding to Peter Horoney. That night she wed the buyer and recounted the incident to the marriage license clerk.
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Wilkesbarre
Penn
Helena Jorowski
Philadelphia
Peter Horoney
Alexander Papusis
Suffragists Hold Special Meeting at Boston Club
A Boston Equal Suffrage Association event at its 58 Boylston street clubrooms welcomed new executive board members. At the latest gathering the old officers were reelected except four who could not continue due to other social duties. Dr Evelyn W. Young Mrs John Lindsley Miss Laura Lee and Miss Alice C Carpenter filled the vacancies.
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Boston Equal Suffrage Association
Boylston Street
Evelyn W. Young
John Lindsley
Laura Lee
Alice C. Carpenter
Ex Governor Rollins faces smuggling charge at port
Frank West Rollins, former New Hampshire governor, is arrested on a smuggling accusation after customs inspectors found undeclared dutiable goods aboard a ship. His wife and son assisted in amending declarations, with Rollins later admitting an error.
Rollins Smuggling Arrest Shocks New Hampshire Business Circle
Boston home on Pinckney Street cited as Rollins' base as Frank W. Rollins, former New Hampshire governor and VP of E H Rollins & Sons, faces a New York smuggling arrest. Friends refrain from comment, awaiting Rollins' account in Boston. family details and Concord mansion noted.
Concord Society Shocked by Rollins Arrests in Smuggling Case
In Concord New Hampshire former Governor Frank W Rollins Mrs Rollins and their son Douglas were arrested by New York customs officials on a smuggling charge. The case shocks social leaders who recall Rollins philanthropy reform efforts and his prominence in Taft politics. Douglas Rollins age twenty six studied at St Pauls Harvard and in Boston, previously arrested for overspeeding in Boston last year.
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Concord
N. H
Frank W. Rollins
Katherine Becker
Rollins
St. Paul's
Harvard
Boston
Colorado
Douglas
Taft Association of
New Hampshire
Ohio Justice
Taft Society
Taft
Concord Improvement Society
Association For the Protection of
St. Paul's School
United States
Edward H. Rollins
Snow's Special 11 Year Old Kentucky Whiskey Ad
An old ad touts a pure whiskey marketed as the finest in a century, distilled in Kentucky in 1899 and aged 11 years in oak before ripening in Spain. It promotes in bond status and prices seven segments: $4.75 a gallon, $1.25 a quart, 65 cents a pint, 35 cents a half pint, with late hours and mail order delivery.
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Kentucky
Spain
Bond
Foxhall Keene Avoids Duty On Lusitania Visit
Foxhall Keene, noted polo player and sportsman, passenger on the Lusitania, was found to have failed to declare clothing from England worth about 300 dollars. He offered to pay a 60 percent duty, shared that it was an oversight, and customs accepted his explanation.
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New York
Foxhall Keene
Lusitania
England
Refuses to Talk on Arrest Subject by Mr Rollins
Mr Rollins instructed a telephone operator to tell the Post he had nothing to say about an arrest. He was called on the long distance line last night but declined to communicate by phone or in any other way.
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J. FE. Hills
Newton
Mr. Ollins
Auto and Carriage Collision in Brookline
An auto driven by W P Ross, chauffeur for J F Currier of Jamaica Plain, collided with a carriage on Longwood avenue. Mrs J F Currier and Miss Currier, who were in the auto, escaped injury, as did the others. The carriage was damaged.
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Brookline
W.*.p. Ross
J. F. Currier
Seaverns Avenue
Jamaica Plain
Charles G. Way
Longwood Avenue
Senate Adds Short Haul Clause to Rail Bill Amid Disorder
Washington May 13 By a 56 to 10 vote the Senate inserted a long and short haul provision in the railroad bill after wild floor scenes and two recesses. The Dixon amendment was stricken. the Paynter idea replaced with a proviso allowing lower longer haul charges only if shorter and longer routes differ suitably and rates remain just and reasonable.
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Washington
Senate
Dixon
Bourne
Oregon
Bulkley
Connecticut
Maine
Gallinger
New Hampshire
Heyburn
Idaho
Bailey
Texas
Chamberlain
Fletcher
Florida
Paynter
R. H. White Minstrels Stage Amusing Japaneses Theme
The Mutual Benefit Association of the R. H. White department store presented its seventh minstrels show at Jordan Hall with a Japaneses importation gag. Miss Gertrude Walker opened with Kelley, the green cloth reveal showed dancers in near Japanese costume. Dennis Sweeney sang Yankee Doodle Comes to Town and I Want To Go Home To My Mother. James Brennen accompanied on piano. Timothy Connally served as interlocutor. Cast included Helen Wells Rose McAteer Hattie Wilson and others. Henry J. Driscoll led as president, with William O’Brien as business manager and Edward Histon stage manager. Show directed by John J. Caddigan and to be repeated tonight.
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Jordan Hall
Mutual Benefit Association
R. H. White Department Store
Gertrude S. Walker
Walker
Kelley
Dennis
Sweeny
James A. Brennen
St. Alphonsus Orchestra
Timothy F. Connally
Joseph A. Murray
Harry Knight
Willam F. Burke
William J. Callahan
Louis Kennelly
Dennis S. Sweeney
Helen IL. Wells
Rose McAteer
Hattie Wilson
George S. Francis
Albion Cole
John Toomey
John J. Daley
John R. Hewitt
Albert FE. Fleming
William J. Irvin
Gertrude I. Walker
Henry J. Driscoll
Association
William J. O'Brien
Edward P. Histon
John J. Caddigan
Boston Raincoat Chief Heads West for Expansion
M. W. Broudy, manager of the Boston Raincoat Company, will be honored at a banquet at the Hotel Langham before departing for the West to extend the firm’s footprint. Stores to open in Denver, St. Louis, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles with San Francisco as Western headquarters.
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M. W. Broudy
Boston Raincoat Company
Langham
West
Denver
St. Louis
Chicago
Seattle
Portland
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Broudy
New England
Cat Causes Midnight Scare at Edwin Smith Home
In Darby Pennsylvania on May 13 a loud male voice and eerie sounds startled Edwin Smith and his wife in their North Sixth Street residence. A cat that entered via an open window hid between the mattress and springs, startling the couple when they retired around 11 pm and later found the cat beneath the bed before it escaped, sparing them an intruder scare.
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Smith
Loaned His Money on Stranger's Check
A fragmentary report describes Benjamin G. Joni of Maine meeting a stranger who lent him $85 on a check. The event occurred yesterday afternoon near Foster's wharf where he was induced to accept the loan and was left unsettled about repayment.
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Benjamin G. Joni Maine
Joan
Foster's Wharf
Aged Quincy Woman Troubled by Black Hand Letter
Mrs W M Ross of 75 Smith street, a widow of 65, sleeps with a loaded revolver after receiving a Black Hand letter demanding $500 under threat. Police say the note is a fake, though Ross reported it after it arrived last Tuesday. The letter warned of danger if the money was not placed at a set time and place.
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Quincy
W. M. Ross
Smith Street
Lucio Giovanne
Ross
Burrell
Roosevelt’s San Juan record questioned by critics
Questions about President Roosevelt and the Brownsville and Athens cases arise as critics note unequal treatment of colored troops. The discussion cites Taft’s War Department letter and argues the policy harmed minority soldiers while claiming the nation’s leaders must justify the double standard. George M. White Albert E. Pillsbury and Rev. John Haynes Holmes spoke on disfranchisement.
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Athens
Storey
Brownsville
Taft
Theodore Roosevelt
San Juan Hill
George M. White
Philadelphia
Albert E. Pillsbury
Massachusetts
John Haynes Holmes
Mills Looted by Gang
Thefts spanning years at the Arlington mills estimated to cost thousands are believed closed with the arrest of two men and two women after a month of Pinkerton and Lawrence police detective work.
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Lawrence
Arlington Mills
Pinkerton
Boston
Lawrence Police
Mills thefts shake town as two men jailed without bail
George Yelland and Timothy Murphy, long time mill workers, are charged with stealing ladies dress cloth worth 50 cents a yard and taking it from the finishing department. Their alleged accomplices, Mrs Sarah Rosenburg and Mrs Sarah Kimmer, are accused of receiving hundreds of yards at 30 cents a yard. Bail set at 300 dollars for the women, the men held without bail. Officials say thefts have persisted for years despite attempts to trace them.
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George Yelland
Timothy Murphy
Sarah Rosenburg
Sarah Kimmer
Murphy
Yelland
French Street
South Union Street
Waif Train Arrives in Crescent City With 59 Waits
In New Orleans on May 13 the stork train from the New York Foundling Asylum arrived with 59 babies aboard to a crowd of about 500 women at Union Station. Sisters of Charity, in charge, allotted 25 babies to local prospective mothers, with equal numbers bound for Kansas and Memphis.
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New Orleans
New York Foundling Asylum
Union Station
Sisters of Charity
Kansas
Memphis
Debater Victor Stolen Then Resumes Debate
In Jacob Sleeper Hall at Boston University C B Morgan 12 was seized by about 50 students during a debate and confined in a dark basement room. He escaped after a few minutes and returned to the platform to complete his argument.
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Jacob Sleeper
Boston University
C. B. Morgan
Kidnapper Ruse Fracas At University Debate Ends
In a chaotic debate, Morgan on one side and Miss Harris on the other caused a campus uproar. Morgan vanished from view amid cheers, reappeared after a Houdini escape, and resumed arguing as the audience and judges reacted with astonishment and approval. Judges Henderson, Rison and Warri declared Morgan's side the winner.
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Morgan
Miss Harris
Miss Guyton
Wilbur
Denning
Mrgan
Morgan Ha
Henderson
Rison
Wari
Woman Lassoes Texas Steer Taming Bad Man
In Pueblo on May 13 a ranch-bred woman used a clothesline to lasso a disruptive man calling himself a Texas steer. She tied him to a water plug in a residence district until police arrived, detailing a shocking stand against a terrorizing intruder.
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Texas
Pueblo. Col
Roarin
John Jones
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