Wilson Nominates Folk Rogers and Allen for Federal Posts
President Wilson today announced nominations including Joseph W Folk of Missouri as solicitor for the Department of State Henry Wade Rogers of Connecticut named United States circuit judge in the second circuit and Clay Allen as United States attorney for the western district of Washington.
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Washington
Iwilson
Joseph W. Folk
Migsouri
Department of State
Henry Wade Rogers
Connecticut
United States
Clay Allen
Western District
Standard Cordage Assets Freed After Judge Vacates Stay
Federal Judge Hough in New York vacated a May 24 1910 injunction that tied up assets of the Standard Cordage Company and an $8 500 000 corporation. About 415 000 in assets are held by a receiver set before bankruptcy. The stay followed creditors’ application. The company operates a large plant on Western avenue Brighton and owns Sewell Day Cordage Works in Roxbury. An ancillary receiver had been appointed by the Boston court.
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Hough
New York
Standard Cordage Company
Western Avenue
Brighton
Sewell & Day Cordage
Roxbury
Federal
Boston
Refusal to appoint colored doctor in London district
London officials refused to appoint a colored man as district medical officer on grounds the poor are very fastidious. The Camberwell poor law guardians cited public expectations as the reason for the decision reported September 18.
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London
England
Camberwall
Guth Chocolate Company President Involved in Fatal Garage Attack
Charles G. Guth a former Guth Chocolate Company president fought a crazed Black man with an axe in Guths garage on Eutaw Place Baltimore. The assailant George Murphy Guths chauffeur died on the way to hospital. Guth held for coroner and police inquiry.
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Baltimore
Eutaw Place
Charles G. Guth
Guth Chocolate Company
George Murphy
Fire destroys three pavilions at Ghent exposition
A fire in Ghent on September 18 razed three pavilions at the International Industrial Exposition and damaged German restaurant facilities. The blaze, the fifth since the fair opened, caused property losses estimated above $200,000.
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Ghent
Belgium
Smith College opens with large freshman sweep
North Hampton Sept 18 The Smith College academic year begins with an enrollment of over 1600 young women. About 60 enter, 48 sophomores, 317 juniors and 334 seniors are listed in the class counts.
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North Hampton
Smith College
Deserters jailed to work at hard labor in Pa
Six husbands were sentenced to three months of stone breaking at the House of Correction by Judge Bregg. The new Pennsylvania law, first used in court, allows committing recalcitrant husbands to hard labor with 65 cents of their daily earnings paid to the wife, aimed at reducing wife desertion.
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Philadelphia
House of Correction
Bregg
Pennsylvania
Rubber slump triggers crisis in Antwerp trade
The rubber market in Antwerp faces an economic crisis as Congo based companies dismiss European agents and large groups of native collectors abandon work. Overproduction has driven international prices below the cost of gathering and transport, signaling hardship across the industry.
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Antwerp
Congo
Taft May Be Yale Law Dean
New Haven September 18 Dean Henry Wade Rogers will resign as Yale Law School dean to accept appointment as judge of the United States Circuit Court from President Wilson to replace Walter C. Noyes. No successor named, but former President William H. Taft, now Kent professor of law at Yale, is widely mentioned as a possible replacement.
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New Haven
Henry Wade Rogers
Yale Law School
United States Circuit Court
Wilson
Walter C. Noyes
New London
Yale University
Dean Rogers
William H. Taft
Kent
Yale College
Broken reservoir floods Pittston area after collapse
A million and a half gallons of water from a collapsed reservoir rushed down a Pittston side street causing panic. Cellars of homes were flooded but no injuries or major damage reported in Wilkes-Barre region on September 18.
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Wilkesbarre
Penn
Pittston
Extra Trip to St John Direct by Governor Dingley
The Eastern Steamship Corp announces an extra voyage of the Governor Dingley to St John direct on Sunday September 1. It will depart Central Wharf in the morning.
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ST. John
Eastern Steamship Corporation
Dingley
Central Wharf
Conductor Adams Arrested Over Bar Harbor Wreck
Bruce C Adams conductor of the Bar Harbor express was arrested in New Haven on a manslaughter charge linked to the North Haven wreck that killed 21. He posted 5000 bond for the October Superior Court term. engineer Miller and flagman Murray also face charges and bonds.
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New Haven
Conn
Bruce C Adams
North Haven
New York
August B. Miller
White Mountain Express
Bar Harbor
Charles H. Murray
Adams
Maine
No Surrender Says Colonel Roosevelt Endorses Plains Plan
Representative Hinebaugh of Illinois, chairman of the Progressive congressional committee, reports Colonel Roosevelt endorsing the plains of the House. Progressives vow no amalgamation with Republicans and prepare for the next campaign.
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Washington
Hinebaugh
Illinois
Progressive Congressional
House
Roosevelt
London Mansion Cedars Destroyed by Fire
Fire destroyed The Cedars a grand mansion at Theobald s Park Waltham Cross fourteen miles north of London The property bequeathed with a fortune by the late Lady Meux to Admiral Sir Hedworth Lambton on condition he adopt the name Meux All valuable furniture had been removed and no cause was found
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London
Theobald's
Prominent N H Sportsman Norris Dies at 59
Concord. New Hampshire, Sept 18. Janes C. Norris, 59, a widely known sportsman, died today in Concord. He served as head of the state’s largest cracker and wholesale bakery.
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Concord
N. H
G' Euveaee
Wilson Without Church as Presbyterian Edifice Sold
President Wilson loses his accustomed church as Central Presbyterian Church building is sold to Mount Carmel Baptist congregation. The Presbyterian group will erect a new church in a more desirable neighborhood after the sale is completed.
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Washington
Wilson
White House
Mount Carmel
Central Presbyterian Church
Packard Shoes on Sale at Harrison Store
Fall and Winter styles of Packard Shoes for men on sale today and tomorrow at 662 672 Washington Street. Shoes come in all leathers and are described as the most comfortable in the United States. Prices listed as 3.50 4.00 and 5.00.
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Packard
United States
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