Princeton Dedicates Grover Cleveland Memorial Tower
Princeton University dedicates the Grover Cleveland Memorial Tower and graduate college with gifts totaling 2.45 million dollars funding the project. Former President Taft delivers the memorial address on Grover Cleveland while university leaders and international scholars attend. The tower, Gothic in style, forms the graduate college entrance and houses facilities for scholars and students.
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Taft
Grover Cleveland
Missing real estate man Henry R. Greene. sheriff takes charge
Henry R. Greene a Beardsley Park real estate man and church member has vanished after days unseen. An attachment against Bartram & Greene in the Franklin Building followed by a citywide search, with Greene’s wife and mother grieving and a son kept from school as authorities seek clues. Sheriff action aims to recover a large debt owed by Hill estate trustees and settle the case as investigators probe the missing broker’s whereabouts.
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Henry R. Greene
Beardsley Park
Franklin Building
Noble Avenue
Bartram & Greene
Franklin
Adystery
Greene
Zouls W. “Hut
Hill Estate
Ranklin
Mr. Hill
Richard Brown
Bartram
Washington Park
Office Panic as Paymaster Fires Accidental Pistol Shot
A accidental discharge of a .38 revolver at Bridgeport Brass plant during a payroll demonstration by Arthur Meeker narrowly missed Leonard M. Allen and others in the office. The bullet tore through a desk and hit the wall, rebounding into the room center as the revolver, recently purchased for payroll protection, allegedly had its cartridges supposedly ejected.
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Bridgeport Brass Company
Arthur Meeker
Fairfield Avenue
Leonard M. Allen
Noble Avenue
Allen
Meker
Supposed Will in Murder Case Emerges in Plymouth
In Plymouth Massachusetts on October 22 a typewritten will found at Rear Admiral Joseph G. Eaton’s home after his death last March is described as Jennie May Eaton’s will. Testimony by State Officer John H. Scott at Mrs. Eaton’s murder trial states the paper bequeaths all property to Mrs. Haton’s elder daughter Mrs. June Keyes. The document was unfinished and unsigned.
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Plymouth
Mass
Joseph G. Eaton
Jennie May Eaton
John H. Scott
Falls From Ladder on First Day at Canfield Hubber Plant
Joseph Legacy of 428 Hollister Avenue is hospitalized at St. Vincent's after falling about 15 feet from an extension ladder at the Canfield Hubber company plant on Housatonic Avenue this afternoon. On his first day as a pipe coverer, he sustained back injuries, general shock, and a scalp laceration.
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Joseph
Hollister Avenue
St. Vincent’s Hospital
Canfield Hubber Company
Housatonic Avenue
Diaz and German cruiser reach Vera Cruz together
Vera Cruz Mexico Oct 22 The steamship Corcovado with General Felix Diaz aboard and the German protected cruiser Hertha arrived here within minutes of each other early today in the port of Vera Cruz
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Felix Diaz
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Corcovado
Generalelix Diaz
Hertha
Indictments Fall on St Louis Officials After Probe
A grand jury returned wholesale indictments against most of the East St Louis city administration that left office last spring. Twenty eight persons were named, including former mayor Charles B. Lambert and former city treasurer E Fred Gerald, along with fourteen of the sixteen 1912 city council members.
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St. Louis
East St. Louis
Charles 8. Lambert
E. Fred Gerald
Policeman's Number Stolen by Stage Hands
Police officer Robert Wolfe loses his coat with a neck band number. He discovers former stage hands from a local theatre are wearing police numbers on their coats. The officer plans to recover his number and those of the stage hands, noting many possible outcomes as the case unfolds.
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Robert Wolfe
Six Cavalry Privates Killed by Lightning Bolt
A bolt of lightning struck a column of the Sixth United States Cavalry marching between Texas City and Galveston, killing Privates Monroe, George Morris, and John Zimmer. The incident occurred in Houston on October 22.
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Houston
Tex
Sixth United States Cavalry
Texas City
Galveston
Monroe
George Morris
John Zimmer
Two Imposters Allegedly Posing as Sons of Veterans Promised
Commander Daniels of Bridgeport reports two men using the Sons of Veterans name to solicit. He describes one as Doty, about 20 to 35, light complexion, smooth thin face, well dressed. The other, Hitchcock, 18 to 21, brown suit, good looking, light complexion. Local police alerted to locate and detain both men.
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W. C. Daniels
Stratford Avenue
Sons of Veterans
Bridgeport
Doty
Hitchcock
Stockholders Press for Directors' Minutes at New Haven Meeting
New Haven Oct 22 stockholders of the New York New Haven Hartford Railroad met at Harmonie Hall to review an amplified 1913 annual report. A. Maxcy Hiller pressed for a statement of subsidiary and leased line accounts. disputes over stockholder lists and dilatory motions sparked heated exchanges as E J Hill urged prompt business and accountability. Governor Bulkeley criticized proxy proxies and defended the meeting’s proceedings amid calls for clarity on mail and passenger service compensation.
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New Haven
New York, New Havenn & Hartford Railroad Company
Harmonie Hall
Elm Street
A. Maxcy Hiller
Befme Germain
Hiller
Howard Elliott
New England
Bulicott
Clarke
Clarence H. Venner
New York
Venner
E. J. Hill
Mr. Hill
Connecticut
Mr. Venner
Blakeslee
James Hillhouse
Elliott
Bulkeley
Protective Committee of
Suffragists urged to whip disloyal men at polls
Hartford Oct 22 The Connecticut Woman's Suffrage Association closes its 44th annual convention with a Hartford luncheon honoring retiring officers. President Mrs. Hincks praises progress, recalls the 18 000 name petition, notes a pro suffrage opposition, and calls leagues to organize and pressure representatives ahead of referendum day. She urges public education, stronger petitions, and public accountability for legislators while highlighting relief aid and a suffragist play to engage the public.
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Hartford
Connecticut Woman’s Suffrage Association
Hotel Bend
Thomas N. Hepburn
Ernest Thompson-Seton
Mary J. Rogers
Meriden
William T. Hincks
Bridgeport
Unity Hall
Miss Pierson
Alyse Gregory
Mullins Accepts McNeil's 100 For Democratic Campaign
Frederick Mullins confirms receipt of a 100 check from Senator Archibald McNeil, Jr. The funds will be turned over to the Democratic Executive Committee treasurer for election expenses. Mullins states the nomination came without promises and represents all primary voters, pledging continued party support.
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Frederick € Mullins
Archibald McNeil
Bridgeport
Archibald McNeil, Jr
Morning Telegram
City
McNeil
Democratic Party
Democratic Executive Committee
Fred C. Mullins
Frisco Gala Attire For Portola Fete In 1900s Fashion
San Francisco marks its Portola festival with a Balboa impersonator arriving on the Farragut, escorted by 5000 troops to Union Square where the festival queen greets him. The harbor hosts cruisers Charleston St Louis South Dakota Pittsburgh Yorktown and Buffalo, while Chinatown gleams with grand decorations by the Chinese Six Companies.
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San Francisco
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Darien
Golden Gate
Farragut
Union Square
Charleston
St. Louis
South Dakota
Pittsburgh
Yorktown
Buffalo
Chinatown
Weather Forecast for New Haven
Forecast calls for fair and cool conditions with frost tonight. Thursday will bring increasing cloudiness and warmer temperatures, with rain later. Light to moderate variable winds. In Connecticut expect fair weather tonight, then rain and rising temperatures by Thursday afternoon or night.
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New Haven
Connecticut
Unwritten law defense used by Marano in murder trial
In a criminal superior court case Giuseppe Marano uses the unwritten law defense once used by Harry Thaw. Prosecutors claim the motive emerged after Vice Biafore taunted Marano about his wife and child. A pistol bought in Waterbury in 1912 is cited with Marano admitting he shot Biafore on July 31, 1913 after confrontations over wages led to insults about his family.
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Harry Thaw
New York
Stansoed White
Guiseppe Marano
Reed
Criminal Superior Court
Vice Biafore
DeForest & Kiein
Marano
Biafore
Brrs
George N. Sears
Bisfore
Easil
Binfore
Strees
Three Personal Crises In The Family Of Slayer Spencer
Chicago Oct 82 The case of Ben ny Spencer the confessed murderer now awaiting trial for killing Mr Mildred Allison Retreat has aroused interest among criminology students An investigation into his antecedents reveals a chain of suicides and deaths in his family starting with his alcoholic father who died by his own hand Three years later his brother killed himself A sister killed herself after Spencer was sentenced to his first prison term A third sister married had two children and died of tuberculosis
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Chicago
Benny Spencer
Amurderes
Tris
Mildred Allison
Spencer
Demand to Take Indian Affairs Out of Politics
Mohonk Lake New York October opening of the annual conference of Friends of the Indians and allied groups debated taking Indian affairs from partisan control. A nonpartisan commission would oversee Indian concerns and protect tribes from frequent agency changes. Dana Kelsey described land fraud affecting the Muskogee agency. P J Murphy urged Congress to distribute $10,000,000 held by Choctaws and Chickasaws.
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Mohonk Lake
National Congress
Nan-Partisian Commission
eTse
Oklahoma
Dana Kelsey
Indian Agency
Muskogee
P. J. Murphy
Choctaw Tion
Congress
Home Club Formed by Government Employes
Washington October 22 A novel idea the government service which meets with the approval of Secretary Lane has been adopted by the thousands of employes of the interior department They will organize a social club of their own to be known as the Home Club It will be located in a spacious building and will have all the accessories of a modern club and a commodious hall for entertaining. STATE HOMEOPATHISTS MEET Meriden October 22 Dr HH A Roberts of Derby was re elected a member of the state board of examiners yesterday at the sixty third semiannual meeting of the Connecticut Homeopathic Medical Association here.
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Princeton
Princeton Universsty
Graduate College
Grover Cleveland
Europe
America
Hibben
Taft
Prac
United States
Canada
Audowi
Andrew F. West
Vransone
Gurland
Posiliona
Alois Rethi
Tnnersity of
Berlin
Arthur Shipley
Christ College
University of
Arthur Dennis Goldey
University of Oxford
Emil ©. Bontroux
University of Paris
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
University
Cleveland Memorial Tower
Richard V. Lindabury
Cleveland Monument Association
Sal
Mr. Cleveland
Buffalo
Albany
Washingstom
National Credit
Ieveland
Grover Clevedana
Pyne
Cleveland
Grover md
Washington
Government Service
Lane
Interior Department
Meriden
HH. A. Roberts
Derby
State Board of Examiners
Weeter
Connecticut Homeopathic Medical Association
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