World at a Glance Best of the News roundup
A condensed roundup of diverse items includes political recounts in California, a deadly prison concoction in New York, Chinese girls seized at San Francisco, a fingerprint system in Chicago banks, public auctions of schoolhouses in Kansas, and Denver plans for a winter dance hall. Other notes cover juries in Kansas, snow in Kansas, mining disasters, and railway indictments in Colorado and Illinois. The item list spans crime, industry, law, and public safety.
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Calfornia
New York State
San Francisco
Harris Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago
Mothers Congress of
Pueblo
Colo
Lincoln County
Kan
Denver
District Court
Butler County
Eldorado
Pittsburg
Larned
Aurora
Minn
Western Missouri Poultry Association
Belton
New York
U. S. Army
St. Louis
Nome
Fort Yukon
Turkey
Corn Products Company
Waukegan
Ill
Anti-Horse Thief Association
Columbus
Iola
Neosho River
W. H. Stevens
Federal Grand Jury
Ft. Scott
Eugene W. Debs
Girard Newspaper
Geneva
Kaw
Col
Rio Grande
Colorado Southern
Tire City
Carl Riedelbach
Los Angeles
Otto Lane
Fayetteville Ark
Minnesota
Champaign
Virginia
Kanawha
Two men arrested in Missouri tied to Arkansas murder
Two men arrested at Springfield Missouri on burglary and incendiary charges are believed linked to the murder of Miss Ella Barham of Boone County Arkansas. They will be taken to Harriman Arkansas. A gang of incendiaries operating in southeast Kansas has caused heavy damage with the Missouri Kansas & Texas station at Humboldt Kansas their latest target.
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Springfield
Ella Barham
Boone County
Arkansas
Harriman
Ark
Kansas
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Humboldt Kan
Foreign affairs and world note highlights
Americans abroad report crooks using Paris as a base to steal 50 000 from a 1 000 000 gold consignment from the Bank of England. Chinese plan Canton daily newspaper. Bank of Canton opens. King Albert’s mother Countess of Flanders Marie of Belgium dies. Prochaska arrives in Uskup denying assassination rumors. China’s first house of representatives primary in Pekin slated December 1 to 4. Militant suffragettes in London target mailboxes. International Socialist congress at Berne calls resist wartime measures. Chinese troops seize Uliassutai from rebels after two days of fighting. Russian aviatrix Ljuba Calantachikov sets women’s altitude record at 7 800 feet.
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Paris
Bank of England
Canton
Bank of Canton
Albert
Flanders
Marie
Belgium
Herr Prochaska
Priszend
Uskup
Republic of China
House of Representatives
Pekin Will
London
America
Europe
International Socialist Congress
Berne
Switzerland
Uliassutai
Mongolia
Aviatrice
Ljuba Calantachikov
Multiple Trials and Incidents Highlight Turbulent Era
A roundup of early 20th century cases and political moves includes Rees Lee’s beating of Robert D. Paine after a Roosevel t endorsement. Richard Victor jailed for a motor bandit case. Alva McDonald charged with murder. Taft’s reappointment of Edgar E. Clark to the ICC. Taft’s non-candidacy in 1916. Dillon elected head of a journalism section. a 14 year old boy killed a man after an alleged elopement. a child burned to death in Kansas. Sidna Allen found guilty of second degree murder. Mrs. Sill survives a four story fall into a coal hole. Henry Gable pardoned to claim estate. university theft arrest in Chicago. triplets born to Mrs. Grantout. Anna Howard Shaw reelected suffrage head. Gompers ill in Rochester. Cecelia Farley acquitted in Ohio murder. Roscoe Conkling named Jackson County prosecutor. bank robbery in North Dakota ends with a capture. football deaths record stands at ten. Earl Leggett loses a leg fleeing a train. Peters shot during a quarrel. a missing worker in Atchison. Theodore Marburg’s embassy appointment noted.
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Rees Lee
Memphis
Robert D. Paine
Roosevelt
Richard Victor
Ida
Antonio Stephano
Marion
Stephano
Freeport
Ill
Teresa Dunlap
South Haven
Kan
Sidna Allen
Hillsville
William H. Sill
New York
Henry Gable
Washington
Gov. Hay
Minnesota
William Martin
University of Ilinois
Chicago
A. V. Grantout
Maywood
Anna Howard Shaw
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Philadelphia
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Rochester
N. Y
Cecelia Farley
Alvin Zollinger
Columbus
Ohio
Miss Farley
Hadley
Roscoe Conkling
Jackson County
Virgil Conkling
Noonan
N. D
Earl Leggett
A. A. Peters
Logasher
Boundary
Atchison
Patrick's Name to Be Cleared
John T. Milliken, brother-in-law of Albert T. Patrick, vows another $150,000 to vindicate Patrick. Milliken, a chemist and mine owner, cites information suggesting Patrick’s innocence and plans a Westward start with Patrick and his wife to press the pardon effort. The petition before 35,000 physicians advances belief that Rice was not chloroformed.
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St. Louis
Albert T. Patrick
John T. Milliken
Milliken
Patrick
Rice
Hockin Prepared to Flee as Bonds Nullified
Indianapolis report says secret tip to Judge Anderson led to Herbert S. Hockin being taken into custody and bonds for 16 dynamite case defendants declared invalid. Miller claims Hockin carried thousands in cash and planned to flee, with bondsman indemnified. Other bonds remain in abeyance awaiting Judge Anderson's call.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Anderson
Miller
Herbert S. Hockin
Trons Workers’ Union
Hockin
Medina irrigation dam near San Antonio reaches completion
The 7 million dollar Medina irrigation dam, 30 miles west of San Antonio, has received its finishing touches after a year and a half of work. The iron and concrete structure rises 165 feet, spans 1,500 feet and holds nearly 300,000 cubic yards of concrete with an additional million dollars being spent on lateral canals and siphons.
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San Antonio
Tex
Medina
Here
Big Cooperage Plant Burns in Leslie Arkansas
Fire at the H. G. Williams Cooperage company in Leslie destroys the plant within 45 minutes. The loss is estimated between 300000 and 500000. The cause is unknown and the plant is described as one of the world’s largest cooperage plants.
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Leslie
Ark
H. G. Williams Cooperage Company
Prisoners Happy For a Day at Leavenworth
One thousand two hundred federal prisoners in Leavenworth Kansas enjoyed a day off on Thanksgiving with all work suspended and a three hours vaudeville entertainment as the main event ensuring a festive atmosphere.
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Leavenworth
Kansas
Uncle Sam
Dominican President Vic toria Resigns in the Dominican Republic
Eladio Victoria tendered and had his resignation as president formally accepted in Santo Domingo. Soon after, numerous political prisoners were released from confinement in a move tied to the turnover.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Eladio Victoria
Wandering Demented Man Missing After Snowfall
Clyde Lewis aged 24, described as demented, vanished from the home of Mrs. J. A. Patton in Woodward Oklahoma as snow fell. A sheriff and search party are combing the area for him, fearing he may have perished.
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Wichita
Kansas
Woodward
Clyde Lewis
J. A. Patton
Lewis
Robbery at gunpoint during Thanksgiving meal in St. Louis
Mrs W C Rollman kneels at her oven as two intruders force her to stay on her knees for half an hour while one thief ransacks the home. They steal $15. the four year old son is made to kneel beside his mother.
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St. Louis
Missouri
W. C. Rollman
Castle Lamp plant to reopen after complete layoff
In Battle Creek Michigan the Castle Lamp company fires all 400 employees from superintendent to messenger by order of the board. The plant will reopen Monday with a new force and a thorough reorganization.
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Battle Creek
Michigan
Castle Lamp Company
Halstead Woman Sets Fire on Herself in Desperate Act
Mrs. G. Deiterle of Halstead poured coal oil over her body and set fire to it in a suicide attempt during temporary insanity. Her husband arrived and extinguished the flames.
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Wichita
Kansas
Farmer Ends Life With Strychnine Near Everest
Fred Wolfe a 45 year old farmer living near Everest six miles west of here died by his own hand taking strychnine. He leaves a widow and two minor sons.
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Lisa Horton
Kansas
Fred Wolfe
Everest
Here
Missouri Governor Vote Totals by Party and County
Official returns show Elliott W. Major at 337 019 votes, McKinley 217 817, Nortoni 109 146. Mayor’s total trails Bryan by about 9 000. County breakdowns accompany the figures for Democratic Republican and Progressive candidates.
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Bryan
Jefferson City
Elliott W. Major
Major
McKinley
Nortoni
Proverbial Vignettes On Words Faith And Family
A clipped reflective note contrasts self praise with unreliable bonds and recalls a quip about the prodigal son. It frames trust as a bank of credit offering confidence, counsel, sympathy, help, and love.
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Houston Post
Bank of Credit
Norton Ticket Dominates Several Counties in Vote Report
Out of the 114 Nortons carried Grundy county and received a heavier vote in Douglass Henry Jackson Livingston and Macon than McKinley. They ran ahead of Major in Grundy Mercer and Stone.
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McKinley Nortons Adal
Sense
Andrew
Atchison Yee
Bollinger Ee
Buchanan
Butler
Caldwel
Franklin
Gentry
Greene
Grundy
Harrison
Henry We
Hickory
Howard Howell
Jackson Iron
Jasper
Jefferson
Zi Eamonn
Linn
Livingston
McDonald Wee
Macon
Ralls
Randolph
Rayeaeee
Reynolds
Ripley Oe
St. Charles
St. Clair
St. Francois
Ste. Genevieve
Saline
Schuyler Ee
Wright
City of St. Louis
Major
Bryan
Hadley
McKinley
Taft
Prohibition
Social Labor Partes
Nortons
Grundy County
Douglass
Henry
Jackson
Mercer
Stone
Missouri Democrats win four of sixteen House seats
Congressional returns show Democrats capturing four Missouri seats in the lower house with James T. Lloyd Joshua W Alexander and others leading in districts. Republicans and Progressives trailed in multiple districts as vote totals are listed for each candidate.
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Missouri
Congress
James T. Lloyd
Beverly A. Bonfoey
Arthur B. Warner
William W. Rucker
Edward F. Haley
R. H. Williams
Joshua W. Alexander
James H. Morroway
W. Sam Wightman
Charles F. Booker
Claude V. Hickman
Fred G Robinson
William P. Borland
Isaac B. Kimbrell
Charles A.sumner
Clement C. Dickinson
Louis T. Dunnevant
G. A. Theglman
Courtney
W. Hamlin
Simon G. Nipper
Joseph J. Russell
George C. Curry
Perl D. Decker
Isaac B. McPherson
Henry H. Gregg
Thomas L. Rubey
James P
Federal troops surrender at Palomas after house to house fighting
One hundred federal troops defending Palomas, Mexico, fought rebels in two engagements, using dynamite bombs to enter the town. After two more hours of brisk fighting and threats of hand grenades, the government force surrendered with most taken prisoner. A lone captain fled to the American side.
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el Paso
Texas
Palomas
Tobacco Trust May Be Ousted
Berlin authorities prepare a Reichstag bill to drive Standard Oil from Germany and extend a state controlled tobacco monopoly. Officials admit motives include revenue and consolidation of control, with the American tobacco trust already holding a tight grip in Germany.
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Berlin
Germany
Tobacco Trust
American Tobacco Trust
Farmer Guilty of Murder in Hugo Oklahoma
A prosperous farmer A. Wilson was convicted in district court for the murder of Walter Capps. He testified he shot Capps after Capps made improper proposals to Wilsons daughter and received a life sentence.
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Hugo, Ok
D. A. Wilson
Walter Capps
Capps
Defines Contentment in a Puck quote
The phrase presents contentment as the sweet satisfaction of possessing more of the world’s goods than one can use. It attributes the idea to Puck and frames contentment as abundance beyond need.
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Puck
Meant Well Recalled in Detroit Free Press Tone
Quote in Detroit Free Press notes someone fired for being too willing to let an issue go. The remark contrasts intention with action and reflects workplace discipline.
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Detroit Free Press
The First to Arrive as Darkness Takes the World
A fragmentary line describes the arrival of the first person when the world is plunged into darkness. The text conveys a lone observer and a stark, apocalyptic mood without detailing events, locations, or identities.
Boston Child Keeps Dignity At Opera House
A ten year old son of Boston opera director Russell gently rebuked a matron who asked rude personal questions in the foyer during an entr acte. He answered with refined grace and bowed before walking away maintaining composure.
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Boston
Russell
Boston Opera House
Opera House
Director Russell
Master Russell
France
Usual Kind of Office Seekers
In a comic scene a washing machine agent taunts that after an election the town’s professionals keep calmly tending their affairs while ill suited outsiders rush to grab control of the post office, deriding newcomers as incompetent for managing it.
Turkish Time and the Mosque Meridian
The Westminster Gazette notes that the St Sophia meridian set Turkish local time at 1 hour 56 minutes 52 seconds ahead of Greenwich until the government aligned with standard time zones two years ago. For religious purposes noon follows sunset, so the hour shifts with the seasons.
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Mosque of
St. Sophia
Greenwich
Westminster Gazette
Worth Three Times a Diamond and Emerald Origins
Emeralds, mainly from Colombia, are described as the most precious gem by carat value, potentially three times pricier than flawless diamonds. The text notes India as an early source, while Oriental emeralds are linked to ruby varieties, green in color and extremely rare.
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Colombia
India
Senator borah mocks rival with seaside girl quip
Senator Borah comments on a disgruntled opponent likening his attitude to a young lady at the seashore. A Chicago millionaire is cited in a gossip exchange as two women discuss the supposed suitability of the match.
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Borah
Chicago
Embrace Opportunity, Yet Guard Against Delusion
A quoted exchange contrasts the mindset of seizing chances with the warning to avoid mistaking illusion for opportunity. The dialogue suggests balance between optimism and realism in pursuing goals.
Is it really easy taking candy from a baby
Quote exchanges about a tricky contest, where a baby asserts a counter move and reverses the situation. The light exchange highlights a playful twist on a common saying. No other facts or names are provided.
Deaf man pays $250 marriage fee in Ohio
A deaf man in Ohio reportedly paid a minister a $250 marriage fee. A wife is described as worth that amount to a deaf man according to the source wording.
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Ohio
A Friend's Advice on Grape-Nuts Health Benefit
A Nebraska man recalls illness from spring fever and weak health. After ignoring a friend's tip to eat Grape-Nuts, he worsened with boils and fatigue until his mother urged the daily food. He recovered and credits Grape-Nuts as highly healthful.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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