No Servant Girl Is Safe Says Terrill At Purity Congress
Mary Church Terrill, president of the National Association of Colored Women, lashed the South and white households in Battle Creek remarks. She blasted courts for failing to protect Black women and urged strict hiring standards for Black women who serve in white homes. John H Roberts urged premarital physical exams and attacked modern theater as a threat to the home and Anglo-Saxon values.
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Mary Church Terrill
National Association of Colored Women
Battle Creek, Mich
South
Purity Congress
John H. Roberts
Alliance of Honor of London
Roberts
Orr Young
Tyre
Chicago Man Declared Dead Returns After 23 Years
John Litt of Chicago reappears in Kane county claiming life after being legally dead for a decade. His disappearance since 1884 led relatives to seize and distribute over 50000 dollars in estate assets. Litt plans to claim all property again, offering no explanation for his long absence. In Dayton, Honey Mellody loses to Frank Mitchell in the fifteenth round of a twenty round bout near here.
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Geneva
John Litt
Chicago
Kane County Recorder
Mr. Litt
Litt
Dayton
Honey Mellody
Boston
Frank Mitchell
Providence
Here
Tripped Up Chinaman Leads to Chinatown Tragedy
In Tuscan Arizona on November 2 a Halloween prank caused the death of Ramco Lavota twenty. He and companions stretched a wire across a sidewalk tripping a Chinese merchant named Wong. Wong drew a revolver and killed Lavota instantly and narrowly escaped lynching while held in jail.
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Tuscan
Ariz
Ramco Lavota
Wong
Lavota
Halloween Disorder Brings Fines and Jails in Pittsburg
In Pittsburg on Halloween more than 200 people appeared in police court facing charges of disorderly conduct drunkenness city ordinance violations and suspicious character. Magistrates imposed fines from 3 to 10 dollars with alternative jail terms of 48 hours to ten days.
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Pittsburg
Post Office Granted for Roebling Town on Infant Industry Claim
President Roosevelt approved Roebling N J for a new post office citing high birth rates among local families in a town that recently grew as a manufacturing center. A. I. Major was named postmaster after rural free delivery was cut back by the president.
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Roebling
N. 3
Roosevelt
White House
A. I
Incensed Natives Accuse Freemasons of Child Harm
In Madagascar Tatiana Riva reports natives claim Freemasons kill children during rites causing widespread agitation. Government issues reassuring notices in public places to placate fears amid unrest. In New York the National Board of the Association of Baseball Leagues ends a six hour meeting with protests and awards.
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Tatiana Riva
Madagascar
New York
Association of Basebal Leagues
Dington
Little Ror
Liti Rock
Monroe
Governors from North Carolina Alabama Georgia reach rail rate agreement
After a long session on Friday Governor Glenn of North Carolina Comer and Smith of Georgia conclude a complete agreement on national railway rates across states with co operation on law enforcement. Details of the plan were not released.
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Atlanta
Glenn
North Carolina
Comer
Alabama
Smith
eGorgia
Run on Bank of Secured Sayings at Allegheny Sparks Withdrawals
A report damaging the Bank of Secured Sayings at Allegheny caused a bank run in Pittsburg on November 2. The small bank saw depositors, described as foreigners, withdraw their funds in a sudden push to security.
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Pittsburg
Bank of Secured Sayings
Allegheny
Grain shipments and campus cap clash at Rolla
Kansas City reports 135000 bushels of wheat 17000 of corn and 17000 of oats shipped. Also a campus prank saw twenty Rolla state school of mines sophomores bound to a tree overnight for defying a green cap with yellow button order, followed by a freshmen parade with a band through the city.
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Kansas City
State School of Mines
Rolla
Foster's Weather Bulletin Predicts Continental Disturbance
Weather forecast details a series of disturbances crossing the continent from Nov 2 to Nov 12 with warm and cool waves, frost risk in late November, and sharp temperature swings. The report notes rainfall including snow, blizzards, and potential dangerous storms near key dates mid November.
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W. T. Foster
Washington, D. C
Continent
Pacific Coast
Rockies
Great Central Valleys
Eastern States
Texas
Louisiana
Tennessee
Kentucky
New England
Navy
Canada
Cotton Belt
Asual
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Holmes & Parker
ROYCE
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