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A wide potpourri of quips and trivia spans diet fads, legalities, theater fashion, and strange anecdotes. Tales include a tonic on fat feet, risky eight hour laws for women, a doughnut explosion mishap, Ireland’s king claim, Swiss etiquette on calling a man an ass, and a pastor gig in New Jersey. Notable bits: bees blamed for a burglary, a Boston baby being trained as a perfect woman, and a St. Louis man tagged as the meanest for dodging a bill.
Defrauded Banks Qut of Thousands by Musica Family
New Orleans and New York report detail Antonio Musica and his three sons Philip George and Arthur Musica hair dealers arrested aboard the steamer Heredia in New Orleans for alleged invoice frauds totaling about one million dollars across the United States and Europe. Daughters Louise and Grace detained. large sums of cash and negotiable papers found. Antonio claims foreign hat firms’ failures caused embarrassment. denies fraud. Additional charge cites $100000 of invoice frauds in New York before flight to Panama.
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Burleson appoints special postal service probe
Postmaster General Burleson forms a special commission to investigate the postal service including financial, physical, and working conditions. Members include Daniel C. Roper, Joseph Stewart, A M Dockery, James J Blackslee, and Merritt O Chance as chief clerk. They met with Burleson to discuss which features would be examined.
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Washington
Burleson
Daniel C. Roper
Joseph Stewart
A. M. Dockery
James J. Blackslee
Indian Camp On Roof Of Fashionable New York Hotel
An Indian camp is set atop a premier New York hotel with Chief Three Bears and a group including Long Time Sleep White Calf Lazy Boy Big Top Medicine Owl and two squaws plus a 10 year old girl occupying tepees above the hotel caves to overlook the city’s artificial peaks and canyons.
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Chief Three Bears
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Ojeda’s forces trapped as 216 men held by US troops
Soldiers around Naco Arizona report continued railway destruction to hinder Cabral’s insurgent group. Ojeda’s plight worsens as 216 of his men are in United States custody. He reportedly had fewer than 509 when defeating state troops. Antonio Rojas, former Orozco general, is reported with 400 men near Cumpas.
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Ariz
aUjedas Frderais
Cabral
Ojeda
United States
Antonio Rojas
Cumpas
Wilson in Role of Party Leader
President Wilson will confer often with members of the house and senate in the capitol during the extra session. He plans to be highly accessible on days when tariff legislation advances most. As New Jersey governor he found close communication sped legislation.
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Washington
House
Senate
Capitol
Congress
New Jersey
Rail Valuation Big Task for Commerce Commission
Washington reports the Interstate Commerce Commission will undertake a monumental project to value all public utility property under its jurisdiction. The Adamson bill, passed by the House and Senate, requires a complete physical valuation and financial history of every utility asset, with three to four years of study and ongoing maintenance.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Tariff Commission
United States
Adamson
Georgia
House
Senate
la ¥ Follette
Senate Committee
Public Utility Corporation
Battered Alabama Town Faces Martial Law and Flood Loss
Brewton Alabama endures a cold wave and rising floodwaters leaving hundreds homeless and one known death a negro woman. Martial law declared by the chief of police boats and rafts rescue the stricken as darkness and destroyed power cripple business. Castlebury reports Brewton's misery mirrors nearby towns as relief efforts begin.
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Brewton
Mobile
Ala
Castlebury
Rioters Attack Suffragists in Hyde Park London
About 10,000 people mobbed suffragettes aiming to hold a Hyde Park meeting. For two hours the park and nearby Oxford Street saw wild disorder as crowds, many youths armed or blowing trumpets, pressed into action after Mrs Flora Drummond began to speak from a wagon.
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Hyde Park
Park
Oxford
Flora Drummond
King Constantine Proclaimed Greek King After Assassination
The Greek king Constantine is proclaimed king after King George is assassinated in Saloniki by Aleke Schinas. The assassin, about forty, claimed anti-government motives and gave a blank stare when arrested. Prince Nicholas leads vows of allegiance as chaos and mourning spread through the city. Georgia appointment: Negle Colquitt named clerk of the Ways and Means Committee, as Oscar W. Underwood notes the Georgia connection.
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Aleke Schinas
Francoudis
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Papafion
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Aleke Svhinas
Nicholas
Washington
Oscar W. Underwood
Ways and Means
Negle Colquitt
Savannah
Daniel C. Roper
Underwood
Georgia
Warrants Issued On Arson Ring Tied to 31 Men
State's Attorney Johnston secured one hundred fourteen warrants targeting thirty one alleged arson ring members. Thirty eight of those named are businessmen, with arrests pending. The investigation links forty four individuals to forty fires and claims about $800,000 in insurance proceeds.
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Chicago
Johnston
Six Hurt in Wreck at Bon Air on Dixie Flyer
Six persons were slightly injured when four sleepers and one day coach derailed from the Dixie Flyer on the Georgia Southern and Florida tracks near Bon Air Georgia. A broken rail caused the wreck. one sleeper was thrown into a creek. Injured were taken to a Macon hospital. There were 125 passengers aboard. Also reported Montgomery Alan James G Oakley, president of the state convict board, was arrested for embezzlement of nearly $100,000. Governor O Neil removed the board president and took charge of the convict department in the state name. The warrant was sworn by H Y Brooke, examiner of public account.
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Chicago
Jacksonville
Bon Air
Florida
Montgomery
Alan James G. Oakley
State Convict Board
Oakley
O'Neil
H. Y. Brooke
Time Tests by Wireless Planned With French Officials
Four representatives of the French government have reached Washington to coordinate with the naval observatory on wireless time tests. Their aim is to establish the exact longitudinal difference between Washington and Paris. Navy Lieut. Blencourt and H S E Gignon, and Army Col. Ferris and Capt. Levesque will conduct the tests for France, with Capt. Jaynes supervising in Washington.
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Naval Observatory
Paris
Lieut
Ludovie Blencourt
H .S. E. Gignon
Navy
Gustave Ferris
Paul Levesque
Army
Joseph L. Jaynes
Naval
Jaynes
Tariff Revision Session Opens Congress Focused on Bills
Washington. The extra session called by President Wilson to begin April 7 will start with tariff revision bills only. Representative Underwood, chair of Ways and Means, said no general committee or other topics will be tackled until tariff work is well under way. The president gave no subject in his call but will likely address tariff reform in his opening message.
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Congress
Wilson
Representative Underwood
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Expert Live Stock Men Aid Southern Farmers
The Southern Railway hires two animal husbandry experts to aid farmers along its lines. Dr. Waller Sorrell will be based in Greensboro, North Carolina, covering Virginia and the Carolinas, while Dr. C D Lowe will be based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, serving Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky and Mississippi. They will advise on feeding and breeding, organize livestock clubs, and provide demonstrations at no cost, reporting to livestock agent B L Ward in Atlanta. In Washington, suffrage leaders presented a constitutional amendment to President Wilson, urging action at the next session. Wilson indicated no firm decision yet, while remarks from Ida Husted Harper described him as courteous and sympathetic.
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Waller Sor- Teil
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N. C
Virginia
North
South Carolina
Cc. D. Lowe
Chattanooga
Tenn
Tennessee
Alabama
Georgia
Kentucky
Mississippi
B. L. Ward
Sorrell
Lowe
United States
Wilson
Washington
Congress
Ida Husted Harper
New York
Store Wrecked by Irishmen in Red Bank NJ riot
In Red Bank New Jersey a five and ten cent store was wrecked by a mob outraged by St. Patrick s day window displays deemed sacred. The parish priest urged removal but failed. about two hundred people gathered outside and rushed in tearing the articles from display windows.
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Red Bank
N. J
American Naval Stores Company Suspends Operations
The American Naval Stores company in Savannah Georgia announced it has suspended business with assets exceeding liabilities by about four million dollars. The secretary cited government actions against the firm and its officers as wrecking credit and prompting the shutdown. A creditors meeting, mainly banks numbering over sixty, was called.
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American Naval Company
Savannah
American Naval Stores Company
Georgia Foretells A Banner Crop Year Ahead
Georgia farmers anticipate a record harvest if summer weather holds. Improved early 1913 conditions mirror 1911 gains, with plowing progress far ahead of last year after mild dry months. Stories cover pardons at the governor’s mansion, a slave era bill of sale found in Fulton papers, and political tensions shaping Georgia’s near-term outlook.
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Brown
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Govenor
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Clarke & Grubb
Chas. Burman
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Sarah
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G. M
United States
Ollie Taylor
Wilson
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