Taft to attack sugar frauds in forthcoming message
President Taft intends to devote a chapter of his congressional message to the sugar frauds and the high officials of the sugar trust. He will use strong language about those who plotted or connived to swindle the government out of customs duties, according to sources from Washington. The president also anticipates disclosing how a New England group holds a large share of stock while trustees manage much of the stock for estates and widows.
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Taft
Congress
Roosevelt
Sugar Trust
Department of Justice
United States
New
Combine
Trust
Prohibition Amendment Fails in Alabama Election
Birmingham voters rejected a constitutional prohibition amendment by about 20 000. Only six or seven of Alabama’s sixty seven counties backed it, with small majorities. Women distributed coffee and sandwiches at polls while police kept order as clear weather drew a large turnout. The result frames a rebuke to the current state administration.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
New York Horse Show Debuts Draft Division With Heavyweights
Draft horse competitions drew top entrants from the Morris and Armour beef companies. Each six-horse team weighs over 12 000 pounds total, with the Armour gray team and the Morris team pictured. Both teams moved on from New York to the Chicago livestock exposition.
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New York
Mrs OLearys SOW Refutes Fire Origin Tale
James OLeary son of Mrs. OLeary denies that the cow sparked the Chicago fire of 1871. He insists spontaneous combustion in a hay loft started the blaze as Sunday night danger grew, leaving the OLeary family saddened by the enduring myth.
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Chicago
Big Jim
Jewish Girls Eye Tattoo Shocks Philadelphia Clinic
In a Medico-Chirurgical College of Pharmacy clinic Dr L Webster Fox performed a landmark eye tattoo on a blind Jewish girl using six needles India ink and a vegetable dye. The eye ball bore a white blemish and the operation remains rare due to eyeball condition limits.
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Philadelphia
Medico-Chirurgical College of Pharmacy
L. Webster Fox
Snow Depths Hit Southwest and Mexican Rangelands
El Paso Texas reports seven feet of snow at Dawson New Mexico and heavy snowfall across Mexico. The wintry conditions are said to be worth thousands of dollars to sheepmen and cattlemen.
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el Paso
Tex
Dawson
N. M
Mexico
New Revolution Breaks Out in Nicaragua
Nov 20 report from Colon states a new revolution has begun in Nicaragua led by General Irias, a close ally of President Zelaya. The fragment notes internal upheaval within the Zelaya faction and cites the high-ranking officer as organizer.
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Colon
Nicaragua
Irias
Pres
Zelaya
Bank Closes Doors in Vernon Michigan
Vernon Michigan November 30 The Vernon Exchange Bank with a capital of 20000 has been closed and a receiver asked for.
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Vernon, Mich
Vernon Exchange Bank
Delano Asked to Serve China Mission declines offer
Washington report says F A Delano of Chicago president of the Wabash railroad was approached to be China envoy but declined. He visited Washington secretly and left without visiting executive offices, with no confirmation from the state department on his movements.
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Washington
F. A. Delano
Chicago
Wabash Railroad
China
Delano
Charles R. Crane
Knox
Mr. Delano
State Department
Colonels Warn Panama Canal Must Be US Controlled
Colonel J Hamilton Lewis telling the St Andrew's society dinner in New York warns that without sole American control of the Panama Canal and nearby banks the US could be handicapped in any future war or defense. He urges taking Nicaragua Honduras and Costa Rica to secure the route against rivals. He views the Nicaragua rising as proof and urges immediate action.
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J. Hamilton Lewis
Chicago
St. Andrew's Society
Lewis
Knox
Washington
Central America
Nicaragua
Honduras
Costa Rica
Panama Canal
Philippines
England
Germany
Asia
Sunny Jim Guest At Akron Banquet
Four hundred Republicans from Ashtabula Geauga Lake Portage Mahoning Trumbull and Summit counties gathered in Akron for the twenty third Garfield club banquet with Vice President James S Sherman and James R Garfield as principal speakers Garfield spoke without a prepared address and revived governor talk Hazlett of Youngstown presided as toastmaster with Senators Dick Totheroh and Orris and Eckley among speakers Lieberling of Akron elected president Edwards of Youngstown secretary.
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Ashtabula
Geauga
Lake
Portage
Mahoning
Trumbull
Summit
Garfield Club
James S. Sherman
James R. Garfield
Garfield
Roosevelt
John P. Hazlett
Youngstown
Charles Dick
W. W. Totheroh
M. Aorris
Willis Jeckley
Ravenna
F. A. Lieberling
J. Howard Edwards
Storm sinks Kisagata Maru. many feared lost
Brooklyn report says Patrick Rafferty killed his wife Margaret and wounded his mother in law and brother in law before arrest. Tokio dispatch notes a terrible hurricane off Shimonoseki sinks Kisagata Maru with all aboard presumed dead and twenty five bodies found while coastlines remain strewn with wreckage.
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Brooklyn
Patrick Rafferty
Margaret
Rafferty
Wright Nominated for Sixth Circuit Judge
Washington November 30 Luke E Wright of Tennessee former secretary of war under Roosevelt will be nominated to the sixth judicial circuit to fill the vacancy created by Horace H Lurton's elevation to the Supreme Court official notice of the nomination will be withheld until after Congress meets but Wright has signified willingness to accept the post
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Washington
Luke E Wright
Tennessee
William H. Taft
Rooosevelt
Sixth Judicial Circuit
Horace H. Lurton
Supreme Court of the United States
Wright
Congress
Wreck on Pennsylvania Express Kills Clerk and Five
A Uniontown Pennsylvania derailment near Manor station fatally injures the mail clerk baggage master and a brakeman with six others seriously hurt. State Senator John Jamison is among the injured.
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Uniontown
Manor Station
John Jamison
Rose Stokes to Lead Picket Line in Garment Strike
Rose Pastor Stokes, once a Cleveland cigar maker before marrying J G Phelps Stokes, announced she would lead striking waist and garment workers. At the East Side headquarters she asked for picket duty and her request was granted. Accompanied by several women, she visited factories to persuade nonunion workers to quit.
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New York
Rose Pastor Stokes
J. G. Phelps Stokes
Cleveland
General Grant May Be Called Down
Military and political circles report Major General F D Grant may be rebuked by the state department for remarks on U S policy toward Nicaragua. He may receive an official communication from Washington this week.
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Grant
Chicago
Washington
F. D. Grant
State Department
United States
Nicaragua
Department of the Lake
Ohio parolee gunman killed his mother then took deputy and others
William H. Farra, paroled to stay outside Ohio, returned from Illinois and attacked neighbors, killing his wife and wounding a deputy sheriff. Clyde Weaver then killed Farra, shot Mrs. Minnich and Mr. Minnich, barricaded the house, and killed himself after exhausting his last cartridge. The incident occurred nine miles east of Greenville in Franklin township.
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Greenville
Isaac Weaver
William H. Farra
Levi Minnich
Clyde Weaver
Franklin Township
Weaver
Dayton
Ohio
Illinois
James Happner
Haber
Sweeping Changes in Naval Affairs
Washington reports that Secretary Meyer will launch major reforms in the Navy Department. He plans to subordinate the bureau system, empower ship officers as field observers, and run the department more on a business basis while preserving the secretary’s administrative powers. Earlier edits by Secretary Newberry caused departmental confusion, prompting this reassessment.
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Washington
Naval Affairs
Meyer
Navy Department
New England
Barrymore Welcomes a Son in New York Home
Mrs. Russell Colt born a son at 46 East Thirty-fourth Street in New York. The Colts are staying at the home of August Belmont. Mrs. Colt is better known to the public as Ethel Barry.
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Ithe Barrymore
New York
Russell Colt
East Thirty-fourth Street
August Belmont
Colt
Ethel Barry
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