France Plunged Into Severe Floods Across Nation
Paris reports describe extensive flooding with the Seine raging and tens of thousands displaced. Homes and warehouses inundated, power and communications crippled, and Parisian life ground to a halt as embassies, factories, and public services struggle to cope.
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Paris
France
Seine
Bercy
Gers
Charenne
Adour
Dordogne
Champs Elysen
President Falleries
Estrada Pushes Vantage in Nicaragua War
Wireless dispatches from Bluefields report Madriz forces retreating after heavy fighting near Acoyapa as Estrada's provisional army advances. Three hundred casualties. both sides used machine guns, reportedly operated by Americans for Estrada and Englishmen for Madriz, with one gun and two English gunners captured. Washington reported rumors of a major battle with unknown outcome.
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Bluefields
Colon
Madriz
Matrada
Acoyapa
Estrada
Provisional Army
Washington
Conzul Glevarz
State Department
Managua
Federal Court Clears Path for Copper Merger
A federal court dissolved Boston Consolidated Copper Co and denied an injunction against its proposed merger with Utah firm. Enos A. Wall and Chas. W. Graham argued the merger violated Sherman Act, but the court ruled the government must pursue any violation and that equity rules barred immediate injunction, removing obstacles to the deal.
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Conan x
T. Tan
Yestraining
Boston Consolidated Copper Company
Enos A. Wall
Chas. W. Graham
Shockholvers
Utah
Wyoming Lumber Prices Keep Pace With Living
Denver January 25. Lumber prices are expected to rise per a large majority of delegates at the seventh annual Colorado and Wyoming association convention held today. Delegates cite increased demand and believe higher living costs influence lumber costs.
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Wyoming
Denver
Colorado and Wyomingsters’ Association
Ship Subsidy Bill Will Pass Over All Opposition
Washington January 26 One of the session’s most watched contests centers on the administration ship subsidy bill now before the merchant marine and fisheries committee. Representative Humphrey’s measure is expected to pass the house with support from Taft and the full administration, while Bright of Mississippi again charts the minority report.
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Washington
Humphrey
Committee of Merchant Marine and Fishiies
Sf Humphrey
Bright
House
Senate
Taft
Committee On Post Offices
Merchant Marine Committee
Iip
Aubardy
Mrs Sayler Breaks Silence in Crescent City Murder Case
In a jail interview Mrs. Leey Sayler describes the night of the killing in Crescent City Illinois her husband’s return home a card game plan and the moments before Dr William Miller was murdered. She recounts finding Miller with a hatchet and seeing blood throughout the house as Sayler confronted Miller on the porch.
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Bloomington
Leey Sayler
Crescent City
William Va. Miller
Iroquois County
Oday
Dr. Miller
Compromise Talk in British Deadlock
London voters face a hung parliament after 560 seats are allocated among Unionists Liberals Lab. Liberals hold 212 seats while Unionists lead with 238 including 72 Nationalists and 27 Laborites. The weeklong election tests how the Liberal government will cope with a difficult task ahead as party lines shift and pressure grows.
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London
Unionists
Liberals
Latorites
Nationaliut
Alphonsts
Laborites
Roosevelt Idea Fraud Sparks Los Angeles Hoax Claims
A Los Angeles report alleges a forged birth certificates hoax linked to Mrs Wilson and Dr Pratt. It claims duplicates of triplets arrived in past years with letters from Theodore Roosevelt, suggesting a staged deception to please the husband with a larger family.
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Los Angeles
Ivos Aneles
Rocrevellas
Aaa
Wilsons
Cary Armstrong G. Pratt
Sossiea
Businesses Urge Knoy 10 Withdraw From tariff clash
Washington reports that chambers of commerce and boards of trade from several cities urged the national Board of Trade to ask the State Department to reverse its stance on admitting American beef and cattle to Germany. They argued Germany’s market is unnecessary as U.S. home consumption rises, with a committee to study the causes of high living costs to be appointed.
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Washington
United States
Germany
Chambers of Commerce
Boards of Trade of Severs
National Board Trade
State Department
Georgetown President Denounces Football in Address
President Himmel of Georgetown University denounces football in a New York address to alumni. He compared American football to a Spanish bullfight, saying even delicate ladies care to watch tackles while risk of injury rises, noting Georgetown already faced two fines for football.
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Gheorgetown
New York
Himmel
Georgetown University
Alumind
Sam
Georgetown
Wool Growers Leader to Meet President on Rawlinna Trip
Secretary of the National Wool Growers association George H. Walker leaves for Rawlinia to meet President Harding en route from Shoshone Nebraska to New York. Walker will be accompanied by a party member and returns tomorrow morning.
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George 4. Walker
National Wool Growers Association
Rawlina
President Gooding
Hie
Shoshone
Maho
New York
Mr Walker
Washington House Faces Heated Debate Over Immigration Charges
In Washington on January 25 the House clashed over language limits as Macon of Arkansas and Bennett of New York sparred about claims of Immigration Commission extravagances. Bennett denied the charges while Macon insisted his source, James A. Patten of the Immigration Restriction League, merited credence. The House approved a bill to create a Bureau of Mines in the Interior Department and the Senate advanced the fortifications appropriation bill of 42,000,000 plus.
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Washington
Macon
Arkansas
Bennett
New York
Immigration Commission
James A. Patten
Immigration Restriction League
House
Bureau of Mines
Interior Department
Senate
All Colorado Swept By Disastrous Wind
Terrific wind damaged thousands of dollars worth of property across Colorado. Telegraph and telephone poles were down, houses torn from foundations, hundreds of vehicles wrecked, and smoke stacks demolished. Debris blocked streets and left many areas unsafe.
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Denver
Colorado
Snow blockade ends trains resume Wyoming line
Trains on the Wyoming and Northwestern Railway resume moving in both directions between Lander and Casper after a snow blockade of thirteen days is lifted. Weather delays and heavy snowfall had halted operations, but service is restored and regular schedules begin to return.
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Northwestern
Casper
Wyo
Jat
Wyoming & Northwestern
Lander
Casper Yeater
Government to indict the big four of Chicago packers
Chicago January 25 government plans to indict J Ogden Armour Louis F Swift Edward Morris and Edward Tilden as leaders of the National Packing Co. the so called strong arm of the beef trust. Preliminary hearings and a civil suit are anticipated as part of the government action.
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Chicago
Chicago Packers
Inez
Edwin W. Sims
Beef Trust
J. Ogden Armour
Armour & Co
Louis F. Swift
Swift &Co
Edward Morris
Nelson, Morris & Co
Edward Tilden
National Packing Company
Alaska Coal Lands Spark New Revenue Offer to Senate
Jan 25 Washington reports a dramatic bid by John E. Ballaine to obtain vast coal lands in Alaska. He proposes a royalty heeding up to two million dollars per hundred acres, backed by a powerful lobby and former senator, amid Ballinger Pinchot hearings. Army officer James Wickersham calls for war department action. Major W P Richardson faces accusations of undue influence. He accuses Richardson of threats and lobbying for Guggenheims and other interests against Alaska people.
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Washington
Alaska
Ballinger-Pinchot
John EB. Ballaine
Seat
Ballaine
United States
James Wickersham
Congress
War Department
W. P. Richardson
Alaska Road Commission
Richardson
Guggenheims
Strikers Seek Help From Society Women In Tailor Dispute
Chicago tailors plan to mobilize support from New York teachers and women’s clubs by sending thousands of circulars asking moral and financial aid to back their union cause against shops employing non union tailors.
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Chicago
Oea
Tailor Union
New York
Etive Committee
Alston Captures Converse After Pursuit Into Idaho
Big Horn county sheriff Felix Alston tracked and captured B R Converse after a pursuit that began in Basin Wyoming and led to Twin Falls Idaho. Converse, freed from jail by a thief, appeared at Converse’s ranch and a deed of sale surfaced before further leads emerged.
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Converse
Idaho
Big Horn County
Basin
Wyo
Felix Alston
B R. Converse
Jian
Krusty
Twin Falls
Waho
Stanley
George Reed
Ja Man
Tugaday Reed
Basin Lam
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