Harmon on Corporations and Personal Guilt in Politics
Governor Harmon of Ohio argues in an Outlook interview that corporations are neither good nor bad. responsibility lies with individual officials. He says punishment should target wrongdoers, not the corporation, and emphasizes he seeks to aid all straight, square people, from farmers to presidents. The interview touches on his views of mass and class relations and political tools like initiative and referendum.
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New York
Harmon
Ohio
Outlook
Out
Gridiron Club
Violence at Colorado coal fields renews amid strike
Reports from Boulder Louisville Marshall and Superior in northern Colorado indicate renewed violence during the Union Coal Miners strike. Switchlocks on Colorado and Southern tracks were broken and tracks spiked to hinder coal transport as authorities consider militia recalls. Governor Safroth criticized recalls and praised Ohio style nonpartisan judicial nominations aimed at independent judges.
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Denver
Colo
Atrike
Colorado
Eld
Safroth
Boulder
Louisville
Marshall
Superior
Colorado & Southern
Missouri Republicans Pick St Louis For State Convention
Kansas City Jan 26 The Republican state central committee met in executive session and selected St Louis as the site for the state convention to choose delegates to the National convention in Chicago. The session adjourned without mention of factional strife.
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Kansas City
Republican State Central Committee
St. Louis
Chicago
Taft to Visit New York Cleveland Columbus and Akron
President Taft departs for a five day tour covering New York Cleveland Columbus and Akron Ohio. He will stay three days in the state and deliver more than a dozen speeches meeting with local leaders as part of a long planned homeward trip. Washington also reports the tariff revision fight opening in the house with a five hour debate on the bill. Democratic leaders push to pass measures over Republican objections. Chairman Underwood defends the scope of the tariff and rejects agricultural machinery inclusion.
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Washington, D. C
Taft
New York
Cleveland
Columbus
Akron
Ohio
White House
Congress
Underwood
Ways and Means Committee
Eight Nations At War With Wider Trouble Across World
A brittle global crisis unfolds as military dictatorships rise and revolts erupt. In Ecuador General Montero is killed and burned, Paraguay severes ties with Argentina after attacks on ships, Montenegro seeks a republic with US rebels funding, Brazil faces street fighting and fires, Britain braces for Irish unrest, China launches an expedition against Pekin, and Italy-Turkey peace efforts collapse amid possible general war.
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Alexander
Praga
Ecuador
Montero
Guayaquil
Paraguay
Great Britain
Ireland
Winston Churchill
Admiralty
Helfakt
China
Wu Chang
Pekin
Italy
Turkey
Porte
Aviators Race In Rain At International Meet
In Los Angeles the sixth day of the third International aviation meet featured a speed race and an altitude duel between Lincoln Beachey and Phil Parmalee. Beachey won the race, both aviators reaching over three thousand feet in a gipsy altitude display. Parmalee suffered a mid air collision and towed ins, and Parmalee later reached eighty four feet in a motorbase bi plane towed by a car in the rain.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Lincoln Beachey
Phil Parmalee
Beachey
Parmalee
Frank Stites
Eee Parmalee
Royal Bank Branch Robbed in Daylight
In Vancouver two masked men robbed the Hill Crest branch of the Royal Bank of Canada in broad daylight stripping two thousand dollars from the till after forcing manager Steaves and a clerk into a vault and striking another clerk. Police have a description of the robbers.
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Vancouver
B. C
Hill Crest
Royal Bank of Canada
Steaves
Royal Bank
Nagel Opposes Recall and Referendum Law
Kansas City January 26. Critique of the referendum and recall before the Missouri Republican Editorial Association. Charles Nagel, secretary of commerce and labor, says he cannot believe the U S can improve conditions via referendum. He challenges examples where a Republican president kept party pledges better than Taft.
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Kansas City, Mo
Critelaing
Missouri Republican
Charles Nagel
Secretary of Commerce and Labor Card
United States
Nagel
Taft
Denver Line to Reach Coal and Iron Region
The Denver Laramie and Northwestern railroad will resume construction this summer and complete its line to coal and iron properties in Wyoming within about 150 miles. The project costs approach $6,000,000 with bonds yet to be sold, but directors are confident in securing funds as markets improve. The extension will unlock more agricultural land and connect a rich western coal and iron area, with Eastern bankers in Denver recently assessing the company’s finances.
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Denver, Colo
Denver, Laramie and Northwestern Railroad
Wyoming
Grealey
Colorado
Eastern Bankera
Denver
Trial juror Cahoon in Pomona moves to next session
Los Angeles reports that Charles Cahoon of Pomona, a juror in the Bert Connors alleged dopamite plot, is carried to Puown today and will attend next Monday morning as important developments unfold.
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Thial TS
Los Angeles
Charles Cahoon
Pomona
Bert H. Conners
Supreme Court Hearings Over California Land Claim
In Washington on January 26 the Southern Pacific Railroad’s bid for several million dollars of land in California reached a climax as oral arguments were presented to the U S Supreme Court. The railroad relies on the congressional land grants, while the government opposes the claim.
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Washington, D. C
Southern Pacific Raily Road Company
California
Supreme Court of the United States
Shuster Praises Persian Guards Stopping Cabinet Massacre
Paris report quotes W Morgan Shuster as saying thirty five officers of the Persian guard swore allegiance to him and were ready to slaughter the ministry, but four hours of pleading saved the cabinet. He denies any ties to J Pierpont Morgan and says he went to Persia for the Persian people.
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Paris
W. Morgan Shuster
Persia
Shuster
United States
Guard
Fersin
J. Pierpont Morgan
Mev Morgan
Robbery and murder charge tied to Miraculous Virgin jewels
In Creastochowa Russian Poland Jan 26 police report jewels worth 100000 recovered from theft two years earlier from the Miraculous Black Virgin statue at St Pauls Monastery. Jeweler Adler traced pieces to Lubin and Lemberg. Father Macoch accused of murdering his brother for threatening to expose involvement. Crown gifts to shrine noted as pilgrims visit.
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Creastochowa
Russian Poland
St. Paul
Adler
Lubin
Poland
Lemberg
Austrian
Galicia
Father Macoch
Dynamite and Caps Found in Salt Lake Storage Case
Salt Lake City detectives Earl Ripley and George Cleveland discovered fifteen pounds of dynamite a box of Caps and one hundred fifty feet of fuse in a storage house. Records show the case was stored in October 1900 by a man named H. G. Betts. Officers believe one package had been removed and linked to a December 1909 Hotel Utah dynamite attempt.
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Salt Lake
Utah
Earl Ripley
George Cleveland
H. G
Betts
Hotts
Methodist Increase Lags as Population Grows in 1911
New York calls attention to Dr. H K Carroll’s census showing United States churches added 694366 members in 1911 with Catholics gaining 250665 and Methodists 204289. Ministers and churches rose modestly. Methodists show a near 48 thousand rise but at a below average percentage.
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New York
United States
H. K. Carroll
Carroll
Methodist Episcopal Church
Northern
Presbyterian Church
Protestant Episcopal Church
Baltimore flyer injured after 950 foot glide crash
Howard Gill of Baltimore suffered two broken ribs and other injuries when he ran into a fence during a glide from 950 feet in an aeroplane tonight in Los Angeles. He was picked up unconscious as the aircraft was wrecked.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Howard Gill
Baltimore
Armistice extension eyed as Yuan Shi Kai made Marquis
Peking reports the armistice between government and the republicans may be extended despite an imperial edict creating Yuan Shi Kai Marquis. Yuan favors abdication and Chinese expect no further fighting. He telegraphed Wu Ting Pang seeking a compromise on national assembly delegate selection. Court and Yuan appear wary. guards reportedly increased.
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Peking
The
Republicane
Yuan Shi Kai
Yuan
Wu Ting Pang
National Assembly
Taft appeals for famine relief in China
President Taft acting as head of the American Red Cross urged Americans to donate to relieve widespread famine in China after flooding damaged crops. He named the Central China famine relief committee led by Bishop Graves and other officials to organize aid and employ locals to build dikes canals and roads. Contributions were to be sent to Red Cross funds or the American National Red Cross treasury in Washington.
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Ashington
Taft
American Red Cross
China
American National Redress
United States
Central China
Red Crouse
Red Crow
Amerian National Red Cross
War Department
Wallington, L
Staned
William HH
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Hurton Pall
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