Campaign finance tied to beet sugar lobbying revealed
Washington report shows government printing and post office aided beet sugar lobby’s campaign against free sugar. Representative Truman G. Palmer testified about 1.5 million printed arguments circulated and 1600000 copies mailed. Beet sugar men paid about 160 thousand dollars since 1902 and 50 thousand since last November. Palmer defended lobbying as necessary to avert industry ruin.
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Washington, D. C
Government Printing Office
Post Office Department
Truman G. Palmer
Congress
Palmer
Senator Reed
Washington
Spectatore
Senate Democrats Resume Tariff Bill Vote Effort
Democratic steering committee members in the senate expect to return the tariff bill from the committee before week’s end. Some finance committee members express doubts about this outcome. West Virginia Democrats from the coal strike committee join a caucus as administration control remains narrowly held. Finance committee members approve House schedules on sugar and wool with no changes. a caucus vote will end the controversy.
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Finance Committee
Washington, D. C
Senate
West Virginia
Cheyenne Welcomes First Numbers at Chautauqua
Cheyenne crowds greet the chautauqua with about 700 at the opening concert and nearly 1000 for the afternoon concert and Tahan lecture. The evening featured Tahan as an engaging speaker with notable costume. Tomorrow features Chicago Artists plus talks by L H Weir on recreation and a debate on the Progressive party with Henry J Allen and Loris F Scott.
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Tahan
Reclamation Assignees Can Hold One Farm Unit
Secretary Lanes rules that taking assignments of reclamation homesteads does not require homestead qualification. Assignees may hold only one farm unit, reversing Interior Department rules from last February. The decision settles the dispute over eligibility for reclamation homestead status based on proof of existing ownership.
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Washington, D. C
Lanes
Interior Department
Woman Suffrage Seen as Crime Prevention Advocate
In Washington June 62 a Los Angeles police chief argued that woman suffrage could reduce crime during a convention in Grand Rapids. The remarks linked voting rights with public safety, touching on social reform and policing debates of the era.
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Washington, D. C
Oboetion
Los Angeles
Grand Rapides
Diplomats to Be Named Today in Senate Nominations
A large list of diplomatic nominations is prepared for Senate presentation. Expected nominees include Thomas Nebon Page for Italy and Meridith Nicholson likely for Portugal, with William C. Gonzales named minister to Cuba and Col Thomas H. Rich of New Jersey as minister to Persia.
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Washington
Senate
Thomas Nebon Page
Italy
William C. Gonzales
Cuba
Meridith Nicholson
Indiana
Portugal
Col
Thos H. Rich
New Jersey
Persia
Heatwave Threatens Wheat Crops Across Manitoba and Saskatchewan
Word from Winnipeg reports extreme heat gripping Manitoba and Saskatchewan with temperatures over 100 degrees. Sparse rainfall in the season endangers the wheat crop in southern districts unless timely rains arrive, as unofficial dispatches note significant dryness.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Coulon to Fight Williams for Bantam Title in July
Johnny Coulon of Chicago will face Johnny Williams of Baltimore in a bantamweight world title bout set for July 29 in Los Angeles. The match headlines a championship card with both men billed as top contenders.
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Los Angeles
Johnny Coulon
Chicago
Johnny Willams
Baltimore
Famine Threat Looms for Pribilof Islanders
Washington June 12. Famine threatens the Pribilof islands as Congress delays the sundry civil bill vetoed last session. Without quick relief government officials and natives may have to subsist on seal meat.
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Washington
Pribilof Islands
Committee Gets No Information
Charleston June 12 A senate committee sought truth about the coal strike among miners in West Virginia. An all day special train trip yielded no definite testimony and public order remained calm. Governor Hatfield refused to release military trial records hindering civil indictments. Publicity could threaten peace.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Senate
Hatfield
Cal
Pilot Dies In Unchecked Flight Crash
Andrew Drew perished in a burning aircraft crash during an unsanctioned joy ride with an untested machine. The craft plunged about 200 feet and exploded, ending the death before responders could reach him.
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Andrew Drew
Class of 1913 Honors Guests At Delighful Banquet
Alumni association hosted Cheyenne high school senior class of 1913 with a banquet in the new gymnasium for about 150 guests. Toasts by Harry Henderson Jr and speakers praised the graduates, faculty, and civic alumni, noting $70,000 spent on Cheyenne youth education and urging graduates to support public schools and service.
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Alumni Association
Cheyenne High School
Minnie Roberts
Irma Patton
Mildred Graham
Margaret Bruce
Emily Underwood
Messrs
Carl Dillman
Glen Hendershot
William Carson
Myron Collenburg
Ed Law Jer
Harry DB. Henderson, Jr
John D. Clark
C. Leihart
Whipple
Guesse Johnston
Thomas Hunter
Dora Dubois
Harry Henderson
Jack Clark
Clark
Cheyenne Bish School
Cande
Ele
Hunter
Henderson
Dubois
Wife Confesses to Axe Murder in Missouri
Harrisonville Missouri June 12 Mrs Arthur Kellar confessed to killing her husband and daughter with an axe while they slept last Tuesday She said she awoke Monday night feeling ill wore clothes slept returned to the room and struck both blows only after the deed did she realize what happened She then fled to a neighbor with her story of an attack.
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Harrisonville
Arthur Kellar
Kellar
Democrats Leap Toward Federal Aid for Rural Roads
Congressmen push a House roads committee to implement the Democratic platform for federal aid to build good country roads. The plan aims to supervise spending, reduce log rolling, and create a national rural roads policy benefiting farmers, markets, and power use.
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Clyde H. Tavenner
Washington
Baltimore
House
Friday the Thirteenth Hoodoo Day Warns of Jinx
A 1913 item notes Friday the thirteenth as a double hoodoo day with June 18, describing superstitions and tips to avoid bad luck. It lists rabbit’s foot, horseshoe, clovers, mirrors, salt, and other folk beliefs, and records mixed local reactions among Cheyenne people.
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Wealee
Moukate
Belle Vere
Couti
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