Oats Brother Eregated for Watson Deed
In Cleveland a claim by Nellie Ackerman that Walter Andrew Watson murdered Mrs Hattie McCloud in 1888 surfaces. Ackerman, formerly of Shelbourne Falls, says Watson then known as Newton Harvey lived there and her brother Jack O Neil was hanged for the crime. She plans to contact Los Angeles prosecutor Woolwine to seek questioning.
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Cleveland, O
Walter Andrew Watson
California
Cleveland
Nellie Ackerman
Watson
Hattie McCloud
Shelbourne Falls
Mass
Jack O'Neil
Angles Police Skeptical On Watson Murder Claim
Los Angeles officers handling the Watson case dismissed Cleveland’s charge that James P. Watson killed Mrs. Hattie McCloud and hinted that the suspect may be younger and with a shorter criminal career than stated. They estimate Watson is about 40, with a prior record not extending far back.
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Los Angeles
James P. Watson
Cleveland
Ohio
Watson
Hattie McCloud
Jack O'Neil
Watson Not That Murderer in Shelburne Falls Tale
Shelburne Falls Mass May 1 Evidence suggests Newton Harvey formerly of this town and Walter Andrew Watson alias Newcomb Harvey jailed in California for alleged murders of five women are separate individuals A telegram from Toronto police reports Newton Harvey now lives in Thornburg near Toronto A letter from Thornburg dated April 9 was received by Julia White Newton Harvey’s sister
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Shelburne Falls
Mass
Newton Harvey
Walter Andrew Watson
Newcomb Harvey
California
Toronto
Canada
Thornburg
Julia White
Cannon Turns 84 as House Hails Birthday
Washington May 7 Former Speaker Cannon is 84 today. Members of the house gave him an ovation when Mondell announced the birthday anniversary. Chauncey M Depew of New York sent a congratulatory message.
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Washington
Cannon
Mondell
Uncle Joe
Chauncey M. Depew
New York
Police Seek Deserter Trio From Fort Mussell
Police seek three soldiers who deserted from Fort Mussell yesterday afternoon. Descriptions and names were telephoned to the station last night and forwarded to the military department for cooperation in locating the trio. Details indicate the men are believed to be armed and potentially dangerous.
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Fort Mussell
Yee
Jimmie Arnold Cey
Annette Kellerman Popularizes One Piece Swimwear
Annette Kellerman, famed mermaid and actress, is credited with popularizing snug one piece bathing suits. The nation honored her by dubbing the suit Annettes and she played a pivotal role in the swimwear craze, though misprints and incomplete lines obscure some details.
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Annette Kellerman
Annettes
Annette Hubbed
Annette
Dr Grace Hebard Speaks to Hartford Suffrage Delegation
A 48 state emergency suffrage corps presented arguments to Governor Wilbur Cross seeking a special legislative session on the suffrage amendment. Notables including Mrs Minnie B Cunningham of Texas and Mrs Seward Simons of California spoke alongside Dr Grace Raymond Hebard of Wyoming at the Connecticut capitol. The governor said he would think the matter over.
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Hartford
Conn
Emergency Suffrage Corps
Connecticut
Heltcomb
Capitol
Minnie B. Cunningham
Texas
Seward Simons
California
Grace Raymond Hebard
Wyoming
Bobby Back in City and Jailed Again
A 19 year old girl known only as Bobby was picked up on the street and jailed in Cheyenne. Refusing to provide a name, she has a history of being banished as an undesirable character to Laramie six weeks earlier and returning to Cheyenne despite orders.
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Bobby
Laramie
Cheyenne
Steamer Cody Named For Buffalo Bill Set To Launch
The steamship Cody, named for the late Buffalo Bill Cody, will be launched at Hog Island Penn May 34, per a report to Mrs Mary Allen daughter of Cody on a visit for the National Republican Women's Executive Committee.
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Minneapolis
Cody
Buffalo Bill’ Cody
Hog Island
Penn
Mary Allen
National Republican Women's Executive Committee
Press association head accuses newsprint cartel
Cortland Smith of the American Press association told the senate committee that the print paper market is cornered and producers regulate output to push prices higher. He warned small-town papers face extinction without relief as the federal trade commission report on newsprint is reviewed by the Justice Department.
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Washington
Country Press
Senate
Cortland Smith
New York
American Press Association
Smith
Federal Trade Commission
Department “of Justice
Murdock
Woud
Department of Justice
First Field Day in Skies Won by Yale's Aviators
Yale captured the first inter college aerial field day in Mineola with 8 points under the Inter College Flying Association and U S air service. Williamses were second with 6 points, while Princeton and Columbia tied for third with 5.
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YALE
Aviators
Mineola
Inter- College Flying Association
American Flying Club
United States Air Service
Williame
Princeton
Columbia
League Nations Disputed Issue For Methodists
Des Moines May 1 Differences in opinion over the league of nations arose at the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church as the committee on state of church filed both a majority and minority report. The majority urged sending the bishops address paragraph to President Wilson and Congress as written. The minority favored asking the president to re submit the matter to Congress with modifications to secure Senate adoption. Action deferred until tomorrow.
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Des Moines
League of Nations
General Conference of
Methodist-Episcopal Church
Committee On State of Church
Wilson
Congress
Senate
Shipping board urged to use present costs for sale prices
Washington May 7 a committee of businessmen appointed by Chairman Benson recommends using present reproduction costs rather than original costs to set sale prices for war built tonnage. The panel was named after a conference of business leaders here last month and its report was released by the Shipping Board.
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Washington
Shipping Board
Benson
Shipping’ Board
Bankers balk at $600 million rail loan plan
Bankers before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee failed to back a $600 million government loan to buy rolling stock for main lines. They agreed private funding is insufficient, but rejected government loan approval and instead favored market borrowings to expand terminals and accelerate contracted equipment. They blamed income tax for shrinking investor power while opposing new aid.
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Washington
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Jerome G. Hanauer
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
New
Japanese Labor Party Calls Troop Withdrawal And Wage Plan
The Yualkal or Japanese Labor Party adopted resolutions urging withdrawal of Japanese troops from Siberia and the establishment of a minimum wage scale, as reported by the New World, a local Japanese newspaper, via a cablegram received today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
The
Yualkal
J Labor Party of Japan
Siberia
New World
Thief Steals Watches From Miss LaBelle Home
A thief entered Miss Lillian LaBelle’s apartment in Denver and took all accessible watches and clocks. He secured an alarm lock, a large clock, a wristwatch, and another timepiece, totaling about $4 in value.
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Denver
Lillian LaBelle
DuPonts Deny Threats In Wood Presidential Bid
Senator Kenyon charged the DuPont interests threatened to attack General Wood’s campaign unless Senator Moses dropped opposition to a bill to protect the American dye-stuff industry. A letter from DuPont publicity head Charles Weston described the threat as cited with Wood and Moses’s consent. The measure aims to foster U S dye-stuff industry and curb German control affecting war munition production.
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Washington
Associated Press
Wood
Senate
Kenyon
Iowa
Dupont
Moses
New Hampshire
DuPonts
Reading
Charles K. Weston
DuPont Publicity Bureau
Germany
DuPont Says It Is Not Interested In Political Candidates
Wilmington May 7 The E I DuPont de Nemours company denies any political ties and rejects charges of pressuring legislation by threatening to oppose Major General candidacy. The company official statement asserts no involvement in political campaigns.
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Wilmington
Del
E. I. DuPont de Nemours Company
Mrs. Mary Bracken Dies in 90th Year
Mrs. Mary Bracken aged 89 died yesterday afternoon at the Applegate ranch south of the city. She is survived by her nephew Julius Bracken of Cheyenne. The body will be sent to Burlington Junction Missouri from the W W Dumm mortuary for interment. Mrs Bracken had lived in or near Cheyenne for the last decade.
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Mary Bracken
Applegate Ranch
J.ul. Bracken
Cheyenne
Burlington Junction
W. W. Dumm
Mail Jacker in Indifferent 10 Lethal Cables
A high jacker forced entry to Max J. Meyer’s room in the Idelman block second floor but fled after being frightened away. He left a valise with five quart demijohns of liquor, as police watched several suspects. Meyer has been in Denver a month.
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Max J. Meyer
Idelman Block
Meyer
Denver
Karner
W. H. White
Inter-Qceen
White
Flies High With Four Passengers in Orenxo Plane
Clarence Coombs piloting an Orenxo plane with three passengers reached 16 200 feet over Mitchell Field setting a new world record. Officials from the American Flying Club vouched for the feat.
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Orenxo
Mineola
N. Y
Clarence Coombs
Mitchell Field
American Flying Club
Motions to quash indictments filed in federal court
In Indianapolis on May 7 motions to quash indictments against 125 coal miners and operators from Indiana Ohio Illinois and Pennsylvania were filed by Charles Evans Hughes chief counsel and Samuel D Miller and James Bingham counsel for the defendants.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Ohio
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Charles Evans Hughes
Samuel D. Miller
James Bingham
Boilermakers Strike At Border Yard In El Paso
Five boilermakers and helpers employed in the Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio yards, part of the Southern Pacific, quit work this afternoon over the employment of a non union man. The workers are members of Boilermakers Union No. 216.
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EL Paso
Tex
Galveston
Harrisburg
San Antonio
Southern Pacific
Norman E Mack Re elected NY Democratic Committeeman
Norman E Mack of Buffalo was re elected national committeeman from New York by the Democratic delegates. He has served as national committeeman for twenty years.
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Albany
N. Y
Norman BE. Mack
Buffalo
New York
Most Cussed Of Americans This Lot Southron
This portrait shows Postmaster General Albert Sidney Burleson in his long standing attire. He carries an umbrella daily, has worn the same hat for years, and uses a cane from his youth. The secretary is described as perhaps the most cussed official in America.
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Albert Sidney Burleson
San Antonio
Tex
America
Grain futures advocates seek solution at Chicago meeting
A 47 member committee representing grain production and marketing will plan handling of the wheat crop and resume trading on futures after May 31 when the guaranty act expires. A 16 member subcommittee from eight exchanges will study recommendations and report to the general committee. Julius Barnes, federal wheat director, warned of possible Lever Act embargo use to prevent foreign pooling manipulating markets.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Julius H. Barnes
Duluth
Minneapolis
Omaha
Toledo
Milwaukee
Kansas City
St. Louis
Barnes
Stone in mouth kills Lyftogt in Orange City
In Orange City Iowa, J Lyftogt died twenty four hours after forcing a golf ball sized stone into his mouth. Doctors failed to remove it as the stone lodged in his throat and tore the esophagus, leading to his death despite attempts to push it into the stomach.
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Orange City
J. Lyftogt
Lyftagt
Flight of Car Ranza Not Confirmed Yet
In Juarez Mexico May 7 4 Tehuantepec Oaxaca Corbod a Vera Cruz Agambara and Guanajuato have fallen to revolutionists General Jose Gonzales Escobar reports from Chihuahua City The State of Mexico legislature joins the revolt Toluca cut off from Mexico City Mujica uprising in Michoacan Flores moves toward Mazatlan city falls imminent says Escobar
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Mexico City
Francisco Mujica
Michoacan
Angel Flores
Mazatlan
Sinaloa
Escobar
Rebels Occupy Several Mexican Border Cities Amid Revolt
Reports from Washington say Mexican rebels gain control of Piedras Negras Laredo and Matamoros as Garza forces retreat. Vera Cruz garrison revolt leads to evacuation while Carranza purportedly leaves Mexico City. Cabrera brothers with rebel routes and arrests linked to consular agent Jenkins noted.
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Washington
Piedras Negras
Laredo
Matamoros
Garranza
Vera Cruz
Carranza
State Department
Mexico City
Garranzi
Louis Cabrera
Piedras Ne
Diaz About to Join Uprising in Mexico
General Francisco Murguia accuses Manuel Diaz of friendliness to the revolution in a manifesto from Mexico City. Diaz, once Carranza’s northern commander, was ordered to attack Sonora through Sinaloa and has recent rumors of border overtures to rebels. Murguia’s actions cited as terror in the capital.
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EL Paso
Manuel Diaz
Garranza
Mexico City
Francisco Murguia
Murguia
Puebla
Carranza
Diaz
Sonora
Sinaloa
Guadaljara
Jalisco
Tucdulo R. Beltrain
Rebels Ammunition Seizure Stuns Douglas Community
Douglas merchant Tigna cio Sueto was arrested by Justice Department agents on a conspiracy charge for sending ammunition into Mexico. A complaint accuses a Los Angeles to Tucson route with casks billed to a fictitious address, detailing weighted consignments.
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Douglas, Ariz
Tignacio Sueto
Department of Justice
Mexico
Los Angeles
Tuacon
Aviz
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Angeles
Chauncey
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Combine
League Nations
Johnson
Dark Horse
Philander C, Knox
Penrose
Philander C. Knox
Republcan
Knox
JAP Labor
Gen
Leonard Wood
Max Meyer
Norman E. Mack
Joe
Southron
Burleson
Lyftogt
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