Tolstoy Liar Serious Sick and Headed for Canada
Count Leo Tolstoi lies seriously ill with fever in a railway station near Astapova after a winter ordeal. Countess Tolstoi at Yasnaya Polyana collapses, says his mind is wrecked by government machinations. Tolstoi plans to join the Dukhobors in Canada, their sect known for nudity and rejection of civil marriage and rulers.
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Tula
Russia
Leo Tolstoi
Astapova
Countess Tolstoi
Yasnaya Polyana
Tolstoi
Count Tostoi
Canada
Kharkov
Count Tolstoi
Manitoba
Miners Dominate Votes At Labor Federation Meeting
Delegates of the American Federation of Labor in St. Louis hear officers reports. Gompers addresses the contempt case against him and other leaders. Morrison notes 1,661,151 trades unionists represented. Credentials show miners control 2,307 votes, carpenters 612.
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St. Louis
American Federation of Labor
Gompers
Bucks Stove and Range Company
Morrison
Branch of
Labor
Carpenters
Soldier charged with stealing whiskey from Germania saloon
Andrew McCormick a Fort Russell soldier was arrested last night on a complaint that he stole a flask of whiskey from the Germania saloon on West Sixteenth street.
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Andrew McCcormick
Fort Russell
Germania
West Sixteenth Street
Manna in Washington Explained as Mushrooms
Washington reports a mushroom shower in city parks near the Potomac. Fred J. Braentic, a mushrooms expert, says the tiny edible fungi resemble the biblical manna said to feed Israelites.
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Washington
Israel
Fred J. Braentic
Potomac
Aldrich to Push Currency Reform Bill at Short Session
Financials returning from the national monetary commission conference in New York express belief Senator Aldrich will seek passage of a currency reform bill in the coming short session. The general bond idea is expected as a feature of the measure.
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Washington
National Monetary Commisjion
New York
Aldrich
Congress
Oklahoma City Murders Probe Hints at Lynch Threats
Oklahoma City Oklahoma November 14. Police and deputies search for Oscar Opet a Mexican who shot and killed Chief of Police Hee Temple at Anadarko Oklahoma Saturday night. A mob pressure to lynch Opet has been reported as the hunt for the killer continues.
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Oklahome
City
Okla
Posten
Oscar Opet
Anadarko
Frenzied Man Attacks Crowd On Spring Street
In Los Angeles on November 14 Benj Shepard, a Black man, ran through a crowded Spring Street area fatally wounding a man and injuring a police officer. He fired six shots before officers subdued him with help from bystanders as Geroni lay fatally wounded.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Benj
Shepard
Spring Street
Simon Geroni
Georino
Strengthen Forts Along Pacific Coast Move Proposed
Major General Leonard Wood submitted a defense strengthening report to the Secretary of War. California Representative James McLachlan pressed for War Department action as Congress closed. Naval view favors canal opening to allow West Coast fleet reach and cover vulnerable areas.
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Washington
Pacific Coast
Leonard Wood
Army
Dickinson
James McLachlan
California
War Department
Panama Canal
Repulican to Quit America Ad Sets House for Democrat
An East Orange estate owner signs an ad in New Jersey weeklies offering his country house to a winning Democrat and says he will leave the land that turns down Teddy. He declares he is earnest and plans to go abroad until Republicanism returns in two years.
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Orange
N. J
New Jersey
Teddy
East Orange
Test of Negro Is Grewsome Crime Report
Asbury Park New Jersey on November 4 a gory murder case centers on Thomas Williams a Black suspect who allegedly killed Maria Smith whose mutilated body was found in the woods. Williams denied the crime saying he did not touch her and could not explain who did. He was subjected to a coercive display in the jail corridor as authorities pressed for a confession.
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Asbury Park
N. J
Maria Smith
Thos Williams
Williame
Willams
Williams
Weather Forecast Aims for Snow Tuesday and Wednesday
A weather report calls for snow on Tuesday with colder. It notes warmer conditions by Wednesday improving into the midweek.
AEROPLANE IN ROLE OF GULL
A Curtiss biplane piloted by Eugene B Bly lands offshore from Fort Monroe Virginia after a deck takeoff from the cruiser Birmingham The flight scars a propeller blade but the aeroplane continues at speed The navy reports aeronautical testing as a future factor in naval tactics and anticipates scout cruisers carrying aeroplanes Captain Washington I Chambers chairs the aeronautical board of inquiry.
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Fort Monroe
Eugene B. Bly
Birmingham
Hampton
Chesapeake Bay
Atlantic
Willoughby Split
Washington I. Chambers
Navy Department
Board For Aeronautical Investigation
Ely
Turkey Secures 7 Million Pound Military Loan
Berlin reports Deutsche Bank leads a syndicate of major German and Austrian banks, including Rothschilds, in arranging a Turkish loan of 7 million pounds at 84 price with 4 percent interest. The loan is secured by Constantinople customs revenues, funding a three year military equipment budget totaling 23.1 million dollars.
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Berlin
Deutsche Bank
Rothschilds
Constantinople
Ministry of War
Youthful Slayer of Four Is Riddled
Lexington Kentucky November 14 22 year old "Bad Jake" Noble the feudist who killed Jater Wesley Turner of Breathitt county at Jackson last Tuesday was shot to death by a posse in Knott county late today He refused to surrender and his body was riddled Noble had killed three men before Turner.
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Lexington
Jake" Noble
Jater Wesley Turner
Breathitt County
Jackson
Knott County
Noble
Jaffer Tarner
Taft Arrives in Panama. Greeted by 21-Gun Salute
President Taft arrived in Colon Panama aboard the U S cruiser Tennessee to a 21 gun salute. The canal commission and Panama officials welcomed the party as Taft planned a four day visit to inspect canal work and confer with local authorities.
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Colon
Panama
President Taft
United States
Tennessee
Canal Commission
Taft
Canal Zone
Canal
Stenographer Wins $20000 Breach of Promise Verdict
Miss Sarah Waiters a stenographer sued Frank A Appleton a Cambridge lawyer for breach of promise and won a $20000 verdict in Middlesex County Court. The jury verdict described as among the largest in Middlesex for such a case.
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Boston
Sarah Waiters
Myerett
Frank A. Appleton
Middlesex County Court of
Cambridge
Appleton
Middlesex County
Eerie
Oregon voters adopt presidential amendment in 262 system
Belated news from Oregon confirms adoption of a presidential constitutional amendment. Voters will express preference for president and vice president in 262 before national conventions. Oregon will select its own presidential electors and delegates to the national conventions, with state treasury paying delegation expenses.
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Oregon
Pinchot Opposes Cunningham Alaska Coal Claims
Gifford Pinchot warns the interior department may patent the Cunningham Alaska coal land claims he calls fraudulent. He asks the president to let him file a brief before any action is approved. The Cunningham claims involve tracts located by dummy entrants and paid name holders for the Morgan Guggenheim syndicate, tying to the Ballinger Pinchot investigation.
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Washington
Interior Department
Cunningham
Gifford Pinchot
Forester
United States
Alaska
Morgan-Guggenheim Syndicate
Ballinger-Pinchot
Congréss
Robbers Blow Vault at Clayton Bank in Midnight Blast
The Bank of Textilc in Clayton New Mexico was blown at 2 a.m. Shock shattered windows doors and walls. the vault exterior ruined but no money was taken. No robbers identified. The sheriff and Dalhart deputies are on the scene.
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Clayton, N. M
Bank of Textilc
Dalhart
Three Bodies Recovered From Delagua Mine Disaster
In Trinidad Colorado on November 14 a harrowing update reports the bodies of Master Mechanic James Young and William Kilpatrick recovered from the Delagua mine. The death toll reaches 76 with three still entombed as rescue teams press to reach them.
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Trinidad
Colo
James Young
William Kilpatrick
Delagua
Wild Game Feasts Proclaimed For Cheyenne Elks Reunion
Cheyenne hosts the first annual B P O E Wyoming reunion starting tomorrow with a two day program. Visiting members arrive tonight and a parade and wild game feast at the Hirsig ranch are planned as key events.
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Cheyenne
B. P.O. Kk
Wyoming
Order
Cheyenne Hodge
Hirsig Ranch
Ity
Delicate Mexican crisis stirs U S Mexico relations
A race demonstration in Chihuahua left Americans stoned as a mob seized the city before being dispersed. The incident adds to a tense Mexico U S situation with deaths in Guadalajara and Anadarko and official efforts to curb violence and protect citizens. President Taft, in Panama, follows developments by wire. Carothers, the American accused in Guadalajara, surrendered and was held pending further proceedings.
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Paso
Tex
Chihuahua
Mex
Washington
Mexico
United States
Rock Springs
Antonio Rodriguez
Mexico City
Jesus Loza
Carley B. Carothers
Guadalajara
Puelic
W.C. Temple
Anadarko
Okla
Taft
Panama
Diaz
Knox
Meleo
de la Bara
Kansas City
Oklahoma
Chief Temple
Carothers
Young Loza
Prudencio Chavez
State Penitentiary
Monitor Puritan to be blown up in Norfolk harbor test
The Puritan, a $1.5 million monitor, will be towed to Cra ney Island in Norfolk harbor for a mine test. Navy experts will place charges along the waterline and detonate them to assess armor resistance while naval officials observe. The chosen site echoes the Merrimac destruction in the Civil War.
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Norfolk
Norfolk Harbor
Craney Island
Navy Department
Naval
Feeney outlines Catholic civic issues at federation convention
New Orleans reports the ninth annual convention of the American Federation of Catholic Societies chaired by President Edward Feeney. The address denounces discrimination against Catholics in government, calls for funding Catholic education, condemns obscene plays and immoral films, and urges Catholics to resist socialism.
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New Orleans
Edward Feeney
The
American Federation of Catholic Societies
Polar Investigators Endure Hardships in Arctic Quest
Lieut R M Anderson and Dr V J Stefansson of the University of Iowa faced extreme cold starvation and danger while collecting for the Iowa university museum the American Museum of Natural History and the Canadian Geological Survey. They endured pneumonia near the Mekimos and subsisted on deer skin and snowshoe thongs as ten dogs died, with plans to spend the winter near Coronation Gulf.
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Iowa City
R. M. Anderson
Vellijatinir Stefansson
University of Iowa
Iowa University Museum
American Museum of Natural History
Canadian Geological Survey
Anderson
Coronation Gulf
Neighbors Harvest Ulrichs Crop in Husking Bee
In Craig Nebraska on November 14, twenty six men with twenty two teams joined a dawn to dusk husking bee for Frank Ulrich north of town. They hucked and cribbed over a thousand bushels of corn and shared a mid day feast prepared by four married and four single women. Ulrich suffered a injured hand from a cornsheller weeks earlier, prompting the activity.
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Craig
Neb
Frank Ulrich
Wirleh
Ulrich
Boston Lawyer Buck Drowns During Bath in Home
Henry H. Buck, a prominent Boston lawyer, was found dead in his bathtub this morning. Officials believe he suffered a heart attack while bathing and drowned.
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Boston
Bate
Mass
Henry H. Buck
Munk Killed by Accident in Wheeling Football Tragedy
Coroner's jury in Wheeling Virginia returned an incidental death verdict for Rudolph Munk West Virginia University football captain who died after a game with Bethany college. Bethany football schedule canceled and West Virginia University also cancels remaining games following the tragedy.
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Wheeling
Rudolph Munk
West Virginia University
Bethany College
Thomas McQey
Bethany
Munk
W. Va
West Virginia
Morgantown
Council of
Babies Checked While Mothers Worship at Pittsburg Church
The fashionable Presbyterian church in Pittsburg with 1,100 members opens a nursery staffed by real nurses. A plays room fills one floor of the Sunday school building so mothers can attend services without hearing babies cry, says Pastor George Shelton who supports the plan.
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Pittsburg
Presbyterian Church of
George Shelton
Snowfall Blankets Area With Early Morning Flurry
Snowfall came early this morning as wintry weather moved through the region. Forecasters warned of gusty winds and fluctuating temps while residents reported a brief heavy flurry of snow and sleet before dawn.
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Palia
Atull
Spirit Messages From James on Death and Afterlife
Boston Nov 14. M Ayer head of MM Ayer & Co testifies to four spirit messages from Prof. William JH James of Marvard. The messages describe death as sleep and rebirth, a child's awe, a barrier to earthly loved ones, and a peaceful sight of a building star and the hope of reunion.
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Boston
Ayer
Ayer & Co
William JH. James
Marvard
Earth
Countenante
New Mexico Moves To Complete Constitution By Nov 19
Washington orders accelerate New Mexico constitutional convention work to finish by November 19 so the organic law can be sent to Congress and President Taft for acceptance by mid February. If approved the state would enter the Union as of July 4, 1911.
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Santa Fe
N. M
Washington
New Mexico
Congress
Agronomy Association Meeting Highlights Wilson Address
Secretary Wilson spoke to the Association of Agronomy in Washington about bumper crops and the high cost of living. He urged buying large quantities and selling directly from producer to consumer to lower prices for farmers and middle distributors.
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Wilson
Washington
Famous Painter of Religious Subvnotes Dead
Joan Lafarge, renowned painter of religious subtexts, died after a long illness. The obituary notes her influence on devotional art and highlights key commissions in the public and church spheres. Her work bridged classic iconography with modern stylistic elements, earning acclaim across religious art circles.
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Providence
Ft.i
Joan Lafarge
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