Nation urged to observe Gettysburg address anniversary
Illinois officials and national figures push a nationwide observance on November 19 marking the fiftieth anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Senators Lewis and Sherman are asked to seek official recognition from President Wilson and Congress, with Governor Dunne's proclamation backing the effort.
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Springfield
United States
James Hamilton Lewis
Lawrence Y. Sherman
Wilson
Congress
Abraham Lincoln
Quincy
Jessie Palmer Weber
Lewis and Sherman
Washington
Duntle
Illinois
Blair
Ilinois
General Assembly
State of Illinois
Tirinois
Union
Edward F. Dunne
Getteysburg
Hak
Vhs
Sates
Husband and Wife Sit on Same Jury
In Gyokane Washington on October 18 a challenge sought to bar W E Pengelly and his wife from serving as jurors in a criminal trial arguing spouses cannot act independently. Judge W A Huenke refused to abstain the challenge against Mrs Pengelly and allowed her to serve.
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Gyokane
Wash
W. E. Pengelly
W. A. Huenke
Driest Year May Be the Wettest
Topeka Kansas reports 1913 as the driest year on record yet the year may become very wet with rainfall totals near the yearly average. Through October the state has 26.46 inches of rain, close to the 30.12 inch annual norm, and more rain than in all of 1911 or 1912.
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Kansas
Fight Is On For Underwood's Job
Washington October 19 A bitter contest for the chairmanship of the ways and means committee has begun after Representative Underwood said he will retire to private life if defeated for the senate Four candidates led by Kitchin Pennsylvanians Peimer Rainey and Hammond of Minnesota have started organizing their forces for the battle A few other members are willing to succeed Underwood but are not actively canvassing for the post
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Washington
Ways and Means Committee
Senate
Kitch?in
North Carolina
Peimer
Penn
Four Women Admitted to Bar in District Court
Washington October 19. Among 169 lawyers admitted to the district bar by the District Supreme Court were four women graduates from local schools. They are Elizabeth Weaver of Los Angeles Kate Johnson of Connersville Katherine Sellers of Marysville and Elizabeth Edgert of New Britain. Sellers is bibliographer and librarian for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and will remain in her post indefinitely. She is an enthusiastic suffragist and secretary of the district branch of the college equal suffrage league.
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Washington
District Supreme Court
Ver
Los Angeles
Cal
Kate Johnson
Connersville
Ind
Katherine. Sellers
Marysville
Ohio
Elizabeth Edgert
New Britain
Conn
Sellers
Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
College Equal Suffrage League
Railway to Aid Kansas Farmers
Topeka officials of a large Kansas railroad plan spring start for regular refrigerator car service on branch lines. Small shipments of farm products will be loaded at stations and transferred to through cars at junctions for major markets, with the railroad handling marketing and remitting net proceeds after freight deductions.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Wichita
City
St. Louis
Chicago
Sixth Ward Democrats Plan Outdoor Meeting Tonight
The Sixth Ward Democrats convene at Sixth and Loth outdoors with speakers Mayor Hunt K T Dixon Victor J Castellini and Thomas Magavin. Pictures will be shown.
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Loth Streets
Mayor Hunt
K.T. Dixon
Victor J. Castellini
Thomas Magavin
1525
Race Street
Stanley Bowdle
Alfred Bettman
Pic
Duckworth Club
Clu
Ninth Street
Hunt
Yor Johnson
D. Washburn
William E. Kenney
Women Carpenters Form Class In Toledo Schools
A young women's carpenter class organized in Toledo on October 19 with 18 enrolled the first day. The class operates under the manual training department of the public schools and includes several married women among the students.
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Toledo
Ganized
The
Public Schools
Oklahoma Supreme Court Upholds Express Rate Refund Order
The court upholds a July decision by the State Corporation Commission to refund about 700000 in overcharges from intrastate express rates in Oklahoma. Bonds securing excess charges exceed the refund total, and the commission will handle the distribution, likely taking a year to complete.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Oct
Oklahoma
Oklahoma Supreme Court
State Corporation Commission
Adams
Welle-Fargo
Commission
Senator Clapp to defend accused newsboy youths
Washington dispatch reports two young newsboys, arrested for jumping on street cars, will be represented by Senator Clapp of Minnesota in juvenile court Tuesday. He commented that youth mischief was harsher in his day and promised to defend them.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Governor Cruce to lead Tulsa farm congress fair
Tulsa hosts the eighth annual international dry farming congress with delegates from over 20 nations. Governor Cruce and staff attend, with governors from many states to join on governors day. Exposition features 1120 buildings and 120 acres for machinery demos and crop displays beginning October 22.
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Cruce
Hunt
Arizona
Ammons
Colorado
Hodges
Kansas
Ferris
Michigan
Major
Missouri
Stewart
Montana
Oddie
Nevada
McDonald
New Mexico
Elease
South
Carolina
Colquitt
Texas
Spry
Utah
Carey
Wyoming
Congress
Ieuten
Wilson
Pioneer suffragist predicts failure of women’s vote in Colorado
Ann Arbor dispatch reports Mrs. Anne Kelly of Grand Junction Colorado, mother of Eugena Kelly a Democratic National Convention delegate, declares after twenty years of women’s suffrage that equal suffrage has worsened conditions, predicting many women would vote to recall the law and noting alleged corruption, neglect of home, and brazen behavior among voters.
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Tion
Colo
Eugena
Baltimore
Colorado
Kelly
Denver
Return of Glacier Halts Treaty Talks at Boundary
Vancouver October 1919. Unexpected return of a glacier at Glacier Bay on the Alaskan boundary interrupts tentative talks between Canadian and American authorities. The glacier blocks a planned sea outlet north of Prince Rupert, harming Canadian interests. The Grand Pacific glacier previously occupied the site and now acts as a barrier to the inlet.
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Vancouver
B. C
Glacier Bay
Alaskan
United States
Prince Rupert
Multiple Identities in Voter Fraud Allegations
A witness recounts a woman claiming to vote seven times under seven names, showing alleged affadavits and who financed the votes. The account describes intoxication, talkativeness, and a plan to influence polls, prompting concern about electoral integrity.
New Painless Dentistry Method by Dr Poole
New painless dental technique uses nitrous oxide and oxygen to render patients insensible during fillings crowns and other in-mouth procedures. Dr Poole promotes immediate relief from toothache with no after effects and urges examinations as no obligation while advertising low costs and health benefits of good teeth.
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Etops
Poole
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Hent
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Senator Clapp
Tulsa Farm Congress
Tulsa
Ann Arbor, Mich
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Central Avenue
WM. K. Herin
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