First Female Commission Chooses Site for Delinquent Girls Home
Sacramento reports California forms a women led commission to select a site for a new delinquent girls home. Members include Mrs Stephens of Santa Monica and Mrs Weyman of San Francisco who oversee site surveys in Yolo Solano counties. The act allocates 200000 for land and 10 cottages to house 20 inmates each with training in agriculture and domestic skills.
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California
Free Feminine Commission Ia
Atth
Johnson
DG. Stephens
Santa Monica
C. M. Weyman
San’ Francisca
Edgar German
Los Angeles
Mixes
Mary Hamilton
Redlands
Commission
Haa
Cali
Fornia
Yolo ‘County
Solano County
Weyman
Tehachapi
Intelligent Girls Make Best Wives Debate
New York October 23. Mrs May Preston argues the modern smart girl is self supporting and uses education and the rising suffrage movement to pursue useful work. She says an idle woman lacks brains and that more intelligent girls will make better wives than previous generations.
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New York
May ‘Wilson Preston
Ats
Establish Ranch Plan Aimed at South Africa Beef Supply
London reports in the Evening News on a project to create large cattle ranches in South Africa to supply England. The Chartered Company, linked to Cecil Rhodes, plans to run modern cattle operations with American involvement. Richard Walsh of Texas seeks assistants, while Sir Starr Jameson travels to Rhodesia to coordinate plans with the American beef interest.
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London
South Africa
England
Cecil Rhodes
Diamond Fields
Rhodesia
Mediterranean
Europe
Argentine Republic
Richard Walsh
Texas
America
Starr Jameson
American “Beef Trust
Sulzer politics stir Paris papers over scandal
Paris editors debate the Sulzer affair as a guilt verdict sparks controversy. Liberté questions the return of a convicted official to politics, noting public sympathy with a figure deemed an agreeable malefactor and the impeachment revelations fueling the uproar.
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Sion
Liberte
Sulzer
Bulzer
Albany Citizers
Shoes Free With Forty Shin es Plan Attracts Customers
An up state New York shoe dealer offered a promotion in which customers received a free pair of $4 shoes after collecting 40 stamps on a card. Each shine paid 10 cents earned a punch, and after 40 punches the card holder won new shoes.
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New York
Fire destroys California prunes hit San Jose packing houses
Fire in two San Jose prune houses destroys about 1000 tons of California prunes. Many contracts remain in effect and packers must replace 75 percent of the lost fruit. Coast quotations rise modestly but do not show a general price increase.
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New York
California
San Jose
Girl Breaks Typist Record at National Show
New York, Oct. 23. Miss Margaret B. Owen of the city set new world marks for typewriting speed by writing 125 words a minute during an hour of dictation at the National Business Show. The previous record was 117 words. A silver trophy worth $1,000 was awarded. Emil Treseger finished second with 120 words a minute, followed by his brother G R Treseger with 117 words.
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New York
Margaret B. Owen
Emil .T. Treezger
G. R. Treseger
Entire Paxinos Town Goes Under Hammer in Shamokin
Paxinos, the entire town in Northumberland County, was sold at public auction today to satisfy creditors of J Warper Mimin, sole owner. The sale included more than thirty private houses and places as part of the town’s liquidation.
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Shamokin
Northumberland County
Paxinos
J. Warper MiMin
Srlagme
Ghent
Suffrage Drive Aims To Defeat Opponents Nationwide
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, head of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, declares plans to defeat re election campaigns of all lawmakers opposing a constitutional amendment for nationwide woman suffrage. She will start in Lynchburg Virginia with a talk to the Virginia Suffrage League. She also denounces Mrs Pankhursts detention at Ellis Island as counterproductive.
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Washington
Congress
Anna Howard Shaw
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Shaw
Lynchburg
Virginia Suffrage League
National ‘American Woman Suffrage Association
Pankhurst
Ellis Island
Mrs. Pankhurst
Dr. Shaw
Just Government League
Chevy Chase
Maryland
Marriage Is Officially Judged in Eugenic Test Case
Washington officials for the first time authorized a Public Health Service medical board to examine a matrimonial candidate. Homer B Terrill of the Treasury Department sought a full medical exam for marriage and his fiancée was undergoing assessment. A board of Surgeons Rucker Stimson and Kearney waived other work to complete Terrill’s thorough examination.
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Washington
United States
Public Health Service
Homer ‘B. ‘Terrill
Treasury Department
Surgeon General
Rucker, Stimson and Kearney
Ter
Negro employee attempts suicide over estate trust in Clark County
Jim Shackelford a young negro worker at Jack Lisle’s estate in Winchester fired a bullet into his chest to travel for his health after learning Lisle planned to place property in trust with the People's State Bank and Trust Company. He will recover. Lisle, a wealthy Clark County figure, feared the strain of managing his large property.
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Winchester
Jim Shackelford
Jack Lisle
People’s State Bank and Trust Company
Lisle
Clark County
Kaiser Attends Aviators Funeral in Berlin
Berlin October 23. Emperor and family attended joint funeral services for 23 of 28 victims of Friday's Zeppelin disaster at Johannisthal. The ceremony at the old Garrison Church near the Imperial Palace drew Kaiser Wilhelm II and his sons along with the Empress Crown Prince, and Count Zeppelin. Seven bodies were later buried at a cemetery. others were returned to the deceaseds homes. Prince Wilhelm Fritz caused a traffic accident injuring a five year old boy en route to Potsdam.
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Berlin
Johannisthal
Imperial Palace
Count Zeppelin
Prince Witel Fritz
Potsdam
Suffrage Marathon Ordered in Brooklyn Public Square
Women will speak for 24 hours straight in a Brooklyn public square as part of a suffrage campaign. The event, under the Women's Political Union, will deploy relay speakers at Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues from 7 PM Friday to 7 PM Saturday.
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New York
Brooklyn
Women’s Political Union
Spellbinder
Flatbush and
Atlantic Avenues
Suter accuses Hill Academy cadets in tar and feathering case
Samuel Suter of Chilliwack British Columbia provokes seven Hill Academy cadets to juvenile court warrants. He says his son Clarence Suter was tarred and feathered last Tuesday night in Portland Oregon.
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Portland
Ore
Samuel Suter
Chilliwack
B. C
John Doe
Hill Academy
Suter
Clarencé Suter
Weather conditions control magnetism lecture in St Louis
Prof. E Nipher of Washington University spoke before the Academy of Sciences on experiments near Lake Huron showing wind rain and cloud shadows affect the earths magnetic field by disturbing electrically charged air molecules. Mare Island director Sen called it the most notable magnetism contribution in 50 years. Gee noted similar disturbances in the stellar universe.
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T. J. J. Sen
Mare Island Naval Observatory
Nipher
Gee
President to Plant an Oak Tree at Swarthmore Campus
Swarthmore October 28 President Wilson and Governor Tener will plant scarlet oak trees on the college campus on October 26. They travel by special train after exercises marking the reopening of Crecre hall Philadelphia.
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Tener
Wilson
Swarthmore
Pus
Con
Swarthmore College
Arabiua
Harold Goddard
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