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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1913
Page
1
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw returns to her Pittsburgh girlhood amid Thaw family pressure and sleuth activity. Reported moves to file court actions over her child’s paternity and future claim to Thaw millions loom as police guard her, while theater officials fear local backlash despite steady box office.
Monterey's El Noticiero story claims Texas Negro uprisings followed by mass flight of Americans and Mexicans into Mexico. It cites battalion revolts at Floresville, looting, railway destruction, and a Wilson decree restricting Mexican departure.
New York reports Joseph R. Darling resigns as a Department of Justice special agent effective around January 1. He led prosecutions against major trusts including bathtub, harvester, moving picture, and Pacific coast plumbers cases under Bona Parte, Wickersham, and McReynolds era. He plans to stay with the department through moving picture prosecutions completion.
El Paso Texas dispatch reports Panco Villa’s rebel army has not met Federal forces far south while planting campaign plans and supervising provisioning and artillery loading.
Large scale strike by teamsters and drivers begins at midnight in Indianapolis. Mayor Shank resigns amid labor dispute as employers halt operations. Milk wagon dispensation granted. no interference with mail government wagons or food supplies.
Washington reports on suffrage delegates including Mrs Hepburn of Connecticut and Mrs Livermore of New York as they address the National American Woman Suffrage meeting. The article notes the CT League's fight against white slavery in Hartford and mentions reception plans at the Bellevue Hotel.
In Bingham Utah Deputy Sheriffs Halsey and Mandrich were killed in a subterranean fight with Ralph Lopez the fugitive ambushing a bulkhead at the Utah Apex mine. A posse is sealing the mine and plans to asphyxiate Lopez with gas while Mike Theune cooperates.
At Huclid Avenue Baptist Church in Cleveland on November 30, John D. Rockefeller urged scientists to solve the problem of equal sunlight distribution. He argued perpetual sunshine would raise moral standards, increase church attendance, and create a contented community as crowds gathered to hear his impromptu sermon.
Mervyn Shaw a 26 year old recalled in New York for extradition to Toronto on charges of stealing 376000 from Swift and Co while employed as a 12 dollar a week collector and salesman. Police found Toronto postmarked letters. Shaw admits 1000 but denies the 76000 claim and suggests others took money.
Chicago November 30. United States Court weighs five years in prison and a heavy fine for Oto man Ymar Adusht Hanish the head priest of the Zoroastrian faith in the United States and abroad convicted of sending obscene literature by express and branding their book of worship as unfit for circulation. He claims Zarathustra lineage and faces appeal motions as government detectives describe him as a charlatan. A Milwaukee brewer Richard Hanisch says Hanish is his son born in Germany. Reports place him born seventy nine years ago in Persia and once a printer's helper in Salt Lake City. No proof yet of his Canadian flight.
National American Woman Suffrage Association holds its fifth annual convention in Washington with 600 delegates and many suffrage supporters. key speakers include Dr Anna Howard Shaw and Jane Addams as activists press President Wilson to back a constitutional amendment.
Mrs Julian Heath president of the National Housewives League telegrammed Mrs John C Bley Chicago executive director congratulating the 110000 Chicago area women who joined the egg boycott. She praised the Chicago Woman's Club and noted the group is doing great work for the cause.
The Grashof medal, highest honor from German engineering, will be formally awarded to George Westinghouse at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers annual meeting in New York December 2 to 5. The medal was first awarded at the joint ASME Verein Deutscher Ingenieure meeting in Leipzig last summer. Fire protection in factories and safety of the public on steel railway cars will be among topics discussed by society members nationwide.
Calumet Michigan reports about 30 workers imported last week to replace striking miners, bringing total imports to about 2,800 since the strike began. No disorder noted as operations expand. Additional outside men will join this week. Strikers hold large meetings urging continued action until Western Federation of Miners is recognized. An eight hour day in all mines starts tomorrow, leaving recognition as the sole unmet demand.
Ed Grishaw a 40 year old farmer and Wilber Youngman's wife 23 died when a Lake Erie & Western passenger train struck their carriage at a crossing near Fairfield. Wilbur Youngman 23 husband of the dead woman was fatally hurt. The couple were on their honeymoon and Grishaw had met them for a home visit before the accident.
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