Burton Eyes Senate Seat With Ohio Unity Plan
Washington report says Senator Burton aims to succeed himself as U S Senator in Ohio and brokers a Republican and Progressive get together in Columbus. Chairman Daugherty and Borah invited to deliver address as Burton tours Columbus Piketon Circleville Chillicothe Portsmouth Franklin Cincinnati January events planned.
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Government seeks federal control of radium ore
Franklin K. Lane urges Congress to authorize President to reserve public lands containing radium bearing ore. Federal Mines experts traced radium lands nationwide and want control to retain the curative mineral for national use. Representative Bremner of New Jersey, treated in Baltimore, spurred the move.
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Washington
Franklin K. Lane
Secretary of the Interior
Congress
United States
Federal Bureau of Mines
Robert G. Bremner
New Jersey
Baltimore
Shoemaking Plants Close Sparking Citywide Strike Fears
In Portsmouth eight hundred more workers were laid off as the Irvingn Drew Company shut its two plants amid strike fears from a Selby factory dispute. About two thousand are idle citywide. Selby plant runs some departments while streets fill with strikers guarded by police.
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Portsmouth
Irvingn Drew Company
Selby Shoe
Selby
Tuberculosis Cure Discovery Upends Vaccines and Serums
Paris report says F Marino of the Pasteur Institute found a toxin from tubercle bacilli cultures that kills other microbes and resists heat and serums. Tests in animals show no counterpoison, suggesting vaccines and serums for tuberculosis may be ineffective.
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Paris
Pierre Roux
Pasteur Institute
Academy of Sciences
F. Marino
Marino
Federals routed near Ojinaga as Villa forces advance
A Presidio dispatch reports the Northern Division of the Mexican Federal army demoralized after a three hour battle with Villa’s rebels. About 400 Federals fled into the river, later turned back by American forces under Major McNames. Wounded and dead were few, but many Federals lay exhausted in the field.
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EL Paso
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Presidio
United States
Chihuahua
Ojivaga
Miss Branch Hiding From the Scribes
Adelaide M. Branch, wife of Melvin H Couch, reportedly escaped from the county jail with Sheriff Kinnie and deputies. Pursuit pursued by ticket agents, conductors, and trainmen within fifty miles but authorities have yet to locate her.
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Commercial Tribune
Monticello
N. Y
Adelaide M. Branch
Melvin H. Couch
Kinnie
Dig Tunnel Into Bank For $3700 In Silver
Robbers bored 150 feet into the First National Bank of Oroville vault between Saturday close and today. They seized $3700 in silver but failed to crack the steel safe containing gold and currency. The cashier, W. W. Gingles, learned of the loss when the bank opened. The tunnel base ran from a cellar used only for lodge meetings at night.
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Commercial Tribune
San Francisco
First National Bank of Oroville
W. W. Gingles
Seventeen Year Old Boy Sues For Annulment of Marriage
Charles Bates a seventeen year old West High School student files in Des Moines District Court for annulment of his marriage to forty year old Mrs Maude Patrick mother of four. Bates mother Grace K Bates sues on his behalf claiming he was induced to marry through Mrs Patrick and that the marriage followed a formal courtship that began in 1912 while Bates was a sophomore.
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West High School
Maude Patrick
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West
Judge and Jury Sit Up All Night in Schmidt Murder Trial
NEW YORK December 30 The jury in Hans Schmidt's murder case of Anna Aumuller retired at 1:25 PM and, after lunch, sought transcripts of testimony including Dr Ely Jelliffe and Judge Foster's charge. They may request the charge reread as the judge vows to stay up all night to avoid a hung verdict.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Hans Schmidt
Anna A=muller
Foster
Brith
Ely Jelliffe
W. M.K. Olcott
Delehanty
Schmidt
Judge Olcott
Anna Aumutler
Anna Aumuller
Court of Appeals
Community Tree Program at Government Square Tonight
A festive program begins at 7 30 with St Pauls Cathedral Choir and Shrine Band performing Christmas carols and selections including O Come All Ye Faithful It Came Upon a Midnight Clear The First Nowell and Teddy Bears Picnic The event features cornet solos and band numbers led by Leeder K O Staps Dr W Locke and John Hoffman with the Bayrischer Maennerchor joining later for folk songs and the final Onward Christian Soldier.
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Cornet
Jersey woman defies railroad digging in yard stand
In Orange New Jersey sixty year old Mrs Matthew Maxwell sits on her yard door as the Lackawanna plans elevated tracks threaten to cut into her property Her husband operates a moving gate while workers pause under her bold stand Neighbors bring lunch and guard her through the day and night.
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Lackawanna
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Desperado Rokowski Escapes After Shootout in Woods
Pittsburg dispatch reports Henry Rokowski, 22, who killed an officer and wounded two civilians, fled from a posse in West Homestead. Aboard a foggy night chase he barricaded in a shanty, then vanished as officers planned explosives or a dawn riddle. Police sweep extends to Haysborough and surrounding area.
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Martin Windt
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Baukoski
Haysborough
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Little Lottie Rewards Big Treasury Gift
A Seattle schoolgirl, 15 year old Lottie Lester, sent a bird cage of evergreen bark with a Christmas card to Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Hamlin. The cage, bearing a Fraternal Order of Eagles badge, accompanied her tale of a Belgian hare eating her father’s Panama hat. Hamlin sought a bird but Treasury officials could not locate one.
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C‘al
Lottie Lester
Sistant
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Seattle
Mr. Hamlin
Odd Honeymoon Mixed Up by Practical Jokers
Heber Springs Arkansas December 29 Barnum Davis and Miss Lulynne Roberts of Searcy married under a real minister after friends staged a mock ceremony. The bride fainted and the couple, opposed to divorce, decided to try life together and left for a honeymoon. Davis hoped to be the 450th wedding at Hotel Horton this year.
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Commercial Tribune
Heber Springs
Ark
Barnum Davis
Lulynne Roberts
Searcy Ark
Davis
B. W. Davis
Arkansas
Horton
Anger in Chestertown as grand jury fails to indict killers
In Chestertown Maryland the grand jury adjourned without indicting two black men charged in the murder of farmer James Coleman. Tense crowds, deputized guards, and fears of mob action persist as the case moves to a reconvened session tomorrow.
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Commercial Tribune
Chestertown
James Coleman
Brown
Overpower Guards Near Prison Walls
Two Ohio penitentiary prisoners Chick Caldwell and Will Barnes escaped from Toledo guards after dinner at a loading hotel in Columbus. They had been brought to serve sentences at the Ohio Penitentiary. Judge Holland was captured. Toledo officers were assaulted and bruised. Police, including Warden Thomas, intensified efforts to recapture the fugitives.
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Commercial Tribune
Columbus
Chick Caldwell
Will Barnes
Toledo
Ohio Penitentiary
Holland
Caldwell
Barnes
Thomas
Civil War Vet John Kitty Dies Inventor of Cash Register
John Kitty 65 a Civil War veteran and credited inventor of the cash register died at his sister Mrs. Thomas Cooper’s home in Dayton Ohio. He conceived the idea while watching a distance-recording device in a boiler room of an ocean liner. Despite the register’s millions for developers Kitty died in only fair circumstances.
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Commercial Tribune
Dayton
John Kitty
Thomas Cooper
Kitty
Baby rescued from burning box on New York street
Three youths in West New York on December 29 found a pasteboard box in a bonfire. A two week old baby boy survived the blaze, was carried by the boys to a grocer, then to North Hudson Hospital where doctors said the infant stood a good chance of living.
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Trunk Found On curb Contains Doublempped Body Mystery
In New York a trunk on Pitt Street near the Williamsburg Bridge hid a bound, partially clothed body. A tall man with a derby and cigar funded the setup while a peddler and youths watched. Police, coroner, and fingerprint experts opened the trunk and moved the body to Clinton Street Station for examination.
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