Progressive Ohio Resolves for State Nomination and Equal Suffrage
Ohio Progressive conference adopts platform urging nominations by primaries for all offices and backing equal suffrage for men and women. Resolutions call for home rule, impartial law enforcement, nationwide liquor regulation, and expanded highway and tax reforms while opposing judicial nominations. Former Senator Beveridge energizes delegates with critique of amalgamation and GOP policy.
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Ragged Host Asks Succor Of Gringos Ragged Host
Two thousand Mexican refugees flee toward the United States as the battle between federals and Constitutionalists rages near Ojinaga. Red Cross aid arrives, deserters are to be held, and reinforcements push the rebels to 6500 men with fresh ammunition expected from Chihuahua.
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Effort to End Long Mine War Proves Futile
A string of failed conciliation drives during the Colorado copper miners strike ends with unions and employers standing firm. John B. Densmore cites discrimination against United Mine Workers as the fatal obstacle to peace, as miners face pressure to find work or leave town in Routt County.
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Lind Keeps Unharassed by Presidential Tactics
At Pass Christian Mississippi on January 3 the Chester escorted John Lind the President's envoy sailed to Mexico to observe Mexican affairs. The reason Wilson kept Lind from shore leave and had the envoy transshipped four times remains unexplained according to unsourced suspicions.
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Piercing Cleveland Refiner Worthy Clark Dies at 68
Worthy Clark, 68, noted as Cleveland’s first petroleum refiner, died today. He invented a refining process in 1859 and helped organize the Star Oil Company later absorbed by Standard. He reportedly drew a salary from Rockefeller interests for ten years after the absorption in exchange for not re engaging in business.
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Race betterment conference to study Kallikak lineage
Dr. Victor C. Vaughan will outline the Martin Kallikak case at the first national race betterment conference in Battle Creek Michigan January 8 to 12. He discusses a feeble minded mother and a prominent father whose descendants include 480 with few normal, while a later marriage produced 496 offspring with most normal. The aim is to discourage such unions and promote healthy marriages.
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Oil well blast kills Knox man near Turkey City
John Hall of Knox Pa was blown to atoms while carrying an explosive to an oil well near Turkey City Pa He fell while thawing the charge Archie Miller owner of the well was fatally injured Two others with Miller escaped injury
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Cox Understudies Urge School Plan Jeered by Farmers
Horace S Brittian special representative of Governor Cox and four State administration adherents faced jeers as farmers opposed Ohio's proposed school survey law in Mansfield on January 3. Resolutions charged the plan benefits college fellows with fat salaries. Brittian and Miller were interrupted. Senator Seward Harbourt and Kramer faced similar disruption while arguing for fair play and the bill's aims.
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Septuagenarian's will contested by relatives in Philadelphia
The will of John G. Watmough left 100000 to a maid and 400000 to friends, denying heirs at law. Probate was admitted after a relatives fight and the case may go to court. Watmough was an invalid for years. his wife Caroline Drexel died years ago.
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Four Die In Building Collapse In South Bend
Four people died when a remodeled three story building collapsed in South Bend Indiana as a temporary wall failed under the added weight. Rescue efforts continued amid debris with several others narrowly escaping and a Chinaman worker recovered dead from the rubble.
Panama Canal set to open within seventy days
Washington January 3. A high canal official says the Panama Canal will be passable from Atlantic to Pacific within seventy days barring unforeseen obstacles. Remaining blocks include the Cucaracha slide at Culebra and minor slides. dredging is advancing and once a wider deeper channel exists vessels may pass. Training of operating force will take months after opening.
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Motion Picture Actors Face Murder Sentences
Paul Case and Thomas Green, film actors, pleaded guilty in Riverside California to the murder of William Bowles Cahier during a bank robbery at Palo Verde Valley Bank Blythe. They were remanded for sentence on January 14.
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Saloon Men Set Four-Drink Daily Limit in Ottawa
Ottawa saloonkeepers posted notices declaring habitual tipplers may have only four drinks per day with one before lunch and one at bedtime. They stated “we’ve got to put the lid on them” as the new state liquor law demands saloons maintain a standard of respectability.
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Dr. Arthur B. Smith to face third trial for wife murder
SPRING O Jan 3 Dr Arthur B Smith will be tried a third time in the week of February 16 under cases arranged by Prosecutor Charles Ballard. He faces four indictments charging death of his first wife Florence Cavileer Smith by drugging. Two previous trials ended in hung juries and he remains free on heavy bond.
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Pankhurst Arrested Under Cat and Mouse Act in London
Miss Sylvia Pankhurst, militant suffragette agitator, was arrested tonight in the East End of London under the provisions of the cat and mouse act. She was released from jail December 15 after a hunger thirst and sleep strike to the point of seeming exhaustion.
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