Whisky lobby foes Pure Food Bill. Statehood Bill in doubt
Washington dispatch reports that whisky rectifiers push to kill the pure food bill by blocking identifiability of blends. R. M. Allen of Kentucky says 85 percent of American whisky is adulterated. The joint Statehood bill for Oklahoma and Indian Territory faces delaying votes and possible amendments. Michael Kerr monument push in New Albany seeks federal funding. Goodrich linked to Hearst bill petition, amusing Indiana Republicans.
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Ind
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Hoosier State
Kentucky Heiress Avoids Taxes by Moving House
Lexington dispatch reports Miss Clara D. Bell known as the Kentucky Hetty Green has evaded 6000 dollars in personal property taxes by moving just outside city limits. Her town mansion remains, with costly valuables kept there, while the country residence houses her personal property. The City Solicitor sued for back taxes, and the city board later excused 366000 dollars of property from the tax rolls. Plans to extend city limits to include her street are underway.
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Commercial Tribune
Lexington
Clara D. D. Bell
Kentucky
Hetty Green
Ashland Avenue
City Board of Equalization
Miss Bell
Widow of Kurds victim receives partial reparation
The United States reports Persia has paid $30,000 indemnity to the American mission in Labaree murder case. Gersh son Seyd Mir Ghafar linked to prophecy, other killers to be punished. Teheran pledged swift justice and no tax on Christians. President commends U S Minister Pearson for handling peace efforts.
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Washington
State Department
United States
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Ouroumia
Persia
Seyd Mir Ghafar
Teheran
Hay
Congress
Mir Ghafar
Labarea
Pearson
Tetheran
Eace
Peace talk rumors swirl as Russia faces continued war
In St. Petersburg on January 9 diplomats report no change in Emperor Nicholas's wartime policy. Peace speculation centers on Foreign Minister Lamsdorf, but no official proposals have reached the Russian government. Port Arthur ceremonies honored fallen defenders at Kazan Cathedral and the Troitka Monastery as talks proceed.
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Council of the Empire
M. Witte
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Troitka
Mysterious death by own action may be Arnold Kessler
Arnold Kessler, 75, left his home at 1412 Pleasant Street last Friday and disappeared. Two hours later witnesses saw a man matching Kessler’s description drown in the Ohio River at Mt. Echo road Riverside, with no identification found. Police and family believe he carried out his threats to commit death by own action, possibly choosing the riverbank spot for disposal.
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Pleasant Street
Ohio River
Mt. Echo Road
Riverside
Barisher
West Sixth Street
Ninth District
Brangan
William H. Perry
West Court Street
Kessler
Blow Knocks Man Through Window In Saloon Fight
Joan Geiger a 35 year old varnisher living at 1110 Gordon Street was cut in the temple after a fight in Murray's saloon at 2210 Spring Grove Avenue. Frank Bachman a North Fairmount line motorman from Freeman Avenue and Liberty Street was involved. Geiger was taken to City Hospital in serious condition. recovery uncertain.
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Gordon Street
Geiger
Frank Bachman
Fairmount
Freeman Avenue
Liberty Street
Murray
Spring Grove Avenue
Gadman
Chadwick Diamonds Case Not Yet Ready for Trial
Cleveland January 8 Attorney J P Dawley counsel for Mrs Cassie L Chadwick says he has received no diamonds or gems from Chadwick or her husband and finds the order to produce them humorous He adds the defense is ready to proceed whenever the trial is called noting an earlier trial date would benefit his client.
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Cleveland
J. P. Dawley
Cassie L. Chadwick
Municipality 13 Arrest Reported in Uskub Revolt Case
Special Dispatch notes that the entire municipality of Uskub along with the vicar and clergy were arrested by order of Hilmi Pasha in connection with a supposed revolutionary tribunal. Searches of their homes yielded nothing and attempts to secure release have failed.
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Hilmi Pasha
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Aristocratic lifestyle linked to birth decline says Dr Dabney
Dr Dabney asserts elite culture favors pets over babies and warns Roosevelt era race death risk. He laments undermining marriage and home, predicts extinction of the original race in New England, urges mothers to heed biblical calls to protect children as national life grows careless. He cites 1903 railroad deaths and injuries: 10 000 killed and 75 000 injured nationwide.
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Chicago
Newport couple welcomes triplets Theodore Roosevelt William McKinley and James G Blaine
David Chaliff of Newport reports a happy birth as three new baby boys join his eight older children. Neighbors congratulate the family as the mother recovers and the father notes the trio's names. The couple hopes the boys will grow into credit to the city.
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West Seventh Street
Newport
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Governor Peabody Moves to Contest Adams Election
Denver Jan eight. A Senate fight looms as Peabody nominated judges Bailey and Goddard for confirmation. Democrats vow a strong battle with Republicans Campbell and Delong pledging support to defeat the confirmations. Peabody plans to contest Adams's election, noting the law allows filing after the fifth session day, and predicting broader state fraud exposure beyond Denver.
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Seminary Blackout Cupid Forces Boy to Quit Seminary
Charles Burnett, 18, at the German Theological Seminary in Bloomfield N J leaves for Cincinnati after the house father orders him to choose between the sweetheart and his studies. Rules barred courtship without faculty or parental permission. Burnett returns home to avoid studying theology without love.
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New Brunswick
N.J
Charles. Burnett
Bloomfield
Cincinnati
Arnold Fismer
Burnett
Cupid
Europe
Fismer
University President Warns of Rising Arrogance and Violence
Dr Charles W Dabney president of Cincinnati University addressed 2000 attendees at the Grand Opera House urging warning against national decay. He cited aristocrats with many pets over babies in New York and warned of race death by action, moral decline, and rising murders noting 1903 Chicago cases and limited executions.
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Cincinnati University
Grand Opera House
Unity Club
Disappearance of Owen Kelly Raises Twisting Theories
Philadelphia leader Owen Kelly, a temperance advocate and business figure, vanished in late October after a days long hospital confinement. Investigators and relatives tie the case to a missing fortune, a saloon partnership, and a sealed ledger of loans, with $125 left in a bank account and an apparent $50,000 mising.
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New York
Robert Louis Stevenson
Dr. Jekyl
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Owen Kelly
Philadelphia
Continental, Title and Trust Company
Europe
Australia
Continental Title and Trust Company
Welcome Textile Mills
Daniel Wade
Kelly
Snowstorms Batter West Virginia Mountains
Reports from interior West Virginia show furious snowstorms with heavy totals. Weston records twenty inches, Pickens thirty, Grafton eighteen, other areas twenty to twenty four inches, severely hindering telegraph telephone railroad and highway traffic.
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Wheeling
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