Burton Explains Glass Owens Currency Act Before Bankers
Senator Burton spoke to about 500 bankers and clerks at the Business Men's Club in Cincinnati on the Glass-Owens currency bill. He argued for a central bank role, criticized national bank notes and greenbacks, and praised the act's administration and deposit provisions as key to mobility of funds.
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Theodore Burton
Glass-Owens
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Busiymess Men's Club
Cincinnati
American Institute of Banking
Senator Burton
Hoi Polloi
Burton
Bethat
United States
Federal Reserve Board
Business Men's Club
Woodrow Wilson
Abe Laincoln
Union
Rome
Venice
Amsterdam
London
Hudson
Ohio
Mrs Thomas sails to Paris for tango after operation
New York dispatch reports Mrs Ralph H Thomas returning to Paris eight weeks after an operation prompted by tango. She vows to dance there despite critics, while husband plans to join in a month. She dismisses opposition as piffle and says the tango and turkey trot are welcomed abroad.
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New York
Ralph H. Thomas
Paris
Judge Fines Persistent Beggar In Street Scene
Hamilton Ohio January 9 municipal Judge Horace Shank yesterday fined James Lenehan a street beggar fifty dollars the maximum after he had given the man a dime. The beggar had been labeled pestiferous toward women and was deemed a professional supplicant by the judge. Prior to the fine the bailiff Jacob Halperin had taken Lenehan to a restaurant and bought him a meal.
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Jacob Halperin
Shank
Lene
Han
Lenehan
Giegerich
New Reasons Why The Bachelors Never Marry
Special Dispatch to Commercial Tribune from Battle Creek Michigan reports at a national conference on race betterment Dr Carolyn Geisel of Shorter College argues women’s colleges fail to train students for life and motherhood. Other speakers include Rev Caroline Bartlett Crane Booker T. Washington and health officials. The discussion highlights evolving ideals of maturity and responsible gender roles.
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Commercial Tribune
Battle . Creek
Mich
Carolyn Geisel
Shorter College
Rome
Caroline Bartlett Crane
Kalamazoo
Booker T. Washington
J. N. Uurty
Indiana State Board of Health
H. W. Austin
United States Public Health Service
Horace Plunkett
Ernest, Hoag
Leland Stanford University
Walter Taylor
Chicago
Dean Summer
Antitrust Drafts Move Toward Lawmakers Action
A tentative draft of three antitrust bills prepared by the House Judiciary Committee targets interlocking directorates price controls and injunctive action. The measures, under Wilson administration discussion, would apply to interstate trade and allow individuals to join Sherman Act suits for relief.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
House Committee On the Judiciary
Wilson
Clayton
Carlin
Virginia
Floyd
Arkansas
McCoy
New Jersey
Federal Reserve Loan
Federal Reserve Bank
Judiciary Committee
State could save millions with business methods says Donahey
Ohio Auditor A V Donahey urges strict business methods in state government to save about 3 million dollars annually. He cites high expenditures, calls for a state purchasing department, centralized funds handling, a new state office building, and intensified collection of unpaid revenue. He also recommends limiting official salaries and consolidating university work.
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Donahey
Commercial Tribune
Columbus
A. V. Donahey
Cox
Ohio
Hogan
General Assembly
State Treasury
Ohio State
Miami
Eleven Lives Price of a Day's Grimes
A day of violent deaths in East Prussia and Hamburg leaves eleven dead. In Soldau a family of seven was found with throats cut and gas on, a dog slain nearby, likely driven by financial distress. In Hamburg a policeman killed his three daughters and then himself after a family quarrel.
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Berlin
Soldau
East Prussia
Hamburg
Gypsy Kidnappers Suspected in Baltimore Family Theft
In East Baltimore twelve year old Rosie Ranko bound to a bedpost witnessed three men kidnap her seventeen year old sister Tinka Ranko. The men allegedly drugged them and stole fifteen hundred dollars from the father's savings. Police warrants issued for Peter Eli and Spiro de Metro of Philadelphia.
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Commercial Tribune
Baltimore
Rosie Ranko
Tinka Ranko
Rosie
Ranko
Peter
Eli
Spiro de Metro
Philadelphia
Smith
Woman Survives 850 Foot Descent in Aerial Demonstration
Miss Pin Broadwick fell 75 feet before the parachute on her shoulders opened and she descended safely from Glenn Martin's flight. The stunt occurred at an 850 foot altitude in Los Angeles with spectators observing the life preserver’s practicability.
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Angeles
Glenn Martin
Miss Pin Broadwick
Strikers in Johannesburg Use Dynamite Amid Rail Disputes
A Johannesburg railway strike escalates as dynamite is used near the city. Attacks target trains between Cape town and Denver George Goch, Witpoortje to Liupardsvlei, with injuries to trains and concerns of martial law. Leaders arrested on sedition charges as the Trades Federation bids for release and mass protests loom. Prices rise and shortages threaten natives in mines.
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Commercial Tribune
Johannesburg
Union of South Africa
Johannesburg Trades Federation
Cape Mail
Denver
George Goch
Cleveland
Witpoortje
Liupaardsviei
Zeerust
Trades’ Federation
Pretoria
Toutsma
Field
Railway Men's Society
Waterson
South Africa Labor Party
Colin Wade
Germiston Town Council
Rand
Transvaal
Middleburg
Witwaters Rath
Marc
Jagersfontein
Orange State
Five Sailors Perish As Gutter Founders In Hampton Roads
Old Point Comfort Va Jan 9 Five sailors of the Wyoming Atlantic fleet were drowned when a big freight cutter from the flagship swamped with sixteen aboard Eleven were rescued by a tug Captain James Glennan announced the disaster naming Olaf Olsen George Hugg Ernest Roth and Theodore Bauldus among the dead.
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Old Point Comfort
Wyoming
James Glennan
Olaf K. Olsen
Jefferson Street
Toledo Housewives League votes milk price boycott
In Toledo Ohio on January 9 members of the Toledo Housewives League meeting to oppose milk price hikes to nine cents. The group says major local dealers raised prices while claiming no profits since October despite protests from dealers.
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Toledo Housewives’ League
Harvard and MIT Plan Historic Joint Engineering Departments
Boston January 9 Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced a plan to merge their engineering departments in mechanical electrical civil and sanitary engineering and mining engineering and metallurgy. Harvard will discontinue its schools of applied science in these fields and Technology will provide buildings labs and equipment. The combined faculties will include Harvard professors and the president of Technology will head the cooperative operation with Harvard participating on future leadership selections.
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Boston
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge
Harvard
President of
Technology
Hervard
Corporation of Technology
Cardinal Amette Bans Tango as Sin in Paris
Paris. Cardinal Leon Amette archbishop of Paris issues an admonition forbidding the tango as indecent and sinful. Confessors will note the dance in penance administration while Christian women are urged to maintain modest dress and abstain from tango influenced fashions. The stance draws mixed reactions from Jean Richepin and Andre De Forquieres amid Parisian social circles.
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Commercial Tribune
Paris
Leon Adolphe Amette
Gouget
Jean Richepin
French Academy
Poincare
M. Richepin
Egypt
Greece
Andre de Forquieres
United States
Cardinal Amnette
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