Balkan peace talks end as Turkey rejects Adrianople terms
London dispatch reports that Turkey will not yield Adrianople and the Aegean islands, prompting Balkan leaders to resume hostilities within 24 hours. Greece advances by sea, Bulgaria leads land actions, and a possible capture of Constantinople looms if Turkish positions fail. Noradunghian Effendi pushes powers for fresh talks, while the war council weighs an ultimatum if no satisfactory reply by midweek.
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Adrianople
Aegean Islands
Balkan
Constantinople
Europe
Taft Greets Weary Philadelphia Democrats at New York Banquet
President Taft attends the Ohio Society banquet in New York and later plans to address the Bnai Brith convention in the city. He denounces a Philippines independence bill, warning it could hollow out US effort and invite future trouble. He notes minimal US civil government funding aside from relief aid.
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Taft
Ohio Society
Andrew l. White
Cornell University
Dutchess County
Henry W. Taft
Order of B’nai B'rith
New Haven
Conn
Washington
Wiliam Hawkes
McAney
Peary
John H. Doyle
Toledo
Burton
Ohio
Miles
John Wesley Hill
Richmond P. Hobson
John Purroy Mitchell
Board of Aldermen
William A
Democratic Party
Philippines
Philippine
United States
the Waldorf
George C. Boldt
Henry Phipps
Mr. Phipps
Phipps
Man awakens for breakfast during embalming scene in Corning
In Corning New York Harry Brigham of Ulysses Pennsylvania awoke while an undertaker prepared to embalm. He asked for breakfast and felt better after eating though he had been ill for a long time. His family found him dead two hours later and did not call a doctor.
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Corning
N.Y
Harry Brigham
Ulysses
Brigham
Nathan l Ranko
Miss Gould
Duke
Duchess de Talleyrand-Perigord
Anna
Gould
Count Bont de Castellane
Cunard
Mauretania
Fifth Avenue
Broadway
Harry Woodruff
Duke Louis+Coswaren
Alonzo Potter
Suffragette Leader Proposes New York to Washington Hike
General Rosalie Jones plans a long hike from New York to Washington and to require wealthy suffragettes to fund substitutes if they do not participate. Mrs Travis Cochran reportedly opposed the idea, unable to appear.
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New York
Rosalie Jones
Albany
Washington
Travis Cochran
Rebellion Breaks Out Anew Among Shirtwaist Makers
New York reports continued garment strikes affecting over 100000 workers. A tentative settlement promising 10 percent wage increases triggered immediate protest as workers rejected terms and formed plans for a new union allied with the Industrial Workers of the World. Police clashed with rioting women who attacked strikebreakers and guards.
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New York
Industrial Workers of the World
Ephraim Kaufman
United Male Garment Workers of America
Wedding Gown Cost for Miss Gould Set at $1 000
New York dispatch notes Miss Helen Miller Gould will wed Finley J. Shepard at Lyndhurst in Tarrytown on the Hudson next Wednesday. The gown cost reportedly places a $1,000 ceiling, sewn by A. T. White, with ivory satin, rose-point lace, and a court train.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Helen Miller Gould
Finley J. Shepard
Missouri Pacific System
Miss Gould
Daniel Russell
First Presbyterian Church
Irvington
Anthony J. Evans
Dra
Lyndhurst
Miss Gould Wild
George
J. .Gould
Helen
Dorothy
Frank Gould
Hugene Kelly
Kelly
Fifth Avenue
A. T. White
West Fifty-sixth Street
Mr. Shepard
Navy
Army
Mrs. Astor Cousin Leaves Society for Stage Career
The Brooklyn socialite and cousin of Mrs. John Jacob Astor, granddaughter of a former New York mayor, quits pink teas and dinners to join a SHubert company rehearsing The Kingdom of Destiny. She will use the stage name Adele Rey, citing society’s prep as useful for acting and noting the need to act with poise in hardship.
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Brooklyn
John Jacob Astor
New York
Shubert
Adele Rey
Dope Smuggled Through Prison Picture Post Cards
An investigation at Sing Sing reveals morphine and other drugs hidden in embossed picture postcards mailed to convicts. A New York City woman is alleged to run the monopoly on these dope laden cards, selling each card for a small price with drugs added. The prison and police expect arrests soon.
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Pribune
Ossining
N. Y
Sing Sing Prison
Sage
John S. Kennedy
Kennedy
New York
Sing Sing
New York City
Utes Vow Resistance After Fatal Sheep Herder Shooting
In Cortez Col Jan 18 Fifty Ute Indians enraged by a rancher sheep herder’s killing flee the reservation and take fortified positions in the Ute mountains. Sheriff and Indian Agent Spear pursue to arrest Big Rabbit while militia may be called as Utes defend the suspected killer. The clash follows a dispute over camping near Vichel’s herd and the shooting of one attacker.
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Cortez
Ute
Colorado
Montezuma County
Spear
Big Rabbit
Joseph Vichel
Nickel mix up leads to three thousand six hundred in damages
Miss Marie Dobbs dropped a nickel into an IRT ticket chopper box a year ago and was later paid 3600 in damages for false arrest after the agent refused to return the coin. She took another nickel from the window, was discharged in court, and sued the company.
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New York
Marie Dobbs
Interborough Rapid Transit
Society Women Pinched in Poker Game Raid
In New York on January 18 fifteen women and seven men in evening dress were rounded up in a police raid on a fashionable uptown apartment poker game. Detectives had posed as players to trigger the break in. Some women fainted and pleaded not to tell their husbands. One guest admitted losing 1400 dollars.
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New, York
Death Toll 43 In Veronese Wreck Off Leixoes
In a heavy gale the Lamport and Holt liner Veronese wrecked near Leixoes Portugal. Of 234 aboard 142 passengers and 92 crew were aboard. 191 saved, 43 died from exposure and during transfer ashore.
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Opoto
Portugal
Lamport and Holt
Leixoes
Osage Lease Fight Goes to Congress and Courts
Osage tribal council members deposed by Secretary Fisher face mandamus to reinstate. Uncle Sam Oil and Osage representatives clash with Interior over leases, with DOJ investigation and possible grand jury action. Albert L. Wilson accuses “persecution” by Interior. bill seeks lease approval.
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Fisher
Sam
Congress
Uncle Sam Company
Secretary of the Interior
Leahy
Uncle Sam
Interior Department
Aviation Gains Momentum as Taft Plan Endorsed by Senate
Washington January 18 The Senate fast tracked a bill to back President Taft's plan for a national aeronautical laboratory and to fund a commission overseeing its establishment with appropriations. The move signals renewed momentum for aviation in the United States.
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Washington
United States
Senate
Taft
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