Tax Bill to Penalize Americans Marrying Titled Foreigners
Representative Bowdle of Cincinnati proposes a 25 percent special income tax on US citizens who marry titled aliens. The bill would apply to all income sources and allow government action to halt such marriages, citing a drain on American fortunes and institutions. It names prominent American heiresses and villains of dynastic marriage schemes, with Bowdle predicting a public crackdown.
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Cincinnati
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Senate
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Congress
Internal Revenue
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Newport
Bar Harbor
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Vandervilts
Thaw
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Stetson
Zimmerman
Stallos
Educators Back Women Rights and Equal Pay at National Meeting
At St Paul the National Education Association endorsed woman suffrage and equal pay regardless of sex. Five of ten vice presidencies were allotted to women. Dr David Starr Jordan was elected president as Oakland California selected for next year’s meeting. Resolutions also backed pensions, higher salaries, travel vacations, peace, sex education, and parent cooperation.
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ST. Paul
Minn
National Education
Association
Oakland
Cal
H. C. Thompson
University of Ohio
Resolutions Committee
W.M. ‘Sheets
Florida
Mr. Thompson
South
Madman Buchankow Suspected in Quadruple Blue Island Murders
Police strengthen belief that Peter Buchankow escaped insane asylum killed four in their Blue Island home. Fingerprint comparison links his left middle finger to an ax impression. Police plan to test new shoes and seek clearer fingerprint proofs.
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Blue Island
Peter Buchankow
Asylum For the
Kankakee
Buchankow
Remarkable skin graft saves life of burn victim
Everly Jacobs of Charleroi Pa was discharged after seventeen months in a Pittsburg hospital with eighty square inches of new skin grafted from his cuticle. His father and nine friends donated the grafts, hailed by surgeons as a notable case in skin grafting.
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Everly
Jacobs
Charleroi
Massachusetts Solon Slated for High Office Peters for Treasury Post
Representative Andrew J. Peters of Massachusetts is among top choices for Assistant Secretary of the Treasury to replace Charles S. Hamlin, who moves to the Federal Reserve Board.
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Solon
Representative Peters
Secretary of the Treasury
Charles 8. Hamlin
Federal Reserve Board
Committee Ignores Warburg Declines To Submit To Quiz
A committee ignores a request from Warburg to participate in a quiz event. The dispute centers on whether Warburg should submit questions and share materials for the competition. Officials seek a resolution and clarify participation rules.
Desperate Huerta in Mexico City Faces Revolt at Home
Reliable reports from Vera Cruz describe Huerta's desperate plight in Mexico City as loyal generals Blanquet and Maure keep the army in check. The capital swells with fear and rumor of insanity from drink as wealth accumulates among Huerta’s circle, including his son Jorge Huerta and ex-minister Modeno. General Maas seized $200,000 in gold during a bank raid. General Villa opposes peace proposals, while Carranza and Villa show tentative reconciliation.
Harris of Cincinnati backed for Federal Reserve Board
Washington July 9. Friends of Harris of Cincinnati may urge President Wilson to appoint him to the Federal Reserve Board if the Senate refuses to confirm Warburg. Representatives Allen and Bowdle praise Harris but doubt he would accept. The Senate Banking Committee reported Jones unfavorably and postponed Warburg confirmation amid questions on Warburg’s business ties and his refusal to appear for committee questions.
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New York
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Wilson
Bowdle
Allen
Harris
Thomas D. Jones
Chicago
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Shermen
Harvester Company
Notable July 9 Briefs From Across the Nation
A telegraph dispatch notes Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth aboard the Imperator sailing to New York. Chicago reports former Mayor Fred A. Busse has died. New Orleans describes Dr. William C. Rucker organizing rat control during bubonic plague campaigns. Mississippi sees Lt. Gov Theodore Bilbo acquitted of bribe solicitation. Houston notes Francis A. Ogden’s will directing a $2,000,000 endowment for rural education. Jackson records a not guilty verdict in Bilbo bribery case. A husband shoots his wife and himself in Sayboard. both hospitalized. Cleveland reports fifteen workers injured in a furnace accident at Corrigan-McKinney Iron Co.
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New Orleans
William Co. Rucker
T General
The
Public Health Service
Cole Attacks Wilson Policy in Senate Bid Tour
Republican Ralph D. Cole rails against President Wilson and the Democratic party during a Galena speech. He cites unemployment and business downturn as results of Democratic rule and denounces tolls for Panama Canal transit as un-American and unpatriotic to foreign interests.
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MT. Vernon
Ralph D. Cole
United States
Galena
Wilson
Cole
Panama Canal
Flees From Sister Who Vows Murder In Strange Letter
In San Francisco on July 9, Mrs Eloise Dennis is suspected of pursuing her brother Marshal Nelms. Police seek her, and Nelms plans to flee to Atlanta to stay with his mother. An Atlanta telegram claimed a murder in New Orleans. New Orleans records contradict this. Nelms, agitated by news, says he had not planned to return home but has reconsidered.
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San Francisco
Eloise Dennis
Marshal Nelms
Atlanta
J. L. Beavers
James W. Reynolds
New Orleans
Carman
Chain of Volcanoes in Violent Eruption
Seward Alaska July 9 All the volcanoes along the Alaska peninsula west of Seward to the Aleutians are active. Mt Katmai along Shelikof Strait is emitting sulphur smoke and the sea is discolored by dust and pumice for 100 miles. Mt Shishaldin and Mt Pavlof are smoking as Dirigo reports.
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Alaska
Alaska Peninsula
Aleutian Islands
MtMullen
Dirigo
Dutch Harbor
McMullen
Mt. Katmai
Shelikof Strait
Codlak Island
Mt. Shishaldin
Mt. Paviof
Red radicals defy police in planned Union Square memorial
Secret meetings by anarchists and allied groups decided to stage a Saturday memorial procession for Arthur Caron Charles Berg and Carl Hansen despite police orders. A hearse will carry an urn with ashes on a Union Square platform where leaders including Leonard Abbott and Carlo Tresca are slated to speak. Emma Goldman reportedly hoped to attend.
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Workers of the World
Arthur Caron
Charles Berg
Carl Hansen
Harlem
Alexander Berkman
Caron
Berg
Hansen
Berkman
Emma Goldman
Union Square
Leonard Abbott
Free-Speech League
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Carlo Tresca
Paterson
Rebecca Edelson
Charles W. Plunkett
Local Resident George W Harris Linked to Federal Reserve Appointment
Rumors tie George W Harris of Cincinnati to the vacancy created by Paul Warburg on the Federal Reserve Board. Harris, a longtime member and former president of Cincinnati's Board of Sinking Fund Trustees, says he is not a candidate and would not comment on possible appointment. He is a native Cincinnatian and former representative at the Ohio Constitutional Convention.
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Federal Reserve Board
Paul Warburg
Harris
Sinking Fund Trustees
Cincinnati
Washington
Ohigan Murdered by Rebel Bandits in Mexico
Tom Farrell, a Toledo linked mining engineer with Animas Company in Cleveland, was ambushed near La Colorada Sonora Mexico while transporting $20000 in gold. Farrell died within twenty minutes. General Isaac R. Sherwood reported the murder to Secretary of State Bryan requesting action.
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Train Held Up and Safe Dynamited near Matson
The Katy Flyer was robbed at Matson Missouri about forty miles southwest of St Louis. Two men held the train cut loose express and baggage cars and dynamited the express car safe. Amount obtained was not disclosed.
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Matson
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St. Charles County
New twists in Catherine Winters case stir New Castle
Bat Masterson arrives with four men to probe the Catherine Winters case. He says the other end is a 48 hour train ride away and predicts a sensational break tomorrow as the conspiracy case against Dr Winters Mrs Winters and Cooper is heard in Circuit Court. The town remains in watchful waiting.
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New Castle
Ind
Catherine Winters
Bat’ Masterson
Indianapolis
Terre Haute
Masterson
German flyer sets world altitude record in solo flight
Otto Linnekogel, a German aviator, soared to 6,600 meters in a solo monoplane, breaking the previous record of 6,120 meters held by Frenchman E Legagneux. The event occurred at Johannisthal Germany.
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Johannisthal
Germany
Otto Linnekogel
E. Legagneux
Strong efforts to free Mrs Carman from Nassau jail
Special Dispatch reports attorney George Levy began moves to prove a witness recanted key testimony and challenge insurance agent Elwood Bartles who linked a tall woman in a white shirtwaist to the Carman residence. Carman collapsed in jail and was treated by a doctor as DA Smith criticized conflicting alibis.
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Florence Conklin Carman
Nassau County
Torney Smith
George Golder
Elwood T. Bartles
Quebec Fire Destroys Dufferin Terrace Threatens River View
A July 9 blaze at Quebec’s Dufferin Terrace destroyed the famed riverside thoroughfare. Two firemen were overcome by smoke and hospitalized after battling the flames.
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Dufferin Terrace
St. Lawrence River
Captain Bartlett Denies Karluk Crew Missing Report
Branded as canard Nome Alaska July 9 Captain Robert Bartlett of the Canadian Arctic exploration expedition denied sending any report to the Minister of Marine in Ottawa suggesting eight Karluk crew members were missing and likely lost.
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Nome
Alaska
Robert Bartlett
Canadian Arctic Exploration Expedition
Minister of Marine
Ottawa
Obregon Captures Guadalajara After Major Federal Rout
General Alvaro Obregon reports a decisive victory over 12 000 Federals in Guadalajara, with 5 000 captured and all artillery seized. He led his troops personally, cut rail links, and pursued remaining Federals as Blanco blocked Mexico City communications.
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