Bigelow Bill Faces House Vote on Cincinnati Traction Revocation
Columbus dispatch reports March 10 that the Bigelow bill to revoke Cincinnati Traction Company’s fifty year franchise comes before the House at 10 am by special order. Supporters predict a large majority, opponents fear defeat, while the measure paves the way for municipal ownership and valuation disputes through public utilities and courts.
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Commercial Tribune
Columbus, CO
Bigelow
Cincinnati
Hunt
Ohio Legislature Update Noted In Page Two Column Four
For further news of the Ohio Legislature see Page 2, Column 4.
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Ohio
Paper Made Fortune Telling Untruths
Ralph Pulitzer, head of The Press Publishing Co., seeks criminal libel action against Mayor Gaynor over a speech at the South Brooklyn Board of Trade banquet. Gaynor denounced a newspaper for lying about “The Secret Subway Deal” and warned against the paper’s alleged misrepresentation.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Ralph Pulitzer
Joseph Pulitzer
The
Press Publishing Company
New York World
St. Louis Globe Democrat
Gaynor
South Brooklyn Board of Trade
Board of Trade
Rosorum
Police Chief's Visit to Schearer's Wife Described On Stand
Cleveland March 10 Friends of Samuel D Schearer described to the Civil Service Commission the conversation after Schearer surprised Chief of Police Fred Kohfer with Mrs Schearer at their home on June 6 1912 Neighbors testified Kohler entered the Schearer home an hour before Schearer broke in a window The hearing adjourned until tomorrow with testimony for the prosecution to conclude and Schearer and Mrs Schearer not called to testify
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Cleveland
Samuel D. Schearer
Civil Service Commission
Schearer
Fred Kohfer
Sam
Kohler
Women as cops for Chicago proposed by Mayor
Chicago March 40 mayor Harrison announced a plan to use policewomen as inspectors after police reorganization. He proposed a squad of twenty to thirty women to handle vice work and investigate complaints from young women in resorts, acting as a check on regular officers. He noted no current policewomen besides station matrons and said funding awaits the next appropriation bill.
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Commercial Tribune
Chicago
Harrison
Huerta predicts pacification of Mexico by May
Provisional President Huerta says Sonora poses political rather than military problems and orders a larger force. He notes 4,000 troops dispatched, Coahuila forces to follow, and Zapata to command Morelos troops. He aims for complete pacification by early May and envisions 50 million pesos in the treasury and an 8,000 man army, with a 400 million franc loan offer from French capitalists.
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Commercial Tribune
Mexico City
Huerta
Sonora
Coahuila
Zapata
Mexico
Hat pins face fine for danger under new law
Boston March 10. Massachusetts women must cover hat pin points with a device to protect the public from injury or face a $100 fine. The governor signed the act today, and allowed wearers to choose their own method to render pins harmless.
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Boston
Massachusetts
Foss
Johnson Urges Trial For Smuggling Necklace Case
Chicago March 10 Jack Johnson appeared at the Federal Building to urge an early trial on a smuggling charge involving a diamond necklace valued at $5,000. Afterward the prize fighter faces possible Mann Act violations.
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Chicago
Jack Johnson
Federal Building
England
Bankers Asked To Repay $1 400 000 to Stockholders
Equity suit filed in U S District Court seeks $1 400 000 from Ben F Edwards and George Lane Edwards for losses tied to the December 1906 purchase of the Fourth National Bank. The National Bank of Commerce claims 3,600 of its 6,700 Fourth National shares belonged to the Edwards brothers and accuses them of breach of trust and a violation of national banking laws.
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Commercial Tribune
ST. Lotis
Ben F. Edwards
George Lane Edwards
National Bank of Commerce
Fourth National Bank
United States District Court
John P. Herrmann
Fierrmann
A. G. Edwards & Sons
A. G. Edwards Sons’ Brokerage Company
National
National Bank For Commerce
Bank of Commerce
Barclay, Fauntleroy, Cullen & Orthwein
Pope Gains Strength as Doctors Allow More Diet
Rome dispatch reports the Pope's condition improving with doctors permitting a more abundant diet to sustain his strength during recovery.
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Rome
Illinois Senate probes Chicago vice. Thorne cites low wage budgets
Chicago testimony before the Illinois Senate committee on vice shows William C. Thorne of Montgomery Ward disputing a $12 weekly minimum for women. He cites a single 1 973 female employee's expenses totaling $7.60 weekly after room and meals. The hearing outlines wages, cost of living, and merchant involvement as the probe extends over two years.
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Commercial Tribune
Chicago
Illinois Senate
William C. Thorne
Montgomery, Ward & Co
Thorne
Commission
Suffragettes Fire Rail Stations and Clash at Parliament
British suffragists ignite two Great Western and London and North Western rail stations and clash with crowds at the royal opening of Parliament. Five militants are arrested, including Jillian Wilcox and Emmeline Pankhurst addresses rally urging votes for women and petition to King George.
Dozen Are Killed as Irvine Wrecked by Dynmite Blast
Special Cable from Glasgow reports six dead seven fatally and about one hundred seriously injured after a massive dynamite explosion at Nobel's Explosives Works in Arder Irvine Ayrshire. The blast shattered the town destroying homes churches schools and public buildings with ceilings collapsing and streets filled with debris. An immense smoke column rose two miles high following three detonations.
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Commercial Tribune
Glasgow
Scotland
Irvine
Ayrshire
Nobel
Arder
Son shoots father in family home after knife clash
Peter Scheibler, 19, of 5806 South Fairfield Avenue Chicago, shot and killed his father Charles Scheibler in their residence after barricaded siblings Helma 15 and Peter fled a butcher knife attack. Peter confessed at the station saying his father was abusive and he acted to protect his mother and family. Mrs Scheibler and Helma corroborated the account.
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Commercial Tribune
Chicago
Peter Scheibler
South
Fairfield Avenue
Charles Scheibler
Helma
Peter
Hielma
Alumbhine Wreck Removal Under Army Supervision Begins
In Baltimore on March 10 supervised by U S army engineer officers workers began clearing the wreckage of the dynamite steamship Alumbhine which exploded in the lower harbor last Friday with heavy loss of life.
Earthquake Destroys Guajimquilapa and Surrounding Areas
An official report from the American chargé d affaires in Guatemala cites a severe earthquake that destroyed Guajimquilapa, capital of Santa Rosa province, with eighteen miles of villages damaged. No life loss estimate is available due to communication failures in Guatemala.
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Washington
Guatemala City
Guajimquilapa
Santa Rosa
Guatemala
Cincinnatians Nominated For Key Posts By Senator Pomerene
Senator Pomerene will recommend four Cincinnatians for cabinet level and related posts including Samuel F. Cary as Minister to Paraguay and Uruguay Archibald S. White as Ambassador to Rome or Vienna Dr L D Meader as Minister to Venezuela of Colombia and Walter W Warwick as Assistant Comptroller of the Treasury Allen met Bryan to push Cary and McAdoo for Warwick Also four local posts three postmasters and a port surveyor are named Clarence N Greer as Surveyor of the Port Day ton Forest L May as Postmaster Dayton John Q Baker as Postmaster Middletown and William B Meyer as Postmaster Oxford.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Pomerene
Samuel F. Cary
Paraguay
Uruguay
Archibald S. White
Rome
Vienna
Venezuela
Colombia
the Treasury
Allen
Bryan
Cary
McAdoo
Warwick
Pomegrene
Dayton
Clarence N. Greer
Forest L. May
Middletown
John Q. Baker
Oxford
William B. Meyer
Panic at French theater after moving picture device explodes
Ten persons were fatally injured and forty six seriously hurt in a panic triggered by an explosion of a moving picture apparatus in a small upstairs theater in Verins France late last night.
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Verins
France
Friedmann Cure Demonstrates Tuberculosis Treatment
The first patients treated by Dr. F F Friedmann show signs of recovery with chest pains and coughing greatly reduced. Dr Landesman calls the treatment wonderful as Friedmann begins demonstrations in Canada at Montreal Ottawa and Toronto before returning for further government investigation.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
F. F. Friedmann
Max Landesman
Berlin
Landesman
Friedmann
Coldwater
Mount Sinai Hospital
Washington
Mt. Sinai
Friedmann Vaccine Test Delayed By Washington Officials
Surgeon General Bliss said the Friedmann tuberculosis vaccine test will not start until Dr. Friedmann returns to Washington. Dr. John F. Anderson and Dr. A. M. Stimson will continue to observe patients at Mt. Sinai Hospital and Montefiore Home. Officials will keep details private until a thorough evaluation proves the vaccine’s value.
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Washington
Bliss
The
Public Health Service
John F. Anderson
A. M. Stimson
Mt. Sinai Hospital
New York
F. F. Friedmann
Anderson
Friedmann
Montreal
Stimson
Monteforre
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White Slave Proceedings
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George Lytton
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Juul
Saheles
ROYAL
Emmeline Pankhurst
London
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Dorothy Smith
Kathleen Paget
Gertrude Vaughan
Grace Stuart
Saunderton Station
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Miss Kenny
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Nobel’s Explosive Works
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