Black Book Exposes White Slavery and Opium Smuggling
Chicago dispatch reveals a hidden Black Book with letters from country girls and records of white slavery and opium smuggling linked to Chinese networks. Police trace routes across North America from British Columbia to Mexico with stations in San Francisco Seattle Vancouver Detroit and Boston.
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Commercial Tribune
Chicago
United States
Charles Sing
Emma Davis
Joliet, T
Mia
Alice Sing
Alice
Saia
Secret Service
Mann
John Davis
Kansas City
Clark Street
Illinois Street
Sing
Cee Aire
San Francisco
Seattle
Wash
Vancouver
Ann Arbor
Detroit
Mich
Athens
Boston
Cambridge
Columbia
Miss
Valparaiso
Ind
Ensenada
Mexico
Peoria girl swears to swim 26 miles next week
Martha Kassens an eighteen year old from Peoria plans to reach Copperas Creek dam twenty six miles from Peoria after a four mile thirty four minute swim from Main street to Pekin. She trained since age ten and wore a tight bathing suit and oil rubbed body.
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Pporia
Martha Kar Jens
Main Street
Pekin
Kastens
Copperaa Creek
Peoria
Miss Kassens
Wreck inquiry hears engineer worked double week before crash
Engineer August B. Miller testified he had been doing two men’s duties for the week before the wreck on the Bar Harbor and White Mountain Express, as officials from the Interstate Commerce Commission and Connecticut Public Utilities Commission observed. Pullman Co. plans steel cars and rents six to private commuter clubs for 400 yearly per car, while New Haven edges toward safety upgrades and investigations continue.
Wives of One Man Kiss When They Meet
Lillian Shelton returns to Marseilles Illinois to visit her husband John P. Shelton and his second wife. The reunion brings kisses and goodwill as Wife No 1 seeks support for a Chicago divorce on desertion while Fate looms of two weddings.
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Chicago
Lillian Shelton
Marseilles
Ill
John P. Shelton
Wife No
John
Kansas City
Glassell Holliday
Shelton
Snow Marks Earliest Arizona Record At Holt
Snow fell early today at Holt near Bowie marking the earliest Arizona snowfall on record aside from the mountains. Local observers report clear skies elsewhere but note cold air pockets across the region.
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Holt
Miles
Bowie
Hot Springs Sportsman Freed After Trial
Ba Spear of Hot Springs was acquitted on charges tied to a conspiracy causing Montana stockman John Rumping to lose 18000 in an East St. Louis fake horse race. The case, moved from another venue, links Spear to prior Hot Springs winnings and a separate roulette dispute with Frank P. Fox of Terre Haute.
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Ba Spear
Hot Springs
John Rumping
Montana
East St. Louis
Spear
Rumping
Frank P. Fox
Terre Haute
Ind
Fox
Negro buys hotel attempt ends with hospital visit
Finley Alexander Washington a Black man offered a $100 000 check to taxi driver Jeremiah O Connor after claiming to have bought the Hotel Belmont and other sites near City Hall Park The driver sought change and Washington was taken to Bellevue Hospital for examination and later jailed by Magistrate McQuaide.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Finley Alexander Washington
Jeremiah O’u Connor
McQuaide
Yorkville Court
Bellevue Hospital
Washington
O’connor
Belmont
Man loses ticket delays steamship George Washington
A Brooklyn man named Herman Etckel caused a six minute sailing delay on the North German Lloyd Line steamer George Washington after failing to locate his ticket. He searched pockets, dumped items overboard, and wept until a hole in a coat pocket revealed the missing ticket as the ship began to depart.
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Commerccial Tribune
New York
George Washington
North German Lloyd Line
Herman Etckel
Brooklyn
Hickel
Germany
Progressives Defined Neither Fish Nor Fowl
Secretary of State Bryan spoke in Winterport about William R. Pattangall his Progressive views and said Progressives are Democrats in spots. He praised Woodrow Wilson as best prepared for the White House and urged support to lead the people to higher ideals and align with the administration.
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White House
Bryan
Mr. Bian
Woodrow Wilson
Verbal Pledge Unclear on Huerta Presidency
Charge O Shaughnessy reports no verbal assurances from Huerta or Gamboa that Huerta will not run for the presidency. Gamboa reiterates a constitutional barrier while Carranza warns banks near Eagle Pass against aiding Huerta’s government. Local banks have subscribed about 12,000,000 pesos, despite rebel threats.
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Mexico City
Charge O'Shaughnessy
Huerta
Gamboa
General Huerta
Senor Gamboa
State Department
Washington
Athena
Ranza
Eagle Pass
Venustiano Carranza
Santen
Mulhall Named Paid by N A M for Ten Years Work
Senate audit shows National Association of Manufacturers paid 245000 to Martin M Mulhall for legislative and campaign work between 1900 and 1913. Audit confirms Mulhall's testimony and notes over 2 million spent by the association in that decade.
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Washington
D. L. Frawley
Senate Lobby Committee
National Association of Manufacturers
Martin M. Mulhall
Mulhall
Frawley
Association
James A. Emery
House
American Federation of Feels
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Dayton
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