Postal Savings Bill Clears House With Bipartisan Support
The administration postal savings bank bill passes the House with all Republicans and 22 Democrats voting for it. It sets up accounts for anyone aged ten or older including married women, offers 2 percent interest, and places administration under a three member board led by the postmaster general. Early conference agreement expected with Senate approval.
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Postal Savings Bank
House
Senate
Secretary of the Treasury
MacKenzie King to Represent Dominion at Dr Goldwin’s Funeral
Died wealthy MacKenzie King, commissioner of labor, will represent the Dominion government at the funeral of Dr. Goldwin. The high ranking official’s attendance underscores the national significance of the funeral and honors the deceased’s contributions.
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MacKenzie King
Labor
Dominion
Dr. Goldwin
Million Dollar Blaze Destroys Seattle District
A fire on Seattle's waterfront swept eastward burning twenty acres and destroying six city blocks. Losses reached one million dollars with five hundred people left homeless. Three people were seriously hurt. many firemen suffered minor injuries. Sixty horses burned in a Railroad avenue stable.
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Seattle
Railroad Avenue
Battery Street
Tentative Rail Road Bill accord reached in conference
Senate and House conferees announce a tentative agreement on the administration rail road bill. They expect to report the accord to both chambers tomorrow and aim to send the measure to the White House for the president’s signature before week’s end.
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Senate
White House
Record High Import Volumes Signal Strong Manufacturing Demand
The ten months of imports show large increases in most major manufacturer materials. Bureau of Statistics figures indicate this year will exceed all previous records in our commerce as imports rise across key industrial goods.
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Bureau of Statistics
Jury Finds Heike Guilty in Sugar Refining Fraud Case
Charles R. Heike of New York City and Ernest W. Gerbracht former Havemeyer refinery official were convicted of complicity in sugar weighing frauds on Williamsburg docks. James F. Rendernagel faced a prolonged jury disagreement during twelve hours of deliberation.
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Charles R. Heike
New York City
American Sugar Refining Company
Ernest W. Gerbracht
Havemeyers and Elder
Williamsburg
United States Circuit Court
James F. Rendernagel
Havemeyer & Elder
Roosevelt Returns Homeward from Europe Voyage
Theodore Roosevelt sails from Southampton aboard the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria with Mrs Roosevelt Kermit and Ethel Longworth. The steamer heads to New York, landing June 18 after fifteen months of travel amid royal courts and African jungles. A large crowd and London notables bid farewell at the pier.
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Theodore Roosevelt
America
Roosevelt
London
Southampton
Roosevelts
Harrison Barred From White House Strain Amid Taft Fallout
Democratic Representative Francis Burton Harrison of New York’s Sixteenth District is denounced at the White House. President Taft refused to meet him and blocked entry with visiting New Yorkers. Norton hints the row stems from Harrison’s May 13 statement on Ballinger-Pinchot, Glavis memo, and alleged presidential bad faith. Harrison defends his right to criticize the administration.
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Francis Burton Harrison
Congress
New York
White House
Taft
Harrison
Norton
Glavis
Five Die As Funeral Coach Is Hit In New York Town
A West Shore train engine struck a funeral coach in Hav erstraw N Y killing four people outright and fatally injuring a fifth. The deceased include William Beebe Rev A Romath pastor of the New City M E Church E V Seiferd and Mrs E V Seiferd all of New City and Mrs Perry Keesler of Hav erstraw who died later from injuries. They had been returning from the funeral of George Keesler the father of Mrs Seiferd the clergyman had led the burial service.
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Haverstraw
N. Y
West Shore
William Beebe
A. Romath
New City
M. E. Church
E. V. Seiferd
Perry Keesler
Appalling figures on railroad trespass fatalities
A Pennsylvania company states that trespassing on railroad property in violation of the law has caused over 50,000 U.S. deaths and more than 55,000 injuries in the last eleven years.
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Pennsylvania Company
United States
Armored cruiser New York sails to Manila as Asiatic squadron flag
The armored cruiser New York heads toward Manila to assume flagship duties of the Asiatic squadron, signaling a strategic shift in fleet command and regional presence for the United States Navy.
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New York
Manila
Oklahoma City Emerges as Temporary State Capital Amid Legal Fight
Governor Haskell and Secretary Cross establish offices in the Lee hotel in Oklahoma City and claim the governor may run state business from there while injunctions over Guthrie records loom. A writ of prohibition may seek to bar Judge Huston from enforcing the injunction as talks of permanent capital move continue.
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Guthrie
Haskell
Cross
Oklahoma City
Chas. N. Haskell
Okla
Tulsa
Huston
Wogan County
Lee Hotel
Supreme Court
District Court
Logan County
Faskell
John Mahoney
Charles N. Haskell
Gifford Pinchot Fires Up St Paul Club With Speech
Gifford Pinchot denounces graft and waste in a scathing address to the St Paul Roosevelt club. He attacks the alliance of business and politics and calls morality a force in politics, urging citizens over party labels and warning against special interests.
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St. Paul
Gifford Pinchot
Roosevelt Club
Sugar
Congress
Mississippi
Diverse 1910s Briefs Point to Global Tensions and Tragedies
A collage of short items notes James J. Hill criticizing current railroad policy, a New York theater suicide by Charles Talbert, and Edwin H. Gould offering 15000 dollars for a two motor two propeller aeroplane. Also covered are Maya uprising actions in Yucatan, Sardinia cyclone devastation, Roosevelt’s homecoming escort plans, election reshuffles, Vesuvius death, Japanese dignitaries at the White House, and other international incidents including cyclones, aviation accidents, and political appointments.
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Charles Talbert
Columbia Theater
New York
Edwin H. Gould
Yucatan
Quintana Roo
Ogliastra
Sardinia
Port
Jules A. Silon
San Francisco
Crater
Vesuvius
Hiroyasu Fushimi
Japan
Taft
White House
Kaiser
Friedrich Wilhelm
Prussia
Agatha
Ratibo
Jefferson City
Missouri Penitentiary
Vesey
South Dakota
J.C. Mars
Topeka
Kan
Joseph Sego
Valparaiso
Indiana Sons of Veterans
Budapest
George Newnes
Westminster Gazette
Tit-Bits
Strand Magazine
London
Town Without Graft to Rise Across River Opposite Evansville
Builders back a new Kentucky town promising a graft free community with no public officials. J A Brown of New York leads plans funded by Kate Hawley and Terre Haute financier James Crawford. The project includes a coliseum a tobacco factory and an electric plant with residents voting on guilt in weekly public trials.
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Evansville
Utopia
Kentucky
Ind
Ohio River
J. A. Brown
New York
Kate Hawley
New York City
James Crawford
Terre Haute
Brown
Attorney General to Appeal Five Brewing Charters Case
Indianapolis June 13 The fate of five suits by Attorney General James Bingham to revoke brewing company charters will hinge on appealing one case to the state supreme court. The Home Brewing Co case goes to the upper court after demurrers in all five rooms held the AG not proper relator. An agreement binds that the supreme court decision on the one case will be final for all five unless voided on a technical point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
James Bingham
Supreme Court of
Bingham
Home Brewing Company
Pliny Bartholomew
Supreme Court
Fatal Auto Accident Near Millersville Claims Three
In Indianapolis on a Sunday morning Miss Lena Albert of Pittsburg dies after leaping from a car driven by Jap Clemens. Passengers James Scanlan and Edward Beiser are badly injured when a tire bursts on a curve and the vehicle overturns.
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Indianapolis
Lena Albert
Pittsburg
James Scanlan
Edward Beiser
Jap Clemens
Millersville
Community Notes from Elbert Area
Health reported good in the vicinity. William Jones visited his brother John S. Jones of West Point Kentucky. Anna and Ed William guests of Isaac Steepleton and daughter. Mr. and Mrs. William Jones spent Sunday and Monday with relatives in New Albany. Mrs. Anna Friedley Jessie Jones Maurice Ferree Ola and Herman May and Jack Jones visited C H Williams. Children Day services next Sunday at Rehoboth with an arranged program. Carrie Laura Ferree and August Evans visited Glenwood friends Sunday and attended services.
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Wm. Jones
John S. Jones
West Point
Anna
William
Isaac Steepleton
New Albany
Anna Friedley
Jessie Jones
Maurice Ferree
Ola
Herman May
Jack Jones
C. H. Williams
Rehoboth
Carrie
Laura Ferree
August Evans
Glenwood Friends
Mine shooting claims life in Clinton area
At Syndicate mine three miles south of Clinton Indiana George Law rence aged sixty five was shot and killed instantly by William Coan aged fifty. After returning home Coan found Lawrence arguing with his housekeeper then shot him in the ensuing quarrel Coan is under arrest.
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Peary
London
Charlies Hardinge
India
Earl of
Minto
Manuel of
Portugal
Duke of
Brussels
Brevoort
New York
Clinton, Ind
George Lawrence
William Coan
Syndicate Mine
Here
Coan
Lawrence
Fire Threatens Plainfield Publishing Building
Plainfield Indiana June 11 fire endangered the business district when the Publishing Association of Friends building caught fire. Loss estimated at 10000 dollars. Quick citizen efforts prevented greater damage to the district.
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Friends
Plainfield
Ind
Publishing Association of Friends
International commerce shows growth in principal nations
International commerce shows a marked improvement in all the principal countries of the world. Figures of imports and exports compiled by the bureau of statistics show larger imports and exports in the current commercial year than in the year immediately preceding.
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Bureau of Statistics
Where is Wood This Question Applies to Former Member of Indianapolis Council
John F. Wood former member of the Indianapolis common council is missing. His wife and father in law say they know nothing of his whereabouts. Wood in real estate sold a half interest to Missouri man West who alleges misrepresentation and that Wood promised to help unload the share. A week ago West demanded his money back. Wood has an indictment for an alleged crooked real estate deal and is under three bonds of 1000 dollars each to appear in criminal court.
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Indianapolis
John F. Wood
Common Council
Wood
West
Missouri
Democrats nominate Peterson to oppose Crumpacker in Indiana
In Hammond on June 9 the Tenth district Democrats nominated John B. Peterson of Crown Point for congress against Edgar Dean Crumpacker. The convention endorsed the Democratic state platform, Governor Marshall’s administration, and a dollar a day pension law while backing the public accounting law and tariff positions.
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Crumpacker
Hammond
Ind
Tenth District
John B. Peterson
Crown Point
Congress
Edgar Dean Crumpacker
Lafayette
Marshall
Unparalleled verdict in Parker murder acquittal
George Parker, who killed Mrs. Peter Palen at her home a month earlier, was acquitted by the Lake county superior court in Hammond Indiana. The defense argued irresponsibility from drinking and Parker pleaded insanity. The verdict is described as unparalleled in northern Indiana courts.
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Hammond
Ind
George Parker
Peter Palen
Lake County
Parker
Indiana
Two Rail Victims Reported in Separate Incidents
In Fort Wayne Indiana on June 11 Michael Hunthein longtime assistant superintendent of waterworks for the eastern division of the Wabash railroad was killed in Toledo by an engine. His home was in Fort Wayne. An unidentified man was found dead beside the Nickel Plate track just west of Fort Wayne the body badly mangled.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Michael Hunthein
Wabash Railroad
Toledo
Nickel Plate Railroad
Here
Railroaders Hold Picnic In Richmond Park
Between 2,000 and 3,000 Pennsylvania Lines Richmond division employees and families picnicked at Glen Miller park. Special trains carried excursionists from Cincinnati Logansport and towns along the division contributed their quota.
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Richmond
Ind
Richmond Division
Pennsylvania Lines
Glen Miller Park
Cincinnati
Logansport
Blaze Destroys Several Businesses in Greantown
A June 10 fire in Greantown Indiana destroyed business property valued at $10,000. The buildings included the K. M. W. traction station Willcutt Brothers' general store Crevitson Cates livery barn Brown Ware barber shop and the real estate and insurance offices of Thomas Hawkins and George Myers.
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Greantown
Ind
Willcutt Brothers
Crevitson & Cates
Brown & Ware
Thomas Hawkins
George Myers
Dunkard conference keeps bonnet dress rule in place
Delegates at the Dunkard national conference in Winona Lake Indiana decided against changes to women bonnet attire during the annual convention concluding today. The decision preserves the longstanding dress code as part of church practice.
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Winona Lake
Ind
Fire destroys block in Wabash causing $36000 loss
A Sunday night fire in Wabash Indiana swept from the rear of the Simon Cook Junk company building through the Dougherty Bros sale pavilion and razed smaller nearby structures, causing about $36000 in damage.
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Blake
Wabash
Ind
Simon Cook Junk Company
Dougherty Bros
Post Office Safe Blasted in North Manchester Heist
Juno Wes Yegemen blew the safe at the North Manchester Indiana post office after two hours inside. He escaped with 600 dollars in stamps and 100 dollars in money, triggering an explosion that alarmed the town.
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North
Manchester
Ind
Juno
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Heike
Oklahoma
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Graff
James J. Hill
W. D. Conor
Taft Republicans
Wisconsin
Union Pacific Railway
London Firearms Company
Texas
Harriman Lines
Elbert
Effig
M. Jones
Francis Bartos Harrison
Indianapolis Council
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