Mexican settlement plan eyed for large Mexican hacienda land
The Mexican Herald reports a government push to buy the Santena hacienda owned by Inigo Noriega Zayas and Gen. Porfirio Diaz to be split into small farms for Mexican agriculturists. A $17 million irrigation program would precede parceling to settlers from Texas, with Colombres ranch slated for a central town.
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Santena
Inigo Noriega
Barron Zayas
Porfirio Diaz
Republic
Gustavo Madero
Manuel Garcia Cuellar
Diaz
Texas
Mexico
Colombres
Mexican Herald
Fingers and Toes and a Peculiar Pennsylvania Family
Dr. Lucas predicts humans may become a one toed species in 1 000 000 years or 80 as the outer toes diminish with disuse. In Pennsylvania a wealthy male line bears five fingers on each hand with a fifth finger behind the fourth, a trait passed through generations and regarded as normal rather than defective.
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Lucas Lucas
London
Pennsylvania
When Your Play Goes to Rehearsal
A. N. Monkhouse reflects on the tension between a playwright’s vision and the realities of staging. He notes actors become like doctors tending a fragile child, and that egoism clashes with collaborative rehearsal. He muses that writers may resent performance though few plays reach production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. N. Monkhouse
Brooklyn Man Finds Ambergris Worth 19500
William White of Brooklyn finds a gray mass on Nantasket Beach on Christmas Day. He carries the object home and learns it is ambergris, valued at 19500, with a chemist suggesting it likely washed ashore from a sick whale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucky Stumbie
William White
Brooklyn
Nantasket Beach
New York
Sundays Align With 1910 and 1939 Calendar Cycles
The piece notes that 1910 began and ended on Sunday, yielding 53 Sabbaths, and explains a 28 year solar cycle where days and months realign. It asserts a 62 week plus one day year yields 83 Sundays when first and last days are Sundays, predicting 1939 as a repeat and recommending a 28 year-old calendar for long-term planning.
Trade Aims for Competing Buyers Not Sellers
A business man quips that competition is life in trade and Mr Dustin Stax agrees, adding the goal is to regulate trade so people compete for a chance to buy rather than to sell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dustin Stax
Folka
Senator Sorghum on Eloquence Losing Its Luster
The dialogue notes a shift in value from rhetoric to aviation prizes. Senator Sorghum argues eloquence no longer draws praise as it once did, with emphasis on aviation prowess over speech.
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Sorghum
OWA heroine Kate Shelly dies at 45 in Iowa
Kate Shelly, famed for her 1881 bridge alarm that helped save a limited Chicago & Northwestern train, dies at her Molngona home after Bright's disease following appendicitis surgery. At 15 she crossed the Honey Creek bridge to alert rescuers, earning a gold medal from the Iowa legislature and later serving as Molngona station agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boone
Kate Shelly
Iowa
Shelly
Bright
Chicago & Northwestern
Honey Creek
Moing Ona
Kate
Moingona
Limited
Northwestern Railroad
Miss Shelly
Molngona
Wiley Is Upheld In Pure Food Law Probe
A House committee reports Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief chemist, is cleared of charges and exonerated. The panel endorses his enforcement of the Pure Food and Drug Law, notes Remsen board and Solicitor McCabe’s opposition, and limits McCabe’s earlier power. All members approve the conclusions after months of inquiry.
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Washington
House
Harvey W. Wiley
Department of Agriculture
Doctor Wiley
Remsen Board
George P. McCabe
McCabe
Call for Democratic Meet in Baltimore June 25 1912
Official call for the Democratic national convention to be held in Baltimore on June 25 1912. Signed by Norman E Mack chairman and Urey Woodson secretary. Delegates and alternates to be chosen: two per senator and two per representative, with six delegates and six alternates allotted to Alaska the District of Columbia the Philippines Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
N. Y
Bartimore
Norman E. Mack
Urey Woodson
Kentucky
Congress
Alaska
District of Columbia
Philippines
Hawaii
Porto Hico
Cuban Row At End Likely Cuba Law Change Foreseen
Washington Secretary of War Stimson after a conference with President Taft said the United States probably will not intervene in Cuba. Taft agreed. Officials await Cuban government reply to Knox note while a Havana palace meeting of Gomez and veteran representatives ended with hopeful praise for unity and patriotism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Stimson
Taft
United States
Cuba
White House
War Department
Havana
Knox
Gomez
Republic
Harvester Trust Flayed Before House Committee
F J Lowe of New York told the House rules committee that 51 percent of stockholders in steel sugar beef and bankers trusts also control the International Harvester company. He said the firm via National City Bank can crush independent concerns and accused it of seeking 100 percent profit in the United States while selling to Europe nearly at cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
International Harvester Company
Harvester Trust
F. J. Lowe
New York
Lowe
Steel, Sugar, Beef and
National City Bank of New York
United States
Farley Returns to New York in Grand Triumph
Cardinal John Murphy Farley arrived in New York after being elevated in Rome to the churchs second highest honor. Vast crowds estimated at 300000 packed the pier to salute him as prominent national figures joined in the elaborate ceremony and ovation marking a historic church welcome in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
John Murphy Farley
United States
Rome
Holy Father
Cardinal Farley
Root defends courts against recall of judges
Senator Elihu Root in New York defended the state and federal courts and denounced recall provisions as a sign of impatience with judicial decisions. He warned that recalling judges would give people unchecked power to pressure courts when rulings differ from public wishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Elihu Root
New York State Bar Association
Root
Lorimer Case Advances Signal Burns Probe
Washington reports sensational developments near the Lorimer case. William J. Burns, the detective who built the Mc Namara dynamiters case, has worked months gathering evidence for the senate committee and anti Lorimer interests. He is said to offer testimony that a witness confessed to being paid 1500 dollars to testify and that Burns used phonographic methods to obtain the confession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Lorimer
William J. Burns
McNamara Dynamiters
Illinois
Burns
Senate
C. F. Wiehe
Edward Hines
Stephenson Wins Fight to Hold Wisconsin Seat
Isaac Stephenson, senator from Wisconsin, wins his bid to keep the seat after the Heyburn subcommittee unanimously finds no proof of corruption or bribery charges. The report is complete but secret until Senate presentation. The committee critiques spending about 100000 in the primary campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Isaac Stephenson
Wisconsin
Heyburn
Stephenson
Senate
Turks' Attack Is Repulsed Near Tripoli
In a major engagement of the war a large force of Arabs and Turks attacked an Italian column from Tripoli toward Ghingarish. After hours of fighting the Italians rallied and the Turks retreated. Hundreds of the 38,000 attackers were killed while Italian losses were three killed and seven wounded.
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Tripoli
Ghingarish
Fire devastates Dunning asylum large blaze
Insane patients were evacuated from the Dunning institution as a massive fire destroyed a three wing building four to five stories tall after a defective flue. Four hours after discovery, all 270 patients were removed without injury while police helped manage agitated evacuees.
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Chicago
Dunning
Syracuse University student dismissed over Haven Hall meals
Miss Elizabeth Ewarts of California, a junior, was dismissed by Chancellor Day after her name led a petition complaining of meals in Haven Hall at Syracuse University.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Syracuse
N. Y
Elizabeth Ewarts
California
Syracuse University
Day
Haven Hall
Porter Charlton Sane Declared by Hudson County DA
Porter Charlton is declared sane by the Hudson County New Jersey district attorney after a murder case against his wife. He is reported to be in splendid health and enjoying good condition while in jai oMeers.
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Porter Chariton
New York
Porter Charlton
Hudson County
New Jersey
Jai oMeers
French lieutenant survives 1500-foot crash at Senlis airfield
A burning monoplane at the Senlis aviation grounds sent Lieutenant Berner of the French army aviation corps plunging 1500 feet to earth. He suffered severe burns to his legs and feet before rescue and rapid transport to the army hospital.
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Paris
Senlis
Berner
French Army Aviation Corps
Women to Have Paper Planned by Mrs Belmont
Mrs Oliver H P Belmont plans a daily newspaper devoted entirely to women's interests and managed by women to provide fairer representation in the news of the day.
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New York
Oliver H. P. Belmont
Detective Guilty of Murder in Evansville Case
Williams Wilson, sixty seven, detective, was found guilty of murdering William J Walters of Paducah Kentucky in Evansville Indiana last November.
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Evansville
Ind
William Wilson
William J. Walters
Paducah
Guarded Governor Foss Faces Black Hand Threat
Police and plainclothes officers guarded Governor Foss at the state house and escorted him home from the Jamaica Plain residence amid warnings of Black Hand agents with designs on the governor’s life. A city police guard remained at his home as a precaution.
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Boston
Foss
State House
Jamaica Plain
Government ownership resolution introduced in New York Assembly
A concurrent resolution in Albany supports government ownership of the telegraph system. The measure, backed by Postmaster General Hitchcock, was introduced in the New York Assembly by Assemblyman Cuvillier of New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
N. Y
Hitchcock
Assemblyman Cuvillier
New York
Cleveland Fire Destroys Roule and Jennings Buildings
Fire in Cleveland wiped out the Roule and Jennings buildings at Superior Avenue and the public square. Loss reported at 150000 with a lease value around 160000. Fire crews battled the blaze and authorities began damage assessments.
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Cleveland
Cleveland, O
Roule & Jennings
Superior Avenue
Public Square
Battle near Guayaquil kills and wounds over a thousand
In Yaguache northeast of Guayaquil, Ecuador, more than 1,000 men were killed or wounded as Gen. Julio Andrade leading Quito government forces defeated Guayaquil troops backing the provisional government of General Montero.
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Guayaquil
Ecuador
Yaguache
Quito
Julio Andrade
Colombia
Montero
Edward R. Perkins Dies in New Jersey
Edward R. Perkins vice president of New York Life Insurance and brother of George W. Perkins died at his East Orange New Jersey home after an appendicitis operation. He was born in Chicago forty four years ago.
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Edward R. Perkins
East Orange
N. J
The
New York Life Insurance Company
George W. Perkins
Chicago
French to seek 34 million for military aeroplanes
Paris government moves to the chamber of deputies asking for an appropriation of 34,400,000 to fund construction of airships and military aeroplanes as part of defense preparations.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Preparation for Coal Strike Sparks Shipping Rush
Indiana mines increase coal movement as roads store and shift loads in anticipation of a strike or suspension. Terre Haute reports hundreds of loads sent forward by Chicago & Eastern Indiana Big Four Vandalia and local yards busy with cars and side tracks filled. A statewide storage push accompanies warnings from Superintendent C Dowing as rail lines prepare for potential disruption.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Chicago & Eastern Indiana
Danville
Ill
Sullivan County
Roundhouse
C. Dowing
Blood Transfusion Saves Wife in Gary Hospital
Dr T B Templin gave a quart of his blood to his wife near death from hemorrhage in Gary on January 23. Physicians H M Hosmer J E Metcalf and Ira M Miltimore assisted as a silver tube connected Templin’s wrist to his wife’s arm, the blood flow restoring color and strength while he weakened.
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Gary
T. B. Templin
H. M. Hosmer
J. E. Metcalf
Ira M. Miltimore
Doctor Templin
Delays Slow Southern Indiana Oil Field Work
Oakland City on January 23 reports a slow week in the southern Indiana oil fields due to severe cold. The Elberfeld test well twelve miles south was shut down most of the week as crews could not haul materials, and local field work was at a standstill with one rig operating intermittently while pumping wells labored to stay in operation.
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Oakland City
Indiana
Elberfeld
Here
Glass Worker Arrested After Dance Incident
Don Kelly, a glass worker, was arrested in Alexandria after a 15 year old girl named Pansy Perish told police she was given a large quantity of whisky by Kelly at a dance in Alexandria. The girl, intoxicated, was helped by officers after alighting from a late interurban car.
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Anderson
Don Kelly
Alexandria
Pansy Perish
Kelly
Gary Mills Break Record
Gary dated Jan 23 reports Gary steel mills running at record capacity with the seventh blast furnace blown in and twenty eight open-hearth furnaces in operation. Similar strong activity is noted at American Bridge company and American Sheet Tin Plate company.
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Gary Mills
Gary
Gary Steel Mills
American Bridge Company
American Sheet & Tin Plate Company
New $1,000,000 Land Firm Formed in Indiana
The Philadelphia Land & Improvement Company of East Chicago with a capital of one million dollars is incorporated at Indianapolis. Incorporators are Walter J. Riley William J. Riley J R Reppa and J D Funkhouser. The move follows the Baldwin Locomotive Works site at Calumet.
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Hammond
Philadelphia Land & Improvement Company
Ambassador’s Mother Dies in Crawfordsville
Mrs Emma L Wilson aged 81 mother of Henry Lane Wilson American ambassador to Mexico and John S Wilson former United States senator for Washington died at her Crawfordsville home. She was eighty one years old.
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Crawfordsville
Emma L. Wilson
Henry Lane Wilson
Mexico
John S. Wilson
United States
Washington
Slayer of Three Goes to Trial in Evansville
In Evansville on January 23 the Booneville man William Lee faces trial for confessing to killing his father, mother, and brother last August. The case centers on his alleged admission and the court proceedings as the murder charges proceed.
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Evansville
William Lee
Booneville
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OWA
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Wickersham
Remsen
Mack
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Farley
Cardinal
Clouda
Massachusetts Statehouse
Fort Wayne
Carl Yaple
Allen Superior Court
Board of County Commissioners
Joseph Pedry
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