Washington Plans and Expo Models Stir National News
Government outlines a central power plant for Washington buildings and a 500 foot Panama Canal model to be shown at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. The Interstate Commerce Commission seeks 2 million dollars for railroad valuations and Blair Lee is seated as Maryland senator by 53 to 13.
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Washington
Newton
San Francisco
Interstate Commerce Commission
Congress
Senate
Blair Lee
Maryland
Notable figures mark birthdays and deaths in New York area
Daniel D Whitney former Mayor of the old City of Brooklyn celebrated his 95th birthday while Governor Glynn chose not to attend banquets. Mayor Mitchell conferred with department heads and charity workers on unemployment relief. United States Senator Shelby M Cullom from Illinois died in Washington after a weeklong illness at eighty five.
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Brooklyn
Glynn
New York
Mitchell
Shelby M. Cullom
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Manchester
Montclair
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Philadelphia
Yale
Moss
Indiana
National Farm Lands Bank
Santa Monica
Cal
Maryland Senate
John Bronsowky
Morristown
McKelvey
St. Louis
Kansas City
William Lepper Trench
Ireland
Col. Goethals
Canal Zone
Senate
Leon Waronick
San Francisco
Tahiti
Louis Levine
Jesse Orlain
Harvard Cancer Commission
William G. Irwin
Hawai
G. E. Tidwell
Macon
West Virginia
Donald Partridge
Honesdale
William Potts
Westchester
Baltimore
House Military Committee
Fort Henry
Chicago
John Lapschon
Wilkesbarre
Charles Stanley
South Carolina State Senate
Vreeland
General Navy Board
Dewey
New York Stock Exchange
Albuquerque
N. XI
Pennsylvania Railroad
Altoona
Logansport
American Hide & Leather Company
Woburn
Mass
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Cleveland Railway Company
Babies Row
Waltern Piano
East Sixty-third Street
Ainey
Pennsylvania
James Grant Wilson
Bella Hurrell
Ann Arbor
Mich
Moore
Pittsfield
Board of License Commissioners
Alfred C. Girard
Second Army Corps
Lincoln Beachey
Los Angeles
Joseph Gregory
Henry Detloif
Long
Newark
Frank W. Jones
New Hartford
Monroe
Widespread Fires and Accidents Hit U S Cities
A string of disasters and incidents across several states includes a major Manchester fire causing $500000 in losses, a Morristown mill accident killing two workers, and a Woburn tannery fire destroying $100000 worth of hide and leather.
Penn boxing team eyes intercollegiate league
The University of Pennsylvania boxing club plans to form an intercollegiate boxing league after five years of effort to recruit other universities. The project aims to unite multiple colleges under a formal competition structure.
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Walon
Pennsylvania
Oiher
England
Berlin
United States
Jadhus E. Sullivan
Ihe A
ASU
Frank Warreil
Frank Chance
New York Americans
Renwinuis
Jack Coomis
Athletics
Mack
Suffragists Press Wilson as White House Plea Fails
About four hundred working women from nearly a dozen states marched to the White House to urge support for woman suffrage. Wilson said he could not speak for his party until its platform is clear, while Capitol aides gauge momentum with a caucus call led by A Mitchell Palmer to form a committee on woman suffrage.
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White House
Wilson
Baltimore
Rose Winslow
Pennsylvania
A. Mitchell Palmer
Democratic House Caucus
Congress
Store Food Killing Indians
Washington Governor Victor M. Locke of the Choctaw nation predicts the full-blooded American Indian will disappear within 50 years. He estimates about 10,000 remain and links deaths to pneumonia and lung diseases from changes in diet. He says replacing self-sufficiency with government supplied food harms vitality.
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Washington
Victor M. Locke
Gov. Locke
Notable incidents in world dispatches from diverse regions
Reports of a notorious Mundma gambler murdered in front of an unspecified place, a Panama Cabinet approval for a Chirqui railroad contract, a major Chinese section fire in Nicaragua, and international figures attending events in Cuba and Ottawa. Also noted are a Cuban loan to J P Morgan Co, poisoned meat deaths in Spain, a Rome church ban on Maeterlinck, a French deputy bus ask for Panama Pacific Fair funds, and a French-Chamber appropriation.
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Mundma
Lsd
Panama
Chirqui
Bluefields
Nicaragua
New York Giants
Chicago White Sox
Caba
Menocal
Nice
France
Chamber of Deputies
Pindell Declines Embassy to Russia
Henry M. Pindell of Peoria Illinois, recently nominated and confirmed as Ambassador to Russia, declines the post via a White House letter. He says Senate inquiries should not cause controversy that could be misunderstood abroad.
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Russia
Washington
Henry M. Pindell
Peoria
White House
Pindell
Wilson
Senate
Boss Cassidy Convicted in 1911 Court Conspiracy
A 50 minute jury verdict finds Joseph Cassidy former Queens Borough President and Louis Walter Jr guilty of conspiracy in selling to William Willett Jr his 1911 Supreme Court nomination. Justice Jaycox oversaw the case in the Supreme Court.
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Brooklyn
Joseph Cassidy
Queens
Louis T. Walter, Jr
Jaycox
Supreme Court
Wiliam Willett, Jr
A Home Moving Picture Show and Impressions Craft
Dorothy Perkins presents a twofold guide for children: build a home moving picture box using a grocery crate with rollers and a front opening, then create memory scrapbooks by leaves and flower impressions. It covers materials, assembly steps, and technique for cranking, lighting, and preserving botanical prints with ink or shoe paste.
Markets Win Suqualasuit Milk Prices
New York wholesale market notes that official prices for milk have been abolished making accurate quotations impossible.
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New York
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