Washington News Roundup of Crises and Discoveries
A column reviews wartime and domestic issues. Signal corps reportedly found a material to render aircraft invisible above 500 feet. William Ellis Corey testifies the Tennessee Coal and Iron merger risked no danger to the Steel Trust. Post Office probes reveal stamp theft frauds by employees. Senator O Gorman defends Panama Canal as a domestic matter in reply to Root.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Signal Corps
United States Army
William Ellis Corey
United States Steel Corporation
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company
Roosevelt
Steel Trust
Post Office Department
James A. O'Gorman
New York
Panama Canal
Elihu Root
Rockefeller bureau studies vice in New York for two years
John D. Rockefeller Jr announced a two year study by a bureau he organized on vice conditions in New York. King Alfonso of Spain may visit the United States this summer. Prizefighter Battling Nelson married cartoonist Fay King of Denver at Hegewisch. Amzi Dodd former New Jersey vice-chancellor and former head of Mutual Benefit Life died at Bloomfield from pneumonia age eighty nine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John D. Rockefeller
New York
Alfonso
Spain
United States
Nelson
Fay King
Denver
Hegewisch, Sr
Amzi Dodd
New Jersey
Mutual Benefit Life -Insurance Company of
Newark
Bloomfield
Thorpe Charged With Pro Baseball Past Exhibition
Sporting verification of charges against Jim Thorpe for playing two years with the Rocky Mount team in the Eastern Carolina League strengthens the case. John McLean signed with the St. Louis club for next season. George Stovallo tallies seven assists in a single game setting a record for a first baseman. The Giants and Yankees will share the Polo Grounds this year and American League Park will close to baseball. Frank J. Farrell is building a new home for his team near Van Cortlandt Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Thorpe
Rocky Mount
John
Larry) McLean
Cincinnati
St. Louis
George Stovallo
Giants
Yankees
Polo Grounds
New Yorks
Governors Son Appointed Secretary of State of Delaware
General Governor Miller appoints his son as secretary of state with a salary of 4000 dollars annually. Also, every child born in Orange Connecticut will receive a bank account of 1 dollar from the local savings institution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miller
Delaware
Orange
Conn
J. C. Hoheimer
Hatfield, Ark
See Callinner
Washington
John K. Shields
Tennessee Supreme Court
United States
Tennessee
Little Sturgeon
Wis
Trenton
N. J
Chicago
Cipriano Castro
Board of Education of
New York
Nautical
Alexander Shutter
Joseph Budde
St. Paul
West Allis
Mixed 1911 Political and Social News Across Regions
A sweeping roundup reports Thomas Sterling’s election as U S Senator by the South Dakota Legislature and various national notes. It mentions dances banned at Wellesley senior ball, tobacco sale bills to women in Massachusetts, Rockefeller funding promises, Aroostook strike impact on potato crops, and the Pujo and Untermyer inquiry. Also covered are stamps printed, Knox’s Panama Canal response, a Batavia parcel post baby, naval cadet gift ban orders, John T. Whitney’s death, a very small Nyack baby, Jack Johnson’s bond in a smuggling case, Finlay backing for a tuberculosis cure, and ongoing Money Trust investigations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Sterling
United States
South Dakota
Wellesley
F. P. Greenwood
Massachusetts
John D. Rockefeller
Northern Baptist Convention
Bangor
Aroostook
Maine
Money Trust” Committee
Pat
Pujo
Untermyer
Palm Beach
William Rockefeller
Knox
Great Britain
Panama Canal
Elliott
United States Bureau of Education
Board of Education
New York City
Batavia
Ohio
Naval
Annapolis
John T. Whitney
Glassboro
N. J
California
Jack Johnson
Chicago
Europe
Charles B. Finlay
Friedmann
Finlay
Money Trust
Congress
W. R. Webb
Bellbuckle
Tenn
Professor Webb
Stanley
Kentucky
Ohio Valley
George Engstrom
Georgetown
Mont
Marshall
Washington
World News Glances of Europe and Asia
Reports from Florence Paris Rheims and Constantinople cover a monk's arrest over art theft an aviator fatal fall a Turkish cabinet tilt in Constantinople a Peruvian pilot Alps crossing a 685 minute flight Beecham pill sales and ad costs a Vesuvius landslide threat Wittgenstein death and Adrianople surrender from Europe's note a Paris lion escape education relief grain to Montenegro royal scandal involving Grand Duke Andreas Vladimirimirovich and a ballet girl.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brother Belandri
Florence
Italy
St. Spirito
Charles Caulard
Rheims
France
Constantinopis
Europe
Jean Bielovucci
Alps
Brig
Switzerland
Domodossola
Joseph Beecham
Committee On Medicines
London
Mount Vesuvius Observatory
Karl Wittgenstein
Vienna
Turkey
Adrianople
Aegean
Paris
Montenegro
Andreas Vladimirovich
Permanent Bureau to Combat Social Evil Formed
John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces the permanent Bureau of Social Hygiene to study and fight the vice trade. George Kneeland and Abraham Flexner will lead investigations in New York and Europe, with reports to follow and a focus on humane, scientific reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Bureau of Social Hygiene
New York City
Underworld
Polit Commission
Katherine Bement Davis
New York State Reformatory For Women
Bedford Hills
Paul M. Warburg
Europe
George J. Kneeland
Chicago Vice Commission
Kneeland
Raines Law
Abraham Flexner
Flexner
United States
John D. Rockefeller
Bureau
New Jersey News Briefs From Across the State
Multiple short items report on state events and local incidents. Highlights include nurse duties at Woodstown, tax extension in Jersey City, a fatal fire in Skillman, a jail liquor case in Belvidere, a capias in Hudson County for embezzlement, a Walling cemetery accident in Mullica Hill, and marriage notes in Paysale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capias
Hudson County Prosecutor’s
Jersey City
William ‘Britten
Hudson City
Flood lesson underscores Noah's faith and divine mercy
February religious lesson on Genesis 9 12 7 24 presents the flood as a test of faith in Noah who walked with God and found grace amid widespread sin. It notes the ark's dimensions and purpose contrasts human violence with God's mercy, and poses discussion questions on walking with God and salvation by faith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christ Jesus
Noah
God
Enoch
Cyprus
Yangtse
Feas
Dean Hodges
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White House
Winston- Salem Club
Carolina Association
Bureau of Social -Hygiene
The
Sunshipe Society of
Woodstown
Mullica Hill
G. E. Archer
Pedricktown M. BE
A. Harry Moore
Boonton
Dorot’ha Kallmorgan
St. John’s School
Jusiah A. Steward
James Galbrally
John B. Haines
M. E
Ocean City
William V. Reynolds
Monmouth County
Forman Barkalow
John P. Egan
Hudson County
Mary Ritchie
William Ritchie
Alpine
Henry Mertens
Alfred Merten
John Morrison
Thirtieth Street
Skillman
Lena Kyrow
Grand Street
Paterson
General Hospital
Joseph Neale
August Rady
George Imhoff
Elizabeth Heater
Phillipsburg
Belvidere
Hiram Stout
Woodbury Board of Health
H. B. Diverty
Joshua Dawson
T. D. Clark
Walter Dawson
T. S. Burrows
Jennie Walsh
Bound Brook
Henry W. Gibbs
Liberty
N. Y
Isaac Hirst
Mantua
Paysale
Israel
Sindys St Lesson
EH. O. Sellers
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