Washington Looms Large as Center of Interest
Senate census panel rejected President Wilson's nomination of George W. Harris of Georgia for census director. A. B. Kauffman of a Coatesville Pa newspaper testified to a pooling pact behind the Stanley Steel Trust probe, claiming a boycott drove him into bankruptcy. Secretary Bryan prepared to meet California officials on the Anti Alien Land bill. Wilson approved the Seamen bill ending involuntary servitude and boosting seamen efficiency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate Committee On Census
Wilson
George W. Harris
Georgia
A. B. Kauffman
Coatesville
Stanley Steel Trust
Bryan
California
Johnson
Eliot Receives Massachusetts White Slave Traffic Commission Chair
Dr Charles W Eliot has accepted Governor Foss’s tender to chair the State Commission to investigate the white slave traffic in Massachusetts. Mrs Samarelli, nicknamed a marble bride by her husband, won a decree of separation after being deemed undeservedly accused. Joseph H Wittman a 69 year old Teather manufacturer died in Philadelphia of heart disease. he served as a director of the Northwestern National Bank and the Northern Trust Co. George R Carter former Governor of Hawaii reached San Francisco en route to Washington to oppose sugar duty cuts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles W.eliot
Foss
State
Massachusetts
Samarelli
Joseph H. Wittman
Philadelphia
Northwestern National Bank
The
Northern Trust Co
George R. Carter
Barney Oldfield Sets Dirt Mile World Record in Los Angeles
Barney Oldfield smashes the world dirt mile mark with 46 2 5 seconds, shaving 1 second 4 5 from the prior 47 85 hundredths. The Detroit Baseball Club makes multiple player trades including Boehler to St Joseph and Powell to Providence. Walter Johnson allows one run in 27 innings across three starts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barney Oldfield
Los Angeles
Detroit Baseball Club
Boehler
St. Joseph
Powell
Providence
William Powell
Michael Berghamer
Cincinnati Nationals
Chicago Nationals
Tinker
Walter Johnson
Great Lakes labor strife and wider 1912 news reel
The item cites a strike by 3,000 Shamo kin colliery workers refusing to work with non union men and three I W W leaders indicted in Paterson New Jersey. It also notes steamship rate hikes on the Great Lakes and various political and social items from 1912 including suffragist arrest, divorce suits, and a murder in a mine near Butte Montana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soo
Mich
Shamokin
Paterson
N. J
Swift & Co
Great Lakes
Portugese
California
Hawaii
Animal Industry Bureau
Washington
Manila
Mare Island
Manila Bay
Charlotte Despard
London
Clarence le Bus
Lexington
New York
Katherine Kerigan
Jersey City
Arthur T. Mahon
Midland Park
Massachusetts Senate
Claus Spreckels
Rudolph Spreckels
Emma C. Ferris
1913 Budget Deficit and Maritime Electric News
The 1913 French budget shows a deficit of 40 million dollars. A German aviator Duentz was killed near Johannisthal in a fall from his plane. Italy launched the battleship Dullia at Naples in the presence of the King and Queen. An Austrian naval division reportedly mobilized toward Montenegrin ports with 10 000 men. An Antwerp cathedral incident resulted in two deaths when an 18 year old youth Walkow and an unidentified girl leapt from a tower. James Bryce left his post as British Ambassador in Washington for a trip to Yokohama via New York. George Weltzer travels from Nicaragua toward Panama City to depart for New York. German spy Kohler received seven and a half years imprisonment for fortifications spying for France and Russia. German papers criticized wartime corruption and mocked Bryan’s peace efforts amid the Krupp scandal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado Springs
A.M. Collvert
Lincoln
Idaho Springs
Col
Newport
Manila
Henry Clay Pierce
St Louis
Kentner
California
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Mellen
Boston
Honor Legion of the Police Department
New York City
Vincent Astor
Wilson
Congress of Governors
Canadian Pacific Railroad
Rogers Pass
British Columbia
Marine Barracks
Sitka
Alaska
Navy Department
Pittsburgh
S. L. Heeter
G 4
China
W. E. Fernald
Waverly
Mass
Chicago
James Crinn
Nelson W. Greenhut
Springfield
L. I
Thomas Conroy
Duentz
Johannisthal
Dullia
Naples
London Jockey Club
W. H. Schwind
Lewisohn
Gilbert
Villacoublay
France
Vittoria
Spain
Duchess of Connaught
Canada
Trieste
Montenegrin
Cettinje
Walkow
Antwerp
James Bryce
Washington
New York
Yokohama
Japan
George Weltzer
Nicaragua
Panama City
Herr Kohler
Leipsic
Plan of State Roads System Blue Route objections outlined
Colonel Stevens sends letters to Freeholders seeking objections to the blue route proposed for the state road plan. The blue route covers parts of New Jersey with milestones and miles listed, with a notice of a May 5 hearing and details on funding, future expansion, and maintenance costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colonel Stevens
Boards of Freeholders
Blues
Trenton
Edwin A. Stevens
New Jersey
Union
State Highway Commission
Boards of
eChosen Freeholders
Commission
Stevens
Jersey City
Paterson
Camden
Atlantic City
Newark
Hackensack
Branch
Elizabeth
Newton
Delayed Alien Land Bill Plea From Secretary Bryan
Secretary Bryan urged California legislators to postpone anti alien land measures for two years and let the State Department seek diplomatic exclusion of Japanese from soil. He met with Governor Johnson and leaders, arguing the issue is national not state and harms Pacific commerce. Johnson defended the bills, pressing passage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
Wheaton
Fielder
Sacramento
Cal
Bryan
California
Johnson
Japan
Boynton
Senate
Thompson
Wallace
Capitol
State Department
United States
Auto Victim Found Unconscious on White Horse Pike
Martin McDermott, 44, of White Horse, was picked up unconscious along the White Horse pike. He suffered a concussion, severe scalp wounds, and bad bruises. believed struck by an automobile. He is in a local hospital in serious condition, taken there by the auto party that found him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Horse Pike
Martin McDermott
White Horse
Few Farms Left in Essex County Suburban Drive
A brief note observes shrinking farm islands in Essex County amid Orange Mountain area expansion. It notes inroads of development, with new houses rising weekly, yet praises the improving character of both small and large properties over recent years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Essex County
Orange Mountain
Earthquake Shakes Northern New York Towns
A significant quake hit Northern New York along the St. Lawrence River with shaking in Clayton Alexandria Bay Ogdensburg Bangor Potsdam Gouverneur and Philadelphia. Homes rattled dishes broke in Alexandria Bay and Ogdensburg residents spilled into streets as waves lashed river wharves. No major damage reported. The tremor lasted about half a minute and was soon followed by a river storm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ogdensburg
Watertown
N. Y
New York
St. Lawrence River
Clayton
Alexandria Bay
Bangor
Potsdam
Gouverneur
Philadelphia
Mothers Drown Babies In Separate Indiana And Pennsylvania Incidents
In Logansport Indiana Mrs Nellie Paugh 86 threw her two sons Donald 12 and Delbert 6 from a Deer Creek bridge then jumped. Delbert and Nellie drowned while Donald swam to shore. In Pittsburgh Mrs Joseph Semer reportedly threw her six week old baby into Robinson Run with the body recovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logansport
Ind
Nellie Paugh
Donald
Delbert
Deer Creek
Pittsburgh
Joseph Semer
Robinson Rum
News of the New Jersey Week Wide and Local
A wide array of notes from across New Jersey reports fishermen finding luck at coast resorts, Hightstown to gain gas service within the year, business leaders like Paulsboro merchant Robert Jester, and a series of accidents and legal actions. Notable items include a man dying in a barber chair, a scaffold fall in Ocean City, glass blowers departing for Ravenwood, and granite columns begun at Pitman camp.
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the Cranbury Press
George W. Burroughs
Granbury
Cccseseeeens Nek
Cable
Huumanitos
Boston Chamber of Commerce
Governor Foss
William McKinley Memorial Hospital
Michael Petron
Uniontown
Joseph Petron
Eranmeet City
Plan OF State Roads System
William Waldron
Waldron
Washington, D. C
State Comptroller’s Office
Grosscup
Edwards
Atlantic
Bergen
Burlington
Cape May
Cumberland
Hunterdon
Mercer
Middlex
Morris
Ocean
Monmouth
Passaic
Essex
Gloucester
Hudson
Salem
Somerset
Sussex
Union Vo
Warren
LL. Edward Hermann
Wright
Union County
Herman
Supreme Court
Court of Common Pleas
Orphan's Court
Sheriff Wright
Wells Falls
Lambersville
Delaware
Upper
Hightstown
Robert A. Jester
Paulsboro
Uriah Smith
Ocean City
Carenter
Woodbury Glass - Blowers
Ravenwood, L. I
Pitman Camp
Atlantic Brick Manufacturing Company
Glassboro
Presbyterian Church
Thomas Williams
Millville
George P. Rust
Passaic Daily News
Aaron and
Budd Shedaker
Burlington Township
Texas
Pennsylvania Railroad
Belvidere
Asylum
Dix Haven
Alex. Marcey, Jr
Skill-man
Tabernacle
Kirkham
Walter F. Brown
Grace Brown
Princeton
Hightstown Improvement Association
P. T. Daly
May's Landing
Charles Roesch
James W. Lemars
South Jersey
Asbury Park
Taylor
Assembly
M.E. Church
Walker
Justice Voorhees
Judge Carrow
Burlington County Bar Association
Elks
Mt. Holly
Bar Association
Judge Horner
Joseph Wills
Rancocas
John Wills
Samuel Atkinson
Charles Richards
Anthony Schultz
State Reformatory
Boyle
French
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