Notable Global and U S News in Briefs of 1914
A mass letter from 310 U S representatives urges the Nobel committee to award the 1914 Peace Prize to Missouri’s Representative Richard Wartholdt. McAdoo plans a $24 million crop moving fund across multiple cities. Gary Indiana hires William Forbes, veteran Washington press gallery chief, as police assistant superintendent. Various deaths, trials, and notable events from Europe and America include Paris road accident fatalities, Mme Caillaux acquittal, Italian air crash near Novara, Yale’s oldest graduate Augustus Smith, accidental electrocution in Wisconsin, and other political, social, and royal incidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
House of Representatives
Nobel Committee
Christiania
Richard Wartholdt
Missouri
William Forbes
House Press Gallery
Washington
Police Department
Gary
Ind
Serbians Strive for National Unity Amid Balkan Turmoil
Serbia presses for complete unity against Austria Hungary's expansion as Balkan wars shift power. King Peter rises after royal assassinations shaping southeastern Europe, with Kragujevac as new defensive capital and Sal onika dispute looming over access to the sea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austria-Hungary
Servia
Francis Ferdinand
Hohenberg
Hapsburg
Vienna
Aegean
Austria
Russia
Balkan
Balkan Peninsula
Adriatic
Istria
Dalmatia
Turkey
Montenegro
Bosnia
Herzegovina
Novi Bazar
Macedonia
Sible
Albania
Aegean Sea
Maccedonia
Salonika
Austria Hungary
Servis
Balkan League
Bulgaria
Constantinople
Peter
Europe
Alexander of
Draga
Belgrade
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Balkans
Serbia
Germany
Indiana Progressives Grow As Postmaster Rally Ends
The 1915 Indiana postmasters annual convention closed in La Porte with officers elected and plans to meet in Kokomo. Progressives organize strong county groups across Porter and Lake counties, aiming to reform spoil system and push merit-based appointments while targeting the fall elections with Beveridge supporters and parade plans in Fort Wayne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul P.haynén
State Committee
Corboy
Valparaiso
Atill
Porter
Roosevelt
Beveridge
Will Ade
Lewis HB
Meyers
Porter County
Indiana
John Clapp
Oliver Chapman
M. A. Morgan
L. B. Street
H. C. Wessner
Indiana Association
Kokomo
State League
Gallaher
Laporte Circuit
Fort Wayne
Harry R. Brown
Waterloo
Garrett
Brown
State
Tower
Bernard B. Shively
Marion
Antoinette Funk
Illinois
Lake County
Gast
Chicago
Surveyor
M. J. Bowman
Purdue Plans State Campaign Against Hog Cholera
Purdue University, with the U S Department of Agriculture, launches a state wide effort to eradicate hog cholera. Veterinary chiefs Dr R A Craig and Dr D B Clark lead demonstrations, farm visits, and county agent training while the Indiana Bankers Association publishes a bulletin to aid farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Purdue University
United States Department of Agriculture
General Assembly
Veterinary Department
R. A. Craig
D. B. Clark
C. G. Starr
P. A. Mollan
Indiana Bankers’ Sesociation
Northwestern Indiana Methodist Conference to Meet in Lafayette
After a Kansas City bishop’s talks the Northwest Indiana Methodist Episcopal conference plans its annual session in Lafayette from September 29 to October 6 at Trinity Church. Rev Edwin W Durlavy says sessions run day and night with special meetings for district hymnists and an itinerant school for young clergymen. Bishop McDowell will announce pastor appointments at the closing session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. F. McDowell
Chicago
Northwest Indiana Methodist Episcopal Conference
Leafayette
Edwin W. Durlavy
Trinity M. EB. Church
Isymen
Northwest
Indiana
Trinity Church
Lafayette
McDowell
Epworth League Opens Second Indiana Institute
Methodist church workers from across Indiana gathered in Lafayette for the second annual Epworth League institute. Leaders surveyed the field to train department heads and members for better youth work and greater efficiency, noting a larger membership than last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Epworth League of Indiana
Lafayette
Svartoua
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Denver
McAdoo
Prince de la Tour d
Cannon
Congress
Paul Reclis
The
Academy of Medicine
Mme. Caillaux
Gaston Calmette
le Figaro
Paris
Giovanni Caviggia
Novara
Italy
Harry Hammerstein
Oscar Hammerstein
New London
Conn
Augustus N. Smith
Yale University
James J. Glennon
Janesville
Wis
Helen M. Angle
Stamford
Waldo R. Ballou
G. W. Lutz
Winona (Minn
Methodist Church
Lake Winona
Landini
Monte Rosa Tange
Alps
Henry Strutt
Baron Belper
London
King George
Egypt
Katherine Clemmons Gould
George J. Gould
Charles Henrotin
Chicago Stock Exchange
Cansur
Belgium
Thomas H. Taylor
Jackson, Miss
Robert
Thomas H. Dalton
East Boston
Joseph
Henry L. Ford
Eureka
Cal
WAY OF
Geneva
Great Britain
Switzerland
St. Cyr
Foreign Legion
Milan
Easter
Kraguyevarz
Pater
Semendria
Danube
Old Kingdom of
Nisch
Obrenovitch
Karageorgevitch
Hungary
France
England
M. T.clapp Head
Beach Grove
Body
Laporte
M. E
Epworth League
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