Mona Lisa Found After 1911 Louvre Theft In Paris
Florence dispatch reports Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa recovered in Paris after theft from the Louvre in 1911. An Italian suspect was arrested. painting and suspect in police custody. The work, valued at around 6 million dollars in rumors, was offered by an Italian resident of Paris.
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Florence
Italy
Leonardo ‘da Vinci
Louvre
Napoleon I
Yvarlows
Leonardo
Lisa del Giocondo
France
Francis I
Unitich
Vermont limps home after main shaft break in voyage
The battleship Vermont, returning from a Mediterranean cruise with Delaware and colliers Orion and Jason, reported a broken starboard main shaft and flooded compartments. Rear Admiral Charles B. Badger stated there is no cause for alarm as the ship moves toward Hampton Roads on one engine at eight knots.
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Washington
Vermont
Hampton Roads
Mediterranean
Delaware
Orion
Jason
Navy Department
Charles B. Badger
Bomb explosion at bottling company kills girl in New York
An express package bomb detonated at the O. K. Bottling Company on West Thirty-eighth Street killing eighteen year old Ida Ausewitz and fatally wounding office manager McCabe. The blast shattered most windows in the building.
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New York
O. K. Bottling Company
West Thirty-eighth Street
Ida Ausewitz Thomas McCabe
Fire Threatens Downto wn Iowa Town Fire destroys several businesses
Fire near Owsa Town in Manly Iowa Friday afternoon destroyed Mitchell dry goods McMurty's millinery Clemmar's bakery and Carter's restaurant. Loss estimated at 20000 dollars. Two people killed in an auto accident near Newark Delaware Mrs Harry Pierce of Wilmington and Moora of Salisbury were identified as victims.
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Manly
Dee
Mason City
Mitchell Dry Goods
McMurty's
Clemmar's Bakery
Carter
Withington
Del
Moora
Salisbury
Mra
Harry Pierce
Wilstington
Newark
Seaquake Damages Piers and Injures Men in LA
Seaquake hits Los Angeles area tearing piers, wrecking others and driving boats ashore. Three men are seriously injured as waves thrash the coast. Scientists say the disturbance was caused by a seaquake.
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Los Angeles
Guy
Noted Scientist Carl von Klamn Dead at 72
Chicago December 15 Dr Carl W H von Klamn aged seventy two a descendant of a listed German family a Heidelberg University graduate who spent a fortune in medical and archaeological research died here.
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Chicago
Carl WH. von Klamn
Heidelberg University
Railroad Man Jailed for Wreck in Cann City
Saddletown Canada December 1 Arthur T Bradley of Meriden was found guilty and sentenced to three months for manslaughter. Bradley was the pilot of a trolley car that collided with a passenger train in a wreck that claimed a life.
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Saddletown
Cann
Arthur T. Bradley
Meriden
Bradley
Court ends case of Hansen in Unionville assault
The state case against Henry Hansen of Unionville for assault with intent to inflict great bodily harm on a boy taken from Ottumwa’s children's home ended when he pled guilty, receiving a $200 fine and costs. Reports also note rail injunctions against carriers for liquor shipments, and various Iowa city events and incidents.
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Henry Hansen
Unionville
Ottumwa
Hansen
Sioux City
Anti-Saloon League
Milwaukee
Illnois Central
Isaac Furbish
Iowa City
Kennebunk
Furbish
Citizens’ State Bank
Colfax
M. D. Wheelock
Engineering College
University of Iowa
John Horsley
Fremont County
Jackson
Rock Island
Roy Maxson
Fort Madison
John Meltzer
Teachers’ College
Kossuth
C. H. Johnson
Shortess
Ameg
Waterloo
Chariton Volunteer Fire Department
Northwest
Phesbyterian Church
J.P. Broderick
Patrick Needham
Jefferson Township
Waukan
Allamakee County
J. J. Kelly
Des Moines
Harry Witvat
H. 5. Dugan
R. S. 4Erwekh
Perry
Perry OE
Mc Dermott Guilty Count Shapes House Expulsion Move
Washington December 10 after the lobby committee report Representative Macdonald a Michigan Progressive introduced two resolutions to determine if the finding warrants expulsion of McDermott and if National Association of Manufacturers officials deserve contempt actions. The panel upheld Wilsons charge of capital robberies influencing legislation while clearing Bartholdt Calder Sherley Webb and Fairchild of unfounded charges. It found Mulhall Emery overstepped decency in lobbying and that McDermott committed grave impropriety unbecoming his office.
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Washington
House
Macdonald
Michigan
McDermott
National Association of Manufacturers
Wilson
Martin M. Mulhall
Bartholdt
Missouri
Calder
New York
Sherley
Kentucky
Webb
North Carolina
Fairchild
American Federation of Labor
Mulhall
James A. Emery
James D. McDermott
Milnois
President defers urging suffrage reform to Congress
Washington dispatch reports President on Monday told a delegation from the National American Woman's Suffrage Association that he favored a standing woman’s suffrage committee in the house but refused their request for a special message to Congress urging the reform.
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Washington
National American Woman's Suffrage Association
House of Representatives
Congress
Harvard selects negro orator for class day 1914
Cambridge Harvard seniors elect Alexander L. Jackson of Engelwood New Jersey as their class day orator for 1914. Other items note city bank fears in Omaha subsiding and Militant Emmeline Pankhurst leaving for Paris with her daughter after a seven day leave.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard
Alexander L. Jackson
Engelwood
N. J
Omaha
Neb
City National Bank of Omaha
Wife Held Charged With Murder in Arsenic Case
Mrs. Cynthia Bulfam, accused of killing her husband and a child with arsenic, was arrested in Salamanca and brought to Little Valley charged with murder in the first degree.
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Little Valley
Cynthia Bulfam
Salamanca
French Losses in Morocco Fight Reported in Paris
Paris dispatch reports the storming of Aln Galaka in Morocco on November 27 cost the French army three officers and 22 men killed while three officers and 9 men were wounded.
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Paris
France
Aln Galaka
Morocco
Prohibition Leaders Push Nation Wide Ban in Congress
Washington dispatch reports 1000 National Woman's Christian Temperance Union and Anti-Saloon League delegates storming Congress to urge a constitutional amendment for nationwide prohibition. Prominent figures including Mrs. L M N Stevens Mae Gordon Elizabeth Hutchinson and others urged action while Senator Shepherd of Texas pledged to introduce the bill in both houses.
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Washington
National Women's Christian Temperance Union
Anti-Saloon League
Congress
Hvandton
Elizabeth Hutchinson
Wichita
Kan
Mary H. Armur
Atlanta
Ella Hoole
New York
Capitol
Burley. Baker
Ohio
Anti-Saloon League of America
Baker
Shepherd
Texas
Hobson
Patterson
Tennessee
MAY UNIFY EXPRESS RATES
A national conference in Chicago aimed at unifying express rates across the country was held with participants from the Interstate Commerce Commission the Association of Railway Commissioners of the United States and various express firms. The meeting was purely a conference with no official action possible. In New York on December 13 women stormed Judge Foster's courtroom trying to attend the Hans Schmidt murder trial, causing near riot conditions.
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Chicago
Interstate Commerce Commission
Association of Railway Commissioners of the
United States
Storm Schmidt
New York
Foster
Hans Schmidt
Anna Aumuller
Women Seek Slayer Entry to Induce Surrender in Utah
Hingham Utah Dec 13 Sheriff Smith refused a request from three women to enter the Utah Apex mine and try to persuade Ralph Lopez the Mexican slayer of six men to surrender.
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Hingham
Utah
Smith
Ralph Lopez
Vaccination topic dominates anti vivisection congress
Washington report describes the international anti vivisection and animal protection congress in session with Belgium chosen as the next meeting site. Porter R. Gope of Philadelphia faults smallpox control on vaccination, while Prof. J Howard Moore argues for humane limits on vivisection and highlights animal capacity for feeling and grief.
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Washington
International Antivivisection and Animal Protection Congress
Belgium
Ccheion
Congress
Porter R. Gope
Philadelphia
America
J. Howard Moore
Crane Technical High School
Chicago
Moore
Nobel Peace Prize Winners Named for 1912 and 1913
The Nobel peace prize for 1912 was awarded to Senator Elihu Root of New York and the 1913 prize to Senator Henri La Fontaine of Brussels. The committee lauds Root for pacifying the Philippines and Cuba and for managing the American Japanese dispute while praising his statesmanship and his drive for international peace.
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Christiania
Norway
Wag
Hlihu Root
New York
Henri le Fontaine
Brussels
Belgium
Permanent International Peace Bureau
Herne
Switzerland
Root
Philippines
Cuba
Hia
William Deering Dies At 88 In Florida
William Deering head of the harvester trust died at his Cocoanut Grove country home near Miami. He had been ill for months and died of paralysis at eighty eight. Born April 25 1826 in South Parts Missouri he married Abby Barbour in 1849. she died in 1856 leaving son Charles Deering.
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Miami
Fla
William Deering
Harvester Trust
Cocoanut Grove
Mr. Deering
South Parts
Abby Barbour
Ongefild
Charles Deering
75000 Christmas Trees Arrive in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh dispatch reports 75,000 Christmas trees arrived in 50 freight cars with 156,000 trees total in the shipment. The trees are en route from Vermont to a 50 foot municipal Christmas tree to be displayed locally.
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Pittsburgh
Vermont
Police motor squad arrests thirteen thousand autoists
The New York Police Department motorized corps, consisting of 23 officers, arrested over 13,000 motorists in the past year, with fines totaling above $117,000. In Illinois, Mrs. Maris Simpson Clingman celebrated her 104th birthday at her Cedarville home, believed the oldest resident of the state.
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Dee
Motorcycle Corps
New York Police Department
Freeport
Maris Simpson Clingman
Cedarville
Illinois
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