Briefly Told Happenings of the Past Week
Washington reports show the federal effort to delay California alien land ownership law as Secretary Bryan warns Governor Johnson of a Japanese protest urging delay. The Friedmann tuberculosis vaccine study finds no ready confidence. U S stance to Mexico remains. only urgent business after recognizing the de facto government. May wheat crop tops prior records. Underwood tariff bill passes House 281 to 189 with 5 Democrats against and 2 Republicans for. 14 Progressives oppose.
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California
Bryan
Wilson
Johnson
California Assembly
Tiuerta
Mexico
Henry Lane Wilson
United States
House
Alaska land orders and political shifts cited in Senate notes
Domestic remarks credit Gifford Pinchot with tying up Alaska, referencing Roosevelt’s 1906 order. House member H Olin Young contemplates resignation over McDonald dispute. California’s $10,000 dynamite reward moves toward payment as bills pass. Missouri Supreme Court rehearing in Standard Oil case. Kansas penal board reduces Dennis Jackson’s sentence for murder citing heroism in prison fires. Alaska and Skagway incidents, Canton tonisilitis crisis, and Annapolis death reported with terse details.
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Gifford Pinchot
Alaska
James F. Callbreath
American Mining Congress
Senate Territories
Washington
Roosevelt
Dennis Jackson
Kansas Penal Board
Foreign incidents and near-misses across continents
Reports of a boiler explosion beside Myron Herrick’s Paris residence injuring workers, Mount Vesuvius activity and tremors frightening peasants, 25 federal officers captured and executed at Guaymas, a Philippine typhoon causing deaths and wreckage, and the thwarted St Paul’s Cathedral bombing attributed to militant suffragettes.
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Myron Z. Herrick
United States
Paris
Mount Vesuvius
Strike Declared by Amalgamated Street Railway on Cincinnati Streets
A strike was declared by executive division 627 of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employers on Cincinnati streets. Other items report an Army Aviator J. D. Parks killed in California after a 108 mile flight from San Diego to Los Angeles, a bank safe dynamiting in North Henderson Alabama, a Missouri fire insurance suspension halting 100 cottages in Kansas City, a May 24 Republican committee meeting at the Willard to discuss a national convention, Brandeis charging malpractice against New York New Haven and Boston & Maine officials, and Denver officers arresting Patrolman Thomas Campbell for saloon robbery along with two accomplices.
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Amalgamated
Association of Street and Electric Railway
J. D. Parks
Santa Ana
Cal
San Diego
Los Angeles
Parka
West Point Military Academy
Charles D. Hilles
Republican National Committee
New Willard Hotel
Washington
Notable figures share health, honors, and nuptial events
Former Shelby M Cullom of Mlnola suffered a severe cold and stayed in bed in Washington. The Phipps Institute, funded by a $1,000,000 gift from Henry Phipps to Penn for tuberculosis studies among the poor, was dedicated and its degree of doctor of laws awarded to Mr. Phipps. Gettysburg Memorial Day address will be delivered by Alabama congressman Janes Thomas Heflin, the first southerner since the 1863 dedication. Yale Oriental scholar Willis Haskell, 75, died in New Haven. Louise Warfield, daughter of former Maryland governor Edwin Warfield, married Count Vladimir Ledochowski in Baltimore. he is Polish Catholic, she a Protestant.
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Shelby M. Cullom
Mlnola Ja
Hla
Washington
Phipps
Henry Phipps
University of Pennsylvania
Mr. Phipps
Soldiers’ National Cemetery
Gettysburg
Janes Thomas Heflin
Alabama
Misa Louise Warfield
Edwin Warfeld
Maryland
Baltimore
Vladimir Ledochowski
Poland
Misa Warfield
Wilson says talks with Japan on alien land bill stay calm
President Wilson reports frank friendly exchanges with Japan over California alien land legislation. He notes the Webb bill would not breach the treaty and that Japanese protest stems from perceived citizenship discrimination. Governor Johnson may veto or delay the bill to smooth tensions.
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Washington
Wilson
Japan
United States
California
Webb
Tie
Whites House
Johnson
Bryan
Sacramento
Cal
Wilson's Jury Reform Passes in New Jersey House
President Wilson welcomed the passage by New Jersey's lower house of a jury reform bill. The plan moves juries to be chosen by commissioners named by the chancellor with supreme court input, and the measure awaits a statewide referendum next November.
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Washington
Wilson
New Jersey House
Isadera
Senate
Supreme Court
Taxpayers Face 8 Million in Balkan War Coin Costs
Vienna May 13 Austro-Hungarian taxpayers will pay at least 8 million dollars in coin for military protection measures against Russia Servia and Montenegro during the Balkan war. Many question necessity of such colossal expenditures and whether they are truly needed.
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Austria
Vienna
Russia
Servia
Montenegro
Swiss envoy Frederick Luthi wed in Bacret Washington
Diplomatic circles learned May 13 that Frederick Luthi chancellor of the Swiss legation married Miss Moreal of Louisiana in November. The romance had remained private until now surfacing in Washington society.
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Bacret
Washington
Frederick
Luthi
Legation
Congressional Doings: Washington May Reported Nominations
In Kesston and Dalagate Wickarsham denounced lands near Chilgach forest reserve in Alaska. Committees on territorial judiciary reported several nominations favorably. The House transacted no business. A number of bills were introduced. The customs court ruled that European nations gain free entry of wood pulp and paper under most favored nation terms due to Canada’s reciprocity agreement.
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Senate
Kesston
Dalagate
Wickarsham
Chilgach
Forest Reserve
Alaska
Territorial
House
United States
Canada
SECOND TRY TO WRECK TRAIN NEAR PATTERSON
A second attempt within 48 hours aimed to wreck an Erie train near Ferndale four miles from Paterson. Detectives found rafla and car track obstructing the line in a deep cut, removed just before the Chicago express arrived. The same train faced a rock pile near Paterson last Saturday. both times the cars carried passengers.
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New York
Erie
Nigit
Ferndale
Paterson
Wilson Sees Tariff Victory Predictions
Wilson believes the tariff bill will pass without major amendments and expects no reopening of schedules. He has not heard of Senate changes to House work and remains confident. He may informally share currency views this week. The president gave no clear stance on public hearings in the finance committee.
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Washington
Wilson
Senate
House
Certan
Cook seeks inquiry into polar claim by commission
Dr. Frederick A. Cook has written to President Wilson alleging character assassination by government officials and ridiculing the National Geographic society. He asks that a commission of polar explorers be appointed to investigate his claim and Peary’s discovery of the North Pole, proposing members Gen. A. W. Greely Capt. Otto Sverdrup and Prof. Georges Le Bointae.
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Washington
National Geographic Society
Frederick A. Cook
Wilson
Admiral Peary
North Pole
Cook
A. W. Greely
Otto Sver‘drup
Norway
Georges Lebointe
Belgiom
Plan Jail For Employers
Washington May 13 jail terms of one year a thousand dollar fine or both face employers who threaten workers with wage cuts or job loss through legislation. A bill by Representative Pepper of Town would outlaw distribution of literature or notices in workshops that threaten or influence votes in presidential elections.
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Washington
Pepper
Bucking Auto Kills Child At Brooklyn School
New York May 13 The street outside public School No 14 in Brooklyn was crowded with children at lunch when a coal truck from Jersey City ran amok and struck a group of girls. Ten year old Mable Balmer died and four year old Marcella Kelly was severely injured. A mob of students and adults gathered to attack the driver O L Mount the chauffeur until police intervened.
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New York
Echool No. 14
Brooklyn
Jersey City
Mable Balmer
Marcella Kelly
O. L. Mount
Steel Head Goes On Witness Stand In Steel Case
James Farrell, president of United States Steel, testifies for defense as the government seeks dissolution under Sherman law. Farrell traces rise from a New Haven laborer to top executive, cites interlocks with Harvester, export growth to 60 countries, and plans involving Tennessee Coal and Iron to expand steel for Latin America.
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United. States Steel Corporation
James Farrell
The
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Severance
Farrell
Steel Corporation
United States Steel Products Company
Harvester, Company
International Harvester Company
Gajgy
Harvester Company
Ateel
Witneaa
Steel” Corporation
Iceland
Iji Islanda
Buenos Ayres
Farrell Auld
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company
Barbers Strike Becomes Serious in New York and Brooklyn
The New York and Brooklyn barbers strike has escalated as about 14,000 barbers quit work, crippling the trade. Striking methods are intensifying to gain broader support from barbers who have remained at work.
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New York
Brooklyn
Standard Oil Nebraska Declares 36 Percent Stock Dividend
Standard Oil company of Nebraska declares a 36 percent stock dividend in addition to the regular semi annual cash dividend of 10 dollars per share and an extra cash dividend of 5 dollars per share. Payable June 20.
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Standard Oil
Mahs
Neb
Standard Oil Company of Nebraska
Beardes
Lightning Kills Five at Texas Pipeline Site
Collinsville Oklahoma May 13 employees of the Texas Pipeline company were instantly killed by a bolt of lightning. Two other workers were probably fatally hurt in the same incident at the project site nearby.
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Collinsville
Oklo
Texas Pipeline Company
Birthday party antics amuse children at Mt final Reese Hosp
A birthday gathering at a Chicago area hospital school event featured magic, ventriloquism, and dancing for entertaining the children. The hostess praised the performer, but a small speaker from the back humorously noted his ego.
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Reese Hospa
Élasada
Michael “Rh Hospital
Groveland
Bue
Chicago
Blank
Cuticura Soap and Baby Care Adot Militant Tales
An old advertisement extols Cuticura Soap as a pure, fragrant, emollient product for babies and skin ailments, noting its use with Cuticura Ointment for eczema and rashes. The piece shifts to brief vignettes: a five year old boy tacks lacing linoleum, a father’s fair treatment, and a London Chronicle observation on politeness in line etiquette.
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Cutleura
Dept. L. Boston
I See Your New Cook at the Table
Mrs Keen notes a new cook while smiling at guests. The hostess confirms, and Mr Keen jokes about studying thumb prints on the plates.
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Mrs. Keen
Mr. Keen
Grape-Nuts touted as aid to long-standing stomach trouble
A reader from New Hampshire credits Grape-Nuts with ending years of distress from poor appetite and digestive illness. After starting the cereal, the writer reports improved weight and ability to eat normally, noting freedom from headaches and vomiting and increased vitality. The letter is attributed to Postum Co of Battle Creek, Michigan.
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Etter
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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