Taft Drafts Postal Reform and Peary Pole Proofs in Briefs
Washington reports months of interoffice resistance to Peary’s polar claims. Postmaster general’s division tallies 720 dead letters worth $540.50, with $8780.75 net revenue. Mann of Illinois to push administration bill on postal reorganization and a post office director general. Peary’s polar proofs and Arctic claims may be reviewed by naval affairs and scientists. Congress also debates a revised postal code and a permanent post official removable only for cause.
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Washington
Robert KE. Peary
Congress
North Pole
Post Office Department
Taft
Olsoon
Pangea Canal
Mann of
Ilinois
Interstate Commerce Committee
Hitm
Robert E. Peary
House
Naval Affairs Committee
Tower House
Post Office
Ambassadors Dinner for American Battleship Officers
Ambassador and Mrs. Whitelaw Weld hosted a London dinner for admirals captains and officers of the American battleships. A wide range of foreign affairs and domestic notes follow, including court actions, political moves, and military appointments.
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Whitelaw Weld
London
Minols Supreme Court
Federal Grand Jury
New Orleans
Taft
Don Anibal Cruz
Barthold
Multiple 1909 Headlines Mixed Personal News
Mrs Eddy may have will attacked. General French seeks more troops for Canada. Norris to renew rules fight. Dr Cook ends pole search. Mrs Bertha Mott acquitted in Omaha murder trial. Captain Peary claims pole discovery. Taft Christmas at White House. Large crowd at Chicago fire chief funeral. Post Office savings from railway mail. Peary to prove discovery to Congress. British elections conclude with no opposition gains. Taft as Santa at White House. Lorimer inquiry finds no bribery. Nebraska circuit judge prospects hinge on one man. Wilson fights Smith Jr nomination.
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Adams
Duke of Connaught
Canada
Prince Ching
Temin
McKinley
Philadelphia
Senate
Omniias
Bristow
Washington
Don Ani Wal Cruz
Rainey
Ilinois
Veater
OH Clark
Chicago, Burineton & Quincy Railroad Company
W FA
Torrey Nebraska
Elzhth
Vandevanter
United States Supreme Court
Ath Iron Works
Missouri
London
Western Union Telegraph Company
Ausio-American Cable Company
Nba
State Department
Bureau of Statistics
United States Army
Joseph R. Girard
Department of Texas
China
Wuntington Wilson
Calhoun
Peking
American National Red Cross Society
Robert S. Lovett
Edward H. Harriman
Southern Pacific
Union Pacific
Railroad Securities Commission
Alma Stanley
Atlanta
Josephine Abbott
Abbott
Eddy
John French
Congressman Norris
Cook
North Pole
Bertha Mott
Omaha
Peary
Pole
Taft
White House
Chicago
Stewart
Robert G. Peary
Congress
Santa Claus
Whitehouse
Lorimer
Nebraska
Elect Wilson
New Jersey
Jaume Smith, Jr
War Seems Sure Peru and Ecuador on Verge of Hostilities
Peru and Ecuador appear to be on the brink of armed clash over the disputed boundary line. Tensions rose after escalating border incidents and diplomatic exchanges failed to yield a resolution, signaling a potential military confrontation in the region.
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Peru
Ecuador
Peace Offers Refused In Peru Ecuador Boundary
A joint note from mediating powers led by the United States Brazil and Argentina urged Peru to take the Peru Ecuador boundary dispute to the Hague tribunal. Ecuador is believed unlikely to accept and war may follow as pressures rise. Newspapers call for readiness as frontier hostilities loom. King Alfonso's failed arbitration had prompted armies to move toward conflict before Washington mediation began.
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Lima
Peru
United States
Explosion at Ice Plant Kills Thirteen Italians and Poles
A boiler explosion at the Morewood Tire Company ice plant near Lake Morewood Texas killed thirteen men and injured many others. Identified victims include William Dun engineer and Edgar Allen. others were Italian and Polish workers. Bodies flew over 100 feet as workers gathered near the boiler house. The blast disrupted storage and ice operations. authorities investigate. Washington dispatch notes Secretary Bal linger to rule on Sioux treaty questions following Judge Amidon’s 1851 repeal ruling. government appeals possible within thirty days amid holiday season.
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Pittefeld
Morewood Tire Co
Morewood Lake
William Dun
Edgar Allen
Lee House
Lake Morewood
Texas
Fire destroys Concord apartment house in St Paul
A December fire at the Concord apartment house on Eleventh Street in St Paul, Minn, killed an unidentified woman and injured thirteen others, three fatally suspected. The blaze began with an explosion likely on the second floor, driven by zero weather as tenants escaped in night attire. Firemen saved three babies dropped from the third floor balcony while many residents lost clothing and money in the flames.
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St. Paul
Minn
Concord
Eleventh Street
Minnesota
Roberts Streets
Counterfeiting Plant Found in Brooklyn Raid
New York officials describe a raid in Brooklyn uncovering a large counterfeiting operation. Agents seized partly finished spurious quarter dollars and hot metal moulds in a ramshackle building near a tenement. Arrested were Frank Stellberk and John Dress, with a third man unnamed. Federal estimates value the seizure around 6000 dollars as authorities traced the coins in circulation on street cars.
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New York
Brooklyn
Secret Service
Frank Stellberk
John Dress
Explosion Buries Workmen at El Paso Smelter Site
In El Paso Texas, dynamite stored in a blasting pit at the American Smelting & Refining Co. smelter exploded during morning blasting for railroad construction. Nearly all of the score of workers were buried with many injured in surrounding areas. The blast damaged houses, broke windows and roofs, and damaged the smelter hospital and nearby property, while I M Bray’s store and other structures suffered from debris.
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el Paso
Tex
American Smelting & Refining Co
I. M. Bray
New York Ferry Firemen Strike Shuts City Transit
New York City faced its first municipal strike in years as ferryboat firemen walked out over crew reductions from seven to six men to cut costs. Hundreds of Staten Island commuters could not reach Manhattan, forced to detour into New Jersey as city officials hired 100 longshoremen to fill the ranks. The strike began during the rush hour.
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New York
New York City
Ecity
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Staten Island
New Jersey
Portugal Crises Rise as Lisbon Fleet Moves Away
Paris dispatch cites Madrid reports of instability in Portugal's new republic with uncertain army loyalty and naval mutiny. Three Lisbon cruisers ordered out, population alarmed, Diario Noticias says no secret society plotting to restore King Manuel and conspirators arrested.
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Paris
Temps
Madrid
Lisbon
Republic of
Portugal
Diario Noticias
Manuel
Consspiracy
Armenians Arrested in Atlanta for Fraudulent Mission Funds
Two Armenian men named Dereon Michael Joseph and Arch deacon Jean Bejan were arrested in Atlanta on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. Police found documents showing they duped many churchgoers nationwide and claimed funds were for missionary work in their country. The papers also indicate activity across several European nations.
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Atlanta
Dereon Michael Joseph
Jean Bejan
Census reveals population jumps for Fargo and Grand Forks
Census figures show 1930 populations of Fargo N D 14 381 and Grand Forks 12 478, with ten year gains of 494 percent and 69 41 percent respectively. The report notes 1930 data and contrasts with 1900 and 1920 figures. In a separate item at Chivasso a 19 year old husband and accomplices are charged after burglaries netting 1 600, with alleged involvement by the wife as lookout.
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Washington
Dee
Census Bureau
Fargo
Chivasso
Springfield
Mass
Samuel A. Butler
Walter Gray
Winter Storm Hits Midwest With Heavy Snow
Chicago on December 28 reports a fierce storm bringing heavy snow to the north central states and rain to the south. Telegraph and telephone service faltered as wires broke and trains faced delays. Milwaukee and Lansing Moscow? Michigan areas reported seven to ten inches of snow at the storm’s northern edge.
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Chicago
North Central States
Milwaukee
Limsing
Mich
Atlantic fleet of sixteen battleships sails from Cherbourg
Cherbourg reports sixteen battleships of the United States Atlantic fleet meeting at the Scilly Islands after six weeks of entertaining by French and British officials. The ships set course for Guantanamo Cuba with arrival planned on January 16. The crews left a favorable impression in European waters.
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Cherbourg
France
Scilly Islands
Guantanamo
Cuba
Pittsburgh Express Engineer Dies In Office Cab Crash
Philadelphia dispatch reports TH. GC. Creek, an engineer on the Pittsburg express, found dead in his cab as the train neared Stirling Hand Pa after leaving Philadelphia at 8:40 am. Fireman Walter Moore helped stop the train. Cause of death given as heart failure.
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Philadelphia
Creek
Pittsburg
Stird
Walter Moore
Fire destroys Considine general store and home
A blaze originating from a defective flue totally destroyed the general store dwelling and stock of Geo Lefitte in Considine North Dakota on December 30. The loss is estimated over 10600 with insurance of 3500. Levittes, a Ramsey county pioneer, is named in the report.
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Considine, N. D
Geo. Lefittee
Levittes
Ramsey County
Head Split With Axe Taurens SCO Dec
A young farmer named A Huam ston near Taurens was found dead with his head severed and a bloody axe by his side. His wife, recently returned from an insane asylum, is detained by authorities and denies knowledge of the crime.
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Taurens
Sco
A. Huamston
Here
Fouli
Famine Victims’ Rest Sacred to Montreal Irish
The Grand Trunk Railway seeks to condemn the old St Etienne cemetery for rail expansion, sparking Irish opposition across eastern Canada. They claim the site is sacred to 6 000 famine victims buried there, memorialized by a 1859 Victoria Bridge inscription. The Irish warn appropriation would desecrate sacred ground.
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Montreal
Grand Trunk Railway
Railway Commission of Canada
St. Etienne Street
Canada
Ireland
United States
New York
Vicoria
Eto Hrassey & Betts
Victoria Bridge
Paris sculptor completes Wagner plaque for Venice palace
Cadorin in Paris finished a marble plaque of Richard Wagner for the exterior wall of the Venice Grand Canal palace where the composer lived and died. Italy's eminent poet Gabriel d Annunzio wrote the dedication beneath the bust. The inscription reads as translated.
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Paris
Cadorin
Richard Wagger
Grand Canal
Venice
Italy
Gabriel d’Annunzio
Wagner
Ag Tolows
Poem Invokes Wagner as German Genius Inspiring Poet
In a reflective passage the poet cites Wagner's influence on Il Fuoco and notes that the Teuton surpassed Italians in music. The text frames Wagner as a universal muse whose genius spurred the poet to honor and emulate his artistry across borders.
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Wagner
Italans
Fourth Death in Chicago Strike Reported
Chicago reports the fourth death in the garment workers' strike. Ferdi ning Weils, 19, was shot December 24 by Special policeman Edward Heaney. Heaney is jailed and authorities plan murder charges.
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Chicago
Garment Workers
Ferdining Weils
Edward Heaney
Heaney
Alleged P O Robbers Held in Aberdeen
Aberdeen S D Dec 24 James E Brien Joseph Smith and John Ho ward were held to the federal district court in 5000 bonds each which they could not furnish and will be kept in Brown county jail until the feb Tu idry term of court
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P. O
Aberdeen
S. J
James Ber Brien
Joseph Smith
John Ho Ward
Stockholm
Federal District Court
Brown County
Wholesale Election Frauds in Adams County Grand Jury Indictments
Adams county grand jury reports 145 more true bills against citizens accused of selling votes in November election. Total indictments reach 959. Special Prosecutor Stephenson says more cases remain unprobed. The largest group of defendants faces a $10 fine and a suspended six months in the work house.
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West Union
Adams County Grand Jury
Stephenson
World’s Longest Flight Record Set in France
In Bue France on December 30 Maurice Ta Duteau contesting for the Michelin cup broke the world aviation distance record flying 362.66 miles in a continuous night flight lasting seven hours and forty five minutes.
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Bue
France
Maurice Ta- Duteau
Farmer Chung Kock Shoots Wife in Fort Madison
Chung Kock a farmer near Fort Madison shot and instantly killed his wife during a quarrel. An inquiry into his sanity will be conducted by county officials before criminal proceedings are instituted against him.
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Fort Madison
Dem
Chung Kock
Here
Turkish Troops Drive Bedouins From Elkorak District
Constantinople reports Turkish forces repelled Bedouin revolters in the Elkorak district near Syria by the Dead Sea after a bloody battle. Official advices say Bedouins suffered 450 killed and 500 taken prisoner while Turkish losses totaled seven officers and seventy seven men.
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Constantinople
Elkorak
Syria
Dead Sea
War scare rumors hover over Tegucigalpa
R umors of political disturbances reach the capital from outside points but are deemed baseless by government and public. The gunboat Tatumiba has not sailed from Puerto Cortez to engage the steamer Hornet, said to be a revolutionary warship. Congress will convene for its regular session on Sunday and preliminary publication was made last Saturday. The city remains quiet and business continues normally.
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Tegucigalpa
Honduras
Tatumiba
Puerts Cortez
Hornet
Congress
Fleet to Get Together in English Channel Entrance
Gravesend, Uug December 24 The fourth division of the United States Atlantic fleet sailed today to join the other divisions at the entrance of the English Channel.
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Gravesend
Uug
English Channel
Fire wipes out Phillipsburg business blocks total losses rise
A blaze struck Phillipsburg early today causing about 100000 dollars in damage. Several business blocks burned including the Bell Telephone Go building valued at 40000 dollars. Local authorities investigated the cause as firefighters battled the flames.
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Illipsburg
Williamsport
Ita
Phillipsburg
Bell Telephone Go
El Paso Rescue Efforts At Smelter Heap For Aviator Augillar
In El Paso Texas rescuers struggle to free Ensivo Augillar, the sole living survivor pinned beneath slag at the El Paso smelter heap for about fifteen hours. Workers slowly remove each slag segment as they aim to liberate Augillar, who remains able to speak with rescuers and is expected to be released later today.
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el Paso
Tex
Ensivo Augiflar
Aberdeen Greek diplomat elevates local role as vice consul
Aberdeen, December 28. The Greek consul at Chicago, Nick Salopuleos, has appointed his Aberdean nephew Nick Pagones as vice consul here. Pagones runs a shoe shining parlor in Aberdeen and is prosperous, signaling the city’s growing diplomatic profile.
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Aberdeen
5. D
Nick Salopuleos
Chicago
Nick Pagones
Pagones
Aviators Die in France Auto Race Test Flight
In Tssy les Moulineaux France Dec 28 M Laffort French aviator and passenger M Pola were killed instantly when the aircraft plunged fifty feet during a preflight test for an autome die eluates prize. A large crowd watched as the craft shuddered and fell, with witnesses noting loss of control during the maneuver.
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Tssy
Pud
Henin
Jamies
Seventeen Die After Boiler Explosion in Pittsfield
Pittsfield Massachusetts December 30 The death of Fred Boucar at Mercy Hospital today raises the funeral toll from yesterday’s boiler explosion at the Morewood Lake Ice Company plant to seventeen.
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Pittsfield
Mass
Fred Boucar
House of Mercy Hospital
Morewood
Lake Ice Co
Public Service of New Jersey Announces Employee Pension Plans
The Camden based Public Service corporation of New Jersey announced old age pensions and insurance for employees to start Jan 1. The Insurance Plan pays $1 a day for up to 90 days of sickness or disability and $200 to widows or relatives on death. The Pension Plan guarantees at least $240 yearly for retirees age 65 after twenty five years of service.
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Insurance and Pension System
Camden
N. J
Public Service Corporation of New Jersey
National Guard Rescues Man From Mob in West Virginia
Liam Furby was saved from a mob in Weston after an alleged assault on Flora Anglin. He was transported to the jail in Clarksburg by the Clarkburg company of the National Guard.
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Chairksburg
W. Va
Whileliam Furby
Weston
Flora Anglin
Clarksburg
National Guard
Begin Fire Disaster Probe in Chicago Stockyards
Coroner Hoffman opened an inquiry into last week’s deadly stockyards fire in Chicago. Fire Marshal Horan and twenty three others were killed. The first witness was the watchman who discovered the blaze.
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Chicago
Hoffman
Horan
Reclaiming Nebuchadnezzar era in Mesopotamia project
Article discusses a Turkish backed plan to reclaim 12 660 000 acres of northern Mesopotamia through irrigation to revive ancient Babylonian and Assyrian lands. It mentions Nabuchadnezzar's palace, the Baghdad railway route, and resettling persecuted Russian Jews in the revived territory.
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Constantinople
Nebuchadnezzar
Mesopotamia
Irri- Eaton
Tigris
Ruy Phrates
Nabuchadnezzar
Bebshazzar
Babel
North Dakota News Notes overviewed city updates
North Dakota News Notes reports varied items including Ellendale market with a modern refrie plant, Mandan school closures for outbreak, Williston rail and library developments, Minot missing Polander death, Bismarck judge Poole court martial updates, and Dickinson dry farming congress. Other notes cover Fargo fake medicines, Jamestown gas plant blast with $5,000 loss, Wahls and cremonde district actions, and Williston prosecutions for horse thief Kid Trader.
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Haite Cook
Ellendale
Mandan
T!e
Ross
Divide
Toming Spring
Minot
Bottineau
Tounty
Walsh Cour
Bismarel
Witer
Poole
Fargo
Ladd
Jamestown
Tes
Sheldon
A+ Carr
Bors
Williston
Tilts Elty
D. Willis James
New York
Dickinson
Fessenden
Thia City
Aoymirk
Northern Pacific Railroad
Kid
Trador
Cour Y
Traffor
Hos
Canada
Rotineau
School of Morestry
Elsendale
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