Suffragette Rally Paralyzes Westminster With Crowds
London suffragists clash with police around Parliament Deny entry to the House as Mrs Travers Symons leads a charge to the speaker’s chair. Crowds block roads, windows shattered, and hundreds treated in hospitals amid a siegelike security cordon and Thames patrols.
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London
England
Westminster
Travers Symons
James Keir Hardie
House of Commons
Thames
Kana
Colonel Stewart Retired From Active Army Service
Washington reports Colonel William F. Stewart has been retired from active service following a retirement board finding him incapacitated for duty due to service related disability. President Roosevelt approved the action, with finality noted by the War Department. Stewart declined to discuss the reasons, saying he remains an army officer.
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Roosevelt
Washington, D. C
William F. Stewart
Army
Stewart
War Department
Noted Speakers Accept for Southern Commercial Congress
Dr E B Alderman president of the University of Virginia will speak on education while John F Wallace once Panama Canal chief engineer addresses southern railroad needs M J Sanders of New Orleans discusses southern harbors Montgomery Alan G Dawe announces Mississippi representation for the December 7 and 8 Washington event.
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Southern Commercial Congress
Washington
Montgomery
Alan G. G. Dawe
EB. A. Alderman
University of Virginia
John F. Wallace
Panama Canal
M. J. Sanders
New Orleans
South
A. W. Noble
Laurel, Miss
Mr. Dawe
Mississippi
Congress
Brain of Dr Wilder Bequeathed to Cornell Professor
The will of Dr Alexander Wilder filed for probate bequeaths his brain to Professor Burt Green Wilder of Cornell University in Newark New Jersey. Dr Wilder, noted author and president of the New York School of Philosophy, arranged that if Cornell’s Wilder wished to add the brain to his collection it should be done.
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Cornell University
Newark
N. J
Alexander Wilder
Burt Green Wilder
Wilder
School’ of Philosophy of
New York
Cornell
Crete union with Greece sparks regional upheaval
Reports from Crete describe a rising movement uniting with Greece amid southeastern European turmoil including Bulgaria's independence and Austria's annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Separate notes tell of Mrs. Weiss of Michigan wading ten hours in a cistern to save a neighbor’s 2 year old, later rescued in a faint, with the child unharmed. The St. Louis Times offers 1000 dollars for a heavier than air flight from St. Louis to Chicago or Kansas City within a year.
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Crete
Europe
Bulgaria
Bosnia
Herzegovina
Austria
Greece
William Weiss
Vriesland
Michigan
St. Louis Times
St. Louis
Chicago
Kansas City
Yokohama
City Council of
Knights of Columbus
Grand Trunk Road
Brantford
Russia
Japan
Board of Trade
DeWolf Hopper
Syracuse
N. Y
Committee On
Wood
Chancery Court
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
A Jones
Department of Accounts
Pensacola Navy Yard
R. J. Owens
Owes
Slobodze
Cohen
Townsend child kidnapped as heiress to fortune in Chicago
Margaret Frances Mitchell eight years old said to be heiress to a fortune was abducted from the street with her grandmother Mrs Caroline P Mitchell. Three men in an automobile seized the girl after the grandmother was knocked down and taken toward an exit possibly to Sparta North Carolina where the mother had recently lived.
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Chicago
Margaret Frances Mitchell
Caroline P. Mitchell
Sparta
N.C
Robert Mitchell
St. Lawrence Avenue
Margaret B. Mitchell
New Stamp Designs Feature Simple Portraits and Laureled Ornaments
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing completed new U S postage stamp designs requested by Postmaster General Meyer. Denominations include one to fifteen cents, fifty cents, and one dollar with two and five dollar stamps not reprinted. The two cent stamp will lead distribution, expected in November. Designs favor bas relief portraits of Franklin on the one cent and Washington on others, with laurel leaves, straight lettering, and bold red and blue hues.
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Washington, D. C
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Meyer
United States
U. S
Franklin
Washington
Houdon
Battle atop high tower on Williamsburg Bridge
An insane Brooklyn man climbed the Williamsburg Bridge tower 583 feet above the East River. Police followed, preventing a jump as a ten minute struggle ensued. He fought with razor in hand before being handcuffed and taken to Eastern District Hospital.
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Williamsburg Bridge
New York City
Brooklyn
Eastern District Hospital
Joseph Kratz
Diplomatic Row Over Expulsion of American Missionary
The American minister at Portugal Charles Page Bryan obtained a war ministry telegram to the governor of Angola demanding explanation for the recent expulsion of an American missionary.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Charles Page Bryan
Angola
West Africa
Paris Professor Finds Antitubercular Serum
Professor Lame longe of the University of Paris reports a new antitubercular serum for the White Plague. In eleven phthisical patients inoculated, ten have been cured or shown improvement, described as the most efficacious remedy yet used.
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Paris
France
Lamelonge
University of Paris
Girl Sold by Father for Marriage Force in New Brunswick
Julia Madelin, 17, says her father sold her for $100 and forced her to marry Tony Madelin, four months before she fatally struck him. The case centers on claims of coercion and forced wedlock in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
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New Brunswick
N. J
Julia Madelin
Tony Madelin
President backs Southern Commercial Congress aims in Washington
President Roosevelt endorses the plans of the Southern Commercial Congress for a December Washington meeting. He offers cabinet support and access to department data to promote southern resources, progress, and industrial advantages. G Grosvenor Dawes, John A Betjeman, and Edwin L Quarles head the committee representing forty southern commercial bodies.
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Southern Commercial Congress
Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
Washington
South
Congress
White House
G. Grosvenor Dawes
Alabama
John A. Betjeman
Georgia
Edwin L. Quarles
Virginia
Straus
Department of Commerce and Labor
Railroad Land Sinks Into Mississippi Near New Orleans
A 300 foot by 200 foot earth collapse along the river bank in New Orleans flooded 75,000 dollars worth of railroad property. Seven freight cars and four tracks were swallowed, causing total real estate loss and docks submerged. No lives lost. losses borne by Illinois Central railroad, the city, and local landholders. Salvageable freight cars carried staves due to shallow water.
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New
New Orleans
Mississippi
Illinois Central Railroad
Belt
Chicago Adopts Deep Waterway Resolutions to Gulf
The Deep Waterway Conference in Chicago approves resolutions urging the federal government to open a Great Lakes to Gulf of Mexico canal. Work to begin immediately and be completed as soon as possible. New Orleans chosen for next convention and officers re-elected. Resolutions to be sent to both houses of Congress by a 50 member committee.
Increased bank examinations by Comptroller of Currency
Washington C C Murray, the Comptroller of the Currency, will raise examination frequencies for many national banks from twice to three or four times yearly. The policy targets banks that have previously shown a tendency to violate or evade national banking laws or the regulator's rules.
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Washington, D. C
Murray
Rural Letter Carriers Elect New Officers
Omaha Neb National Rural Wetter Carriers Association named officers for the ensuing year Paul L. Lindsay Tucker Ga president Elias Frey Pendleton Ind vice president P F Cull Concord Mass secretary J D Williams Renfrew Pa treasurer Executive Committee J H Johnson New Hampshire L T Langer Missouri T B Wicker South Carolina
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Omaha
Neb
National
Rural Wetter Carriers’ Association
Paul L. Lindsay
Tucker
Elias Frey
Pendleton
Ind
P. FE
Cull
Concord
Mass
J. D. Williams
Renfrew
J. H. Johnson
New Hampshire
L. T. Langer
Missouri
T. B. Wicker
South Carolina
Balkan Crisis Eases as Serb Assembly Holds Nerve yet War Not Declared
Belgrade reports a prolonged secret session with no decision on action against Austria-Hungary. Public demonstrations drop while a cautious mood grows. Britain France Italy and Russia favor a European conference. Servia prepares likely boycott of Austro-Hungarian commerce.
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London
England
Belgrade
Balkan
National Assembly
Austria-Hungary
Gibraltar
Malta
Aegean Sea
Servia
National’ Assembly
Milouxanovics
MRP
Sergia
Constantinople
Turkey
Great
Britain
France
Italy
Russia
Germany
Kimi Pasha
Adrianople
American Balloon Conqueror Fails at Berlin Flight
In the Berlin suburb Semargendorf the American balloon Conqueror carrying A. Holland Forbes and Augustus Post burst at 64,000 feet. The torn bag acted as a parachute slowing descent before the basket struck a roof. both men escaped with light injuries in the remarkable 2,000 foot fall.
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Berlin
Germany
Semargendorf
A. Holland Forbes
Augustus Post
FOREIGN MINE EXPERTS TOUR U S VISITING BIRMINGHAM
A delegation of international mine experts arrives in Birmingham Alabama to study local conditions and reduce mine explosions. The group is led by J A Holmes of the U S government fuel testing survey and includes Carl Meissnes Victor Wattegene and Captain Arthur Desbrough from Britain Belgium and Germany respectively.
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United States
Birmingham
Ala
Spe
J. A. Holmes
United States Government Survey
Herr Carl Meissnes
Victor Wattegene
Arthur Desbrough
British Explosives Commission
Reform in cotton futures contracts urged by New Orleans exchange
A reform committee of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange was appointed to confer with farmers brokers and cotton spinners across the south and northern interests to determine how to secure maximum trade utility from cotton futures contracts.
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New Orleans
New Orleans Cotton Exchange
Exchange
South
Drowned In Vat of Wine at Collier Ranch
Mrs. George Collier, wife of a rancher, drowned in a vat of wine at the Collier ranch winery in Santa Rosa California. She climbed to the vat edge and lost balance, plunging into the partly filled vat.
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Santa Rosa
Cal
George Colier
Collier Ranch
Coller
Convention Forms Texas Prohibition Fight Organization
Delegates from across Texas met at a licensed convention in Houston to address the prohibition issue. Leaders from both the Democratic and Republican parties participated as an organization was formed to combat the prohibition movement in Texas.
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Houston
Texas
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Robinson, Ill
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Orangeburg
S. C
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Treasury Department
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N. C
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