Wilson Busy Drafting Anti-Trust Message and Mexico Debate
President Wilson spends vacation at Pass Christian and works on an anti-trust message while vetting candidates for the federal reserve board. Lind and O S haughnessy clash over Mexico policy as Huerta faces cabinet changes and possible failed French loan talks amid rebel advances at Ojinaga and San Pedro.
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Wilson
Congress
Ojinaga
Pass Christian
Miss
Federal Reserve Board
O'Shaughnessy
John Lind
Chester
Nelson O'Shaughnessy
Mexico City
Lind
Huerta
Victoriano Huerta
France
Paris
Fragmented 1920s Editorial and Labor Unrest Highlights
A series of brief items covering lectures by Harvard physiology professor Walter Cannon warning about anger and sugar impacting kidney disease, Billy Sunday’s clash with bar tenders in Pittsburgh, a conference date in Washington on a society meeting, a cutter lifting a grounded ship off Cove Point, and riot violence during the Tacoma smelter strike with injuries and rough confrontations.
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Boston
Mass
Walter B. Cannon
Harvard
Harvard Medical School
Cannon
Ferris Plans Copper Country Visit to End Strike
Governor Ferris travels from HigH Rapids to Calumet in hopes of mediating the copper miners dispute. He intends to study conditions, seek a settlement plan, and speaks of representing all Michigan citizens rather than any single group. Officials doubt a quick end, noting past union-employer cycles and warnings from labor leaders.
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Hig Rapids
Mich
Woodbridge N. Ferrin
Upper Michigan
Calumet
John KH. Densmore
Department of Labor
Western Federation of Miners
Michigan
Ferris
Houghton
Densmore
Washington
Pennsylvania
Italian Mutual Benefit Society
O. N. Hilton
Claud ©. Taylor
Michigan Federation of Labor
Grant Hamilton
American Federation of Labor
Chicago
United States
Immigration chief urges tighter oriental intake
Commissioner General Anthony Caminetti returned to Washington from the Pacific coast and said hundreds of Hindus are being smuggled across the Canadian and Mexican borders. He likely will urge a large patrol on the Cascade to ocean border and on the Arizona to Gulf border to stop smuggling.
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Washington, Jan. T
Bureau of Immigration
Anthony Caminetti
Washington
Pacific Coast
Caminett
Herbery
Cascade Mountains
Tre Ocean
Arizona
Ken
Amunt Brunt
Castro Aids Ole in Feud Amid Tragic Event
A fragmented report notes Castro aiding Ole in a feud tied to a community tragedy. Mentions an event connected to deaths and officials including General Urbinis and a General Qougzades with unclear roles.
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Castro
Cora Vecroud
Tina
General Urbinis
Navy to Seek Four Vice Admirals as Congress Reopens
Secretary of the Navy Jaico pledges to advocate appointing four vice admirals of the United States Navy when Congress reconvenes. The move aims to strengthen upper ranks and leadership within the service.
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Washington
Jaico
Secretary of the Navy
Phemeds
Aisnennerd
United States Navy
Buoll
Congress
Receivers Appointed for Siegel Stores Group Banks Rescue
Ancillary receivers were named in federal court for six Siegel Stores affiliates led by Henry Siegel of New York. The companies report about 40 million dollars in annual gross business, with Christmas sales below expectations and banking credit curtailment. Receivers will run operations while efforts to reorganize proceed.
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Boston
United States District Court
Henry Siegel
New York
Siegel Stores Corporation
Financial
Fourteenth Street
Simpson-Crawford Company
Henry Siegel Company
Henry Siegel & Co
Merchants’ Express Company
Greenhut-Siegel-Cooper Company
Siegel, Cooper & Co
Chicago
Frank E. Vogel
Steamer Links Lifeboat Tragedy off Sandy Hook
The Manuel Calvo towed a disabled tank steamer 15 miles east of Sandy Hook when the tank ship sank. One lifeboat lost. 35 crew aboard the tank steamer, about 100 passengers aboard the Manuel Calvo. Winds and seas battered New Jersey and Long Island shores for 36 hours, with mass property damage and two missing at Coney Island. One man died at Seabright.
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Atlantic
New York
Compania Trans-Atlantica
Manuel Calvo
Sandy Hook
New Jersey
Long Island
Seabright
N. J
Coney Teland
New Haven Road Cuts Wages
In the car shops of the New York New Haven Hartford railroad a ten percent wage cut takes effect reducing pay for several hundred workers. All car workers are affected.
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New Haven Road
New Haven
Conn
New York, New Flaven & Hartford Railroad
Lynchers Take Black Man From Jail in Jefferson Tex
Fifteen masked men abducted Dave Lee from Madison county Jail in Jefferson Texas. He was held on a wounding charge against Matt Taylor and died in the related incident near a bridge.
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Jeferson
Tex
Dave Lee
Madison County
Matt Taylor
Morgan resigns from directorates amid interlocking criticism
J P Morgan & Co announces resignations from numerous boards as public sentiment shifts against interlocking directorates. Morgan says time burden and new public approach justify stepping down while names include New York Central lines New York Central Railroad and subsidiary entities alongside other major firms.
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New York, Jan
J. Pierpont Morgan & Co
J. P. Morgan
Morgan Banking House
Morgan
Morgan Atil
Steel Trust
International Mercantile Marine
Shipping Trust
Northern Pacific Railway Company
National City Bank
National Bank of Commerce
Charles Steele
Morgan Firm
New York Central Lines
New York
New Haven & Hartford
Western Union
More Time for New Tax Extended for Banks
Treasury Department extends filing deadlines to January 20 for monthly income tax returns by the first bank or collection agency handling coupons or interest orders from foreign bonds. It also issues regulations and Form No 1040 for individuals to file annual net income returns.
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Treasury Department
Washington
Ralph Lopez 33 Escapes Utah Mine Slaying Suspect
In Bingham Utah on January 6 authorities abandon efforts to locate Ralph Lopez 33 described as slayer of six men. Sheriff Smith had kept watch at the Utah Apex mine since November 27 and now leaves the scene unwatched for the first time.
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Ralph Lopez
Bingham
Utah
Utah-Apex
Sheriff Smith
Man Dies After Dog Bite Hydrophobia Report
James Hubbell died after a dog bit him on November 20. Doctors attributed hydrophobia caused by the bite and auto-augmentation to the death, according to the Syracuse N. Y. report.
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Syracuse
Dan
James Hubbell
Will Oust Dictator Huerta By March 17
Mexico City reports a Wilson Lind conference has set March 1 as the deadline for restoring order in Mexico with the United States prepared to act if Mexicans fail to settle. Villa moves toward Ojinaga with 2,200 reinforcements as Ortega besieges Ojinaga. The siege toll rises with about 150 wounded evacuated to the American side and total casualties nearing 1,000.
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Mexico City
Wilson
John Lind
Chester
Miss
Mexico
United States
Republic
Lind
el Paso
Tex
Pancho
Villa
Juarez
Ojinaga
Red Cross
Radium merits and limits cited by Dr Van Waren Thorne
New York January 6 Dr Van Waren Thorne warns that radium’s promise is overstated for laypeople It is a valuable adjunct when used by trained professionals but dangerous in unskilled hands Its future potential remains unknown It may cure superficial growths and aid some deeper seated tumors
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New York
van Waren Thorne
Iron Workers Strike Over Wages and Jurisdiction
Indianapolis reports 260 iron workers affected as they strike for a wage increase and control over scaffold work. Contractors say the walkout violates a December arbitration pact with the building trades council.
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Indianapolis
Structural Iron Workers
Building Trades Council
Arctic Russia discovery exceeds distance across North America
The report details Peter the Great era exploration and the Great Northern expedition. It notes the recent ice-breaker voyage under General Sergeiev and Lt Wilkitzky who claimed Nicholas Second Land at latitude 81 north, longitude 100 east, extending over two degrees of latitude with a roughly 200 mile coastline.
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St. Petersburg
Nicholas
Russian Empire
Arctic
Russia
North America
Panama
Peter the Great
Bering
Muravier
Laptiefs
Prontschiachef
Kotzebue
Wrangel
Anjou
Sannikof
Vaigatz
Taimyr
Vladivostok
Cape Chelyuskin
Kara Sea
Sergeiev
Imperial Russian Navy
Wilkitzky
Imperial Navy
Kolyma River
Asia
Siberian
Nicholas Second
Wilkiteky
Chestnut Blight Kills Man in Connecticut Town
In Glastonbury Connecticut Everett Hale thirty died after eating a gray squirrel that fed on blighted chestnuts. The physician attributed death to ptomaine poisoning caused by tainted chestnuts, marking the state fifth fatality this fall from chestnut blight.
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Glastonbury
Conn
Everett Hale
Eggacitement in Chicago for 500 Egg Exhibit
In Chicago an egg exhibit drew attention as the American Bakers and Confectioners Association announced a take containing 500 eggs. The event showcased unusual egg themed enthusiasm labeled eggstreme by organizers.
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Chicago
Eggatrayf Agant Bakers’ and Confectioners’ Association
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