Olney Heads Bank Body as Federal Reserve Board Named
President Wilson completes the Federal Reserve Board with seven members including Richard Olney Harry Wheeler Paul Warburg W P G Harding and A C Miller The board will govern the new currency law as regional banks organize with McAdoo and Williams ex officio members Olney may become secretary of the treasury and the group will be guided by geographic commercial and financial balance.
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Washington
Wilson
Federal Reserve Board
Reserve Board
Secretary of the Treasury
Twelve Die as Storms Sweep Oklahoma and Midwest Towns
Oklahoma City reports three deaths and nearly one million dollars in property loss from floods on the South Canadian and Cimarron rivers with bridges toppled and crops destroyed across western and southern Oklahoma. Separate storms in Galesburg Illinois and Clinton Iowa kill two each and sever communications with impacted towns Hale and Olin.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Cimarron
Oklahoma
Galesburg
Hlinda
William Filler
Alexis
Herman Burrell
Clinton
Hale
Olin
General Daniel E Sickles Dies After Reconciliation at Deathbed
Gen Daniel E Sickles dies at his New York home after a long illness. He had been estranged from his wife for 20 years but reconciled in the days before his death. His son Stanton and Mrs Sickles were at his bedside, with the wife holding his hand as he passed.
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New York
Daniel E. Bickles
Stanton
Copenhagen
Denmark
America
City Commission
Milwaukee
Boston
Kansas City
Youth Guilty in Slaying Father in Marshall May 6
John Davis aged fifteen pleaded guilty before Circuit Court Judge North to murdering his father Harve Davis on April 26 in Marshall. Noah E Stanley, his brother and lawyer, will have a trial in September.
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Marshall
John Davis
Afteen
North
Harve Davis
Noah E.stanley
Andtaw
Fire Tragedy Claims Over Fifty in Valparaiso Chile
A large fire in Valparaiso Chile on May 6 killed more than fifty people and destroyed several buildings. Firefighters faced nearly futile efforts due to the fire's rapid spread amid fire department constraints.
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Chile
Valparaiso
Mad Son Slays General Duryea in New York Home
Chester Duryea forty three suffering mental delusions killed his father Hiram Duryea eighty one, a starch manufacturer, with a rifle and revolver at their Fifth Avenue area home. Police arrested him after he declared the act justified as witnesses reported his incoherent comments.
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New York
Chester Duryea
Hiram Duryea
Eighty-fifth Street
Nay Ridge
Nurges
Duryea
Chester
Fort Hamilton
Lieuteant Lake
Steamer Siberia Arrives After Un eventful Voyage
The Pacific Mail steamer Siberia reached Manila safely on May 4 after a voyage from Nagasaki. Captain Zeeder denied distress rumors, attributing confusion to the Persia call letters M B S misread as S O S.
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Manila
Pacific Mail
Siberia
Nagasaki
Zeeder
Formosa
Persia
Ss. O. S
Marine
Irelesa
Queen Postpones U S Visit by Bulgarian Queen
Sofia May 6 Queen Eleonor of Bulgaria has postponed her plans to visit the United States this month. An official statement said events in America led to the postponement and the trip will be reconsidered when circumstances are more favorable.
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Eleanor of Bulgaria
Sofia
Bulgaria
United States
America
Eleanor
Chicago School Trustees jailed for contempt of court
Eight members of the Chicago Board of Education were sentenced to thirty days in the county jail for contempt of court. Superior Court Judge Charles M. Foe presided over the proceedings and handed down the penalties.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Education
Superior Court
Charles M. Foe
One Thousand Miners Return to Work in West Virginia
One thousand miners obeyed leaders and returned to work at Raymond City Plymouth and Wackberry. Believed nine thousand others who struck will follow.
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Charleston
W. Va
Raymond City
Plymouth
Wackberry
Secretary of War orders arms surrender in Colorado strike
Washington reports a war department proclamation to disarm strikers and mine guards in Colorado. Secretary of War orders Major Holbrook to confiscate arms shipped illegally as federal cavalry reinforce the strike region. Trinidad and Washington dispatches note the Ludlow tent colony fire and a coroner’s jury verdict.
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William Green
International Mine Workers‘ Union
Rockefeller
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Garrison
Colorado
United States Army
Holbrook
Trinidad
Colo
Ludlow
Washington
War Department
Fort Oglethorpe
Fort Robinson
Neb
James Lockett
Ocean Liner Ablaze South of Sable Island
Halifax May 6 reports say ocean liners race to aid a steamship burning off Sable Island. The vessel identity remains unknown and no distress from survivors is confirmed as flames burst from holds and no lifeboats are nearby. Radio messages from the Seydlitz fail to identify the liner or confirm passenger fate.
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Sable Island
Halifax
N.S
Hner
Seydlitz
Oleo Maker Jelke Convicted in Fraud Case
In Chicago mass judge Ceigertine sentenced John F Jelke to two years in the penitentiary and a fine of 10000 for conspiracy to defraud the United States by false labeling of oleo margarine.
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Oleo
Chicago
Mass
Ceigertine
Thea Penitendiary
John F. Jelke
Terre Haute Man Kills Wife and Two Men in Home
In Terre Haute Indiana on a May day John Demetre killed his wife and two men at their residence. The dead were Demetre’s wife and two visitors named John Restrick and his son Joe. Authorities say the men were intimate with the wife.
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Terre Haute
Ind
John Demetre
John Restrick
Joe
Danish and Dutch Egg Cooperatives Promote Fresh Markets
The article surveys European and American egg co operatives showing how Denmark and the Netherlands standardize and grade eggs, pay farmers by weight, and ship quickly to England and beyond. It highlights Danish, Dutch, Irish, German systems and notes U S examples like Dassel Minnesota and small Wisconsin ventures achieving higher prices and less waste.
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Missouri
Denmark
Frederickssund
Danish Co-operative Egg Export Society
Danish Egg Export Society
Irish Agricultural Organization Society
Poultry Producta
Europe
Dassel
Minn
Egg Selling Society
Association
Dagsel Produce Company
Hickory
North Carolina
Minnesota
Blue Mounds Egg Association
Blue Mounds
Wisconsin
United States
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Cleveland
Paul Warburg
Chicagoan
D. E. Sickles
Col. L. T. Waller
Waller
United States Marine Corps
Mare Island
Cal
Galveston
Vera Cruz
Mad Son
U. S
Rep
Foster
Secretary of War
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
M. D. Foster
Sinois
House Committee On Mines and Mining
Mr. Rockefeller
Mr. Foster
Board of Arbitration
England
London Commission
Association of Co-operative Creameries
Limburg
Friesland
Holland
Friesland Export Federation
Germany
Hanover
Co-Operative Society
Co-Operative Egg Selling Society
Chamber of Agriculture
Chamber of Commerce
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