Gopper Miners Appeal to Wilson in Michigan
Calumet Michigan January 3 miners and families faced New Year’s Day cold as hopes grew for a settlement after five months of disruption. They telegraphed President Wilson for aid and awaited word from Washington on possible mediation under the Erdman act. Local managers kept hopes alive while warning strikers to return to work or face continued unemployment in Calumet mines.
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Calumet. Mich
Hope
United States
Denemore
Wilson
Washington
U. S
Michigan dix Amte
Gutetdo Ita
Osnadanl
Mint
Taangera
Calumet
Federation
Min
F. W. Harmon
Longview
Cincinnati
State Board of Administration
Asylum For Lunatics
Harmon
Simost
Progressive Party
Columbus
State Central
Republican Party
Ohio
Republican National Conference
Assembly
General Assembly
Iportance
Penterast
Paign
Sin Women
Senate
Congress
State of
James A. Marker
Marker
Buckeye
Ohio Good Roads Federation
Nine Die in Gale Off New Jersey Coast
Nine men perished in a terrible gale along the New Jersey coast, with winds near 90 miles per hour and $1,000,000 in damage. Beaside and Forked River lifeboat crews battled massive waves to reach the stranded men, but rescue efforts failed as the sea swallowed the crew one by one. Government vessels were summoned but arrived too late to save them.
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Headright
N. J
New Jersey
Beaside
Telegraphic Notes from December Holidays Shutdown
Word arrives of Capt. W. P. Roberts Civil War orderly to Generals Grant and Meade dying in Dayton Ohio. In Wisconsin a Clifton resident dies after self immolation with kerosene. Hundreds of horses die in Wabash bottoms from poisonous immature corn. Mildred Zimmerman, famed rifle shot, faints and is killed by a subway car in New York.
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Pituabursh
Dayton
W. P. Roberts
Grant
George G. Meade
Tomah
Wis
Clifton
Wabash River
New York
Mim
Mildred Zimmerman
Guntav Zimmermann
Wilson orders Lind to U. S in secret crisis note
President Wilson dispatches the cruiser Chester with special envoy John Lind to Gulfport. The move signals a new Mexican crisis, with officials calling Lind’s conference with the president a decisive development.
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Washington
Jan
Wilson
Navy Department
Chester
Gulfport
John Lind
Mexico
Lind
Presidio
Tex
Ojinaga Leatt Head
Siegel Stores Receivers Appointed In Federal Action
In Boston on January 2 the US District Court named receivers for six Siegel related corporations led by Henry Siegel of New York. The chain faced tight credit and weaker Christmas business though overall annual gross reached about 40 million dollars. Several units not tied to the troubled group were declared solvent. Reorganization efforts will proceed under receivership as operations continue.
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Boston
United States District Court
Henry Siegel
New York
Siegel Storgs Corporaton
Financial
Fourteenth Street
Impson Crawford Company
Henry Siegel Company
Henry Siegel & Co
Merchants’ Express Company
Greenbut-Siegel-Cooper Company
Siegel, Cooper & Co
Chicago
Stage Stores Corporation
Siegel Storee Corporation
Simpson-Crawford Company
Beer Biegel
Frank E. Vogel
Simpson Health Company
Siegel Stores Corporation
Orders Frisco Road Suit St Louis Dec 29
United States Circuit Judge W N Sanborn authorized filing of suits against Frisco railroad officials to recover profits from syndicate built and sold Feeders lines to the Frisco system. Jury discharged in New York after deliberating over thirty two hours unable to reach verdict in murder trial of Hane Schmidt.
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St. Louie
United States
W. N. Sanborn
Frisco Railroad
Frisco
Fire Devastates Montreal Block In Water Drought
A Montreal fire destroyed 20 buildings as a water famine hampered the department. Hose was finally drawn from the St Lawrence River after a main broke days earlier. The blaze began at St Hubert and Ontario, with explosions from a gasoline-filled auto garage. Dynamite was planned to halt the spread.
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Montreal
St Hubert
Ontario
Tremblay
Federals Routed in Fight near Presidios across border
Northern division of the Mexican federal army appears demoralized after a retreat from Chihuahua to Ojinega opposite Presidio. About 4,000 federals fled across the border in panic, pursued by 232 Rebel forces under Gen. Francisco Villa. Many were scattered or repelled back.
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Presidio
Tex
United States
Chihuahus
Ojinega
Francisco Villa
Chihuahua
Washington report links middlemen profits to high farm prices
Washington dispatch notes 1919 crop year set records for 6 million farms with ten billion dollars in product value and five billion in cash income. Despite droughts, prices rose on many crops, while the department of agriculture forecasts only limited relief for living costs, urging better farmer organization to reduce consumer prices and increase farm income without boosting production. The piece highlights surging agricultural exports and high foreign demand as a factor in prices.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Alliance Men Are Absolved In Italian Hall Inquiry
Calumet Christmas eve panic inquiry clears witnesses of any Citizens Alliance involvement. Testimony denies a buttoned man shouting fire and deputies beating evacuees. Also notes Moyer’s safety plan, prison fire near Santa Fe, and other unrelated 1913 incidents including mineral output and bank notices.
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Cowper
Uit
Grand Jury
The
Eitherns Allince
Calumet
Mich
Copper Country
Annie Clemens
Western Federation of Miners
Chicago
Charles H. Moyer
Hancock
St. Luke's Hospital
Harsha
Ohio officials warn preventable blindness and disease
A Columbus special reports Supt Edward M Van Cleve of the Columbus School for the Blind warns that about half of Ohio blindness is preventable and 28 percent of state school for the blind cases were preventable. He cites baby sore eyes and urges public campaigns, while other officials discuss deafness causes, tuberculosis control, epilepsy prevention and reform at state institutions. The piece also covers political shifts, upcoming sessions, and state road funding plans.
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D. A. Donovan
Columbus
Ohio
State School For
Edward M. van Cleve
Columbus School For the Blind
State Board of Administration
van Cleve
J. W. Jones
A. Douglass
Mt. Vernon
G. G. Kincon
Gallipolis
P. E. Thomas
The
Penitentiary
Lancaster
R. A. “Hastings
Boys’ Industrial School
Hastings
Delaware
John McNamara
W. Kneale
Madison
Dusky
W. R. Burnett
Forgery Suspect Uses Rubber Stamp at Penitentiary
Jerry Norman, unable to read or write, is imprisoned for one year for forgery. Convicted at Dayton months earlier and released on probation, he allegedly renewed his crimes using a rubber stamp. Prison officials initially doubted reports before an investigation confirmed the act.
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Jerry Norman
Dayton
Norman
Moran to Work at Trade After Prison Term
Charles Moran, a two year Ohio penitentiary inmate with noted pickpocket skills, plans to resume his trade next month. Moran boasted of potential profits from theft, recounting a recent wallet lift and defense by a vigilant wife. He credits police protection and luck for avoiding longer sentences.
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Columbus
Charles Moran
Ohio
Morin
Charlie
Frank O'Bienness
Thomas
Moran
O'Bienness
Lancaster
Taft
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Robert Munroe Maroney
San Antonio
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Walton
Maroney
Findlay
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Kenton
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