Gov Hanly Calls for Freight Control and Honest Trade
Chicago November 20 Governor Hanly of Indiana urged government control of railway freight rates and a higher standard of business honesty at a banquet of the Advertising Club. He tied these issues to the East and West toast, insisting the Republican party must stand for sound policies or lose his support.
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Chicago
United States
Manly
Athis Club
Hanky
Republican Party
Church Federation Work Scheme Drafted for United Action
A New York conference at Carnegie Hall discussed a proposed federation of about thirty denominations, excluding several prominent sects. The plan aims at united church action on social and moral questions, with spiritual counsel and fellowship promoted by the council.
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New York
Carnegie Hall
Christ
Thousand-Dollar Gold Prize At Denver Press Club
Denver on November 20 reports a $1000 gold bullion prize offered by Pred G Shaffer for the best Colorado story written by attendees of the National Association of Press Clubs meeting to be held in August. Writers expected to number in the thousands will tour the state. Secretary Warren S Given cites assurances of prominent writers attending.
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Colorado
Denver
Denver Press Club
Pred G.shaffer
National Association of Press Clubs
Warren S. Given
Press Club
Russian Peace and Eight Hour Debate in St Petersburg
Conservative leaders in the council of workmen triumph as a motion for an eight hour day is rejected. Amid debates on labor hours, strikes, and the mutineers at Cronstadt, the workers’ movement faces a decisive turn with peace seemingly in sight.
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St. Petersburg
Council of Workmen
Cronstadt
Poland
Russia
Attempt to Cover Defeat in Polish Strike Propaganda
An overnight vote to end the Polish industrial strike yields claimed gains for mutineers while exposing the movement as defeated. The leadership admits limited aims, while internal factions resist agitation, and public support shifts to backing the government against socialism and revolution as a new political order forms.
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Constadt
Poland
Eail
Japan's Role in Korea Under Suzerainty Agreement
London dispatches report that Japan will handle Korea's foreign relations under a suzerainty pact until Korea can assert independence. A Japanese governor general will administer internal affairs under the Korean emperor, signaling a staged transition to autonomy. In Germany, Cologne residents cross the Rhine bridge free on the emperor's birthday if walking. carriages pay.
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Korea
London
Teklo
the Standard
Japan
Yoklo
Daily Telegraph
Cologne
Rhine
Bleacher Collapse at Michigan Wisconsin Game
At Perry Field in Ann Arbor the west bleachers collapsed after the second half began. About a dozen spectators were hurt, none seriously, as a crowd of 2000 to 6000 surged on terraced platforms twelve feet high. Players and fans resumed the game once officials deemed injuries minor.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
Perryfield
Michigan
Wisconsin
Vern Busl
Milwaukee
I. W. Scott
Ypsilant
Joseph Moss
John B. Strayer
Pittsburg
Will of Providence widow leaves 18000 to Unitarian Association
The will of Mrs. Caroline Idehmond of Providence Rhode Island bequeaths $18000 to the American Unitarian Association. Other items include various political and public notices such as election recount issues, fund appeals from ministers, and international relief efforts.
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Caroline Idehmond
Providence
K.1
American Unitarian Association
New York City
Shaw
St. Louis
National Anti-Saloon League
Fairbanks
Russian Jew Relief Fund
Isthmus Canal
United States
Denmark
Norway
Stebert Liudolph
Milwaukee Council
Gibbs
Redwood
Sr Lois
Tattenberg
New York
Water Pollution Grows as State Board Surveys Supplies
Springfield Nov 20 The State Board of Health notes growing water pollution in the state. A prior survey found many faults but some systems require new water supply and sewage disposal plans. Officials warn municipalities resist costly changes, worsening typhoid risks as population grows and streams used for water supply become polluted. The board will intensify inspections to prepare for costly protections and cleaner water.
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Springfield
Tinos State Board of Health
State Board
State Board of Health
Death and misfortune mark Novimes of 1920s era town notices
Dream foretelling a death as a brakeman Irgie Smith is killed by a train in Medora. A missing child wanders from Melrose Park after 24 hours without food. Burglars steal $100 to $600 from a Denison shop, aided by a key. A new trolley line license is issued for Charleston route through Coles and Clark counties. A grandmother in Virginia is noted as the oldest mother in the county. A football injury in Cairo and a corn husking record in Arcola are reported.
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Springfield
Ruse Lois
Charleston Railrou Company
Resolutions at AFL Convention Drift Over Gompers
Pittsburg November 26 The Federation of Labor convention adopted sympathy for Russian workers but declined a $1,000 aid, rejected the Berger resolution condemning Gompers, and approved laws holding employers liable for all machinery and railroad accidents Toments urged experiment control of the telegraph and urged opposing nonfriendly candidates in federal elections to labor. The Berger pension proposal for workers earning under $1,000 yearly was rejected.
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Gompers
Pittsburg
Federation of Labor Convention
Berger
Gompersa
Civi Federation
Congress
Lbor
United State
Agcl
Death of Dr Emil Preetorius Westliche Post editor-in-chief
Dr Emil Preetorius aged 78, long esteemed Vienna born journalist and editor in chief and later proprietor of the Westliche Post, died at his St Louis home after a week of blood poisoning from a leg scratch. Born in Alzey he studied in Mainz and Darmstadt, pursued law, studied Heidelberg, participated in the 1818 revolution, moved to the United States, and supported Lincoln as a Republican, later serving in the Missouri legislature.
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St. Louis
Emil Preetorius
Viitor
Westliche Post
Nestor
German Press
Drei Vreetorius
Alzey
Rhiehniheskess
Greannay
Extraordinary funeral for steel ingot immured workers
In Philadelphia an extraordinary funeral was held at Midvale Steel works for a forty ton steel ingot forged from the flesh and bones of two workers John Parkin and Joseph Gazda who perished when molten metal engulfed them. The ingot, meant to be banished, was buried with Oman Catholic rites in a machine shop grave after the company refused to sell or repurpose it.
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Philadelphia
Midvate Steel Works
John Parkin
Joseph Gazda
Midvale Steel Company
FIRE WATER IN A BLAZE AT CONNECTICUT? BROADFORD
Fire at the A Overholt distillery Broadford bound warehouse burned. 310000 gallons of whisky lost, total damage estimated at 4006000 dollars. Wind carried flames toward Youghiogheny River and endangered Broadford’s I C Prick Coke works and Baltimore and Ohio station.
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Connellaville
A. Overholt
Broadford
Watn
Youghlogheny
I. C. Prick Coke Company
Balthmore and Ohio
Glasgow lodging house fire kills thirty one men
A blaze in a Watson street lodging house for men in Glasgow killed about thirty one, with thirty two injured as smoke suffocated inmates on the fourth floor. The building housed 850 workers and many escaped naked or in bed clothes, while firemen battled the flames and authorities scrambled to identify the victims. The disaster follows a string of maritime losses as a steamer struck rocks off the French coast with over a hundred drowned.
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Glasgow
Great Britain
Watson Street
Wreck of Steamer Tilda Off St Malo Believed Lethal
London reports the Southwestern railway steamer Tilda foundered off Jardin lighthouse near St Malo after steering into a fierce snow storm. Over 100 passengers and crew are feared drowned. Ada rescued five, with unconfirmed reports of additional survivors. Crews and passengers were mainly onion dealers from St Orlac area.
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London
Southwestern Railway
St. Malo
North Conat
France
Hilda
Southampton
St Malo
Jardin Lighthouse
St. Mato
Ada
St. Orlac
St. Servan
Cezendre
St. Cust
Trhimuir
Transchiunel
St. Wilda
Durdin
St. Hilda
Gregory
Jardin
Shipwreck Claims Nearly One Hundred Lives At Sea
Reported wreck left the vessel broken in three pieces after striking rocks. Water flooding the boilers caused explosions. Bodies found on shore include Captain Gregory and Chief Officer Pierson. A mate was found clinging to an unadjusted life belt. Estimated fatalities around ninety nine.
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Gregory
Pierson
Dispatcher Did His Beat. Two Trains Die In Warren Junction Crash
Warren C Nov 20 two Baltimore and Ohio freight trains collide near Warren Junction. Fireman Herbert Cook and Head Brakeman Edward Tarrison die. Engineer Edward Murphy badly injured. Dispatcher tried to warn farmers by phone to separate trains but failed. Also in Detroit Minn Nov 20 Conductor Smiley killed in crash and Miss Mabel Smiley badly hurt.
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Warren, C
Baltimore and Ohio
Herbert Cook
Edward Tarrison
Edward Murphy
Warren Junction
Detroit
Minn
Soone
Conductor Smiley
Mabel Smiley
Second Trial of Senator Burton Opens in Federal Court
St. Lons Nov 20. The second trial of Senator Burton began before Judge Vandeventer. Col D M Ransdell, Senate Sergeant at Arms, attends as a witness for the government. A jury was quickly selected and District Attorney Dyer began presenting the government's case.
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Taipine
St. Lons
Senator Burton
Jugge Vandeventer
Federal Court
Col
D. M. Ransdell
United States Senate
Burton
Col. Ransdell
Dyer
Fide
Prominent Farmer Murdered in Sterling Illinois
Special to the Tribune reports prominent farmer Art Matson of near Sterling was murdered this morning at 9 30. Police allege his hired man Arthur Hanna quarreled over wages, then escaped on Matson’s horse. Local authorities investigate motive and seize possible evidence.
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Tribune
Sterling
Ill
Art Matson
Matson
Arthur Hanna
Joliet Man Robbed of 350 for Relief Fund in Chicago
Israel Cohen of Joliet was robbed by two men on West Twelfth and Canal streets in Chicago last night. They forced him into a hallway, pressed a revolver to his chest, and took $350 said to be for Jewish relief funds.
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Korea
Japan
Pachisun
Pakehisun
Marquis
Alere
Marquis Ito
United States
The
Tribune
Chicago
Israel Cohen
Joliet
West Twelfth
Canal Streets
Jewish Relief Fund
Cohen
Shot By Paramour Leaves Woman Wounded in Waverly
Special to the Tribune reports Clement Gray shot Nellie May Rogers in Waverly and then fatally cut his own throat after a quarrel over marriage. Rogers was wounded and Gray died instantly. they had lived together and the demand for marriage sparked the violence.
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Tribune
Quietness Reigns at St Peters burg
Special to the Tribune Saint Petersburg reports quietness in the city with conditions brighter as workmen return to their jobs. In Kronstadt the Minneapolis sails to protect American interests. Secretary of War Taft arrives in Kansas City and will speak at the Commercial Club tonight.
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Taft
St. Louis
St. Louis Commercial Club
Panama Canal
Wallice
St. Petersburg
Nov
Cherkoring
Minneapolis
Kronsthadt
Russia
Trinunk
Kansas City
Tast
Commercial Club
Grand Encampment Opens in Springfield With 1500 Delegates
The Grand Encampment of the Thaois Order of Odd Pellows opened in Springfield this afternoon. About fifteen hundred delegates attended the meeting, filling the city for the event.
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Springfield
Thaois Order of Odd
Illinois Weather Forecast for Next Day Aims Warmer
Special to the Trung reports Chicago on November 20 indicating warmer and unsettled conditions across Illinois for the next twenty four hours. Expect variable skies, possible showers, and rising temperatures statewide with a general warming trend. Local winds may pick up along the lake shore.
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Chicago
John Getty
Lake Wid
Melrose Park
Illinois
Louis Sails for Gibralter special to Trannns
New York reports Prince Louis of Battenberg sails with the fleet toward Gibralter. The dispatch notes the fleet sailing this morning. The article adds a science note that the moon travels at about 3,350 feet per second, slightly faster than the top recorded cannon ball speed.
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New York
Prince Louis of Battenberg
Gibralter
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