Wiley May Weighs New York Health Commissioner Offer
Friends of Dr Harvey W Wiley former federal pure food chief said he was weighing a New York City health commissioner offer. He was at his Virginia farm and expected home tonight. He had conferred with Mayor John Purroy Mitchel and was in correspondence with others in New York about the position.
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Associated Press
Washington
Harvey W Wiley
Federal Pure Food
New York City
Useless Gift Fight Spreads Across the Nation
New York Nov 28 The Society for the Prevention of Useless Giving spreads with the holidays. Members called Songs distribute membership cards and by laws to form branches nationwide. Every Spug wears a pin funded by initiation and annual fees of 10 cents. Five hundred enroll in Washington in one day.
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Society For Prevention OF
Associated Press
New York
Society For the Prevention of
Washington
Spugs
Efforts Close Up Strike Efforts Being Made
William C. Rogers and James Mc Manus of the state board of mediation and arbitration arrived at Schenectady to help settle the General Electric Company strike. A conference with company officials, the strike committee, and Socialist mayor George Lunn followed. A threatened street railway sympathy strike did not materialize as trolleys briefly operated on GE property but ran empty outside the grounds.
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Associated Press
Schnectady
William C. Rogers
James McManus
State Board of Mediation and Arbitration
General Electric Company
George Lunn
Angy
President and party off for Army Navy game in New York
President Wilson and Secretary Daniels and others departed Washington at 12 30 PM by Pennsylvania Railroad for the Army Navy football game in New York. The president and family will stay with Colonel and Mrs House. Mr and Mrs Sayre sail for Europe and will miss the game. Wilson will return to Washington by midnight tomorrow. The article also notes Mexican affairs and asks who should govern Mexico amid reported atrocities by Constitutionalists and Huerta forces, while pondering Europe’s response to the Turkish question.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wilson
New York
Pennsylvania Railroad
Army-Navy
Daniels
Navy
Tumulty
C. T. Grayson
Eleanor Wilson
Francis Bowes Sayre
E. M. House
Madero
Mexico
Huerta
Ananis Cousin
Victoria
Fromail
America
Europe
Campaign fund records sent to Whitman in New York
The Secretary of State in Albany delivered to District Attorney Whitman campaign contribution lists for 1911 1912 and 1914 for the Progressive and Republican parties. The move forms part of Whitman’s probe into alleged contractor extortion linked to campaign funds previously focused on Democratic contributions. A grand jury subpoena had been used to obtain the documents after the state office initially refused.
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Associated Prosa
New York
Whitman
Secretary of State
Albany
Pastor Powell receives Thanksgiving purse from First Baptist
Rev. Leland Jerome Powell, pastor of the First Baptist church, was surprised with a $100 gold purse from church members in appreciation of his faithful service and to express sympathy for his illness. He plans to enter Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for treatment, with Rev. L Peters of Clarksburg to occupy the pulpit in his absence.
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Leland Jerome Powell
First Baptist Church
Powell
Baltimore
John Hopkins Hospital
Rev. L . Peters
Clarksburg
Preferred Sardines to Turkey in Thanksgiving Vote
Mississippi convicts at the state penitentiary farms vote on Thanksgiving fare with 800 white convicts choosing turkey and 200 Black convicts selecting canned sardines. The vote accompanies a broader wartime postal style dispatch noting wireless progress and health-related pauses affecting officials in the United States and Australia.
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Jackson, Miss
Coyotes Attack Graves On Mexican Battlefield
The Tierra Blanca battlefield reports describe coyotes attacking federal and rebel soldiers graves. Other lines recount violence in Victoria and El Paso border areas with executions, pillaging, and railway sabotage amid the Mexican Civil War.
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Associated Press
EL Paso
Tex
Tierra Blanca
Tierra Bianca
Vilta
Phain
Villa
Chihuihui
Samayaluca
Britain waives naval rights in Mexican waters
Washington November 28 Great Britain has waived her naval rights in Mexican waters to the United States after a White House conference with President and Sir William Tyrell British minister of foreign affairs. The move follows prior communications and the arrival of the British cruiser Suffolk at Tampico. Craddock will likely consult Fletcher before any action.
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Washington
Great Britain
United States
White House
William Tyrell
William Grey
Suffolk
Tampico
Great
New York Real Estate Security Co Goes Bankrupt
The New York Real Estate Security Company with large holdings in office buildings and apartments was forced into bankruptcy by creditors. The petition lists assets including equity and mortgages totaling $100,000. Attorneys say the embarrassment is temporary amid broader industry discussions.
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Ny Associated Press
New York
White House wedding tale claims ninth and fourteenth brides
Reports from Washington and New York detail an IPC bulletin showing railroad accident deaths rising by 140 and injuries by 8,283 from the prior year. New York fundraisers for the YMCAs reach 4,062,501 in eleven days, with major gifts from Rockefeller and Dodge. In Anderson, Indiana, Mrs. Elizabeth Chandler asserts Jessie Wilson as the fourteenth White House bride, citing Pension records and a Lincoln era elopement and wedding breakfast at the White House despite heavy rain.
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Associated Press
Washington
Inter-State Commerce Commission
United States
White House
West Virginia Experiment Station Publishes Bulletins List
The station distributes reports on progress and finances and releases bulletins including West Virginia as a Poultry State by Horace Atwood, The Apple Orchard Farm from Planting to Bearing Age by A Dacy, The Chestnut Bark Disease by N J Giddings, Packing Apples and Peaches by W H Alderman, Potato Culture in West Virginia by A L Dacy, The Rejuvenation of Old Orchards by W H Alderman, and a Lime circular by B H Hite.
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West Virginia
Horace Atwood
A. Dacy
N. J. Giddings
W. H. Alderman
A. L. Dacy
B. H. Hite
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