Suffragists Debate Finance At 45th Annual Convention
Washington November 29 The National American Woman Suffrage Association holds its forty fifth annual convention as financial affairs dominate talks. A proposed constitutional amendment would tax budgets of state organizations. delegates from Congress Union and Womans Political Union face higher levies. The gathering includes speeches by Anna Howard Shaw and Jane Addams with plans to move headquarters and push federal suffrage.
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Illinois
Association
Anna Howard Shaw
National Association
Congressional Union of
Washington
Congress
Womans Political Union of
New York
Anna Hioward Shaw
Natonal Association
Misa Jane Addams
Chicago
Helen King Robinson
Denver
Colorado Senate
Nina E. Allender
State Society of the District of Columbia
Alten Paul
Congressional Committee
Solon Jacobs
Alabama Suffrage Association
Dead Body Found Near Lillian Railroad Tracks
The body of W. H. Davis was found last night near the railroad tracks at Lillian by railway workers. He likely fell from a passing train. Davis had been living in Grafton as his headquarters and had a sister in Washington, D C. Telegrams were sent to locate and inform her, with no reply yet.
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W. H. Davis
Hagman
Lillian
Davis
Grafton
Washington, D. C
Washington
Naseen
American Can sued by Uncle Sam in restraint case
In Baltimore on November 28 the United States district court filed suit to dissolve the American Can company, the tin can trust, for restraint of trade and fixed prices. The American Sheet and Tin Plate Company is named as a defendant for a deal to sell tin for cans at a preferred rate. The government seeks dissolution by uniting ownership to restore competition, beyond a plain pro rata split. President Roosevelt left for New York for the Army Navy game as Congress debates the currency bill.
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Associated Press
Baltimore
United States District Court
American Can Company
Tin Can Trust
Department of Justice
United States
American Sheet and Tin Plate Company
McReynolds
New York
Polo Grounds
Woodrow
Gotham
Cleveland
Associated
John H. Patterson
Washington
Gard Congress National Cash Register Company
House Dayton
Ate
Mon
House Teaders
Clark
Senate
Blueville Local Notes and Movements
BLUEVILLE notices list W Robinson leaving for New Castle to run a railroad blacksmith shop. D G Brown of St Paul visits his parents and delays due to a November blizzard. A J Blue visits Cove Run to see cousins. Several residents travel, visit, or update homes, with a store sale and various visits noted among locals.
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W. Robinson
New Castle
D. G. Brown
St. Paul
Minn
C. C Brown
A. J. Blue
Cove Run
C.C. Stemple
Wilmoth
Philadelphia
Newton Price
Grafton
Hoskinson
Malinda Carrol
Elkins
Hattie Blue
GC. Brohard
T. Heather
Morgantown
W. B. Jenkins
Selvey
Hertefore
Margaret Bell
Henderson School
Margaret Beyer
Walley Jenings
Thornton
Algia Brown
Jas. T. Demoss
Charles , Flanagan
William Whitman
Pastor Admits Kiss With Female Parishioner Sparks Court Case
The elderly Rev W C Atwood of Brookfield Missouri confessed to kissing Harriet L Myers 20 in his church office amid a $5000 assault suit. Myers says the kiss followed promises of money and travel to St Louis. Atwood describes a playful misinterpretation as she requested news and revealed a hairy arm. The congregation voted to absolve him. In other items, Mrs Henderson learns her son William’s wife is ill in Asheville North Carolina and a public sale of hay is planned in Taylor County West Virginia.
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Brookfield
First Presbyterian Church
W. C. Atwood
Harriet L. Myers
Atwood
St. Louis
TLL
North Carolina
W. B. Henderson
William A. Henderson
Ashville
N. C
Black man shoots policeman and bystander in Wheeling
In Wheeling West Virginia Lieutenant George Diviney and farmer Louis Hamerly were struck during an arrest attempt on Harry Wilson a Black man who allegedly registered at Walker's hotel and demanded a room refund. Wilson was arrested near the scene. Diviney collapsed at headquarters but is expected to recover.
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Associated Press
Wheeling
W. Va
George Diveney
Louis Hamerly
Diviney
Harry Wilson
Hamerly
Wilson
Walker's
Brokerage collapse reshapes Wall Street activity
Four large brokerage concerns dissolved today in New York as of November 28. One firm will continue under a reorganization, while the others are expected to wind up permanently. End of year dissolutions loom as dull times shrink stock exchange receipts and trading volume becomes the lightest since May 1897.
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Associated Press
New York
Wall Street
Paris editor urges action as Mexico unrest grows
Paris Temps calls for concerted U S pressure to end Mexican factions combatants lay down arms amid death and destruction. Zapata adherents fire on a passenger train near Ajusco Mexico City with minor casualties. Spanish cruiser Emperador Carlos V readied for Mexican waters. U S infantry marches from Fort Douglas to El Paso. Robbery aboard an automobile party in New York steals 2000 in cash jewelry from Cornelis Dormas and companions after a Pelham Parkway ambush.
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AsSociated Press
Paris
Paris Temps Today
Mexico
United States
Mexico City
Zapata
Ajusco
Federal District
New York
Cornelins Dormas
the.eGrmania Life Insurance Company
Pelham Parkway
Dormas
Army Navy Game Draws Vast New York Crowd
New York on November 29 saw a large crowd near Polo Grounds for the Army versus Navy football game. An estimated 42,000 spectators attended, surpassing many World Series crowds. The President and family prepared to attend by car as pregame activity filled hotel corridors with officers and guests.
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Associated Press
New York
United States
Upper Manhattan
Army
Navy
Polo Grounds
Army and Navy
Washington
Francis B. Sayre
Europe
Surprise Chicago wedding shocks Grafton friends
A surprise wedding between Jas Percy Love of this city and Catharine Bevans, formerly of Grafton and now in Chicago, occurred in Chicago Wednesday evening. The groom, son of the late Dr. James Love, worked in U S Panama Canal service and now in the I and O railroad engineering department. The bride was a prominent Grafton social figure. the announcement delighted local friends. Pottery project promoters plan next week’s excavation at Parkview, marking progress for Graffton’s industry with hope for good weather and no impediments.
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Grafton
Jas Percy Love
Catharine Bevans
Chicago
James Love
United States
Panama Canal
Gratton
Parkview
Graffton
Dixie Theatre Turkey Giveaway and Improvements
The Dixie Theatre announced a Christmas Eve turkey giveaway with proceeds from a November 26 drawing won by Master Willie Gerkin. The venue reports growing business and added seating in the lobby. A special Vitagraph film, not on the regular program, will be shown by request with no extra charge, priced at 6 cents to all.
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Dixie
Willie Gerkin
Vitagraph Company
Vitagraph
Christian Science Service and Woman's Civic Club Meeting
Christian Science Jarrett Building announces services at 11 o clock with a sermon on Ancient and modern necromancy. A meeting is called for a Woman Civic Club in Grafton at 8 o clock Monday at the Willard Hotel to gather women for the new organization and support the movement.
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Christian Science Jarrett
Grafton
Willard Hotel
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Patterson and House Glose Cash Register Extra Session
Washington dispatch reports Patterson and 28 RC officials appeal after criminal session ends. House decides on action. Senate aims to work through extra session. Editorials compare mining unrest to stage drama. calls to protest egg market manipulation after Thanksgiving themes and Christmas shopping push.
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Patterso
Nationwide eggs boycott spreads to Chicago and Kansas City
Representatives from Chicago women clubs and city egg dealers met to protest egg prices they deem inflated. Fresh eggs sell for 45 to 46 cents a dozen as 96 Chicago clubs pledge a nationwide boycott until prices fall. In Kansas City, a House Wives League meeting discussed a nationwide boycott action.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Woman's Clubs
Kansas City
Kansas City House Wives League
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Helen Hacker
Lawrence
Kansas
Julian W. Mack
Mack
Marty Olsen
Maud Miner
New York City
Katherine Davis
Bedford
N.Y
Carrie Chapman Catt
International Woman Suffrage Association
Thomas Hepburn
Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association
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TRAGK
Uncle Sam
Blueville
Grafton Drug and Chemical Co
A. Armstrong
Booths Creek
Taylor County
West Va
A. B. N. Means
America
20Th United States Infantry
Cadiz
Spain
Carlos V
Mexican
Veracruz
Salt Lake City
20Th
United States Infantry
Fort Dongjan
el Paso
Salt Lake
Ianmoth
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Paint and Cabin Creek
West Virginia
Colorado
Paint
Cabin Creek
Carl
National Womans Organization
Chicago Women's Action
Huiskamps
Hinkle & Co
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