Rail Project Draws Parkersburg Interest in Clarksburg Road
In Parkersburg on December 20 residents discuss the Clarksburg Northern Railroad, led by Joseph Fuccy. Telegrams note completion to Middlebourne with a bridge obstacle, plans for an inaugural excursion, and hopes of extending to Harrison County and Clarkeburg. The fourteen mile line promises a new coal field, timber tracts, and access to rich gas fields, boosting local investors.
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Parkersbur
Tyler
Wetzel
Middlebourne
Fuecy
Tyler County
Facey
New Martinsville
Harrison County
Clarkeburg
West Virginia
Berlin police raid corset displays in Leipzigerstrasse shop
In Berlin police disguised as customers raided a fashion shop on Leipzigerstrasse over corset exhibitions showing life sized figures. Protests led to partial concessions but authorities seized a lifelike model of a young woman and began secretly photographing windows for further action. Santa Claus delivered a late Christmas visit leaving a baby girl at the home of Mr. Dugene Dunnington per Stork arrangements with Mrs. Cutright, formerly Miss Mabel Dunnington.
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Berlin
Leipzigerstrasse
Santa Claus
Dugene Dunnington
B. D. Cutright
Mr. Stork
Mrs Cutright
Mabel Dunnington
Queen Sophia Expires in Stockholm at 77
Queen Mother Sophia of Sweden died in Stockholm today at age 77 after several days of acute illness ending with pneumonia. She was a Nassau princess married to King Oscar II in 1857, marked by their golden wedding in 1907 and left most of her fortune to her son Oscar who married Mary Munk, her maid of honor. Reports say her end was peaceful.
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Associated Press
Stockholm
Sophia
Sweden
Nassau
Welshagen
Oscar II
Oscar
Mary Munk
Theater Closed By Clergymen In Scranton
In Scranton Pennsylvania clergymen visiting the burlesque theater prompted city officials to suspend the license. After sermons urging opposition the house halted business and did not stage a performance. The theater seeks a court mandamus to force licensing.
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Scranton
Public Safety
W. G. O'Malley
Burleson Orders Mail Ban on Wild Game Parcels
Washington December 30 Postmaster General Burleson barred parcels containing body parts of wild animals or birds killed in violation of state or territorial laws from malls. Such game may be mailed if lawful but not beyond the second parcel post zone. Packages must clearly mark contents on the outside.
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Washington
Burleson
Diamonds Proves Bad Luck in Sisterville Incident
A two car studded ring bought from a stranger by Will Comedy of Sisterville West Virginia caused trouble after he was found trying to sell it at the Baltimore and Ohio station in Pittsburg. Detectives Fred Will and Albert Beebe arrested him. Comedy claimed he won the ring in a crap game but thought it was phony. He said the man who lost the jewel was drunk. Meeting growing in interest at St Pauls Church featured a sermon on the Work of the Holy Spirit with many members coming forward for prayer of consecration. Professor Byrd and the choir were praised. Attendance invited for 7 30 pm services.
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Pittsburg
Will Comedy
Sisterville
W. Va
Baltimore At Ohio Railroad
Fred Will
Albert Beebe
St. Paul's M. B
Nev
Hickman
Byrd
Fire at Cleverland Clubhouse Reveals Sleep Saved by Sleepy Members
Cleveland clubhouse fire on Euclid Avenue damaged the thirteenth floor and caused about 10 000 dollars in losses. Seventy five Cleverland Athletic Club members slept soundly on the floor below as firemen battled the blaze, highlighting the value of regular exercise as an antidote for insomnia.
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Cleverland
Cleverland Athletic Club
Euclid Avenue
Record crop values set in 1913 nationwide
Washington reports 1913 crop values shatter previous records with total gross farm production at 9.75 billion dollars. Crops total 6.1 billion and livestock 3.65 billion, cash sales from crops 2.929 billion and livestock 2.219 billion, across about 6.6 million farms and 144,664 farmers.
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Washington
United States
Department of Agriculture
Coutry
Boy Killed by Fall of Slate at Federal Mine
Dec 30 Fairmont reports 18 year old Ford of Grantown died in a slate fall while coupling a car at the Federal Mine. He was a snapper for miner George E Harford and would have escaped the collapse had he moved moments sooner. Survived by parents and several siblings.
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Fairmont
Ford
Grantown
George E. Harford
Mrs James Holt Taken to City Hospital in Typhoid Attack
Mrs James W Holt was carried from her Third Ward home to City Hospital last evening with typhoid fever. She is reported to be somewhat improved this afternoon.
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James W. Holt
City Hospital
Six Sigel stores enter bankruptcy in New York and Boston
In New York and Boston six units of the Sigel stores corporation entered bankruptcy in friendly federal proceedings. The firms reported about 40 million dollars in annual gross business, with Christmas sales reportedly weak, unable to meet their credits. The list includes the 14th Street store and Simpson-Crawford in New York, Henry Sigel Company in Boston, Henry Sigel & Co. bankers and wholesalers in New York, Merchants Express Company in New York. Greenhut-Sigel-Cooper Company of New York is not involved.
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Associated Press
New York
Sigel Stores Corporation
Boston
14Th Street
Simpson-Crawford Company
Henry Sigel Company
Henry Sigel & Co
Bankers
Henry Sigel & Company
Merchants Express Company
Greenhut-Sigel-Cooper Company
Intense Cold Hits Southern Europe Amid Deep Freeze
Paris reports an unprecedented deep freeze across France Spain and Portugal with temperatures four to six degrees below zero in the south of France. Severe storms lash the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts as the population struggles to cope with the harsh winter.
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Associated Press
Paris
France
Spain
Portugal
Mediterranean
Atlantic
Grafton Motor Company Sold to Cornwell Firm
W M Cornwell & Company have bought the Grafton Motor Company garage in the First ward. They installed full meeting machinery and cars and employ expert repairmen. Mr Cornwell becomes the new manager and the business continues under the Grafton Motor Company name with improvements planned.
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W. M. Cornwell & Company
Grafton Motor Company
First Ward
Me. Cornwell
Ogden Rumor Eyed Washington Pa Paper Purchase
The Wheeling Register reports H C Ogden of Wheeling plans to add another paper to his vast Virginia and West Virginia holdings, possibly buying the Washington Record in Washington Pa. Unclear if the deal will proceed, but his network allegedly includes the Wheeling News Telegraph Intelligencer Parkersburg Dispatch News Parkersburg Sentinel Wellabure Herald and the New Castle News.
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Fl. C. Ogden
Wheeling
West Virginia
Wheeling Register
H. C. Ogden
Washington, Pa
Washington Record
Wheeling News
Wheeling ‘Telegraph
Wheeling Intelligencer
Parkersburg Dispatch
Parkersburg Sentine
Wellabure Herald
New Castle News
Sinking Tasman Strands Noted Passengers Amid Storm
A wireless from the steamer Tasman ashore in the Gulf of Papua reports 15 feet of water in the hold and rapid flooding. Rescue ships have not arrived, and the Tasman is expected to be a total wreck. Among aboard are Lillian Nortten Alva Adams former Colorado governor Thomas G Stallsmith and Maj Sydney A Cleman. President Wilson and Ella Flagg Young are mentioned in broader context of national issues as the news recalls public figures and policy debates.
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Singer
Melbourne
Australia
Tasman
Gulf of Papuua
Lillian Nortten
Alva Adams
Colorado
Ad Thomas G. Stallsmith
California
Sydney A. Cleman
Botn
Wilson
Ella Flagg Young
Thomas
Chicago
Riley Marshall
White House
Anc
Federal Reserve Board
Police Dragnet Built Over White Slave Film Case
New York police widen their investigation into a trunk murder tied to white slave film promotion. John B. Stanchfield acts as counsel to block screenings while a mass protest meeting is planned with Norman Hapgood presiding. Speakers include Inez MilhollandBoissevain and C H P Belmont.
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New York
John B. Stanchfield
Supreme Court
Norman Hapgood
Inez Milholland-Boissevain
C. H. P. _Belmont
Police close in on trunk murder mystery in New York
New York police pursued a widening web of clues after a man was found jammed in a trunk outside a Pitt Street tenement. An autopsy showed neck dislocation and asphyxia likely from a hand over the mouth, with suspicions pointing to John Crennan of Charleston, West Virginia as the victim.
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New York
John _Crennan
Charleston
W. Va
Pitt Street
John Creeman
West Virginia
J. Donovan
J. 8
Dolan
Eimerly
Donovan
Mike Malloy
John Crennan
Malloy
Geveral
Petersburg
Moses Sachs
Sachs Blsza Sigel
LeLon Lee
Lee
Meyer Weisbard
Pier 11
East River
Wickwire Literary Club Thrives in Palmy Days
The Wickwire Literary meets each Saturday at 7 20 with large attendance. Young readers deliver excellent programmes while audiences listen intently. Ethel Knotts editors the Wickwire Banner, drawing notable interest. Under Earl Carruthers and Iva Poe the group grows rapidly. An elaborate program is planned for Saturday evening January 3 1914 with broad invitation extended.
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Wickwire Literary
Mise Ethel Knotts
Wickwire Banner
Earl Carruthers
Iva Poe
Prisoners Escape From Charles Street Jail In Boston
Three inmates broke from the Charles Street jail by fashioning a rope from bed clothes and sawing third floor bars. Barney Clancy crawled to the gate, alerted a watchman, and surrendered. Arthur Quinlan and John Black disappeared. Police pursue a trunk deception linked to the body found in Pitt Street. Investigators doubt the latest identity and hunt for the missing trunk tray.
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Associated Press
Boston
Charles Street
Barney Clancy
Arthur Quinlan
John Black
Pittsburg Bank 0 Open Again At Early Date
Pittsburg Pa December 30 news that the First- Second National Bank of Pittsburg may reopen within weeks after a stock subscription sufficient to sustain 4 million dollar capital and 1 million dollar surplus. The bank has been in receivership since July 7 and will seek Treasury permission to resume and rejoin the clearing house. Deposits totaling 22 million have not been divided during the rehabilitation.
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Associated Press
Pittsburg
Bank of
First Second National Bank of Pittsburg
Treasury Department
Clearing House Association
Suffragists face trouble over income tax payment
Washington officials say a provision in the law may help suffragist leaders opposing a tax on women. The provision appropriates $800,001 for collecting the tax and allows the commissioner of internal revenue to pay necessary sums for information, detection, and prosecution of violators.
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Wasilington
Dec
Treasury
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Teachers 10 Youth America South America Tour Planned
The American branch of the Association for International Conciliation will lead a group of school teachers on a South American tour next summer with Carnegie Peace Foundation support. Robert Bacon, ex ambassador to France, recently visited South American capitals as part of the plan. The group sails from New York late June and returns early September. selections for the party were not announced.
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New York
Association For International Concilation
South America
Carnegie Peace Foundation
Robert Bacon
France
Bureau of Information
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Scien
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Pugh & Beavers
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Fettermay
M. Cornweld & Company
S. C. Ogden
Hobson
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Misa Elsie Hall
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