Pinchot Plan Presented for National River Commission
In Washington on June 23 Representative Temple of Pennsylvania introduced in Congress a Progressive party measure for a national river commission. The plan aims to address water power, stream pollution and related conservation issues with a council of unpaid officials drawn from senators representatives governors and heads of waterways improvements and conservation groups.
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Washington
Gifford Pinchot
National River Commission
Congress
Temple
Pennsylvania
Last Week of Tariff Talk Arrives in Senate
The Senate Democratic caucus resumes work in Washington as it prepares for the last phase of tariff discussions. Changes in the metal schedule, partly approved Saturday, came up first before the group adjourned for President Wilson's currency reform address. Senator Simmons of the finance committee announced a revision of the income tax administration feature.
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Wahington
Senate
House
Wilson
Simmons
Finance Committee
Argentina beef probe urged by congress in Washington
Acting on representations by Representative Kinkaid of New Jersey the department of agriculture may send a department expert to the Argentine Republic to investigate the beef situation There will be special attention to the slaughter methods used by Argentine packers in the event the inquiry is ordered
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Washington
Kinkaid
New Jersey
Department of Agriculture
Gum Ban Sparks Chicago University Gum Taboo
Coeds at the University of Chicago react to a new order banning chewing gum. They view the ban as an infringement on personal rights, with rumors of illicit gum sources in coed dorms. The board’s order removes gum from items sold at the campus bookstore.
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Associated Press Dispatch
Chicago
University of Chicago
Board of Governors
Nutter Boylen Wedding Held At Parents Home
Leslie Nutter of Parkersburg wed Maggie Boylen Sunday at 1 pm at her parents home near the city. Rev. O A Snider of First Ward Methodist Church officiated. They will reside in Parkersburg where the groom works for the B and O railroad.
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Abner Boylen
Leslie Nutter
Parkersburg
Maggie Boylen
O. A. Snider
First Ward Methodist Church
B. & O. Railroad
President Delivers Currency Message to Congress
President Wilson reads his currency reform message to a joint session of Congress, delivering a concise, steady address on banking and currency reform. The session features formal seating, limited admission, and dignified reception, with McAdoo and Lane among Cabinet observers. The speech urges immediate action to create a public, government controlled banking system to empower free enterprise and credit mobilization.
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Associated Press
Washington
Capitol
Iup
Wilson
Congress
Houses
Senate
McAdoo
Houston
Lane
United States
3Rd Congress
Clark
House
Marshall
Suffragettes Try 10 Wreck a Fast Train
London dispatch reports militant suffragette attempt to wreck an express train from London to Plymouth near Davenport. A London and Southwestern railway motor struck a heavy obstacle in the tunnel and workers found two heavy wooden ties wedged between the rails ahead of the scheduled train.
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Associated Press Dispatch
London
Plymouth
Beavenport
London and Southwestern Railway
Eighteen Men Detained In Omaha Park Disturbance
Eighteen men alleged to be Industrial Workers of the World were jailed in Omaha Nebraska after inflammatory speeches and threats in a downtown park. A large crowd watched as police detained them with no interference observed.
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Omaha
Neb
Industrial Workers of the World
Newstar Pianist Miss Mary Leeds Joins Star House
Miss Mary C Leeds has accepted a position as pianist at the Star theater and will perform at the vaudeville and motion picture house hereafter. Leeds is a well known musician in the city and her work at the Star will please patrons.
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Mary C. Leeds
Star Theatrer
Leeds i
The
Star
Harvesters arrive as Pratt officials seek workers
At Pratt Kansas on June 3 twenty one automobiles and twelve teams waited at the depot for harvesters arriving by train. The county needs 200 more harvesters and only a small number are arriving, leaving a labor shortage during the harvest season.
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Associated Press Dispatch
Pratt
Kan
Fortney Number and Hardware Co. Notice
Fortney Number and Hardware Co. communicates a summary item about business operations or a public notice. The readable OCR fragment mentions the firm name and suggests a typical local notice. Further specifics are unavailable in the provided text.
Weston Reaches Warren Tonight After Detour
Edward Payson Weston, the elderly pedestrian, left the Erie track south of Sharon, Pennsylvania, today and diverted to the public highway ten miles north to shorten his trip. He will reach Warren late today, saving fourteen miles of travel.
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Associated Press
Youngstown
Edward Payson Weston
Erie Track
Sharon
Weston
Warren
New Subway Thief Abroad Alarm Arouses Detectives
New York reports a new class of subway thief abroad. Detectives focus on a group of young men working the crowded platforms, reaching through train windows to snatch hats, especially valuable Panamas, from unsuspecting riders.
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Associated Press Dispatch
New York
Don't Eat Too Much And Ignore The Thermometer
Washington June 22 Dr Alsburg head of the U S Bureau of Chemistry delivers the final hot weather donts. He urges temperate eating minimal sustenance and avoiding ice cold drinks while keeping eyes off the thermometer to stay cool. Also notes returned from Wheeling where Dr and Mrs Warder Archibald Rasche and Lambrecht attended the Semi Centenary ball with gifts and honors.
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Washington
Alsburg
U. S. Bureau of Chemistry
Harvey W. Wiley
Dr. Alsburg
Wheeling
Warder
Archibald
Leo J. Rasche
Harry Lambrecht
Rasche
Senator Smith bribery trial opens with Harris testimony
Webster Springs WV June 23 John T Harris clerk of the West Virginia Senate testified in the bribery case against Senator Ben A Smith. Harris said Smith’s first U S Senate vote was February 4 for Emmett Showlater and showed a pattern of voting for Edwards Northcott Davis Elkins until Goff’s election on February 21. Detective Chief Guy Bittinger testified about arrests and Townsend’s role in bribery investigations.
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Associated Press
Webster Springs
W. VA
Ben A. Smith
United States
S. B. Avis
John T. Harris
West Virginia Senate
Harris
Smith
Senate
Emmett Showalter
W.S. Edwards
Elliott Northcott
Davis Elkins
Nathan Goff
Guy E. Bittinger
Once
T. O. Townsend
Kanawha County
Death Tied to Old Dog Bite in Hazelwood
Physicians in Hazelwood, Pennsylvania report that Boyd Whitton died last week from long delayed effects of a dog bite received when he was ten. The bite, from a Scotten collie, initially caused no lasting harm, but a strange illness resembling rabies developed decades later, leading to his death after prior reports of typhoid fever. The case is cited as an exceedingly rare medical occurrence.
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Hazelwood
Boyd Whitecotton
Sulzer Fires Hot Shot At Chief Murphy
Albany June 23 Gov Sulzer escalates the Sulzer Murphy Curtis dispute by demanding Murphy and his conspirators produce all libelous material they claim to have about him. He vows to respond to statements issued by Chas F Murphy leader of Tammany Hall and George M Curtis of New York City.
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Albany
Sulzer
Sulzer-Murphy-Curtis
Chas F. Murphy
Tammany Hall
George M. Curtis
New York
Murphy
Bulgaria Declines Premier Meet on Russian Capital Crisis
A Sofia dispatch reports Bulgaria has definitively declined the Russian Emperor's proposal for a meeting of Balkan premiers to discuss the crisis in St. Petersburg. The decision, dated June 3, signals continued regional tensions amid European upheaval.
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Bulgaria
Associated Press
Vienna
Austria
Sofia
Bal‘kan
Three Black men charged after mob attack in Georgia
In Macon Georgia on June 23 three Black men Joe Jay Henry Kinchens and Smith Harris faced a serious case charge after attempting to abduct Mr and Mrs J T Howell near Dublin. They were jailed in Macon to avoid a mob while Howell and his wife were robbed and fatally harmed with 41 000 in jewels and money stolen.
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Associated Press Dispatch
Macon
Joe Jay
Henry Kinchens
Smith Harris
Dublin
Bed Bounty
Howell
Nine Drowned During Squall Near New Madrid
Nine men were drowned when the government launch Beaver capsized in a sudden squall on the Mississippi river four miles above New Madrid Missouri. Five others survived, and a rescue party from Memphis including the government steamer Chiska rushed to the scene. The crew had been surveying upriver and were returning when the squall hit.
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New Madrid
Beaver
Mississippi River
Hopkins Light
Memphis
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