World Year 1913 Highlights Across Nations
A sweeping summary notes 1913 as a generally fortunate year with no major global catastrophe. Democrat wins in New York City and New Jersey, tariff reductions, and steady finance accompany crises in Mexico, assassinations and political realignments in Europe, and rising aviation interest. Notable events include Panamanian progress, the Panama Canal near completion, and sports milestones for the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
San Francisco
Balkans
United States
J. P. Morgan
Henry M. Flagler
James R. Keene
Oreglia
Sacred College
Rampolla
Vatican
Pius X
Austria
New
New Yorkity, the State of New Jersey
Massachusetts
Congress
Wilson
France
Russia
Germany
Poincare
Far East
Japan
Mikado
California
South Pole
Scott
Captain Scott
Fredrich Franz Friedmann
Panama Canal
Deaths and major events unravel in the world roll
A sweeping Death Roll lists leaders and notables from Emperors to financiers dying, assassinations, and political shifts. It notes Enver Bey and Nazim Pacha assassinations, Woodrow Wilson's inauguration, and U S political changes. It also references disasters and notable deaths from Volturno, Binghanton factory fire, Nome storm, and others.
Harvard Yale crew race and 1913 sports highlights
A chronicle lists Harvard won the eight oared crew against Yale. It notes June events including Francis Oulmet winning the national open golf at Brookline and Davis tennis cup triumphs in America, with other line items on racing, football, and notable sports figures and matches across 1913.
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Panama Canal
Panama
Gamboa Dike
San Francisco
United States
Huang Schmidt
New York
New York State
William Sulzer
Sulzer
State Assembly
Johnny Bull
Francis Culmet
Brookline
Mass
America
Gustave
Sweden
Stockholm
Jim" Thorpe
Harvard
Yale
Francis Oulmet
Mags
Jim Thorpe
Philadelphia Athletics
New York Giants
Sir Thomas Lipton
New York Yacht Club, Invention and Exploration
Vihnjamar Stefansson
British Columbia
Robert G. Fowler
Crocker Land Exposition
Hudson Stuck
Mt. McKinley
Simon Flexner
Friedrich Franz Friedmann
American Association For
Gérmany
France
England
Italy
Russia
Argentine Republic
Japan
Turkey
Austria
Brazil
Switzerland
Scotland
Canada
Portugal
Morocco
China
Victoria Louise
Kaiser
Prince Ernst of Cumberland
Jessie Woodrow Wilson
Francis Bowes Sayre
White House
Vincent Astor
Helen Huntington
Duke of Croy
Leishmann
Germany
Prince Arthur of
Frisco Railroad Prepares for Telegraphers Strike
In Springfield Missouri the Frisco railroad laid off 400 telegraphers and converts lines to telephone service. Twenty four trains removed telegraph instruments while guarding lines every five miles with a night deputy marshal. Traffic remains uninterrupted and operators will manage orders by telephone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Issines
St. Louis
Frisco
E. D. Levy
United States
Mr. Levy
Levee Plans Gain Favor in Mississippi River Fight
Memphis Tenn. officials say government levee construction along the lower Mississippi River has gained stronger support. John A. Fox, secretary-manager of the Mississippi River Levee association, reports for the task force pushing completion and funding for next steps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Tenn
Mississippi River
John A. Fox
The
Mississippi River Levee Association
Seeley Engle’s New Electrical Battery Hailed as Near Perpetual
In Chicago a pitch promotes George Seeley Engle’s electrical primary battery as a near perpetual motion device. Prospective buyers are told the invention, developed in Washington D C, promises fabulous returns and draws enthusiastic praise from supporters claiming it approaches perpetual motion within six percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
George Seeley Engle
Washington, D.C
Seeks to Set Aside Marriage in Des Moines Case
Charles Bates a 17 year old West high school student sues, through his mother, for annulment of his marriage to Maude Patrick 40, mother of four by a former marriage, in Des Moines Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Charles Bates
West High School
Maude Patrick
Army Films and Post Exchange Funding
Army chaplains will provide amusements for enlisted men and Congress plans an $82,500 increase in post exchange funds for moving pictures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Will disputes hinge on Couch estate in Monticello
Adelaide M. Brance stays in Monticello to file for probate of Couch's will. Authorities expect her to present the document through her attorney, with belief it leaves most of Couch's property to her and nearly excludes the widow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
N. Y
Adelaide M. Brance
Couch
Bars Woman From Prison at Walla Walla
Mrs Linda Burfield Hazzard known as the starvation doctor sought to begin serving her sentence at Walla Walla state prison but was denied admission by Warden Henry Drum for lack of commitment papers. Local report notes her notoriety as a starvation physician.
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Walla Walla, Wash
State Prist
Walla Walla
Linda Burfield Hazzard
Henry Drum
Real Causes of Divorce Reported in Chicago
The data shows drunkenness as the leading cause at 40 percent of trials last year. Other cited factors include mother in law 6 percent father in law 1 percent immorality of husband 12 percent immorality of wife 2 percent ill temper of husband 8 percent ill temper of wife 3 percent immaturity 4 percent laziness 3 percent sickness 1 percent and other causes 14 percent.
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Chicago
Confesses and Is Sentenced to Hang for Murder in Los Angeles
Cal Halph Fariss, alias John Bogtick, confessed to the murder of Horace E. F. Montague a passenger agent, slain December 1. On his confession he was sentenced to be hanged within 90 days after a trial that lasted two hours and 18 minutes.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Halph Fariss
Ald
John Bogtick
Horace EF
Montague
Spanish King Plans Eton Education for Heir
Information from Madrid reports Spain's king will send his son and heir to Eton College in England to begin his education. The move signals a early, formal grounding for the future monarch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eton
Lisbon
Spain
England
Absence Claimed as a Defense in Frisco Suit
Judge Sanborn orders receivers to sue former Frisco officials over profits from the Brownsville and feeder lines. The suit targets directors like Campbell and Yoakum who left the room during the vote on the St. Louis Brownsville Mexico Railway purchase of 1909. Yoakum reportedly earned 227680.42 in profit before exiting the meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sanborn
Heads of Road
Loomis C. Johnson
St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico Railway Company
Frisco
Campebell
Yoakum
Hawley
American duo quits Hullo Tango after initial London show
George Mon roe and Harry Fisher, American members of the Hullo Tango company, left the troupe following their first performance in London as critics say the act failed to provoke laughter among British audiences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
George Monroe
Harry Fisher
Hullo Tango” Company
Doctor collapses at hospital upon seeing patient daughter Anna
In Worcester Massachusetts a surgeon Dr F H Wheeler collapsed in a city hospital when he realized the patient awaiting surgery was his daughter Anna who had been struck and injured by an automobile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worcester
Mass
City Hospital
F. H. Wheeler
Anna
Raiders Find Card Players Asleep In Barber Shop
Pittsburgh police entered a Homestead barber shop before daylight and arrested six sleeping ne croes. each man held playing cards and carried a rabbit's foot in his pocket.
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Pittsburgh
Homestead
Italian laborer saved 1100 dollars on ten cents a day
Sebastian Gadealea an Italian laborer at University hospital told authorities he lived on ten cents daily and had saved 1100 dollars in two years. He concealed the money sewn inside his clothes as treatment for lead poisoning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Sebastian Gadealea
University Hospital
Walton couple welcome tenth child in Oliver Michigan
Mrs Ira Halsey of Walton township, aged $1 years, becomes mother to her tenth child, oldest is 11. Her husband, a farmer, is 84. The same physician attended all the births.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver, Mich
Ira Halsey
Walton Township
Dutch Premier's Son Killed In Train Wreck
In Amsterdam an express train wreck killed the Dutch premier's son among several others. Police and railway officials investigated the crash as rescue teams combed the wreckage near the capital city.
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Amsterdam
Fined for Wearing Ring in Humboldt Kan
J L Cummings of Mudridge was fined five dollars and costs for wearing an I O O F ring without membership. Cummings had once been a member but ceased paying dues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Humboldt
Kan
J. L. Cummings
Mudridge
Curme Mings
Oreer
Prominent Chicago Man Found Dead in Paint Bucket
Chicago businessman George W. Riggs was found dead in the bathroom of his home. He had mounted a ladder to paint the ceiling and is believed to have succumbed to paint fumes while in the tub with his head in the bucket.
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Chicago
George W. Riggs
Riggs
Girl Siamese Twins Fight for Separation in Paris
Two female Siamese twins born joined face to face travel to Paris for surgical separation. Surgeons plan to divide an inch wide strip of flesh linking their stomachs in a high risk operation. The case draws international attention as medical teams prepare for the delicate procedure.
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Paris
Oldest Pensioner on U S Roll Is 102 in Ky
Patrick Gibbons of Reedyville Kentucky, aged 102, is identified as the oldest man on the United States pension rolls according to a Washington report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Felix Diaz
Mexico City
National Palace
Francisco Madero
Gustavo Madero
President Madero
General Huerta
Madero
Pino Suarez
Victoriano Huerta
Venustiano Carranza
Juarez
Chihuahua
Francisco
Pancho") Villa
Carranza
Havana
Woodrow Wilson
Huerta
Tampico
United States
Vera Cruz
Washington
Patrick Gibbons
Reedyville
Woman Burns to Death in Chicago Firelinked Attempt
Mrs. Mary Meiser 42 attempted suicide with a revolver after illness. Three shots fired. two missed, one grazed abdomen but ignited her clothing. She died about an hour after arrival at the hospital.
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Chicago
Mary Meiser
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Rio Grande
Western Hemisphere
Ping Suarez
Diaz
Francisco “Pancho” Villa
Villa
Americana
Jessia Woodrow Wilson
George I
Greece
Salonika
Enver Bey
Nazim Pasha
Ulster
Sir Edward Carson
Ireland
Dublin
Jim Larkin
Ohio
Mississippi Valley
Omaha
Dawson
N. M
Nevada
Gulf of Smyrna
Volturno
Binghamton
Nome
Alaska
Turkish Army
Henry N. Flagler
Standard Oil Company
George L
Rampello
Luther McCarthy
Alberta
Nazim Pacha
King Menelik
Abbyssinia
Whitelaw Reid
Great Britain
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Adolphus Busch
Charles G. Gates
John W. Gates
Ralph Rose
Timothy Woodruff
Anthony N. Brady
Col
S. F. Cody
Aero
Mayor Gaynor
Timothy D. Sullivan
Alfred Austin
Fannie May Eaton
Eaton
Hans Schmidt
Anna Aumuller
Floyd
Claude S. Allen
Richmond
Allen Court House
Henry Spencer
Mildred Allison-Rexroat
Bessie Wakefield
Connecticut
Leo Frank
Atlanta
Frank Craig
Indianapolis
Helen Knabe
Robert W. Archbald
United States Senate
John Purroy Mitchel
Tammany
David I. Walsh
Fielder
New Jersey
Minnesota
Marshall
Senate
Illinois
Johnson
Martin H. Glynn
Otto
Bavaria
Rufus Isaacs
Vansittart Bowater
Yuan Shi-Kai
Edward Carson
Orangemen
Tokyo
Colombia
Santo Domingo
Rupp
Syracuse
Adrianople
Scutari
Montengro
Emmeline Pankhurst
Gettysburg
Harry K. Thaw
Stanford White
Matteawan Insine
New Hampshire
U. S
Enyland
Colonel Roosevelt
Rio Janeiro
Sao Paulo
Buenos Ayres
Valparaiso
Chile
Mendel Bellis
Kilev
Gamboa
Michigan
Rt. Leavenworth
New York City
Garment Workers
FAIGD
Army
Brownsville
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