Bodies of Jessica McCann and A J Jewel Found After Storm
The missing heiress Jessie E McCann and aviator A J Jewel are washed ashore along the New Jersey and Long Island coast during a fierce hurricane. Jewel vanished Oct 12 1913 while en route to an aviation meet on Staten Island. McCann disappeared Dec 4 while on settlement work duties. Identification came from a signet ring and clothing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Jessie McCann
A. J. Jewel
New Jersey
Long Island
Jewel
Edgemore
L. L
Neptune Avenue
Hempstead Plains
L. 1
Staten Island
Miss McCann
Jessie E. McCann
Brooklyn
Coney Island
J. BE. M
Five Killed as Train Hits Car in Memphis Crossing
Five persons died and several were injured when a freight train struck a street car at a grade crossing in Memphis Tennessee. The dead were identified as T. J. Cavenecy of Cleveland C, J. T. Vail of Jackson Mississippi, and Thomas Norrill of Memphis.
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Memphis
Tenn
Crade
T. J. Cavenecy
Cleveland
J.T. Vail
Jackson
Miss
Thomas Norrill
New Women's University Club Opens in New York
The new women s university club home, cost 250000 dollars, is open for inspection by members and friends. The eight story building will be occupied on February 14.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Women's Club
Open
New York
Women's University Club
Wage Increase in Navy Yard
Secretary Daniels announced wage increases for 1,400 workers at Navy yards totaling more than 59000 dollars annually across the system. The action broadens pay scales and reflects wartime efficiency demands in Washington.
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Navy Yard
Washington
Navy
Daniels
Four More Warships to Mexico
Washington declares a division of four dreadnought battleships from the Atlantic fleet will move to Mexican waters, bringing the total American battleships there to eleven and forming the greatest naval force concentrated in Mexican waters to date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mexican
Hogble
Tacoma Mayor Joins Hobos in Local No 23
In Tacoma Washington Mayor W W Seymour stood with about 60 unemployed men to take the oath and become a charter member of Local No 23 Hobos of America. The group was formed at the Hotel de Gink a former school building now used by unemployed men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tacoma
Jolna Hobos
Wash
W. W. Seymour
Hobos
America
Seven Dead as Ship Sinks Off New Jersey Coast
A deadly maritime disaster reported from Seabright New Jersey where two hotels and many residences were ruined and one man died from excitement. A wireless dispatch from Sable Island confirms the loss of the Nova Scotian schooner Iona with her eight crew and captain.
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New York
Seabright
N. J
Sable Island
Iona
Elx
Rumor of a Supreme Court Vacancy in Washington
Washington hears a possible vacancy rumor so far unconfirmed among the United States Supreme Court members. The source notes the rumor may be factual or not and provides no official confirmation.
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Supreme Court
Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
No Drastic Legislation Promise From Wilson
Washington D C Senator Simmons chairman of the senate committee on finance has pledged with definite promise that President Wilson's suggestion will bring drastic legislation this winter.
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Washington, D. C
Simmons
Committee On Finance
Wilson
Texarkana Water Competition Triggers I C C Ruling
The interstate commerce commission ruled that higher rail rates to Texarkana Arkansas from St Louis Kansas City and Memphis were unreasonable and discriminatory compared with Shreveport. It stated that railroads may meet water competition but cannot keep a lower rate to one intermediate point to suppress water competition. The railroads contended the Shreveport rates reflected water competition needs.
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Texarkana
Ark
Interstate Commerce Commission
St Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
Shreveport
St. Louis
Kansas City
Memphis
Willing to Sell Husband in Boston Quotation
Mrs Agnes Bedell of Quincy offered to sell her husband for 1000 cash to Mary E Chandler who seeks a man to care for her property. Bedell explained the husband would tend the baby and stay with Chandler while Bedell aims to open a boarding house. The husband expressed willingness to be sold.
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Boston
Mass
Agnes Bedell
Quincy
Mary E. Chandler
Wiliam Bedell
Indiana Ironworkers Strike Over Jurisdiction Dispute
Indianapolis iron workers walk out claiming the city’s scaffold work jurisdiction was not honored. Employers counter the walkout breaches a Dec. 13 agreement with the Trades Council that calls for arbitration of disputes. Iron workers' business agent contends Trades Council officials overruled the Dec. 18 accord and that it does not bind the union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
Structural Iron Workers
Trades Council
Ernest G. W. Basey
Iron Workers’ Union
Bulgarian Queen Appeals for Refugee Aid
Queen fleonora of Bulgaria cabled the American Red Cross asking relief for thousands of refugees left destitute by the Balkan war. The appeal, joined by many Americans in New York and elsewhere, cites homelessness shelterlessness starvation and freezing in a severe European winter. Mabel Boardman and John Bassett Moore organized forwarding of American contributions to Queen Fleonora under an American Bulgarian relief committee.
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Washington
Fleonora
Bulgaria
American Red Cross
Europe
Mabel Boardman
John Bassett Moore
International Relief Board
Millionaire gives $1,000,000 to church aids missions
Kansas City press reports R A Long, noted lumberman and philanthropist, pledged one million dollars to the Church of the Disciples of Christ conditional on raising five million more. Funds will back missionary societies and educate 1,000 men for missionary work at church colleges locally and abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. A. Long
Kansas City
R.A. Long
Church of the Disciples of Christ
Missionary Societies of the Church
Universal Church Opens with Diverse Speakers
The Daily Temple, a Universal church in New York, was opened by Miss Elizabeth Knopf. The ceremony featured speeches by a Hindu, a Turk, and a Chinaman, highlighting the new churchs inclusive program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Universal Church
New York
Daily Temple
Elizabeth Knopf
Kaisera Heir Begins Clerical Work at Berlin General Staff
The crown prince has begun clerical work at the official general staff in the room once used by Moltke. He will handle routine copying and duties typical for young officers, under supervision.
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Kaisera
Berlin
Great Moltke
Open Verdict in Calumet Ball Causes 72 Deaths
The coroner's jury returns an open verdict in Calumet Michigan concerning the Christmas era panic in an Italian ball. It finds the 72 fatalities resulted from a fire alarm raised inside the ball leading to the fatal stampede.
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Calumet
Mich
Federals Die in Ojinaga Battle Across Border
The border fight near Ojinaga, Mexico, between Huerta's forces and the federal army rages with heavy casualties. Five to six hundred federals killed, many wounded and seeking aid on the American side. Deserters surrender and are disarmed as Maj. McNamee seizes their firearms. Red Cross and physicians aid the wounded. civilians relocate to the American bank of the river.
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Presidio
Tex
Ojinaga
Mexico
Huerta
Maj. McNamee
United States Border Patrol
Battlefeld
Littl Red Cross
Woman Finds $1400 In Gold Hidden By Father
Michigan City Indiana Mrs William McCorkle of McCool Indiana found twenty gold pieces totaling 1400 dollars buried under a wee by her father Nathaniel Marshall a carpenter. The family split after a fire eight years ago and Marshall moved to Iowa. Before he died he told his son of the burial and the son doubted the tale until a Christmas reunion led to the investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan City
Ind
William McCorkle
McCool
Nathaniel Marshall
Marshall
Iowa
Man Confesses to Murder in Illinois Slaying
Ned-Charles Masmussen, long time resident of Omaha, confessed to killing Charles Robins at Metropolis Illinois seven years ago by striking him with a shovel and asked to be locked up. The described crime occurred seven years prior in Metropolis, Illinois.
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Omaha
Ned
Charles Masmussen
Charles Robins
Metropolis
Ill
Passes Abolished in Illinois Railroads Limit Privilege
Springfield reports railroads doing business in Illinois have abolished pass privileges except for their employees, under the new stringent public utilities act. This marks a sweeping change in railroad transportation policy within the state.
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Illinois
Springfield
Mob Threatened Moyer in Lansing At Attack On Miner Leader
Gov Ferris received a telegram from Sheriff Cruz detailing a night assault on Western Federation of Miners President Moyer. Deputies guided him to a train after a crowd threatened to kill or drown him, Moyer was wounded, and a physician met the train at Winona before transfer to Channing. The miners ignore operators' Jan 1 ultimatum.
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Lansing
Mich
Ferris
Cruz
Houghton County
Moyer
Western Federation of Miners
Hinsley
Scott Hotel
Lionch Moyer
Winona
Channing
Chester McCormick
Houghton
Kansas shows large motor car ownership in six months
A Kansas report from the secretary of state notes 39,045 motor cars registered in the six months since the new law. The state averages one car for every 48 people, with Edwards County leading in car-to-population ratio at one car per 21 people in the western part once called the great American desert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Secretary of State
Great American Desert
Edwards County
DOJ to Probe Moyer Deportation Allegations
Washington input indicates the Department of Justice will investigate the alleged beating and deportation of Charles J. Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners. Attorney General Mc Reynolds told Senator Marline of New Jersey the matter will receive immediate attention to ascertain the facts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Department of Justice
Michigan
Charles J. Moyer
Marline
New Jersey
McReynolds
Woman Finds 1400 In Gold In Indiana Garden
Mrs. William McCorkle of McCool Indiana found twenty dollar gold pieces totaling 1400 dollars buried under a tree by her father Nathaniel Marshall eight years ago. The discovery was made in Michigan City Indiana and adds a notable inheritance-like windfall to a rural family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan City
Ind
William McCorkle
McCool
Nathaniel Marshall
Eight Die in Monroe Street Tenement Fire in New York
Eight persons, five men and three women, killed in a tenement blaze at 96 Monroe Street in the East Side. Fifteen injured, four seriously, after leaping from fire escapes.
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New York
Monroe Street
East Side
Rush to the new oil fields near Swartz in Vernon County
Hundreds of prospects and operators rush to Vernon County after oil was found at Swartz ten miles southwest of Nevada. Scouts from Missouri Oklahoma and Illinois arrive to evaluate the Banner land shoot, with majors like M A Phillips Casey Ill and Lewis Erhart Boonville Mo visiting as W M Stull Casey Ill conducts a field survey amid indications of paying wells.
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Vernon County
Swartz
Banner Land
Nevada
Missouri
Oklahoma
Illinois
M. A. Phillips
Casey,ll
Lewis Erhat
Boonville
Grundy County
W.M. Stull
Casey, Ill
Missouri fruit growers to discuss co op marketing plan during Farmers' Week
Horticulturists of the state will meet in Columbia January 12 16 to discuss a co operative system of fruit selling. John Bland secretary of the state board of horticulture urges cooperative marketing. canvass shows over 0 percent of members in marketing associations profitably, while only 3 percent outside associations are profitable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Columbia
John Bland
State Board of Horticulture
Rate Suit Against Frisco Seeks 2 Million Overcharges
Attorney General Barker filed suit at Springfield to recover 2 000 000 dollars in excess charges from the Frisco during the injunction period when the 2 cent passenger fare and maximum freight laws were in contest. The action mirrors similar suits against other trunk lines and is the twelfth and final case in the series.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frisco
Springfield
Barker
Horse Unties Halter Builds Lighted Stable Feeds Alfalfa
John W. Baldwin of the Missouri Training School for Boys at Boonville recounts an educated driving horse that untied its halter, switched on a stable light, and wandered to the granary to eat alfalfa meal without harm. Baldwin, a board member and central Missouri Democrat, vouches for the tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Baldwin
Missouri Training School For Boys
Boonville
Baldwin J
Missouri
Tramp shoots ex judge near school house
Henry C. Dierker former St Charles county judge was shot and dangerously wounded when a tramp tried to drive him from a school building near St Charles. The assailant surrendered claiming to be A Sampson of Glenns Ferry Idaho.
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Tramp
Henry C. Dierker
St. Charles County
St. Charles
A. Sampson
Glenns Ferry
Idaho
Turkey Dinner for Fulton State Hospital Inmates
The 1,100 inmates at Fulton State Hospital were treated to a Christmas turkey dinner with 112 birds serving as the meat portion. Patients received many gifts from relatives, brightening the holiday season.
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State Hospital
Fulton
Missing Missourian Found Dead near Palmyra
James Fogle, about 68, was found dead in a field east of Palmyra on the Bryan place after being missing since Christmas night around 6. Authorities suppose he wandered away in an unbalanced state, became chilled, and could not find his way home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Fogle
Palmyra
Bryan Place
Mr. Fogle
Fogle
Springfield to vote again on city government rule
The Springfield city council schedules a second election on commission government at its January 6 regular meeting. Petitions with 1,250 qualified voter signatures have been filed with the city clerk. The election is planned for early February.
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Springfield
Stole Five Cents, Thirty Days in Jail
Lloyd Tatlow aged 40 was sentenced to thirty days in Greene county jail for stealing a 50 cent bar of crackerjack. He has a long history of drunkenness and petit larceny while repeatedly jailed.
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Lloyd Tatlow
Greene County
Tatlow
Civil War Vet Morris Hodges Dies at 85
Morris Hodges of Holden died the other morning at age 85. A Kentucky native, he had lived in the county since the early 1860s and served in the Civil War under General Jo Shelby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris Hodges
Holden
Kentucky
That
Jo Shelby
County Defendant in Suit Over Court House Damages
Five bonding concerns filed suit in the circuit court at Springfield against Greene county for 25000 dollars in damages. The action stems from the construction of the county's quarter million dollar courthouse.
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Springfield
Greene County
Missouri Fruit and Nut Crop Yields Report
Missouri's fruit and nut output for a normal year is valued at 8 to 12 million dollars per the 1914 Red Book from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The bulletin lists apples, peaches, nectarines, pears, plums, prunes, cherries, grapes, strawberries, blackberries and dewberries with detailed counts of trees, arbors, and bushels or pounds produced. Newton County leads strawberry production with 2,854,916 quarts annually. St. Louis County tops blackberry yields at 1,229,047 quarts. 3,020,626 grape arbors yield at least 17,471,816 pounds when seasonable.
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Missouri
Bureau of Labor Statistics
John T. Fitpatrick
Fitapatrick
A. T. Edmonston
Barry
Jasper
Jefferson
Lawrence
Newton
St. Louis
Ozark
Bollinger
Uuchanan
Christian
Clay
Green
Howell
Jackson
McDonald
Stone
Newton County
St. Louis County
Plan to fly Atlantic from New York to Liverpool
William Bastar of St. Joseph and aviator Jack Vilas announced plans to attempt a spring flight from New York to Liverpool. They are building a special aeroplane to win the $50,000 prize offered by a London newspaper for the first successful Atlantic crossing.
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England
William Bastar
St. Joseph
Jack Vilas
Atlantic Ocean
New York
Liverpool
Bastar
Vilas
London
Atlantic
Fire escapes required for MU fraternity houses
After January 1 all fraternity and sorority houses at the University of Missouri must build fire escapes. A committee from the university faculty and the fire chief of Columbia inspected all the Greek letter houses recently. There have been several small fires in fraternity houses this year and in past years several have burned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Missouri
University
Columbia
Springfield post office official dies of heart failure
John A. Short aged 60, long time superintendent of post office substations in Springfield and veteran, collapsed in the street from heart failure while delivering belated Christmas presents to his grandchildren. He served on the railway and local post office for forty years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Short
Springfield
Anti-Saloon Move in Ralls County Rally
A local option campaign in Ralls County has started with over a thousand names secured for the February election. Rev. R. T. Campbell of New London was chosen manager and Dr Norton of Center secretary.
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Ralls County
R. T. Campbell
New London
Doctor Norton
Sedalia Boy Killed While Hunting
Albert Schroeder a 15 year old schoolboy was accidentally shot and killed by his 10 year old companion James Hosford while hunting near Sedalia The dead boy carried papers and otherwise earned money to assist his mother.
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Sedalia
Albert Schroeder
James Hosford
Law makes worthless checks a felony in Johnson County
The new statute making passing a worthless check a felony was invoked in Johnson county. Robert W. Walkley, an agent for an Iowa insurance company, was arrested for paying a laundry bill with a worthless check and jailed on $1,000 bond after remand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson County
Tiobert W. Walkley
Iown
Death on icy tramway ends life of Missouri Zinc official
J. O. Viles, 60, former superintendent of the Missouri Zinc Company mine near Carthage, was killed when he slipped on an icy tramway and fell eight feet to a dump. He sustained a fractured skull and neck injury. He had recently resigned to take up farming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. O. Viles
Missouri Zinc Company
Carthage
Wis
Viles
Missouri Historian Attends Society Meetings in Charleston
IP A Sampson secretary of the State Natorical Society travels to Charleston and Columbia to attend Missouri Historical Society meetings as its representative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Historical Society
A. Sampson
State Natorical Society
Charleston
Columbia
D. C
The
Missouris Historical Society
Missouri Society
Folk Quits Smoking After Twenty Five Years of Habit
Joseph W. Folk, solicitor to the state department, has given up smoking. He declared he had not tasted a cigar for ten days and does not intend to smoke again. Folk had smoked for a quarter century.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Folk
Joseph W. Folk
State Department
Gifts Run Mexico Hospital Opens By Town Gifts
A hospital maintained by the town through gifts has opened at Mexico. For two years its maintenance is underwritten by eighty five residents including both men and women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gifts
Mexico Hospital
Mexico
Lis
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