Current Events Of The Week In Brief
London suffragists riot and smash windows while Pekin is guarded by Manchu troops and loyal police. A parcels post system appears in post office funding. General Orozco moves on Mexico City with 5000 men. A former circus clown from Lincoln, Nebraska resigns for ministry. Spokane hosts central poultry depot for direct consumer delivery. Mexican troops arrest revolutionists at Brownsville and retreat into Mexico. Billings temperature drops 18 degrees to 26 below, then climbs to 14 above. A $50 million merger forms to control multiple Oregon companies. A Maryland doctor claims tuberculosis cure with rattlesnake poison pills. Lawrence children testify pay for drinking water in mills. Taft urges sensible tariff policy. Yuan Shi Kai’s troops begin rioting in Pekin. Portland baseball league formed by 36 grammar clubs. Seattle brokers fear charges in Columbia Orchard swindle. Wickersham protests Bar color line stance. February 1912 tops prior records for Portland business.
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Brownsville
Texas
Billings
Mont
Klamath
Oregon
Klamath Land Company
Hot Springs Company
Pioneer Press Publishing Company
White Pelican Mineral Springs Company
Klamath Investment Company
The
S. ©. Johnson Company
White Pelican Hotel Company
Maryland
South America
Lawrence
Mass
House
Taft
Market prices list for Wheat to Livestock and Produce
A detailed agricultural price list shows Bluestem wheat at 89c, red Russian at 5c, corn whole at 34, hay No 1 Eastern Oregon timothy at 15 to 16, oats No 1 white at 22 to 32.50, potatoes Bur banks at 1.15 to 1.60 per hundred, apples Newtown 2 to 2.50, hops 1911 crop 38 38.5c, wool Eastern Oregon 14 to 16c, butter Oregon creamery 83c, eggs 2c, pork 8.5c, veal 18 to 14c, cattle steers 6 to 6.65, hogs 5.5 to 6.75, sheep prices 3.76 to 5.60.
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Oregon
Burbanks
Association
Spitzenburgs
Rebels Seize Chihuahua Amid Mexican Revolution Actions
Rebels in full control of Chihuahua with General Salazar Campa column at city edge. Oroxco commands 600 former government troops and vows to expand to 5 000 to seize Durango Torreon and towns toward Mexico City. Diaz declines intervention amid reports of Diaz readiness to return.
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Chihuahua
Pancho Villa
Salazar
Campa
Sauz
Orozco
Oroxco
Juarez
Durango
Torreon
Mexico
Parral
Jose de al Luz Soto
Villa
Police raid suffragette offices in London crackdown
police raided the Women's Social and Political Union offices in London detaining editor Frederick Pethick Lawrence and wife, later arresting Christabel Pankhurst. Leaders face charges under conspiracy laws as militant tactics draw public condemnation amid a wave of protests and counteractions by medical students.
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London
Frederick Pethick Lawrence
Christabel Pankhurst
Parliament Square
Women’s Press
Charing Cross Road
Sherman law trial nears end for ten meat packers
Chicago government rests its case in a Sherman act trial of ten meat packers. Both sides will read to the jury corporate statements detailing the four companies controlled by defendants including Armour & Co. Armour is shown as incorporated in 1900 with $20,000,000 capital stock and a $70,000,000 surplus.
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Chicago
Armour & Co
Money Finder Loses Suit Over Found Cash
A Kansas City case states A W Foster found 180 dollars on a vault floor in a safe deposit company and turned it over to officers. No owner was found and Foster sued to recover. The Court of Appeals ruled the money remains with the deposit company after a jury awarded Foster.
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Kansas City
A. W. Foster
Court of Appeals
Foster
Looting List Grows With Pekin-Chang Ting Fu Added
Mutineers burn and loot Chinese towns including Pekin Chang Ting Fu an import ant city on the railroad about 160 miles southwest of Pekin. Report says no details reached here but foreigners are spared as looters follow a rule not to touch strangers.
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Pekin
Chang Ting Fu
Rebels March to Chihuahua See Desertion of Command
Telegrams from El Paso report fighting beginning at Chihuahua City and Americans rushing to the border amid fears of massacre. Rebels evacuate Juarez to reinforce forces near Chihuahua as 800 to 1,000 men board freight cars. U.S. War Department accelerates troop movements.
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Washington, D. C
Fl Paso
Chihuahua City
Mexico
el Paso
Taft
War Department
Juarez
Ynez Salazar
Braulio Hernandez
Chihuahua
Food samples show widespread adulteration in New Haven tests
Connecticut Agricultural station tests on 722 samples reveal nearly one third were adulterated or misbranded. Milk samples showed skimmed and watered varieties, summer drinks contained benzonic acid coal tar dyes saccharine and artificial colorings, cider vinegar samples were mostly fake, chocolate contained sand, root beer used glucose, and most relishes had alum.
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New Haven
Conn
Connecticut
War feared in San Francisco Chinatown as tong tensions rise
In San Francisco tension mounts as Chinese tongs clash over a broken peace, with envoys failing to secure a settlement and Six Companies called to intervene. Police remain on alert as gunmen reportedly arrive in Chinatown and hide. Seattle warrants halt to merger between Independent and Sunset Telephone, citing $200000 equity in poles and wires. Three deputy sheriffs failed to locate officials to serve the order.
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San Francisco
Chinatown
Five Tongs
Seattle
Independent
Sunset Telephone
Strikers Resume Work in Massachusetts Mills
Lawrence workers at Arlington and Pacific mills return to tasks and accept a 6 percent minimum wage raise. Central Labor Union likely to back concession across mills. Industrial Workers of the World strike committee rejects the offer.
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Lawrence
Mass
Arlington and Pacific Mills
Central Labor Union
Industrial Workers of the World Strike Committee
Taft Warns Americans to Leave Mexico
President Taft issues a proclamation urging Americans to avoid entering Mexico and advising those in the country to depart if conditions deteriorate. The move underscores growing concern over the crisis and national safety.
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Washington, D. C
Mexico
Taft
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Lincoln, Neb
Inland Pet Stock and Poultry Association
Spokane
Yuan Shi Kai
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Wickersham
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Portland Markets
Diaz
Paris
Porfirio Diaz
New York
Packers
TONGS
Bert
Steelo
Mater
Hanna Independence
Bridge & Beach
Independence High School
Independence Odd Fellows Building
New Independence Hotel
Monmouth High School
Corvallis High School
Perrydale School
Lincoln School
Polk County
DaLlAs LuMber & Logging CO
Dallas
Independence, Ore
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