Canal to Open for Shipping by December 1914 at Panama
Reports from the Panama Canal Zone say Colonel Goethals expects shallow draft ships to pass by December with dredges replacing steam shovels in the Culebra Cut. Fifteen dredges will raise monthly capacity to 1,500,000 cubic yards as Gatun Lake rises and the dike is removed. By January 1, 1915, the canal should be open for world navies to use full depth in both directions.
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Washington
Panama Canal Zone
George W. Goethals
Colonel Goethals
House Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Goethals
Culebra
Gatun
Gatun Lake
Chagres
Gamboa
Culebra Cut
Banker creates tipping system by opening account in waitress name
Lee Moser a St Louis banker devises a tipping plan by opening a dollar savings account in a waitress name after she serves him. He deposits funds when service seems good and only the named cashier can handle his business, claiming the method rewards good service.
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St. Louis
Lee Moser
Moser
Southern Colleges Raise Entrance Standards in the South
Washington report says since 1900 southern colleges have greatly advanced entrance requirements libraries laboratories and buildings. Miss Elizabeth Coulton notes from 3 to 160 institutions adopted standard standards, aided by philanthropic groups expanding college work and faculty quality across the region.
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Washington
Southern
Bureau of Education
Elizabeth Avery Coulton
Southern Association of Colored Women
Coulton
No Holiday for Gov Cruce Pardons and Bonds Signed
Oklahoma City report says Governor Lee Cruce would not leave the state after Lieutenant Governor McAlester pardoned four prisoners and signed school bonds while Cruce was away. Cruce rushed back to the capital canceling engagements and insisting he stay on the job. The acting governor, about seventy five, is a candidate for next term. One pardoned prisoner, B. H. Updike, is a nephew of former Governor Haskell and was serving life for murder.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Lee Cruce
McAlester
Denver
B. H. Updike
Haskell
Boston artist lives two months in Maine forest habitat
Boston artist Joseph Knowles, age 44, will spend two months living naked in the Maine woods near Big Sencer Lake twenty miles from settlement. He will forage, craft shelter and weapons, defend himself with bare hands, and leave birch bark messages at the forest edge twice weekly. He claims mastery of fire by rubbing sticks as key to open country life.
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Boston
Mass
Joseph Knowles
Maine
Big Sencer Lake
Knowles
Tug Defiance Lifted by Eighty Foot Whale
Captain L M Smith of the tug Defiance reports a massive eighty foot whale lifted the vessel between Cape Henry and False Cape off the Virginia coast. The whale caused a plunge and roll, soaked the crew with a water stream, and trailed the tug for about half a mile. The captain notes it as the largest whale he has seen.
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Defiance
Smith
Baltimore
L. M. Smith
Cape Henry
Falsecape
Virginia
Mate Rose
Woman land agent Grace Caukin receives US land office post
In San Francisco Grace Caukin of Sonoma is named receiver of the United States land office after Senate confirmation and with President Wilson’s signature she will receive a 4500 dollar Democratic plum. She was active in the Democratic state central committee women’s work during the last campaign.
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John J. Dean
United States Land Office
Seventy year old convict back in jail
Seventy year old convict William Kennedy who escaped from Wetumpka penitentiary was recaptured after two weeks of freedom in Calhoun county near his old home. Kennedy, serving a life sentence for involvement in the Kennedy Pearce feud that left twelve dead.
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Mobile
Ala
William Kennedy
Wetumpka
Calhoun County
Kennedy
Kennedy-Pearce
Death tragedy surrounds Emma Krill and Dr Kron love case
Utica report on the alleged poisoning of Dr Stanley Kron by Emma E Krill a nurse at the hospital. Authorities weigh whether the death was murder or accidental while staking a motive of thwarted marriage and European return. The case centers on a rumored engagement and jealous rivalries among Italian companions.
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Emma E. Krill
Stanley E. Kron
Utica
N. Y
Stanley B. Kron
Patient smothered at state hospital in Middletown
Miss Martha Fail of New York City, a patient at the state hospital, was smothered to death in her bed pillows during an epileptic convulsion. Authorities report she buried her head in the pillows while suffering fits.
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Middletown
N. Y
Martha Fail
New York City
State Hospital
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Southern Colleges
GOV. Cruce
Adam
Miss Krill
Europe
Palace of Sweets
Pinckney
Stull & Williams Tailors
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