Taft Will Not Fill Ambassadorship to Britain
President Taft announced through Secretary Knox that he will not appoint a successor to Ambassador to Great Britain Whitelaw Reid. The move follows Reid's death and leaves the St James court without a successor until next March. Memorial services are planned in Westminster Abbey with King George's involvement and international condolences.
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Washington
Taft
Hillea
Great Britain
Wahito Law Reid
Knox
Girl Killed by Train at Rocky Ford Crossing
Thirteen year old Hasel McBride daughter of Mrs A B McBride died instantly after a Santa Fe engine struck her horse at Main Street crossing. The horse was thrown fifty feet but escaped serious injury. The event occurred as the girl neared the westbound train. The report notes the dramatic mangling of the body and the fatal accident at the crossing.
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Rocky Ford
Colo
Hasel McBride
Mra A. B. McBride
Main Street
Santa Fé
Wagey
Fatal Interurban Collision Kills Louisville Driver
W. W. Morgan, 42, of Louisville, was fatally injured when struck by an interurban car at Heela crossing while driving. He was thrown over forty feet, sustaining a fractured skull. He leaves a wife and three children.
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Boulder, Cole
W. W. Morgan
Louisville
Heela Crossing
Mother's grief ends in suicide in Tecoma Washington
In Tecoma Washington Mrs Georgia Fuggie Hart, 57, grieving her son L. G. Fuggie, shot herself in a rear room half an hour after her son’s death. The death is reported as fatal. Meanwhile an edict pardoned 359 inmates, breaking records by granting 316 state and 44 county pardons.
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L. G. Fuggie
Georgia Fuiggie Hart
Story of the Week: World and National News Highlights
A roundup of notable deaths and crimes across the United States. Emma M. VanVethohon dies in Cedar Rapids. Mrs. Jack Johnson ejected in Chicago. Clara Schumann dies in St. Louis. Benjamin Franklin McKinley dies in San Francisco. Rudolph J. Miller pleads guilty in Lincoln. Drownings in Texas and suspicions of anti American strikes in Cananea. four murderers hanged in Oregon. rail express robberies in California. Villisca tragedy survivor illness. officials gain commission appointments. public perjury trial updates in Indianapolis.
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Emma M. Vanvetohon
National Federation of Women's
Chiba
Cedar Baylida
Jack Johnson
Lucile Cameron
Pompelika
Congress Hotel
Chicago
Clara Schumann
Bank of Commerce
St. Louis
Benjamin Franklin McKinley
William McKinley
Dowd
San Francsco
Rudolph J. Miller
Lincoln
Neb
Malle
War fears loom after win conferences amid unrest
Reports recount violence in Paria with Mia Barnoa or her heirs missing and witnesses to Walter Mumm's shooting elusive. Rebels move from Mexico toward Pueblo and Moro, while rumors swirl about the Emperor Francia Joseph’s future audiences. Whitelaw Reid dies in London after pulmonary disease. Panama Canal construction peaks with 40 169 workers, 5 861 Americans, and 4 000 in lock gate work.
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Mia
Mary Barnoa
Paria
Walter Mumm
Ruina
Vilagea
Bato
Mexico
Pueblo
Morolca
Francia
Joseph
Thinhaw
Panama Canal
Taft Offered Yale Kent Professorship
President Taft has been offered the Kent professorship at the Yale law school. The government plans to participate in the livestock exhibit at the Pana ma Pacific exposition on an extraordinary scale. A Money trust committee hearing in Washington focuses on manipulation short selling and brokers methods on the New York stock market. Congressman Bartholdt introduces a $50 000 appropriation bill for Inter Parliamentary Union activities in America in 1915. Millions of dead fish wash ashore along the Gulf of Mexico near Tampico over ten days per the American Vice Consul report.
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Taft
Kent
Yale Law School
New York
Stock Exchange
Money Trust Committee
House
Bartholdt
Missouri
Inter-Parliamentary Union
America
Gulf of Mexico
Tampico
Mexico
Thomas H. Bevan
New York City
Madison A Avenue
Fifty-flrst Street
Henry Villard
Purchase
White Plains
N. Y
Ophir
John Roach
Reid
Boxing and aviation notes from early listings
Tommy Dixon of Kanaan City and Tommy Breapahan of South Omaha are set for a ten round 120 pound bout at Aksarben Athletic Club in South Omaha on December 23. Tony Janus completes a record hydro airplane flight from Omaha to New Orleans.
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Tommy Dixon
Kanaan City
Tommy Breapahan
South Omaha
Aksarben Athletic Club
Tom Weles
Denver
Pasadena
Tom
Tony Janus
New Orleans
Janus
Omaha
Missouri
Missis Eippi
Senate Adjourns For Holidays And Memorial Plans
The Senate approved a holiday recess from December 19 to January 2. It backed a Lincoln Memorial Commission plan for a two million dollar memorial. Railroad workers pressed for fair mail-carrying pay as Post Office hearings addressed compensation. Oldfield proposed reform of the patent fee system. January 7 set for hearings on steamship pool investigations by the merchant marine committee. Kindred urged a probe into Peruvian rubber district atrocities. War Department backed a twenty five foot channel from Perth Amboy to Arthur Kill for New York Harbor. Kahn pressed a five hundred thousand dollar Marine Hospital at San Francisco.
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Senate
Lincoln Memorial Commission
Post Office Committee
Oldfield
Merchant Marine Committee
Kindred
War Department
Perth Amboy
Arthur Kill
New York Harbor
Notable Obituaries and Society Notes From 19th Century Papers
Obituaries for Laura Case Collins of Maysville aged 86 and Sarah Ann Ross aged 78 with ties to Charlie Ross case. Mrs Gertrude Draught seeks punishment for her husband William Draught in a tickling cruelty case. Engagement announced between Helen Gould of New York and Pinley J Shepard of St. Louis. Fritz Heinze testifies in New York on a divorce suit filed by Bernice Goldie Heinge.
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Gertrude Draught
Yonkers
N. Y
William Draught
Sarah Ann Ross
Charlie Ross
Christy K. Ross
Charlie Roses
Helen Gould
New York
Pinley J. Shepard
St. Louis
George J Gould
Lakewood
N. J
Fritz Augustus Heinze
Montana
Tompkins
Nyack
Supreme Court
Bernice Goldie Heinge
Whitelaw Reid Dead A Civil War Reporter and Tribune Leader
Whitelaw Reid, long associated with the New York Tribune and a key war correspondent from Shiloh to Gettysburg, died in Ohio. The Ohio-born editor and diplomat served as United States minister to France in 1877 and as ambassador to the United Kingdom in 1902, leaving a legacy tied to Greeley, Lincoln, and the Tribune era.
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Horn
Xenia
Ohio
Van
Morrian
Howen
Orana
New York Tribune
Thrace Greeley
Raice
Vast
Pnpe
New York
Whitelaw Roltd
Hindeath
United States
Editora
Henry Watterson
Redd
Horace Groeeley
American Reid
Kentucky
Whitelaw Reid
Dewnpaper
Greeley
Lincoln
Reid
Samuel P. Chase
Hamlin
Cincinnati
Johnson
Washington
Howan
Groeley
Rold
The
Tribune
Choson
Itapolley
Berlin
Hayes
Harrison
Paris
France
Spain
London
Edward VII
Maderos Congress Closes After Three Months
Mexico City reports the first Madero administration congress ended a three month session with over a dozen enacted measures and about 180 pending. Key actions include a 10 million dollar loan authorization and a 20 million dollar bond issue. The budget approved adds 6.5 million dollars. The bond backs railroad subsidies public works and indemnities tied to the 1910 revolution.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Madero
Fogler and Rutt Win Six Day Bicycle Race
Fogler and Rutt, a German American duo, won the six day bicycle race at Madison Square Garden, triumphing over rival teams in the New York event.
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New York
Fogler
Rutt
Madison Square Garden
Portugal Prisons Full of Conspirators
In Lisbon political prisoners crowd the Limoeiro central prison with eight to ten inmates in cells built for two. The daily trials persist as authorities cope with overcrowding amid political repression.
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Portugal
Lisbon
Limoeiro
Changes Proposed in Publicity Law
Washington report notes Representative Mott of New York introduces an amendment to the newspaper law. It would remove sworn circulation statements and debt disclosures and the marking of paid material, require filings of officers and owners while excluding publishers with under five percent stake. Religious publications would remain exempt.
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Washington
Mott
New York
Verity Ordered to Pay Alimony to Wife in Separate Maintenance
Mrs. Hattie M. Verity, wife of Dr. William P. Verity former Northside surgeon and current mayor of Two Buttes Colorado, was granted a separate maintenance decree. She receives alimony of 4100 with a supplementary 100 monthly until the husband resumes living with her.
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Verity
Chicago
Hattie M. Verity
William P. Verity
Northside
Two Buttes
Colo
Western roads bill aims extra forest receipts for maintenance
Washington report notes Good roads advocates in Western states back a Mendell Wyoming bill to divert an additional twenty five percent of forest reserve receipts to road work. Senator Guggenheim previously secured a ten percent allocation from 1912 forest receipts, boosting Western state funds by about thirty thousand dollars per reserve state this year.
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Washington
Mendell
Wyoming
Guggelheim
Grain In Southern Wyoming Shows Good Quality And Yield
The Weaforth Newspaper Union reports that in southern Wyoming Cheyenne region crops compare favorably with higher priced eastern lands. J F Kelly notes wheat yields up to thirty bushels per acre and oats can be grown well, while corn yields vary. Land here sells for a fraction of eastern prices and produces more overall.
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Weaforth
Union Nowa Hervlee
Cheyenna
Wyoming
J. F. Kelly
Nebraska
Iowa
Kant
Moh
Cheyenne Officials Contemplate Fate of Mann Act Witness
Cheyenne authorities weigh sending Evelyn Powers out of town after her testimony led to John Kamanakus conviction for Mann Act violations. She was recently Orieated for a disturbance and may be committed to a state asylum to avoid further prosecutions.
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Cheyenne
Evelyn Powers
John Kamanakus
Coffeen, Wyoming’s First Democrat Representative, Dies
Henry A. Coffeen, seven ty-one congressman and Wyoming’s second U S representative, died of paralysis. He came to Wyoming in 1883 and built wealth in real estate and coal mines. His first wife died in 1901. in 1904 he married Mrs. Allen Dwight of Denver.
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Bhoridan
Henry A. Coffeen
Wyoming
Washington
Mr. Coffeen
Allen Dwight
Denver
State Geologist Reports on Cheyenne Oil Fields
State Geologist C. E Jamison issued pamphlet reports detailing investigations of the Douglas oil field in Converse county and the Muddy Creek oil field in Carbon county. The volumes describe geological characteristics and phenomena with half-tone cuts maps and charts.
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Cheyenne
C. E Jamison
Douglas
Converse
Muddy Creek
Carbon County
Wyoming oil royalties from state school lands rise to 204682
The biennial report of State Commissioner G Hopkins shows one section of Wyoming state school lands produced 204682 dollars worth of oil in the past eleven months. The state’s royalty, at ten percent, totaled 20468.25 dollars.
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Cheyenne
8. G Hopkins
State of
Wyoming
Governor Guards Formed by Cheyenne Militia
A Wyoming militia company, named the Governor Guards, is being organized in Cheyenne with exclusive status and aims for official recognition, surpassing Boston's Ancient and Honorable Artillery in prestige.
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Cheyenne
Wyoming
Boston
Wyoming Masons Confer Degrees in Cheyenne
The Twenty third reunion of Wyoming Can a story No 1 met at the Masonic temple to confer degrees from the fourth to the thirty second on a class of forty six candidates. Prominent Masons from Wyoming Colorado and nearby states attended the work. The class was given luncheon at the temple and a reception and ball.
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Cheyenne
Wyoming
Masonic Temple
Colorado
Worland to Get New Electric Light Plant
Wyoming Development Company confirms Worland will receive a new electric light plant. F Ditton travels to Denver to purchase machinery for installation within six months.
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Worland
Wyoming Development Company
F. Ditton
Denver
Watts Appointed Receiver for Aldrich Bowen Co
Clyde M. Watts was appointed receiver for the Aldrich Bowen Company the largest Wyoming concern handling women's tailored goods exclusively.
Mid West Oil Company Holds Key Casper Meeting
Officials met in Casper to discuss plans to double refinery capacity. The gathering focused on enlarging refining output and implementing proposed expansions, with language indicating decisive steps toward scale increases and future execution.
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WIII
Casper
Mid-West
Ofl Company
Wyoming News of the Week Highlights from Powell to Casper
A roundup of Wyoming events features a Powell wolf roundup, new creamery at Powell, openings in Sheridan and Worland Frontier Day, and a Cheyenne trial ruling. Notable deaths include John McGonigal at Cody and John Donahue of Hyattville. Reports cover a gold strike in Natrona County, a large machine shop prospect in Casper, a Grosvenor Estate settlement, and a 21,000 dollar verdict against Owl Creek Coal. A golden eagle captured near Gillette and railroad talks in Lander and Buffalo dominate regional chatter.
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Rhoridan
Cay Nogle
Fremont County
Robert Vietoh
Canpor
Sheridan Fa
Casper
James Shaw
Mia
Agnon
Farlane
Owen
Natrona County
Little Canyon Creek
Wyoming
Peter Golcb
Cheyenne
Owl Creek Coal Company
United States Court of Appeals
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Bermuda
Cawi. Net
Feid
Union News Service
Kloot Wilson
Bermudas
Dia
Jermay
Banner
P. C. Washington
Guggenheim
Denver Post Office
Story OF
Western Newspape
Port Arthur
Texas
G. Sand
Akipper
Hhe
Gulf
Robert T. McElvenny
Tacoma Smelting Company
State University
School of Mines
McElvenny
Colorado School of Mines
Golden
Susan Lincoln Milla
Milla College
Pacific Coast
Oakland
Cal
Negaloa
Arizona
Cananea
Noble Fauidor
F. Garrison
Michael Morgan
H. E. Roberts
Salem
Ore
Palira
Garrison
Faulder
Marvin W. Hamby
Sunset Western
Bakersfield
Melvin
D. Peckham
Villisca
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Mont
J. B. Moore
J. D. Whitmore
Commission On Industrial Relations
Congress
Frederick W. Zeiss
Thomas Taggart
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SPORT
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Kansas City
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Laura Case Collins
Maysville, Ky
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McClellan
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Atick
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Choaen
England
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Chicago Butter and Egg
Department of Justice
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Oll
Highbrown
Wyoming Masons
News of the
Union Nowa Hori
Powell
Bolog Outa Tints
Powell, Ae
John McGonigal
Cody
W. H. Largo, Jr
Olly
South Spring Creek
Imyaliyinywan
Clara Evans
Sheridan
Itor Jorgenson
Jorgenson
Nelf
Grainger
Hudson
Fremont
Lander
Buffalo
Commissioner of Public Lands
Fred Huntsman
Clermont
D. C. Wenzell
Tony Koudson
Afton
J. P. Wildes
M. P. Merritt
Justice of the Peace
Laramie
Levi 2. Leiter
Joseph Leiter
Lady Curzon
Lingle
Goshen County
G. C. Walsner
Dayton
W. H. Crampton
Sait
Walsner
West
Benjamin Doud
Gillette
John Donahue
Hyattville
Basin Hospital
Hig
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