New Chinese Minister Yi K. Welling ton Koo Named Ambassador to United States
Dr Yi Kyumn Wellington Koo named Chinese minister to the United States succeeding Kai Fu Shah. A Columbia University PhD in international law, he was among early Boxer Indemnity students and later served as diplomatic secretary to Yuan Shih Kai. He has ties to New York leaders in education and finance and recently spoke in New York at a Bankers Club luncheon.
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Washington
Yi Kyumn
Wellington Koo
United States
Kai Fu Shah
Columbia University
America
China
New York
St. John’s College
Shanghai
Columbia
Columbia Spectator
Cornell
Koo
Mexico
Peru
Cuba
London
Lansing
Peking
Yuan Shih Kai
Legation
State Department
Japan
John Bassett Moore
New York City
Chinese Students’ Monthly
Chinese Students’ Alliance
Yuan Shih Ka
Pacific Slope
Bankers’ Club
Boys Swarm With Treasure in Wall Street Runbacks
New York traders guard millions in negotiable securities by waist chains as about 600 brokerage houses hire plainclothes policemen to prevent losses. Runners carry $100,000 in securities to and from banks and transfer offices amid aggressive street activity. Despite temptations from suffragists and prohibitionists, no major losses are reported.
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New York
Wall
Financial District
Hard Winters Forecast by French Meteorologist
Paris reports Abbe Moreau director of the French observatory predicts twenty six hard winters beginning this year based on a sun driven climate cycle. He says Europe may face rigorous seasons though exact locations are uncertain and temperature trends align with a global rain curve model.
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Paris
Abbe Moreau
French Observatory
Abbe
Europe
France
Polite notes float between air fighters in WWI skies
Amid battles above France soldiers of rival aviation units exchange messages and thanks. After James Bach and his companion were captured, a German plane dropped a banner note claiming their safe descent. Bert Hall from Bach’s escadrille replied with a note of thanks. A German aircrew later landed behind French lines and, after capture, joked about borrowing gasoline before being turned over to authorities.
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Paris
James Bach
French Flying Corps
Bach
Bert Hall
Hall
Wakeman Sentenced as Jail Doctor’s Assistant for a Year
George C. Wakeman twenty from Chicago will serve as assistant to Dr. Irving L. Barnett county jail physician for one year after pleading guilty to robbing William Haldt of Glencoe. Judge Brothers ordered the arrangement noting Wakeman’s Navy service and prior discharge.
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Chicago
George C. Wakeman
Edgar L. Wakeman
Irving L. Barnett
Judge
Medical Department
United States Navy
Women More Forgetful in Chicago Train Debris
Samuel Kroes who runs the La Salle street depot lost and found bureau accuses women of greater forgetfulness. Thousands of dollars in train and depot articles are left behind yearly in Chicago, many of great value due to absent mindedness by women.
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Chicago
Samuel Kroes
la Salle Street
Bureau
Kempton Brown blood transfusion hailed as cure for acute hemorrhages
Boston physicians demonstrated the Kempton Brown method using glass tubes to transfuse venous blood between separated patients. The technique aims to prevent donor artery injury, allow precise volume control, and claims near universal success for acute hemorrhages. Other studies covered spleen removal and locating dental origins of rheumatism.
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Boston
Clinical Congress of Surgeons
Kempton-Brown
A. R. Kempton
BE. P. Richardson
R. H. Miller
Robert Brigham* Hospital
Massachusetts General Hospital
Roger J. Lee
Beth Vincent
Charles F. Painter
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
David Cheever
Couple celebrates 63rd wedding anniversary in Auburn
Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Stevens, longtime Auburn residents since 1855, mark sixty three years of marriage. Stevens, now frail, served as Auburn postmaster under Lincoln and led Western Union telegraph operations. he also ran a drug store for fifty years. He is eighty seven, she is seventy nine.
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Auburn
Cal
Solomon Stevens
B. F. Gwynn
Stevens
Lincoln
Western Union Telegraph Company
Five Hundred Years of Hohenzollern Rule Observed in Berlin
Berlin churches held memorial services for five centuries of Hohenzollern rule. The cathedral service drew Emperor William Empress Augusta Victoria Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg and diplomatic corps including the American ambassador. Crowds cheered outside as many could not enter.
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Berlin
Brandenburg
Emperor William
Augusta Victoria
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Ghost of Hartzell Sparks Rumor In North Wales Story
In North Wales Pennsylvania a mistaken rumor claimed Hiram P Hartzell was dead. The living Hartzell, a businessman and former Central hotel proprietor, confronted a colored man who believed he had seen his ghost at Sanderton. The man cried out Dont tech me pleading he had done nothing to cross Hartzell.
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North Wales
Hiram P. Hartzell
Central Hotel
Joe Ben
Sanderton
Mars
Hartzell
Neighbors Reunite After Fifty Years apart
Bedford Indiana reports Frank McKnight of Orleans and Wesley McKnight of Bedford, cousins and sons of brothers, met by chance after not seeing each other for half a century. Frank is 77 and Wesley 81.
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Bedford
Ind
Frank McKnight
Orleans
Wesley McKnight
Wooden Leg Saves Him From Bear Attack Near Sunbury
John Davison a Catawissa area farmer was riding along the Susquehanna when a black bear chased and mauled his wooden leg. A revolver misfired but a passing freight train and locomotive whistle frightened the bear causing it to retreat into the woods. Trainmen note bears are common in the area and Davison showed his torn trousers and injured leg to onlookers.
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Sunbury
John Davison
Catawissa
Davison
Susquehanna River
Susquehanna
White walls and dresses harm babies eyes says professor
Professor F A Woll of Columbia University warned at the Pennsylvania Optical Society meeting that white walls, white dresses, and white carriages damage infants sight. He urged neutral tan or green gray tones for nurseries and caregivers to protect young eyes.
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Opticians
Pittsburgh
F. A. Woll
Columbia University
New York
Pennsylvania Optical Society
Bear saves keeper from hungry mate in Central Park tank
In an unscheduled performance of Androcles and the lion at the New York Central Park polar bear tank Jim Coyle the keeper played Androcles while Jim the bear patriarch acted the lion and Molly his mate played the crowd of wild animals. When Molly leapt to attack Androcles Jim leapt in and grabbed Molly by the throat, saving the keeper who escaped with a scratch. Bill Snyder head keeper and three assistants intervened after five minutes to separate the animals and the martyr sought treatment at the police station.
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New York
Androcles and the Lion
Central Park
Polar Bear Tank
Jim Coyle
Androcles
Jim
Molly
Bill Snyder
Snyder
Saloon Keeper Testifies He Slept In Room With Fifteen Dogs
Edward Flader, a Bellevue resident and former saloon keeper, testifies he slept in a room and bed with as many as fifteen dogs believed to belong to his wife Ida in a divorce suit filed in St. Louis. He says chickens roamed the saloon and that his wife threatened him with a club when he tried to drive out the animals.
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St. Louis
Edward Flader
Bellevue
Ida
Flader
Old Gas Well Rehabilitated For Home Use In Napoleon
A long abandoned Napoleon gas well, sealed twenty seven years ago, is now supplying lighting heating and cooking on the D W Sangler farm near Napoleon Ohio. Neighbors tapped the Napoleon Wauseon pipeline and prompted the revival by connecting the well to his house.
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Napoleon, O
D. W.sangler
Napoleon-Wauseon
Civil War Vet Brooks Receives Third Set of Teeth
John Brooks eighty two resident of Cot tage M Ohio Soldiers and Sailors home is getting his third set of teeth. He notes his grandmother cut her third set of teeth at ninety four.
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Sandusky
John Brooks
Brooks
Cottage M
Ohio
Soldiers and Sailors
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American Press Association
VI Eyuin Wellington Koo
Wall Street
U. S
California
Wooden Leg
Farmer
Bear
Keeper
Court
Peach Blossom Flour
Wenatchee Milling Co
Wenatchee, Wash
Harrington
Missouri
Leavenworth Mercantile Co
Leavenworth
Seventh Ave
Pike St
Seattle
J. E. Perry, Mer
The
Lamb-Davis Lumber Co
Leavenworth, Wash
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