Suffragists’ perilous motor trek toward Albany continues
Albany bound suffragists led by General Jones faced a grueling day as snow slush slowed the march from Stockport to Valatie. A car skidded into a ravine near Pine Bush, injuring none except Jones slightly, while the group pressed on toward Kinderhook and Albany amid cold rain and sleet.
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Valatie
N. Y
Jones
Albany
Joseph Valentine
Valentine
Pine Bush Inn
General Jones
Albiny
Suffrage Uny
Bust
Christus
Hudson
Stockport
Dr. Dock
Ida Craft
Ig 2
Dell
Kinderhook
Valale
Capitol Hill
Nassau
Woman Shot at Wedding in Windsor Causing Caesarean
Mrs. Frederick Bruneck thirty four was shot in the abdomen during a wedding celebration in Windsor Colorado and rushed to Windsor hospital where a Caesarian operation was performed. Both mother and baby are expected to recover. Jacob Lychtenwald and John Lindtire are charged with the shooting and claim the incident was accidental.
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Windsor
Colo
Frederick Bruneck
Hirty
Windsor Hospital
Jacob Lychtenwald
John Lindt
Greely
Rockefeller Evasion Highlighted By Local Sightings
In Tarrytown New York on December 28 residents report William Rockefeller at Rockwood Hall during fall. He avoids recognition by wearing ear mufflers and goggles while driving, and he did not appear before the Pujo committee as process servers failed to identify him.
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Tarrytown
N. Y
Pujo Committee
Williamm Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Rockwood Hall
Mrae Rockefeller
North Tarrytown
Mount Pleasant
Mr. Rockefeller
Prices and receipts for dairy goods in New York markets
New York dairy and produce market notes show steady to firm butter with 6,249 packages varying by grade, 2,665 boxes of cheese, and 8,718 cases of eggs. Potatoes, hay, straw, and dressed poultry prices and fresh market lots from state, Pennsylvania, and nearby areas are listed with numerous weight and price ranges.
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New York
Pennsylvania
Timothy
New
Bermuda
Maine
Long Island
Western
Jersey
Southern
Doz
Ialze
Philadelphia
Maryland
Val&e
Walle
Onsse
Ames
Livestock Market Report Shows Light Supply and Steady Demand
In Pittsburgh trading, cattle supplies are light with a steady market. Prime bids reach 8.40 to 9.00 per hundredweight, with good 7.80 to 8.35 and fair 6.50 to 7.50. Fresh cows and vealers vary, veal calves traded near 10 to 11. Heavy and thin calves show tighter movement. Sheep and lambs feature light supply but strong demand, prime wethers 4.25 to 4.60, good mixed 4.00 to 4.28, fair 3.25 to 3.76. Veal calves around 10 to 11. Heavy stockers and hogs mixed, with buyers cautious but active.
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Pittsburgh
Dec
Public Hearings Start on Textile Strike Wages in Little Falls
State Board of Mediation opened hearings in Little Falls on the textile strike. Witnesses from the Industrial Workers of the World testified on wages hours and living conditions at Phoenix mills. Mary Soroka described 65 hours weekly for $6 with meals scarce and room costs $3 monthly. Susie Mizerak, a widow, said weekly take home ranged from $5 to $7 for 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. work while supporting two children abroad. Several men testified piecework paid as low as $5 weekly.
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Phoenix
Susie Mizerak
Little Falls
Phoenix Mills
Europe
Wreck on Electric Road injures five near Annapolis
A Baltimore dispatch reports a wreck on the Washington Baltimore and Annapolis Electric railroad near Annapolis where five men were injured. The collide involved an Annapolis local passenger train and a heavy freight consist. The injured include Fred Ecken L R Lovati F L Christopher John Gelbach and Harry Green with serious injuries and one rescued man missing a foot but conscious.
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Annapolis
Baltimore
Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric
Fred Ecken
L. R. Lovati
F. L. Christopher
John Gelbach
Harry Green
Car Plunge Kills and Injures After Bridge Fall
In Cincinnati on Central bridge over the Ohio River a street car jumped the track and plunged forty feet into a lot on the Ohio side injuring two fatally likely and seven more with dangerous hurts. Motorman John Rashenard of Covington and conductor Orlay Clemmons of Newport suffered critical injuries. The car, bound from Newport, tumbled in the fall.
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Cincinnati
Central Bridge
Ohio River
Ohio
John Rashenard
Covington
Orlay Clemmons
Newport
Penury Fatal to Two Sisters in St Louis
In St Louis on Christmas Eve the poverty stricken sisters Mrs Sarah Johnson aged fifty and Miss Mary Scott five years younger died after refusing medical care due to cost. They arrived two weeks earlier with severe colds that developed into pneumonia while the women reportedly had 8604 dollars in cash and deeds and documents indicating bank accounts.
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St. Louis
Sarah Johnson
Mary Scott
Johnnson
Pnemnonia
Ortizie McManigal Confessed Dynamiters Return To Custody
Ortie McManigal and Edward Clark, confessed dynamiters, sit on the same floor with jurors in the Indianapolis dynamite case. McManigal’s confession underpins the government’s charges that labor union officials violated federal laws prohibiting explosives transport on passenger trains. He will be returned to Los Angeles county custody after the trial ends.
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Indianapolis
Ortie BE
McManigal
Edward Clark
Los Angeles County
Cal
Cow Pony Gray Eagle Dies In Los Angeles Fight
Gray Eagle the unruly cow pony known from moving picture shows collapsed after slipping during a duel for mastery with eighteen year old Arthur Scheutz. The animal died on the curb and Scheutz suffered a fractured skull in the incident in Los Angeles on December 28.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Gray Eagle
Arthur Scheutz
Arheutz
Gray Engle
Williams and son killed in dynamite explosion at Tuscarora chief’s home
Chief John Williams of the Tuscarora reservation and his sixteen year old son died when Williams, after drinking, fired a shotgun at a box of dynamite stored in his house. The blast wrecked the residence. Mrs Williams and a four year old daughter were lightly hurt.
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Tuscarora Reservation
Lockport
N. Y
John Williams
Williams
Man of Fifty at His Best Says Harvard Professor
Boston dispatch reports Professor Hugo Munsterberg of Harvard agreeing with German scientists that a man of fifty is in his prime. He cites Professor Krause as the leading ethical authority in Berlin and asserts fifty is often stronger for employers and self than men ten years younger.
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Muensterberg
Boston
America
Germany
Hugo Munsterberg
Harvard University
Krause
Berlin
Leppmann
Kampf
Royal Art Academy
Professor Munsterberg
Max von Buelow Killed Near Nevada Train Tracks
Nevada railroad tragedy reports Max von Buelow a descendant of Count von Buelow found on the tracks near the state line with both hands out and a fractured skull. He died later at the railroad hospital in Stuths. A globe trotter and former soldier of fortune, he had married Christine Plimer of Pueblo and traveled Europe in wealth before their divorce.
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Nevada
Reno
Nev
Max von Buelow
Count von Buelow
State Line
Stuths
von Buelow
Christine Plimer
Pueblo
Colo
Baltic Gate Halts Liner Arrival at Queenstown
Queenstown December 28 The steamship Baltic from New York for Liverpool arrived off port but could not communicate due to a severe gate. The vessel faced a communication failure while near Queenstown.
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Queenstown
Batic
New York
Liverpool
Wharton On Good Manners As a Social Lubricant
A concise quotation from Wharton asserts that good manners ease life’s progress rather than hinder it, describing courtesy as a swift, practical aid in social and professional movement.
Gas Company Ordered to Cut Passaic District Rates
The New Jersey Public Service Commission ordered Gas Company to cut the Passaic division rate from $1.10 to 90 cents per thousand cubic feet with a 10 percent discount for prompt payment. It urged extending the lower rate to other divisions where $1 per thousand cubic feet is charged, pending hearings.
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Trenton
N. J
Passaic
Atlantic City Officials Cleared in 1909 Election Frauds
Indictments against former Councilmen Daniel White and Walter Busby and others for election fraud in the 1909 White council fight were nolle pressed by Supreme Court Justice Kallsch on Attorney General Edmund Wilson’s motion. Somers Parker and McCarter represented the defendants as they fled prior to trial.
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Atlantic City
Mays Landing
N. J
Dee
James Somers
Irving Parker
Daniel 8. White
Walter J. Busby
Beach Front
Edward B. Terry
Samuel J. Jeffries
Supreme Court
Kallsch
Edmund Wilson
Jeneral
Somers
Parker
New Jersey
TL. Goldenburg
Philadelphia
White
Busby
Oyster Planter Drowns in River
Captain St. Yates, a leading oyster planter and shipper along the Mau rive river, drowned in the river at Bigulve New Jersey. Opinions differ on whether death was self inflicted or caused by heart disease and a fall into the water. His body was found in two feet of water after he vanished while his men prepared for a trip to his beds. Yates had a history of heart trouble and had desponded over the oyster trade slump.
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Bigulve
N. J
St. Yates
Maurive River
Captain Yates
Alvah A. Clark Dies in Somerville Pneumonia Claim
Prominent New Jersey criminal lawyer and former congressman Alvah A. Clark died at his Somerville home from pneumonia on December 28. A noted corporate and criminal attorney, he practiced in New York and New Jersey courts nearly until his death and served as a congressman elected in 1876 and reelected for a second term, active on the military affairs committee.
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Somerville
Alvah A. Clark
Clark
New Jersey
New York
Congress
Tragic Death of OceanGrove Student Fortified by Overstudy
Miss Lucile Walker eighteen year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Solomon Walker of OceanGrove died by swallowing carbolic acid while a Nep tune high school pupil. Friends say she had been studying hard for exams and her health weakened by overwork.
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Assury Park
Dee
Kivens Lucile Walker
Dorsephtl. Walker
OceanGrove. Com
Walker
Neptune High
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Fe City
York
William Rockefeller
Pujo
General Markets
Fiirl
State Board of Mediation
Mil
Ortie E, M’manigal
Dynamiter
American Press Association
Wharton
Nolle
Cliff Gordon
Charley Grapewin
F. E. Duram
Mike Donlin
Anna Chance
Amercia’s
Long Branch
Eagemare
Larmory
W. R. Warwick
Broadway
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