Question Raised As To New Law Mexico State Election
W S Hughes, appointed by Missouri Supreme Court, seeks extension to file report on the Mexico county unit referendum. He will file about Feb 1. Petitions from most districts show 45,112 signatures, far above the required amount, challenging whether the referendum suspended the county unit act until a decision. The case hinges on whether the referendum automatically suspends the law or requires a separate trigger.
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Jefferson City
W. S Hughes
Montgomery City
Supreme Court
Mexico
Hughes
Roach
George Robertson
JT McBain
Menino
Injunction Also Applies to Roads at Jefferson City
Jefferson City dispatch reports Attorney-General Barker received Judge Smith McPherson’s reply to Parker’s telegram about a temporary injunction on revoyr suits against railroads. The judge urged fairness and noted no changes to last Saturday’s restraining order. Also, Cowherd, reportedly healthy, plans to argue before the Missouri Supreme Court, citing golf and fishing as health remedies.
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Jefferson City
Barker
Smith McPherson
Federal District Court
Parker
McPherson
Rhrouds
Chicago & Alton
Kansas City
Marshall
Saline County
Lathrop, Morrow, Fox & Moore
Crawherd
Supreme Court
College Heads in Session at Stephens College Missouri
Presidents of junior colleges for women from Missouri meet at Stephens College in Columbia to discuss uniform attendance and graduation requirements, standards of work, and policy questions for a uniform attitude. Col W A Dallmeyer reelected president of the state fair board for 1914.
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Columbia
Missouri
Stephens College
Missouri governor backs Boonville intermediate prison plan
Gov Major endorses expanding parole operations and proposes an intermediate prison on state land at Boonville to ease penitentiary crowding by relocating 600 to 700 younger convicts. He envisions no contract system and aims to pair the prison with the Missouri Training School for Boys nearby to complement efforts and reform offenders.
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Jefferson City
Major
Missouri
General Assembly
Board of Pardons and Paroles
Boonville
Missouri Trainthg School
Missouri Tever
United States
Attorney General Barker Responds to Judge Perrins Critique
Barker declines personal controversy over Judge Perrins criticism of Judge Smith Melher son and railroads overcharge suits. He notes Perrins’ communication mirrors Frank Hagerman’s argument used for the railroads in Judge McPherson’s court in Kansas City last Saturday.
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Jefferson City
Barker
Franklin Perrins
Smith Melherson
Perris
Frank Hagerman
McPherson
Kansas City
Doctor Hinson Appeals Revocation of Medical License
Kahuka based Dr. Hinson whose license was canceled by the state board of health in Jefferson City sought a writ of certiorari in the county circuit court through attorney Joseph Small. The license was revoked for writing liquor prescriptions and other unprofessional conduct.
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Jefferson City
H. Hinson
Kahuka
State Board of Health
Ole County
Joseph Small
Kahokw
Hinson
State Contracts Awarded for State Hospital Meats and School Equipment
Fulton Kansas City packers won a one year contract to furnish meat and related supplies to Multon State Hospital. Armour & Co not contracted for beef. Dutterinestd Ward Swift & Co and Morris & Co also secured bacon and ham supplies. Beef price under bid by 65 cents per hundred. Elliout Barry of St Louis awarded boilers and equipment for the Missouri School for the Deaf at 11330 dollars after bidding against eight builders, five from St Louis.
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Fulton
Kansas City
Multon State Hospital
Armour & Co
Ward
Swift & Co
Bacon and Morris & Co
Elliout & Barry
St. Lowry
Missouri School For the Deaf
Eigct Bilders
St. Louis
Allenville Inez Shuls Girl Disappears from Farm Home
Allenville Shuls is missing. The 14 year old daughter of farmer John Shuls vanished from the two miles southeast Allenville home after dinner was left on the table while her father visited a neighbor. Relatives report no sighting. mother is deceased.
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Allenville
Inez Shuls
John Shuls
Shuls
Springfield officials inspect Phoenix Stone quarries
Five members of the Missouri capitol building commission with the commission's architect and the contracting firm head visited Phoenix Stone quarries in northwestern Greene County to assess stone supplies for the capitol project.
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Springfield
Missouri Capitol Building Commission
Phoenix Stone Company
Greene County
Five Elmer business houses destroyed by fire
A blaze in Elmer wiped out five business houses causing an estimated loss of about 50000 dollars. Fire teams fought the flames but the structures were gutted. No injuries are reported as investigators begin assessing the causes.
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Elmer
University Gets New Library Contract Awarded to St Louis Firm
The University of Missouri Library building contract was awarded to J. W. Wilson & Son of St. Louis for 168,232 dollars. The project includes beating, plumbing, lighting, and incidentals, with total costs likely near the 200,000 dollar appropriation. A Philadelphia banker hosted a party where monkeys mingled with guests, but guests were kept in the evening green-Pusth to avoid confusion.
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University
Columbia
University of Missouri
J. W. Wilson & Son
St. Louis
Philadelphia
Arkansas treasurer Hammett linked to Frisco death case
A. H. Hammett the Cross county treasurer and Arkansas politician disappeared after a large embezzlement shortfall was found. Death by own action in San Francisco involved a woman named Blanche Watts and a companion identified as A. H. Wood or Hammett. Papers include an employment form signed Albert B. Wood and a Russell sister letter. Three Arkansas children survive.
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Little Hock
Ark
A. H. Wood
Tennessee
San Francisco
A. H. Hammett
Cross County
Blanche Watts
Wynne
Hammett
Wynne, Ark
Wittsburg
Wood
Arkansas
Mra. Hammett
B. F. Hamilton
Alwrmed
J. F. Gautney
Grand Jury
Triasurer
Marching Mexican force reaches Marfa then Fort Bliss
Footsore 2500 Mexican federal soldiers and generals with 1067 women and about 100 children, after a 67 mile windsworn march, arrive at Marfa and are transported by train to Fort Bliss in El Paso.
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Marfa
Tex
Med
Fort Bliss
el Paso
Radium Particle Sent to U S Standards Bureau
A tiny 20 milligram particle of radium received from Paris will underpin U S standards bureau experiments to standardize radium in the United States. The sample cost about 1500 dollars.
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U. S
Washington
Federal Tureau of Standards
United States
Paris
Fire kills four in Brockton tenement blaze
In Brockton Massachusetts a three men and one woman died in a ten story brick apartment building fire at the corner of Main and Rossier streets. Eight other residents, mainly women, were seriously burned or injured. The blaze caused extensive damage and prompted emergency response.
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Brockton
Mass
Re Corns
Main
Rossier
Prominent Kansas real estate man pleads guilty
Frank McGee of Lawrence Kane pleaded guilty in federal court to three counts of an indictment charging him with using canceled stamps for postage.
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Kansas City
Frank McGee
Lawrence
Kane
Funeral processions must pay tolls at Delaware River bridges
Under Pennsylvania law, funerals are no longer allowed to pass free over the Delaware River bridges. Even the deceased must have tolls paid to cross, reflecting new payment rule.
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Trenton
Delaware River
McKinley Plate Fetches Far Less at Auction
A $1,500 gold plate once presented to President McKinley for the battleship Ohio launch sold for $225 at an auction of McKinley relics announced in San Francisco. In Los Angeles a court proceeding jailed David Michael, a merchant, for speeding after invoking the Lord’s name.
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McKinley
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Cal
Lord
David Michael
Radium Treatment Begun for Methodist Girl patient
Miss Margaret Quarto daughter of Bishop William A Quayle of the Methodist Episcopal Church is receiving radium therapy for cancer at Dr Howard Kelley’s sanatorium.
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Palmore, Wd
Margaret Quarto
William A. Quayle
Methodist Episonal Church
Howard Kelley
The New Ireland: Self Help and Cooperative Reform
A long overview of Ireland's rural revival under Sir Horace Plunkett and the Irish Agricultural Organization Society. It highlights land reform, emigration decline, cooperative dairy and rural banks, and the push for technical education, local industry, and moral uplift as Ireland builds a modern, self-help economy.
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Bray
Ireland
Landlordisam
Gaelic League
Sackville Street
All Ireland
Western
Irish Agricultural Organization Society
Horace Plunkett
Sir Horace Plunkett
United States
Thomas Davis
Government
Department of Agriculture
London
Denmark
Runa
Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction For
Ile
Dublin
Helfast
Cork
Canada
Frances
Alway
T M. Kettle
New
National University
Rabita
Professor Kettle
Ieland’s
Joseph Browlen
Tearful Wife and Troubled Union Reflect Vague Troubled Marriage
A sobbing spouse recalls a husband who once called her the sunshine of his life. She notes that happiness faded after their marriage as troubles clouded the relationship, revealing strain and sorrow in the domestic story.
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Arkansas Farmer
Walter Williams, Ll.d
Jon
Miemwuri
the New Economic Ireland
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Tte
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British Empire
Sir Horace Plunket
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