Japans Imperial Line Traced Back to 660 B C
The Marshfield Times reports on Japan under Matsuhito and the Mikado's reception of an English minister. The article recounts the violent attack on Sir Harry Parker, the execution of a samurai, and the Mikado's decree forbidding assaults on foreigners. It includes anecdotes from Admiral Robley D Evans and reflections by Prof Baal Hall Chamberlain on the imperial family's ancient lineage dating to 660 B C and its enduring prominence.
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Japan
Matsuhito
Harry Parker
Mr. Satow
Bir Henry
Froman-Mitford
Mikado
Robley D. Evans
Magnus
Rewiti
Dresden
China
Paris
Baal Hall Chamberlain
Shakespearean Scholar Delights Washington Dinner Crowd
A famed literary figure visiting Washington at a dinner encounters a young girl who professes strong interest in Shakespeare. The man, a recognized Shakespearean scholar, delivers a brilliant, witty reply praising the bard as “simply too dear for anything,” drawing nods from all.
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Washington
Great Mare
Philadelphia
Not to Be Thought Of in Pittsburgh Post
A dialogue on marriage and temperance spans a quarrel over consent and vows. One suitor pledges sobriety for marriage, while the other doubts his resolve, concluding that keeping a promise would deprive future prospects. The exchange highlights social attitudes toward addiction and marriage expectations.
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Pittsbure Post
Hare on the Thames Thwarts Hampton Court Guards
A hare swam into the Thames near Hampton Court, eluding park keepers as it darted between hiding spots. It reentered the palace grounds, drew a small crowd, and was finally captured near the great fountain after a chase along the towpath.
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Thames
Hampton Court Palace
Landon Mall
Parisian Poor Help Moved Marquise to Sacrifice 920000
The Marquise de Guerry surrendered 920000 to Paris to aid the poor as ransom for pawned items. An old couple, staring at their dead child's christening gift, inspired her charity after years of payments. In France, the green pea crop suffers greatly from a pest named thiolavia. One center normally yielding 120 tons now has barely one ton.
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Marquise de Guerry
Parie
Thme
Ogee
France
Down Below Satan What do you think of it
New arrival note discusses arate and brumokers in a unclear fragment. Mentions death and curiosity about opinions on the work. No clear persons or organizations identified.
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Satan
Madero Asks War Fund For Campaign Against Rebels
President Madero and cabinet press for 20,000,000 pesos to fund the campaign against insurgents in northern Mexico. The move follows suspensions of constitutional guarantees and numerous rebel executions, with reports that Gen Higinto Aguilar leads a sizable force on the Pueblo-Oaxaca boundary.
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Mexico City
Perce
Fco
Maduro
Pascual Orozco
Chihuahua
Sonora
Coahuila
Higinto Aguilar
Pueblo
Oaxaca
Madero
Three Die As Walls Fall In Kansas City Hotel Collapse
Three workers perished when Walter Davis's new hotel on Tenth Street near Paseo collapsed during construction. Foreman W W McBride and nephew Ol ie McBride were among the dead, with C R Bckman also killed. The $200000 project faced $20000 in damage, walls overloading the floors caused the failure, and the building will be rebuilt with the front intact. Contractor George Saidhol and architect C B Sloan were named. the five story hotel was to rise with thick exterior walls and full basement.
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Kansas City
Walter Davis
Tenth Street
Tue Paseo
C. R Bckman
W. W. McBride
Olie McBride
George Saidhol
C. B. Sloan Ia
Indictment Return A New York Society Leader
William Loeb Jr testified before U S District Attorney Vreeland in New York about Mrs Ambrose Kingsland and Lenox Maas. Kingsland arrived with twenty four trunks of costly clothes. Authorities say she failed to declare a large amount of foreign goods. Baggage value exceeds ten thousand dollars.
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New York
William Loeb, Jr
Ambrose C. Kingsland
Lennox
Maas
United States
John J. Vreeland
Jorney City
United States Grand Jury
Clerk Confesses to Theft in Pensacola Bank
William A. Bell a 20 year old bank clerk confessed to stealing an express package carrying $55 000 from the Louisville and Nashville payroll at the First National Bank in Pensacola Florida He admitted swapping the real package for a dummy fearing his brother would be suspected as the motive for the theft occurred Tuesday afternoon when the payroll was being prepared for shipment and Bell retrieved the real package placing a dummy in its stead
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Pensacola
Fla
William A. Bell
Flist National Bank
Loulevile & Nashville
Bell
Louisville & Nashville
Talk of care of needy Washington session at Catholic charities conference
The final session of the National Conference of Catholic Charities discussed modern treatment for reliant and delinquent children and care for the dependent. Separate sectional meetings prior to the closing general session were held, with speaker William J. Yarra of Chicago among those presenting.
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Washington
National Conference of Catholic Charities
Nce
Willem J. Yarra
Chicago
Taft orders 760 Marines to Santo Domingo crisis
President Taft orders 760 American Marines to Santo Domingo to guard customs houses and foreign property after a serious revolution. Marines to sail from Philadelphia aboard the transport Prairis with dispersal planned across the island. Col. F J Moses commands the force aided by Navy and State Department staff. gunboat Wheeling to cruise Dominican waters if needed.
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Washington
Taft
Santo Domingo
Beekman Winthrop
Philadelphia
Prairis
Santo Domingc
Alec
William Doyle
Uatin Division
State Department
Frank McIntyre
Ohlet
The
Mirseau of Insular Affairs
F. J. Moses
League Island Navy Yards
New York
Annapolis
Norfolk
Wheeling
Dominican
Dougherty Arrested Obtains Habeas Corpus
Chicago September 25 Newton C Dougherty former Peoria school superintendent jailed on fifteen new indictments for forgery of teacher names to pay small vouchers and two larger sums He sought a writ of habeas corpus returnable October 7 with $5000 bail The case centered on alleged prior counts Dougherty and lawyers fought extradition claiming persecution and prosecution without merit
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Chicago
Newton C. Dougherty
Peoria
Jalbet
Ullman, Hoar & Davidson
Fisher
Dougherty
Foell
Ball
Gover
John R. Philp
John L. Davidson
Sherif Francis Miner
Peorie
Ant
John J. Davidson
Attack on State Troops Near Mucklow
A clash occurred as miners in the coalfields near Mucklow fired on state troops when halted. Troops returned fire. Several may have been fatally wounded, though no soldiers were hit. Communication with Paint Creek is cut. The state conference failed to organize and discuss remedial legislation, causing unrest. martial law may be extended in the district.
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Charleston
W. Va
Mucklow
Paint Creek
TRAIN LOOT IS RECOVERED IN PENSACOLA
In Pensacola on September 24 the money stolen from an express car on the Louisville and Nashville line was found at the back door of First National Bank. The $55,000 was discovered by janitor Matthew Thomas who swept out the doorway. Detectives concluded the loot, initially reported as $70,000, was returned after thieves realized investigators were closing in.
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Penancola
Pia
Expresa
Loviavilla & Nashville
First National Bank
Matthew Thomas
Regro
Opening game in New York starts world series
The first game of the world's baseball series will be in New York on Tuesday October 8 with games alternating between New York and Boston. Umpires are Klem Rigler O'Loughlin and Evans. A coin toss decided the opening host city.
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New York
Gardca
Boston
Ban Jamneon
Klem
Rigler
O'Loughlin
Evans
Man killed in street after pleading for life in Amarillo
Witness Earl Jackson testified that John B. Sneed shot Boyce after Boyce begged not to be shot again when he had fallen on the street. Jackson said Sneed fired again and remarked, I guess you are dead, as Sheriff Burwell noted Sneed’s heavy beard hid his identity that day.
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Amarillo
Tex
Boyce
John B. Sneed
Earl Jackson
Sneed
W. M. Burwell
Taft settles garb dispute in Indian schools
President Taft issued a statement detailing the resolution of the garb controversy in Indian schools. He explained the earlier order by former Indian Affairs Commissioner Robert G. Valentine, which commanded removal of all denomination insignia from school public rooms and prohibited distinctive garb by denominations among government staff. The president revoked that order.
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Washington
Taft
Indian Affairs
Robert G. Valentine
Wilson Leads 20000 in New Jersey Primary Victory
Newark Sept 26 Woodrow Wilson swept New Jersey, carrying nearly all counties except Essex, where James Smith Jr. led a Smith faction. Wilson supporters claim a strong November election outlook. Hughes praises the results as reflecting public policy support.
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Newark
N. 3
Woodrow Wilson
New Jersey
United States
James Smith
Wilson
Essex
Smith
Hughes
Paterson
Essex County
Boston
Mass
Eugene T. Fors
Joseph C. Pelletier
Shuffolz County
Panama canal sanitation discussed at international congress
Washington reports on the Panama canal sanitation work led by Col. W. C. Gorgey, drawing focus at the fifteenth international congress on hygiene and demography. Experts planned discussions on public health administration in the United States, Japan, and Denmark, with Dr. Creese L. Wilbur addressing vital statistics development since 1900.
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Washington
Panama Canal
W. C. Gorgey
United States
Japan
Denmark
Creese L. Wilbur
Ccbier
Statetician
United States Census Bureau
PLAN BIG NAVAL RESERVE MOVEMENT ANNOUNCED
Washington on September 26 reports the start of a drive to create a naval reserve to be urged before congress. Capt. C. C. Marsh leaves command of the battleship Ohio for a navy department role assisting the aid for material. Captain Straves, in material division, will take command of the Ohio.
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Washington
Congress
C. C. Marah
Ohio
Navy Department
Straves
Poison Squad Volunteers At Habttiemann College
Dr Edwin Nesbit head of pharmacy at Habttiemann Medical College forms a poison squad of undergraduates. The group will follow a restricted diet and receive minimum doses of various poisons to study effects on the human system as the new school year opens.
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Philadelphia
Bcept
Habttiemann Medical College
Edwin Nesbit
Mora Money for Lavean Memphis and Levee Campaign
A campaign seeks larger federal contributions for river levee work.Levan construction was inaugurated by delegates to the Interstate Levee Association, which opened a three day session here on September 25.
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Mora
Lavean
Memphis
Teun
River
Levan Conatrustict
Interstate Levee Association
Three Killed in Wrack Near Rochester on RR Wreck
Three people died and sixteen injured in a wreck on the Pittsburg Shawmut and Northern railway near Rochester. The accident occurred on September 24 and involved multiple train cars with ongoing investigations and emergency response. Local authorities and railway officials coordinated rescue and medical aid for the injured.
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Wrack
Rochester
Pittsburg
Brother kills brother at breakfast in Hanville
William Hager, 26, shot dead at the breakfast table by his brother Percy, 30, in Hanville Kentucky. The shooting followed a quarrel over jointly owned land. Police investigated as the brothers were identified as the shooters and victims in a family dispute.
Five Thousand Mongolians Slain on Manchurian Border
A dispatch from Manchuria reports 5,000 Mongolians massacred by Chinese troops along the Manchurian border under Princess Odal rule. Looting rampant as monasteries and buildings are burned and noncombatants killed.
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St. Petersburg
Diepatch
Tere
Taitsikkar
Manchuria
Cht
Meas
Prin¢a Odal
Mongolia
Wene
Moyer Aims to Extend Copper Strike to Ely Nevada
Charles H. Moyer leader of the Western Federation of Miners who called the strike at Hingham has gone to Ely Nevada and is understood to plan a strike there.
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Salt Lake
Utah
Charles H. Moyer
Western Federation of Binnerd
Hingham
Ely
Nev
Meat prices rise as crops feed to stock delays relief
Milwaukee meat dealers report no relief from current meat price levels until after crops are fed to stock, expected around Jaw. Prices vary by dealer with some items moving up and others down. Michael Cudahy of Cudahy Packing notes overall prices near the previous month, with minor shifts in pork lamb veal and bacon. Households may find current prices higher than this year but still cheaper than last year.
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Milwaukee
Celtics
Michael Cudahy
The
Cudahy Packing Company
Mr. Cudahy
Death by own hand shocks Janesville broker
E J Dwyer once a Chicago board of trade member was found dead at a freight house rear with a bullet wound. Witness James Schallerge recalls dining with Dwyer and hearing he would end his money troubles in Wisconsin. A bloodstained scene and a pool of congealed blood marked the suicide, with little cash found on him.
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Janesville
E. J. Dwyer
Chicago Board of Trade
James Schallerge
Dwyer
Chicago
Wisconsin
Campbell to Direct Association Milwaukee
John P. Hume formerly of Marshfield resigns as manager of the Wisconsin Advancement Association. A. D. Campbell former state immigration commissioner will succeed him after about a year with the association. Hume has led the organization since July 15, 1911, with reorganization moving headquarters to Milwaukee from Chicago.
Would Make Fair Permanent
Green Bay A G Nicholson superintendent of the Menominee Indian reservation at Shawano left for Washington to confer with President Taft in an effort to get an appropriation from Congress for making the annual Indian fair and industrial exhibit a permanent affair.
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Green Bay
A. G. Nicholson
Shawano
Washington, D. C
Taft
Congress
Italian Shot Injures Kenosha-Rose Lapone Near Somers
Italian shot at a trackworkers shack near Somers wounds 27 year old Kenosha-Rose Lapone twice, once in the right lung and once in the knee. Nicol Belling is jailed on attempted murder charges amid an old feud claim.
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Kenosha
Rose Lapone
Somers
Nicol Belling
Lapone
Reed Named Municipal Judge Succeeding Father in Ripon
Governor MacGovern appoints Assemblyman Roy E. Reed of Ripon as municipal judge of Ripon to replace his father L B Reed. The term expires the first Monday in June 1513.
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Madisons
MacGovern
Roy E. Reed
Ripon
L. B. Reed
Organization of New Church Formed in Neenah
An English speaking Lutheran congregation has been organized here with plans for a church to be erected near Sige. The Rev. W. F. Hogshead of Ch directed the organization and guided the proceedings as the leader of the effort.
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Neenah
Sige
W. 4. Hogshead
Library Budget Seeks 4600 For Manitowoc
The Manitowoc public library needs 4600 to operate for the coming year ending June 13, 1913, with funds to cover an additional month. The request outlines the annual operating cost and an extra month’s support.
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Manitowoc
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Dominican Water
Czarevitch
Russia
West Virginia
Pensacola Bank
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Giants
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Plan Big Naval Reserve
Medical College
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