Nations Honor Woe King and Queen
Thanksgiving services for the safe return of King George and Queen Mary from India were held at St Pauls Cathedral. Crowds cheered as the royal procession moved from Buckingham Palace to the cathedral, with thousands lining the route despite cold weather.
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London
George
Queen Mary
India
St. Paul's Cathedral
Buckingham Palace
St. Paul's
Prince of Wales
Princess Marie
Edward
Queen Mother
Alexandra
Crosby
Victoria
King George
Medina
Kine
Used Mails For Wrong Purpose San Francisco Case
Charlies W. Caryl, organizer of the Vril Cult, was arrested by post office inspectors on an indictment from a Denver grand jury for sending obscene letters through the mails. Co-defendant Mrs. D. Willard, a Berkeley woman confined in a state asylum, was found with hundreds of letters linking her to Caryl and his occult ideas about marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Cal
Charlies W. Caryl
Vril
Evelyn Arthur Lee
Post Office
Federal Grand Jury
Denver
Mra D. Willard
Berkeley
Ows
Willard
Harriet
Richam
Daryl
Panver
Smallpox Source Traced to Carolina in Richmond
Chief Health Officer Levy announced steps to curb a smallpox case after Mrs Beulah M Vinson of 802 West Clay Street was diagnosed. Her family will be hospitalized in Henrico, with vaccination planned for neighbors. Her brother-in-law Grover Vinson, a Union News Company worker, is ill in West Virginia after recent travel from Goldsboro North Carolina. Marvin Vinson, her husband, a Clay Street motorman, and others in close contact will be segregated to prevent spread.
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Richmond
Levy
Beulah M. Vinson
West Clay Street
Winson
Henrico
Mra Vinson
Grover Vinson
Union News Company
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Goldsboro
N. C
West Virginia
North Carolina
Vinson
Marvin R. Vinson
Five Killed in Trolley Crash in Philadelphia
Five persons died and three more were overcome when gas from a leaky main entered Carlton Street homes east of Twenty-second Street. The Dozral family perished, including Paul Dozral and his wife and three children, plus a brother-in-law Ione Wozenisxki, a thirty eight year old woman.
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Philadelphia
Carlton Street
Twenty-second Street
Paul Dozral
Sophie Dozral
Rosie Dozral
Joseph Dozral
Ione Wozenisxki
Wold
Canal to Open on Time
NEW YORK colonel George W Goethals chief engineer overseeing the Panama Canal project arrived by steamer Cristobal from Colon and reiterated the canal would open by January 1 He supported tolls for shipping and indicated he would take up the matter with officials before starting for Washington
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
George W. Goethals
Panama Canals
Isthmian Canal Commission
Cristobal
Colon
Senet
Goethals
Washington
Revival of Albert Baker Linked to Pittsburg Morgue Tale
Morgue records in Pittsburg reveal Albert Baker, announced dead at Homeopathic Hospital Saturday, was later moved to the county morgue in a white sheet before revival occurred early Sunday. No further details on condition or cause given.
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Pittsburg
Albert Baker
Marble Slab Fatalities After Saloon Row
Baker died after a saloon fight. He was taken to hospital and pronounced dead with respiratory paraplegia listed as the cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baker
Jury convicts nurse in starved patient case
In Kitsap County Superior Court at Port Orchard, the jury finds Mrs Linda Burfield Hazwaard guilty of manslaughter in the death of Miss Claire Williamson a wealthy English patient at the Starvation Sanatorium.
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Seattle
Wash
Linda Burfield Hazzard
Kitsap County Superior Court
Post Orchard
Claire Williamson
Hazzard
Auto and Car In General Smashup
An auto carrying N V Randolph Jr and Charles S Clarke collided with a Clay Street trolley at Harrison Street and Floyd Avenue at 7 20 last night. Randolph suffered a broken collarbone and severe bruises while Clarke was painfully injured. Both occupants were hurled as the car overturned. Randolph was trapped beneath wreckage and taken home for treatment.
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Richmond
N. V. Randolph, Jr
Floyd Avenue
Charles 5S
Clarke
West Broad Street
Harrison Street
Clay Street
Randolph
Wiro
Mr. Clarke
Greer Baughman
Council
Democrats Almost Block Roosevelt Anti-Term Bill in House
In Washington the House narrowly avoided a move to bring up the Slayden anti third term resolution. Only four Republicans favored action. many Democrats abstained or opposed, fearing a Roosevelt endorsement would backfire. Chaos and urgent backroom talks followed as leaders sought a quorum and a path forward.
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Washington, D. C
House
Roosevelt
Mann
McCall
Massachusetts
Higgins
Connecticut
Bingham
Pennsylvania
Joe” Cannon
Cannon
Crumpucker
Indiana
Clark
Slayden
Representative Sims
Tennessee
Mr. Roosevelt
Mr. Sims
Man Full of Brass Tacks
Abrahaam Leconey a Delanco shoemaker was taken to a Philadelphia hospital for an operation after X rays found about 160 brass tacks in his stomach. He admitted using his mouth as a tack box while working at his bench for years. Surgeons say one stomach section holds more tacks than the sole of a boot.
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Burlington
N. J
Abrahaam Leconey
Delanco
Philadelphia
Leconey
Letter Reveals Williams Breaks With Wilson Over History
Boston Democrat George Fred Williams disavows Wilson after reading Governor Wilson’s History of the American People. Williams emails Senator Pettigrew criticizing the work as Toryism, warns the public to know the record, and notes his shift to Champ Clark. Williams cites views on Coxey’s army, the poor, farmers, and recalls a personal tragedy ending in suicide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
George Fred Williams
Boston
William J. Bryan
R. F. Pettierew
South Dakota
Wowurow Wilson
Williams
Senator Petttierew
Wilson
Williams Bes
Governor Wilson
Pettigrew
Champ Clark
Massachusetts
Woodrow Wilson
Aldrich
Wilson's Work. He Points Out How Dr. Wilson
Coxey
Mr. Williams
Farmers’ Alliance
People's Party
Collision suit over Cecil Liberoil damages in Norfolk court
The Norwegian steamship Cecil, damaged in a collision last Friday with the four masted schooner George W. Truitt Jr., was filed for $25,000 in U.S. court in Norfolk. A cross bill may be filed by the Truitt asserting further damages could reach $50,040.
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Cecil Liberoil
Norfolk
Cecil
George W. Truitt, Jr
United States
John B. Eskridge
Truitt
Scared Himself to Death in Monessen Incident
Scattered OCR reads as a local Monessen report detailing an elderly man life ending after fear or fright. Name and precise circumstances are unclear from the fragment but indicate a fatal accident or self harm linked to a company setting. Further readable details are not provided in the text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monessen
Wuninten- Alexander Old
Em- Company
Chesapeake Bay Ice Cripples Baltimore Port Traffic
The Chesapeake Bay ice worsens with a three mile spread below Smith's Point and two inch thickness. If conditions do not improve shipping at the port will be crippled.
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Baltimore
Chesapeake Bay
Smith's Point
Potomac River
Fire destroys plant in Moline Illinois
Fire early today destroyed a plant of the Barnard and Lensman Manufacturing Company. Firemen and citizens fought the blaze in vain.
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Moline
Ill
Barnard & Lensman Manufacturing Company
Deaths follow Norfolk and Western wreck in Petersburg
Griffin head of the Indopendent Order of True Reformers and John Brown a Roanoke porter die from injuries after a Norfolk and Western wreck. Griffin had been leading colored fraternal work and was returning to Richmond from Lynchburg. A. D. Price and other prominent colored men conveyed Griffin’s body to Richmond. Brown was esteemed for courteous service to travelers and his careful work in handling duties.
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Richmond
Hn. Griffin
Order of True Reformers
Norfolk and Western
Petersburg
John Brown
Roanoke
Griffin
A. D. Price
Lynchburg
SEEKING CLUE TO LAWRENCE MURDER
Lawrence Massachusetts police subjected two men and a woman to a long examination in the quadruple murder case. A young woman admitted being with the four victims in the rooms where bodies were found and said a sixth person, presumably the murderer, was present.
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Lawrence
Mass
Randolph-Macon Woman's College Endowment Boost From Securities
The Randolph Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg Virginia has accepted securities totaling 176000 dollars after a prior 75000 dollar offer from the General Educational Board. The acceptance increases the college endowment by 250000 dollars since the canvass began two years ago.
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Lynchburg
Randolph- Macon Woman's College
General Educational Board
Soldiers Prepare for Mexican War at Fort Crockett
Galveston Texas special report Major Embiak directing that 104 men of the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Company Coast Artillery be ready with full equipment to field within 24 hours. The same unit is quartered at Fort Crockett and Montana infantry at Fort Harrison are stood to move to the Mexican border on instant notice.
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Galveston
Tex
Embiak
Fort Crockett
Coast Artillery
Montana
Helena
Mont
Fort William Henry Harrison
Fourteenth Infantry
Utah Soldiers Get Orders to Ready for Border Duty
Salt Lake City Utah special report says Colonel J A Irons commanding the Twentieth Infantry at Fort Douglas began preparations to place his regiment in readiness for a call to the Mexican border. Details of the order from Washington are not disclosed.
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Utah
Salt Lake
J. A. Irons
Twentieth Infantry
Fort Douglas
Wiington
Irons
Washington views rise in border troop buildup
United States trooops are ordered toward the Mexican border with half the U S force in readiness to move southward at short notice The War Department views the Mexico situation as alarming and seeks to compel the Madero government to protect foreign interests In El Paso Fort Bliss and other posts troops are dispatched with more to follow from California and other departments News reports indicate some regions in Mexico show improved border conditions while interior areas remain unstable with Zapatist activity and kidnappings reported including an American mining engineer at Balsas
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Washington
Washington, D. c
United States
War Department
Mexico
Wilson
Fort Whipple
Ariz
Fort Sill
Okla
Fort Logan M. Root
Ark
Fort Bliss
el Paso
California
San Antonio
Gulf
of the Lakes
East
Madero
State Department
Treeve
Diaz
Taft
Cuba
Juarez
Chihuahua
Torreon
Durango
Zapatists
Cuernavaca
Morelos
Chipanzingo
Guerrero
Balsas
G. P. Robinson
Orozco
Estrada
Casas Grandes
White Replies To Byrd Attack On Tax Plan
Richmond Va Special. Delegate Hugh A White of Rockbridge responds to Speaker Byrds attack on the tax segregation plan. He says he will not discuss the matter in newspapers until facts and figures are ascertained. He criticizes the tax report as lacking conditions and public access and notes the bill has broad opposition. He argues for full public knowledge before rushed legislation and refutes the insinuation of destructive aims.
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Richmond
Byrd
Hugh A. White
Rockbridge
Tax Commission
Assembly
Freeman
Siysa
Lyrd
White
Alexandria
Bristol
Charlottesville
Danville
Fredericksburg
Lynchburg
Newport News
Norfolk
Petersburg
Portsmouth
Roanoke
Suffolk
Staunton
Winchester
Commissioners of the Revenue
Segregation debate airs Virginia tax split
Mr Freeman and Mr Byrd clash over White segregation plan and its tax impact. Freeman argues the plan harms small towns and deprives localities of taxes, while Byrd decries uniform state licensing shifts and cites potential city bankruptcies. Both contend on July 1 1913 effective date and consequences for cities.
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Freeman
Ir. Freeman
Byrd
Virginia
Insurgent agents arrested in Chihuahua amid Madero upheaval
Special revolutionary agents advocating overthrow of President Madero were arrested in Chihuahua. They face likely court martial. Reports from the mountains say insurrecto bands are gaining strength and many of Madero’s old soldiers are taking up arms again.
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Chihuahua
Mexico
Madero
New Normal School Held Up For Funds
The Radford Normal and Industrial College project stalls due to state finances and political shifts. Lawmakers hesitate as three existing normal schools already squeeze statewide support, while a $25,000 site purchase raises questions about future building costs and annual salaries.
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NEW Normal School
Virginias Notified Senators Martin Swanson Return to Senate
Washington D C special report notes Senators Thomas Staples Martin and Claude Augustus Swanson of Virginia were formally notified of their re election to the United States Senate. Notification committees from the Senate and House conducted the event at the New Raleigh with speeches praising the incumbents. Attendees included Lieutenant Governor J Taylor Ellison and numerous dignitaries.
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Washington, D. C
Thomas Staples Martin
Claude Augustus Swenson
Bianc
New Raleigh
General Assembly of
Virginia
Old Dominion
United States
Senate
Martin
Early
Moncure and Hart
House of Delegates
Cox
Coleman
Throckmorton
Weaver
Swanson
Rison
Drewry
Cummings
Williams
Baker
Bowman
Danie
Love
M. B. Booker
John W. Wiliams
House
Rolla
Martin and
J. Taylor Ellyson
W. D. Cardwell
D. C. Cumming
John M. Hart
S. H. Love
N. B. Easley
John Orr Daniel
C. W. Threckmorton
John M. Williams
Martin Williams
R. Coleman
Ben P. Owen
George T. Rison
A. M. Bowman
W. W. Baler
John 8. White
P. Cox
A. Weaver
H. Graves
Captain Baldwin Defends Radford Normal School Plan
Captain W T Baldwin of Radford arrives in Richmond to counter opposition to completing Radford Normal School. Construction on the administration building is underway, with 136 by 128 feet space to house offices and classrooms. He argues for continued state support, citing the site deed and high local demand, and outlines needs totaling about 347238 for buildings, equipment, and first-year annuity to house 160 students, rising to 200 as expansion proceeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
W. T. Baldwin
Radford
Radford Normal School
Captain Baldwin
Haldwin
Tru
Norfolk Republicans Endorse Taft for 1912 Nomination
Special Republicans of Norfolk city and county adopted resolutions endorsing President Taft for the 1912 presidential nomination. The action ensures the Second District convention will name two Taft resolutions adopted elsewhere in Virginia, practically guaranteeing Taft a solid delegation. National Committeeman Alvah H. L. Martin was also endorsed for re election.
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Norfolk
Taft
Virginia
Alvah HL. Martin
Turkey and Italy to Continue War Despite Peace Terms
Constantinople reports Turkey proclaims continuation of hostilities with Linky today, rejecting terms proposed by Rusata. Proclamation signals ongoing conflict between Turkey and Italy as officials reiterate aim to press military action rather than seek immediate settlement.
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Constantinople
Turkey
Linky
Rusata
Readiness to Arrest Them All in Dynamite Plot Case
Washington reports 20 Bureau of Investigation operatives, with additional crews, prepared to arrest suspects as federal indictments loom tonight in Indianapolis. The operation involves agents from Chicago, Indiana, Dayton, and Boston, under Stanley W. Finch, with district attorney Miller to receive orders. Secrecy is tight as the grand jury considers over thirty indictments related to the alleged dynamite plot.
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Washington, D. C
Speedat
Bureau of Investigation
Wests of Justice
Chicago
Indiana
Lis
Dayton
Boston
Stanley W. Finch
Bureau
Federal District
Miller
Tndianapolis
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Occult
Carolina
C. 8
Frederick W. Noble
Sas
New York City
Daverte
John Jay White
Woman's College Board Accepts Securities
Richmond, VA
General Assembly
Radford Normal and Industrial College
Board of Visitors
Charles A. Johnston
Farmville
Harrisonburg
Carnegie
Virginia Solons
Swan
Sun
Italy
John D
Chauncey M
Folk
Missouri
Durham Swan
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