Sympathetic strike called in Philadelphia amid Pratt arrest
Philadelphia s Central Labor Union declares a general sympathy strike of all organized labor in the city affiliated with the central body after Strike Leader Pratt is arrested. The union claims about 100 000 members. conferences continue to set an effective date while police report disorder and injuries in several districts.
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Philadelphia
Pratt
Central Labor Union of
Central Labor Union
Washington
John J. Murphy
Murphy
Central Station
Central Police Court
Fea
William Penn Party
Henry Clay
Department of Public Safety
Germantown
Lehigh
Kensington
City Hall
National Guard
State Military
Wendell P. Bowman
Iole
Reyburn
Fegee Rarte
Suffragist Cheers Senator Borah in Washington
A vigorous reception in Washington D.C. greeted Senator Borah of Idaho as a leading figure in the suffrage movement. The event reinforced support for the expanding women’s voting rights, with attendees praising Borah’s stance and leadership on the issue.
Governor Hughes Receives Doctor of Laws at University Day
The University of Pennsylvania honored Governor Hughes of New York with a Doctor of Laws degree during its University Day exercises at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. Provost Harrigan announced a $100,000 gift to endow a Benjamin Rush Professor of Physiological Chemistry and a forthcoming $50,000 for ten hospital beds.
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Philadelphia
George Washington
University of Pennsylvania
Hughes
New York
Academy of Music
Charles C. Harrigan
Medical School
Benjamin Rush
University Hospital
Harrison
Washington Birthday Observed by Wil son Circle in Peoria
In Peoria Illinois on February 24 the Wilson Circle Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic hosted a Washington birthday event. National president Mrs Della H Henry of Kansas City Missouri delivered the keynote address praising Washington and Lincoln and the patriots who founded and preserved the nation.
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Peoria
Ill
Washington
Wilson
Grand Army of the Republic
Della H. Henry
Kansas City
Lincoln
Washington's memory honored across Chicago clubs
Patriotic societies, social settlements, and fraternal groups marked George Washington's birthday. The Union League Club led events with a morning session at the Auditorium theater where Judge Marcellus E. Kleberg spoke on Civic Standards. A second Union League meeting featured President Harry A. Garfield of Williams College delivering a keynote on Loyalty.
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Washington
Chicago
Patriotic Societies
George Washington
Union League Club
Auditorium Theater
Marcellus E. Kleberg
Galveston
Tex
Harry A. Garfield
Williams College
Miners Rally Over Wage Scale Dispute
News from Kansas City says 45 000 miners in Missouri Kansas Oklahoma and Arkansas plan to demand the Indianapolis wage scale while operators push for reductions. Miners argue living costs rose 40 percent since 1903 and coal prices are high, prompting public complaints.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
United Mine Workers of America
Indianapolis
Girl suffragets refuse kisses as vote tactic at Wellesley
Wellesley Mass February 24 college women denounce Mrs Alma Powell New York for urging kiss for a convert tactic. Emily Balch says suffrage must be won by argument and lawful demands not by compromising self respect. If women cannot gain rights openly the movement may fail.
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Wellesley
Mass
Wellesley College
Alma Webster Powell
New York
Emily Balch
Taft Returns to New York for Washington Birthday Dinner
President Taft arrives in New York for a second visit in a fortnight to speak at the Washington birthday dinner of the New Jersey Society of the Cincinnati at the Plaza hotel. He will also meet New York Society of the Cincinnati members at the Waldorf and stay overnight with his brother Henry W. Taft before an Newark NJ appearance tomorrow for the Newark board of trade dinner.
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New York
Taft
New York City
Henry W. Taft
Washington
New Jersey Society of the Cincinnati
Plaza Hotel
New York Society of the Cincinnati
The
Waldorf
Plaza
Newark
N. J
Newark Board of Trade
Perkins 18 Dying in Rochester Representative
Washington reports Representative James B. Perkins of Rochester New York is dying. His condition worsened this morning indicating a severe turn in his illness.
Killing of Senator A L Brown Revived
Salt Lake City February 24 A district court opened a new action by Mrs Anna Bradley seeking legal heir status for her two children from former Senator A L Brown The case aims to divide an estate valued around 100000 Brown had disavowed paternity in his will The revival follows the December 8 1906 Washington killing incident referenced in the suit
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Salt Lake
Arthur Ll. Brown
Washington
District Court
Anna’ Bradley
Brown
Austrian Girls Duel Over Love Interest Near Frontier
Two medical students from Gracow fought February 6 near Presterlitz after Breitner courted both. Olga Metzeroff and Tl onca Mietzky exchanged shots in German territory. Metzeroff was wounded, fainted, and carried back to Austria while Mietzky was hailed by fellow students.
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Berlin
Presterlitz
Gracow
Breitner
Tlonca Minetzky
Olga Metzeroff
Austria
Tlonca Iletzky
Harm May Have Come To The Mauretania
London Feb 24 The Cunard line knows nothing of any accident to the steamship Mauretania amid Berlin rumors. Browhead in wireless contact with the vessel reported moderate weather and all well. Severe weather kept her six hours late from Queenstown to New York and prevented dropping her local pilot.
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London
Cunard Line
Berlin
Browhead
Queenstown
New York
President Withdraws Nomination For Court Of Customs Appeals
The president withdrew five nominations for judges of the court of customs appeals after learning salaries were reduced from 10 000 to 7 000 dollars a year. The White House said the nominees would not accept the lower pay and some may not serve under the reduced salaries.
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Washington
Alfred C. Coxe
William H. Hunt
James F. Smith
Orin M. Barner
Marcel Devries
Court of Customs Appeals
White House
Congress
Elopement of Extremely Small Pittsburgh Couple
Charles Arthur Bradley, 17, about four and a half feet tall and 90 pounds, married Miss Helen Tinsley, 16, under 60 pounds, after eloping to Greensburg due to parental objections. Bradley, a Union Switch and Signal employee at Swissvale, was Allegheny County's bay roller skate champion last year. The couple had been engaged for two years and kept the marriage secret until forced to disclose it.
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Pittsburg
Greensburg
Charles
Arthur Bradley
Helen Tinsley
Bradley
Union Switch and Signal Company
Swissvale
Allegheny County
Grace Reformed Church
Burkett Pushes 260000 For Missouri River Bank Protection
Senator Burkett introduced a bill to add 260000 to the river and harbor program for protecting the Missouri River banks at Omaha and South Omaha and surrounding areas. Nebraska leaders vow strong opposition to lavish river funds for non navigable streams, while Missouri River protection gains support from the valley delegation.
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Missouri River
Washington, D. C
Burkett
Omaha
South Omaha
Nebraska
Missouri Valley
Missouri
Kansas City
Congress
Dovecote or Steamship Record Passengers for Oceana
In New York on February 24 a steamship voyage to Bermuda carried 52 married couples, a record passenger list for newlyweds. The Oceana set sail with this unusually large group aboard, prompting curiosities about the ship’s fate.
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New York
Oceana
Bermudas
Complete cessation in the Swope case in Kansas City
In Kansas City on Washington's birthday the Swope case halted as the grand jury paused testimony. Tomorrow the Swope family will resume testifying on the mystery while Dr. B C Hyde's attorneys continue depositions in the damage suit.
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Kansas City
Swope
Washington
B. C. Hyde
Irish party refrains from amending address in home rule row
Nationalists in Britain decide not to move amendments to the royal address, aiming to limit the Lords veto over finance. John Redmond and followers defer action, keeping home rule as their stakes while labor and unionists seek clear paths amid budget battles.
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London
House of Lords
John Redmond
Ireland
Balfour
Arthur J. Balfour
House of Commons
George W. Barnes
Parliamentary
Labor Party
Asquith
Barnes
Trish
William O’brien
O’brien
Redmond
O'Brien
Easy Divorces Are No More for Idaho
Judge Fremont Wood denied Valentine Winters from Dayton a divorce from Helen Clegg Winters after proving nonresidence in Idaho. The court found the plaintiff sought the decree to wed another woman and protect Helen Winters and their children’s good name.
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Boise
Idaho
Fremont Wood
Valentine Winters
Dayton, O
Helen Clegg Winters
Wood
Further Delay in Meat Investigation
New York February 24 There are indications of more delay in handing down indictments by the grand jury probing meat packing and cold storage in New Jersey It is expected that Justice Swayze will visit the court house Friday afternoon rather than tomorrow delaying the true bills against others tied to restraint of trade in food products
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New York
New Jersey
Supreme Justice
Swayze
Court House
Naval Committee Approves Meyers Plan Tentatively
The House Naval Committee voted tentative approval of Secretary Meyers plan to reorganize the Navy for one year. A Dawson Iowa originated resolution bridged Meyers and Newberry supporters, allowing use of current year appropriations across bureaus while preserving original purposes and 1912 estimate forms.
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Naval Committee
Eob Meyers
Washington
House Naval Committee
Meyers
Dawson
Iowa
Meyer
Newberry
Tillman on Road to Recovery After Health Setback
Washington reports Benjamin R. Tillman of South Carolina continuing gradual improvement. He spent a good night and woke to a favorable turn in paralysis and aphasia, with his family convinced recovery is progressing.
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Washington
Benjamin R. Tillman
South Carolina
Senator Conger details alleged 1901 bridge money corruption
Albany reports reveal fuller details of a 1901 money exchange amid a senate inquiry into accusations that Senator Conger and Senator Jotham P. Allds were involved with the American Bridge Company and other bridge interests. Conger testifies about a $4,000 payment to Assemblyman Burnett and a $1,000 share for Allds, with mentions of Fred W. Sage and Colonel Dunn and a $5,000 corruption fund routed to Eugene Landon and the Republican state committee.
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Albany
N. Y
Senate
Conger
Jotham P. Allds
Assembly
Allds
American Bridge Company
Davis
John L. Burnett
Wainwright
Burnett
Internal Affairs Committee
George W. Doughty
Assembly Committee On Internal Affairs
Fred W. Sage
Rochester
Penn Bridge Company
Sage
Eugene A. Landon
Groton Bridge Company
Dunn
Republican
Littleton
Landon
Republican State Committee
Treasury
Chief Malone to Speak on Dry Lincoln at Church
Lincoln Nebraska February twenty four Chief of Police Malone will speak Thursday at the First Congregational church on keeping Lincoln dry. Once a wet he now favors prohibition and will outline his reasons in a talk aimed at supporting a dry city. He denies plans for a formal sermon saying he never gave a speech before and will not imitate Chauncey Depew.
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Lincoln, Neb
Malone
First Congregational Church
Lincoln
Nix
Chauncey
Affinity of Wife Is Brother of Husband Sparks Divorce
Caldwell Wiley cites his wife's affection for his brother Andy from Pennsylvania as the cause of marital breakdown. After Andy visited, neighbors observed the wife's changed conduct and Wiley confronted the situation. Andy left with a shotgun. a settlement offer followed but failed, and the couple separated as divorce proceedings began.
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Lincoln
Neb
Caldwell Wiley
Wiley
District Court
Andy
Pennsylvania
Confession Letter At Copenhagen Claims Cook The North Pole Myth
A typewritten third person note purporting to come from Dr. Frederick A. Cook and postmarked from a Minnesota town alleges he did not reach the north pole. University of Copenhagen officials were summoned to meet and review the document for consideration.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Jeter
Frederick A. Cook
University of Copenhagen
North Pole
Minnesota
University Econsistory
Dolliver Replies Calmly to Angry Constituent Letter
Senator Dolliver of Iowa received a sharp note from a constituent complaining he would not support him for dog catcher. Dolliver returned the letter with a courteous reply stating he is not running for dog catcher.
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Dolliver
Washington
Iowa
Hawkeye State
Belgium issues mourning playing cards for King Leopold
Brunsels reports a Belgian firm prints playing cards with a black border for six months of public mourning for King Leopold. The cards will be used nationwide as a somber commemorative gesture during the royal mourning period.
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Brunsels
Leopold
Wife Slain by Axman as Husband Slept in Marathon
In Marathon Iowa February 23 Mrs Hazel Roberts 28 wife of farmer Guy Roberts was killed with an ax while preparing Monday washing. Henry Johnson a trusted laborer is jailed charged with the murder after a swift investigation. The husband recalls finding his murdered wife and three small children are left motherless. Authorities note possible mental illness of the suspect and pursue further details.
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Marathon
Hazel Roberts
Guy Roberts
Henry Johnson
Roberts
Aittle
Here
Hazel
Johnson
Mrs. Roberts
Hazel Davis
Webb
H. C. Roberts
Buena Vista County
Storm Lake
Iicarnate
Ministry Vacancies Filled by Asquith
London reports Premier Asquith has filled ministry vacancies, signaling confidence the government will weather the crisis. New ministers include William Wedgewood Benn and Ernest Joseph Soares as junior lords of the treasury, Edwin Samuel Montague as under secretary of India, and Cecil Norton as assistant postmaster general, succeeding Sir Henry Norman who failed reelection.
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London
Asquith
William Wedgewood Benn
Ernest Joseph Soares
the Treasury
Edwin Samuel Montague
India
Cecil Norton
Mr. Norton
Sirenry Norman
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