28 Dec 1912
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1912
Page
1
The parcels post plan will be inaugurated in the United States next Wednesday. Officials announced the program to organize parcel mail service nationwide with new rates and rules for handling packages.
Washington scene outlines a ten year agitation finally fulfilled with the January 1 1913 start of the parcels post. The piece notes the Rural Free Delivery precede this change, the need to design new stamps and scales, and the extensive preparations across post offices as officials warn of early defects and urge public patience.
Tonight will be warmer with increasing cloudiness and generally fair conditions. Sunday is expected to be warmer with further clear to partly cloudy skies.
The parcels post service broadens beyond express firms covering over a million rural miles and 435000 railroad and water routes with about 60000 post offices and 285000 workers. Rates are cheaper and more items become mailable, including many perishables with restrictions on alcohol poisons explosives inflammables obscene matter and live animals. Perishable items limited to delivery within fifty miles of the mailing point.
Dr Dowling will visit the area and be accompanied by sanitary inspectors to oversee arrangements and safety during the visit. The officials will coordinate on health standards and inspections.
Dr. Oscar Dowling, head of the State Board of Health, plans a sweeping Monroe clean up with inspectors to enforce sanitary rules. Dairies bakeries slaughterhouses and waste sites face action while private homes must connect to sewers and keep areas tidy. No alarm over meningitis but isolation of cases urged and public spaces cautioned. Western Star Lodge No. 24 hosts St Johns Day installation and banquet with about 75 members.
President Elect Wilson woke in the same manse where he was born fifty six years ago during childhood in Staunton Virginia. The First Presbyterian Church manse housed his sleep as his father served as pastor and marked a return to familiar surroundings.
Despite a sharp temperature drop and heavy snow, General Rosalia Jones leads her suffragists toward Albany with a brass band awaiting them to greet the marchers.
Washington reports ex President Cipriano Castro aboard the La Touraine en route New York from Havre will be detained at Ellis Island until Secretary Nagel and immigration officials rule on his admissibility. The State Department seeks evidence of moral turpitude to bar Castro amid a formal inquiry and strict application of immigration laws. A Venezuela status report was delivered to Nagel but details remain confidential. A separate note mentions Frank Craven presenting Bought and Paid For in January in London.
Thirty eight labor union officials including Frank Ryan were found guilty of complicity in the McNamara dynamite plots that destroyed the Los Angeles Times building and killed twenty one. Seiffert and Buckley were acquitted. Sentences to be imposed Monday as the defendants were led from the courtroom.
The trial opened amid striking coincidences tied to the Osage Times building blast and the 1911 explosion. Evidence tied Ortie McManigal to naming others who carried dynamite on trains. Indictments targeted Iron Workers union officials as the government cited an open shop strike motive.
Senator Kern, counsel for the defendants, said after the Indianapolis verdicts that the cases would be appealed. Preparations had been made in advance and would proceed to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in the regular manner.
By Associated Press Indianapolis December 28 It was a scene blended with tragedy that confronted those who week after week sat through the historic dynamite conspiracy trials Now it was a baby crying from the
The trial spotlighted Herbert S. Hockin branded by the judge as untrustworthy while Frank M. Ryan led iron workers unions. McManigal described a violent dynamiting campaign tied to a 1905 New Haven strike and a broader wave of 100 explosions including Los Angeles incidents.
The article ties McNamara and James McNamara to a series of bombings, detailing how McManigal and McNamara were alleged to have hired dynamiters under John J. and Hockin leadership. It notes the Times building explosion as part of a broader effort to unionize trades in Los Angeles and mentions a Los Angeles bombing that killed 21 people.
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