World events on war fronts and political shifts
Russian gains 108 000 prisoners in two weeks plus advances in Volhynia Galicia and Bukowina. German and Austrian losses mount while Italian actions continue in the Alps. Greek demobilization prompts rejoicing as treaties protect Greek unity. Hughes poised for U S presidency. Roosevelt declines fusion bid.
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Czernowitz
Bukowina
Petrograd
Volhynia
Galicia
Vienna War Office
Lemberg
Mexican unrest across border as Carranza troops mobilize
Reports from Washington show unease over a Mexican revolt with 1,500 regulars sent to the border and widespread anti American sentiment. Bandits killed near Laredo wore Carranza insignia and attackers burned the Durango consulate while a Chihuahua mob stormed the U S consulate. Negotiations for arbitration hint at possible tripartite action.
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State Department
Washington
Mexico
T. A. Coleman
Laredo
Tex
Carranza
Luis de la Rosa
Rio Grande
Hidalgo
Captain Bell
George Bell, Jr
el Paso
United States
Durango City
Chihuahua
Mex
Justice Brandeis Assigned to Second Circuit by White
Washington dispatches report Chief Justice White assigns Justice Brandeis to the Second judicial circuit covering Vermont Connecticut and New York. Supreme Court upholds grand lodge Knights of Pythias insurance assessment increases as legal. FTC probes gasoline price rises with major oil producers testifying in Washington. Ambassador Gerard Berlin admits interview on peace as spurious Berlin press. Wilson drafts platform for Democratic convention highlighting administration achievements and peacetime policy.
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Brandeis
White
Washington
Second Judicial Circuit
Vermont
Connecticut
State of
New York
Hughes
Grand Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Supreme Court
Federal Trade Commission
Gerard
Berlin
State Department
Munich
National Zeitung
Wilson
United States
McLean will awards estate income to son Edward
John B. McLean's will filed in Washington allocates all personal property and income from the late publisher's vast estate to his son Edward B. McLean. Detroit to center national activity for five days as the sixty seventh American Medical Association meeting opens with the house of delegates. Capt Hans Tauscher and others face trial over a plot to destroy the Welland canal. Judge C E Wolfferton in New York United States district court overrules a demurrer to the indictment.
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John B. McLean
Washington
Edward B. McLean
Detroit
Mich
American Medical Association
House of Delegates
Hans Tauscher
Mme. Gadski
Wolf von Igel
Welland Canal
C. E. Wolverton
United States District Court
New York
Japan to Send Two More Battalions to Tientsin and Peking
A Tokyo dispatch reports the Japanese government is sending two additional battalions to Tientsin and Peking. It notes Japan will augment forces at Tientsin and Peking by a battalion withdrawn from Darien on the Liaotung peninsula near Port Arthur.
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Tientsin
Peking
Tokyo
Japan
Battion
Darien
Liaotung Peninsula
Port Arthur
Resourceful Congressman Scott and the three church offerings
Congressman Frank D. Scott of Michigan is portrayed as resourceful. As a student he sought to ingratiate professor Hicks by dropping a large silver dollar into the church collection plate for three Sundays before an exam, then narrowly passed the examination. The tale notes whether success came from knowledge or wealth.
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Frank D. Scott
Michigan
Scott
Hicks
Untermyer Tries to Pin Down Hine Before Pujo Panel
Samuel Untermyer, famed for challenging the Pujo money trust committee, pressed First National Bank of New York chief Hine for a yes or no answer. The exchange devolved into long, circular replies until the stenographer interrupted, and the witness was excused.
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Samuel Untermyer
Bethlehem Steel Prince
Wall Street
Steel-Trust
Price
Pujo Money Trust
House
Mr. Untermyer
President Hine
First National Bank of New York
Untermyer
Mr. Hine
New York
Oshkosh
Financier of Yucatan Dr Victor L Rendon for Carranza loan post
Dr Victor L Rendon a Yucatan statesman and financier may head a special Mexican financial commission. Reports say he will lead preliminary talks for a foreign loan while recently negotiating a 10 million dollar loan for Yucatan farmers sisal marketing. He studied in Mexico and Paris and backed the Madero revolution.
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Victor L. Rendon
Yucatan
Carranza
Special Financial Commission
Mexico
Mexico City
Doctor Rendon
Paris
Porfirio Diaz
United States
Purdue Hazing Case Likely Dismissed Over Plaintiff’s Health
In Lafayette, a motion asks dismissal of a Montgomery county hazing suit against Purdue students Ruth Cowen Mary Clark May Blue Mary Sheridan Agnes Phillips Esther Eisner and Helen Lee. Plaintiff Mabel Rogers of Shoals alleges painting with red ink pin pricks and cold tub humiliation seeking 7000 dollars. Clark has died since filing in January 1915. Rogers is reported too ill to proceed.
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Shoals
Miss Rogers
Train Hits Auto. One Dead in Plainfield Collision
George Crow twenty two is killed and his brother Clarence probably fatally injured when their car was struck by an east bound Pennsylvania railroad train near Plainfield. Gene Lewis escaped injury. The machine was demolished. All three men lived in Plainfield.
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Plainfield
George Crow
Clarence
Gene Lewis
Grace Beach dies after drinking poison amid troubled youth
Eighteen year old Grace Beach, released from Indiana Girls' School after incorrigibility and the annulment of her marriage to Edward Tucker, committed death by her own hand by drinking poison as a consequence of her parents' refusal to buy her a player piano.
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Evansville
Grace Beach
Indiana Girls’ School
Edward Tucker
Fight over railroad stock pens erupts in city
East side residents vow injunctions if stock pens are built in their area as the railroad seeks a location after a two year fight to remove the pens from the central business district.
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Elwood
Robber Breaks Arm After Train Heist Near Birdseye
English-Roy King of St. Louis robbed two passengers on a train near Birdseye taking a gold watch and 24 dollars. He jumped from the moving train breaking an arm and sustaining internal injuries before being captured and treated in Birdseye.
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Roy King
St. Louis
Birdseye
Guard faces charge of shooting with intent to kill
Lawrenceburg man Millard E. Guard fifty two a wealthy land owner and stock raiser is held on a five hundred dollar bond on a shooting with intent to kill charge brought by Frank N. Saunders forty one Guard says he wounded Saunders in the hand in self defense.
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Lawrenceburg
Millard E. Guard
Frank N. Saunders
Guard
Saunders
Child Shoots Baby in Elkhart Incident
Maxwell Smith two years old is injured when ten year old Elsie Winger accidentally discharges a revolver she was playing with. The injuries are not serious.
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Elkhart
Maxwell Smith
Mrs. Dodge Smith
Elsie Winger
John C. Eversman to Direct Republican Publicity for Campaign
John C. Eversman will direct publicity for the Republican presidential campaign. He has long worked with Representative William B. McKinley of Illinois and supported Taft’s 1908 bid. Eversman is a National Press Club member and known favorite among newspaper men.
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John C. Eversman
Eversman
William B. McKinley
Ilinois
McKinley
Republican Congressional Campaign Committee
Teeneee reKinley
William H. Taft
National Press Club
Washington
City of
Sleepy worker killed by locomotive piston at Aetna platform
Fred Little thirty of Chicago an employee of the Aetna Explosives company fell asleep on a platform beside the Wabash railroad at Aetna and was killed when the locomotive piston struck him.
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Gary
Fred Little
Chicago
Aetna Explosives Company
Aetna
Tolleston Man in Personal Crisis Fatal Outcome
Gary-Mike Weber a German husband of a Black Tolles ton resident was hurt in a personal crisis leading to a fatal incident. A telegram found in his pocket urged Miss Freda Beusch of Clynton Wis to come to the funeral.
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Tolleston
Gary—Mike Weber
Freda Beusch
Clynton
Wis
Despondent Logansport Engineer Takes Own Life
John J. Cosgriff fifty five Panhandle engineer killed himself by swallowing strychnine. Despondent over ill health and the death of his wife a year earlier.
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Self
Logansport
John J. Cosgriff
Fiftyfive
Panhandle
Auto Kills Boy in Fort Wayne Crash
Ten year old Hugh Williams son of Mrs. Thomas H Williams of Columbia avenue was killed when run down by an automobile driven by Mrs Roy Timbrock in Fort Wayne.
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Auto Kills Bay
Fort Wayne
Hugh Williams
Thomas H. Williams
Columbia Avenue
Roy Timbrock
Wabash College Gym Drive Nears Halfway Goal
With only 34000 of 50000 needed, boosters push for a new gymnasium. The campaign has run nearly a year as Crawfordsville rallies support ahead of commencement.
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Crawfordsville
Wabash College
Hold Spelling Bee for Elders in Crawfordsville Centennial
Thirty three persons, all over forty, competed in the old timers' spelling bee as the first feature of Crawfordsville five day centennial celebration.
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Crawfordsville
Price Wins as Hick Pays for the Ball
In an Atlantic league game between Bill McCabe’s Poughkeepsie and Kingston, a late ninth inning sub, a fat man from the bleachers, hit a three ball homer after the umpire Fogarty called balls. McCabe urged him to run but the man refused saying he would pay the price, holding the money in his pocket.
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Bill McCabe
Poughkeepsie
Kingston
Fogarty
McCabe
Bill
the Hick
Fathead
Didn’t Think It of Her Dialogue Snippet
A brief humorous exchange unfolds with a mother accusingly noting a long porch moment and the daughter denying it. The mother quips that one cannot always judge a good time by its cost, underscoring a light domestic tone.
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Gladys
Grape-Nuts Praised as Key to Strong Bodies and Minds
The passage argues that mental and physical power comes from proper nourishment. It promotes Grape-Nuts as ready to eat, easy to digest, nourishing, economical, and delicious, claiming it helps build strong, capable individuals.
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