Rock Island Arsenal Workers Back Congressmen Efforts
The Rock Island Milling and Davenport unions commend Congressmen Tavernner and Pepper for pushing more manufacturing plants to Rock Island arsenal and call for countering the Taylor system. They urge Senators Lewis and Cummins to aid, warn the system is inhuman, and request copies to officials and press.
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Taverner
Pepper
Rock Island
Ill
Rock Island Arsenal
Matal
Uslon
Moiing
Davenport
Clyde Wl. Tavenner
Ilnois
J. S. Pepper
Jowl
Thare
Eaxweaner
Tavenner and
Gitlana
Taverner and
Lewis
Illinois
Cummins
Iowa
Taylor
Row Island Arsenal
Crozier
William Crozier
Ordnance
American Federation of Labor
Tri-Cities
Fatally Wounds His Bride of Nine Days in Indianapolis
John F. Conrad, 31, a fish company salesman, shot and fatally wounded his bride of nine days, Catherine Reese Conrad, 19, in their Indianapolis apartment. He told police she had threatened to leave him, then begged for forgiveness before being taken away. he later attempted to shoot himself.
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Indianapolis
Ind
John F. Conrad
Catherine Conrad
Conrad
Toledo
Ohio
Alys
Contad
Catherine Reese
Cleveland
Hear More Evidence of Contracts Graft in New York
The grand jury in New York heard further evidence on December 18 in the probe into contracts for the Crotean aqueduct construction. District Attorney Whitman’s inquiry seeks to expose political graft as witnesses including tunnel builder Anthony G Douglass testified that despite being the lowest bidder he did not secure the Hudson river siphon contract after refusing to contribute to a politician.
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New York
N. Y
Whitman
Anthony G Douglass
Hudson River
Present New American College Students to Pope in Rome
Fifty five new students of the American college in Rome were presented to the pope in a private audience by Monsignor Thomas V. Kennedy. The pope appeared in good spirits as Heulen Flo delivered a brief greeting speech to the students.
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American College
Rome
Roma
Thomas V. Kennedy
Hewlen
Flo
Moriarity on Trial for Turner Slaying
In Toms River New Jersey on December 18 Joseph Moriarity alias William J Lechan a stenographer stood trial in the supreme court for the murder of Mrs Carolina C Turner wife of a Late wood estate employee George J Gould's worker. The case draws society attention as Moriarity lacks means and relies on his former employer wealth for defense. Mrs Jasper Lynch a Lakewood society woman funds his lawyers causing a split in the fashionable community. Prosecutor Newman with Edmund Wilson Theodore Brown and George P Woodruff bolster the state case. Mrs Turner vanished April 23 1911 and was found mutilated April 29 in pine woods near her home. Moriarity was captured 13 months later.
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Toms River
N. d
Joseph. Moriarity
J. Lechan
Supreme Court
Carolina C. Turner
Latewood
George J. Gould
Mortarity
Jasper Lynch
Lakewood Colony
Morigrity
Newmann
Edmund ¥. Wilson
New Jersey
Theodore Brown
George P. Woodruff
Turner
Pine Woods
Lakewood
Movement For NonOfficial Exhibit At San Francisco Collapses
Berlin reports the collapse of the German parliamentary push for official participation in the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. The committee for a great non official exhibit is dissolved and the information bureau for prospective exhibitors remains only as a surviving entity. The December bill for an official German exhibit tied to the Shimonata appropriation will not be reconsidered.
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Munsco
Berlin
San Francisco
Bureau
Shiba Nota
Joint Boards Move to Advertise Bids on Pumping Plant
Joint boards of Muscatine and Louisa counties plan to advertise for bids on the pumping plant after the Iowa Supreme Court denied a rehearing in the drainage district case. Construction of ditches and the pumping plant, valued at 2160,000, is expected to proceed with awarding the contract early next year. County officials express confidence the district will be upheld as bids are issued.
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Iowa Supreme Court
No. 131
Dranage District
Mus Cing
Loulga
Muscatine
Christmas gold pieces issued to Interborough workers
Fragmentary OCR notes indicate a plan or mention of gold pieces valued at $3 issued to Interborough Rapid Transit employees. Names, dates, and full context are unclear due to damaged text.
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Dietor
Interborough Rapid Transit
Dietriton
Ean
Agricultural training debated by Muscatine county school board
Atalis sa school board voted for agriculture in the curriculum and principal I Reddington, earning 115 dollars a month since January 1918, was noted. About 14,000 subway employees would receive gifts, along with elevated and surface line workers. County Crap Advisor Kirkpatrick will study costs and report later. Agriculture teaching is being considered in other schools as districts comply with a new law before it takes effect. Mrs A M Reynolda of Moline visited relatives nearby and returned home.
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Muscatine County
Atalissa
I. Reddington
Subway
Kirkpatrick
Kirkpawick
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E. J. Zeidler
Pope
Moriarity
Man—Sotiety
McColm Dry Goods Co
ACT TV
Menting
Redington
the Journal
Liny
Vealthy Aisi Teon Stores
Misa Alice Eis
Bert French
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