Japanese Rigid Exercise Program Grows Taller Population
Three Japanese newspaper men report government driven physical culture in Japan boosting average height by about two inches in recent years. They describe gymnasiums in schools and the army, and note Osaka Mai Nichi is Japan’s largest daily with 60 reporters.
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Times
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Osaka Mai Nichi
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Jiro Abratant
New York
Aishima
The
Laborers Rush to Alaska and British Columbia
Laborers flood aboard the steamer Princess May bound for Skagway and Prince Rupert amid a Klondike like rush. Contractors expect 6,000 men at work in Prince Rupert by May end. At Fairbanks the Mine Owners and Operators' Association authorized John Rowan to hire 10,000 additional workers in Seattle at five dollars and board per day to sail in on navigation opening.
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Prince Victor loses bid to restrain American woman in London case
The Court refused to issue an injunction sought April 3 by Prince Victor of Thurn and Taxis to stop Josephine Moffitt from claiming to be his wife. The judge found Moffitt not responsible for a London newspaper story copied from an American paper. Moffitt’s counsel said she had undergone a form of marriage with the prince who later left her to settle his debts.
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London
Prince Victor of
Von Bulow States Powers Seek Middle Course Over Macedonia
Rome April 14 Prince von BuLow the German chancellor arrived with his wife and said the powers seek a middle course between British and Russian reform plans for Macedonia He claimed Germany has no direct interest but wants the status quo and peace maintained His talks with Signor Tittoni reflected Triple Alliance views on peace.
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Prince von Bulow
Macedonia
Great Britain
Russia
Germany
Signor Tittont
Five Weary Men Die By Their Own Hands
Five men in the city died by suicide amid illness and poverty. Joseph Christopher shot himself in the Hotel Albany after a despondent period in Broadway hotels. Old Joe Hoffman, 64, hanged himself after failing to collect debts. Frank Dennison killed himself at the Hotel Albert after falling behind on payments. Wolf Laber, 55, hanged himself in a cellar after losing his job. A man named Charles Fisher, later identified by papers as Flerman H. Men, shot himself in Mills Hotel after a brief, unknown period.
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Broadway
France
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Sullivan County
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Hoffman
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Ile
Henry Meeke
West Thirteenth Street
Anna Fredmund
Bleecker Street
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Bradford
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University Place
Eleventh Street
Dennison
Wolf Laber
Attorney Street
Charles Fisher
Flerman
H. Men
Mills” Hotel
Rivington Street
Congo State replies to British White Book on Congo reports
The Congo Independent State government issues a reply denying British consular reports. It calls false the claims that taxes are exacted in labor, that river transport is a state monopoly, that Katanga tax collection is farmed out, and that a commercial agent sentenced for murder was released.
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Congo Independent State
Congo
Congo River
Katanga
Five Thousand Dollar Prize Awarded for San Juan Capital Building Designs
The San Juan capital building competition awards include first prize to F. E. Perkins of New York for 5000 dollars, second to Ritchie Abbott of Boston for 2000, and third to H. L. Beadel of New York for 1500. Forty plus competitors entered, and Perkins will direct the architectural work once the prize is approved by the American Society of Architects. The proposed structure sits on a prominent hilltop site with sea views and a dome atop a nearly 300 by 300 foot footprint.
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Porto
Rico
F. Be, Perkins
New York
Ritchie Abbott
Boston
H.L. Beadel
Frank E. Perkins
Broadway
American Society of Architects
London House debate on hops import curbs stalls
In London April 14 Sir Gilbert Parker urged action to curb American hops in England but Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Lloyd George contested the figures as greatly exaggerated while Parliament paused to consider the issue.
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England
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Ilor
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Fire destroys historic garrison church in Berlin
Berlin dated April 14 reports a total blaze that destroyed the historic garrison church. The building housed two centuries of North German art and Emperor William had a personal interest in the site, designing three stained glass windows lost in the fire.
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Lokal Anzeiger
Corfu
William
Berlin
Austrian Steamer Galatea Sunk After Mole Collision
The Austrian Lloyd steamer Galatea, outward bound from Trieste, struck the Mole at Sebenice about seventy miles away. She sank after being driven below the waterline. the crew was saved. Galatea was 787 tons register.
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Austria-Hungary
Here
Sebenice
Denmark Grants Universal Voting Rights to Taxpayers
In Copenhagen on April 14 the Folketing passed the Government Franchise bill by 64 to 0 after the Landsting already adopted it. The measure gives all taxpayers, male and female, over 24, and all married women whose husbands are taxpayers, the right to vote in all communal elections.
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Copenhagen
Folkething
Landsthing
Suit Against San Luis Mining Estate Over $500000
John J. Gibbons as a director filed in the Supreme Court to recover $500000 alleging Walter S. Logan misappropriated funds from treasury stock proceeds. Defendants include Myra B. Martin and other Logan relatives and San Luis Mining Company. Logan is accused of commingling company money with his funds and personal use of funds.
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John J. Gibbons
San Luis Mining Company
Walter S. Logan
Myra B. Martin
Brill Stores’ Dual Merchandising Approach
Brill stores pursue two ideas: a modern, premium clothing line and special value pricing with prices lower than rivals. Brill offers exclusive fabrics, models six months to a year ahead, and tailoring in Brill shops, claiming unique trade advantages that benefit customers with Brill clothes priced from $15 to $45.
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Brill
America
Senator Platts Fifth Avenue Hotel suite auctioned
The twenty year occupation by Senator Thomas C. Platt of rooms at the Fifth Avenue Hotel sold at auction. Women dominated bidding and bought at low prices. One buyer praised the red roses on a carpet and noted the suite's historic associations.
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Platt
Fifth Avenue
Clark
Real estate broker Hugo Cohn missing since March 31
Hugo Cohn a real estate broker at 19 Avenue A has been missing since March 31. His affairs are involved and Edward G. Davis attorney for the estate of Charles Thomson, of which Cohn was executor, has an attachment for Cohns body. The estate is valued at $60 000.
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Charles Thomson
Cohn
Italian Found Strangled in Williamsburg Stabbing Case
The body of Giovanni Carollo of 208 North Seventh Street Williamsburg was found cut into pieces in a lot at Fort Hamilton Avenue and Forty-eighth Street. A rope used to strangle him remained around his neck.
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Williamsburg
Fort Hamilton Avenue
Forty-eighth Street
Brooklyn man held for aiding niece's marriage to three men
Philip Nethling of 206 Taylor Street Brooklyn was held in $1,000 yesterday in the Adams Street Court for aiding his niece Juliana Krone to marry three men. The husbands Adolph Schurwald Fred Ludwig and Stephen Taylor identified articles of millinery they had given Juliana.
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Taylor Street
Brooklyn
Adams Street
Juliana Krone
Adolph Schurwald
Fred Ludwig
Stephen Taylor
Juliana
Havana Plan for City Improvements Under Magoon
A Havana City Council committee recommends Gov Magoon's plan to pay and sever Havana at 15 million dollars. The council will debate the report, likely approval. The state would advance five million and cover ten million itself.
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Havana
Magoon
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