Congress To Meet Today In Slow Winter Session
Washington November 30 Congress opens its second session with a cautious outlook. The President’s message may wait until after initial Senate and House committees report. Key topics include the Sherman anti trust law enforcement funding, tariffs, Cuban reciprocity, territorial admission bills, and the Supreme Court nomination of Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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House
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McMillan
Michigan
Representatives-elect
Senator Lodge
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Arizona
Committee On Territories
Oliver Wendell Holmes
United States Supreme Court
Judge Gray
Cannon
Ashe
Treasury Department
Hoar Forecast On Congress This Winter
Senator Hoar of Massachusetts predicts little legislation beyond general appropriation bills this session. He says budget bills will occupy most time and no tariff or trust measures will pass. He notes thirteen weeks is short and may limit debate opportunities.
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Cuba
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Washington
Senator Hoar
Massachusetts
Amusements and Arrivals Featured in Page Index
The page index lists Amusements and Arrivals at Hotels and Out-of-Town Buyers on Page 12, Fires on Page 12, Marine Intelligence and Foreign Mails on Page 12, Real Estate on Page 13, Religious and Society on Page 9, and Weather on Page 12. An advertisement for Piso's Cure for Coughs and Colds urges children to take it without objection.
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Weather Report
Hanna denies retirement rumors as Senate tenure holds
Washington November 30 Senator Hanna flatly denies rumors he will resign or retire from the Senate or as Chairman of the Republican National Committee. He says he will serve his current term if re elected and will decide on the chairmanship only after the next National Convention. He leaves the question to the new committee and Ohio voters.
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Washington
Hanna
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Ohio
Republican National Committee
National Committee
Virginia Debates Over Glass Swearing In
Washington report says John Wise of New York may seek to block Virginia representative Glass from being sworn in over alleged unconstitutional exclusion of Black voters. Wise, counsel for Virginia’s disenfranchised Negroes, seeks support from GOP congressmen. Glass fills the seat of late Peter Otey. objection would require a majority to move the case to committee.
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Congress
John 8. Wise
New York
Representative Glass
Virginia
Glass
Wise
Peter J. Otey
Tugboat Heroes Rescue Family From Sinking Barge
A coal barge with 150 tons of coal sank off North Brother Island after a hawser snapped in rough seas. Tugboat Hattie B. and Captain Smith finally saved Capt Bentley, his wife, and four children after five rescue attempts. Patrolman Thomas attempted a rowboat rescue but narrowly escaped.
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North Brother Island
Hattie B
McWillams
Smith
Bentley
Capt. Bentley
Capt
Thomas
Alexander Avenue
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
Entley
President pressures Southern white Republicans on race
Representative Bankhead says President Wilson uses his influence to force Southern white Republicans to choose between backing the negro or remaining in the Democratic fold. He argues the move to remove Col lector Bingham solidifies white support for Democrats and weakens Republican chances in the South.
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Washington
Bankhead
Alabama
South
Collector Bingham
North
Radcliffe Graduates Run World First Laboratory Bakery
Two Radcliffe College women, Miss Stevenson and Miss Frances Elliott, operate a unique Cambridge bakery. Stevenson manages while Elliott oversees breadmaking. They began with in-house baking, now employ five bakers across two shifts making health bread, cream bread, and whole wheat, with each loaf requiring eight to ten hours of work.
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Cambridge
Mass
Radcliffe College
Miss Stevenson
Frances Eliott
Toronto
Toronto University
Radcliffe
Miss Elliott
Converse College
Mrs Hawkes Dies of Burns After Lamp Accident
Mrs Ellen Hawkes twenty nine of 93 Concord Street Brooklyn died yesterday after a lamp was upset while visiting George Glee hotel steward. Her ten year old daughter Sadie helped but Mrs Hawkes clothing caught fire and Mrs Glee fell thirty feet from a window injuring his ankle and body.
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Concord Street
Brooklyn
Sadie
Hawkes
George Glee
Concord Street House
Mrs. Hawkes
Glee
The Pennsylvania Special Delivers Swift Travel
The ad promotes The Pennsylvania Special train between New York and Chicago with a stenographer available on board for speed minded travelers seeking efficient service.
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New York
Chicago
Pennsylvania
Robbers Kill Bank Clerk in Westville Shooting
In Westville Indiana Wesley Reynolds sixteen year old bank clerk was shot to death when robbers broke in to blow the safe. The bandits fled in a stolen rig leaving a trail of blood and a vacant revolver. Sheriff Small leads a posse seeking the robbers and a $1000 reward is offered. Reynolds suffered three bullet wounds including head and heart.
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Ind
Wesley Reynolds
Adolph Koontz
Reynolds
E. S. Smith
Small
Young Reynolds
Dearth of Field Animals Grips Philippine Agriculture
Manila reports a severe aid crisis as 90 percent of carabaos perish from rinderpest and few new imports survive. Government planned large imports with immunization but halted due to funds. Without field animals, plantation cultivation stalls and farming prospects grow bleak.
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Manila
Philippine Islands
Body Rescued From Dead House by Henry Watterson
Nathan B Walker former member of the Lotos and Union League Clubs of New York died in Louisville City Hospital as a pauper. Henry Watterson retrieved the body from the medical college dead house and had it buried at Cave Hill, among thirty others, after a Courier Journal paragraph disclosed the event. Walker had been forgotten at the Union League club, per reports at the club gathering last night.
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Louisville
Nathan B Walker
Lotos and
Union League Clubs
New York
Louisville City Hospital
Henry Watterson
Medical Calle
Courier-Journal
Cave Hill
Watterson
Land Office Upholds McClurg in Cliff Dwellings Suit
The U S Land Office at Santa Fe NM ruled in favor of Mrs Virginia D McClurg of Colorado Springs in her suit to preserve cliff dwellings in northeastern Socorro County New Mexico. The ruins, largest known, are valuable to archaeology and ethnology students, despite Mrs Corbin claiming homestead rights to the land.
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New York Times
Colorado Springs
Col
United States Land Office
Santa Fé
N. M
Virginia D. McClurg
Ree Blasts and Summer Zephyrs Ad Notice
Advertisement notes a difference of four days between New York and California on the Golden State Limited Rock Island Route train service with a contact at 401 Broadway.
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New York
California
Rock Island
Broadway
Brooklyn Bridge collision injures Palmer party and coachman
Lowell M. Palmer Jr. and his companion were in a coupé with George Miller when De Kalb Avenue Car 677 struck them near the Manhattan tower. Both men suffered cuts and shock. Miller was badly injured and taken to a physician. The wrecked coupé remained on the bridge as police awaited information. The trio continued to Jersey City for a late train to a southern hunting trip.
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Brooklyn Bridge
Jersey City
Lowell M. Palmer, Jr
Brooklyn
Lowell M. Palmer
Mr. Marshall
John McHale
George Bauer
Manhattan
Miller
McKeon
Ten Thousand Dollar Piano For Mr Schwab
Boston November 30 a Roxbury factory completes one of the most expensive pianos in the United States made for Charles M Schwab the steel magnate The piano price 10000 the highest ever paid by an American it is a Louis XVI styled middle sized grand gilded with Watteau foliage design 8 feet 7 inches long 5 feet 2 inches wide and weighs 1150 pounds
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Boston
Roxbury
United States
Charles M. Schwab
Schwab
National Council of Jewish Women Meet Largest In Country
The Baltimore convention opens at Eutaw Place Synagogue next Tuesday with delegates from every state and major city. National officers arrive. activities include philanthropy study of Jewish literature and history. events include receptions at Phoenix Club and a White House reception hosted by Mrs. Roosevelt.
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National Council of Jewish Women
Eutaw Place
Henry G. Solomon
Chicago
Emanuel Mandel
J. H. Seiz
Minnie Loeb
Sadie American
New York
Moses Goldenberg
William Rosenal
Jane Addams
Hull House
Phoenix Club
Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Breese Bank Embezzlement Trial Ends in Mistrial
In Charlotte on November 30 a U S District Court jury failed to reach a verdict against William E Breese former president of the First National Bank of Asheville charged with embezzling 114000 from the bank years ago The jury had stood eight to four for conviction eight for and four against acquittal This was Breese third trial following prior convictions and appeals
Venezuelan Appoints Velutini Minister to France
General Velutini is named Venezuelan Minister Plenipotentiary to France to renew ties severed since 1804 amid fears of German pressure. Germany plans three more warships to Caribbean waters, stoking official concern in Caracas and Britain Germany relations. In Washington, Isaac Seligman meets the President seeking U S moral support for Venezuela’s obligations and possible loan talks.
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Caracas
Antonio Velutini
France
Velutini
Germany
Great Britain
Venezuela
Cabinet of
The Strenuous Man's Train To Chicago
The Pennsylvania Special offers a twenty hour ride to Chicago with all the conveniences of the office. The rail line markets speed and comfort for busy travelers seeking work access en route.
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Chicago
Woman Accused of Murder Commits Suicide in Custody
Mrs. Hattie L. Whitten, jailed on suspicion of poisoning her nine year old daughter, hanged herself from a bedpost while under Deputy Sheriff Curtis in Dexter Maine. The case linked her to the deaths of her husband and an elder daughter and involved arsenic and strychnine findings.
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Dexter, Me
Hattie L. Whitten
Curtis
Whitten
Lewis
David Livermore
Milo
Robinson
Bowdoin College
Mra Whitten
Dover
Jennie
Parents Held After Poison Deaths Of Two Philadelphia Girls
Philadelphia authorities arrest John W. Williams and his wife after the deaths of Annie Williams nine and Josephine Williams three. A physician and coroner suspect poisoning. Insurance policies totaling 145 dollars loom in the inquiry as the couple deny responsibility.
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Philadelphia
Annie Williams
Josephine
John W. Williams
Annie
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Coal Delivered in Boston Amid Severe Shortage
Coal was sold in all Boston residential districts as dealers opened on Sunday to meet demand. Cold weather spurred a rush with few buyers receiving more than a quarter ton. Dealers warned of ongoing scarcity with no price relief or ample supply until April. Outlying areas faced the same strain.
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Boston
Metropolitan Coal Company
Convention of Potters Holds 14th Annual Meeting
The United States Potters Association plans its fourteenth annual convention in Washington this week. Charles Cook of Trenton presides over a body including all U S manufacturing potters. English potters push a scheme to suppress American pottery by targeting Trenton as a key source of cheap china.
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N. J
United States Potters’ Association
Washington
Charles Cook
United States
Staffordshire
Trenon
Eight-Year-Old Katie Rossler Found After Running Away
Katie Rossler, eight, vanished from her Bruns wick home yesterday. She was found asleep under a porch two miles away and returned to her parents. It marks her fourth runaway in a year as she says she wants to see the world. An international arrangement. Dewar's Scotch in the best American highballs. Adv
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N. J
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Dewar
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Croker to Return in Spring Said by Dem Club Leader
Richard Croker may visit New York in the coming year to see relatives and old friends, according to John Fox, president of the Democratic Club. Fox says Croker does not seek to resume Tammany Hall leadership and may step back, urging young leaders to take the helm while old hands offer advice. The club plans a local reception for Leader Charles Murphy, with no set speeches at the banquet. The club’s annual meeting reports receipts of 124,802.76 and expenditures of 117,581. The clubhouse is valued at 250,000.
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Richard Croker
John Fox
Democratic Club
Fox
Europe
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Croker
New York
J. Sergeant Cram
Cram
Charles Furphy
Tammany
David Bennett Hill
Lewis Nixon
Hill
Nixon
Murphy
Asurer
T. F. Hascall
Oldest City Stage Carpenter Dies Sudden in Theatre Box
David McFall aged 71 of 218 East Thirty-fifth Street died suddenly in a Murray Hill Theatre box as the Sunday night concert began. He had worked as a stage carpenter since Barnum’s Museum days and was surrounded by friends. An apoplexy ended his long career. his body was moved to the morgue after initial handling at Bellevue Hospital.
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David McFall
East Thirty-fifth Street
Murray Hill Theatre
McFall
McCarthy
St Thirtyfifth Street
Bellevue Hospital
Vose
Sreeted Street
Undsman Mnn
Dr. Vose
Quinn
Bourne withdraws guilty plea in speeding case
Arthur K. Bourne son of Frederick G. Bourne of Manhattan faced a speeding charge in Babylon as he considered pleading guilty. After clubmen urged a fair defense and the Long Island auto-crusade was discussed he withdrew the plea and entered not guilty. He was paroled until Thursday with intention to clear the charge.
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Arthur K. Bourne
Frederick G. Bourne
Manhattan
Bourne
J. B. Cooper
Justice Cooper
John Snedecor
C. B. Jones
J R. Bourne
Fig T
Long Island
Whistling Postcards From Germany Stir Mail Room
The whistling postal cards from Germany were readied in the foreign mail department as the Cunard Line ship Campania arrived. Clerks searched the mail for canary birds and crying babies after hearing whistling sounds from the cards. The cards resemble regulation American sizes with two birds facing east and west between the whistle mechanism that sounds when grasped.
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Foreign Mail Department
General Post Office
New York Central Links Transcontinental Lines
Advertising copy notes how the New York Central connects with every transcontinental railway line at Chicago St Louis Cincinnati or Montreal facilitating nationwide rail reach.
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Chicago
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Montreal
New_York Central
Ady
British seek Boer gold bars tied to postwar claims
London reports Britain telegraphs to German ports seeking Boer gold bars valued at $600,000 thought to have moved from South Africa to the United States recently. Kruger and Leyds allegedly possess $2.5 million and refuse to surrender, with legal action threatened if the gold is not turned over for the Boer people.
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Berlin
Soh Africa
Kruiser
Leyds
Transvaal
Great Britain
Botha
Chamberlain
De Wet’s Book On The War Reviewed In London
The Berlin dispatch previewing De Wet’s Three Years’ War notes the Boer general’s blunt critique of British leaders and praise for Cronje’s bravery. It highlights his claims of God guiding escapes, his views on desertion, blockhouse policy, and strategic blame, and ends with a note on a Sargent portrait of De Wet.
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London
England
Bismarck
South Africa
de Wet
Archibald Constable & Co
Buller
Lord Roberts
Lord Kitchener
Gen. Knox
Tommy Atkins
Paardeberg
Botha
Pretoria
Muirhead wireless system trials on Johnston liner Vedamore
The Vedamore arrives with a wireless station and reports strong tests of the Muirhead system backed by English capitalists. W J Blenheim, in charge, says messages have been received at 1000 miles sea and transmitted 300 miles due to power limits. Morse code is used with ticker tape recording.
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Baltimore
W. J. Blenheim
Holyhead
Blenheim
Muirhead
Johnston Company
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Seligman
Hay
Isaac N. Seligman
Mien
Convention OF Potters
Kruger
Britain
Roberts
Kitchener
Muirhead Wireless System
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Burnett
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