Cable Tolls Fall In War Over Message Rates
Western Union adopted deferred message plan on Dec 6 and says no further changes needed. Beginning Jan 1 1912 plain language messages to Great Britain at 60 percent off, with limited delays. Commercial and French cables follow with their own trims. Germany and England adjust parity, extending to broader routes.
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Western Union
Commercial Cable Company
French Telegraph Cable Company
George G. Ward
New York
London
Ward
Great Britain and Ireland
Great Britain
Ireland
Postal Department of
England
France
Germany
United States
Bathing fashion shifts in Home Dress at exposition
At a local exposition of home fashions, women’s outfits move toward simple lines to match rising living costs. The bathrobe and dress material blend Turkish towels with blanket cloth, offering towels with red stripes or fringe as personal touches.
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Cieage
Comis
Destroyer Warrington in collision near Cape Hatteras
Norfolk dispatches report torpedo boat destroyer Warrington damaged after a collision with an unidentified schooner twenty five miles northeast of Cape Hatteras. Fifty six crew moved to Onondaga, Warrington leaky and settling, nine other fleet vessels nearby. Salem cruiser aiding, rough seas slowing progress toward Hampton Roads.
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Salem
Warrington
Cape Hatteras
Atlantic Torpedo Fleet
Charleston
New York
Hampton Roads
Onondaga
J. N. Stanley
GW. Teander
Bontawain
Doling
Hampton Roade
Norfolk Navy Yard
Banker Marries English Woman in Jersey City
Edwin Mainvost, a Cincinnati born banker, secretly wed Miss Eleanor K. Mills of Hillcrest Malden England at Jersey City City Hall on a Wednesday. Justice William Burke performed the ceremony as the city register announced the marriage.
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Edwin Mainvost
Eleanor K. Mills
Hillcrest
Malden
England
Jersey City
William Burke
Pewea
Publc
City Register
Justice Burke
Mr. Post
Cincinnati
Henry A. Post
Hksbyron
Long Island
Post
Emily
Bruce Price
Tuxedo
Ish
Union League
Daylight Jewel Robbery by Two Men at Samuel Ader Store
Yesterday afternoon two well dressed men entered Samuel Ader’s shop at No Jivay and asked to see diamond rings. While prices were discussed a man snatched a ring and another man choked the proprietor as accomplices helped themselves to jewelry. Mrs Ader screamed prompting a chase for over half a mile, ending at Weetty Street station where two suspects were captured. Officers Tricks and Lynch detained George Bodin and Martin Joyce of Western Street and Eighth Avenue on grand larceny charges.
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Samuel Ader
No. Jivay
Ader
With Street
Furthver
Weetty Street
George Bodin
Western Street
Martin Joyce
Eighth Avenue
Bayonne and Paterson Men Rescue Girl at Asbury Park
An incident at Asbury Park ends with Joseph Goldweber of Bayonne and Mike Bonde Kaufman of Paterson rescuing a girl from danger. The youths acted courageously and the event culminated in a formal engagement between rescuers and the rescued person, details blurred in the report.
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Joseph Goldweber
Bayonne
Mike Bonde Kaufman
Paterson
Asbury Park
Mies Kaufusa
Goldweber
Leavitt Made New York Highways Superintendent in Queens
G Howland Leavitt, head of the Queens highway commission and a Wall Street financier, was appointed Superintendent of Highways in Queens by Borough President Maurice X. Connolly. Leavitt, a Flushing resident, vows to run the department on a business basis with taxpayer support, noting prior graft and incompetence in the system and his own personal funds used for road improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. Howland Leavitt
Good Roads
Automobile Chair of America
Joynor
City of
New York
Queens
Maurice X. Connolly
Leavitt
Flushing
Highway Department
Lawrence Gresser
Connelly
Emanuel Brandon
Connolly
Lown
Amber of Commerce
Shore Acres
Bapsida
Wall Street
Queens County Agricultural Society
Aid of Education of Queens
Harvard Professor Links Anger to Sugar Spike in Blood
Baltimore December 28 Harvard Professor w B Cannon of Harvard explained to the American Physical Society today that anger raises sugar in the blood as muscles demand more fuel. He cited animal experiments suggesting similar effects in humans and noted a cat’s arched fur as a sign of anger, though he did not quantify the sugar increase.
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Harvard
W. B. Cannon
American Physiclcal Society
Heeld J
Cannon
Tampa
Woman Blew Across Street After Wind Strikes Elderly Woman
Mire Mags Ward a ninety three year old woman was blown across the street near Shrowdway yesterday. Patrolman Kikin of West 21st Street Station found her lying on the sidewalk in front of a building. Mrs Molly Sheridan, matron, heard her murmur about faith and sisters and the House for the Ages. The wind carried her into the Home for the Aged where she was not badly hurt.
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Mags Ward
Ama
Kikin
West 21Th Street
Molly Sheridan
Wank
Columbine
Duke of Portland Hosts Underground Birthday Ball
In Wes Mobey's famous underground rooms, the Duke of Portland celebrated his fifty fourth birthday with a grand ball. More than five hundred invitations went out, the hall shone brilliantly, and the Duke, Duchess, and house staff led a lively party with department heads dancing in the subterranean setting. A midnight supper followed, and the Duke honored the village elders at dinner.
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City Cape
London
Duke of Portland
Wes Mobey
Ment
Ty Duke
Dlaner
Auto Victim Delighted by Jack Johnson Incident
Chicago reports prize fighter Jack Johnson involved in an automobile mishap as he towed a car when Mrs. Joseph Wickerer attempted to pass between the two vehicles. She was bruised and cut but thanked the champion after he stopped and gave her a ride home. Police were present but there were no arrests.
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Miax Croker
Breen
Justice Engler
Miss Croker
Croker
Milton Schwartz
A. G. Schwartz
Durland’s
Schwartz
Durland
Mika Croker
Mrs. Treen
Adie
King Lake
N. J
Howard
East 7Th Street
Europe
Thessutt
Ogdensburg
Freon
Jack Johnson
Chicago
Johnson
Joseph Wickerer
Revolutionary leaders seek 20 each to desert imperialists
London reports Shanghai dispatch that General Ta Yuen-bheng at Wu-Chang has urged thirty thousand imperialist troops at Hankow to switch sides and join the revolution. The note claims leaders offered to change allegiance in return for desertion.
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London
Morning Post
Shanghai
TA Yuen-bheng
Wu-Chang
Honk J
Hospital Burned. 20 Saved in Greenwich Sanatorium Fire
Fire destroyed Dr. W. H. Wiley's Palmer Hill sanatorium in high wind. Dr. W. J. Wellington, Mrs. Wiley, and nurses saved all patients, with a bedridden woman escaping by her own effort. Fire started from a fireplace. many workers risked personal property. Mrs. Wiley inhaled smoke while aiding in evacuations.
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Greenwich
Conn
W. H. Wiley
Palmer Hill
W. J. Wellington
Madame Maeterlinck Arrives in Monteneath in Leopard Skin
The incident involves Mme Maeterlinck’s arrival in Monteneath this afternoon wearing a leopard skin coat. Reporters focus on a diamond on her forehead as she playfully wards off questions and claims the gem as her emblem of good fortune, amid public curiosity and laughter.
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Mme Maeterlinckin
Monten
Orlando Harriman III serious at Dr Walker's sanatorium
Orlando Harriman, brother of the late E H Harriman, lies in grave condition at Dr John Walker's sanatorium 92 Fast 23d street after three days confinement and an operation for diabetes related illness. He is a real estate operator and resides at the Hotel Majestic. He has been unconscious for many hours.
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Orlando Harriman
E. H. Harriman
John BR. Walker
Hardman
Hotel Majestic
Woman Leaves Baby After Baptism At City Rectory
A stylish young woman brought a one month old infant to the Church of Our Lady of Story at Throop avenue and McDonell street seeking baptism in the name Gibson McLaughlin. With no sponsor, Mary Tierney agreed to be godmother. After the baptism the woman returned two hours later, thrust the child at Miss Tierney and fled. Gates Avenue police secured the infant, placing it with a city nurse. The well dressed baby wore white clothes a white silk hat and a corduroy coat.
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Church of Our Lady of Story
Throop Avenue
McDonell Street
Gibson McLaughlin
Mary Tierney
Brooklyn Avenue
Miss Tierney
Dies Caught in Fence Barbed Wire Holds Aged Man
Louis Stoffregen, a wealthy Pottsville resident and former county treasurer and postmaster, was found dead three miles from his home after being held by barbed wire while attempting to creep through a fence on a mountain. State police located his body after days of search. death attributed to exposure as he struggled to free himself.
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Pottsville
Penn
Louis Stoffregen
Potteville
Stoffcen Wie
Judge Would Bar Divorce in Michigan Proposal
Michigan jurist Judge FD Kinne urges abolishing divorce laws. He argues the privilege has been abused and urges a law that forbids dissolving marriage in Michigan. He allows separation decrees in limited cases but opposes full dissolution of the matrimonial bond. Ann Arbor.
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Michigan
FD. Kinne
Kinne
Ann Arbor
Sun Yat-sen Elected President of China Amid Chaos
Dr Sun Yat-sen has been unanimously elected President of the Republic of China at Nanking. The report notes rising chaos, factionalism, and potential foreign intervention as Yuan Shih-kai and imperial forces clash with republican supporters, with no funds to sustain fighting and various negotiations continuing in Peking and Shanghai.
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Nanking
Sun Yat-sen
Republic of China
Sun Yet-sen
Yuan Shih-kai
Tang Shao-yi
Peking
China
Shanghai
Wu Ting-fang
Yuan Shih-kat
Sun
Yuan
Yangtse
Joning
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Hatteras
Norfolk, Va
Wport
Patterson
Burrows
Monaghan
Ammon
Ge. M. Post
Daylight Jewel Robbery
Herrscue
Lenittis
Head OF Queens Roads
John J. Breen
Boss
Ethel
Hoboken
Richard Croker
Tammany Hall
Richard Croker, Jr
Howard Croker
Ethel Croker
Wantage
Ontario
Canada
Joker
Palm Beach
Nicoll
Anabi Lindsay & Fuller
Paris
North River
Samuel Engler
Riding Academy
Charity Home
Crokers
Ethel Croker Breen
Huchard Croker
J . Wiley's
Mme, Maeterlinck
Fulton St. NY
DEWEY
Dewey & Sons CO
Orlando Harriman III
DR. Sun
Pe- King
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