Navy reorganizes with four officers as advisers
Washington reports major changes in the navy department to streamline command, create an advisory four-officer council, and split bureaus into material and personnel divisions. Rear Admiral Wainwright Potter Swit and Captain Aaron Ward are named aides for operations, personnel, material, and inspection. A new cost system and fleet division aim to modernize administration and trim the Bureau of Equipment.
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Silethy
Meyerard
Secretary of the Navy
Meyer
Bucdaiyg
Richard’ Wainwright
Atlantic
William =P. Potter
William =P. Potter,’ ‘who is ‘chief of the“bureau of naviga L tlon
William Swit
Bostonavy Yard
Aaron Ward
Board of
Survey
Alde
Dafolione
Tha ‘Department
Navy Yards
Navy
Ateam Engineering
Double Shooting Ends in Tragic Home Invasion
A weapon wielding man forces entry at Levi Minnich’s home demanding protection. He shoots Minnich in the back, wounds Mrs Minnich twice, and is found dead under a bed with a self-inflicted wound after deputies arrive. A physician notes the assailant showed signs of delirium and exaggerated behavior prior to the attack.
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Maicide
Phyatclins
Levi Minnich
Weaver
Wireless saves 28 men at sea near Cape Hatteras
New York dispatch reports the Diamond Shoals lightship sent wireless alerts as Brewster crew were rescued after a perilous offshore rescue. Crews from Cape Hatteras and Hatteras Inlet stations launched surf boats amid heavy seas and WAVES, pulling 28 men from the Brewster while four stayed aboard the lightship. The wrecking steamer U Merritt cooperated to drag the Brewster into deep water during a historic rescue.
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New York
Cape ‘Hatteras
Brewster
TJ. Merritt
Diamond Shoals
Norfolk
First and Last Quarrel Overcome by Gas Tragedy
Baltimore reports a nearly 25 year married couple had a quarrel that led to gas flooding their home. William Higgins found his unconscious wife after smelling gas and, while trying to aid her, was overcome himself. Police arrived to revive them. Higgins vowed this would be their first and last quarrel. In Washington a White House access rule change limits daily in person calls. Congress members must request appointments, and the public is told to call for noon to 1 pm daily except cabinet days.
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Baltimore
William ‘Higgins
Higkina
Oo Winute
Washington
Paft Hasi
White ‘House
Congress
O'¢Lock
Engine Leaps: Locomotive Crash in Norristown
A locomotive at the Pennsylvania railroad roundhouse escaped and crashed through bumper blocks, leaping down an embankment into Franklin Avenue. No crew or bystanders were present at the engine or street section. No injuries reported.
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Norristown
Pennsylvania” Railroad
Franklin Avenue
Brother Killed in Deer Hunt Mishap in Duluth Minn
Duluth Minnesota November 20 A hunting accident left Alfred Moe dead after Ole Moe mistook him for a deer and shot his brother The tragedy recalls a prior incident years earlier when Ole Moe accidentally fired during a hunt in Scawatorm New Mexico El Paso Texas November 30 reports seven feet of snow in Daween New Mexico with severe fall weather across the region
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Duluth
Minn
Fini
Ole Moe
Alfred
New Mexico
el Psso
Tex
Daween
New Mexten
New
Sempon
Milwaukee
Wis
Upper
Michigan
Wisconsin
Leva
Sugar Trust Men Face Not Guilty Plea Trial
Indictment proceedings continue in the criminal branch before Judge Spinen at Burlington, as defense demurs and motions to quash are debated. Juror selection proceeds with cautious caution amid defense concerns over government influence and prosecutorial staffing. Also noted are unrelated brief items on hunting fatalities in Wisconsin and a nun’s death in Mobile.
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Criminal Branch
United Blazea
Spinen
Martin
Vermont
Uimion
United States
Bride Vanishing Mystery Baffles Parents and Community
The piece reports a bride to be in Piet, 1700, who disappeared while arranging a distant marriage to John Swalenkt. Parents state she informed them she planned to run away toward the church, while local rumors hint at feuds and a possible engagement with Bendrick’s circle.
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Jansimo Peter
Josepheth
Atria Wileged
Bendrick
Tain Yee
Pennsylvania Railroad Distributes Semiannual Dividends
The Pennsylvania Railroad company distributed checks totaling 99,735,508.60 in semiannual dividends. Shareholders received 5,266,487 more stock value, with 28,904 holders holding 115 shares each on record.
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Pennsylvania, Railroad
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania’ Railroad ‘Company
Igamapaiy
Sverige
Pennoy!varia
Ratirdad
Ae Ickholders Fa
Treasurer’s Flight Leaves $21000 Shortage in Pittsburg Church
Auditors report a treasurer Lilley vanished after accounting for a $21,034.84 deficit at the Presbyterian church of Pittsburg. A sale fund from the old Fourth church property on Penn Avenue also vanished. The presbytery announced no prosecution, citing the treasurer’s trusted years and a close clerical friendship as reasons.
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Aappanred
Pittsburg
Penn Avenue
Lilley
May Bar Foot ball West Virginia Likely to Outlaw
Morgantown Wheeling W Va Nov 30 Since the skull of Mack the West Virginia University halfback was fractured at Morgantown Thanksgiving day legislators of that state seem determined to put a stop to the game at the coming session Many have been interviewed and a majority of them are opposed to the game Several measures are ready to introduce to penalize the state over the issue
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West Virginia
Morgantown
Wheeling
W. Va
Mack
West Virginia University
Sweetheart girl stabbed to death in Vincennes home
Miss Ella Borba twenty year old daughter of a mill owner was killed by her lover Oscar Savage in Vincennes Indiana. Savage drunk tried to be ejected from the house and turned on the father stabbing Ella in the heart as she intervened. She died instantly.
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Hous
Vincennes
Ind
Ella Borba
2A Mill
Oacar Savage
Savage
Borba
Iknife
Misa Burba
Bettween
Making Jobe for Mexicans in Mexico City
Government orders Pullman Company to replace American and Degro conductors with Mexicans as rapidly as possible in line with Mexicanization efforts. Taft to present annual message to Congress, busy at the White House, expected to finish printing by midweek.
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Mexico
City
Pullman
Peplace
Itm
Degro
Vane Pertera
Etary
Department of
Oxygen Helmets Save Miners in European Coal Disaster
A wartime report describes new oxygen helmets tested at a Pittsburg station to aid rescue in coal mine fires. The gear includes metal helmets with oxygen tanks and hydrogen cartridges, enabling rescuers to enter burning shafts and ventilate gases while plans for broader adoption unfold.
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Biperilmont
Pittsburg
Paul
Wastilsigton
Sicernibent
Geological Survey
Pie Bille
Steauyett
Officinia
Falers
Wien
Amverleia
Rengie
O. Perlid
Eittaburg
Texeier
Crime Page Reform Proposal At Rochester Meeting
The Federation of Women’s Clubs meeting in Rochester New York, hosted by Mrs A C Fisk, debated adopting resolutions to allow readers to tear out the crime page. The move targets removing sensational content from newspapers to protect subscribers.
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Pewapayer
Federation of Women’s Clathes
Rochester
N. Ys
A. C. Fisk
Federatop Afer Mra. Fisk
Wabscribera
Tobbertell
Higmente
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George Dunlap
Rockdale
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Jean, M. Voelker
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Taft
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