Plea for Spelling Reform Impresses AP Meeting
At the Associated Press annual meeting in New York on Sept 20 publishers editors and other members heard Melville E Stone host a dinner with Samuel L Clemens urging adoption of simplified spelling to spread facts and emotions globally. Clemens claimed AP dispatches reach all races and urged three months of usage to win wider readership. Also noted were remarks by Horace Porter Henry A Shute and George E Vincent. Boston reported twenty missionaries sailing for Liverpool to serve in Burma Assam and South Asia with relatives seeing them off.
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Associated Press
Waldorf-Astoria
Melville E. Stone
giesta
Samuel L. Clemens
Horace Porter
France
Henry A. Shute
George E. Vincent
Chicago University
Clemens
heavens
milion
Rudyard Kipling
he Connor
Associated Presa
brlaw
Boston
Liverpool
Burmah
Assam
Souny
India
San Francisco
Philippines
Chia
Fifty Years For Negro Brute In Delaware Assault Case
In Wilmington a man named Charten Conley was sentenced after confessing to two brutal assaults on Mrs. Teatrica Frankish and her daughter Miss Leitch. He received 20 years for the elder victim and 30 years for the daughter, with terms to run cumulatively until 1956 and planned lashings. Disturbing reports from Media, Pennsylvania mention a murder probe and a suspect connected to the Pavitt case, while a Ward Line steamer Morro Castle endured a tornado near Cape Hatteras, with one quartermaster drowned as passengers faced rising water and fear.
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Delaware
Wilmington
Del
Charten Conley
Teatrica Frankish
Misa Guasie Leitch
Brandywine Springs
Mini Leitch
edler
Conley
Mra. Franklah
Miss Leitch
Spencer
Joseph Fetters
Pavitt
Anna Himmelwright
Pavidt
Ward Line
Havana
Morro Castle
Cape Hatteras
Darrow
Modern Hats and Hair Health Ad Claims Germ Killers
An old advertisement promotes Newbro's Herpicide as a solution to dandruff and scalp germs. It argues hats harbor parasites and links hair loss to germs, urging use of the product to kill germs and improve hair health. The Detroit Michigan marketing note lists J and W William son as special agents.
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Newbro
Detroit
Mich
Roosevelt Extends Eight Hour Law to All Public Works
President Roosevelt signs an executive order directing all government departments overseeing public works to report to their agencies any contractor or subcontractor who forces laborers to work more than eight hours in a day. Reports will be sent to the Department of Justice for action, with departments to compile relevant statutes for bidders’ guidance. The move follows Commissioner ONeill’s findings that enforcement effects are changing contractor attitudes.
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Department of Justice
Oyster Bay
N. J
Roosevelt
Charles FP. Nelil
O'Neill
auc public works
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Peace Mission In Cuba Seeks Amicable Settlement
Secretary Taft and Assistant Secretary Bacon mediate Cuba accord talks with Moderates Liberal factions and General Menocal representing veterans. Hearing at Marianao near insurgent camps. Taft says 10 days may be needed. aims for mediation not elections. Taft and Bacon report to Roosevelt. Zayas and Palma meetings noted.
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Havana
Iray
orn
Roose
Menocal
Viavana
Rosey
Taft
Morgen
Aaron
Roosevelt
Mendez Capote
Palma
erutary
Denver
Colwell
Zoyas
Young Officers to Command If Army Is Sent to Cuba
War Department selects plan for Cuban contingency with General Frederick Wanston to lead and Brigadier Generals Barry and Buvat as chiefs. Taft and Bacon attend Cuban mission while preparations proceed for emergency measures if reconciliation of Cuban factions fails. State department notes no new diplomatic reports due to Palma government accreditation. In Hollidaysburg Pa William R Philler acquires Altoona from Willems F with mortgage assumptions noted.
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War Department
Cuba
Washington
warng
Taft
Bacon ty
state department
thoes
Palma
special commission
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Ontario
Dice Harrow
Studebaker Wagon
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GEORGE L. CRAMER
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HELFENSTER
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Frank Finley
Wenger Fintey
Fale county
Hierman
Terry Dews
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