New Officers Named by Woman's Missionary Society
The Indiana branch of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Church elected officers for the year at Morristown and plans next year’s meeting in Elkhart. Officers include President Mrs B S Badd and secretary Miss Alice Rhodes, with delegates from northern and central Indiana. The meeting featured life member W F Walker, music by F W Lineberry, and messages from missionaries in Nagoya Kalgan and China. Florists' associations may merge at a July 10 meeting in Winona Lake. Egg show at Purdue scheduled May 14–16 with prizes and no entry fee.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
The
Methodist Protestant Church
Morristown
Elkhart
B. S. Badd
Alice Rhodes
Cowan
Mattie Ritter
A. R. Corn
Bryant
Grace
F. W. Lineberry
Donna Schelgelmilch
Rensselaer
Nagoya
Japan
P. W. Dierberger
Muncie
C. S. Heininger
Kalgan
China
Doctor Andrewe
J. W. Harmon
Smith Harper
J. Thomas
Anderson
O. E. Steinkamp
State Association
J. D. Connor
Wabash
A. J. Wagner
Columbia City
Northern Indiana Society
Purdue
Indiana Red Cross to Aid Flood Victims in State
The state and the American Red Cross will share relief duties for Indiana flood sufferers. The Red Cross will send 80000 to Indiana, with state funds providing 600000 for other towns. Brookville Lawrenceburg Logansport Mt Vernon Peru Terre Haute receive specified amounts. Red Cross reps will distribute funds in centers including Logansport Peru Mt Vernon Brookville Lawrenceburg Terre Haute. Banquet of Indiana Grocers held in Indianapolis with state and national leaders addressing the gathering. Investigations ordered by Dr J N Hurty into river town conditions amid reports of dysentery in Lawrenceburg and Aurora with water in cisterns and potential epidemic risk.
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Indiana
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Wvernor
Ralston
Ernest P. Bicknell
Bicknell
Posey County
Peru
Terre Haute
Logansport
Mt. Vernon
Brookville
Lawrenceburg
Columbus
Hugh Dougherty
Indianapolis
Brookfield
C. M. Hubbard
Ralph J. Reed
A. E. Webster
Indiana Grocers
Joseph A. Goddard
Muncie
Indiana Wholesale Grocers’ Association
German House
C. A. Monagle
American Specialty Manufacturing Association
Frank E. Gorrell
National Canners' Association
Samuel M. Ralston
George E. Lichty
National Wholesale Grocers’ Association
Charles A. Bookwalter
J. N. Hurty
John Owen
State Board of Health
Ohio River
Aurora
O. K
Johnson and Bryan Clash Over Alien Land Bills
Governor Hiram Johnson defends California power to restrict alien land ownership citing federal law. Secretary Bryan advises against language deemed discriminatory toward Japanese and favors a senate bill restricting land to citizens or those declaring intent to naturalize.
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Sacramento
Cal
Hiram W. Johnson
California
United States
Illinois
Johnson
Japan
Washington
Bryan
Senate
Department of State
Ciitizens
Assembly
New York
Delaware
Kansas
Minnesota
Kentucky
Missouri
District of Columbia
John Pierpont Morgan Will Leaves Vast Sum to Kin and Charity
The will of John Pierpont Morgan filed for probate in New York on April 22 reveals a final distribution: wife 100000 a year, three daughters 9000000, other relatives 2100000, friends 1750000, servants 450000, charity 600000, with the rest to son J P Morgan Jr. The total estate is estimated 160 to 200 million, the residue mostly left to Morgan Jr. who is named heir to the fortune and his charitable and artistic aims.
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New York
Jesus Christ
John Pierpont ‘Morgan
Rome
Europe
Hartford
St. George's
Meee Kr Ye
J. P. Morgan, Jr
Churchill Loses Purse and Data at Riviera
Winston Churchill, first lord of the admiralty, reported to be worried after losing a pocketbook containing confidential naval data and $2,500 won at cards at the Riviera. Scotland Yard sleuths traced a trail of aristocratic gang members he suspects of cheating. the suspects had just arrived in London.
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London
Winston Churchil
the Admiralty
The
Riviera
Scotland Yard
Clark Bryan Feud Ends in Washington Banquet
Ira E. Bennett of the Washington Post hosted a Friday banquet in Washington to celebrate the political if not personal reconciliation of Champ Clark and William Jennings Bryan. The event marked a notable shift in Democratic circles with the two leaders mending ties.
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Washington
Ira HE. Bennett
Washington Post
Champ, Clark
William Jennings Bryan
Wilson Nominates Wide Range of 1913 Appointees
President Wilson sent to the Senate a slate of nominations including William J. Harris as director of the census R W Woolley as auditor for the interior department Samuel Houston as assistant attorney general Thompson Jr for the court of claims Storbert H Manson as collector of internal revenue Robert W Jennings as Alaska district judge Clarence L Reames as Oregon US attorney Frank O Williams as land office register Lucius Q C Lamar as general land office recorder Luke Voorheeds as receiver of public money at Cheyenne and Henry Clay Breckenidge as assistant secretary of war.
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Jerry B. Sullivan
Iowa
United States General Appraisers
New York
William W. Roper
Philadelphia
Princeton
Wilson
Penrose
Oliver
William J. Harris
Georgia
Senate
Interior Department
Robert W. Woolley
Virginia
United States
Court of Claims
Samuel Houston
Thompson, Jr
Denver
Colo
Internal Revenue
Storbert H. Manson
Wisconsin
District Court of
Alaska
Robert W. Jennings
United States District Atttorney
District of
Oregon
Clarence L. Reames
Eastern District of
Texas
Benjamin F. Sherrell
Kallspell
Mont
Frank O. Willams
General Land Office
Lucius Q. C. Lamar
Cheypenne
Wyo
Luke Voorheeds
Mrs Story Wins D A R Presidency On Ballot Victory
Mrs William Cummings Story of New York heads the conservative faction to be elected president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution defeating Mrs John Miller Horton of Buffalo on the third ballot. Vote 600 to 449 with seven vice presidents general named from Ohio Alabama Missouri Iowa California and Indiana. The election followed three days of balloting as Mrs Story steadily gained on each ballot. Jerome Sloan dies at 100 in Akron township after celebrating his centenary.
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Washington
Wiliam Cummings Story
New York
Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
John Miller Horton
Buffalo
Story
Horton
Thomas Kite
Ohio
Rhett Goode
Alabama
Ben Gray
Missouri
Marriott Lake
Iowa
John Swift
Payne Introduces Tariff Board Creating Legislation
Representative Payne of New York proposes a tariff commission to aid the president in reciprocal trade talks with foreign nations. The five member panel would report to both Congress and the president, with six year terms and salaries of seven thousand dollars.
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Payne
N. Y
Tariff Board
Commission
Old Board
Washington
New York
Congress
House
Senate
Republican Tariff Board
Underwood
Waya and Means
Belgian suffrage strike paralyzes Brussels traffic
Brussels on April 23 reports a growing general strike for suffrage reform with 26 000 protesters and widespread work stoppages. Soldiers and civic guards guard docks and depots as unions use both local and foreign labor to load ships while unions patrol central streets. Two Belgian soldiers desert a steel mill post and kill a pursuing guard before fleeing into the forest.
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Brussels
Belgium
Fontaine L'Eveque
Boy Confesses to Double Murder in Elgin Farmhouse
Herman Coppes, a fourteen year old recently paroled from St Charles reformatory, confessed at Kane county jail to killing Mrs Maud Steep and her two babies in the Sleep farmhouse near Elgin. He allegedly shot the mother, killed the infants with an ax, and dumped the bodies into a cistern before going to feed the cows.
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Elgin, Jr
Maud Steep
Sleep
Elgin
Kane County
Herman Coppes
St. Charles
Manny Sleep Asia
Reformatory
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Foreign Missionary Society
John W. Kern
Gov. Johnson
Orient
Son
J. Pierpont Morgan
Berlin
Italy
Victoria Luise
Ernest August of Cumberland
Rowland Buckstone
America
Edward H. Sothern Company
Players’ Club
Bellevue Hospital Phychopathic
Noisy le Grand
France
Chicago
John E. W. Wayman
Churchill
England
Admiralty
Clark
Washington City
Joseph Brucker
Las Palmas
Canary Islands
W. J. Harris
R. W. Woolley
H. C. Breckenridge
James and Bradley
Henry Clay Breckenidge
Lexington
Dias
Peoria
Jerome Sloan
Akron Township
Boy
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