History teachers plan gathering sessions in Indianapolis
Indiana State Teachers Association to meet February 13–14 in Indianapolis with talks on civics, course revision, Indiana Constitution, local history, currency legislation and vocational training. Joint evening session with Indiana Historical Society features historians and officials. Closing address by James A. Woodburn on currency. Election of officers to follow.
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Indi Ranolis
Indiana State Teachers’ Association
Indianapolis
Harry W. Wood
Manual Training High School
C. B. Haworth
Kokomo
Oscar H. Williams
Woomington
Indiana
Thomas I. Moran
Purdue University
Indiana Historical Society
Harlow Lindley
Earlham College
United States
Jacob J. Dunne
Indians Hiistorical Society
Iarcaub CL Brown
James A. Woodburn
Indiana University
John A. Lapp
Indiana Bureau of Legislative Information
Frank S. Bogardus
Indiana State Normal School
Bank Examiner Appointed And Northern Indiana Editorial Meet
Auditor of State O'Brien announced the appointment of Alvah E. Gibson of Marion as state bank examiner at 2500 dollars a year. He replaces Arthur C. Craven and will work statewide from Marion. Gibson led Marion Democratic city committee for a decade and was the 1914 mayoral nominee who lost to J. O. Batchelor. The 1914 Northern Indiana Editorial association meeting will be in Fort Wayne with a Woman's Press club address led by Mrs. Hester Alverson Motfet of Elwood.
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O’brien
Alvah E. Gibson
Marion
Gibson
Arthur C. Craven
State Banking Department
Democratic
Democratic City Committee
J. O. Batchelor
Northern Indiana Editorial Association
Fort Wayne
Harry 9B. Darling
Commercial Club of
Woman's Press Club of
Indiana
Hester Alverson Motffet
Elwood
Woman’s Press Club
Sessions End In Bloomington Amid Religious Conference
A two day session of the national religious conference of workers at state universities concluded in Bloomington. Dr Shaller Mathews of the University of Chicago delivered the best attended address on Preparation of Religious Leaders in Universities and Colleges. President Charles M Stuart of the Garrett Biblical Institute spoke on The Supreme Ideals of Religious Education. Secretary Frank D Padelford of the Baptist board discussed molding denomination interest in state university work. The state board of agriculture debated an auto race at the state fair next September with no action taken. A Moross proposed adding a dirt track race as a special attraction, facing opposition from speedway promoters. Premiums in the agricultural department were raised by 300 dollars, and total speed event premiums remained 20 000 dollars.
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Shaller Matthews
Divinity School
University of Chicago
National Religious Conference of Workers At State Universities
Bloomington
Matthews
Charles M. Stuart
Garret Biblical Institute
Avanston
State Board of Agriculture
State House
Clem Graves
A. Moross
Indianapolis Speedway
State Board
Indiana
Agricultural Department
Anderson Drug Inquiry Unsettles Local Pharmacists
Burton Cassidy and Jerome J. Keene of Indiana board of pharmacy visited Anderson drug stores to probe reports of large cocaine and morphine shipments. Officials would not disclose findings but said the visit aimed to trace drugs sent from Chicago wholesale houses to Anderson and potential secret distribution here.
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Burton Cassidy
Indiana Board of Pharmacy
Jerome J. Keene
Anderson
Indiana
Chicago
State Board
Mealera
Thirteen Poultry Trust Defendants Sentenced to Three Months
New York March 9 appellate division upholds convictions of 13 members of the so called poultry trust for restraint of trade. Each must serve three months on Blackwell's Island and pay a 500 dollar fine. Defendants include Erving V. Dwyer A G Dwyer James Norris Samuel Werner and Charles Werner among others. The ruling invokes a fifty year old New York statute and may prompt prosecutions of other local business combinations.
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New York
Supreme Court of the Appellate Division
Poultry Trust
Blackwell's Island
Erving V. Dwyer
A. G. Dwyer
Bayonne
N. J
Charles Westberg
Rosedale
W. W. Smith
Roselle
Charles R. Jewell
Belmar
James R. Norris
Brooklyn
William H. Harris
Sea Clff
Charles T. Hawk
Newark
Charles Thatcher
Clendon
Trotenville
N. Y
Samuel Werner
New York City
Solomon Prankel
Charles Werner
Midgemere
Appellate Division
The Mercamille Bank Collapse and Its President
Memphis, Feb 11 The Mer camille bank closed after officers under J L Hutton began examining books to confirm a suspected shortage near 1 million dollars. President C Hunter Raine admitted responsibility and said he would not post bond, preferring jail as criminal proceedings follow the bank’s failure amid embezzlement charges and a multi hundred thousand loss from cotton speculation.
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Memphis
Tenn
Mercamille Bank
J. L. Hutton
C. Hunter Raine
Raine
Criminal Court
Palmer
Tate
Mo W. Palmer
Hates
Bond
Jedi
Hunter Raine
Secretary Bryan halts Asiatic exclusion bills in Congress
Secretary of State Bryan told the House immigration committee that any agitation on Asiatic exclusion would threaten diplomatic relations with Japan and Mexico. He pledged secrecy on Japanese complications and urged Rep Baker of California not to press his bill. The committee said action on Raker and all exclusion measures would be suspended pending State Department recommendations.
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Washington
Bryan
Congress
House Immigration Committee
Japan
Mexico
State Department
Uryan
Baker
California
Burnett
Boy Dies Found By Dog After Creek Search
Ardmore Oklahoma February 9 A farmer James Rivers found the body of his three year old son after a dog led him to a creek The incident occurred while the two were together in the fields.
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Ardmore
Okla
James Rivers
Durwood
Rivers
Potsdam
Germany
Friedrichshaven
Washington
Wilson
United States
Panama
Galt
Ontario
Shurly-Dietrich Company
Williamson
W. Va
Daniel Adams
William Ackerman
Matawan
Smiling Bob Bremner, Representative, Dies in Baltimore
Washington reports Representative Bob Bremner of New Jersey died in Baltimore after weeks of cancer pain. He had worked on a bill to create a bureau of labor safety in the apartment of labor and hoped to see its approval by the house.
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Washington
Bob” Bremner
New Jersey
Baltimore
Bremner
Bureau of Labor Safety
House
Bill to Teach Farmers in Agricultural Extension
The Senate passed the Smith Lever agricultural extension bill with a Jones amendment on funding division between segregated schools. The measure, already cleared by the House, heads to conference and could become law in weeks. It provides $10,000 per state to educate farmers through colleges and demonstrations.
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Washington
Senate
House
Canal official suspends Burke in Panama Canal affair
Col George W Goethals chairman of the Panama canal commission suspended John Burke manager of the commissary department after hearings on charges of gratuities and irregular business. W F Shipley chief clerk of the subsistence department was also suspended for incompetence. Burke protested his innocence.
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Panama
George W. Goethals
Panama Canal Commission
John Burke
Commissary Department
Goethals
Burke
W. F. Shipley
Subsistence Department
Washington
Garrison
United States
New York
H. Snowden Marshall
Liabilities Hit 2.27 Million in Conlon Berthand Failure
London February 10 creditors of the defunct foreign banking firm Conlon Berthand reported gross liabilities of 2 266 972 dollars. The failure was blamed partly on depreciation of certain industrial stocks in the United States.
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London
Conlon-Berthand
United States
Nine Americans die as Huerta troops pursue bodies of victims
Charred remains and scattered buttons mark the Cumbre tunnel disaster on the Mexico & Northwestern line. A rescue party with oxygen gear moved into the wreckage as American victims, including M. J. Gilmartin and F. McCutcheon, were identified among the dead. a separate report cites American millionaire Myles Dobson reportedly executed by Huerta forces.
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United States
Huerta
Cumbre
Chihuahua
Cumbra
Mexico & Northwestern Railway
Castillo
Juarez
Cumbre Tunnel
Maximo Castillo
W. J. Farragut
Bryan
Edwards
Benavides
F. C. Herr
Madera
M. J. Gilmartin
B. Scchefield
Lee Williams
H.F Marders
F E. J. McCutcheon
J. K. Webster
Edward Morris
Thomas Kelly
James Burgess
New York
Myles Dobson
Mexico
Dobson
Wilson
City of
Senate Votes Big War Fund
The Senate advanced fortification appropriations by 6 895 200 dollars and boosted artillery and ammunition funding. Senators Bryan and Sheppard debated army size and preparedness, noting current forces and the need for more guns per man.
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Senate
BIG War Fund
Washington
House
Uryan
Sheppard
Bryan
Saniago
America
Bulgaria
Servia
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Indiana State Association
the Historical Society
Charities Board
Board of State Charites
Simeliae
Bae
Sessions
Acapulco
C. S. Edwards
Cowles
N. Y. Supreme Court
Memphis Institution
Bob
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