Annual banquet opens Indiana furniture dealers meeting
The Indiana Retail Furniture Dealers association held its annual convention in Indianapolis with Joseph A. Munchef as toastmaster. Julian Wetzel urged honesty in advertising condemning fake sales and cited Memphis and Atlanta cases as how real dealers expose fraud.
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Indianapolis
Indiana Retail Furniture Dealers’ Association
Joseph A. Munchef
J. A. Conrey
Shelbyville
Harry N. Tolles
Chicago
Rahe
Fort Wayne
Elmer , Gay
T. L. Thompson
C. W. Smuck
Ed. O’haver
John M. Touse
New York
Julian Wetzel
Memphis
Tenn
Atlanta
Brooklyn
N. Y
Wetzel
Banquet in Indianapolis Hails Bumper Indiana Harvest Prospects
Indiana Bankers association banquet in Indianapolis reports strong crop prospects across Group 4 counties. Immense corn crop, average wheat yield and big hay crop cited. one county reports a failed corn crop near Plainfield. Officers and nominees announced as 200 attendees heard remarks on the blue sky bill.
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Fortville
H. Harvey
Zionsville
Will H. Wade
Indianapolis
F. E. Davis
Tipton
J. W. Tritipe
W. A. Cline
Thorntown
M. F. Bayard
W. C. Osborn
Danville
Arthur
Ralston
George F. Quick
Continental National Bank
O’brien
Arnold
Banking Department
Dick Miller
Indiana May Death Toll Drops and Rates by County
State health board reports 2,872 total Indiana deaths in May with nine murders by firearms and one stabbing. Accidental deaths reached 161, led by steam road incidents and drownings. Pulmonary tuberculosis caused 817 deaths and pneumonia 182. Urban rates varied with Indianapolis at 12.5 and Angola 89.1 per thousand, while poliomyelitis deaths occurred in Boone Delaware and Sullivan counties.
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Indiana
State Board of Health
Oth
Dinese Caugh
Apolis
Lafayette
Hammond
Chicago
Clinton
Covington
Angola
Boone, Delaware
Sullivan
Governor Sulzer accuses Murphy in plot to ruin him
Albany June 24 Governor Sulzer denounces Tammany chief Charles F. Murphy in a bitter statement alleging he tried to influence legislation patronage and removals. Sulzer says he refused to follow Murphy’s bids and warned of a criminal conspiracy to loot the state. He adds no man can ruin him but Sulzer himself. News from Seattle reports Archdeacon Stuck summited Mount McKinley June 7 and plans to return to Fairbanks in August and New York in October as Alaska delegate. The expedition reports a 20 500 foot summit and notes a three mile ice passage cut after last summer’s quake.
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Albany
N. Y
Sulzer
Charles F. Murphy
Tammany
Murphy
Stilwell
William Sulzer
Seattle
Wash
Archdeacon Studson Stuck
Fairbanks
Alaska
Mount McKinley
Great Mountain
Stuck
Archdeacon Stuck
New York
Episcopal Church
Copenhagen Cabinet Crisis as Zahle Is Asked to Form
King Christian summoned ex Premier Zahle to form a new cabinet after the resignation of the last ministry was accepted on June 12. Other items note a major fire in Des Moines destroying the Lagerquist Carriage plant with twelve autos burned and a $50,000 loss. John Knowles, son of Philadelphia’s assistant postmaster, arrested in Mason City for over $1,000 theft and to be sent to Philadelphia. Willie Ritchie ends manager ties. Hire Railroad telegraphers reach agreement with railroad to meet their demands.
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Copenhagen
Christian
Zahle
Des Moines
Lagerquist Carriage Company
Mason City
John Knowles
George W. Knowles
Philadelphia
Fort Dodge
San Francisco
Willie Ritchie
Billy Nolan
New York
Craig Murder Case Opens in Indianapolis Trial Beginnings
Indianapolis suspense heightens as Dr. William B. Craig goes before the court to face a murder charge in the mysterious October 24 1911 death of Dr. Helen Knabe. The case promises to be one of the city's most spectacular trials.
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Indianapolis
Ind
William B. Craig
Hélen Knabe
Wilsons attend Baltimore wedding of McAdoo daughter
President Wilson and senior officials travel by car to Baltimore for the wedding of Francis Huger McAdoo, son of Treasury secretary McAdoo, to Miss Ethel Preston McCormick at Brookland Wood in Green Spring Valley. The party includes Interior Secretary Lane Commerce Secretary Redfield and Dr Grayson.
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Washington
Wilson
Interior
Lane
Commerce Redfield
Tumulty
Grayson
Baltimore
Francis Huger McAdoo
Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo
Ethel Preston McCormick
Isaac Emerson
Brookland Wood
Green Spring Valley
Ether- Ron
Train wreck injures forty on excursion trip
Forty people were hurt when five coaches derailed from a Western New York and Pennsylvania excursion train from Rochester to Bradford. One passenger is expected to die and four others are described as in dangerous condition after the cars plunged down an embankment near Cuyllerville station, 83 miles west of Rochester.
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Rochester
N. Y
New York and Pennsylvania Road
Bradford
Cuylerville Station
Million Dollar Nome Gold Shipments Reach Seattle
A million dollars in gold, the first Nome Alaska shipment this year, arrived in Seattle aboard the steamship Senator and Victoria. The vessels completed their first round trip of the Berlng sea season, delivering the precious cargo.
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Nome
Seattle
Wash
Name
Alaska
Senator
Victoria
Berlngaca
Wilson signs sundry bill. veto threat over anti trust fund
President Wilson signed the sundry civil appropriation bill but said he would have vetoed the $300,000 provision for prosecuting anti trust violations if possible. He noted the item limits justice department funding yet could not be separated from the bill and affirmed the department can act with existing resources.
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Washington
Wilson
Department of Justice
Department
United States
Poincare Salute Kills Two at London Arrival
President Raymond Poincare of France arrived at Portsmouth aboard the Courbet after a royal salute at Spithead by England's latest warships. On arrival at Cherbourg two gunners were killed and two wounded by a gun explosion during the salute. The visit to London draws public interest with hopes for closer Franco British ties.
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London
Raymond Poincare
France
Portsmouth
Courbet
England
Spithead
Poincare
Cherbourg
Will Probe M N ab Case In California Postponement
Willison said he would ask Attorney General McReynolds for a report on all circumstances behind the postponement of the Diggs Caminetto white slave cases in California. United States Attorney McNab wired his resignation. The president said he had no knowledge until the newspapers. He viewed the postponement reason as humane if tied to the immigration commissioner general attending his son’s trial.
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Washington
Willison
McReynolds
California
United States
McNab
Commissioner General of Immigration
Pelkey Found Not Guilty in Death Fight Case
Calgary verdict clears Arthur Pelkey in the May 24 arena prize fight death of Luther McCarty. Judge rules Pelkey not guilty of causing death and declares the defendant not guilty in the notable boxing case.
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Pelkey
Calgary
Alberta
Burns’ Arena
Arthur Pelkey
Luther McCarty
Coal Miners Prepare Strike in New River District
Beckley West Virginia June 25 following United States Mine Workers action adopting a joint resolution calling a strike in the New River coal district it was announced the strike would be called July 1 in the region including Beckley and surrounding towns.
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Beckley
W. Va
United States Mine
New River Coal District
Sugar Fight Heats Up as Sugar Schedule Faces Senate Test
Washington dispatch reports opponents of free sugar staging a final push in the Senate caucus. Senator Shafroth of Colorado called for ending the free sugar provision in three years, citing beet sugar industry harm. Louisiana leaders planned a strong line, with Ransdell rallying Democrats against administration plans as Newlands arrived to bolster the opposition.
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Washington
Senate
Louisiana
Shaforth
Colorado
Walsh
Montana
Thornton and
Ransdell
Senator Newlands
Nevada
Senator Shafroth
Two Kidnappers Guilty in Dorothy Holt Case
Frank Sulfen s and Ernest Harrison were found guilty of kidnapping Dorothy Holt daughter of the assistant state's attorney in Salem Ohio on June 23. Each man faces twenty five years in the penitentiary after a week long trial and lengthy deliberations amid wartime tensions in the city under martial law restored after a rescue from vigilante violence.
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Salem
Frank Sulfens
Ernest Harrison
Dorothy Holt
Vege
Willia
Trains Collision Kills Fourteen in Vallejo
A high speed head on crash of two San Francisco Napa and Calistoga electric interurban trains one mile north of Vallejo on June 21 kills fourteen and injuries many more as wreckage and splintered wood trap survivors.
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Vallejo
Cal
San Francisco
Napa
Desperate suffragist dash interrupts royal race in Ascot
A male suffragist charged the Ascot track during the Gold Cup, colliding with August Belmont's Tracery as it entered the stretch. He suffered mortal injuries in front of King George, Queen Mary, and a large crowd of racegoers. Separately in Washington plans are under way for joint army and coast defense exercises to begin the week of July 4 along Long Island Sound and Narragansett Bay.
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Ascot Heath
England
King George
Queen Mary
Belmont
Washington
Long Island Sound
Narrag Bay
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