Canners Close State Meeting Re-Elects Smith
Indiana Canners Association closes its annual session in Indianapolis with re-elected officers President William C. Smith of Delphi Vice President W H Dyer of Vincennes and Secretary Treasurer Harry McCartney of Greenwood. A May meeting is planned as the group calls for grower once more to cooperate with manufacturers and government to improve tomato production.
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Indianapolis
Indiana Canners’ Association
William C. Smith
Delphi
W. H. Dyer
Vincennes
Harry McCartney
Greenwood
E. A. Hey
Chicago
Indiana
George W. Cobb
New York
American Can Company
J. G. Thomas
Peru
Thomas
Lee
Indiana State Teachers’ Association
Beverin
Tomlinson Hall
George B. Strayer
Columbia University
General Association
Cow Testing Association
James R. Garver
Purdue University
Dairy Department
Purdue
Lake County
Prient
Carmel
Sheridan
Lebanon
Washington
Montgomery
Thirty Die As Ship Henry B Smith Is Lost On Lake Superior
Marquette reports the Henry B Smith carrying 10000 tons of ore sank off Keweenaw Point after five days overdue. Captain James Owen commanded the steel vessel, length 565 feet, and wreckage washed ashore suggests the loss near Standard Rock. Widespread lake storm toll grows with more bodies found at Port Huron and morgues along the Canadian shore.
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Marquette
Mich
Henry B. Smith
Keweenaw Point
Lake Superior
Hawgood Transportation Company of
Cleveland
Smith
James Owen
Keweenaw
Canadian
Standard Rock
Port Huron
Lake Huron
Lakes
James Carruthers
Regina
John A. McGean
Wexford
Charles S. Price
Standard Buys Out Rival
A San Francisco morning paper reports Standard Oil of California has gained control of Murphy Oil Company production and California wells through a deal with Murphy directors. The price is said to exceed 22 million dollars. Also in New Orleans Mrs. Peter Cooke remarries John Landry after Commodore Cooke divorce.
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San Francisco
Cal
Murphy Oil Company
Los Angeles
Standard Oil Company of California
Standard
Murphy Company
California
New Orleans
Peter Cooke
Commodore Cooke
John Landry
Cooke
Forged Letter Tangles Pindell Ambassadorship and Wilson Inquiry
Washington dispatch reports Henry M. Pindell of Peoria was not sent to the Senate as ambassador to Russia amid claims of postponement. A forged letter, attributed to Sydney Moulthrop, threatens exposure unless President Wilson and Senator Lewis drop pursuit of the writer, with letters tied to Bryan McAdoo Sullivan and O Connell and postmarked in New Jersey.
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Washington
Henry M. Pindell
Peoria
Russia
Senate
Bryan
Pindell
Wilson
Lewis
Sydney Moulthrop
White House
McAdoo
Roger Sullivan
William L. O’connell
Moulthrop
Post Office
New Jersey
Three Die In Race Riot At Bassfield Mississippi
Virgil Stamps deputy sheriff and city marshal of Bassfield died with two black men James Fuller and Samuel Tillman after a Friday race riot at the logging camp of B. J. Allman near Bassfield. About three hundred workers, mostly black, were present. Fuller allegedly threatened to kill his paramour amid days of trouble.
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Bassfield
Miss
Virgil Stamps
James Fuller
Samuel Tillman
B. J. Allman
Fuller
Spencer Found Guilty in Illinois Murder Trial
The Wheaton jury convicts Henry Spencer of murdering tango teacher Mildred Allison Rexroat near Wayne and leaves the penalty to be death. Spencer reacts with shouting and fainting, questioning sanity, as Judge Slusser orders a new trial motion set for the following week.
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Spencer
Anton Zeman
Slusser
Chinese finance official resigns in Pekin
Pekin reports Chung Hu, vice minister of finance, resigned from the Chinese government. Other notes recount royal tours and marriages in Europe, a Swedish princess vow, a bank closure in Illinois, and Theodore Roosevelt's Argentine interior trip.
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Pekin
Chung Hu
Madrid
Alfonso
Victoria
Paris
Vienna
Berlin
London
Louis de Gontaut Biron
James Hazen Hyde
Stockholm
Marie
Prince William
Sweden
Ottawa
Ill
Tonica Exchange Bank of
Tonica
J. E. Hartenbower
Chicago
Buenos Aires
Theodore Roosevelt
Argentina
Huerta target of arrest as Mexico crisis grows
Mexico City reports a cour d etat looming as General Blanquet may arrest Huerta with army support to restore peace. Huerta’s safety moves center on Chapultepec castle and resignation rumors surface after congress convenes. US Mexico relations and possible port blockades loom as foreigners flee.
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Mexico City
General Huerta
Blanquet
Mexico
Huerta
Chapultepec
Congress
Chamber of Deputies
John Lind
United States
Nelson O'Shaughnessy
Organization of Congress
Francisco Pronces
Vera Cruz
Admiral von Hintze
Manuel Garza Aldape
Espagne
Aldape
Modeno
Huerts
Paris
France
Austin
Tex
Texas
Garrizo Springs
Colquitt
San Marcos
Washington
Hutchings
Woman Painter Nellie Burrell Scott Dies in San Francisco
Mrs. Nellie Burrell Scott, famed for fish life canvases, died in San Francisco from a complication of diseases. Exhibitions of her work have traveled to every state in the Antois.
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San Francisco
Nellie Burrell Scott
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Canners
Indiana Association
Department of Food and Drugs
State Board of Health
E. G. Hogate
Indiana University Law School
School of Law
Laura Donnan
Oliver P. Morton
Robert
L. Mellen
Bedford
Jessie Woodrow Wilson
Francis Bowes Sayre
Williamstown
Masa
H. B. Smith
Superior
Big Corporation
San Francisc Oil Company
S. Maulthrop
Warrant
J. Hamilton Lewis
Bassfield, Miss
Slayer
Gen. Blanquet
U. S
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