Taft proposes ship visit and cabinet officers named
President Taft offers a battleship inspection trip to Governor Wilson. Dr Carl Alsberg is named chief of the chemistry bureau. Taft urges uniform rural credits legislation. Secretary Wilson reports 1912 as the nation’s most productive year with crop value near 9.53 billion dollars.
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Taft
Wilson
Panama Canal
Carl Alsberg
Bureau of Drugs and Plants
Bureau of Chemistry
Harvey W. Wiley
Washington
Prsident Taft
United States
Greece to join London peace conference amid Balkan tensions
At Athens the Austro Hungarian and Italian ministers protested the bombardment of Aviona and Greek occupation of Aviona or Saseno. Greece says its control is not permanent. Greece signs armistice with Turkey and will join the London peace conference opening December 16.
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Athens
Aviona
Saseno
Greece
Turkey
London
Carrie Catt urges trousers over tight skirts in world campaign
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt tells the Equal Suffrage club in a two years round the world campaign report that women should discard corsets and hats and wear trousers instead of tight skirts to gain votes.
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Carrie Chapman Catt
Equal Suffrage Club
Hoppe sets billiards record in Philadelphia match
Sporting Willie Hoppe, the 18.2 game champion, ran 400 points in four innings for an average of 100 per inning against George Slosson in Philadelphia. Slosson managed 32 points as he was decisively beaten. Papke defeats Bernard for middleweight title in Paris with purse and ivory belt. McGoorty outpoints Gibbons in a ten round New York bout at Garden Athletic club.
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Willie Hoppe
George Slosson
Philadelphia
Slosson
Billy Papke
George Bernard
Paris
Eddie McGoorty
Oshkosh
Wis
Mike Gibbons
St. Paul, Minn
Garden Athletic Club
New York
Senator Boles Pen backs old age pensions for federal workers
In Philadelphia at a dinner for government and city civil service staff Senator Boles Pen urged Congress to pass a law creating old age pensions for federal employees. Col Archibald Gracie of A S A who survived the Titanic disaster and credited a miracle to his escape died at his New York home. The National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education opened its annual Philadelphia meeting.
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United States
Boles Penrose
Philadelphia
Congress
Col
Archibald Gracie
New York City
National Society For the Promotion of Industrial Education
Great Britain protests canal tolls as treaty violation
Britain files official protest with Secretary Knox and in Parliament over free tolls for American ships in a canal. Sir Edward Grey prepared the case, James Bryce delivers it, and Mr Mitchell Innes accompanies. The U.S. president has reviewed the protest, now guiding two questions on arbitration and dispute suitability.
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Washington
Great Britain
State Knox
Edward Grey
Knox
James Bryce
Mitchell Innes
United States
Roosevelt outline of four year program in Chicago speech
Col. Theodore Roosevelt in Chicago declares a four year plan centered on opposing the Republican party, a uniform Progressive legislative program, recalls of court decisions, and exposing lip loyalty among Republicans. He arrives with a national Bull Moose delegation and is greeted by 500 admirers at Park Row station.
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Chicago
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Republican Party
Mr. Roosevelt
Joseph M. Carter
Champaign
Park Row
Explosion rocks Bellwood quarry near Chicago
An explosion at the powder house in the A. C. O Loughlin company's Bellwood stone quarry shattered windows and shook buildings within about 12 miles. No one was seriously hurt.
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Chicago
A. C. O'Loughlin Company
Bellwood
American Minister Calhoun Dead in Canton Luncheon Meeting
William J. Calhoun, American minister to China, died Monday in Canton after a luncheon at the American consulate. He had met with Governor-General Hu Hon Man and the commissioner of foreign affairs during his visit.
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William D. Crum
United States
Liberia
Charleston
S. C
Monrovia
Crum
Roosevelt
Taft
W. J. Calhoun
Canton
China
William J. Calhoun
Hu Hon Man
Springfield
Conference of Governors
Richmond
Deneen
New 14 Inch Gun Bursts at Sandy Hook Test
A new fourteen inch gun burst during testing at the Sandy Hook proving grounds on Monday. The muzzle was blown back about one hundred yards and the temporary carriage was shattered.
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Sandy Hook
N. J
Sandy Hook Proving Grounds
Illinois News Briefs Roundup Across Towns and Incidents
Kankakee notes divorce suit accusing wife of murdering first child and threatening male offspring. Other items report a Peoria death from Jackjaw, a county sanitarium probe, robberies in Manlius, fatal train crash in Manteno, a burying accident in Olney, and various local incidents.
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Kankakee
August Ohlenkamp
Johanna Breese Ohienkamp
Lost Trousers in Detroit Poker Court Case
William Verne appeared in a Detroit police court in a dress coat and underwear after betting his trousers in a poker game the night before. He lost his cash watch and diamonds to the pot, quit the game when cleaned out, and was arrested while wearing only his coat and undergarments.
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William Verne
Detroit
William
No Call for Anxiety Tramp Exchange Sparks Suspicion
A citizen hands a solicited coin to a tramp and demands assurance the money will not be used for unworthy purposes. The tramp retorts that he would not waste the funds on food and clothes, showing mutual distrust in a terse exchange.
Never Tires Of the Food That Restored Her to Health
A young Cole woman credits Grape-Nuts with curing long standing indigestion and inflammatory rheumatism after two years of illness. She gained 10 pounds in five weeks and remains well while continuing to eat Grape-Nuts twice daily. The letter endorses the product and notes digestion and blood-building benefits as the path to health.
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Cole
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Adv
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American Sugar Refining Company
John E. Parsons
Washington B. Thomas
Blease
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Joseph E. Ransdell
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United States Shoe Machinery Company
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Lester Summers
Peoria
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Manlius
Chicago & Northwestern
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Olney
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Illinois River
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Margaret Foster
Belleville
Michael Bossler
Danville
A. L. Fox
Bloomington
Hidorado Township
Saline County
Quincy
Adams County
Effie Harmon
State Board of Administration
Fitzsimmons & Wheeler
Anna State Hospital
Taylorville
John Hall
Springfield Coal Company
William Hall
Nashville
Walter Seyler
Illinois Central
Ashley
Bridget Hughes Hospital
Frank B. Esgrove
Fairbury
Ramsey
S. B. Rogers
Versailles
Brown County Teachers’ Association
Leon Harrison
Temple Israel
St. Louis
Dean
Michigan
G. W. Burger
Sherman Ave
Corunna
Doan
Foster-Milburn CO
Buffalo
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