Notable figures cited in wartime era debates and obituaries
Colonel Goethals arrives in Washington to discuss fortifications as the Panama Canal opens officially in 1915 with ships expected by fall 1913. Frank Slosson of Kenosha dies after stomach perforation. John P. White is warmly welcomed in Joskaloosa as new United Mine Workers president. Dr Herman Cary Bumpus receives Roumanian grand cross. Bishop Thomas Bonacum of Lincoln dies aged 64. Persian finance minister Sant-eid-Dowleh is shot in Tehran. Postmaster Richard L. Ashurat goes missing in Atlantic City. Senator Lorimer’s seat debated amid bribery claims. Capt John Streckfus buys Diamond Jo lines.
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Goethals
Panama Canal
Washington
Frank Slosson
Kenoraha
Wis
John P. White
Joskaloosa
Herman Cary Bumpus
University of Wisconsn
Lincoln
Web
Sant-Eid-Dowleh
William Lorimer
Illinois
Ribery
Senate
Elihu Root
States Senate
John Streckfus
Rock Island, I
St. Paul
St. Louis
New Oreans
Illinois land grabs cited to justify funding attorney general
A report from the Chippewa field submerged lands committee estimates land grabs around Lake Michigan and Illinois waters at 250 million dollars. It urges empowering the Illinois attorney general with funds to aggressively pursue court actions to assert the state's rights against encroachments. The piece also notes rail service inefficiency and possible upheaval, and reports on events from Juarez, a Missouri fire destroying the capitol, a cafe robbery in Chicago, a Wisconsin murder, and a missing person case.
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Lake Michian
Chiperfield Submerged Lands Committee
Illinois Attorneyeneral
Hitchcock
Rabago
Juarez
Mexico
Missouri Capitol
Chicago
Kenosha
Wis
J. Jacobson
Mary Zahon
Paul Zahon
Somers
Miss Zahon
Global famine reports and political uses of reform collide
Shanghai dispatches describe famine in Ngan Hwen and Kiang Si with thousands dying and bodies unburied, while fears rise for American missionaries. Other items note the National Grange mobilizing to block Canada's reciprocity treaty, a Lexington winter carnival fundraiser, a suicide by a jailed milliner, California approving a woman suffrage referendum, and private irrigation deals in Wyoming.
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Shanghai
London
Ngan
Hwen
Kiang Si
National Grange
Lexington
National Patriotic Organizations
Minute Men
Mass
Clifton
Ariz
Jack Chambere
Sheriff English
California Assembly
Senate
George B. Roberts
Wyoming
Wyoming Central
Petersburg
Republican Old Guard
Chicago Garment Workers
Davila
Honduras
Taft
State Department
Cooper
Mariietta
Congress
Robert H. Peary
West Point
Academy
Roosevelt
Wright
American Breeders’ Association
Columbus
Central Railroad of New Jersey
Communipaw
N. J
Sierra Manila
San Lorenzo
Chihuahua
Mexico City
Prince Tsai Chun
China
United States
George V
Germany
Reichstag
St. Petersburg
Pantchenko
Count O'Brien
da Lassy
Orient
Snbaraki
New York Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Yale
Charles 3. de Long
Frederick T. de Long
Chicago
Publisher and writer retract libel claims against Standard Oil
In a formal correction filed at Shearman & Sterling the publisher Hampton's Magazine and writer Cleveland Moffett retract all charges against Standard Oil Company over glucose and candy sales in Philadelphia. The letters dated Jan 31 1911 apologize for the error and express regret. The company had sued for 250000 damages against Hampton's Magazine and 100000 against Moffett. Benj. B. Hampton signs for Broad way Magazine Inc.
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New York
Standard Oil Company
Hampton’s Magazine
Cleveland Moffett
Philadelphia
Shearman & Sterling
Broadway
Hampton's Magazine
Weat Thirty-fifth St
Cassidy
Standard of
New York City
Lorimer Accused of Corrupt Election by Brown
Senator Norris Brown of Nebraska charged that William Lorimer of Illinois knew his Senate election by the Illinois legislature was achieved by corrupt practice. He named Browne and Shurtleff as Lorimer’s agents and warned he would block appropriations until Senate action on Lorimer, the people’s election resolution, and tariff and pension measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Norris Brown
Nebraska
Senate
William Lorimer
Illinois
Holstlaw
Broderick
Lee O’neil Browne
White
Link
Beckemeyer
Wilson
Lorimer
Browne
Edward D. Shurtleff
Illinois House of Representatives
Brown
Shurtleff
Browna
Taft Commutes Sentence Of Socialistic Editor Warren
President Taft commuted the six months imprisonment and $1600 fine of Fred D. Warren, the Socialistic editor, reducing the fine to $100 and allowing collection by civil process only. Warren was convicted in federal court of a technical misuse of the mails.
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Washington
Taft
Fred D. Warren
Warren
Airships to Patrol Rio Grande Border with Army Aviators
The War Department plans an aeroplane patrol along the Rio Grande with aviators entering U S service. General Hert will verify insurgent activity while General Wood and others arrange rapid delivery of Wright biplanes to General Hoyt. The reserve pledges six more aircraft to create an effective border patrol against illegal expeditions.
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Washington
War Department
Rio Grande River
United States
Hert
Department of Texas
Rio Grande
Wood
Allen
John Barry Ryan
United States Aeronautical Reserve
Robert Collier
Wright
New York
Express
General Hoyt
Tribute to Cullom Echoes Lincoln as Illinois Leader
Washington reports a Burton of Ohio speech praising Illinois Senator Shelby M. Cullom as second in esteem only to Abraham Lincoln. He rebukes Batley of Texas for implying Cullom’s seat might be illegitimate if Lorimer’s was invalid, noting Cullom’s fifty years of public service and long Senate tenure.
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Washington
United States Senate
Shelby M. Cullom
Illinois
Abraham Lincoln
Burton
Ohio
Senator Lorimer
Senate
Batley
Texas
Lorimer
Senator Cullom
Cullom
Blast kills two and injures twenty at Carpentersville house fire
In Elgin area, a gas explosion at the Wilburn house in Carpentersville killed Howard Mann and Adam Qberst and wounded twenty others, four fatally. The hotel was wrecked and guests fled as a stove fire ignited a gas main, leaving the building destroyed and rescuers burned among the ruins. Adjoining homes became temporary hospitals as physicians aided the injured.
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Elgin
Ill
Wilburn
Carpentersville
Howard Mann
Adam Qberst
Binks Retires From Chicken Business After Fast Earnings
Wobbies asks if Binks made money in the chicken business. Binks confirms and reveals ten thousand dollars earned before leaving the venture. The exchange, in a humorous Harper's Weekly tone, ends with Wobbies reacting in disbelief.
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Binks
Wobbies
Harper’s Weekly
Grape-Nuts Said to Aid Health and Vitality
A Boston educator describes drastic health improvement after nervous exhaustion and long teaching career. She credits Grape-Nuts and a raw egg breakfast for better digestion, brain power, and endurance, claiming constipation relief and overall well being.
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Boston
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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Hampton
Bailey
Sinois
Munyon
Prof
Jefferson Sts. Phila. Pa
Sprenger Bros
Peoria
Heney St
Sagorlyn
San Juan
Underwriters & Guaranty Co
Braiey Bldg
Kansas City
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