Taft urged to create a commission on employer employe relations
Washington news notes Miss Jane Addams and fifty sociologists visiting President Taft to urge Congress create a commission to study employer worker relations, favoring nonviolent dispute handling. Taft amends canal zone medical rules to allow Christian Science remedies and bans sale of fake photos showing him with others.
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Jane Addams
Wise
Taft
Congress
Tait
Panama Canal Zone
Legal and maritime cases mix in early 1900s news roundup
Domestic suit in New York pits John J. Breen against Richard Croker and his sons over alleged alienation of wife Isbel J. Croker for 100000. Arbitration proposed on Connecticut woman suffrage agitation. Onondaga crew rescues 55 aboard Warrington after a gale off Cape Hatteras. Chicago packers face conspiracy trial with signed contracts. Al Palzer knocks out Al Kaufman at National Sporting Club. Mary Adelaide Randall crew rescued in northeastern gale. Triangle Waist fire trial ends with not guilty verdict for Harris and Blanck. Illinois Central derailments and rail labor strife noted.
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John J. Breen
Supreme Court
New York
Richard Croker
Tammany Hall
Richard, Jr
Howard Croker
Isbel J. Croker
Onondaga
Warrington
Cape Hatteras
al Palzer
al Kaufman
California
National Sporting Club
New York City
Kaufman
Triangle Waist Company
Isaac Harris
Max Blanck
Russian forces seize Tabriz and expand influence
Nine days siege ends with Turkish forces dispersed as Russia occupies Tabriz. Berlin reports 48 deaths in municipal lodgings from a suspected poison, with possible more fatalities. Sun Yat Sen elected president of the republic of China by Shanghai revolutionary conference.
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Tabriz
Persia
Constitutional Progressive Party
Fidais
Berlin
Shanghai
Sun Yat Sen
Republic of China
Mongolia
China
Turkestan
Russia
Ellen Stone to Resume Mission Work in Turkey
Ellen M. Stone, once held captive by pundits in Bulgaria and Turkey, completed arrangements to return to Turkey with $65 000 raised by private subscription. Chicago was named the 1913 convention city for Phi Delta Phi as the national legal fraternity held its final meeting in Cincinnati Ohio.
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Ellen M. Stone
Bulgaria
Turkey
Chicago
Phi Delta Phi
Cincinnati
O. Warl G. Rice
Seattle
Wash
Ohio
Aurora
A. J. Benson
DeKalb
John Benson
Benson Homse
Benson
Illinois County Instructors Propose New Teachers Bill at Springfield
County superintendents of Illinois met in Springfield for their annual convention and endorsed a new teachers bill. About seventy five superintendents attended with C H Watts of Champaign presiding in the supervisors room at the courthouse.
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Ilinois
Springfield
Illinois
Illinois State Teachers’ Association
C. H. Watts
Champaign
Muldoon Warns Wealth Breeds Decay in America
William Muldoon lectures in Philadelphia claiming years of study on rebuilding human wrecks show wealth pursuit accelerates decay of the American race. Los Angeles residents and eastern friends exchanged Christmas packages valued at 1.1 million dollars per published records. A panic struck 100 worshipers at a United Brethren church in Ashville Ohio when floors sank several inches.
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Sterling
Duncan Mackay
Galveston
Tex
Circuit Court
Whiteside County
Mackay
William Muldoon
Philadelphia
Los Angeles
East
United Brethren Church
Ashville
Columbus, O
A Healthful Quiet Aging Promoted by Fig Syrup and Senna
The ad promotes a healthy, happy old age through gentle cleansing with Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna. It claims the product is a natural laxative approved by eminent physicians and suitable for all ages, with the genuine California Fig Syrup Co. label clearly printed on each package.
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California Fig Syrup Co
Young Boy Seeks Parental Divorce From Parents
A brief vignette shows a young boy sobbing at a lawyer's door and asking for a divorce from his papa and mamma. The scene highlights a child's bold request and the lawyer's patient presence as he listens to the heartfelt plea.
Woman credits Postum with freeing 20 years of dyspepsia and tea habit
A dyspepsia sufferer from England describes a 20 year fight with digestion giddiness and tea dependence. After reading The Road to Wellville she switched to Postum, felt improved within days, regained stomach strength, could tolerate milk again, and promotes Postum to neighbors as a better beverage.
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England
Postum
Wellville
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
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Local Suffrage Association
National Packing Company
Mary Adelaide Randall
Block Island
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Ilinois Central Railroad
United States
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Boni de Castellane
Anna Gould
Prince Helie de Sagan
Vatican
American Association of
Jacksonville
Fla
Harry Lauder
Clyde
Gourock
Dunoon
Samuel W. Wennypacker
Pennsylvania
St. James’ Church
Phoenian
Justice Davis
New York Supreme Court
Upton Sinclair
Meta Fuller Sinclair
News OF Illinois
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Hillsdale
Carney
Mr. Vernon
Dooley Green
P. S. Whitlow
Canton
First Methodist Episcopal Church
J. R. Ramsey
William Larsen
la Crosse
Wis
Larsen
Berg & Co
Michigan Avenue
Sig
Edgar Perera
Italy
Sig. Perera
Egypt
India
Stewardson
Edward Manning
Amanda McNear
Lakewood
The
Baptist Church
Rev. Story
Centralia
Lizzie Leffen
Arch Spring
Danville
Harrisburg
Lortimer
el Dorado
Saline
William Hale Thompson
Len Small
Vandalia
Don V. Buchanan
Tuscola
Ill
Lucile Brown
J. J. Browne
Charles Bacon Morrow
South Michigan Boulevard
Esther Johnson
Champlain Street
Morrows
Chicago & Northwestern
Minn
Andrew Bellows
Stronghurst
William Drain
Quincy
Elmer W. Sevier
Pearl Yardley
Milan, Mo
Greencastle
Granite City
C. N. Thomas
Thomas
East St. Louis
Jimmy” McMurray
Peoria
Royal Cleaning Company
John Hanna
State Munning Board
Representative Hall
W.N. U
Squilbob
Squilligan
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