Fall Sentenced to Year in Jail and $100,000 Fine
Former interior secretary Washington Albert B. Fall receives one year in jail and a $100,000 fine from Justice William Hitz in D C Supreme Court after conviction for taking a $100,000 bribe from Edward L. Doheny related to Elk Hills lease to a California oil operator. The jury found the eight year old transaction to be bribery.
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Washington
Albert B. Fall
Secretary of the Interior
William Hitz
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
Edward L. Doheny
Elk Hills Naval Reserve
California
Four Lake Michigan Shipwrecks Cost 100 Lives in 52 Days
A Chicago report tallies 100 lives lost over the last fifty two days as four ships sank in Lake Michigan. The Andaste Milwaukee Wisconsin and Senator perished from storms and a collision with the Marquette near Port Washington. The Senator carried 244 automobiles. the Marquette bore lump ore worth 40000 dollars.
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Chicago
Lake Michigan
Andaste
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Senator
Marquette
Port Washington
Sheboygan
Detroit
Escanaba
Mich
Maplehurst
Keweenaw Waterway
Houghton
George N. Menard
Trorelle
St. Joseph
Foxpoint
Sturgeon Bay
Wis
Ann Arbor
Frankfort
Great Lakes
Nova Scotia Abolishes Nine Year Temperance Act
Nova Scotia joins Ontario in adopting government controlled liquor sales, voting to end its nine year temperance act. The move leaves Prince Edward Island as the remaining Canadian jurisdiction in the dry column.
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Nova Scotia
Halifax
N. S
Ontario
Province of
Nova
Seventeen and Seventy
A Dean of Men at the University of Illinois contrasts youth and age through Frank, a seventeen year old in high school, and Mr. Barton, a content seventy, noting different fears, ambitions, and life experiences. Barton values present steadiness, while Frank wrestles with study, career choices, and love.
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Frank
Mr. Barton
Barton
Western Newspaper Union
Modern Woman Compared With Woman of Yesteryear
Atchison Globe notes a discouraged modern woman smiles more and cries less than her predecessor yet remains harder to get along with, reflecting evolving social attitudes.
Brooklyn Eagle Brief Notes Work and Play Balance
A Brooklyn Eagle snippet comments that constant labor without relief erodes enjoyment, urging readers to balance duties with recreation amid urban life. The item reflects newspaper humor on work culture and social expectations in the city.
Chinese Prepare to Add Law of Things to Civil Code
Drafting continues on China’s civil code with the Law of Things planned as the third book. The Law of Things aims to mirror accidental property concepts and will follow General Principles and the Law of Obligations in a Germanic style.
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Shanghai
Legislative Yuan
Nanking
China
Stockholm to name street after Civil War hero Monitor captain
Honor to Captain Liivesun, Dulm Livesun, of the Monitor, with a new Stockholm street bearing his name. The proposal came from the Stockholm branch of the American John Ericsson society.
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Stockholm
Dulm Liivesun
Sweiel Inveltus
Monitor
John Ericsson Society
Sponge Inhabitants Use Sponge Cavities as Submarine Dwellings
Sponges serve as submarine apartment houses for shrimps worms and small fish. The creatures have definite locations in the sponge cavities, adapted to their needs in their aquatic homes.
Lincoln School Glass Casualty Averts Window Breaks
In Sheboygan Wisconsin Lincoln Grade School students form the Lincoln School Glass Casualty company led by Gordon Hildebrandt a twelve year old and four other student businessmen. The group sells over 250 policies at ten cents each covering window breakage in the school yard during hours on school days and nearby buildings and passing autos. When a breakage occurs the board of adjustors decides if it was accidental and pays full or half policy depending on cause.
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Sheboygan
Wis
Lincoln Gerade
Gordon Hildebrandt
Lincoln School Glass Casualty Company
Hildebrandt
Many Uses of Tortugas Island Noted Through Civil War to Bird Reserve
Tortugas played multiple roles from a Civil War penal station at Fort Jefferson to hosting a 1904 marine biology lab by the Carnegie Institution at Loggerhead Key and later becoming a federal bird reservation in 1908.
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Ery Tortugas
Fort Jefferson
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Loggerhead Key
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Albert B. Fail
Michigan
University of Illinois
Wes
Jack
Brooklyn Eagle
Chas. van Sipma
Optometristaki
Honor Ericsson
First National Bank
Dolton, Ill
Chas. E. Waterman
Horace Holmes
M. R. Weidner
W. H. Baker
Russel P. Blake
William Staat
Bell
United States
Bell System
Illinois Bell Telephone Company
Universal Service
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