Union Offers to Submit All Facts to Inquiry
A Calumet Michigan hearing reveals miners offer to disclose Western Federation affairs if Calumet and Hecla submits to a miner inquiry. Chairman Taylor warns a broad probe could last a year. Other testimony covers miner dismissals over dinner hour and Colorado strike issues.
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Hancock
Mich
Hilton
Congressional Investigation Committee
Western Fed
Calumet and Hecla
Citizens’ Alliance
Taylor
Leuenberger
Idaho
Western Federation
Joe Michelich
Mase
Ontanagon County
Weather forecast for Rock Island Davenport Moline and vicinity
Unsettled weather tonight and Saturday with light snow likely. Low temps around 10 to 15 degrees, moderate northerly winds, no precipitation. Astronomical notes list evening stars Venus Saturn Mars and several bright nearby stars. Seen between evening and approaching night hours with Orion and Sirius and Aldebaran described.
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Rock Island
Davenport
Moline
Venus
Saturn
Mars
Jupiter
Betelgeux
Rigel
Orion
Sirius
Aldebaran
Firehouse Opera House Destroyed by Town Effort
Harvard Illinois February 13 The entire able male population turned out to fight a fire that destroyed the local opera house a 60 year old semi fireproof structure. Frozen hydrants had to be thawed to get water. Fire was prevented from spreading.
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Harvard
Early ruling sought on Illinois suffrage act before supreme court
Springfield Feb 13 An appeal for an early ruling on the constitutionality of the women's Illinois suffrage act was argued before the supreme court. Levy Mayer of Chicago attacked the act while former Judge Charles Cutting and Willard McEwen defended it.
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Springfield
Supreme Court
Levy Mayer
Chicago
Charles Cutting
Willard McEwen
Chicago Banker Shot in a Holdup
John C. Neely Jr a Chicago banker and former tennis player was shot and slightly injured in an attempted holdup near his home early today Ernest Halver son recently released from Joliet penitentiary was arrested with his companion escaping Pennies and Ten Years.
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Chicago. Il
John C. Neely, Jr
Ernest Halverson
Joliet Penitentiary
Burlington Fast Mail Off Track At Lockridge
The Burlington fast mail No and east bound left the track at Lockridge Iowa this morning and bumped along the ties a quarter mile. All equipment remained on site and no one was hurt. There was hours delay in replacing the cars on the rails.
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Lockridge
Iowa
Burlington Fast Mail No
Law To Curb Price Cutting In Chain Stores
Washington delegates at the Chamber of Commerce convention condemn price jugglery by chain stores and large merchants. Wil lam H. Ingersoll urges congress to curb price cutting to prevent monopolies and protect small merchants across cities and towns. He cites chain grocery chains with hundreds of branches and a major mail order firm with a vast nationwide catalog and nearly 109 million dollars annual business.
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Washington, D. C
Willam H. Ingersoll
New York
American Fair Trade League
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
Ingersoll
Congress
Boston
San Francisco
Philadelphia
Mr. Ingersoll
America
Woman who wed Clay at 16 dies in Kentucky
Dora Brock Clay, who married General Cassius Clay at age 16 and later separated, died at 90. She had four marriages after his death and became a notable figure in an early twentieth century scandal.
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Clay
Lexington
Dora Brock Clay
Cassius Clay
Nine Die of Cold in New York City
New York reports nine deaths from cold in two days while conditions shift east to rain and snow. In Chicago, steamers blocked by ice await freeing attempts. St Louis sees heavy snow. Kansas City snow covers the region. President Wilson’s cold improves but cabinet meeting canceled. Tumulty attends New Jersey reception. Comiskey confined by stomach trouble in Rome. visiting teams unable to play due to weather.
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Middle Atlantic
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Ohio Valley
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Ill
Kansas
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Alabama
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Missouri
Washington, D. C
Wilson
New Jersey
Tumulty
Comiskey
Rome
Italy
President Comiskey
Bastianelli
Nice
Poultry Trust Leaders Start Jail Term in Monopoly Case
Eleven members of the so called poultry trust, all wealthy, began serving three months in jail for violation of the state and monopoly law in New York. The group includes Ing and Arthur Dwyer, Charles burg, Charley Jewell, James Norris, William Norris, Charles Hawk, Charles Thatcher, Glennon Bishop, Samuel Wacuer, and Charles Wacuer.
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New York
Poultry Trust
Ing
Arthur Dwyer
Charlesburg
Charley Jewell
James
William Norris
Charles Hawk
Charles Thatcher
Glennon Bishop
Samuel
Charles Wacuer
Speaker Oaka resigns amid riotous diet protests in Tokyo
Tokyo reports Speaker Oaka of the house of representatives resigns declaring personal responsibility for recent riotous scenes in the diet. 200 protesters arrested as opposition papers were suppressed and editors arrested. police used clubs during the unrest over increased taxation.
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Tokio
Japan
Oaka
House of Representatives
Diet
Now Roller Girl Disappears in Illinois Sect Turmoil
Duquoin Illinois February 13. Following an assault by members of the Holy Roller sect who sought to rid Noah Hickman of the evil spirit comes the mysterious disappearance of Elsie Jones aged 15 daughter of John and Mrs Jones leaders in the movement. The girl announced God called her to Africa to preach and left home. A Holy Roller urged to pray for Walter Ellis jailed at Jonesboro if he prays his way out a group will exhort at the jail entrance. Also drought ruins many farmers in Danville Illinois January bank ruptcies rise with tenants hit hardest. Civil war veteran R M Allen dies aged 75 at Marion. Hotel and restaurant workers in Decatur elect officers led by McGrath Devalon Pierson Huber Rizzle Wilson and Craig.
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Hickman
Union County
Jonesboro
Congress Plans Agriculture Spending and Immigration Action
Washington reports an agricultural appropriations bill authorizes investigations into boosting egg production and preventing waste in food supply. It funds seed distribution, weather bureau expansion, and a department reorganization totaling 25 million dollars. A 310 million post office bill seeks to curb rate changes without congressional approval. Immigration Chief Caminetti urges action against Asiatic immigration, warning of Jap, Chinese and Hindu entrants.
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Weather Bureau
Panama Canal
Insular
Department of Agriculture
Houston
Senate Committee
Congress
Japan
Caminetti
House ‘Committee
United States
Pacific
Torpedoes Exploded by Ultraviolet Rays Experiment
Florence reports a secret test of long distance torpedo explosions using ultraviolet rays by Giulio Olivia. Four torpedoes two miles away exploded in under three minutes after the apparatus was placed in a tower. Olivia handed the secret to the Italian government. Mrs. Jesse Mace, 30, of Sterling, Illinois, killed herself amid domestic trouble yesterday.
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Florence
Italy
Giulio Olivia
Olivia
Jesse Mace
Self
Parcel post bars babies and animals from service
The Washington post office department announces a ban on parcel post for babies and all other human beings and five animals. Only the queen bee is allowed to use parcel post under the new edict.
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Washington, D. C
Post Office Department
Captain has a close call at Vera Cruz
Captain Arthur B. Cook flag lieutenant to Rear Admiral Mayo on the Connecticut was shot at near Vera Cruz while riding in a carriage with his wife and Miss Ethel McKenzie. He was only slightly hurt. a spent 25 caliber bullet was found on the carriage seat. The assailant was not seen.
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Vera Cruz
Arthur B. Cook
Mayo
United States
Connecticut
Cook
Leutenant
Ethel McKenzie
Philadelphia
Admiral Mayo
Moro Castle
Avenida de la Sindependienta
Fifty Hurt When Train Hits Sleigh in Kingston Night
Fifty persons were injured, three fatally and one killed, when a freight train struck a sleigh returning from a line near Kingston. The sleigh party, the Jolly Four quartet of Kingston young women, resided in Kingston.
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Kingston
N. Y
Minnewater
Here
Peru Recognized by Wilson After Revolution Overthrow
United States grants quick recognition to Peru's revolutionary government eight days after President Billinghurst is ousted. The move follows private representations by Peru's minister and the American minister at Lima, surprising diplomatic circles and contrasting earlier White House stance on orderly government.
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Peru
Wilson
Washington, D. C
United States
Billinghurst
Senor
Frederico A. Peret
Benton McMillin
Lima
Bryan
Panama
Columbia
Roosevelt
White House
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Decatur
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