Powers urged to back Sun regime amid throne ultimatum
In China a republican push demands abdication of the Manchu throne and exclusion of Manchu officials from government. Yuan Shikai urged to resign, while Sun Yat Sen vows to restore peace and establish a republic. Foreign powers contacted, and regional reports note Manchu nobles rushing out and U.S. infantry landing at Chin Wang Tao.
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Washington
Tokio
London
Paris
Berlin
St. Petersburg
Wang Chung-Wei
Sun
Chang
CPOV
Premier Yuan
China
Peking
Chin Wang Tao
16Th Regiment
United States Infantry
Logan
Peace Confident Cuba Restores Harmony After Veteran Meetings
Havens January 19 report says harmony among war ring factions and peace across Cuba appear assured unless veterans seek time. Veterans vow to oust guerrillas, purify government and aid stability. General Emilio Nunez and Colonel Coronado met with President Gomes to pledge patriotism and end hostilities.
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Havens
Cuba
Nunez
Coronado
Gomes
Emilio Nunez
Manuel Coronado
Campelen
Powers Denounces Baseball as a Trust in New League Fight
St Louis January 19. John T Powers president of the New Columbian baseball league denounced organized baseball as a trust and said he would use the Sherman act to challenge current organizations if they strike at his league.
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St. Louis
John T. Powers
New Columbian Baseball League
Headless Body Found in Black Hand District
A headless body bound between a mattress and blanket was found in the Black Hand district this morning. The victim, believed to be a Italian, had apparently been dead only a short time.
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Black Hand District
Black Hand
Million in gems gifts to a bride
A Washington wedding recounts Mrs Oliver Cromwell’s lavish trousseau for her marriage to Edward T. Stotesbury, with gifts from the bridegroom and J Pierpont Morgan. The array includes a diamond tiara, sapphire ring, pearl rope, 160 piece toilet set, and a bear-shaped pendant diamond, all valued in the millions, misdirected Paris purchases arriving recently. The gown and ceremony occurred at the Cromwell home yesterday.
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Paris
Geous
Washington
Mra
Oliver Cromwell
Edward T. Stotesbury
Cromwell
Bride
J. Pierpont Morgan
California
Weather and wedding items from mid century page
The bulletin notes cloudiness and light snow flurries tonight with a warm day ahead for Rock Island Davenport Moline and vicinity. It reports the night low near zero and a windy morning, plus no precipitation and midweek humidity details. It also describes a Cromwell wedding with bride in white panne velvet and no hat veil or gloves. Robert Emien Newbold served as best man at a private Cromwell drawing room ceremony conducted by Bishop Harding.
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Rock Island
Davenport
Moline
J. M. Sherier
Socialist expelled for accepting mayoral election post
William McDevitt, previously the socialist nominee for mayor in San Francisco, was expelled from the local Socialist party for taking an election commissionership offered by Mayor Rolph. The city committee voted 17 to an unspecified tally to remove him.
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San Francisco
William McDevitt
Socialists’ Party Today
Rolph
Socialist City Committee
Laundry Explodes in Pueblo District
A dynamite blast in Pueblo Colorado partly wrecked a central business district laundry and damaged the Globe express office. Detectives found a dynamite fuse outside the express office indicating an intentional blast.
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Pueblo
Colo
Colorado Laundry
Globe Express
Express
Panama Canal Near Completion in 1912
The opening of 1912 finds the Panama Canal four fifths finished with 75 concrete piers for docks in place. Since May 1904 American engineers have removed 158,010,964 cubic yards of dirt and stone from the canal bed. By January 1 only 37,230,439 cubic yards remained to be excavated, about one fifth of the total work remaining for completion.
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Washington Land
Quits social position to break her husband in Wheeling
Mrs. Thomas Yingling resigns as Wheeling society leader amid a bitter feud with her husband Thomas Yingling a wholesale butcher. She plans to outmaneuver him in business after staging elaborate entertainments while he publicly shamed her by washing clothes in the drawing room with a washing machine attached to the chandelier. She controls a million dollars and has hired a storeroom for her wholesale venture to undercut him.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Thomas Yingling
Yingling
Euterpe Club
Wilson scheme to find reason for advances
Secretary Wilson proposed monthly reports from cold storage dealers to the department of agriculture detailing butter eggs mutton fish and other supplies to verify if a scarcity justifies rising prices and assess the New York wholesalers claim of butter reaching 60 cents.
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Wilson
Washington
New York
Department of Agriculture
Battle near Guayaquil leaves over 1,000 dead or wounded
Report from Tripoli describes a large Turkish attack on an Italian column ten miles from the city. In Ecuador, near Yaguache northeast of Guayaquil, government forces under General Andrade defeated Guayaquil troops led by General Alfaro, who was wounded. Also Italian troops seized ships while checking for Turkish officers disguised as nurses.
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Guayaquil
Ecuador
Yaguache
Provisional
Quito
Andrade
Alfaro
Tripoli
Tunis
Schleswig
Inspector Wheeler Is Off The Chicago Force
Chicago's political police ring that extorted from gamblers and dive keepers was disrupted when the civil service commission discharged five officers. Inspector John Wheeler and four lieutenants including Patrick J. Harding George T. Prim John B. Enright and Daniel T. Keleher were found guilty of permitting open vice and gambling to flourish in the south side levee.
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Chicago
Civil Service Commission
John Wheeler
Patrick J. Harding
George T. Prim
John B. Enright
Daniel T. Keleher
Band Saloon Robbers Arrested in Chicago
Chicago police say they captured a gang of four men named Jerry O Connor Lee Lake Edward Stillwall and William Whorter after saloonkeepers identified them as frequent visitors and a passerby saw them lock a man in an ice box at Joseph Bryne s saloon and notify authorities.
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Chicago
Jerry O'Connor
Lee Lake
Edward Stillwall
William Whorter
Joseph Bryne
Secretary of State orders inquiry over senator petition timing
Springfield, Jan. 19. The secretary of state has ordered an investigation in his office into a charge by M. A. Bailey that Shelby M. Cullom’s petition, though delivered several minutes after Hugh Magill’s rival for the Republican nomination for U S senator, was filed first. Bailey filed the Magill petition.
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Springfield
Secretary of State
M. A. Bailey
Shelby M. Cullom
Hugh Magill
United States
Poe
Bailey
Magill
Love Letters in Bancroft Trial Revealed in Court
In Wilmington Del January 19 after a bitter legal wrangle five letters said to be from Max Heibler to Mrs Bancroft were admitted as evidence in the Bancroft divorce case. The testimonies recount the Hotel Belmont incident and a second child with Heibler named Jr. and include a portion where a letter to the wife is read with the line My dear wife Your affectionate husband. The trailed letters mention a mountain trip and a desire for a Germany reunion. The wife faced scrutiny over several notes seized from a handbag and letters found in a cabinet as the trial resumes with John Bancroft Jr and the defense presenting their case. The day ends with a presidential trip to New Haven for a Yale dinner.
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Wilmington
Del
du Pont Bancroft
Belmont
New York
Europe
Max Heibler
John T. Terry
Bancroft
Heibler
Jee
Max Helbler, Jr
Post Office
Democratic Convention Call and Political Tangles
The Democratic National Committee issued the call for the Baltimore convention on June 25. Delegates will be apportioned by state based on Senate and House representation per the 1910 census, with DC and several territories allotted six delegates. Governor Wilson comments on editor Watterson and outlines progressive momentum as Wisconsin backs Wilson, while Omaha and St. Louis shift the scene with Dahlman’s caution and Roosevelt endorsement.
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N.Y
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Norman E. Mack
Urey Woodson
Democratic National Committee
Congress of the United States
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Philippines
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Porto Rico
Wilson
Detroit
Mich
Watterson
Woodrow Wilson
Louisville
George Harvey
Michigan Press Association
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Ann Arbor
Grand Rapids
Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
William T. la Follette
William J. Bryan
la Follette
Woodrow Wilson League of
Dahlman
Omaha
Woodrow ‘Wilson
Harvey
James C. Dahlman
Roosevelt
St. Louis
Republican City Committee of
Theodore Roosevelt
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National Packing Company
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Packet
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