Wilson Asked to Help Frame Currency Bill
Democratic leaders in Congress invite President Wilson to frame a currency reform bill from three drafts by Senators Owen and Representative Gass and Secretary McAdoo. Wilson defers writing details to McAdoo while seeking a nonpartisan measure with regional reserve banks and a national supervision board to curb reserve concentration.
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Washington
Congress
Wilson
Owen
Representative Gass
Banking
McAdoo
Treasury Department
Proclamation Declares Direct Election of Senators
Secretary of State Bryan proclaimed the seventeenth amendment today, declaring senators shall be elected by direct vote. Present were Harry St. George Tucker, Missouri Representative Tucker, Senator Borah, and Mrs. Bryan. Bryan used four pens to sign the proclamation.
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Washington
Bryan
United States
Harry St. George Tucker
Virginia
House
Representative Tucker
Missouri
Borah
Senate
William
Tucker
Jennings
Rucker Keeps Bryan Writings and Borah Date Ledger
An account notes that Rucker the third wrote Bryan and kept it, and that he used a document to record the date delivered to Senator Borah. The fragment indicates possession of the Bryan writing and the Borah date by Rucker.
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Rucker
Bryan
Borah
Lobby investigation committee named in tariff probe
Washington May 31 President Wilson said a powerful lobby works in Washington to defeat tariff revision. A lobby investigation committee will probe private and business affairs of senators with oath about interests affected by tariff changes. Senators Overman Reed Walsh Cummins Nelson named to the sub committee. Public invited to provide information on lobby influence.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
Washington
United States Senate
Overman
Reed
Walsh
Cummins
Nelson
Cane of stamps sent to Marshall in prison gift
Washington receives a cane crafted from canceled postage stamps by C. W. Kremer a former Indiana man serving a Colorado prison sentence at Canyon City. Kremer wrote of his Democratic faith and plan to praise Jeffersonian Democracy after release. The five month project used fifty thousand stamps and features a silver handle engraved with the Elks emblem and a greeting for the Vice President.
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Washington
C. W. Kremer
Indiana
Colorado
Canyon City
Colo
Representatve Barnhart
Rochester
Kremer
Mr. Marshall
The
Elks’ Lodge
Drinking Increases Across United States May 31
Washington reports rising beer and whisky consumption and cigarette smoking. Internal revenue receipts through May 29 show nearly 17 million dollars more than the prior year, with beer and fermented liquors adding about 5 million, wines and spirits 7 million, and tobacco 5.5 million in excess receipts.
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Washington
United States
Senator Brady Seeks Chicago Wedding This Evening
James Brady United States senator from Idaho arrived in Chicago on Friday to wed Irene Moore. The ceremony is set for Highland Park that night. Brady secured a marriage license and spoke little about travel plans. The union ends a romance spanning several years.
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Chicacro
James Brady
United States
Idaho
Chicago
Irene Moore
Highland Park
Brady
Governor’s Labor Commissioner Appointment Rejected
Albany May 31 Acting on a recent opinion from the state attorney general the state controller refused to recognize as legal Governor Sulzer’s appointment of John Mitchell as state labor commissioner. The controller will not pay Mitchell’s salary or certify payrolls for the labor department if he is in office.
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Albany
N. Y
Sulzers
John Mitchell
Mitchell
Labor Department
Girl Dies of Hydrophobia in Oakland City
Annie Mason eleven daughter of James Mason died last night in Oakland City Ind from hydrophobia. Authorities believe she was bitten or scratched by a pet cat as the likely source of infection.
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Oakland City
Ind
Annie Mason
James Mason
Penal Farm Commissioners Named for 500 Acre State Land
State authorities appoint commissioners to select and take an option on five hundred acres of land for a penal farm. The board will assess suitability and negotiate terms to establish the farm's location and use for rehabilitation and labor programs.
Four Appointed to Indiana Penal Farm Commission
Governor Ralston names Dr. Samuel E. Smith Willis Hickam William H. Hart and G A H Shideler to the new penal farm commission selected by the last legislature. They may choose a site of at least 500 acres with state charit ies board approval and an attorney general sign off with the governor casting any tie vote. The commission will operate without pay but expenses are covered. funds include 6900 for land option 200 yearly prisoner maintenance and 20000 for buildings and equipment.
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Ralston
Penal Farm Commission
Samuel E. Smith
Richmond
Eastern Hospital For Insane
Willis Hickam
Spencer
William H. Hart
Indianapolis
G. A. H. Shideler
Marion
Indiana State Prison
Smith
Board of Trustees
FOUND GUILTY OF ARSON IN BOONVILLE
Guy Hart son of the Tennyson postmaster was found guilty by a circuit court jury after eight hours deliberation. The verdict carries a sentence of two to twenty one years in the Indiana reformatory. Hart charged with burning his home to defraud insurers. Defense seeks new trial for allegedly erroneous instructions.
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Boonville
Ind
Guy Hart
Tennyson
Circuit
Indiana Reformatory
Hart
PHONE GIRLS STRIKE AGAIN IN PRINCETON
The Independent telephone system in Princeton Indiana was paralyzed as nine operators went on strike. They walked out after the directors granted only a three and one half cent hourly raise despite a prior demand for four cents. The operators refused the offer and have not returned.
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Princeton
Ind
Indiana in Brief round up of regional incidents
Collated notices across Indiana report building collapse in Jasonville during remodeling, a horse fall into a fifteen foot well near Cloverdale, a license-fee fine for D R Schiller practicing medicine without a license in Bloomington, and injuries from a traction car strike near Ft Branch. Additional items note a divorce in Washington, a cleanup day proclamation in Connersville, a boy lost an arm beside a moving train near Spaulding, forgery arrest in Daleville, parade mishap in Logansport, mining injuries in Seelyville, paralysis in Windfall, delayed monument dedication in Washington, a church steeple lightning strike in Lawrenceburg, a fatal car accident at Standard Steel Car factory in Newcastle, a fatality near Scottsburg, and multiple criminal sentences and a prenatal agreement case in Huntington.
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Indiana
Jasonville
Jasonville Plumbing and Electric Company
Cloverdale
John Kennedy
Bloomington
D. R. Schiller
Rockford
Princeton
Eugene Wiley
W. H. Wiley
Washington
Laura A. Wuertz
David Wuertz
Connersville
J.S. Hawkins
LaFayette
Marcus
Spaulding
James Spaulding
Muncie—Forest
Daleville
Daleville Bank
Logansport
Marshall Goldsberry
Brazil
John O. Williams
Harmony
Lost Creek
Seelyville
Calvin W. Middleton
Lawrenceburg
Huntersville
Newcastle
James Raymond
Louis Hough Jr
Standard Steel Car
Warsase
Amos Collins
James Alford
Ftrom
Walter Myers
Collins
Bowser
Alford
Myers
Huntington
Levi Hoover
Emily Bloover
Hoover
Sammel Hoover
Levi
Points of the Law All Should Know About Checks
A detailed explainer on checks outlines how payment works between depositor, bank, and payee. It covers negotiability, signatures, dating, presentation timing, and the responsibilities of endorsers and the bank, using the McGee Gordon case as context.
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John McGee
Warren Gordon
Gordon
McGee
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Secretary of the Treasury
Marshall
John Jones
Sam Smith
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