Postal inspectors warn of illegal medical mail schemes 173 arrested
Acting on orders from Postmaster General Hitchcock, postoffice inspectors and U S marshals in 72 cities arrested 173 people for using the mails to promote illegal medical practices or sell drugs and instruments. The crackdown targets advertisers, doctors, and others sending or mailing harmful or deceptive materials.
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Ashington
Hitchcock
Postoffice
United States
Utc
Pacific
Gulf
Per
United Es
Roberts
Sharp
Post Office Department
Reid
Department of
Thentry
Boston
New York
Ladelphia
Baltimore
Acd
Pacific Coast
Bost
San Incisco
Regional Weather Snapshots From US Cities
Observations at 8 a m show St Louis 50 degrees clear with a 12 mile south wind and Thursday fair. Chicago 44 partly cloudy with a south breeze and warmer Thursday. Milwaukee 38 cloudy and warmer. St Paul 38 cloudy with a 10 mile south wind and possible rain or snow. Kansas City 48 clear with increasing clouds. New York 48 clear and west wind, Thursday fair. Boston 40 partly cloudy with a 10 mile west wind and Thursday fair. Washington 42 cloudy with a south wind and Thursday fair.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
Paul
Kansas City
New York
Boston
Washington
Six killed in train fight near Penjamo Mexico
A clash between rural guards and rebels over a railroad train near Penjamo Guanajuato left one lieutenant and three guards dead along with two civilian passengers. The wreck occurred after the engine and two cars plunged from a removed bridge. rebels retreated after guards held them off. Several others were injured. Government troops reported several small encounters with claimed victories, as rebel activity rose in northern Durango and the Zapata movement persisted in the south.
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Mexico City
Penjamo
Guanajuato
Manzanillo
Republic
Durango
Zapata
Salazar Forces Defeat Federals Near Palomas
Salazar with 200 rebels defeats 200 federals led by Colonel Tala mantes at Colonia Secco Sonora burning Nogales ranch buildings and taking ten Mormon colonists prisoner. He reports moving toward Palomas opposite Hachita New Mexico and plans to attack tonight as fifteen federals die or are wounded.
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Salazar
EL Paso
Tex
Talamantes
Colonia Secco
Sonora
Nogales
Palomas Land and Cattle Company
Ynez Salazar
Palomas
Hachita
New Mexico
Would-Be Dynamiter Anxious to Be Shot
Carl Warr a German pattern maker who seized the Central police station in Los Angeles to demand wage raises for Pacific Electric workers said he did not intend to hurt anyone. He asked to be shot and claimed officers aided his plan to save their lives, after being captured with a fractured skull.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Carl Warr
Central Police Station
Paul Shoup Jr
Pacific Electric Company
Warr
Pacific Electric
Wilson Enjoys Bermuda Visit By President-Elect
President-elect Wilson is thoroughly enjoying his Bermuda stay on November twentieth. He spends much of his time driving and exploring, making the most of the pleasant visit.
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Wilson
Hamilton
Bermuda
Pinchot Brothers Guest Of San Antonio Progressives
Gifford Pinchot and Amos Pinchot, prominent figures in the progressive and bull moose movements, were hosted at an informal lunch at the Gunter Hotel in San Antonio. The brothers defended the movement as not a one man party and praised Roosevelt’s earlier leadership.
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Gifford Pinchot
Progressive Party
Amos Pinchot
Bull Moose
San Antonio
Gunter Hotel
Pinchot
Aransas Pass
Amos
Roosevelt
Progressive Movement
United States
Milwaukee
Texas
James Hall Bell
Wilson
Henry Exall
Texas Commercial Congress
Exall
Messrs. Pinchot
North
Southern Pacific
Wilbur R. Burgess
Luther C. Whitman
Earl D. Scott
T. B. Smith
Mose C. Harris
O. J. Woodhull
C. S. Newell
L. J. Hart
William L. Stiles
Orville G. Frantz
John L. Strohm
Charles C. Cresson
J. D. Dodson
Southern women to form conference in Mobile next autumn
The first conference of southern women will be held in Mobile during the fifth annual session of the Southern Commercial Congress. Women from sixteen southern states will attend. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson has accepted honorary presidency. Each state will elect an active president who will name county presidents. The congress coincides with the Panama Canal opening.
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Mobile
Ala
Women of the
South
Southern Commercial Congress
Clarence J. Owens
Congress
Woodrow Wilson
Lawyers Prepare Arguments in Ettor Giovannitti Caruso Trial
In Salem Massachusetts judge will hear John H. Sisk representing Joseph Caruso resume his jury arguments in the Ettor Giovannitti Caruso murder case tied to the Lawrence textile strike. Followed by attorneys J P S Mahoney and W Scott Peters their remarks are to conclude before adjournment. Deliberations by the jury are expected by Thursday at the latest.
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Salem
Mass
John H. Sisk
Joseph Caruso
Anna Lopizzo
Lawrence
Sisk
Etter
Giovannitti
J. P. S. Mahoney
W. Scott Peters
Urban design urged to bloom city trees in narrow layouts
Norfolk official Henry N. Castle told the American Civic association convention that cities must plan for vegetable life in restricted streets. He cited Washington as a model for supervised tree planting and urged broader city oversight of greenery amid dense layouts.
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Baltimore
Henry N. Castle
Norfolk
American Civic Association
Castle
Atlantic Seaboard
Washington
Wool Prices Slide Ahead of Wilson Tariff Session
Wool buyers grow skeptical as 900000 pounds of Kerrville wool sell below spring prices amid Wilson tariff session plans. Captain Schreiner faces sealed bids from six foreign buyers in San Antonio with S. Te Rainer of Boston highest bidder. First shipment to depart Schreiner warehouses next Monday.
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Woodrow Wilson
Congress
Charles Lehreiner
Kerrville
Schreiner
San Antonio
S. Te Rainer
Boston
Monay
Pujo Moves to Limit Counsel Authority in Money Trust Inquiry
Washington reports that Rep. Pujo plans to curb Samuel Untermeyer power as committee counsel after E H Farrar resigns. Pujo to take personal charge of legal work and steer the inquiry in coming days.
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Washington
E. H. Farrar
House Money Trust
Representative Pujo
Louisiana
Samuel Untermeyer
Pujo
Untermeyer
Farrar
Eyewitness Testifies in Gibson Murder Trial
John Minturn, an eyewitness, testified he saw New York lawyer Burton W. Gibson seize Rosa Szabo by the neck and thrust at her throat during a dispute on a Greenwood Lake boat. The pair fell into the lake. Szabo disappeared while Gibson swam back and overturned the boat.
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Goshen
N. Y
Burton W. Gibson
New York
Rosa Szabo
Greenwood Lake
John Minturn
Gibson
Minturn
Habeas Corpus Granted for Two Mexican Generals
Federal Judge T S Maxey granted a writ of habeas corpus for General Pascual Orozco Sr. and General David De La Fuenta after a conference with U S District Attorney Charles A Boynton. The hearing is set for December 3 in Austin. They remain detained as military prisoners at Fort Sam Houston underway by order of the secretary of war. They are charged with violating neutrality laws.
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Waco
Tex
United States
Charles A. Boynton
W. E. Miller
el Paso
T. 5S. Maxey
Pascual Orozco Sr
David de la Fuenta
Austin
Fort Sam Houston
San Antonio
Boynton
Soldiers Press Kanawha Coal Fields Campaign in West Virginia
State militia extended a crackdown in the Kanawha coal region with martial law in effect. Troops moved across the district arresting unidentified offenders as part of a continuing operation launched the previous day.
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Charleston
W. Va
Kanawha
Texas Federation of Women’s Clubs Opens Big Convention
Fort Worth reports the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs opens its convention with delegates arriving by morning trains. Speakers include William Hard on Juster Laws for Husbands. Mrs. Eli Hertzberg praises the federation's broad vision, education advocacy, and civic reform efforts. The group promotes compulsory education law and funds like the $2000 endowment, under Pennybacker leadership.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Texas Federation of Women’s Clubs
William Hard
Philadelphia
Texas
Eli Hertzberg
Texas Federation of Woman's Clubs
Gioaduen Asain
Ers
Department of Health
Federation
Texas Federation
Percy V. Pennybacker
Pennybacker
General Federation
Ae We
Clubom
Children neglected in Washington reveal city alley crisis
Major Richard Sylvester, police superintendent, told the Presbyterian Men's club that over 23,000 children in Washington miss school and thousands endure in 140 alleyways described as a sore spot. Ministers are urged to dedicate the first Sunday in December to protest alley conditions.
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Washington
Richard Sylvester
Presbyterian Men's Club
Home Missionary Movement
Editor Watson Indicted for Obscene Mailings
Thomas E. Watson, once a populist presidential candidate and current editor of the Watson Jeffersonian, was indicted by a federal grand jury for sending obscene matter through the US mail. The charges arise from articles in his magazine criticizing Catholicism, deemed obscene and improper to be spread on court records.
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Augusta
Thomas E. Watson
Watson Jeffersonian
Grand Jury
United States
Suffrage Leaders Face Bitter Fight at Convention
Philadelphia dispatch reports a brewing fight as delegates to the forty fourth annual National Woman's Suffrage Association convention open November 21. The hotter issue is president selection and attacks on suffragists allied with the Bull Moose party, with Miss Jane Addams proposed for the presidency by a radical faction.
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National Woman Suffrage Association
Philadelphia
Laura Clay
Lexington
Anna Howard Shaw
Association
Jane Addams
National Woman’s Suffrage Association
Crusaders For Equal Rights
Miss Addams
Bull Moose Party
Jigen
Ida Husted Harper
San Antonio Business Leaders Endorse $5 Million Bond Issue
More than 200 San Antonio businessmen at the Publicity League banquet endorsed a bond plan for at least 5 million dollars for city improvements. Spearheaded by T L Conroy with J H Kirkpatrick and L J Hart urging rapid action, the push aims to fund streets and civic projects under a potential new charter.
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San Antonio
Publicity League
The
Chamber of Commerce
St. Anthony
T. L. Conroy
J. H. Kirkpatrick
L. J. Hart
Charles Graebner
Conroy
J. H. Kirkatrick
O. D. H. Pfeiffer
Antonio
Alamo
Missions
Crockett
Travis
Bowie
Texas
Tonic
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Rct of Health
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Ysician
Jevbasa
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Gundalfara
Brason
Central Railroad
Mr. Pinchot
Daughters of the South
Ettor-Giovannitti-Caruso
Charlies Schreiner
Mr. Untermeyer
Maxey
Orozco-De la Fuenza
Mrs. Hertzberg
Club
Women of State
Watson
National Association
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