Old Man's Darling Kiss Feature Stirs City Row
A humorous feature on Valeska Suratt and Major A. E. Ransom showcases a sequence of kisses filmed as art and science. The piece extols kissing, notes Terre Haute origins, and ends with Suratt kissing bald heads and audience reaction at a Moore theatre showing.
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Fred L. Boalt
Valeska Surate
A. E. Ransom
U. S. Army
Philippines
Valeska
Valenka
South Sea Islands
Major
Valeeka Bailt
Terre Haute
Indiana
Major Ransom
Kina
Kies
Venus
Moore Theatre
Valeska Suratt
Dynamite Conspiracy Leaders Sentenced in Indy Case
In Indianapolis 31 of 38 ring leaders in the dynamite conspiracy were sentenced by U S Judge A B Anderson. Frank M Ryan leader of the Ironworkers faces seven years. others receive six or four year terms with several suspensions. Several defendants offer defenses or statements as the court notes intent and individual ties to the labor movement. The proceedings marked a landmark labor capital clash in U S history.
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Indianapolis
United States
A. B. Anderson
Frank M. Ryan
International Association of Bridge and Structural Ironworkers
Fort Leavenworth, Kas
Olaf Trehmoe
FE. A. Clancy
San Francisco
J. T. Butler
Michael J. Young
Boston
Hockin
J. B. Munsey
Fort Leavenworth
Peter J. Smith
Cleveland
John H. Barry
St. Louis
Patrick F. Farrell
James Cooney
Jas. Coughlin
Chicago
Frank J. Murphy
Detroit
Hiram R
W. J. McCain
Kansas City
W. Bert Brown
Michael J. W. Cunnane
Philadelphia
Fred Mooney
Duluth
Patrick A. Cooley
New Orleans
Frank C. Webb
New York
Anderson
Farrell
Amercan Bridge Company
Union
Cooney
Illinois Bar
Women’s Progressive Movement pledge for moral betterment in Seattle
The 1912 Seattle document urges Washington women to protect homes and schools from sensational journalism. It binds members to stop receiving or buying The Seattle Daily Times and to avoid advertising patrons of the paper after January 1, 1913. It calls for dissemination through responsible women and promises further communications via headquarters.
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State of Washington
Seattle Daly Times
Daily Times
Washington
A. B.C
Anti-Blethen Club
Burns Agency Chief Defends Circular as Moral Battle
Walter Thayer head of a Burns agency in Seattle and attorney C. W. say the A B C circulars are a moral protest against immorality. Arrests of 120 circulators are reported, but they deny criminal intent and expect to support the public welfare in the fight against vice.
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Walter A
Burn
Deag Bureau
Thay
Times
Burns
George J. D. Sandusky
H. P. Mar
A. C. Staples
A. Kobier
Paul Hedrick
Alden J
Grand Jury
Wappenstein
Vice Syndicate
Rphy
Walter Thayer
Seattle
Blethen Club
Thayer
C. W
Fon
Murphy
Thayerner
Ross Parker
Wlil
A. J Belthen
Babies Sold For Less Than Pigs At $3 Each
A German widow, Mrs. Dora Remmilin, admitted supplying babies priced from $3 to $10 in a traffic she says serves wives foisting infants on husbands. She claims demand rises with high living costs and says she profits only from procuring the babies. In a separate note, Talent post office in Medford reports a Sunday night robbery for a few dollars in change and stamps.
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United Presse
New York
Dora Remmin
Medford
Judge Will R. King Emerges as Interior Secretary Contender
Portland judge Will R. King tops a list of candidates for interior secretary amid endorsements from Oregon state official John Pattisan and regional figures R H Eider Wyoming W Sanford California and Bruce Kremer Montana. Kremer also backs Gov B L Norris as an alternative and met Washington Democratic leaders at the Rainier Grand hotel on Sunday.
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Gov. Burke
North Dakota
Interior
Gov. Osborne
Wyoming
Will R. King
Portland
Oregon
John Pattisan
R. H. Eider
W. Sanford
California
King
Commission Rules Against Forcing Railroad Sidetracks
Judge John B. Yakey of Kitsap county rules sections 123 and 62 of the public service act unconstitutional and holds the public service commission cannot compel railroad companies to install switch or sidetrack connections in Olympia Washington.
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Olympia
Wash
Public Service Commission
John B. Yakey
Kitsap County
Noble Awarded Cecil Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford
George B. Noble, a liberal arts junior, receives the Cecil Rhodes Scholarship for Oxford. The committee cited his scholastic and athletic ability, character, and leadership as determining factors. The scholarship provides $1,500 annually.
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Cecil Rhodes
Oxford
George B. Noble
School of Liberal Arts
University
Noble
125000 Out in Strike in New York
Dec 10 125000 members of the United Male Garment Workers of America began a strike in New York with 1500 pickets receiving instructions. Backed by prominent supporters, the strike may spread to women’s waist makers and dress makers, affecting over 4000 shops and factories with capital over 40 million dollars.
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New York
United Male Garment Workers of America
Makera
Rose Pastor Stokes
O. H. P. Belmont
Juvenile Delinquency Down Despite Troubling Details
Seattle police report 1912 shows 40 percent fewer delinquents than 1911. Total delinquents 768 with 480 referred to juvenile court. 254 girls taken into custody, 129 under 18 removed from hotels May–Aug. Officer Bogges says behavior improved though many youths remain troublesome and parents are partly to blame.
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Seattle
Hogges
Bannick
Bogges
Taft Tours St Augustine Then Heads Home With Gifts
After breakfast in St Augustine President Taft took an automobile ride through the city and departed at noon in his private car loaded with Christmas presents for close friends. He will reach Washington by 9 o clock tomorrow morning.
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United Prere
ST. Augustine, Fla
Taft
Washington
Turkey Favors Arbitration in Balkan Crisis
All Turkish ministers except Karmil Pasha favor peace and prefer arbitration by ambassadors of the great powers on the Balkan situation as learned from Constantinople sources.
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Constantinople
Turkey
Balkan
Karmil Pasha
Tamale Ad Boosts B. and M. Quality
A Star advertisement promotes the B. and M. Tamale as unusually tasty during cold days. It invites readers to call Main 9400 or Elliott 44 for want ads and notes the Star’s guaranteed daily circulation of over 40,000.
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Elliott
The
Star
Weather Chief’s Brother Feels Climate Blues
A terse exchange reveals the brother of a local weather bureau chief struggles with the climate. The discussion hints at his role and the office he serves without detailing conditions or events.
Case Appointed Superintendent of City Streets
Charles R. Case, president of the State Federation of Labor, was appointed by Mayor Cotterill to replace Superintendent Walters whose term ends tomorrow. Case has served as street commissioner in a prior period and led progressive city and state legislation efforts.
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Charles R. Case
State Federation of Labor
Cotterill
Suce Ng
Walters
Case
Moore
Labor Federation
Trains Reopen Through Cascades After Snowblock
After 24 hours of rotary snow plows the three transcontinental lines N P G N and Milwaukee opened routes through the Cascades. By afternoon schedules largely restored and Seattle officials expect full service by Tuesday. First return was Northern Pacific North Coast Limited arriving 9 30 this morning after an 8 15 Sunday scheduled departure.
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N. P
G. N
Milwaukee
Cascades
Seattle
Northern Pacific
North Coast Lmited
No. 41
Great Northern No. 1
Murder of Indian Bob Charley Shocks Goldenale
Officials investigate the brutal murder of Bob Charley an Indian resident whose body was found hacked to pieces on a public highway near Goldendale Wash and whose home was burned Police suppose robbery prompted the crime.
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Goldendale
Wash
Bob Charley
Here
Avalanche kills fifteen carpenters in Fernie
Fifteen carpenters employed by the Crows' Nest Pass Coal company were crushed to death when an avalanche demolished the buildings where they lived in Fernie British Columbia. The collapse buried them under tons of earth.
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Fernie
B. C
Crows’ Nest Pass
President-elect Wilson Returns With Ship Of State And Apples
After a homecoming in Princeton and Staunton events, President-elect Wilson returns to the capital today bringing a symbolic ship of state and a basket of apples.
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Princeton
N. J
Staunton
Wilson F
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International
Women’s Progressive Movement
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