Dawes Endowed Hotel Opens For Unemployed In Chicago
Chicago, Jan 3 The Rufus F Dawes hotel, Chicago s first endowed home for unemployed men, opened last night and quickly filled its 305 beds. Charles G Dawes, former controller of the currency, opened the doors built as a memorial to his son who drowned over a year ago. Guests pay a nickel for bed and bath, a dime for more comfort, soup for 2 cents and bread with coffee for 2 cents. An employment agency operates on site while visitors share stories of fruitless job hunting. The three story building cost 100000 and features a sign reading Does t give up the ship created by Miss Hattie Stewart.
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Erie
Show Girl Bride Will Divorce Son Of Asbestos King
New York report says Thomas Franklin Manville Jr, son of the "Asbestos King," and his wife Miss Florence Bluber, a chorus girl, are headed for divorce. The wife filed for separation in Pleasantville, N Y, saying Manville deserted her in December after a brief marriage begun in June 1911. The couple wed after a lobby courtship. Manville reportedly offered $50,000 to secure a divorce.
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Greece Fears Turkey Plans Trouble
London January 3 Eleutherios Venizelos the Greek premier will begin a long foreign tour on Monday. The trip is linked to the Levant situation following Turkey’s purchase of the Brazilian deadnought Rio De Janeiro, which could give the Ottoman empire a sea advantage over Greece.
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Seal killed in Gravesend Bay near Brooklyn
New York, Jan. 2. The first seal seen in waters near this city was killed in Gravesend bay Brooklyn yesterday by two fishermen while rowing about 490 feet offshore. One stunned it with a boat hook. A heavy layer of fat showed the seal had not suffered on its journey into these waters.
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Honor Medal Given to Departed Author
Washington reports the National Geographical Society awarded a posthumous Medal of Honor to Eror. FH. King for urging conservation lessons from China. The late professor, author of Farmers of Forty Centuries, outlined how China sustains nearly 600 million people on limited land, urging U.S. farmers to study similar methods.
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Here’s the Man Who Stole Mona Lisa
Vincenzo Perugia, an Italian house painter and former Louvre employee, stole the Mona Lisa from Paris in August 1911 and later claimed he offered it to J Pierpont Morgan in a failed deal. the painting was recovered in Florence on December 6.
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Peg Leg and Glass Eye Used in Fight
In Charleston a fight occurred over a wooden leg between Alexander James ofaint Creek and James Falwards from Kentucky. A prank with print on the leg and horsehair led to Edwards striking James with the wooden prop, cutting his head, and James firing back damaging Edwards temple.
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Peace Reigns Again in Troubled Venezuela
Caracas reports President Juan Vicente Gomez returns to the capital with 7,000 troops after five months away. Soldiers paraded before Miraflores palace as foreign diplomats offered New Year greetings. Indications suggest the wartime state may end soon and constitutional guarantees including trial by jury will be re established.
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Jose Gilfern Ous
Approves Lane Plan Withdraws Radium Lands
Washington January 3 The proposal by Secretary Lane to withdraw all lands of the public domain believed to contain radium gains hearty approval from Dr George Otis Smith head of the federal geological survey.
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Aged publisher dies in Reading at 9? years old
William Fosen shal, a veteran publisher of German language weeklies and a well known figure in German American circles, is reported to have died today in Reading, Pennsylvania. The brief obituary notes his long career and influence in immigrant press.
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William Fosenshal
United States
Klay Announces He Will Not Run Again
Gerritt Klay of Sions county says he will not seek re election as representative. While in Des Moines today he ruled out a bid for the speakership of the Townhouse, declaring that term limits suffice and he will retire.
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Working Girls Learn Tango at New Civic Club House
New York reports over 700 single women attended the house warming of the National Civic Federation vacation savings fund club house. Anne Morgan explained the project aims to provide recreation for about 14 000 girl depositors and taxpayers with a yearly $1 contribution. The program will offer flexible entertainments and teach the one step and tango to the women under proper conditions.
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Misa Morgan
Despondency chief cause of personal crisis reports
In 1924 the number of personal crisis reports rose to 13 106 from 12 982 in 1912 and 12 242 in 1911 with men outnumbering women 8 602 to 4 504. Most deaths by self harm followed health related distress as shootings, poison, hangings and gas, with other causes including disappointment and business losses.
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Congressman Bramier, Passaic Editor Receives Radium Treatment
Representative Bramier of New Jersey, publisher of the Daily Herald at Passaic, is in a private Baltimore hospital showing improvement after radium therapy costing about $100,000 was placed in his shoulder to treat cancer that has plagued him for four years.
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Governor Sends Girl to Close Up Saloons in Oregon
Partland Oregon June 3 Aliss Fern Hobbs private secretary to Governor West arrives with estate officers to present demands to Copperfield authorities. He cites law to close saloons and warns martial law may be declared if not closed by Saturday afternoon. Demands include resignation of mayors and council members tied to liquor trade and stock on hand shipped out by 4 p.m. Saturday January 3, 1914.
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Ore
Aliss Fern Hobbs
Paderewski Fears Nihilist Plot Sparks Denver Exit
In Denver the pianist Paderewski canceled his first night and hurried to leave amid reports of a nihilist plot against his life. He feared an assassination attempt while in the city, allegedly tied to a Warsaw article he contributed to a socklist paper.
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Jan
Paderewski
Warsaw
Suffragists and Antis Reflect on Year’s Gains
New York January 2 suffragists and anti suffragists alike see progress in 1913 leaders messages. Dr Anna Shaw notes doubling National American Suffrage Association membership and plans to double again in 1914. Mrs Bedge cites Michigan’s defeat of the suffrage bill as anti suffragist success.
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Anna Howard Shaw
National American Suffrage Association
Arthur Murray Bedge
National Association
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Ibedge
Michigan
Missionary Course Proposed For Universities
A report from the executive committee presented at the student volunteer convention urges extending missionary study in state and other government controlled universities and higher educational institutions. Dr John B Mott chairs the group which calls for more missionaries and greater Christian influence on campuses to fuel global missions and counter moral temptations. The reading of the report and devotional exercises filled the morning as sectional conferences began in the afternoon.
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Dictaphones Set Against Egg Thieves in Garden Exhibit
New York January 2 A poultry show at Madison Square Garden faced egg thefts. Exhibitors installed electrical protection and a device by T Turner of Nyack NY captured voices of three persons believed to have robbed Turner's exhibit.
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Public Health Bureau Has Had Active Year
Washington reports the Public Health Service had its busiest year yet with heroic fights against disease. Surgeons under Ruppert Blue fought foreign maladies, cleaned infested areas, taught communities to guard against illness, and protected the public from diseased migrants and polluted water. Field work ranged from Kentucky pellagra clinics to San Francisco seaport efforts to curb plague vectors, all done in cooperation with state and local officials.
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Conspicuous Britons Notably Neglected in New Year Honors
Jan 2 report notes Whigs' unusually large New Year honors list with five peerages five baronies and many decorations. Archibald Geikle receives the sole Order of Merit appointment while Bryce Gothie Owen Seaman and Rutherford are among others knighted. Bryce elevated to viscount.
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University of Manchester
Missing $10,000 diamond bracelet robs Mrs Landau
Mrs Alexander Landau, wife of a wealthy theater figure in St Louis, reported that her diamond bracelet worth 10000 dollars disappeared between her home and a downtown theater last night. The Christmas gift from her husband was the jewelry.
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Will Go Abroad To Rest Eyes
New York January 1 Lord Northerd fee, acting on medical advice regarding his eyesight, relinquishes some duties and will go abroad until faster, per advices from London.
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Lord Northerd Fee
London
Queen Eleanor of Bulgaria Pleads for Balkan Refugees Aid
Washington, Jan. 2 Queen Eleanor of Bulgaria cabled to the American Red Cross asking relief for thousands of refugees left destitute by the Balkan war. The request, coupled with many American efforts, notes thousands homeless shelterless starving and freezing in Europe. Mable Boardman and John Bassett Moore, after conference, arranged to forward American contributions to Queen Eleanor for use under a joint American and Bulgarian committee.
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Bryan Hosts Diplomatic Corps New Year Breakfast
Washington scene as Secretary Bryan and Mrs Bryan host a low key New Year breakfast for the diplomatic corps and family members. Ambassadors ministers and embassy staffs attend, with Dan iels and Garrison open houses nearby. Guests include Jusserand as dean and many Pan American officials in a festive but informal setting.
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Probers Urged to Meet Strikers in Copper Country
Lansing officials from state labor unions continued drafting a plan to settle the copper country strike and hoped Governor Ferris would present it to Calumet & Hecla president Shaw. The aim was arbitration of the differences, with a presentation expected today.
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John Purroy Mitchel Inducted Into Office
John Purroy Mitchel was inducted as New York City mayor at noon today after his fusion-ticket election. The ceremony at City Hall included leave taking by retiring Mayor Ardolph L. Elines and an inaugural address. Mitchel swore in department heads and prepared to name a police commissioner, corporation counsel, water commissioner, and health commissioner.
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Kidneys Removed and Replaced by Surgeons
In St Louis a remarkable operation was carried out at the city hospital when Mrs Viola Sullivan had her kidneys removed drained of poison and replaced This marked the second such operation in American history a Gimblar operation having been done at Bellevue hospital New York
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Bellevue Hospital
New York
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