King George of Greece Shot Dead in Salonika
King George of Greece was shot and killed in Salonika by Alexko Shinase, a Greek assassin. He died within a half hour at Papafion hospital after being struck in the heart. The assassin and confederate were seized. Shinase, around 40, claimed money was demanded. The event sparks questions of motive and anarchist links. King Constantine was proclaimed ruler by the prince.
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Salonika
Mar
George
Greece
Frangoulis
Papafion
Alexko Shinase
Prince Nicholas
Janina
Shinase
Endowment Fund Reaches 200000 At Lake Erie College
In Painesville Ohio on March 19 an announcement reported the completion of a 200000 general endowment fund at Lake Erie College. The gift secures ongoing support for the institution and its programs.
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Painesville, O
Lake Erie College
Telegraphic Briefs Spark, Dolls, and Deaths Across Cities
Telegraphic briefs report a ten year old girl dying after saving a doll and losing balance on a lumber pile in Denver. Detroit notes Miss Sarah Sheridan promoted to sales manager at Edison Electric Light Co. with a $10,000 annual salary. Parkersburg yeggs steal $200 cash and $800 in diamonds. Mansfield narrative claims Patrick Harrigan predicted his death on St Patrick's Day. Cincinnati jail gas fatalizes two inmates as a guard forgot to lock the stove. Marshalltown crash injures eighteen on a broken rail derailment of the Twin City limited east of the city.
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Detroit
Sarah M
Sheridan
Edison Electric Light Co
Mansfield
Patrick Harrigan
Emma Warner
St. Patrick’s Day
Harrigan
Marshalltown
Twin City Limited
Minneapolis & St. Louis
Here
Church Robbed Seventh Time in Lorain
Rev Stephan Soltesz pastor of St Stanislaus Catholic church found the church burglarized for the seventh time in a year. Burglars entered the building and robbed the collection box.
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Lorain
Stephan Soltesz
St. Stanislaus’ Catholic
Revolver Fatal Play Ends Child's Life in Indiana
In Connorsville Indiana six year old Frederick Reed died after a revolver taken from a bureau drawer discharged while the boy played with it. He told his father it hurt when it bit him but he was sleepy now as the gun fired and the child died twenty minutes later. The incident underscores dangers of easily accessible firearms in homes. The tragedy occurred March 19.
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Connorsville
Ind
Papa
Frederick Reed
WAKES AFTER MANY YEARS IN ATLANTA MRS JORDAN REGAINS FACULTIES
Mrs Carrie B Jordan of Atlanta Georgia regained mental faculties after nineteen years of oblivion from a form of aberration. She woke at a hospital recovering from abdominal surgery and remembered events before her mind failed. Her first request was to see her daughter whom she had last seen as a two week old baby.
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Atlanta
Carrie B. Jordan
Lima soprano Anna Bussert marries actor Carl Gantvoort
Ohio report from Lima notes Anna Bussert the Lima soprano and prima donna in Robin Hood married Carl Gantvoort, musician and actor, who will lead in a revival of The Geisha. The ceremony took place in New York last night.
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Ohio
Lima, O
Anna Bussert
Lima
Robin Hood
Carl Gantvoort
New York
Prominent Ohio newspaper executive Samuel Bixler dies
Canal Dover Ohio March 19 Samuel Bixler general manager of the Iron Valley Evening Reporter and a notable figure in Ohio journalism died at his home. The funeral was held this afternoon and in his memory the newspaper plant closed all day and the usual afternoon edition was omitted.
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Canal Dover, O
Samuel Bixler
Iron Valley Evening Reporter
Ohio
St Louis Society Women Take Up Boxing Fad
St Louis ladies of the fashionable west end have adopted boxing as a chic pastime, gathering daily at Miss L Bodecker's gymnasium to spar and pummel each other, according to city observers.
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St. Louis
West End
Daily Market Reports Financial News Summary
New York financial notes show money on call at 3 percent with mercantile paper at 5 1/2 to 6 percent. Sterling exchange at 4 dollars 87.25 cents for demand, and government bonds reported steady.
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New York
Prime Mercantile Paper
Sterling Exchange
Grain and Livestock Prices Across Markets Mapped
Cleveland and Toledo reports list current prices for flour, wheat, corn, oats, butter, cheese, eggs, potatoes, hay, and livestock. Cattle and hog values show wide ranges by category, with Minnesota and York state references and Chicago futures for May contracts.
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Cleveland
Minnesota
York State
Chicago
Mar
Centralized agricultural commission bill sails through Senate
Special Columbus correspondent reports that only eight votes opposed the Cunningham agricultural commission bill, uniting seven state departments under a four member commission. The measure, favored by the administration, would abolish multiple agencies and place them as bureaus under three governor named appointees and one OSU trustee chosen member with $5,000 salaries. The House is expected to take up the bill next week.
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Columbus
NLY
Cunningham Agricultural Commission
Senate
Potting
Summit County
Cook
Hamton
State Fish and Game Commission
Board of Veterinary Examiners
Agricultural Commission
State Board of Agriculture
Ohio Experiment Station
Wooster
College of Agriculture
Ohio State University
Board of Livestock Commissioners
Board of Pharmacy
House
House passes recall and building loan measures in split vote
After defeating two administration bills the house reconsidered and passed the Venus inspection fee measure and the Kennedy bill to separate the building and loan department and raise its chief’s salary. The recall bill for all public officials, with two per cent voter petition, passed with limited opposition.
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House
Venus
Kennedy
Building and Loan Department of the State
Common Pleas
Supreme Court
Court of Appeals
White House
Senate
Mrs Sun Yat Sen Injured in Tokyo Car Crash
Mrs Sun Yat Sen, wife of the former provisional president of China, was seriously injured in an automobile accident in Tokyo.
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Sun Yat Sen
China
Tokio
Crown Prince Constantine Leads Greek Army in Balkan War
Salonika March 19 Crown Prince Constantine heir to King George I serves as generalissimo of the Greek army. He led a major assault that captured the Turkish fortress of Janina, yielding 32000 prisoners and strengthening Epirus control. Born July 21 1868 at Athens he modernized the Greek army. His death will cast European courts into mourning due to royal ties across monarchies.
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Salonika
Mar
Constantine
George
Janina
Epirus
Athens
George I
Greece
Europe
Alexandra
England
Edward
Russia
Czar
Denmark
Constantine XII
Germany
Wilson declines to back open door Chinese loan plan
President Wilson refused to indorse American financiers plan to fund a 125 million dollar Chinese loan. The White House statement signals opposition to entangling financial alliances and suggests Congress may seek a method to protect foreign investments without using military force. The Open Door policy is reaffirmed as the guiding principle.
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Washington
Mar
Wilson
White House
Congress
United States
Republic of China
Star City Aims 40 Babies by May 1 1913
In Morgantown, Star City officials half a year ago resolved to boost population with an unprecedented birth drive. The plan ordered forty babies by May 1, 1913, or bust, and recent records show 33 residents added to the census thus far.
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Morgantown
W. Va
Star City
Canton, Oklahoma Guard chief who attends prize fights
Adjutant General Frank Canton, veteran lawman and frontier fighter, has long been the governor’s eye at Oklahoma prize fights to enforce the states law and report back. A Virginia born Texas ranger and cattle war veteran, Canton has held the post since 1907 and continued under Governor Cruce.
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Guthrie
Okla
Oklahoma
Lee Cruce
Frank Canton
Oklahoma National Guard
Canton
McAlester
Tulsa
Dewey
Sapulpa
Virginia
Richmond
Southwest
Texas
Satank
Big Tree
Satanta
Salt Creek Valley
Montana
Wyoming
Johnson County
New England
Alaska
United States Marshal
Circle City
Yukon River
Arctic Circle
Ninth
United States Cavalry
China
Peking
Tientsin
United States
Osage
Texas Cattlemen’s Association
C. N. Yaskell
Haskell
Hypnotic Power Aids Woman in Pittsfield Era
North Adams Mass March 19 ex ercising the hypnotic influence which he has obtained over his wife Guy H Hemenway reduced her to unconsciousness without drugs enabling her to have a live nerve extracted from a tooth without pain Four years ago when the couple lived at Pittsfield Mrs Hemenway was hypnotized by her husband and gave birth to a boy without pain.
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North Adams
Mass
Guy H. Hemenway
Pittsfield
War Secretary backs immediate buildup of forces
Secretary of War Garrison declares support for immediate preparation of the U S military to meet any emergency. He rejects disarmament treaties as irrelevant and urges retaining the regular army, improving the National Guard, and creating a reserve to meet current conditions.
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Secretary of War
Garrison
Washington
Mar
United States
Fatal coal oil explosions claim two more lives in Kenton
In Kenton and nearby areas over the past ten days, two people died and two were injured in incidents tied to attempts to start fires with coal oil. Olive Shepherd, 25, died at her home near Yelverton. her infant son Lloyd was hurt when a coal oil can exploded. Pearl Martin, 26, suffered burns, and her two year old daughter died at a local hospital from the same cause.
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Kenton, C
Kenton
Olive Shepherd
Yelverton
Lloyd
Pearl Martin
Massillon Officials Refute Eyman Abuse Charges
Massillon Ohio March 19 officials say they have not corroborated charges of neglect cruelty and other irregularities against Dr H C Eyman the superintendent of the Massillon State hospital filed by J E Crawford of Lisbon a former patient At Massillon T E Davey and Dr A E Shepherd of the state board of administration departed for Columbus.
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Massillon, O
H. C. Eyman
Massillon State Hospital
J. E. Crawford
Lisbon
T. E. Davey
A. E. Shepherd
State Board of Administration
Columbus
Mystery of Missing Beatrice Shocks Kaufman Family
Three year old girl at Philadelphia municipal hospital for contagious diseases is believed to be Beatrice Kaufman but her real identity remains unknown. Isador Kaufman, a rain-coat maker, received daily reports claiming recovery and brought home a child who did not resemble his daughter. Mrs Kaufman agreed the child was not Beatrice, and the girl cried for her mother before being returned to the hospital.
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Philadelphia
Municipal Hospital
Beatrice Kaufman
Beatrice
Isador Kaufman
Kaufman
Oakley Arrested Over $200,000 Embezzlement Probe
Montgomery, March 19 James G Oakley president of the state convict board was arrested on a warrant charging embezzlement. Public inquiry into Theodore Lacy department chief clerk disappearance and a reported $200000 shortage preceded the arrest.
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Montgomery
Ala
James G. Oakley
The
State Convict Board
Theodore Lacy
Department
Oakley
Ear sewed back after mine accident in Coshocton
Thomas Hadley a 25 year old coal miner was trapped under rock in the Williams mine near Coshocton Ohio on March 19. His left ear was severed but a fellow worker rescued him and carried the ear to the city hospital where surgeons reattached it.
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Coshocton, O
Mar
Thomas Hadley
Williams Mine
Hadley
City Hospital
Chicago Rail Workers Vote Strike Over Time Pay Demands
In Chicago on March 19, among 4,643 switch men and switch tenders on 19 railroads entering the city, 4,428 voted to strike unless employers meet demands for time and a half for overtime and for Sundays and holidays. Only 200 voted against. the rest did not vote.
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Chicago
Mar
Sinking Storm Claims Dozens of Ships Off Hamburg
A southwesterly hurricane sank eighty ships near Hamburg on March 19, with twelve deaths confirmed and the toll feared to rise to six more victims.
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Hamburg
Germany
Columbia University Adds Life Saving to Swimming Curriculum
New York March 19 life saving becomes part of the regular swimming course at Columbia university. Students must demonstrate proficiency in saving persons from drowning as well as in swimming to receive a degree.
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New York
Columbia University
Indictment of Cox and 10 Others Shocks Cincinnati
George B. Cox former Hamilton County Republican boss and ex-president of the Cincinnati Trust Co leads a group indicted by a grand jury. The cases allege misapplication of 115000 and abstraction of 352500 note in a bid to prop up the Ford Johnson Chair Co. Indicted alongside Cox are eight directors and two officials, with August Herrmann signing bonds.
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Cincinnati
Mar
George B. Cox
Hamilton County
Cincinnati Trust Co
Grand Jury
Common Pleas
Cosgrove
Ford & Johnson Chair Co
August Herrmann
National Baseball Commission
Court House
Cox
Ford-Johnson Co
Ohio Furniture Manufacturing
Furniture Company
J. M
Indians Frame Congress
Washington March 19 plans completed to form the Indian congress with one resident delegate from each tribe. Delegates will be paid from tribal funds and the body will advocate for Indian interests before government and Congress. The Tomahawk, the Indian newspaper, will relocate from White Earth to Washington.
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Congress
Washington
Mar
The
Indian Congress
Tomahawk
White Earth
Minnesota
Real estate dealer James D. Scott jailed for alleged attempt on partner
Regina Sask March 19 James D. Scott a noted northwest real estate dealer was arrested on charges of attempting to murder his partner Herbert T. Lewis. A prior explosion wrecked their office building two weeks earlier injuring Lewis and both partners had $26 000 insurance in favor of the firm.
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Regina
Sask
James D. Scott
Northwest
Herbert T. Lewis
Lewis
Scott
Elevator Crush Fatality At Zanesville Plant
A. C. Moore, 50, an employee of the Columbus Butter Co. branch in Zanesville, was crushed between the floors and the elevator and killed instantly at the factory on March 19.
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Zanesville
A. C. Moore
Columbus Butter Co
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King George of
Gets Endowment Fund
Denver
Sarah Rollvick
Parkersburg
Star Loan Co
Elizabeth Jackson
Mary Shanks
Lockland
Georgia
Daily Market Reports
Toledo
Cunningham Gill
Stephen M. Young, JR
Cuyahoga County
Mrs. Sun Yat Sen
Prince Constantine
Council of West Virginia
Adjutant General
Cruce
National Guard
Nurges
Pardon Board
Concern
Crawford
Charles H. Davis
David G. Edwards
James F. Heady
James M. Hutton
Nathaniel S. Keith
Fletcher F. Williams
O. V. Parrish
Norman G. Keenan
Hutton
Keith
Williams
Davis
Heady
Arthur D. Martin
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