Department outlines broad economic aims for 1913 report
The 1913 annual agriculture report emphasizes interdepartmental cooperation to widen access to farm data and reduce duplication. It urges increased production, revised funding for animal health, plant breeding, land surveys, and crop forecasts, plus reorganizations in weather, statistics, and food testing to boost efficiency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, DC
David F. Houston
Department of Agriculture
Nye
Louisiana
Congressional
Weather Bureau
Hydrographic Office
Navy Department
Mount Weather
Bureau
Bureau of Statistics
Bureau of Agricultural Forecasts
Post Office
Department
Bureau of Chemistry
Wealthy Merchant Montgomery Ward Dies in Highland Park
Chicago Illinois Montgomery Ward multimillionaire merchant and originator of mail order houses died at his Highland Park home at age 70. Born February 17 1843 in Chatham New Jersey Ward rose from a 25 cent daily apprentice wage in a stea ve factory to president of the $40 000 009 concern bearing his name Pneumonia was the immediate cause of death after a period of poor health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Montgomery Ward
Highland Park
Chatham
N. J
Ward
Pneumonis
1913 Money Supply Per Capita and Bank Earnings
The annual report of acting Comptroller of the Currency Thomas P. Kane notes $3,638,?44,949 in circulation outside the U.S. Treasury as of June 30 1913 about $34.56 per continental resident. Government indebtedness less cash stood at $1,028,344,055 while national banks’ gross earnings rose over 2 percent from the prior year despite securities depreciation. Savings deposits climbed from $6,456,192,707 to $6,972,069,227, up more than 7 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Thomas P. Kane
United States Treasury
Continental
United States
Porto Rico Sanitation Progress Noted By U S Official
Brig. Gen. Frank McIntyre, head of the bureau of insular affairs, reports that Porto Rico’s sanitary system remains crude by American standards but shows commendable progress. Key difficulties include water supply, sewage and garbage disposal, markets, hospitals, overcrowding, insanitary jails, crowded laborer homes, and milk contamination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Porto Rico
Frank McIntyre
Bureau of Insular Affairs
McIntyre
Mrs Pankhurst Freed After Hunger Strike
Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst the militant suffragist leader was released from Exeter jail Sunday night after a December arrest at Plymouth on the Majestic arrival from the United States. She began a hunger and thirst strike and appeared weak as she was driven away and placed under nurse care.
Explosion at Dupont Powder works kills six in Paulsboro
A gunpowder plant near Paulsboro Gibbstown New Jersey reports six men killed and two injured when 700 pounds of gunpowder exploded. The gelatine mixing house collapsed sending debris over the site. Names of the dead include Horner Clark Mullen Joka Kasper Schmuss. Injured Hikeee and Michael Sam were nearby and expected to recover. The plant employed about 1,000 at the time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gibbstown
N. J
Dupont
Harry Horner
Paulsboro
Howard Clark
Herbert Mullen
Stanley Joka
Stanley Kasper
Joseph Schmuss
Hikeee
Michael Sam
Seer predicts war and chaos across Europe 1914
In Paris Mme De Thebes foresees 1914 bringing major conflict to the United States and global upheaval. Mars supposedly dominates the world with dangers to England, a London flood, a restored Portugal monarchy, and bloodshed in Vienna.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
France
United States
Mme. de Thebes
Globe
England
London
Portugal
Austria
Vienna
McReynolds Urges Higher Aide General Salaries in D C
Washington attorney general McReynolds in his annual report urges raising assistant attorney general salaries to 9000 dollars and notes urgent need for a new building with site purchased and plans ready but no construction authorization. He reviews anti trust and interstate commerce cases and prosecutions for land frauds and details enforcement of the white slave traffic act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
McReynolds
Scores Practice of Vivisection in American Hospitals
Delegates at the International Anti-Vivisection and Animal Protection Congress claim vivisection on humans and 45 animals occurs in New York City hospitals and other American medical centers. Frank Stephens of the American Anti-Vivisection Society denounces Rockefeller Institute in New York as a working model of hell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
New York City
Animal Protection Congress
Frank Stephens
Philadelphia
Rockefeller Institute
Rocefeller Institute
New York
Two Men Held as Swindlers in Brass Slug Gold Scam
Philadelphia report describes George Matthews and Fredoon charged with false pretense and concealed weapons after trying to sell chemically treated brass slugs as 6500 $5 gold coins. Key witnesses include Joseph Miller and leaders Connie Mack and Ben Shibe. Bail set at $800 each.
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Philadelphia
Connie Mack
Ben Shibe
Eisenbronn
Central
George Matthews
Matthews
Fredoon
Frodoon
Mack
Shibe
Joseph P. Miller
Miller
Pankhurst Rearrested Off Plymouth After Ship Return
Mrs. Pankhurst, militant suffragist leader, was rearrested near Devonport as the steamship Majestic neared Plymouth. She is jailed in Exeter after police used a ruse to seize her amid guards at sea and in port. Her hunger strike parole under the cat and mouse act continues with over a year left on her sentence.
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Plymouth
England
Pommeline Pankhurst
Devonport
Majestic
America
Exeter
Holloway
London
Pankhurst
Confesses He Slew Farmer in Wellsburg West Virginia
Daniel Lee of Steubenville Ohio, a nineteen year old cripple, confessed to murdering 80 year old farmer George Mooney found dead at his home with a bullet wound. He said robbery motive but found no gold during a search of the house. Coroner's jury later charged him with Mooney's murder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmer
Wellsburg
W. Va
Daniel Lee
Steubenville
George Mooney
Lee
Mooney
Bookkeeper Sentenced in Flour Co Theft Case
New York City John C Schildknecht, an $18-a-week bookkeeper, was sentenced at Sing Sing to 2.5 to 4.8 years after pleading guilty to stealing over $50,000 from Washburn Crosby Flour Co. He testified that most of the funds went to a young woman, including an automobile and about $15,000 worth of jewelry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
John C. Schildknecht
Washburn- Crosby Flour Co
Sing Sing
Schildknecht
jJewelr, J
Carnegie’s philanthropy trims fortune toward a sinking fund
Andrew Carnegie’s vast wealth is rapidly diminishing as he gifts large sums to the Carnegie Corporation of New York and related foundations. The list shows major transfers to the United Kingdom trust, the Endowment for International Peace, libraries, and philanthropic bodies. If years pass, most of his fortune could be dispersed, leaving a $25 million sinking fund.
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New York City
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie
Skibo
Carnege
United States Steel Corporation
New York American
Carnegie—Foundation
Carnegie Institution
Washington, D. C
Carnegie Institute
Pittsburgh
Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
Teamsters End Indianapolis Work Stoppage Return Under Union Terms
Acting on Daniel J Tobin and local leaders the Teamsters vote to return to work for Indianapolis employers seeking reabsorption. Employers must adopt the unions minimum wage scale and allow workers to wear union buttons. No retaliation against union members is to occur and returning workers are to resume prior duties only.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
Daniel J. Tobin
Teamsters and Chauffers
Canal Engineer Gaillard Dies at Johns Hopkins
Baltimore mourns Col. David D. B. Gaillard chief Panama Canal engineer in semi unconscious state for weeks. He suffered brain arteriosclerosis linked to labor on the Culebra Cut where he served six years. Born Winnsboro, South Carolina, September 4, 1850.
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Baltimore
David D. B. Gaillard
Phipps Clinic
Johns Hopkins University Hospital
Col. Gaillard
Culebra
Gaillard
Winnsboro
S. C
Flood Is Fatal to Fifty in Brazos Bottoms
Flood reports from the Brazos river bottoms in south central Texas indicate at least fifty deaths and thousands of refugees facing hunger and cold. The Brazos ran three to five miles wide for over fifty miles, with property losses projected at five million dollars.
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Bryan
Tex
Brazos River
Texas
Brazos
Traveling library faces health and ventilation crisis in Buckeyedom
Miss Daisy Mary Smith, superintendent of the traveling library, declares the attic of the state house in Columbus houses the library in unsafe, insanitary quarters with no proper ventilation or fire exits. She notes 75,000 volumes sent this year, 80,000 total in the collection, 1,276 volumes lost mainly in floods, and a new rural life collection purchased.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Ucational
State House
Daisy Mary Smith
State Library
Board of Library Commissioners
Deadly Fight In Asylum at Cleveland
At the Newburg State Hospital for the Insane two patients fought as guards were briefly away. Max Brede, 24, was killed with a heavy floor brush. Ernest Bestor, 35, accused, had been a patient for 12 years and was admitted from Geauga County. Brede lived at 3063 East 79th Street.
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Asylum
Cleveland
State Hospital For the
Newburg
Max Brede
79Th St
Ernest Bestor
Brede
Geauga County
Bricklayer Killed by Baltimore & Ohio Train
Shelby-Eugene Vanhouse aged thirty six a bricklayer was killed by a Baltimore and Ohio train here He belonged to the YWorklayers union of Akron.
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Shelby
Eugene Vanhouse
Baltimore & Ohio
Yworklayers” Union of
Akron
Taft Calls Civil Service Plan for City Government
Former President William H Taft urged adoption of the federal model of city government and civil service during an address to the Cincinnati charter commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
Civil Service
Cincinnati
William H. Taft
Cincinnati Charter Commission
Federal
Two Women Hurt by Train at Saybrook Crossing
A Lake Shore train struck a carriage at the diagonal crossing in Saybrook, injuring Mrs. A. J. Walton and Miss Susie Miller. Both victims sustained serious injuries.
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Ashtabula
Lake Shore Railway
Saybrook
A. J. Walton
Susie Miller
Hunter Killed by Own Gun Near Decatur Township
Zelda Holland, a 40 year old farmer, was shot and killed near his Decatur township home when a gun leaning against a log discharged after falling. His wife witnessed the tragedy.
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Marietta
Zelda Holland
Decatur Township
Falls Through Trap Door Ends Life of 83-Year-Old Pioneer
Alliance residents recount the death of William F. Galbreath aged eighty three who fell through a trap door from the dining room to the cellar. He died though no bones were broken with shock cited by physicians as the cause.
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Alliance
William F. Galbreath
Pittsburgh Woman Sues Max Ruby for Heart Balm
Miss Anna Seretain of Pittsburgh sues Max Ruby, a Marietta businessman, in common pleas court for $10,000 heart balm. The petition states the wedding hour was fixed and Ruby did not appear, prompting the suit the next day. It alleges Ruby informed seven days before the ceremony that he had changed his mind.
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Marietta
Anna Seretain
Pittsburgh
Max
Ruby
Common Pleas Court
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Secretary of Agriculture
Gether
Congress
Insular Affairs
Dorothy Campbell
Philip P. Campbell_of
Kansas
Washington Society
Panama
Kurt
Alice Henkel
Mise Henkel
Bureau of Plant Industry
Federal Department of Agriculture
State Traveling Library
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