Governor O Neal replies to Hobson over Clayton senate appointment
Alabama Governor O Neal fires a three column reply to Richmond Pearson Hobson over his appointment of Henry D Clayton to the Senate. He accuses Hobson of bitter disappointment and political plots while praising Alabama press support for the choice.
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Montgomery
Ala
O'Neal
Richmond Pearson Hobson
Henry D. Clayton
Joseph F. Johnston
Hobson
Senate
Clayton
Birmingham
Alabama
Press
Many Women Are Poorly Paid in Kansas City
A two year welfare board survey shows 25 percent of 24 119 Kansas City women workers earn under six dollars a week, the bare existence wage. Of these, 4 500 work in manufacturing and mercantile sectors, 900 in mercantile establishments, 1 182 in agricultural, 69 percent are married women and 14 percent are separated or widowed.
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Sy Associated Press
Kansas City
Board of Public Welfare
Quantrell Raid Recall Stuns Lawrence Vets In 1863
Lawrence Kansas marked the 50th anniversary of Quantrell s guerrilla raid that sacked the city on August 21 1863 killing nearly 200 unarmed residents. Charles Gleed Kansas City Journal owner described the event and blamed wartime editorials from border papers for inflaming the conflict. He recalled a clash that left lasting scars in Lawrence.
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Lawrence
Kas
Quantrell
Charles 8. Gleed
Kansas City Journal
Gleed
Missouri
Kansas
New England
Middle Atlantic
Sovereign
St. Joseph
Leavenworth
Weston
Congress
Cole Younger Joins Church in Revival
Cole Younger the former James gang member joined the Christian church during a revival in Lee's Summit Missouri. He stepped forward at the evangelist's invitation and received audience congratulations from about a thousand attendees after the sermon.
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James Gang
Lee’s Summit
Cole Younger
Christian Church
Younger
James
German Army Aviator Falls From Mile High Flight
Liesant Schmidt of the army aviation corps died here today after a fall of more than a mile. He was finishing an aerial run from Gostlar west of Halberstadt when a wing collapsed during a spiral descent and the aircraft crashed to the ground.
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Ham
Vperstadt
Prussia
Liesant Schmidt
Army Aviatic Corps
Gostlar
Halberstadt
Heat Wave Relieved by Storms Across Kansas Area
After a month of broiling heat that blasted Kansas Missouri and Oklahoma temperatures, a cold front brought 10 to 20 degree drops with heavy rains. Joplin registered 68 degrees while Wichita fell eight degrees and outdoor sleepers were rattled by a north wind. Showers were light and prospects of heavier precipitation loomed. Hutchinson reported widespread drizzle as cooler air moved in.
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Iby Associated Press
Kansas City
Kansas
Missouri
Oklaoma
Joplin
Asase Mercury
Grees
Out
Wichita
Kas
Mt Door
Hutchinson
General
Rep
Forty-Two Named For The Ways And Means Committee
Forty two additional members were chosen for the Chamber of Commerce ways and means committee as the organization expanded to 117 members from a pool of 231. The new appointees cover various trades including retail dry goods, automobiles, vehicles and harness, undertakers, sash and crates, fruit and produce, insurance, accounting, china and glassware, building materials, cigars and tobacco, architecture and surveying, livestock, and more. The full list includes Henry Stoutz, Walter Mitchell, Tom Potter, Guy Hartwell, J D Bloch, Joseph Sands, Edwin Warley, F C Horton, W E P Wilson, M J Hanaw, George Toulmin, E L Flinn, and others. The first meeting is hoped for early next week.
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Chamber of Commerce
Ways and Means
Ways and Means Committee
Henry Stoutz
L. Hammel & Co
Walter Mitchell
Walter Mitchell Co
Tom Potter
Yeend-Potter Co
Guy Hartwell
Mobile Auto Co
F. C. Turner & Co
G.G. Hill
Hit!& Horton
F. J. McMahon
Corbett
M. J. Hanaw
Hanan Bros
J.S. Brown
J. S
W. BW. Brown
Jessie T. Burke
Fear Discovery Triggers Poison Pact Ends in Death
In Indianapolis two weeks of secret meetings led Mrs. Hazel Stewart and Leroy Gross to share six ounces of poison. They died in Gross room, each taking part in the act to avoid discovery by Stewart. James Stewart knew nothing of the affair. The couple’s romance ended in death.
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Associated Press
Indianapolis
Ind
Hazel Stewart
Leroy Gross
Gross
Train wreck injures passengers near Leetonia Ohio
A truck under a day coach derailed the Eastern Express from Chicago to New York on the Pittsburg Fort Wayne and Chicago line near Leetonia Ohio early today. The incident derailed the day coach and three Pullmans, injuring several passengers on one of the Pennsylvania system's best track stretches.
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Associated Press
Pittsburg
Eastern Express
Chicago
New York
Fort Wayne
Leetonia
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Birmingham Negro Heads National Bankers Association
At a Philadelphia meeting the National Negro Bankers Association elected W. R. Pettiford of Birmingham as president and discussed Liberia bank formation and creating more black banks. William Harrison of Oklahoma City was elected president of the National Negro Bar Association, affiliated with the group.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
Liberia
National Negro Bankers’ Association
National Negro Business League
W. R. Pettiford
Birmingham
Ala
National Negro Bar Association
William Harrison
Oklahoma City
Detroit patrolman fatally shot during East Side burglary
Patrolman Fred Holwedel was shot in the head at midnight while confronting several robbers trying to enter a business on Detroit's East Side. He died en route to the hospital as the assailants fled the scene.
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Detroit
Mich
Fred Holwedel
Thompson Faces Canadian Court Friday in Thaw Case
Matteawan fugitive Mitchell Thompson alias Gentleman Roger Thompson is brought to Sherbrooke court amid Thaw intrigue. Officials link him to aiding Thaw’s cross border escape. hearing postponed for Canadian frontier documents. Thaw counsel advises Thompson to buy land and seek naturalization.
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Associated Press
Sherbrooke
Que
Mitchell Thompson
Harry K. Thaw
Canadian
Matteawan
Thaw
Ben
Thompson
Roger
Sheriff Hornbeck
Duchess County
New York
Roger Thompson
Roger” Thompson
New York City
Tha
Veing
Lor Youuh
Thyppson
Octave Nedeau
Coathoosk
Nedeau
Canada
Man Killed In Accident While Kissing Baby
Wells Boyd a member of a prominent Chattanooga family and local motorcycle firm agent, was accidentally shot and killed this morning when a pistol in his holster fell to the floor and discharged as he bent to kiss his baby goodbye. He was an amateur motorcycle racer and a noted business figure.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Wells Boyd
Boyd
A. W. Boyd
Senate considers tariff bills and imports reform
Senate debate on tariff legislation resumes as Secretary McAdoo reports nearly 10 million in savings from bonded warehouses. Senator Warren attacks free wool while a lobby inquiry continues. House lobby panel probes efforts to sway the Joan shark bill action and the Pennsylvanian anthracite mine ownership resolution advances. The library committee backs a resolution allowing President Wilson to accept a bust of William Pitt from British admirers. adjourned at 1.02 pm until noon Monday.
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Sutherland
McAdoo
Warren
Tariff Commission
House
Murray
Massachusetts
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pennsylvania
Library Committee
Senate
Wilson
William Pitt
Weather Outlook With Showers Across States
Local showers expected tonight and Saturday across Alabama and Mississippi with light to moderate northeast to east winds. Temperatures at Dauphin and Royal show values from 72 to 86 degrees throughout the day with a high near 89 and a low around 72.
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Mobile
Alabama
Mississippi
Dauphin and
Royal Streets
Marconi Announces Wireless Link to South America
William Marconi said at the Marconi company meeting that Brazil granted a fifty year concession to inaugurate a wireless service between Brazil and New York. He declared this would start a broader network linking South America with the United States and Europe.
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Associated Press
London
United States
South American
William Marconi
Marconi Company
Brazil
New York
South America
Europe
Convention Ends With Officer Elections For Life Insurance Group
The American Life Insurance Association in St Paul closes its 1913 convention with officer elections. The 1914 gathering will be in Dallas. Debates criticized state taxes on insurers, opposed group insurance, urged lower medical exam fees, and denounced agents using unethical tactics against rivals.
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Associated Press
ST. Paul
Minn
The
American Life Insurance Association
Dallas
Texas
Canal Should Be Free for the World at Panama
Mrs. May Wright Sewell of Indianapolis told the peace congress that two million women in America protest fortification of the Panama canal. She urged the canal be free for the world and adorned with statues of peace at its entrances. A resolution inviting the United States government not to fortify the waterway was laid on the table. Another resolution opposing military airships was adopted.
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Hague
America
Panama Canal
May Wright Sewell
Indianapolis
United States
New Orleans Man Drowned in Gulf While Rescuing Woman
Emile Faivre, 26, of New Orleans, drowned in the gulf yesterday while attempting to rescue Miss Gertrude Meyerer of Baton Rouge. Meyerer was dragged unconscious from the water by W. L. Howard of Birmingham and remained unconscious about an hour. Faivre was to wed in October. his body was recovered.
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Associated Press
Biloxi
Miss
Emile Faivre
New Orleans
Gulf
Gertrude Meyerer
Baton Rouge
Meyerer
W. L. Howard
Birmingham
Faivre
Galicia governor halts male emigration to US and Canada
In Vienna on August 22 the Galician governor ordered police to arrest men aged 18 to 46 liable for military service who try to emigrate to the United States or Canada. Those detentions send them back to their homes to curb the departure of adults from the crown land of Austria Hungary.
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Associated Press
Vienna
Galicia
Austria- Hungary
United States
Canada
Escapes From Fire End In Tragic Gutter Drowning
New York August 12 Conrad Churchill an elderly man ran from a blaze and fell into a gutter where fire water flowed out and drowned him.
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New York
Conrad Churchill
Strathcona to resign as Canadian high commissioner
Lord Strathcona has signified his intention to resign as Canadian high commissioner. He plans to retire early next year upon reaching four years in office. He is expected to be succeeded by Hon. Clifford Sitton, former Canadian minister of the interior.
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Lord Haldane
Great Britain
America
Strathcona
Ottawa
Lord Strathcona
Clifford Sitton
Professor's Wife as a Factory Girl in Middletown
Mrs. E. B. Gowin wife of Wesleyan University sociology lecturer worked as an unskilled rubber factory hand for $5 a week. She says small town factories offer better promotion chances reasonable hours and respectful treatment than New York or other large cities.
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Middletown
Conn
E. B. Gowin
Gowin
Wesleyan University
New York
Coffee county farmer tried in peonage case for cruelty
Special to The Item General Cooper and Will Henderson testified at a preliminary trial today that Sid Smith held them in peonage and beat Cooper with a buggy trace after a hot day of work. Marsh and Coffee county constable Jim Martin were bound over to the federal grand jury on fifteen hundred dollar bonds.
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Montgomery
Ala
General Cooper
Will Henderson
Sid Smith
Coffee County
Marsh
Cooper
Henderson
Jim Martin
United States Emerges as Global Department Store
The United States becomes the world shopping center as July trade with other nations sets a monthly record. Exports exceed July 1912 by over eleven million dollars while imports drop below that year, keeping the balance of trade in favor of American producers. Over the twelve months ending July 31 exports to foreign buyers surpass the previous year by more than 252 million dollars.
Governor O Neal Leaves for Governors Conference
Governor O Neal leaves at 6 this evening with his wife and daughter for Colorado Springs to attend the governors conference. He will be absent from the state until early in September. The governor will deliver an essay at the conference on August 28.
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Montgomery
Ala
O'Neal
Colorado Springs
Col
Senna
Bankers Oppose Features Of The Glass-Owen Bill
Bankers at the American Bankers Association conference in Chicago oppose parts of the Glass-Owen currency bill. A Barton Hepburn advocates cooperation with the government while criticizing the central bank idea and the twelve regional banks for potentially worsening money-stringency. He argues for a single central authority with branch networks and condemns forced interbank loans as ineffective.
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Associated Press
Chicago
National Conference of American Bankers Association
A. Barton Hepburn
New York
Sol Wexler
New Orleans
Joseph A. McCord
Atlanta
Charles M. Preston
Charleston
D. C
Thomas P. Denham
Jacksonville
Logan C. Murray
Louisville
E. Bogland
Memphis
James W. Little
Mobile
F. Terrell
San Antonio
Tex
William Davant
Savannah
Clearing House
Hepburn
Ald
Federal Reserve Board
Reserve Bank
Girl Goes 10 Join Youthful Lover
In Yonkers New York Ruth Hamilton, a 17 year old Boston girl, died answering her prayers to join her lover Charles Rich who shot himself after mortally wounding her Wednesday night. They had planned to die together citing heart disease and injury as motives.
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Associated Press
Yonkers
N. Y
Ruth Hamilton
Boston
Charles Rich
Rich
Wireless Operator Perkins Sacrifices Life to Save Comrade
Seattle reports tell of Donald C. Perkins of Oakland who perished saving fellow wireless operator Walter Chamberlain aboard the steamship State of California after a reef collision near Gambier bay. Perkins ordered Chamberlain to seek safety before a fallen mast crushed him at his post. Survivors recount limited lifeboats and peril as the ship listed and sank.
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Perkins
Seattle
Wash
State of California
Jefferson
Donald C. Perkins
Oakland
Cal
Walter Chamberlain
Pes
Yiashea
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Tade
Democratic Party
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Deld
Charles S. Gleed
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Frontier
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Group Insurance
American Life Association
Girl
Colorado
Reserve Board
J. W. Little
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