English Women Are Determined To Push Suffrage In 1914
Associated Press reports that the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies will press for a government bill on women's suffrage in 1914. A mass meeting at Albert Hall on February 14 will launch the constitutional campaign, with efforts aimed at anti suffrage ministers and the Labor Party.
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Associated Press
London
England
National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies
Albert Hall
Labor Party
House of Commons
Moonshiner Blythe Pleads Guilty in Alabama Court
William Harrison, one of four moonshiners captured in a Muscle Shoals raid, pleaded guilty before Circuit Judge Chas P Almon in two cases. He received $50 fines and twelve months hard labor in each case, suspended on good behavior. Harrison posted $400 bonds for the two pending cases and was released from jail.
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Florence
Ala
William Harrison
W. M. Chenault
Muscle Shoals
Chas. P. Almon
Almon
Harrison
Four Black Children Cremated in Berlin House Fire
In Selma Alabama on January 17 four children aged between 1 and 6 years, all children of Grant Snow, burned to death in their parents home near Berlin in Dallas County. The parents, away visiting neighbors, left the children in bed as the house caught fire before help arrived. It is believed the children, at play after the parents left, started the blaze.
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Selma
Ala
Grant Snow
Berlin
Dallas County
Virginia Brooks
Lyric Theatre
Gwendolyn* Delaney
Vice
Hammond
Ind
Knoxville Man Charged With Embezzlement
Knoxville resident W. W. Irvin was placed under arrest Friday night by Patrolman I wis ane Burch on a charge of embezzlement. Complainants W. M. Ward and R. Z. Williams are listed on the docket. Police did not release further details.
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W. W. Irvin
Knoxville, Tenn
I Wisane Burch
W. M. Ward
R. Z. Williams
Germany to Spend Near Million on Aviation in 1914
Berlin January 17 The National Aviation committee plans to spend nearly one million dollars to promote aviation in Germany in 1914. This exceeds last year’s 425000 and includes funds for training, insurance, prizes, motor research, colonies aviation, hydroaeroplane stations, and schools at Johannisthal and Munich.
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Berlin
National Aviation Committee
Germany
Johannisthal
Munich
Prince Henry of
Prussia
Wright Brothers
Victor Stoeffler
Selma Man Fatally Shot by Autrey Near Grove Hill
W A Smith a Grove Hill, Clark County, resident was shot three times by Autrey about eight o'clock Friday morning. He died from head shoulder and abdomen wounds with little chance of recovery. Smith’s two daughters, college students in Montgomery, were en route to his bedside. A prior quarrel over school children preceded the fatal shooting.
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Selma
Iala
W. A. Smith
Grove’ Hill
Clark County
Autrey
Smith
Automobile for Every Family in Pretty Prairie Town
Reno county towns report high car ownership. Pretty Prairie has 66 cars for 66 families. Hutchinson lists 499 autos plus 110 on rural routes. Langdon Plevna and Sylvia show similar per family car ratios amid rural prosperity. The piece ends with a quip about owning a town house.
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Hutchinson
Kan
Pretty Prairie
Reno
Petty Prairie
Reno County
Langdon
Plevna
Sylvia
Mrs Burleson to Continue Studies at Washington University
Mrs Richard C Burleson wife of Lieut Burleson Fort Meyers says she has no time for society and will pursue studies as a co ed at Washington University She has long been active in suffrage work and has now begun a course in politics and economics at the university.
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Washington
Richard C. Burleson
Burleson
Fort Meyers
Washington University
Britain says no foundation to Nicaragua debt demand report
London reports the British foreign office finds no basis to yesterday's Managua claim that Britain joined Germany and Italy in demanding over 1 million dollars from Nicaragua. No recent special representations were made. The British minister to Nicaragua is now in Guatemala.
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Associated Press
London
Managua
Nicaragua
Great Britain
Germany
Italy
Guatemala
Selma Expected to Land Wisconsin Packing Plant
W L Henderson of the Southern Railway met with Selma Chamber leaders Kayser and Richards about securing a Wisconsin packing firm branch plant. Selma’s bid, among several southern cities, is under review with a field visit planned in early spring. final location to be announced after evaluation. Henderson could not name the winning city but called Selma’s proposal the strongest submitted.
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Selma
Ala
W. L. Henderson
Land and Industrial Department of the Southern Railway
Mobile
Henderson
Kayser
Morgan Richards
Selma Chamber of Commerce
Wisconsin Packing
Selina
Business Men’s Organization of
Mercado to face court martial after Ojinaga retreat
Mexico City January 17. The federal war office says Gen Salvador Mercado who led federal troops at Ojinaga will be court martialed by the first federal force encountered if he returns to Mexico. Officials nickname him the evacuator for abandoning Parral and Ojinaga.
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Associated Press
Mexico City
Federal War Office Today
Salvador Mercado
Ojinaga
Mexico
General Mercado
Parral
Chihuahua
Burial of Mrs Victoria Vickers at Magnolia Cemetery
Funeral for Mrs Victoria Vickers held Friday at 3 p m from the family home at Eslava and Conception streets. Captain Long of the Salvation Army led the services and Magnolia Cemetery was the interment site. Pallbearers named. Warley A Bolton mentioned as a child in the obituary.
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Y. Vickers
Victoria Vickers
Eslava and
Conception Streets
Captain Long
Salvation Army
Magnolia Cemetery
D. C. Martin
T.E. Mayers
E. J. Phelan
W. J. Mangle
W. O. Hillman
J. D. Nicholas
Warley A. Bolton
Anthracite Goal Rate Hearing Opens In Philadelphia
The Interstate Commerce Commission opened hearings on anthracite coal transportation rates rules and regulations affecting the Delaware and Hudson Company and the Erie Railroad. Government witnesses were set to be called today and revenues and earnings of all anthracite carriers would be entered into evidence as the defense prepares its case in the coming weeks.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
Interstate Commerce Commission
Delaware and Hudson Company
Erie Railroad
Fire On Mount Mitchell Threatens Camp And Homes
A disastrous forest fire started last night on Mount Mitchell in the Tennessee Carolina mountains. The Y M C A summer camp at Black Mountain North Carolina is believed to be in danger as a high wind makes fighting the blaze difficult and many homes are endangered.
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Associated Press
Knoxville
Tenn
The
Sentinel
Asheville
N. C
Mount Mitchell
Tennessee-Carolina Mountains
Black Mountain
Destruction on Sakura Jima Costs Five Million Dollars
A professor reports vast lava fields on Sakura Jima with seven tenths of the island a desert and fifteen hundred of two thousand houses buried. The eastern coast lies in ashes and the windblown eruption threatens Osumi as residents migrate.
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Osumi
Sakura- Jima
Hich Owe al
Unte
Fusakichi Omori
As of
Yokohama
Sakura
Pompeii
Ohio
Japan Society to Aid Kagoshima Famine Relief
The Japan Society executive committee met in New York on January 16 to plan a relief appeal for Kagoshima and northern Japan famine. Japanese consul general J Iijima said the government has allocated 3 260 000 for immediate aid and will seek more. A sympathy message was sent to Baron Shubusdawa in Tokyo.
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Associated Press
New York
The
Japan Society
Kagoshima
Japan
Japanese Red Cross
J. Iijima
Baron Shubusdawa
Tokio
Lava flows steadily from volcano toward the sea
Reports from Kagoshima on January seventeenth describe lava spilling down the mountain sides and advancing toward the sea, increasing the island’s solidified area as contact with water occurs. No reliable estimate of the total impact or extent is available.
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Associated Press
Kagoshima
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Gerardy Lung Balsam
Phil P. Cresap Co.,Ltd
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