Argentina Chamber Debates Meat Industry Policy
In Buenos Aires the chamber of deputies debated meat industry policy. Debates supported government stance on keeping liberty to develop industry, opposing foreign monopolies. Frias urged expanding export markets and strengthening canned meat, warning trusts from Anglo Argentina or American sides.
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Buenos Ayres
Chamber of Deputies
Argentina
Anglo-Argentina Chilled Beef
Chamber
Public Works
Frias
Gates at Lower Gatun Test Under Full Water Pressure
Panama June 28 The larger gates at Lower Gatun are subjected to full pressure for the first time as Atlantic waters flow in gradually to sea level. Engineers report the gates firm and watertight with the water at the fifty foot stage.
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Associated Press
Panama
Lower Gatun
Chicago Marathon Opens Historic Athletic Carnival at Grant Park
The Chicago athletic carnival opens at Grant Park with a Marathon race and runs for a week ending the National Amateur Athletic Union championships. Mayor Harrison starts the 120 yard hurdle as President Wilson’s message arrives via boy scouts after a 778 mile relay from Washington. The first national interscholastic track and field meet features entries from across the country.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Grant Park
National Amateur Athletic Union
Harrison
Wilson
Washington
South Bend
Ind
There Is Nothing Better Remedy for Diarrhoea
An advertisement proclaims Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as the best cure for diarrhoea and claims it is sold by all dealers.
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Chamberlain
Iowa State Bar Backs Speer Endorsement at Sioux City Meeting
Iowa lawyers adopted resolutions endorsing Emory Speer of Macon Georgia who denounced espionage against judges by the justice department as un-American and harmful to justice. The bar asserted the absolute independence of judiciary at state and federal levels to protect citizens rights.
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Associated Press
Sioux City
Emory Speer
Macon
Southern Georgia
Department of Justice
Iowa State Bar Association
Plumbers and Mice Clash Ends in Fatal Shooting
In Nashville Tennessee on Broadway last night a pistol battle between striking plumbers and strike breakers left Oly Kiser dead from a head wound and Clarence Kramer wounded in the shoulder. D T Bentzler and Clarence Kramer are in custody charged with murder. Charles Miller is held in connection with the case. Kiser was killed instantly. Detectives arrested the suspects at their boarding house near the scene.
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Associated Press
Nashville
Lenn
Oly Kiser
Clarence Kramer
Broadway
Kiser
D. T. Bentzler
Charles Miller
Began Life With Small Capital Becomes Dredging Magnate
New York report shows Captain Israel J. Merritt died months ago with a net estate of 651813 dollars. He began life in New York City with 25 cents, bought a vessel, dredged for lost anchors in New York harbor, sold recoveries, then started wrecking ventures. The estate will pass to his widow and four children.
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Associated Press
New York
Israel J. Merritt
Merritt
New York Harbor
Garrotte Returned to Havana for Executions
A garrotte once placed by former President Gomez in the national museum has been recalled for use in Havana to execute two condemned prisoners. The jail warden lacked a lawful instrument of death until authorities found the tool in the museum, reflecting Gomez’s prior commutations of death sentences.
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Havana
National Museum
Gomez
Former Alabama clerk arrested in London for embezzlement
Charles Mayer a Chicago native and former postal clerk on the U S battleship Alabama was arrested in London on suspicion of embezzlement. Navy investigators alleged a $148 shortage after the ship was in Philadelphia last January.
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Associated Press
London
Charles Mayer
United States
Alabama
Chicago
United States Navy
Philadelphia
Mayer
Governor sets election date for Maryland U.S. senator
Governor Goldsborough announced a writ of election naming November 4 as the date to elect the United States senator from Maryland to succeed the late Isidor Rayner. Republican William P. Jackson was appointed pending a successor. with a constitutional amendment for popular elections, the governor aims to replace his selection with the people's choice.
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Associated Press
Baltimore
Goldsborough
United States
Maryland
Isidor Rayner
William P. Jackson
Goldsbourough
Millionaire Lumber Man Declared Insane
Henry Clay Ward a Pontiac, Michigan lumber dealer was ordered confined in a private Asheville asylum after being adjudged insane. His wife filed the insanity warrant and he received a court hearing before the supreme court clerk. Pontiac officers blocked the proceedings but Ward’s wife arrived from Michigan and then left town.
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Asheville
N. C
Henry Clay Ward
Pontiac
Mich
Ward
Supreme Court
Virginia Executions Set for Carter and Goggin
Nelson V. Carter a white man convicted of wife murder and Owen Goggin a Negro convicted of attempted assault were executed by electric chair at the state penitentiary in Richmond Virginia yesterday.
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Richmond
Nelson V. Carter
Owen Goggin
State Penitentiary
Coast to Coast Canoe Trip Aims for Panama Canal
John H Sullivan Jr sails from New York in an open sixteen foot canoe on a planned coast to coast trek to Panama Canal. He travels north on the Hudson then via Erie Canal to Buffalo Toledo and the Mississippi to New Orleans, expecting to reach the canal by 1914. He plans at least twenty five miles daily and has prior ocean experience and a flood rescue canoe.
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United States
Motor Boat Club of America
Great Lakes
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Count Casimir S. Mankowki
Huntington Bay
England
Count Mankowki
American Motor Boat Club
Uncle Sam
Associated Press
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Sullivan
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Erie Canal
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Toledo
Ohio
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Ohio River
Cincinnati
Mississippi River
New Orleans
California
Vancouver
Woman Wanted Colson Lynched
Special officer H. P. Colson of the Louisville and Nashville shot Herbert Armstrong of Montgomery after arresting him for stealing a ride on a freight. Colson was moved to Columbiana by Shelby county officials amid locally rising indignation. A Calera resident feared violence as the case sparked threats of lynching.
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Montgomery
Ala
H. P. Colson
Louisville
Nashville
Calera
Herbert Armstrong
Columbiana
Shelby County
Colson
Bribery Scandal Ties East St. Louis Officials to Deals
An East St. Louis bribery inquiry ends with Joseph A. Fansler confessing two 1912 payoffs totaling 6 000 for street franchise rights. Six councilors shared the first 3 000 bribe for Interurban Railroad access and four shared in the Alton and Southern crossing payout. Mayor Charles S. Lambert allegedly delivered 1 500 of the latter sum after consultations with John L. Flannigan.
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Associated Press
ST. Louis
East St. Louis
Joseph A. Fansier
Webb
Fansler
East St. Louis ‘Interurbian Railroad Company
Alton and Swathern
Charles S. Lambert
Alton and Southern
Lambert
John L. Flannigen
Railway Company
Lost St. Louis
Whooping Cough Remedy Praised by Alabama Customer
L. C. Haines of Marbury Alabama endorses Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for coughs and lung troubles. He claims it works well for colds and whooping coughs and advises households to keep it on hand. The remedy contains no narcotic and is pleasant to take. For sale by all dealers.
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Mars
Venus
Saturn
Jupiter
Foley
van Antwerp Drug Corp
L. C. Haines
Marbury
Ala
District must go says Birmingham city commission
Birmingham's restricted district will be abolished October 1 as the city commission ordered enforcement of the law against such areas. A property owner complained he cannot dispose of holdings due to proximity to the district, and officials stated the restriction would be removed, affecting numerous buildings on Avenue A.
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Associated Press
Birmingham
City Commission
Exum
Avenue A
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