Panama Canal ready for ships next week
Panama City May 12 Governor Goethals says the Panama Canal should be ready for regular ship passage early next week with the Cuc aracha channel to be completed about Thursday Observations will be kept on the slide for a short period A rumor that the Pennsylvania of the Pacific Mail line would make the first passage is denied Bananas imported last year would yield peelings for a hundred slides per person.
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Panama
Panama Canal
Goethals
Cucaracha
Pennsylvania
Pacific Mail Line
London Militant Protest Dims Danish Royal Gala
King George hosts a gala at Covent Garden in honor of Denmark's king and queen with Melba and Destinn performing. A suffragette disturbance interrupted the scene as guards dragged out the protester while leaflets rained from the gallery. Royal box held by the king and queen. diplomatic corps and ministers seated in central boxes.
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Associated Press
London
Royal Opera House
Covent Garden
King George
Denmark
Melba
Emmy Destinn
Queen Mary
Diplomatic Corps
Voting Machines Would Save Money
Washington May 12 An appropriation of 20000 dollars to install electric voting machines in the house was proposed by Representative Walsh New Jersey. Majority Leader Underwood estimated the time savings at about 20000 worth annually. Each representative would have a numbered seat a key to his device and a record at the speaker’s desk. Roll calls would be reduced from thirty to forty five minutes to about ten minutes.
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Associated Press
Washington
Congress
Representative Walsh
New Jersey
House
Underwood
Sunboat Sacramento Leaves Philadelphia for Vera Cruz
The Sacramento the navy's newest sunboat departed from the Philadelphia navy yard for Vera Cruz. En route she will pause at Hampton Roads to take on ammunition.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
Sacramento
Navy
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Vera Cruz
Hampton Roads
Travers Sets Amateur Golf Mark On Championship Course
Jerome D. Travers, US amateur golf champion, plays the Sandwich course in 69 strokes amid British anticipation for the upcoming match. The amateur record stands at 68.
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Associated Press
Sandwich
England
Jerome D. Travers
United States
Four Master Aground in Nassau Sound Reported
An unidentified four masted schooner was reported aground last night in Nassau Sound five miles from the mouth of the St Johns river. Signals of distress were picked up by a Clyde liner and the revenue cutter Yamacraw departed at midnight to reach the vessel.
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Associated Press
Savannah
Nassau Sound
St. Johns River
Wyoming Sails South With Thousand Fighting Men
The dread naught Wyoming sailed for Vera Cruz via Hampton Roads. She carried a thousand fighting men, half of whom are available for duty ashore if needed, and 600 bags of mail.
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New York
Wyoming
Vera Cruz
Hampton Roads
Deed Signed by President Van Sturen Filed in Probate Court
A deed signed by Martin Van Sturen, president of the United States, conveying forty acres in Jefferson county to Anson Smithson dated September 29, 1334, was filed for record in the probate court yesterday. It was noted as one of the oldest looking deeds received in the court in a long time.
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Birmingham
Ala
Martin van Sturen
United States
Jefferson County
Anson Smithson
Remains of Mme Nordica To Be Interred in New York
The body of Mme Lillian Nordica will be brought to New York for burial, announced by her husband George W. Young banker. He may travel to Brindisi Italy to accompany the body home.
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Mme. Nordica
New York
Associated Press
Mme
Lillian Nordica
George W. Young
St Louis Builds World’s Largest Mechanical Fissure Plant
The world’s largest mechanical issue plant rises in St Louis to purify city water from the Mississippi River. Three fourths of all furs trapped on the North American continent are shipped to St Louis houses to be sold.
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St Louis
Mississippi River
North American
St. Louis
Typhus Germ Found By Young Doctor Plotz
Dr. Harry Plotz of Mount Sinai in New York will report at Atlantic City that he isolated the germ causing typhus fever. He suggests Brill’s disease is a form of typhus and seeks an antitoxin for typhus, scarlet fever, and measles.
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Associated Press
New York
American Association of Physicians
Atlantic City
N. J
Harry Plotz
Mount Sinai Hospital
Plotz
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Brill
Ypiranga Sails With Refugees and Food for Mexico
The German steamer Ypiranga, carrying 178 Mexican refugees from Vera Cruz and Tampico, will sail Tuesday with a cargo of food for German vessels in Mexican waters. Refugees are being cared for by Col R. B. duMont and Dr. Paul Roh. two passengers, Oscar Peterson and Emil Scheratis, were deemed unfit for entry and will be sent to Europe via New York.
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Vera Cruz
Tampico
Mex
R. B.duMont
Paul Roh
New Orleans
Oscar Peterson
Emil Scheratis
Col du Mont
Europe
New York
Maj Gen Charles B Hall to Be Buried With Honors
Washington May 12 arrangements were made for the funeral of Major General Charles B Hall U S A retired who died yesterday of heart disease He was a Civil War veteran and before his 1908 retirement commanded the Army School and Staff College at Leavenworth He was 70 and the body will go to Wortland Me for burial where he was born
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Associated Press
Washington
Charles B. Hall
General Hall
Army School and Staff College
Art Leavenworth
Wortland
Watchman Injured at Fowl River Bridge by Unknown Attackers
Harry Memeyer, watchman at the Fowl River bridge of the Louisville and Nashville system, was struck and suffered a fractured skull by three men early Monday. A prior rail theft at the bridge prompted a patrol, with two assailants described as white and one as a negro. Australia reports 42 percent of workers are women, followed by 34 France, 32 Italy, 30 Germany, 29 Switzerland, 4 England, and 21 Sweden.
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Harry Memeyer
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Thomas T. Palmer
Australia
France
Italy
Germany
Switzerland
England
Sweden
Cuticura advertised relief for infant eczema in 1913
A Barterville mother describes how her three month old suffered a blistering face eruption before using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. She reports clear healing after one cake of soap and one box of ointment and promotes Cuticura products for skin and scalp care with prices and a free sample offer.
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Barterville, Ky
Sue Woods
Cuticura
Dept. T. Boston
Examination free and confidential advert
Examination free and confidential. Cures Eye Ear Nose Throat Lung Stomach Private and Special Diseases of Men and Women. 155 Dauphin St.
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Dauphin ST
Wrote Treaty That Ended Spanish-American War Dies at 82
MADRID May 12 Eugenio Montero Rios the statesman who drafted the treaty that ended the Spanish-American War died today at age 82. The prominent Spanish official helped shape the accord that concluded hostilities and altered 19th century diplomacy.
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Associated Press
Madrid
Spain
Eugenio Montero-Rios
Refugees Arrive in Vera Cruz from Mexico City
Consul Canada reports the safe arrival in Vera Cruz of several American refugees from Mexico City. Among them is K. M. Van Zandt of Fort Worth Texas who is said to be quite ill.
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Washington
Canada
State Department
Vera Cruz
Mexico City
K. M. van Zandt
Fort Worth
Tex
van Zandt
Jules Goux Arrives in Indianapolis for May 30 Race
French driver Jules Goux arrived in Indianapolis with teammate George Billet to begin speedway practice for the upcoming 500 mile race on May 30. Forty five drivers are entered, with thirteen already practicing on the track.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Jules Goux
Speedway
Goux
George Billet
Boy Scouts Build Hand Fire Engine for Buckinghamshire Town
Leigh Wycombe scouts in Buckinghamshire have completed a hand powered fire engine to serve as an auxiliary to the town fire brigade.
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Leigh Wycombe
Buckinghamshire
England
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