Opponents of Free Wool Plan Battle Currency Bill Clash
President Wilson expects the House to pass the currency reform bill by August 1 as tariff foes maneuver to block the free wool provision. Democrats split over tariff changes, while Underwood pressures the House to keep currency action separate, hoping to force concessions on tariff duties to aid the currency bill.
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Wilson Gelieves House
Senate
Washington
Ohio
Jeto
White House
House
Wilson
Underwood
Nine UMWA Officials Indicted for Sherman Antitrust Violations
Nine workers and Union officials led by John P. White were indicted by a federal grand jury in Charleston West Virginia on Sherman antitrust charges. The indictment accuses the defendants of conspiring with coal operators in western Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana and Illinois to raise wages in West Virginia coal fields to restrain competition across multiple states.
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Charleston
W. Va
John P. White
United Mine Workers of America
Federal
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indland
Hajneis
West Virginia
Kanawha County
Federal District Court
Confesses Murder of Kin and Ghosts a Farm
Irenton A Horkley Flemming a farmer of 20 years confessed Sunday to killing his mother Saturday and, three years earlier, his older brother. He led officers to shallow graves and showed the buried bodies, revealing a gunshot wound to the mother's head and a buried skeleton of the brother. A Norfolk and Western train disaster in Maefield, West Virginia, killed four and injured two aboard a wrecked two engine train at an embankment, with the engineer James Gilles and others among the dead.
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Irenton
A. Horkley Flemming
Flemming
Maefield
W. Va
Perseus
Norfolk & Wontem
Mra
Phoebe Owens
James Gilles
George Stewart
Oreman
Phospe Owens
Grace Owens
Jhed
Thomas Milter
Jule Poriteld
Supreme Court backs state power to set intrastate railroad rates
The Supreme Court ruled that states may regulate intrastate railroad rates and charges, with federal control over interstate commerce not applying. The decision, reading by Justice Hughes, upheld Minnesota rail and highway commission actions and overruled government and railroad positions that interstate rates were federal jurisdiction. About 50 suits were decided together, and the ruling limits rates to avoid confiscation while preserving court appeal rights.
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Washington
United States Supreme Court
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
Minnesota Allroad and Warehouse Commission
Supreme Court
Department of Justice
Justice Hughes
United States
Sanborn
Minnesota Commission
Coldest June Tempers Hit Mid Atlantic and Great Lakes
The mid Atlantic and New England, Ohio valley, and Great Lakes report the coldest June on record with frosts from Vermont to Wisconsin. Ohio crops damaged though some frost damages are light. Philadelphia and Boston register around 47 to 48 degrees as Grand Rapids area also sees frost impact. Panama Canal progress cites Goethals predicting by January 1, 1915, water introduction will end long canal delays.
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Washington, D. C
Middle Atlantic
New England
Ohio Valley
Great Lakes
Vermont
New York
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Michigan
Wisconsin
Mercury
Rome
Scranton
Harrinburg
Philadelphia
Boston
Mass
Grand Rapids
Mich
Panama Canal
New Yor City
George W. Goethals
Canal Zone
Colon
Amutdaes
Murderer Roach Kills Three Then Wounds Two in Canton
Robert Roach, an employee of Berger Manufacturing, killed his mother-in-law Tilhy Schatzman 61, sister-in-law Ruth Schatzman 19, and daughter Doris Roach 16 months. He wounded another sister-in-law Viola Schatzman 17, and shot Police Sergeant W. W. Fielding in the leg. After barricading himself, Roach fought officers before being subdued and arrested.
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Canton
Robert Roach
Berger Manufacturing Co
Tilhy Schatzman
Ruth Schatanan
Doris Roach
Fatilly
Viola Schuteman
W. W. Fielding
Meyers
Roach Fnally
Roach Lves
Pennsylvaniaay
Adam Schataman
Roach
Gibbsi
Indan
Bullley
Fielding
Schatzman
Charence Lyons
Reach
Olivera
Stolen Securities Restored as Bank Vault Thief Is Freed
Walter 8. Shourds, vault superintendent of Merchants Union Trust Co, who stole 1.4 million in securities and 30 thousand in cash two years ago, returned the last of the missing securities in court. Judge Hall ordered a not guilty verdict at the bank’s request to prevent collapse. Shourds then handed over the remaining bonds and stocks and paid 5 thousand dollars extra, leaving court with his wife.
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Philadelphia
Walter
Shourds
Merchants’ Union Trust Co
Hall
Rotan
Bagdad Through a Historian’s Lens A City Lost to Glory
The account portrays Bagdad as once a center of arts and science with a 2,000,000 population, now faded. It describes swollen mosques, narrow unpaved streets, lack of sewers, a wide Tigris, decaying bridges, and bustling markets on Fridays while noting the perilous access to key tomb mosques and wary attitudes toward Christians.
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Bagdad
Fts
Soula
Iteratura
Walla
Tts
Tigris
Midhat Pasha
Kageman
Suburg
Reat
Kazamin
Bishop jokes over selling Salisbury cathedral palace
London reports the bishop of Salisbury at Marlborough noting a letter from a broker offering to buy the bishop palace for a wealthy American client. He replied that he would include the cathedral as a life estate if offered.
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London
Salisbury
Marlborough
Diacuna
Bishop Palace
Rats Make Nest of Stamps in Yonkers Worksite
Workmen at a Yonkers postal facility addition uncovered a rat nest made of postage stamps. About fifty dollars worth of stamps had been used, and the workers reported the loss to the government.
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Yonkers
Left Handed Growth in Plants Reported
The Cambridge Philosophical Society in England received reports from Rt. Compton on eight varieties of two rowed barley. One half of the first loat twisted left at 58 percent. Among over 12 000 seedlings, left handed growth surpassed in millet and in veta, while corn showed no clear bias. No hereditary peculiarity or significance was found.
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Cambridge
England
Philosophical Society
Compton
Face Rash Vanishes After Cuticura Treatment
Miss Pansy Hutching describes two years of a burning itchy facial rash that spread to the scalp. She reports bathing with Cuticura Soap and applying Cuticura Ointment, noting nearly complete disappearance within two days and full clearing in four weeks. Sample offers and worldwide sale information follow.
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Sioux Falls
Ialso
Dept. L
Boston
Talking Shop and Women in Business Conversation
The piece notes that enthusiastic talking about one’s work can be an advantage yet warns a woman in business should not discuss her work constantly in all settings. It urges consideration for others who have varied topics of interest.
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Erie
Niagara
Commodore Perry
Misery Bay
Perry
Bia
Lake Erie
Pennsylvania
Han
Bulldera
Woodamen
Winslow’s Booting Syrup Teething Remedy Promises Relief
An archaic advertisement-like note touts Winslow's Booting Syrup as soothing teething pain for children. It claims gum softening and reduced discomfort, with quirky phrases about happiness and peace attributed to a quote from Huxley.
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Dirs
Winslow
Chiltrem
Experience of Motherhood and Pinkham's Remedy
An advisory piece encourages preparation for childbirth and promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a tonic to strengthen the female system. It asserts many women are unprepared, urges use of the remedy for healthier pregnancies, and offers confidential letters to Lydia B. Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn, Massachusetts.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia B. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Mass
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