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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1913
Page
6
A collage of humorous blurbs on fashion satire crime and politics. Items mention a French cabinet member Louis Klotz a New York hair fraud and a plan to wipe out Chinatown. Notes on spring fashion and social rights mix with quips about travel telecommunication and small town manners.
President Woodrow Wilson read his message to Congress in a rare joint session, urging tariff reform and banking updates. Galleries overflowed with society women in spring dress, diplomats, and the First Lady as Wilson arrived by White House car with security detail.
House Democrats vote 164 to 84 to reject President Wilson’s proposal that future caucuses be open to the public. The party meeting to assign committees stretched three hours as members debated openness. Washington report notes the plan was refused by the caucus.
Buffalo motor men and conductors strike ends with resumed service on city and neighboring lines. National Guard troops withdraw after 48 hours of talks. Rioters toppled trolley poles, tore tracks, and pelted strikebreakers. militiamen used force with orders to fire to kill crossers. Harold Munn and James Walker were injured, with Walker fatally wounded.
The Rev Dr Francis Landey Patton will resign and retire from active work at the end of the current seminary year. He is over seventy, led Princeton Theological Seminary since 1902, and previously served as president of the university from 1888 to 1902 before Woodrow Wilson.
Beulah Mississippi levee breaches again, threatening New Orleans as crest may reach 22.5 feet. Memphis area reports labor reluctance hindering emergency work. Dayton forms debt relief bureau for flooded district creditors. Shawneetown coal mine flood and explosion causes $100,000 loss. relief committee appeals for aid.
Water will not be let into the Culebra cut of the Panama Canal before October 1 as estimates show steam shovels will remove about 5.5 million cubic yards by then. About 2.5 million cubic yards remain to be removed by dredges after water flow begins.
The Ohio House passed a bill to grant pensions of 15 dollars monthly for one child and seven dollars for each additional child to poor mothers meeting residence and family conditions. The plan funds the program with a state tax and distributes through Juvenile Courts, while limiting boys under fourteen from selling papers or gum.
Illinois leads with a Mothers Pension law impacting over 1,200 school aged children. The program costs about 5.75 dollars per child monthly, saves taxpayers by enabling mothers to work, and contrasts New Jersey Ohio and New York efforts. The bill's reach spreads as other states consider similar measures and Congress eyed for District of Columbia.
The France steamship arrives with J P Morgan s body, flag draped coffin borne ashore as French officials salute in rain. Morgan family members and friends accompany the hearse to the Morgan library, then to St George s Church for funeral service.
In Yonkers New York Charles L Munson waited five years before marrying his widow fiancee Louisa Hoeffer to claim a $10,000 legacy from his grandfather George Munson Hastings. The legacy was conditioned on marriage and the grandson is twenty five while the bride is thirty five. George Munson a wealthy quarry owner left the sum to his grandson upon marriage.
Russian bride to be Olga Temohovich, engaged to Isaac Upham, a San Francisco man, shot herself at the St Francis Hotel on the eve of the wedding. She was famed as the city's most beautiful woman and planned a honeymoon in St Petersburg.
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