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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1913
Page
6
A series of satirical quips cover topics from vacation value and aviation to weather control and slang in 1913 style. Notes on Berlin clocks, Detroit autos, gambling, bathing suits, and looming weather forecasts reflect light commentary on modern life and public curiosities.
John Lind the U.S. envoy arrived in Mexico City with his wife and party to study the Mexican situation. Washington awaited his report before action. President Wilson officials surprised by the delay and uncertain conditions. In Mexico City students and workers paraded in support of Huerta against mediation.
The Treasury aims to raise the federal crop movement fund from 50 million to 150 million dollars if needed to ease money strain in the agrarian belts. Secretary McAdoo and Assistant Secretary Williams met with central West bankers to discuss distributing the funds and coordinating deposits.
Police clash with suffragettes led by Sylvia Pankhurst as they attempted to storm Premier Asquith's Downing Street home. Officers used clubs after a stiff fight following a mass meeting demanding the release of George Lansbury, former MP jailed by the authorities.
Two white men robbed the Louisville and Nashville mail car from New Orleans No. 4 as it rolled into Birmingham Alabama. Clerks George Hoover T G York found handcuffed while Harry Everett had his thumbs tied. The robbers boarded at Calera and fled after the engineer spotted them at Fourteenth Street. The value of the registered mail was not estimated.
Senator Joseph F. Johnston of Alabama dies in Washington after eight days with pneumonia. Governor O Neal says a special election will be ordered to name his successor, though an extra session of the legislature might be required if Washington delays. The death comes as tariff votes loom.
The senate adjourned briefly after Johnston's death. A committee of senators including Bankhead Bacon Overman Chamberlain Hitchcock Clarke Vardaman Johnson Swanson Smith Thornton Warren Bristow Gallinger Catron Bradley and Kenyon was appointed to attend funeral ceremonies and escort the body to Birmingham. Johnston, born 1843 in North Carolina, served in the Confederate army, rose to captain, and later governed Alabama before entering the senate in 1907 after E W Pettus' death. He was re-elected in 1909 to his current term.
A four inch long grasshopper weighing 150 grains was captured by a Pawnee county farmer and is on display in a local newspaper office. it currently holds the state record for size and weight. A Cunard liner report notes a Balkan war flare aboard with several hundred ex volunteers aboard and frequent clashes causing severe stab wounds.
Peace talks conclude after threats of occupation of Sofia by Roumania push Bulgaria to accept a modified frontier. The agreement creates a line from the Struma west of Strumnitza to the Mester river, leaving Strumnitza and Kavala with Bulgaria and Lagos and Kanthi with Greece. Demobilization talks likely to follow amid earlier brutal fighting and reports of massacres.
Robert C. Ogden of New York and Philadelphia born 1836, a longtime philanthropist and Wanamaker firm member, died at his Maine summer residence after a long illness. He retired six years ago and was prominent in southern education work and annual conferences of the association to promote education in the South.
A fast freight train on the Louisville and Nashville railroad plunged into a culvert 45 feet deep, six miles north of Marietta, killing four men including three white men and one negro. The crash was caused by a cement bridge washing out under flood waters from three hours of heavy rain, leaving cars submerged under three feet of water.
Secretary Houston orders Dr. Thomas H. Carver and Bradford Knapp to study European farming co operatives. They will visit Ireland Denmark and Saxony to observe successful cooperative schemes for U S farmers.
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