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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1913
Page
6
In this week’s High Point Review a string of satirical items covers a St. Louis sausage joke, a Russian escape in a milk can, misused courtesies, and quips about airships, dog meat, Alps tourists, rat poison, unkissed girls, and a Bavarian castle air ban. The column blends wit with social reminders.
Washington reports show the Taft administration plans no immediate warlike action against Mexico. Cabinet members doubt intervention, while Mexico City endures renewed fighting and strict censorship as President Madero vows to crush rebels.
London dispatches report Enver Bey failed to land troops on the Marmara coast and the Turkish forces are trapped at Gallipoli without supplies. Greeks land 40 000 at Bosika Bay near the Dardanelles while negotiations between Romania and Bulgaria stall at Sofia. Hakki Pasha arrives in London amid signs Turkey aims for peace talks after another potential decisive battle.
A Sydney wireless message reports Dr. Douglas Mawson and the Australian Antarctic expedition party are aboard the relief ship Aurora and all members are well. The group, numbering about fifty graduates, had not been heard from for three months after departing in late 1911.
A highwayman lined up twelve men in the street at gunpoint in Kansas City Missouri. When the men broke to the ends he opened fire wounding a boy fatally and narrowly missing others. The bandit fled but was overtaken two blocks away and arrested when police arrived.
Postmaster General Hitchcock urges government ownership or control of telegraph lines in his annual report to Congress. He repeats the view that telegraphs should be partially part of the postal system to lower rates and expand postal business, now with parcel post and savings system in place. Three die in electric chair at Sing Sing Ossining N Y three murderers including two women are executed with final farewells.
Earl Cooper of Fresno set new marks for 75 and 200 miles on a one mile circular dirt track in Fresno. He ran 75 miles in 1 hour 17 minutes 5 seconds beating Strang’s 1909 Columbus record. 200 miles in 3 hours 28 minutes 4 5 seconds, under the American Automobile Association standard. The event was AAA sanctioned with one pit stop and no tire changes.
In Philadelphia a bankrupted supply company faced over 2000 women who invested from 10 cents to 32 dollars in credit stamps. The crowd surged toward the judge as benches were overturned and cushions flew, while notices were sent to 3200 creditors.
President Taft vetoes the Dillingham Burnett immigration measure over the literacy test provision. He explains in a handwritten senate message that the clause would bar aliens unable to read certain languages. Secretary Nagel also sends a critical letter denouncing the literacy test as radical and ill founded.
Capt. Thomas Ross, a river man known between this city and New Orleans, was found in a shanty boat near the Allegheny river in Pittsburg severely ill from privation and exposure. A trunk revealed a bank book showing deposits of $15,878.
Reports from Cairo and Charleston describe Black residents fleeing in fear after placards posted on their cabins warn them to depart within thirty days, prompting a widespread exodus across nearby areas.
Representative Roddenberg challenges excess spending in the house pressing that appropriation bills die this session and be pruned by a Democratic majority in a future congress. He cites increases in the agriculture and army bills and notes the rivers and harbors bill is much larger than last year. In Detroit a bath tub trust was found guilty of criminal conspiracy and faces up to one year in prison or a $5000 fine or both following a previous civil dissolution by the supreme court.
Savannah cotton exporters meet to push a standard bale to curb improper baling at interior points. They argue lack of a standard bale prevents compression to the 22 1/2 pound per cubic foot density, with penalties of 30 cents per bale. They demand changing box forms nationwide to fix the size.
In Washington the joint session canvassed states electing Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall for the term beginning March 4, 1913. Senator Bacon presided delivering the proclamation as the votes were read amid mixed party applause and cheers.
In Charleston four state representatives and one senator were arrested in a hotel on bribery allegations tied to the U S Senate contest. Sheriff Bonner Hill and Prosecutor Townsend presented them to Justice C W Dering. they waived hearings and were remanded in $5,000 bonds.
New York reports six thousand ILGWU members return to work under a tentative 10 percent wage advance and a six member committee to adjust demands. No future strikes are planned but a grievance committee will settle disagreements. About 15,000 garment workers remain on strike.
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