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A grab bag of quips and wry observations on social trends and oddities. The column riffs on currency reform, baseball, fashion, and peculiar anecdotes, naming people, places, and events in a brisk period voice.
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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1913
Page
6
A grab bag of quips and wry observations on social trends and oddities. The column riffs on currency reform, baseball, fashion, and peculiar anecdotes, naming people, places, and events in a brisk period voice.
Fifty people, mostly Rochester residents, are injured after a Pennsylvania railroad excursion train derailed near Sterling station New York. The derailment sent three of five coaches down an embankment while a smoking car track broke away. District Attorney Frank E. Cook was blocked from the scene as railroad workers began moving ties and cars.
Donald Roscoe aged 10 and Hubert Moore aged 9, both of Niagara Falls, died in a small flat bottom boat in the whirlpool rapids after the rope broke. Crowds watched as river current carried the craft toward the rapids and both youths disappeared before rescue could reach them.
Mrs Irene Brunner a 25 year old is arrested as the latest auto bandit charged with robbing a woman's furnishing store. Store owner Miss Elizabeth Foley says the robber bought a handkerchief then drew a revolver from a handbag held up the owner and two clerks taking 100 dollars. Mrs Brunner is wife of Joseph J Brunner owner of an automobile garage.
Advices from Barcelona report renewed fighting in Morocco fueling unrest among Socialists and Anarchists. A stormy antiwar meeting led to clashes with police, firearms fired on both sides, and several people wounded as violence persisted in the streets.
Gettysburg hosts a fiftieth anniversary reunion with 40 000 veterans from the North and South arriving in old uniforms without muskets. Camps form on the battlefield as the advance party scouts already bivouac on the grounds.
The Senate finance subcommittee chaired by Senator Williams reports support for adding a $500 exemption for each child in the income tax section of the tariff revision. They also weigh lowering the Underwood bill exemption from $4,000 to $3,000 to boost revenue. Senator Simmons says the Democratic caucus will meet to review schedules, while Senator Ollie James advocates against a countervailing duty on meat and cattle.
In London six top leaders of the Women's Social and Political Union and one male ally were convicted of conspiracy to commit property damage. Names include Harriet Kerr Agnes Lake Rachel Barrett Beatrice Saunders Annie Kenney Laura Lennox and Edward Y Clayton. Annie Kenney defended the militants with a stirring courtroom address.
Delayed dispatch from Brigadier General Pershing reports the final Moros stronghold on Jolo Island captured after hard fighting. Two Philippine scout companies led by Captain George C. Chariton conducted the assault aiding the overthrow likely to end outlawry in Jolo for some time.
Washington reports a broad expansion of the food and drugs act. Secretaries Houston McAdoo and Bedfield declared that interstate and foreign meat products previously exempt may be seized if misbranded or adulterated. Beginning immediately, meat food manufacturers must comply with the act.
President Wilson, at a two hour White House conference with Democratic members of the House Banking and Currency Committee, reported general harmony with the administration currency bill. Members favored action but asked for careful deliberation, with further White House talks planned.
Ensign William D. Billingsley was hurled from a hydroplane during a bay crossing from the Naval Academy to Claiborne. Lieut. John A. Towers of Rome Ga climbed and clung to the wreck, surviving as the craft plummeted to the water and Billingsley perished.
Fourteen American soldiers died over four days of fighting on Jolo Island as General Pershing's forces subdued the Moros. Among the dead were Captain Taylor A. Nichols of the Philippine Scouts, eleven scouts, and two regulars, including Oliver Villiard and Luther Gerhart of Highth Infantry. Nichols was 34 and son of John Nichols of Durham California.
Dr Carl L Alsberg, chief of the bureau of chemistry, told the Association of American Food Dairy and Drug Officials that guaranteed on labels does not prove purity. He urged closer federal state cooperation and uniform state laws based on national laws, noting the act limits the department and the general public misunderstands its reach.
Melbourne Australia Rt Hon Andrew Fisher and the cabinet resign following a federal election in which the Liberal party gains a one seat majority over Labor in the House.
Athens Ga Allen Fleming suffers a severe arm burn after a powder charge set by local schoolboys explodes near him. A sudden blast, a blistered arm, and a close escape are reported from the vacant lot scene.
Semi official word says former President Taft will preside over the Gettysburg celebration veterans gathering. He is expected to deliver the principal oration on July 4.
Arthur James the night porter is charged with taking part in stealing about $35,000 from the Berkeley hotel in Piccadilly and with attempting to murder fellow porter Gowers. A rat sighting in the dining room led staff to a hidden hole under a radiator where a portion of the loot was recovered.
In Parliament Sir Rufus Isaacs and David Lloyd George faced sharp questioning over American Marconi shards. Their defense aimed to quell opposition insisting the issue was inflated by rivals seeking a Panama of scandal.
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