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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1913
Page
6
A long, humorous miscellany from High Point North Carolina offers satirical observations on safety slogans leisure fashions and urban quirks. It riffs on aviation safety wages wills and social mores with playful witticisms and city life jests.
Newark jury convicts Seeley Davenport and Jacob Dunn on four charges for sending threatening letters to President Wilson and others, with evidence from handwriting expert William J. Kinsley. Davenport seeks mercy, Dunn linked as writer of the letters. In Georgia Macon banker B Sanders Walker dies after ingesting a deadly bichloride tablet, amid vigil by locals and family.
Captain Guy B. G. Hanna of the Sixteenth company Coast Artillery and Privates Baxter and Christian were killed at Fort Moultrie during night target practice when a 4.7 gun breech exploded. Nine men were wounded and several may die. The fort near Charleston traces to the Revolutionary War era and is a key Atlantic coastal defense.
Dayton Ohio reports a special election elected a fifteen member charter commission by non partisan citizens. John H Patterson headed the ticket and was recently convicted under the Sherman Anti Trust law with a $5000 fine and one year jail term. Patterson led flood relief efforts. The vote was nearly unanimous.
London underwriters set a three month war risk rate at five guineas per cent to cover potential hostilities between the United States and Japan.
In Paris the Minister of Marine Pierre Baudin announced during the naval budget debate in the Senate that France has gained three years on the planned schedule. Four more ships are to be laid down in October as the program accelerates.
In New York and Brooklyn six committees representing boss barbers agreed to grant a 69 hour work week and Sunday closure. They rejected the union’s demand for formal recognition while allowing the strike to end. The journeyman barbers had asked for 65 hours per week.
A 3,000 foot high rock above Thormery near Aix-les-Bains was detonated by government order. The base had eroded for years, causing fear that the cliff would collapse onto the village during storms since its medieval foundation.
The Illinois House approved a Senate bill providing a 50 million dollar appropriation for a Chicago union railroad station, moving the project toward Governor Dunne’s signature. The Pennsylvania system is likely to advance its union station plans in central Chicago.
The German Kaiser's only daughter Princess Victoria Luise married Prince Ernest of Cumberland in a lavish Berlin ceremony at the Schloss Chapel. Attendants included European royalty with the Empress offering the toast and a royal procession, candle dance, and garter ceremony marking the wedding before a departure for Joachimstahl for the honeymoon.
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