National and World News Digest Briefs
A Washington convention closes as debates on a special committee for woman suffrage proceed. Reports note a drop in army enrollments under new terms. Wilson’s health improves slightly yet a day of rest is advised. The Hetch Hetchy water dispute and Russia ambassador issue are among items. Violence and legal cases feature in multiple states. a broad sweep covers labor, politics, and international events.
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House Rules Committee
The
National Association For Women Suffrage
Washington
Balileves
Agriculture Report Promotes Cooperation and Reform
Secretary David F Houston releases a 1913 report stressing coordination between the Agriculture Department and other federal and state agencies. It calls for increased production, seed distribution reforms, weather and crop forecasting improvements, agricultural land classification, rural credit adjustment, and expanded road programs to link farms to markets.
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Washington, DC
David F. Houston
Department of Agriculture
Louisiang
Congressional
Weather Bureau
Hydrographic Office
Navy Department
Mount Weather
Bureau
Bureau of Statistics
Post Office
Department
Bureau of Chemistry
Wealthy Merchant Dies at 70 in Highlant Park
Chicago obituary notes the death of multimillionaire merchant and mail order pioneer William Ward at his Highlant Park home. Born Feb 17 1843 in Chatham New Jersey he rose from a stave factory apprentice earning 25 cents daily to presiding over a $40 000 000 empire. Pneumonia triggered his death after prior falls and ill health.
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Chicago
Montgomery Ward
Highlant Park
Chatham
N. J
Ward
Richmond
Fairport
Harbor
Parsons
Pope Columbus
Penitentiary
Lillian
McDowell
Toledo
Kimatrom
Sandusky
John YV
Robb
Ohio Soldiers
Battora
Cincinmnati
Kenton-Troubla—tor
Theodore Lewis
Hardin County Law Enforcement League
Arenes Ee
Lima
Federation of Women's Cluts
Chillicothe
Brown
Republican Party
Rose County
Sanna
Waldernfeld
McKinley
Bondusky
Wooster
Mia
Rittman
Cincinnati
Cuthing
Robert Huber
John. Kunzeinan
Mt. Healthy
Anna Cakcon
Nixty
Point Place
Ralph H. Gyler
Tood Department
Rte
Bell
Kenton
Aly Hugh’ L. Runkel
National Bank
Cleveland, Wooster
Untarirban
Daniels
Cotterman
Tidar Creston
Paul Casper
Cager
Adotor
New Philadelphia
Henry Retdenbaugh
Stonecreek
Dayang
Andro
Swangér
Charlotte
Newark
Martin
Aysinger
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Baltimore
Currency in Circulation and Bank Earnings Report
The 1913 annual report of acting comptroller Thomas P. Kane shows $3,363,738,449 in currency in circulation outside the treasury as of June 30, with $8,466 per continental resident. Government indebtedness less cash stands at $1,028,344,055. National banks’ gross earnings rose over 2 percent despite securities value depreciation. Savings deposits climbed from $6,496,192,707 to $6,972,069,227, a rise of over 7 percent.
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Washington, D. C
Thomas P. Kane
United States Treasury
Continental
United States
Porto Rico Sanitation Progress Noted In McIntyre Report
Washington reports that Puerto Rico's sanitary conditions remain crude by American standards but have improved under Brig. Gen. Frank McIntyre. Key challenges include water supply, sewage and garbage disposal, markets, hospital facilities, overcrowding, jail sanitation, crowded laborer housing, and milk contamination.
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Washington, D. C
Porto Rico
Frank McIntyre
Bureau of Insular Affairs
McIntyre
Mrs Pankhurst Freed After Plymouth Arrest
Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst, militant suffragist leader, released from Exeter jail Sunday night after being arrested at Plymouth on December 4 on arrival from the United. She began a hunger strike, was driven to a hotel, appeared weak, and retired to bed under nurse care. She faces a seven days’ license decision.
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Emeline Pankhurst
Majestic
Exeter Eng
Automobiles and crimes ripple through Richmond and Toledo
A chaotic jumble reports burglaries at Richmond Q to Fairport Harbor and Toledo robberies with masked perpetrators. The piece lists arrests, court actions, fire injuries, and local incidents across multiple towns, including Kenton and Columbus, with names, losses, and charges.
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War Department
Garlington
San Francisco
Hetch Hetchy Valley
Gifford Pinchot
Senator Works
Wilson
White House
National Rivers and Harbors Congress
Senate
Henry M. Pindetl
Peoria
Russia
State Department
Zelaya
New York
Barcelona
Spain
Garrison
Ashington
Hugh L. Scott
Farmington, N M
Primrose
Neb
John Arrocks
Sacramento
Cal
Otin Eschmean
St Louis
Metro
Colorado
Ammons
Thomas Duncan
Indiana Public Service Commission
Indianapolis
Traction Company
Yolo
John Richardson
Lake County
Waukegan
Hadicals
Republican State Conference
William Barnes
New York City
Beevers
Roy Maxson
Fort Madison
John Schmoltzer
Schmoltzer
Atence
Alaxsor
Katherine Fleming
Avon
Ahs
William B. Craig
Indiana Veterinary College
Shelbyville
Ind
Helane Knabe
New Orleans
American Sugar Refining Company
Big Sugar Corporation
Pennsylvania Department of Health
Michigan State Association of Farmers’ Clubs
Theodoros G Bilbo
Mississippi
G A. Hobbs
Lincoln County
Warren County
Washington County
Baisoni
Tula
Victoria
Puget, Sound Navy Yard
Releigh
Pacific Reserve Fleet
Mexico
Huerta
Pincho” Villa
Chihuahua
Juares
Mann
House
Tréland
Ulster
Asquith
Edward Carson
Wadsworth Rogers
James Wadsworth
Paris
Luigi Oregila
Pius IX
Rome
Theodore Roosevelt
France
Alexandere Louis Albert Tirman
Ministry of Commerce
At. Bison
Joseph Rickman
Elien Fox
Roland B. Mahany
Buffalo
Ecuador
Harrisburg
Houston
Secretary of Agriculture
Candl Dlone
Gether
Central Inboratorien
Tim Reeport
Farmera
Federal Road Policies
Muleilly
Insular Affairs
Canada
Dominion
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Hecom Ig
Baskatchewan
Alberta
Alberta. the University At
Hamonton
Bass
Agricultural ‘College
Istulls
Nungdreegy
Ft. Thei
Thia
Woot ‘Aire
Dean Curtiss
Amuagricultural College
Iowa
Ita University and Agricultura of
Jegs
Brosdar ‘and Morris
Rupleadovany
Thig
Courg
Dean Curtiss Wax Nitich
Anvicaltaris
Sappropriatigag
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