France's War Minister Killed in Monoplane Crash
Paris May 22 France paid a terrible toll for its air effort when a monoplane at Issy les Molineux veered from its course and crashed into a cabinet gathering for the Paris to Madrid race start. War Minister Berteaux was fatally mangled, Premier Monis and others injured. aviators Train and Bonnier unhurt as the crowd fled amid chaos.
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Paris
France
Madrid
Henri Maurice Berteaux
Antoine Emmanuel Ernest Monis
Antoine Monis
Henri Deulseh de la Mourthe
Aeroneutics
Issy Les Molineux
Parsons
M. Train
M Bonnier
Berteaux
Premier Monia
Train
M. Berteanu
Premier Monts
M. Deutsch
M. Rwunter
M. Berteaux
M. Monis
Taft Summer Home Plan Proposed for Minnetonka
Washington reports Representative Nye introduced a bill for a government constructed summer home for the president on Minnetonka shores following Senator Kenyon’s invitation. The president approves the idea. Boston notes artist Frederic Porter Winton died at sixty five after illness from throat infection following a Wallgate attendance.
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Washington
Kenyon
Okoboji
Minnetonka
Nye
Boston
Frederic Porter Winton
Resignations Shake Elite Metropolitan Club Board
Washington May 22 Ultra exclusive Metropolitan club loses three governors over Taft era blackballing remarks. Brigadier General Clarence R Edwards U S A chief of insular affairs Lieutenant Colonel Charles L MecCachey USMC and Captain Templin M Potts resign. Others imply displeasure with a small ruling minority and seek to dissociate from club actions.
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Washington
Board of Governors
Taft
Clarence R. Edwards
Bureau of Insular Affairs
Charles L MecCachey
Marine Corps
Templin M Potts
Hdwards
Cannon Back From His Long Trip
President James U. Cannon of the Fourth National Bank reports a solid foundation for U S business after a 9000 mile western tour to twenty one cities in eighteen states He found general conditions excellent and predicted large crops if rains remain scarce He noted the banking situation was sound and that bankers supported Aldrich currency proposals with broad consensus for prompt congressional action
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New York
James U. Cannon
Fourth National Bank
Pacific Coast
Cannon
Aldrich
Congress
Monetary Commission
New Cabinet To Be Named In Mexico City
Mexico City May 22 Alfredo Roblez Dominguez, named by Madero to travel to Mexico City to negotiate terms with de la Barra. General Bernardo Reyes detained in Havana to avoid friction as peace talks proceed. indecision marks progress of parleys between federal government and revolutionists.
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Parieys
Juarez
Madero
Dominguez
Mexico City
de la Barra
At &l Paso
Bernardo Reyes
Diaz
Mex
Shetteen
Senor de la Barra
Officials Stand Firm on May Wheat Deal Probe
Chicago May 22 Officials on the board of trade press forward with an investigation into the May wheat deal despite criticism. The committee aims to finish and report to directors tomorrow with Armour Grain president George E Marey and A J Lichstein as the principal figures already before the panel. Armour insists it acted as a commission house filling orders and taking wheat on May contracts. Pierre South Dakota May 22 The supreme court cleared Attorney General Johnson of discharge day charges, ruling testimony did not sustain them.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
George E. Marey
Armour Grain Company
A. J.lichstein
Armour House
Johnson
Pierre, &. D
Supreme Court
Livestock Rates Inquiry Faces Major Commission Probe
Washington May 22 The Interstate Commerce Commission begins a full review of livestock freight rates from the west and southwest after complaints from major meat packers about rate discrimination between large firms. As part of the probe the commission suspends from May 24 to September 21 proposed new rates from Fort Worth and other Texas points to Oklahoma City, raising questions about its authority to suspend a rate reduction.
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Washington
Middle West
Interstate Commerce Commission
Fort Worth
Texas
Oklahoma City
Crowless Rooster Coming From Wellborn Plan
Kansas City May 22 A local inventor W L Wellborn aims to breed a crowless rooster after producing an almost wingless chicken His neighbors praise the achievement but he refuses to reveal the method or the plan for the crowless bird.
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Wellborn
Kansas City
W. L. Wellborn
Mr. Wellborn
Brazil deports mutineers in government order
In Rio de Janeiro on May 22 a Rio de Janeiro paper reported the government ordered the deportation of 700 people, including mutineers and criminals, on the steamer Satellite. Opposition member Barbosi Lima demanded an explanation in the chamber of deputies, and the president’s brother, a government leader, pledged a later explanation.
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Chamber of Deputies
Rio Janeiro
Brazil
Barbosi Lima
Fonseca
Hundred and Six Years Old Woman Dies in Marshalltown
Mary Murphy aged 106 years died at the home of Thomas Crahan of old age in Marshalltown Iowa. Born in Ireland in 1805 she was believed to be the oldest woman in the northwest and had lived for years at the Crahan home. Body taken to Grand Junction for burial.
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Marshalltown
Mary Murphy
Northwest
Thomas Crahan
Crahan
Murphy
Ireland
Grand Junction
The Middleman Robs Farmers in Grapes and Goods
An ex-farmer learns why city prices soar from field to store. He traces grape costs from 2 cents paid to producers to 40 cents paid by city buyers, revealing express, rent, and intermediary profits. He cites potatoes, milk, pork, eggs, cabbage, beef, wheat, and bread, blaming middlemen for inflated totals and the farmer’s shrinking share. The piece cites Technical World Magazine June as naming the remedy.
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New York State
New York
Express
Broadway
Cnfy
Senate
Tis Technical World Magazine
Do You Have the Right Kind of Help Foley Kidney Pills
An advertisement touts Foley Kidney Pills as the right kind of help to neutralize poisons and relieve backache headaches nervousness and other kidney and bladder ailments.
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Foley
H. Williams
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