Shorter News Teer: World Dispatches Trimmed for Quick Reading
The German chancellor limits foreign wives for German diplomats, and Treasury Secretary MacVeagh urges elastic currency with a reserve. The Democratic campaign spent about 1.17 million dollars with 89,854 contributors. James C Doyle of Chicago faces federal fraud charges over Virginia land claims. Captain Ramirez, wounded saving the Dominican president, arrives in New York for bullets removal and dies in a hotel. Meyer urges forty one battleships for fleet strength. New York deer law unchanged as per Fish Game and Forest League. Denver attorney Duncan McPhail prefers jail to dog license payment. Three courts rule he must pay tax. he flees Kerwin’s garage, later eluded by film crew. Servia fears Austro-Hungarian war changes signal aggression. Rochester factory witness says 90–100 hours a week ok for women tellers if they rest. Comptroller Sohmer seeks $29,245 from Sickles to cover monuments commission shortfall.
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Prince Bismarck
Congress
MacVeagh
Treasury
Democratic National Committee
Marshall
James C. Doyle
Chicago
Ramirez
Victoria
San Domingo
New York
Meyer
Secretary of the Navy
Fish, Game and Forest League
New York State
Duncan McPhail
Denver
Kerwein
Film Company
Servia
Rochester
Sohmer
Sickles
Monuments Commission
Governor Blease Repudiated by South Carolina Press
South Carolina media condemn Governor Blease for actions at the governors conference. Dr. Carl Alsberg set to succeed D Harvey W Wiley as head of the bureau of chemistry after Wiley's resignation. Servia indicates willingness to yield on Albania but resists Austrian coercion. House Indian Affairs committee trims 3,000,000 from Indian bureau funding. John McAllister, bedridden by progressive atrophy, claims right to die to end suffering.
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Blease
South Carolina
Carl Alsberg
D. Harvey W. Wiley
Bureau of Chemistry
Servia
Europe
Austria- Hungary
House Committee On Indian Affairs
Secretary of the Treasury
Indian Bureau
John McAllisters
New York
Wilson's White House Has Seven Bedrooms Surprise
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson is surprised to learn the White House has only seven bedrooms. Democrats in New York City expect William Church Osborn to join Mr. Wilson's cabinet. Governor Dix after the Richmond conference urges South Carolina to impeach Governor Blease. Governor-elect Sulzer asks for simple inexpensive Albany inaugural ceremonies. Representative Broussard of Louisiana urges liberal farm credit and points to his state's laws as a model to ease agri culture and high living costs.
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Woodrow Wilson
White House
New York City
William Church Osborn
Turkey Faces Allied Terms or War to Resume
Turkey must accept or reject within 15 days the terms Balkan allies offer or war will resume. New parcel post stamps debut January 1, larger and printed in red and green. Dr L F Hatch of Vineland hospital goes missing after snow blindness in Maine mountains. Britain protests exemption of American shipping via Panama Canal and seeks arbitration. Chief Constructor Watt says the eight hour Navy law will raise Pennsylvania costs by over $1,000,000.
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Turkey
Parcel Post
L. F. Hatch
Vineland
N. J
Maine
Great Britain
Panama Canal
Watt
Pennsylvania
Senate opposes arbitration of canal exemption issue
Opposition in the Senate rises against arbitration of the canal exemption dispute cited in Britain's protest note. A separate item notes a bear that escaped in Fort Lee.
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Senate
Great Britain
Fort Lee
Evolution of the Piano Through the Ages
A compact history tracing early stringed instruments from the aarp shaped framework through the cithara and virginal to the spinet and harpsichord. It notes key milestones like the clavicytherium and Bartholomeo Christofori’s 1710 keyboard invention shaping the modern piano.
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Bartholomeo Christofoli
Migration of Weeds and Their Global Journeys
A Chicago Record-Herald piece notes weeds in New England surpassing 6 090 varieties since colonization. It recounts early arrivals from Europe and modern dispersal via overshoes and factory waste, illustrating weed life hitchhiking from Asia to America.
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New England
Connecticut
Asia
Europe
Chicago Record-Herald
Witty Quips From a Home of Stern Command
In a biography of Lord Wolverhampton, his stern house rules surprise him when obeyed. A daughter retorts she is a “masterpiece in some department.” The Return features a cheerful philosopher who notes for every gift two come back, a notion echoed by Pham Fey with August family arrivals.
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Robert Hamilton
Lord Wolverhampton
Phamfey
Mass blessing for 1900 babies sparks pro life protest
In Pittsburg at St Pauls cathedral 1900 babies aged weeks to three years were brought with mothers to be blessed by priests. The rite urged parents to fulfill duties to God and raise children, condemning race suicide as a sin and warning it could depopulate nations without radical action.
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Pittsburg
St. Paul's Cathedral
Rev. Brown
Christ
Carnegie's Gift Opposed by Mobile Typographical Union
Mobile officials face a push from Mobile Typographical Union No 27 and Socialist groups to reject a $50,000 Carnegie library grant. The resolutions condemn the gift as tainted and a private memorial costing Mobile taxpayers $5,000 annually for maintenance, arguing Carnegie’s name should not be perpetuated.
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Mobile
Ala
Andrew Carnegie
City Commission
Mobile Typographical Union No
Carnegie
Yale Pleased Over Taft Story
New Haven residents report campus discussion after a New York story said President Taft may join Yale Law School as a professor after his presidency. The university community expressed hopeful sentiment about Taft joining Yale in the near future.
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Yale
Taft
New Haven
Conn
New York
Kent
Yale Law School
United States
The Tower of Babel and the Babylonian mound
The article notes the Tower of Babel myth and the ancient seven stage structure near Babylon. It mentions the mound once known as the Mound of the Birs Nimrud and Henry Rawlinson’s discovery of inscribed cylinders that identified the site.
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Babylon
Birs Nimrud
Henry Rawlinson
Wombat's Method Draws Crowd For Cure Claim
A Pittsburgh Post item quotes a debate on cold remedies with a tonic claim and an interval of daily outdoor exercise. A character references Wombat's approach promising relief with pills and simple routines.
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Wombat
Pittsburgh Post
Humorous Exchange About Hats and Hair Color
A light exchange between Mrs Blowitt and Mr Blowitt notes a magazine claim that wearing hats makes hair gray. He quips that the expensive hats already gray her hair, implying weariness with fashion trends.
The Retort Couples Exchange Sharply
In a sharp exchange from The Retort, Hél dismisses worries about marriage, saying only a fool would marry, as Der Guckasten retorts with a biting quip about happiness and foolish choices.
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Héland
Respite Granted to Claude S Allen and Father
Governor Mann has granted a reprieve for Claude S Allen and his father, extending their respite until January 17. The action pauses legal actions and pending executions while mercy is considered.
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Gov. Mann
Peonage Allegations Surface From West Virginia Mine Camp
Thirty five men from Olean New York claim a New York employment agency sent them to Forest Virginia West Virginia mines where they were housed in tents without stoves fed poor food and kept from leaving by armed guards. They say they were unpaid and nearly forced to fight their way out. Federal officials may investigate. Some rode trains without pay.
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West Virginia
Olean
N. Y
Wheeling
W. Va
Siberia
New York
Forest Virginia
Union Railroad
Massive strike clash at Edgewater yard ends in deaths
Two hundred striking coal handlers mostly of Italian and Polish origin attacked railroad detectives guarding strikebreakers at the Edgewater New Jersey yards. Two Erie railroad detectives died, nine others wounded, as strikers charged from Palisades cliffs with shotguns revolvers and crowbars, chasing defenders to dock cover before retreating.
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New York
Edgewater
N. J
New York Susquehanna and Western Railroad
Palisades
Andrew J. Craw
Elmira
N. Y
Erie Railroad
Clarence Mallory
Binghamton
Farrington
Captain Craw
Bishop's $500000 Estate Directed to Church and Missions
Philadelphia December 12 The greater part of the 500000 estate of Bishop H S Hoffman of the Reformed Episcopal church is disposed of in public bequests under the probated will. A trust fund is created for establishing Reformed Episcopal churches in Pennsylvania. Two missions of the church in India are beneficiaries.
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Philadelphia
H. S. Hoffman
Reformed Episcopal Church
Reformed Episcopal Churches
Pennsylvania
Church In
India
Kenton Society Man Invests 5000 in Wright Aircraft
Dale Augs burger of Kenton, a Findlay society figure, invested 5000 in a Wright airplane. He says he does not fear death in flight and believes the exhilaration of flying is worth the risk and would be fully compensated in advance by death in a tumble.
Farmer Calvin Dietz Found Dead in Ohio Home
Calvin Dietz a 38 year old farmer of New Bedford Coshocton Ohio was found dead with a bullet wound to the head. No motive is given by family members for the act.
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Coshocton, O
Calvin Dietz
New Bedford
Weetfield Man Promises Cheap Electric Light Claim
A Weetfield man says he has a machine capable of furnishing electric light at not over two cents per kWh. He asserts the device will beat the rates charged by power companies in Western New York for patrons.
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Weetfield
New York
Roundhouse Gunfight Leaves Mallory Mortally Wounded
In a deadly exchange near the yard’s center two assailants pursued Mallory behind the roundhouse and fired repeatedly as others fired in. the dock’s windows shattered and its face bears bullet scars from the assault.
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Mallory
Taylor to repair Liberty Bell for Panama Pacific Exposition
Philadelphia mayor selects Frederick W. Taylor consulting engineer to repair the Liberty Bell for transport to the Panama Pacific Exposition. Taylor will drill holes and rivet a new interior to relieve the crack and keep the bell in good condition.
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Philadelphia
Blankenburg
Frederick W. Taylor
Cooke
Department of Public Works
Chief Hall
Bureau of City Property
Taylor
Independence Hall
Blood Transfusion by Syringe Saves Newborn in Detroit
Detroit doctors Dr. Thomas B. Cooley and Dr. J. Walter Vaughn report a successful syringe transfusion for a newborn with life threatening hemorrhage. After a failed first attempt, blood drawn into a glass antitoxin syringe was injected into a vein, reviving the baby. The method is described as highly successful, simpler, quicker, and more generally applicable.
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Detroit
Thomas B. Cooley
J. Walter Vaughn
Cooley
Whistling Prisoner Saves Life Dances to Music
In Connersville Indiana on December 12 an insane prisoner Edward Baker attempted suicide in the county jail using suspenders. The whistling by a fellow inmate caused Baker to stop choking and he began to dance. Guards pulled the suspenders away as Baker danced.
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Connersville
Ind
Edward Baker
Baker
Quaker City Egg Prices to Drop
400 club and society women assisted by city authorities will sell thousands of eggs at 24 cents a dozen in Philadelphia. The sale aims to push prices 6 to 20 cents below current retail rates, challenging chain grocers and other retailers accused of keeping prices high for small sales profits.
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Philadelphia
Directors Held For Court In Leechburg Pa
At a hearing before Justice Kifer and a panel including F W Spang H L Weigle Charles Jack H E Jacek and N L Henderson alleged directors of the Order of the North Star Leechburg were held for court under 91 000 on charges of illegal distribution of liquor by Mayor Joseph G Beale Also named was George Stivason steward of the organization
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Leechburg
Justice of the Peace
Kifer
F. W. Spang
H. L. Weigle
Charles Jack
H. E. Jacek
N. L. Henderson
Order of the North Star
George Stivason
Joseph G. Beale
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America
Claude S. Allen
New York Agency
Liberty Bell
Wiil
Whistling
Quaker City
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