Disaster at Sea as Volturno Burned Off Mid Atlantic
Ten other liners joined rescue efforts but could not avert the tragedy. The Volturno, on a Rotterdam to New York via Halifax voyage, caught fire in a fierce storm. Of 657 aboard, 134 perished. 523 were saved, many leaping into the sea as lifeboats failed. The incident highlighted wireless signaling and brave acts by Captain Inch and Captain Barr.
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Mid-Atlantic
Wireless
Volturno
Rotterdam
New York
Halifax
Wheles
Canadian Northern Steamship Company
Uranium Line
Canada
Fishguard
Francis Inch
James C. Barr
Carmania
Miss Bick
Iss Bick
Dore
William Seddon
H. G. Lang
Gamboa Dike Blown Up by Electric Charge
The Gamboa dike at the North entrance of Culebral Cut was blown up by an electric current set off from President Wilson’s Washington office. Two hundred feet of dike collapsed, sending rock and earth into the air as 2,000 onlookers watched lake water rush into the lower cut.
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Gamboa Dike
Gamboa
Culebral
Gatun Lake
Wilson
Washington
State King's Daughters Convention Reviews White Slavery
In Binghamton New York last week the state convention of King's Daughters discussed white slavery reporting that about 50 000 girls are annually prey to vice the figure cited as the scope of the problem and a call for action.
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King’s Daughters
Binghamton
N. Y
Swanson Receives Jail Term For Embezzlement
Attorney Guy C. Swanson was sentenced to one year and six months in Warren County jail after pleading guilty to embezzling funds held in his care. Judge Hinckley ordered costs, a $50 fine, restoration of remaining property, and potential disbarment. He had earlier posted $1,300 bail and waived a hearing.
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Warren County Bar Association
Guy C. Swanson
Warren County
P. F. Masterson
Hinckley
Siggins
Edward Lindsey
Swanson
Mr. Swanson
G. W. Thompson
Justice of the Peace
Warren County residents oppose highway graft driving costs
Citizens criticize the highway department for excessive overhead and insist against spending fifty million dollars on graft roads, arguing the current overhead charges are too high and wasteful.
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Warren County
Highway Department
Towns shaped by people not fate, says Gibson
David Gibson argues towns become what their residents make them not natural gifts. He cites Cleveland, Chicago, Cincinnati and others, noting leaders and dreamers shaped industry and identity. Personal initiative and civic effort convert places into centers of oil, meat packing, and culture.
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Cleveland
John D. Rockefeller
Chicago
St. Louis
Phil Armour
jay—Thomas A. Edison
Indianapolis
Richford
New York
Russell Sage
America
Cincinnati
Louisville
Memphis
Cincinnati Southern Railroad
Far West
London
Paris
David Gibson
Welco
Three Sisters Charged in Dishonest Servant Scheme
New York police lock up Harriet, Margaret, and Anna Moser ages 16 18 and 26 on grand larceny charges. They are suspected of using the dishonest servant girl fraud to rob Washington Heights households and have confessed to numerous thefts. Clothing valued over 2000 dollars found in their rooms. Anna says she began stealing ten years ago in New York and summoned her sisters from Roscoe Sullivan County to join the scheme.
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New York
Washington Heights
Harriet
Margaret
Anna Moser
Anna
Roscoe
Sullivan County
Uncertain Washington Huerta Crisis Stalls Mexican Reply
Washington officials admit perplexity over Mexico as no reply comes from Huerta to U S notes. OShaughnessy’s actions reportedly halted a sharp Mexican reply, while Wilson’s nonrecognition policy shapes diplomatic meetings and the fate of imprisoned deputies remains unsettled.
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Washington
State Department
Huerta
Washingon
O'Shaughnessy
Mexico City
Foreign Office
Diplomatic Corps
Henry Lane Wilson
Bryan
Nelson O’shaughnessy
Wilson
Noted educator sued for divorce in Indianapolis
Martha L. Shortridge sues Abraham C. Shortridge 80 known as Father of Indianapolis schools and former Purdue president for divorce and 5000 alimony. She recounts life on a farm east of Irvington where she says he forced her to perform much manual work and house chores including driving a milk wagon hauling feed cutting corn and hauling wood.
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Indianapolis
Abraham C. Shortridge
Shortridge High School
Perdue University
Martha L. Shortridge
Shortridge
Irvington
Murder Suspect Arrested After Footprint Clues In Thomasville
In Thomasville Georgia T W Duane, 19, was arrested on suspicion after footprints appeared in his hotel room floor during the investigation of Miss Dorothy Haug a 19 year old found dead in bed The theory is that she defended herself and fired the revolver by her own hand when attacked by her mother during a confrontation at the hotel
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Thomasville
T. W. Duane
Dorothy Haug
Duane
Miss Haug
Sulzer Found Guilty on Article I Charge
Albany reports Governor William Sulzer found guilty of making a false statement of campaign contributions in Article I. The impeachment court’s final deliberations are secret. Seven other articles remain to be considered. vote 39 to 13.
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Albany
William Sulzer
Wilson to Dine Cousins for White House Wedding
President Wilson will host the Wilson Cousins club at the White House for the wedding festivities. About 500 relatives will need hotel lodging outside the residence, while the state and private dining rooms have been enlarged to host numerous family dinners during the event.
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White House
Washington
Wilson
Ragging to Be Permitted at Denver Church Dance
Denver church plans a first of its kind public dance in November under Rev. Father Garrett Burke. The program will feature ragtime music including tango and maxixe style numbers, with discretion urged though modern dances may be allowed.
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Denver
Col
Garrett Burke
Dying Boy Rescues Companion Then Succumbs
In Racine Wisconsin on October 16 Robert White aged 19 was mortally wounded by his own shotgun while duck hunting from a boat on Eagle Lake. He managed to drag Walter Williams also 19 from the water before dying a few hours later.
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Racine
Wis
Eagle Lake
Robert White
Walter Williams
White
Young Williams
Secretary Daniels' Plant Restored after Raleigh Fire
Secretary of the navy Josephus Daniels returned from Raleigh North Carolina after attending a house warming for a newly restored plant of the Raleigh News and Observer. The building had been destroyed by fire months earlier and is now rebuilt.
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Secretary Daniels
Washington
Josephus Daniels
Secretary of the Navy
Raleigh
N. C
Raleigh News and Observer
Mosquito Again Guilty in Savannah Fever Outbreak
Savannah reports ten percent of residents suffer from dengue or bone fever from mosquito bites. Public health surgeons are active in efforts to check the epidemic and curb transmission.
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Savannah
Wedding Gifts Exhibit For Prince Arthur In London
Wedding presents for Prince Arthur of Connaught and his bride to be shown in London on October 16 with 25 cents admission. Proceeds go to Welsh miners families who perished in the Sengennydd Silery disaster.
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London
Prince Arthur of
Woman slashes throat. health scare ends in aid
In Bloomsburg Pennsylvania on October 16 Florence Wirt sister of Paul E Wirt a fountain pen manufacturer cut her throat in a mirror home act. Blood frightened her and she sought help. Doctors say the injury is not serious.
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Bloomsburg
Florence Wirt
Paul E. Wirt
Leprosy Case Reported in Los Angeles
Washington reports a Los Angeles leprosy case used to support Surgeon General Blue’s claim that more leprosy exists in the United States than commonly believed.
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Washington
Los Angeles
Blue
United States
Greatest Hen Is Found at Oregon College
The Oregon Agricultural College at Corvallis Oregon crowns a hen as the greatest in the world after laying 283 eggs in a year. C-543 hatched April 29 1913 and began laying at five and a half months. The prior world record was 282 eggs in 1911 at the college farm.
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Oregon Agricultural College
Corvallies
Ore
Oregon College
Onion eelworm threat to U S onion crop
The department of agriculture in Washington announced that Tylenchus devastatrix, known as the onion eelworm, has invaded the United States. This worm about one twentieth of an inch long destroys vegetable bulbs rapidly, jeopardizing the onion industry.
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Department of Agriculture
Washington
United States
Erie Engineer Crushed to Death in Railroad Crash
A freight train on the Delaware division of the Erie railroad collided with a standing freight at Susquehanna Pennsylvania last week. Engineer Shear was badly injured and died shortly after at the hospital.
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Erie
Delaware
Erie Railroad
Susquehanna
Tax on Baby Carriages With 1 Cent Annual Levy
Spandau Germany imposes a one cent yearly tax on each baby carriage allowed to be pushed along the sidewalk. The unusual levy targets families and households in the municipality.
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Spandau
Germany
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Seddon
Lang
Mexican Foreign Office
Southern Republic
Mexico
Man
Girl
Sulzer
Mosquito
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