Gompers Denies Flag Insult Charge Amid Plot Claim
Washington Jan 3. Samuel Gompers president of the Federation of Labor denies standing on the American flag during a Oakland California labor day address. He calls the photograph a fake and says footprints could not have been made on the flag. He recalls the Shellwood Park event and notes spectators stood on a temporary stand to see speakers.
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Washington
Jan
Oakland
Cal
Gompers
Federation of Labor
War Department
Ainsworth
Shellwood Park
Orin T. Thomas
Los Angeles
Los Angeles Times
Thomas
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Lieutenant Comfort Freed In Chicago Divorce
Naval lieutenant James W. Comfort, stationed in Chicago, obtained a divorce from Celerina T. Comfort in St. Louis circuit court. He was granted custody of their nine year old daughter and the marriage had begun in the Philippines in 1901.
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St. Louis
James WH. Comfort
Chicago
Celerina T. Comfort
Philippines
Ambergris Worth $19,200 Found Near Nantucket
William H. White of Brookline reported finding a 320 ounce piece of ambergris on Christmas Day while walking the Nantucket beach. A chemist valued the specimen at $19,200 based on a current price of $60 per ounce.
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Brockton
Mass
William H. White
Brookline
Nantucket
Japan's 1911 Trade Surpasses 960 Million Yen
Tokio reports Japan's foreign trade for 1911 at 960,600,000 yen with 447,000,000 yen in exports and 531,500,000 yen in imports. The total exceeds 1910 by about 38,000,000 yen.
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Tokio
Japan
Boy Shot by Father in Kilis Farm Incident
Sedalia Missouri report of D M Woolet a farmer near Kilis who tried to chastise his son Boyd Woolet aged fourteen with a strap. The boy shot and killed him.
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Sedalia, Mo
D. M. Woolet
Here
Boyd Woolet
Alfred Dickens Dies During Lecture Tour in New York
Alfred Tennyson Dickens, born October 28 1845 in London, died in New York City at the Hotel Astor from heart failure induced by acute indigestion. He arrived in America from Australia last October for a lecture tour and was accompanied to his rooms by manager William G. Glass. The English author Charles Dickens’s son and godson of Alfred Tennyson, Dickens spent years in Australia and Melbourne before settling into lecturing in the United States.
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New York
Alfred Tennyson Dickens
Charles Dickens
Alfred Tennyson
Australia
Hotel Astor
Dickens
William G. Glass
Burt
England
Melbourne
Devonshire House
London
Mrs Mary Harrington Stallo Sues Second Husband
Mrs Mary Harrington Stallo, former wife of Dan R. Hanna, files for divorce from Edmund K. Stallo, formerly a Cincinnati attorney now in New York, charging cruelty and gross neglect. Rumors of trouble followed their four months of estrangement. They lived in separate Waldorf Astoria suites after her October Europe return.
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Cleveland
Mary Harrington Stallo
Dan R. Hanna
Edmund K. Stallo
Cinccinnati
New York
Stallos
Waldorf-Astoria
Stallo
Europe
Great Grandmother at 47 in Denver
Mrs. Hazel Conklin of Denver becomes a great grandmother at forty seven when her granddaughter Lydia Rauch in the city bore the fourth generation. Conklin was married at Memphis at age fourteen illustrating early marriages in the family line.
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Denver
Calc
Hazel Conklin
Lydia Rauch
Atwood to Try Ocean Flight in New Hydroaeroplane
Lynn Mass January 3. Harry N Atwood plans a 30 hour ocean crossing next April in a hydroaeroplane of his own design. Burgess company Marblehead Mass will build an improved larger craft using two engines each at least 160 horsepower.
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Lynn
Mass
Harry N. Atwood
Burgess Company
Marblehead
Atwood
Illinois Meat Pool In Court Hearings Described
In Judge Carpenter's court Henry Veeder describes a back room control of national meat supplies by indicted packers. He says fines were levied for over allotments and under shipments, with 40 cents per hundred pounds as the penalty and incentives to limit shipments to certain territories.
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Chicago
Counselman
Henry Veeder
Separate firms resume operations in Kentucky markets
Lexington Ky Jan 3 report that after dissolution by U S Supreme Court the American Tobacco company and allied firms Pierre Lorillard Leggett Myers and others have begun operating in Kentucky as separate distinct companies.
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Lexington
Supreme Court of the United States
American Tobacco Company
Pierre Lorillard Company
Leggett & Myers Company
Kentucky
Jealous Lover Tries Suicide at Sweetheart Home
Despondent Frank Shepski age twenty nine, after his jilt, went to the home of Mrs. Mary Fadly and attempted to shoot or harm himself on the front steps. He was taken to his own home where doctors said he would recover.
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Elgin, Jr
Frank Shepski
Mary Fadly
Shepski
McKinley Proposes Gift for Champaign School Grounds
In Champaign on January 11 3 Congress man William B McKinley offered the Champaign board of education 650000 for a site for athletic grounds and 1000 for equipment. The gift was accepted and a model high school athletic field will be built.
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Champaign
Wiliam B. McKinley
Champaign Board of Education
Fesd
Taft to Send At Least Five Messages to Congress
President Taft plans to send five or more messages to Congress this month. He will transmit the economy commission report with a letter of transmittal and similarly send the postal commission report when ready. Additional messages will cover Alaska conservation and District of Columbia affairs, and the woolen schedule report from the tariff board.
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Washington
Taft
Congress
Economy Commission
Postal Commission
Alaska
Conservation
District of Columbia
Tariff Board
Diet and Health Hints on Tuberculosis Nutrition
Dr. David R. Lyman states eggs are unnecessary for tuberculosis patients. Milk forms like buttermilk provide easily digested fat and albumen, reducing energy expenditure for digestion. A monodiet principle advises matching foods by digestion time and avoiding combining eggs or milk with beefsteak or bread in the same meal.
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David R. Lyman
Illinoia
Russians Hang Many In Tabriz After Court Martial
Sixteen Persians were hanged by a Russian court martial for the attack on Russian troops in Tabriz Persia. The trials occurred in batches, with bodies displayed in the public square. Notables hanged include Sheqat ul Islam and Seik Salem, while Shua-ed-Dowlebh arrived to assume the governorship escorted by cossacks.
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Tabriz
Persia
Sheqat Ul Islam
Seik
Taft Real Estate Sale In Cincinnati Details
A 50 by 50 foot lot on Vine street near Fourth avenue in Cincinnati was sold by President William H. Taft to Melville E Ingalls for 100000 dollars. Friends of Ingalls in Washington offered no further details beyond court records.
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Cincinnati
Vine Street
Fourth Avenue
William H. Taft
Melville E. Ingalls
Big Four Railroad
Ingalls
Washington
Missouri Supreme Court Upholds Sunday Train Law
Missouri supreme court upholds the legality of the Sunday passenger train law. Case comes from Worth County where Burlington railroad was fined for not running a train on its branch line on Sunday.
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Jefferson City
Missouri Supreme Court
Worth County
Burlington Railroad
Dynamite inquiry resumes in Indianapolis grand jury
In Indianapolis preparation for the U S grand jury meeting resumes the dynamite conspiracy investigation. Det William J Burns conferenced with U S Attorney Charles W Miller as others from Los Angeles and California conductors are expected. In Muscatine Iowa Socialist alderman O C Wilson and forty labor leaders were arrested on conspiracy to murder charges.
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Indianapolis
Ind
United States Grand Jury
Ofice
United States
Charles W. Miller
William J. Burns
Miller
Fredericks
Los Angeles
Oscar Lawler
California
Muscatine
O. ¢. Wilson
Bribery Charge Emerges From Morse Gas Stock Offer
Warden W T Moyer says Charles W Morse offered him a bribe after Morse became an inmate at the Atlanta federal penitentiary. Morse allegedly claimed he made $2000 on a gas stock deal and asked for half the receipts. Moyer refused and notified Attorney General Wickersham.
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Atlanta
W. T Moyer
Federal Penitentiary
Charles W. Morse
New York
Morse
Wickersham
Moyer
Bad Outlook for Peace
London reports that discussion of arbitration treaties in America shows Taft and peace advocates face heavy work ahead. Yet authorities express confidence that British and American publics want to abolish war and will push for submitting to arbitration all real questions between the two governments.
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London
America
Taft
Tramp hen steals ride on suburban train
A hobo hen rode a Chicago suburban train, was spotted on the Pine and Miller routes, and after the conductor removed it at Miller, Judge William Westergren kept the bird as a memory and meal companion for his family.
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Gary
Ind
William Westergren
Miller
Pine
Chicago
Westergren
Oldest San Diego swimmer stars in New Year plunge
The San Diego Swimming club held its annual New Year's plunge in the Pacific at Ninety-Four, San Diego. The standout was O. J. Stough, aged ninety four, who swam with the ease and vigor of younger members.
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Pacific
San Diego
Cal
San Diego Swimming Club
O. J. Stough
Imperial Family Donates Large Sum as Yuan Shih Kai Returns
Reports from Pekin say Yuan Shih Kai returned from the Forbidden City while imperial coffers fill a campaign fund with 2 500 000 in American money. Empress Dowager gave 1 800 009 as Lanchow troops pledge republican support, and Dr Sun Yat Sen is proclaimed provisional president inaugurating a new era and calendar in China.
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Pekin China
Yuan Shih Wai
Forbidden City
Imperial
Lanchow
Kansu Province
Chihli
Trents
Canat
Chile
Imperial Army
Hanken Bere
Hongkong
Canton
Sum Yat-Sen
Vipers
Nanking
China
Yat Gen
Revolutionary Party
Sun
Michigan Governor Delivers Supportive Statement on Presidential Candidates
The Michigan governor proposes that Presidents Taft and La Follette be the two candidates, with Albert J. Beverage of Indiana or Col. Theodore Roosevelt as alternates. He plans to deliver the speech at a meeting and emphasizes unity in the party while noting the senator’s preference for a shorter trip.
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Lanting
Mich
Csbborn
Taft
la Follett
Albert J. Beverage
Indiana
Theodore Roosevelt
Ti Potette
Cheeper
Train
Ten Aualle
Private car to escort Edison to Chicago banquet
The Western Real Association arranged a Pullman car to transport Thomas A. Edison to attend a Chicago banquet. Edison will travel with his wife, daughter, and secretary as the sole occupants.
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New York
Thomas A. Edison
Chicago
Two Killed by Train in Ottawa Area Collision
Miss Katie Mitchell and Patrick Sullivan die after a New Year’s drive from Bayaville near Montreal is struck by a train. The woman was instantly killed and the man died at noon. description notes neck injury and torn clothing.
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Ottawa
Ont
Katie Mitchell
Patrick Sullivan
New Years
Bayaville
Montreal
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Vorys
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Atlanta Penitentiary
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