Taft Issues Mexico Neutrality Proclamation Warns Americans
President Taft published a proclamation warning Americans to avoid entering Mexico and to leave if peril rises. The State Department sent a telegram to Ambassador Wilson to inform Americans in danger to withdraw across the border and that consuls will assist. The message stresses neutrality and obedience to law while denying recognition of the revolution. In El Paso, refugees say Madero faces growing threats from northern and southern revolts.
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Washington
Mexico
Taft
State Department
Wilson
United States
William Howard Taft
United States of America
Madero
el Paso
Tex
Zapata
Lent Fad Sees 76 Women in Cleveland Hospitals
Cleveland reports a new Lenten fad with 76 women spending the season in local hospitals after appendectomies. About a score of society women from nearby cities are also hospitalized, reflecting a trend in observance.
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Cleveland, O
Cleveland
N. E. A. Sets Chicago Dates For July Convention
The National Education association will hold its next meeting in Chicago from July 8 to 12. The National Playground association will also meet in Chicago in conjunction with the N E A convention.
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National Playground Association
Chicago
National Education Association of the
United States
Prohibition Referendum Fails in Virginia Senate
Richmond Virginia March 4 The Jordan bill for statewide prohibition referendum was defeated in the Senate 24 to 16 It had passed the House 62 to 30 defining a setback for prohibition supporters in the state capital.
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Virginia
Richmond
Senate
House
Inmate Dies After Bull Attack in Elyria Stable
In Elyria Ohio March 4 a 55 year old county infirmary inmate John Hyman was killed when a bull attacked him in the infirmary stables while he was feeding the animal. The incident occurred without known provocation and authorities are investigating the death.
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Elyria
John Hyman
Hyman
Three Suffragette Leaders Sentenced in Window-Smashing
London reports three leaders Emmeline Pankhurst Mrs Tukes and Mrs Marshall each jailed for two months for militant window smashing. Merchants seek damages and warn of court action as anonymous threats target the Asquith family. Sentences vary from a fortnight to two months for 124 prisoners with property damage over 25 dollars.
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London
Swan and Edgar Department Store
Asquith
Emmeline Pankhurst
Tukes
Marshall
Fire claims life during Madison Avenue boarding house blaze
A fire in a backward parlor of a Madison Avenue boarding house caused one woman's death. Four policemen rescued twenty boarders, both men and women, with only minutes to act. A fireman suffered serious injuries during the effort.
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New York
Madison Avenue
Will Bar Imported Coal
George Lansbury defends Bristol dock workers refusal to handle imported coal. He argues Parliament and the state have no right to intervene and urges mine and transport nationalization, warning the strike may widen if demands are not met.
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London
George Lansbury
M. P
Bristol
Kilduff Murder Jury Disagrees Seventy-Two Hours
Davenport Iowa March 4 after fifty two hours the Kilduff murder jury could not agree and was discharged seven for acquittal five for second degree murder in the case of Mrs Anna Kilduff charged with killing her husband
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Kilduff
Davenport
Anna Kilduff
Armour Is Bunkoed Packer Wins $19020 Verdict
J Ogden Armour, Chicago millionaire packer, won a New Jersey suit against Sound Shore Front Improvement Company over land at Carteret Middlesex County. The supreme court awarded $19020 for shortage of land above high water mark 17.01 acres contracted vs 14.49 acres found. Armour paid $119140 for property at $7000 per acre and claimed damages plus interest costs.
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New York
J. Ogden Armour
Chicago
Packer
Supreme Court
Armour
Sound Shore Front Improvement Company
Carteret
Middlesex County
N. J
Elisha E. Chandler
New Jersey Title Company
Jealous Husband Kills Italian in Roadway Duel Near Love Farm
In Winsted Connecticut on March 4 Sylvester Love a Yankee farmer shot and killed Luigi Cordelli an Italian youth after a struggle believed to be over a clandestine meeting with Mrs Love. Love was seriously wounded in the fight which occurred about 100 feet from the Love residence.
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Winsted
Conn
Helieving
Luigi Cordelli
Portoricans Seek Citizenship as 400 Petitions Go to Congress
Santiago Iglesias, president of the American Federation of Labor in Puerto Rico, sailed to New York carrying 400 petitions from workers urging Congress to grant citizenship.
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San Juan
Santiago Iglesias
American Federation of Labor
Porto Rico
New York
Congress
Keystone Watch Case Denies Monopoly Charges
The Keystone Watch Case company denies government charges of combination and conspiracy to monopolize the watch case and watch works industry in a Philadelphia court ruling dated March 4.
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Watch Case Trust
Philadelphia
Keystone Watch Case Company
Move to Quash Lewis Jury
A motion to quash the jury impaneled to try BE. G. Lewis on the charge of using the mails to defraud was filed by his attorneys in St. Louis. The jury panel was excused to allow attorneys to be heard on the motion.
Baltimore House Fire Destroys $80,000 Residence
Fire in Baltimore destroys the $80,000 home of James E. Ingram after a cleaning fluid jar exploded. Mrs. Ingram and her daughter suffered painful burns to hands and arms.
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Baltimore
James E. Ingram
Women Create Panic in Courtroom as Murder Trial Nears Close
In Chicago March 4 the defense for youthful slayers of Mrs. Hattie Kaufman ends as wives of two defendants scream for mercy. Jurors sob during the uproar as orders are restored. closing arguments for death penalty proceed for Stacey Rabenau and Channell. Boneham has pleaded guilty and faces sentencing.
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Kaufman
Chicago
Robert &. Cantwell
Hattie Kaufman
Kersten
George Rabenau
John Stacey
John E. Northrup
Stacey, Rabenau
William Rollin Channell
Fred Boneham
Diet and heredity clash over feeding child behavior
A clergyman disputes Bishop Fallows on feeding shaping a boy. The letter cites heredity, biblical references, and a Berkeley reader noting calmer, healthier youngest children from improved diet and hygiene. It recalls Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes on starting with grandparents and the role of prenatal nutrition and spiritual influences.
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Fallows
Berkeley
Cal
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Gaynor backs Dix on Brandt pardon decision
Albany reports Mayor Gaynor endorses Governor Dix's stance against pardoning Folke E. Brandt former valet of Mortimer Schiff. He attacks officials and a newspaper driven scheme aimed at defaming community leaders and fanning anti race hostility. He also criticizes a judge who overridden a valid conviction by releasing the prisoner on habeas corpus.
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Albany
N. Y
Dix
Gaynor
New York
Folke E. Brandt
Mortimer L. Schiff
Taft Praises Howells At 75th Birthday Dinner
President Taft paid rare tribute to William Dean Howells calling him the greatest living American novelist. The dinner at Sherry's honored Howells with Taft seated beside him as Col. George Harvey hosted. Taft praised Howells for truthful depictions of American life and society and noted his self made literary education from a country newspaper.
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New York
Taft
William Dean Howells
Col
George Harvey
Sherry's
Mr. Howells
Colonel Harvey
President Taft
Washington
Mr. Taft
Wasily
Towells
Shakespeare
Burns
Lincoln
Howells
Paper stocks decrease in January stats show gains
Washington reports January stats from the American Paper and Pulp association. Production reached 109,163 tons, up 6,614 tons, while shipments rose to 110,122 tons, an increase of 589 tons. Stocks on hand stood at 26,303 tons.
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Washington
American Paper and Pulp Association
Commissioner of Corporations
Democrats seek to abolish key federal agencies
In Washington on March 4 Democrats in the house plan to abolish the commerce court the tariff board the economy commission and the president's 25000 annual traveling expense fund when the appropriation bill passes next week. They claim savings of at least 1 million dollars if successful.
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Washington
House
Commerce Court
Tariff Board
Economy Commission
Riot in Hungarian House Ends in Disarray and Wreckage
Budapest reports wild disorder in the lower house as opposition members protest the speaker's methods. Desks were banged and scuffles occurred, turning the chamber into a bear pit during the session on March 4.
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Budapest
Roosevelt A Bullycrat Label Sparks Cambridge Row
Taft’s aunt Miss Delia Torrey in Cambridge calls Roosevelt followers bullycrats. She says the term mixes his use of bully as a favorite word with his support for progressive Democratic principles.
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Cambridge
Mass
Roosevelt
Taft
Delia Torrey
Perilous voyage ends as Campania reaches New York
The Cunard liner Campania with 358 first cabin passengers arrived in New York after one of the roughest trips in years. Bow waves towered over the ship as a northwesterly gale battered it on the voyage. Debris of water swept the decks for hours amid the storm.
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New York
Campania
Cunard Line
Miners Strike Over Lamp Order at Jumbo Mine
Eight hundred miners at the Jumbo mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company in McDonald Pa strike after being ordered to use locked safety lamps under a state mining department regulation.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Coal Company
McDonald, Pa
State Mining Department
Nomination Papers Forged in Massachusetts Case
Boston March 4 Augustus Seaver labor candidate for governor at last election found guilty on twenty four counts of forging nomination papers in a securities case.
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Boston
Augustus Seaver
Massachusetts
American Vigilance Association Formed to Fight White Slave Trade
A new national coalition called the American Vigilance Association unites major bankers, educators, and reformers under a high secrecy plan with unlimited capital to combat the white slave traffic. Led by David Starr Jordan and others, the group will operate from New York Chicago and soon San Francisco with detectives and lawyers to aid prosecutions.
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Washington
United States
Department of Justice
New York
Chicago
American Vigilance Association
American Vigiance Association
San Francisco
George Kneeland
Chicago Vice Commission
Quintuplets Born Near Linton for Bennett Family
Mrs Monroe Bennett of near Linton Indiana gave birth to five babies three girls and two boys. Doctors report all five may survive. This follows two-year-old twins and triplets born to the couple making eight children in about two years.
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Linton
Ind
Monroe Bennett
Farmer
Mia
Daughter Kills Father in Kentuckian Farm Dispute
Hopkinsville Ky March 4 Irving Cayoe fifty prominent farmer was shot and killed by his daughter Ollie twenty in a temper. He pursued her with a chair threatening to kill her. She grabbed a pistol and fired twice, the second shot hitting a vital spot.
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Hopkinsville
Irving Cayoe
Ollie
Richard Southgate Dies Veteran Hotel Owner
Richard Southgate, a veteran hotel owner with properties in Chicago New York Montreal Saratoga and St Paul, died at his home 5300 East End avenue after a year long breakdown.
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Chicago
Richard Southgate
New York
Montreal
Saratoga
St. Paul
East End Avenue
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