Washington Pupils Push Board of Education Dance Debate
At Business High School recent dances have stirred students and prompted Principal Allan Day to ask the Washington board of education to officially approve dancing in schools. Girls tire of dancing with each other and urge male students join in as discussions about integrating dance into the curriculum proceed.
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Business High School
Washington Public Schools
Board of Education
Husiness High School
Allan Day
Davie
Washington
Hanes
Pavis
24 Fingers On 4 Hands In Larceny Case
In Atlanta on December 2, two men stood trial for theft shown by their unusual 12 fingers. A pawned cult item and a witness alibi were cited as defense. The jury returned a not guilty verdict for Charles Tanner as the pawnbroker confirmed the suspect matched the description.
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Washington Post
Atlanta
Chales Tanner
Dorsey
Roy Dorsey
Cone
Cass Jones Turner
Wanders With Memory Gone Son of Hesketh in London
Detectives across America search for Lieut Frederick Hesketh son of Sir Thomas Hesketh of London believed wandering with memory loss and unaware of his identity. Last seen leaving a small boat at Kingstown pier Ireland after daylight Sunday October 30. He is 7 years old and a lieutenant in the Ninth Lancers. Mother Lady Straketh is Flora Sharon daughter of Senator William Sharon of Nevada.
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Sir Thomas Hesketh
London
America
Washington
San Francisco
Frederick Hesketh
Kingstown Pier
Ireland
Hesketh
Lancers
Straketh
Flora Sharon
Willam Sharon
Nevada
Nerve wrecking noise from car ruled negligent
In St Paul Minnesota Chief Justice Starr of the state supreme court held that the noise from an automobile after cranking is negligent. Miss Clara Fisher of Elmwood sued after her horse, frightened by the sounds, bolted and injured her. The high court reversed the lower court ruling that McGrath was not negligent.
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St Paul Minn
Starr
Minnesota Supreme Spurt
Clara Fisher
Elmwood
Minn
John McGrath
McGrath
Supreme Court
Roosevelt Wrecker Sets Sails To Seize Yankee Wreck
New Bedford Massachusetts December 2 The steamship Roosevelt Peary s polar steamer arrived last night and departed today for the Yankee wreck near Great Ledge in Buzzards Bay The Roosevelt now belongs to the Arbuckle Wrecking Company of New York and is fully equipped to raise the Yankee An inspection of the wreck will precede any concrete plans
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New Bedford
Mass
Roosevelt
Peary
Polar
Great Ledge
Buzzards Bay
Arbuckle Wrecking Company
New York
Mrs Taft Handkerchief Sale At Salvation Army
The Salvation Army Manchester unit shows hand embroidered kerchiefs by Mrs Taft as part of its annual sale in Hartford. An autograph note from Mrs Taft accompanies the items, wishing success and hoping for a high price to aid Christmas dinners for the poor.
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Washington
Hartford
Conn
Salvation Army
Manchester
Instant relief for corns and callouses with Calocide
An article promotes Calocide compound as a fast corn remedy. A hot foot bath with two tablespoonfuls dissolves the preparation, drawing out soreness and shrinking the corn for easy peeling. Repeats may be needed over several nights for full cure. price is twenty five cents and druggists stock it. Often claimed for bunions sweaty feet and ingrown nails.
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Oftheas
McCrea Denies Discussing New Jersey Politics With Taft
James McCrea president of the Pennsylvania Railroad says his December Washington visit with President Taft was strictly personal. He denied talking about New Jersey politics or Chief Justice Gummere. McCrea declined to discuss the interview’s outcome after a brief three minute meeting.
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McCrea
P. R
Washington Post
Philadelphia
James McCrea
Pennsylvania Railroad
Taft
Washington
Gummere
New Jersey
Supreme Court
Immortality Proof Tied to Spirit Contact Says Lecturer
Boston lecturer Mrs. M G de Verral claims communication with the dead supports soul immortality and the existence of a Deity. Professor J W Hyslop states such contact tests beliefs, contrasts clerics and scientists, and warns civilization has neglected the spiritual aspect, with a provocative remark about future nakedness in the afterlife.
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Boston
Mass
M. G. de Verral
Newham College
England
J. W. Hyslop
American Society of Physical Research
Hyslop
Dining by the Lord Mayor at Guildhall Luncheon
Rear Admiral Joseph B. Murdock and ten officers of the First and Third divisions attended a Guildhall luncheon hosted by Sir Thomas Strong, the Lord Mayor, and the city of London. About 100 guests dined as the guildhall echoed with praise of the American navy and friendship across the Atlantic.
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Guildhall
London
Joseph B. Murdock
Thomas ¥. Strong
Corporation of the City of
Reardmiral Murdock
Reid
Gravesend
England
Alimony Granted in Rhinelander Suit
In Saratoga New York William C Rhinelander son of a New York magnate must pay temporary alimony and legal fees to his wife during her separation action. The plaintiff Mrs Rhinelander a former waitress contends she faced poverty despite his 400 dollar monthly estate income. He disputes the marriage to Maggie McGinnis alleging the prior wife remained legally alive.
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New York
Washington Post
Saratoga
N. Y
William C. Rhinelander
William Rhinelander
Supreme Court
van Kirk
Rhinelander
Maggie McCinnis
Maggie McGlnonis
Cholera Suspect Escapes Quarantine at Cumberland Wis
Farmers near the Russian Settlement in Almena report Gotlieb Jaenschke a Russian emigrant under quarantine for cholera escaped tonight. A search continues with officials enforcing strict quarantine on five other emigrants from Taganroga. His illness is debated as cholera or chronic stomach trouble, and authorities fear spread to northern logging camps.
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Cumberland
Wis
Almena
Gotlieb Jaenschke
Taganroga
Russia
Jaenschke
Chinese Senate Moves to Wipe Out Opium Use
In Peking the imperial senate backed a drastic antiopium plan amid months of agitation. The interprovincial opium trade will end after July 1911 and planting and smoking barred after January 1912. The foreign board may push abrogation of the opium treaty with Britain to halt imports from India.
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Senate
Peking
Imperial Senate
Foreign Board
Great Britain
India
Hospital Ship Solace Crashes In New York Harbor
In New York on December 2 a United States hospital ship Solace outward bound collided with the barge Charles F ltritchard of Philadelphia near the tug Patience of New York in the lower bay. The barge sustained little damage.
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New York
United States
Charles F. Ltritchard
Philadelphia
Patience
Pastor under bonds in patent dupes case
Rev. H. C. Scotford of Chicago faced fraud charges after authorities say he used the mails to solicit inventors for a National Patent Investment Company scheme. He was released on $1,000 bond, claims publication is underway, and he had built a new church amid the alleged delays.
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H. C. Scotford
Chicago
Hamilton Park
Department of Justice
Scotford
United States
Mark A. Foote
National Patent Investment Company
Washington
Tariff Board to shed light on trusts says Cornell head
President Jacob Gould Schurman of Cornell and Willam Miller Collier spoke at Auburn New York on December 2 to Auburn Business Men's Association. Schurman urged that Taft's tariff board would illuminate the truth about trusts and curb tariff abuses while Collier discussed Spain United States trade and Payne-Aldrich law effects.
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Auburn
N. Y
Jacob Gould Schurman
Cornell
Willam Miller Collier
United States
Spain
Auburn Business Men's Association
Schurman
Taft
Tariff Board
Bacon
Collier
Payne- Aldrich
Iowa primary proposal stirs senatorial race
Des Moines on December 2 United States Senator Lafayette Wes said he would accept selection as a successor to fill out the unexpired Dolliver term via a special primary to be held in January or February. Attorney General H W Byers, a prospective candidate for the Senate, said he would abide by the proposed primary.
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Des Moines
Iowa
United States
Lafayette Wes
Dolliver
H. W. Byers
United States Senate
Young
Nine Held as Coiners in Counterfeit Ring
Nine Italians arrested as members of a counterfeiters band led by Lupo the Wolf faced a preliminary hearing before U S Commissioner Shields. Bonds ranged from 2500 to 10000 dollars. The secret service suspects Vincenzo Antonio distributed the counterfeit notes to others.
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New York
Lupo
Wolf
United States
Shields
Vincenzo Antonio
Secret Service
Cars Roll Down Bank Wreck Injures Fifteen Near Knobnoster
A Missouri Pacific passenger train derailed two miles east of Knobnoster due to a broken rail. Fifteen people, mostly residents of Missouri and Kansas, were seriously injured as two pulling cars and a chair car tumbled down an eight foot embankment. Most victims were treated at Sedalia hospital. no fatalities reported. Also noted: will of Dr Charles F Simmons leaves 630 acres in Live Oak County Texas and $10,000 to aid superannuated Methodist ministers. probate filed. total disposition $85,000.
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San Antonio
Tex
Live Oak County
Charles F. Simmons
Methodist Episcopal Church
Noiseless New York Ordered to Quiet Trolley and Cars
Police Commissioner Cropney orders New York to curb noise by halting flat-wheeled trolley cars and new-fangled automobile horns and other disturbances to public peace.
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New York
Cropney
Banana Anna Confesses in Court for Rail Damages
New York December 2 Banana Anna known as Mrs Anna Strula confessed in court to swindling seventeen railroads, obtaining more than 35000 in damages by faking injuries from falls. She admitted a supposed banana peel incident on railroad property and pleaded guilty, with sentence pending.
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New York
Banana Anna
New York Central
Anna Strula
Haslett
NW J
Eritersa
Canada to Have a Navy Four Cruisers and Six Destroyers
Ottawa announces a Canadian naval program to build four Bristol class cruisers and six river class torpedo boat destroyers in Canada. British firms may establish shipyards with government aid, promising higher wartime contract prices and dock subsidies. First vessel expected in three years, fleet by six, with oil propulsion and a Halifax naval college for officers.
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Ottawa
Ontario
House of Commons
Canada
Dominion
Vickerson ‘Sons & Maxim
Harland & Wolf
Belfast
Naval College
Halifax
Niobe
Rainbow
Victoria
Declared Sane at 108 in Kokomo Court Ruling
Martha Gammons, aged 108, was declared sane by the Howard county circuit court and placed in possession of her property valued at 3000 dollars. Previously judged of unsound mind, proof of age was presented. The woman’s mother was enslaved, and her father a white man who sent the child to Indiana after birth.
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Kokomo
Ind
Martha Gammons
Howard County
Indiana
Yerkes Bonds Sale Ordered by Probate Court
Judge Cutting in the probate court ordered Louis Owsley to advertise bids for the sale of bonds tied to the Chicago Consolidated Traction Company. Mrs Yerles contends the move to sell at about 30 percent of par value to Chicago Railways Company risks reorganizing the bonds. If no higher bid arrives by December 15, a gala may be offered. final accounting is due by January 11.
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Chicago
Cutting
Louis Owsley
Charles I. Yerkes
Chicago Consolidated Traction Company
Yerles
New York
Owsley
Chicago Railways Company
Algo
Slayer Loses Appeal In Suydam Broker Death
New York December 2 Johnn C Lumsden loses appeal from manslaughter conviction for causing the death of Harry Suydam a curb broker in New York City The appellate division of the supreme court denies the request saying Lumsden was undoubtedly guilty and no reason for a new trial exists The case cites a loan amount and Lumsden a North Carolina resident as the responsible party.
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J. C. Lumsden
Suydam
Mone Worte
New York
Johnn C. Lumsden
Harry 5
Supreme Court
Lumsden
North Carolina
Magistrate Fines Himself in Cream License Case
In Lucan Minnesota justice of the peace Q H Gehrke fined himself 15 and 00 for buying cream without a license. During the hearing he discovered he had violated the same law and proceeded to assess and pay his own penalty. The case arose after Joe Bran faced the charges under the dairy regulation enacted last session.
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St. Paul
Minn
Q. H. Gehrke
Lucan
State Dairy and Food Commission
Gehrke
Joe
Tam
Saw Napoleon in Russia witness dies in New York
Joseph Zeitlein a Russian who witnessed Napoleon’s 1812 invasion died in Brooklyn at age 106. He spent much of his life in Moscow and recalled the campaign. He smoked and drank and said it did not hurt him. Ralph and John Forne drown after breaking through thin ice on a frigid Franklin County lake. Duke of Manchester case after appendectomy shows favorable progress in London.
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Joseph Zeitlein
New York
Brooklyn
Moscow
Napoleon
Russia
Jockey Club books show 1906 1908 expenses and Coyne payment
New York December 2 1909 records from the Jockey Club before a legislative committee reveal legal and press expenditures totaling 320000 for 1906 1907 and 1908. Treasurer Frank Sturgis testified spending was directed by August Belmont with 42290 paid to E P Coyne for appearances before committees. Belmont may be recalled as hearings resume tomorrow.
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New York
Jockey Club
United States
Joint Legislative Investigating Committee
Hughes
Frank K. Sturgis
August Belmont
Tockey Club
E. P. Coyne
James W. Wadsworth, Jr
Sturgis
M. Linn Bruce
Coyne
Mr. Brute
Wadsworth
Algernon Daingerfield
Westchester
Brighton
Albany
Belmont
First Map of America Brought to U S Hopes Held
Heinrich Charles of New York says a 1507 map bearing the name America could be brought to the United States from Castle Wolfberg in Germany. President Taft would receive guarantees of safe return and proper ceremonial handling before exhibition at a Pan American museum in Washington.
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America
Castle Wolferg
Kingdom of
Wurttemberg
Germany
Taft
Heinrich Charles
New York
Prince ‘Maximilian von
Gov elect Dix Dined at Washington County Reception
Gov elect John A. Dix was guest of honor at a Washington county nonpartisan reception and banquet. In his speech he urged a duty to contribute to the progressive spirit that should permeate every hamlet in the state.
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Dix
Greenwich
Dee
John A. Dix
Washington County
Work Rushes on Maine Wreck Removal Project
Col Mason M Patrick United States army engineer in charge at Norfolk and Maine board member arrived from Havana to inspect preparatory work for raising the wrecked battleship. He said preliminary tasks are largely finished and steel sheet piling for the cofferdam is expected in Havana. Patrick declared the force and equipment available to push the operation forward and within months they will pump out the water and expose the wheels.
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Col. Patrick
Washington Post
Norfolk
Mason M. Patrick
United States Army
Maine Board
Havana
Patrick
of Anday
Copper Hill Fire Destroys Forty Five Structures in Copper Basin
Copper Hill, Tenn. with about 1500 residents, was almost wiped out by a blaze that began soon after 8 pm in a second story boarding house above a store. An overheated stove caused the fire, destroying 45 frame buildings at an estimated $80,000 loss.
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Copper Hill
Knoxville
Tenn
Ducktown
Japanese force rout Formosans in Formosa districts
Japanese expeditionary forces report extreme measures against Formosan rebels in Shinchiku. Villages occupied by three tribes were destroyed by gunfire after the tribes refused surrender.
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Victoria
British Columbia
Fomosg
Shinchiku
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Prof
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Laudstaft Tariff Board
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Ake
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Annapolis
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Justice
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Ralph
John Fforine
John
Duke of Manchester
P. Coyne
Bookmakers’ Association
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Metropolitan Turf Association
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Hechts Company
NEW National Theater
Cameron Johnson
Asia
Totor
Bancroft Cor
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White House
KE. C. Benson
Maine
Tennessee
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Luttrell Co
Connecticut Avenue
Ong Dupont Circle
Belmore Horssen
Burchell
N. W. Burchell
Antire
Willis F. Gross, G.S.B
Christian Science Board
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Hass
Columbia Theater
Maxonic
ELKS
Adgalasion
Academy Ech
Far West
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Ieee
Matt Sense
Dixie
NEW Howard Theater
T &Trest
Ncar
Clara Turner
Anita
Burton Holmes
Prague
Bohemia
Belasco
B. Warner
Jimmy Valentine
Wallsch
Marie Cahill
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Udy
Justo
Laague
Charles Frohman
Ethel Barrymore
Mid-Channel
Arthur W Pinero
Byenkuys
Marion Garson and Company
Savilie
Eliis-Nowlan Company
Fur Ina
Hedges Brow. & Jacobson Inc
Devlin
Mae Elwood
Bhit Blaeta
Crouch & Webb Maximo
the Cerbay
Josef Hofmann
Droop's
Amd
Gayety
Matiner
Harry Hastings
Viola Sheldon
Happiland
the Arcade
Sione
Admington
Laliroam
Pistorio
Orchestra
Janes
Almendes
E. P. Roe
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Bone Henry B. Harris Preeenta
Edward Selwina
Amfries Czar
Klaw & Erlanger Fresent
Imperial Russian Court
Balalaika
W. Anureeff
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