Dance in Washington schools sparks board of education debate
Students at Business High School push for official approval of dancing in schools. Principal Allan Day has been urged to forward a request to the board as girls complain about dancing with boys and seek a healthier, vigorous pastime for mind and body. The issue, led by students and supported by Principal Davie, awaits board decision and could become a school life standard across Washington.
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Washington
Board of Education
Allan Day
Davie
WHS
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Four-Fingered Suspect Not Guilty in Larceny Case
In Atlanta two men stood accused after a peculiar scene showing four fingers on four hands. The jury found both defendants not guilty as testimony cited matching fingers and alibi witnesses failed to prove guilt.
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Atlanta
Ihales Tanner
Eral Dorsey
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Anowel
Wanders With Memory Gone A Hesketh Heir Searched For
Sir Thomas Hesketh of London reports his son Lieutenant Frederick Hesketh missing in America after departing from Kingstown Ireland aboard a small boat following a flight. He is 47, has amnesia, and may not know his identity. His mother is Lady Elizabeth, daughter of Senator William Sharon of Nevada.
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Nevada
Nerve Wracking Auto Incident In Paul Minn Supreme Court
Miss Clara Fisher of Elmwood Minn drove a horse beside an automobile owned by John McGrath on a road in Paul Minn The car stood at the roadside The horse frightened by the vehicle bolted causing Miss Fisher to be injured She sued but the trial court dismissed The Minnesota Supreme Court reversed holding McGrath negligent and the lower court in error
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Minnesota Supreme Court
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Supreme Court
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Peary's Ship A Wrecker Aims at Yankee Wreck Site
The Hoovervvelt steamer Roosevelt, Peary's polar stop, arrived at New Bedford and left for Buzzards Bay near Great Ledge to assist wrecking of the cruiser Yankee. Owned by ArthurKill Wrecking Company of New York, it is fully equipped for salvage with inspections planned before formal plans.
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Mass
Peary
Great Ledge
Buzzards Bay
Arhurkle Wrecking Company
New York
Sale of Mrs Taft's Handkerchiefs at Hartford Charity Auction
The Salvation Army in Hartford, Conn. presents its annual sale of hand embroidered handkerchiefs by Mrs. Taft. Proceeds go to Christmas dinners for the poor. An autograph note from Mrs. Taft accompanies the gift, wishing success and a good price at the auction's final night.
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Hartford
Conn
Salvation Army
Instant relief for corns and related foot troubles
An old remedy touts Calacida or Calocide compound for foot care. A hot foot soak with two tablespoons of the prep, ten to fifteen minutes, purportedly draws out soreness and shrinks corns enabling peeling. Repeated nightly applications may fully cure. price listed is twenty five cents for sufficient supply.
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At Theas
Visit to Taft Personal Surelal to The Washington Post
James McCree president of the Pennsylvania Railroad said his Washington visit to President Taft was strictly personal and not about New Jersey politics. He denied any discussion of Chief Justice Gummere’s Supreme Court appointment and refused to reveal interview outcomes.
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Palladelphia
Wec
James McCree
Pensylvanie
Railroa
Taft
Washington
Gummere
New Jersey
Supreme Court
Mr. McCrea
Immortality Proof, Dead Communicate, De Verral Claims
Boston detective reports Mrs M G de Verral a lecturer who has had communication with the dead. Prof J H Hyslop says such communications prove immortality and support the existence of a deity. He warns scientists may overlook spiritual evidence while focusing on physical sciences.
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Mass
M. G. de Verral
Newham College
England
J. H. Hyslop
American Society of Physical Research
Hyslop
Naval officers dine with Lord Mayor at Guildhall luncheon
In London at Guildhall today Rear Admiral Joseph B. Murdock of the U S Atlantic Fleet and officers of the First and Third Divisions joined Lord Mayor Sir Thomas V Strong and city officers for a luncheon. The event marked a historic welcome of American naval representatives as friends of Britain.
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London
Joseph B. Murdock
Hinchenk Riven
Thomas V. Strong
City of Leufen
Merdock
Ambassador Reid
Thomas
Murdock
Reid
Warmis
Gravesend
England
Batleship
Minnesota
Nehter
Alimony Prom Rhinelander in Temporary Award
William C Rhinelander must pay alimony and counsel fees to his estranged wife during the separation case pending in New York Supreme Court justice Van Kirk ordered the temporary support. Mrs Rhinelander formerly a New York waitress seeks relief from the disinheritance and lifestyle dispute while Rhinelander contests the legality of his marriage to Maggie McGinnis amid a prior relationship.
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New York
Washington Post
Baratoga
N. Y
William C. Rhinelander
William Rhinelander
Supreme Court
van Kirk
Rhinelander
Cholera Suspect Escapes. Russian Quarantine Braced in Wisconsin
Cumberland Wisconsin December 2 officials seek Gotlieb Jaenschke a Russian emigrant under quarantine after breaking it and fleeing toward northern camps. He was ill with a suspected cholera or stomach trouble and officials enforce strict quarantine on five other Russians from Tryanroga Itussa as a precaution while authorities search.
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Cumberland
Wis
Farmersa
Almena
Ihis City
Gotlieb Jaenschke
Tryanroga
Itussa
Jaenschke
Chinese war on opium aims drastic eradication plan
The imperial senate passed a resolution to abolish interprovincial opium transport after 1911 and prohibit planting and smoking after 1912. It also empowers the foreign board to seek abrogation of the opium treaty with Britain to curb imports from India. In New York a hospital ship collision damaged a barge in tow of a tug.
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Imperial Senate
Foreign Board
Great Britain
Solace
New York
United States
Charles F. Pritchard
Philadelphia
Patience
Pastor Under Bonds In Patent Dupes Scheme
Rev H C Scotford pastor of Hamilton Park Congregational Church Chicago was arrested for using the mails to run a patent fraud he obtained patent lists mailed promises to exploit inventions and charged $3.50 for a woodcut now says publication is underway and he denies criminal intent. Trial set for December 8. he says delays due to church work.
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Chicago
Hamilton Park
Department of Justice
Scotford
United States
Mark A. Foote
National Patent Investment Company
Washington
Seoiferd
Stig
Harmilton Park
Taft Tariff Board Discussed by Cornell President at Auburn
President Jacob Gould Schurman of Cornell and former minister William Miller Collier spoke at the Auburn Business Men's Association banquet. Schurman praised Taft's tariff board as a source of dry light to expose truth on tariff questions and trusts. Collier spoke on U.S. Spain trade relations post Payne Aldrich Act, noting Spain as non-discriminating and seeking increased commerce.
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Jacob Gould Schurman
Cornell
Willam Miller Collier
United States
Spain
Auburn Business Men's Association
Schurman
Taft
Tariff Board
Bacon
Tarifff
Colfler
Payne. Aldrich
Iowa primary proposed for Dolliver successor
Des Moines December 2 United States Senator Lafayette announced willingness to be the selection for a successor to fill out the unexpired term of Senator Dolliver in a special primary to be held in January or February Attorney General H W Byers who has entered the race for Dolliver's seat said he would abide by such a primary as well
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Iowa
United States
Lafayette
Dolliver
H. W. Byers
United States Senate
Young
Nine Held as Coiners in New York Band
Nine Italians arrested as counterfeiters tied to the former gang led by Luno the Wolf faced a preliminary hearing before U S Commissioner Shields. They are held on bonds from $500 to $10,000, with Vincenzo Antonio suspected of distributing the counterfeit $2 bills to others.
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Luno
Wolf
United States
Shields
Vincenzo Antonio
Secret Service
Arcused
Cars Roll Down Bank Wreck Injures Fifteen in Missouri
Debris from Missouri Pacific Train No 4 derails two miles east of Hacknoster causing fifteen serious injuries. Rail break blamed as tre fullmans and a b car overturned and tumbled down an eight foot embankment. Most injured sent to Sedalia hospital. no confirmed fatalities reported. Also notes will of Dr Charles F Simmons provides homes for elderly Methodist ministers in Live Oak country Texas.
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Hacknoster
Missouri
Kansas
Tre Fullmans
San Antonio
Tex
Live Gallcountry
Charles F. Simmons
Methodist Episcopal Church
New York Quieted by Police on Disturbing Vehicles
New York City officials under Commissioner Cropsey order hush on trolley cars and noisy autos to curb street disturbances. The decree directs police to enforce quieting measures and maintain public peace in the nomeless town.
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New York
Reg S—Rence
Cropsey
Banana Anna Confesses to Railroad Injury Scams
New York reports that Anna Struss known as Banana Anna confessed in court to defrauding seventeen railroads by claiming injuries from falls. She admitted feigning fresh wounds on railroad property and slipping on banana peels to induce negligence claims, pleading guilty and awaiting sentence.
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Banana Anna
Lortha
New York Central
Hai
Anna Struss
Haslett
Canada to Build Navy Four Cruisers and Six Destroyers
Canada plans a naval build of four Bristol class cruisers and six torpedo boat destroyers. Yard capacity will be established with British bidders Vickerson Sons & Maxim and Harland & Wolff. The program, supported by subsidies and a naval college in Halifax, aims for completion over six years at an estimated cost of 10 million dollars.
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Ontario
House of Commons
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Vickerson ‘Sons & Maxim
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Naval College
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Victoria
Declared Sane At 108 In Indiana Probate Case
Martha Gammons, 108, has been declared sane by the Howard county circuit court and put in possession of property valued at $3,000. Declared of unsound mind a year ago, her age was proven in court. Her mother was a slave and her father a white man who sent the child to Indiana after birth in 1802.
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Martha Gammons
Howard County
Indiana
Yerkes Bonds Sold Ordered by Chicago Judge
In Chicago probate court Judge Cutting ordered Louis Owsley, executor of Charles L. Yerkes, to advertise bids for sale of bonds of the Chicago Consolidated Traction Company. Mrs. Yerkes contested the bid, aiming to block the sale at about 30 percent of par value to the Chicago Railway Company for reorganization. The sale to the Chicago Railway Company could proceed if no higher bid arrived by December 16, with final estate accounting due by January 11.
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Cutting
Touis Owsly
Charles L. Yerkes
Chicago Consolidated Traction Company
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New York
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Honda
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Owstey
Slayer Loses Appeal In Card Broker Death Case
New York December 2 Joan C Lumsden appeal from a manslaughter conviction for the death of Harry Suydam a New York card broker was denied by the appellate division of the supreme court. Lumsden a North Carolina resident met Suydam over a loan of 650 that led to the crime. The court held Lumsden was undoubtedly guilty and gave no reason to order a new trial.
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Suydam
New York
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Supreme Court
Lumsden
North Carolina
Magistrate Fines Himself In Cream License Case
In Lucan Minnesota justice H Gehrke fined Joe Bran for buying cream without a license under the recent dairy law. During the hearing Gehrke discovered he too had violated the same law and paid his own fine.
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Minn
H. Gehrke
Lucan
State Dairy and Food Commission
Gehrke
Saw Napoleon in Russia Witness Dies at 106
Joseph Zeitlein a Rugsyan who witnessed Napoleon's 1812 invasion dies in Brooklyn at age 106. He spent most of his life in Moscow and recalled the campaign. He smoked and drank and said it did not hurt him.
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New York
Brooklyn
Moscow
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Russia
Jockey Club records show 1906 08 legal spendings and Burke
New York December hearing reveals the Jockey Club spent about 5200,000 on legal costs, advertising, and a press bureau between 1906 and 1908. Frank Sturgis testifies that August Belmont directed the disbursements and that 2,190 went to E P Coyne, a lawyer Wadsworth recommended. Belmont’s handling of a 000 fund is questioned as no detailed records exist. The committee adjourns to hear Belmont again.
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Jockey Club
United States
Joint Legislative Investigating Committee
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Frank K. Sturgis
August Helmont
Wee
E. P. Coyne
James W. Wadsworth
Assembly
Sturgis
Nox
M. Linn Bruce
August Belmont
B. P. Coyne
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Bruce
Algernon Daingerfield
Westchester
Brighton
Coyne Et Albany
Belmont
John J. Evans
Metropolitan Turf Association
Bookmers’ Clib
Hart-Agnew
Mr. Bruce
First Map Showing America May Come To U S
A 1517 map bearing the name America, drawn by Martin Waldsemueller, may be exhibited in Washington. Heinrich Charles, representing Prince Maximilian von Waldburg Auf Wolfegg Bel Waldsee, sent President Taft a letter demanding safe return and proper diplomatic ceremonies for the transfer.
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Wurttemberg
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Taft
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New York
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Columbus
Pan-American Museum
Washington
Dix Dined at Washington County Nonpartisan Reception
Gov elect John A. Dix was guest of honor at a Washington county reception and banquet. In his remarks he recalled the duty to work for one another and to the state, urging contribution to a progressive spirit in every hamlet.
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Greenwich
John A. Dix
Washington County
Maine wreck recovery work rushes ahead
Col. Stason M. Patrick United States army engineer in charge at Norfolk and Maine board member arrived from Havana where he reviewed preparations for raising the wrecked battleship. He said the preliminary work nearly complete and steel sheet piling for the cofferdam should reach Havana today. He claimed force and equipment will advance the project and that water pumping to expose the wheels could occur within a few months.
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Washington Post
Norfolk
Stason M. Patrick
United States Army
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Hoe
Copper Hill Fire Destroys Forty Five Buildings
Copper Hill Tennessee, a town of about 1500 in the Ducktown copper basin, was nearly wiped out by a blaze that began shortly after 8 PM in a second story boarding house above a store. The fire destroyed 45 frame structures at an estimated loss of 80000 dollars.
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Knoxvilre
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Ducktown
Japanese Elite Force Annihilates Rebels in Formosa
Reports from Victoria dated December 2 state Japanese expeditionary troops are destroying Formosan villages in the Shinchiku district after rebels refused to surrender. Three tribes’ settlements have been wiped out by gunfire as the campaign against the Formosan insurgents intensifies.
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