Taft Campaign on Name Loeb in New York
Reports say collector Loeb will manage the President’s affairs in New York with Taft campaign leaders confident the President can control OK and Indiana delegates. Roosevelt talk continues and Taft factions maneuver to open positions, with Hilles and Roosevelts linked to preconvention plans.
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LOEB
New York
Indiana
Roosevelt
Barnes
Sonuare
Roose
Neelf
Taft
Royalty in Sea Wreck as Sailor Saves Princess Party
Princess Louise Victoria and her daughter survived the Cape Spartel wreck of the Delhi when a French warship towed women and children to safety. The royal party reached Tangier by dawn in fog and heavy seas, with all passengers rescued and emotions calm despite the peril.
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Princess Louise Victoria
Duke of File
Delhi
Tangier
Crown
Gibraltar
Louise Victoria
Great Britain
Ireland
George V
Egypt
Cape Spartel
Attica
Wile
Duke of Edinburgh
Watc Les
Mrigat T1
London
Friant
Jeruiger Friant
Duke of Fife
Ashthouse
Delhi 1A
Gibelmusa
Malta
Vetzel
Ndon
Peninsular Steam Navigation Company
Times Saga
Alexandra
Taft Prepares Short Message After Cabinet Review
The draft of Taft's message to Congress is being refined after hours in the White House library. Officials expect a concise final version to be issued next week.
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White House
Taftshes
Congress
Cabinet
Police Dog Killed By Train In Bayonne Chase
Special to The Washington Port Bayonne New Jersey December 13 Spot the only police dog in Bayonne was killed in the line of duty. It accompanied Detective William Henney of the Central Railroad of New Jersey as he pursued two men stealing coal from a car near West Eighth Street. Spot lunged to seize the thief but was struck and killed by an express train as the culprit escaped.
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Washington Port
Bayonne N
Bayonne
William Henney
Central Railroad of
New Jersey
West Eighth Street
Henney
Spot
Col
Taft Seeks National Park Bureau at Civic Association
President Taft and Interior Secretary Walter Fisher urged creation of a national park bureau at a New Willard Hotel address. Senator Reed Smoot and Horace McFarland backed central management to develop and connect parks, with emphasis on roads and accessibility for all Americans.
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Taft
Interior
Walter L Fisher
Reed Smoot
Utah
Senate Public Lands Committee
Horace McFarland
Harrisburg
American Divic Association
New Willard Hotel
Bureau of Parks
Senate
Smoot
Fisher
United States
McFarland
Forest
Washington
Baltimore
Lincoln Memorial National Park
Gettysburg
Enos A Milla
Bates Park
Cole,l
Herbert W G
Democrats Sweep Arizona State Victory Likely in 1930s Race
Arizona Democrats expect to fill two U S Senate seats and one House seat while winning the governor's office in Phoenix. Carl Hayden wins a House seat. Henry F Ashurst and Mark A Smith named for the Senate. George W P Hunt elected governor. party claims majorities over 1,609 to 2,600 though secretary of state race appears tighter.
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Casty Segislature
Senate
Phoenix
Arizona
United States Senate
House of Representatives
Henry F Ashurst
Prescott
Mark A Smith
Tucson
Carl Hayden
Representatives
George W P Hunt
Globa
Wise
Arnor
Cleveland
Osborne
Christmas Gift Necklace for Mrs Gary Worth 500000
A Washington Post report from New York details a $500000 pearl necklace gift to Mrs Dilbert H Gary by former United States Steel chairman Dilbert H Gary. The rope features about 160 perfect pearls graduating from large center stones to smaller ends, with a diamond and emerald clasp.
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Elbert H. Gary
Washington Post
New York
Dilbert H Gary
United States Steel Corporation
Hoodoo wedding postponement stuns Baltimore couple in San Francisco
Army officer George Bayard Cliftin and Miss Marion Amick planned a Friday the thirteenth wedding despite superstition. The ceremony was delayed when the bride and her mother collapsed at the Amick home. A nurse said they would wed once Cliftin recovers enough to answer questions. In Cumberland Maryland the couple faced a similar superstition at their planned nuptials. Later in San Francisco Lieut Fitzhugh Lee Minnegerde of Monterey and Miss Wthel O Brien wed at the Fairmount, again defying the Hoodoo number. A French aviator Lieutenant Charl Lantheaume was killed in France when struck by a propeller blade on his arrival at a camp.
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Cumberland
First Presbyterian Church
James B. Moffatt
George Bayard Cliftin
Baltimore
Marion Mick
Arthur Hammond Amick
Amick
Clifton
San Francisco
Cal
Fitshugh Lee Minnegerde
Monterey
Wthel O Brien
Laughing Fit Ends in Death at Pearl Street
Mrs Annis Sperber of 120 Pearl Street New York died after a laughing spell while visiting friend Mrs Catherine Phillips. The two women exchanged humorous stories when Sperber suddenly began laughing and never recovered, ending a night of gaiety with her death according to local reports.
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New York
Annis Sperber
Pearl Street
Mra Sperber
Mra
Catherine Phillips
Diamond in leg of lamb shocks Shelton widow
Special to The Washington Post from Ansonia Connecticut on December 13 Mrs Andrew Johnson of Coran avenue Shelton found a diamond dropped from a leg of lamb she was about to cook A jeweler valued the gem at 300 dollars The leg had come from a New York wholesale firm to a local dealer from whom Mrs Johnson bought the meat and jewel together.
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Washington Post
Ansonia
Conn
Andrew Johnson
Coran Avenue
Shelton
New York
Johnson
Shuster Loses Persian Post in British Mediation Report
Teheran dispatches claim the Persian cabinet terminated W Morgen Shuster’s three year contract as treasurer general after British mediation. Washington awaits State Department confirmation as Mrs Shuster and staff face uncertainty. Shuster and family may depart Teheran under escort.
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Washington Post
Petersburg
Teheran
Novos Vremya
W Morgan Shuster
Perala
London
St Petersburg
Novoe Vremya
Peraia
Mr. Shuster
W. Morgen Shuster
Persia
China
Shuster
United States
Clement & Bouve
State Department
Knnox
Russell
Shustera
Speaker's Wife Names Greatest Women List
Mrs Champ Clark selects the greatest women living or dead led by Joan of Arc. The list includes Martha Washington, Mrs John Adams, Mary Washington, Queen Victoria, Catherine the Great, Maria Mitchell, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Susan B Anthony, and others.
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Martha Washington
Washington Post
New York
Washington Dispatch
New York American Says
Champ Clark
Clark
John Adams
Joan of Arc
Boadices
Mary Washington
Mme. de Staci
Rose Bonheur
Queen Victoria
Maria Mitchell
Cecile Chaminade
Jane Austen
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Joh Adams
Catherine of Russia
Maria Theresa
Mme
Cutie
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Jane Addams
George Birdt
Sarah Bernhardt
Susan B Anthony
Expel Card Sharps In Newport Country Club Scandal
Reports from Newport state two Newport Country Club members caught using marked cards in clubrooms on December 5 face expulsion from fraternal bodies. Former Mayor William P. Clarke, chairman of the board of governors, allegedly advised repayment of the misappropriated funds, though little money has been returned.
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Newport Club
Eyedato
Washington Post
Newport
Newport Country Club
Willam P. Clarke
The
Country Club
S A
Physicians Split Fees Blight Ethics At Medical Banquet
Dr C A L Reed of Cincinnati led a denunciation of fee splitting between general practitioners and surgeons. He offered a reward for convictions of such practices and warned of patient harm, citing a cancer operation performed without cancer. The talk criticized proprietary hospitals and urged ethics teaching in medical schools.
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C A L Reed
Cincinnati
Southern Surgical and Gynecological Society
Raugher
Washington Surgical Society
Cincihnat Academy of Medicine
Lsck
Itn Acus
Pagen t-Plan for Taft Campaign
The page lists multiple brief items across topics including political planning for Taft, a wreck at sea, public health pleas, a deed found by a father, a minister accused in a bomb plot, hospital buildup plans, and various court and crime notes. It sketches a mixed front with editorials, society notes, and notices from several entities.
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Taft
Park Bureau
Stokes Tacea
G W. Perkins
W. W Burhans
Financial
Chinese warn powers over Manchu loan scheme
Wan Pao in Shanghai accuses Four Powers financiers of readying to fund a rail loan to Premier Yuan Shi Kai for war aims. Foreigners are charged with aiding the Manchus and stoking Chinese hostility. Shanghai Foreign Chamber of Commerce protests loans to the regime. Dr Wu Ting-fang cables protest to the State Department and other notable bankers, including Andrew Carnegie.
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Wan Pao
Yuan Shi Kai
Foreign Chamber of Commerce
State Department
Wu Ting-fang
Chinese Revolutioniat A
Peking
Andrew Carnegie
Death of Washington Inn proprietor's son shocks city
Frederick William Reynolds 23, proprietor of the Washington Inn at 23 North Capital street, was found dead in room 6 with a bullet wound. His father, visiting with the wife after discovering the body, described the death as accidental. Coroner Navitt ordered an inquiry to determine whether suicide or accident caused the shooting. the youth had recently worked as a hotel steward and was last seen in the lobby about 9 or 10 p.m. Local residents heard a shot earlier that night but thought it was a car explosion.
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FB. W. Reynolds
Jlight
Reynolds
Reynolda
Navitt
Gays
Seneral
Thirteenth
E Streets
Family Murders Near Albany Prompt Italian Farmhand Search
Near Albany New York on December 13 neighbors found the naked bodies of Mrs Conrad Morner and her two daughters about 20 years old hidden under floorboards in a barn at their De Freetaville area farm. Police hunt an Italian farmhand Arthur Con rea son missing. the Morner family had been wealthy and owned the farm since Conrad Morner’s death two years earlier.
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Albany
Conrad Morner
de Freetaville
Arthur Con
Arthur
Rensselaer
Charles Green
Foss nominates Mertie to nautical training school post
Gov Foss transmitted to the executive council the nomination of Rear Admiral John F Mertus retired of Somerville to a seat on the board of commissioners of the nautical training school as successor to the late Rear Admiral George F Wilde.
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Washington Post
Boston
Mass
Gov Foss
Executive Council
Resr
John F Mert
Somerville
Commissio the
Nautical Training School
George F. F Wilde
Explosions at Fort Riley linked to ex chaplain Brewer
Private Quirk confessed Brewer the dismissed Fort Riley chaplain instigated a dynamite campaign targeting the post. Anna Jordan and Fyed Jordan were implicated, with authorities noting fires and explosions causing half a million dollars in damage. Brewer was arrested in Olustee Oklahoma.
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Junction Cishans
Charles M Tiewe
United States
Amy, Fox
Baptist Church
Olantee
Okla
Wisheel Quirk
Chase
Brewer
Anna Jordan
Kansas City
Quirk
Ell D Hoyle
Sixth Field Artillery
Kew River
Jordan
Fort Beavenworth
Federal Penitentiars
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Army
Alabama
United States Army
Oklahoma City
Charles Brewer
Kana
Olustee
Oklo
Taeda
Glustee
Asrs Brewer
Ash
Arreal
Policy Headquarters
Fort
Chaplain Brewer
Bim
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