Democrats Celebrate Victory Banquet in New York
In New York at the Waldorf Astoria a Democratic Governors elects banquet honored two attendees John A Dix of New York and Eugene N Foss of Massachusetts with others sending letters. Messages from Woodrow Wilson and Harmon were read as Norman E Mack presided. Messages urged direct popular election of U S senators and reform of the political system.
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New York
National Democratic Club
Waldorf-Astoria
John A. Dix
Eugene N. Foss
Massachusetts
Woodrow Wilson
New Jersey
Judson Harmon
Ohio
Simeon J. Baldwin
Connecticut
Frederick K. Plaistead
Maine
Messrs. Wilson
Harmon
Inx
Foss
Norman E. Mack
National Committee
Richard Croher
Tammany Hall
Charles E. Murphy
John Fox
Platstead
Cit Taldwin
Washington
Tr. Wilson
Gov. Harmon
Our Citizens and State Resource Development Policy
Statement emphasizes that New York State citizens participate in all useful activity and that major state interests in development and conservation of national resources should avoid waste. Leaders are urged to study problems in public affairs to preserve and utilize resources for the public good.
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New York State
Wife May Smoke In Home Court Rules Not Ground for Divorce
Special to The Washington Post from Kansas City reports Circuit Court Judge James ruled that a wife’s cigarette smoking in the home is not a sufficient ground for divorce. Frank L. Houk sought a divorce from Florence Houk, claiming she smoked in bed, set fire to curtains, and rolled cigarettes while cooking. The judge stated that smoking in the house is not grounds for divorce as long as it is not in public.
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Washington Post
Kansas City
James Today
Frank L. Houk
Florence
James
Fire on Ship at Sea Saved by Bluejackets Work
Norfolk VA December 15 Aboard the steamship Maryland of the NY and Norfolk line a fire damaged the freight hold among cotton bales. US sailors and passengers fought the blaze, saving the ship until Sewalls Point where tugs extinguished the flames. Several injured including an oiler named Owen Startt were treated. passengers were evacuated to Cape Charles aboard the Pennsylvania.
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Weasel
Virginia
Sewalls Point
Norfolk
Maryland
New York
Philadelphia
Stone
Sewails Point
Owen Startt
St. Vincent Hospital
Bay
Sadler
Mary-land
Steaer Pennsylvania
Cape Charles
Man asks governors to grant death by electric chair
Special to The Washington Post from Battle Creek Michigan reports Rev Tnufaig McKinsey, 33 and blind since birth, writes to governors of New York New Jersey West Virginia and Ohio asking to be put to death in the electric chair. He says he cannot be profitably employed and would live in poverty among the insane and drunks, asking that the state take his life in the painless way.
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Washington Post
Battle Creek
Mich
Tnufaig McKinsey
New York
New Jersey
West Virginia
Ohio
Meckinges
Bnth
Woman leaps from hospital ledge in Pittsburg derail fright
Mrs Gertrude Hoffmann battled nurses on a snow covered window ledge 50 feet above the street for five minutes then dropped into two passing men arms who braced themselves and caught her. She survived with minor injuries and is reported stable at the hospital. This follows two prior hospital window jumps in Pittsburg this week where the others died. Hoffmann had suffered a nervous breakdown prior to the incident.
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Der
Gertrude Hoffmann
Sreimann
Hoffmann
Federal raid targets Capital Investment Company in Chicago
Federal agents prepared to sweep 26 branches across eight Midwest states after raids on Chicago main offices and Joliet and Aurora branches. The operation, led by Charles De Woody, seized records, cut telegraph lines, and arrested about a dozen believed principals amid a $10,000,000 annual business.
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Capital Investment Company
Joliet
Aurora
Milwaukee
Racine
Green Bay
Wis
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Grand Rapids
Kalamazoo
Lansing
Mich
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Muscatine
Town
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Elgin
Monmouth
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Indianapolis
Anderson
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Muncie
Lafayette
Ind
Louisville
Cincinnati
Ohio
St. Louis
Department of Justice
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Hammond Company
Hammond Elevator Company
Hammond
Illinois
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Wiliam R. Helli- Ran
Wiliam J. Lloyd
Western Union Telegraph Company
Federal Building
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Indiana
Iowa
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Wisconsin
Missouri
Ihe
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Matteson
Til
Sidmon McHie
Wickersham
Denver
Bremen Avenue Santa Claus Robber Arrested In St Louis
Frank Wallen known as the Bremen Avenue Santa Claus admitted thefts totaling about 12 600 dollars after his arrest. Police recovered over 100 rings ten gold watches and other valuables from his North St. Louis stash along with money order blanks stamps and books. Children had testified against him and a woman aided in his capture.
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Washington Post
St. Louis
Frank Wallen
Bremen Avenue
Santa Claus
North St. Louis
Wallen
Debtor Blames Hobble Skirt For Insolvency In London
A London bankruptcy court debtor cites the hobble skirt as the cause of his insolvency. A petticoat manufacturer said women hobbled themselves and abandoned his trade, leading to his business vanishing amid the fashion fad.
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Washington Pont
London
Widow of murdered man to wed wealthy Washington doctor
Mrs Lillian V Glover widow of Clarence F Glover says she will marry within a year a wealthy Washington physician who sends daily love letters. Hattie Le Blanc acquitted of murder receives many marriage proposals and theater offers as Cambridge jail mails flood in.
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Washington Post
Benton
Mass
Lillian XV. Glover
Clarence F. Glover
Waltham
Washington
Ric
Cambridge
Httle
Boston
Melvin M. Jonson
Hattie
Mr. Johnson
West Arichat
Cape Breton
Dead fiance ashes stolen in jewelry heist
Miss Cora Evelyn of St Louis reports a robber took $2 worth of jewelry from her including a ring that held the cremated ashes of her late fiancé Charles Patterson of Binghamton. She kept the ashes in the ring setting behind a transparent Jim, hoping for a lasting reminder.
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Binghamton
Evelyn
St. Louis
Cora Evelyn
Democrats close to Murphy name Sheehan as Senate candidate
Special to The Washington Post reports Democrats aligned with Charles F. Murphy indicating that within the last 48 hours William F. Sheehan had been practically chosen as the Democratic candidate for United States senator to succeed Depew.
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Washington Post
New York
Charles F. Murphy
William F. Sheehan
United States
Depew
Millionaire Turfman Baldwin Court Drama Unfolds
Mrs. Lillian Turnbull testifies in a 2.5 million dollar estate suit over Elias J. Baldwin’s will. She recalls marriage contract, a back of photo kiss count of 42, and a California setting at Santa Anita Ranch as lawyers seek to preserve an 11 million dollar estate for Baldwin's heirs.
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Cal
Elias J
Baldwin
Beatrice Anita
Baldwin Turnbull
Lillian Ashley Turnbull
Brook- One
Mass
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Turnbully
Westchester
Boston
Lieutenants accuse Metternich count in card sharp plot
A German lieutenant Backhaus accuses Count Giesbert Wolff Metternich of losing 3500 in London with a baron and a chevalier. Backhaus paid 1750 to the count, who handed a 2500 check to the winners. The baron and chevalier are described as professional card sharps. The arrest shocks Vienna. Metternich is a Hessian noble nephew of London’s German ambassador. A baron Koenig friend alias Corff Koenig is also arrested.
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Secial
Washington Post
Vienna
Glesbert Wolff Metternich
Leutenant
London
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Baron
Chevalier
Bertin
Giesbert Wolff Metternich
Baron Corff Koenig
Girl Heroine Saves Harvard Students in Dormitory Fire
Elizabeth Welsh, 18, a Harvard boarding house resident, awoke to a fire. She guided her mother’s students to safety, then returned to rouse others and rescue a faint sitter before collapsing. The students plan a fundraiser to honor her bravery. An unrelated travel line follows at Union Station about a sleeper train to New York.
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Cambridge
Mass
Elizabeth Welsh
Hannah
Welsh
Harvard
Elizabeth
New York
Baltimore and
Otto Fullman
Union Station
Taft Conveys War Budget Views Amid Tawney Clash
Tawney accuses a war defense conspiracy among War Department officials and military advocates in Congress to push larger appropriations. Taft says no defense state ment is justified and Dickinson’s report is only opinion. Third report will be sent to the House with data removed as deemed confidential. Also notes Hobson’s influence and press secrecy. Train fare to Baltimore listed for weekend return via Pennsylvania Railroad.
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Congress
James A. Tawney
Minnesota
War Dickenson
Taft
White House
Dickinson
Root
Representative Tawney
House
Representative McLachlan
Wood
Onting
Adieatt Sen
Tawney
Hobson
Army
Leonard Wood
House of Representatives
Revised Senate Foss Says Fire in Passenger Ship
Fire breaks out aboard a passenger ship as readers are urged to follow today’s issue. The article notes Senate revision discussions led by Foss and details surrounding the incident.
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Foss
Lucky
Baldwin
Bay Hills
Carnegie
Capital
Young
Smith
China
w—Financial
Chevy Chase
New Park
Rebels Attack Providencia as 250 Mounted Rebels Reported
From Chihuahua and City of Mexico reports indicate Providencia near Durango was attacked by 239 well armed mounted rebels. Federal troops under Col Fernandez are ordered to respond. Disputed claims arise over prisoner executions after a battle near Cerro Prieto with Gen Navarro denying mass killings. Gustavo A. Madero in Washington backs the revolu tionist position citing reports of casualties and prisoners.
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Chihuahua
Mexico
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Cerro Prieto
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Pedernales
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Durango
Providencia
Co. Fernandez
Troub’ea
Si Baliers
Parrtil
Navarro
Senor de la Barra
Gustavo A. Madero
Washington
Eames Pleads With Rival Over Paris Marriage Plot
Paris well connected musical circles report Emilie de Gargorze, Mme Emme Hamés, plans to divorce her former husband to allow the baritone Eames to marry. Rumors say Mme de Gargorze had resisted, but Na mor suggests she finally consented after strong urging from Mme Eames.
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Paris
Emilie de Gorgorza
Mme
Emme Hamés
Mme. de Gargorze
Namor
Mme. Eames
Fortune for Paper Seller and New Yorker Landlordof Four
Special to The Washington Poet New York Dec 1 Through his father William Candor a Bridgeport Conn building contractor Joseph Candor who sells papers at Twenty ninth street and Sixth avenue inherits 926 000 and will become landlord of four dwelling houses in Bridgeport Connecticut Dutch as he is familiarly known in his neighborhood
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Washington
New York
William Candor
Bridgeport
Conn
Joseph Candor
Twentyninth Street
Sixth Avenue
Connecticut
Garage Helper Enriched By Uncle's Irish Estate
New York news says Robert P. Torrens, a garage helper in South Norwalk, became a millionaire after learning his uncle John Torrens died in Lisburn Ireland. The estate valued at 5 000 000 dollars is split among Robert and his four brothers. Robert who has 20 distributed funds to garage workers. Also note Gynecologists to Meet Here with Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association planning to meet in Washington D C next.
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Ireland
Robert PB. Torrens
Norwalk
John Torrens
Lisburn
Robert
Warage
Nashville, Tenn
Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association
Washington, D. C
Salina Bank Robber Ira Ward Ends Hunt With Suicide
Ira Ward, 31, held up Paradise Bank of Kansas, forced five men into a back room, and escaped on a horse. A farmer posse cornered him after a five hour chase, and he killed himself with a rifle, leaving $2,500 recovered. authorities say all stolen money was recovered.
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Kans
Paradise
Ira Ward
Paradise Bank
Ward
Kansas
Mberty
Walt
Luray
Bert O’brien
Taft Brass Badge Mystery From Worcester Jail Claim
Worcester authorities released details about a gold plated brass badge said to be presented to President Taft by North American railroad men. An engraver jailed for assault, A. E. F. Hutchinson, claimed he engraved the badge and that it was crafted in a Worcester county jail. Taxpayer funded badge cost reportedly nine hundred dollars, with a Providence maker and a five inch length bearing the railroad workers union monogram.
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Washington Post
Worcester
Mass
Taft
North America
A. E F. Hutchinson
Hutchinson
George W. Cook
Jall
Providence
Railroad Men's Union
Harriman gives 100000 to Yale for forest chair
New Haven announces Mrs Ed ward H Harriman of New York endows Yale forest management chair with 100000 to memorialize her husband. Students did field work at Arden estate eight years ago. Yale foundation thanks Mrs Harriman and gifts include rooms in memory of Adelbert Stone Hay and Alfred Horatio Belo Jr.
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Spekia
Washington Post
New Haven
Conn
Stokes
Yale Corporation
Edward H. Harriman
New York
Yale Forest School
Ruyband
Arden
Department of Forest Management
Prudential Committee
Harriman
John Hay
Wright
Hoome
Adelbert Stone Hay
Alfred Horatio Belo
Alfred Horatio Belo, Jr
Dellas
Tex
Mrs McGuire Weds Indian Star Le Motts in Pawnee
Mrs Bird McGuire, ex wife of a U.S. Congressman from Oklahoma, married George D. Le Mott, ex Haskell football star and Osage agency attache, in Pawnee Oklahoma on Thursday. Le Mott serves on the Pawnee city council. McGuire has worked in real estate and insurance since her divorce.
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Okla
Bird
McGuire
Congress
Oklahoma
George D. le Mott
Haskell Indian School
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Sank
le Mott
Osage Indian Agency
McGrure
Af OleGuire
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