Assassins Arm British Police After Houndsditch Murders
The London jewelry house raid near Houndsditch sparked a deadly confrontation as five unarmed police fell to burglars. Reports tie the event to anarchist plots, with foreign suspects and calls to arm police amid immigration-law criticism. One robber died later, and a constable was slain, prompting public funerals and renewed fear of armed crime.
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Motherswell
Royal Bank of Scotland
London Daily Mail
Tottenham
London Burglars and a Plot to Attack King George
December 16 in London ends with three police shot and two wounded by a band of burglars. By December 23 Scotland Yard seeks American help after finding letters and a bomb factory tied to an anarchist plot aimed at King George's coronation. The case links Morountzeff, a burglar killed at Houndsditch, with American money, unknown wife, and a web of anarchist activity across East End clubs.
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Houndsditch
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America
Washington Post
New York
New York World
Ing
Morountzeff
Gold Street
Enope
Bart
Touron
East End
St. Petersburg
Mourontzeff
Eiers
Houlediteh
Hin
Great Britain
Wanamaker Gives $50,000 for City Widows Fund
Rodman Wanamaker and Philadelphia cooperate to create a $150,000 fund for widows orphans and dependent parents of city employees killed or injured in duty. Wanamaker offers 60,000 more in 2,000 yearly installments for five years if a permanent fund is set up. Mayor Revburn forwards the offer and city council moves to appropriate 100,000 to establish the fund.
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Rodman Wanamaker
Andiion
Revburn
Wanamaker
Oklahoma Governor Signs State Capital Bill in Guthrie
Governor Charles N. Haskell affixes his signature to the state capital bill during a special legislative session. The bill designates Oklahoma City as the capital, amid reports of ceremony on a Guthrie stool scene with railway crowds observing the act.
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Guthrie
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Dee
Charles N Haskell
Oklahoma City
Customs lines tighten duty on personal use articles
Special to The Washington Post New York Dec 29. An order to staff of deputy surveyors and inspectors ends the $100 duty free allowance for returning residents except apparel and articles for personal use. Household and small articles not for personal use must be declared and duty paid even if their value is well below the limit. Previously such items could be duty free if under the $100 allowance. Thousands of dollars in duty will be collected under the new order from articles previously admitted free, issued as two notices from the Secretary of the Treasury.
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Washington Post
New York
Loeb
Treasury
Mrs Eddy 10 Return Shocked At Boston Board
Augusta Stetson excommunicated leader of New York First Church of Christ Scientist declares Mary Baker Eddy will resurrect in human form and never die. She says the world will see proof of teachings and the millennium arrives with Eddy. Stetson denies reports of fleshly resurrection and discusses divine metal physics.
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Washington Post
New York
Augusta E. Stetson
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Christian Science
Mary Baker G Eddy
Newton
Mass
Kiddy
St Louis bachelors auction ends with $5 bid
In St Louis on December 23 the bachelor prize, a heavy man named Marin Casey of a broom company, weighed 267 pounds and drew a $5 bid after Miss Dora Kohler, the winner, hesitated to accept him. Father Nugent conducted the scene at St Vincent de Paul Church and auctions closed with Kohler receiving the prize.
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Washington Post
St. Louis
St Vincent de Paul Church
Marin Casey
Dora Kohler
St Louis
Casey
Father Nugent
Kohler
Steward Ields Fifteen Pearls Found in Oyster Stew
In Camden a physician, Dr William Powell, found fifteen pearls in an oyster stew at a local restaurant. The discovery occurred during his visit to the eatery, as reported by The Washington Post Philadelphia on December 29.
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Washington Post
Philadelphia
William Powell
New Way of Transporting Troops Across High Ranges
Arch Hoxsey, Pasadena, flies 10 005 feet over Mount Wilson in a Wright passenger biplane, claiming a new method to move armies across mountains. Lieut Vernon Boller envisions 1000 planes lifting 10 000 troops across Alps in a day, with Hoxsey completing the ascent in 1 hour 28 minutes.
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Pasadena
Mount Wilson
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Orange Pelt Me
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Fort Whipple
Ariz
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Carnegie Solar Observatory
Aero in fifty mile gale moisant battles high wind
In New Orleans John B Moisant soared 4000 feet as a gulf hurricane approached the weather bureau report. For ten minutes he fought a 50 mile an hour wind while crowds feared for his life. Landing left him exhausted though reports say he achieved about 100 miles an hour with the wind.
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John B. Moisant
Hig Bleriot
Auto Road Airmen's Course Promoters Plan Air Fights
Roanoke Virginia reports that promoters of a New York ty Atlanta national automobile highway plan aeroplane fights between two clubs. J TH Mersteller, Roanoke citizen, says events would feature neat controls and dramatic air maneuvers with similar ticketing to automobile runs and theater shows.
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J. TH. Mersteller
Atlanta
Columbia
Clothing Contractors Held in Indian Garment Fraud
Federal grand jury indicts Reuben Weinstein and Lawrence P. Maher of Weinstein and Maher for fraud in supplying government clothing for Indians. They allegedly removed inspected cases from the warehouse, replaced them with rejected goods through a clerk, and face larceny charges in connection with the act.
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Federal
Grand Jury
Todey
Reuben Weinstein
Lawrence P. Maher
Weinstein
Overcoat Life Net Saves Baby In Fire
A baby escaped injury when a life net improvised from a man's overcoat caught the fall from a Chicago tenement blaze. The mother, Mrs. Dekanmakay, and two daughters were severely injured as they jumped to the sidewalk. Fred Hoffman, manager of a nearby apron factory, spread the coat and urged the mother to drop the child.
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A. Dekanmakay
Tomato Paste Seized for Unsafe Flavoring Use
United States deputy marshals seized 6,200 cans totaling 124,000 pounds of tomato paste in Chicago. The paste, used by hotels and restaurants for tomato soup, was condemned as unsafe. Authorities raided a box car on the Pennsylvania Road, with destruction planned for the following day.
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United States
Robert Young
Pennsylvania Road
Dog Reunites With West Point Sergeant After Three Years
Special to The Washington Post from Highland Falls New York reports Sergeant James Dorr of West Point is reunited with his prized dog after a three year search. A scratching at the kitchen door yesterday morning revealed the long lost dog returning home.
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Highland Falls
James Dorr
West Point
Durr
Drea Stecia
Woman dies on train near Fort Jervis
Mrs. Lillie Gillem wife of Capt. Alvin Gilem U S A died suddenly on an Erie Railroad express as it reached Fort Jervis New York while traveling home to Oglethorpe Georgia from upstate New York She was 48 and the body was sent to Jersey City for burial.
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Alvin Gilem
Erie Railroad
Fort Jervis
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Oglethorpe
Upper New York State
Labor Leaders Alarmed by Vigilance Plans in Los Angeles
A union labor committee demanded protection from Mayor Alexander amid business men push for a vigilance committee. The mayor urged mediation in Sacramento for a state arbitration board to handle labor disputes. Police guard union men linked to the Llewellyn Iron Works blast as investigations expand to a nonunion murder in San Luis Obispo. In New Jersey, Deputy Keeper William Turner was stabbed by inmate Dominick Magano at the state prison, with no clear reason for the assault.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Alexander
Sacramento
Chamber of Commerce
Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association
Zeehaandelaar
Llewellyn Iron Works
William Avila
San Luis Obispo
Trenton
N. J
William D. Turner
New Jersey
Dominick Magano
Heap
Sailor Killed On Cruiser Chester In Norfolk Sailors death
Patrick Conlin of the scout cruiser Chester was fatally injured in Norfolk on December 2. His leg entangled in a rope coil drew his body into the drum of a winch he operated.
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Patrick Conlin
Chester
Lisbon Near Crisis Rumor Of Monarchist Restoration
Reports from Madrid and Paris allege Portugal’s republic faces collapse after three months. British ambassador warns of warships to Lisbon as army and navy mutinies grow, cruiser crews refuse orders, and royalist leaders meet in London with Manuel planning studies before a potential throne resume.
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Washington Post
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United States
Higher wages for 75 thousand railroad workers
Chicago, Pec. Fifty Western rail systems tonight presented to 75,000 conductors and trainmen a 10 percent wage increase as a New Year’s gift. The raise costs railroads over $5,000,000 in 1911 and future years, following prior 10 percent boosts to locomotive engineers. Agreements cover the Haineis Central system and about 300 systems coast to coast, with negotiations beginning November 28 and conducted nearly daily.
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Chicago
Pec
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Pacific Coast
Amir of Bokhara Rug Collection Burns in Fire
In Bokhara Central Asia on December 29 the Amir’s valuable rug collection was destroyed by a blaze. Several attendants perished in the flames while attempting to rescue the carpets.
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Bokhara
Central Asia
Title fragment list from today's issue
Index to today's newspaper issue lists page items including crew to London, Mexican rebels, aviator flight, Mrs Eddy claim, crowds at fires, Navy blame for explosions, senator's son, Robin Hank, boiler blast, Taft Tariff board, papal oath, bogus paintings, bank closure, Amos Homer Byington obituary, New Year church services.
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Tariff Board
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Alexandria Bank
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Amos Homer Byington
Mal Paso Captured in Guerrilla Warfo fare Feared
Mexico City Dec 29 Mal Paso, long a stronghold of the Chihuahua insurgents, fell to federal forces after a sharp skirmish as Gen Luque and Gen Navarro’s troops advanced from their camp near Pedernales. Col Guzman died of wounds from the Mal Paso attack. Diaz reportedly seeks peace with rebels, sending Col Garcia Cuella to explore a government transition in Chihuahua. Insurgent mobilization reported in Sonora near Nacazari. The Detroit sale to a New York broker prompts rumors of filibustering plans against Mexico.
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Luque
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Pedernaies
Gordilla Escuedero
Navarro
Esquedero
Offeralso
Mexican Herald
Cordoba
Garcia Cuella
Col. Cuella
Col. Guzman
Mexico
Martin L. Guzman
Ojinaga
Douglas
Aziz
Nacazari
Rodriguez Alive in Mexico After Rumored Rock Springs Burnings
In Guadalajara Mexico Antonio Rodriguez, once thought burned at Rock Springs Texas, is alive and well. Previously jailed here on suspicion of aiding revolutionary Madero, his identity was confirmed today and he was released. He previously worked in the United States as a railroad laborer. Dispatches from Rock Springs misled about his fate, now clarified by reports. Baltimore and Ohio trains run every Saturday and Sunday both ways with exceptions for the Royal Limited.
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Mexico
Antonio Rodriguez
Rock Springs
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Hearty
Rodriguez
Madero
United States
Baltimore and Rettra
Baltimore and Ohio
Royal Limited
Fire at Oxford Office Building Destroys Basement Plant
A basement fire at the four story Oxford era building at New York Avenue and Fourteenth Street NW caused heavy smoke and halted streetcar service. Fire Chief Wagner led efforts to confine the blaze after A B Fits Simons alerted the department. The source is believed to be an overheated pipe or misdirected electric wiring with estimates placing the heating and power plant loss around the basement.
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Thomas F. Walsh
Oxford Hotel
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T. A. Wickersham
Capital Traction Company
Washington Railway and Electric Company
Mount Pleasant
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Lost Two Days Memory Gone
A clean shaven man in Jersey City could not recall his name and had amnesia. He carried a notebook identifying Kenneth Wilson of Philadelphia whose memoranda showed plumbing contracts worth 80000 dollars. A Philadelphia wife confirmed he left for business midweek and had not returned. A telegram planned his return home.
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Foley
Kenneth Wilson
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Wilson
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