Taft Favors Pending Bill on Federal Waterpower Control
Debate centers on a bill granting the Federal government right to license control and tax a waterpower on the Windsor Mills Connecticut River. Supportors led by conservationists push for passage while opponents center on states rights. Senator Borah may offer amendments as Western lawmakers seek changes to broader waterpower laws.
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Connecticut
Senate
Windsor Mills
Conn
Roosevelt
Borah
Senate Committee On Commerce
Bankhead
Nelson
Concert Program of March Era Pieces and Operatic Selections
A program listing orchestral and operatic works including Flag of Victory, Light Cavalry overture, Excerpts from The Rose Maid, Parisienne dance, Military March, Schubert Waltz, Gold and Silver, Humoresque Fantasia, Oh You Beautiful Doll, Grand Scenes from Fau, Yedda ballet music, Folies Bergere march, and various titles by Granichstaedten, Suppe, Lehar, Bellstedt, Gounod, Lincke, and Tilzer.
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von Eule x von Blon
Suppe
Granichstaedten
Parisienne
von Tilzer
Lehar
Music de Ballet
Yedda
Metro
Lincke
Auto Show Hints From The Washington Post Cup Event
Coverage of the 1913 Washington auto show highlights bold exhibits and crowd action. Mentions Mormon limousine price, Stutz and Henderson cars, Taft’s expected button, and a push for 6 000 Motorists’ Association members.
Trade Their Child Wives in Adirondack Counties
Albany February 2 Amazing conditions of moral degradation in which child marriages and trading of wives are frequent in Adirondack counties reported by Richard N. Nelson bishop coadjutor of the Albany diocese after a missionary trip. He cites illiteracy and lack of moral decency, noting a girl married at 12 and widowed to a new husband at 19. Mormon missionaries recently took girls to Utah. He condemns degradation but attributes it to ignorance.
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Albany
Adirondack
Richard N. Nelson
Protestant Episcopal Diocese
Utah
Vaughan widow to win divorce from Durrieux, reports say
Paris reports Baroness Vaughan once Caroline Lacroix says she will soon be free to remarry after detectives found evidence against her husband M. Durrieux. She cites incompatibility and a wish to marry a count, while defending her ducal children from his scorn.
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Vaughan
Washington Post
Paris
Caroline Lacroix
Ait
Bucharest
Vaulouse
Leopold
Belgium
M. Durrieux
Durrieux
Stephanie
Louise
Montmartre Cates
Ettor At Home After Lawrence Riot Trial Acquittal
Tacoma February 2 Joseph Ettor strike leader and central figure in the Lawrence riots and inciting to murder case reached home Friday night at union station. If he obeys his father he will stay, else the elder Ettor will renounce him.
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Tacoma
Wash
Joseph Ettor
Lawrence
Mass
Ettor
The Stone Mansion at Page Brook Detailed
The Stone Mansion at Page Brook, built in 178 by John Page, contains 14 rooms and 7 bat rooms and stands among blue grass lawns and 75 acres of grounds with a permanent brook. The property offers modern conveniences including telephone service Bell system private life water supply gasoling engine and garden with chicken yard and tenant house. Hunting opportunities noted.
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Page Brook
John Page
G@ Dominion
Bell System
Lfe
New York Hotel Vice Trust Exposed After Blau Conviction
A New York vice network of about 250 hotels and 1,200 girls is revealed after Philip Blau's conviction for aiding hotel management. The district attorney investigates a $1.5 million yearly profit linked to hotels, restaurants, and dance halls spanning Cortlandt Street to Harlem. Blau, calling himself stabbed by higher-ups, may provide names and evidence.
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Washington Pont
New York
Philip Blau
Lincoln
District Attorney's Office
Cortlandt Street
Harlem
Underworld
Blau
Blackwella Island
Vice Trust
Smith
Hotela
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War Stimson
Congress
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Virginia
Lippard Stewart
Commerce
Convention Hall
Washington, D. C
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Henderson-Rowe Auto Co
Space No
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Telephone North
Donohoe
Invader Oil CO
Charles F. Kellem & Co
J. T. Rose
11Th St. NW
New York City
Philadelphia
Boston
Henderson
Matheson Motor Co
N. W. Tel. M
Gaes
Harris-Ewing
United States Marine Band
William H. Santelmann
Miller Boys
Irvin Donohoe
Union Station
Whlls Cronkite
I. J. Henderson
Emergon
Matheson Motor Company
Arthur Foraker
Van
Oakland
Theakland
Johnny Hiarle
Nichol
Washington, 1913
John Heyl
Motorists' Association
Jimmy Orme
Jimmy
Charlie Semmes
Itv
J. H. Shields
H. H. Wilcox Manufacturing Company
Wilcox
E. H. Johansen
LeRoy Mark
R. Erkman
Detroit Electric
Telis
Gordon R. Cowie
Cole
Coal
the Miller Company
Tel. M
F.C. Sibbald
Clarke County
Gen
Lord Fairfax
Shenandoah Valley
Long Branch
Tulleyries
Carter Hall
Baratoga
Audrey
Blue Ridge Hunt Club
Norfolk and Weston
Station
Milles
Winchester
Berryville
Millwood
Baltimore
Sleeper
Page Bropply
H. W. Hilleary & Company ‘Lusive Brokers
Southern Building
D. G
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the Post
Post
London
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