Aid for China Hunger Relief Plans Take Root in Capital
Washington groups mobilize to ship flour and rice to central China where famine may claim millions. Miss Mabel Boardman leads a drive at her home to fund a relief effort, with the old Metropolitan Bank building to serve as temporary headquarters. Donations from U S cities and Rockefeller funds are wired toward the effort as Congress weighs transport use.
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China
Washington
National Red Cross Society
Mabel Boardman
P Street
Metropolitan Bank
Fifteenth Street
Shanghai
Red Cross
Meral Wilder
U. S
Cincinnati
Baltimore
Seattle
United States Army
Buford
Congress
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Boardman
Chinklan
Artist Vanishes in Rome Henry Wolfe Missing from Academy
Henry Lawrence Wolfe a 30 year old New York painter and student at the American Academy in Rome vanished after Monday. Friends call him a man of good habits and temperament and there is no clear motive or evidence of crime. He was seen at the studio and Vatican Museum, then cashed $70 pension and $3 from a private account before disappearing.
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Henry Lawrence Wolfe
New York
American Academy
Wolfe
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The
Academy
Frank Waibenks
Hopton
Albin Polasek
Philadelphia
Lig
Vatican Museum
J. N. Camden
West Virginia
Blackburn
Kentucky
Frankfort
Camden
Blue Grass
Paynter
John C. C. Mayo
Mayo
Charleston
Clarence Watson
Watson
Senate
Ethel Leneve to wed after Crippen case release
A cable from London to the American reports Ethel Leneve, freed in the Crippen case, sailed yesterday on the Royal Edward to Canada. She joined about 200 prospective brides, and it is stated she is engaged to a wealthy Canadian.
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London
Ethel Leneve
Crippen
Canada
Buffalo editor touts Taft reciprocity and GOP fight
Editor E H Butter of Buffalo hails Taft’s reciprocity stance and declares the president will fight it out on this line all summer. He ties McKinley’s Buffalo speech to Taft’s policy and notes sectional support as Albany’s senatorial deadlock unfolds amid Murphys and Sheehans.
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Taft
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Gen. Grant
Butler
Citien
McKinley
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Republican Party
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Albany
Murphy
Tammany Hbons
Sheehan
Tammany Hall
St. of
Depew
Shepard
Fraud in paving charged in second report of week
Cincinnati Feb 10 five prominent city men were indicted by the Hamilton county grand jury on charges of defrauding the city in public works contracts. Indicted are John H Lundmaker service director H F Shipley city engineer August J Henkel Conrad Henkel and W W Coney president of Moores Coney Co cement contractors. The charges allege substitution of slag for high grade cement in paying works. They deny the charges and were released on 1000 bonds each with Mayor Schwab as surety for Lundmaker.
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Ohio
Hamilton County Grand Jury
John H. Lundmaker
Public Service
H. F. Shipley
Ctty
August J. Henkel
A. J. Henkel & Bro
Conrad Henkel
Congress to Hear Abrogation of Russia Treaty Over Jewish Rights
Representative Parsons asks President Taft to declare the 1832 treaty with Russia void over Jewish travel rights. A White House conference Wednesday will discuss abrogation with Taft, Nagel, State Dept, and Jewish leaders. Simon Wolf notes past efforts yielded little change. leaders debate hardships for Russian Jews. A separate Durham manslaughter verdict finds lumberman Houston Dove guilty.
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New York
House
Taft
White House
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Department of Commerce and Labor
State Department
Council of the Unions of American Hebrew Congregations
Department of State
Congress
Durieg
Rungian
Simon Wolf
Union of American Hebrew Congregations
Independent
Order of B’nai Brith
American Jewish Committee
Parks Local Option Bill Advances in Alabama Legislature
The Alabama house voted 44 to 8 to pass the Parks local option bill. With the senate strongly supportive, observers expect rapid approval and enactment before next week ends. The measure sets a 45 percent provision subject to further details.
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Montgomery
Ala
House of Representatives
Senate
Tolstoi Apparition Warns of Revealed Letter
Sigurd Schou recounts Tolstoi describing an apparition of his sister who warned him of a letter he later received. The figure vanished as he attempted to embrace her. This tale appears in Tolstoi’s last interview to be published next Sunday in The Post's Monthly Magazine Section.
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George J. Rives
New York
Albany
Virginia
Washington
Rives
Hampden Dougherty
Congress
Sigurd Schou
Count Tolstoi
Tolstoi
The
Post
Governor Election Petition For Liquor Question Vote
A report notes that the number of voters who can petition for an election on the liquor question is determined by those who voted for governor. The policy outlines eligibility thresholds and the mechanism to trigger a local or state vote on liquor issues.
Confiscatory taxes threaten publishers and readers nationwide
A sharp warning cites compulsory postage increases of nearly a million dollars on major magazines and urges readers to oppose the measure. The argument claims the plan penalizes small publishers while burdening intelligent American homes and lists numerous periodicals across genres as affected by the proposal.
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