Rescue Fleets Rally After Grand Manan Ledge Sinking
A Halifax dispatch reports the Canadian and U S rescue fleets racing to the Grand Manan ledges after the Royal Mail steamer Cobega? cod Love reportedly struck near Brier Island. The 108 crew and 18 passengers are missing as steamer currents, blizzards, and fog hinder search efforts. Ships including Lady Laurier, Felvidere, and Lansdowne head toward the scene while telegrams and wireless messages reveal a flooded engine room and dead batteries.
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Bermuda
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Bay of Fundy
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Gannet Rock Hunt
Grand Manan
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Capt Sable
Cobequid
Brier
Sland
Lady Laurier
Urand Manand
Felvidere Helena
Lansdowne
Woodbury
Lagut Hidges
Portland
Rockland
Tyrian
Camapobelio
Joan Cane
Warwick
Murr
Qld
Gill
Union
Nine hour gale rescues three men at sea off Nantucket
Nantucket Massachusetts January 1 a nine hour battle in a freezing gale saved the lives of three men. Coskata lifesavers reached the stranded Lehigh barge 188 off Great Point and ferried the frost bitten crew to shore as the barge broke from the tug Irvington during the night blow bound from Boston to New York.
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Ireland
Nantucket
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Coskata Ufesavers
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Great Point
Irvington
Boston
New York
Scientist Reproduces Digestion With Mercury Lamp
Prof. Daniel Bertholet reports reproducing stomach digestion using ultraviolet light from a mercury vapor lamp on food in a quartz vessel. The artificial process occurs without natural stomach ferments, suggesting a new approach to digestion research.
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Pare
Daniel Bertholet
Blease Attacks Foes and Federal Powers in South Carolina Address
Gov Cole L Blease denounces US government encroachment on states rights in his annual message to the South Carolina legislature. He attacks Minister Gonzales and Secretary Daniels, laments Port Royal liquor policy, and urges a law banning smoking in restaurants patronized by women. He criticizes Judge Smyth and warns of federal interference with state sovereignty.
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Washington Post
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Hlease
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Trade Body Officers Elected At Annual Chamber Meeting
The New Willard hosted a unanimous vote electing F Gude as president of the Chamber of Commerce for the coming term. Ten new directors include Isaac Gans D J Callahan R Harper George Killan John F Slaven William C Johnson John L Newbold Henry B Macfarland A Leftwich Sinclair Oliver Metzerott. Former president D J Callahan warned the district’s government should remain intact, urging caution on proposed changes while praising the chamber’s honesty and efficiency and noting Congress retains supervision over the District’s government.
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Wd. J. Callahan
Hh. N. Harper
George Killisn
John F. Slaven
William C. Johnson
John L. Newbold
Macfarland
A. Leftwich Sinclair
Oliver Metserott
William F Gude
Chamber of Commerce
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Gude
Chamber
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R .Harper
George Killan
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Willam C. Johnson
John L Newbold
Retirms
Callahan
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Congress
W F Bude Elected and Directors Chosen in District Meeting
W F Bude was elected while ten directors named as D J Callahan opposed changes. The retiring head defended the current system, praised its work, and warned against graft seen in other cities urging a slow approach. A large gathering of business leaders heard the secretary’s report.
Loyalists’ pride questioned by 1873 lawmakers
The report notes the District of Columbia and national legislators lacking renewed loyalty and patriotism. Secretary Thomas Grant presented a yearstart summary showing financial strength, a busy chamber staff, and a luncheon closing the meeting amid steady reform efforts.
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Thomas Grant
Famous Alienist Dr Spitzka Dies After Suit Notice
Dr Howard C Spitzka aged 61 died suddenly after being served notice to appear for a preliminary examination in the alleged alienation of the affections case involving Mrs Minnie Gershall. He was a noted nervous system expert who testified on J Garfield assassination insanity and studied execution brains.
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Howard C. Spitzka
Minnie Gershall
Joseph Gershall
Gulteau
Garfield
Boston makes Curley mayor in tight city election
Congressman James M. Curley won the Boston mayoral race by a 6720 vote margin, defeating Thomas J. Kenny as 80,000 votes were cast on a cold day. Curley led 43,262 to 37,542, continuing a long political career from city council to Congress. The license issue passed with 48,841 yes and 26,008 no.
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Thomas J. Kenny
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James M. Curley
Kenny
Massachusetts House of Representatives
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Curley
Charles Street
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Lady Holland Bride Ties With Marion W Harris in Washington
New York reports Mrs George W Holland known as Lady Holland wed Marion W Harris of Washington on January 8 in Washington. The couple, now in St Louis, undertake a long wedding trip through the South. The previous Holland widow of a prominent banker and broker long resided in Europe.
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Washington
New York
George W. Holland
Lady Holland
Harris
St. Louis
South
Holland
Europe
Tremendous Japanese Disaster Strikes Southern Islands
Ten million people lack food as seismic disturbances and a tidal wave deepen horror. Sakura Jima eruptions blanketed Kinshin with ash, with 100 to 300 burned. Shocks reach Tokyo and Nagasaki. multiple volcanos on Kyushu active, Miyazaki and Kumamoto forests endangered. Evacuations underway as ships report danger and casualties rise.
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Okayama
Bulgaria's War Toll Heavy Census Shows Slashed Male Population
A census in the Bulgarian newly acquired territories reveals appalling losses. In Macedonia the male population fell from 175,000 to 42,500. Bulgarian Thrace drops from 494,000 to 225,000 males. Mustapha Pasha district records only 4,000 men remaining from 88,000.
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Bulgarian Thrace
Mustapha Pasha
Peace for Trade Frames Cabinet Views and Reform Plan
A trust message to Congress outlines four radical reforms aimed at stopping interlocking directorates, removing disputed Sherman bill areas, addressing personal guilt in all cases, and creating a commission to conduct investigations. The talk ends with proposals to slow information flow and increase oversight.
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Commission
Wilson Proposes Broad Antitrust Reforms Plan
President Wilson outlined a reform package to reshape antitrust enforcement, proposing supplementing the Sherman Act, banning interlocking directorates, locating individual responsibility, and creating an interstate trade commission to monitor court decrees, with a conciliatory but constructive approach aimed at reducing uncertainty for business. He noted public opinion shift toward opposing private monopolies and praised recent moves by J P Morgan & Co and the New Haven railroad as signs of compliance with existing laws.
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Maed
Be Forell
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Bureau of Information
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Tose
New Haven
New York
Price talk at shoe trade convention hints ten dollar pair
New York January 1 speakers at the annual convention of the National Shoes Bettlers Association forecast retail shoe prices may reach ten dollars per pair. The gathering blamed “pure shoe laws” already in force in several states and pending in Congress as drivers of price increases. Retailers were told that if all shoes were made of all leather about 2,000,000 more hides would be needed each year.
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Jan
National Shoes Bettlers' Association
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Congress
Eline
Fear Liner Lost on Rocks and Nationwide Debates
The issue highlights a coastline tragedy with a fear liner lost on rocks while Gov Blease attacks new fees and a sweeping presidential program favoring big business. It notes famine and earthquakes in Japan and local political shifts including electing Gude as president of the c. of C and a libeler case involving King Can Stay In U. The White House reception is listed beside a sweeping business and church concerns.
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Wood
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Wiliams
Underwood
National Bank Eiections Heli. Financial
Titanic mourners hear arguments on damages in Supreme Court
Six Titanic owners attended the Supreme Court hearing as lawyers argued whether owner liability should be capped under 100000 or allowed full claims totaling about 313000000. Charles C. Bumingham for Oceanic Steam Navigation argued damages should cover salvage and passage money only.
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Charles c. Bumingham
Oceanic Steam Navigation Company
Appellate Court Rules Libel Infamy Not Rank-Dependent
Federal Court holds defaming the king or any person does not automatically convict of moral turpitude. Edward E. Mylius, a Belgian journalist, was barred from entry but the court says moral turpitude hinges on the act itself, not the target. The decision guides immigration authorities in foreign libel cases and upholds equal treatment before the law.
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Removal of Mayor Asked in Cincinnati Civil Service Case
Cincinnati January 13 Former Mayor Henry T Hunt says he will file a complaint with Governor Cox charging Mayor Frederick Spiegel with malfeasance and requesting removal. Hunt accuses Spiegel of violating civil service law by naming three men to posts held by civil service workers without giving the retiring men a chance to defend themselves as required by law.
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Frederick Spiegel
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Smith Nugent Men Rule New Jersey Legislature Session
The 188th New Jersey legislature opens with Democrats in control of both chambers and the executive. Slocum named Senate president, Beekman chosen speaker. Insurgent Smith-Nugent Democrats hold sway in House, plan to block rival measures from the Senate.
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James F. Fielder
John W. Slocum
Monmouth
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Passaic
William T. Read
Camden
Axariah M. Beekman
Somerset
Assembly
Joseph M. Brana- Zant
Emerson L. Richards
Edward I. Edwards
Poincare Welcomes Sayres Crew at Elysee Palace
Paris January 13 The French President Poincare received Francis Bowes Sayres and his wife Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson at the Elysee today and sent good wishes to President Wilson. Mrs Sayre replied graciously. The President regretted the Sayres would sail tomorrow and would have liked them to dine. Myron Herrick and Col Spencer Cosby were present. Extraordinary sale of new office furniture and equipment at public auction at Bloor and Bt today starting 10 30.
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Paijcare
Francis Bowes Sayres
Jessie Woodrow Wilson
Palace of the Elysees
Wilson
Palace
Myron T. Herrick
United States
France
Col
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Bloor
Maj Rand Relieved Over Offensive River Work Letter
Maj Lewis H Rand of the army engineers is relieved of duties in charge of the Cincinnati district river work after approving a bridge at Duncan Ohio and informing Muskingum county supervisors that residents there “were not too old or too drunk.” Secretary Garrison acted to relieve Rand and send an apology to the supervisors.
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Ohio River
Lewis H. Rand
Army Engineers
Cincinnati
Duncen
Ohio
Muskingum County
Garrison
Boston Man Leaves 1950 To Dog In Will
John Chancellor Crafts left his dog Pete Crafts $1 per year and a lump sum of 70 dollars in Suffolk probate. He also provided a $10,000 trust to the Animal Rescue League. An unrelated auction notice mentions new office furniture at Sloan's on 1407 Gst with a 10:30 a.m. sale.
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Animal Rescue League
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Pete Crafts
Horace W. Crafts
First White House Diplomatic Reception Opens Wilson Era
The Wilsons hosted a grand diplomatic reception at the White House with 2,072 attendees. Women wore blaze of jewels and gowns while men displayed court costumes as the Marine Band provided music and guests mingled past midnight in an elegant, subdued pageant.
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