Wilson trust address sparks bid for compromise with big business
President Wilson urged a midway approach to square business methods with public opinion and law. Congress embraced measures for an interstate trade commission, reform of railroad securities, and stricter antitrust rules, while Underwood moved to refer bills to key committees. Clerks read the address as lawmakers listened intently, applauding the proposed reforms.
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Wilson quietly approves four antitrust bills for intro
President Wilson at a secret White House conference approves four of five administration antitrust bills aimed at separating railroads and banks from industrials and curbing unfair competition. The plan calls for drafts, hearings, and delayed House action with a five member Interstate Trade Commission to be created and price fixing restricted. The move signals possible changes if business objects and hearings proceed.
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Virginia
John C. Floyd
Arkansas
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Nevada
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Interstate Trade Commission
Four killed in Fort Worth tragedy linked to poverty and faith
In Fort Worth Texas police found M F Taylor his wife Homer age 3 and Jessie age 2 shot to death in locked home. The scene revealed religious posters and literature with an apparent December visit planned. A pistol with four empty chambers lay in Taylor's hand as the carousal night ended in tragedy.
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Washington Post
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Hadeen
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Oklahoma
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Kaiser bans arm in public with women in Germany
Special Cable reports from Berlin that the kaiser ordered that no army officer may take a woman’s arm in public. The decree cites belief that leaning for support on a woman’s arm undermines manly bearing. If arm holding occurs, the woman must walk unaided.
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Washington Post
Berlin
Outlaw Beardsley in Bearded Siege Promises Surrender
Summerdale farmer Edward Beardsley, famed for signing picture post cards, says he may surrender tomorrow for the Poormaster Putnam case. Sheriff plans to attack if he delays. Beardsley cites need for money to pay lawyers and support his children as motive to linger.
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Mayville
J. G. W. Putnam
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Presrdsley
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Ray F. Pickard
Jamestown
Fire claims life of wealthy New Jersey couple
Special to The Washington Post from New York reports Capt. and Mrs. Nicholas Shepard of Tuckerton New Jersey were killed when their home near Barnegat Bay burned early today. Police theorize robbers set the house alight to cover the crime. The Shepards, among the area's wealthiest residents, were 76 and 70 years old and valued at about 400000 with 50000 in the home. Their two sons George and Henry live in New York City.
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Washington Post
New York
Nicholas Shepard
Tuckerton
N. J
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Shepards
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Henry
New York City
Fracas Over Pistol Charge Shocks Congressional Hearing
A House District committee hearing in the House office building erupted as Representative Ben Johnson of Kentucky struck Washington attorney John R Shields after Johnson accused Shields of lobbying. The melee included fists, a threatened pistol, and officials restraining Johnson as the room emptied in panic. Shields denied the charges while both sides prepared for another hearing.
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Kentucky
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Washington
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Pennsylvania
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California
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Trolley suit hinges on knee display by Mrs Doubleday
Mrs Jennie L. Doubleday a WCTU leader from Springfield Mass testified in Hartford Superior Court she showed her left knee to twelve jurors to prove injuries from alighting a Connecticut trolley car seeking 50000 damages. Jurors and railroad counsel accepted part of her account of a permanent arm injury though skeptical about other injuries.
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Hartford
Connecticut
Missouri
Funeral halted by strike as union band joins procession
Special to The Wellington Post from Trenton New Jersey reports a funeral halted when coach drivers quit upon learning the band in the funeral procession was nonunion. Mourners carried the coffin on foot, joining with the band for a slow march to the cemetery as six men shouldered the casket.
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Wellington Post
Trenton
N. J
Strathcona Dies After Long Public Career in Canada
Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, high commissioner for Canada, died this morning in London after a long, active life. Born Donald Smith, he early entered the Hudson Bay Company, helped open the West and push the Canadian Pacific Railway, later serving as a legislator and diplomat. His wife’s death last November, a severe blow, preceded his quiet passing at nearly a century old.
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Canada
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Hudson Bay Company
British North America
Labrador
Montreal
Wilds
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Manitoba
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Victoria Street
Prisoner in lethal mercy plea described in court
In Philadelphia a 65 year old husband, William Hiberwe in, testified he killed his wife after she begged him to end her suffering. He recounted the repeated blows with a beard as she urged him to continue. Judge fixed second degree murder with a minimum seven year sentence, effectively a life term, amid a dramatic confession.
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William Hiberwein
Eberweth
Getober Hg
Wiliam
Eberweir
William
Bwerwein
Noted French Writer M De Pressense Dies
Paris reports the death of M de Pressense aged 68 a noted French political writer who served briefly as secretary of the French embassy in Washington in 1880 and later sat in the chamber of deputies until last year He also led the League of the Rights of Man as its president
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Paris
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League of the Rights of Man
Mind and meals blend at Philadelphia Food Question Banquet
Dr Carl Alsberg head of the Federal bureau of chemistry tells the Philadelphia Food Question Banquet guests that esthetic dining aids digestion. Nearly 200 guests, including state board members, sampled a menu entirely of cold storage products such as Delaware guinea hens, shad roe, freak strawberry ice cream, and cold-storage eggs and butter.
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Carl Alsberg
Federal Bureau of Chemistry
Produce Exchange
State Board
Delaware
Kansas
Chicago
Minnesota
Holbein Portrait of Cromwell Sold to London Dealers
A Holbein portrait of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, known as the Caledon Cromwell, has sold for 150400 to Thomas Agnew & Sons of London. The work, long in the Caledon family, has rarely been shown publicly and dates to about 1547 to 1534.
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Holbein
Thomas Cromwell
Earl of Essex
Caledon Cromwell
Earl Caledon
Thomas Agnew & Sons
Cromwell
Wilson Clears Trade Skies Antitrust Bills and Tragedies Reported
President approves antitrust legislation amid high profile news including four killed after an orgy and a wife killed at her own request. Lord Strathcona and a safety treaty mention surface alongside lawsuits for $20,000 and other diplomatic items. Ambassador Penfield’s reception noted and Wisconsin eugenics law declared invalid.
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Wilson
Johnson
Shields
Owen Bill Corporation
Haiti
Opere sta at banquet with Irish operetta interlude
Mrs Stuyvesant Fish hosted a dinner night in New York producing a one hour Irish operetta titled Trish Love as the interlude between dinner and dancing. Cast included Idallarde and Fanning with guests Capt. Vassilieff naval attache of the Russian embassy and Mme Vasallieff applauding the lively performance.
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Vassilieff
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Sea Treaty Signed to Improve Ocean Safety and Patrols
The International Conference on Safety at Sea concluded with a fourteen-nation convention setting regu lations for ships and passengers. It approves watertight compartments, wireless limits, a child life saving device, and an international ice patrol under U S control. Lord Mersey praised the agreement and Senator Lewis for the United States.
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Jane
Lord Mersey
Atlantic
United States
Seneca
Miami
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Foreign Office
Sydney Buxton
Board of ‘Trade
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Alexander
Board of Trade
J. Hampion Lewis
Senate
Wilson
American Congress
New World
Former University Lecturer Sues Baroness Over Monte Carlo Funds
London Jan 20 Dr Ernest Villiers Appleby once a Minnesota University lecturer testified in King’s Bench court that he profitably invested at Monte Carlo but did not gamble. He seeks $20,000 from Baroness Mayde Pallandt claiming an immoral bar of notes and a necklace loan led to a $29,000 counterclaim by the baroness. The suit arises from a train meeting in 190? and involves a complex entanglement with notes and jewelry.
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Ernest Villiers Appleby
University of Minnesota
Court of King’s Bench
Monte Carlo
Mayde Pallandt
Chiacago
Appleby
Dr. Applebys
Parenens de Pallandt
Misa Schafer
Maria Dugas
Chicago
New York
Th Sik
Baroneses
Dr. Appleby
Jon
St Paul
Minn
Janes
Ernest Villers Appleby
Cornelia Day Wilder-Appleby
St. Paul
Episcopal Diocese of
Duke of Clarendon
Philadelphia
Wilder-Appleby
Stole Autos Worth 100000 Two Robber Band Members Arrested
Two alleged band members Chester Travis and John Chandler, both chauffeurs, were arrested in New York after a prisoner Daniel Reilly in Hazabeth New Jersey confessed. Police say they stole high power cars in New York and Philadelphia and sold them to a dealer for about 30 dollars each. Reilly claimed the gang included a dealer and asked friends for saws to aid escape.
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Daniel Reilly
Hazabeth
N. J
Chester Travis
John Chandler
Philadelphia
Reilly
Cruiser Ordered to Nicaragua for Marine Base Support
A naval unit was ordered from San Diego on February 1 to relieve a transport into Nicaragua. The cruiser will serve as a base ship for about a hundred Marines in Managua, aiding expeditionary operations in the region.
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Manaeva
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