Paris June 1914 Congress Plans European Bureau
French government shows keen interest in hosting the 1914 International Congress of Chambers of Commerce in Paris. A permanent European bureau to clear house international business matters is planned with a two week post-session tour of France for delegates to inspect industry and architecture. The program foresees major committee meetings in Prague on March 26 and formal sessions at the Sorbonne starting Monday at 10 30 am with officials from the French government presiding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau
Europe
International Congress of Chambers of Commerce
Paris
Prusdela
France
Adil Com
Inportang
United States
Hlee
Sorbonne
Milne
Extortion Plot Involving Continenal Building Official
A former secretary to the Jerii t l Continental Building and Lean Assen is accused in a $10,000 extortion scheme. The plan involved delivering a satchel said to contain $19,000 to Roy Snyder at Folsom Street Pier and threatening to reveal information unless money was paid. Police say the suspect, a 19-year-old painter, intended to fund an aero venture between New York and war transport routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilfim F. Corbin
Jerii T l Continental
Lean Assen
Roy Snyder
Fife
Guer
Hoo
New York
New Liability Law Urged At Utah Senator Luncheon
United States Senator from Utah Sutherland urged support for a new federal workmen compensation act at a National Civic Federation luncheon. He favored broad coverage for interstate railroad employees and argued for high awards to reduce costly litigation and court liquidation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tredge Sutherland
United States
Utah
National
Civic Federall
Suthertin
Congress
Exhumation Reopens Mrs Simpson Death Case
The body of Mrs Betoo Wilder Simpson was exhumed for a second autopsy to help determine the cause of death after an earlier head wound. A Chicago physician conducted the second examination while juries have given noncommittal verdicts. The widower insists on a grand jury probe, while Judge Kerr plans to present the case to the regular grand jury next month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Simpson
Wwe
Betoo
Wilder Simpson
Tane © Simpson
Kerr
Rand
Chief Sam Flight to Africa Probe
Federal investigators questioned Ishington Alfred Charles Sam and Capt. S. S. Mitenzie on the steamer Cuchyta about a proposed pilgrimage to Africa by followers of Chief Law of the Ty k ta Africa Movement. Officials were told the ship would depart soon with about two hundred colored passengers, and Sam claimed his movement was religious and not connected to any outward institution.
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Fortlind
Africa
Chief Law
Ishington
Alfred Charles Sam
S&s
Mitenzie
Indtec States District
Arthur Kapmin
Bourd
Sam
Woman Slayer Cheered At Preliminary in Court
A woman testified that she killed her uncle Sidney Chapman after he made improper advances. Justice Fox ordered her immediate release and restoration to freedom. The courtroom applauded as she recounted the events, with renewed cheers when the judge freed her. Prosecution indicated the case may go to a grand jury later.
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Aihoun
Charles Chapman
Sidney Chapman
Fox
Ags Vas Chapman
Counterfeiters Targeted in Pacific Northwest Busts
Seattle officials report United States Secret Service agents arrested gang leader W. C. Vaughn in Portland and associates Harry S. Stone in Spokane and Charles Dutcher in Seattle. The group allegedly circulated a large number of bogus gold pieces, with their mint said to operate from a Seattle cottage. The coins are described as well made but slightly thick.
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Seattle
Wash
United States Secret Service
Pacific Northwest
W. C. Vaughn
Portland
Harrys. Stone
Spokane
Charles Dutcher
Stone
Vaughn
Jail for election officers in Hoboken primary cases
Jersey City March 29. Thirteen election officers eight Democrats and five Republicans on Hoboken election boards were sentenced by Common Pleas Judges to state prison not less than eighteen months nor more than three years for making false election returns in the September 1913 primary. Two others were discharged.
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Jersey City
N. J
Hoboken
Common Pleas
Mark A. Sullivan
George J. Tennant
Indian Braves Petition for Regular Rent Payments in Washington
Ishiti and other Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache delegates travel from Oklahoma to petition the Indian commission and the President for steadier quarterly rent payments. The group represents Anadarko’s business committee and seeks timely funds due tribes for housing and land use.
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of Tribes
Oklahoma
Scott Ferris
Ishiti
Kiowa Bill
Hoy Koy Pitty
Masukawa
Edgar Readbone
Wilbur Pene
Charley Buffalo
Washington
Indian Commission
Ana
Harvard Lags Says Hollis Blames Snobbery For President's Ouster
United States Senator Henry F Hollis of New Hampshire, Harvard alumnus, denounces the college as conservative and hidebound. He argues the former president was ousted for challenging snobbery and urges broader democracy in campus life, including housing reform and curbs on wealth influence.
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Cambridge Mass
United States
Henry F Hollis
New Hampshire
Harvard
Lfe
Union
Senate
Harvard College
New England
Times
West
Indiana pastor found guilty in presbytery ruling
The Indiana presbytery commission suspended Rev John R Elis former pastor of Bloomington First Presbyterian Church after finding him guilty of charges involving several Bloomington women The commission recommended a year of confinement and mental collapse as possible context Elis resigned and plans to appeal to the synod.
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Upen ‘Aurtndianapolis
Ind
John R Elis
First Presbyterian Church
Bloomington
Ing
Indiana Presbytery
Elis
Els
Ellis
Aynod
Federal Reserve Board district lines to be outlined
New York March 29 The drive for a national banking system with twelve reserve districts gains momentum as financiers discuss the selection of reserve cities and district boundaries. Minneapolis Kansas City Cincinnati St Louis San Francisco and others are named as likely centers, with debates over New York Boston Philadelphia and Atlanta New Orleans and Washington also considered for district inclusion. Boundary lines between New York Philadelphia and Boston districts pose a challenge for the reorganizing committee preparing for the Federal Reserve Board.
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New York
Federal Reserve Board
United States
Boston
Philadelphia
Chicago
St. Louis
San Francisco
Cincinnati
Organization Committee
Atlanta
New Orleans
Dallas
Houston
Washington
Richmond
Reorganization Committee
Connecticut
New England
New Jersey
Ohio River Valley
Baltimore
Northwest
Minneapolis
Cleveland
Kansas City
Federal Reserve
Pittsburgh
Alleghenies
McAdoo
St Louis
E H Harriman
Empire
Birmingham
Alais
Panama Canal
South
Wisen
Pet Pet
Detroit
Los Angeles
Omaha
Milwaukee
Louisville
Seattle
Buffalo
Portland
Oreg
St. Paul
Denver
Indianapolis
Providence
Memphis
Fort Worth
St. Joseph
Columbus
Salt Lake City
Savannah
Toledo
Des Moines
Norfolk
Wheeling
Rio
Topeka
Galveston
Fragmentary Note on April Committee and Members
A garbled fragment references an April committee and its members. It mentions secretary, recommendations, and issuance to certain individuals, with unclear names and dates. The text is incomplete, hindering a clear summary of actions or outcomes.
Dyea Alaska Population 20 000 Site Abandoned for Farming
Seattle March 2 The once crowded Dyea Alaska frontier at Lynn Canal once home to about 20000 residents tied to Klondike gold rush was filed on as farming land Three homesteaders a Indian woman and a young fox rancher among them left Dyea after the White Pass and Yukon Railroad project. post office closed in 1919 and the town is now a memory.
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Dyea
Alaska
Seattle
Wash
iMarch
Speer Dyea
Lynn Canal
Yukon
Nine Southern States Owe Britain Over 76 Million in Defaulted Debts
Honduras leads a blacklist of nine states Arkansas Alabama Florida Georgia Louisiana Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina and West Virginia with defaulted foreign bonds for 4 to 70 years totaling more than 76 million dollars not including interest. The loans funded public improvements and exclude Confederate bonds or war obligations. Guatemala resumed payments after a 14 year default under foreign pressure.
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Corporation of Foreign Bondhelders
Republic of Guatemala
Foreign Office
Republic of Honduras
Arkansas
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
North Carolina
South Carolina
West Virginia
Tennessee
Coast Phone Trust to End Debt Settlement
The Goschen committee notes total British bond claims on American states and Honduras amounting to about 75,280,970. It criticizes North Carolina Tennessee Louisiana and Mississippi for repudiating debts, cites excuses, and mentions possible settlement talks with Honduras with little optimism.
Bank Clearings and Telephone Trust Endgame in Pacific Northwest
United States bank clearings for the week ending March 28 total 3.153 billion dollars, down from last week’s 3.254 billion. In Canada, week totals reach 137.8 million. Portland reports the Bell system dissolution after a federal decree, paving Spokane’s local control options over its telephone system while the Northwest reconfigures long distance lines and exchanges.
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New York
United States
Bradstreet’s Journal
Portland
Greg
Telephone Trust
Bell System
Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Pacific Northwest
Bell Company
Northwestern Telephone Company
Port Angeles
Wash
Corvallis
Oreg
Interstate Telephone Company
Spokane
Home Telephone Company
Bell
Seattle
Tacoma
Bellingham
Home
Focal
Ready to Buy Banks Sales Expected in Ten Days
Negotiations are in progress for transfer of the two remaining Munsey Trust branch banks, at Dupont Circle and at Fourteenth and U streets NW, to local financiers. The Twentieth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW unit opens today as the Exchange Bank of Washington with Robert L Montague as president and a $50,000 capital. Directors include M F Finley and J B Flynn among others.
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Twentieth Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
Northwest
Munsey Trust Company
Dupont Circle
Fourteenth and
U Streets
Wade
Ellis
United States Trust Company
Fourteenth
Wire
Exchange Bank of Washington
Robert L Montague
M F_ Finley
Victor J Evang
John B Flynn
Elmer Sotheron
R L Montague
M F Finley
M. J. Keane
G @ Havenner
A J Schwartz
H M Dison
J. B Flynn
Plan
M E Buckley
P T Niland
E. W Whiteside
H EB Taylor
H F Harvey
A G Smith
B T Quigley
J B E Donovan
Cinton James
W J Evans
Woman Held in Neville Case Not Mrs Belle Gunness
A woman claimed to be Mrs Belle Gunness of Laporte Indiana is not identified as the infamous killer. Deputy Sheriff Cochran of Laporte, Indiana failed today to confirm her identity at Neville.
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Swift Current
Saskatchewan
Neville
Belle Gunness
Laporte
Ind
Cochran
Home Bomb Wrecks Detective’s Newark Residence
Special to The Washington Post Newark New Jersey March 2 The home of Detective Antonio de Bogatis was wrecked Saturday by a bomb set to assassinate him and his family The occupants were thrown from their beds but none were seriously injured De Bogatis has been investigating Black Hand cases for the district attorney.
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Washington Post
Newark
N. J
Antonio de Bogatis
de Bogatis
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President
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Domme
Robert N. Harper
Equitable Co-Operative Building Association
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John Joy Edson
Frank Preeside
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
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Maxwell
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Lincoln
14Th St. N. W. Tel
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Tel
14Th St. N
Cadillac Baker
the Cook & Stoddard Co
Conn. Ave
Huston-Hanger Auto Sales Co., Inc
14Th St
Vulcan
Commerce Phone Main 247
Marmon Electric Potomac Motor Car CO
Oldsmobile
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Conn
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Eea
WALTER J_BUZBY
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FF Droop & Sons
BU Lamport & Rolt
LIN
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Rio DE Jan Santos
Montevideo
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Hampton Roads
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City Ticket Ofice
15Th St
W. Aorfolk and
Washington Steamboat Company
California
Jyase Vasey An
Hos Lil Seaton
Raymond & Whitcomb
Chestnut St
Ann Osain
Merchants & Miners Trans. Co
Lorida
COBY
Jacksonville-Savannah
Automaoitee
Gorge O Rbr
Ith Ct
Turner
Baltimore Md
Washington Southern Railway
Points South
Fredericksburg
Union Station
City
Milford
Emerson & Orme
H Street
Studebaker Commercial Auto & Supply Co
Fourte
Congressional Garage O
Agts
E. Tel L
Electrica
America
Probey-Haynes Motor Co
Winconsin Ave
District of Columbia
Swartzell, Rheem & Hemisey Co
Fifteenth Street
J. Thilman
Hendrick Hendrick Building
Washington Stock Exchange
Manhattan Life Insurance Co
Mrs. Belle Gunness
Holy Land
Wade H.cooper
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