California May Back Land Act Sparks Diplomatic Tension
The Japanese embassy files a formal protest against California’s land ownership bill, aiming to shield treaty rights with the United States. Legal experts foresee the case reaching U.S. courts and possibly The Hague arbitration, as Arizona and other states push harsher anti alien ownership laws and fishing license disputes surface in Sacramento and beyond.
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Webb Bill
Japan
Arizona
Bryan
United States
California
Phoenix
Riz
Senate
Sacramento
Val
Bush
Committee of Federal Relations
Kehac
Chinese Denounce Loan See Wee Aew Gives
Fragmentary text from a newspaper page mentions a denouncement of a loan and references to named individuals and places. The readable portions indicate a political or economic dispute, with unclear details but potential names and affiliations implied. Further readable context is required for a precise summary.
Red-Headed Mew Strike Over Hair Color Change at Plant
Thirty redheaded men employed as still cleaners at the Standard 677 Company plant strike after a refused two cent an hour raise. In 38 degree heat, heat damaged their hair color, with some showing auburn or rusty tones. The workers demand compensation via higher wages for loss of natural color, while the company reportedly closed the plant for six months.
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Washington
Baltimore
Standard 677 Company
Shoulal
Guns Rushed to Manila Large Artillery Shipment on Transport Sherman
Urgent orders from Washington delayed the Sherman departure for Manila as the War Department decided to dispatch a large consignment of artillery and rifle ammunition to the Philippine Islands. Army quartermaster wagons and laborers worked tonight loading the vessel, with officials saying there was no special significance to the order.
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Sherman
San Francisco
Washington
United States Army
Manila
War Department
Philippine Islands
Sun Yat Sen's Daughter Ill and Returns to Shanghai
Miss Sun Yin, daughter of Sun Yat Sen, the first provisional president of the Chinese republic, is seriously ill and has left Berkeley for Shanghai with two nurses. Her sister Miss Sun Won attended a seminary in Berkeley. Their brother Sun Fo is a University of California student.
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Berkeley
Cal
Sun Yin
Sun Yat Sen
Chinese Republic
Shanghai
Sun Won
Sun Fo
University of California
Start Hospital Fund Campaign Aids Emergency Building
Governor Miller urged a mass outreach to raise 500000 in twelve days for a new Emergency Hospital. Twenty teams of ten men each will operate with a daily results dial at Cafe Republique. Former Senator Scott cited Wheeling’s 265000 seven day total as a model. The drive begins this morning with lunches served and broad support from business leaders and city officials.
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Boy Scouts
Charles R. Miller
Delaware
Wilmington
Delaware Hospital
Wheeling
Nathan B. Scott
W. Va
Woodbury
Ingar T. Honey
Eliies
Bay Seauts
Washington
Hove
Arthur Moses
Mer Moses
Wihan Fo Crude
Giso Snake
Senut
Eiffrens
Cafe Republique
Lureheon
Billie
Drev R. Shans
Tioney
Cal James M Morgan
Gardner F Williama
Tion
H. c. Sharpe
Gorge Lie
David
Lloyd Magruder
Woodburs
Blair
Charles
Publc
Militant suffragettes threaten London offices and dockyards
A bomb found at a southeast London post office was prepared to demolish a great building. A militant suffragette entered the Standard offices causing destruction while leaders faced Bow Street magistrates on conspiracy charges. Carrie Chapman Catt urged restraint in New York.
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London
Standard
Choo-Tai
Violet Asnton-Coss
Southampton
Bow Street
Archibald Bodkin
Drummond
Sle
Clayton
Taken Home by First Wife in Ithaca
Harry Thurston Peck ex Columbia languages professor, ill for weeks, was taken to New York by his divorced wife Mrs Cornelia Peck and a nurse. From New York he will be moved to Sound Beach for treatment. Present wife Mrs Elizabeth Peck had left for New York days earlier. Peck remains in precarious mental condition with slim hope of recovery.
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Ithaca
N. Y
Harry Thurston Peck
Columbia University
Ithaca City Hospital
New York
Cornelia BD. Peck
Peck
Sound Beach
Vom
Elizabeth Dubois Peck
Taft Urges Free Trade in Yale Lecture
New Haven May 5 Former President William Howard Taft Kent professor of law at Yale spoke on modern government in a Yale lecture. He urged trying free trade if supported by the party and outlined aims of the Progressive school to curb corporate influence, broaden opportunity, and equalize property. He labeled dissenters reactionaries and urged reform.
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New Haven
Conn
William Monard Taft
Kent
Yale
New School of
Taft
Confession in Sleep Barred by State Supreme Court
Denver readers learn the State Supreme Court rules a murder confession made in sleep is not voluntary and cannot be used to convict Jose Martinez. The case is remanded to Archuleta County District Court to retry without sleep confession testimony.
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Denver
Colo. May
State Supreme Court
Jose Martinez
Fortune Campbell
District Court
Archuleta County
Martinez
Supreme Court
Officer Insists on Divorce in Merriam Case
San Francisco May 5 Captain H Merriam U S A seeks divorce from Mrs Bessier Merriam. Judge Graham pressed reconciliation as Mrs Merriam offered to cooperate for their daughter but the captain refused stating reconciliation was impossible. Clarence Murphy of New Orleans named as corespondent for the defense.
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Merriam
San Francisco
U. SA
Bessier
Graham
Capt. Merriam
Mas. Merriam
Washington, D. C
Novelist Alice Maud Meadows Drowned Rescuing Dog
London of May 4 reports novelist Alice Maud Meadows accidentally drowned at Red Hills near London while attempting to save her dog from water. Meadows began writing at age 14 and published works include The Infatuation of Marcella An Innocent Sinner The Moth and the Flame among others.
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London
Alice Maud Meadows
Red Hills
Marcella
Aged Man Shot in Riot at Socialist Meeting
Huntington West Virginia May 5 One man aged William Taylor was shot through the head and seriously wounded during a riot at a mass meeting protesting martial law in the coal strike district of Kana wha county. Missiles flew and police intervened arresting several.
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Huntington
W. Va
Kanawha County
William Taylor
Tie
Old Glory Above Red Flag In Ohio Spectacle
In East Tolverpool Ohio on May 5 two men climbed to a building where Socialists have headquarters and hoisted the American flag above the red socialist banner. The trap door locked as a crowd gathered, an alarum fire call summoned firefighters, and the pair escaped from the roof.
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Tolverpool
Ohio
G. A. R. and Sons of Veterans
Socialista
Dying man confesses to four murders in Tennessee
William Fine, 50, who died in Newport Tennessee after admitting he killed four people, including burning Mrs Haney and starving Peggy Fine. He described the room as filled with hellish flames and claimed to have killed a man named Bradshaw after a quarrel at dinner years earlier.
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Washington Pom
Newport
Tenn
William Fine
Fine
Haney
Wilsonville
Gad
Peggy Fine
Bridgeport
Bradshaw
State Department employee denies $40,000 took by spook letters
Laura B. Cramer of 1327 T Street, a State Department employee, tells reporters she did not obtain $40,000 from Felton J. Hurd by spiritualist messages. A Court of Appeals reversal orders return of the funds to Hurd’s estate. She says she cared for him, denies sitting with money, and questions the size of the claim. The suit, brought by Hurd’s grandson Dr. Lee M. Hurd, lists multiple dated gifts totaling $60,000 and involves a Washington Loan and Trust Company as a co-defendant.
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State Department
F. J. Hurd
Hurd
Laura B. Cramer
T Street
Department of State
Court of Appeals
Felton J. Hurd
St. Patrick’s Church
Mgr. Russell
Cramer
Justice Gould
Tor
Lee M. Hurd
Washington Loan and Trust Company
Happy Jack Mulraney Faces Execution for Priest Murder
New York May 5 Judge Rosalsky denied Mulraney’s bid for a new trial in the Paddy the Priest case. Mulraney, granted a 60 day reprieve earlier, now awaits execution during the week of May 18. His mother’s alibi broke down as she admitted perjury to protect him.
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New York
Happy Jack
Mulraney
Paddy
Resalsky
Underworld
Senator Works Attacks Rockefeller Foundation Tariff Link
Senator Works denounces the Rockefeller Foundation in a Senate speech, calling the charity a vehicle for fortune built on extortion and crime. He links wealth to high tariffs that harm labor, urges tariffs to protect wages, and warns against charities funded by ill gotten gains while proposing reforms to trusts and antitrust law.
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John D. Rockefeller
Senator Works
Rockefeller Foundation
California
Imade
Rockefeller
Auwerstate Commerce Commission
May Defend Land Law in Today’s Issue
Page 1-I features May defend land law. Hospital fund started. Big bomb in British post office. Representative Lt. Martin dead. Senator scorns Rockefeller gift. Mrs Cramer has no $40,000. Army play at the horse show.
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Post Office
Martin
Scorns Rockefeller
Cramer
Preston
Methifort
Favor Wilson's Bill Stalled In New Jersey Assembly Conference
Democratic leaders in Trenton met this afternoon to discuss jury reform as a special session was called for tomorrow at noon. The conference produced no final agreement, though the compromise from Jersey City last Friday gained some support. President Wilson's message to Governor Prescher expressed cautious satisfaction and urged swift, unified action to pass a plain reform.
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Trenton
Max
Tharts
New Jersey
Jerisiaty
Dioensea
Roy Melde
Hias Calla
Wson
Jersey City
Lewis J. Martin Dead After Tariff Vote
Representative Lewis J. Martin of Newton died of apoplexy yesterday in Union Station while hurrying to vote on tariff bill schedules. He served as a New Jersey congressman and Sussex County judge, returned to Washington after presiding over his court, and was to be buried in Newton. President Wilson sent condolences and a funeral committee of New Jersey delegates organized the service.
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Sussex County
Lewis J. Martin
Newton
Hamil, Kinkead
Scully
New Jersey
Congress
Martin
Passaic
Sussex
N. J
Washington
Wilson
Beng
State Assembly
Gov
Tle
New Jersey Senate
House
Tenth Cavalry
Ugiethorpe
MFP
Haz- Taine
Cees
Hipnoorwill
Nef Vain
Lewis
Midiik
Lew Tettry
Fla Pesta
Ltih P
Eb Wa
Goth
Hieserre
Emil Selig
Twenty Brides Arrive Aboard Ship California For Weddings
Twenty brides from Scotland and Ireland arrived with twenty grooms as immigration officers halted eight for lack of identity papers. The group prepared to wed at a local church after detention, with twelve others choosing to join and seek a clergyman. The trip included travel options from Harper’s Ferry to Charlestown and a May 31 return.
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New York
Mat
California
Gladness
Cirts
Ghey Cor Aniegs
Raussand
Scotland
Ireland
Army Day Show Highlights Fort Myer Wins Lead
Army Challenge cup feature at the National Capitol Horse Show sees Fort Myer riders secure top prize as Bushnell entries claim four red ribbons. President Wilson expected to attend but remained at the White House. Miss Belle Beach drives Sultan Co. K to victory amid a crowd of diplomatic corps members and society guests. Bushnell Farm of Springfield, Ohio earns praise for expert horses and attire.
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Bushnell
Equesvnenne
Belle Beach
Diplomatic Corps
William N Dorkman
Brooklyn
Cluh
Fort Myer
Army
Eart
Wilson
White House
Milas Keane Wren
John L. Bushnell
Bushnell Farm
Springfeld
Hio
East
Central West
Chicago
St. Louis
Irvington
Alan Bushnell
Ohio
Ofis
Bebie Beach
New York
Dultan Co. K
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International League of Women
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L. B. Cramer
Jack
Son
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Scorns Foundation
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