Rescue at sea as Balmes passengers saved by Pannonia
Wireless reports say the Cunard steamer Balmes, loaded with cotton and rum, caught fire in the Atlantic. The Pannonia rescued all passengers and towed the burning vessel toward New York while remaining on scene. fire continued aboard Balmes with crew of 55 refusing to abandon ship.
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Almos
Ouvbr
York
Cunard Line
A.o
Capper
New York
Spain
Mediterranean
Marconi
Cape Race
Newfoundland
Baimes
Cassenters
Bermuda
Savannah
Udndta
Robert McClenahan
Hamburg
Oficer
Joseph Fisher & Sgexi
Pel Newry
Ireland
Bridgeport Collier Lost With 42 Aboard in St Lawrence
The steam collier Bridgeport wrecked near Taland in St Lawrence Montreal while en route from Sydney Cape Breton with 42 crew aboard and 10000 tons of coal. An official announcement from the sponsor Coal Company confirms all hands perished.
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Bridgeport
Taland
St. Lawrence
Montreal
Sydney
Cape, Breton
Sponinion Coal Company
Tragedy of Bridgeport Sails From Sydney in Storm
The Bridgeport departed Sydney on November 1 with coal bound for Montreal and was overdue. Fears grew in the past 48 hours that she could not weather the week’s storm on the St. Lawrence River.
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Rock Island
St. Lawrence
Bridgeport
Sydney
Montreal
Mayor Leads Egg Boycott in Atlantic City
Atlantic City mayor Riddie calls on residents to abstain from eggs until prices drop, urging citizens to join a nationwide effort. He says he will lead the boycott and that rationing desserts would be temporary if eggs become affordable again.
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Atlantic City
Riddie
Indian game accident kills seven year old girl
Lena Hewitt aged seven died from burns received while playing a game of Indians in Atlantic City New Jersey. Her five year old brother Norris touched a match to her dress causing a fatal blaze. The incident occurred yesterday and the girl died today from the injuries.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Lena Hewitt
Norris
Striking Southern Pacific Faces Mediation Hope
Dodge strike talks faltered as Federated board condemns Brutt schnitt plan to curb grievances. Wilson mediation viewed as sole hope. Sunset Central system tied up with 2,400 miles idle. 14 passenger trains run. New Orleans sees cautious optimism as Hanger nears, mediation board confers on resuming traffic.
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Federated Board
Southern Pacific
Hanger
Houston
Tex
Southern Pacific Railroad
Julius Ehruttachnitz
Resigrated Unions Board
Wilson
Bruttschnitt
Sunset Central System
Sunset Central
el Paso
New Orleana
Southern Paciic
Federated Committee
Federated Union
Texas
Louisiana
Federated
Federation
Anatee
New Orleans
Washington
Federal Mediation Board
William Christy
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Pacific Coast
Federal Board
Federal Board of Mediation and Conciliation
Paris trousers dazzle New York social scene
Special to The Washington Post from New York on November 15 describes importation of French trouserettes for society leader Mrs. Sylvia T Knapp. The garment features Turkish style sheer gold lace over black chiffon, with elastic shirred bottoms and a gold Spanish lace border, touted as a bold break from tradition. Mrs Knapp, ex-wife of Joseph F Knapp of Metropolitan Life, promotes the innovation on this side of the Atlantic while recently divorcing.
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Washington Post
New York
Sylvia T Knapp
Knapp
Atlantic
Joseph F Knapp
Metropolitan Tifé Insurance Company
Georgia
New 3 A Method of Flesh Reduction Proves Astonishingly Successful
Investigations in Johnstown Pennsylvania confirm Hon T Stetter reduced his weight rapidly by wearing an invisible device that acts as a flesh reducer. The device reportedly consumes little to no medicine or exercise and is said to have attracted many men and women to try it. Inventor Trof Book Burns of New York offers free trials to those who write him.
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Johnstown
Navy
Hon T Stetter
Directad
Trof Book Burns
West Thirty Eighth Street
New York
Rip Society Apart Means Two Official Sets
A social rift in Washington grows as wives of cabinet members reportedly snub the wives of House members, risking strained relations between Congress and the administration. Widespread talk claims 100 to 200 House wives will halt calls if cabinet women do not reciprocate, potentially affecting appropriations and floor access for cabinet officials.
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Congress
Washington
House of Representatives
Wilson
House
Senate
Supreme Court
Talk on social calls sparks Washington club debate
Mrs. John E. Raker denies rumors about limiting calls by cabinet wives. Mrs. Champ Clark and Mrs. Clark defend flexible rules, noting the Congressional Club aims to reduce the social call burden. A representative’s wife labels cabinet women as "small town" figures who fear Washington pomp at first.
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John E. Raker
Representative Raker
California
Washington
Mystery Jewel Disappearance and Found Casket Incident
Treasury officials probe a casket with $60,000 in jewels taken from Mrs William Allen Dunlap on arrival from Europe aboard the Olympic. The case vanished and reappeared, with Mrs Dunlap, a former manicure artist, detained. three agents allegedly separated the couple in a dining room during the incident.
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Treasury Department
Wiliam Allen Dunlap
Europe
Treasury
Hvtterbrook
Wilson
Dunlap
Hner
Billy” Dunlap
George Beatty
Belmont Park
Beatty
Mrs. Dunlap
Flood Threat Eases as Ohio River Levels Stagnate
West Virginia towns report the worst flood since 1907 as the Tygarts Valley and Ohio Rivers rise. Wheeling braces for a 35 foot flood stage, threatening mills, rail lines, and lowlands. By noon, Pittsburgh reports flood anxiety dispelled with the Ohio River holding at 28 feet and no danger to 22 feet.
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Washington Post
Grafton
W. Va
West Virginia
Wheeling
Wheeling Traction Company
Luckhannen
Moon
Weston
Richwood
Baltimore & Ohio
Clarksburg
Faternoon
Tygarts Valley
Fairmont
Pitttsburgh
Weather Bureau
Gamblers Foiled Aboard Kaiserin Victoria in London
Passengers from the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria report professional gamblers tried to fleece wealthy Americans. Colorado mine owner William Aiken helped thwart the ploy after a passenger lost 3000 in valuables from his stateroom. Aiken confronted a gambler in the smoking room who threatened his reputation. Three thousand dollars in cash a 2000 letter of credit and a pearl pin were taken.
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London
Wiliam Aiken
Colorado
Mr. Aiken
Stern
White House Baby Bride Miss McKee Weds Reisinger
Miss Mary Lodge McKee, once the Baby McKee at the White House under President Harrison, married Kurt Feisinger at Central Presbyterian Church in New York. Guests included Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins and former Austrian Ambassador Richard Kerens. The bride is the daughter of James R. and Mrs. McKee of New York.
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McKee
Harrison
Reisinger
New York
Mary Lodge McKee
White House
Benjamin Harrison
United States
Executive Mansion
Kurt Feisinger
Hugo Reisinger
Adolphus Busch
Central Presbyterian Church
Stephen B. Elkins
Richard C. Kerens
Kerens
James R. McKee
Washington
Woman to get postoffs in Hampton Soldiers' Home
Special to The Washington Post Norfolk Va Nov 15 President Wilson has selected Maj Thomas Hall Davis to be postmistress at the National Soldiers' Home Hampton Va Mrs Davis will succeed Capt John C Tucker Mrs Davis husband was named for the position by President Wilson but died of blood poison before taking office Several Hampton citizens announced their candidacy for the office but withdrew when they learned Mrs Davis was a candidate.
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Hall
Hampton Soldiers’ Home
Washington Post
Norfolk
Wilson
Maj
Thomas Hall Davis
National Soldiers’ Home
Hampton
Davis
John C. Tucker
Davie
Davia
Appointed to Washington Military Attache for Japan Embassy
Tokyo announces Lieut Col Matsuo Itami of the Japanese army is appointed military attaché to the Japanese embassy in Washington. The appointment was made on November 15, and Itami will serve in the United States capital.
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Matsuo Itami
Tokyo
Japan
Matauo Itami
Washington
Taft Endorses Broad Civil Service Plan At Hill School
Former President William H Taft spoke at the Hill School Pettstown Pa on The President of the United States What He Can and Cannot Do He supported Wilsons use of personal messages to Congress and urged universal civil service with few exceptions He also discussed pardons noting two bank case examinations and the limits of expert medical tests.
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Indersea
Universal Civil Service
Pettstown
William H. Taft
The
Hill School
United States
Wilson
Congress
Taft
Charles W. Morse
New York
Army Medical Corps
Morae
Federal
Atlanta
Philippines bar slavery law passed by assembly
Manila reports the Philippine national assembly adopted an antislavery law after a heated discussion. The act, framed by insular auditor William H Phipps, reinforces old Spanish statutes and includes American provisions. Opposition was small despite the debate. An Open Air Thanksgiving is also noted in Western North Carolina.
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Manila
Phillippine National Assembly
William H Phipps
Insular
North Carolina
Land of the Sky
Southern Railway
Huerta Refuses to Quit As New Congress Opens
Mexico City November 11 President Huerta said he would not quit and would push pacification while threatening drastic action. The new lower house met chaotically with many Huerta loyalists and detectives present. the senate lacked a quorum and Catholic senators stayed away. The opening session adjourned after Enrique Paz was named president pro tempore.
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Mexico City
Huerta
Congress
Chamber of Deputies
Senate
Gen. Huerta
United States
House of Deputies
Interior
Manuel Garza Aldape
Gonzalo Zuniga
Senor Aldape
Senor Zuniga
Salvadore Diaz Miron
Imparcial
Baoting
Enrique Paz
Carranza Patriotic
Lts
Asagmnbling
Bride of year kills man in Oklahoma jealousy fit
Mrs Anna Russell, bride of a year, shot and killed Barney Phinney, 30, in Hobart Oklahoma last night with an automatic revolver firing four times. She telephoned police to report and is now in jail. Russell, separated from her husband, had warned Phinney he would kill him for refusing marriage before her own wedding.
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Hobart
Okio
Anna Russell
Barney Phinney
Russell
Phinney
Russell Phinney
Charlton Trial Set in Italy for Porter Charlton
Italian authorities confirm US documents proving Porter Charlton's marriage to Mary Crittenden Scott of San Francisco. He will be charged at end of March with exercide under Italian code carrying 22 to 25 years. Charlton has been imprisoned since August 3 and is under strict watch. He appears in good health and is gaining weight on simple meals despite lack of funds.
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Como
Italy
United States
Porter Charlton
Mary Crittenden Scott
San Francisco
Charlton
Chariton
Americans Detained in Havana Protest Alleged Search
Misses Sally Murphy and Catharine Farrell with Anne Lally were detained and searched in Havana on an unsupported charge of stealing rings aboard the steamer Havana. Captain Knight protested to the port authorities as the U.S. State Department investigates with legal counsel in Habana.
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Sally
Murphy
Farrell
Habana
U. S
Anne Lally
Eighteenth Street
Josephine Murphy
Seventeenth Street
Washington
Miss Lally
Decorative Iron Works
Miss Murphy
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Jose Sanches
Mise Farrell
New York
Hebana
Peter Knight
Knight
United States
Gonzales
State Department
L Q C Lamar
France backs U S policy on Mexico
Paris reports the French government shifts in the Mexican question from restraint to alignment with American aims. After exchanges with diplomats, France becomes sympathetic to Washington's course while rejecting a leading moral role for itself in Latin affairs.
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Paris
Washington
Great Britain
United States
Mexico
Bcame
America
Mirnn T Herrick
M Pichon
Wilson
Foreign Office
Trance
France
Georgetown Wins Dramatic 8-7 Victory Over Virginia
In a rain soaked crowd of 9000, Georgetown defeats Virginia 8 to 7 in a classic gridiron clash marked by muddy stands and festive parades. Virginia fanfare and Georgetown student bands competed as fans trudged ankle deep through mud to witness a late Georgetown triumph.
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Virginia
Georgetown University
University of Virginia
Georgetown
Feld
Stonewall Jackson Rand
Pennsylvania Avenue
White House
Law Department
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