Fear Mexican riot urged to plan defense
From the Austrian legation in Mexico City a circular urged Austrians to cooperate with German and other European colonies for defense as uprisings against foreigners risk heavy losses. Germans detail a planned organization with veterans in command and a stockpile of rifles and ammunition amid a population wary of Huerta’s regime.
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Mexico City
Legation
Huerta
U. S
United States
Congress
Washington pressures Huerta amid wary foreign stance
Washington aims to push Huerta toward retirement aided by powers abroad that refuse financial or other support. The timing of the next move is uncertain as some observers expect Washington to learn more about the Mexican Congress and others foresee no immediate change in U.S. policy for several days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huarta
Huerta
Washington
Mexlcan Congress
Wife recounts 2080 beatings in 40 years
In Pittsburgh a wife testifies to weekly abuse by her husband since 1873. Magistrate Saam sentences Peter Edwards to thirty days in jail after she lists 2.08 beatings plus occasional small payments.
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Washington Post
Pittsburgh
Peter Edwards
Saam
Edwards
Ten die in Maine woods from accidental shootings
Special to The Washington Post Bangor Maine November. Maine's hunting season has seen ten accidental deaths and one drowning among guides and hunters. Three victims were mistaken for deer. Names include Lizzie Burton a 12 year old, Herbert Foster, Everett Dore, Leo Babine, Charles Zelgter, Fred Brown, Charles Dodge, Alonzo Bacon, Leroy Chasley, Robert Fecteau.
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Washington Post
Bangor
Maine
Lizzie Burton
Weeksboro
Herbert Foster
Guilford
Morris Crockett
Crockett
Grand Jury
Everett M. Dore
Monson
Dore
Leo Babine
Milo
Charles W. Zelgter
Zee- Neaople
Alonzo Bacon
Grand Lake Stream
Clifford Pease
North Dover
Ohio
Pease
Criminal Court
Ié Leroy Chasley
Lincoln
Robert Fecteau
Biddeford
May Detain Eable Pair French Kidnapped Son
French authorities believe Ferdinand Pinney Earle and Miss Charlotte Herman are detained and likely en route to New York aboard a Red Star Line ship. Harold Earle, son of Mrs Maris Emeline Flachbacher, was reportedly kidnapped in Paris and is linked to the case.
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New York
Washington Post
State Department
Washington
Ferdinand Pinney Earle
Charlotte Herman
Red Star Line
Harold Earle
Maris Emeline Flachbacher
Warle
Paris
Bomb drops on South Dakota by pilot at Panama-Pacific meet
San Francisco reports Silas Christofferson in a biplane released a sand bomb that struck the U S cruiser South Dakota during an aviation event at the Panama Pacific exposition grounds. The incident occurred as ships entered the bay amid planned bomb target practice in the water.
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San Francisco
United States
South Dakota
Golden Gate
Silas Christofferson
Panama-Pacific Exposition
Thea Cruiger
Christofferson
Pankhurst Captivates Columbia Theater With Militant Message
Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst spoke at the Columbia Theater describing the struggle for women’s suffrage. She argued militancy is necessary, urged men and women to unite for liberty and justice, and said the fight extends beyond the vote to unborn generations. She accepted an impromptu reception and planned to travel to New York then sail to England.
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Militant
Columbia Theater
Emmeline Pankhurst
Mrs. Pankhurst
New York
Rheta Childe Dorr
England
Pankhurst Addresses Bow Meeting with Armed Support
Sylvia Pankhurst led a large crowd at Bow, with her so called people’s army guarding the exit to her home afterward. She appeared nervous and clutched her chair during the talk while Zee Emerson of Jackson Michigan spoke. In a separate incident suffragettes carried out incendiary attacks damaging a boathouse at Eastville Park and a grandstand at Blackburn.
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Sylvia Pankhurst
London
People's Army
Bow
Mich
Eastville Park
Aparts Grounds
Blackburn
Governor Foss Calls Prison Reform After Retirement
Boston reports Gov Foss declares 16 000 of yearly Massachusetts sentences are for poverty not crime and faults judges for jailing the poor over small fines. He plans to devote time to reform after retirement to ensure the jailed can earn support for their dependents.
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Gov. Foss
Boston
Massachusetts
Gov Foss
Ststem
Train Engineer William Carr Escapes Fatal Steam Explosion
Near Tren ton New Jersey on May 23 engineer William Carr of the Ex-Preas train from Philadelphia to New York survived a boiler steam chest explosion. He kept control, shut the throttle, and applied emergency brakes, then collapsed unconscious with severe scalds and a hand on the throttle. he lies between life and death at St Peter's Hospital.
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Metuchen
William Cart
Philadelphia
New York
Trenton
Carr
St. Peter’s Hospital
Lfe
Death
Coow Meats Mixed Up At Huntington Party
John F. Ridgeley hosted a gathering for about 25 friends at a Huntington cafe. He claimed a raccoon dinner would be served but confessed at the end that the meat was actually skunk. Several guests suffered distress after learning the switch.
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John F. Ridgeley
Washington Post
Huntington
W. Va
Navy
British made peons in South American rubber camps
An English informant reports a new rubber exploitation scandal in Bolivia and Brazil, worse than Putumaya. He cites peonage in Beni, Acre, and other districts with brutal flogging of women, forest murders, and self destructive acts by despairing white agents, prompting action to the foreign office.
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Bolivia
Brazil
Cabe
Washington Post
London
Putumaya
Fggrten
Elaty
Beni
Acre
Brasil
Wommen
30 LIVES COVER 2,306 YEARS AT VENTAL CENTER
In Vental Center near Binghamton New York the village small district holds 68 residents and only 12 school children. Thirty residents are over 70 years old, their combined ages totaling 2208 years.
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Binghamton
N. Y
Vental Center
TRAIN KILLS FOUR SOLDIERS IN TEXAS CITY CRASH
Four United States soldiers and a civilian chauffeur were killed when their automobile was demolished at Texas City Junction by a Galveston Harrisburg and Henderson passenger train. One trooper was seriously injured. Victims listed as Private John M Livingston and Private John M Parkinson of Fourth Field Artillery, Private Frederick C D Proctor orderly of Eleventh Infantry, Private A Freudenthal of Eleventh Infantry, and chauffeur Wyly Sloman of Texas City. The injured man was Henry T L Smith of Company L Twenty-sixth Infantry. All stationed at Texas City.
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Houston
Tex
United States
Texas City Junction
Galveston, Harrisburg, and
Henderson
John M Livingston
Fourth Field Artillery
John M Parkinson
Frederick CD. Proctor
Eleventh Infantry
A. Freedenthal
Malone Boxes Lively Bout At Knickerbocker Hotel
New York reports Dudley Field Malone donned a sweater and boxed fifteen minutes with Glenn Rolley in his room at the Knickerbocker Hotel. Lieutenant Governor O Hara of Illinois watched as Malone showed strong skill and as Rolley noted there is little Malone does not know in boxing.
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Washington Post
New York
Dudley Field Malone
Glenn Roley
Knickerbocker
Rolley
Malone
Fright Fatal to Woman in Auto Wagon Collision
Mrs. Gertrude Walker, 34, died in Philadelphia when the car driven by her husband Dr. Thomas H. Walker struck a wagon. The shock caused her heart to stop after a frightful scream as a horse’s head brushed her face. the husband was thrown to the street but unharmed.
Fusion campaign cost Mitchel mayor bid at $129,519
New York led fusion drive to elect John Purroy Mitchel as mayor spent 129,519 with major gifts from Andrew Carnegie 7500 Jacob Schiff 46000 Cleveland H Dodge George W Perkins and John D Rockefeller 3500 each and many women contributing. The committee reported 121,787 raised and 2,268 remaining.
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Mitchel
Carnegie
Schiff
Rockefeller
New York
John Purroy Mitchel
New York City
Charles L. Berpheimer
Citizens’ Municipal Committee
Andrew Carnegie
Jacob H. Schiff
Cleveland H. Dodge
George W. Perkins
John D. Rockefeller
Lipton challenger alternative eyed by London yachtsman
Sir Charles Allom, owner of the yacht Istra, plans to build a new challenger if Sir Thomas Lipton fails to win the America's Cup. He announced this on departing Euston for the steamship Tutsenia with his wife and two daughters, stating his intent to contest the cup in America.
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London
Thomas Lipton
Charles Allom
Charles
Euston
Tusitenia
America
Thomas
Tree mailed by parcel post from Franklin to Ohio
A farmer near Franklin Pennsylvania mailed an 8 foot tree to a friend in Ohio yesterday. Rural carrier Albert Bunnell collected it after the sender sawed the tree to fit parcel post limits.
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Franklin
Ohio
Washington Post
Parcel Post
Albert Bunnell
Bunnell
Runaway Horse Testimony After Route to Police Headquarters
In Washington at Sixteenth and U Street Northwest a man and a young woman rode a horse and runabout. The woman claimed the rig, bailed, then drove off after dropping a handkerchief to lure the man from the vehicle. A man named William Bolden later appeared, saying he and a girl were in Rock Creek park when the horse bolted, throwing him. Police referred him to the property clerk at headquarters.
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Big
W. E. Holmes
Eighth Precinct
Sixteenth
U Streets
Holmes
Rock Creek Park
Omeer Holmes
William Bolden
R Street
Woman dives amid sharks off Key West feat by Pearl Bell
Special to The Washington Post from Mobile Alabama describes writer Mrs Pearl Doles Bell arriving from New York on the Nueces. In Key West on Wednesday she dived three feet into the open sea and confronted four shark schools, a feat reportedly unattempted by a woman. Bell is noted as an expert with rifle and shotgun.
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Washington Post
Mobile
Ala
Pearl Doles Bell
New York
Nueces
Key West
Holds Right of Way Debate Opens With Owens Views
Senator Owen leads today as Congress opens a currency bill debate amid plans to push antitrust and railroad legislation after the money measure. Presidents advisers expect a January currency decision, with a short three day public debate before a holiday recess.
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House
Senate
Congress
Washington
Wilson
Senat
Owen
Italian ambassador hosts Washington envoy dinner in Rome
Count Vincenzo Macchci di Cellere, newly named Italian ambassador to Washington, entertained the American ambassador and Mrs Thomas Nelson Page at a Rome dinner. Attendees included Foreign Minister Marquis di San Giuliano, with cable reporting from Milan. The Italian cruiser San Giorgio lies stranded on reefs near Santa Agatha at the Straits of Messina, with salvage doubts.
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Rome
Vincenzo Macchci di Cellere
Washington
Thomas Nelson Page
Marquis di San Guihano
Washington Fast
Milan
San Giorgio
Santa Agatha
Index to Today's Issue and Highlights
A scanned index lists varied items from foreigner-related Mexico City events to suffrage, bylaw debates, freight rates, and canal treaty notes. It cites Miss Wilson, Mrs Pankhurst, Huerta era mentions, and social, editorial, religious, and sporting items across sections.
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Mexico City
Marie Wood
Pankhurst
Forts
Grenfell
Washington Club
Holland
Nansery
News of
Son of Peer to Wed Actress Maggie Jarvis in Love Match
The Hon. Richard Brinsley Norton, son of Lord Grantley, is engaged to Miss Maggie Jarvis young actress in Manchester. Norton is 22 and part of George Edwardes' company, with the engagement announced in a London dispatch.
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Richard Brinsley Norton
Maggie Jarvis
Washington Post
London
George Edwardes
Manchester
Lord Grantley
Great rate case on Willard to lead fight
Daniel Willard head of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad leads a committee of eastern railroads to press a 5 percent freight rate increase before the Interstate Commerce Commission. Frederica A Delano of the Wabash and George Stuart Patterson of the Pennsylvania RR join in presenting the case. The hearing, likely months long, may be delayed by recent death and commission shifts as testimony and tariff legality are examined.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Missitcomn
Ohio
Potomac
Daniel Willard
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Eastern Railroads
Frederica A. Delano
Chicago
Wabash Railroad
Central Freight Association
Linea
George Stuart Patterson
Pennsylvania Railroad
John H. Marble
Clementa
Alabama
Charles A Prouty
Physical Valuation Bureau
Gerry on Road to Health After Appendectomy
New York November reports that Peter Goelet Gerry representative from Rhode Island was operated on for appendicitis at his father Elbridge Gerry's home on Sixty first Street. He rested well and recovery is expected. Gerry was stricken at Lake Delaware and telegraphed to New York. surgeons awaited his arrival.
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Congress
New York
Peter Goelet Gerry
Congres
Rhode Island
Elpridge T Gerry
Gerry
Lake Delaware
Garry
Advertising campaign eyed to boost Army arms recruits
Special Cable to The Washington Post from London reports Lord Northcliffe stated the government plans a publicity campaign to ease recruitment for arms and the army. The government intends to start this publicity drive to attract more volunteers and support for armed forces.
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Washington Pr
London
Navy
Lord Northcliffe
Ani
Atiut
View of Rich Gifts Final Rehearsal at East Room
A White House Sabbath program draws guests from all sections as Mr Sayre and Miss Wilson attend church services. Six policemen guard the crowd trying to reach them while the final rehearsal of the gifts display occurs in the East Room this afternoon.
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East Room
White House
Mr. Sayre
Mise Wilson
Globe
Jessie Woodrow Wilson
Francia B. Sayre
Wison
Washington Sociery
Coma
Central Congregational Church
Wilfred T Grenfell
Washington
Charles Henry Butler
G C. Thoras
C. E. Joson
Peter Tierney
Hilzabeth Howry
L. Borton Bangs
W. Benton Green
Ricketts
Annis Hartranft
Pennsylvania
Sayre
Shoreham
Bayre
Wilson
Jules Jo Jusserand
France
Corpa
M Jusaser
Arni
Maine
White House wedding plans for Jessie Wilson and Francis Sayre
Weather forecasts predict clear skies for the wedding day at the White House. Invitations and gifts multiply as guests arrive, with security tight and preparations underway in the East Room for the ceremony and rehearsals.
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Jessie Woodrow Wilson
Francis
Sayre
United States Weather
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