Notable Pilgrim Descendants Attend Willard Banquet With Taft
A Willard Hotel banquet honors Pilgrim Forefathers with speakers including Francis J Cooke descendant and Rev Frank J Good. President Taft attended among a diverse guest list featuring former Supreme Court Justice Brown and Ulysses G B Pierce. The event highlighted colonial heritage as notable guests and officials mingled, while a Sloan Galleries sale opened with lot 1 at 3 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice Brown
Supreme Court
Ulysses G B. Pierce
Sanchez Latour
Frank J. Goodwin
New Willard Hotel
Taft Bars Visitors as Commission Studies Railroads
President Taft labors over an upcoming annual message in his White House study with Norton and other aides. He summoned the stock and bond commission to report on railroad capitalization, aims to inform a comprehensive, longer message to Congress while addressing tariff and party reorganization issues. The article notes expected delays before a final report and mentions Congressional apportionment debates.
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Taft
Norton
Congress
Stock and Bond Commission
Senate
Hadlet
Yate
White House
Ma Taft
Wall
Gome
Republican Party
Republican National Campager Committee
House of Representatives
Woolen dealer linked to big customs fraud case
Clarence A Walters, a British subject and partner of John F Briggs & Bons woolen importers, was arrested in New York on a Customs fraud complaint. He allegedly entered woolen cloth at less than true value in January 1910. He is held on $10,000 bail. frauds said to total about $100,000.
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New York
Washington Post
Clarence A. Walters
John F. Briggs & Bons
Bradford
England
United Btsteq
Leas
Walters
Shields
Platt
Thieves Strike Twice at Col umbus Home in Broad Daylight
A.C. Columbus, a paperhanger on Eleventh Street NW, plans to move after a violent burglary that injured his wife Mrs. Columbus. The pair accuse Second Precinct police of inaction after a masked negro burglar invaded their home twice in two weeks, first at night November 15 and again last Saturday, stealing $24 from Mrs Columbus and terrorizing the household as they prepared to leave the residence.
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Columbus
Eleventh Street
Columbus House
Thea
Broah
Husband Denounces Police After Burglar Incident
In a heated dispute the husband alleges police bullied his wife and did not credit her account of the burglary. He says officers implied she lost the money and feared telling him, stressing that their treatment was unjust despite their poverty.
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Columbus
Three Die in Canton Crossing Train Collision
Three persons were killed and two injured when a Wheeling and Lake Erie train struck a crowded surrey at Maple Avenue crossing in Canton Ohio on November 29. Dead are Mrs Joseph Meyers Morris Ress 24 and Jacob Ress 16. Injured include Miss Fannie Meyers with a broken leg and internal injuries and William Lavin 12 with a scalp wound possibly a fractured skull. The couple Morris Ress and Miss Meyers were to marry January 1. The surrey had no gates or watchman. The accident scattered unconscious victims along the right of way. The two lovers were found near each other and were carried away in the same ambulance.
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Canton
Ohio
Wheeling
Lake Orie
Surrey
Maple Avenue
Joseph Meyers
Morria Ress
Jacob Ress
Fannie Meyers
William Lavin
Miss Meyers
Morris Ross
North Canton
Ress
Lodge seeks Taft's advice before Cape Cod tour
The Washington Post reports Senator Henry Cabot Lodge plans to leave Boston for New York to speak at a Mark Twain memorial meeting and then to Washington to confer with President Taft. Governor-elect Eugene N. Foss opposes Lodge and Lodge will refrain from commenting on Foss's campaign until after talks.
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Washington Post
Boston
Eugene N .Fons
Cape Cod
Henry Cabot Lodge
New York
Mark Twain
Washington
Lodge
Both Killed in Fight at Forty-Second Street Duel
In Philadelphia a pistol duel at Forty-second and Pine streets left Policeman Bornett fatally wounded in the spine and a burglar suspect dead. Bornett, off duty in civilian clothes, pursued one of two men. when questioned, the suspect fired, wounding the officer who fired back and struck the assailant, who died at the scene. The burglar’s companion fled. Bornett was rushed to University Hospital.
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Philadelphia
Forty-second
Pine Streets
Bornett
University Hospital
Watth
Fortleth
Boston
Sale Of Her Kisses Legal In Harlem Court
New York November report of Julia Woods arraigned after offering to sell kisses for five dollars at a restaurant on 125th Street and Eighth Avenue. A man paid for a kiss, another followed suit. When demand for refund arose, magistrate Corrigan discharged Woods and ordered the money returned.
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New York
Julia Woods
Harlem
Leroy Platt
125Th Street
Eighth Avenue
Julia
Platt
Miss Julia
Corrigan
Har Mon says Drexel ascent may top Johnstone record
New York officials report the barograph carried by J Armstrong Drexel in his Philadelphia altitude flight shows Ralph Johnstone’s 9,714 foot mark may still be the top. Initial readings listed 5,977 feet before the instrument was sent for testing. makers later quoted 9,460 feet, with belief Drexel may have exceeded that height.
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New York
Clifford B. Harmon
National Council of the Aero Club of America
J. Armstrong Drexel
Philadelphia
Ralph Johnstone
Belmont Park
Drexel
Rheumatism Cure Explosion Harms Man In Pittsburg
James Falsgiver, 47, sat by a grate rubbing an alleged turpentine when gasoline misused as remedy exploded. He was hurled from his chair and severely burned, the house caught fire, firefighters put out the blaze, and he was rushed to hospital.
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Pittsburg
James Fala- Siver
Falsgiver
Mutiny on Clan Maclean Ends With Revolver Threats
On the British freighter Clan Maclean off New York, Spaniards and Lascars mutinied twice as the ship neared the breakwater. Led by Garcia, they refused to work, shouted promises of revolution, and fired warnings shots. Officers repelled the mutineers, confining them between decks, while Captain Williams sought British consular aid to decide their fate.
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New York
Washington Post
Clan Maclean
Taberty
Weasel
Colombo
Oetober & Shetas
Garcia
Alexander Wiliams
Waterhouse
Kerr
America
Williams
Thioker
Baby tied to horse dies in Stroudsburg road tragedy
In Stroudsburg Pennsylvania on a rocky road a 5-year-old girl Lulu M Nash died after a farm horse dragged her a quarter mile when she slipped from the animal. Her mother Nellis Nash of Wilkes-Barre rode another horse in pursuit but could not save her child as the horse's hooves struck the head and body.
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Stroudsburg
Lulu M. Nash
Nellis Nash
Wilkes-Barre
French Defeated by Tribesmen in Melilla Territory
Captain general of Melilla reports a serious reverse for a French detachment in Mulaye territory. Tribesmen surprised and attacked the force, killing all officers and a number of men. The incident was reported from Madrid dated November 2.
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Madrid
Melilla
Rebels Gain Men Loyalists Near Chihuahua Invasion
Government troops return to Chihuahua after Sunday fighting. 2,000 reinforcements expected to reopen the Mexico and Northwestern Railroad. Insurgents, reinforced by Parral bands, number about 1,000 and fortify positions as fighting looms. Mexico City reports martial law in Yucatan and heavy censorship as Diaz readies inauguration. Madero reportedly gathering recruits in the Laguna district near Lerdo and Parral.
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Diaz
Yucatan
Chihuahua
Mexico
Mexico and Northwestern
Parral
Navarro
Minara
Wiles
Fresno
Mexico City
Texcoco
Moxico City
Fernando Gomez
State of Mexico
Tlaxcala
United States
Corral
Saye
Ramon Corral
Alameda
Madero
Index to Today's Issue Pilgrims and Parleys on Page One
President Jos Pilgrims and Mr Taft Bars Visitors open the page. Family routed by thieves reported. J H W not alarmed. both killed in fight. Mexican rebels mobilize. Mutiny on shipboard. King disasters parliament. Old robberies cleared up. Millions for waterways. Elks open festival. Lawmakers arriving daily. Wrecked ship a vast aviary. News of nearby states. Sugar trust suit begun. Supreme Court decision R Spreckels. Graft fighter hero. Women still feminine artist says. Attractions at theaters. Editorial. Society sporting events. Use of rod in schools opposed. militant suffragettes upheld. News of Alexandria. Financial grief kills "Big Byli."
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Jos
Taft
Supreme Court
R. Spreckels
News of Alexandria
Business leaders dispute Hill pessimism in 1911 outlook
In contrasting views from New York and Philadelphia, Standard Oil director Eb Bedford rejects James J Hill’s gloom, predicting a slow healthy recovery with stronger confidence by spring. Penn Railroad’s James Metcalfe McCrea says business is marking time, while Taft-era caution prevails about near-term prosperity.
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Standard Oil Company
Pennsylvania
Financial District
James J. Hill
Great Northern Railroad
E T Bedford
Hill
Mr Hill
McCrea
Philadelphia
James Metres
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York
Lew
James J Hills
Pegnlent Taft
Bheing
Barr
Guard Against Women Threats Shield Churchill Baby
Special cable from London reports suffragette threats prompting police protection for cabinet ministers and even their families. Churchill’s four month old Diana was guarded by a detective during a Berambu outing amid fears of kidnapping.
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Washington
London
Diana
Winston
Inner door of safe loaded in Pittsburg burglary
C E Hayden, expert in safe work, blew against a loaded inner door while attempting to open a safe burglars had used earlier. Nitroglycerin in the cavity exploded, throwing him against the wall as the outer door of the safe was blown away. Hayden did not know the inner door was loaded.
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Shea
Pittsburg
C. E. Hayden
Hayden
Dissolution by King Dominates Ulster War Message
The king dissolves parliament as party lines fortify opposition to home rule. Ulster delegates pledge 50 000 for regiments and arms, a monster unionist rally fills Ulster Hall, and figures including Sir Edward Carson and Walter Hume Long warn of anti rule resistance amid talks on reform of the upper chamber.
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John Burns
Ireland
Ulster
Belfast
Dublin
Ulster Hall
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