Amundsen Denies Telegraphing on Pole Claim
Hobart, March 8. Captain Roald Amundsen denies telegraphing about Captain Scott or asserting that Scott reached the pole. He claims to have reached the pole on December 14, 1911 and remains silent on further details while planning lectures in Australia and travel through Europe.
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Hobart
Tasmania
Roald Amundsen
Robert Scott
South Pole
Daily Express
London
Wellington
New Zealand
Amundsen
Scott
Gerlach
Northwest Passage
Christiania
Gro
Lancaster Sound
Cape Adelaide
King Williams Land
Ross Straits
Cape Bathurst
Bering Strait
Normandy
Fram
Arctic
Fridtjof Nansen
Arctic Ocean
Buenos Ayres
Royal Geographical Society
Goar
Captain Scott
London Daily Express
London Evening Star
Wobart
Modern Club Described as Home Despoiler by Canton Priest
Catholic priest Father Kleckamp of St. Peter's in Canton Ohio denounced the modern club as harmful to home life telling Knights of Columbus members that clubs lure youth away from家庭 and threaten the home. He urged a return to home life and to God’s house, calling the home the grandest and sweetest.
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Canton
Ohio
God's Club
Father Kleckamp
St. Peter's Catholic Church
Knights of Columbus
Kieekamp
Coal Strike Sentiment Spreads Through Silesian Fields
Berlin March The strike fever has spread through the Silesian coal fields in eastern Prussia where the social the Christian and the Polish Miners unions representing all organized miners today presented to the employes a demand for a fifteen per cent increase in wages. The government is endeavoring to find a basis for settlement of the difficulty in the Westphalian coal fields, but it is very doubtful whether efforts will be successful.
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Berlin
March
Prussia
Amundsen to Submit Chart and Plans for Voyage
London dispatches report Captain Amundsen will submit his chart and expedition details from Hobart within days. He plans to sail to Buenos Ayres then Cape Horn, San Francisco, and the Bering Straits, drifting toward the Arctic to emerge near Greenland or Spitzbergen.
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Hobart
Tasmania
London
Roald Amundsen
Wellington
New Zealand
Captain Scott
Bay of Whales
Amundsen
Buenos Ayres
Cape Horn
San Francisco
Bering Straights
Arctic Ocean
Greenland
Spitzbergen
Scott
Fatalities In Train Wrecks At Least Four Die In Social Circle Crash
Social Circle Georgia March 8 Four persons killed and nine injured in a head on collision between passenger train No 4 from Atlanta and a freight train three miles from Social Circle at 2 15 this morning The deceased were Black. victims pinned beneath the collapsed negro coach. Locomotives demolished but first class coach and Pullman stayed upright. Some sleeping passengers shaken but not further harmed. Five killed in Canadian wreck Ottawa March 8 Five persons die and several injured on the Pontiac line of Canadian Pacific west of Hull Quebec. Fatal derailment of Wabash train Nanville Illinois March 7 Five die and about sixty injured as the Continental Limited derailed near West Lebanon Indiana all cars off rails with many in wreckage.
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Social Circle
Georgia Railroad
Atlanta
Here
Ottawa
Ont
Pontiac
Canadian Pacific Railroad
Hull
Que
Nanville
Redwood Bridge
West Lebanon
Ind
Attempt to kill Mr. de Rothschild in London
An assailant fired at Leopold de Rothschild as he entered an automobile outside a London bank in St Swtihia. The shot missed. the attacker was arrested amid reports he is an alleged asylum patient.
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MR. DE Rothschild
Leopold de Rothschild
Rothschild
St. Swtthia
London
Rothschid
Mann
Small Loss in World's Wheat Crop
Washington reports preliminary estimates from the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome. Argentina and Chile produced more wheat than last year, while Australia and New Zealand produced less. When combined with the northern hemisphere output for 1911, world wheat production totals 3,445,316,619 bushels, about 99.5 percent of 1910. The winter cereal crop in the northern hemisphere remains in good condition.
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Washington
International Institute of Agriculture
Rome
Department of Agriculture
Argentina
Chile
Australia
New Zealand
Derailment Near Penn and Decatur Leaves Cars in Creek
A broken rail caused a train derailment at the end of a bridge. Two cars rolled into a creek while the locomotive stayed upright. Word was sent to division headquarters at Penn, Indiana, and Decatur, Illinois. Delays followed as wires were torn down by the overturned coaches.
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Penn
Ind
Decatur
Wife in custody after fatal shooting tale in bed
Mrs Eugene Grace is held without bail amid conflicting charges over a husband’s shooting death in Adgatta Georgia. Grace claims innocence while investigators pursue theories including an accidental discharge during dreaming. The injured Eugene Heset remains critically wounded as authorities recover insurance policies.
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Adjatta
Eugene Heset
Grace
Emphatic Denial From Mexico City Sparks Tension
A denial from Manuel Calero for foreign affairs asserts Americans and other foreigners would be hostages if a foreign force invaded Mexico. Miss S. P. Cheek is reported safe in Durango. General Leonard Wood denied orders for more regiments to the border. The Iowa State Association of Assistant Postmasters set to meet in Cedar Rapids to choose the next assembly dates and site, with Waterloo’s Dr. N LaBarre present. The J B Brunner home at 112 Harrison Street sold to Robert Smith, who takes possession April 1.
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Washingon
Wilson
Mexico City
Manuel Calero
Mexico
S. P. Cheek
Durango
Leonard Wood
State Association of Assistant Postmasters
Cedar Rapids
N. LaBarre
Waterloo
New Moines
Iowa
J.B. Brunner
Harrison. Sree
James Gardiner Company
Robert Smith
inolstCentral
President on Peaking Tour with Ohio Campaign
President Taft tours Ohio, meeting leaders Laylin and Miller as crowds gather in Salem and Alliance. A first rear platform speech at Alliance draws about 1,200 supporters amid factory closures and flag-waving girls. Arbitration debate looms as Senate action signals dead issues for future sessions, with amendments to Franco-British treaties unlikely to win approval.
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Albanes, O
Marvh &T
Talt Bean
Ohio
Tinois
Helony
L. O. Laaylin
Win
WW. Miller
Laylin
Oho
Salem
Alliance
Washington
March
Congress
Senate
Franca
Great Britain
Taft
White House
State Department
Knox
Amapala
Honduras
Jess
Roosevelt
Joseph M. Dixon
Col. Roosevelt
Dixon
Co. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
New York
Packers Geek Court Ruling Expected Next Monday
Attorney Levy Marer argued to remove the Packers case from a jury and seek the defendants’ discharge. He said no conviction can rest on mere suspicion and the government must prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt.
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Chicago
Levy Marer
Attorney Marer
Government Crop Report Highlights Wheat and Corn Shipments
Washington reports the agriculture department March crop estimate shows wheat on farms 192,025.06 bushels 19.8 percent of total. corn 84,069,000 bushels 84.9 percent. oats 289,983,000 bushels 31.4 percent. Figures note county shipments and merchantable portions. Mrs H W Brows recovering from nervous breakdown at her Fourth Street East home with sisters J B McGrew and W B Nichols by her side.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Wn Farms
Matsim Farms
Labout
H. W. Brows
Fourth Street East
J. B. McGrew
Lincoln, Neb
W. B. Nichols
Chicago
Elias Skinner
Imprisoned Miners Safe After Diamond Vale Mining Incident
Merritt B C March miners imprisoned yesterday by a gas explosion in the Diamond Vale mine near here are known to be safe. Rescuers hope to reach them soon as they were in another level from the blast.
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Merritt
B. C
Eateven Miers
Diamond Vale
Girl Fibs About Age Cost Bank Voucher Usual Cards
Chicago women Miss Caroline Davis aged about twenty two cannot withdraw a bank deposit after misrepresenting her age at Northern Trust. She lost her passbook and cannot identify herself, causing a bank inquiry and cautious handling by officials. The case centers on age doubt and access to funds.
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Chicago
March
Caroline Davis
Park Avenue
Paducah
Northern Trust Company
Wiss Davies
Caroline Davies
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