World and National News Highlights from J Week
The House voted to raise vice president speaker and cabinet pay to 12000 while denying congressmen a raise. Roosevelt dropped simplified spelling in official duties amid House opposition and rescinded a public printer order. He sent a Porto Rico message urging citizenship for islanders and native troops, praised Governor Winthrop, and urged harbor dredging for San Juan. Senate confirmed Moody as associate justice, Bonaparte as attorney general, Metcalf as secretary of the navy, and Straus as secretary of commerce. Burrows urged Reed Smoot’s unseating as a protest against a treasonous organization. Taft warned of army funding troubles and declining recruitment. House approved a resolution opposing simplified spelling in congressional documents. Dubois accused Roosevelt of aiding the Mormon hierarchy in Idaho by sending Taft to speak there.
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Roosevelt
House
Congress
Porto Rico
Winthrop
San Juan Harbor
Senate
William H. Moody
Massachusetts
Supreme Court of the United States
Charles J. Bonaparte
Maryland
Victor H. Metcalf
California
Navy
Oscar B. Straus
New York
Commerce
Burrows
Reed Smoot
Taft
War Department
United States
Dubois
Idaho
Andrew Carnegie
Guthrie
Pittsburg
Carnegie Institute
Richard
Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Leopold
Congo
Standard Oil Company
William A. Herron
Peoria Savings Bank
Interstate Commerce Commission
Western
Northwestern Railways
Cardinal Gibbons
America
France
Majestic Theater
Chicago
National Civic Federation
Melville Heingalls
W. K. Vanderbilt
Lake Success
Long Island
Oscar
Sweden
Stockholm
Reichstag
London
House of Commons
Charles H. Mears & Co
Wisconsin State Senate
Wisconsin
Brazil
Para
Father C. & Quinn
St. Agnes Church
Atlantic Highlands
N. J
Bridget Kiley
St. Agnes
Transvaal
William L. Brown
New York Daily News
Great Barrington
Mass
United States Steel Corporation
Gary
Ind
Rayner
San Francisco
Gilbert Meeks
Nichols
Lord Curzon
Kedleston
India
Curgon
Earl of Suffolk
Thousands rally outside Vatican foes in Rome riots
A broad sweep of unrest across Europe is reported as thousands gather at the French embassy in Rome to applaud France’s church move, while Paris stays quiet and provinces see disturbances.
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Vatican
Rome
France
Paris
Murray
Russian Poland
Dix
Seattle
Percy A. Lermond
Victoria
B. C
China
Frank Coonrad
Burlington
Z. L. Tanner
Washington
Alexander Greger
Rio de Janeiro
Rodellee du Porzies
Portland
Ore
Nation
Mary Neenan
New Kensington
James J. Lemon
Elmer Kuhn
Albert Romig
International Bank
Petersburg
Russia
Samuel Dodd
International Silver Company
Meriden
Conn
Wareham
Fies
George Burnham, Jr
Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company
New York
Iowa News Roundup Highlights Multiple Local Scandals
Sheriff's joint pursuit leads to the arrest of George Retman in Dubuque for a horse and buggy theft a year prior. Reports detail injuries fatal fires and lawsuits across towns including Waterloo Newton Monroe Muscatine and Dubuque with deaths births and scandals involving prominent residents and public figures.
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Sherif Dunn
Dubuque
Redfield
George Retman Retman
Trexler Brothers
Miles
Retman
F. D. Clark
Presbyterian Hospital
Waterloo
Nauman
Henry C. Lowery
Lowery
Nevada Mutual Telephone Company
Nevada
Preston
Newton
James Hart
Monroe
Oscar Armintraut
Centerville
Dan Watts
Eldon
Des Moines
John Holsten
Bessie
Holsten
Fort Madison
Keithspurg
Muscatine
Howard Wittell
Des Moines Newspay
Frank Brothers
Rothers
Brothers
First
Walnut
Younz jWitter
Mercy Hospital
W. W. Wohler
Sheldon
Walnut-Elk Town
John Peterson
Elkhorn
Atlantic
Kimbleton
Frisco CASI Seeks Federal Restraint Over Board Order
In San Francisco on December 16 the U S attorney moved to restrain the Board of Education from enforcing its order to segregate Japanese pupils. Assistant Attorney James Reynolds arrived to coordinate with U S Attorney Devlin and report to the attorney general. An injunction in federal court is anticipated to halt the segregation action.
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United States
Board of Education
San Francisco
Cal
Goernment
Federal Districttorney
Board Education
United Courts
Board of
E Tion
Ental
James Melnolds
Washington
Ued
Devlin
Wattington
Wastington
Bcal
European Powers See War Possibility With United States and Japan
Berlin reports rising interest in a potential U S Japan war as Emperor William discusses the topic with several confidants. Russian diplomacy is pressured over trade and colonists rights on Amur and Siberia while German officers debate the risk of conflict and Japan’s likely seizure of the Philippines.
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Berlin
United States
Japan
William
Roosevelt
Peral
Russia
Amur
Siberia
California
Jaq
Philippine Islands
Pacific
Religious Unrest in France Amid New Law on Sunday
On December 17 Paris saw limited clashes as churches opened under the church state separation law. Many services were calm with larger congregations. some rowdies interrupted, were arrested, and police intervened in Perpignan and Angers where Catholics and freethinkers clashed. Meaux's bishop suffered a nervous shock but recovered. In Boone, William Coleman was fined 350 dollars for involvement in a watermoton incident and shooting three boys.
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France
Paris
Sey Yentles
Perpignan
Amdens
Bop de Briy
Meaux
Boone
Wiliam Coleman
Prager
Monument proposal to honor Francis Scott Key with $25 000 gift
Baltimore on December 16 reports a proposal to erect a monument for Francis Scott Key the Star Spangled Banner composer. Charles L Marburg offers $25 000 if the city provides a suitable site. Marburg a Baltimore native previously ran a business here.
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Francis 8. Key
Baltimore
Francis Scott Key
Charles L. Marburg
Marburg
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