Moralities clash over skirt styles and urban growth
A fragmented column argues purist campaigns against slim skirts and sheer gowns spark prurient focus, urging sermons on impure thoughts over objects. It cites Chicago Tribune criticisms and notes the city’s alleged health edge versus rural districts, while touching on fur seal protections, a deep diving inventor, and assorted quirky odds and ends from politics to divorce humor.
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Philip
Chicago Tribune
Wilson Defines Anti Trust Plan For Congress
President Wilson and six Democratic House Judiciary Committee members defined goals for new anti trust legislation. Proposals include defining monopoly forms, shifting proof to defendants, banning interlocking directorates, and creating an interstate trade commission to regulate and assist courts. The panel will draft preliminary trust measures and seek further White House guidance before submitting them.
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Washington
Wilson
White House
House Judiciary Committee
Interstate Trade Commission
McHernolds
Newlands
Senate Interstate Commerce Commission
Redfield
Department of Commerce
Clayton
Joseph E. Davies
House
Bank Officials Indicted Over Kansas City Trust Failure
Indictments against ten former officials of the American Union Trust Company, which failed December 29, 1911, allege twenty six counts with twenty five for use of mails to defraud and one for conspiracy. Named are Henry W. Richardson, Thomas L. Matkins, A. R. Tuller, John W. Beery, J. Brainbridge Jones, George L. Davis, Ernest D. Martin, Judge Jobs W. Tompson, W. L. Moyer, all connected to the Kansas City institution. Bail set at 5000 for each defendant. The bank was never regarded as a substantial local financial entity.
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Kansas City
American Union Trust Company
Seattle
John W. Beery
Fuller
J. Rainbridge Jones
Hornellsville
George L. Davis
Ernest D. Martin
Jobs W. Tompson
Maryville
Nodaway County
W.L. Moyer
Chicago
Kansas City Charing House Association
Youth Admits Robbing Bank Near Primrose
Ned Hugh M Fins, aged, confessed to Sheriff Sutton of Greelay county that he robbed a bank near Primrose. He accused eight farmers living about miles from Primrose. The confession is reported as sad and the case remains under investigation.
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Alblon
Ned
Hugh M. Fins
Primrose
Sutton
Greelay County
Fis
Masked Robbers Hold Pool Hall, Take 3500 in Indianapolis
Three masked men robbed a pool hall in central Indianapolis District shortly after nightfall, holding up Edward Held and two employees. The bandits escaped with 3500 dollars and jewelry, leaving authorities seeking suspects.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Edward Held
Sea Fire Report a Fake in Trungwick Ga
Report of a fire aboard the Mallory line seamer Rio Grande arriving from New York proved fictitious. The captain said weather concerns caused no danger and the voyage continued without incident.
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Trungwick
Mallory
Rio Grande
Bes
New York
Ceptain
Desert Exodus Drives Refugees Into United States
A panicked desert trek near Ojinaga ends with thousands of Mexican refugees reaching Presidio Texas. The group, led by Huerta loyalists now fleeing Villa forces, crossed into the U.S. after enduring eight brutal days without adequate food or water. Reports also note atrocities by federal troops in Monterey and Hermosillo as Villa advances in Chihuahua.
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Ojinaga
United States
Presidio
Tex
Chihuahua City
de Olinaga
Chihuanua
Huerta
Mexico
Salvador Mercado
Pascual Orozco
Antonio Rojas
Marcelo Ceravo
Ynez Salazar
Francisco Villa
Fatal fall into pool at Elks Clubhouse Kansas City
Early morning accident at the Elks Clubhouse on Seventh Street and Grand Avenue left three dead after Curran a Santa Fe agent renting a room at Morris Kansas failed to see the pool in darkness and vaulted over the edge. Citizens relief committee in La Grange reports hundreds homeless and asks for aid while Texas flood victims receive War Department assistance through Brig. Gen. Huss.
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Kansas City
Elks
Seventh
Treet
Grand Avenue
Curran
Santa Fe
Morris
Kan
Citizens Relief Committee of
la Grange
Wex
Army
Washington
Texas
War Department
Huss
Weight limits raised for parcel post after January first
Postmaster General Burleson’s plan to boost parcel post limits to fifty pounds in first and second zones, admit books, and cut rates in zones three through six was approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission. Changes take effect January 1, 1814, outlining new tiered rates and pound charges.
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Washington, D
Burleson
Interstate Commerce Commis
Suffragists Turned Down By Wilson In Messages
President Wilson refused to send a special message or prompt Congress to vote for woman suffrage. He would not recommend creating committees to study the issue unless Congress itself asks. He cited private views as not guiding official action and stressed party unity and prior convention decisions. The suffragists departed hopeful he may aid their cause if opportunities arise.
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Washington
Wilson
Congress
House
Telegraphic Briefs from a Distant Era
Cin tunal schools ordered closed amid water famine caused by a burst supply pipe. Primrose bank robbed of 4000 by highwayman who forced cashier to surrender cash. Legislation on telegraph and telephone line ownership may appear in post office bill. Of 1.5 million stock in four wireless firms sold to the Public, only 250 thousand reached companies. 1.15 million paid as agents and promoters. Six killed and two injured in gelatine plant explosion at Gibbstown New Jersey. Sixteen miners die from smoke in a fire at a mine in Rydetk Prussia. fire extinguished. Bert Ramsey, wholesale liquor dealer of El Peso, killed in Topeka. his father and W. Ramsey account for the rest.
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Cin+tunal
Primrose
Neb
Hhis
Post Office
Rydetk
Prussia
Bert Ramecy
el Peso
Ean
Topeka
W. I. Ramsey
Severe Snowstorm Forces Denver Hotel and Office Closures
A major snowstorm paralyzed Denver and central Colorado with 45.5 inches of snowfall. Virtually martial law limited movement. coal shortages shuttered hotels and offices. Rail and power efforts lagged as rescuers searched for missing miners and stagecoach occupants amid eight-foot drifts and isolated tents in mining districts.
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Denver
Colorado
Weather Bureau
Canon City
Bouller
Buena Vista
Trinidad
The Flood Horror Grows in Texas
Houston reports flood deaths rise as waters recede and relief crews clear wires. Estimates range from two hundred to over one hundred deaths in Tryay bay and Fearne, with fifty drownings at Sanny Side on the Brazos. Twenty thousand become homeless as towns near the river are wrecked and many cling to trees or improvised rafts. A cold wave worsens the misery.
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Houston
Tex
Texas
Chamber of Commerce
Tryay Bay
St Fearne
Ove Hundred
Sanny Side
Brazos River
Leave U S to Join the Rebels in Mexico Flight Calls
Guibrie Oklahoma Mexican laborers in railroad construction leave the United States for Mexico answering Carranza and Villa. Enrique Yalaya says countrymen across the U S have been called home to join the rebel cause. Two Oklahoma children burned in a tire incident in Hugo.
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U. S
Guibrie, Ok
Mexico
Carranza and
Villa
Enrique Yalaya
United States
Trust fixes price of eggs and butter in midwest markets
A master in chancery report to the federal court accuses the Chicago Butter and Egg Board of monopoly power. It alleges a sinister Elgin Butter and Egg Board in league with Chicago traders fixes wholesale prices across Wisconsin Indiana Illinois North Dakota Nebraska Kansas Missouri and Iowa. The filing seeks dissolution of the Chicago body as restraint of trade under Sherman law.
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Chicago
Chicago, Hutter and Exe Board
A. B. Morrison
Kohlsust
Chicago Butter Ang Egz
Elgin Butter and Kee Board
Elgin
Wineis
Indiana
Wisconsin
North South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Missouri
Iowa
Bank Run Sparked by Rumor in Omaha Neb
An unfounded rumor of financial trouble led to a bank run at City National Bank in Omaha. Depositors flooded the tellers windows for about five hours, about $150000 was paid out, and officials noted an intoxicated depositor was denied currency the previous week.
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Omaha
Neb
City National Bank
Rotonda
Will Curb the Drug Habit in the United States
Washington reports more than a million drug users in the nation with a growing habit. Officials say a dormant Pure Food Law provision could authorize curbing narcotics as imports of drugs dangerous to public health are blocked. Doctors Arisvers and Kebler state internal doses of cocaine are rarely necessary.
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Washington
United States
Department of Agriculture
Arisvers
Bureau of Chemistry
Kebler
MINER'S ORGANIZER HELD IN WALSENBURG DISTRICT
Col Eugene McGraw international organizer of the United Mine Workers of America, who succeeded Adolph Germer as director of the strike in this district after Germer's arrest, is held under military guard in connection with the commission's probe of the killing of three miners and a chauffeur near La Veta last November. He has been in the district for weeks, having come from Pittsburgh, Kan.
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Walsenburg
Eugene McGraw
United Mine Workers of America
Adolph Germer
Wiltery Arres
Military Commission
la Veta
McGraw
Pitteburs
Kan
Big Colorado cattle loss in snowstorm drives rural distress
In Colorado a severe snowstorm forces farmers and stockmen to trek to towns on skis and snowshoes. Thousands of cattle lack food for days, reducing condition and prompting widespread inquiry into relief needs.
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Denver
Col
Edward Onbots Indicted in Chicago Theft Case
A federal grand jury charged Edward Onbots, a 1 year old clerk in the post office, with theft of a dime from a money box. The indictment outlines a single count of larceny as alleged by the United States. The case proceeds in federal court in Chicago.
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Chicago
Edward Onbots
Eteral Geaiis
Intier
Joy Riders Shoot Detroit Officer in Stolen Car
Patrolman Thomas Madden was shot and killed while attempting to question two joy riders in a stolen motor car. the assailants fled, and the abandoned vehicle was found blocks from the scene amid New Lands for Homesteaders news. Washington officials designate 1,750,000 acres in western cities as suitable for entry under enlarged Homestead Act.
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Joy Riders
Detroit
Mich
Thomas
Madden
Foy
Washington, D. C
Lene Bss
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