Women oppose bill for school voting rights in Indiana
Several hundred women from across Indiana plan to attend the Senate Judiciary Committee meeting to defeat Senator Stotsenburgs bill granting women the right to vote in school elections and to hold school board and trustee posts. The groups include the Woman's Franchise League, the WCTU, and the State Federation of Womens Clubs.
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Indianapolis
Judiciary Committee
Senate
Stotsenburg
Woman's Franchise League
State Federation of Women's Clubs
Woman’s Franchise League
O’neill
Indiana Retail Merchants' Association selects 1914 Fort Wayne meet leaders
Terre Haute chosen as 1914 meeting city at the final session of the Indiana Retail Merchants' Association convention in Fort Wayne. Officers elected for the year include President Ralph B. Clark of Anderson, Vice-President Otto C. Hornung of Terre Haute, Secretary P. F. Palfrey of Vincennes, and Treasurer Edward Guildsberry of Lafayette. Resolutions oppose an eight-hour day for women and back the business form of government and advertiser accountability for all statements in ads.
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Terre Haute
Indiana Retail Merchants’ Association
Fort Wayne
Ralph B. Clark
Anderson
Otto C. Hornung
P. F. Palfrey
Vincennes
Edward Guildsberry
Lafayette
Indiana bill aims to curb foreign exchange businesses
A measure to be introduced in the Indiana legislature would regulate foreign exchanges of money. Senator Gavit is asked to present the bill which would impose security guarantees on foreign exchange firms and effectively eliminate barrel house banks. The proposal, prompted by complaints of bezzlement, would require deposits guarantees for foreigners sending money home.
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Senate
R. E. Ayres
St. Paul
State Board of Health
Mr. Ayres
W. F. King
Indiana
Gavit
Turko Bulgarian peace talks break off amid Turkish turmoil
The Balkan representatives at the peace conference decide to end negotiations over the Turko Bulgarian war, risking a resumption of hostilities. In Istanbul Nazim Pasha is killed during protests, Enver Bey and Talaat Bey implicated. a Turkish cabinet reshuffle orders delegates recalled, and foreign warships head to Turkish waters.
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Nazim Pasha
London
Constantinople
Vienna
St. Petersburg
Enver Bey
Talaat Bey
Nazim
Mediterranean
Roosevelt Admits Steel Pool In Government Suit
William Ellis Corey testifies in the U S Steel case that the company maintained a price controlling pool in the United States and Europe. Theodore Roosevelt would have approved the Tennessee Coal and Iron merger, he says, and the witness notes he was responding to a market panic during the period. The hearing resumes as Roosevelt is questioned about past testimony and relations with Frick and Gary.
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New York
William Ellis Corey
United States Steel Corporation
Henry E. Brown
Department of Justice
Europe
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company
Theodore Roosevelt
Steel Trust
Jacob
Stanley.committee
Messrs
Frick and
Gary
Moros Slay U S Soldiers in Philippine Conflict
A wireless report from Zamboanga confirms the death of Capt. Patrick McNally and six Philippine scouts, and the wounding of 21 others, in a January 23 engagement at Tagutsi between Moros and the Philippine Constabulary. Lieutenant Townshend and Lieutenants Whitney of the scouts and constabulary were among the wounded.
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Manila
Zamboanga
Patrick McNally
Philippine Scouts
Pershing
Tagutsi
Moron
Philippine Constabulary
Patrick “McNally
William
Townsend
Whitney
Constab
Rockefeller Jr Explains Origin and Plans of Social Hygiene Bureau
John D Rockefeller Jr outlines the creation two years ago of the Bureau of Social Hygiene, its private, long term aim to study vice conditions, establish a laboratory at Bedford Hills, and survey New York and Europe to devise humane, scientific reforms. The effort seeks durable, non sensational action against crime and vice.
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New York
Bureau of Social Hygiene
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
New York City
Rockefeller
Katharine Bement Davis
New York State
Bedford Hills
Reformatory
Davis
George J. Kneeland
Abraham Flexner
Europe
American
Mr.Rockefeller
Bureau
Taft Defends Arbitration of Panama Canal Dispute
President Taft addressed the Merchants and Manufacturers' association banquet in Baltimore on January 28 defending the administration's stance in the Panama canal issue. He argued the position is not unpatriotic or dishonorable and that arbitration by an impartial tribunal could resolve differences over transport rates between coasts.
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Baltimore
Taft
Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association
Panama Canal
England
Mount Colima Eruption Kills Hundreds and Impacts Wide Area
Reports from Mexico City on January 23 describe Mount Colima in Jalisco spewing gases that killed thousands of cattle and hit villages within 25 miles, with dust reaching Guadalajara a hundred miles away. Other items include a prairie fire wiping Fort Saskatchewan’s business section, Col Harland Davidson’s death in Avon Park, Senator Webb’s election, and McKinney school closures after the Mississippi Dry Goods Co. disaster.
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Mexico City
Mount Colima
Jalisco
Zapotlan
Zapotilic
Tuxnam
Guadalajara
Edmonton
Alberta
Fort Saskatchewan
Jacksonville
Fla
Harland Davidson
Highland Park
Avon Park
Nashville
Tenn
W. R. Webb
Bellbuckle
United States
NM. T. Bryan
McKinney
Tex
Mississippi Dry Goods Co
Hill outlines directorships and stock holdings in banks and railroads
James J. Hill testifies before the house money trust committee detailing his governance roles in New York and Chicago banks and in the Great Northern and Burlington railroads. He notes stock changes since the Northern Securities dissolution, and opposes cumulative voting for minority stockholders to avoid potential disclosure risks.
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Washington
Joe
James J. Hill
House Money Trust Committee
Lst
New York
Chicago
Great Northern
Burlington
Hill
Pene Deena
Petitors
Northern Securities Company
Northern Pacific
Great . Northern
Louis W. Hill
First National Bank of
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Fb Mae
Fairbanks
Young Men’s Christian Association
Charles W. Fairbanks
B. Stacy
Mr. Fairbanks
Ralston
Frank Ball
Muncie
Grace Julian Clarke
Felix T. Mee- Whirter
Dowling
Anderson Man
Paul Armstrong
Annapolis
Balkan
U. S
MOROS
Hurt Inkl Cc
Elevated
Doan
Iowa
J. Hunt
6Th St
Fairfield
Foster-Milburn CO
Buffalo
Resinol Chemical Co
Prince
Fuver
Ade Pat
Gscent
Dr.LeercMed. Co
Haverstock Rd
Hampstead
Fullerton Bidg
St. Louis
Pettit
de. Swift
Piso S
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