New York Seamen Riots Graft Fight Salvation Navy Voyage
Riots and police clashes erupt as thousands of seamen and sympathizers mobilize along the New York docks amid the international seamen strike. Gambler leaders meet to push race track gambling changes while the Salvation Army launches its Salvation Navy cruiser to evangelize coastal ports. Father McGean, a fire department chaplain, volunteers amid dangerous duty at the Brooklyn East Side fire districts.
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New York
New Salvation Navy
Salvation Army
Atlantic
Father McGean
Lower East Side
Father McGeen
South Seeks Uncle Sam Aid in Irrigation Push
Chicago June 26 Guy L Setwart irrigation official urges national action to reclaim swamp and overflowed lands in the south. He cites Arkansas Texas rice and Louisiana reclamation as proof of the south’s agricultural promise and calls for government help to provide water management and settlement for homes and crops. He pledges southern cooperation.
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Chicago
Sam
South
Guy L. Setwart
St. Louis Southwestern Railway
James Wilson
National Irrigation Congress
Stewart
Arkansas
Texas
Louisiana
Dixie
Uncle Sam
West
Congress
Irrigation Congress
South Atlantic Tennis Tourney Opens in Augusta
Augusta Ga June 26 auspicious conditions opened the annual tennis tournament for the South Atlantic States championships. Contests are set on the Country Club courts and will continue through much of the week. Many of the souths top racquet wielders are among the entrants.
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Augusta
Health and Beauty Promised by Electric Bitters
An advertisement hails Electric Bitters as a cure for health, beauty, and nerves, claiming benefits for stomach liver and kidneys and a clear complexion. It lists W J Smith Bro and H R Palmer Sons as distributors and promotes the product amid broader urban scenes of danger and a dramatic steeplejack painting a flagpole above Madison Square.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. J Smith & Bro
H. R. Palmer & Sons
Royal Week Ahead in London Amid Windsor Departure
King George and Queen Mary return from Portsmouth to a packed social calendar with events at Covent Garden Buckingham Palace and His Majesty's Theatre plus a royal visit to the Royal Agricultural Show and a procession in London. An advertisement offers Dr Leonhardt's Hem Roid tablets with a 24 day treatment and price of 1.50 in Buffalo New York for hemorrhoid relief.
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London
George
Mary
Pourtsmouth
Covent Garden Opera House
Buckingham Palace
His Majesty's Theater
St. Paul's
Guildhall
Crystal Palace
H. R. Palmer & Sons
Station
Buffalo, N. Y
Passing of Historic Boston Edifice
The old Boston courthouse sold at public auction as part of to be torn down for a new building. Erected in 1837 on the site of an earlier court house where Captain Kidd was held, the structure hosted famed trials including John White Webster for Dr. George Parkman’s murder and Jesse Pomeroy for murdering children.
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Boston
Mass
Rufus Choate
Benjamin F. Butler
Captain Kidd
John White Webster
George Parkman
Jesse Pomeroy
Little Childen
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Ted
Agen Standard Oil Company (Incorporated
Salvation Navy
Salvation Ship
Monte Carlo
Gittins
Tammany
Empire State
Citizens Bank & Trust Co
Vanderleith Building
College Avenue
South Atlantic
Madison Square
John L. Arnold
Cor
Clayton and
Jackson Sts
Windsor
Foley
Fon Backsane
Wrightsville Beach
Seaboard
Athens
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