Imperial Russia visits France and Britain in grand pageantry
August 1 Cherchouts Afloat at Cowes Russian Emperor Nicholas attends services aboard Standart and lunches with President Fallieres on Verite. The visit cements Franco Russian alliance amid talk of closer ties with Britain. Royal festivities surround the Standart voyage and fleet review.
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Cherchouts
Emperor Nicholas
France
Standart
Fallieres
Verite
Nicholas
Cowes
King Edward
President Fallieres
Paris
Presidant Fallieres
Edward
Cunar
Igle
Whelt
Great Britain
Balmoral
Alexander
England
Russia
Kaward
Alerandra
Prince of Wales
Canoe Capsizes. Man Drowns in Ohio River Rescue
In Louisville on August 1, George Ratterman drowned after his canoe capsized while he and his sons attempted to rescue Dr Beuchel and his elder son who had been thrown into the water. The family watched in distress as signals went unheard and the incident ended in tragedy. The drowned man was a prosperous merchant.
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Louisville
Reudel
George Ratterman
Ohio River
Beuchel
Ratterman
Two Boys Drown in St. Marys River at Kingsland
In Kingsland Georgia on August 1 two fifteen year old white boys Isaac Carlton and Roy Haddock drowned while swimming with several companions at a river point seven miles from town. They were seen struggling together and one may have been trying to save the other before the bodies were recovered.
Sailor Influx Closes Provincetown Streets on Sunday
Provincetown Mass faced a crowd of about 4500 sailors from the Atlantic fleet and Sunday excursionists packing its narrow sandy streets. The fleet departs for Hampton Roads next Wednesday after a week of liberty, with naval militia from Massachusetts and Maine moving off ships as brigades from Pennsylvania New Jersey and DC arrive for duty aboard battleships. The fleet will proceed to practice grounds.
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Provicetown
Mass
Provincetown
Atlantic Fleet
Hampton
District of Columbia
No Game in Pulliam's Honor In American Association
Milwaukee August 1 in the order of President O Brien the Minneapolis Louisville game scheduled in Louisville tomorrow will be postponed due to the funeral of Harry Pulliam. The other times on the circuit will be played.
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Milwaukee
Wis
O’brien
Minneapolis-Louisville
American Association
Louisville
Harry Pulliam
O Connor Scouts Role With St Louis, Doubts Managerial Link
Little Rock reports Jack O Connor will be assigned to scout work for the St Louis American League club. O Connor says he has heard no authoritative word on taking a managerial position and doubts the report. He notes no official source has reached him with such information.
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Little Rock
Atk
Jack O’connor
St. Louie
O'Connor
Gossip of the Theaters in Atlanta Veers Over Klaw & Erlanger Power
Robert Moran reports that Klaw and Erlanger act as a clearing house for productions, seeking theater control to maintain influence while Shuberts focus on producing. The piece notes booked week stands, shifts in vaudeville, and the prospect of a single vaudeville house in Atlanta as season opens.
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Klaw & Erlanger
Klaw & Eerlanger
Khan & Erlanger
Shuberta
Figet
Land of Nod
Atlanta
Lula Glaser
Dockstader
Shubert
Shuberts
Atlante
Ban Kahn
Morris
Kian & Erlanger
Orpheum Vaudeville
Atlanta Delegates Named To Fight For Typo Meeting
Atlanta Typographical Union members met in Federation hall and urged strong support for the 1919 International convention in St. Joseph Missouri. Delegates from The Atlanta Constitution and The Atlanta Journal will attend, with chamber representatives to back Atlanta’s bid. A ten member committee was named to mobilize printers for Labor Day parade participation and educational legislation push.
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Atlanta
Federation Hall
St. Joseph
Missouri
Janrenentapit
Georgia Farmers’ Union
Federation of Labor
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
Fourth Ward
H. L. Bodenhamer
Farmers’ Union
Labor Federation
van Houten
Kirkpatrick
The
Atlanta Journal
Labor Tay Parade Jis
YACHTING COSTLY SPORT UNDER NEW TARIFF MEASURE
Washington August 1 Sailing the high seas on palatial foreign built yachts will come high to American millionaires owning such craft as the new tariff bill takes effect. An annual tax of 7 dollars per ton applies to foreign built yachts owned or chartered by Americans. An alternative 36 cent ad valorem duty can exempt vessels from further federal tax. Values range from 50 000 to 800 000 dollars with listed owners facing substantial annual taxes. About fifty smaller foreign built yachts incur 375 to 2800 dollars yearly, totaling roughly 245 000 dollars in revenue.
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Washington
High Seas
Sam
Citizns
James Gordon Bennett
W. K. Vanderblit
A. J. Drexel
Robert Goelet
Morton Plant
Joseph Pullitzer
Eugene Higgins
George J. Gould
Ray A Rainey
Fred W. Vanderbilt
K. G. Billings
Drexel
Corneliue Vanderbilt
Thaw Case to Resume Hearings in New York Trial
White Plains July 1 Thaw defense and prosecution prepare for more testimony as District Attorney Mills opens the session. Evelyn Negrit Thaw is expected to testify again while Thaw faces questions from his counsel. A fresh habeas corpus petition remains possible if the present action fails.
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White Plains
Harry K. Thaw
Gana
Juanus Isaac Mills
Jerome
New York
Evelyn Negrit Thaw
Justice Mills
Violence and unrest grip Barcelona and Madrid area
Reports from Spain describe armed bands in Barcelona province blocking rail lines and access to cities, while revolutionaries control areas around Cassan De La Selva and Plamo. Reports warn of looming strikes in Madrid and Basque regions, with military restrictions and uncertain casualty figures amid ongoing fighting and frontier tensions.
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Barcelona
Homers
Cassan de la Selva
Plamo
Spain
Madrid
Melilla
Biscayan
Officis
Officil
Eadal
Willagertegaie
Opium Smuggling Bust Tangles Banus Ring
An active opium smuggling plot is under government investigation after 46 pounds of opium and 72 ounces of cocaine were found concealed in mining machinery from Hong Kong. American businessman Louis Grant is arrested on implication charges, with several others under watch by special agents as opium prices rise in Manila to 25 dollars per kilo.
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Banus
Hong Kong
Louis Grant
Manila
Great Street Car Strike in Chicago and Suburbs
Chicago August 1 The street car strike widens as four large meetings unite factions across the city and suburbs tomorrow night. Workers likely reject the companys bid to renew expired agreements on old terms and vote down arbitration proposals.
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Chicago
Paoss
Madrid Battles Aim at Barcelona Revolt Suppression
Reports from Madrid say order returns as stores reopen and factories restart. Troops clear streets while barricades fall, and a torch of unrest spreads to coastal industrial towns. A thousand killed and 2,500 wounded in Barcelona paracente quarters. Civil authorities plan a general strike Monday.
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Madrid
Barcelona
Raport
London
Daily “Telegraph
Biarritz
Barcalona
Montjuich
Paratela
Asyluma
Steamer Cadillac Sunk After Night Collision
Alvonac Michigan August 1 a collision with an unknown steamer sank the Cadillac of Cleveland in the channel opposite the St. Clair flats. The fifteen crewmen camp tonight aboard the sunken vessel which lies on its side loaded with coal bound for northern points.
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Alvonac
Mich
Cadillac
Cleveland
St. Clair Flats
Polnta
Tragic Chicago murder suicide by gas in home
In Chicago a Mrs Emma Michel killed her two children Mete aged 15 and Gustav aged 13 and herself using illuminating gas amid domestic troubles. The children were found dead in bed with all gas taps open while Mrs Michel sat in the kitchen with a gas tube in her mouth.
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Chicago
Emma Michel
Mete
Gustav
Negro Is Captured After Encounter With Posse
Norfolk, August 1 A young man named WI Blake is accused of assaulting 60 year old Mrs. Alice Jermey at her Norfolk county home yesterday. A posse tracked him for hours and found him hiding under a schoolhouse where he was wounded while attempting to escape after being shot.
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Norfolk
WI Blake
Alice Jermey
Norfolk County
Blake
Decision in Contempt Case in Arkansas Clashes Over Capitol Work
In Little Rock on August 1 the long fight between executive and judicial branches over rebuilding the state capitol neared a climax as a chancery court decision on contempt against Governor Donaghey and capitol commission members loomed. Police also reported a disturbance at Boys High School where Curtis Heard was found loitering inside a storm door. no entry or damage occurred.
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Little Rock
Ark
We State Capitol
County Chancery Court
Donaghey
Capitol Commission
Peyton and
Anderson
Boys’ High
Curtis Heard
Spanish Revolution Report Reaches Barcelona and Front Lines
Dispatches from Cerbere France say revolutionaries proclaimed a republic in Barcelona while forces clash in nearby districts. Spanish troops ambushed near Mohlilla Morocco wounding several officers. Refugees report rebels held Barcelona until July 28 and arrests and possible death sentences loom in Figueras. Military guards move to Senys as rail lines near Gerona remain high tension zones.
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Nevelniloniats
Corbere
Spain
Gerona
Barcelona
Figueras
Civic Guard
Selys
Rabels
Garona
Ripoli
Banda
Aisapproven
Wages of Sin ends with unresolved fate at casino show
At the casino Saturday night in the stage drama Wages of Sin, hero Frank LaRue contends in a life or death fight with villain Stephen. Miss Edna May Spooner survives a near strangulation as a chase ends with a failed gunshot due to a bad shell. the curtain falls before justice or reward is shown, leaving audience hopeful for the minister’s intervention.
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Frank LaRue
Stephen
Edna May Spooner
Acme
Hig
Wronged Woman Slays Husband and Affinity
Canton, Ohio August 1. Elopement ends in murder as Mrs Panilla shoots Tony Panilla and then fatally stabs Mrs Pizzani thirty times during a struggle over a butter knife. Pizzani had left husband Peter in New York and eloped with Panilla. the trio shared a Canton home for a month before the fatal confrontation.
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Canton
Ohio
Tony Panilla
Clara Plazani
Panilla
Deans N. 1
Week of Aviation at Rheims Opens August 22
Rheims France August 1 aviation season to culminate in a week long event starting August 22 with top aeroplane pilots from France America Austria England and Italy. Entrants include Latham Blériot Farman Sommer Dumont Curtiss and more for multiple events including a 30 kilometer international cup race. The Wright brothers decline entry citing rule changes. The Grand Prix de la Champagne offers 920000 to the winner for distance pacing without ground assistance.
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Rheims
France
Latham
Bleriot
Dela
Grange
Farman
Sommer
Santos
Auchonnet
Guifroy
Glenn Curtis
Aero Club of America
America
Austria
England
Italy
Wright Brothers
Slayer of Consul Held in Tombs
Wong Bow Cheung, identified as Matuda Woung, the undetined Chinese cook who shot Vice Consul Dr. Luk Wing, was arraigned before the coroner and committed to the Tombs for the inquest set for Wednesday. He slept well, remained silent, and refused visitors, with police finding little to explain his act.
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New York
Wong Bow Cheung
Matuda Woung
Luk Wing
Wong
Chinatown
Wipgshue B. Ho
Judge Bryan of Roanoke Dies at Northampton
Judge John Randolph Bryan longtime Roanoke police court presiding judge and former mayor dies at Northampton after several months illness. A 41 year old native of Charlottesville he was a leading Roanoke lawyer for fifteen years and a prominent member of the Masons and Elks.
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Roanoke
John Randolph Bryan
Thlaefty
Northampton
Charlottesville
Ship May Be Lost
Alarm spreads over the British steamer Waratah from Sydney to London after it left Port Natal on July 28 and has not been sighted since. Reports indicate 9,000 souls may be aboard and no trace has been found by any vessel.
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Durban
Sydney
London
Port Natal
Pierce Arrow Car Wins Long Tour in Kansas City
Pierce Arrow car No 9 driven by W F Winchester tops the Glidden trophy in the AAA annual reliability tour ending in Kansas City with a perfect score. Pierce Arrow No 108 driven by J B Williams takes the Hower trophy with a perfect score. Chalmers Detroit car No 82 steers by Jean Remix wins the Detroit trophy with 14.02. Two Pierce-Arrow cars earn perfect scores.
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Kansas City
Plerea
Arrow
W. F. Winchester
American Automobile Association
Pierce-Arrow
Williams
Chalmers-Detroit
Jean Remix
Mortuary notices of Mrs Clifford Jones and others
The notice lists the death of Mrs Clifford Jones and mentions several other deaths and funerals. John W Bagby aged about 44 died at his residence. services planned this afternoon with interment to Burt H Williamson. Miss Dolly Hazelings aged 17 and Mrs Nanney Blanchard aged around 44 are noted with funeral arrangements pending. An obituary fragment for Ed Hollane at 240 DeKalb Street ends the notice.
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John W. Bagby
John W Bagby
Owen
Hagus
Beattie
Murington
A. J. Bagby
Ningham
Ala
H.R. W
H.R. W. ©. G. and W.L. Bagby, of Atanta, Also Mrs Wood McDonald, 3.H Baukwright
Stella Bagby
Atlanta
Plac
Ed Hollane Areo
DeKalb Street
Death of John B Patman Oldest Athens Resident
John B Patman aged 82 a longtime Athens resident and Confederate veteran died last night at 1 o clock He was born in Oglethorpe County and survived by two sons J H Patman of Athens Wade Patman of Atlanta and three daughters Annie Clyde Patman and Mrs Bush The funeral was held tomorrow morning at 1 o'clock at the Milledge avenue residence.
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Athens
Gia
John B. Patman
Patman
Oglethorps County
Messrs
J. H. Patman
Wade Patman
Atlanta
Annie
Clyde Patman
Bush
Milledge Avenue
Short Items of Interest from Wesley Memorial Church
Fred Miles acts as superintendent of Wesley Memorial Sunday School this summer while M M Davies recovers health. Major R J Guinn spoke at morning services on institutional churches and church work. Rev Frank Sil preached to a large evening congregation. Colonel Nathan Campe returned home to Norfolk after visiting son-in-law Morris Macks. Miss Jennie Macks travels to Old Point Ocean View Baltimore and other northern ports.
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Fred 4. Miles
Wealey Memorial
M. M. Davies
R. J. Guinn
Board of
Stewards
Wesley Memorial Church
Frank Sil
Nathan Campe
Morris Macks
Norfolk
Jennie Macks
Old Point
Ocean View
Baltimore
Polita
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ST. Mary's River
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Negro
Cloud-Stanford Co
Bryan
Glidden
Clifford Jones
Childo Jones
Burt H. Williamson
Burt H Williamson
Hady
Poole
Bural
Dolly Hazelings
Dollie Hazelings
Plumb Street
Naney Blanchard
Kirkwood
Nk. Blanchard
Southern Railway
EF. F
HJ. Carter
W. Lutte
J. Carter
Aaron Lewis
Willie Carter
Ed Holland
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