Lord Chancellor Haldane to visit North America
Viscount Richard Burden Haldene the lord high chancellor of Great Britain will tour the American continent with events in New York and Montreal. He will inspect West Point, attend banquets, address the American Bar Association at Montreal and receive an honorary degree from McGill University. Chief Justice White and former President Taft are among expected listeners and degree recipients include Kellogg and Borden.
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New York
Richard Burden Haldene
Great Britain
Military Academy
West Point
Montreal
McGill’ University
Aly
Viscount Haldane
Liverpool
Lusitania
American Phi Association
William H. Taft
United States
Canada
White
United States Supreme Court
Misa Elizabeth Haldane
Kenneth Mule Mickonale
The
Crown
Metropolitan Club
C. A. Sevarance
J. P. Morgan
Albany
Frank
Kellogg
American Bar Association
Bar Association
McGill
Taft
Joseph H. Choate
Elviu Root
Frank B. Kellogg
Robert L. Borden
Prime Minater
Maitre F. Laborie
Operator Shot on Duty at Chesapeake and Ohio Station
W. Harrison, telegraph operator for the Chesapeake and Ohio railway at Scottsville Virginia, was shot and killed while on duty. He had copied a train order at 2 35 pm and at 3 pm a freight conductor found him dead with an automatic revolver in hand. The bullet struck his right shoulder and the weapon appeared not discharged. nothing in the office was stolen.
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W. Harrison
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Harrison
Scottsville
August Sparater
Man Killer Captured Near Sun Burst After Night Long Hunt
Asheville August 24 John Waldroup, accused of killing R F Smathers at Canton last night, was captured this morning near Sunburst about 30 miles from Asheville after an all night posse pursuit. He was taken to Waynesville and held in the county jail without bond.
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Asheville
John Waldroup
R F. Smathers
Canton
Sunburst
Waynesville
Jal
No General Strike Decision At Labor Union Meet
Erle Fa August 24 A decision not to call a general strike of all trades unions was reached at a special meeting of the central labor union this afternoon. The executive committee believed such a move would jeopardize the meas members strike. The strike situation was quiet today.
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Erle. Fa
Central Labor Union
Esperanto Congress Opens in Berne With 1100 Delegates
The ninth International Esperanto Congress opened in Berne Switzerland with eleven hundred delegates from twenty five nations. Dr Ludwig J Zamenhof inventor of Esperanto was awarded a gold medal commemorating twenty five years of the Esperanto Foundation.
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Berne
Switzerland
Ludwig J. Zamenhof
Esperanto Foundation
U S Soldiers Ready On Mex Border Amid War Prep
The article notes over 10 000 U S regulars ready for action along the border under Huerta's Mexico. The Eleventh Cavalry kept orders to respond, aviation crews prepared war trim, and numerous scout flights were conducted. The depiction portrays mountain fighters as treacherous and likely troubling to U S forces.
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United States
United States Cavalry
Aviation Corps 1
United Stats
Lynchings Rumor Trails Trial of A Farm Laborer
La Plata Maryland August reports detail a manhunt by hundreds of farmers seeking William Thomas a 23 year old Black man accused of brutal assault on a farmer’s wife near Indian Head. Thomas was captured by Constable Carpenter and moved to La Plata for safety as mobs gathered armed with pitchforks ropes and guns. The incident follows a violent break in with Boswell family and a knife defense that ended with the suspect fleeing.
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la Plata
Charles County
Wiliam Thomas
Samuel Boswell
Indian Head
Thomas
Carpenter
Boswell
Thormas
Thamas
Emma Bunting Opens Lyric Season With Circus Girl
Emma Bunting arrives in Atlanta with her company to open the Lyric season in Sydney Grundy’s Circus Girl at the Lyric. George Whittaker leads the strong cast as Reed, with Miss Bunting drawing a likely capacity crowd for the opening act before a Birmingham and New Orleans tour.
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Emma Bunting
Atlanta
Harry Sloan
Lyric
Sydney Grundy
Miss Bunting
Misa Bunting
Birmingham
Burg
New Orleans
Dauphine Theater
Mortal remains of William R. Levinger
The death of William R. Levinger of 3 Ashby Street West End is reported after he died Sunday at a private sanitarium. The funeral is set for 3 PM today at Peale's funeral chapel with interment to follow at West View Cemetery.
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William R. Levinger
Wiliam R. Levinger
William Levinger
Ashby Street
West End
Peale
West View
Two Flying Brothers Tumble Into River
Springfield, August 24. Ralph M. Brown an aviator and his 14 year old brother Raymond fell 100 feet into the Connecticut River after losing control of their aircraft. Entangled in wreckage both escaped and clung to a pontoon until a motorboat rescued them. Neither could swim.
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Springfield
Mass
Ralph M. Brown
Connecticut River
Raymond
John Boden Dies A Newsman In New York At 62
John Boden a well known newspaper man of New York died today at his summer home in Spring Valley New York after a long illness. He was 62 born in St John New Brunswick where he became a lawyer and politician and a pioneer in advocating labor in the dominion. Boden came to New York in 1887 and made a brilliant record as a political and sporting writer.
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New York
John Boden
Spring Valley
N. Y
St. John
N. B
Boden
World's Congress on School Hygiene Opens in Buffalo
The fourth international congress on school hygiene opens in Buffalo with leading scientists educators and physicians. Secretary Wilson will welcome visitors for the U S government and delegates from foreign nations attend as 20 Kansas City teachers and doctors travel in. Rockefeller funds and a $1000 anonymous gift aid the expenses while fifteen local churches host talks on school hygiene. The U S bureau of education directs a large commercial and scientific exhibit, among the most complete of its kind.
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Buffalo
United States
William B. Wilson
Department of Labor
Kansas City
Congress
John D. Rockefeller
Fletcher B. Dressler
United States Bureau of Education
Missouri life laws said to be too strict
St Louis, August 24. After the mysterious death of grain broker J. R. Lakas on a Frisgo train near Valley Park, accident insurance agents warned they may withdraw from Missouri over life insurance laws. They object to a statute that requires payment of policies in suicide cases unless fraud is proven. Lakas insured for about $100,000.
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St Louis
J. R. Lakas
Valley Park
Miasouri
Lucas’ Life
Tabby Couldn’t Read Causes Family to Advertise
A New York Times snippet shows a distraught mother and father comforting Ethel as Tabby is determined to be unable to read. The family resolves to place an advertisement in the paper to locate the tabby, who has gone missing and cannot read.
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The
New York Times
Ethel
Tabby
All in the Family. Suburb minister won’t marry without medical certificate
In Crawford, a minister demands a medical certificate for marriage. Suburbs notes it’s hard to obtain one, but a brother who is a doctor can help. The piece reflects local gossip about marriage norms and hidden connections.
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Crawford
Sulfosol Promises Blood Health and Rheumatism Relief
Sulfosol is advertised as a blood vitalizer that delivers sulphur directly into the bloodstream to combat rheumatism gout and blood diseases. The ad claims rapid uric acid removal and invites readers to obtain it from druggists or write to the Salfosol Company at 215 Washington St New York for a free book on the treatment.
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Salfosol Company
Washington St
New York
Blind tiger in shadow of Clarke County jail
Athens August 24 Special The shadow of the Clarke County jail looms as police arrest Adolph Parks for operating a blind tiger. He distributed alcohol and warned potential customers to stay put while a plainclothes officer closed in. Parks resisted surrender of a paper receipt for a large remittance to Mquer house.
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Athens
Adolph Parks
Stork
Mquer House
Jefferson Wins Chess Championship of the West
J B Jefferson of Memphis Tennessee won the West Chess Association championship as the final games concluded in Chicago on August 24. E E Ellett of Minneapolis and J B Morrison of Toronto tied for second and third. Jefferson scored 111 12 to 312 games. Memphis chosen to host next year’s championship. B S Scrivener of Memphis elected president.
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Jefferson
Chicago
J. B. Jefferson
Memphis
Tenn
Ellett
Minneapolis
Minn
J. B. Morrison
Toronto
Canada
B.S. Scrivener
Man Leaps to Death in Hospital Fall at Charleston
Matthew Maury Corbin aged 36 of Berkeley Delaware died after leaping from a hospital window in Charleston West Virginia. Corbin, said to be mentally affected by illness, was a descendant of Governor Bootswood and related to the geographer Commodore Maury.
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Charleston
W. Va
Mathew Maury Corbin
Berkeley
Del
Bootswood
Virginia
Commodore Maury
Shooting at Kennedy Street Leads to Wounding of Officer
At Gilmore station on Kennedy and Lambert streets, Officer C B Preston was shot in the right hip as R E Maner 20 fired through a front window while police investigated alleged immoral conduct. Preston and Officer Cochran arrested Maner who claimed self defense after seeing people looking into the girl’s window. Maner denied the accusation and was charged with assault and attempted murder. Preston was treated at Grady hospital for a flesh wound. The girl involved was unable to speak about the incident.
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C. EB. Preston
R. E. Maner
Gilmore Station
Lemmie Hollingsworth
Kennedy Street
Cochran
Preston
Kennedy and
Lambert Streets
Claud Leatherwood
Kennedy
Leatherwood
Kennedy ‘Street
Maner
Preson
Grady Hospital
Austell
Quarrel Over a Dog Ends in White Man's Death
Lake Alfred Florida August 34 Hiding in heavy undergrowth between here and Winter Haven Charley Morgan a 15 year old Negro evading a posse all day is hunted for murdering Turner Camp after a dog dispute led to a quarrel and a fatal blow. A lynching is predicted if captured.
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Lake Alfred
Fin
Here
Winter Haven
Charley Morgan
Turner Camp
Sim
Charleston Man From Augusta Fatally Stricken at Isle of Parzis
W. H. Portute of Augusta, Georgia, while standing in the surf at the Isle of Parzis with his wife and friends, was fatally stricken with apoplexy and fell head first into the water. A physician said death was virtually instant, and the body was carried to Augusta for interment.
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Charleston
Nugust
W. H. Portute
Augusta
Isle of Parzis
Motorcyclist Killed After Crash in Birmingham Alabama
Nathan Lowenstein of Bremen Indiana died after a motorcycle he rode crashed into an automobile at Agee and Twenty First Street. H C Brown, a collector on the same bike, suffered multiple injuries. Walter Meserol, also on a second motorcycle, struck the car nearly at the same moment but escaped serious harm.
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Birmingham
Ais
Nathan Lowenstein
Bremen
Ind
Agee
Twenty First Street
H. C. Brown
Walter Meserol
Meseroll
Dived to His Death at Westlake Near Bessemer
Victor Lawson 23, a foreman at Eneley steel plant, drowned this afternoon at Westlake near Bessemer Alabama. He had told of New York as his residence and leaped from a high ladder, dying before aid could reach him.
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Birmingham
Ala
Victor Lawson
Eneley Steel
Westlake
Bessemer
New York
Roosevelt Heads East After West Vacation Stop
Theodore Roosevelt spent ten minutes in Kansas City on his way east after a westward vacation. He said he would be very busy preparing for his South America trip next fall and would leave New York on October 4.
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Roosevelt
Kansas City
Theodore Roosevelt
South America
New York
Fragmentary Race Report From Rouen Page Teems With Chaos
A garbled excerpt describes a morning event near Iggaport in the north with a 1000 foot high crash as a crowd waits. A river barge crashes amid a harrowing scene and several contestants are listed as injured or disqualified. The names Metivier and Charien appear amid motor trouble and overseas descent mention.
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Iggaport
Rowlin
Metivier
Charien
Rouen
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