Flying Frenchman Bleriot Receives Ovation in London
Louis Bleriot, who crossed the English Channel, arrives in London to fanfare and a 46,000 pound prize. Crowds mob him at Dover and Victoria station while London stores exhibit his monoplane. Officials hail the feat as proof of monoplane merit and a shift in aviation perception.
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England
Louis Bleriot
Acrose
Les Baraques
Dover
Bia
M. Bleriot
Victoria Station
M. Bierlot
Channel
Wyndham
Englan Channel
Aeroplane Club
Bleriot
Great Britain
Biennot
Bell Telephone Directory Update Orders Due Now
Orders for new telephones and for changes completed by July 31 will appear in the next Bell Telephone directory. Contracts and change orders should be signed NOW.
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Bell Telephone Directory
Graft Investigation Targets Police and Officials in Chicago
State Attorney John B. W. Wayman leads a sweeping Chicago graft probe. He has gathered evidence for grand jury indictments against policemen gamblers liquor dealers and disorderly house operators. Rumors point to changes in police leadership with Captain P. D. O'Brien as a potential new head of the department.
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John B. W. Wayman
Chicago
Wayman
Shippy
P. D. O'Brien
Detective Bureau
Hero loses life saving hat on railroad platform
Lawrence Halloran, a tugboat engineer and Carnegie medal recipient for saving eighteen children during the General Slocum disaster, died after leaning from a New York railroad train platform to catch his hat. He struck a post and fell, succumbing at a morgue in Ozone Park.
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New York
Lawrence Halloran Les
Ozone Park
L. L
Halloran
East River
Lves
General Slocum
Carnegie
Actress Mabel Howard Quits Stage to Enter Convent
New York July 26 Miss Mabel Howard a decade long leading actress known for Zaza and Heart of Maryland has left the stage to become a Catholic nun joining the House of the Good Shepherd at Tad Ninetieth Street She was born in Indianapolis in 1884 and educated in Cincinnati prior to touring with Belasco and other stars listings for the Bell Telephone directory close July 31 managers urged to file changes now
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New York
Mabel Howard
Belascoroag
Tad Ninetieth Street
Zaza
Miss Howard
Belasco
Thirty Divorces Granted in Macon Superior Court
Thirty divorces were granted in the Macon superior court during a July term session. Judge Felton had set aside the day for special divorce business and a jury was called for the proceedings. The cases cited desertion cruel treatment drunkenness and failure to support as common grounds.
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Macon
Felton
G.O.P. 10 Fight for Old Virginia in July Convention
Virginia Republicans set July 28 and 29 at Newport News for their state convention to nominate a governor candidate and build a statewide effort. Secretaries Nagel and Taft’s tariff policy loom large as GOP leaders push for a strong ticket, aiming to increase congressional representation from ten districts. A. P. Gillespie is favored for governor by acclamation, while liquor policy and local option shapes the campaign.
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Newport News
Taft
South
Nagel
Department of Commerce and Labor
Congress
C. Bascom Stemp
Stemp
A. P. Gillespie
Tazewell
Atate
Anti-Saloon League
Slemp
Confessed murder and suicide after killing wife
New Bedford Mass July 26 Robert M Fanning Jr 28 confessed murder of his wife and shot himself at the police station after delivering a note claiming he had killed her The note mentioned burying them together and a wish for their baby to join them A hatchet killed Mrs Fanning and the killer died at the scene in Westport location of Lyon's Brook near her home The man was the son of Denis Fanning a Providence manufacturer and lived with his father in law Captain George Hall's Westport home
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New Bedford
Mass
Robert M. Fanning, Jr
Westport
Thomas W. Comstock
Fanning
Denis Fanning
Providence
R. I
George Hall
Comstock
Lyon's Brook
Guaranteed Whiskies Catalog Offer From Potts-Thompson
A Georgia product catalog ad from Potts-Thompson Liquor Co. Covington Kentucky offers guaranteed satisfaction or money back on whiskies including Perfection Rye Golden Seal Rye Stone Mt Corn and Old Piedmont Corn. Express prepaid shipping and full catalog available upon writing.
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Golden Seal
Stone Mt. Corn
Old Piedmont Corn
Potts-Thompson Liquor Co
Covington, KY
Fire at Searles coal mines closes Birmingham mines
A spontaneous blaze at the Searles coal mines in Tuskalooga county destroyed the tipple incline and coal washer, causing an estimated loss of 90000 dollars with 60000 dollars insured. The mines will stay shut until a new tipple is erected, an effort expected to take about three months.
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Birmingham
Ala
Searles
Tuskalooga County
Negro Troopers Bring Filipino Wives Home From Philippines
Eight members of the Tenth United States Cavalry arrived in New York with their Filipino wives. They will journey to Fort Stanton within days as part of a ceremony and reception. The war department enforces that soldiers who marry Filipino women must bring them back to the United States with the regiment.
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United
New York
of States Cavalry
Kilpatric Land
Fort Sthan
War Department
Philippines
United States
Engineer Menecal Involved in Naval Inquiry at Pensacola
Boston reports an investigation opened by a special court of inquiry at Charleston Navy Yard into engineer Adolfo J. Menecal, the sole Cuban-born officer in the U.S. Navy in charge of government improvements at Pensacola naval station Florida. The inquiry began amid alleged misconduct on a recent Saturday.
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Engineer Menecal
Boston
Adolfo J.menecal
United States Navy
Pensacola Naval Station
Florida
Charlestown Navy Yard
S. On
Rebuked Boy Hangs Himself in Guthrie Center Barn
Laurel Laidley a 12 year old boy in Des Moines area hanged himself yesterday from a rafter in his father's Guthrie Center barn after being reprimanded by his mother. Authorities report details from the incident and note the family’s prior disciplinary actions.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Laurel Laidley
Guthrie Center
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