Brief Will Ends Harriman Estate Wealth Record
A June 4 1903 will leaves all Harriman property to Mary Averell Harriman making her one of the world's wealthiest women. Estimates place realty and personal property between 75.9 and 100 million dollars with provisions for his children and other relatives through lifetime gifts and trusts. The document was drafted for Mr Harriman by Whartes A Peabody with ties to Arden House, reflecting a lifetime of vast holdings including 43 000 acres of woodlands and pasture and the planned great house at Ramapo Valley. Continued on Page Three.
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New York
E OH Harriman
Mary Averell Harriman
Harriman Wallatreet
Harwill
Rinnan Sonal
Harriman
Mary
Carol
Robert Tivingstone Gerry
Wilam Averell
Troland
Adater
Simons
Varrian
Whartes A Peabody
Mutual Life Insurance Company
Peabody
Arden House
Tepethoff
Atis Hlauman
Mary Averell
W J Averell
Rochester
Rome
Watertown
Jim Hoen & Co
National City Bone
Hardman
Ramapo
Harricane
Hetty
Sully predicts cotton crop shortage and rising prices
Dan Sully, famed for cornering cotton markets, visits Atlanta and says the 1901 cotton crop will be 11,000,000 bales or less. He cites drought and heat across Texas, Arkansas, and Georgia, expects prices to climb to 16 to 16.5 cents, and plans further reports from southern statisticians as he travels to Washington.
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Dan Sully
Atlanta
Mr. Sully
Columbia
Greenville
Washington
South
Washington City
Memphis
Texas
Oklahoma
Louisiana
Arkansas
Mississippi
Tennessee
Georgia
D. C
Alabama
Junit
New York
Sully
Dr Cook Plans Unknown Route to the Pole
The narrative recounts Dr Frederick A Cook's perilous polar dash. Eskimos are chosen for the sled team due to stamina, with Cook preferring native help over white volunteers like Captain Bartlett. The first installment covers the Gloucester start on the Bradley, Greenland detours, and Etah and Annatuck as final call points before the unsupported crossing toward the pole.
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Pole
Cook
Frederick A. Cook
Gloucester
Bradley
Arctic
Jotn Ro Bradley
Greenland
Inglefield Gulf
Cape Auckland
Cape Robertson
Etah
Annatuck
Iby
Conquest of the Pole excerpt by Frederick A. Cook
The passage describes coastal geography near Cape Robertson with glacial walls and headlands, Eskimo camps at cliff bases, and Arctic fauna. It recounts meeting a large Eskimo retinue of nine women, ten men, thirty-one children, and over one hundred dogs, and notes the planned caribou hunt at Oiricks Bay or Kookaan with native guides.
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Cape Robertson
Greenland
Arctic
Legacy of $1,000,000 To repay and early Arctic voyage tale
In Methuen Massachusetts on September 16 a curious windfall emerged as Mrs George Bramer learned from Seilly Islands attorneys that BR. J Ribstock left her about 1 million in railroad stocks and bonds. The scene shifts to an Arctic yachting voyage with four tents set by a shore near Smith Sound. The narrative blends the Bermuda charity past with rugged exploration, weather, meals, and intermittent calm as the vessel nears Kane Basin.
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Methuen
Mass
George Bramer
Seilly Islands
BR. J Ribstock
Bermuda
Breiner
Ribsteck
Etah
Ned
Fisher-Feld
Arctic
Cape Alexander
Smith Hall
Foulke-Fjord
Ete
Smith Sound
Kane Basin
Kennedy Phan
Etah Stamping Ground Of Kane And Hayes In Arctic History
The Etah region is noted as the stamping ground of Dr. Kaye and Mr. Hayes in the mid nineteenth century. Explorers report abundant game near the shore and a day of bird and seal chase. Eskimos, walrus, and caribou are mentioned as part of the Arctic milieu before a return in progress. Continued on Page Two.
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Kane and
Hayes
Lyacht
Etab
Dr. Kaye
Mr. Hayes
Eskimos
Walrus
Anna
First Photo of Dr. Cook Returns to Copenhagen
The image captures Arctic explorer Dr. Frederick A. Cook arriving in Copenhagen with Maurice F. Wagan the U S minister to Denmark. He wears a shabby suit and long hair and is helped ashore by the crown prince amid a grand Danish welcome unprecedented in a modern European capital.
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Frederick A. Cook
New York Herald
Mexico
Canada
Republic of Mexico
Cook
Egan
Copenhagen
Denmark
Maurice F. Wagan
United States
Polecat Invades Baltimore Block House Neighbors Flee
Last night about 9 at the corner of Baltimore block and Spring street a polecat was killed in front of Ralph Williford’s residence. Neighbors fled as the odor spread while the animal hid inside the home. Police sent to the scene could not locate the source, and residents slept elsewhere as the skunk lingered.
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Polecat
Baltimore
Baltimore Block
Spring Street
Ralph Wilhford
Williford
Pole Cat
Taft Attacks Law Delay in Bitter Presidential Statement
President Taft lashes out at perceived delays in lawmaking, denouncing congressional inaction and urging swift action. The speech frames the delay as harmful to national progress and calls for accountability from lawmakers.
Taft Speech Attacks Court Delays and Labor Legislation
President Taft spoke at Orchestra Hall Chicago urging federal courts reform through a commissions report and argued for labor protections. He pledged to seek injunction reforms, respect workers, and defend organized labor while condemning unlawful wage violations and unsafe practices.
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Orchestra Hall
Taft
Vyronnicus
Chicago
Congress
Labor L Cions
Autopsy disputed in Sutton case death unclear
Dr George Tulles Vaughan rebuts surgeon Raymond Spear on Lt James N Sutton marine death at Annapolis two years ago. Vaughan says no close range gun discharge indicators and the head wound was clean cut. Full autopsy report is with Mrs Sutton's counsel Henry E Davis who plans a statement tomorrow.
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Washington
Raymond Spear
James NL Sutton
Marine Corps
Annapolly
George Tulles Vaughan
Vaughan
Sutton
Henry E. Davis
Davis
Tomarrows
Babe Shot by His Brother in Kingston
The seven month old baby of Mr and Mrs J M Broadwater of Kingston was shot about 5 PM by his seven year old brother Jeff while in the brother's care. The pistol lay in a trunk and the baby cried, the elder son attempted to amuse him and the shot struck the chest wall, piercing the left lung. The infant is in a coma though breathing, doctors say recovery unlikely. A Hart County court session opens Monday with several criminal cases including Ernest Gray for murder and George and Tom Crafe for burglary.
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J. M. Broadwater
Kingston
Jeff
J M Broadwater
Jeff Broadwater
Beft
Yopiemec
Hart Superior Court
Ernest Gray
Mura
Jojn Shepherd
Obarr & iMcLesky
George and
Tom
Weather Prophecy Shows Showers Friday in Georgia
Frightening weather forecast predicts showers in Georgia Friday with possible Saturday activity. Variable winds stay mostly moderate. Local data lists a low around 69 and a high near 82. Mean temperature about 78 with normal 72. Rainfall from the 24 hour period near .2 inches. Deficiency since month start around 1.1 percent and excess since Jan 1 about 3.90 inches.
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Georgia
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