American Wand rlust and State Ties in United States
A long essay argues that interstate wandering strengthens national unity as natives meet in shared experiences, citing Daniel Webster and state societies in New York. The piece compares travel, Western and Eastern cultures, and even references motion pictures’ birth. It includes a humorous aside about barbers and time perception from New York Sun.
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United States Senate
House of Representatives
Daniel Webster
Old
May
New York City
Joe Mitchell Chapple
Na- Vonal Magazine
The Hurry Barbers Motion The Motto Stalled
A fragment from a 19th century column notes barbers quickness in action exceeds long term plans. The speaker jokes about readiness and haste, implying practical results trump drawn out schemes in everyday work. The piece shows blunt humor and urban irony.
The Curious Fact About Crooks’ Offspring
It notes a paradox in criminal heredity that children of offenders rarely become criminals themselves. Police records suggest even with criminal traits, the example set by a parent’s punishment and misery acts as a deterrent, a view echoed by vaulted rogues’ galleries in major cities.
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Scotland Yard
New York
Chicago
Aryohaut
Taft Signs Payne Tariff Billand Adjourns Extraordinary Session
Congress completes the extraordinary session by passing the Payne tariff bill with a 47 to 31 Senate vote on the conference report and approving a leather schedule amendment. President Taft signs the measure, attends a brief reception, and adjourns sine die as the House and Senate finalize routine business.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
Taft
Capitol
Payne
House
Ways and Means Committee
William H. Taft
Beverly
White House
Aldrich
McCun Ber
McLaurin
Daniel
Culbereon
Iberman
Sixty-first Congress
House of Representatives
Cannon
Tragic Patapsco River Wreck Claims Four Lives
Four people die when a gasoline launch hits submerged pilings during a Huntington Avenue Baptist church Sunday school picnic near Baltimore. Two bodies lie at Canton police station and two remain unrecovered as rescuers pull river debris and search creeks along the Patapsco. Rescue teams saved sixteen aboard the craft before nightfall.
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Baltimore
Canton
Patapsco
Katherine E. Brown
Marie Hawes
Willard Leach
Frank Pryor
Pryor
Huntington Avenue
Leach
Taft Comments On New Payne Tariff Bill
President Taft issued a statement on the Payne tariff bill noting it as a sincere but imperfect effort. He says it aims at downward revision and largely complies with party promises, though not a complete fulfillment of the platform.
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Washington
Taft
House of Representatives
Two Earthquakes Rock Brest Area But Cause No Serious Damage
Two sharp shocks struck Brest and nearby areas on August 6, rocking buildings and breaking crockery in many homes but causing no serious damage.
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Brest
France
Lone Bandit Slain After White Bear Bank Robbery
A Minnesota village bank raid ends in a two hour two block standoff. Robber Robert Pohl shoots cashier Alfred Auger and flees with $567 before being killed by a village posse. Edward Larkin is killed and William Butler wounded. two more men, Richard Doran and John Christie, wounded in the chase. The incident echoes the Northfield bank raid in local memory.
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St. Paul
First State Bank
White Bear Village
Robert Pohl
Edward Larkin
William Butler
Richard Doran
John Christie
Northfield Bank
James and Younger
Minnesota
Pohl
Bald Eagle Lake
Five Oaks
White Bear
Alfred Auger
Auger
Larkin
Butler
Stanford White Memory Stories Brought Up At Thaw Hearing
In White Plains New York on August 6 the Thaw sanity hearing before Justice Mills heard more tales linking architect Stanford White to sensational events. Witnesses for Evelyn Nesbit Thaw and Thaw himself described stories mirroring the Madison Square tower room saga.
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White Plains
N. Y
Stanford White
Madison Square Tower
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Justice Mills
Thaw
Clues Prove Worthless In Kidnapped Viviano Case
St Louis police spent a fruitless day chasing clues about Grace and Tommasso Viviano. They followed leads into Illinois towns including Mascoutah where two Italians were arrested, but officers concluded the men were not connected to the kidnapping.
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St. Louis
Viviano
Grace
Tommasso
Tes
Illinois
Mascoutah
Four of the party perish in harbor crossing
Four men out of a seven man party attempting to row across the harbor in a leaky boat drowned when the craft sank. Victims include Ephraim Gallant president of the ship laborers union, Harry Gallant James Burnett and Daniel McCaulain.
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Charlottetown
Ephraim Gallant
Ship Laborers’ Union
Harry Gallant
James Burnett
Daniel McCaulain
Funeral of Judge Bethea in Illinois attended by officials
Funeral services for United States District Judge Solomon Hicks Bethea of the Northern district of Illinois were attended by a large number of attorneys and federal officials from Chicago. Associate judges present included Francis Baker of Goshen Indiana A L Sanborn of Madison Wisconsin Kenesaw M Landis and Peter B Grosscup of Chicago and J O Humphrey of Springfield Illinois.
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Dixon
United States
Solomon Hicks Bethea
Northern District of
Illinois
Chicago
Francis Baker
Goshen
Ind
A. L. Sanborn
Madison, Wis
Kenesaw M. Landis
Peter 8. Grosscup
J. O. Humphrey
Springfield, Il
Lieutenant Utley On Witness Stand
Annapolis Md Aug 6 Lieutenant Harold Utley testified for five hours in a case at the county court. The defense and prosecution pressed questions on the incident details, with Utley describing actions and observations related to the investigation.
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Utley
Annapolis, Md
Harold Utley
Hearings Open On Death Of Lieutenant Sutton In Navy Inquiry
Marine Corpa faced an acting examination and cross examination over ties to the death of Lieutenant James N. Sutton of Oregon. The naval board at the naval academy resumed hearings after an adjournment as Lieutenant Utley and Surgeon Frank C. Cook arrived aboard the North Carolina at Provincetown. Five Sutton officers testified and Utley appeared as a defendant, accused by Mrs. Sutton and her daughter Mrs. Parker. Utley claimed privilege but answered questions, corroborating prior testimony about the October 18, 1907 fight during which Sutton was shot, though not as firmly supporting self defense as earlier witnesses.
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Marine Corpa
James N. Sutton
Oregon
Naval Board of Inquiry
Naval Academy
Utley
Frank C. Cook
United States
North Carolina
Provincetown
Sutton
Parker
Lieutenant Sutton
Leonard
Adams
Young Sutton
Electric car struck by train injuring thirty five
In Chicago at the One Hundred and Third street grade crossing a suburban Pennsylvania train hit an electric street car filled with laborers women and children after a day in the country. The speed was about forty miles an hour and the car ended upside down in a ditch ten to fifteen feet away. The motorman is gravely injured and expected to die. Several others are severely hurt with poor prospects for recovery.
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Chicago
Halfbreeds to Get Lands in White Earth Reservation
Judge Willis Vandeventer of the federal court of appeals holds that full blood and halfbreed Indians qualify for shares in the White Earth reservation lands in Minnesota. Those under half blood are barred. Plaintiffs included Julia B. Oakes, her halfbreed daughter, and two quarterblood grandchildren. New trials ordered for some, while grandchildren remain upheld.
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St. Louis
Federal Court of Appeals
Willis Vandeventer
White Earth Reservation
Minnesota
Julia B. Oakes
United States Circuit Court of Minnesota
Vandeventer
Banker and Wife Killed in Indiana Collision
Anderson Indiana Aug. 6 Mr and Mrs John W Cravens of Spring Lake Iowa were instantly killed when their touring car collided with the Marion flyer a limited electric traction car near Alexandria Indiana A cornfield between the two vehicles hid their approach Cravens was president of the First National Bank at Spring Lake Iowa.
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Anderson
Ind
John W. Cravens
Spring Lake
Alexandria
Cravens
First National Bank
Tragic double murder suicide near Houghton
In Houghton Michigan on August 6 Joseph Hensler, 42, killed his wife, 38, with a razor then wounded himself, dying after a chase into a field. The couple had lived on a Dodgeville farm and had been separated since December before the fatal incident.
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Houghton
Mich
Joseph Hensler
Dodgeville
Hensler
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