Philadelphia opens arms to return of ex convict Burke
Governor Foss said no proceedings could restore Benjamin H. Tripp known as Burke citizenship. Philadelphia invites Burke to return and live down his past with aid from John L. Fehr who offers stock and fixtures for a cigar store to restart him. Fehr is a cigar and tobacco dealer and a former prison sentence survivor.
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Foss
Benjamin H. Tripp
Burke
Philadelphia
William Burke
Massachusetts
John L. Fehr
Chinese Merchants’ Agency
Save 3 Men Thought Lost On Burned Sloop
Three men believed drowned after the auxiliary sloop Revere burned off Graves near Boston harbor were rescued by a passing sloop after over an hour in the water. Survivors Conrad Sorenson Roxbury William Hardy Beachmont and Walter Hardy Chelsea landed at Beachmont around midnight. The remaining crewmen E B Sawyer Malden Benjamin Featherson Dorchester Jack Whidden Chelsea John Wallman Charlestown Al Gills East Boston Walter Chandler and M W Blanchard Everett were saved by a government tug and taken to Fort Strong.
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Graves
Boston Harbor
Revere
Conrad Sorenson
Roxbury
William Hardy
Beachmont
Walter Hardy
Chelsea
E. B. Sawyer
Malden
Benjamin A. Featherson
Dorchester
Jack Whidden
John Wallman
Charlestown
al Gills
East Boston
Walter Chandler
Blanchard
Everett
Fort Strong
Burke in Love and Strife Untold by Sister Statement
Mrs. Burke's sister recounts her belief that Burke will return after a troubling period. She describes a desperate husband, a changed man, and a wife awaiting him. The sister notes Burke's rise as a father figure, cigar business, and alleged past strike leadership amid union tensions.
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Mrs. Burke
Burke
Boston Woman Granted Divorce in Reno Case
Mrs Hugart T Y Norman formerly Miss Maybelle G Harvey of Boston was awarded a divorce from Hugart F Norman a New York lawyer and brother of Mark Norman. They wed January 7 1911 and lived briefly in Bridgeport Connecticut before his departure. She filed non support and desertion charges in Reno the following December.
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Reno
Hugart Ty’. Norman
Maybelle G. Harvey
Boston
Hugart F. Norman
New York
Mark Norman
Bridgeport
Conn
Woman Jumps From Window During House Assault
A crowd at 25 Hanover Avenue North End bombarded a house about 9 30 last evening. A woman leapt from a window to escape the assault as police from Hanover Street station rushed to the scene after a report of a murder.
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Hanover Avenue
North End
O’donnell
Hanover Street
Attack at Hanover Avenue House Ends With Arrest
Mary Sangers narrowly escaped as attackers broke into her Hanover Avenue home. Antonio Vincenzo, 27, of 25 Hanover Avenue, was captured and charged with making threats and malicious injury to property. Antonio Harcil le, a lodger arrested earlier, was bailed after drunkenness charges. The incident prompted swift police response and neighborhood turmoil.
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Mary Sangers
Hanover Avenue
Antonio Vincenzo
Antonio Harcille
Marcilie
Sangers
Vincenzo
Three Women Killed as Train Strikes Group Near Frostburg
Three young women were killed and a fourth likely fatally injured when an eastbound Baltimore and Ohio passenger train struck them near Frostburg Maryland after they stepped off the westbound track to avoid a freight train.
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Cumberland
Frostburg
Baltimore & Ohio
Ty Cobb Sees Red Sox Winning Season
Ty Cobb projects Boston Red Sox as the American League pennant winner and likely World Series champion. He notes Sox top the league despite slumps and cites their lead over Washington and Philadelphia as sign of strength. Cobb discusses how Boston could carry the American league prestige if they triumph.
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Tyrus Raymond Cobb
Red Sox
Boston
Sox
Stahl
Washington
Philadelphia
Georgia Peach
Giants
Cobb
Tragic Night Sailors Escape Revere Blaze Then Drifted Rescue
After the Revere sank ten men fled to a drifting tender and swam through flames. The Hardy brothers and Sorenson clung to the overturned boat as a searchlight appeared but did not aid them. Gunning, staying with companions, fell ill and died after jumping from room to window in a Saratoga Springs hotel during the perilous night at sea.
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Revere
Sorenson
Hardys
William Hardy
The
Portland
Five Executed at Salem 1692 and Constitution Sinks Guerriere
Report notes in a periodical dating format that five persons were executed at Salem for witchcraft in 1692 and that the U S frigate Constitution sank the British frigate Guerriere in 1812. It also mentions a 1851 event a large Roman Catholic gathering in Dublin. The text lists astronomical times and nautical data for that day.
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Salem
U. S
Constitution
Great Britain
Dublin
Sox poised to win pennant and defeat Giants in World Series
The speaker predicts the Sox will clinch the pennant and beat the Giants in the World Series. They expect a tougher series than the previous meeting but maintain the Sox will prove they are the superior club.
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Giants
Sox
Ohio Baby with Three Grandmothers Born in Ashtabula
Donald Edwin Tong arrives in Ashtabula as three maternal grandmothers welcome him. His great great grandmother is 83, and his mother Ernest Tong also had three maternal grandmothers at her birth, with the great great great grandmother having died recently.
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Ashtabula, O
Donald Edwin Tong
Ashtabula
Ernest Tong
Donald
Clouds Over Boston and New England Forecast
Weather bulletin notes cloudy skies for Boston and vicinity with a possible shower chance. Forecast for New England predicts Monday clouds, Tuesday showers, and light to moderate variable winds.
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Boston
Vicinity
Washington
lForecast
New England
Yesterday's Temperature Report from Thompson Spa
The report lists yesterday's temperatures with times and values, noting morning and evening readings. It records an average temperature of 61 degrees and compares to last year's average of 72 degrees, mentioning a clear Monday in the previous year.
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Thompson
Wealthy Saratoga man dies after leap from hotel window
Daniel Shields Gunning, 23, a Saratoga Springs resident and New York Republican Club member, was killed instantly at the Hotel Touraine when he leaped from a fourth story suite. A chambermaid witnessed the act as epilepsy, from which he suffered since childhood, was cited as a factor. His cousin Daniel Lathrop Lawton and another automobile party companion were present at breakfast.
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Lawton
Young Gunning
Los Angeles
Saratoga Springs
New York City
Newport
Narragansett
New Haven
Colonel Lawton
East Sixtieth Street
Daniel Shields Gunning
N. Y
Republican Club
Hotel Touraine
Daniel Lathrop Lawton
G. P. Lawton
Lifesavers Rescue Men After Dory Capsizes Off Salisbury
Lifesavers from Salisbury Beach went 500 yards through the surf to aid three men who refused help and swam ashore. At 8 o'clock a lookout spotted a troubled sailing dory near shore. it capsized as three men boarded the bow, and the surf boat was launched. The rescuers found the men swimming toward the shore.
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Salisbury
Salisbury Beach
Baseball scores from multiple games and trade rumor notes
Boston defeats Cincinnati 5 to 4 and New York beats St Louis 11 to 1 Philadelphia wins 10 to 6 while Chicago tops Philadelphia 5 to 1 in the second game Shortstop Carlstrom of Lawrence reportedly sold to the Red Sox Cobb views the Red Sox as World Series favorites More than 1000 entries expected for the New England rifle shoot at Wakefield range National tennis tournament opens today at Newport
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Cincinnati
New York
St. Louis
Philadelphia
Chicago
Newport
Carlstrom
Lawrence
Red Sox
Cobb
New England
Wakefield Range
Whitman's Probe Links Police Officials to Graft
New York Aug 18 The district attorney’s office has obtained a link between crooked inspectors and a powerful police official. Within three weeks that ununiformed official and two inspectors will be indicted for extortion, according to a Whitman aide. The DA in Manchester Vermont learned his assistants connected the officers with blackmail schemes.
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New York
Post
Whitman
Manchester
Assistant DA Uncovers Graft Ties in Police Official Case
An assistant district attorney disclosed a graft ring involving a police department official linked to the Rosenthal case. He traced a collector who deposited 75 000 dollars from December 1911 to August 1912, with indictments expected within three weeks.
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Burns
Rosenthal
Whitman
Police Department
Juarez Woman Leads Rebel Forces Roughly at City Station
In Juarez Mexico a local woman, said to be the wife of Colonel Tazero Alanis, rode with ten rebels into the town disarming the provisional police chief and officers. She rode through stores calling for provisions before departing at dawn with her followers.
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Juarez
Mexico
Joan of Arc
Tazero Alanis
Balomas
Theodore Roosevelt Life Told In Nationwide Film Campaign
A Philadelphia film maker says moving pictures will feature Roosevelt from college days to his present career. The campaign plans to show Colonel Roosevelt in scenes across miles of film in towns of importance nationwide.
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Lfe
Theodore Roosevelt
Philadelphia
Car crush nearly suffocates Louis Flanders
Louis Flanders of Brookline narrowly escaped death when his touring car overturned at Dorr's corner on the Cape road in South Middleboro. He was pinned under the front seat for over five minutes and revived after half an hour. He was moved to his home in serious condition.
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Middleboro
Louis Flanders
Brookline
Cape Road
Dorr’s Corner
Flanders
Sembrich Hurt While Saving Dog From Trolley
Opera star Mme. Marcella Sembrich broke her wrist rescuing a pet dog from beneath a trolley car. She was reported in good spirits after the incident and expected to recover fully. The incident drew praise from bystanders and city onlookers.
Mme Marcella Sembrich Rescues Dachshund in Paris
Paris reports the opera star Mme Marcella Sembrich saved her pet dachshund from beneath a trolley car at Onchy near the city. She received a broken wrist while rescuing the dog after it stepped into the street during a shopping trip.
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Paris
Mme
Marcella Sembrich
Onchy
Here
Mme. Sembrich
Injury at City Street Car Incident Involving Mme Sembrich
A dachshund dodged an approaching car, was dragged briefly under the wheels, and rescued by Mme Sembrich who then fell breaking a wrist. The singer, in pain, was helped by bystanders and driven away with her dog. The motorman stopped the car to prevent further danger.
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Mme. Sembrich
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