Unknown Aviator Drowns Off Rockaway Beach
An unknown aviator, likely an experimenter, drowned after his airship plunged into the ocean off Rockaway Beach while observed from a Sea Gate Sheepshead steamer. The Sea Gate to Sheepshead Bay voyage carried about a hundred passengers. The craft rose to 2800 feet, then broke and fell to the water at about 4:30 pm, remaining missing along with the airship despite searches.
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New York
Rockaway Beach
H. J. Reuben
Sea Gate
Sheepshead Bay
Reuben
Jamaica Bay
Man Sentenced for Theft of Candy and Hatpins
James B. Anderson of Waban was sent to the house of correction for two months after pleading in Municipal Court before Judge Burke for stealing a box of candy worth 60 cents and two hatpins valued at $1 each from a department store. He said he stole them for his girl and had prior thefts on his record.
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James B. Anderson
Waban
House of Correction
Burke
Anderson
Sibley Arrested in Pennsylvania Conspiracy Probe
Joseph C. Sibley withdraws from the 28th Pennsylvania district congressional race after spending $42,500 on his nomination. He is arrested on a conspiracy to debauch voters charge, released on his own recognizance to appear Aug 28 in Warren. Co-defendants include Charles Crandall D M Howard George M Dunn and secretary Frank H. Taylor. The audit of the primary expense account and political history of Sibley are noted amid ongoing investigations connected to William J. Breene and Hearst era politics.
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Franklin
Penn
Joseph C. Sibley
Pennsylvania
Sibley
Justice of the Peace Perty
Warren
Charles Crandall
D. M. Howard
George M. Dunn
Frank H. Taylor
Warren County
W. R. Hearst
Hearst
Archbold
Standard Oil Company
William J. Breene
Breene
Congress
House
Grover Cleveland
W. J. Bryan
Matthew S. Quay
Senate
Fire Record Shows Brief Incidents Across Several Neighborhoods
Fire records list calls from 2 a.m. to 2 a.m. with multiple stations: 11 a.m. still alarm at 118 Harrison Ave. 11:25 a.m. Box 583 at Nepomnet Ave and Bourne St Jamaica Plain. 1:10 p.m. Box 642 at 312 Bremen St East Boston. 2:57 p.m. Box 68 at 72 Union Park. 4:30 p.m. Box 705 at 124 Canal St. 8:45 p.m. still alarm at 319 Third St South Boston. Respondents include Cassidy Meehan Blacker O Connell Cann McMahon and Adamson’s Balsam advertised as a cough remedy.
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Harrison Avenue
J. Cassidy
Nepomnet Avenue
Bourne Street
Jamaica Plain
Patrick Meehan
Bremen Street
East
Boston
Louis Blacker
Union Park
W. H. O'Connell
Canal Street
A. J. Cann
Third Street
South Boston
John McMahon
Six hundred fire fighters lost in western fires
Thompson Falls fears for all as wind drives fires toward town. Governor Morris orders state troops to combat fires in Washington and Idaho. Wardner and Burke escape major damage. losses mount in Washington with hundreds dead or missing. Heavy timber fires rage in Coeur d Alene and Pend d Oreille areas as virgin forests burn. Four soldiers of Company G are reported missing.
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Butte
Mont
Thompson Falls
Bushnell
Cabinet Reserve
Thompson
Morris
Idaho
Brady
Spokane
Wash
Wardner
Burke
Montana
Pen d’Oreille
Weather Service
Avery
Metcalf Comet Too Faint To See With Naked Eye
Astronomers report Metcalf’s comet as an eighth magnitude wanderer, invisible without a telescope. European and American calculations suggest a parabolic orbit, with no clear return path. At its brightest it remains too dim for naked sight, about 100 million miles from Earth near discovery, approaching the sun with a tail roughly 50 000 miles long and a diameter near 10 000 miles. The comet rises in the afternoon, moves west after dusk, and will be photographed at Harvard when conditions permit.
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Metcalf
Wanderer
Europe
America
Harvard Observatory
Kobold
Kiel
Halley
Metcalfe
Herculis
Arcturus
J. C. Duncan
Harvard
Rescue on the Sea: Sheldon Family Saved by Towle
Beverly reported a motor boat caught fire and the Sheldon family and an unknown woman leaped into the sea a mile offshore. George N. Towle of Newton, in a power boat nearby, recovered the family one by one. All were revived quickly as none submerged twice. None of the Sheldons could swim.
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Beverly
Joseph J. Sheldon
George N. Towle
Newton
Speedy
Towle
Sheldons
Cudahy Divorce Granted After Knife Attack Incident
Kansas City August 23 Mrs Cudahy obtained a divorce from John P Cudahy shortly after filing her petition Judge James H Slover cited incompatibility of temper The decree came ten minutes after filing and listed Mrs Cudahy and her maid Elizabeth Johnson as witnesses Cudahy was not present and a settlement was reported between his and Mrs Cudahy's fathers including General John C Cowin and Michael Cudahy alimony of one dollar was awarded to Mrs Cudahy
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Kansas City
John P
Jack) Cudahy
Jere S. Lillis
Cudahy
Lillis Cutting
John C. Cowin
Omaha
Michael Cudahy
Big Hats To Be Bigger In Fashion Finale
Chicago August 23 The National Association of Retail Milliners opened a convention with a decree that big hats will grow even larger while small hats stay small. Colors will run bright as magenta orange coral red and mahogany with new shades like magnolia and acajou shaping the next era in millinery fashion.
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Chicago
National Association of Retail Milliners
Mme. Maerte
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Joseph B. Jacobs
J. G. Small CO
Small
New England
Black Fox
Erine
Collins Hardware Co. (Inc
Washington Street
Friend Street
Adamson
DEAL
American Radiator Company
Philadelphia
Buffalo
Pittsburg
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Atlanta
Indianapolis
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
St. Louis
Sae City
Denver
Seattle
San Francisco
Brantford
Ontario
London
Paris
Berlin
Milan
Federal Street
Serpens
Arcturvus
Harvard University
Metcale
Lillis
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