Hughes And Roosevelt In Quiet Sagamore Hill Conference
In Oyster Bay Theodore Roosevelt and New York Governor Charles E Hughes met at Sagamore Hill for a long expected private talk on New York politics. They discussed the direct nomination bill and the state party’s position, with plans for additional discussions featuring leading Republicans like Timothy L Woodruff.
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Oyster Bay
N. Y
Theodore Roosevelt
Charles E. Hughes
New York
Sagamore Hill
Roosevelt
Timothy L. Woodruff
Republican State Committee
Governor Hughes Visits Sagamore Hill Roosevelts Talk
Governor Hughes arrived at Sagamore Hill at 6 30 and was greeted warmly by Colonel Roosevelt. He was escorted by William R Willcox, Public Service Commission chair in the first district. Roosevelt, after a long day in New York, returned home and dined with the Roosevelts. They talked late into the night while reporters waited for a statement. Roosevelt vows to back the direct nominations bill. Assembly Speaker Wadsworth calls it a key obstacle.
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Hughes
Sagamore Hill
Roosevelt
William R. Willcox
Public Service Commission
First
Mr. Willcox
Glen Cove
Here
Colonel Roosevelt
New York
Long Island
Roosevelts
James W.W. Wadsworth
State Assembly
Hungarian aviator ends life in Marblehead harbor
Lieut Alexander L Pfitzner a 35 year old Budapest born aviator for the W Starling Burgess Co at Plum Island leapt from a rowboat and died despondent over his inability to master flying. Once he invented a monoplane and the plane engine Curtiss used to win the Rheims Bennett cup. After a recent accident he said the game had him beat to fellow aviator Hilliard.
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Marblehead
Alexander L. Pfitzner
Buda Pesth
Hungary
W. Starling Burgess Company
Plum Island
Pfitzner
Glenn Curtiss
Rheims
Hilliard
Tragic end for aviation daredevil Pfitzner at Marblehead
After a string of crashes and severe despondency, Al L Pfitzner left Plum Island for Marblehead in a small rowboat. A note, a discarded revolver, and two spent shells were found aboard. He apparently attempted suicide, then drowned, with Burgess watching earlier flights.
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Colt
Pfitzner
Plum Island
King of Burglars No More
West Swanzey New Hampshire notices Charley Adams once known as the "King of the Burglar s" is dead at his home after a quiet four years there. Despite a famous record in New England, he earned neighbors' respect and friendship. his final words were this is the right kind of a finish to go out among your friends.
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West Swanzey
Charley Adams
New England
Noted New England safecracker Langdon Moore obituary account
Adams, real name Langdon W. Moore, one of New England’s most daring safe crackers, forged a notorious career from 1865 with the Concord National Bank robbery and ties to English Harry. Born 1830 in East Washington New Hampshire, he moved through Natick Paulsboro Rockland and Boston heist cycles, later befriended by actor Denman Thompson in Swanzey. He claimed to have paid police for protection, with a 10 year sentence for a Boston bank job and further time.
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Langdon W. Moore
New England
Concord National Bank
Concord
Harry
Atlantic
Moore
East
Washington
N. H
Boston
Natic«x
Natick Moore
Paulsboro
N. J
Rebecca Cunningham
Bill Sturges
Rockland
United States
Garey
Warren Institution For Savings
Denman Thompson
Swanzey
Burdett College Normal Course Prepares Teachers
Burdett College announces its Normal Course designed to train teachers for commercial branches. The program focuses on practical methods, classroom management, and instruction tailored to business and commercial education.
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Burdett College
Cde
Charges Graft in Schools and Bias Allegations
A report details graft allegations involving school funds and biased practices. It notes doctors collecting for work never performed, with accusations of prejudice and misused resources across the district’s education system.
Charges Stir School Board Hearing Over 1908 10 Expenditures
The hearing accuses the school board of giving lunch privileges in exchange for $2600, padding payrolls by as much as $55,000 from 1908 to 1910, and making illegal retirements on a 70 year limit. It also cites thousands spent on "fads and fancies," disease exposure from vaccines, and alleges chairman Ellis fostered bias in transfers, rude reception of protesting parents, and improper conduct.
Charges of padded payrolls and wasteful school spending
Citizens charged the School Board with padded payrolls and wasteful expenditure in experiments and insufficient medical inspection as the Finance Commission probed school affairs at Mason street headquarters. Chairman Ellis was deemed unfit to govern the department, and it was claimed Mayor Hibbard planned to probe 1909-1910 finances but halted the effort under pressure from his secretary J. C. White ahead of the municipal election.
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Finance Commission
Mason Street
Ellis
Hibbard
J. C. White
School reform advocates push for improved management
Representatives from the Teachers and Parents Protective Association and the Janitors' Association along with Mrs. Dr. Frank W. Page and Mrs. Clara Steinauer led ad verse criticism. Many others advocated changes they said would yield improvements in school affairs management.
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Frank W. Page
Clara Steinauer
Teachers and Parents’ Protective Association
Teachers’ Association
The
Janitors’ Association
Wives Ransom Bogus Bandits Take Boston Men in Italy
Edward D. and Robert Boit of Brookline reported to Florence police that on a road near Vallombroso they were robbed by masked bandits who took $60 watches and jewelry and then forced them to flee with their car. Their wives returned to the villa and gathered $200 to ransom them. Robert A. Boit, an insurance firm member on Kilby Street, and Edward D. Boit, a noted Boston architect, had traveled to Italy last March. return date unknown.
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Florence
Italy
Edward D
Robert Bolt
Brookline
Vallombroso
Robert A. Boit
Kilby Street
Edward D. Boit
Boston
Compel Teachers to Swim in Chicago Schools
Chicago July 12 Ella Flagg Young superintendent of public schools announces a citywide push to teach swimming. All students will learn to swim as part of the curriculum with teachers trained in swimming and plans for a swimming tank in each high school.
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Chicago
Ella Flagg Young
Fire destroys Brooks estate barns in West Medford feud blamed
In Medford on July 13 an incendiary blaze consumed the two large barns and the carriage house of the Frank Brooks estate on Grove Street West Medford. The loss tops 10000 dollars. Fire alarms at 1 am drew Medford Somerville and Winchester crews as echoes of a feud dating back 23 years reemerge. The estate recently sold to West Medford Real Estate Trust and slated for building lots. The barns measured 100 by 46 feet and 75 by 46 feet, located near the carriage shed.
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Medford
Frank Brooks
West Medford
Brooks
Somerville
Winchester
West
Boston Second Highest Port for Immigrants
Boston remained the nation second in immigrant admissions for the just closed fiscal year with 53 617 aliens entering the country through the port while 8 458 non immigrant aliens arrived. The total number of immigrants through all ports reached the million mark for the third time this year.
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Boston
No Request From Italy For Chariton
Washington officials at the State Department refuse to discuss the case of Porter Chariton who confessed to murdering his wife in Italy. They state no formal extradition request has been received from Italy and that discussion is improper until such a request arrives.
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Washington
State Department
Porter Chariton
Italy
Department
Chariton
Boston man drowns after spring board plunge at local reservoir
Vitto Gyema 27, a Boston coal teamster, drowned while swimming in a reservoir connected to a local manufacturing plant. He leaped from a 2 foot spring board, cramped, sank, and was recovered later. He left a wife in his homeland.
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Barre
Vitto Gyema
Boston
Fire record shorthand across East Boston and Roxbury
A sequence of quick fire calls and alarms from 2 AM to 1 PM notes incidents at Meridan Street East Boston 47 loss 25 dollars, Julian Street Roxbury Minnie Brooks five dollars, Parkman Street End Hyman Wiesberg ten dollars, 10 PM Box 221 Rear 4 Ward Street Roxbury, 2 AM Box 463 465 Main Street Charlestown, and other entries including Box 704 12 a.m. 50x One Street West End Bessie Gelgsteiny.
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Meridan Street
Boston
Harry Kaplan
Julian Street
Roxbury
Minnie Brooks
Parkman Street
Hyman Wiesberg
Ward Street
Xbury
Main Street
Harlestown
Charlies Cumbora
West End
Bessie Gelgsteiny
Message Sent by Post Last Night
Boston Post urges five hundred dollars for Campbellton relief sent by editor note. Boston expresses sympathy for Campbellton disaster and notes arrangements for an adequate relief fund.
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Boston
Campbellton
N. B
Boston Post
Big Fire Devastates Campbellton and Richardsville
A massive blaze leveled Campbellton the eastern shingle hub and Richardsville village, leaving 5400 homeless and many penniless. Losses reach 2.5 million with 1 million insured. three dead. St John offers relief with 2000 tied from city and provincial councils. Fire began in a shingle factory amid water shortages. residents slept in tents as food ran short.
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Campbellton
America
Richeardsville
Richardsville
St. John
Board of Trade
Federal Militia Department
Beverly Sproule
Campbellton Richardsville Fire Kills Three In Canada Blaze
A two mile expanse of ruins swallowed Campbellton and Richardsville as a gale driven fire raged ten hours. Three lives ended including Dr Beverly Sproule and Dr W W Doherty, with an infant suffocated. Five thousand residents homeless, 1000 Campbellton and 75 Richardsville buildings destroyed. Losses about 2.5 million with 1 million insured.
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Dalhousie
N. B
Campbellton
Richardsville
Beverly Sproule
W. W. Doherty
Dalhousie Refugees Face Cold Restigouche Night
Authorities restored some order and began relief work tonight. Special trains delivered tents and food while those unable to stay in Dalhousie or nearby farming areas were housed under canvas. Hundreds lost possessions as a displaced group camped along the Restigouche River.
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Dalhousie
Restigouche
Boston and Cleveland Lead Sharp Hockey Pairings
The brief note lists results with Boston beating Cleveland, Philadelphia defeating Detroit, New York overcoming Chicago, and St. Louis caused a darkness delay. Teams and cities highlighted indicate a compact early 20th century sports roundup.
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Cleveland
Philadelphia
Detroit
New York
Chicago
Washington
St. Louis
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