Marin i Manchu Wireless Expert Remembered at Roswell
Luigi Martini Manchu a longtime instructor at the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell drowned when the steamer Batavier V was sunk. He later worked for the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company after visiting London and Naples in 1912. He was the younger son of a titled Italian family and became a naturalized citizen.
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Luigi Martini Manchu
Batavier V
New Mexico Military Institute
London
Naples
Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company
Nurse Emily McCoy Plans Return to Pitcairn Island
Bridgeport Connecticut May 17 After eight years in the United States Miss Emily McCoy a physician's assistant and trained nurse prepares to depart for her birthplace a dot of land in the mid eastern Pacific She may become queen of Pitcairn Island where her father’s subjects live Her mother died in agony due to lack of medical care prompting her long effort to learn medicine and await a voyage home
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Conn
United States
Emily McCoy
Pacific
Pitcairn Island
Miss McCoy
Pitcairn
Miss McCoy to lead Pitcairn home with piano aboard
Miss McCoy plans to return to Pitcairn Island aboard a British warship carrying a piano. Pitcairn, 100 miles west of the Society Islands, has 195 residents with an English-speaking, intermarried community, a seven-member parliament, and a monarchic line in the McCoy family.
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Miss McCoy
Pitcairn Island
Paumotu Archipelago
Society Islands
Great Britain
Tahiti
Pitcairn
Episcopal Clergy Hear Billy Sunday Advocate in Boston
Reverend Floyd W. Tompkins of Holy Trinity Philadelphia spoke at the Church of the Advent and Park Street Church urging support for Billy Sunday. Episcopal leaders listened closely, asking questions as some considered attending his Boston tabernacle meetings.
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Billy Sunday
Floyd W. Tompkins
Holy Trinity Church of
Philadelphia
Church of the Advent
Park Street Church
Tompkins
Boston
Sunday campaign sparks debate on revival evangelist value
Boston ministers argue over Rev. Sunday’s revival work. Dr. Tompkins defends his gospel as personal, noncommercial and effective, noting 10 percent charity gifts and many helped souls. He cites Philadelphia Stone Masons fellowship growth and urges cooperation to spread the gospel.
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Tabernacle
Reginald Heber Howe
Church of Our
Dr. Tompkins
Dr. Howe
Sunday
Philo W. Sprague
St. John's Church
Charlestown
Sprague
Boston Sunday Campaign Committee
Park Street
Philadelphia
Stone Me
No Bishops Elected At Methodist Conference
At Saratoga Springs New York on May iv the Methodist Episcopal general conference failed to elect any of seven new bishops or general superintendents after four ballots. Leading candidate Rev Matt J Hughes of Pasadena had 454 votes and trailed by 76 votes. Also prominent were Rev Adna W Leonard of Seattle President Herbert Welch of Ohio and others from Chicago and Washington DC.
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Saratoga Springs
N. Yu
Methodist Episcopal General Conference
Matt 3. Hughes
Pasadena
Cal
Pacific Coast
Adna W. Leonard
Seattle
Wash
Herbert Welch
Ohio
Wealeran University
Charles B. Mitchell
Chicago
Franklin Llamilton
American University
Washington, D. C
Waltot
Baron Hardinge Returns to Foreign Affairs Post
Baron Hardinge, former viceroy of India and from 1904 to 1910 permanent under-secretary, will temporarily resume the foreign affairs post succeeding Sir Arthur Nicolson who retires due to ill health. The Foreign Office announced Nicolson wished to retire at the war’s start but stayed, then again asked to retire, and Hardinge agreed to take the role temporarily.
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London
Baron Hardinge
India
Arthur Nicolson
Foreign Office
Baron Vlardinge
Naval Engagement Off Belgian Coast Ends Without Casualties
A naval encounter occurred yesterday off the Belgian coast between British destroyers and monitors and German destroyers. The British force withdrew after a short fight, and there were no British casualties. The report is confirmed by an official statement.
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London
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