Boston girl beats odds in 10 mile river swim
Miss Annie Morecroft 15 of Boston swims from the Battery to Twenty third Street New York against a strong incoming tide after Miss Rose Pitonof fails to appear. She abandons a lighthouse attempt and completes a swift river crossing in favorable time, narrowly escaping debris at Pier A.
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Annie Morecroft
Boston
Rose Pitonof
Battery
Sandy Hook
Miss Pitonof
Miss Morecroft
Muis Pitonof
Hudson
Pier A
Twenty-third Street
Taft Roosevelts Convention to Meet in New York
Plans announce a National League of Republican Clubs convention to be held in New York Friday and Saturday with President Taft Colonel Roosevelt about 15 Republican Governors 20 U S Senators and 30 members of the House expected to attend. A dinner Saturday night at the Hotel Astor will honor Taft with 2100 covers.
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New York
National League of Republican Clubs
Taft
Roosevelt
United States
Congress
Union
Hotel Astor
Trainmen Vote Unanimously for Political Action
In New York 308000 railway employees across four divisions vote to organize concerted action in national and State politics marking a historic union meeting to day.
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New York
Brotherhood leaders urge rail labor voters to back pro worker bills
Warren S. Stone of Cleveland head of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers declares that questions should be settled at the ballot box and urges votes for candidates who support safety appliances employer liability laws pensions hours of labor and related issues. The meeting plans eight questions to state and national candidates and asks executives to press I C C rate hike hearings.
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Cleveland
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Legislature
House of Representatives
W. G. Lee
Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen
A. B. Garretson
Cedar Rapids
Order of Railway Conductors
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
Interstate Commerce Commission
Railway Brotherhoods
Trial Flight of Big Dirigible Today
Atlantic City reports Walter Wellman's airship America ready for trial flights with plans to depart for the Irish or English coast on Friday if no mishap occurs. The craft carries substantial ballast and new equipment as it readies to begin its voyage potentially reporting back to New York London and Chicago papers by wireless.
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Boston
Mr. Bird
Bugs
Marshall Field & Co
Chicago
John Wanamaker
New York
Philadelphia
Fritz & LaRue
Europe
Asia
Orient
Abdul Hamid
Sultan
Turkey
Osmanli
England
Edward VII
Bird
Constantinople
Atlantic City
America
Walter Wellman
Atlantic
Wellman
London
Arctic
Sandy Hook
Sunday Ball Games Condemned by Catholic Group
The Archdiocesan Federation of Catholic Societies adopted resolutions condemning Sunday baseball and political rallies as derogatory to the Lord's Day. The semi annual meeting in Boston drew eighty five delegates and fourty six executive board members, representing about 356,000 adults in the archdiocese.
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Archdiocesan Federation of Catholic Societies
Archdiocese of
Boston
Lynn Churches Observe Hospital Day
Lynn churches held Hospital Day with collections for Lynn Hospital. President Luther B. Johnson said collections should exceed last year’s total of $20,000 raised from churches and related efforts.
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Lynn
Lynn Hospital
Luther 8. Johnson
The
Hospital Corporation
Western innovations showcased on China trip by Edwards group
Brigadier General Clarence R. Edwards head of the bureau of insular affairs and his party will end their visit tomorrow. The trip has featured a round of entertainments and a display of western innovations not seen before in China.
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Clarence R. Edwards
Bureau of Insular Affairs
China
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