Five Pay for Assassination of Rosenthal
A recap of the 1912 Rosenthal murder case, detailing the shooters Whitey Lewis Frank Muller Cirofici Rosenberg and Horowitz paid $250 each, the role of Lt. Charles Becker, and the swift 1912 verdicts. It recounts Becker’s confession, the key tip from Gallagher, Whitman’s pursuit, and Becker’s dying declaration.
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NEW York
Herman Rosenthal
Metropole
Whitey Lewis
Frank Muller
Dago Frank
Cirofici
Louie Rosenberg
Rosenthal
Whitman
Gallagher
Ethiopia Opens Its First Spaghetti Factory
Addis Ababa sees a new spaghetti factory open as Italian influence in the empire grows. A shortage has driven spaghetti prices near one dollar per pound, highlighting the economic impact of the new plant.
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Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Little Turtle dies in 1812 burial near Fort Wayne
Meche Cumnaqua, known as Little Turtle, Mia mis chief, died July 12 1812 and was buried near Fort Wayne Indiana. He led a 1500 warrior assault that defeated a 2000 man American force under General Arthur St Clair and boasted of a 1400 enemy kill with nine fighters.
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Little Turtle
Fort Wayne
Ind
Meche Cumnaqua
Arthur St. Clair
Barnum's museums burn with great loss through years
The 1865 New York great fire at P. T. Barnum's museum caused substantial damage. Three years later another museum burned with great loss, and a third blaze in 1873 also cited great loss, destroying his remarkable menagerie.
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P. T. Barnum
New York
Barnum
Chicago's Second Great Fire of 1874 Remembered
Mid July recalls Chicago's second great blaze on July 14 1874 that left hundreds homeless and millions in property damage, a disaster eclipsed by the 1871 Great Fire in memory and scale.
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Chicago
General Tom Thumb Remembered On 53rd Death Anniversary
The famed performer Charles Sherwood Stratton known as General Tom Thumb died at 45. He stood forty inches tall in shoes and weighed never more than seventy pounds. Exhibited by P. T. Barnum from age four, he later toured Europe and was a royal guest at Buckingham Palace three times. He married Lavinia Warren in Grace Church New York in 1863 and built a substantial fortune through shrewd business sense.
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Tom Thumb
Barnum
Europe
Buckingham Palace
Lavinia Warren
Grace Church
New York
Tom
Charles Sherwood Stratton
Connecticut
Thuringia town fights June bugs for penny bounty
In Muehlhausen Thuringia residents baited and trapped June bugs for a penny per pound and collected about 18 500 pounds of the pests as a community bounty effort.
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Muehlhausen
Thuringia
Mailbox finds reveal old letters from 1908 to 1918
Workmen dismantling an old street mailbox in Myddleton Road Bowes Park found letters wedged inside dated 1908 to 1918. The letters were delivered along with notes of apology from the post office.
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London
Myddleton Road
Bowes Park
Schoolboys Incite Fire At Schabetz High
Jugoslavia Schabetz high school students failed to force the superintendent’s office door to destroy reports then set a small fire. Little damage occurred but records showed half the school had low marks that could motive the act.
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Schabetz
Jugoslavia
Schabetz High School
Bernard Kaplan Forms Club After Failed Suicide Attempt
Bernard Kaplan organized a club for unsuccessful would be personal crisis reports after being frustrated by police during a suicide attempt. Police shut down the club deeming it contrary to the public interest.
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Warsaw
Bernard Kaplan
District of Columbia Established by Maryland Grant
The District of Columbia was formally established on July 16, 1790 largely through Maryland’s influence. Maryland donated ten square miles and $72,000 for public buildings, Virginia added $120,000, and the district grew into the national capital despite a brief British occupation in 1812.
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Maryland
District of Columbia
Virginia
Obregon Shot At Banquet In San Angel Mexico City
In San Angel near Mexico City a banquet for President-Elect Alvaro Obregon ends in tragedy as Juan de L Toral, a sketch artist, fires a pistol at Obregon after presenting his drawings. Six shots strike the president-elect mortally wounding him while the band continues to play. General Aaron Saenz sits nearby.
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San Angel
Mexico City
la Bombilla
Alvaro Obregon
Juan de L. Toral
Aaron Saenz
Obregon
Zanelli Removes Name From Brescia Monument
Blackshirt Luigi Zanelli returned from Ethiopia to chis el his name off a Brescia monument to the dead. He had been listed as killed in the Amba Urok battle, a funeral mass was held, and his name was carved on the square monument before he, wounded, led a patriotic parade and removed his name.
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Brescia
Italy
Luigi Zanelli
Ethiopia
Amba Urok
Zanelli
Lion cubs gifted from Italian Ethiopia arrive in Rome
The Lion of Judah Haile Selassie is defeated and Mussolini sends two lion cubs as a first gift from Italian Ethiopia. Viceroy Graziani dispatches the cubs who are quickly sent to a Rome zoo.
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Rome
Mussolini
Ethiopia
Graziani
Il Duce
Austerfield Manor House Delayed Demolition
Doncaster England pending funds keep the Austerfield manor house from demolition. The birthplace of William Bradford, second governor of Plymouth Colony, was condemned as unfit for habitation earlier.
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Doncaster
Eng
Austerfield
William Bradford
Plymouth Colony
Blind graduates in Zagreb high school honored
In Zagreb six blind boys graduated with honors after studying mathematics with lead numbers and taking notes in Braille at the city high school for the visually impaired.
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Zagreb, Jugoslavia
Zagreb High School
Experimental post office on wheels announced in Commons
London reports an experimental post office on wheels under construction to meet telegraph and telephone demand at special events. A tractor will tow the mobile facility as discussed in the house of commons.
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London
House of Commons
Birdseye Grant Northrop and the Arbor Day movement
Birdseye Grant Northrop born July 18 1817 promoted village improvement societies after 14 years of nationwide lectures. He urged communities to form groups for sanitation streets and living conditions, helping make Arbor Day widely observed and tree planting more than academic.
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Birdseye Grant Northrop
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