Narragansett club raid shocks summer colony crowd
A Sunday raid by Constable Cross and five deputies at the Narragansett club nets about a hundred people, including thirty society women, with several fainting. Names kept private. Mrs Hannan and John J Hannan among those arrested as police clash with fashionables. A separate note reports Forester Potter authorizing Western districts to employ the army to help battle forest fires.
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Naragansett Pler
Narragansett Club
John G. Crosa
John
J. Hannan
Hannan
Randolph
Cross
James
Y. Ivins
Willian M. Ivins
New York
John J. Cummings
Iving
Constable Cross
T. J. McKenna
Narragansett
William Be Arnold
Cudahy Heir Faces Divorce Suit Over Family Crisis
In New York Aug 8 Jerem Lillis the Kansas City banker declared he will not marry Mrs Cudahy amid divorce rumors. Jack Cudahy plans to sue for divorce and custody of four children after an earlier Kansas City incident where he attacked Lillis with a chauffeur before summoning help. Mrs Cudahy vows she would risk life to keep her children as the family dispute unfolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Tillis
Kansas City
Jack Cudahy
Cudahy
East Thirty-sixth Street
Millions Buried in Great Lakes Wealth Sunk Capacities
Capt Ellis J. Holland of San Francisco estimates 12 million dollars in iron copper steel and machinery lie at the bottom of the Great Lakes. From 1878 to 1898 about 6,000 vessels were wrecked on these inland seas with 1,100 total losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Aug
Ellis J. Holland
San Francisco
Great Lakes
Woman Who Betrayed Wendling Demands Reward
Myra Cora Maena of Hume Missouri betrayed Joseph Wendling in the Alma Kellner murder case and traveled with him to Kansas City. Louisville police intercepted notes linking Wendling to the crime and offered a reward of about 96000 for his arrest. The accused sat in a Pullman car as detectives discussed plans to use Maena to lure Wendling.
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Kansas City
Aug
Myra
Cora Maena
Murimer
Hume
Joseph Wendling
Alma Kellner
Louisville
Kansas Ciy
Wendling
Loulavilles
France
Inspector Carney
Major Lindsey
Loulavile Police
Mia
Muena
Spector Hoyle
Griffin
Kangas City
Congult
Carney
Wead- Mig
Rawarda
Congressman's solicited money alleged in Oklahoma inquiry
McAlmster Oklahoma August 8 Jake L Hamon told the congressional investigation committee that Congressman C B Creager paid funds to Indian McMurray through loans while a bill selling Indian lands surface and mineral rights to the government was pending in Congress. Hamon sought Creager recall and witnesses. Creager said he applied for a $4000 loan from the state school fund in Washington but was denied.
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Congress
Hamon
McMurray
Creager
Stendh
Alttorney
Parke Anderson
Eid
Muskogee
Aug
Ifamon
Washington
Rect nominations plan is defeated in New York
Beverly Massachusetts August report notes Timothy L. Woodruff Republican state chairman of New York says a compromise on primary legislation ends Hughes plan for direct nominations. Woodruff quotes Roosevelt and Taft not ready to force their own preferred system.
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Beverly
Mass
Timothy L. Woodruff
New York
Taft
Hughes
Woodruff
Roongvelt
Unknown runaway boy killed on Union Pacific freight train
In Fretta Wyoming on August 8 a sixteen year old hitchhiker fell under wheels at Solon station while riding an eastbound UP freight. The youth was crushed and unidentifiable. A coroner’s inquest was ordered.
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Rawlins
Wyo
Union Pacific
Solon
Mum Is the Work Says Teddy Advises Politicians
Read as a chronicle of Theodore Roosevelt’s public actions from June to mid July, detailing his meetings with Governor Hughes, support for third-term talk, alignment with insurgents, and hints at internal party strategy aimed at shaping the Republican field and government leadership. The theater of his influence spans Cambridge to Kansas rhetoric, with implications for Taft Ballinger tensions.
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New York
Ake
Roosevelt
Africa
Theodore Roosevelt
Hughes
Elt
Drdeva
Cobb
Soldier Fights Girl Rescuer at Long Island Sound
Peter Harvey, a young army private at Port Slocum, lies delirious in a fort cot after Anna Moran, a 20 year old girl, saved him from drowning while he tried to commit suicide to escape desertion. He had joined only weeks ago and swam a mile from the fort toward Glen Island before rescue.
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New York
Peter Harvey
Port Slocum
Long Island Sound
Taving
Anna Moran
Long Ialand Sound
Arvey
Glen Island
New Colorado & Southern Line Crosses Eddy Street In City
Construction of a new Colorado & Southern rail line progresses through Eddy street toward Carey avenue. Track laying advances across Snyder Bent O'Neil and Thomas streets as Bealer and Weltz saloon and the Year of the Recker hotel are moved to clear the right of way. Union Pacific shows no opposition, with eventual connection to the Burlington yards expected once Capitol avenue is reached. The line uses eighty pound steel and creosoted pine ties with concrete culverts, and the moving contractor aims to have the hotel site cleared by the 20th inst and ready to cross Capitol avenue by the 22nd.
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Colorado & Southern
Eddy Street
Carey Avenue
Snyder
Bent
O'Neil
Thomas
Colorado Railroad Company
Burlington
Union Pacific
Bealer & Weltz Saloon
Recker
Capitol Avenue
Aviators Set TransFrance Cross Country Record Pace
The August Paris to Troyes cross country air race saw eight aviators reach Troyes on day one amid grand crowds. Participants include Le Blanc Aubrun Mamet Lindpainter Le Flagneux Bregule Busson Weynan and American Hubert Latham who attempted the full course despite illness. Latham diverted from Paris and landed near Dyoux after about fifty two miles, while three military planes march to join competitors en route to Nancy.
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al Parks
Les Molineaux
Troyes
Nancy
Mesires
Charleville
Dowal
Amens
de Hutte
Colle
Dyoux
Pars
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M’murray
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Garfield
Chicago
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