Aviators Weymann and Chavez Fail Alpine Flight Attempt
In Arts Switzerland on September 19, American Weymann and Peruvian Chavez attempted an across the Alps by aeroplane. They both failed after aborting near the Rhone valley, but demonstrated promising flight under better weather. Chavez reached near a mile altitude before descending, while Weymann also faced strong winds and landed safely at valley bottom.
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Arts
Switzerland
Chavez
Weymann
Eneros
Rhone
Chavex
Magmiere
Milan
Pittsburg Pastor Almost Mobbed Over Attempted Child Sale
Rev. Thomas Board, pastor of Wylie Ave Mechareh in Pittsburg, faced a near mob after attempting to auction two of his five children in Circleville, Pennsylvania, to support the remaining three. He defended the act as poverty driven, but citizens stopped the sale and he withdrew the auction. Board is a Prohibition candidate for the legislature.
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Pittsburg
Thomas Board
Wylie Ave Mechareh
Circleville
Board
Boord
Grand Army Encampment Opens in Atlantic City
The Grand Army of the Republic national HQ opened today on the Ocean pier at Tennessee avenue. Veterans who reunite after years showed joy and sorrow for departed comrades as plans by Colonel Herbert to hold a large Blue and Gray meeting are discussed during the week.
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Atlantic City
N. Js
Grand Army of the Republic
Ocean Pier
Tennessee Avenue
Herbert
Heiress of Grecian Throne Nears Death in Starvation Plight
Aged Countess Nicholas, 76, linked to Sir James Davison and Queen Elizabeth's era, faces dire poverty in Rutland boarding halls. Her decline follows the deaths and losses of wealth, with relatives including N L Bishop and William Vanderbilt noted in her storied life.
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Rutland
Aines
Nicholas
James Davison
Ewartne
Wa Aes Fou Irving
Nicholas Readedker
Janes Davinon
Queen Elizabeth
Newark
N. L. Bishop
Jay Gould
Wiliam H. Vanderbilt
Sheas Nicholas
New York
Anastasios Nicholas
Greece
Turkey
Motor Boat Cleans Rapids From Cataract to Lewiston
Capt Klaus Larsen piloted the Ferre a motor boat from the Maid of the Mist dock at 4 45 p m through the whirlpool rapids to within a mile of Lewiston about four and a half miles. The boat leaked badly at the finish but he reached the shore. The craft struck a rock and overturned near the canal bridge as he battled the river bends.
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Niagara Falls
Klaus Larsen
Ferre
Lewiston
Larsen
Grent
Ferro
Saloon Rivalry Sparks Spite Church in Bronx
New York reports a saloon rivalry in the Bronx led to a wooden chapel opened for worship with about thirty parishioners. One saloonkeeper donated the land within 200 feet of the rival’s door to force closure when licenses expired, while the other vows to retaliate by building another church on property owned by a relative within 200 feet.
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New York
Bronx
Taft Aims Fortifications and Battleships for Panama Canal
President Taft, in Beverly Massachusetts, plans to urge Congress in December to appropriate 900000 to start fortifying the Panama Canal with heavy guns. He also seeks two new dreadnought battleships and believes two ships yearly can continue until canal completion, after which naval production may slow.
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Beverly
Mass
Taft
Congress
Panama Canal
Large lead colored steamship sighted in gale off Beauford
Wilmington report says no trace was found of the large lead colored steamship that anchored two miles off Beauford yesterday as a gale sounded distress signals.
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Wilmington
N. C
Beauford
Democrats Name Carey or Kuykendall for Governor
Sheridan Wy Sept 19 Democrats debate the gubernatorial nomination with former Senator J M Carey Independent Republican and Judge W Kuykendall of Saratoga as contenders. Delegates discuss whether Carey can win with full Democratic ticket support and platform alignment and potential friction among Johnson and Sheridan counties. A separate court case sees Beatrice de Baldwin financing her bid to prove she is the late Baldwin’s daughter.
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Sheridan
Wyo
J. M. Garey
Cheyenne
Yies
W. Kwykendall
Saratoga
Rovkribbed Hana
Ehal
Johnson County
Carey
Johnson
Lis Noon
Wong
St Hinks
Kuykendall
Baldwin
Pimwt Pork Monkey
Los Angeles
Beatrice de Baldwin
Beatice Anita Turnbull
Bowton
B. J
Lucky
Whirling teeth kill five at Arringdale sawmill
A Camp Manufacturing Company sawmill accident at Arringdale near Emporia Virginia killed one man beheaded another crushed into a mass and badly mangled three others when a worker pulled a lever wrong turning five men into the whirling teeth. Efforts to stop the machinery came too late and a grisly scene followed with clothing snagged on the saw.
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Emporia
Camp Manufacturing Company
Arringdale
Unfrocked priest seeks return, vows, in Rome letter
Alphonso Consolizo, the ex priest who married 16 year old Katherine Johann of Trenton, wrote to her father Franz Johann saying his nerve failed at the Vatican gates and he now wishes to return to Trenton to start life with his bride. He offers wine and statuary as a bribe to be allowed back, but Johann rejects him and warns he will turn him away.
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Trenton
N. J
Alphonse M. Consolizo
Rome
Katherine Johann
Franz Johann
Vatican
Consolizo
Johann
Fatal double tragedy ends in gunfire at Bent Street room
Lena Hills a woman who passed as white and Adolph Hackey a colored barber killed each other with a pistol at 1500 Bent street yesterday morning. The couple had quarrelled after months of an unstable relationship with threats to abandon Hackey for a white soldier. Police and coroner sent remains to the Gleason morgue. no money or witnesses were present.
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Bent Street
Ptelodk
Lena Hills
Adolph Hackey
Red Light District
Hackey
Embery
Downie
McCarthy
Desmond
Gléason
Farmer Loses Cows After Chewed Dynamite
In Kentucky at AHascow on September 19 farmer William Bridges brought two sticks of dynamite home in a wagon. He left them under a shed for the night and found two cows dead next morning. A piece of chewed dynamite explained the accident.
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Ahascow
Wilam Bridges
Taft and Roosevelt Confer Lacking Warmth on Train Meeting
On September 1 Taft and Roosevelt met aboard Taft's train en route to Albany after Roosevelts Africa trip. The cordiality was thin as they discussed New York politics and the 1902 nomination. Roosevelt sought clarity on moral support while Taft affirmed his New York position and the party stance on conventions and nominations.
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Taft
Albany
Africa
Col. Roonevelt
New Haven
Yale Corporation
Roosevelt
New York State
Rocmerell
Tafte
Ronnevelt
New York
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Colw Mdiack
HB. Ferguson
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Maine Commission
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Cuba
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Haitlsy B. Ferguson
United States War Department Commission
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W. B. Ross
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