Mystery Mr Smooth Trades In Town for Furniture Reels
A writer identifies as the Mysterious Mr Smooth visits Bejach’s and A Steinkamp’s in Fifth Street, attempts to buy Wheeler family furniture, and negotiates a small down payment amid careful evasions about his identity and residence in Burdock Hollow.
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The
Commercial Tribune
Mr. Smooth
Benjamin Wheeler
Burdock Hollow
King’s Corners
Ross County
Wheeler
A. Steinkamp
Fifth Street
Newton
Wheelers
Corryville
Kochinthaler
Montreal
Bejach
Notorious Florida con artist Carver linked to Dayton case
Dr John Carver, married man and alleged bigamist, once operated in this city and is wanted by Marshall Michigan police for a $25,000 fraud tied to pol a Davis. He is said to have 17 wives nationwide and was arrested at Ft Smith Arkansas. Detectives traced him to Mrs Evans boarding house at 11 West Highth street then to New York with Miss Storer before defrauding a Dayton woman. He reportedly earned about 150000 from marriages and claimed to work as a traveling secretary of the New York Jockey Club. The local police will defer action until the Marshall case outcome.
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Mr. Smooth
France
Wheeler
Corryville
John Carver
Ft. Smith
Ark
Carver
Marshall
Mich
Judge van Deman
Dayton
van Deman
Pittsburg Dental College
New York Jockey
Pola Davis
England
John Day
J. Newbury
Ralph Markum
Carrel Street
Salvage Corps
Joseph Jeans
Harry Cohen
Jeans
Robinson
Sixth District
Cincinnati, Georgetown, & Portsmouth Railroad
A. W. Comstock
Detroit
W. R. Todd
H. E. Sawyer
A. O. Herzog
Fire destroys East End car barn and repair shop
A $100,000 blaze devastated the Cincinnati Georgetown and Portsmouth Electric Railway workshop on Dumont Street. Eleven first class traction cars burned, with buildings valued at $25,000 to $30,000 each and insurance totaling $75,000. The fire drew two alarms and police contained a disorderly arrest amid salvage efforts.
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Cincinnati, Georgetown & Portsmouth Electric Railway Company
Dumont Street
Carrel
East End
Barge Arcadia Missing After April 12 Departure
The lumber barge Arcadia sailed from Manistee on April 12 for Two Rivers with hardwood. The captain owner Harry May and about thirteen crew are presumed lost as marine men doubt rescue possible. Wreck theories include a boiler explosion or the April 14 storm.
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Harry May
Crazy Passenger Fights Trainmen on Pennsylvania Line
Frank M. Thompson, supervisor at Grant Reese Camp in Arizona, attacked the Pennsylvan ia train crew from Logansport to Columbus on an Chicago to Philadelphia run. He was placed in a Columbus police station where he killed himself in his cell.
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Philadelphia
Frank M. Thompson
United States Geological Survey
Grant Reese Camp
Messa
Arizona
Logansport
Ind
Columbus
Taft Returns to Washington After Southern Trip
Secretary Taft resumes war department duties after a month away. He confirms plans to sail for the Philippines around September 1 and outlines a busy later-summer speaking schedule in Ohio Iowa Minnesota Oklahoma and South Dakota while noting isthmus conditions and Goethals ideas on canal contracting. The conversation with President Wilson at lunch covered recent political events and future policies.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Taft
War Department
General Bell
Department
Foraker
Ohio
Philippines
White House
Wellington
Cundall
Western Federation of Yale Clubs
Dayton
Young Men’s Christian Association
Cincinnati
Business Men's Club
Iowa
Minnesota
Oklahoma
South Dakota
Ft. Meade
Colt Fails to Break Rhode Island Senate Deadlock
Rhode Island will have a single U S Senator until January as Republicans fail to unite after eighty one ballots. The final tally lists Goddard 40, Colt 39, Wetmore 30 with 25 ballots cast in today’s session showing no change.
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Samuel P. Colt
Rhode Island
Commercial Tribune
Providence
R. L
United States
Joint Assembly
R. H. S. Goddard
Samuel
Pomeroy Colt
Bristol
George Peabody Wetmore
Newport
Telaya Prepares for Another War
Mobile dispatches report passengers from Honduras say President Telaya will declare war on Guatemala in about two months. Port Barrios natives begin sandbag fortifications while Neutrally, Zelaya is expected to turn on Guatemala. Marines and gunboats deter trouble at Ceiba and coast patrols.
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Commercial Tribune
Mobile
Ala
Honduras
Telaya
Guatemala
Port Barrios
Zelaya
Paducah
Ceiba
Marietta
Fire at East Street shops causes heavy loss in Springfield
Fire swept through the East street shops in Springfield tonight, housing Fairbanks interests and Kelley road roller works. The blaze began about 11 pm and was under control by midnight, with losses estimated near 100000 dollars and extensive damage noted from a prior 1902 fire.
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Fairbanks
Kelley Road Roller
Million Dollar Gift For Southern Negro Rural Schools
Miss Anna T. Jeanes of Philadelphia announced a gift of one million dollars to establish a fund for rudimentary schools for Southern negroes. Trustees named are Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee Institute and Dr Hollis Burke Frissell of Hampton Institute, with income dedicated to rural and community schools for black students in the Southern United States.
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Commercial Tribune
Philadelphia
Anna T. Jeanes
United States
Wind capsizes ferry boat on river near Marietta
During a severe windstorm an electric display accompanied a capsize on the river. A small gasoline powered ferry carrying eight people, operating between New Matamoras and Friendly West Virginia, was toppled but all aboard were rescued.
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Commercial Tribune
Marietta
New Matamoras
Friendly
W. Va
Britton Case Goes to Jury in Kentucky Murder Trial
In Lexington on April 23 the Britton murder case against Bill Britton, accused of killing Town Marshal James Cockrill during the Breathitt feuds of 1902, went to the jury. Key witnesses Judge James Hargis and Curt Jett testified with limited results. Jett remained silent after claiming sole presence at the courthouse. Govan Smith testified that John Smith confessed the Cockrill and Cox murders, while Abner allegedly offered a confession to Smith, which he refused.
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Commercial Tribune
Lexington
Bill Britton
James Cockrill
Breathitt
James Hargis
Curt Jett
Hargis
Cockrill
Frankfort
Govan Smith
John Smith
Cox
John Abner
Abner
Pasco
Harriman Denies Permitting Print of Notorious Letter
Edward H. Harriman testified at the final hearing in the Frank W. Hill case that he never gave permission for publication of Harriman’s letter to Sidney Webster. He said he learned The New York World possessed the letter and tried to stop it, but did not authorize print. Alexander Miller, Harriman’s secretary, stated that all original copies remain in his possession.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Edward H. Harriman
Frank W. Hill
Wahle
Harriman
Today
The
New York World
Mr. Harriman
Alexander Miller
Messrs. Moyer and Haywood
Bond Gage Broker Arrested in New York Case
In New York on April 23 O M Dennett, the broker whose room at the Manhattan Club held $20,000 worth of railroad bonds stolen from the Trust Company of North America by loan clerk W C Douglas, is in custody. President Thorne announced at a Trust Company executive committee meeting that Dennett had hypothecated securities Douglas took from the vaults. He said the maximum loss to the company could not exceed $140,000.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
O. M. Dennett
Manhattan Club
W. C. Douglas
Stollen
Trust Company of North America
Toakleigh Thorne
Thorne
Trust Company
Dennett
Douglas
Piven
Roosevelt Defends Labor Leaders and Calls Them Undesirable Citizens
President Roosevelt replies to the Cook County Moyer Haywood Conference and denounces efforts to influence justice through societies and demonstrations. He groups Moyer Haywood Debs with disreputable financiers, vows to support law abiding labor leaders, and condemns violence while asserting the square deal aims for all.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Honore Jaxon
Chicago
Cook County
Messrs
Haywood and Moyer
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