Ohio Pilot Narrow Escape Shocks Balloon Race
Goodyear of Akron with pilot Preston led the field in a national elimination balloon race postponed by unsettled weather. Hoosier, piloted by Warren of Brookville, was damaged before takeoff and eliminated. Remaining balloons including America II and San Francisco 191% continued, with weather forecasts predicting southeast to northwest currents toward the Great Lakes.
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Special Dispatch
Commercial Tribune
ST. Louis
Goodyear
Akron
Preston
The
Louis
Resor
Dayton
America II
Jerome Kingsbury
Cc. L. Wynne
San Francisco
Cole
R. E. Emerson
Uncle Sam
P. Hanes
W. H. Trefts
Miss Sofia
William F. "Auoenh
Aero Club of America
John Berry
Albert von Hoffmann, Jr
Kansas City
John Watts
W. F. Comstock
Grio
Pennsylvania
A. T
Abherholt
Philip Sharples
Ala
A.D. Preston
M. D. Tremelin
Weather Bureau
Great Lakes
Power in Railway World Expires Melville Ingalls
Melville E. Ingalls financier and railroad man died in Hot Springs Virginia of heart failure. He had been declining for months and suffered a tooth infection three days earlier. Survived by widow Miss Gladys Ingalls and four sons including Melville E. Ingalls Jr Fay Ingalls George H. Ingalls and Albert S. Ingalls. Funeral arrangements to Cincinnati. Page 8 column 5 continuation.
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Melville E. Ingalls
Cincinnati
Virginia
E. Ingalls
Mr. Ingalls
Diness
Gladys Ingalls
Unitarian Sens
Eae
Taft
John Ww. War
Gest
Arthur Spern
Frank Wivory
Judson Harmon
B. F. Osborne
W. W. Brown
Joseph Wilby
William Worthington
C. E. Holmes
George Simson
Los Angeles
Melville E. Ingalls, Jr
Fay Ingalls
New York
George H. Ingalls
Chicago
Albert S. Ingalls
Cleveland
Empress of Ireland Disaster Attributed to Storstad Officer
A wreck commission found the collier Storstad guilty for the Empress of Ireland sinking. Third officer Alfred Tuftenes altered course without captain’s instruction, kept helm in fog, and caused a rapid capsize with 1000 plus lives lost. The report weighs blame and asks why the ship sank so fast, urging safety changes.
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Spetial
Commercial Tribune
Quebec
Storstad
Alfred Tuftenes
St. Lawrence
Tiftenes
Ireland
Father Point
Tuftenes
American wins London to Paris air race
Walter L. Brock, an American aviator, led the London to Paris race finishing first at Buck Aerodromes in Paris with a 3 hour 33 minute flight from London. Lord John Gurberg and Raul Garros followed, Brock then began the return journey to London arriving at 4:48 p.m.
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Brock
London
Disturber IV Ready for Championship Race
Disturber IV an 1800 horsepower hydroplane built by James A. Pugh completed final trial in Chicago. It will sail to Cowes England for the August 15 world championship race against foreign boats. Test runs reached fifty miles per hour with the boat lifting on four points of the water and minimal vibration.
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The
Commercial Tribune
Chicago
James A. Pugh
Cowes
England
Lord John Caryn's Air Race Mishap Over English Channel
In a London to Paris aerial race a participant fell into the English Channel midway across. He deployed a belt float to stay afloat until rescue by a steamer.
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Commercial Tribune
London
Lord John Carbery
Paris
Haif
A. pResing
Cambridge coal strike ends with new wage pact
Twenty thousand Cambridge district coal miners will return to work next week after A. Augustus of Cleveland signed a new wage contract for 22 Cambridge and Eastern Ohio mines. The agreement sets mine basis pay of 47 cents per ton for machine mined coal and 67.6 cents for pick mined coal with crews to start Monday. Union leaders see a broader settlement across Eastern Ohio as districts align with the Hocking operators.
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Commercial Tribune
Columbus, CO
Cambridge
A. A. Augustus
Cleveland
Cambridge Collieries' Company
Hocking Valley
Hocking
William,Green
United Mineworkers of America
John Moore
Ohio Organization
Ohio
Belmont
Jefferson
Harrison
Stark
Augustus, Whore Company
Augustus
Tiga Toate Towers
Bitter attack on J D Rockefeller at New York memorial
In Union Square New York about seven thousand attended a July 11 ceremony for the three victims of the July 4 bomb blast. Alexander Berkman spoke first attacking John D Rockefeller accusing him of murder and responsibility for the deaths.
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The
Commercial Tribune
New York
Industrial Workers of the World
Free Speech League
Union Square
Alexander Berkman
John D. Rockefeller
Joi _D. Rockefeller
Heroism test in life policy dispute over payment
The Ohio Supreme Court was asked to decide if an act of heroism that risks life forfeits accident insurance protection. Samuel Hickman of Cleveland died May 3 1913 at a motor drome while helping pull a fallen rider from traffic. His widow sued for 600 dollars after the insurer refused payment citing unnecessary risk. Lower courts ruled for the widow and the company appealed.
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Columbus
Supreme Court
Samuel Hickman
Cleveland
Ohio State Life Insurance Company
Hickman
600 Passengers aboard grounded steamer Rosedale
The steamer Rosedale carrying 600 passengers ran aground off Raffle bar near the harbor soon after 1 AM while en route from Rockaway to the Battery. Sailors prepared to transfer passengers to other boats dispatched from the harbor to the scene.
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Rosedale
Rockaway
Raffle Bar
Vicereine of India dies after operation in London
Special Cable reports Lady Winifred Selina Hardinge 46 wife of Baron Hardinge of Penhurst Viceroy of India died in a London hospital following an operation. The late Vicereine survived a 1912 Delhi bomb attack during the capital transfer from Calcutta to Delhi. Her death ends a noted life tied to imperial ceremonies and Royal circles.
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Hardinge
Oc- Eireann
Ettendan Eer Alexandra
Cox indicted by Whitacre for 20 counts in Ohio race
Governor James M. Cox faces a 20 count indictment drafted by his rival for renomination Congressman John J. Whitacre. Whitacre will present the indictment at a New Philadelphia jury session on August 11, the primary election day, as part of a statewide campaign against Cox and his administration. The charges accuse Cox of undermining referendum rights, expanding executive power, and creating a patronage laden state machine.
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Cox
Whitacre
Indictment Focus Shifts in Carman Wife Case
Eye-witness claim emerges as Nassau County DA plans grand jury indictment against Mrs. Carman wife of Dr Edwin Carman charged in the Louise Bailey murder at Freeport. Counsel alleges Carman maid Ceceli Coleman was kidnapped. DA denies knowledge.
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The
Commercial Tribune
Mineola
N. Y
Louise Bailey
Edwin Carman
Freeport
Lewis I. Smith
George Levy
Carman
Ceceli Coleman
Four Die In Heat Wave In St Louis Record Bloom
Four persons died and several were prostrated as a heat wave broke records in St Louis. At 4 pm government thermometers showed 102 on the roof and 109 on a street kiosk. The city forecast offered no relief. among the dead were John J. Farley, 53, freight cashier for the Frisco railroad, and John Wipke, 36, president of the Hesperian Rowing Club, stricken at his desk and at the club boathouse on Creve Coeur Lake.
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The
Commercial Tribune
ST. Louis
John J. Farley
St. Louis && Sancisco
Frisco
John Wipke
Hesperian, Rowing Club
Farley
Wipke
Creve
Coeur Lake
Woman seeks name change to simplify spelling
Miss Maude Getzendanner told Acting Probate Judge Kinkead that people mispronounce and misspell her name. She requested a shorter form to avoid embarrassment, asking the court to grant a name change to Gets.
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the Commercial Tribune
Columbus
Knight Charter Collapse Over Fares Debate
At Peebles Corner Walter A Knight admitted parts of the proposed charter are unconstitutional. A questioner showed the charter would let the Traction Company control 1916 fares, forcing Knight to retreat from his position as critics pressed for answers about fare revisions and the Public Utilities Commission. The discussion concluded with Knight admitting council oversight while scrutiny highlighted potential loss of citizen appeal.
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Walter A. Knight
Peebles Corner
Traction Company
Knight
George Scrugham
Drayman
Scrugham
Public Utilities Commission
Utilities Commission
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Disturber
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J. C. Rockefeller
Berkman
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Protective Order of Elks
Grand Lodge
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India
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Hos
Pital
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Baron Hardinge
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