Casablanca Bombarded by French Warships in Moroccan Coast Clash
Tangier reports Casablanca on the Moroccan coast subjected to bombardment by French cruisers after Moors fired first. French and Spanish landing parties supported by the cruiser Galilee and the cruiser Dr Chayla engaged Moorish resistance. around two thousand rounds fired. No European deaths. Moors suffered heavy casualties. European residents remained ashore or evacuated to consulates or German and British vessels.
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Tangier
Casablanca
France
Spain
Marinée
Ers
Morocco
Europe
Anatole
Branshreen
Don Alvaro de Bazan
Franco Spanish note confirms commitment to Aigueras convention terms
France and Spain inform all signatories including the United States that they will uphold the Aigeiras convention in handling the Moroccan situation. The next steps depend largely on developments at Casablanca following its occupation.
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France
Spain
United States
Morocco
Casablanca
French Seamen Brave Charge Secures Casablanca
Dispatch from Mangier in The Times praises French government actions at Casablanca and admires French seamen who, facing overwhelming numbers, charged with bayonets to protect European residents. The article notes shots fired at the French consulate and Moorish troops closing the gate, with French sailors pushing through over fallen foes to clear a path for relief forces.
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London
Mangier
Times
Casablanca
Galilee
Moroccan Crisis Reports Street Fighting in Casablanca
A Tangier dispatch describes intense street fighting and bombardment in Casablanca that continued through Sunday. French ships fired about 2000 shells. casualties include Moorish dead and refugees arriving on the steamer Anatole. The conflict was ongoing as of 6 pm Sunday.
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Paris
Tangier
Casablance
Gillea
Baseball Scores From National and American Leagues
National League games highlighted Cincinnati and Chicago results with Ewing Schiel Brown Kling and others noted for batteries. Brooklyn Pittsburgh and Boston show varied scores with McIntyre Bergen and Gibson among key players. American League includes Boston St Louis Philadelphia New York Chicago with Howell Dygert Powers Smith Sullivan and Chesbro prominent. New England action at Haverhill Worcester and Lawrence features Bushey Knotts Moore Madden and Hartman in score summaries.
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Cincinnati
Incinnati E
Brown
Kling
Taylor
Bresnahan
Pittsburg
Brooklyn
McIntyre
Bergen
Philipp
Gibson
SOE S.H
Eescecives
Willis
Phelps
Bell and Ritter
Boston
St. Louis
Vewecehe
Howell and
Spencer
Glaze
Morgan and Shaw
Philadelphia
Dygert
Powers
Clarkson and Clark
New York
Chicago
Smith and Sullivan
Moore, Chesbro and
Kleinow
New England League
Haverhill
UOUR
Worcester
Bushey
Sonoma Girl Wins Empire State Stakes at Kenilworth Park
Sonoma Girl won the Empire State stakes for $10,000 at Kenilworth Park in Buffalo on August 7. She broke early in heats one and three, crashed the fence and rider J. D. Springer escaped injury, but despite a shattered sulky she won the fourth and deciding heat.
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Sonoma Girls
Game Buffalo
Sonoma Girl
Kenilworth Park
J. D. Springer
Verdict in train collision in New York cited negligence
The coroner's jury found that Clarence Leseur died from the negligence of IRT trainmaster Howard K. Duffy and night station inspector Michael B. O'Brien in the July 16 elevated train collision. It recommended they be held for grand jury on manslaughter charges and censured the Interborough company for inadequate crowd transportation facilities.
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New York
Clarence. Leseur
Howard K. Duffy
Michael B. O’brien
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Interborough Company
Venezuela Settles Belgians Claims by Arbitration
Venezuela informs Belgium it will pay Belgian creditors two million dollars in recognition of arbitration. Belgium warned of protests to the powers and the United States if Venezuela refused. In New Hampshire, Eddy case depositions were postponed again with George W. Glover in court.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Belgium
United States
Eddy
Goncord
N. H
Cook
New Hampshire
Mary B. G. Eddy
George W. Glover
Disappearance After Note Points to Possible Suicide
Beverly police search for 19 year old Ethel Cox a shoe catcher who vanished from her Wenham boarding house last Saturday leaving a note for her father saying she intended to drown herself Authorities report she appeared in good spirits before departing and the case remains unresolved as patrols and inquiries continue
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Beverly
Mass
Ethel Cox
Wenham
Prosecution Fight Rumors Stir Across Rail Lines
Reports from Chicago and New York indicate conferences among Standard Oil officials and railroad executives to block further government prosecutions. Chicago and Alton, Chicago Burlington and Quincy, and Chicago and Eastern Illinois lines are named as participants. In London the Irish tenants bill passed a second Lords reading amid Lord Clanrickade’s harsh denunciation of the measure.
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Chicago
Standard Oil Company
New York
Chicago Record-Herald
Chicago and Alton
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Robuery
Vacation notes and local moves in Marlboro area
Marlboro residents and visitors are listed in a long roster of vacations relocations engagements and social notes. Names include Miss Winnie O Donnell Mrs Patrick McEnelly Miss Régina Murphy and Miss Mary Jordan plus many others returning from trips to Nantasket Providence Holyoke and Northboro. Several changes of residence and jobs are noted along with a baby birth and a Daughters of Veterans outing at Brant Rock.
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Winnie O'Donnell
Nantasket
Patrick McEnelly
Commonwealth Ave
Providence
Régina Murphy
Holyoke
Mary Jordan
Bridget
Michael McGee
Agnes
Catherine
Alice McGee
Margaret Giblin
Nellie Corcoran
Myrtle P. Skinner
Mechanic St
Imogene Forbush
Northboro Road
Bessie Bowlby
Pearl St
Pearl Sanford
Hom
East Northfield
Irving Gates
Pleasant St
Austin Mulhearn
Howland St
Benjamin Lewis
Arthur Moore
Gibbon
Boston
John Neville
Ware
Bay State Clothing Co
William Potts
Worcester
Neville
Lee
Daughters of Veterans
Brant Rock
S. Elizabeth Trull
Lillian Maynard
Hattie Boyd
Nina Brown
Theresa Perry
Ada Brown
Flora Parker
Gertrude Howard
Japanese Admiral Gombei Yamamoto Visits Country
Admiral Baron Gombei Yamamoto of the Imperial Japanese Navy, welcomed as a visiting statesman and sailor, served as minister of marine during the Russo Japanese War and led Japanese naval strategy. Aged fifty four last September, he is among the world’s youngest full admirals and helped shape the navy’s modern structure. He distinguished himself in the War with China and earned rapid promotion after the Battle of the Yalu. In 1900 he joined the supreme cabinet, and his constructive leadership is credited with organizing the navy’s current framework.
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Baron Gombei Yamamoto
Imperial Japanese Navy
Russia
Supreme Council of War
Baron Yamamoto
Japanese Naval College
China
The
Yalu
Hue
San Franciscan marriage tale at New York booksellers dinner
Gelett Burgess recalled a San Franciscan who wed for money. The wife mocked a new twenty horsepower car saying it would not exist without her money. The husband shot back that without her money she would not be there either.
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Gelett Burgess
American Booksellers’ Association of New York
Mamie
Roosevelt Praises Ayres Brave Action In Cuban Campaign
The St. Louis Republic recounts how President Roosevelt praised Lieutenant Colonel Ayres of the US Army for bravery in Cuba. Roosevelt, who led the Rough Riders, reportedly saluted Ayres after a skirmish involving the Tenth Cavalry and expressed a wish to serve as a private in Ayres’s unit.
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Roosevelt
Ayres
United States Army
Elizabeth Fairfax Ayres
Eighth Cavalry
Leutenant
Rough Riders
Tenth Cavalry
St. Louis Republic
Rockefeller Faces Subpoena Orders and Elusive Testimony
United States Marshal Henkel notes Rockefeller often avoids testifying by directing subpoenas to his attorney or by remaining hidden when he wishes not to be found. Born in New York sixty eight years ago, Rockefeller spent much of his career in Ohio after starting in a Cleveland commission house at nineteen to enter the oil business. He is tall, sturdy, and wears a wig to cover hair loss, a detail that fits a lifelong image of mystery surrounding the Standard Oil magnate.
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Frank Branagan
Hudson St
L. B. Hall
William Hamlin
Joseph Lapierre
Manchester
Cecil Marien
Chestnuost
Cyprien Martin
M. J. O’donnell
Lincoln St
Marlboro Hospital
George Baker
George Bigelow
Harpswell
Joseph Barito
United States Coast Artillery
New York Harbor
P. D. Brewin
Burke’s Drug Store
Connecticut
William Flanagan
Howest
Lilla Lyons
Estabrook
New York
Saratoga Springs
Charles Clark
Robert
Central St
McLean Islands
N. S
Alberic Lacroix
Chestnut St
Lewiston
Shelburne Gorham
Maine
Purity Lodge
John J. A.hearn
Defender Lodge
South Boston
John H. McCabe
Bridget McCabe
Dorchester
John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil
United States
Marshal Henkel
Mr. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
New York State
Ohio
Cleveland Commission House
Mob Attacks Evangelist In Connecticut Hamlet
A mob of farmers in Pemberwick, Greenwich stormed a house and threw a bomb at itinerant evangelist Henry Spilkins who rallied Pentecostal followers. They accused him of hypnotism and witchcraft as he sought to convert the local community. Spilkins survived, while his gathered flock reportedly escaped harm.
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Connecticut
Greenwich
Conn
Ann Hutchinson
Pemberwick Hamlet
Henry Spilkins
Spilkins
Swarth
Pemberwick
Youth Killed by Excitement in Uxbridge Yard Tragedy
Grace Vance stood with her daughter when Perry Goldthwaite refused to leave the yard. Edward Vance, 20, ran from the house and died after a sudden rush and fall as tensions flared, described as excitement killing him.
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Uxbridge
Mass
Grace Vance
Perry Goldthwaite
Goldthwaite
Edward Vance
Fletcher shoots at trio on Leominster piazza
Herbert E B Fletcher aged 27 fired four shots from a revolver at Oscar Bessey 29 and Miss Della Edgerly 26 as they sat on his home piazza in Leominster Massachusetts. Bessey suffered a facial wound described as ugly but not dangerous. Fletcher was arrested and declined to talk.
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Leominster
Mass
Herbert EB. Fletcher
Oscar Bessey
Della Edgerly
Fletcher
Bessey
Silk Merchant Jacques Simon Leaps From Cathedral Tower
Jacques Simon a silk merchant leaped from the second gallery of the cathedral tower before a large crowd in Cathedral square. He fell more than 200 feet and died instantly. No further details given.
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Antwerp
Ave
Jacques Simon
Cathedral Square
Cathedral Tower
German War Ministry Seeks Airship Fleet Expansion
Berlin Aug 7 reports the German war ministry plans to ask the reichstag for funds to build a second battalion of four airships following the success of the latest military airship.
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Berlin
German War Ministry
Reichstag
Dattalion
Estate of Bridget Farrell First and Final Account Hearing
John S. Shaughnessy administrator presents the first and final account of Bridget EH Farrell’s estate. The hearing is set for September 11, 1907, at nine o’clock in the forenoon in the county to show cause why the account should not be allowed. Copy to interested parties fourteen days at least before the last publication in the county. Witness Charles J. McIntire Esquire.
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Middlesex
Thomas H. Farrell
Maynard
Herbas John A. Crowe
Cambridge
Maynard Enterprise
Charles J. McIntire
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Bridget EH. Farrell
John
Shaughnessy
Burnet Co. Ad Emphasizes Quality Extractions and Sales
Our success in business is due, first, to making the best extracts we know how to make, and second, telling people that we have it and where they can buy it. This slogan from the Joseph Burnet Co. stresses quality and clear distribution.
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Joseph Burnet Co
Bogtag
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James Carney
Solomon’s Pond
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Plum Island
Edward Grenon
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