Wrights claim new airship to meet government tests
Orville Wright asserts the Wright machine nears a practical flyer and will fulfill government test requirements in August. The compact airship weighs about eight hundred pounds with a twenty five to thirty horsepower engine and can travel up to five hundred miles with fuel for one occupant.
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Dayton
Ohio
Orville E. Wright
Wright Brothers
Wright
Fort Myers
Europes
Amerca
New York
Mr. Wright
Wrights
Kitty Hawk
Orville Wright
Murder in Paris: Adolphe Steinheil and mother-in-law slain
Paris reports a sensational murder at Adolphe Steinheil's residence on Rue de Vaugirard. Steinheil and his mother-in-law were strangled and the house ransacked. Steinheil's wife, bound and gagged, claimed two men and a woman committed the crime. The servant found the bodies at 6 a.m. as he prepared breakfast.
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Paris
France
Adolphe Steinhell
Rue de Vaugirard
Seymour Thomas
Jbalater
M. Steinheil
Steinheil
Mme. Steinheil
Boy bandits terrorize train near Great Falls in daylight heist
Three boys ages fifteen to seventeen stalk a Great Northern train in Great Falls Montana and force the conductor to pass the hat among passengers collecting several hundred dollars. They vanish into darkness but are captured the next day. The gang is led by fifteen year old Al Lot Hately.
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Pars Hat
Great Falls
Mont
Great Northern
al- Lot Hately
Notable 1910s Figures and Franco-Prussian Era Talks
Notable figures and events are noted with varied topics from the Prince of Wales visit to Quebec in July to Heinrich Knote wedding in Munich. It mentions the Duke of Abruzzi naval duties, Father McLaughlin in New Rochelle, and Baron Takahira speaking at Lake Mohonk. A publisher plans a book on soulmate discovery and a Calvary church rector condemns brokers misusing customer stock.
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Prince of Wiles
Quebec
Heinrich Knote
Munich
Kathe Veilner
Duke of
Abruzzi
Thomas P. McLaughlin
New Rochelle
N.Y
Roosevelt
Baron Kogoro Takahira
Lake Mohonk Perce
Wri
Lewis Parka
Calvary Protestant Episcopal Church
New York City
Murderous hotel owner in Adirondacks calls for arrest
La Salle, a wilderness hotel keeper at Cranberry Lake in St. Lawrence County, confessed by telephone to Sheriff Hamland that he murdered Charley Joncing a French Canadian lumber camp worker. After the slaying the suspect directed authorities to Windfall Settlement and was jailed at Cranberry Lake awaiting the sheriff.
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Watertown
Canton
Windfall
Cranberry Lake
la Salle
Herbert Deane
Cranberry Lake Settlement
Deane
Sherrif HylInand
Grasse River
Jouchas
Jonchas
Jan Salle
Carleton Reads to Sailors Aboard New Hampshire
Brooklyn delegation from Everywhere magazine headed by Will Carleton entertained 300 guests aboard the battleship New Hampshire at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Ada A. Borden opened with a singing solo before Carleton read poems including A Baseball Story and A Song For Our Fleets to a captivated shipboard audience amid white steel walls and patriotic songs.
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Brooklyn
N.Y
New Hampshire
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Will Carleton
Ada A. Borden
America
Jackies
Lee Dies After Speech Welcoming Northern Soldiers
Lieutenant General Stephen D. Lee of Columbus Mississippi and commander in chief of the United Confederate Veterans died in Vicksburg from a cerebral hemorrhage after addressing four regiments from Iowa and Wisconsin. Born in 1833 in Charleston, he directed the first Civil War shot at Fort Sumter in the surrender demand.
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Vicksburg
Miss
Stephen D. Lee
Columbus
United Confederate Veterans
Lee
Vicksburg National Park Commission
Iowa
Wisconsin
General Lee
South Carolina
Beauregard
Fort Sumter
Charleston
D. C
Coal Ovens Restart at Stonege Coal and Coke Co
One thousand coke ovens in Wise County Virginia have been put in operation after suspension of several weeks. Other coal field industries are preparing to resume with many idle since December and January.
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Stonege Coal and Coke Company
Wise County
Virginia
Dry Goods Dealers Busy Report Rise in Orders
Wholesale dry goods dealers reported better signs in trade and increased orders, indicating growing activity in the sector.
Yaqui Indians Agree to Submit to Mexico
The Yaqui Indians agreed to submit to Mexico after a prolonged conflict lasting over a century, ending decades of war and resistance. The surrender marks a pivotal turn in regional history and shifts control to Mexican authorities.
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Mexico
Leper Settlement Visit by Professor Koch
Professor Koch visited the lower settlement at Molokai Hawaiian Islands to inspect the leper settlement and its facilities.
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Koch
Moloka
Howaiian Islands
Nevada Governor Sparks Dies At Reno Ranch
Governor John Sparks of Nevada died at his ranch near Reno. The report notes his passing as a major state event and references his tenure and influence in Nevada politics.
Army Maneuvers Planned Across The Nation In 1900s
Washington letters announce summer joint maneuvers for all regular forces and many state militias funded by a 1 million dollar appropriation. Major General Frederick D. Grant leads coast and inland operations from Pine Plains to American Lake and Fort Riley with extensive marching, training camps, and staged battles to simulate modern warfare.
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Washington, D. C
Regular Service
Congress
Pine Plains
Chickamauga Park
Lean Springs
Texas
American Lake
Wash
Fort
D. A. Russell
Wyo
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Ind
Fort Riley
Kan
Atascndero Ranch
Cal
United States
Frederick D. Grant
Department of the East
Grant
Baltimore
Boston
Department
Waterstown
Pacific
Ted
Washington
Abintic Seas Board
Hopeful Child Culture Plan By Dr Lundone In California
Dr Leon El bert Landone, buying a $100000 Hollywood residence, plans a school to advance child culture and human betterment. He outlines four steps variation sex crossing Belocation and cultivation, warns against artificial marriages, and says his program will train about a dozen selected children free, with other pupils paying. He cites Stanford and Dr Jordan and notes prior settlement work in New York Boston Philadelphia and Chicago.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Leon Elbert Landone
Hollywood
Stanford
Jordan
Stanford University
Lundone
United States
Dr. Lendone
New York City
Boston
Philadelphia
Chicago
Padua
University of Ne Twoo
Herbert Spencer
Boston Will Dispute Over $500000 Estate After New Documents
New documents authenticating a honew will and two codicils foretell a $310000 bequest to President Roosevelt. The pending ruling will determine how the $500000 estate of Benjamin Tadley, found dead in Somere Ville last December, is distributed among relatives except for the President’s $10000 bequest.
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Boston
Honew
Roosevelt
Benjamin Tadley
Somere Vile
Roosevelt to preside at International Congress on Tuberculosis
A letter from Roosevelt to Dr Lawrence B. Flick of Philadelphia confirms Roosevelt will preside at the International Congress on Tuberculosis to be held in Washington next October. The item notes Chicago plans to exit electric lighting and related reforms in municipal power.
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Washingtonu
Roosevelt
Lawrence B. Flick
Philadelphia
Bes
International Congress
Washington
Chicago
Mtedrelan Carroll
Sanltary
San Francisco
Joe Gans
Cat Rudolph Inhale
Amherst
Matos
Gea
Cloud
New York
Chey
Amen
Amherst College
Vonner
Chairman announces seat allotments at Republican National Convention
The chairman of the New Allotting Seats in Chicago says the Republican National Convention has assigned seats to the press and to politicians. One thousand and fifty seats go to delegates and the same to alternates. An extra seat goes to each derogate and funds are held for distinguished visitors. Building capacity is 1,167.
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New
Chicago
Ase
Prominent Figures in Global Affairs and Politics
Cardinal Logue warns Americans against a ghee army and ally. Hamilton Mable writes on the Short Story without mentioning Bret Tiurte. Marquis Salanfi edits a preface to the Japanese edition of Emile Zola Paris. Senator Borah delivers his first Senate speech questioning testimony in Brownsville case. Lewis Nisan arrives in London denying intent to return to the United States as a peacemaker. William Bryan leads Democratic nomination outlook, Harriman and others respond. Rayleigh elected chancellor of Cambridge University in honor of the late Duke of Devonshire.
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Cardinal Logue
Hamilton Mable
Bret Tiurte
Marquis Salanfi
Emile Zola
Paris
Senator Borah
Senate
Brownsville
Esse
Tall
Lewis Nisan
London
Mer
Vordeal Developments
Tdicata
William Bryan
Hts
Democratic Prestdoutica
WOH Harrimairnelett
Sievinnah
Walle
Tfe
Bord Rayledgh
Jondoppleyeheist
University of Cambridge
Shovepsteny
Duke of Devonshire
Clinton's body buried with grand Kingston ceremony
The body of Vice-President and Governor George Clinton was interred with military honors in Kingston's First Dutch Church yard. A multiorganizational parade, naval guards, artillery salutes, tolling bells, and speeches marked the two hundred fiftieth anniversary celebration amid heavy rain.
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Kingston
George Clinton
United States Army
Fort Wamilton
State Artillery
Wasp
New York City
Nelson H. Henry
de Camp
Chanter
Hughes
David B. Hill
Clinton
Hudso River Ciues
Company M
Senate House
Washington
Hil
Court House
Staw
John Jay
New York State
Yee Kingston
Roosevelt
White House
O. C. Howard
D.C. Hughes
Firetsb
Plation
Ashotton
Afghans March Into Persia Amid Dispatches From Teheran
A Teheran dispatch reports armed Afghans invading Persia and occupying a town labeled Re: Ban. In Salem Oregon Judge Burnett sentences Portland banker J Thoburn Ross to five years imprisonment plus a fine of 576,09b for felonious conversion of state school funds as president of the Title Guarantee and Trust Company. Further, Bryan Tate and Wiliam J Bryan exchange telegrams showing planning for a campaign publicity measure.
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Persia
Teheran
Re: Ban
Salem
Oro
Burnett
J. Thoburn Ross
Portland
Ross
Title Guarantee and Trust Company
Youth Baseball Accident Shocks Cincinnati Crowd
John Walcotte, a 19 year old assistant foreman at a Cincinnati factory, was struck behind the right ear by a foul ball during a game between two local teams. He fell and died from the injury, sending shock through the spectators and workers alike.
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Tip Wills
John Walcotte
Cincinnati
Ohio
Corn Price Advances on Board of Trade
May rota prices rose five cents on the Chicago Board of Trade as traders noted pressure from major shorts and a shift in seed markets. The report highlights a tighter futures stance and price momentum in the grain pits.
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Chicago Board of Trade
Th Qs
Family of Four Crowned In Picnic Tragedy
A New Jersey family of four died when their car fell from a bridge into a river while on a picnic outing. The father had just paid off a mortgage on their home, and the incident occurred near Riverton when their vehicle plunged into water below the bridge.
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Poibulelphia
Elizabeth
Aldergeneven
Wlavedaeo
Tomiuiten
N. J
Riverton
Che
Koenigaberg
Germany
Multiple Deaths and Notable Passings Across Cities
A collaged Wire service report details deaths from quarrels in New Jersey and Philadelphia, a rear admiral’s obituary in Philadelphia, Catholic conversions in Pennsylvania, a Washington autopsy correction, and a Canadian bishop’s death. Other items include a Denver liquor ban at a Democratic convention, Yale baseball fashion petitions, Liberia envoy visits, Gunness farm bones found, a tornado tragedy in Oklahoma, and political notes from West Virginia and Chicago.
Stolen Church Treasures From St Etienne Cathedral
London reports a robbery of ecclesiastical loot worth about £25,000 from the Cathedral of St Etienne. The haul includes eleven Limoges enamel pieces from the 15th and 17th centuries and several chalices, linked to a wave of thefts attributed to the Thomas burglars.
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London
St. Etienne
Thomas Breathers
Princeton Seniors Reveal Their Quirks And Standards
The Princeton senior class of 200 shows unusual statistics including reports of engagement four accounts, arrests, and confessions of kissing. The favorite college is Wellsley with Radcliffe second and the most popular professor is Harry Goe fed. The class honors go to president Chainerdani.
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Princeton
Nooj
Wellesley
Radcliffe
Harry Gaoefed
Chainer
Dani
Neck fatality linked to a notorious Directotre gown
Ul known in Chivinnad wore the gown on a street, causing a sharp neck twist that led to Zins's death. Zins suffered tuberculosis of the vertebrae. a weakened neck allowed a single vertebra to slip, pressing the spinal cord and causing fatal injury.
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Chivinnad
Joseph Zins
Appeuytaars
Gee
Hee
Dre
Tery
Zins
Canaller to the Rescue on Morris Canal Bridge
Boys aged twelve on Change Bridge at Centreville near the Morris Canal were saved after the bridge railing gave way when a boat passed. George Robbins rescued Francis Daley and then, after a struggle, brought up Edwards. Daley later revived Edwards with help from Robbins’ mother. In Atlantic City a blinding rainstorm sent five people near quicksand. a Philadelphia auto man and others were saved with the horse pulled free though the wagon was lost. Parachutist Frederick I. Wood Jr drowned after his flag entangled him in the Passaic River during a balloon jump at Hillside Park. A frail boat accident on Pengsauken Creek claimed William Edelman and family. Miss Rossis McLaughlin was rescued off Atlantic City after drifting two miles from shore. Rhubarb shipments by Calvin Watson and a woodchuck hole nursery note also appear.
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Francis Daley
Wiliam Edwarde
James Forrest
Centreville
Daley
Edwards
Forrest
George Robbins
Halled
Robbing
Robbins
Forres
Atlantic City
Hore
A. EB. Maltby
Philadelphia
Maltby
Adele Anderson
Walter Rhodes
Alcronaut Thesin
Frederick I. Wood, Jr
Frank Mack
Hillside Park
Belleville
Pascale
Wood
Passaic
New Haven
Conn
Wiliam Fdelman
Elizabeth
Anna
William
Changer
Ais
Paul Bellange
Shang
Cox
Coc
Rossis McLaughlin
Inlet Beach
Ney
Luke Gonover
Olga
Local Notes and Oddities From Cumberland County
Growers fear a strawberry glut while Cumberland County reports a large beet acreage. Raymond Rosen of Carine, a Millville High School student, fractured an arm playing baseball. In Glassboro the Wednesday Club seeks to save shade trees despite sidewalk improvements. In Vine land the Vinehand Board of Education plans stenography and typewriting in high school with Mrs Whigihia A Ake as instructor. A botched hen nest revealed eleven seven inch snakes. the keeper despatched the reptiles and killed the hen, noting the bird could not guard the nest.
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Cumberland County
Raymond Rosen
Carine
Millvitie High School
Glassboro
Walling Fondie Swank Maar Eatst
Greenwiel
Gaatude Dawson Troke
Peter Wise
Omega
Ind
Wilifa
Wise
Paige Platt Paid to Escape Divorce
The 1906 settlement between U S Senator Thomas C Platt and wife Lilian Janeway Pilati included 25 000 down and 10 000 annual payments for five years plus Tioga Lodge Highland Mills New York. A later suit by Edgar Joseph seeks 2471 paid by Marsh Winslow Wever on Mrs Platt s behalf alleging repayment by Senator Platt.
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New York City
Lilian Janeway Pilati
United States
Thomas C. Platt
Edgar Joseph
Marsh, Winslow & Wever
Broadway
Senator Platt
Frank Platt
Philip Not Guilty of Murder in Cabman Killing
Gaston P. Philip was acquitted of murdering cabman Frank B. Macaboy after an eight day Atlas trial. Philip testified he fired when overpowered and his life was in danger amid a night of revelry with Macaboy and companions. He is described as a wealthy young social figure.
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Washington, D. C
Gaston P. Philip
Frank B. Macaboy
Atlas
Philip
One Counter Inc
Macaboy
Ife
Bryan Threatens to Return Ryan Campaign Money
Lincoln Neb reports Bryan telegraphs from Ainsworth saying he will examine the World's charge that Thomas I Ryan gave 20000 to Bryan's 1904 Nebraska senatorial campaign and will demand every dollar returned if any contribution reached the Nebraska fund. Bryan vows action.
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Lincoln
Neb
New York
Thomas I. Ryan
Bryan
Nebraska
Ainsworth
Ryan
W. J. Bryan
Astor Presides at Temperance Meeting in London
William Waldorf Astor presided over a meeting of the Sewi-Teetotal Pledge Association. Members pledge abstinence from alcohol at midday and evening meals. He quipped that men need a stimulant for conversation more than women do.
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Auice
London
William Waldorf Astor
Sewi-Teetotal Pledge Association
Prince Kalanianaole Dies in San Francisco Hotel
Prince Kalanianaole nephew of Queen Liliuokalani dies of pneumonia at the Hotel Stewart in San Francisco. Prince David Kalanianaole of Hawaii, brother of Prince Cupid Lelantanaole, arrives with Princess Abbie from Honolulu on May 22 for rest and medical treatment.
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Faswali
San Francisco
Gal
Prince David Kalanianaole
Hawaii
Prince Cupid" Lelantanaole
Liliokalani
Stewart
Prince David
Abbie
James Campbell
Itonolulu
Senator Davis Defeated for Delegate at State Convention
In Little Rock the United States Senator Jeff Nygvis failed as a delegate at the National Democratic Convention receiving 106 of 690 votes cast at the State Democratic Convention. The body adopted a Bryan for President resolution by nearly unanimous vote. Four years earlier Davis was elected delegate at large by acclamation.
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Little Rock
Aro
United States
Jeff Nygvis
Bryan
Davis
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