Caruso in Brooklyn Face Blackhand Threat Case
Tenor Enrico Caruso testifies in a Brooklyn court as a man is accused of attempting to extort 15000 dollars through blackhand threats. Miss E Florence Gair, daughter of a Brooklyn manufacturer, plans a Manhattan clinic for infantile paralysis among poor children, modeled after her Brooklyn facility. Former President Taft arrives in Augusta Georgia and immediately requests his golf sticks to play a round against Harry Lauder.
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Enrico Caruso
Brooklyn
E. Florence Gair
Manhattan
Taft
Augusta
Harry Lauder
Sporting Chance Praises Chase Quickness in Baseball Fielding
Sporting Chance, manager of the New York Americans, says Chase thinks and acts quickly so the left handed fielding move at first base won t be a handicap. Packey McFarland outboxed Jack Britton in ten rounds at Madison Square Garden. Abel R. Kiviat defeated Ted Meredith to become Indoor running champion in New York. Sir Thomas Lipton renews America's Cup challenge with Shamrock V as his contender.
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Chance
New York Americans
Chase
Packey McFarland
Packey
Chicago Stockyards
Jack Britton
Madison Square Garden
New York
Abel R. Kiviat
Staten Island
News in Brief from National and Local Updates
General Governor Walter Clark of Alaska resigned. The Massachusetts House rejected woman suffrage. Wickersham’s record shows 87 anti trust suits. President Wilson accepted honorary presidency of the American Peace and Arbitration League. Seattle voters rejected the single tax amendment to the city charter by about two to one. Connecticut Fish and Game Commission leased fifty acres for a state game bird farm. Summer-like NY weather brought over 100 000 visitors to Coney Island. New York garages seek to drive out small operators via a new corporation. Louis Saint Gaudens and related links noted as a sculptor family member. Navy to buy land near Newport to add landing facilities. Rear Admiral J G Eaton U S N retired and died in Norwell Mass. Fire in Hot Springs Ark. swept business district injuring seven and causing $500 000 loss. John Larsen, former Chicago bartender and Princeton freshman, made the honors list as top 20 in class. C B Thomas burned fatally trying to thaw water in car after gasoline tank ignited.
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Walter
Clark
Alaska
Massachusetts House
Erick Venient Wickersham
Wilson
American Peace and Arbitration League
Seattle
Connecticut Fish and Game Commission
New York
Coney Island
J. G. Eaton
U. S.N
Norwell
Mass
Hot Springs
Ark
John Larsen
Chicago
Princeton
C. B. Thomas
Thomas
World turmoil and royal celebration mark 1914 era headlines
Foreign Russia begins to celebrate the Romanoff tercentenary as Queen Mother Alexandra hosts a London dinner for the royal family marking fifty years since her arrival in England. A bank run drains nearly 1 million dollars. Military and political moves span Hungary Austria Germany France Italy and Greece as suffrage and security concerns rise amid protests and international tension.
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Russia
Alexandra
London
England
Montreal
San Francisco
Chamber of Deputies
Olve Wharry
Kew Gardens
Janina
London County Council
United States Marine Guards
Managua
Leon
Saint Dunstan’s
Charlottesville
Prince Edward Island
Walsh
Fielder May Not Use Acting Title Says Attorney General
Attorney General Edmund Wilson says there is no constitutional basis for the title Acting Governor. He asserts Fielder retains the Senate seat and constitutional duties, with power to preside over the Senate and vote on measures. The ruling cites the 1898 acts and the Constitution naming the President of the Senate as acting governor only by delegation when needed. A housing conference in Newark aims to form the New Jersey Housing Association to improve state housing.
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Senate
Trenton
Edmund Wilson
James F. Fielder
New Jersey Senate
Wilson
New Jersey
House of Assembly
Clifford
Heller
Vroom
Hudson County
Newark
New Jersey Housing Association
Uniform Gas Rate Conference at State House Discusses Fairness
Public Service Gas Company officials and 132 municipal leaders meet at the State House to decide if gas rates should stay uniform statewide or vary by municipality. Jersey City argues for lower local rates. supporters cite economies from central distribution. A second issue notes opposition to East Riverton annexation with a protest to Trenton led by Mayor Flagg and residents.
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State House
Board of Public Utility Commissioners
Jersey City
Jersey
East Riverton
Riverton
Trenton
Assembly
Cinnaminson Township
Flagg
J. Beck Taylor
Alexander Marcy, Jr
Robert Biddle
Senator Ramsey Seeks 70000 for National Guard Overcoats
Senator William E. Ramsey of Perth Amboy drafts a bill to spend 70000 state dollars on overcoats for National Guard members. He argues cool weather criticism was due to old uniforms and urges parity with rival regiments while noting New Jersey’s Essex Troop and other outfits on parade. In Trenton, Strauss Woolen Mills faces a child strike as juvenile workers reject a piecework proposal, insisting hours and pay remain unchanged.
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William E. Ramsey
Perth Amboy
Appropriations Committee
National Guard
Jersey
Seventh
New York
Virginia Blues
Virginia
Fencibles
Philadelphia
Essex
Newark
New Jersey
Trenton
Strauss Woolen Mills
Police Scatter Strikers at Trenton amid Railroad Row
Trenton police drove 500 striking Pennsylvania Railroad section hands from tracks near the city. Strikers hid in suburbs planning a march to West Morrisville yards. In the Assembly chamber, a hearing on an apprentice bill was granted as unions push limits on apprentice numbers and manufacturers urge passage.
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Trenton
Pennsylvania Railroad
Dyen Iy
Morrisville
Assembly
Assembly Committee
State wide New Jersey items reflect growth and chaos
A broad clipping notes Millville hospital funding and a new bank charter in Clayton. It reports assorted arrests and legal cases across Jersey City Trenton and Hoboken, a suicide in Montague Township and a fire tragedy in Ridgefield Park.
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Clayton
Illinois minimum wage debate at vice commission session
Chicago witnesses from Montgomery Ward Marshall Field and others warned a $12 a week minimum for women could force replacement by men and raise costs. some argued for national action while others claimed profits could absorb higher wages without higher prices.
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Chicago
Illinois
State Senvatorial Vice Commission
Investigatora
State Street
William C. Thorpe
Montgomery Ward & Co
Www. C. Thorne
Simpson
Marshall Field & Co
O’hara
Dockery gets postal berth
President Wilson appoints former Missouri governor Alex M. Dockery as third assistant postmaster general, signaling a cooperative approach with Speaker Champ Clark and Senator Stone. Clark had a brief meeting, and dockery’s nomination moved toward the Senate within hours.
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Wilson
Burleson
Washington
D. C
Champ Clark
Clark
Stone
FINKS FIRE COSTS MILLION IN ARSON PLOT
Arson ring confession ties Benjamin Fink to a $1,000,000 toll from incendiary fires across the Midwest. He named fires at Farmers and Workingmen's Friend in South Bend, and blames a larger group tied to Chicago Fort Wayne Brazil Remington and others. His brother died in one blaze.
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South Bend
Ind
Henjamin Fink
Fink
Chester Montgomery
Middle West
Chicago
Fort Wayne
Brazil
Remington
Assemblyman Won’t Withdraw Stock Transfer Tax Bill
Albany Assemblyman Edward Well, chair of the Taxation Committee, backs a bill to raise the state stock transfer tax from $2 to $4 per share. He says he will not withdraw the measure and hearings will proceed despite Governor Sulzer’s claim of withdrawal.
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Assemblyman
Albany
Edward Well
Assembly Committee On
Committee of Inquiry
Opg
Sulzer
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