Murderer confesses to Kansas City farm killings
James McMahon admitted killing his sister Rose McMahon and Mrs. Alonzo Van Royen along with Alonzo Van Royen on a Kaw farm. He said a three month plan ended with shootings inside the Van Royen home and yard, then claimed to fear mob violence as sheriff moved him and witnesses to Lansing.
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Kansas City
James McMahon
Misa Rage McMahon
Alonzo van Royen
Kaw
McMahon
van Royen
Patrick McMahon
Patrick Lamb
Lansing
van Haydn
Texas anti trust case ends in 175000 compromise judgment
The State against Standard Oil subsidiaries ends with a 175000 compromise judgment. Defendants include Standard Oil Company of Indiana Union Tank Line Navarro Refining and Security Oil. Navarro and Security lose charters and are ousted from Texas. a receiver will oversee their Beaumont and Corsicana refineries and extensive pipeline interests valued around 34 million.
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Austin
Texans
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
Union Tank Line
Navarro Refining Company
Security Oil Company
Beaumont
Corsicana
Texas
General Oliver C. Howard Dies in Burlington Vermont
General Oliver Otis Howard, last ranking Union Army commander from the Civil War, died at his Burlington home. Born November 1830 in Kennebec County Maine, he graduated Bowdoin College and West Point in 1854, then served as acting professor of mathematics before the war.
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Burlington
Oliver C. Howard
Howard
Oliver Otis Howard
Kennebec County
Maine
Bowdoin College
Military Academy
West Point
Henry Walters Pays 316,450 Tax on Narada Yacht
Henry Walters of Baltimore paid 316,450 as a tax on his yacht Narada under the Jevying tariff law, after winning a bid on all foreign built craft. In Jacksonville a widow, Mrs Mabel Beauchain of Boston, was found with her throat cut in her Aragon Hotel room by her physician Dr E B Banker. She died by suicide using a razor from Dr Banker who was absent at the time. She was widow of a wealthy patent medicine maker.
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Henry Walters
Baltimore
Narada
Jevying
Jacksonville
Fla
Mabel Beauchain
Boston
Aragon Hotel
E. B. Banker
New York City
Boy Dies From Football Hurt In Wilmington Game
Clarence Pierce aged nineteen died in a Wilmington hospital from injuries suffered during a football scrimmage. He was thrown to the ground and a mass of players pressed on his stomach before being moved to his home and then to a hospital where his condition worsened.
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Wilmington
Del
Clarence Pierce
Pierce
Hartford and Springfield Street Railway Raises Fares
Hartford CT stockholders approve increasing fare from five to six cents to Springfield. Protests already registered as the railway cites high maintenance and operating costs.
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Hartford, Conn
Hartford and Springfield Street Railway Company
Springfield
Six Die As Pennsylvania Train Collides In Indiana
A southbound passenger train wrecked head on with a freight train near Collinsville Indiana on the Panhandle division killing six aboard the passenger train and injuring several others. The dead include FB G Webb Richmond fireman O Raines Kokomo mail clerk Laula Marshall Richmond engineer E H Hatcheld Greenafork Ind mail clerk and Elmer Brown Logansport Ind engineer of passenger train. A relief train carried medical aid to the scene as the switch was found open prior to the crash.
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Richmond
Ind
Panhandle
Pennsylvania Railroad
Collinsville
Cto
G. Webb
O. Raines
Kokomo
Laula Marshall
E. H. Hatcheld
Greenafork
Elmer Brown
Logansport
State Senator McCarren Dies After Illness in Brooklyn
Patrick Henry McCarren, state senator, died at St Catherine's Hospital Williamsburg following an operation for appendicitis a week earlier. Born April 1949 in East Cambridge Massachusetts, he lived in Brooklyn since age eight and rose from humble beginnings to politics. He started in labor, apprenticed at Palmer Coonerage Company, later Sugar Trust subsidiary, and gained early support among young Democrats in Williamsburg North Side before serving in Brooklyn departments and then the Legislature.
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Brooklyn
Patrick Henry McCarren
St. Catherine's Hospital
Williamsburg
East Cambridge
Maca
Palmer Coonerage Company
Lillard Confesses Poison Plot In Candy Case
Nanette Lillard admitted to police she bought poison and put it in candy intended for Maud Ridley to turn Ridley against her husband, R W Lillard, a newspaper reporter. She fainted after admitting the plot and later said she forgives Ridley.
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St. Louis
Nanette L. Lillard
Maud Ridley
Japanese Admiral Ito Acknowledged In War Records And Korea Role
The article traces Admiral Count Ito Hirobumi’s rise from navy cadet in 1868 to captain in 1882 and chief of Japan’s Naval General Staff after 1894. It notes his key role in the Battle of the Yalu, his governorship of Korea as Resident General at Seoul, and his high decorations while portraying him as a bold, polarizing statesman likened to Bismarck, Pitt, and Washington.
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Japan
Prince Ita
Harden
Manchuria
Yuko Ito
Satsuma Province
Tokio College
Naval College
Imperial Japanese Navy
Ilo
Yalu
Rusala
Ito
Russia
Korea
Seoul
Bismarck
William Pitt
George Woashington
Richelieu
Husband Confesses to Murder of Anna Luther Mueller
Fred Gebhardt alias Otto Mueller, a German immigrant living with a second wife in Astoria, L. A., confessed to abducting and killing Anna Luther Mueller near Isidlp woods to be free to his first wife and child. He claimed she kissed him and pleaded for love as he shot her, sealing his motive.
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L. J
Hero
Anna Luther Mueller
Altona
Germany
Fred Gebhardt
Otto Mueller
Astoria
L. A
Luther
Isidlp
Gebhardt
Boy dies of burns in Aneta attack on meat delivery
Kenneth McKenzie twelve died in Fargo from burns suffered after an alleged assault by blind pig operators a week earlier. Son of Simon McKenzie a prominent anti saloon crusader, he was delivering meat when oil from his lamp was poured on him and set alight.
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Kenneth McKenzie
Simon McKenzie
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Senator Johnson Nead Dies in Fargo at 59
United States Senator Martin N. Johnson of North Dakota Republican died in Fargo from acute nephritis at his hotel. His death creates a vacancy to be filled by gubernatorial appointment. Johnson, 59, was born in Racine County Wisconsin and was the son of Reverend Nelson Johnson, a native of Norway.
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N. D
United States
Martin N. Johnson
Burke
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Racine County
Wis
Nelson Johnson
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Bank cashier sentenced in Kentucky embezzlement case
Covington Kentucky Charles McConnaghy former bank cashier of Mont cello Ky entered a plea of guilty to part of an indictment charging embezzlement and false entries amounting to 20000 He was sentenced to serve three five year sentences to run concurrently by United States Judge Cochrane Mr McConnaghy will serve only five years altogether
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Charles McConnaghy
Montcello
United States
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Man Arrested in NYC for Pistol Carrying Held on Murder Charge
Lester Fellici was arrested in New York City for carrying a pistol and is wanted on a murder charge for killing John La Chapelle, a farmer not based in Albany. He reportedly became insane when informed of the charge.
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Lester Fellici
New York City
John la Chapelle
Albany
Virginia Man Ends Life After Domestic Quarrel
Roanoke, Va. Charles Rhinehart fatally shot his thirteen year old bride after a domestic quarrel in their Wise County home. He then killed himself as the girl attempted to fetch water from a well. The couple had been married about a month.
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Roanoke
Wise County
Charles Rhinehart
Tariff Talks Move Forward as Jusserand Heads to Washington
French Ambassador M. Jusserand sails from Havre for New York to begin tariff negotiations with U S authorities in Washington, D C.
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M. Jusserand
United States
Hravre
New York
Washington, D. C
Des Moines Man Kills Passerby In Fall From Scaffold
Falls, Mrs May, W J Kennedy and a Grick mason at Des Moines alight on Carl Holmquist a passer by fifty feet below. Holmquist's neck was broken and he died within minutes Kennedy was seriously injured.
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W. J. Kennedy
Des Moines
Lows
Carl Holmquist
Holmquist
Kennedy
Customs Inspector Confesses in New York Cheese Bribe Case
George Brehm, a customs inspector, testified he accepted a bribe to make false entries on cheese and fig imports in New York City. The confession outlines illicit payments and official misconduct linked to port operations.
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George Brehm
New York City
Noted Figures Tour and Talks Highlight Global News
President Taft and party visited Yosemite Valley during a Western tour while Taft played the first golf of the trip in Tacoma. Samuel Gompers warned he would gladly go to jail to defend American free speech. Charles W. Morse said he had paid 7.5 million dollars in debts since release from prison in New York. Orville Wright performed flights in Berlin with the German Crown Prince aboard. Alexander Bevnon, new secretary of the American negation at La Paz, Bolivia, arrived at his post. Charles R. Crane, minister to China, reached Washington for talks with Secretary Knox. General d Amado was removed from command after criticizing Spain's Morocco policy. Dr. Cook, the Arctic explorer, said Peary charges would be maligned unless specifics are given.
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Taft
Ue Yosemite Valley
Tacoma
Samuel Gompers
Charles W. Morse
New York City
Orville Wright
Berlin
Alexander Bevnon
Philadelphia
la Paz
Bolivia
Charles R. Crane
United States
Ching
Washington, D. C
Knox
d’Amado
Spain
Morocco
Cincinnati
Cook
War policy shifts as Spain halts Morocco campaign
Spaoa Will Stop War at Madrid reports the government will not press the Moroccan campaign. General de Luque, new Spanish War Minister, confirms the measure. In Georgia a pistol duel injures Sheriff J. J. Smith. A Bolivian Peruvian boundary treaty is ratified.
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Spaoa
General de Luque
Madrid
Morocco
Feminine Notes and Society Happenings Across Nations
A Paris aeronautical club for women gathers attention while Mrs. Taft returns healthier to the White House from Beverly Mass. In Hartford, elderly Mrs. Lucinda Treat Godard faces court questions about flirtations. Chicago hosts horticultural prizes with Mrs. Mohart Chatfield Taylor winning top geraniums. Nellie Horton of St Worth Texas becomes treasurer and secretary of the Farmers Union. Madame Foulde de Grasse unveils the first front-facing corset L Ir resistible. Margaret Sington begins divorce action against Daniel Frohman in Ieno Nevada as Lady Tennessee Cook travels from England pledging $1,000,000 to aid woman suffrage.
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France
Taft
Whits
Beverly
Mass
Emperor William
Daughhter
Crysander
Hartford
Conn
Lucinda Treat Godard
Mra Mohart Chatfield-Taylor
Chicago
Nellie Horton
St. Worth
Texas
Farmers’ Union
Madame Foulde de Grasse
Margaret Sington
Ieno
Nev
Daniel Frohman
Tennessee Cook
England
Who Owns the Air and the Aerial Highway Debate
Lytleton Fox addressed Aero Club of America on airspace rights as a legal frontier. He urged treating air as a public highway, possible legislative moves, and even condemnation to settle aerial trespass. The piece contrasts Roman land ownership with modern flight and cites French, German, and Swiss attitudes and incidents in Paris and Rheims.
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New York City
Lyttleton Fox
Aero Club of America
Mr. Fox
Fox
Aero Club
Wright Brothers
Count Lambert
Paris
Lambert
Rheims _meat
France
Germany
Ecleven
Italy
British
The
New York Times
Aly
Switzerland
Coffins Too Cheap Makers Complain at Convention
Coffin makers and undertakers gather in convention to protest rising burial costs. They urge uniform retail pricing and tougher dealer policies to curb cut-rate funerals. Delegates say oversupply and price wars cheapen decency, arguing burials should reflect fair costs.
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Cluckmatt
Objio
Foregoes Cloister to Find Lost Father in Jail
Miss Elsie Swanson of St. Louis abandoned her aim to become a nun to locate her father whom she had not seen in eleven years. He had just been convicted of burglary and larceny in Joplin County Jail and sentenced to two years. She identified him in the main cell room, embraced him, and plans to seek clemency and parole, while her guardian, Rev. C R Stahlmann, had earlier placed her in convent schooling.
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St. Louis
Elsie Swanson
Joplin
Swanson
Miss Swanson
Cr. Stahlmann
Night riders threaten Burley tobacco region in Kentucky
Kentucky State Troops patrolled the Burley tobacco region after night rider warnings were issued in Mason County. Governor Willson ordered troops into the counties, warning residents Fred Adams and Harry Allen to harvest crops within five days or face consequences.
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Kentucky
Lexington
Willson
Mason County
Fred Adams
Harry Allen
Hudson Fulton celebration shifts toward Troy finish
N Frank H Plate testified he bought 22 000 shares of United States M spread stock for E H Harriman. Rumors of a U S protest against the Sino Japanese accord circulate in Japanese papers. Herman Dale Berliner editor convicted for blackmail with prison term. Berlin discoveries link ancient Teutonic and Greek architecture. Cyrus R Benton of Liberty N Y barred from his wife's funeral while proclaiming innocence. Mrs Belmont supports suffrage via a British working women fund. Tokyo gov claims proof of high Chinese official involvement in the anti Japanese movement.
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Hudson-Fulton
Hudson Valley
Troy
Frank H. Plate
United States
E.H. Harriman
Herman Dale
Berlin Wahrheit
Berlin
Schuchardt
Cyrus R. Benton
Liberty
N.Y
Belmont
England
Tokio
Voscott
Bergen County Starts $800 000 Road Improvement Project
Bergen County New Jersey begins a major road program funded by state auto fees totaling 37 920 dollars. Brewster Construction Company of Hackensack awarded four contracts aggregating that sum to upgrade heavily used roads near New York. The Board of Freeholders approved a system costing about 600 000 dollars to deliver improved routes and better connectivity to New York.
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Vergen County
N. J
Hackkansack
Bergen County
Brewster Construction Company
Hackansack
New York
Board of Freeholders
Meld of Sports headline unknown from fragment
Curtis Redden arrives to assist Hurry Up Yost at Michigan practice. Kilpatrick may play for Yale if knee holds. West Point Squadron A defeats Army officers 60 to 0. Joe Buckley wins 80 yard race. Jockey clubs pool funds. Aremlia winter meeting unlikely.
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Frank Kramer
Jack’ Clarke
Curtis Redden
Michigan
Ann Arbor
Yost
Pat Dunne
Tamps
Fla
West Point
N. Y
Squadron A
New York
Ariny Offcera
Kilpatrick
Yale
Red” Erwin
Annapolis
Joe Buckley
A. C
Los Angeles
New California
Jason
Thomas HM. Willams
Aremlia
Death at Washington Union Station Ends Matrimonial Crisis
Mrs Evelyn Howard, a chorus girl known on stage as Evelyn Lewis, was shot in the back by her husband William H Short as she left a carriage at Union Station. Short then shot himself in the temple and died two hours later. The couple had quarreled over her continued stage work after his parole from Sing Sing. Short, a former bank bookkeeper, had recently worked as a traveling salesman in New York. The wife had returned to the stage despite his pleas to quit the theater and move to New York.
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Washington, D. C
Wiliam H. Short
Evelyn Howard
Union Station
Short
Sing Sing
New York City
Hippodrome
Broadway
Washington
G. H. Reeves
Brooklyn
N. Y
Funda
Liberal Ministry Succeeds With Opposition Outcry in Spain
In Madrid the 1907 cabinet of Antonio Maura resigned after fierce opposition led by Moret y Prendergast. Moret formed a new ministry, with key posts filled by prominent figures, amid uproar in the Chamber of Deputies over war policy and Ferrer’s Barcelona execution.
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Madrid
Spain
Antonio Maura
Moret Y Prendergast
Alfonso
Maura
Senor Moret
Interior
Perez Caballero
Senor Alvarado
da Luque
Concas
Senor Gasset
Senor Barroso
Martinez del Campo
Chamber of Deputies
Senor Maura
Morocco
Professor Ferrer
Barcelona
Justice Rufus W Peckham dies at Altamont estate
Rufus William Peckham, associate justice of the U S Supreme Court, died at his summer residence Coolmore in Altamont New York. Born in Albany November 8 1838 he hailed from a long established Albany family. He was district attorney of Albany in 1869 and later served on New York State Appeals before his 1895 appointment to the United States Supreme Court by President Cleveland.
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Albany
Rufus W. Peckham
Supreme Court of the United States
Foes in War Meet as Friends in Richmond
A veteran Philadelphia captain met Captain from local area in a crowded hotel lobby, recalling their sword and pistol duel at Cold Harbor. Also: labor department plan approved by AFL Executive Council to push a cabinet-level labor secretary through Congress.
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Richmond
W. H. Rauch
Philadelphia
F. D. Christian
Cold Harbor
Department of Labor
Washington, D. C
Executive Council
The
American Federation of Labor
Congress
Town Gives Woman Suffrage in Richmond Suburb
Ginter Park, the wealthiest suburb of Richmond, Va., formally adopts a constitution and by laws extending suffrage to women. At a Citizens Association meeting, the rule allows all property owning males and females over twenty one who live in Ginter Park to vote. It marks the first southern community to grant this right.
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Ginter
Richmond
Ginter Park
Citizens’ Association
Richmond Subuybeg
South
Memphis Heiress and Heir Rewed After Short Divorce
Albert Sturta of Memphis, heir to a large estate, renewed marriage to Minnie Owenslagger after a brief Mississippi divorce and Tennessee reconciliation under Catholic rites with a papal dispensation. The couple wed in Memphis as relatives of the groom were absent.
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Memphis
Tenn
Mississippi
Albert Sturta
Minnie Owenslagger
Bturla
Eldven
Fairbanks Starts For India
Former Vice President Fairbanks leaves here for Hong Kong on his way to India. A large party bids him farewell at the pier.
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Fairbanks
India
Manito
Hongkong
Loans for laborers fund in Sweden to ease emigration
Stockholm launches a national subscription to raise funds for loans to unemployed laborers after the big strike. The loans aim to help buy small farms and are repayable within ten years. The fund is to be managed by the Anti-Emigration Society of Sweden.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Anti-Emigration Society of
Farm for Consumptives Opens Sanitorium in New Jersey
Bishop McFaul announced purchase of the 131 acre Cox farm at Marshall's Corners near Trenton. In spring a sanatorium for the cure of the consumptive poor will open with nuns as nurses and Catholic administration, but creed will not bar admission.
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Trenton
N. J
McMaul
Marshall's Corners
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Rebels Win in Nicaragua Victory on San Juan River
Rebels under General Chamorro defeat 1000 of President Zelaya’s troops on the San Juan River in Nicaragua. Four hundred men are killed or wounded as rebels seize control of the Atlantic Coast.
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Zelaya
San Juan River
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Atlantic
Japan Honors Commodore Perry With Wreath Laying
Honorary commissioners of Japan visited Commodore Matthew C. Perry's grave in Newport Rhode Island and placed a wreath in a ceremonial tribute.
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Commodore Perry
Commercial Commissioners
Commodore Matthew C. Perry
Newport
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Labor temple progress and union news across the U.S.
The Labor World notes England unions backing a central labor college and discusses a Boston council of wood carvers upholsterers cabinet makers and finishers. Massachusetts delegates mull a State building trades council. New Jersey Pilots League meets Orange. Boston Typographical Union plans New England Typographical Union. Armenian mass meeting in Boston backs Armenian workers in unions. California State Printer reports Mantype machines cost the state $140 daily.
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Mix Awarded Balloon Cup In International Race
The Swiss Aero Club officially declared Ed gar W. Mix of Columbus Ohio the winner of the Gordon Bennett Cup balloon race run over two weeks ago in Zurich Me de France placed second with 507 miles while Mix’s America II covered 696 miles The club rejects reports that Mix landed in Bohemia as unfounded.
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Zurich
Swise Aero Club
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Longer Life in Bay State But Tuberculosis Threats Remain
A report from the Committee of One Hundred on Health, prepared by Professor Irving Fisher, shows life in Massachusetts lengthening fast with a gain of fourteen years in a century. It says three-fourths of tuberculosis cases could be prevented and fifteen years added to the average lifespan by preventing diseases. the study emphasizes public health measures and disease prevention.
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Boston
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One Hundred
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Convicted Of Kiting Children In Utica Murder Case
Theodore Rizzo was found guilty of murder in the first degree in Utica New York for the killings of Theresa Procopio and Fred Die Infugino and wounding Fannie Infusino, all involving young children.
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Theresa Procopio
Freddie Infugino
Fannie Infusino
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Boston Observes Apple Day At New England Fruit Show
Boston marked Apple Day as an annual fixture during the opening day of a New England fruit show where apples dominated as the leading display.
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Boston
New England
Cholera spreads despite Seoul authorities efforts
A chaotic news brief recounts rapid cholera spread in Seoul as authorities struggle to contain it. Other items note a New York bakery workers strike demand, a Brooklyn football injury likely fatally wounding Ernest Stann, and international peace fund ideas amid disasters.
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New York City
Ernest Stann
Brooklyn
Midland Park
Staten Island
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New York
Wother
Washington
DBD
R Crane
China
Napthall Herz Imber
Gato
Paris
Juvisy
Polt- Way
Morgan Boys Manuscripts Purchase by J Pierpont Morgan
J Pierpont Morgan of New York buys for 4000 dollars the manuscripts of George Meredith novels Diana of the Crossways Lord Ormont and De Aminta and The Amazing Marriage. Reid Opens School For Girls Cambridge English ambassador formally opens a secondary school. American Crowninshield arrives to lead the American Academy in Rome replacing George Brock. Two cholera deaths reported in Nieder Ung district Koenigsberg. Berlin moves to control potash with proposed legislation for perpetual government oversight.
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Missing Sons Found Living In Sawmill Hideout
Otto Weber, a wealthy New Jersey farmer near Egg Harbor, searched a cedar swamp for his sons Carl and John who had disappeared a week earlier. He uncovered a hollowed pile of excelsiors revealing a hidden living room with food and cooking gear. The brothers greeted him with laughter then agreed to return home after a hearty meal.
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Governor Fort Promotes New Jersey Tuberculosis Plan
At a Taylor Opera House mass meeting Governor Fort urged residents to join the fight against the white plague and supported a tuberculosis village on 3000 acres in Burlington County near New Lisbon under state control. He advocated state funding through the legislature to back future eradication efforts. Banks Accused Woman in Boonton Case. Mrs. Cora Wilson was jailed in New York City on grand larceny charges, alleged to have passed two $1000 checks payable to bearer. The widow owns farm lands mortgaged to near full value.
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Valise alarm triggers Bloomfield police scare at bakery
A valise found in Heim's bakery Bloomfield Centre caused a panic when its ticking clock was mistaken for an Infernal machine. Cadmus the recorder stayed, others fled as a photographer's outfit and clothing were revealed. A stranger left the bag and hurried off after staff alerted police.
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Justice Bergen Rules Prison Diet For Alesai Inmate
Supreme Court Justice Bergen orders Herbert Alesai, jailed in Elizabeth on murder charges, to eat standard prison fare. Court dismissed his counsel's claim he could pay for better food and receive superior quality and quantity. Alessi, reportedly son of an Italian nobleman, remains in custody.
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Boston Doctor Offers Brother One Million Inheritance
Dr John Morgan of Boston who sold copper holdings in Jamaica proposes to share seven million with his brother Dr BEB Morgan of Paterson. The latter accepts the offer and plans to retire from practice.
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Boston
Mass
Jamaica
BE. B. Morgan
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Millville Board Debates Quarantine Enforcement Shortcomings
Millville Board of Health discussions spotlighted lax quarantine rules. Councilman John Reardon, manager of a large cotton mill, condemns violations he says escape enforcement and go unchecked by authorities.
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New Brunswick man convicted of second degree murder
Robert Allen, 60, shot and killed Charles McLaughlin, a horse dealer, in New Brunswick on July 10. He was convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to thirty years in the State Prison, shaking hands with jurors and expressing thanks.
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Charles McLaughlin
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Pig theft halts 400 pound hog at North Cross wicks
A thief stole the hind-quarters of Harvey Hutchinson and miller’s 400 pound hog. The carcass was buried in an apple orchard at North Cross wicks and the thief cut it in half leaving the fore-quarter hanging.
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Social club formed at Mullica Hill with president
In All Parts of the State a social club has been formed at Mullica Hill with Warren Atkinson as president. A wide range of local notes include a 50th wedding anniversary for Mr and Mrs George F Cole of Three Bridges, and Salem night schools reopening with teachers Mrs Elizabeth Clark and Miss Ida H Hall. The Alloway Aldide State road second section completed with final payment of 19200. Professor Godfrey resigns as principal of Walnut Street Public School in Salem. The Court of Chancery grants a divorce to Mrs Viola Kell Syfer of Millville from Fredericks Syfer of Atlantic City. Henry H Helms of Bridgeton held on 200 bail for stealing 200 baskets of pears from a neighbor’s orchard and selling them. Cumberland jury awards William Nessen of Millville 1200 damages for injuries to his arm in a collision on the Atlantic City and Shore Railroad last summer.
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Warren Atkinson
George 5. Cole
Three Bridges
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Ida H. Hall
Alloway Aldide State Road
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Millville
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Atlanta
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Apples 4000 Years Old Revealed in Swiss Swamp
Ancient rubbish and artifacts including apples wheat nuts pottery mint and horn implements amber ornaments and wild boar teeth were found preserved in calcareous mud in a swamp north west of Stockholm the plateau east of Lake Vetter.
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Hindoos Displace Japanese in California Orchards
Reported in a California orchard scene, Hindoos are described as displacing Japanese laborers from fieldwork. The brief item notes ethnic labor shifts impacting farm tasks and local employment patterns.
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Big Tire
Dayton
Dayton Computing Scales Company
Cooper Medicine Company
Pasteur Filter Company
Lloyd
Alexandria
Christ Church
George Washington
Arthur Selden Lloyd
Tuttle
Missouri
Doane
San Jose
Cal
Town
CABLE
Copenhagen
Denmark
Count Holstein-Ledrebord
Congressman Rucker
Manila
P. 1
A. W. Rucker
Colorado
Porto Rico
San Juan
P. R
George C. Ward
G. R. Colton
Regis H. Post
Mt. Etna
Catania
Sicily
Mount Etna
Honolulu
Hawaii
Siberia
Munich
Colombia
Bogota
House of Representatives
Europe
Austria-Hungary
Bay State
Prussia
Koenigsberg
Niederung
East Prussia
New’ Jersey
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