Ex Senator Aldrich Leases Washington Residence For Term
Ex Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island has leased Hennen Jennings residence in Washington and will occupy it early next winter. Nearly fifty resolutions for investigations are pending before the House Rules Committee. Postmaster General Hitchcock designated fifty more first class post offices as postal savings depositories. He also ruled that only United States postage stamps may be used on letters, removing the Red Cross and Sea War fund issues.
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Nelson W. Aldrich
Rhode Island
Hennen Jennings
Washington
House Committee On Rules
Hitchcock
United States
Red Cross
Mce- Wamara Defence Fund
Taft Begins Long Vacation After Beverly Arrival
Personal president Taft arrives in Beverly Massachusetts to begin his first extended vacation since last spring. In races at Battery to Coney Island Gravesend Bay swimmer Raymond Frederickson wins lone event while Elaine Golding takes the women’s title Battery to Steeplechase Park. Cardinal Gibbons’ golden jubilee in October will feature a rosary of Alaska mined nuggets formed into a bead chain by a miner.
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Taft
Beverly
Mass
Raymond Frederickson
Gravesend Bay
Battery
New York
Coney Island
Elaine Golding
Steeplechase Park
Cardinal Gibbons
Alaska
UWhian Sets World Mark On Goshen Track
Sporting Co. K. G. Billings trotter UWhian ran a mile in 2 03 4 on Goshen half mile to set a world record. Miss Gabrielle Girard of New Brighton, S. L., climbed Dent Blanche near Champery 14000 feet high becoming fourth woman to ascend and descend. Pitcher Dode Criss sold by St. Louis Browns to Louisville Club AA. James R. Keene moved from Berkeley Hotel London to Nursing Home in Devonshire Terrace Bayswater.
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St. Louis Browns
Louisville Club
American Association
James R. Keene
New York
Berkeley Hotel
London
Devonshire Terrace
Bayswater
Notable Items from Pittshurg Figures and Local Affairs
General Friends seek disinterment of R. M. Gulick’s remains in Green Wood Cemetery. Justice Voorhees rules Long Branch Sunday amusements repeal implicates the council and park proprietors. Hugh Jennings selects Nap Rucker for left handed pitching on an all star team. Markets show $300 000 000 depreciation in eight leading stocks since July 22. Coast rescue saves 29 men near Normandie by the Sea and Seabright after the Constant wreck. Long Island City residents demand destruction of stray dogs. Tim Murphy sues Mont Tennes over gambling control in Chicago and New York. A raiding party hits Hewlett Club in the rain. gambling paraphernalia found. E M Dichter’s Dunirk home struck by lightning. North American Y M C A year book lists 536 037 members up 39 446. Oklahoma mob pursuit ends. child recovered amid fears of mob violence.
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R. M. Gulick
Pittsburg
Greenwood Cemetery
Brooklyn
Monmouth County Grand Jury
Freehold
N. J
Justice Voorhees
Long Branch
Hugh Jennings
Nap Rucker
New Jersey
Normandie
Custan
Long Island City
Tim Murphy
Mont Tennes
Tennes
Chicago
New York
Hewlett Club
Hewlett
L. L
Connecticut liquor sale restrictions by drug stores
Governor Baldwin signs a bill restricting liquor sales by drug stores in Connecticut. Other items cover Lenox real estate reassessments, a Kentucky execution, a fatal fire saving a house, and various national notices including legal cases, political changes, and labor mining deals.
International and Local Notes in Brief
Foreign officials report Americans jailed for law violations released on bond. Protests erupt in France over meat prices. Ireland’s Attorney General named Lord Chancellor. Russian and Japanese rulers exchange felicitations over war indemnity. U S acquires Panamanian isles Naos Flamenco Culebra Perico. Troops strike bandits in Morelos Mexico. Marquis Saionji to head Japanese Cabinet after Katsura. France to present Morocco terms to cabinet in secrecy. Venezuela mobilizes arms in Falcon. Mona Lisa stolen from Villa Carlotta gallery. Bandits loot Torreon gardens for 450 dollars. E Holway wins quarter mile in Sydney. Pope blesses South American churches. Lusitania sails from Liverpool with Campania passengers. A Davila plot discovered in Honduras.
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Co. E. Holway
Sydney
Trembath
Rio de Janeiro
South America
Liverpool
Campania
Davila
Honduras
Lightning Strikes Pallbearers at Canonsburg Disaster
Mourning in Canonsburg as lightning injures six pallbearers during the Morgan Opera House fire burying seventeen victims. John Hodie remains unconscious. inspectors probe causes though the arson trigger remains unconfirmed. Clergy aid. Mary Laird Campbell and her eight year old daughter mourned at St Patrick's. Reward of 500 dollars offered. no clues yet.
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Canonsburg
Stephen Mostwics
John Hodie
Fickory Cemetery
Canonsbug
Mary Laird Campbell
St Patrick’s Church
J. C Ferguson
Moygan Opera House
Gorman Triumphs In First Direct Primary Fight
Baltimore voters backed Arthur P. Gorman son of the late U S Senator in the governors race as Blair Lee of Montgomery County who drafted the direct primary law was defeated. The organization slate for State and city offices also advanced with Emerson Harrington winning State Controller.
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Baltimore
Blair Lee
Montgomery County
Arthur P. Gorman
United States
Gorman
Emerson ©. Harrington
Laurier Predicts Anglo-Saxon Union Spurred by Peace Move
Sir Wilfrid Laurier arrived in Digby Nova Scotia and addressed four thousand people in a bilingual speech. He predicted Britain and the United States would soon align on a peace accord followed by a larger union of Anglo-Saxons with England’s cause becoming America’s.
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Wilfrid Laurier
Digby
N. S
Wilfrid
Great Britain
United States
England
America
Girl Canoeing Tragedy On Upper Saranac Lake
Miss Nora Sharkey of Orange New Jersey governess to S M Colgate and Miss Martha Conner started to paddle a canoe toward Saranac Inn in Upper Saranac Lake. The craft upset after 150 yards. Conner was saved, Sharkey did not resurface. Eyewitnesses offered no explanation for the cause.
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Saranac Lake
N. Y
Nora 4
Sharkey
Orange
N. J
Martha Conner
Saranac Inn
Miss Conner
Storm Deluges Charleston Yard Hit By High Seas
A South Atlantic storm wrecked six torpedo boats from their moorings at the Charleston navy yard and hurled them onto the beach. Many buildings were wrecked and the commandant requested a $20,000 emergency fund for immediate repairs.
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Navy Yard
Charleston
Washington
South Atlantic
Navy
Woman Decries Bird Slaughter In Montclair
A Newark woman criticizes Montclair bird killings by the Shade Tree Commission. State Game and Fish Warden Hall investigates Peter Stevens for shooting birds, amid town debate and mayoral denial of sanction. Governor Wilson to address Cranberry Growers Association meeting in Mount Holly.
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State Game and Fish Commissioners
Warden Hall
Wilson
Mount Holly
American Cranberry Growers’ Association
Smith
Notable Campers at Delaware Trip Include Local Figures
With Mrs Earl Waters of Trenton on the Delaware trip for the Vineland camp 2st day, several locals sail with Miss Mayne Spence organist, Miss Nina Rice music teacher, her sister Maud, Miss Winona Johnson daughter of Colonel Edmund Johnson, Miss Willard Garrison daughter of S Olin Garrison, Henry Wilcox, Howard MacMahan, Dabne Fitzhugh, Charles Robinson, Harlan Ellis and Arthur Rice among the party.
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Earl Waters
Trenton
Vineland
Delaware
Mayne Spence
First Presbyterian Church
Nina Rice
Maud
Winona Johnson
Edmund Johnson
Willard Garrison
S. Olin Garrison
Henry Wilcox
Howard MacMahan
Dabne Fitzhugh
Charles Robinson
Harlan Ellis
Arthur Rice
South Orange to Undergo Full Reassessment by County Board
The South Orange real estate will be entirely reassessed not by local W G Miller but by the County Board of Taxation after findings that Miller valued some properties at under half market price. The board president Laurence Fell, a real estate agent, says Miller’s figures are too low and argues county review may burden larger cities less fairly. Cape May city to build new sewers after talks with state board. Lambertville reports typhoid linked to milk amid good reservoir water. governor Wilson visits Vineland with an operetta by inmates at the State Home for Women. A farmer, who guaranteed his son’s non support, plans to relinquish the old home at Pea Landing after the son fled following bond release.
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South Orange
South Orange Township
W. G. Miller
County Board of Taxation
Miller
Laurence F. Fell
Cape May
John T. Jacoby
Compe and
Stillwell
State Board of Health
Lambertville
Vineland
Nne
Loms Peek
Pea Landing
Maurice River
Millville
Young Peek
Stranger Seeks Citizenship Fees In Camden Grocer Scam
A well dressed stranger visited Joseph Teitelman a Camden grocer on Seventh and Florence streets promising to help obtain naturalization papers for a fee of 6 65 dollars. He did not return with papers and police received a description of the suspect.
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Joseph Teitelman
Seventh
Florence Streets
Camden
Politics Hampers Road Work in State
State Roads Commissioner Stevens says politics obstructs proper thoroughfare construction. He cites a county supervisor of roads being displaced for a freeholder whose term expired. Arthur Underhill of the Montclair Shade Tree Commission denies authorization of recent bird slaughter and says the commission would have chosen nonlethal options. Many Montclair residents urge officials to prevent a repeat, amid reports the shooting was done by a Shade Tree Commission employee under orders from John A. Anderson, chief forester of the Shade Tree Association.
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New Jersey
Stevens
Arthur Underhill
Montclair
North Jersey Mosquito Extermination League Plans Fall Campaign
The Newark Board of Health hosted a meeting of the North Jersey Mosquito Extermination League where residents praised the group’s hard work. Exterminators vowed no let up in the campaign after a summer with limited success and outlined a fall plan of attack.
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New Jersey
North Jersey
Board of Health
Newark
News From New Jersey Farms and Waterways
Reports from across New Jersey cover weather, crops, and fishing conditions. Woodbury light outages, Gloucester corn bumper prospects, and Pennsgrove hog cholera easing are noted alongside a deputy game warden appointment for mall carrier Joseph Magee.
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Joseph Magee
Woodbury
National Park
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E. M. Dichter
Dunkirk
North Amercan Y
Baldwin
Connecticut
Massachusetts Tax Commission
Lenox Assessors
John Sloane
Lenox
Oliver Lock
Eddyville
Grover Cleveland
Tamworth
N. H
Will O. Cook
Christopher C. Wilson
United Wireless Company
Atlanta
George Stahl
Coatesville
Beulah Binford
Beattie
San Francisco
Brooklyn League
Stimson
Gifford Pinchot
National Conservation Congress
Kansas City
State Conservation Commission
Upstate Public Service Commission
Adirondacks
Lehigh Valley
Manchester
Canonsburg Opera House
Egg Harbor
Gen. Otis
Los Angeles Times
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McNamaras
Arthur Rhodes
Dolgeville
Little Alls
Denver
Colorado
Erie
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Culebra
Perico
Panama Canal
Jojutla
Xico
Hernandez
Morelos
Saion Ji
Count Katsura
France
Germany
Venezuela
Falcon
Villa Carlotta
Lake Como
Torreon
Mex
Bolt
Maryland
Alice l/Anson
Vernon Avenue
State Game and Fish Commission
Frederick Hall
Peter Stevens
Montclair Shade Tree Commission. Mayor Ernest C. Hinck
Hall
Dungan
William L. Saunders
Plainfield
Five Mile Beach Road
Five Mile Beach
Lyndhurst
Lackawanna Railroad
PWV Geneas Aelie Sa
Dupes
Gloucester County
Pennsgrove
Delaware Bay
Fortescue
Bernard M. Saunders
Pennsylvania Railroad
Augustus Marian
Gloucester
Hampton
Ninth
Carpenter Streets
John Holsworth
Sixth Street
West Avenue
New City
Public Utilities
New Jersey & New York Railroad
Eriailroad Company
State Board
Sons and Daughters of
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Battery B
John Silver
Lakewood
Spring Lake
Hunterdon County
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Marzeille
Cooper Hospital
Hatch Brick Works
L. W. Munhall
Philadelphia
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R. M. Howells
Thompson
George Letgrus
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