Big Oil Fire at Waverly Triggers Multi-Alarm Blaze
A massive oil fire at a Waverly storage building near Newark Yard drew hundreds of spectators as two to three alarms were sounded. Firemen battled flames feeding on barrels of oil, with engines pumping water and crews protecting adjacent freight sheds along the Pennsylvania Railroad. Official causes remain disputed, with some locals claiming arson while others attribute the blaze to a passing locomotive, but the conflagration was eventually brought under control after several buildings were saved from total loss.
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Waverly
Pennsylvania Railroad
Newark
Trans
Aera Insurance
Grand Marshal Invitation to Parade for July Fourth Ceremony
The Soldiers for Sailors Monument dedication will occur Wednesday July 4 with a morning parade after a short march. Organizations patriotic or internal are invited to participate, bringing their own music if accepted. Communications should go to Forward Olmsted, chief of staff, 700 North Broad Street.
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Soldiers For Sailors
Novin
Olmated
Ataff
Orth Broad Atréet
Charles FH. W. Halsey
Marahal
Edward Olmsted
Chiat
Steff
Books and Magazines Wanted for Boatmen Mission
Rescue Mission seeks old magazines and periodicals especially religious reading for boatmen along the Trent. Superintendent Bakkerot thanks readers and asks for any generous contributions. Send to Howard address at 65 Find Street.
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Wat Trent
Baheckkterot
Howard 7
Bekeskler Pet Intendent Restue
Find Street
DUGAN'S ANNOUNCEMENT FOR PARADE AND DANCE
Fragmentary notice mentions a May parade and dance with preparations underway. The garbled text references Dugan's announcement and a possible community event, but lacks clear names, dates, or locations.
Tragic Burn Death Of 12 Year Old At Wall And Third
Mary Frances Merritt aged 12 daughter of William J and Mary Merritt died in General Hospital from burns suffered Saturday evening when a torch toppled in front of her father’s produce store at Wall and Third Her cries drew bystanders who helped but fire consumed her clothing She was a pupil at St Patrick’s School and recently confirmed Funeral services planned at St Patrick’s Church with burial in the family plot Nobly she was described as the granddaughter of ...
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Mary Frances Merritt
William J
Mary Merritt
General Hospital
Wall and Third
Tlanes
Third Street
William Connolly
Thomas F. Burnett
St. Patrick's School
Hiktabeth
Morse
Bar geant Hinay and Charlie Bustin Meet About Woes
At 1 o clock yesterday morning Bar geant Hinay met Charlie Bustin who told him a sad tale of woe. Earlier that evening he had gone to his house and found Walter, Realy.
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Bargeant Hinay
Charlie Bustin
Bustin
Sig Reterania
Lenue
Walter
Blaze destroys Elmira Creamery building prompt response
An Elmira creamery building on Broad Street burned recently attracting police and fire attention. Officer Hishop reported the blaze just before 1 p m, triggering a fire department response and dispatch of Engine Company No 7.
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Elmira
Hishop
Obituary notices for Mary Mullen and Rosette Price Sayre
Mrs Mary Mullen of 393 High Street died after two months illness in Elizabeth City. She leaves eight daughters and two sons, sister of Deputy Sheriff P J Connell, a communicant of St Mary Church of the Assumption. Funeral services will be held tomorrow morning with interment at Mount Olivet Cemetery. Rosette Price Sayre, daughter of the late Frank and Susan Sayre, died this morning at the residence of her sister, Brother William Tomes, 50 Charity.
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Mary Ae
Mary Mullen
John Mullen
Batur
High Street
Mian Rosette Price Sayre
Minn
Rosetta Price Sayre
Frank and
Susan Sayre
Bre
William T. Tomes
Cherty Street
Great Gathering of Politicians at Kijani Dinner
A political dinner planned as the dollar dinner of the Downtown Republican Club with tickets at $1.50, limited to 150, to be held at Grand Army Hall on Jenney Street. Walter L. Hetfield Sr. of Plainfield received a commission from Governor Stokes to join the County Board of Elections, a move met with skepticism by Republican organizers. Senator Kean and other officials traveled from Trenton. talk centered on politics with a formal yet informal tone.
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Repulican
Grand
Army Hall
Jenney Street
Feam
Walter L. Hetfield, Sr
Plainfield
State Capitol
Stokes
County Board of Elections
Walter J. Hetfield
Hetfield
Election Board
Trenton
W. L. Het
Republican Party
John Kean
United Judge
First Auto Car On Rahway Route
The first auto car of East Jersey Motor and Transportation Company, newly incorporated to run regular trips between Elizabeth, Rahway, and Carteret, completed a trial departure at 7 o’clock. Notables on board included W. Bauer, C. Winans, John Winans, J. W. Hi. Domaldeon of Lindamris, and A. S. Kirtein of Rahway, testing public service feasibility for a future schedule.
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East Jersey
W. Bauer
Ch .Winans
John Winane
J Wn W. Hi. Domaldeon
Lindamris
A. 8. Kiretein
Rahway
Triple Tragedy in Woodcliff Village Jersey
Hackensack May 1 Jobo Cole a 40 engineer on the Mark to Brooklyn attacked his wife and their 20 year old daughter Marie with an axe in their home at Woodcliff early morning The data ad wes killed and Mrs Cole s badly that it is jones, attacks on his ee When neighbors reached the home they found father and daughter in a little cottage with furniture strewn about chairs overturned prostrate tobn the body of her feet to protect her from the t ale fe knows about ithe Cite tity wt Wood clostered to some of the stoies of hin It in enld they apt at a night and seats one Sass or Brookiye
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Hackensack
Jobo Cole
Brooklyn
Marie
Woodcliff
Woodail
Chancel Choir Forms at Sacred Heart Church
A newly organized chancel choir of twenty four boys at the Church of the Sacred Heart, Spring Street and Magnolia Avenue, under Father Peter and rector Father Am Browne, began singing weekly during vesper services. The group, trained since January, has drawn larger crowds and aims to grow to about sixty voices, with many young men from the confirmation class of about 150 last Tuesday. The photo lists members reading left to right, including Phate by H. A. Plevsin and Richard Cooney among others.
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Church of the Sacred Heart
Spring Street
Magnolia Avenue
Father Peter
Ambrowne
Peter
Aing
John J. O'Connor
iHocens
Bricred Heart
Mass of Rock Crushed Five Injured in Tunnel Accident
New York May 21 Two men killed and five injured when a two ton rock fell in the extension of the tunnel linking Manhattan and Long Island City. A 30 foot high blast damaged rock weighed several hundred tons, dropping two tons onto workers. Injured include Defatitha, Fonteroy, Andresva, Forte, and Hart with skull fractures, internal injuries, broken bones, or severe wounds. Gorman and others were sent to the scene as authorities moved to arrest a foreman.
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New York
Manhattan
Debria
Vinschashie Defatitha
I M. Fonteroy
Samuel Andresva
William Gorman i Foreman
Death by own action shocks Newark saloon keeper
Frank Schuster a Newark saloonkeeper died after firing a revolver in Went Thirty fifth Street near Broadway. He was removed to New York Hospital where doctors said he killed himself and did not wish to live. Crowds gathered as witnesses watched the dying man and an ambulance later transported him to the hospital. The report notes extensive hotel crowds and curious bystanders.
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Worthen
New York
Frank Schuster
Broad Street
Newark
Broadway
New York Hospital
Gebuster
Nee
Eden
Schustter
Vice-Consul slain at Batoum Russia May 21 1904
Batoum, Russia May 21. HL Stuart American vice-consul is assassinated at 11 pm. Stuart, an Englishman not naturalized, was appointed May 4 1904. He was 49, partner of Yamato & Company and head of Americas consular staff under the new consular bill. The murder likely by unsettled workers occurred at Mr James’s residence. State Department to file protest through Ambassador Voumeyer to the Russian foreign office.
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Batoum
Russia
HL. Stuart
Stuart
Bluart
Busjorse
Dation
Yamato & Company
Oil Therchanté
Americas
Junes
Aly
Tea
Derarest
Cour
Sey Ponte
Voumeyer
Rasalan Foreign Office
Masonic burglar given forty years in Sing Sing
New York May 21 Thomas Metelaki known as the Masonic burglar was sentenced to forty years in Sing Sing Prison by Judge Creoe in Brooklyn County Court. He reacted with distress as sentence was pronounced his wife in court caused a scene. He earned the nickname after an incident during a late night burglary when a Masonic emblem caught his eye. Gale the merchant woke during the break in and described the burglar with such accuracy that police captured him within days. Metelaki’s lodgings yielded valuables indicating an active career. The sentence came under the habitual criminal act.
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New York
Thomas ‘Motelski
Sing Sing
Creoe
Brooklyn
Mai Gale
Moetelski
Gale
Bneglar
Meteleki
Metelaki
Pope Pius X Passes After Long Illness in Rome
The report notes Pope Pius X died after a long illness and that Dr. Lappoot allowed continued bed rest for a short period. The patient had been advised against resuming medications with some improvement in general condition, though pain persisted and temperance fluctuated.
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Rowe
Pius X
Lappoot
Wall Street trading dull as stocks drift both ways
The New York stock market May 2 opened with dull activity confined mostly to traders. The two notable exceptions were Anaconda and Distillers Securities. Anaconda trades in both directions, making it hard to gauge the net position. Overall commission business was smaller than any previous May day and many exchange members faced handicap.
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Dusinevs
Ausconda
Distillers Securities
Disa Field
Anasconda
Commieton
Exch
Czar Wins a Victory in First Open Clash with Douma
The article reports Emperor Nicholas winning a clear victory as deputies refuse to fight, addressing the throne through the ministry. The public is indignant at the Douma’s backdown, while constitutional democrats push a movement to apply peasants rights, form land funds, and distribute lands.
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Peteraphy
Nicholas
Ftional Democrata
Tans i
Legitimacy Questioned in Vanderbilt Custody Case
The Court of Chancery weighs the legitimacy of a child born October in a dispute between Dol. G. Vanderbilt and his brother Oliver Vanderbilt of New Providence. The State Board shows the entries were altered by the mother to protect property rights, with neither brother's rights affected. potential will changes could be contested.
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Chies
Froceediogy
Dol. G. Vanderbilt
Ge ‘Vanderbilt
New Providence
Hery Mitchell
State Board
John
Oliver
Ty Oliver Vanderbilt
Jon
Ilo Xhrooge Russ
Outrage at Warsaw Aims Bomb Attack Kill Count Heller
A bomb explosion near Kallzx, 130 miles southwest of Warsaw, targeted Count Heller, a colonel of Tike bemarte sbtowo. He was killed along with a trumpeter. an unknown attacker fled. Several others were wounded as the assailant escaped.
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Wardat
Kallzx
Thin City
Heller
Helter
Wea
Helier
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Elmira Creamery
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Jersey
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Thomas Quinn
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Schuster
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Foote & Company
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