Zeppelin Airship inaugurates regular passenger service in Germany
Count Zeppelin's airship Deutschland carried 20 passengers on its first scheduled trip from Fredershafen to Dusseldorf, covering 300 miles in nine hours. The pilot, a best hour speed of 431.2 miles, and route via Stuttgart, Mannheim and Cologne drew crowds as the airship offered buffet service and a promised future schedule with 50 to 75 dollar tickets.
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Dusseldorf
Germany
Count Zeppelin
Deutchland
Fredershafen
Hamburg American Steamship Company
German Airship Stock Company
Dirigible
Stuttgart
Mannheim
Cologne
Enterprise
Deutschland
Nauheim
Deaths Arrive After Intense Heat in East
In New York on June 21 four deaths occurred with many prostrations as a heat wave hit the city. Brooklyn suffered several fatalities and tens of thousands sought relief in parks, on roofs, and at beaches like Coney Island where about 150,000 visitors came. Temperatures ranged to the upper 80s, with Atlantic City enjoying relative comfort at 74. The heat disrupted daily life as crowds packed streets, vendors thrived, and public notices advertised a stereopticon lecture in Berkeley and events in various cities.
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New York
Brooklyn
Central Park
Riverside Drive
Coney Island
Galvin
Coney
Penny
Marae
New York City
Vernment Weather Bureau
Inenington
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Boston
Atlantic City
Accident on Scenic Railway at Coney Island
New York dispatch reports a deadly Bowery scenic railway crash at Coney Island where at least four people were killed and about a dozen were seriously injured as two crowded cars jumped the track and fell sixty feet to the ground early today.
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New York
Bowery
Coney Island
Travel to Newport As Debates And Land Deals Describe Era
Travel to Newport has begun earlier this year than usual according to reports from the seaside. Col Hofer of Salem and Rev Clarence True Wilson are to debate the dry and wet in Portland. One day last week nearly 50000 dollars worth of land was sold near Hermiston to buyers from North Dakota.
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Newport
Nanal
Col. Hofer
Salem
Clarence ‘True Wilson
Portland
Hermiston
North Dakota
Couple Weds at Parsonage in June Morn Ceremony
At the Methodist parsonage at 1:20 p m June 22 1910 James N Cole and Mrs Minnie Jenkins united in marriage with Rev D H Trimble presiding.
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Methodist
James N. Cole
Minnie Jenkins
D. H. Trimble
New High School Needed As Enrollment Surges
The second annual report from Eugene School Superintendent Guy C. Stockton outlines growing enrollment to 2,206 students, with high school crowding and space shortages looming. He proposes building a new high school, relocating Central School, and using the current high school for a central grade school, while noting progress in medical inspection, music and drawing, revised course of study, and the formation of a Patron-Teacher association.
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Guy C. Stockton
Board of Education
Eugene Oregon
Eugene
Condon
Har mon renominated governor of Ohio and a youth jailed for bootlegging
Judson Harmon was renominated by acclamation for Ohio governor and endorsed for the presidency. Harry Tracy, a youth from Eugene, was sentenced to thirty days in the county jail after pleading guilty to bootlegging at Wendling. Tracy was indicted by the grand jury and arrested. Fred Shepard of Wendling was indicted on five bootlegging counts and one for giving liquor to a minor, and pleaded guilty.
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Dayton, O
Judson Harmon
Ohio
Harry Tracy
Eugene
Harris
Tracy
Wendling
Shepard
Fred Shepard
Convention endorses Harmon for president. senatorial endorsement fails
The Democratic state convention here today endorsed Harmon for president despite his protest. A motion to endorse a candidate for United States senator was defeated 840 to 264. Report notes an automobile trip with five passengers to Crater Lake from Medford and Ashland, while some towns oppose rejecting a railroad franchise as mossbackey.
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United States
Harmon
Crater Lake
Medford
Ashland
Man Wanted at Racine Arrested in Eugene This Afternoon
Carl Larsen wanted at Racine Wisconsin on a rape charge was arrested in Eugene this afternoon by Sheriff Bown and jailed. Authorities learned he might be in Eugene, traced him to Conton’s bakery where he worked, and notified Racine officers to bring him back for trial. C. S. Muntington and party arrived from Medford last night and stayed at the Osburn.
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Racine
Wisconsin
Eugene
Carl Larsen
Wis
Bown
Larsen
Conton’s Bakery
Guilty Couple Are Held for Murder
Portland reports incriminating admissions by Jesse P Webb and evidence from a dozen sources link him to the murder of William J Johnson found in a trunk at Union station. Carrie Kersh is charged. both waived examination and await grand jury action as detectives suspect her aiding the crime for Johnsons money. William A Johnson, born 45, murdered in Portland, had resided in Spokane since April after selling a North Carolina farm for about 2000 dollars and withdrew 1990 dollars last Friday.
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Portland
Jesse P. Webb
William J. Johnson
Washington
Union Station
Webb
Carrie Kersh
Bennett
Johnson
Spokane
William A. Johnson
Lanceford
N. C
Walter Johnson
Twin Falls
Idaho
Green hay causes fire in barn blaze at residence
Fire this afternoon destroyed a barn owned by Oliver Andrew at the corner of Fourteenth and Willamette streets. Loss estimated at $500 to $600 with no insurance. Officials say spontaneous combustion of recently stored green hay in a loft sparked the blaze, with paints and oils also stored in the lower part of the building.
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Oliver Andrew
Fourteenth
Willamette Streets
Andrew
Union Labor Exemption Sparks Sherman Antitrust Debate
Washington June 22 Congress debates exemption of union labor from Sherman antitrust prosecutions. House insists on exemption in civil service bill provisions, face off with Senate. Mondell bill favored by Taft seeks interior land decision appeals, amended to cover questions of fact. Senate approves house postal savings bank bill.
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Washington
Congress
House
Senate
Taft
Rotary of the Interior
Public Lands
Postal Savings
Postal Savings Bank
Convocation Address Highlights Conservation of Human Energies
A crowd gathered for the University of Oregon graduation as Professor Thomas Nixon Carver of Harvard spoke on conserving human energies and civilization. The ceremony awarded bachelor degrees to about ninety seniors and conferred a Doctor of Letters on B. J. Hawthorne, with music by Lila Prosser.
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Willard Hall
University of Oregon
Thomas Nixon Carver
Department of Economics
Harvard University
B. J. Hawthorne
Lila Prosser
Carver
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