Premier Clemenceau Fall Triggers French Cabinet Crisis
Paris July 22. President Fallieres may name M. Briand to head a new ministry after Clemenceau's fall following the naval scandals vote. Delcasse opposition looms, while Cruppi Pichon and Picard likely revert to old portfolios as Paris watches a volatile political crisis unfold.
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Paris
Russia
Clemenceau
Fallieres
Falleres
Senate
Chamber of Deputies
M. Briand
M. Delcasse
Germany
M. Cruppi
Commerce
M. Pichon
M. Picard
Marine
Chamber
President Fallieres
Galveston Endures Sixteen Mile Gale In 1900 Echo
A six ty two mile gale pummels Galveston with seawall floods three feet deep in the western city. The weather bureau notes a falling barometer 29.34 inches and northeast wind up to 52 miles per hour. Widespread warnings of approaching Texas coast storm and possible great damage.
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Houston
Tex
Galveston
Weather Bureau
Washington
Texas
Caribbean Sea
Gulf of Mexico
Judge Missing Again in Nebraska and Wisconsin
Omaha dispatch reports Judge Joseph Clarkson again vanished from his Kenosha Wisconsin home echoing a 18 year old disappearance. He left his office to walk home and was later found absent with clothes discovered on a boat at Cut-off Lake. Memorial services were held and four months later he returned to the Omaha post office.
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Omaha
Neb
Joseph Clarkson
Kenosha
Wis
Hammond for Water Irrigation Mission in Mexico
John Hayes Hammond of New York travels to Sonora Mexico in a bid to advance a mammoth irrigation program. He seeks support from local authorities and financiers to promote large scale water distribution and farm development in the region.
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Sonora
Mex
John Hayes Hammond
New York
Mexico
Hopeful irrigation project eyed for Esperanza Valley
The plan envisions 100000 acres irrigated by storage dams on the Yaqui river. Interest comes from New York and English capitalists who follow the Harriman railway corridor. The proposed development spans a state and involves a major transnational funding push.
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Esperanza Valley
New Harriman
New York
Blacksmith and helper killed in shaft accident
In Scranton on July 22 Charles Lewis a blacksmith and his helper John Hall were hurled 660 feet to their deaths while repairing a sheave wheel at Starrs No 3 shaft. Lewis left a wife and six children Hall also leaves a family.
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Scranton
Charles Lewis
John Hall
Starr
Lewis
Hall
Storm wrecks trains in Minnesota heavy storm toll
A northbound St Paul American Winnipeg flyer collided with a gravel train at Melvin near Crookston, killing caboose rider Charles Hockenson and Fireman Hogan. A Great Northern train derailed near Fosston, and the Soo road suffered washouts. Lightning damaged Brainerd Bemidji and other areas as the storm lashed Minnesota.
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Duluth
Minn
Winnipeg Flyer
Northern Pacifc
Melvin
Crookston
Charles Hockenson
Hogan
Great Northern
Fosston
Soo Road
Brainerd
Bemidji
Belmont Gets Property Transfer Reversed in NYC
New York reports that seven million dollars worth of real estate in Manhattan and the Bronx, once transferred by August Belmont and the Park Row Realty Company to Nathaniel Rothschild, is now back with Belmont. Deeds show the first transfer drafted in October 1907 and recorded January 1908.
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New York
Manhattan
Bronx
August Belmont
Park Row Realty Company
Nathaniel M. Rothschild
London
Paris
Herlin
Belmont
Mrs Taft Enjoys Sail at Taft Summer Home
Mrs Taft and her sister Mrs Lewis Moore sailed from the Taft summer home aboard the Sylph. They visited the Montserrat Club and observed Robert Taft lose a tennis match to H B McKee, son of a Pittsburg glass magnate.
Wright Brothers Flight Breaks U S Air Time Record
Orville Wright flies at Fort Myer for one hour 20 minutes 45 seconds with a 300 foot peak and figure eight maneuvers. Wilbur says the plane could have crossed the Atlantic twice and extended to Baltimore, while government tests await. Taft cabinet members Meyer Wickersham and Hitchcock observe.
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Washington
Orville Wright
Wright Brothers
United States
Fort Moyer
Wright
Wilbur Wright
English Channel
Fort Myer
Baltimore
Wrights
Old Recorde
Henri Farman
Taft
Meyer
Wickersham
Hitchcock
Kills Home Wrecker in Scranton
Amos Blakeslee aged 39 a Scranton resident is jailed for murder after he killed Garrett Berry at his wife's Adams Avenue apartment. Blakeslee admitted the shooting saying Berry broke up his home. Berry left a wife and two small children.
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Scranton
Amos Blakeslee
Garrett
Berry
Blakeslees
Blakeslee
Adams Avenue
No Axe Near Sayler in Crescent City Killing Case
Crescent City banker J Eh Sayler was killed and Dr W R Miller charged. Grand jury witnesses Edward Meyer D H Meyer Edward Clanton and Van Harwood testified they arrived within four minutes to find Miller by the doorway and Sayler dead in a pool of blood. They stated there was no ax in sight at that moment though a bloody ax was found hours later.
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Watseka
Ill
W. R. Miller
J. Eh. Sayler
Crescent City
Edward Meyer
D. H. Meyer
Edward Clanton
van Harwood
Sayer
Miller
Sayler
Dr Miller Claims He Was Attacked by Sayler
Sun destroys ice stock as Maryville business leaders rush to save 600 tons of ice left exposed after a recent fire at the local ice plant. A dispatch from Xenia, Illinois notes Mary A Payne is nominated to a post at Washington.
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Dr. Miller
Sayler
Maryville
Xenia
Washington
Senate
Mary A. Payne
Gingles Girl in Store Opens Lace Shop in Chicago
Ella Gingles the Irish girl acquitted by a jury will open a lace store in Chicago. Club women are seeking a location and plan to raise funds, with about 1600 already on hand and more expected from local society and Irish groups. Benefit events from several Irish organizations are planned.
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Chicago
Ella Gingles
Boundary of Canada Follows Irregular Forty-Ninth Parallel
The boundary between the United States and Canada from Lake of the Woods to the Pacific was set at the forty-ninth parallel by the 1818 convention and 1846 treaty. Recent surveys show the astronomical line varies from a true circle, at one point 800 feet south and another 600 feet north, with local attraction deflecting the plumb line.
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Washington
United States
Canada
Lake of the Woods
Pacific
Klotz
Bangs Household Roasting Leads to Household Feud
A humorous anecdote recounts a man returning home to find his wife in a heated mood and delivering a sharp roast, illustrating a spicy domestic moment. The tale uses playful phrasing to depict a domestic scene with wit.
The Draught Clerk at a Wealthy Bank
The son of a rich man quits college to work at a bank where his father is a director. His Vassar sweetheart asks for his position. he finally reveals he mostly raises a window in the morning and lowers it in the afternoon. He jokes he is the draught clerk, explaining he mostly reads or watches others work.
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Vassar
Fnally
Brentford Erects Caesar Crossing Monument
The London Chronicle notes Brentford claims a Caesar crossing site with a monument, but most historians favor Halliford Cowey Stakes as the crossing point near the Thames, with Brentford's column shaping local tradition.
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Caesar
Thames
Julius Caesar
Homer
Brentford
Halliford
Cowey
London Chronicle
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