Balkan Tensions Rise Over Saloniki and Greek-Bulgarian Clashes
A Sofia dispatch warns of an imminent Belgrade Servia clash while daily Greek Bulgarian skirmishes in Macedonia intensify. Bulgaria seeks to free its forces to attack Servia by offering to give up Saloniki if Greece cedes Panghaion district, as Premier Vanizelos departs Athens toward Saloniki to avert further incidents.
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Bulgaria
Greece
Macedonia
Athens
Servia
Saloniki
Panghaion
Vanizelos
Constantine
Eleftheria
Mount Panghaion
Prava
Bujuktu
Lake Doiran
Receivers Appointed for Frisco System Roads
United States Judge Sanborn named two receivers for the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad and two for the Chicago and Eastern Indiana line as part of the Frisco system. Receivers were Benjamin L. Winchell and Thomas H. West, named by Judge Carpenter. The move followed failure to meet $2.25 million five percent notes due June 1.
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St. Louis
United States
Sanborn
Frisco
Railway Steel Spring Company
William J. Jackson
Road
Edwin W. Winters
New York
M'Carty Dies After World Championship Fight
Calgary May 27 Luther McCarty white heavyweight world champion was counted out in a ten round bout with Arthur Pelkey and died eight minutes later from a heart region blow. Referee Edward Smith of Chicago ruled McCarty the loser after the count of ten.
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Calgary
Alberta
Luther McCarty
Edward Smith
Chicago
Arthur Pelkey
Fire kills Mrs. Lieberman and adopted daughter in Cicero
Chicago May 28. Mrs Martha Lieberman and her adopted daughter Lillian Jacobs aged nineteen months perished in a fire that destroyed the Lieberman home in Cicero west of Chicago.
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Chicago
Martha Leiberman
Lillian Jacobs
Lieberman
Cicero
Here
Flames Sweep Edmonton hotel fire Bares Losses
North Edmonton hotel burned on Tuesday as flames spread destroying nine other buildings including stores icehouses stables and dwellings with total losses estimated at 185000 in Edmonton Alberta.
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Edmonton
Alberta
North Edmonton
Husband poisons family then hangs self in Wisconsin
In Fond du Lac Wisconsin on May 29 police report Miller a 51 year old West Bend man attempted to murder his family by arsenic in their coffee. He then hanged himself in a nearby building.
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Fond du Lac
Wis
Herman Miller
West Bend
Trains Collide Near Brant Missouri Killing Four
A head on collision of two Missouri Pacific passenger trains near Brant Missouri west of Jefferson City killed four and injured 18 passengers and two crew. Engineers Al Ford and McDonald of St Louis were named among the dead. others injured included P B Love Frank Nell and crew members. An investigation was ordered into why No 11 failed to stop at McGirk as ordered.
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St. Louis
P. 8. Love
Frank Nell
C. Cristine
T. B. Barnicle
Missouri- Pacific
McGirk
Brant
Wilson denounces lobbyists over tariff bill pressure
President Wilson denounces lobbyists in Washington as burdensome and insidious. He urges the press and public to recognize extensive spending and manipulation aimed at altering the tariff bill and opposes interference with government deliberations. The president asks for relief from this disruption affecting both houses of Congress.
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Washington
Wilson
Amputation by Pocket Knife Ends in Further Loss
In Penn Yan Isaac Bassett aged seventy five cut off his diseased toe and then his foot with a pocket knife to stop gangrene. He lives far from medical help and remains in western county.
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Penn Yan
N. Y
Isaac Bassett
Bassett
Cleveland
Thomas F. McMahon
McMahon & Troughton Candy Company
James Reed
New York
Stephen J. Stilwell
Brong
New York State Senate
Washington
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
John Mitchell
Frank Morrison
United States Supreme Court
William Smith
Warrenton
Wederer
Belmont Park Race Track
Pier Collapse at Long Beach Kills 35 on British Empire Day
A section of the Long Beach municipal pier collapsed during a crowd of about 10 000 gathered for British Empire day. Thirty five people, mostly women, were killed and fifty injured as timbers splinters and falling debris trapped or crushed attendees. Many others were paralyzed by hysteria and fright.
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Long Beach
Cal
City Auditorium
King George and Queen Mary Review Potsdam Parade
King George and Queen Mary of England closed their Berlin visit with a review of the guards army corps during its spring parade at Potsdam. The royal party observed the ceremony on Tuesday as part of the European tour ending in the German capital.
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George
Berlin
Germany
King George
Queen Mary
England
Guards Army Corps
Potsdam
Zbyszko Escapes Serious Injury After Match
Montreal May 29 reports the fractured skull from Monday night’s grappling bout with Zbyszko the Polish wrestler has proven only a badly cut head with no serious injury.
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Zbyszko
Montreal
Que
Final decree dissolves coaster brake trust in New York
Rochester reports a final decree dissolving the coaster brake trust in the United States district court. The agreement cancels the combine under Sherman law with eight corporations and 18 defendants, while a criminal case remains pending in court.
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Rochester
N. Y
Coaster Brake Trust
United States District Court
Roosevelt libel case bars hearsay on drinking habits
In Marquette on May 30 the court ruled that evidence claiming general reports of Colonel Roosevelt's alleged excessive liquor use cannot be admitted. O'Laughlin, secretary to Roosevelt, testified he never saw him drink excessively, noting at most a single glass of wine at banquets.
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Ishpeming, Mich
George A. Newett
Roosevelt
Marquette
Mich
Ishpeming Iron Ore
Belden
Ishpeming
John C. O’laughlin
Orient
Europe
O’laughlin
Eft
Nile
Paris
Colonel Roosevelt
Washington
White House
O’laughliin
Cleveland
McKinley
Progressive Party
Morse Elected President of Hudson Navigation Co
Charles W. Morse former banker who served a prison term was elected Wednesday president of the Hudson Navigation company owner of a Hudson steamer line. Morse is based in New York and assumes leadership of the river transport firm.
Saddle Stallion Brings Record Price at Auction
Louisville in Kentucky May 30 H O Hurley sold his four year old saddle stallion Kentucky's Best to R A Long of Kansas City for 7500 dollars. The sale is said to set a record price for a saddle horse.
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Louisville
H. O. Hurley
Kentucky
R. A. Long
Kansas City
Noted Southern Soldier Dead
General Lind say L. Lomax a Confederate officer during the Civil War died at Providence hospital Wednesday at age seventy eight. Funeral services were held in Warrenton Virginia.
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Washington
Lindsay L. Lomax
Providence Hospital
Warrenton
Four Year Old Declines Playmate Visit in Central Park West
A young boy near Central Park West refuses to explain his bath schedule saying he doesn’t think the rest of it need be said. The scene unfolds as his neighbor girl invites him to play.
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Central Park West
New York
Alton
Elizabeth
Hands Burned and Itched Cleared by Cuticura Treatment
Sam Marcus of Chicago reports two years of eczema suffering until using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. He washed with warm water then applied the ointment twice daily for five or six months, noting disfigurement and sleeplessness before healing. Cuticura advertised worldwide with free samples and Skin Book offer.
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Lowell Place
Chicago
Sam Marcus
Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
Adv
Lawyer James C McReynolds recalls Tennessee law start
The passage recalls James C. McReynolds, who once investigated the tobacco trust, recounting a Tennessee memory. A stout billsman asked him to sue a neighbor for 10 000 carages after naming him hippopotamus two years earlier. McReynolds notes the circus delayed the lawsuit as he believed the neighbor was paying.
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James C. McReynolds
Tobacco Trust
Tennessee
Stout Billsman
McReynolds
Saturday Evening Post
Grass Adaptation Affects City Garden Plans
Lord Redesdale told the advisory committee of the King Edward memorial fund that country grass withers in London while London grown seeds thrive, illustrating scientific adaptation to environment during talks on Shadwell market site's layout as a pleasure garden.
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Lord Redesdale
King Edward Memorial Fund For
London
Shadwell Market
London Globe
Judge Isaac Russell Recovers From Rainy Hall Fall
Chief Justice Isaac Russell of the court of special sessions slipped on stone steps leaving city hall on a rainy day and was aided up by a passerby. He said he was not hurt though his spine felt jarred, a witty remark captured by the New York Sun. Old Wars are young romancers gone to seed.
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Isaac Russell
Court of Special Sessions
New York Sun
Like Magic Grape Nuts Restores Appetite for Dyspepsia Sufferer
A Chicago man credits Grape-Nuts with ending years of poor digestion and loss of appetite. After trying many medicines, four packages restored his stomach causing renewed relish for food. He says it strengthens the body and brain and nerves. The Postum Company advertises a reason in The Road to Wellville.
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Chicago
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Easy Bargain in Car Sparks Harangue by Passenger
A woman who swung from a strap in front of a man in a crowded car confronts her husband after failing to move him from a coveted seat. She vows never to speak to him again if he sits while others stand. The man retorts that peace is costly. The Atlantic liner note adds an 11 deck ship analogy.
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James
Humorous Cobb Teases Yankees After Defeat at Third Base Gag
After a crushing loss the humorist Irvin S Cobb asked Frank Chance if he may give the Yankees a surprise. Chance invited him to proceed and Cobb offered to show them third base as a prank.
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Yankees
Irvin S. Cobb
Frank Chance
Chance
Cobb
His Business and a Furnace Ad Agent
A speaker dismisses a talkative man as a hot air artist and then notes he works as an advertising agent for a new furnace. The exchange contrasts bluster with commercial promotion.
Cynic Quip From Mother Son Exchange
A playful exchange questions cynicism with a line about singers and colds. The joke frames a mother asking her son about cynicism and defines it through a witty comparison.
Teething Syrup Ad and Atlantic Flight Prize
An advert touts Mrs Winston’s soothing syrup for children with claims to soften gums reduce inflammation and ease pain. It also alludes to a sensational prize of 50 000 000 dollars for an Atlantic flight, suggesting a bold marketing contrast.
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Atlantic
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