Empress Disaster Blame Falls on Storstad Officer
The Empress of Ireland wreck commission finds the collier Storstad at fault for changing course without orders, causing the collision in fog. Three officers testified as the inquiry began in Quebec with Lord Mersey presiding this week.
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Associated Press
Quebec
Storstad
St. Lawrence
Lord Mersey
Samir
British Admiralty Court
Adolphe Routhier
McLeod
New Brunswick
F. W. Cathorne
British
Royal Naval Reserve
John Welsh
New Castle
England
Demere
Dominion Wreck Commission
Howe
Canadian Naval Service
Cabhorne
Welsh
British Board of Trade
Fred Tuftenes
Tuftenes
Woman Planned Murder and Self-Destruction Claims Emerged
Portland report says Eloise Nelms Dennis told Victor E. Innes that she planned to murder her sister and kill her brother and had discussed the plan up to a year and a half ago. Innes, former Nevada assistant district attorney, testified she once attempted suicide but feared firing after the weapon misfired three times. He also noted he represented her in a Reno divorce suit eighteen months ago.
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Associated Press
Portland
Ore
Eloise Nelms-Dennis
Atlanta
Victor E. Innes
United States District Attorney
Nevada
Innes
Reno
Surgeons Give Man an Iron Backbone After Fall
Frank Harrington age 59 of Vestal near Binghamton underwent a remarkable operation here. A steel tube fashioned to mimic vertebrae was inserted to replace twenty crushed through a fall from a scaffold. The operation, aimed at restoring support to the spine, earned him the epithet man with iron backbone.
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Binghamton
N. Y
Frank Harrington
Vestal
Rates Held Unjust on Transcontinental Freight Line
The Interstate Commerce Commission declared class rates on freight from Minneapolis and St. Paul to distant points up to 600 miles away on the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul airway line in North and South Dakota unjust and unreasonable.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Nevada battle ship to use turbine engines and oil fuel
Quincy mass July 11 turbine engines and oil fuel will power the 27500 ton battleship Nevada launched today by Fore River Shipbuilding Co Its sister ship Oklahoma was launched last March It is expected to be commissioned next January Nevada measures 583 feet long 95 feet beam and 28.5 feet draft with an estimated speed of 20 knots per hour
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Associated Press
Quincy
Mass
Nevada
Fore River Shipbuilding Company
United States Navy
Oklahoma
Camden
N. J
Sshe
Arizona and Pennsylvania Largest Ever Constructed
Washington July 11 Battleship No. 39 christened the Arizona by Secretary Daniels and her sister ship the Pennsylvania. continued on page 7.
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Arizona
Pennsylvania
Associated Press
Washington
Secretary Daniels
England Beats France In Davis Trophy Singles Match
Wimbledon report: England's T. M. Mavrogordato defeats Max Germot 6-4 7-5 9-7 to win the first singles for the British in the Dwight F. Davis international lawn tennis trophy round. Washington telegrams and letters push for confirming Paul M. Warburg of New York and Thomas D. Jones of Chicago to the Federal Reserve Board amid bipartisan lobbying.
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Wimbledon
Eng
England
France
Dwight F. Davis
Washington
Paul M. Warburg
New York
Thomas D. Jones
Chicago
Federal Reserve Board
Banking Committee
Burglars Fail to Crack Woolworth Safe in Stormy Night
Burglars battered a Woolworth store safe at 404 406 Market Street but left with $0. They traced escape via the Gangler picture gallery and a rear yard behind Diener’s, leaving rubber heel marks and damaged wiring. Investigators noted the $1,000 cash remained untouched.
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Woolworth Five
Market Street
Gangler Picture
Diener's Jewelry Store
Woolworth Store
Straawberry Street
Gangler
Woolworth
Googler
Diener Jewelry Store
Strawberry Street
American Brock wins air race from Hendon to Paris
Walter L Brock the American airman won the Hendon to Paris and back race with a total time of 7 hours 3 minutes 6 seconds. He arrived at Hendon at 4 08 pm after a 3 hour 33 minute outward leg, amid a huge welcome. Brock has become popular in England since arriving from Chicago two years ago.
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London
Hendon
Paris
Walter L. Brock
Manchester
Brock
Bue
England
Chicago
Distillers Plan 1914 Output Cut in Kentucky
Louisville July 11 More than half of Kentucky distillers have agreed to cut 1914 output by 20 million gallons amid big stocks from past years Ohio Indiana and Illinois distillers are said to join The move notes increased whisky consumption from 20 million to 35 million gallons in four years while production rose from 20 million to 46 million gallons The aim is to let demand catch up with production.
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Associated Press
Louisville
Kentucky
Ohio
Idiana
Ilinois
Harrisburg Praised for Economic Fortunes in Visit
A well known traveling man praised Harrisburg calling it one of the most fortunate cities in the country. He cited extensive public and corporate improvements in Harrisburg and Steelton providing employment during the Wilson slump and helping keep labor employed. He noted other cities suffer while Harrisburg remains relatively prosperous.
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Harrisburg
Steelton
Pretty Striker Will Not Suffer Because of Act
A 17 year old girl striker who waved an American flag in East Pittsburgh ten days ago will return to work at the electric plant Monday in a better position. Captain L Adams secured from company officials a pledge that she would not suffer for her act and she is to be promoted.
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Associated Press
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania Constabulary
L. Adams
Constabulary
Lightning Strikes Mower Woman Loses Hearing
Lightning struck a lawn mower in Mrs. Frank Handschuhs hands at their New Bloomfield home. She was knocked unconscious and lost her hearing until noon the next day, with physicians restoring consciousness and expected recovery. Separately, a barn on George Eckerds farm three miles south of town was struck and burned to the ground last evening.
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Mineola
N. Y
Florence Conklin Carman
Nassau County
Louise Bailey
George M. Levy
Frank Handschuh
North Third Street
Handschuh
New Bloomfield
George Eckerd
Melville E. Ingalls Dies in Hot Springs
Melville E. Ingalls noted financier and railroad man died at his summer home in Hot Springs Virginia of heart failure. He had been gradually declining for months and suffered a shock from an ulcerated tooth three days earlier. His son Melville E. Ingalls Jr. rushed from New York and was present at the end. Mrs. Ingalls and daughter Miss Gladyswere also at the bedside.
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Associated Press
Hot Springs
Melville E. Ingalls
Ingalls
Melville E. Ingalls, Jr
New York
George B. Markle Dies in Hazleton Pioneer Coal Family
George B. Markle of Hazleton died at the State Hospital after a three week stay. He was a Lafayette College 1878 graduate and Theta Delta Chi member. Markle led the G. B. Merkle Company in coal production and was active in the Hazleton Board of Trade and Progressive politics.
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Hazleton
George B. Markle
John
Alvan Markle
State Hospital
Lafayette College
Theta Delta Chi
G. B. Merkle Company
Hazleton Board of Trade
Burning of Mill Throws Hundreds Out of Work
Hagerstown Maryland July 11 The Antietam knitting mills were burned to the ground by a thunderstorm the second large industry destroyed by lightning in a month The fire caused an estimated 75000 in damage partly insured and left about four hundred workers unemployed William Wingert mill treasurer and several firemen were nearly suffocated while attempting to save records and equipment Fire also destroyed several large barns in the valley north of the city
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
John E. Dare
Regina
Dare
Scranton
Lebanon Valley
Wilkes- Barre
Lebanon
Moosié Lake
Archbald
Hagerstown
Antietam
Cumberland Valley
Windsor
William Wingert
Nine Balloons To Compete In National Elimination Race
Nine balloons sail from St Louis late this afternoon in a national elimination race to select the third American entrant for the James Gordon Bennett cup international race leaving Kansas City next October. The order of release lists Hoosier, America III, San Francisco 1915, Uncle Sam, Miss Sofia, Aero Club of St Louis, Kansas City III, Pennsylvania, and Goodyear piloted by R A D Preston with five minute intervals.
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Associated Press
St. Louis
Kansas City
R. H. Upson
H. E. Honey
Maurice Renaims
France
Lot
Goodyear
R. A. D. Preston
Akron
Ohio
Hoosier
Warren Rasor
Brookville
Herbert Rasor
America
John Watts
W. F. Comstock
Pennsylvania
Arthur T. Aberholt
Philadelphia
Phillip Sharples
M. D. Tremblin
Weather and Marriage Licenses in Harrisburg Area
Unsettled weather with showers possible tonight and Sunday in Harrisburg and eastern Pennsylvania. river levels rise in the upper and lower Susquehanna, with about one foot rise by Monday. Incomes list shows marriages for Sima Papovic and Zena Zsuras and Joseph Gutman and Teresa Howarth in the area.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Susquehanna
Sima Papovic
Zena Zsuras
City
Joseph Gutman
Teresa Howarth
Steelton
Telegraph offers vacation reader service at six cents a week
A notice explains that the Telegraph can be mailed to readers while they are away. The cost remains the same as at home, six cents weekly, and a Postal addressed to the Circulation Department will receive the next issue.
Who Is Getting The Money
This piece addresses local retailers and their role in channeling national product demand. It urges dealers to display and advertise goods to attract customers, noting that such visibility builds goodwill as a key asset.
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Maclay Ot
Storgtad
Moorhead Knitting Company
Hershey
Bowman Department Store
Good Hope Mill
River Wall
Maclay Street
Iron Alley
Thhe
Strucker Brothers Construction Company
Board of Public Works
William Opperman Company
River Front
Paxton Creek
Stucker Brothers
Opperman Company
Berlin
Julius Rodenberg
White House
Wilson
Qomencey
Charles S. Keig
R. A. Long
J. W. White
Acai
Seo E AE
Carranza
Villa
Angeles
Commissioner of Corrections
Katherine B. Davis
Blackwell's Island
Torreon
Mex
Carranzas
Corporations
George,b. Markle
Preston
Middle
Senth
Atlantic
Gulf States
Middle Gulf Coast
Susquehanna Valley
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