Big Bill Edwards Receives Carnegie Hero Medal
William Edwards the New York City street cleaning commissioner known as Big Bill Edwards received a Carnegie hero fund medal for bravery during the attempt on Mayor Gaynor aboard a Hoboken steamship. He grappled with Gallagher, protecting the mayor as the shooter fired, a bullet grazing his arm in the struggle.
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Tlliam - HF. Edwards
Big ‘Bill
Carneie Hero Fund
Edwards
New York City
Gaynor
Europe
Gallagher
Princeton
Home Mission Revival At United Brethren Church
Crowded United Brethren Church despite threatening weather heard Rev. H. H. Romig of Allentown deliver a Sunday evening lecture on Home. At the close an altar service saw three persons received into church fellowship, part of ongoing revival progress with thirteen penitents at the altar.
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United Brethren Church
H.H. Romig
Allentown
Frederick A Cook Claims Pole Expedition Proof Inaccurate
Frederick A Cook told the German American Pioneer Club in Harlem that no man has stood at the exact North Pole and that Peary’s claim was pushed by an organized campaign to discredit Cook’s achievement. He asserted his right to claim the pole as valid as Peary’s.
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Rederick A. Cook
Pioneer Club
Harlem
Peary
Ged W Henrys Public Sale of Horses Cows and Farm Implements
Public sale at Ged W Henrys farm on Reading Pike near Hershey features a large lot of horses including four dapple gray mains and a bay carriage horse, 13 head of cows with calves and bulls, 125 hogs, 2 1 4 inch axle wagon, haying gear, threshers, hay rakes, plows, cultivators, corn planters and a wide range of farming implements. Sale begins at noon with terms announced.
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R. Henry
M. S. Hershey
Reading Pike
Hershey
Derry Church
Hummelstown and
Palmyra
White Rock
U. R
Fisher
S. C
Blanchard
International
McCormick
Jones
Osborne
Tedder
Syracuse
Wallace
Cartier
Holland
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HL Edwards
W. Henry's
Dapple Gray
City
Je ‘C. Hess
Scheaffer
Geo
Bowman
And.a
B. Shenk
Frank Roth
Caterer
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