Desirable Immigrants Debate Spurs Boston Harbor Row
In Boston on July 2, reports describe the arrival of immigrants aboard the Commonwealth and Vancouver. Officials condemn the new arrivals as inferior, noting many are grown adults and women appear older. Most are bound for other cities, with customs officials vigilant about land rights and stowaway issues.
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Mars
Massachusetts
Sail Commissaioner
Commonwealth
Vancouver
Pagaenger
Tragic double suicide in Branklyn home
Ida Neilson, 25, killed herself and her infant son Christian by asphyxiation at a Branklyn house. A letter to her husband hinted at insanity over their baby’s death and expressed desire to join him in death. Police attribute possible mental distress as a motive.
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New York
Katie
Ida Neilson
Christian
Branklyn
Lone Agi
Christian Nelson
Tragedy Leaves Band Incoherent at Home
A salesman named Band returned home and, upon learning of the tragedy, was incoherent with grief. He refused to discuss domestic affairs with the poles. The Nellaons lived in their house for about a year and were reportedly in good circumstances.
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Nellaons
Vanderbilt's Trip Cost Him 2.5 Million Dollars
A New York report recalls William H. Vanderbilt explaining the oil region visit cost him 2.5 million dollars. He recounts traveling from Grand Central to Titusville, staying overnight, and meeting men, then pursuing a Tusville to Dunkirk railroad plan that required the same outlay to depart.
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William H. Vanderbilt
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Grand Trol
Titusvilie
Thusville
Dunkirk
Mckinley’s Niece Steps Into Spotlight on Stage
Mrs Hermanus Ludwig Baer known as Miss Mabel McKinley, niece of the late President, appears Saturday night in a San Francisco venue as a vocal star under Maurice Gray. Pseudonym Vivian Gray Pace credits her for popular songs like Anona. Her husband, Baer, unaware of the contract, supports the move to the stage.
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Hermanus Ludwig Baer
McKinley
Mabel McKinley
Maurice Gray
San Francisco
Vivian Gray
Pace
Anona
New York
Mabel Mc Hhuey
Tor. Baer
Deadly cloudburst and tornado hit Texas towns
A cloudburst and tornado Thursday night swept Beeville and Pettus, leaving eleven drowned near Pettus and rumors of more fatalities. Blanco creek at Pettus rose to eight miles wide with large washouts on the Aransas Pass road near Beeville and Kennedy. Pettus river area flooded, wires down hindering details, as storms threaten wheat shocks and Dallas Denton Waco and other towns report severe downstream flooding.
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Harvard students lead rush to Kane counties farm work
Kansas City dispatch notes 12 Dortonian Harvard students, sons of wealthy families, arrived at the state free labor bureau seeking farm work. They traveled by freight train, wore rough clothes, and said they had money, hitchhiked across the west, planning to explore the wheat fields and the frontier.
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Mirrors for Motorman in New York Street Cars
An effort seeks to place white cars in front of the motorman in New York and Brooklyn street cars so the operator can clearly see when passengers have alighted or are boarding. The aim is to reduce accidents caused by starting with riders not fully clear of the vehicle.
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Resignation at Jeffersonville Reformatory
Joseph P. Byers resigns as superintendent after seven months service. Writ H. W. Whittaker of Indianapolis is appointed to replace him, with changes to the prison board under the new 'reformed vtipper Bill' provisions. Whittaker to assume duties at Jeffersonville August 2.
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Village crafts immortelles for French cemeteries
In Mhlinulss near Conten, a southern village thrives by supplying immortelles to all French graveyards. May sees fields of yellow flowers destined for the dead, during a ten day period called the decade of the immortelles. Dried blooms are sold by weight in boxes of one hundred packages, each about 35 pounds, fetching 5 to 16 francs per box, yielding a profit of 1,668 francs from the industry.
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Widow in grief dies by own hand after Buck death
In Randolph N Y July 3 a community reels after Frank Buck killed Kimaell. Mrs Andrew Coy, long noted East Handank resident, attended the funeral then traveled to Little Valley and was found hanged from a post. She, about 40, overwhelmed by Buck's death, attempted to join him in death in a morbid act.
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Frank Buck
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Tammy
Andrew Coy
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Little Valley
H. C. Waters
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Bizarre Funeral Parlor Accidental Injury Report
A mutilated incident unfolds as a boy loses a leg in a gruesome, non bleeding accident witnessed by James Doyle and A Keenan’s undertaker rooms staff. George McDermott, age unknown, and onlookers describe a wooden foot being displayed. Doctors report no fatal bleed though the scene remains shocking.
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James J. Doyle
A. Keenan
George McDermott
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Dorie
Remarkable Young Tourists Journey with Little Means
A young Parisian girl from Montmartre named Madeleine Caucher toured the world over four years with no money in her pocket. She sang in French to pay her way, visiting Belgium, England, America, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, Sutada, Russia, and Germany among other lands.
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South Africa
Australia
New Zealand
China
Japan
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Waterburyites Hold a Special Meeting at Kilmore Creek
Waterbury club members meet at Kilmore and Scroggy Creek for a special gathering amid summer heat. President Gray attends in a touring car as Massed the water, fishery committee serves brook trout, Temens, and dancing water. The annual address runs late as timekeeper departs.
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Waterbury
Kilmore
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Frar
Bnew
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Joseph Baum
Bhorty
Philadelphia Teachers Demand Higher Pay
The newly formed Philadelphia teachers association plans a strong drive for a revised salary schedule after the board adopted a new pay rate. A May mass meeting led to a general committee with Prof. Franklin B. Edmonds as president, now guiding the push for increased earnings. more than 3,200 members have joined in two weeks.
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Board of Education
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Edmonds
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Inventor of trading stamp from Vermont linked to tax wealth
New York dated July 2 states the man who invented the trading stamp lives in Vermont and has earned over one million dollars from his titles.
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New York
Vermont
Women Bankers At St Louis Embrace New Role As Hostesses
In St Louis, banks appoint Mrs. Mex. Graham Frost as hostess guiding women customers on safe deposit boxes, coupon clipping, currency exchange, and real estate matters. The bank reports higher business under the new policy with 6.90 women depositors noted among the clientele.
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St. Louis
Mex
Graham Frost
Frost
Tramp artist accused in Elwood theft case
Elwood Ind July 2 A tramp artist living near Indianapolis is accused of stealing two valuable photographic lenses from photographer George Smith valued at 321 eve. The Indianapolis millinery firm sues Hannah and Henry Bannon for 100 in a judgment with attachment placed on their permanent property. A citywide backlash against saloon remonstrances circulates, with a street-cleaning employee among organizers. The Central Hottie Company plant completed its first year using wax producers, and stockholders meet Thursday to report a very satisfactory tire. The South-wide Market will be open all day Friday and closed all day Saturday.
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Rag Time at Fairview Concert Promises Lively Set
Rag-time concert set for Friday night at Fairview led by Liberati. Program promises sprightly numbers and up-to-date selections including Marches, fantasies, burlesques, and a soprano solo by Katherine Klarer.
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Wife of Broker Seeks Balance in Dress Bill Case
In New York on July 2, Mme Amanda Cankle Thomas, wife of Herbert F. Thomas, argues spending up to 7000 dollars yearly on dresses. The suit arose in supplementary proceedings from Mme Oro Cecil Bell Jacobs, a dressmaker, seeking 70 dollars on a 4914 dollar bill for gowns.
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Negroes Drive to Police Station After Raid
Six men were arrested Thursday in the northern western part of the city after a trap was set. Whites rode about in the area surrounding the Arkansas Grand Interest when the incident occurred. The charge for the men was placed again at the Negroes, though details are unclear from the fragmented report.
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Local figures fined and case appealed to supreme court
James Anderson William Veach and Frank Kittlewell were fined in Judge Carter's court for contempt. A motion to set aside verdict was tied and later overruled, a new trial motion was also overruled, and the case has been appealed to the supreme court. E H Gatte announced himself as a candidate for councilman at large on the democratic ticket, living in ward 12.
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Wiliam Veach
Frank Kittlewell
Carter
Supreme Court
E. H. Gatte
West St
Fatal Yacht Race Death Verses Columbia Crew
Newport reports a fatal yacht accident in a midshipman race. Carl B. Olsen, crewman on the Columba, was washed from the lowsprit and drowned before the first turn. Columbia withdrew as a mark of respect, ending further racing for the cruise.
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Carl B. Olsen
Acaman
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