Wireless Telephone Declares Great Invention Now Successful
The World Today notes the wireless telephone surpasses wireless telegraphy in wonders and potential. Experiments prove it can transmit human voice across walls and spaces up to 100 miles, with Newark to New York 12 miles and Congress to New York 35 miles among tests. Claims include use aboard a steamer on Lake Michigan and in Taft's Chicago suite.
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New York
Morse
Bell
Frederick Collins
Newark
N. J
Congress
New
Vanderbilt Causes Rich Men To Work
Newport Rhode Island July 21 William K Vanderbilt Jr plans active railroading work and reveals the absence of wealthy residents in the cottage settlement. For a week most men have left Newport to work or appear to work prompting locals to call the town widow town. Notables Haggin Dyer Fosdick Wells Gillespie Clews Ingraham Burden Berwind Ledyard Aldrich and others returned to the commercial world.
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Newport
R. I
William K. Vanderbilt Jr
James B. Haggin
Elisha Dyer
Paulding Fosdick
Storrs Wells
Raynor Wells
Lawrence Gillespie
Henry Clews
Phoenix Ingraham
William P. Burden
Edward J. Berwind
Lewis Cass Ledyard
Henry Waters
Austen Gray
Charles M. Qelrichs
Charles de Loosey Aldrich
Tower to memory of Grover Cleveland memorial
New York July 21. Most of the money for the Grover Cleveland memorial at Princeton is on hand. A little over $73,000 of $106,000 has been subscribed. The memorial will be a 75 foot tower, in line with Mr Cleveland's family wishes and ideas, with no heroic statue on the exterior.
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New York
Grover Cleveland
Princeton
Cleveland
Wood to propose army reforms to strengthen force
Maj Gen Leonard Wood newly as chief of staff plans revisions to the army. Shorten enlistment terms in the regular army organize time expired men into a reserve, assign regular officers as instructors to the national guard. He predicts within five years the army could rival any in training and numbers.
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Washington
Leonard Wood
Army
National Guard
Spool of Love Takes Off in Airship Honeymoon Plan
New York July 21. Frederick Philip Schneider and Eva Matilda Leonhauser announce a July 20 marriage. The couple will honeymoon aboard Schneider's self built aeroplane, testing flights over Long Island and Morris Park, promising to soar wherever they please as long as not over the ocean or barbed wire. The bride-to-be inspired the craft after hearing him say Come Take a Ride in My Airship.
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New York
Frederick Philip Schneider
Eva Matilda Leonhauser
E. 178Th Street
Schneider
Long Island
Morris Park
Leonhauser
Wright
Dicky
London
Liverpool
Cyclone Fatal To Two In Fort Worth Area
Two people are reported killed after a cyclone strikes Fort Worth Texas on July 21 causing extensive damage with at least one hundred houses destroyed or damaged. Local crews work to secure affected blocks and assess missing residents.
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Fort Worth
Tex
The Affair of State and a London Chase
Miss Penelope Morse evades two pursuing taxis to reach Harrods and meets Dicky Vanderpole. She explains she knows Hamilton Fynes from Massachusetts and hints at a motive behind his murder, offering to aid the police with a crucial clue. The scene moves along the Embankment as their conversation deepens.
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Penelope Morse
Duke of Devenham
Hamilton Fynes
Carlton Hotel
Harrod’s
Pall Mall
Hyde Park Corner
Tam
Penelope
Dicky
United States Branch Statement of Commercial Union Assurance Co
Copy of the condition report for the United States branch of Commercial Union Assurance Co Ltd as of December 31 1909. Located at Ping and William streets New York with home office London England and Western department Chicago Illinois. Auditor of State Indiana certifies correctness of the statement showing assets liabilities and capital figures and confirms the document matches the original state ment.
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United States
THE
Commercial Union Assurance Co
Commercial Union Assurance Co., Ltd
Ping and
William Streets
New York
A. H. Wray
Home Office
London
England
Western Department
H.C. Eddy
Chicago
Ill
Sra
U. S
Eiba Byu Avcalivl
State of Indiana
Office of Auditor of State
State
State of
Indiana
Billheimer
J. C. Billheimer
Auditor of State
J.C. Billemmer
Central Trust and Connecticut Fire Insurance Company Assets and Liabilities
Public record from 1908 lists Central Trust Company and Connecticut Fire Insurance Company at 51 Prospect Street Hartford. It shows capital $1,000,000, assets including bonds $4,547,205 and real estate $915,750.40, and liabilities totaling $34,105,355.44 with losses and claims categorized and auditable as of December 1908. The report also notes the Copper Insurance Company at 220 N Main Street Dayton with capital $200,000 and various loss reserves and taxes.
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Connecticut Fire Insurance Company
Prospect Street
Hartford
Conn
J. D. Browne
W.'T. Howe
Cooper Insurance Company
N. Main Street
Dayton
O. D. B. Corwin
Sam L. la Rose
Ageatiowwa
Franklin Fire Insurce Company
Walnut Street
Philadelphia
Alfredb. Duncan
Ezra T. Cresson
Aesets
Ce Forres Company
Comdant
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Vanderbilt
Wood
Aviator Schneider
Bride
Hamilton - Fynes
Massachusetts
Carlton
Scotland Yard
Dicky Vanderpole
Aaffir
Press Association
America
London & Northwestern Railway Company
Mr. Hamilton Fynes
St. Petersburg
Berlin
Miss Penelope Morse
Richard Vanderpole
Berg
Surance
Castoria
New York City
Aledmat
What Is
Ceming Castoria
Tuk Cem
Mpany
Murray ST
Central Trust Company
Insurance Department
Liabiulitieb
Cooper A Company
Franklin Fire Insurance Company
J. P. _MULLALLYPIER MACHINE INE CO
Incade and Jewelry
Monument Place
Milwaukee Mechanics” Insurance Co
Mile Wauckee Mechanics’ Insurance Company
City Hall Square
Milwaukee
Wis
William L. Jones
Oscar Griebling
ARS
Cccceessian
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Deduct Ledger Liafor Reinsurance Company
Acteo Oe
Tfeone
Sheen
Lule Fuener
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