Campaign to influence Taft over Mines chief choice grows
Washington telegrams urge President Taft to appoint E. W. Parker as chief of the bureau of mines. George Otis Smith of the Geological Survey signs telegrams, while Dr. Joseph A. Holmes and H. W. Parker are allied with opposing sides. The fight splits bureau leadership and congressional supporters amid heated lobbying.
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Washington
Taft
E. W. Parker
Bureau of Mines
Congress
Department of the Interior
George Otis Smith
U. S Geological Survey
Smith
Parker
Bureau
Joseph A. Holmes
Geological Survey
Holmes
Ballinger
Jolmes
Motorman Saves Boy After Crossing Tracks
In Philadelphia on July 28 Motorman Robert Haines spotted a boy climbing over a fence onto tracks ahead of an eastbound elevated train. He halted the train and applied brakes so hard the motors stalled. The following train pushed the stalled car into the city after nearly an hour of delays. The boy vanished in the uproar near Sixty sixth street as the incident unfolded.
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Philadelphia
Robert Haines
Sixty-sixth Street
Police athletes lose easy berths in New York
Police patrolmen Martin Sheridan Jol Flanagan and Mathew McGrath, all noted hammer and discus competitors, faced transfers from patrol duty. the brief notice cites "the service" as the sole reason for the expected loss of easy berths.
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W York
Martin Sheridan
Jol Flanagan
Mathew McGrath
Opera Star Lina Cavalieri Recovers After Appendectomy
Paris July 28 Mme Lina Cavalieri wife of Robert Winthrop Chanler of New York underwent an appendicitis operation at Dr Segend s clinic and is resting comfortably. Physicians say the operation was highly successful and she will soon convalesce. Her husband stays at her side. The singer had suffered a prolonged appendicitis episode forcing her to abandon plans for an opera tour to Buenos Ayres and St Petersburg.
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Paris
Mme
Lina Cavalieri
Robert Winthrop Chanler
New York
Labor surplus eases Panama Canal labor demand
Washington reports that canal construction now draws workers from Greece Italy Spain Costa Rica Cuba Colombia and Venezuela with voluntary immigration meeting needs. European labor has surged nearly 1000 percent and West Indian arrivals rise 30 percent compared with early 1909, while stowaway issues decline as officials tighten controls.
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Washington
Panama Canal
United States
Greece
Italy
Spain
Costa Rica
Cuba
Colombia
Venezuela
Europe
Colon
Republic of Panama
Barbados
Feminine motorists meet in Salt Lake on rough roads
Intrepid women autoists from New Jersey and Rochester exchange greetings in Salt Lake City as they compare experiences of “perfectly horrid” roads. The east bound group includes Mrs. Clark Fisher and Harold Fisher Brooks. the west bound group includes Miss Blanche Stuart Scott and Miss Gertrude Phillips. The Fisher party aims for New York with a world motor tour planned by mid August.
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Salt Lake City
Salt Lake
Clark Fisher
Trenton
N. J
Harold Fisher Brooks
Blanche Stuart Scott
Rochester
N. Y
Gertrude Phillips
Holbrook
N. H
Fisher
New York
Scott Phillips
San Francisco
Brooks
Angas
The Illustrious Prince and the Fatal Night
In a London hotel dinner, Sir Charles, the duchess, Penelope Morse, Lady Grace, and the visiting prince discuss life, death, and civilization. A shock arrives as Mr Vanderpole is reported dead after a taxi crash, eclipsing earlier sensational headlines and shifting the mood of the social gathering.
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Lady Grace
Europe
Stnrg
Penelope
Sir Charles
Miss Morse
Paradise
Somerfield
Tokio
Dicky
Mr. Coulson
Pennelope
Vanderpole
Don’t Poison Baby Castoria Ad Warning
Forty years ago mothers used paregoric and laudanum to quiet infants but narcotics caused death or lasting harm. Druggists must label narcotics and avoid giving them to children. Castoria contains no narcotics if it bears Chas. H. Fletcher’s signature.
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Chas. H. Fletcher
J. W. Dinsdale
Chicago
Ill
Alexander E. Mintie
Cleveland
Ohio
J. S. Alexander
Omaha
Neb
J. A. McClellan
Buffalo, N. Y
J. W. Allen
St. Louis
C. H. Glidden
St. Paul
Minn
H. D. Benner
Philadelphia
J. A. Boarman
Kansas City
J. J. Mackey
Brooklyn
N. Y
Murder Mystery In The Tube Adds To Public Fear
The passage notes how readers of half penny papers chased sensationalism without facts. Amid a surge of dramatic but vague reports a murder case involving an unnamed person named Hamilton Fynes emerges as especially strange.
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Hamilton Fynes
Benevolent Institute Offers Free Treatment Through August
The Dr. Gilmer Medical Institute at 46 N Pennsylvania Street, suites D and E, advertises free professional services for three months for callers before August 1 to prove cures of chronic diseases. They claim quick and permanent cures for deafness, lameness, blindness, rheumatic and paralytic conditions and invite long-standing cases deemed incurable by others.
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Dr. Gilmer Medical Institute
Pennsylvana Street
D and E
Indiana
Pennsylvania Street
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Congressmen
Lina Cavalleri
Will
Grace
America
Liverpool
Euston
Hamilton Fyneé
Bvfpe
Ohl de Sane
Serd
Castoria
Eees
Stubbins Hotel
S.oliness, St., Indianapolis
S.a.tarney
Auburn, Ind
Dr. Sherwood
Baldwin
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