Hamilton’s Chicago trip dream follows famed flight
New York aviator Charles K. Hamilton, hailed by leading aviators for a record New York to Philadelphia and back, plans a Chicago flight. He praised the feat amid fans and offered a NY exhibition flight for charity while wife and mother expressed pride at his prowess and preparation.
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New York
Chicago
Charles K. Hamilton
Philadelphia
Hotel Astor
Hamilton
Manchester
Louis Paulhan
Paulhan
America
Wright Brothers
Dirigible pilot survives crash over New York streets
Robert Owens, 21, aeronaut, sailed from Newark across the Hudson and over Manhattan to Brooklyn. Wind forced a perilous descent near City Hall Park and the City Court building, with the airship snagged in wires above a roadway. Firemen rescued Owens unharmed as the wreckage was brought to ground.
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New York
Robert Owens
Newark
N. J
Hudson
Brooklyn
Owens
City Halls Park
City Court
Gates
Nostrand
Forse
Sharpshooters Join Man Hunt in East Greenfield
Twenty sharpshooters from Company L, Second regiment, state militia, left East Greenfield to join a large posse pursuing Silas Phelps in the Munroe Bridge area after the murder of Deputy Sheriff Emmet F. Haskins. Phelps, hiding in thick woods, may be aided by his sister-in-law, who could be arrested. He is believed near his home as the manhunt intensifies and all hunters are ordered to shoot on sight due to his armed condition.
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Greenfield
Mass
Silas Phelps
Munroe Bridge
Phelps
Emmet F. Haskins
Bligh
Horse Leaps and Falls on Its Head in Indiana
A horse driven by Marion Balleu, belonging to M. F. Hall, frightened by a street car in Kokomo Indiana, leaped and fell striking its head, causing death on Monday. A Senate bill proposes postponing the corporation tax payment until January 1 1911, citing awaiting Supreme Court ruling on constitutionality.
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Kokomo
Ind
Marion Balleu
M. F. Hall
Washington
Senate
Cullom
Tninots
Committee On Finance
Supreme Court
Ballots Extended Stay Images of Primary Protest
On Judge Leathers order the injunction that barred destroying primary election ballots was extended for 30 days. Pending action in circuit court on the election contest cases.
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Leathers
Superior Court
Norton Stirs Up Things for Taft in White House
Charles Dyer Norton, former assistant secretary of the treasury, becomes secretary to the president and signals a new era of openness. Bulletins and frequent updates replace secrecy as Norton aims to show the public Taft's character and methods, hoping to boost the president's popularity.
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Washington
Charles Dyer Norton
the Treasury
Gonfalon
Fred W. Carpenter
Mr. Norton
Taft
House
Norton
Congress
Ife Insurance
Charles Deer Norton
Kentucky men fire on hospital car in smallpox clash
In Crum West Virginia, armed Kentuckians guarding against smallpox victims opened fire from the Kentucky shore across the Tug branch of the Big Sandy river at a Norfolk and Western hospital car crowded with Negro patients. Two were killed and several wounded as a posse forms to arrest the shooters amid expected further bloodshed.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Crum
Kentucky
Big Sandy
Norfolk & Western
West Virginia
Franklin college seniors stage The Wrong Sultan
Franklin Indiana June 14 seniors of Franklin college presented The Wrong Sultan as part of commencement week exercises. The rest of the week includes receptions alumni meetings annual business meetings of directors and other small events concluding Thursday with an address by Dr Frederick E Taylor of Indianapolis.
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Franklin, Ind
Franklin College
Frederick E. Taylor
Indianapolis
Coeducation Denounced by Detroit Priest
Rev Father Henry Blanchot of St Joachim's Church denounces co education in high schools as criminal in a Detroit address. He says youths in their teens are thrown together, inviting secret meetings and flirtations, creating opportunities for evil.
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Detroit
Mich
Father Henry Blanchot
St. Joachim's Catholic Church
Relatives hunt for loved ones killed by fire in Montreal
The Herald building disaster search continued in Montreal with 29 missing on Tuesday and officials fearing the death toll could reach 60. Fire, collapse, and flooding from a 25 ton tank contributed to the danger as relatives waited at the morgue and rescuers labored amid shifting debris and smoke.
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Montreal
Herald
Fie
Schooner Wrecked Off Curacao With Drownings
News from Curacao reports the government schooner Van Herdt wrecked off the northeast coast Sunday night. All aboard drowned except four sailors and one passenger. The vessel typically carried no more than 12 passengers, exact numbers unknown.
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Williamsted
Curaca
van Herdt
Curacao
Sherman Abandons Trip To Iowa City
Utica June 14 Word has reached Sherman that the vice president has canceled his planned trip to Iowa City to address the graduating class at Iowa State University because of illness of Mrs Sherman in Washington.
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Sherman
Utica
Iowa City
Iowa State University
Washington
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