Taft’s record travel to Chicago portends year of tours
President Taft leads in travel among world rulers with seventeen trips in under a year, aided by a $25,000 annual allowance and frequent rail journeys. He plans a March visit to Chicago for St Patrick’s Day events, then Rochester, Albany, New Haven, and Beverly engagements, with Alaska trip deferred. Naval experts debate fourteen inch gun impact on battleship size and docking limits as 30,000 ton ships loom.
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Jonathan Winfield
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Tramp Heir Discovered After Two-Year Hunt For $60,000
Charles Bolling a 37 year old tramp born in Rotenburg Hanover Germany has been found after a two year search for the $60,000 left to him by German parents. He wandered from Yokohama to Oakland and Bowery lodging houses before being identified by Charles Ehlermann a former neighbor now grocer at Amsterdam Avenue.
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New York
Charles Bolling
Germany
Bolling
Rotenburg
Hanover
Yokohama
Japan
San Francisco
Oakland
Bollings
Ehlermanns
Ehlermann
Charles Ehlermann
Amsterdam Avenue
Ufe
Bowery
Belling
George Bolling
German War Office
United States
America
Italian in court refuses to identify attackers in robbery case
Pasquale Occhionero, a scarred Brooklyn Italian with a slinged arm, testified in general sessions against Giuseppe di Salvo Emilio Falcone Fortunato Scordino and Giuseppe Tovano but refused to name the attackers or discuss the February 6 West Broadway robbery. Two defendants pleaded guilty to first degree assault as the proceedings revealed messages delivered to Occhionero. he swore he would not speak while his wound remained painful.
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New York
General Sessions
Pasquale Occhionero
Brooklyn
Wasservogel
Giuseppe di Salvo
Emilio Falcone
Fortunato Scordino
Giuseppe Tovano
West Broadway
di Salvo
Falcone
Occhionero
Reporter Is Lured Into Cupid's Net
Miss Ethel Marion Crum daughter of George A Crum deputy state boiler inspector will wed Courtney Kyley Cooper a Kansas City newspaper man in her parents home at 1342 North Nevada Avenue Colorado Springs. The couple plan to move to Kansas City after the ceremony at the residence Saturday.
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Colorado Springs
Col
Ethel Marion Crum
George A. Crum
Courtney Kyley Cooper
Kansas
Pueblo
Misa Crum
Centennial High School
Kansas City
Campbell Street
Secret call leads boy to cave hideout with band
New York report details Frank Yockel of 806 Westchester Ave forming a night crew of youths after stealing a pocketbook and leading them to a rocky cave on St John Ave and Fox St. The Chief refuses to surrender, later yielding as police and laborers breach the lair. The mother and doctor suggest sanitarium care.
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New York
Frank Yockel
Westchester Avenue
St. John Avenue
Fox Street
James J. Jeffries
Frank
Viele Philp
William Brown
Policeman Brown
Gerry Society
Little Jackpot Leads to Prison
New York dispatch reports that five Castle Williams prisoners at Fort Jay Governor's Island were tried for a penny ante gambling game. A fifteen cent jackpot triggered the affair, but all five were sentenced to four months hard labor and the records have been sent to the Department of War in Washington.
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New York
Charles Mayer
Frank McVeen
George Jennings
Thomas Yancey
James Cassidy
Castle Williams
Fort Jay
Governor’s Island
N. Y
Department of War
Washington
Breeding Humans By Mendelian Science Predicted
Boston March 12 Prof W E Castle Harvard, famed for experiments with guinea pigs and rabbits, claimed at a Boston Scientific society meeting that human breeding could be directed by chemistry and mathematics. He said dominant traits could be induced in offspring, even altering traits across generations and disproving environment-based heredity in many cases.
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Boston
W. E. Castle
Harvard
Boston Scientific Society
Castle
Darwin
Mendel
Marriage Reported as Cure for Tonsillitis in New York
New York March 12 Marriage as a cure for tonsillitis is credited for Robert D. Powers who, ill with serious symptoms, married Elizabeth Howe Troy of 3485 Broadway. The ceremony at Marble Collegiate Church followed by a remarkable recovery, with Powers improving enough to plan a honeymoon. Powers is 33, his bride 34. she was previously divorced and had two children.
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New York
Robert D. Powers
William Powers
Livingston Apartments
Central Park
West and
Lighty-sixth Street
Elizabeth Howe Troy
Broadway
Powers
David J. Bur- Tell
Marble Collegiate Church
Fifth Avenue
Twenty-ninth Street
Young Powers
Bridgeport
Cats Spend Three Hours At Pole Top In Cedar Grove
Abe Zimmer drove his fish wagon through Cedar Grove New Jersey attracting fifty seven cats that followed the cart into town. Nero the dog and Kaiser the other dog chased the cats toward telegraph poles where they sheltered for three hours until Gus Meier and L A Sykes called off the dogs and the cats ran home.
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Cedar Grove
N. J
Abe Zimmer
Abe
Gus Meier
Nero
L. A. Sykes
Turkish Bath Craze Spreads Through London Scenes
In London the Turkish bath craze expands south of Piccadilly with new premises and night hours. Promoters advertise lavish establishments, while box-baths in middle-class homes offer a cheaper, safer substitute. The trend draws comparisons to past massage fads and raises concerns about nocturnal bathing.
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London
Piccadilly
Bankruptcy Court
West End
America
England
Austrian Baron Weds American Bride In Fairytale Union
New York March 12 Engagement announced between Miss Irma R Gratz Brooklyn and Baron Alfred von Lazarini Jablanitz a Sachsen dragoon officer of Austria The couple first met when she was eleven during a passing dragoon salute in Marienbad Austria Hungary The baron speaks nine languages and is musically inclined Miss Gratz a noted soprano studied in Munich and says rank matters little to her with plans for a future wedding still undetermined
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New York
Irma R. Gratz
St. Mark's Avenue
Brooklyn
Baron Alfred von Lazarini- Jablanitz
Sachsen
Dragoons
Austria
Marienbad
Austria-Hungary
Miss Gratz
Gratz Importing Company
Weat Thirty-second Street
Alfred
Munich
Mias Gratz
Excessive Grief Claims Life Of Young Girl In Pennsylvania
In Connellsville Pennsylvania five year old Mary Andrews mourned her mother until she died from prolonged grief and hemorrhage complications. After her mother’s death the child stayed at the bedside and wept until she passed away in Mount Pleasant township. The Andrews family, well regarded, planned to bury mother and daughter together the following day.
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Connellsville
Mary Andrews
Mount Pleasant Township
Andrew Andrews
Prominent Clubman Is Sued For Divorce
Baltimore March 12 Mrs Maud Tarlton Winchester has filed for a limited divorce from Marshall Winchester banker and clubman the complaint cites desertion. Details recount a last year Graham Knox wedding reception incident where Winchester reportedly assaulted his wife and damaged her costumes. Her brother Robert Tarlton intervened and thrashed Winchester. Uncle William Reynolds said Mrs Winchester will never live with him again.
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Baltimore
Maud Tarlton Winchester
Marshall Winchester
Winchesters
Graham-Knox
Winchester
Robert Tarlton
New York
William Heynolds
New York Aurist Offers Free Trial for Deafness Cure
A celebrated New York aurist, Dr Edward Gardner, proposes a home based cure for deafness and offers to send a trial treatment free by return mail to anyone with ear trouble. He invites readers to address Suite 987 No 40 West Thirty third Street New York City for the free trial.
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New York
Edward Gardner
West Thirtythird Street
New York City
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