Curtiss hailed as marvel for wonder flight
New York May 30 Admirers greeted Glenn H Curtiss after his Albany to New York flight as he contemplates a New York to Chicago challenge. Hamilton proposes a 960 mile race with 36 hour completion and 2,000 dollar purse while Curtiss recounts the flight, fuel questions, and dangers of air currents over the Hudson and along the river.
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New York
Glenn H. Curtiss
Hotel Astor
Albany
Curtiss
Charles KB. Hawilton
Florida
Hamilton
Chicago
America
Hudson Valley
Linlithgo
Germantown
Poughkeepsie
Camelot
Manhattan
Hadsan
Metropolitan Life Building
Biggest crowd roars as speedway thrills fans
Championship events bring a packed house at the speedway with record turnout. Barry Oldfield oversees trials as anticipation builds for the fastest time. Enthusiasm centers around the center stand and the packed grandstands.
Harroun Escapes Death In Queer Smash At Race
Ray Harroun escaped serious harm when his Wasp car, winner of the 200 mile race, mounted the wall on the final turn and slid along it about 111 feet after a rear tire blew. The machine wrecked, but Harroun was unharmed.
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Ray Harroun
Wasp
Races at Indiana Speedway Detail World Record Trials
Monday's program lists trials for kilometer to fifty mile events led by Barney Oldfield. Stock chassis classes A to E race five to ten miles with weights and displacements specified. Open and handicap Class D events headline ten and five mile races. Remy Grand Brassard and John A. Wilson Trophy featured. Crowd of 50,000 observed a windy day with track prep and record expectations. Two spectators fainted in paddock crowds as Kincade on National and Aitken led the first ten-mile race.
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Barney Oldfield
John A. Wilson
Franklin
Speedway
Indiana
Burman
Chevrolet
Kincade
National
Aitken
Murdered Child Alma Kellner Found in Louisville Parochial School Cellar
The body of Alma Kellner, last seen December 8, was found in an unused basement cellar of St John’s parochial school on Broadway Louisville. A ransom demand for $5,000 preceded the killing, with the body wrapped in carpet and six ribs broken. Police and the Kellner family rushed to the scene as investigators noted foul play.
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Alma Kellner
St. John’s Parochial School
Louisville
Fred Kellner
East Broadway
St.John's Parochial School
Broadway
Dick Sweets
Lindsay
Kellner
Alma
Frank Fehr
Father Schumann
Quicklima Alno
Fears husband drowns in canal near Blackford Street
Daniel McKee man aged 48 of 1428 West Court Street disappeared Friday after threatening to end his wife in the canal near Blackford Street. Mrs McKee man alerted police who found footprints and a handkerchief believed to be his. Officers plan to drag the canal.
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Blackford Street
Daniel McKeeman
W. Court Street
McKeenan
Pinchot returns from Europe silent on Ballinger feud
Gifford Pinchot lands in New York aboard the Arabic after a secret March departure. He refuses to discuss the Ballinger controversy or Roosevelt meetings. When asked about a walk in the forest of Maurizio with Roosevelt, he calls it a fine forest and a prune tree forest with no lemons observed.
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New York
Gifford Pinchot
Europe
Roosevelt
Ballinger
Pinchot
Taft
Mr. Pinchot
Forest of
Maurizio
Col. Roosevelt
Frisco Mayor Injured In Auto Accident
San Francisco Mayor Patrick McCarty was injured when his car hit a southbound streetcar on North street in Indianapolis after lunch. He fractured his right ankle, declined hospital, and asked police to withhold news of the incident. Mayor McCarty had been attending the National Carpenters union convention at the German House and was returning to the Claypool hotel. The driver, J O Carson, sped east and struck the streetcar, witnesses said, with the mayor carried unconscious to a nearby physician’s office.
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Patrick McCarty
San Francisco
Cal
Pennsylvania
North Street
McCarty
Indianapolis
National Carpenters’ Union
German House
J. O. Carson
L. M. Rowe
Claypool
Veterans Line Up In Memorial Day Procession
Veterans from Indianapolis and surrounding areas gathered at Meridian and Vermont streets at 1 30 PM to march to grave sites. The event featured Union Veteran Legion and allied groups, patriotic addresses, schoolchildren singing, and services at Mount Jackson Greenlawn Crown Hill and Holy Cross cemeteries with military honors and taps.
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Soldier
Indianapolis
Meridian
Vermont Street
Union
Soldiers’ Monument
Monument Place
Market Street
Capitol Avenue
Washington Street
Pennsylvania
Union Veteran Legion
Woman's Relief Corps
Daughters of the American Revolution
Ladies’ Auxiliary
The
Sons of Veterans
Newsboy
E. O. Thomas
Oak Hill M. E
National Guard
Holy Cross Cemetery
Pension Roll Shrinks as Civil War Vets Die
Washington reports that Civil War veterans in pension rolls have fallen to about 50,000 from 54,600, with four thousand dying in the last month. Total pension appropriations for this session run near 162 million dollars. about 800,000 pensioners remain, down from 951,687 in the latest tally.
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Big Army
Washington
Bureau of Pensions
United States
Congress
Commissioner of Pensions
Chicago Men Follow Drums In Veteran Parade
Chicago on May 30 saw 1,200 veterans march behind fife and drum through crowded streets reenacting Civil War days. Officers’ commands and field artillery roared as old soldiers, many with bunions and rheumatic joints, declined cars to tread the pavement once more.
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Chicago
Jews Expelled From Health Resorts in Caucasus
Reports to M Friedman, Jewish Duma member, allege Jews were summarily expelled from health resorts in the Caucasus. The charges come as he campaigns for the banished Jewish community.
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ST. Petersburg
Caucasus
M. Friedman
The
Duma
Comfort Station Delayed Opening For Three Weeks
The public comfort station on Illinois and Washington streets will not open for three more weeks due to delayed plumbing shipments. H. M. Cochrane, appointed by the board of public works to supervise construction, estimates the postponement.
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Public Comfort Station
Illinois
Washington Streets
H. M. Cochrane
Board of Public Works
Missing Senator Arrested While Leaving Chicago
State Senator Jobs Broderick was arrested Monday after being indicted in Springfield on bribery linked to the Lorimer election. He met Deputy Sheriff Log at Union Depot and began bond arrangements for arraignment in Springfield. The Sangamon grand jury resumes Tuesday amid talk of new indictments and potential admissions by legislators connected to the furniture bribery case. Senator Lorimer stays hidden after returning from Washington.
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Chicago
Jobs Broderick
Springfeld
Sherif W. Log
Sangamon County
Union Depot
Springfield
Broderick
Sangamon County Grand Jury
D. W. Holstlaw
Inka
William Lorimer
United States
Burke
Joseph S. Clark
Pemberton
Clark
Lorimer
Washington
Confession Boosts Bribery Inquiry Into Lorimer Vote
Illinois grand jury to hear more witnesses after State Senator Holtslaw admits $2,500 to back Lorimer, plus $700 from jackpot and $1,500 for state capitol furniture. McCullom and McMakin summoned. Lorimer denies bribery on Senate floor.
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Springfield
Burke
Harvey D. Mc~Cullom
Clay County
Charlies L. McMakin
Marion County
D. W. Holtsiaw
Inks
United States
Lorimer
St. Louis
Holtslaw
United States Senate
Holtsteer
Broderick
Chicago
Lorhmen
McCullum
McMakin
John Broderick
Stanton C. Pemberton
Rep
Oakland
D. W. Holstlaw
Tuka
Joeseph Clark
Dem
Vandalia
A. B. Johnston
Johnston & Hatcher Co
National Body Will Act Upon Request Senator Lorimer
In Washington on May 10 the latest confession tied to bribery charges in the Illinois legislature by Senator Holstraw is cited as prompting the United States Senate to likely approve Lorimer's resolution. The measure asks for a full and complete investigation by a Senate committee.
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Lorimer
Washingto.ja
Illinois
Holstraw
United States Senate
Senate
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