Dog-Driven Cliff Crash Yields $12,000 Jury Award
Bernadine Dickes age seventeen and William Zimmerman age nine won judgments totaling 12,000 against a land company for injuries from a dog that chased them from a field in Weehawken Heights four years earlier. The girl suffered a skull fracture and a broken arm while the boy injured his eye and both sides claim permanent injuries.
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Jersey City
N. J
Weehawken Heights
Bernadine Dickes
William Zimmerman
Zimmerman
Navy plans largest fleet assemble in Cape Cod Bay
Secretary Meyer outlined summer naval maneuvers with Atlantic fleet forming the largest assembly of American ships. The battleship fleet will split into four divisions of five ships. Admiral Qostherhaus leads but not as first division commander. Assembly hoped by July 4 with Utah joining later and Wyoming delayed to fall.
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Meyer
Newport
R. L
Naval War College
Cape Cod Bay
Qosterhaus
Utah
Wyoming
Safe and Sane July 4 Planned by New Haven Authorities
In New Haven on June 3 a mayoral committee voted to set aside 75 for prizes for children in amusements. New playgrounds will host the games. A street parade is arranged with fraternal orders invited to join. Boy Scouts may form a division for the event.
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New Haven
Conn
Rice
Boy Scouts
Miss Editha Deacon Inherits Fortune From Deceased Fiance Relatives
Newport society cheers as Editha Deacon becomes wealthy in her own right through a settlement by relatives of her late fiancé George Lee Peabody. She earned praise for her devotion to the sick man, who died without a signed will leaving all to her.
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Newport
R. L
Editha Deacon
George Lee Peabody
America
Politician Oscar P. Bowers Found Murdered in Wellsville
Oscar P. Bowers a prominent local politician and businessman in Wellsville Ohio was found murdered in an alley near his residence. Authorities report his head was crushed and about $1000 in cash and jewelry was stolen.
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Wellsville
Oscar P. Bowers
Birds Enable Train Car Sidetrack For Nesting Robins
News item describes robins nesting on a brake ladder behind a car on the International Bridge route between Hamilton Ontario and Buffalo. Patrolman Mooney halted the train and, to aid the birds, the car was placed on a dead siding until the four eggs hatch. The piece ends with a humorous exchange about a begging letter writer and an editor.
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Hamilton
Ont
Buffalo
Mooney
International Bridge
Dynamiters’ Lawyers Plan $1 Million Suits Against Officials
Clarence B. Darrow, attorney for James and John McNamara, prosecutors in the Los Angeles Times dynamiting case, is consulting with local labor leaders about damages suits against Los Angeles city officials for conspiracy and false imprisonment of picketers. Directors of several manufacturing plants are to be named as parties in suits seeking $25,000 each, totaling about $1,000,000.
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Los Angeles
San Francisco
Clarence
Darrow
James
John McNamara
Los Angeles Times
Washington Man Locked Opponent In Cold Storage Over Debt
Frank L. Averill president of the Arcade Market used moral suasion to collect rent from Samuel Borwell. Averill locked Borwell in a cold storage room for thirty minutes until he settled, nearly freezing him. He was fined 25 dollars in police court for assault. Judge Pugh noted that imprisonment for debt had been abolished long ago in DC.
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Washington
Frank L. Averill
Arcade Market Company
Samuel Borwell
Boxwell
Averill
Pugh
New York
District of Columbia
Confession in Ohio legislative bribery case secured
Columbus Ohio June 3 Prosecutor Turner gains first confession in the legislative bribery cases. A legislative officer who admitted taking bribes provided details after a searching interrogation. The attorney general says the disclosure will greatly strengthen the prosecution and predicts a conviction in the next bribery trial. Grand jury report awaited until Monday.
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Columbus
Turner
Hogan
Martyr to Science Dr Emma Mooers Dies in Boston
Dr Emma W Mooers curator of the neuro pathological department at Harvard Medical School died of tonsillitis contracted while handling the brain of a man who died of the disease. She was infected with streptococci while studying the epidemic in Boston and died at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Emma Mooers
Boston
Emma W. Mooers
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital
Wells Defeats Leach Cross In Ten-Round Bout
England lightweight champion Matt Wells beat Leach Cross on points at Madison Athletic Club in New York. Wells won decisively but did not display world class form, though he proved superior over Cross in the ten round contest.
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New York
Matt Wells
England
Leach Cross
Madison Athletic Club
Wells
Cross
General Markets Report on Commodities and Livestock
Market receipts show butter steady with 9 764 packages moving from process to specials. Cheese is firm with 3 362 boxes received in state markets including fancy white varieties priced at 10 cents per pound. Hay and straw hold steady with no change. Live poultry remains firm.
Pay Your Vows And The Price Of Victory
A reflective editorial on Jephthah from Judges explores sacrifice and vow keeping in war. It argues great service demands costly commitments, cites Antietam and Civil War figures, and urges readers to fulfill promises to God rather than hedge or bargain.
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Glenn
Jephthah
Jehovah
Joan of Arc
Lee
Pennsylvania
White House
Antietam
Cromwell
Gordon
Robert E. Lee
Christ
John the Baptist
Machaerus
Paul
Mamertine
Rome
Golgotha
Mr. Richman
Preacher
Barry for Cuvillier Bill
Major General Thomas H. Barry promotes a bill to make it a misdemeanor to sell liquor to U S soldiers or cadets within half a mile of West Point. The measure passed the assembly but faces Senate opposition.
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Albany
Thomas H. Barry
West Point Military Academy
Assemblyman
Cuvillier
Assembly Committee On Military Affairs
United States
Military Academy
Assembly
Senate
Democrats Cheer Wool Bill Victory In House
Washington reports Rep Underwood says Bryan supports the Underwood wool bill, already endorsed by the Democratic caucus. After Senate action, attention turns to a cotton schedule as Democrats seek tariff harmony and plan to advance emergency bills but not broad measures.
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Washington
Representative Underwood
Ways and Means Committee
William J. Bryan
House
Bryan
Congress
Senate
Underwood
Congressional river trip sights inland waters route
Twenty five members of a rivers and harbors committee toured inland waters from New York to Philadelphia. They traveled via the Delaware and Raritan canal to Trenton and Bordentown and planned to return by the Delaware River, with entertainments arranged by the Trenton Chamber of Commerce and a steamer transfer at Bristol to Philadelphia.
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Delaware River
Trenton
N. J
Congress
New York
Philadelphia
Delaware and Raritan Canal
Country Club
Bristol
Matt Quay
Johnson and Langford to Fight at Bladensburg
Boxing figures assert a Johnson versus Sam Langford bout will be held at Bladensburg Maryland on Labor Day. The fifteen round clash is planned to occur on Maryland soil just outside Washington and may include a limited supporting card.
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Johnson
Langford
Bladensburg
Baltimore
oThit Jack Johnson
Sam Langford
Dod
Ft Washington
Maryland
District of Columbia
Decatur
Commodore Barron
Language instructor dies after fall at home
New York reports Robert Gillard aged sixty eight an instructor of languages is dead in a Jersey City hospital from injuries sustained by falling down stairs at his home.
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Fatton
New York
Robert Gillard
Jersey City
George F Kendall Dead in Suffield Connecticut
George F Kendall Carmen era de bank commissioner died in Suffield Connecticut at sixty one. Local report notes his public service and death on June 8 in the town.
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Georgei F.kendall
Suffield
Conn
George F. ‘Kendall
Carmen
Erade Bank
Bergen Progressives to Choose Candidates Wednesday
Bergen County Progressive Republican league invites suggestions for candidates to support in the September primaries. A meeting is set for Wednesday evening June 7, 1911, at 8 p m in Hackensack to consider potential legislative candidates.
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Bergen
Hackensack
N. J
Bergen County
Progressive Republican League
Main and
Salen Streets
League
Raritan Canal inspection by congressional committee
The rivers and harbors committee led by Representative Peter M. Starkman lands in Perth Amboy New Jersey en route to inspect the Raritan canal between New York and Philadelphia. Members Scully Wood and J Hamp ton Moore accompany, welcomed by Mayor Albert Bolschweller aboard. The group sails from Perth Amboy to New Brunswick aboard Idle Base after docking aboard the revenue cutter Manhattan.
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Congressional Committee
New Brunswick
Trenton
Perth Amboy
N. J
Rivers and Harbors Committee of Congress
Peter M. Starkman
Florida
New York
Philadelphia
Scully and Wood
J. Hampton Moore
Deeper Waterways’ Association
Manhattan
Stray Humor and Weather Wit from Theetap Note
A fragment of playful chatter about the weather, noting a week with little precipitation and humorous aside. The text tacitly reflects informal newspaper verse and local tone.
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