Battleship Michigan Tops Gunnery Championship
The battleship Michigan commanded by Captain Nathaniel R. Usher wins the gunnery championship trophy with 99 929 points. North Dakota follows with 72 948 and South Dakota 70 956 as New Hampshire records the poorest score at 14 380.
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Michigan
Nathaniel R. Usher
North Dakota
New Hampshire
San Marcos
Chesapeake Bay
South Dakota
Maryland
Virginia
Vermont
California
Pennsylvania
Connecticut
West Virginia
Idaho
Rhode Island
Louisiana
Kansas
South Carolina
Mississippi
Georgia
Minnesota
Nebraska
Different Positions
A brief note from the Baltimore American describes two desk workers: one checks the cash while another, in an easy chair, cashes the checks. The scene highlights distinct roles in a financial setting.
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Baltimore American
French Landlords Hit Hard on Families with Children
Life in Paris shows humor and hardship as rents rise for households with kids. Census fears and fake ages spark satire while officials ignore penalties. Workers consider boycotting flats and camping out until rents drop to reasonable levels.
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Paris
France
England
America
Pull or Push Debate in Political Influence
A New York Globe speculation on whether political power comes by pull or push. The piece muses if officeholders gain favors through their own effort or via external influence, using a horse and cart analogy to consider how authority advances.
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New York Globe
Governors Next Appointments Stir New Jersey Politics
Rumors swirl over who will lead the new state department of weights and measures and other key posts. Irvine E. Maguire is named as a likely candidate for the assessors board, while Secretary of State Samuel D. Dickinson and other officials face succession as Governor Wilson prepares for confirmations ahead of 1912. John J. Gifford and Senator George S Sister are among strong contenders for banking and insurance chief and secretary of state respectively.
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Trenton
N. J
State Department of Weights and Measures
New Jersey
State Board of Assessors
Irvine E. Maguire
Mount Holly
Samuel D. Dickinson
Supreme Court
William Riker, Jr
Vivian M. Lewis
Wilson
George 8S
Middlesex County
John J. Gifford
Newark
Woodrow Wilson League
Essex County
Wilsonians to Honor Woodrow Wilson with Dollar Dinner
Newark June 12 Formal announcement will be mailed today for a dollar dinner on Wednesday evening June 28 at Krueger auditorium. The event, under the auspices of the Woodrow Wilson Democratic Club of Essex county, honors Woodrow Wilson for his administration and the dawn of a new era in New Jersey politics. The league aims to revive citizenship and make politics worthwhile.
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Newark
N. J
Krueger
Woodrow Wilson
First New Rule Election In New Jersey Set For Tomorrow
The first Walsh law special election under commission government will be held tomorrow in Bayonne New Jersey with citizens in twenty four other towns watching. Prominent Democrats Republicans and Prohibitionists align with Government by Commission as abolition while Republican and Democratic machines wage a bitter campaign.
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Bayonne
N. J
New Jersey
She
Vaniman Plans Transatlantic Flight in October
Melvin Vaniman engineer of Walter Wellman’s airship America sails from Liverpool to supervise a new dirigible balloon and aims to cross the Atlantic from America to Europe in October. Backed by Frank A. Selberling Akron chamber of commerce president the project costs about 150000 dollars.
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Wellman
London
Melvin Vaniman
Walter Wellman
America
Atlantic
Paris
Liverpool
Lusitania
New York
Europe
Frank A. Selberling
Chamber of Commerce of
Akron
Boy Killed in Fist Fight in City Lot
Sixteen year old James Smith of 490 Amsterdam Avenue died after a fist fight with a peer in a vacant lot near his home in New York. The opponent, Frank Burke, struck Smith in the chin with bare fists during a game of cat. Burke was arrested by Detective Brennan and charged with homicide.
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New York
James Smith
Amsterdam Avenue
Young Smith
Smith
Frank Burke
Burke
Abe
Brennan
Baldwin Strikers May Unite With Locomotive Workers
Philadelphia street car men of the Amalgamated Association discuss joining Baldwin Locomotive Works workers in a wage dispute. They want raises from 23 to 28 cents an hour, while Chicago managers say funding is unavailable. Taft to honor brave sailors on USS North Dakota crew for September fire incident.
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Philadelphia
Amalgamated Association of Streets and Electric Railway Employees Amay
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Hen
Taft
Washington
Modala
Memet Ue
Batorth
Dakota
Keokuk Power Dam to Transform Mississippi Valley
The Keokuk dam project on the upper Mississippi will create a three to five mile wide lake, drown the nine mile canal, and position Keokuk as a major power distributing center. With 250000 horsepower and 60,000 HP contracted for St. Louis, the project aims to illuminate cities and power factories across the region.
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Nine Mile Canal
Mississippi River
Des Moines Rapids
Iowa
Congress
Roosevelt
Keokuk
Mississippi Valley
St. Louis
St. Paul
Memphis
Chicago
Omaha
Newport Taxes and Major Taxpayers Listed for 1911
Tax assessments show Newport Rhode Island real estate valued at 37 22 01 00 and personal estate at 13 39 06 00 totaling 59 61 00 00. The levy at 12 80 per thousand will raise 622 511 61 with top taxpayers including Mrs Van derbilt Marble House Belmont Elms Wetmore Gerry James Astor Goelet and Whitney among others. The Ledger quotes a father and son exchange on recognizing opportunities.
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Newport
R. I
Vanderbilt
the Breakers
Oliver H. P. Belmont
Marble House
Belcourt
Edward J. Berwind
the Elms
United States
Senator Wetmore
Elbridge T. Gerry
Arthur Curtiss James
James J. van Alen
He Oelrichs
Henry Clews
Stuyvesant Fish
Ogden Goelet
Robert Goelet
John Jacob Astor
William Waldorf Astor
John R. Drexel
French Vanderbilt
Harry Payne Whitney
Ogden Mills
Woman's stock sale ends with court action
A bank stock owner ordered a broker to sell at 250 if no higher offers came. The stock later surged to 800 while the broker had sold at 250. The woman refused to deliver the certificate, insisting she would sell at 300 herself, and only court intervention recovered the stock.
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Strand Magazine
How fine must scratches be for a polished surface
A New York Tribune summary explains that polishing scratches must be smaller than one quarter of a light wavelength to avoid breaking up waves, equating to less than one two hundred thousandth of an inch. It notes emery work and fine powders create near perfect reflections. It also mentions Spain’s financial troubles, bankrupt four times in a century, the last in 1882 for 550 million dollars.
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New York ‘Tribune
Spain
First Victim of Season Drowned in Atlantic City
W A Toomey of Philadelphia drowned while bathing at Atlantic City New Jersey on June 12 his body found off Michigan Avenue. Lifeguards and a beach physician attempted resuscitation with a galvanic battery noting the body floated face down suggesting possible heart disease. A second item notes Mrs William W Eliott will operate her late husband’s blacksmith shop in Trenton New Jersey.
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Philadelphia
Atlantic City
N. J
W. A. Toomey
Michigan Avenue
Trenton
William W.el-Iott
Weather Summary From United States Weather Bureau
Observations at 8 p.m. yesterday report conditions across major cities. New York Albany Boston Buffalo Chicago show cloudy weather with temperatures around 68 to 68 degrees.
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United States Weather’ Bureau
New York
Grouay
Albany
Gloudy
Atlantic City
Boston
Buffalo
Ciove
Chicago
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Philadelphia Ledger
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N. Y. College of Music
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