Japanese Bento Boxes and Historic Glass Windows Featured
A scanned article notes Japanese bento boxes sold at major stations with tea for 2 cents and a variety of items. It also describes York Minster’s east window, the largest in England aside from Gloucester, with 200 glass compartments and a Coventry craftsman paid in 1400s. The piece includes a quip about early photography and other brief anecdotes from London Graphic and Philadelphia Record.
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United States
Cheg
New York Mall
York Minster
Naduon
England
Gloucester
John Thornton
Coventry
London Graphic
Remarkable likeness at Berlin royal wedding scene
A postcard style note describes Czar Nicholas and King George appearing similar in a staged wedding moment at Berlin. It references a fictional coup and the Keisel family daughter’s wedding with emphasis on their striking resemblance.
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Mussia
George of Maglind
Keisel
Berlin
Organization probe for acts of Sulzer
Albany June 12 A legislative probe of Governor Sulzer's administration focusing on veto use and patronage to win votes for direct nominations with the legislature is planned after the extraordinary session. The seven member committee is led by Sen James J Frawley with three senators and three assemblymen from both parties.
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Albany
N.Y
Sulzer
Usete
Hawniking
Democratic
James J. Brawley
Cammany Manty
Martin Glynn
Senate
Alfred J. Simith
Assembly
James J. Frawley
New York
Kelix J. Sanner
Kings
Samuel J. Tamsperger
Erie
Elon R. Brown
Jefferson
Wilson IT
Yard
Westchester
la Vern BP
Live Stock Market Snapshot and Price Ranges
Cattle prices show varied quotes from choice to good with drives on fat cows and spring calves. Sheep and lambs report light supply and steady demand with prime wethers around 5 dollars, hogs mix around nine dollars, and miscellaneous lean hogs priced per market reports.
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Ket Winhoer
Freedom on Way for Philippines Independence Likely
Washington dispatch reports strong Democratic backing for the Jones bill to grant Philippines independence in eight years. President Wilson supports the measure, but a Republican filibuster or future congresses could repeal or delay independence, with concerns about self government and possible insurrection in the Pilipinas.
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Arthur W. Dunn
Washington
Philippines
Wilson
Senate
Pilipinas
Turkish vizier shot dead in automobile in Constantinople
Mahmud Shefket Pasha the Turkish grand vizier was shot down by two young men as he rode to the sublime porte in a motorcar. He died at the war office after a fusillade wounded Ibrahim Bey. The assassination is linked to a plot against the committee of unions and progress.
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Constantinople
Mahmud Shefket Pasha
Sublime Porte
War Office
Committee of Unions and Progress
Ibrahim Bey
Shefket Pasha
Erand Vizier
Sehefket Pasha
Ibraham Bey
Mahmud Sehefket Pasha
Kiamil Pasha
Nazim Pasha
Tehatalja
Mahmud
Bagdad
Abdul Hamid
Germany
Roosevelt Sulzer Appeal for Direct Primary Reform
In Rochester Col Theodore Roosevelt and Governor William Sulzer led a Progressive and Democratic gathering urging the governors direct primary bill. Roosevelt endorsed the effort and proposed an amendment to allow women to be nominated as party officials.
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Rochester
N. Y
Theodore Roosevelt
William Sulzer
Roosevelt
Convention Hall
Lincoln
Barge Explodes Killing Four at Racine Dockside
Four men died and two were injured when boilers on the steam barge E M Peck exploded while discharging coal at Pugh docks Racine Wisconsin on June 12. One crew member is missing believed dead. Captain Gustav Lotberg and LIFE SAVING crew recovered victims and towed them to the docks as wreckage showered the harbor.
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Racine
Wis
E M. Peck
Duluth
Pugh
Gustav Lotberg
Unitoi States Life Saving Service
Severn
Pioneer Treasury Woman Emma Graves Lingers in Service at 81
Emma Graves, 81, nearing fifty years as a Treasury Department employee, spent forty-nine in the redemption division before a transfer to the register's office. She recalls Civil War era Washington, Spinner securing women’s clerical roles, and she remains active as an expert counter counting notes, with sisters and family who served in the Union Army nearby.
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Treasury Department
Washington
Emma St. Graves
Treasury
Miss Graves
Register
Francis EB. Spinner
United States
Bloomville
N. Y
Elizabeth G. Menet
Kansas City
Amelia B. Graves
New York
Conkling
Senator Conkling
Caterpillars Stop Train On Long Island Rails
A caterpillar swarm halted a Montauk division train for hours as wheels lost grip on rails. Botanist George P Englehardt aboard with specimen hunters reported foliage stripped from trees and the swarm moving toward greenery. Sand on rails helped the crew resume progress two miles beyond the belt. Long Island Railroad official Fullerton aids island residents eradicating the pests.
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Montauk
Long Island Railroad
Montauk Point
George P Paul Englehardt
Department of Botany
Brooklyn Institute
Englehardt
Fullerton
Long Island Railroad Company
Medford
N. Y
Island
Whaling Harpooners Earn Over Five Thousand Dollars
Secretary Redfield cites a Consul General report from Christiania Norway showing that the average harpooner on a Norwegian whaling vessel earned 5360 dollars for five months of work. The figure reflects the earnings of crew aboard the Norwegian fleet.
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Redfield
Department of Commerce
Charles A. Holder
Christiania
Norway
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