Fire destroys two Broadway storefronts near Hotel Astor
A spectacular and stubborn blaze destroyed a two story frame business building at 1540 and 1642 Broadway between Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Streets near the Hotel Astor. The fire risked a 250 gallon gasoline tank exploding as smoke and brilliant flames filled the area drawing more than ten thousand spectators from nearby hotels. Guests in Bartholdt Inn, 250 in number, fled to the street as choking smoke forced evacuation.
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Forty-sixth Streets
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Bartholdt Inn
Congress May Soon Adjourn After Tariff Debates
Washington D C early next week Congress plans to adjourn as the House leadership expects a session end Tuesday or Wednesday. The veto on the wool and free fist bills blocked further tariff revision though cotton bill with Senate amendments likely passes. Ways and Means finalized cotton bill with iron steel and chemical schedules. Democrats tentatively accept Senate changes. a Tuesday vote to send to the President appears likely.
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Senate
Ways and Means
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Southern Railway Highway Improvement Train Draws Crowds
The Southern Railway's Highway Improvement Train tours Virginia to promote good roads building and repair. It visits Martinsville and Stuart then travels to Drake's Branch Meherrin Jetersville Amelia Moseley Midlothian Fair Oaks Tunstall West Point Cohoke and other towns with large crowds. The tour continues into South Carolina Georgia and Florida before a fall Richmond convention. Lecturers often speak to packed crowds as moving picture halls replace the lecture coach.
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Southern Railway
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Martinsville
Danville and Western Railway
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South Boston
Meherrin
Burkeville
Jetersville
Amelia
Moseley
Midlothian
Fair Oaks
Tunstall
West Point
Cohoke
Strikes Turn to Full-Scale War in Britain and Wales
Bloodshed erupts in Llanelli as troops fire on strikers, killing two and wounding another. London seeks arbitration as the rail strike widens coast to coast with 600,000 unskilled workers affected. Soldiers, police, and barricades spread across stations and depots as tensions rise and foreign travelers flee.
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Accused Wife Seeks Custody Amid Infidelity Claims
In Raleigh a habeas corpus case ends as Mrs Claire Couch Fleming challenges Percy B. Mieniege for custody of their two children. The former executive clerk to the North Carolina Governor and later chief clerk at the State Treasury faces testimony in the state supreme court. The suit, brought by the wife, follows rumors surrounding her and her husband since their five year marriage.
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Percy G. Wiemiege
Claire Couch
Washington, D.C
Raleigh
Percy B. Mieming
Governe
North Carolina
State Treasure
State Supreme Court Room
Fleming
Infidelity Charged in Richmond Habeas Corpus Case
The case centers on Fleming and his estranged wife with accusations of drunkenness cruelty and abandonment countered by infidelity. Specific names times and places were demanded, then added, including M. W. Tyree and John Winder Jr. The fight over custody of Fleming’s two children unfolds as hotel testimony and family ties shape public sentiment in Virginia cities.
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Louisburg
Tornado Sweeps South Dakota Across Towns
Fargo North Dakota dispatch reports a deadly tornado crossing Antlers and several towns including McCluskey Souris Sherwood Loraine Mohali. casualties tally at least twenty four dead and many injured as communication with Antlers was cut off and doctors rushed to aid.
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Sherwood
Loraine
Mohali
Navy Called Down by Taft
Washington D C Special reports President Taft ordered a battleship sent to Havana to bring home the bones of enlisted Maine sailors lost in the disaster. Remains recovered from the Maine had recently been brought to the United States aboard the North Carolina with Secretary of War Stimson aboard.
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Navy Department
Havana
United States
Young mother held for beating her baby in New York
Mary Fiartal nineteen and Michiae Nega twenty four with Fiartal's sister were taken from 41 Fifth Street to Essex Market Police Court on cruelty charges after a nine month old infant showed marks of abuse. Residents testified of nightly beatings with a bamboo stick and confinement. Bail set at 560 dollars each.
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Michiae Nega
Fifth Street
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Hyland
Children’s Society
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Hybind
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Breen
Marisetrate Breen
Mains Will Not Contest Divorce in Milton Mass
Claudia Libbey Mains wife of Captain Peter Hains United States Army will not contest the absolute divorce action filed in her town. She is at her parents home and a Bristol Herald- tier note remarks on political issues about Gerrymandering and unfair tricks as idle commentary. A separate Newport News report notes a 50 dollar fine after a wagon wreck caused by a Chesapeake and Ohio train near Williamsburg with two young girls robbed by a nervo.
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Newport News
Merchant Killed in Auto Wreck in Lynchburg Leader Dies in Minneapolis
Lynchburg prominent merchant W. R. Cunningham, president of the Lynchburg Retail Merchants Association and director in the Virginia Retail Merchants Association, was reported killed in an auto accident near Winkesha Wisconsin, after a Chicago business trip. A corrigendum later indicated Cunningham survived in a Minneapolis hospital but is fatally injured. his wife and family reside in Lynchburg. Associates W D Ferguson and wife, also from Chicago, perished in the same crash with a train.
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W. R. Cunningham
Winkesha
Wis
Chicago
W. D. Ferguson
Bomb Explodes Near Italian Family in New York
An early morning blast outside 183 First Avenue in New York endangered Antonio Colarusso, his wife, and their newborn infant. The shock hurled Mrs Colarusso from bed, and medical staff had to move the bed for access. The incident alarms the Italian community, reported as a narrow escape from a bomb.
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First Avenue
Antonio Colarusso
Wright brothers suit tests pilots rights at Chicago aviation meet
Chicago aviation meets face legal fights as Wright brothers seek a share of proceeds while granting permits. Lincoln Beachey shines with daring feats as inquiries probe patent rights and promoter actions amid a wave of suits. A sensational arrest, James Ward, adds to the turmoil as wives react to mounting publicity.
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Wright Brothers
Grant Field
Tyers
Lincoln Beachey
Wright
Indig Tual
James Ward
Ward
Jimmy
Threw Carbolic Acid In Dentists Face Threat to Woman
In Richmond Virginia Dora Mitchell an elderly wanderer is held for possible lunacy after she allegedly threw carbolic acid into Dr. C R Pearson’s face in his office. The 50 plus woman has wandered streets for years and may be sent to an asylum after a commission finds her not responsible.
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C. RB. Pearson
Dora Mitchell
Justice Crutchfield
North Fourth Street
Southern Prosperity Ahead From Record Cotton Crop
The South expects a booming financially from a cotton harvest this year and next, with value running into millions. Virginia contributes little cotton, but the state shares in the regional prosperity.
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South
Virginia
Fredericksbure
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