U S Government to check strike at Boston elevated
The Boston elevated railway strike led to gunfire with a policeman narrowly escaping and mobs threatening property in Cambridge. Service resumed by morning after midnight disruptions. 79 arrests and extensive damage reported. Federal action eyed to restrain union leaders over mail security. Strong police guard on cars, refunds offered to riders, and support actions by women workers.
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Elevated Company
Milk Street
Elevated
Elevated Men's Union
United States
W. H. Garland
Russell Sears
New Boston Telephone Operators’ Union
Roxbury
Delegates Fear Flinn Arrival as Steam Roller Tensions Rise
In Chicago delegates fret over William Flinn and Roosevelt forces as steam roller preparations spark police vigilance. Tensions widen between factions with bitter attacks from McKinley and Dixon era letters. Roosevelt expected by Thursday as Taft program looms.
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Chicago
Ill
Roosevelt
William Flinn
Pittsburg
McKinley
Flinn
Oyster Bay
Dixon
Congress Hotel
Murray Crane
Boise Penrose
Annanias Club
T. R
Taft
Trade Improving New York Special Henry Clews Sees Upbeat Outlook
Henry Clews reports a brighter business climate with renewed confidence in both East and interior. Optimism stems from a nonpolitical stance by leaders, improving crops and profits in grain hay and fruit, stronger steel demand, railroad purchases, and a brighter labor market boosting interior production and upcoming fall and winter activity.
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New York
Henry Clews
Weekly Review of Business
June Poem About Spring's Return and Birds
In jecund June when blooms the prune and winter's woes are past the fickle spring settles at last. Then days are rare as poets swear and other men affirm. Then by the brook goes on the hook the unresisting worm. In jecund June the birds attune their well nigh frozen throats and now emit delightful notes.
Vendimaire Submarine Sinks After Collision Near Cherbourg
In Cherbourg France a French submarine Vendimaire was struck by the battleship Saint Louis during maneuvers and sank in 180 feet of water. Three officers and twenty four enlisted men died with no survivors expected.
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France
St. Louis
Ministry of Marine
Paris
Admiral Fournier
Calais
Saint Louis
Steam Rollers Dominate Roosevelt Delegates at Taft Rally
Chicago dispatch reports Taft delegates quickly filled the convention roll with 28 seats in the Fifth District Arkansas and Roosevelts receiving none. In Arkansas Third District Granger and Meyers for Taft were seated after a Kellogg motion. Seventh District Taft totals reached 32 with Friedheim and Grayson seated on roll calls.
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Chicago
Taft
Arkansas
National Committee
Roosevelt
N. S. Granger
J. F. Meyers
Tom Williams
BR. F. McAllister
James A. Come
H. G. Friedheim
T. S. Grayson
Blame Placed on Their Shoulders in Mexico Cuba Intrigues
Senator Nelson charged that uprisings in Mexico and Cuba were inspired and financed by U S interests seeking annexation. He introduced a resolution to probe the claim. The item also mentions a boy named Edgar and a mother’s warning in Chicago News.
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Nelson
Senate
Mexico
Cuba
United States
Small Edgar
Edgar
Chicago News
Confederate notes gifted to Virginia State Library
Special State Librarian Mellwaine received from the United States Treasury a fine collection of Confederate notes from 1861 to 1864. The gift, not complete, will be classified and framed for exhibition to aid historical students, with efforts to acquire any missing issues.
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Richmond
Mellwaine
United States Treasury Department
Washington
Commonwealth
Treasury Department
McTiwaine
State Library
Imprisoned Turkey Lays Her Own Egg in Hay Stack
Thomas Brossman of Sink ing Spring found a missing turkey in an old hay-stack near Roading. The emaciated bird laid an egg despite being unable to move, with shells scattered around and the turkey eating the egg. Brossman jokes the fowl may have invented perpetual motion.
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Roading
Thomas Brossman
Sinking Spring
Brossman
Broseman
Letter Leads to Fortune Bequeaths Wealth to Mosher Heir
An 1847 invitation to visit his father from aunt Mrs. Margaret Williams enabled Martin E. Mosher of the city to inherit 63000 dollars. His aunt left a large sum to his father, who could not be located at her death four years ago. An attorney found the estate in New York and Connecticut and litigation followed until the Surrogate Court awarded him 643000 dollars yesterday.
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Seventh Avenue
New York City
Martin E. Mosher
Mr. Mosher
Martin I. Mosher
Mosher
Walcott County
Conn
Mosher, and Yesterday He Received A Telegram That the Surrogate’s Court
Baltimore Telegram
New York Tribune
Brakeman Samuel Blackburge Dies After Bridge Accident
Samuel Blackburge, 36, Southern brakeman, died from injuries after being struck by an overhead bridge in Lynchburg. A Pearisburg native living in Spencer, North Carolina, he passed away at St. Andrew's Hospital. Burial set for this afternoon at Chatham.
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Lynchburg
Samuel Blackburge
St. Andrew's Hospital
Pearisburg
Spencer
N. C
Chatham
6000 Marines in Cuba Wait Orders
Washington reports 6000 marines and bluejackets on Cuban soil. Ferraro travels from Havana to seek more time to crush the revolt. U S awaits presidential guidance on intervention. Gomez criticized for delays. Battleships Minnesota Missouri Ohio and Mississippi landed troops at Guantanamo joining Prairie and gunboats Paducah and Eagle. Company deployments to Siboney El Cobre and El Catp follow as rebels threaten American property.
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Taft
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Missouri
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Rebels Fire on Marines Near Guantanamo City and Cobre Mines
Special Reports say Cuban rebels fired on American marine camps at Guantanamo City and Cobre Mines. No damage or casualties were reported as outposts repelled the attack, but tensions rise as Marines are ordered not to move. The assailants are thought to be the same group that sacked San Pilo nearby.
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Guantanamo City
Cobre Mines
San Pilo
Guantanamo
Americans Chosen for Stockholm Marathon Team
The American Olympic committee selects ten runners for Stockholm including Clarence DeMar Joseph Foxleben Joseph Forshaw Jr John J Gallagher Jr Thomas Lilley Richard Piggott John Reynolds Michael Ryan Andrew Sockatexis and Lewis Tewanima Of these Sockatexis and Tewanima are Native American Indians Sidney Hatch and Gaston Strobine named as supplementary members who must pay their own expenses.
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New York
Stockholm
Clarence HH. DeMar
Joseph Foxleben
Joseph Forshaw, Jr
John J. Gallagher, Jr
Thomas H. Lilley
Richard F. Piggott
John J. Reynolds
Michael J. Ryan
Andrew Sockatexis
Lewis Tewanima
Sockatexis
Tewanima
Sidney H. Hatch
Gaston Strobine
Manhunt After Car Plunge Into Water Near Parkway
Police traced a crash where a vehicle broke through iron railing and ditch into the water. One suspect, Gerard Whalen, 23, of Roxbury, said four others fled before the car went in. Whalen was captured after a swift chase at Lechmere Square.
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New Parkway
Gerard Whalen
Roxbury
Whalen
Lechmere
Turkish Arm Takes Christians on Mitilene Island
Special dispatch from Havas News reports Turks seized Christians aged nineteen to forty five on Mitilene Island to hold as hostages. It intimates Turkey will execute the prisoners unless powers pressure Italy to release seized Aegean territory. Two French papers at Helrut, Syria, have been suppressed by the Turks.
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PARS
Havas
Mitilene
Turkey
Italy
Helrut
Syria
Blacksmith Weds Daughter-in-Law Across State Line
In Spartanburg South Carolina William N Mason fifty eight and Cora Lee Mason thirty four secretly wed after his wife died. They then married again in North Carolina where no ban existed. Attorney says NC ceremony valid beyond SC authorities.
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Spartanburg
North Carolina
Mason
Ralph K. Carson
South Carolina
Chicago mothers resist explicit sex talks in schools
In Chicago, mothers attending the first series of sex education lectures with physicians clapped their hands to ears and demanded milder language. Despite opposition, the program led by Ella Flagg Young will continue June 18 with all schools reached. Fathers will hear direct talks while mothers receive the same through shouted expressions.
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Chicago
Baguah
Ella Flagg Young
Servant Girl a Pariah Among Workers
Ida M. Tarbell argues in The Woman and Democracy that the average servant girl faces uncertain work standards and loneliness, with limited access to welfare and social resources. The piece highlights how she is cut off from clubhouses and YWCA rooms, becoming a pariah among workers.
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Ida M. Tarbell
Young Women's Christian Association
Pardon Petition Filed For David B Atkins In Virginia
Special report from Richmond announces a pardon request for David B Atkins a white convict jailed since 1911 for forgery in Rockingham. Atkins died March 25 while assigned to Russell County road work. governor’s office had no prior knowledge and prison officials reported his death after the road force notified the court clerk. The petition was signed by the loger of the money.
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Richmond
David B. Atkins
Rockingham County
Russell
Auto Plunge Ends in Charles River Tragedy
Six joy riders were swept from a car that plunged into twenty feet of water at the Charles River dam near Cambridge. Police fear several occupants may have drowned as divers drag the river seeking missing youths and clues about the wreckage.
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Pear
Boston
Mass
Charles River
Cambridge
Metropolitan Park
We Note an Exception Anx Roosevelt Defeat Question
In this brief Harper's Weekly quip W J J Bar suggests Roosevelt could be beaten by any effective progressive. The remark comments on political prospects and progressive currents in the era.
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Roosevelt
Harper's Weekly
General Strike Threat Looms Across Helkium
Socialist labor leaders threaten a general strike across Helkium tomorrow to protest the electoral system. Parliament will convene and radical leaders urge marking the resumption of sittings with a strike. Major unrest centers on Liege and Borinage, with mining firms reporting dynamite thefts and troops ordered to patrol potential trouble zones.
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Brusels
Helkium
Liege
Borinage
Lily
Mexican Rebels in Skirmish Near Bachimba Pasa
Dispatches report fighting between General Huerta’s federal army advance guard and General Orozco’s rebel outposts at Bachimba Pasa. Senor Belles teres, a Malaga faction leader in Congress hostile to President Madero, is under arrest in Chihuahua, with mystery surrounding the detention as rebels control the state.
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Mexico City
Huerta
Orozco
Bachimba Pasa
Senor Bellesteres
Mexican Congress
Mavero
Chihushua
Chihuahua
Demand explanation of Honduran Republic assassination
The State Department in Washington asked the Honduran Government for an explanation of the assassination of C. D. White, a New York lawyer, who was shot near Cetba while evicting squatters from property he had purchased. The report includes a garbled anecdote about a servant's room.
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Washington, D. C
State Department
C. D. White
New York
Cetba
Honduras
Mrs Schenk Free After Dismissal in Poison Case
Laura Farnsworth Schenk, accused of poisoning her husband John Schenk with arsenic in Wheeling West Virginia, was freed after Judge Jordan dismissed the case citing state code allowing dismissal after three terms of court upon defense motion.
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Wheeling
W. VA
Laura Farnsworth Schenk
John
Schenk
Criminal Court
Jordan
Rag Baby of Romanticism in Howell Reminiscences
William Dean Howell recounts his clash with critics over his editorials in The House of Harper. He recalls detesting sentimentality and romanticism, defending his stance in Criticism and Fiction, and notes an English reviewer accusing him of indecency. He calls romanticism the monstrous rag baby, still firmly in the saddle.
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William Dean Howell
Henry Harper
Police hunt for May Yohe former Hope diamond wearer
New York police seek May Yohe the music hall singer formerly Lady Francis Hope who eloped with Putnam Bradley Strong son of a former New York mayor. Her maid Josephine Cott told Seventh Street police she disappeared, with no trace found after alerts issued. Yohe had been performing in moving picture houses and lived at 145 West Thirty third Street.
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New York
May Yohe
Francis Hope
Hope Diamond
Putnam Bradley Strong
Josephine Cott
Seventh Street
Miss Yohe
West Porty-third Street
Fan's Solace After Home Team Triumph
A Washington Star poem excerpt conveys a fan's solace despite a cold house and a spoiled meal. The speaker laments a hard luck streak while noting the home team’s victory and a miserly mood from The Dally Optimistic Thought.
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Washington Star
Maste you have friendly doings with your brother's People
Routine med. Maste you have friendly doings with your brother's People once more as if they'd never bin parted. Elis family and ourn do the crappin again.
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Ourn
Harper's Bazar
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