England Mourns Death of Edward King and people weep in London
The nation mourns Edward VII as Buckingham Palace and St Pauls echo with bells. Crowds fill the streets in tears while newspapers sell out. George V is named successor and mourning spreads from London to the empire. The king’s illness and death halt social events as racing and theatre pause.
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Liverpool
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Kempton
King's Death Shakes World Money Market and Ends Rubber Boom
London reports the death of King Edward VII may halt unprecedented speculation and affect every money market worldwide. Financial leaders held secret meetings to plan crisis management should markets wobble, while officials expect no panic. The era of booming rubber speculation is likely to end with the King’s passing on the eve of tax collections as Edward VII, born 1841, rises from Prince of Wales to sovereign with a long public career and extensive titles.
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William Gorgon Cumming
Hharcarat
Queen Victoria
Edward II
Edward VII
United Kingdom
Great Britain and
Ireland
India
London
Great Britain
Prince Edward Joins Royal Naval Cadet Training
Prince Edward son of the new King George V and heir to the throne is now a cadet at the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth after completing a training course at Osborne.
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Prince Edward
George V
England
Royal Naval College
Dartmouth
Osborne
Despondent fruit-grower commits suicide at home
Charles F. Miller a 40 year old fruit grower near Smithsburg Maryland hanged himself in his barn on Wednesday night. A Bethel Church member, he left a wife who died last February and five children aged from eight months to twelve years.
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Charles F. Miller
South Mountain
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Negro churches burned by whites in Georgia incident
In Grays, Georgia, a mob of several hundred set fire to two black churches and a black schoolhouse after failing to seize George, a black prisoner charged with murder. The mob dispersed when sheriff Herroks moved the captured men to Macon. The incident also touched the county seat as flames spread near the ordinary’s residence. The report notes broader reflections on press and public opinion.
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George
L. S. Mitchell
Jones County
Clarke
Macon
John Hirooks
E. Ji. Bonner
Mitchell
Torsday
John Wesley in America Revealed in Journals
In Harper’s April Nehemiah Carnock discusses newly uncovered Wesley journals detailing his Georgia voyage. The diaries trace daily minutiae from awakening at four or five in the morning to night, showing abstinence vows, religious study, and absence of recreation.
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America
Harper's
Nehemiah Carnock
Wesley
Gravesend
England
Frederica
Georgia
Wooder
Holy Cluth
Milton
Flato
Moon Tides Move the Solid Earth, Says Professor
Professor Icar Hecker reports in Harper's Magazine that lunar gravity causes tides not only in oceans but in the entire solid earth. The globe rises and falls twice daily, as instruments confirm, reshaping our view of the planet as a rigid, unmoving body.
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New York
Icar Hecker
Harper's Magazine
Newspaper talk and the Payne bill in politics
The piece argues newspapers are big business enterprises driven by capital and advertiser interests. It contends lawmakers treat insurgency as mere newspaper talk, warning that press coverage may align with owner and advertiser interests more than public fact. It notes the era’s political maneuvering around the Payne bill and Cannonism.
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Uncle Joe
Din of factories and tugs cost McLarney his life
John McLarney a teamster and widower with a mother to support was killed at Wave Street crossing in Stapleton after factory engines and tug whistles drowned the crossing signal and prevented him from hearing an approaching Staten Island Rapid Transit train. His truck was struck. one horse died and the other was shot.
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New York
John McLarney
Wave Street
Staten Island Rapid Transit Company
Stapleton
McLarney
Thomas Morgan
Lagman
Smith Infirmary
Lodger Converses on Bacon Size at The Sacred Heart Review
A landlady reassures a new lodger not to fear the bacon. The lodger replies he has seen a piece twice as large and was unfazed. The remark appears in The Sacred Heart Review.
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Jenkins
The
Sacred Heart Review
Poets and Pain in May Magazine Verse
A fragment from Smith's Magazine notes Elizabeth Newport Hepburn and Geneviev Gray. The verse laments poets starving while the living pay bills and hints at fame's portals being unreachable. A playful exchange about stockings and cash closes the piece.
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Elizabeth Newport Hepburn
Smith's Magazine
Ball over the wall sparks clash and a brave wedding
Skinny hits a 50 cent ball over Col. Moulton’s wall and injures Jimmie. Lucy, sister of the injured boy, agrees to marry Lt. Paul Moulton to save her brother. The colonel’s protection and the officer’s restraint soften the feud as the wedding concludes.
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James Treadgear
Billy Sniffin
Moulton
Col. Moulton
Paul
Lucy
Fardening
Jimmie
Leutenant
Double marriage fails to hold husband in Newark case
In New York a 25 year old man, Dolan, is accused of deserting wife Mrs May Hartley Dolan. She had wed him twice within six weeks, first in Brooklyn with a minister, then in Newark by a Catholic rector. The couple then lived at 1180 Broad Street before his alleged departure. The wife plans to seek an indictment.
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John Q. DeNewark
N. J
Ian
Brooklyn
Dolan
Miss Hartley
Newark
Isaiah B. Hopwood
Calvary Presbyterian Church
Edward A. Degen
St. Columbia's Catholic Church
Broad Street
Water too dear, so tore down houses in Roxbury
Miss Eleanor Healy, owner, complains water rates forced her to demolish two Roxbury homes on Webber Street and Douglas Avenue. An army of volunteers smashed the two dwellings, salvaging timber for months of firewood as she cites a rise from 16 to 22.40 dollars per quarter under a new meter system.
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Roxbury
Mass
Eleanor Healy
Webber Street
Douglas Avenue
Healy
Broughton Urged to Remain at Head of Atlanta Work
Resolutions adopted by the Baptist Ministers' Conference of Atlanta urge Dr Len G Broughton to decline a call to Christ Church London England and stay at the head of his work in Atlanta The meeting praised his leadership and the illness would suffer if he left, reading letters from across Georgia in support of remaining in Atlanta.
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Atlanta Journal
Virginia
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Christ Church
London
England
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Athens
Baptist Ministers’ Conference of
Commonwealth
Mental healer Marion Stephens dies by gas self harm
Marion Stephens a leading Christian Science healer linked to Augusta Stetson died in New York by inhaling gas, a result of severe mental strain and fear of adverse influence. The coroner cited luminous intent. her sister Eva Weeks found her body in their apartment. Stephens had sought advice from Mary Baker Eddy amid church tensions and a period of ill health before her death.
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Augusta Stetson
Marion Stephens
Augusta
Christ
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Geome
Eva Weeks
West One Hundred and Eleventh Street
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Mrs. Weeks
Thei
Fassett
Weston
Towanda
Mrs. Stetson
Eddy
Stetson
Mary Baker Eddy
Elmira
Masked Men Hold Up Newell Town in Safe Raid
Four masked men raided the North American Manufacturing Company building in Newell West Virginia at 2 30 A M. They looted a safe of about 5000 dollars after deterring a crowd with threats. Bloodhounds were set on the trail and alerts sent to five nearby towns as the robbers fled.
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North American Manufacturing Company
Prisoners Identified in streetcar holdup case
Atlanta. Special-C. Walker and Willie Johnson Black men long under arrest for two weeks as suspects in a street car holdup. Conductor Bryson positively identified them as the men who wounded conductor W. H. Bryson and murdered Motorman 8. T. Brown.
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Atlanta
C. Walker
Willie Johnson
W. H. Bryson
8. T. Brown
Bryson
Movement to sue mills over James River pollution at Lynchburg
A movement begun today to raise funds to file suits against pulp mills and tanneries along the upper James River to stop further contamination. The river, already brown and foul smelling, resembles a sewer due to mill pollution.
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James River
Elkins predicts railroad bill passage in Senate
Senator Elkins of West Virginia who leads the railroad bill in the Senate and Senator Crane of Massachusetts said at the White House that Republicans have a sufficient majority to pass the bill. President Taft is willing to accept it if merger and pooling rate clauses are removed.
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