First Secretary of Agriculture Norman Colman Dies
Norman Colman, former first Secretary of Agriculture, died on a train en route to St Beals at 2 o'clock yesterday morning. In Atlantic City two Pleasantville businessmen Bete Yost and Constant Steelman were shot to death. their companion William Jarvis was missing as authorities investigate a hunting party incident in the Southay woods.
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St. Louis, MO
Norman
Colman
St. Beals
Atlantic City
N. J
Bete Yost
Constant Steelman
Pleasantville
N. Y
William Jarvis
Southay Woods
Censors for Post Cards Clamp Chicago Substations
Chicago local Postmaster D A i has started a crusade against objectionable post cards ordering subpost offices to bar three categories: portraits of men and women kissing, women in abbreviated costumes, and animal pictures. He said few animal pictures are suitable for public display.
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Chicago
London Chauffeurs Strike Over Six Cents
London was beechically without a taxicab service yesterday as 6,000 chauffeurs quit work and will not return until their union executive orders. The dispute centers on a 6 cent wage deduction and alleged unregistered extra charges. Public sentiment appears united against the drivers.
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London
Ers
Tramp Clyde wears trousers after four years as boy disguise
Police court dissolved the four year masquerade of Clyde a Chicago girl posing as a boy. In the police matron's quarters she recalled the tramp journey across the country from Colorado to Nebraska and Iowa. Her parents in Hobart Oklahoma will send money and clothes. She plans to continue the disguise after release and recounts harsh travel hardships.
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Fort Worth
Clyde" Bison
Chicago
Chicarco Today
Hobart
Okla
Colorado
Island
Neb
Wichita
Fire Rages Through Three Story Brooklyn Building
A Brooklyn blaze at 250 Powell Street gutted a three story building early today. Two people died Julius Shapiro and Mrs Rose Shapiro. Four others were injured including George Shapiro with internal injuries and a fractured leg, Sadie Shapiro with a broken leg and fractured skull, Samuel Shapiro with bruises, Anna Shapiro with abrasions, and Sydney Shapiro with a sprained arm. The Schultz family on the second floor was rescued by police. The fire started on the first floor at Schulte glass store and spread rapidly. Julius Shapiro fell from a fire escape during the ordeal and died soon after.
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New York
Powell Street
Brooklyn
Julius Shapiro
Rose Shapiro
George Shapiro
Sadie Shapiro
Samuel Shapiro
Anna Shapiro
Sydney Shapiro
Morris Schultz
Schulte Glass
Shapiro
Johnson Heavily Fined in England Heavyweight Champ cited for speeding
Special Jack Johnson was fined $100 in a magistrate court in New Castle Eng. for automobile speeding. He paid the fine from a fat roll of banknotes and quipped about holding a world record for being pinched while the heavyweight champion. Johnson has faced speeding arrests in the United States Canada France and England.
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New Castle Eng
Jack Johnson
Johnson
United States
Canada
France
England
Revolutionists Take Shanghai
Special dispatches report mutinies by imperial soldiers around foreign concessions leading to a bloodless takeover of Shanghai by rebels. The arsenal and native city surrendered, foreign warships landed marines, and the rebel flag flew above public buildings as the Viceroy fled. Shanghai, a 600000 population port, becomes the first sea port held by the revolutionaries. Royal forces move toward Nanking and Ching-Kiang, likely to follow within two days.
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Shanghai
Wu Sung
Nanking
Ching-Kiang
Kiu-Kiang
Sampson
Ccity
Midnight prowler with a gun at Bon Air store and home
In Richmond Virginia a midnight intruder described as a swarthy Italian tramp armed with a pitchfork tried to break into R W Anderson’s store and dwelling near Bon Air. Miss Anderson seized a double barrel shotgun but her father disarmed her before the intruder fled. Police are alerted to watch for the suspect as Mrs Anderson asserts identification.
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R. W. Anderson
Bon Air
Mr. Anderson
Miss Anderson
Cheaterfield
Taft Arrives at Hot Springs for Rest After Long Voyage
President Taft lands at Hot Springs Virginia for a four day rest after a forty eight day tour ending with a battleship review in New York. He reports feeling vigorous and ready to tackle a heavy workload as he notes the trip covered about fifteen thousand two hundred seventy miles across eight states. The trip included a stop to Morgantown and a journey to New York before concluding in Hot Springs.
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Hot Springs
Taft
New York
Morgantown
W. Va
York
Speeches Count By City Tops Eleven In Chicago
The record shows eleven speeches delivered in Chicago, the highest among cities, followed by Los Angeles with ten. The figures reflect speaker turnout and engagement in major urban centers.
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Chicago
Los Angeles
Three Killed In Southern Wreck Near Atlanta
Special-Southern fast mail No. 14 from Cincinnati to Jacksonville struck a broken rail near Chattahoochee south of Atlanta late last night. Three men killed: E. O. Pyron Atlanta baggage master Ben Briggs Cleveland Tenn negro fireman and an unknown negro passenger. The train was said to be making up lost time at terrific speed and overturned in a deep cut damaging baggage mail and a combination car.
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Atlanta GA
Southern
Cincinnati
Jacksonville
Chattahoochee
Atlanta
E. O. Pyron
Ben Briggs
Cleveland
Tenn
Voters Told Not To Sell Votes In Bristol Campaign
Commonwealth's Attorney R J Summers of Washington county warns voters against vote buying as a special grand jury may probe electoral corruption. Abingdon political fight centers on Senate race between Democrat David Campbell Cummings and Republican A T Lincoln. Democrats pledge to oppose all dispensaries while Republicans target Abingdon dispensary in local option posture.
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Commonwealth
R. J. Summers
Washington County
Summers
White Heat
David Campbell Cummings
Abingdon
State Senate
Virginia
Smyth
Washington
Ristol
A. T. Lincoln
Lincoln
Sixteen Year Old Wife Seeks Annulment in Brooklyn
Charlotte Keyes Clarke, sixteen, at 98 Ralph Avenue, Brookyn, asks the Brooklyn Supreme Court for an annulment claiming James Russell Clarke used his brother George’s name and had another wife Ellen Pratt Clarke. Clarke fled after a July 7 arrest. George Clarke says he cannot explain why Jim used his name.
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New York
Charlotte Keyes Clarke
Ralph Avenue
Brookyn
James
Robert Co. Wilson
Charlotte
Supreme Court
Brooklyn
James Russell Clarke
George
Ellen M. Pratt
Glendale
Clarke
Gates Avenue
Wilson
Ellen Pratt Clarke
George Clarke
Evergreen Avenue
Jim
Keyes
Steamer Diolibah Sunk in Atlantic Collision
The French steamer Diolibah sailing from Marseilles was sunk in an Atlantic collision with twenty one crew and three passengers drowned. The vessel built in Dumbarton in 1880 was owned by Fabri and Co. Local details were not provided.
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London
Diolibah
Marseilles
Fabri & Co
Bbeve
Dumbarton
Scotland
Revolt Spreads Across Hankow to Pekin as Rebels Gain
Reports from Hankow, Tien Tsin, and Pekin describe revolutionary forces advancing against the Manchu regime. Rebels seize I-Chang, threaten King-Chow-Fu, and clash with government troops while foreign missionaries flee and officials are killed. Panic grips southern cities as communications fail and bands plunder.
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PEKIN
Haankow
Sxechuen
Heu Peh
Chang Piao
Hankow
I-Chang
King-Chow-Fu
Hu- Peh
Shari
Li Yuan Heng
Revolutionary Army
National Assembly
Rebel Leaders 1ear Butchery in Hankow Deepens Crisis
Reports from Shanghai and southern centers describe a brutal massacre in Hankow as Imperialist troops scour ge Chinese districts. Thousands killed or missing as violence spreads toward remoter areas. Imperial forces retaliate against rebels led by Li Huan Heng while Yuan Shikai faces a capital crisis and renewed calls for reform.
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PEKIN
Hankow
Premier Yuan
Shi Kai
China
Shanghai
Chang Piao
Li Huan Heng
Yuan
Wu Chang
Leaders Seem Helpless Over Hankow Clash
Reported from Shanghai that Yuan Shi Kai ordered an armistice yet fighting rages in Hankow. Imperialist and rebel artillery clash as half the city burns, government guns strike the native quarter while rebel guns target loyalist positions. Shelters fall in foreign concessions with no damage reported by press time.
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Shanghai
Yuan Shi Kaji
Hankow
Wu Chang
Shelia
Berlin
Spectal
Chinese Rebels Declare Independence Near Yunnan Frontier
Dispatches from Shangh at report regional unrest as refugees crowd ports and foreign nationals flee. The Chinese Imperial residence faced mutinous loyalty shifts amid Manchu opposition while Yunnan province on the southwestern frontier announces independence amid chaotic conditions.
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Yunnan
China
Turks and Allies Gain Victories in North Africa Campaign
Reports from Malt a and Milan describe Turks and Arabs besieging Tripoli with 76 000 attackers while Italian defenses in the city mount to 20 000 with reinforcements. Italian naval base shifts to Tobruk as Aubrey leads operations, coal stores sufficient for a month.
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Malta
Tripoli
Mersa
Haly
Milan
Italy
Tobruk
Aubrey
Mistrial declared in Zee Runge McHae case at Opbelo usas
In Opbelo usas Louisiana a mistrial was reported in the Zee Runge McHae case after the jury split eight to acquit and four for manslaughter. McHae wife of a Frisco railroad official shot Allan Garland cousin of Congressman Garland Dupree in her home on September 2 following an insult claim. Prosecutors warned of a hearing on a new trial motion next Monday if mistrial stood.
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Opbelousas
Zee Runge McHae
Frisco
Allan Garland
Garland Dupree
Virginian Killed by Train Near Cumberland Crossing
Emory Cave, 40, died at Western Maryland Hospital after both legs were severed by a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad train near Williams Street crossing in Cumberland. He hailed from Stanley in Page County, Virginia. Pace Pilgrimage for Eliot. Dr Charles W Eliot, Harvard president emeritus, to tour India, China and Japan starting November 7 to discuss the Carnegie endowment’s international peace work.
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Cumberland
Pace
New York
Butler
Columbia University
Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
Charles W. Eliot
Cambridge
Mass
Harvard
India
China
Japan
Endowment
Eliot
Taft Reviews Great Warship in New York Fleet Day
President Taft and Secretary Meyer led a vast New York fleet review as the world’s greatest war vessels gathered in American waters. Salutes roared from the ships while flags flew over public and private buildings. Thousands lined Riverside Drive and Hudson parkways to witness the display, described as the biggest celebration since the Fourth.
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New York
Uncle Sam
Taft
Jersey City
Riverside Drive
Hudson
Meyer
Boys Fat on Pigeons Without Eating Them
Three bay boys in New York, described as so fat their clothes might burst, walked slowly toward Third Avenue near Hundredth Street as detectives watched.
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New York
Third Avenue
Hundredth Street
Pigeons Are Seized After Bronx Boy Parade
A group of boys led a chaotic scene near New York’s One Hundred and Thirtieth Street freight yards. They loosed pigeons, fled, and were chased by officers including Station Lieut. Lasky. Twenty seven youths were caught, identified as Sylvester Logan, William Casey, and Patrick Madden of Ellison Street, Bronx. Capt Corcoran auctioned the birds to local butchers. proceeds went to the Police Department property clerk. The captured children were then taken to the Children's Society room.
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Os x
New Haven Railroad
Sylvester Logan
William Casey
Patrick Madden
Ellison Street
Bronx
Corcoran
Children's Society
City of Manila Swept by Fire
Special report: Manila faced near destruction as a blaze wiped out the Chinese quarter with a $1,000,000 loss. Twentieth Infantry under General Funston fought the flames for two hours and saved the rest of the city.
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Manila
P. I
Twentieth Infantry
United States Army
Funston
KiteBellew actor dies of pneumonia in Salt Lake City
Kyrie Bellew, a famed actor known for the role of Raffles, died in Salt Lake City today from pneumonia while appearing in The Mollusc. He had been ill briefly and unexpectedly. All remaining performances of The Mu se between Salt Lake City and the Pacific Coast have been canceled.
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Kitele Bellew
Salt Lake City
Utah
Kyrie Bellew
Mr. Bellew
Raffles
Pacific Coast
Jealous Husband Kills Mother-In-Law Then Shoots Self
In Lowell Massachusetts Stephen Lula fatally wounded his mother-in-law Mrs Mary Kosiot at 56 Front Street early today. He wounded her husband Mr Kosiot and then shot himself dying at 4 AM. Mr Kosiot is dying.
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Lowell
Mass
Stephen Lula
Mary Kosiot
Front Street
Mr. Kosiot
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