Peary Poised to Claim North Pole Discovery
New York reports Commander Peary likely to claim first reach of the north pole ahead of Dr. Cook. Telegraphs from Indian Harbor announce the discovery date April 6 during the Peary Arctic Club expedition with a worldwide reception. Cook congratulates Peary, seeks no controversy, and officials anticipate further confirmation from Chateau Bay.
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New York
Commander Peary
North Pole
Dr. Cook
United States
Peary
Pole
Europe
Indian Harbor
Labrador
Japan
Brazil
Peary Arctic Club
St. Johns
Newfoundland
Copenhhagen
Peary Reach Confirmed by Dispatch from Labrador
A government dispatch relays updates from Peary on his polar expedition. The message notes a telegraph from Labrador and confirms a feat accomplished under Peary's command. Further details are limited in the fragment.
Envious English May Lay A Claim To Polar Region
In London on Sept 9 Sir George Parker gave notice to question Premier Asquith on who owns the north pole territory. He asked if the area belongs to Canada and whether Dr. Cook or Peary planting the American flag could grant the United States any possession rights.
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London
North Pole
House of Commons
George Parker
Asquith
Canada
Dr Cook Reacts Calmly as Peary Reaches Pole
In Copenhagen the report that Commander Peary reached the north pole provokes mixed reactions. Dr. Cook, who sits amid explorers and press at Tivoli, greets the news with cool restraint, praising Sverdrup and Bradley and noting rivalries but mutual respect. He predicts further findings may come from others within a decade.
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Copenhagen
Peary
North Pole
Dr. Cook
Pole
Tivoli Casino
Cook
Sverdrup
John R. Bradley
Inspector McCann Trial Begins in Chicago
The trial of police inspector Edward McCann started today before Judge Barnes. He faces charges of malfeasance in office and accepting bribes tied to hush money over protecting illegal establishments in his district.
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Chicago
Edward McCann
Barnes
Criminal Court
McCann
New Tariff Impacts German Post Card Industry
Berlin reports the new American tariff law dampens Germany’s picture postal card trade. German printers in Berlin Leipsic and Munich shift to other channels as illustrations of American views were previously made in Germany and shipped to U.S. dealers. The change presents a hard blow to the German postal card industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Germany
Leipsic
Munich
Joyette Wins Taft Cup in Marblehead Yacht Race
Marblehead Massachusetts September 9 The sonder yacht Joyette representing the Bensonhurst Yacht club of Brooklyn won the Taft cup principal prize of the German American series of races off Marblehead today.
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Marblehead
Mass
Sonder
Joyette
Bensonhurst Yacht Club
Brooklyn
Utah Archaeologists Find Giant Natural Bridge
Salt Lake City reports members of the Utah Archaeological Society discovered a natural bridge spanning a 374 foot wide canyon and over 300 feet high during an expedition along the Colorado River in northern Arizona and southern Utah.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Utah Archaological Society
Colorado River
Arizona
Turkey invites bids for 8800000 bond issue at 4 percent
Washington September 9 The Turkish government officially invites bids for eight million eight hundred thousand dollars in bonds bearing four per cent interest with one per cent for an amortisation fund.
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Turkey
Washington
Peary Telegram Reaches Pole Claiming Roosevelt Safe
Herbert L. Bridgman, secretary of the Peary Arctic club, relayed a cipher telegram from Peary stating Reached Pole Roosevelt safe. The message authenticates the pole discovery and ship Roosevelt. Peary had also wirelessly informed Newfoundland’s governor from Indian Harbor that he found the north pole with a New Foundland crew aboard.
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Indian Harbor
Peary
Cape Bay
Newfoundland
Herbert Lridgman
Brooklyn
Peary Arctic Club
Thomas A. Hubbard
The
N.E
North Pole
Pole
Roosevelt
New York
Robert E. Peary
Cape Ray
Herbert L. Bridgman
Eagle Island
Svithin
Bridgman
Darwin
Royal Geographical ‘Society
Great Britain
St. Johns
Henry F. Osborn
Eum of Natural History
Dgman
Pear
Peary Arctic Club of America
St. Josephs
N. F
Labrador
New Foundland
Peary Attached to Government Bureau After Arctic Quest
Washington reports Commander Robert E Peary detached from regular navy duty on July 2 1908 and assigned to the coast and geodetic survey to pursue Arctic exploration with credibility and official backing Rear Admiral W S Cowles welcomes the move praising Pearys energy and equipment while urging fair judgment on Cook's pole claim awaiting proof.
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Washington
Robert E. Peary
Navy Department
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Peary
Naval Corps of Civil Engineers
North Pole
W. S. Cowles
Bureau of Equipment of the Navy
Admiral Cowles
Pear
Cowles
Dr. Cook
Peary Telegram Delights Supporters and Scientists
Washington reacts to Peary's polar dispatch with praise from Henry Gannett and others. The National Geographic Society plans a welcome for Peary on return as Willis L. Moore and Gannett discuss actions tomorrow.
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Peary
Washington
Henry Gannett
National Geographic Society
North Pole
Cook
Willis L. Moore
Gannet
Two Damage Suits Filed Against Railroad Over $63 300
Holt county district court hears two separate damage claims against the Chicago Northwestern railroad. Mrs Gertrude Schofield seeks 30500 for her brother Don Whitney injured when a car lurched the train abruptly. Frank Girard seeks 32800 for the loss of a foot.
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O’neill
Neb
Holt County
Chicago & , Northwestern Railroad
Gertrude Schofield
Don Whitney
Frank Girard
Auto tumble injures Nye in trip to Winnebago agency
Pender Nebraska September 8 F L Sloan and N H Nye rode to the Winnebago agency in a car. On a steep hill the auto turned turtle injuring Mr Nye who suffers a broken shoulder.
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Pender, Neb
F. L. Sloan
N. H. Nye
Winnebago Agency
Mr. Nye
Naval Bureau Seeks 40000 Jackknives of New Type
Washington September 8 The naval bureau of supplies and accounts seeks forty thousand jackknives of a new two blade design. The large and small blades are included in the specification for the market purchase.
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Washington
Naval Bureau of Supplies and Accounts
Presidents Taft Visit Prompts Southwest Dress Debate
Texas Oklahoma Arizona and New Mexico reception committees debate proper attire for Taft’s October tour. Some favor uniforms others dress suits or charro outfits while leaders in San Antonio advocate minimal formality to welcome the president. Oklahoma towns form special committees to study precedents on dress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
Texas
Oklahoma
Arizona
New Mexico
Taft
Southwest
el Paso
United States
San Antonio
J. P. Kirkpatrick
Charles W. Ogden
Mr. Taft
Clyde Fitch Dies After Operation
American playwright Clyde Fitch died in Chalons sur Marne at 9 30 PM Saturday after an appendicitis operation. He had been unconscious since 3 PM and was attended by Dr Alquier and friend Eugene Gauthier. Fitch fell ill while traveling from Germany and showed brief improvement before a relapse and prolonged delirium.
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Chalons-seur-Marine
Clyde Fitch
Eugene Gauthier
Fitch
Germany
Alquier
Bursting Tire Fatality Near Mount Vernon
New York dispatch reports a tire burst on William Hobby's car between Mount Vernon and Helham Manor. Passenger Joseph Eisenger died, Henry Clausen likely died, both musicians from City Island. Hobby and the chauffeur escaped with injuries. Hobby arrested in $5,000 bail.
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New York
William Hobby
Mount Vernon
Helham Manor
Joseph Eisenger
Henry Clausen
City Island
Hobby
South Dakota Medical Association to Convene in Aberdeen
The South Dakota State Medical Association will hold its annual convention in Aberdeen from September 29 to October 1. The program features papers and discussions by physicians from South Dakota and guests from Minnesota and Nebraska, with city and district officials delivering welcome addresses and Dr. S. A. Brown of Sioux Falls presiding.
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Medical Association
Aberdeen
S. D
South Dakota State Medical Association
South Dakota
A. T. Mann
Minneapolis
A. C. Stokes
Omaha
W. H. Mayo
Rochester
W. A. Jones
Masonic Veteran Celebrates 108th Birthday
North Newport New Hampshire September 8 James Bellows McGregor marked his 108th birthday at his home The Maples He has been a Free Mason since 1827 and is a veteran of the organization stretching back over a century
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North Newport
N. H
James Bellows McGregor
Maples
New York Climber Breaks Mount Blanc Record
Walter S. Bond of New York ascends Mount Blanc from Chamonix in nine hours, breaking the 1865 nine and a half hour record set by Morehead of England.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Walter S. Bond
New York
Mount Blanc
Chamonix
Morehead
Senate irrigation committee plans western tour
The United States Senate irrigation committee met in Cheyenne on September 8 and announced an extensive tour of irrigation projects in western states starting October 1. The panel will finish its work and return to Chicago by November 20.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Irrigation Committee
United States Senate
Chicago
Union Veteran Legion Holds 24th Encampment in Washington
Delegates in large numbers arrive for the 24th annual Union Veteran Legion encampment in Washington. Sessions run from tomorrow morning through Friday with activities planned across the period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Veteran Legion
Washington
Man Rides 85 Miles on Top of Moving Train
Vidhy of Chicago rode on the top of a Twentieth Century Limited coach for 85 miles while asleep and fell off in the yard vicinity but escaped injury. He was later jailed for drunkenness and fined $1. Police arrested him after the incident.
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Vidhy
Chicago
Widry
Atlantic City Opens Salons Amid Reform Clash
Atlantic City witnesses a Sunday of wide openness after officials, following Mayor Stoy’s arrest for not obeying an attorney general order, permit saloons to reopen. Reformers vow further action. detectives continue rounds and new warrants are planned. State detectives, brought to shut gambling, have driven many houses out of business and will remain for months to stamp out gambling.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Stoy
Wilson
Bierney Hudson
Goldenberg
Goldenborg
Knowles Paid Fine and Interest in Obscenity Case
Freeman Knowles, editor of a socialist paper, was released from jail after paying a $500 fine for sending obscene matter through the mails. Unions in the Hills raised the money plus $43 in interest, prompting debate over whether the government was entitled to interest and the possibility of legal action to recover it.
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Deadwood
S.D
Knowles
Freeman Knowles
United States
Murderer Resents Isolation Probe from Aberdeen Jail
Emil Victor, convicted murderer, complains about being kept in a steel cage after his conviction. He objects to losing the privilege to mingle with other prisoners previously allowed by Sheriff Anderson, though he remains calm in demeanor.
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Aberdeen
Emil Victor
Anderson
Victor
Laurentian Wrecks Off Cape Race In Dense Fog
The Asian Line steamer Laurentian bound from Boston to Glasgow ran ashore near Cape Race at daylight in a dense fog. Two and three holes flooded, it broke in two, passengers about 60 saved. Steamers to scene tonight to recover crew and passengers. Built 1872 Greenock for Allan Line.
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St. Johns
N. F
Asian Line
Laurentian
Boston
Glasgow
Cape Race
Allan Line Steamship Company, Limited
Greenock
Chauffeurs Form Protective Association in Washington
Washington drivers form the Chauffeurs Protective Association linked to the Knights of Labor. The group seeks a minimum license age of 18, a blacklist for joy riding, and expulsion of violators. It includes sick benefits and follows similar moves in other cities.
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Washington
Chauffeurs’ Protective Association
Knights of Labor
Mild 15 Second Mexico City Earthquake Felt Across Region
A light earthquake lasting 15 seconds was felt in Mexico City at 4 50 yesterday morning with reports reaching as far as Acapulco where it lasted eight seconds. No damage was reported.
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Mexico City
Acapulco
Autos add more to list of maimed
Lowell Massachusetts reports early today in the opening of the National Small Stock car races a Knox car driven by Shaw crashed into a Dunbar avenue booth. Mechanician Barney Fineberg was hospitalized and bystanders Patrick Bridges, age 7, and James Tracy sustained injuries to their bodies and legs.
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Lowell
Mass
Knox
Shaw
Dunbar Avenue
Barney Fineberg
Patrick Bridges
James Tracy
American Held for Murder in China
The body of a wealthy Amoy merchant who vanished two weeks ago was found near Amoy. Warrants were issued for several prominent residents including Eugenio Velasco, an American citizen and son of a Manila millionaire. Consul Arnold says if Velasco is held, it must be by American authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amoy
China
Eugenio Velasco
Manila
Julian H. Arnold
Velasco
America
Girl's Charges End in Murder
Huntington W V I Sept 8 H N Chapman supervisor of the Huntington division of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad was shot and fatally wounded by Jurle Dudding a leading businessman of this city Chapman died a few hours later Dudding said he fired in self defense after Chapman attacked him with a hatchet over a theft case involving Chapmans daughter.
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Huntington, W. VI
H. N Chapman
Huntington
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
Jurle Dudding
Chapman
Dudding
Natives massacre crew of schooner Qualite in New Hebrides
The captain and crew of the French schooner Qualite, engaged in recruiting laborers, were murdered by natives of the Mallicollo islands in the New Hebrides after the ship was driven ashore by a storm. A British warship is examining the incident.
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Sydney, N. W
Mallicollo Islands
New Hebrides
Body of young woman found tied in a bag
In Detroit on September 8 a torso of a young girl was found tied in a bag in Ecorse creek at Ecorse. The head arms and legs were missing leaving the body unidentifiable. The case prompted a police investigation into the grisly discovery.
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Detroit
Mich
Ecorse Creek
Ecorse
West Wants Summer Capitol Next Year
Washington officials push relocating the summer capital to the West beyond the Mississippi to boost understanding of western needs. Secretary Ballinger supports the idea citing improved ties between the presidency and western states.
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WEST
Washington
Beverly
Oyster Bay
Mississippi
Ballinger
Bandit El Roghi To Be Tortured For Wealth
Tanegler reports the Moroccan sultan orders a wooden nail studded shirt to torture rebel El Roghi until he reveals hidden wealth. The bandit chieftain hoards funds in foreign banks and refuses to surrender without guarantee of life. He remains confined in an iron cage inside the tent used in clashes with the sultan’s forces.
Millionaire Stone’s Wife Snubbed by Uniontown Society
In Uniontown Pennsylvania on September 8 Wm A Stone’s wife faced cold reception from society women after reconciliation with him failed to erase lingering scandal. The deduction cites Mrs Charlotte Rogers’s death by suicide following fear of disgrace tied to daughter Bertha May Inglis’s elopement with Stone years earlier and new disappearance of Emory Martin.
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Uniontown
Wm A. Stone
Emory Martin
Hopwood
Stone
Charlotte Rogers
Bertha May Inglis
Mr. Stone
Mar‘tin
Kinsey Wiggins Injures Arm in Brick Pile Fall
In Ida Grove Iowa Saturday Kinsey Wiggins stubbed his toe on a pile of brick and fell breaking his arm details of the accident were reported by local authorities and medical staff at the scene He was promptly treated for the injury and listed in stable condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ida Grove
Kinsey Wiggins
Kenton man surrenders after shooting bartender in Columbus
Reinhart Sorgen, 30, of Kenton, a brickyard worker, confessed in Columbus to lethal intent dating seven years. He surrendered at the county jail after shooting Henry Gauer, 30, a bartender, who was taken to a hospital and not expected to survive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Reinhart Sorgen
Kenton
Henry Gauer
Gauer
Traffic through Suez Canal falls to 3795 vessels
In sympathy with the global business downturn the Suez Canal traffic dropped to 3795 vessels last year, a decline of 472 from the prior year, reflecting weakened commerce and trade flow worldwide.
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Suez Canal
Precocious British boys charm Mrs Longworth at Cincinnati dinner
Mrs Nicholas Longworth recounts a quaint tale at a Cincinnati dinner about Eton and Rugby boys. A pretty American girl in London asks a boy named Tommy if he has a sweetheart and he replies he is game for spooning if that is what she desires.
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New York Tribune
Nicholas Longworth
Cincinnati
Eton
Rugby
London
Tommy
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Elena
H. L. Eenine
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M’cann
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BIG Laurentian
West Virginia
EL Roghi
Millionaire Stone
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