G A R E CANPRENT OPENS AT SARATOGA
The forty first Grand Army encampment opens in Saratoga with Gov. Hughes in attendance. About six thousand veterans and auxiliary members fill the hall as speeches by Commander Brown James Tanner and Bishop Ireland are heard. Jubilee Offering presented by Mrs Carrie Sparklin as the two decade mark of the Women’s Relief Corps is celebrated. Competition listed for next encampment among Toledo Topeka Omaha and Kansas City. Burton leads for commander with five candidates in the field.
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Atopa
N. Y
Charles Hughes
New York State
Grand Army of the
Reible
Women's Retief Corps
Grand Army of the Republic
Warriotic
Gov. Hughes
Grand Army
Robert Bruce Brown
Zanesvifle
James Tanner
Washington
John Ireland
United States
Macamber
South Dakota
Carrie Sparklin
St. Louis
Women's Reef Corps
Relief Corps
Brown
Toledo
Topeka
Omaha
Kansas City
Oldroyd
Lincoln
Burton
Lidiening
Charles G. Murton
Nevada
Nizat Mo
Departmenta of
New York
Wiltins
Ohio
Wisconsin
Lewis E. Griffith
Troy Y
C. C. Royce
San Francisco
Smuggled Clothes Seized At Port Huron Auction Planned
Port Huron, Mich. customs officers say 484000 sets of smuggled furs, fabrics and velvet coats were seized on a Grand Trunk train after three well dressed Chicago women, hotel guests, contended the items were worn and bought abroad. The women named A L Olson Mrs L 4 Ropp and Mrs Sallie Stierel claim the goods were purchased during a year abroad and offered to pay full duty to recover their five trunks.
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Port Huron
Mich
Bent
Chicago
Hiero Ae Mre
A. L. Olson
Sallie Stierel
Offigars
Westhorn Grand Trunk
Gans Defeats Britt In Lightweight Title Bout
In San Francisco at Recreation Park about 14,000 watched Joe Gans block Jimmie Britt’s blows and win after a fourth round wrist injury left Britt unable to fight effectively. Gans claimed the world lightweight championship with a five round victory in strong fashion. The show featured separate reports of swimming records and a Virginia murder case nearby.
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San Francisco
Joe Gans
Jimmy Britt
Recreation Park
Gang
Vibb
Araty
Holness
Death at Wisconsin Fair shows self harm tragedy
Charles Parkes of Necatnr TU threw himself under a large steam roller on exhibit at the Wisconsin State Fair in Milwaukee on Tuesday afternoon. Death was instantaneous. Parkes had been an inmate of a Milwaukee sanitarium.
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Milwaukee
Charles Parkes
Necatnr, TU
Fat
Rles
Cliff House Destroyed By Fire In San Francisco
San Francisco residents awoke to see the Cliff House, long a premier tourist draw since its opening about 20 years ago, burned to the ground. The wooden structure, overturned by a strong ocean breeze, burned rapidly as firefighters arrived late. The Sutro estate had owned the cliffside resort, a landmark atop the Pacific surf with sweeping views of Seal Rocks.
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San Francisco
Clif
CIM
John Taft
Gre
Adolph Sutro
Sutro Tuanel Fame
Sutro
Cliff House
America
Pacific
Seal Rocks
Leopold transfers Congo domain to joint stock firm
King Leopold moves the Congo independent state domain into a joint stock company in which he is alleged to have an interest. The transfer, announced in the official bulletin, strips Belgium of the most profitable part of the independent state and threatens the annexation plan promoted by Leopold’s committee.
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Brussels
Leopold
Congo
Belgium
Congo Independent
Mountaineers Stop Train Attack on Virginia Line
In Carter County Tennessee a group of mountaineers halted a Virginia and Southwestern passenger train near Bristol. A battle ensued with pistols fired. Conductor Capt. Robert Carnahan and brakeman R. B. Taylor and A. D. Cross escaped injury, while Dan Berry led the assault and was captured. others were beaten off.
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Bristol
Becaten
Virginia & Southwestern
Carter County
Tennessee
Robert Carnahan
R. B. Taylor
A. D. Cross
Dan Berry
Eagles Aerie 42 Temple Destroyed by Fire
Philadelphia on Spring Garden near Broad saw the Eagles Aerie 42 temple gutted by a Sunday fire. The walls alone stood, with a loss around 100000 covered by insurance. The building, bought six years ago for 53000, had since 192x been invested with 45000 spent on reconstruction and masons were adding an ornamental stone front.
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Philadelphia
Sept
Eagle Temple
Philadelphia Aerie 42
Order of Eagles
Spring Garden Street
Broad
The
Eagles
Mob of Soldiers at Fort Riley Breaks Up News
A mob of nearly 100 soldiers from the farmers' school at Fort Riley marched into town about 1 AM Sunday to free a comrade jailed in the county jail. The sheriff and city police fired from upstairs windows, dispersing the group as they attempted to force an entrance.
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Gily
Kay
Farmers’ School
Fort Riley
Lusitania and Lucania Race Begins Maiden Atlantic Crossing
Cunard liners Lusitania and Lucania depart from Liverpool and Queenstown on maiden voyages to New York. Lusitania leads at 12:10 p.m. over Lucania, with 3870 first class and 260 second class aboard Lusitania and 480 first class and 495 second class aboard Lucania. Notables travel on Lusitania as captains Watt and Barr promise speed and a new transatlantic pace.
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Lusitania
Lucania
Liverpool
Glanb Cinnard Line
New York
Atlantic
Cunard Tne
Eiging Room
Lst
Robert Balfour
M. P
G. B. Barber
G. G. Dolan
Louis Hay
Robert Goslet
Countess Dunmore
Gyrus H. McCormick
Chicago
Victoria Murray
C. Perkins
Luemmin
Marlebone Cricket Club
America
Bishop F. J. O'Reilly
Cunard
Tisilania
Gapl. Watt
Barr
Lucunia
Mikkelsen Party Safe After Arctic Voyage Sinks Ship
Cable dispatches from London state the Leming well Mikkelson expedition to the frozen north is safe. The party set out from Chicago last winter and includes Ernest De Koven Lefiinwetl, a University of Chicago faculty member. Captain Einar Mikkelsen of Norway led the group after their ship the Duchess of Nedford sank.
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Mikkelsen
Chicago
London
Leming
Mikkelson
Ernest de Koven Lefiinwetl
University of Chicago
Einar Mikkelsen
Norway
Duchess of Nedford
Tombstone Tax to Boost Delaware Revenues
Wilmington Delaware September 10. The revenues of Delaware will be increased by taxing the manufacturers of tombstones.
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Wilmington
Del
Delaware
Man Killed In Auto Rage At Pittsburg Track
Rex Mannersten 86, president of Automobile Repair Co, died from a fractured skull after a front tire failed on a 50 mile derby at Brunos Island track near Pittsburg. Walter Christy 26 from New York suffered severe injuries. Clarence Bastion sustained a serious spinal injury. Allegheny policeman Frank Warner was badly cut after being struck by a flying car. Race halted as wrecked car blocked the track. cars and crowds surged, hospital care sought.
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Pittsburg
Brunos Islang Track
Rex Mannersten
Automobile Repair Company
Cta
Walter Christy
West Eighteenth Street
New York City
St. John’s Hospital
Allegheny
Rathersten
Dastion
Christy
Meyer for a Parcels Post in Essex Club Talk
Marblehead Mass September 11 Post master General George Von L Myer spoke at the Essex Republican club meeting at the Corinthian Yacht Club outlining plans for a parcels post and postal savings banks to aid rural residents. He advocated extending rural delivery to ease farmer isolation and hinted at a fall bill to Congress.
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Marblehead
Mass
George von L. Myer
Essex Republican Club
Corinthian Yacht Club
Congress
Lge
World and local items from a late-era brief news roundup
A scattered round of notices reports Bishop Wilburforce of the English Episcopal church dying at Bembridge Isle of Wight Mrs Cox of Forest Hill aged 105 killed by a wasp sting Dr Edward Kennon dentist of St Louis died in auto car collision A Missouri Pacific rail agent at Eldorado Kan bound and gagged by thieves $130 stolen Three hurt when Los Angeles limited train derails near Cottonwood Cal Commander Simon Cook USN retired dead at St Louis Illinois native who served in Spanish American War A merger of Illinois Indiana coal properties valued at $12 million by W S Vogel of Chicago Four crew of cruiser Chattanooga escape mob violence at Hakodate John Rhodes arrested at Phoenix Ariz suspected of being Jesse Coe killer of Officer Charles Russell in Indianapolis 1906 Countess Montiznose divorced wife of Saxony king married in London to Ste Toschil Italian singer Elsie Reed claims Chicago girl seeks aid claiming sale into slavery by holy jumpers Wellington Herbert shoots wife and another then kills himself off Washington D C Gus Ormsby finds wreck Richmond copper ore valued $200000 Miss Lucian son of Boston looms cave near Worcester interest grows Judge Sands at Scranton sets aside Jerome Lillibridge will Two sisters challenge will Yeate conference at The Hague approves project to establish supreme tribunal to dust with prizes at Bea masked robbers rob Royal Savings bank Chittawa Ont meat wagon drivers strike 19 days in New York back to 65 hour week Nellie Wolkawits Russian girl arrested in New York for jewel theft from Mrs Bourke Cochran Miss Cochran’s miniature religious jewel causes fixation Long and three sons charged with murdering Wilbur Girth in C T
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English Episcopal Church
Bembridge
Isle of Wight
Cox
Forest Hill
England
Edward ©. Kennon
St. Loure
Missouri Pacific
Elderado
Kan
Los Angeles
Salt Lake Road
Cottonwood
Cal
Simon Cook
St. Louis
Illnois
Ulinois
Indiana Coat Properties
W. 5. Vogle
Chicago
Chattanooga
Waukesha
Wis
Wellington
Herbert
Washington, D. C
Gus Ormsby
Mtttag Ms
van Zaren Point
Lake
Evie
Deii Richmond
Lucian
Son of
Boston
Worcester
Masu
Thompson
Judge Sands
Scranton
Jerome Lillibridge
Yeate
Hague
Supreme Tribunal
Bea
Royal Savings Bank
Chitpewa
Ont
New York
Nellie Wolkawits
Mra Bourke Cochran
D Long
Fl Reng
C. T
Wilbur Ginreth
Gimreth
Long
Gone
Bla Aare
Little boy's odd game tale ends in earnest confusion
A seven year old narrator, in a humorous aside, describes a dog named Topsy catching a ball and, with mispronounced words, imitates a fast exclamation. His mother, puzzled, asks for meaning while the boy concedes he does not know the phrase but notes it is much faster than Hickety-splitt.
Great Surgeon Barred From Medical Association Membership
A long tribute to Dr Augusta Bernays of St Louis, noted for pioneering surgery including the first Caesarian section in 1889 and other feats, lamenting his expulsion from the American Medical Association as unworthy, and warning against a supposed medical priesthood and closed shop. The piece condemns AMA actions and discusses broader medical politics. It also mentions Pilgrim Congregational Church near London and the Mayflower contingent.
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Augusta Charles Dernays
St. Louis
United States
Missouri
Bernays
American Medical Association
Alo
A.M. A
Congress
Siruggista
The
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Norfolk
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Brunos Island
Rex Raiherateln
Walter Chriety
Wellman
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Msachen
Walter Wellman
Bechtel
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Minn
Wm. F. Weehtel
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York
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Miya Tone
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