Big Yacht Race Opens At Long Island Sound
In Oyster Bay on Aug 22 the first of two special matches between the Constitution and the Columbia began, with the Columba leading early as new mainsail trials promised advantage for Constitution. Lipton arrived in New York to watch the Shamrock II challenge, praising New York hospitality and hoping for a brisk breeze to aid his yacht. In Paterson, George Heald and Samuel Hart, striking weavers, were released after habeas corpus, their jail stay deemed unjust and a jury trial warranted.
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Constitution
Columbia Hell
Seawanbaka-Corinthian Yacht Club
Long Island Sound
Percy Chubb
Vigiant
Columbia
Thacat
Culundun
Columbian
Colendia
New York
Thomas Lipton
Satelock
Teutonic
Sandy Tlonk
Sar Thomas
Safelock
Waldorf-Istoria
Ameria
Doha
Coluubia
Shiumrock
New York Yacht Club
Paterson
Creorge Heald
Sammel Hart
Ise Suk Mall
Dixon I
Weald
Hart
Trouble Among Manufacturers in 14 Percent Wage Cut Debates
Fall River mill treasurers fail to gather signatures for a 14 percent wage reduction. Some plan to revive the effort in September while others have withdrawn, citing uneven gains from machinery changes and rival mills.
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Fall River
Pall River
Mass
World Heater in Tras ercial Battle for the Supremacy
Cleveland Aug 22 The Lead er today says plans to form a great corporation will place American Shipbuilding as a constituent with aims to control all U S shipyards. Backers include United States Steel and Pennsylvania Railroad. Organization expected before 1902 opening, sparking a world commerce struggle. Information kept tightly guarded as projects unfold.
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Cleveland
American Shipbuilding Company
United States
United States Steel Corporation
Pennyslvania Railroad
Young Rev Harrington commits suicide in church at Oxford
Washington New Jersey reports the suicide of Rev George B Harrington a Drew seminary student and Oxford church caretaker married August 7 to Lida Tice organist. He faced criticism over the hasty marriage and possible effects on his career. Later items describe a train accident at Utica and a fatal baseball umpire assault in Indianapolis.
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Washington, N. Jd
George BR. Harrington
Drew Seminary
Oxford
Harrington
Lida Tice
Belvidere
Nathaniel Brooks
Drew
Utica
W. Seward Webb
Mohawk and
Malone
Horse Shoe Pond
Webb
Shaffer Invites Peace as Strikers Stand Firm
Pittsburg Aug 22. At Star Tin Plate mill 12th and Pike streets, 32 uninjured uene men and other nonunion workers arrive to start two mills with imported labor. Strikers, largely foreign and black, guard plant. police escort new hires. No hostilities despite tensions. management silent. Aug 23. Shafer seeks peace and predicts union victory as dispute with United States Steel continues.
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Pittsburg
Star Tin Plate
12Th and
Pike Streets
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Sturt Works
Gne
Hew Wen
Star Mill
Allegheny Valley
John Biiodley
Leading Hotel Propr proprietors pledge no color bias
In London the color question surfaces as Methodist Ecumenical delegates arrive. Hotels including Cecil Carlton Metropole Grand and Victoria declare they will not discriminate against Negroes, welcoming all respectable Americans in equal treatment despite some Southern protests at St Ermin's.
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London
Methodist Ecumenical Conference
St. Ermin’s Hotel
Cecil
Carlton
Metropole
Grand
Victoria
Spendtibift boy checked by probate court in Bridgeport
In Bridgeport Connecticut the probate court halted 12 year old George McDermott who had spent about $20,000, supported by his grandmother Mrs Seeley Bibbins of Greenfield Hill. The boy, an orphan, was found incorrigible and sent to the Connecticut school for boys after conservatorship was appointed and a contest by his uncle David Bibbins. He once extorted $125 from his grandmother to buy a pony by threatening suicide with blueing balls. The family is prominent socially.
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Bridgeport
Conn
George McDermott
Georgie
Seeley Bibbins
Greenfield Hill
Chased With Bloodhounds, Second Story Escape
Two boys aged about 15 each were arrested for jumping freight trains and carrying concealed weapons. In Justice Mailet's court they leaped from a second story window but were recaptured by bloodhounds in Michigan Central yards. One boy is the son of a Detroit manufacturer. They await ages determination.
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Tall Bud
Toledo
Justice Mailet
Burch
Michigan Central
Detroit
Shoe sale notice with limited items and prices
Missen Rusael Shoes offers LEH to 2 price 1.25 and Thursday 5c. Ladies Oxford shoes priced Thursday 5c. 750 or Ladies Shoes lace and button sizes adjustable black and basket high and heavy sole priced 1.50 to 2.50 Thursday 8c.
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Vici
Fe. P
Rusael
Oxford
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