Alabama Revokes Southern's License Amid Rail Battle
Alabama moves to revoke the Southern Railway license for removing a civil case to federal court. Secretary of State Frank N. Julian notes licenses needed for foreign corporations. trains reportedly continue to run in Alabama as state actions unfold. Legislature debates appointing receivers for corporations forfeiting licenses, signaling potential state chancery court actions.
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New York Times
Montgomery
Ala
Southern Railway
Secretary of State
Alabama
Ite
Frank N. Julian
Birmingham
Cme
Dekbstary
Julian
Southern
Glenn
North Carolina
Alabama Railroads Clash With State Over Anti-Railroad Laws
Four months into a legal battle, railroads seek an injunction from Circuit Judge Thomas G. Jones to stop enforcement of Alabama anti-railroad statutes. The dispute centers on statutes viewed as confiscatory, with Alabama authorities contemplating state action and possible franchise revocation implications.
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New York Times
Montgomery
Ala
Secretary of State
Alabama
Ieann
Bie
Extra Session Probable in Richmond August
Special to The New York Times reports strong expectations of an extra session in Richmond on August 2 as political maneuvering intensifies. Officials say decisions hinge on legislative action and regional claims.
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New York Times
Richmond, Vs
Lusitania May Use New Ambrose Channel at Port Arrival
The War Department authorized using the Ambrose channel for the Cunard liner Lusitania’s port entry. The new cut, depth 40 feet and width 2000 feet, lacks buoys though one German tank has already navigated it. If needed the vessel could pass today, with buoying completed within a month.
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Cunard
Lusitania
Ambrose Channel
Cunardine
War Department
Steamship Company
Ambrose
Baltic
Post Office clerks tied to race betting thefts
Two postal clerks were arrested for stealing from the mails after confessing they were drawn into racing bets. Henry W. White of Brooklyn faced $1,500 bail and was found with marked Brighton Beach race entries. W. S. Worth of the Sheepshead Bay branch returned $20 and was held on $2,000 bail.
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Sheepshead Bay
Henry W. White
General Post Office
Kosciusko Street
Brooklyn
United States
Shields
Federal Grand Jury
Jacobs
Meyers
Brighton Beach
W.S. Worth
Post Office
Mayer
Benedict
Federal
Grand Jury
Bryan Souvenir Raid by Chautauqua Girls at St Louis
In St Louis on August 2 Chautauqua girls swarmed the excursion steamer Annie Russell during William Jennings Bryan's speech. They seized souvenir pins and spoons, claiming every girl would have at least one keepsake of Bryan's visit. In Lincoln Senator Taylor predicts Tennessee will send Bryan delegates to the next Democratic National Convention, noting Bryan is the leading presidential prospect there despite the current prohibition issue.
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New York Times
ST. Louis
William Jennings Bryan
Annie Russell
Bryan
Omaha
Neb
Tennessee
Robert L. Taylor
Lincoln
First Avenue
Fifth Avenue
Black Hand Threats Target Yonkers Druggist
Joseph Jacobson a Yonkers druggist on Riverdale Avenue and Hudson Street received two Black Hand threats this week. A masked man described as 5 feet 10 inches stocky with a scar delivered the first note and a skull and crossbones drawing appeared with the second. The messages demanded 500 dollars to be left under a tree near the Jewish Home, with fear the attacker aims to extort from the successful merchant.
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Joseph Jacobson
Riverdale Avenue
Hudson Street
Yonkers
Black Hand Society
Jacobson
Jumpers Ruin Waukesha Summer Resort
Waukesha Wisconsin fears trouble as Holy Jumpers plan a camp meeting to drive them out of town. The sheriff faces a lawsuit from the Jumpers after hose use during arrest. Duke M Farson backs the group, affecting the city’s status as a premier summer resort.
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New York Times
Waukesha
Wis
Saratoge
West
Duke M. Farson
Four Arrests In Cellar Murder Of Katie Teischler
Four suspects were jailed in the abduction and murder of Katie Teischler, whose body was found in a First Avenue cellar. Coroner Harburger ordered arrests for tips, and the cases focus on Dora Messner, Gaetano Rippoloni, Giuseppe Bonfanti, and Miran Carter as others are sought. The piece paints First Avenue as dangerous and tells of community fear and the perceived ethnic tensions surrounding the crime.
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Katie Teischler
First Avenue
Harburger
London
Lehane
Dora Messner
Gaetano Rippoloni
Giuseppe Bonfanti
Tomahawk Leather Plant Destroyed by Fire
The United States Leather Company tannery in Tomahawk Wisconsin was totally destroyed by a blaze that started at 6 o clock. Losses to buildings and stored hides, plus in process stock and vats, are near 1 million dollars. Bark yards valued at 125000 were saved. Insurance status not confirmed.
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New York Times
Tomahawk
Wis
United States Leather Company
Town's All in Red Flannel and Linseed Oil
In Sag Harbor New York residents suffer a widespread sore throat blamed on road dust from passing automobiles. Doctors report no deaths but note swelling of the throat glands, severe chills, and lingering pain as vehicles drive by.
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New York Times
Sag Harbor
L. I
Harlem fatal shooting ends with handshake in hospital
Charles Mulligan 22 of 2018 Lexington Ave was mortally wounded by Richard McGrath of 1870 Park Ave last night at Third Ave and 125th St. Mulligan, on an operating table, refused to identify his attacker and offered a handshake before dying. McGrath was arrested while fleeing. both claimed to be electricians, police disputing their work.
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Charles Mulligan
Lexington Avenue
Richard McGrath
Park Avenue
Third Avenue
125Th Street
Harlem Hospital
Mulligan
MecGrath
McGrath
Men’s Brains Size Not Increasing Officials Say
Washington officials from the Bureau of Ethnology refute a British Association report claiming growing male brain size. They say variation exists but not enough to alter brain size over ten or even a thousand years.
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New York Times
Washington
Bureau of Ethnology
British Association
Times
Bureau
Life guards save twenty at Atlantic City beach
Twenty bathers were caught in a strong current hole at Ohio Avenue. Eleven were exhausted and needed care before reaching shore. All recovered. Rescuers Priestly Culp and Heard pulled them from the water. Among those saved were Nathan Greenbaum, G Walthmayer family, Dr. William Morrison and wife, F P Mayer family, George Watkins, Charles Muller, and Miss Catherine Laird.
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Atlantic City
Ohio Avenue
Priestly
Culp
Heard
Nathan Greenbaum
G. Walthmayer
William Morrison
F. P. Mayer
Philadelphia
George Watkins
Charles Muller
Catherine Laird
New York
Thieves Hamper Phones on Long Island
Wire thieves have plagued telephone and telegraph service on Long Island by cutting wire sections every few nights. Police patrols, led by Sergt. Cohen of the Seventy-fifth Precinct, searched travelers on the Queens turnpike last night and arrested one man who carried a loaded revolver.
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Long Island
Sergt. Cohen
Seventy-fifth Precinct
Queens
Helen Yacht Grounded Off New Jersey Coast
Three people were rescued from the sloop Helen after it grounded off Little Egg Inlet near Atlantic City New Jersey. Names were not learned and rescue details indicate all aboard were saved with no injuries reported.
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Helen
Atlantic City
N. J
Fragmentary notice of a local event and names
OCR fragment mentions a local figure Seto and others in a unclear event. Details and place are unreadable. no clear date or outcome available.
West Shorea 530 A.oe PaaS Seca
The fragmentary text mentions West Shorea and a sequence 530 A.oe PaaS Seca, but provides no clear event, person, or organization to summarize into a fuller news item.
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Shorea
Matter and electricity clash at British Association meeting
At Leicester the chemists and electricians debated the atom and radium emanations. Sir William Ramsay reported experiments supporting transmutation of elements while Lord Kelvin argued matter as a form of electricity remains unlikely. The discussion highlighted the unsettled nature of atomic theory and its implications for chemical science.
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Tea New York Timms Co
London
British Association
Leicester
William Ramsay
Sir William
Lord Rayleigh
R. J. Strutt
Oliver Lodge
Soddy
Lord Kelvin
New York Times
Sr William
Church Rallies to Challenge Saloon Opposite New Brooklyn Parish
Mass meeting of Roman Catholic Our Lady of Perpetual Help parish at Sixth Ave and Sixtieth St Brooklyn will seek ways to drive out a saloon opened opposite the church. The old church site lacked a building when the license was issued, drawing a legal challenge to state authorities. Letters from Gov Hughes and the Excise Department will be read at the gathering.
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Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Sixth Avenue
Sixtieth Street
Brooklyn
Missouri Pacific faces seven indictments over failed train service
Seven indictments were announced today against the Missouri Pacific Railway Company by the Cole County Grand Jury. The charges accuse the company of failing to operate trains on the Baghell Branch from Jefferson City to Bagwell, violating state law requiring at least one daily train on all lines.
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Jefferson City
Missouri Pacific Railway’ Company
Baghell
Bagwell
Cole County
Graf Waldersee Grounded Off New Jersey
The Hamburg American liner Graf Waldersee ran aground in the main channel about a mile north of the Southwest Spit at 11:15 last night after departing Hamburg via Plymouth, crossing Sandy Hook at 10:30 P.M. The ship stranded on the mud as tide fell, tugboats were sent, but by 12:19 she floated free without damage and was to reach Hoboken pier around 8 A.M.
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Graf Waldersee
Mamburg
Plymouth
Sandy Hook
Hoboken
Three Drowned in Staten Island Sound Night
In Richmond Borough early last night, two men Homer Reed 28 of Orange and William H Gray 21 of Orange and a young Orange woman drowned after a catboat with five aboard capsized in rough waves from passing boats. One man and one woman were rescued. three bodies were missing.
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Staten Island Sound
Kretscherville
Richmond
Homer Reed
Parrow Street
Orange
William H. Gray
Garrett Street
Jersey
Elizabeth
Legal Ejectment Over Inch of Newark Property
Francisco Cicone of 7 Garside Street sues Carmella Casale and her three sons in the New Jersey Supreme Court at Trenton for an ejectment over 1.25 inches of land. Casale contends the action is spiteful after they refused to sell property at Cicone’s price. Cicone owns adjacent land and says the Casale house encroaches on the boundary. a verdict against Casale would impose substantial costs.
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Newark
Supreme Court
Trenton
N. J
Francisco Cicone
Garside Street
Carmella Casale
Cicone
Dover Post Office Closes on Sundays After Petition
Dover New Jersey basks in a moral victory as Postmaster Guido C. Hinchman reports a Washington order to close the Dover Post Office on Sundays. For years the office operated 9 to 10 on Sunday mornings and drew protests from local ministers professionals and church members who organized the petition that led to the action.
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New York Times
Dover
N. J
Guido C. Hinchman
Post Office Department
Washington
Hall seeks return of $15000 to estate
Miess Annie Hall of Cincinnati asks to return to the Government $15,000 paid for manuscripts and charts of her Arctic explorer father. U S District Attorney Mc Pherson and Thomas Darby report consent of all heirs is unlikely due to a contest over estate administration.
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Cincinnati
Miess
Annie Hall
United States
McPherson
Thomas Darby
Darby
Miss Hall
Saint Gaudens Very Ill in Cornish New Hampshire
Augustus Saint Gaudens the sculptor lies seriously ill at his Cornish home with grave fears of not recovering. He rallied briefly after a night of danger and was carried to his studio to supervise assistants, but has shown rapid decline over the past month due to nervous dyspepsia and a general breakdown.
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Cornish
N. H
Augustus Saint Gaudens
Harvard Diploma Loss Prompts $20,000 Suit in Omaha
Dr George H Whitesides sues Adams Express Company claiming Harvard College diploma lost in transit. He alleges Harvard will not issue a duplicate and the missing parchment bars him from practicing medicine unless he retrains, citing earlier delivery by Adams Express in Lincoln.
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New York Times
Omaha
Neb
Adams Express Company
Harvard College
George H. Whitesides
Harvard
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A fragmentary OCR line appears to mix names and terms with no clear news event. The readable text hints at a sports or event item but lacks concrete facts, dates, or participants to summarize into a coherent record. No determinate person or organization is evident.
France and Spain Ready to Seize Casablanca
Paris reports France plans a joint operation with Spain to seize Casablanca in response to the massacre. A force of 2,500 French and 1,500 Spanish troops is prepared, with naval divisions assembling at Toulon under Vice Admiral Touchard and transports ready to move from Algerian ports. Madrid and Paris exchange dispatches as Clemenceau weighs decisive steps to enforce French prestige in Morocco.
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Burey
Pean
Toulon
Morocco
Charlemagne
Republique
Gaulois
Jules Ferry
Victor Hugo
Gueydon
Desaix
Touchard
Casablanca
RIS
Algeciras
Oran
Algeria
Tangier
Elksar
France
Germany
Bandon M. Delcassé
Fez
la République Francaise
Uneless
Madanin Pasha
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Katie Teischier
Long Island Service
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