Roosevelt Plans Better Farm Life
President Roosevelt asks four experts to study country life and report recommendations to Congress. The commission chaired by L. H. Bailey will address social, sanitary, and economic farm conditions, with focus on improving farm life, schools, and living standards across the nation.
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Roosevelt
Congress
L. H. Bailey
New York College of Agriculture
Henry Wallace
Wallace
Farmer
Des Moines
Iowa
Kenyon L. Butterfield
Massachusetts Agricultural College
Gifford Pinchot
United States Forest Reserve
Walter H. Page
World’s Work
New York
Bailey
United States
L. H. Batley
New York State College of Agriculture
Ithaca
Amherst
Mass
United States Forest Service
The
Ife
Theodore Roosevelt
Pushcart men escape graft in Park Avenue allotment
About 500 pushcart vendors gathered in Harlem Hall to praise Deputy Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bugher for moving their stands from 110th Street to a six block area on Park Avenue from 110th to 116th Streets. President Sigmund Schwartz said merchants had charged the vendors $5 to $10 weekly and threatened police action. Bugher and aldermen were urged to keep the new site.
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Frederick H. Bugher
Harlem Hall
East 110Th Street
Sigmund Schwartz
United Citizens Peddlers’ Association
Schwartz
Bughes
110Th Street
Bugher
Park Avenue
110Th
116Th Streets
Mr. Schwartz
Board of Aldermen
Texas Oklahoma to sue 63 railroads under Sherman law
Texas and Oklahoma will file formal complaints with the Interstate Commerce Commission against sixty three railroads seeking cancellation of proposed freight rate increases. The actions, backed by Senator Culberson and state officials, aim to obtain damages for shippers and allow intervening complainants.
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New York Times
Washington
Culberson
Department of Justice
Bonaparte
Texas Railroad Commission
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Texas
Oklahoma
Pollock
Allison Mayfield
Inter State Commerce Commission
Congress
Oyster Bay
Forster
Mayfield
Love
Martin A. Knapp
Clements and
Prouty
Bar of Justice
Nurse Charges Assault After Road Attack In Stamford
Clara Anderson a 29 year old nurse from 444 Main Street Stamford reported being attacked on the road by James Keely a Stamford youth. She says he waylaid her at Noroton fought for an hour then knocked her down again near Norwalk. Keely denies the assault claiming they went together to a shore resort and walked toward South Norwalk intending to catch a train back to Stamford.
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New York Times
Stamford
Conn
Clara Anderson
Main Street
South Norwalk
James Keely
Miss Anderson
Keely
Noroton
Norwalk
Shore
Bomb Explodes on Ferry in Barcelona After Anarchist Claim
An explosion on a harbor ferry in Barcelona last night wounded the Captain and two crewmen and damaged the craft. Investigators link the blast to anarchist retaliation for Jean Bull's execution, as several hundred passengers had just reboarded for the return trip. Police detained two passengers but released them for lack of proof.
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Barcelona
Jean Bull
Swede Pool Champion Held Over Pawned Pin Theft
Vladimir Oberg a Swedish carpenter and famed pool player was arrested at Fort Lee Ferry for the alleged theft of a $150 diamond and pearl stickpin from former partner Gustave Southerland. Oberg says the pin was pawn collateral for a $40 loan after Southerland invited him to play pool championships in New York. The Harlem Court will hear the case this morning.
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Vladimir Oberg
Gustave Southerland
Southerland
Oberg
East Sixty-first Street
Sweden
United States
New York
Fort Lee Ferry
Harlem
New Automobile Alliance Formed In Car Production Plan
Announcement of a merger forming the Everett-Metzger-Flanders company absorbing Northern and Wayne factories and Studebaker to market half of the thirty horsepower car. Plan to produce 12,000 cars with Studebaker handling 6,000 as part of price-lowering production strategy and to move product efficiently.
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Everett- Metzger-Flanders Company
Northern
Wayne
Studebaker Company
Everett-Metzger-Flanders
Studebaker
Everett-Metzger- Flanders
Wiley
Clifton
$10 000 match race discussed at Saratoga
At Saratoga on August 9 a proposed $10,000 match race between two year olds from James R. Keene and John E. Madden was discussed after Madden’s Sir Martin defeated Keene’s Wedding Bells in the Saratoga Special. Keene proposed Maskette against Sir Martin, with options for trials and various stakes, while Sir Martin’s owner favored spacing races and proposed alternatives.
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New York Times
Saratoga
James R. Keene
John E. Madden
Madden
Sir Martin
Keene
Wedding Bells
Maskette
Mr. Keene
Keene Eee
New York
Tennis Finals at Newport Casino Crown Showdown
Newport Rhode Island August 9 Tomorrow promises to be the banner day of the season at the Casino Miss Eleanore Sears of Boston will meet Mrs Warger Wallach champion lawn tennis player in the finals for a cup offered by the governors of the Casino If Sears wins there will be more tennis here than ever with many matches scheduled through lawn tennis tournament week Also listed among the top players are the Misses Nora and Therese Iselin Miss Edna Barger Mrs Lorillard Spencer Jr and Miss M Inches of Boston
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Newport
R. I
Eleanore Sears
Boston
Warger Wallach
Sears Wing
Nora and
Therese Iselin
Edna Barger
Lorillard Spencer, Jr
M. Inches
Five Hard Sets for Wadsworth Wins Rye Tennis Title
William Wadsworth of the West Side Club won the Rye Lawn Tennis Club singles title, defeating William H. Connell in the final 5 sets 3-6 6-4 6-1 3-6 6-4. Earlier rounds saw Connell beat Kellock 6-1 6-3, Wadsworth advances by default over Macknight, and Connell defeating Hubbard by default before Wadsworth pulled the championship upset.
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William Wadsworth
West Side Club
Rye Lawn Tennis Club
William H. Connell
Mary
William_ Hi. Connell
H. Kellock
O. T. Macknight
R. Hubbard
Walter V. Bennett
Wadsworth
Connell
Auckland Welcomes Fleet Officers In Warm Welcome
Admiral Sperry and his Atlantic fleet officers landed in Auckland New Zealand for a formal welcome by Sir Joseph Ward and Governor Lord Plunket. Crowds packed Queen Street as speeches praised Roosevelt and Anglo American ties with hopes for Pacific peace and improved naval cooperation.
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New Zealand
Admiral Sperry
Joseph George Ward
Queen Street
Dominion
Sir Joseph
Roosevelt
Pacific
Sydney
Manila
Lord Plunkitt
King Edward
Sitain
America
Arthur Mavers
Sperry
Glue for his mother in law ends in self inflicted injury
Elmer Hohenthal a 20 year old stenographer who had been married less than a year to a 17 year old attempted to kill his mother in law by using glue believed to be chloroform and then shot himself in the head. The bullet glanced causing a scalp wound but brain injury was later revealed and he remained in serious condition at J Hood Wright Hospital. Neighbors say he and Mrs Lydia Kramer clashed and yesterday threatened to fix her so she would not make trouble as she and the daughter fled the home and a policeman found him unconscious with glue in the bottle.
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Agricultural College
United States
Elmer Hohenthal
West 133d Street
J. Hood Wrights Hospital
Lydia Kramer
Hohenthal
Grand Prize Race At Savannah College Auto Club Event
The Automobile Club of America outlines a ten mile Grand Prize race at Savannah with a two mile supporting small car event on the day before the main contest. Entries must weigh at least 850 pounds with engine diameter limits by type. European and American entrants expected. an elimination race may trim contestants to twenty five before Thanksgiving.
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Saveiith
Whs Io
Automobile Club of America
Henry Souther
Savannah
Automobile Club
Cliti
Europe
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