Paris Auto Racers Bager for the Start
German and Italian drivers aboard the Lorraine arrive in New York ready for the New York to Paris race start at Times Square next Wednesday. Scarfoglio aims to match Borghese’s Peking to Paris feat while German and French crews discuss cautious plans and group riding aboard the Moto Bloc and Sizaire-Naudin cars. The party enjoys the voyage, Captain Hansen tinkers below deck, Lelouvier stands ready for danger.
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Lorraine
New York
Paris
Times Square
Scarfoglio
Prince Borghese
Peking
Moto Bloc
Sizaire-Naudin
Capt. Hansen
Lelouvier
Stephen Lauzann
English interest grows in New York to Paris car contest
London press coverage intensifies as the New York to Paris automobile race nears. The Daily Mail highlights the expedition as a romantic yet fearless venture, noting Britain has no entrants and promising daily progress reports.
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London
New York
Paris
Great Britain
Daily Mail
Germans Due This Afternoon In New York to Paris Race
The Kaiserin Auguste Victoria of the Hamburg American Line carrying German automobilists and the Protos car was reported by Marconi wireless 100 miles east of Nantucket South Shoals Lightship at 4 PM yesterday. She is expected to dock at Hoboken at 6:50 PM.
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Kaiserin Auguste Victoria
New York
Paris
Marconi Wireless Telegraph
Nantucket South Shoals
Hoboken
Depew Praises Automobiles From Senate Podium
Senator Depew extols the automobile as a civilizing force in a long speech during the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition appropriation debate. He cites the New York Paris race and Alaska’s development, arguing Alaska yields far more than the territory’s cost and backing the Seattle fair despite opposition.
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Washington
Depew
New York
Paris
Paris Matin
New York Times
Alaska
Bering Sea
Seattle
Burkett
Denen
Seward
New York City
Ber
Sandbagged and Robbed Near Home on West Eighty Fourth
Alfred E. Bonnell salesman was assaulted and robbed at 12:20 AM within 50 feet of his home at 107 West Eighty Fourth Street. He crawled home, informed detectives Burns and Leonard, and police recovered his pocketbook containing about $5. The attack left Bonnell with head and cheek cuts. he was the sixth highwayman victim in the neighborhood in a month.
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Alfred E. Bonnell
Bieskinn
West Eighty-fourth Street
Bonnell
Burns
Leonard
West
Sixty-eighth Street
Bar
Dr. Boynton
Hoe
Highwayme
Highwaymen Hold Up Wo burn Area Injure Officers
In Woburn Massachusetts on February 6 armed highwaymen attacked two men William P Adams and William Essex driving from Billerica. Police pursued and exchanged fire wounding Officer Welsh and Officer Neth while a barber Bert Donoghue helped. A boy was hit in the leg and Edward J Holland was shot in the back.
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Woburn
Wiliam P. Adams
Wiliam Essex
Billerica
Essex
Welsh
Neth
Aeminuis
Bert Donoghue
la Barber
Donoghue
Boyce Woburn
Mass
Phreeigh
Tu¢Ein
Lexington Iie
Keating
Edward J. Holland
Robbery by Woman Footpad At Cortlandt Street Hall
Newark woman Mrs. Alexander Ginsburg robbed in a Cortlandt Street hallway by a female accomplice and a male robber. They relieved her of diamond jewelry and a brooch while taking two one dollar bills from her handbag. Police seek pair linked to the Newark incident.
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Church Street
Alexander Ginsburg
Centre Street
Newark
N. J
Cortlandt Street
Capt Gallagher
Shakespeare Undone Again in Milwaukee Murals of Morality
Milwaukee ministers objected to a Luther an church youth group stage production of The Merchant of Venice calling it contrary to Christian principles. They argued the play’s use of the word Devil in two scenes justifies banning it.
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Milwaukee
New York Times
Shakespeee
Merchant of Venice
Wes
Walther League
Dar‘ing
Bartender Turned Count In Baltimore Murder Case
A message from the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs identifies Douglas as Count Henrico Douglas Scotti of an Italian noble family. The death, initially deemed self inflicted, is linked to a shooting by Caulfield, now jailed, after a witness saw the act. Douglas, a bartender, had worked for Baltimore Country Cloud and the Alta Mont Hotel and spoke five languages.
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New York Times
Baltimore
Rome
Schiaffino
Douglas
Henrico Douglas Scotti
Schiaf
Silas Baldwin
Chrisian
Baldwin
Torr LY Caulfield
Michael Caulfield
Caulfield
Henrico Douglas Scotts
Country Cloud
Altamont
Long Lost Baron Sails to England for Reinstitution
Sir Genille Cave-Browne-Cave, heir to the ancient English barony, sailed from Liverpool on the Celtic to reclaim his hereditary title after the death of Sir Mylles Cave-Browne-Cave. His mother had sought him since his disappearance following the 1907 death. American help aided locating the missing heir in the Far West where he worked as a miner.
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Genille Cave-Browne-Cave
England
Mylles_Cave-Browne-Cave
Liverpool
Celtic
Myles Cave-Browne-Cave
John Fayior
Leicester
Bryce
Far West
Itis
Mardi Gras Round Trip Special From New Orleans
Round trip rail fare of 37 75 to Mardi Gras travel via Southern Ry A and W P and W o A L N. Travel dates March 23 to March 2 with through Pullman and dining car service. Tickets available through office at 1200 Broadway Advyp.
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Mardi Gras
New Orleans
Southern Ry
W.o A. L
Leap saves tenants as fire engulfs Columbus Ave five story house
A early morning blaze on Columbus Avenue trapped tenants on fire escapes. Motorman alerted police saving many lives but water supply was delayed fifteen minutes. Miss Margaret Landon died after leaping from a fire escape. others were rescued to the Hotel Walton hospital.
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Columbus Avenue
Cearent
Shdders
Jon
Margaret 4Andon
Walton
Miss Landon
H. A. Dillon
S. Warner
Ald
Panurn
Frank Sabatio
Roosevelt
Presbyterian Hospital
Girl Suffocated in Brooklyn Tenement Fire
A young girl died in a basement fire at 48 Taeffe Place Brooklyn at 2 am. Six families escaped mostly in night clothing via the fire escape while police and firemen rescued others. Identification of the victim was not possible due to severe burns.
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Taeffe Place
Brooklyn
Governor Guild Declares Lincoln Day Proclamation
Massachusetts Governor Guild marks Lincoln's Birthday with a statewide observance urging February 12 as a pause from work. He warns against demagogues, praises Lincoln's patience and honesty, and declines to single out any president in his critique.
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Boston
Mass
Gov.Guild
Massachusetts
Lincoln
Guild
Abraham Lincoln
Gems Found at Thebes May Prove Sety II Pharaoh of Exodus
London reports confirm the Thebes discovery of jewels once worn by Sety II's wife. Egyptologists say the bracelets, earrings and rings will illuminate her life and could challenge the claim that Rameses II was the Pharaoh of Exodus. Theodore M. Davis backs the excavations in the Valley of the Kings.
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Thebes
Sety II
Exodus
New York Times
London
Wallis Budge
British Museum
Rameses II
Arrest Gov Folk's Nephew in Kidnapping Case
George Folk a Treasury Department Secret Service agent and Missouri governor Folk’s nephew is jailed in Emerson awaiting trial next Thursday. He faces charges of kidnapping two Canadians on December 27 near the border, allegedly forcing farmers to testify they smuggled barley into the United States. He refused bail, claiming a wish to stay jailed as appeals go to Ottawa and Washington.
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New York Times
George Folk
Secret Service
Treasury Department
Washington
Gov. Folk
Missouri
Emerson
Folk
Winnipeg
Ottawa
Vanderbilt plans dual apartment house on East Fifty second
William K. Vanderbilt filed plans with the Building Bureau for a seven story Italian Renaissance brick and limestone structure at 47 and 49 East Fifty second Street near Madison Avenue. The two apartments will house two families with a first floor entrance hall billiard room plus a garage via a central passage and elevator. Architects Warren and Wetmore estimate a 150000 dollar cost. The project prompts speculation about occupants and market aims in a high end neighborhood near the Vanderbilt colony.
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William K. Vanderbilt
Building Bureau
East Fifty-second Street
Madison Avenue
Warren and Wetmore
Vanderbilt
Fifth Avenue
Fifty-second Street
Tearful Woman Sails Away on Celtic Before Liverpool Voyage
A tall dark 35 year old woman aboard the Celtic created a scene before the sailing to Liverpool by pacing the deck weeping muttering and delivering a note via messenger. She insisted on recovering the letter and told staff no one knew she was sailing prompting officers to watch her during the voyage.
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Liverpool
Burglars Raid Rye Homes At Milton Point
Thieves broke into four unoccupied country residences at Milton Point, Rye, last Tuesday night using a wagon to haul loot. One house belonged to Frank R. Lawrence, president of the Lotos Club, where burglars lit a fire and rested on a bed. Other homes of Mrs. William H. Starbuck ex mayor Seth Low, J Howard Wainwright, and H de Berkeley Parsons were ransacked though little was taken.
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Rye
N. Y
Milton Point
Frank R. Lawrence
Lotos Club of
New York
Seaboard Florida Limited Announces Daily Pullman Service
Florida railroad ad for the Seaboard Florida Limited outlining daily Pullman service to St Augustine Pinehurst Camden and Columbia with office at 1183 Broadway.
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Florida
West Coast
Seaboard Florida Limited
St. Augustine
Pinehurst
Camden
Columbia
Broadway
Murder claims Breathitt feud leader by his son
Jackson Feb 6 ex Judge James Hargis once the king of Breathitt County and leader in the Hargis South Cardwell feud was shot and killed by his son Beach Hargis. Five shots at close range felled the elder as clerks and customers crowded a store. Beach Hargis was arrested and jailed afterward. The feud traced back to property disputes and politics in Breathitt County with multiple killings and a long court fight. The elder had political influence and wealth and was buried in a self ordered coffin.
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New York Times
Jackson
Beggins
James Hargis
Beach Hargis
Hargis
Judge Hargis
Young Hargis
Smith
Judgle
Jerry South
John Tide Hargis
Breathitt County
Ed Callahan
James Cockrill
Cardwells
Cardweills
James B. Marcum
United States
Wals
Cardwell
Thomas Cockrill
Nargis
Ben
Cockrill
D. B. Cox
Thomas Cardwell
Hargise
Curt " Jett
Callahan
Marcum
Cox
Tom” White
White
Jett
Kentucky
Dr. Cox
Schooner William Nottingham Ends 340 Day Voyage
The schooner William Nottingham arrived in San Francisco after a 340 day voyage from New York en route to Seattle via Melbourne. She faced rough weather, repairs at Melbourne from Aug to Oct 8, a leak last leg, and 120 days pumping to stay afloat. The crew endured near collapse upon reaching port.
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San Francisco
Cal
William Nottingham
New York
Seattle
Melbourne
Verdict Returned Against Graham for False Representations
A jury in the United States Circuit Court awarded Peale, Peacock & Kerr of New York about 20 thousand dollars in a suit against John M. Graham, president of the International Trust Company. The case charged Graham with false representations about the Thomas & Pike Coal Company of Boston, bankrupt in 1906, delaying the coal firm from pressing a 35,508.81 claim and allowing the executor to collect 68,500 from the Thomas & Pike creditors.
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New York Times
Boston
John M. Graham
International Trust Company
United States Circuit Court Today
Peale, Peacock & Kerr
New York
Graham
Thomas & Pike Coal Company
Grayham
Thomas & Pike Coalmpany
Miss Louisa Hahn Marries Jd Horace Laucks in Philadelphia
Miss Louisa M. Hahn wed Jd Horace Laucks of Germantown at Mount Airy church after a swift courtship begun on New Year’s Day. Hahn proposed marriage within ten hours of meeting Laucks and he decided within four hours.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Louisa M. Hahn
Mount Airy Methodist Episcopal Church
Horace Laucks
Germantown
Hahn
Laucks
Baboon Attack at Ocean Park School Injures Child
In Ocean Park California a large African baboon escaped from a private cage and attacked 13 year old Glark Howlett in the school lun rooms. A second baboon escaped during the incident and pursued students who sought refuge in the school and nearby buildings. Howletts wounds are described as serious and the animals fed on the childrens luncheons before being recaptured.
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Ocean Park
Cal
Glark Howlett
George B. McClelland
Towlett
Mrs Eddy Sees Mother Church in Boston Drive
Mary Baker Eddy founder of Christian Science viewed the new Mother Church from a passing carriage in Boston on February 6 with her secretary Calvin Frye aboard. A group of Christian Scientists stood nearby but gave no demonstration as the party slowed past the building.
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New York
Boston
Mary Baker G. Eddy
Christian Science
New Christian Science Church
Mother Church
Cars Crash in Park Avenue Curve
A northbound Madison Avenue car collided with a southbound Twenty-third and Forty-second Street car on the Parkvenue tunnel approach. Passengers and crews suffered cuts from flying glass and bruises as the crosstown car was hurled from the tracks. Police said both cars started at once against signals. the Madison car struck the crosstown car, and both motormen jumped to safety.
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Madison Avenue
Parkvenue Tunnel
Grand Central Station
Fou
Entomologist Sues Over Butterfly Field Lost Suit
John Hampson of Newark, age 73, seeks 10000 dollars from North Jersey Street Railway Co in Circuit Court claiming injuries from a December 8 fall from a trolley car ended his entomology studies. He said he formerly walked forty to fifty miles daily before the accident.
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John Hampson
Newark
N. J
North Jersey Street Railway Company
Trompson
Dog Travels 1500 Miles to Return Home
A greyhound, sent to western Montana last December, returned to its Oakland home yesterday after a grueling 1500 mile journey. Former owner Michael Ryan recognized the traveler at his kennels and the dog greeted him with an eager bark.
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San Francisco
Montana
Oakland
Michael Ryan
Ryan
Maclean Arrives in Tangier After Moroccan Release Deal
Caid Sir Harry Maclean, commander of the Sultan's body guard and a key Moroccan power, arrives in Tangier under escort from Rais Ul who had held him captive seven months. Britain agreed to release Rais Ul by paying $100,000 and guaranteeing immunity from arrest in return.
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Tangier
Caid
Harry Maclean
Morocco
Rais Ul
Rais Uli
Great Britain
Smith College President denies drama caricature claims
Springfield dispatch reports President Seeley of Smith College brands a Middletown report as absolutely false asserting no strained relations with Wesleyan over a proposed dramatic performance caricaturing Smith College girls.
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New York Times
Springfield
Mass
Seeley
Smith College
Middletown
Onn
Wesleyan
Smith Colleges
Bank Seizure Tangles Morse as Grand Jury Hints Indictments
Federal Grand Jury probes the National Bank of North America once run by Charlies W Morse. sheriff seizes Morse home and attached assets totaling 243 521 dollars as creditors move on banks across Wall Street. Morse awaits return on the Campania while his counsel notes possible indictments and rest periods.
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National Bank of North America
Movse
Grand Jury
Morgan J. O'Brien
Ite
Mr. Boardman
Brien
Morse
Bank
Boardman
Rand
TNES
Campania
Arige
United States District Attorney
Stimson
Federal Building
Wall Street
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TLS
Fifth Avenue
Foley
Charles A. Hanna
Morsiy
Mootheir
Moraes
Fifty-seventh Street
Phaeton
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Chase National
Fourth National
American Exchange
Corn Exchange
Tional
National Bank of Commerce
Garfield National
Hanover National
Fourteenth Street
National City
National Park
Seaboard National Banks
Trust Company of America
van Norden Trust Company
O Ae
Oakleigh Thorne
J. S. Primrose
Primrose, Braun Co
Kempland Copper Company
Furnace Valley Copper Company
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