Hughes boom starts in Albany as GOP backs Hughes
A New York State meeting at the New Kenmore Hotel launches a state movement to back Gov. Hughes for President. It gathers leaders from roughly fifty of sixty counties, plans district canvassing, and aims to organize a central body to coordinate Hughes organizations statewide.
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New York Times
Albany
Hughes
New Kenmore Hotel
New York
Gov. Hughes
Manhattan Hotel
Charles H. Young
Republican Club
City of
New York State
Lughes
Hugh
Union League Clu
Chicago
Washington
Lincoln
Slughes
Opponents vow to heiress Hughes charges by Wall Street ties
Washington January 2. A public letter alleges Hughes campaign is steered by Wall Street interests and the political set. The anonymous note targets a New York backer described as sympathetic to Secretary Taft, claiming coordinated anti Roosevelt sentiment among Hughes supporters.
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New York Times
Washington
Hughes
Wall Street
Taft
New York State
Million-dollar offer to save Pittsburg official Ridgway
Prominent financier Alexandr Peacock offered $1,000,000 to any physician who could save Frank Ridgway, Director of the Pittsburg Department of Public Safety, who died at West Penn Hospital after a brief illness. Peacock, once Ridgway’s close friend, urged bringing two famed New York doctors on a special train.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
Alexandr BR. Peacock
Andrew Carnegie
Frank Ridgway
Department of Public Safety
West Penn Hospital
Ridgway
New York
Mr. Ridgway
Mr. Peacock
Peacock
Coast artillery captain found guilty by court martial
Captain A. W. Chase of the Coast Artillery was found guilty of disrespect toward a superior and conduct to the prejudice of good order. He was sentenced to loss of three numbers in the captain list and confinement at the station, with clemency reducing confinement to post and further reducing the loss of rank. The findings noted illness and nervous condition during the acts. Fort Howard Maryland. Col. Clarence Deems led the charges and Chase sought an Inspector General investigation through a letter dated November last year.
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A. W. Chase
Easton Governors
Chase
Coast Artillery Corps
Grant
Clarence Deems
Fort Howard
Department
Col. Deems
Girls Injured By Dynamite Blast In New Rochelle
Two young girls Rosalind Carduca and Elizabeth Rice found dynamite in a meadow and pounded it with a stone. The blast blew them over twenty feet, tearing clothing and injuring Rosalind’s lip and teeth while Elizabeth escaped with bruises. Experts say the accident was remarkable for its severity.
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New York Times
New Rochelle
N. Y
Jan
Oppo
Rosalind Carduca
Elizabeth Rice
New York
Rosalind
Resurrected Heir Appears To Claim Inheritance
George M. Gable, long declared dead in Tan caster Pennsylvania, confronted a local court to inherit $12,000 from his uncle Jacob Gable. After seventeen years missing, he was found in Sacramento and identified by his deserted wife, who later remarried as her second husband sought a divorce.
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Tancaster
Penn
Gorge M. Gable
Jacob Gable
Gable
George M. Gable
Sacramento
Cal
Oranges Contest Endangers Two Teens in Marion
In Marion Ohio two 14 year old girls Hinzel Hosler and Luba Crissinger were hospitalized after an orange and banana eating contest yesterday. Hosler had eaten twenty oranges while Crissinger consumed eighteen before fainting. Doctors said they fear for their lives.
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New York Times
Marion
Ohio
Agosta
Marion County
Hinzel Hosler
Luba Crissinger
Miss Hosler
Lusitania Near Sandy Hook Reports From Liverpool
The Lusitania, inbound from Liverpool, was reported 302 miles east of Sandy Hook by Marconi wireless at 9 PM yesterday and is due at her pier about 1 PM today.
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By .Wireless
Ncoming
Liverpool
Marconi Wireless
Sandy Hook
Change of Time Tables at Pennsylvania Railroad
A general change in the time tables of the Pennsylvania Railroad will be made on Monday, January 6, with adjustments affecting train schedules and connections. The notice outlines timetable updates for routes, stations, and transfer times, advising passengers to check new listings at depots and on the railroad’s information desks.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Adva
Receivers Ordered to Accept 6 Cents on Dollar Payout
After nearly eight years the Republic Savings and Loan Association receivership ends with a 6 cent per dollar distribution to shareholders. Referee Alexander McKinney reports assets shrank from an estimated 1,086,000 to about 380,000. receivers' fees and lawyers consumed most costs, leaving shareholders with little. The November agreement urges court approval, surcharges receivers and withdraws shareholder objections. Otto C Kelsey, State Insurance Superintendent, is noted among the receivers.
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Republic Savings and Loan Association
Supreme Court
Brooklyn
Alexander McKinney
Edward G.riggs
Otto Kelsey
McKinney
State of
New York
State Banking Department
Soveard
Messvicnity
New York State
Otto C. Kelsey
Italian murdered on Tottenville rail line
Autopsy shows the Italian victim was murdered before a train passed over him near Tottenville Staten Island. Five cuts to the chin and a neck wound indicate foul play. A razor lay near a blood pool 200 feet from the tracks and a letter from Phillippina Belarro suggests the deceased may be her husband.
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Calins
Tottenville
S. I
Mord
Phillippina Belarro
Italy
Belairo
Seaboard Florida Limited Service Route Highlight
A brief note outlines Seaboard Florida Limited Service routing toward Pinehurst Camden and Florida. Mentions shortest path via Broadway and Adw with a distance of 3,183 units.
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Seaboard Florida
Pinehurst
Camden
Florida
Opera Director Barred at Metropolitan Over Admission
H R Winthrop a director of the Connied Metropolitan Opera Company was refused entry after the second act of Madame Butterfly due to a missing pass out check. A new doorkeeper and a ticket rule led to a dispute before Hirsch’s staff intervened and Winthrop reached his box.
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H.R. Winthrop
Metropolitan Opera Company
Opera House
Mr. Winthrop
Pat
Schurman Attacks Eliot Elective Principle at Cornell Meeting
Dr J G Schurman charged Harvard President Charles W Eliot with promoting the elective system in colleges. He urged limiting study choices for first years and announced Cornell will admit only graduates or equivalents to its medical college starting in 1908 with exams by a three-person committee.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
J. G. Schurman
Cornell University
American Academy of Medicine
Chicago
Charles W. Eliot
Harvard
Schurman
Eliot
United States
Theg
Arts and Sciences
Prohibition Party Targets Liquor Sales On New Haven Trains
Connecticut Prohibition Party presses Governor hopeful Matthew O'Brien to halt liquor sales on New Haven Road dining and buffet cars within state lines. Railroad officials respond that sales would stop if state authorities authorize them. O'Brien warns enforcement will halt the practice if needed.
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New York Times
New Haven
Prohibition Party of
Connecticut
Matthew O'Brien
Bridgeport
Mellen
O’brien
Rockefeller gifts push U Chicago endowment over time
John D. Rockefeller adds 2 191 000 to U Chicago gifts, boosting total benefactions to more than 23 million dollars. Trustees plan an 800 000 William R Harper library on campus funded by Rockefeller and earlier gifts. Securities worth 2 000 000 set aside for endowment, with 155 000 to clear 1906 7 deficit and 36 000 for books and equipment.
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Chicago
Martin A. Ryerson
Board of Trustees
The
University of Chicago
John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Memorial
Wiliam R. Harper
Marshal Foils Masked Robbers at National Bank
Marshal William Allen of Closter New Jersey faced three masked robbers at 2 a.m. near the National Bank. He confronted them with a dark lantern and club, fired back when they drew revolvers, and was aided by citizens as the robbers fled. No one was harmed, and the assailants escaped after a chase.
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William Allen
Closter
N. J
Marshal Allen
Paris to New York Times Auto Race Start Obvious Plan
Mayor McClellan announces acceptance of Paris to New York automobile race from Times Square on Feb 15 with Baron Rosen and other notable automobilists. The event, organized with The Paris Matin and The New York Times, includes an international honorary committee and multiple national entrants.
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McClellan
City Hall
New York
Paris
Times Square
Baron Rosen
Washington, D. C
Notable Brooklands crash ends in narrow escape
H. C. Cyon, winner of the fifty mile speed mark, survived a spectacular Brooklands crash as a six cylinder car went into violent gyrations after a rear tire loosened. The machine vaulted the track parapet and fence, snapped a telegraph pole, and landed wreckage on the public road. Cyon was found unconscious but not seriously hurt.
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Brooklands
H. C. Cyon
Cyon
Artist August Hoegger Succumbs to Studio Fire Burns
Special to The New York Times. August Hoegger, renowned painter of Verstummt, is dying from burns after a studio fire sparked by a Christmas tree. The blaze destroyed paintings valued at $100,000 and halted a work begun in 1885 after eight years of effort. Hoegger started Verstummt as a room in a conservatory scene partially burned.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
August Hoegger
Mrs Betterly Hurt In Auto Collision At Lakewood
Mrs Margaret Betterly prominent Wilk Colony member narrowly escaped death when a wagon shaft struck her side in a horse drawn collision at Mansion Avenue. She was taken unconscious to her Monmouth Avenue home for treatment after the horse and wagon were wrecked.
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New York Times
Lakewood
N. J
Mansion Avenue
Margaret Betterly
Wilk Colony
American entrant backs Thomas car for New York to Paris race
Montague Roberts, driving a Thomas car on behalf of Harry S Haupt, plans the second American entry in the New York to Paris auto race set to start February 15 from Times Square. Roberts cites government testing experience and a specially designed car built for hill climbing, claiming speed will be limited but reliability and terrain handling will prevail in Alaska or Siberia.
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Thomas
Paris
Alaska
Ordnance Department
San Francisco
United States
Siberia
Shaffer Found Guilty in Methodist Leadership Trial
The Rev Dr William H Shaffer presiding elder of the West district of the Philadelphia Conference was found guilty by a nine minister committee and faces trial before the Philadelphia Conference in March He will be suspended from ecclesiastical duties pending further action Investigators said the charges included immorality Shaffer declined to discuss the verdict.
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New York Timesiervice
Philadelphia
Penn
William H. Shaffer
West District
Philadelphia Methodist Conference
Marth
Dr. Shaffer
Shaffer
Good Times Ahead for Pattern Makers Union
The Pattern Makers' Union reports improving trade with many laid off workers to be recalled. President George McStay cites new orders in foundries and expects most local pattern makers will be rehired within a week or two.
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Pattern Makers’ Union
George McStay
Major Crabbs Retired Under Roosevelt Ride Order
Major Joseph T Crabbs of the Quartermaster's Department becomes the first retirement under the president's practice ride order. He had received a bid from the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company with a deadline of January 1 and cited years of partial disability from a leg injury, plus a recent stubborn illness. The Secretary and President Taft reviewed sixteen retirement cases and planned decisions in coming days.
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New York Times
Washington
Roosevelt
Joseph T. S Crabbs
Quartermaster’s Department
Major Crabbs
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
West Point
Taft
Davis Board
Florida Cubs Sout at 9 25 A M and 9 25 P M
Florida Information Bureau lists the Florida Cubs schedule with unexpelled service via Pennsylvania and Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. The notice appears on Broadway near 30th Street.
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Florida
Cubs
Pennsylvania
Atlantic Coast Line
R. R
Florida Information Bureau
B’way
Cor
30Th St. Ady
Castellane Fight May Lead To Reconciliation With Gould
Paris reports a fist fight between Count Boni de Castellane and Prince Helie de Sagan over Mme Anna Gould at Saint Pierre de Chaillot. Boni claims self defense after Helie insulted him, damaging Helie’s forehead and hat. Gould’s stance remains pending with her lawyer to issue a statement.
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Prince Helie de Sagan
New York Times
Paris
Boni de Castellane
Mimpe
Anna Gould
Mme. Gould
Count Bon
Saint Pierre de Chaillot
Errington
Coun
Nureh
Prince Helie
Jean de Castellana
Sagan
Count Bont
Prince Helle
Mme
Mme. Anna Gould
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