Taft Denies Backing Insurgents In House Fight
Special to The New York Times reports President Taft refuted a proclamation by the Republican Congressional Committee claiming his endorsement of its actions against the insurgents. The piece details party dynamics, Cannonism, and rising opposition within the House as the Ballinger Pinchot and Interior investigations loom, with DWight and Underwood signaling tighter voting discipline.
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New York Times
Washington
Republican Party
Taft
Republican Congressional Committee
Pronunciamento
Ehlouse
Congressional Committee
Theodore Roosevelt
House
Mr. Taft
Capitol
Congress
Roosevelt
Cannon
Bryan
Pennsylvania
Senate
Interior Department
Forest Service
Department of Agriculture
Norris
Dwight
New York
Underwood
Alabama
Clark
Mr. Underwood
Gov Deneen halts Illinois lynching plot in Vienna
A mob of about 300 men aimed to lynch three Black men accused of killing rural mail carrier Allen Clark on a train between Vienna and Burnside. Gov. Deneen ordered Illinois National Guard units to the jail, with Sheriff Mathias swearing in 300 deputies and urging railroads to bar crowds. The three defendants Hosea Taborn, Harry Taborn, and Alexander Jenkins were held under guard as soldiers watched the town.
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New York Times
Vienna
Allen Clark
Buunside
Deneen
John P. Mathias
Eldorado
Harrisburg
Mathias
Hosea Taborn
Harry Taborn
Alexander Jenkins
Clark
Burnside
Morse Petition on View Circulates for Charles Morse Pardon
Mrs. Charles W. Morse began circulating blank petitions to urge President Taft to pardon her husband, Convict No. 2816 at Atlanta. A petition was displayed at the St Regis Hotel with six signatures, including an old soldier, George Hazzard. The plea cites lack of malicious intent and claims public clamor influenced the trial, seeking executive clemency. Petitions spread from Atlanta to New York and Bath, Maine, as Morse’s former home network joins the effort.
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Charles W. Morse
United States
Atlanta
Taft
St. Regis Hotel
George Hazzard
National Banking Act
Morse
National Bank of North America
New York
St. Regis
Bath
Spanish Minister May Go to Lisbon Transfer News
Madrid reports Marquis de Villalobar likely to be transferred from Washington to Lisbon. Spanish Foreign Office says action delayed for weeks and he may not leave. no official link to alleged incident at the White House reception. Senor Don Luis Pastor promoted to minister at Peking.
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Madrid
Marquis de Villalobar
Washington
Lisbon
Foreign Office
Senor
Don Luis Pastor
Legation
Peking
Tle
White House
State Department
Convicts Nedwin and Frank Captured After Escape Attempt
In Sing Sing Prison Ossining on January 11 Francis Frank and Frederick Nedwin escaped briefly. They fled through kitchen and bakery to riverfront, then pursued by locals across Tarrytown and Gould estate before Nedwin was captured in a coal box near Irvington station. Nedwin and Frank receive longer terms for larceny and burglary respectively.
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New York Times
Ossining
N. Y
Francis Frank
Frederick A. Nedwin
Sing Sing
Fred Hahn
Hahn
Tarrytown
Frank
Livingston
Farrell
Charles Alter
Frost
Meginley
Eastman Place
Miss Gould
Nedwich
Jackson
Nedwid
Irving, McWilliams
Daily
Irvington
Winfield, I
Kingsbury
Elmhurst
L. I
Sunburst Jewel Recovered After New Year Hotel Incident
Mrs. J. M. Fitzgerald of 110 Central Park West reported losing a $1,000 sunburst diamond during the New Year’s Eve departure from Hotel Astor. It was found on Jan. 8 in a cement crevice before the hotel by a Stevens Institute professor who surrendered it to a local silversmith. Mrs. Fitzgerald identified the gem and claimed it promptly.
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Hotel Astor
J. M. Fitzgerald
Central Park West
Fitzgerald
Stevens Institute
Hoboken
Notice to place orders with news dealers today
An instruction urges readers to pre-arrange purchases with news dealers to ensure they receive the forthcoming Times features in the upcoming Sunday edition.
Waldorf Diner Incident Shows Hungry Man’s Rage
Henry Westerburg, 34, of Brooklyn, threw two Indian clubs through a Waldorf Astoria dining room window after claiming hunger and unemployment. He told police he bought the clubs to perform exhibitions but was mocked when his first act failed. Magistrate Kernochan remanded him for trial, and the court ordered a meal for him.
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Henry Westerburg
Pacific Street
Brooklyn
Empire
Waldorf-Astoria
Fifth Avenue
Thirty-third Street
House
Lawton
John Donohue
Westerburg
Jefferson Market Court
Westerberg
Kernoch
First Avenue
West Side
Waldorf
Curtiss Flies Fast With a Passenger at Angeles Meet
French aviator Paulhan trails American Curtiss who shatters two minor records and beats him by wide margin with a fast flight carrying a passenger at the Angeles meet, setting new marks and highlighting American aviation prowess.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Glenn H. Curtiss
Louis Paulhan
Paulhan
Curtiss
M. Fancuilli
Aviation Field
Edgar Smith
Langley
Farman
Miscard
Hhems
Fancuilli
Paul Beck
Army Signal Corps
Willard
Hamilton
Clifford Harmon
Harmon
Commodore Benedict
New York
Roy Knabenshue
Lincoln Beachey
Knabenshue
Beachey
New York Zoo plans endowment and world pheasant expedition
At the New York Zoological Society sixteenth annual meeting held at the Hotel Plaza, a $60,000 gift for a world expedition studying pheasants was announced and a $1,000,000 endowment drive was proposed to sustain the Zoo, Aquarium, and Zoological Park. Madison Grant reported 1,610,000 visitors to the Zoo last year.
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New York Zoological Society
Hotel Plaza
Zoological Park
Aquarium
Madison Grant
C. William Eebe
John L. Cadwalader
Henry Fairfield Osborn
W. T. Hornaday
F. Augustus Schermerhorn
Percy R. Pyne
George R. Grinnell
Jacob H. Schiff
George C. Clark
Cleveland H. Dodge
Nelson Robinson
C. Ledyard Blair
Fredericz G. Bourne
W. Austin Wadsworth
Himerson McMillan
Anthony R. Sruser
East Africa
A. Radclyffe Dugmore
Auto Hits Dynamite Truck on Fifth Avenue
Dynamite painted on a covered truck startled pedestrians on Fifth Avenue near Forty-eighth Street. A passing car struck the truck endwise, causing a panic but no explosion. the truck was unloaded and the horse was helped to its feet.
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Fifth Avenue
Forty-eighth Street
John Williams
Forty Eighth Street
Horse and Murray
Memphis Special Advertisement by Southern Railway
9 25 P M Daily Memphis Special via Southern Railway announces the quickest route to Memphis and the West. Pullman drawing room sleeping car observation car and dining car service featured. New York office listed at 1200 Broadway.
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Memphis
Southern Railiway
West
Pullman
N. Y
Broadway
Adv
Crown Prince Arrives in San Juan January
Latest shipping news reports the Crown Prince arriving in San Juan on January 5. The vessel was listed among arrivals with no additional cargo details provided.
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S. 8
Crown Prince
San Juan
Unclear OCR Notice for Charleston and Atlanta Service
Fragmentary text lists Charleston Atlanta South and locations 1218 Broadway. Mentions 9 55 A M 1 2 eo ae i 95 P M with unexceled service via Penna and Atlantic Coast Line. Addresses and times are incomplete.
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Charleston
Atlantasville
South
Penna
Atlantic Coast
Ling B. B
B'way
Great Prizes for Airships at European and American Contests
The International Aeronautical Federation sets Carnival prizes for 1910 from 40000 to 120000 dollars in Europe and 200000 dollars for American events. US meet dates run from December 78 to November 2, with the first week for the International Balloon Cup and the second week for aviation activities. Tikit eyeglasses at Spenter's Bisight Toric Pebbles marketed at 31 Maiden Lane.
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Paris
International Aeronautical Federation
United States
Spenter’s
Bisight
Pogonip Warned For Pittsburg Air By Forecaster
Pittsburg weather forecaster Henry Pennywitt issued a startling alert that the air is super charged with pogonip a fog frozen into tiny ice particles. He urged outdoors to cover mouths with a cheesecloth apron. Pogonip means white death and can develop into deadly pneumonia.
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Pittsburg
Henry Pennywitt
Utah
Nevada Plateaus
Harris Resigns as Burlington Railway President
Denver Jan 11 The Republican reports George B Harris resigns as president of the Burlington Railway and the Board of Directors will accept. Darius Miller, first vice president, will succeed him as president.
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Darius Miller
The
Burlington
Denver
Republican
George B. Harris
Burlington Railway
Road
Mr. Harris
World’s Fair for New York Proposed in 1913
The New York Advancement Company filed papers with the County Clerk announcing a 1913 world's fair to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Manhattan's first settlement. The venture is capitalized at 200000 dollars, with incorporators listed at several Manhattan addresses. The articles outline plans to construct equip manage and operate the fair, but give no location size or specific details.
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Manhattan Island
New York Advancement Company
James B. McCaldi
Broad Street
Benjamin F. Hamilton
Broadway
Charles Gotthelf
Elizabeth Street
Edward B. Taber
West Eleventh Street
James B. Graham
Albert H. Wilmot
Park Place
Springfield Bride Marries British Lieutenant in City
Miss Medeline Davidson of Springfield Massachusetts and Lieut Arthur Drummond Borton of Maidstone England wed secretly in New York on December 20 after meeting weeks earlier at a private dinner. They registered at a hotel, disappeared with friends, and announced the marriage by telegram to the bride's mother. The couple reside at the Hotel Patterson and plan to visit Springfield before sailing to England.
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Medeline Davidson
James K. Davidson
Springfield
Mass
Arthur Drummond Borton
Maidstone
England
Lieut
Barton
Bermuda
West Forty-second Street
Miss Davidson
Patterson
West Forty-sixth Street
Police Chief Forges Lost Fifty Thousand In Hotel Bed
Edward Healey San José chief hid fifty thousand dollars in a hotel bed while claiming it was to back a Jeffries Johnson bet. A maid found the cash and handed it to the proprietor, receiving a reward. Healey said the money belonged to Mills of San Francisco and Mat Larkin, a California sportsman.
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Edward Healey
San José
Cal
Albany
Jeffries-Johnson
Healey
District Attorney's Office
Fitzsimmons
Mary O'Neill
Robert Murphy
Mary
H. T. Mills
Mills Manufacturing Company of
San Francisco
Mat Larkin
California
Women Vote Yes On Local School Bonds
In Mount Vernon last night hundreds of women turned out for a school election and voted in favor of issuing 177700 dollars in bonds to buy Wheaton property for a future high school site and to fund a trades school on Chambers property and the adjacent lot by School 4. The victory was driven largely by women who accounted for over 60 percent of the vote. A pre election meeting at Mrs. James McAfee’s home united the women’s societies led by Mrs. Edward Gay and included leaders from the League for Political Education, Westchester Woman's Club, Consumers' League, WCTU, D A R, Pepoar Institute, and other groups.
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Mount Vernon
Board of Education
Wheaton
Chambers
South Third Avenue
James McAfee
Edward Gay
Westchester Woman’s Club
Afee
League For Political Education
Willcox
Westchester Woman's Club
Baker
Consumers’ League
le Page
Pudler
Bronx
Schneider
Political Ucational League
Peydecker
Bradbeer
Craige
Pep Oar Institute
W. D. Howe
Poitical Educational League
24-Hour St. Louis Train Leaves New York Tonight
The 24 hour St Louis train from New York departs at 6 25 P M and arrives in St Louis at 5 25 P M the next day. Through sleeping cars to Cincinnati and Cleveland on Pennsyl Rail. Phone 1032 Madison Square. We
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ST. Louis
New York
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Pennsyl— Railroad
Madison Square
Fitzgerald Elected Mayor of Boston in Nonpartisan Vote
In Boston on January 11, John F. Fitzgerald won the mayoralty with 47,172 votes to James J. Storrow's 45,757 in a nonpartisan contest. Hibbard received 1,816 and Taylor 613, with Fitzgerald’s plurality 1,326. The city approved license by 54,004 Yes to 26,972 No, a record turnout of 95,358. Rowdy scenes marked the day as campaigns pressed unity and turnout safeguards.
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New York Times
Boston
John F. Fitzgerald
James J. Storrow
Chamber of Commerce
Reform Forces
Hibbard
Nathaniel H. Taylor
Messes
Fitzgerald
Storrow
Taylor
James M. Curley
David A. Ellis
Julia A. Duff
Lcense
Shrrew
Reuben Burnham
East Boston
Mr. Storrow
Ward 8
Mr. Fitzgerald
Dne
Finance Commission
Lee, Higginson & Co
Storro
Wines Suggested With Meals From Dewey & Sons Co
A fragment notes Claret or Burgundy wines taken with a meal enriched the dining experience. The mention cites Dewey & Sons Co located at 183 Fulton St New York.
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Dewey & Sons Co
Fulton St. Neworks
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Delaney
Charles J. Gould
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Nedwin
John Livingston
John Farrell
Joseph Eastman
John Terry
Los
Angeles
Paulhan Falls
Behind
Weather Man
Manhattan
Lieut. Borton
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Ward
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