Epidemic fears emerge as Paris flood lingers
Paris faces rising Seine and slow drainage linked to subways and flooded streets. Authorities warn of pestilence risk as abandoned houses await cleaning. Villagers capture would-be pillagers. La Patrie urges immediate execution after capture. Jay Gould sends $5,000 to aid flood victims from Nice.
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NEW York Times
Paris
Seine
Rue de Seine
la Patrie
Jay Gould
President Falliéres
Nice
Paris Flood Strains City as Seine Rises and Looting Fears
Paris endures widespread flooding with rivers and sewers overflowing. Soldiers guard submerged streets while pumps battle water as residents and sightseers adapt to candlelit streets and halted theatres. In Gennevilliers and surrounding towns 6,000 ragpickers face ruin, with aid and shelter organized by authorities and volunteers.
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Paris
Seine
Louvre
Ninth Arrondissement
Champs Elysées
Comédie Francaise
Jules Clarette
National Theatre of France
Moliére
Javel
Charenton
Ivry
Brie
Alfortville
Sisters of Charity
Gennevilliers
Colompes
Pianist Weiss in clash with Mahler over Carnegie Hall concert
At a Saturday rehearsal Mahler clashed with German pianist Josef Weiss over interpretation of the Schumann concerto. Weiss walked out, Yolanda More offered to fill in but hurt her thumb. Paulo Gallico substituted to complete the program.
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Josef Weiss
Philharmonic Orchestra
Carnegie Hall
Paulo Gallico
Schumann
Weiss
Mahler
Mr. Weiss
Mr. Mahler
Mr. Gallico
Henry Noyes
West Thirty-sixth Street
New York
Train No 9 Kills Three In Ohio Crossing Crash
Pennsylvania train No 9 westbound struck Mrs Roy Covert at a Loudonville crossing and fatally injured her husband. The same crash also killed J H Sigler and Charles Echelberger near Crestline. Curtis Doerrer from Mansfield was injured. The automobile party was on the way to visit a neighbor.
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Mansfield
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Roy Covert
Loudonville
Crestline
J. H. Sigler
Charles Echelberger
Hayesville
Echelberger
Sigler
Curtis Doerrer
Doerrer
Conger Accuses Allds of $1000 Bribe in Albany
Senator Benn Conger publicly accuses Senator Jotham Allds of taking $1000 in 1901 to influence a bill. The charges will be filed with the Senate clerk, while Conger says bribery ties to bridge company interests and state power over local repairs. Groton businessmen in Ithaca express support with a dinner resolution of confidence.
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Albany
Benn Conger
Jotham P. Allds
New York State Senate
Allds
Lafayette BK. Gleason
Senate
Fortyfirst
Ten Eyck
N. Y
Jotham P. Alldson
Assembly
State of
New York
Harold W. Nichols
Conger
Ithaca
Groton
Giles M. Stoddard
Omaha Detective Loses Memory From Blow on Head
Otto Raschke an Omaha detective has forgotten his life prior to a head injury from a fall from a moving train. He cannot recognize wife or children or name himself. He relearns letters, fears dogs and horses, and doctors call it a profound aphasia with a long blank in the first twenty seven years of his life.
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New York Times
Omaha
Neb
Otto Raschke
Raschke
Sioux City
Bancroft
Measles Diet Debate Ends With One Convinced Skeptic
Pittsburg diners at Mulberry Alley boarders breakfast debated a meat boycott. A dozen discussed abstaining from meat during breakfast. only Mic Skovlac refused, attempting steak yet choking on the first bite.
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Pittsburg
Penn
Skov
Skovlac
Tal
Place Your Times Orders With News Dealers Now
Readers are urged to secure next Sunday's Times by placing early orders with local news dealers today to ensure delivery. News vendors note high demand and advise confirming quantities and pickup arrangements in advance.
Mrs James Saves Old First Church With 300000 Endowment
The Rev Dr Howard Duffield announced that the Old First Presbyterian Church at Fifth Avenue and Eleventh Street has its future secured by a $300000 endowment, a $180000 gift from Mrs D Willis James. The gift preserves the landmark amid population shifts toward a business district. The church dates to 1716 and has historical ties to Princeton Theological Seminary and the Presbyterian Boards.
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Howard Duffield
First Presbyterian Church
Fifth Avenue
Eleventh Street
D.willis James
Parl Street
Wall Street
Nassau Street
Broadway
New York
Jor. Duffield
Princeton University
Princeton Theological Seminary
Presbyterian Boards
Scotch Presbyterian Church
Rutgers Riverside Church
Brick Church
Spring Street
Presbyterian Hospital
Insomniac Police Chief Clocks Twenty Years Awake
Alonzo Wire of Hackettstown New Jersey says he has not slept for twenty years following twelve years as police chief. He rests only on a couch in darkness, with drowsiness fleeting and his health largely intact aside from significant weight loss. Doctors cannot explain the condition nor its cause, though Wire recalls a possible stroke decades ago.
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New York Times
Hackettstown
N. J
Alonzo Wire
Wire
Ree
Brooklyn Youth Fires Toy pistol in Movie House
A 14 year old, Walter Williams of 5713 Fourth Avenue Brooklyn, brandished a 22 caliber pistol at two companions in the Mystic Arcade causing a panic among 200 theatergoers. Patrolman Cashman arrested him. the weapon held no cartridges. He was sent to the Children's Society and will face Children's Court.
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Walter Williams
Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn
Mystic Arcade
Third Avenue
Williams
Charles J., Johnson
Johnson
Cashman
Illiams
Children’s Society
Children’s Court
Bryn Mawr Graduate Describes Moyamensing Prison Ordeal
Miss Martha Gruening, daughter of Dr. Emil Gruening, testified about her arrest during the shirtwaist strike captivity in Philadelphia. She described dirty cells, denied bathing, denied telephoning, and a 500 dollar bail after a night in the jail’s 24 hour cell, then release on bail at 10 pm after Magistrate Gorman's intervention.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Martha Gruening
Moyamensing
Smith College
Bryn Mawr
Arch Street
Emil Gruening
New York
Epstein
Fourth and George Streets
Lipstein
Scott
Miss Young
Gorman
Cook's Presence Denied in Berlin Sanatorium
Berlin dispatch reports exhaustive inquiries by The New York Times fail to confirm Dr. Cook's treatment at Dr. Filrer's sanitarium in Eberbach Baden or his alleged departure to Vienna. The sanitarium calls the story a swindle, while a Heidelberg correspondent claims Cook used the name Gumther and was registered at police. A separate account alleges a warrant for Cook's arrest reached Heidelberg.
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New York Times
Berlin
Cook
Filrer
Eberbach
Baden
Vienna
Lokal Anzeiger
Heidelberg
Gumther
Dr. Cook
Miss Mary E. Lewis Dies Suddenly in New York
Miss Mary E. Lewis, 18, daughter of William C. Lewis president of the State Savings Bank of Tallahassee Florida, died at the Hotel Marlborough at midnight from paralysis. Dr. Walter C. Gilday attended the family suite and the coroner was notified. The family, stopping at the Marlborough since January 16, were heartbroken and unable to provide further details.
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Mary E. Lewis
William C. Lewis
State Savings Bank of
W. C. Lewis
Marlborough
Thirtysixth Street
Broadway
Buried in a Coal Pocket Fatality at East Eighty-second Street
Laborer Nicholas Midrubach was buried in a coal pocket at J. R. Heinfrank's coalyard foot of East Eighty-second Street after crawling into a chute to clear a stoppage. Rescuers found him at 3 am but could not free him due to shifting coal. he died.
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Nicholas Midrubach
J. R. Heinfrank
East Eighty-second Street
Midrubach
Paulhan Flies Ten Minutes At Utah Park
French aviator Louis Paulhan completed a ten minute flight at Agricultural Park Salt Lake City. He reached 300 feet altitude and an average speed of 30 mph, attributing limited height to peculiar atmospheric conditions amid 35 degree air and a five mph wind.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Louis Paulhan
Agricultural Park
Paulhan
Carver predicts another major panic within years
Harvard economist Thomas Nelson Carver, famed for predicting the 1907 panic, warns in a local Boston article that high food prices and a meat boycott signal an upcoming severe financial panic within one or two years, possibly in 1912 or 1918, with the U S needing to import large amounts of meat and food.
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New York Times
Boston
Thomas Nelson Carver
Harvard
United States
Woman Found Dead After Alley Discovery Near Cornelia Street
Detectives seek identity of a 28 year old woman who died in St Vincent s Hospital after being found unconscious in an alley near 11 Cornelia Street. She wore a blue cape kimono black skirt and patent shoes. An autopsy is planned as authorities search for clues.
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Charles Street
St. Vincent's Hospital
Cornelia Street
Harry Beckman
Mary Miller
McReynolds
Feinberg
Manchester Pair Aboard Mauretania for New York
The Duke and Duchess of Manchester travel aboard the Mauretania en route to New York, while the ship docks in the voyage update reported by The New York Times.
Thief Kills Father Then Shoots Son in Upper East Side Home
Moses Gootman, president of M. Gootman & Co., is killed and his son Isaac is wounded in a break in at 16 East 109th Street. Police believe the same burglar has robbed nearby apartments recently and is at large.
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Moses Gootman
M. Gootman & Co
Isaac
Gootman
East 109Th Street
Upper East Side
Fifth Avenue
108Th
110Th Streets
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C. C. Dickinson
Carnegie Trust Company
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Carnegie
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Central Park
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Manning, Maxwell & Moore
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Martin J. Condon
American Snuff Company
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Vantine & Co
Samuel H. Kress
S. H. Kress & Co
Joseph B. Reichmann
National Starch Company
Gustave Baumann
Holland House
Charles A. Moore, Jr
Edward R. Finch
William J. Cummins
Tennessee Po and Stockyards Company
Charles A Moore, Sr
Bradley Martin, Jr
Watkins Crockett
Tompkins McIlvaine
Parsons, Closson & McIlvaine
Moore
W. W. Robinson
Charles A. Fisher
George W. Bartholmes
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Miss Gruening
Miss Lewis
Tallahassee
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Harlem
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