Downtown Fire Traps 450. 7 Hurt In Mor ton Building Blaze
A daylight blaze at the Mor ton Building on Nassau and Ann streets trapped 150 occupants. Seven injured including five firemen. damage estimated at 50 000. Rescue crews used scaling ladders to save tenants and five Justice Investigation Bureau agents. The blaze began in a film storeroom and spread through shafts and upper floors.
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Morton Building
Nassau Street
Ann Street
Croker
Chief Croker
Martin Kramer
Hayes
Bremmer
William John Spain
East 152d Street
Burton
Edwina Ricketts
United States Department of Justice Investigation Bureau
Rapid electric bulletin press to speed Reno fight reports
A new electric bullet press installed in the Broadway window of the Times Building will rapidly reproduce fight bulletins from Reno. It will print in large clear characters as soon as wire copy arrives, with a keyboard operator feeding inputs to a type wheel mechanism.
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Broadway
Times
Reno
New Press
May Rain on the Fourth and Heat Wave Toll
The district forecast calls for partly cloudy and warm weather with light to moderate westerly winds and a chance of rain Sunday night and Monday. Yesterday NYC registered 78 degrees while several cities were hotter. a heat wave caused 30 heat prostrations in the city and claimed the life of Thomas Sligeinbotham, 62, longtime Coney Island Lighthouse head keeper.
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United States
New York
Galveston
Mobile
Marquette
Mich
Chicago
Detroit
Philadelphia
Durango
Col
Gulf States
South Atlantic States
Tennessee
Missouri Valley
Brooklyn
Thomas Sligeinbotham
Coney Island
James Burke
Lighthouse Department
Higginbotham
Tompkineville
Staten Island
New Dorp
Steer Adrift in Bay Near St George Ferry Slip
A black steer struggled with waves off St George near the ferry slip attracting hundreds of commuters. After weathering a long ordeal the animal was caught between two tugboat floats and driven under by heavy wash and submerged. It is believed to have fallen from a cattle boat.
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St. George
Swan Song of Horse Car As Third Avenue Adopts Battery Cars
The Third Avenue Railroad will replace all horse cars with storage battery cars. Receiver Whitridge ordered thirty cars for about 150000 dollars, to be ready in early Fall. Lines on Avenue B Dry Dock Canal Street and St Nicholas Avenue will end horse traction. bodies are built in company barns and motors and batteries are supplied under a five year maintenance contract.
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Third Avenue Railroad
Whitridge
Avenue B
Dry Dock
Canal Street
St. Nicholas Avenue
Third Avenue Company
Indicted Tax Collector Returns to Pittsburg
Max G. Leslie, delinquent Tax Collector, under indictment in bribery cases, returned from New York where he awaited action by the State Supreme Court on a change of venue. The court refused the change. It is uncertain if he will be called before a Grand Jury as key testimony may be barred by the statute of limitations.
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Pittsburg
Max G. Leslie
New York
State Supreme Court
Leslie
Lloyd C. Griscom
Republican County Committee
Griscom
Sagamore Hill
Cobb
Col. Mascevell
Cambridge
Estrada General Executed in Nicaragua
A private cablegram from Bluefields, Nicaragua, reports General Matuty was executed after a court martial. He was charged with betraying the Estrada cause in the rebellion.
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New Orleans
Bluefields
Nicaragua
Matuty
Estrada
Harmon sets all American amateur flight records at Mineola
New York Times special from Mineola reports Clifton B. Harmon flew two hours three and a half minutes to break all American amateur long-flight records, nearing world marks. The 5,000-strong crowd cheered as Harmon, three months into flying, demonstrated two-mile circuits and a complete left-hand turn, with heat and humidity limiting his time aloft.
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New York Times
Mineola
L. L
Clifford B. Harmon
Mr. Harman
Hamilton
Paulhan
Tarmon
Los Angeles
Harmon
Oak Hk
Bungo
Hermon
Foreign Aviators to Compete in Garden City Meet
Plans announced for the international aviation meet at Garden City L I involving eight days of speed contests from Oct 15 to Oct 23. Key entrants include Glenn Curtiss the Wrights Hamilton and Harmon with European flyers expected to join the balloon and heavier-than-air events.
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L. L
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St. Louis
Atlantic
New York
C. B. Rolls
England
Dover
Calais
English Channel
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Wright Brothers
Charles K. Hamilton
J. C. Mars
Thomas 8. Baldwin
Clifford B. Harmon
Harry W. Harkness
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Grand Courges
Pictorial and society notes in today’s issue
This page summary lists sections including pictorial intercalaries, commencement reports, travel and fashion items, and social scene notes. It highlights Earthquake results in Italy, extradition law debates in Chariton, Vatican crisis in Spain, and profiles like Rita’s impressions of America, plus summer resorts and real estate news.
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Chariton
Spain
Vatican
Francis Wilson
New York
Inai
Maine
Mademoiselle Polaire
Uncle Bom
Mexico
Rita
America
New York City
Altet
Uy. Mayer
Hendrick Eaves Da Perkeronnse Be 4 Sorst
Fragmentary OCR text provides unclear names and events. The readable parts show a person named Hendrick and scattered terms that do not form a coherent report or identifiable incident. No verifiable actions, dates, or organizations are readable.
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Hendrick
Eaves
Perkeronnse
Columbia trustees suspend Prof Peck over 'pleasure' ruling
Columbia University Anthon Professor Harry Thurston Peck was suspended from all academic duties by the Education Committee of the Board of Trustees effective July 1 1910. Peck denounces President Butler’s alleged autocratic rule and vows to challenge any dismissal as lacking definite charges.
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Anthon
Columbia University
University of Berlin
Peck
E. B. Coe
Timothy Cheesman
M. R. Vincent
General Theological Seminary
Benjamin B. Lawrence
Wall Street
William Barclay Parsons
Panama Canal
George L. Rives
Amelie Rives
Cleveland
Butler
Vincent
William Street
New York
New York City
Trestees
Columbia College
City of
John B, Pine
Coioea
Columbia
Miss Quinn
Misa Quinn
New
J. Peck
Ernest Nicholls
J. R. 8. Woodward
Carnegie Institute
George Woodberry
Edward Alexander McDowell
Charles F. Chandler
School of Mines
Universties
George F
Leonard McWood
F. H. Hutton
F. Peck
Peckamameé
Hirth
J. D. Prince
Prof. Peck
Power
George Watson Jr Injured in Hunt Club Ride
Pittsburg July 2 George Watson Jr of New York City a famed horseman is in hospital after being thrown from his mount at the Harkaway Hunt Club course in McDonald Penn The injuries are serious but not mortal Watson had several entries in the Sewickley Heights Horse Show and has ridden winners at the New York and London shows
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Pittsburg
George Watson, Jr
New York City
Harkaway Hunt Club
McDonald
Penn
Mr. Watson
Sewickley Heights
New York
London
Militiamen Clash With Regulars At Fort Wright
On Fisher's Island New York July 2 regular soldiers and members of the Thirteenth Company Coast Artillery N Y N G clashed at Fort H G Wright after volunteers resented being called tin soldiers. One militiaman was hospitalised and four others were injured though not seriously. The regulars and militiamen have had frequent fights away from quarters.
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Fisher's Island
N. Y
Thirteenth Company
Coast Artillery
Fort H. G. Wright
Sprague Memorial Institute Founded In Chicago
The Otho S. A. Sprague Memorial Institute for the Scientific Investigation of Disease Causes is established with an initial endowment of 1 million dollars and potential growth. The institute follows the will of O. S. Sprague the Chicago merchant who died last year. A charter was granted in Springfield. Albert A. Sprague announced work would begin on his return to Chicago in the fall.
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Chicago
Otho S. A. Sprague
Pittsfield
Mass
Institute
Moody To Get Half Of Horace Billiman Estate
William R. Moody of Northfield Mass receives half of Horace B. Billiman’s estate as named in a will filed for probate in Albany. Moody is Dwight L. Moody’s son. the other half is split among multiple Presbyterian bodies and local institutions including the First Presbyterian Church of Cohoes, the Cohoes Y M C A, Hamilton College, and the Board of Home Missions.
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New York Times
Albany
William R. Moody
Northfield
Mass
Horace B. Billiman
Cohoes
Vanderhee
Moody
Dwight L. Moody
First Presbyterian Church of
Toj
Death by own action of S C Ridgeway Jr in Manila
Washington July 2 S C Ridgeway Jr a civil employee of the Philippine Government died by his own action in Manila yesterday. He was a Baltimore native and son of a man living at 2434 Vreeland Avenue in that city.
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Washington
State Franchise Valuations Totals 575 Million for 1910
Albany July 2 The State Board of Tax Commissioners reports total special franchise valuations in New York State for 1910 at 575,385,860 with Albany Binghamton Mount Vernon and New Rochelle to be valued separately in September and October. The statewide 1909 total was 8,141,525 for the four cities. last year the state total was 587,987,567 including 24,000,000 for Interborough Rapid Transit franchises whose valuation was canceled by a Court of Appeals decision.
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Albany
State Board of Tax Commissioners
Binghamton
Mount Vernon
New Rochelle
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Court of Appeals
Open White House to Public This Summer
President Taft ordered all White House rooms opened to the public this summer for the first time in many years. Previously visitors only saw the public reception rooms, but the building will be thrown wide open to explore beyond.
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Washington
White House
Taft
Military Secretary Named in Albany
Governor Hughes named First Lieut. Frederick Melvin Crossett of the Coast Artillery Corps as Military Secretary. He succeeds Col George C. Treadwell who becomes Secretary to the Governor after Robert H. Fuller’s retirement as State Water Supply Commissioner.
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Albany
Gov. Hughes
Frederick Melvin Crossett
Coast Artillery Corps
George C. Treadwell
Robert H. Fuller
Lieut
Crossett
Aeroplane crash at Oakland race track injures pilot
Clifford O'Brien in a Farman biplane circled the Emeryville track when a gust toppled his plane. He escaped unhurt as Samuel Smith in a Curtiss biplane, struck by wind, crashed on the Farman. Smith suffered broken ribs and other injuries. both aircraft were wrecked.
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Cal.j
Clifford O’brien
Farman
Emeryville
Samuel Smith
O’brien
Smith
Roosevelt cheers insurgent callers in Oyster Bay visit
Ex President Theodore Roosevelt pounds national and state politics from Oyster Bay after Kansas insurgents Bristow Murdock and Madison meet him. He says no Ballinger Pinchot talk and praises their stance while signaling ongoing fights with the state machine ahead of fall elections.
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New York Times
Oyster Bay
N. Y
Theodore Roosevelt
Kansas
United States
Victor Murdock
Kam
Col. Roosevelt
Congress
Ballinger-Pinchot
Joseph L. Bristow
E. H. Madison
Roosevelt
White House
Ballinger
Col
Madison
Murdock
Rative Tawney
Secret Service
Senate
House
Bristow
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