Jolly Good Time Planned for U S Squadron Visit
London reports a lavish program of entertainments for the visiting American squadron. The Channel Meet will host Admirals Beresford Heath and Lambton as British hosts roll out banquets, garden party, and a grand ball for the fleet. Each American vessel will receive two British chummy ships for ship to ship entertainment.
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New York Times
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Portsmouth Harbor
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Heath
Lambton
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Loubet
France
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Whale Island
American Sailors Desertion Reported From Kiel
Berlin July 3 report from Kiel claims after the armistice the American fleet suffered 105 sailors abandoning duty and likely deserting.
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Kiel
Berlin
Kleines Journal
Ame
Dying Sailor William Ode Logs Four Months Afloat
Special to The New York Times Francisco July 3 diary of William Ode sailor wrecked on Courtney Ford. The log from Oct 4 to Feb 20 details hunger scurvy cold and isolation before death. Ode notes foxes, fading strength, and final line Life is sweet but death is sweeter in this case. Four months alone before death.
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New York Times
Po Francisco
William Ode
Ode
Courtney Ford
de Courtney Ford
Izenbek Island
Alaska
Seattle
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Carrie
Annie
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Slames
Teel Car Company Fails in Canton
Canton Ohio July 8 The affairs of Structural Steel Car Company passed into the hands of a receiver appointed upon the application of creditors lawyers Webber and associates. The receivership aims to secure either reorganization or a sale of the property to a company desiring to install a new plant after months of efforts.
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New York Times
Canton
Ohio
Structural Steel Car Company
Webber
Index to Departments and Hotel Listings
Fragmentary OCR lists sections for today’s twelve pages including departments on intelligence foreign Maldlis and corporations. It notes hotels at and out-of-town buy reconciliation and page references for more detail.
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Intelligence Aera Foreign Maldls
Plan to finance company ends in receivership failure
Attorney David F. Day said creditors would lose nothing in the receivership and that with outstanding stock and land assets the debt would be paid, leaving the plant to be sold to reimburse stockholders. Indebtedness estimated around $85,000 against a capital stock of $1,000,000.
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Comnp
David F. Day
Gen Cassius Clay Believed Insane in Kentucky
Special to The New York Times reports Gen Cassius Marcellus Clay ex minister to Russia and abolitionist leader in Kentucky is believed to be hopelessly insane at Whitehall Madison County. Doctors were sent but access was refused as he sat armed with revolvers and a Winchester rifle. Relatives consider forcible possession as he rants about vendetta and his young wife Dora.
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Lexington
Cassius Marcellus Clay
Russia
Kentucky
Whitehall
Madison County
Perkins
Gen. Clay
Gen. Flay
Dora
Green Clay Goodloe
Washington
Heat causes multiple deaths as New York endures high heat
New York readers faced a heat wave with temperatures reaching 88 by late afternoon despite cooler early hours. Five deaths and numerous prostrations were reported, with victims ranging from infants to elderly residents citywide. A river rescue was noted after a drowning attempt amid heat distress.
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New York
Paris to Build Its Own Gas Plant After Rejection of Foreign Proposal
Paris Municipal Council rejects foreign gas concession proposals linked to an American scheme backed by Anthony N Brady. The vote favors a municipal monopoly, with the city to manufacture gas and electricity itself and retain all profits from sales.
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Paris
Anthony N. Brady
Devaleur
Duchaney
Mob Attacks Ambulance After Shooting Of Girl
Katherine George aged fifteen was shot through a back wound in a New York tenement. Police and Bellevue Hospital staff faced a hostile crowd of Italian residents as Dr Harwood escorted the injured girl to an ambulance amid threats and projectile firecrackers. The escape occurred with police help and no one else harmed.
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Katherine George
East Eleventh Street
Dolan
Sureen Harwood
Bellevue Hospital
Harwood
First Fatality in Richmond Street Car Strike
In Richmond Virginia on July 3 Charles E Graham a striking motorman was killed by W H Lowery another striker. The coroner s jury deemed it justifiable homicide. No disorder occurred as cars ran on city suburban and Richmond Peters burg lines. A late report noted an unknown shooter fired at a camp but caused no injury.
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Richmond
Charles E. Graham
W. H. Lowery
Graham
Richmond-Petersburg
Venable Street
M@itiaman
Weather Bureau observer denies Tuesday storm claim
E. H. Emery, observer at the local Weather Bureau station, repudiates a reported statement that Tuesday's storm began near Spuyten Duyvil. He says he did not utter those words and seeks to correct the record.
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E. H. Emery
Weather Bureau
Spuyten Duyvel
Divorce final for Mrs. Mary C. W. Foote
After a two year battle Mrs Mary C W Foote wife of Assemblyman Charles Foote wins absolute divorce custody of two sons and permanent alimony She named a New York woman as co respondent and testified in court Foote practices law in New York and was formerly Union Assemblyman The Cranberry Lake line and train times appear as a brief rail note.
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New York Times
Plainfield
N. J
Mary C. W. Foote
Charles Foote
Union
Floods Hit Texas Lakes and Gainesville Railroads
The July storm drenched the Trinity and Red River valleys with heavy rain flooding Gainesville streets two to four feet. Railroad damage expected with washouts and track undermining. Santa Fe train struck a washout eight miles south of Gainesville killing engineer M R Boyce. Northerly Texas hit by cloudbursts with Mexican victims and water levels falling as danger passes.
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Texas
Trinity
Red River
Gainesville
Santa Fé
M. R. Boyce
Thunderstorm Strikes Hagerstown Mills Hurts Workers
A severe thunderstorm in Hagerstown Maryland causes lightning strikes at multiple sites. A flagpole at Stue Ridge Knitting Mills on East Washington Street is shattered and a staff piece flies into the Troy laundry roof. About 200 workers panic fainted and were restrained to prevent injuries.
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New York Times
Hagerstown
Stue Ridge
Washington Street
Troy
Pyle
Night Lightning Strikes Smithsburg Area Causing Injuries
Lightning hit multiple sites around Smithsburg including the Hotel Wishard and residence of Mrs. Chaney near Breatherdsville. Doors splintered shingles damaged property and several household members were injured. A trolley car near Springfield was struck. Senator Louis E. McComas and others aboard were lightly stunned but unharmed.
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Ipoanam
J. P. Chaney
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Houis E. McComas
Tornado Strikes Chester Causes Major City Damage
A July tornado swept Chester Pennsylvania damaging small buildings and vital utilities. The United Telephone Exchange burned, wires were downed, and losses reached about 5,000 with total city damage around 20,000. A fire at Pure Oil Works Marcus Hook involved a tank and 380 barrels of oil, with estimated losses of 20,000 covered by insurance.
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Chicago Heat Wave Hits Record Killings and Prostrations
Chicago endured a brutal heat day with seven deaths and eighteen prostrations. Street thermometers showed 94 degrees and 70 percent humidity, the worst since July 1901, with forecast of warmer conditions before evening relief.
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Chicago
Washington Sizzles as Heat Peak Reaches 102 Degrees
Intense heat dominated Washington with street thermometers hitting 102 degrees, a one degree rise from the previous day. The Weather Bureau logged a 99 or 102 degree maximum and noted one fatal sun stroke case, the season’s first.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Snowfall Report From Eldora Colorado
Four inches of snow fell at Eldora during the night and snow was falling along the range by 9 a.m. The report comes from Boulder via Eldora.
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Colorado
Boulder
Col
Eldora
Supreme Court voids 1902 inheritance tax law
Minnesota Supreme Court declares the 1902 inheritance tax unconstitutional in a Sol Smith Russell estate case. The ruling voids the tax rate as applied to widows and lineal heirs and rejects any partial validity beyond constitutional limits. Chief Justice Start writes the opinion.
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New York Times
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Minn
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Cable to Manila laid opens Pacific telegraph link
The Anglia arrived in Honolulu with the Honolulu end of the transpacific cable from Manila via Guam and Midway, to join the line to San Francisco. Completion expected by tomorrow. first message likely Roosevelt to Taft at noon. The 9600 mile line used 19 million pounds iron and steel wires and 3.6 million pounds copper.
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Anglia
Transpacific
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Guam
Midway Islands
San Francisco
Clarence Mackay
Pacific Commercial Cable Company
Mining Man Murdere d in Sonora Mine Scene
M L Daw son of Lynchburg and assistant superintendent at Minas Prietas in Sonora was murdered while camping in Ocampo district Chihuahua. He invited Mexicans to eat then was shot and robbed. Two suspects captured fifty miles away. Daw son’s gum and other clues found with them. Grant, Bisbee mining man, reported the case.
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Sonora
Alexander Grant
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Chihuahua
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Eeay
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Burnetts Extract of Vania Gains Global Lead
Burnett’s Extract of Vania is proclaimed the top remedy worldwide in this notice. No other product matches its claimed efficacy or popularity across markets.
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Burnett
Vania
Demands on China over Manchuria Evacuation
Reports from St Petersburg and Tokyo describe Anglo Japanese pressure on China to evacuate Manchuria. Britain and Japan warn Russia must leave. China urged to secure evacuation within five days. discussion includes civil administration and potential future treaties with Western oversight.
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Prince Ching
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Supposed New Swindle Nets Two Coffee Brokers
Detective Sgt McConville arrested James S O'Brien 32 of 261 West 129th Street and A H Biles 59 of 406 St Nicholas Ave on grand larceny warrants from Magistrate Deuel. Frank G Randall of Richmond Virginia says he paid 1090 dollars to invest in a purported East Indies Coffee Co scheme with Pierce & Co on Front Street and a Brooklyn firm. Byrne and McConville traced the operation to Front and Fulton Streets without finding active offices. several witnesses will testify to similar dealings. Arraignment set for Magistrate Deuel at Jefferson Market Police Court.
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James S. O'Brien
West One Hundred
Thomas F. Byrne
Randall
New York
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Brooklyn
East Indies Coffee Company
Byrne
Front Street
Manhattan
Varick Street
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Pierce & Co
O’brien
Joseph Pierce
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Randell
American teachers sought for Japanese schools
Prof Mer rit W Ludden former Pomona College English head says Japan plans to hire English teachers for middle government schools across the empire. If approved 650 American instructors may be employed with preference to both men and women, offering good pay and broad opportunity.
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Pomona College
Southern California
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MR ROOSEVELT S CHANCES
The Times editorial from London discusses the 1904 U S presidential contest. It notes Roosevelt remains the leading figure in the public eye and highlights forces once allied with Bryan now favoring Roosevelt. It says popular distrust of trusts is strong and Roosevelt is seen as able to confront capital and evince moderation.
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President Roosevelt Enjoys First Clam Bake of Year
President Roosevelt and family picnic at Huntington Bay after a morning boat trip from Sagamore Hill. Clam ovens were set up in the sand and a dinner was prepared with two hampers from the White House. The party returned to the Sylph and did not receive visitors.
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William Emleri
Huntington Celebration Planned Amid Anniversary Events
Residents gathered as a town celebration was announced with plans for a presidential address and a reception at the First Presbyterian Church. After the meeting, attendees dispersed to socialize and participate in the general festivities marking the community milestone.
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1St Presbyterian Church
Roosevelt, Kolten Named Life Members of New Jersey History Society
President Roosevelt and Dr. Gerrit J. Kolten of Hope College were unanimously elected life members of the New Jersey Historical Society in Newark on July 3. The honors reflect their contributions to history and education.
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Gerrit J. Kolten
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Holland, Mich
New Jersey Historical Society
Harriet Lane Johnston Dies at Narragansett Pier
Harriet Lane Johnston, niece of President Buchanan and former White House hostess, died at Narragansett Pier. Her remains will be buried beside her husband and children in Baltimore on Monday. She was born in 1833 in Mercersburg and raised in the Buchanan household. She married Henry Elliott Johnston in 1886 and survived by two sons.
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New Newport Theatre Planned on Congdon Estate
Julius Cahn of New York and W B Cross of Boston purchase the Congdon estate on Broadway to build a new theatre to open March 1904. The 1600-seat house with 24 boxes will be on a street car line and may include upper story clubrooms for Newport social leaders.
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Newport
Julius Cahn
New York
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Boston
Congdon Estate
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Theatrical Trust
William T. Bull
Melville Bull
Henry Bull
Charles M. Bull
Eensty
Train Service Advancements Noted Over Lake Shore Route
Fragmentary OCR hints at a 20 hour train schedule on the Lake Shore line with overnight or extended service. Mentions continued progress in rail transportation and potential timetable improvements.
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Lake Shore
Unions Reach Settlement Plan With Building Trades
After a ten hour conference the unions and the Building Trades Employers' Association agreed on a two tier arbitration system. A General Arbitration Board will settle all disputes between employers and employees with four arbitrators from each side. The plan requires signed papers and a majority decision or umpire ruling. The conference was arranged by the New York Civic Federation Conciliation Committee and involved many unions and officials.
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New York Civic Federation
Charles L. Eidlitz
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Anita Shal
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L. Waldron
Victor Buhr
J. McClure
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C. Nelson
James
Thomas J. Whelan
Robert Raynor
Thyalty
Amalgamated Sheet Etal Price
Richard Pattison
Bricklayers
M. Masons International Union
E. A. Moffett
Plumbers’ Union
P Weinseimer
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