President Wilson Tours Yorktown in Secret Town Visit
President Wilson toured Yorktown aboard the Mayflower, meeting locals including a Virginia girl who guided him through the Nelson house. He spoke with the Sheriff and inspected the courthouse, collecting military buttons and a bead, while bees swarmed and a bull blocked a hill as he moved to Temple Farm, all without the townsfolk recognizing him.
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New York Times
Washington
President Wiser
Potocomac River
Chesapeake Bay
United Stateie
York
Eld
Nelson House
Lord Cornwatllis
Catherine
United States
Yorktown
Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
White House
York River
Temple House
Temme Farm
Temple
Yorre
Matthias E. Manty
Cary T. Grayson
Moeiackett Nevroes
Iitm
Presi‘nt
Court House
Usen
Williamsburg
York and
Gioucester
Viri
Friskie Schumacker Marriage Notice Sparks Outcry
Leonia residents Mr and Mrs William Schumacher react to a false marriage notice published in a New York paper and The News Record. Alma Friskie allegedly married William Schumacher on February 12 194 and the real wedding occurred June 20 1913 at 222 Broad Avenue Leonia. A tall man in glasses reportedly paid for the notice at The News Record office prompting Mrs Schumacher to seek the culprit.
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Spreial
New York Times
Hackensack
N. J
William Schumacher
Leonia
New York
Friskie-Schumacker
Alma Friskie
Broad Avenue
Inconde Hirsch
East Sixty-fourth Street
William Taylor
Leonia Presbyterian Church
Schumacher
Friskie
Miss Friskie
the News-Record
Foul Ball Brings Lewes Pair Together In Legal Wedlock
In Lewes Delaware Marie Gibble and Carl Franklin Keener of Baltimore married after meeting at a Philadelphia ball game when he fouled a ball into the stands and accidentally bruised her ankle. Keener, on the College of Pharmacy team, sought consent from Marie’s parents and Capt S Nelson Gibble, who arrived by steamer to approve the union.
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New York Times
Lewes
Del
Marie Gibble
Carl Franklin Kceener
Baltimore
S. Nelson Gibble
Philadelphia
Miss Gibble
Keener
College of Pharmacy
Will of Samuel Weill Disinherits Kin Over Slights
In Surrogates Court, Samuel Weill of 7 West 149th Street seeks probate. He trims gifts to his granddaughter Helen Bangier and Jessie Frank after wedding insult and neglect. smaller bequests to Bertram Weil and others are adjusted in a codicil. He leaves $25,000 to wife Carrie Weill and retains personal effects.
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Samuel Weill
West 149Th Street
Weill
Samuel Weill, Jr
North Bergen
N. J
Helen 8S. Bangier
West 106Th Street
Jessie S. Frank
West 110Th Street
Bertram
Alexander
Lloyd Weill
Jessie Weill Herrman
Carrie Weill
Lucky Number 11 Guides Room Choice at Plaza Hotel
A tall melancholy man at the Plaza Hotel seeks a room and insists the room number must sum to 11. He rejects two minimum-priced options and refuses higher ones, citing the number 11 as his lucky sign.
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Fifty-ninth Street
Plaza Hotel
O Loughlin
Broken Neck Survivor Attempts Two Mile Walk Return
Waldorf Miller, who shattered his neck diving at Hudson Park on July 3 1911, tried to walk two miles from his Clinton Avenue home aided by crutches. He reached a quarter mile before stopping and has only recently regained shoulder and arm strength while doctors note nerve regeneration signs. His brother Fred Miller died in the same manner at the same spot five years earlier.
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New Rochelle
N. Y
Clinton Avenue
Hudson Park
Fred Miller
Waldorf
Lil Drinking Cups Free Samples Offer Message
Public Service Cup Co mails four free carton samples of Lil Drinking Cups to bottled water users. Distribution listed as Bush Terminal Brockire and includes a promotional note inviting recipients to try the container format.
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Public Service Cup Co
Bush Terminal
Brockire
Andr
Persian rug dealer files bankruptcy over Morgan five-rug deal
H. H. Topakyan Persian Consul General to New York and rug importer petitions in district court for voluntary bankruptcy claiming J Pierpont Morgan heirs refused payment on an oral order for five rugs valued at about sixty two thousand dollars. He lists assets of fourteen thousand dollars and liabilities near seventy nine thousand with Morgan and others as creditors.
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H. H. Topakyan
New York
District Court
Charles O. Maas
Nassau Street
Times
Topakyan
J. Pierpont Morgan
Morgan
Europe
Madison Avenue
Persian Court
Morristown
N. J
J. P. Morgan
Gimbel Brothers
Fritz & la Rue
John Wanamaker
Castilli Brothers
H. S. Tarshanjian
G. Gulbenkian & Co
H. B. Claflin Company
Kha Brothers
Mr. Morgan
J. Pierpont Morgan & Co
Bar Harbor
Cleve Aas
Roosevelt
White House
Richard McCurdy
Lake Road
Astor
John Fox
Democratic Club
Explorer recounts perilous trek through uncharted Brazil
English explorer A. H. Savage-Landor writes exclusively for The New York Times about his sixteen day ordeal without food while crossing a hitherto unknown region of Brazil. He faced constant danger and dramatic challenges as he ventured deeper into uncharted territory.
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A. H. Savage-Landor
New York Times
Brazil
Charges Served On Justice Cohalan In New York
The Bar Association served charges seeking the removal of Justice Cohalan from the bench for alleged acts affecting character and fitness. Kellogg will lead the investigation with Guthrie ChrysType. charges allege payoffs from Victor Heating and creation of false records. Hearings start next Tuesday in Albany with Kellogg guiding the inquiry.
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Bar Association
Connolly
Cohalan
Joseph B. Kellogg
W. K. Guthrie
Einar Chrystie
Alfred B. Cruikshank
New York Times
Albany
Kellogg
Cahalan
Supreme Court
Fourth Judicial District
Dix
Senate
Mayor Harrison Closes Seventeen Chicago Saloons
Chicago mayor Carter Harrison after inspecting the Twenty second Street segregated district revoked seventeen saloon licenses. The action labeled as addressing awful conditions marks the largest single revocation in years and signals a major police shake up forthcoming.
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New York Times
Chicago
Carter H. Harrison
Harrison
Angostura Bitters Boost For Soda Fountain Drinks
A quirky note suggests asking for Angostura Bitters at soda fountains to elevate flavor and make drinks more delicious.
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Angostura Bitters
Morgan Denounces Lamar Tale In Sharp Statement
J. P. Morgan denied David Lamar's account of ties with Lamar and Edward Lauterbach, saying no close friendship existed and that Lamar sought interviews. Morgan hinted at the Stanley investigation and noted a small bribe proposal, while Union Pacific prepared a public bookkeeping explanation for Lamar's $82,000,000 misappropriation claim.
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J. P. Morgan
David Lamar
Lamar
Edward Lauterbach
Mr. Morgan
Mr. Lauterbach
J. P. Morgan & Co
Morgan
United States Steel Corporation
Gary
Stanley
Lewis Cass Ledyard
Ledyard
Washington
Union Pacific
Bashful British woman seeks New York policework
Miss Lillian Terry of Brighton England dresses in a dark-blue police uniform and asks Mayor Gaynor for a policewoman post in New York. Refusing the mayor’s offer she phones reporters claiming she will speak at the Moving Picture Exposition at Grand Central Palace while seeking to protect children at moving picture shows. She says her motive includes locating a former lover now a film actor.
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Lillian Terry
Brighton
Sussex
England
Gaynor
New York
Martha Washington Hotel
Terry
Grand Central Palace
Rockefeller offers 42000 for YMCA flood damage repairs
John D. Rockefeller Jr. offers 42000 dollars for restoring YMCA buildings at Dayton Hamilton and Marietta heavily damaged by the March floods. The telegram announcing the pledge came from New York to Dr. Andrew Timberman, vice chairman of the Ohio State YMCA.
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J. D. Rockefeller, Jr
Columbus
Ohio
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Y.M. Co. A
Dayton
Hamilton
Marietta
New York
Marconi Wireless Bulletin Ships Report Distances
From St Paul New York to Southampton 316 miles west at 11 PM Due Plymouth 4th 6 PM American Line SS Campania Liverpool New York 73 miles east at 7 30 PM Due Sch 12 M Cunard Line
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Marconi Wireless
St. Paul
New York
Southampton
Plymouth
American
Campania
Liverpool
Cunard Line
Former Mrs Brady Dies in Auto Crash
Danbury Connecticut July 3 Mrs James A Benedict of Katonah Westchester County New York wife of Arthur Brady a Westchester farmer who figured in a sensational shooting case in 1910 was killed tonight when riding in a racing automobile with her husband of less than two weeks near Mill Plain four miles west of Danbury. Benedict 22 married Mrs Brady in New York City on June 23 last. The couple were returning to Danbury to send out wedding notices when a front tire blew out and the car overturned pinning both occupants. Benedict suffered minor injuries and Mrs Benedict died fifteen minutes later in his arms.
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New York Times
Danbury
Conn
James A. Benedict
Katonah
Westchester County
N. Y
Arthur Bracy
Westchester
Mill Plain
Four Mile
Here
Benedict
Brady
New York City
Long Island
Mr. Benedict
Mrs. Benedict
David Bernan
Bernan
Wynetta Davis
Montana
Arthur Brady
Simon Brady
Golden Bridge
Local Businessman Dies In Car Crash Near Bloomingdale
John H. Conklin of Bloomingdale was killed on a country road when his new driving attempt collided with an oncoming car and toppled down a 15 foot embankment into the Pequannoc River. His son John H. Conklin, Jr. and bystanders Robert Decker and George Holly were severely injured. The other vehicle, reportedly from Orange, escaped serious damage. Conklin had long operated a business in town and was originally from Franklin.
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Bloomingdale
N. J
John H. Conklin
Pequannoc River
John H. Conklin, Jr
Robert Decker
George Holly
Conklin
Orange
Franklin, N. J
Motorist Killed as Brewery Truck Is Struck at Fifty third Street
A Bernheimer and Schwartz Brewery Co truck, struck by a westbound auto at Fifty third Street and Eighth Avenue, threw its driver under the vehicle. Passersby and a patrolman moved the unconscious man to Poly Clinic Hospital, where he died. He was unidentified last night.
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Bernheimer & Schwartz Brewing Company
Fifty-third Street
Eighth Avenue
Worth
Polyclinic
Ambulance and truck collide on 143d Street Bronx
An ambulance from Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx collided with a northbound heavy truck at Brook Avenue near St Francis Hospital. Dr Enrico Salvini suffered a fractured skull and mortal injuries. Ambulance chauffeur Charles Abrahams and James McGowan were injured. truck operator Herbert C Lawrence escaped unharmed.
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Lincoln Hospital
Bronx
143D
Brook Avenue
St. Francis’s Hospital
McKiernan
Alexander Avenue
Enrico Salvini
Charles Abrahams
West Lith Street
James McGowan
Abrahams
Herbert C. Lawrence
JR Spar Place
Can Lamar Be Punished
Washington July 3 Notwithstanding David Lamar confessions authorities say he disclosed nothing that brings him within reach of the law A federal statute punishes impersonating a U S officer but the Supreme Court rules Congressmen are not officers of the United States The Lobby Committee urged Rep Daniel J Riordan of New York City to seek redress in New York courts Lawyers say no New York statute covers the offense
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Washington
David Lamar
United States
Supreme Court
Lamar
House
Senate Lobby Committee
Danied J. Riordan
New York City
New York
Lewis Cass Ledyard
Paul PD. Cravath
Egg in crate triggers strike at Northeastern Railway
A porter finds an egg laid by a hen in a crate at Northeastern Railway Station London. Railway staff stop work until the district superintendent releases the porter and reviews the incident while the egg remains in office.
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London
Chief Justice Fitzpatrick Substitutes for Ill Altar Boy
In Quebec at Notre Dame des Victoires Sir Charles Fitzpatrick Chief Justice of Canada filled in for an ailing altar boy during early mass. He entered the packed church quietly and the service continued without interruption as the Tafts accompanied by two children arrived earlier in the week and departed aboard the Lady Gree for Murray Bay to spend summer.
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Quebec
Que
Notre Dame Des Victoires
Charles Fitzpatrick
Canada
Charles
Wiliam Howard Taft
Taft
Helen Taft
Murray Bay
Sulzer vows to reveal facts to silence Murphy
Gov. Sulzer in Gettysburg accuses Charles F. Murphy of betrayal and slander. He says Murphy has lied and sought to ruin him, but he claims to have Murphy's number and hints at exposing startling facts to defend himself.
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New York Times
Gettysburg
Gov. Sulzer
Charles F. Murphy
Murphy
Haus
Daniels commends Towers after Annapolis flight near tragedy
Secretary Daniels recounts visiting Lieut. John H. Towers of the Naval Aviation Corps who fell into Chesapeake Bay two weeks earlier. Daniels grants Towers three months leave but says he plans to return to flying, praising the officer’s pluck and courage despite the perilous incident.
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New York Times
Washington
Daniels
Navy Department
Annapolis
John H. Towers
Naval Aviation Corps
Chesapeake Bay
Billingsley
Towers
Datus
Lieut. Billingsley
Lieut. Towers
Rome
Fountain of Youth water sent to Hartford seniors
Park Commissioner Charles G. Stover mailed five gallons of water from Manhattan’s Fountain of Youth to Hartford residents aged sixty and older. The gift accompanied by a verse praising the waters to ease age and affliction.
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Charles G. Stover
Hartford
Conn
Central Park
Leighty-Frst Street
George R. Haskins
Stover
Stever
Haskins
Manhattan
Fountain of Youth
Graft Fund Inquiry Provokes Secrecy and Shifts in Staffing
A letter naming a key figure has vanished and no records exist for the Hunt fund. Officials report no compensation was fixed for labor and a substitute was hired, advised by a friend whose name cannot be recalled. The commissioner involved did not provide verifiable test or formal oversight.
Platt Defies Committee in Albany Graft Inquiry
Open defiance by Secretary to Gov Sulzer Chester C Platt sparked a contempt proceeding as the Frawley committee opened hearings in Albany. The probe targets the State Prison Department and related agencies with scrutiny of Blake's reports and an asserted missing letter between Gov Sulzer and State Controller Lehmer.
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New York Times
Albany
Chester C. Platt
Gov
Sulzer
Mr. Platt
George W. Blake
Sulfers
Great Meadows
Gov. Sulser
Lehmer
H Biake
Frawley
Gov. Sulzer
Charles F. Murphy
Tammany
Murphy
Blake
Col
Joseph F. Scott
Scott
Charles F. Rattizan
Auburn
Col. Scott
Luther- Murphy
Eugene Lamb Hichards
Gettysburg
Lic Service Commission
Gov 8
Patrick E. McCabe
Platt
Exec
Charlies H. Bissikummer
Albany Trust Company
Pratt
Arerived
Valentine Taylor
Richards
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