Taft Aims to Reassure Industry Voters in Campaign
Hot Springs Va July 17 Taft supporters frame a cautious national message to placate corporate interests while avoiding anti Roosevelt rhetoric. He plans to place campaign finances under New York publicity law and face Bryan Kern in a split Ohio race as Hitchcock and Vorys coordinate Western operations.
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New York
Southern
New York Times
Hot Springs
Taft
Bryan
Kern
James Forgan
First National Bank of Chicago
Frank H. Hitchcock
Denver
Colorado
Nevada
Montana
Utah
Hitchcock
Portland
Oregon
Princess Weds Auto Agent In Secret Austrian Ceremony
Princess Amalie Fuestenberg of Austria married ex Lieutenant Koczian, a car dealer and former cavalry officer, after fleeing last May. The ceremony occurred at Kammerburg castle chapel with secrecy to avoid family opposition. They left for Prague, amid a crowd outside the castle.
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NEW York Times
Vienna
Amalie Fuestenberg
Austria
Koczian
Carlsbad
Nardoni Listy Czech
Kammerburg
Dragoons
Emil Fuerstenberg
Prague
Striking coal miners seize Birmingham area as troops urged
July 17 report from Birmingham details a violent coal strike with shootings, deaths, and arms shipments as strikers gain control. Deputies clash with workers, a deputy is fatally shot, and garrisoned troops stand by while convicts near Pratt City face tense stand-offs. Governor Comer and Sheriff Higdon note no troop call.
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New York Times
Birmingham
Ala
Higdon
Charles Gardner
Pratt City
Blossburg
Sam Passiono
Allen Dennis
Montgomery
Phen
National Organization
Lewis
Alabama
Sought Death Hand in Hand by Aging German Couple
Neighbors describe Kilianen Panzer and Theresa Panzer as a loving pair living at 224 East 104th Street. Police found them in their kitchen after a gas leak, seated in worn chairs with no food in the cupboard. A note in German said they would die together.
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Kilianen
Theresa Panzer
104Th Street
Millie Hadler
East 104Th Street
Harlem
Theresa
Millie
Delmonico's Plans Reported for Uptown Relocation
A group of capitalists backs a plan to reorganize Delmonico's and move from Fifth Avenue at Forty-fourth Street toward Central Park. Miss Josephine C. Delmonico, sole owner of two properties, may oversee the shift as the firm considers sites including Harry Payne Whitney’s mansion and the Gotham building, with ongoing negotiations to protect her interests.
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Delmonico
Josephine
C. Delmonico
Fifth Avenue
Forty-fourth Street
Central Park
United States
Beaver Street
Harry Payne Whitney
Fifty-seventh Street
Vanderbilt
Hermann Oelrichs
Collis P. Huntington
Fifty-sixth Street
Hotel
Gotham
Morgan J. O’brien
Good Ground
L. I
O’brien
Delmonico's
Delmonico’s
John
Peter Delmonico
New York
Place
Stevens House
Lower Broadway
Broadway
Morris Street
Fourteenth Street
Maturin Livingston
August Belmont
Charles Christ Delmonico
Sea Cliff Sinks Boat to Block Rival Rail Service
Sea Cliff villagers battle Long Island Railroad over pier access. They refused Nassau and Orient landings, the railroad obtained an injunction, and the Edmund Butler was sunk at the float to block the boats. Tug efforts to move the wreck failed, delaying landings.
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Sea Cliff
L. I
Sleepy Hollow-by-the- Sea
Long Island Railroad
Nassau and
Orient
Edmund Butler
Nassau and Orient
Fairway
Tolstoy’s I Can not Be Silent rails at Russian rulers
A notable Sunday Times feature previews Count Leo Tolstoy's forthcoming article I Can not Be Silent. The piece delivers a severe arraignment of the Russian ruling class and regime.
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The
Sunday Times
Leo Tolstoy
Russia
Foreign Rush 10 Buy American Securities Surges in Week
European buyers fueled by Kuhn, Loeb & Co and Lazard Freres moved heavy sums into U S bonds over the past week. Paris bids and London placements show strong demand for American industrial bonds while U S stock exchange bond sales topped 4.3 million dollars as prices rose to new highs this year.
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Wall Street
of Kuhn, Loeb & Co
Paris
Lazard Fréres
United States Steel Corporation
Guaranty, Trust Company
London
Guaranty Trust Company
Baltimore & Ohio
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
Trust
Stock Exchange
Gambling at Lake Hopatcong Moves Under Cover in Jersey
Morristown reports Gov J Franklin Fort told by informants about casino like gambling dens near Lake Hopatcong. New York visitors lose large sums at roulette amid alleged political backing. Luxurious club near Hotel Breslin hosts roulette, poker and drinking with guests able to obtain memberships. Local officials accused of lax enforcement of Bishops law and permitting Sunday bar business.
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New York Times
Morristown
N. J
J. Franklin Fort
Lake Hopatcong
Long Branch
New York
Breslin
Hobart
Briarcliff Milk Supplied to U S Officials in Panama Visit
Briarcliff Milk supplier to United States officials in Panama. Briarcliff cream ordered by His Excellency Earl Grey for daily use for the Prince of Wales during his Quebec visit.
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Panama
Earl Grey
H. R. M. Prince of Wales
Quebec
Albert Ballin to Retire as Hamburg America Director General
After decades as head of Hamburg America Line Albert Ballin will retire and be succeeded by Emil Boas who has led the US operations for ten years. Boas sails July 23 from New York and takes up duties July 30 in Hamburg.
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Hamburg
Albert Ballin
Emil Boas
United States
Steamship Company
Ballin
London
Paris
New York
Coospur Street
Atlantic Steamship Lines
Cunarder
Lusitania
Mauretania
Cunard
Co. B. Richard & Co
America
Oscar I. Richard
B. Richard
R. J. Cortis
Carl Schurz
Cortis
Schurz
Mr. Boas
Fire at Worth Street Buildings Strikes Tombs Prison
A fire lasting about an hour caused 30000 dollars in damage to 142 144 and 146 Worth Street near the Tombs prison. Smoke filled the Criminal Court Building sending 672 inmates into panic while 92 boys cried for air. The Ideal Electric Fixture Company suffered most损损with Peter A Frasse Company occupancies nearby. Engine 31 fought flames as the backup squad from Elizabeth Street Station arrived to control the crowd.
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Worth Street
Tombs Prison
Criminal Court
Tombs
Peter A. Frasse Company
Ideal Electric Fixture Company
Engine Company 31
Elizabeth Street
Rebels Capture Tabriz in Persian Revolt
Rebels routed Rachin Khan's horsemen near Tabriz and looted the city. Rachin Khan reportedly fled to the hills as revolutionaries seized control, while a Times dispatch notes elders shifted to support the uprising amid widespread looting of officials' homes including the finance minister's residence.
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Rachin Khan
Tapriz
Persia
Rachin Khan'sorsemen
London
Times
Tabriz
Balloon Initial Bursts Over Philadelphia Flight Planned
The balloon Initial burst as it was being prepared for a moonlight flight in Philadelphia. Dr P Chalmers Fulton and C B Graham were inflating the bag with a crowd nearby when it collapsed. No injuries reported.
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Philadei
PHIA
P. Chalmers Fulton
C. B. Graham
Ben Franklin Aeronautical Society
The
Aero Club
Fulton
New Jersey
Philadelphia
Schuylkill River
March into Navajo Land Plan for Scientific Survey
Official denial of Navajo uprising. Fort units organize a practice march into the northern Navajo Reservation with five cavalry troops five infantry companies a machine gun battery and a two months provisioning train. Scientist observations and data collection expected to expand geographic knowledge.
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Santa FE
N. M
Nort Wingate
Fifth Cavalry
Waldorf Astor Chosen Conservative Candidate for Plymouth
Waldorf Astor, eldest son of William Waldorf Astor, was selected as the Conservative candidate for Parliament from Plymouth at the upcoming general elections. The announcement was made tonight in Plymouth.
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Plymouth
Waldorf Astor
William Waldorf Astor
Katsura Outlines Peace Policy and Finance Plans
In an interview Tokyo premier and finance minister Marquis Katsura vows to protect peace and improve Japan's finances. He pledges to avoid any act disturbing world peace, readjust the budget, redeem unproductive bonds, and curb armament expenditure while sustaining economic and commercial growth.
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Tokio
Maraquis Katsura
Japan
Katsura
Higginson Advocates Socialism Taught In Colleges
In Boston on a July evening Thomas Wentworth Higginson argued that Socialism can remedy social ills and has transformed cities like Liverpool and Glasgow. He linked it to abolition and woman suffrage and said it should be taught in every college as a response to attacks by James Creelman in Pearson's Magazine entitled Americas Trouble Makers.
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New York Times
Boston
Mass
Liverpool
Glasgow
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Col. Higginson
James Creelman
America
Pearson's Magazine
Catron Withdraws From Third District Run After Fatal Crash
Dayton reports Col. H. G. Catron withdraws as Republican candidate for Congress after a bitter nomination contest. His automobile struck and killed a laborer in the street here yesterday, prompting the move.
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Dayton
Ohio
Col. H. G. Catron
President Asked to Restore Harmony
Oyster Bay July 17 The President is urged to intercede for David Meginnity Detroit collector of internal revenue whose resignation the Treasury Department requests Ex Congressman Corliss Michigan warns Meginnity removal could spark bitter factional strife Malcolm McLeod named as Meginnity successor
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Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
David Meginnity
Internal Revenue
Detroit
Mich
Treasury Department
Corliss
Michigan
Meginnity
Malcolm McLeod
Death by Own Action in Exile Henry W Vaughan In New Hampshire
Henry W Vaughan of New York, a chemist by training, died by shooting himself at the Colebrook hotel in New Hampshire after living there years in self imposed exile. He left letters naming Miss Williams of Jamaica Plain and E C Potter of New York, with no contact to wife or son. Survived by two sisters, Vaughan had been ill and distant, with rumors of religious change and a rift from family.
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New York
New Colebrook Hotel
Vaughan
Hartshorn
Miss Williams
Jamaica Plain
Mass
E. C. Potter
Mr. Vaughan
Clifford W. Vaughan
West Fifty-fourth Street
Capt. C. Nesmith
Fort Omaha
Neb
James Jeffrey Roche
Wits
United States
Berne
Switzerland
Roche
Boston
Irovidence
Knickerbocker
Potter and Vaughan Family feud over death notice
E C Potter says Vaughan had suffered with consumption for years and was absent from his wife and family. Vaughan’s son calls the remarks nonsense. Potter notes Vaughan lived with friends in Colebrook and kept in touch only by letters, while religious differences and a juror incident in court are briefly mentioned.
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E. C. Potter
Potter & Brother
Vaughan
Trow
Eliza J
Henry W. Vaughan
Mr. Potter
New York
Clifford W. Vaughan
East Hampton
S. 1
Goff
Ivan the Terrible
Russia
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