Taft to go over acceptance speech with Roosevelt in Oyster Bay
Hot Springs Va July 21 Taft will travel to Oyster Bay to have President Roosevelt and possibly Secretary Root revise his acceptance speech for the Cincinnati event. He expects to finish corrections in New York Hotel Manhattan before the July 28 delivery. A Sagamore Hill visit is planned if changes are few.
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New York Times
Hot Springs
Roosevelt
Taft
Hereg
Oyster Bay
Root
Manhattan
New York
Cincinnati
Mr .Taft
Judge Taft
Sagamore Hill
Taff
Chesapeake & Ohio
City
Thirty-fourth Street
Hitchcock
National Committee
Pike's Peak Summit
Col
William H. Taft
Missouri River
Pike's Peak
Frank H. Hitchcock
Riverside
R. I
W. H. Taft
Powers
Valley
Slemp
United States
Brown Allen
Alva Martin
George L. Hoyt
State Committee
Congress
John G. Luce
G. N. Wise
Mr. Slemp
Virginia
Bryan
Representative Gaines
House Committee On
Virginia Harned Sues for Divorce in Reno District Court
Virginia Harned wife of actor Edward Sothern files a Reno district court divorce complaint. The suit is sealed and attorneys refuse comment or location. Sothern may be at Lake Tahoe. Proceedings likely by default with contested no public details.
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New York Times
Reno
Virginia Harned
Edward H. Sothern
Sothern
Lake Tahoe
Yosemite Valley
Bribery scheme lands three Sergeants and four suspects
Fourth Deputy Police Commissioner Arthur Woods with Capt Murphy of West Thirtieth Street Station arranged a bribery attempt. Abe Braun 87 and Louis Webber 205 Second Ave were arrested in front of 124 West Thirty fourth Street for offering five dollar bills to Sergeants Horrigan Bird and McAuliffe and later claimed to offer $100 to each if released. They were released on $1,000 bail each.
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Arthur Woods
Murphy
Cornell
Herald Square Hotel
West Thirtyfourth Street
John T. Horrigan
Peter J. Bird
David J. McAuliffe
Braun
Webber
Sergt. Horrigan
Horrigan
Sergt
Eac Nes
Policeman dies after grief over fatal shooting
Patrolman Alfred Shuttleworth, suspended and indicted for killing Isaac Jaffe in Saratoga Park Brooklyn, collapsed from paralysis and grief on June 8 after a stroke and long remorseful illness. Doctors cited grief and remorse as key factors in his death.
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Alfred Nathaniel Shuttleworth
Kings County Grand Jury
Isaac Jaffe
Saratoga Park
Brooklyn
Ralph Avenue
Pacific Street
Herbert C. Rogers
Gates Avenue
Shuttleworth
Jaffe
Affe
Rogers
Boy Dies After Dog Bite Hydrophobia Case in Jersey City
Henry Luttman nine dies within forty eight hours after a dog bite on his cheek in Harrison and Jersey City. Doctors debate if saliva can transmit hydrophobia with Dr Koppel and Dr Rombaud noting differing views while the child’s parents recall assurances of no danger.
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Henry Luttman
Arend Luttman
Jersey City
Leo Koppel
Koppel
Harry
Huebner
Third Street
Harrison
N. J
F. C. Thorney
Mr. Luttman
Louis Baumann
Fifth Street
Pasteur Institute
George G. Rombaud
Luttman
Rembaud
Institute
Three Men Rob Jamaica Plain Barroom. One Killed
Three armed men entered a crowded Jamaica Plain barroom in Boston and forcefully took the till. Gunfire erupted leaving one man dead on the floor another dying and a third seriously wounded.
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Jamaica Plain
Boston
Mass
Rabid Brooklyn Cat Bite Victims Begin Pasteur Treatment
After the laboratory announcement in Manhattan that a wild cat roaming near Gates and Throop Avenues in Brooklyn tested rabid, four bite victims started treatment at the Pasteur Institute. The patients are Robert Gassau of 16 Stanhope Street Walter Ross of 611 Gates Avenue August Farth of 463 Throop Avenue and Esther Lang six years old of 294 Sumner Avenue.
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Manhattan
Gates and
Throop Avenues
Brooklyn
Pasteur Institute
Robert Gassau
Stanhope Street
Walter Ross
Gates Avenue
August Farth
Throop Avenue
Esther Lang
Sumner Avenue
City Receives Betsy Head Legacy For Health Grounds
Corporation Counsel Pendleton announced the city collected 187746 from Betsy Head to fund health and recreation grounds. Betsy Head died June 13 last year leaving half her estate to charities and half to the city while disinheriting her daughter who eloped with William K. Vanderbilt's coachman.
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Pendleton
Betsy Head
William K. Vanderbilt
Aplanatic Invisible Bright Glasses Sold at Spencer’s
Carded notice lists a consumer item described as aplanatic invisible bright glasses near and two gauge vision located at Spencer's store on Maiden Lane with a price of one dollar.
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Spencer's
Maiden Lane
Protos Racing for Berlin in New York to Paris Race
German Protos car is expected to cross the frontier within 24 hours. Lieut. Koeppen travels with escorts from Berlin to Koenigsberg and into East Prussia while St. Petersburg awards the club cup and a gold medal from the Czar. Moscow and Koenigsberg are noted as next steps with Berlin city arrival anticipated Friday.
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New York Times
Berlin
New York
Paris
Imperial Automobile Club of
Lieut. Koeppen
Koenigsberg
St. Petersburg
Tsarskoe-Selo
Vladimir Michaelovitch
Japan Strengthens Navy With Major Rearmament Plan
The Japanese Admiralty announces a large program to modernize older ships and add first class cruisers. Mikasa type vessels will switch to eight heavy guns, Retvisan class will add four twelve-inch and four ten-inch guns, enabling a more homogeneous fleet. New cruisers: 18,650 tons, 44,000 hp, 25 knots, seven inch armor, ten twelve-inch guns and additional six-inch and four seven-inch guns. one cruiser to be built at Kure.
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Tokio
Russia
Lke
Retvisan
Kure
Engagement Announced for Lillian Crail and Joseph Ryan
Mrs G F M Crail Bond of Yonkers announced the engagement of her daughter Miss Lillian B Crail to Joseph Ryan youngest son of Thomas F Ryan The wedding is expected in October They met eight years ago as neighbors in West 72nd Street Both families later learned of the match from friends at a tea at the Amackassin Club Yonkers Ryan 21 finished his junior year at Georgetown College and plans to join Allan A Ryan & Brothers bank in New York City The couple’s families have not yet issued a formal announcement due to travel and summer arrangements
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Virginia Harned
B. N. Sothern
Broadway
Sotherns
New York
Mr. Sothern
West Sixty-ninth Street
Miss
G. F. M. Crail Bond
G. F. M. Bond
North Broadway
Yonkers
Lillian B. Crail
Joseph Ryan
Thomas F. Ryan
Allan A. Ryan
New Jurors Sought as Judge Hough Breaks Old Guard
Judge Hough of the Criminal Branch urges fresh jurors, ordering two longtime jurors to step down. Trials resume with an entirely new panel for the first time in years, ending the steady reuse of the same jurors in federal court proceedings.
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Hough
United States Circuit Court
Chatfield
Where to take lunch and drink the highest types of American wines
A brief ad-like note lists Dewey & Sons Co at 138 Fulton Street New York as a venue for lunch and a selection of top American wines. The fragmentary text offers no further detail on hours, offerings, or dates.
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Dewey & Sons Co
Fulton St
New York
Grand Jury Indicts Three Racing Men in Brooklyn
The Kings County Grand Jury indicted Christopher J. Fitzgerald president of the Brighton Beach Racing Association William Engeman principal owner of the Brighton Beach track and John J. Cavanagh former betting ring superintendent on conspiracy aiding and abetting gambling charges. Their counsel said they would surrender but they failed to appear by 7 pm and police sought bench warrants. Detectives searched the Brighton Beach office and seized betting materials while the sixteenth bookmakers and bettors faced Magistrate Tighe with more hearings planned.
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Christopher J. Fitzgerald
Brighton Beach Racing Association
William Engeman
Brighton Beach
John J. Cavanagh
Kings County
Brooklyn
Kilperin
Euperin
Court House
Elder
Lieut
Langan
Supreme Court
Scudder
Charles H. Hyde
Jacob Ejilperin
Langham
van Wagener
John Cavanagh
Messrs
Engeman
Fitzgerald
Cavanagh
Grand Jury
Flood
O’brien
Tighe
Adams Street
Brighton
Sheepshead Bay
Twin Ancient Mariners On Grassy Point Patrol
Deputy Surveyor Matthew M. Coneys inspected a two ton power boat off Grassy Point. The craft carried 73 year old twin brothers John and William Johnson who refused to acknowledge federal laws. Coneys noted life belts and suggested bells and whistles were required for compliance.
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John J. Timmins
Matthew M. Coneys
Grassy Point
John
William Johnson
Rockaway Inlet
William
Coneys
Paul Jones
To Relieve Summer Exhaustion with Horsford's Drink
An advertisement promotes Horsford's Acid Phosphate as a cooling refreshing summer drink. It claims to invigorate and relieve fatigue during hot weather.
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Horsford
Monetary Commission Holds Private Sessions at Narragansett Pier
The National Monetary Commission met in two private sessions at the Hotel Imperial in Narragansett Pier Rhode Island on July 21. Chairman Aldrich outlined procedural plans for the commission and anticipated Treasury Secretary Cortelyou's arrival the next night to provide available information.
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Narragansett Pier
R. I
National Monetary Commission
Congress
Hotel Imperial
Nelson W. Aldrich
Rhode Island
the Treasury
George L. Cortelyou
Huntington, L. L
Commission
Porpoise Claims Life of Tybee Beach Visitor Boy
In Savannah on July 21 a 10 year old boy named Harry Lovell, son of John G. Lovell, was struck by a large porpoise while swimming off Tybee Beach. He sank before Willy Brunner, but the body has not been recovered.
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Savannah
Harry
John G. Lovell
Wiily
W. F. Brunner
Pittsburg Doctor Killed in Auto Crash
Dr E B McGow a well known physician was instantly killed when his runabout plunged off an embankment after steering failed near Pittsburg Andrew S McSwigan manager of Duquesne Garden and city traction parks was severely shocked and slightly injured in the early morning accident McSwigan escaped with cuts and bruises leaving his wife and one child obituary details note.
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Pittsburg
Penn
E. B. McGow
Andrew S. McSwigan
Duquesne Garden
Traction Company
New Kensington
McSwigan
McGraw
Women letter carriers in Lockport and Gasport
Lockport and Gasport, six miles east, are unique with women U S mail carriers. Mrs N S Maynard serves Lockport while Gasport’s Mrs William Bolton and Mrs A H Bradford run routes. They were sworn in by the Postmasters under Washington authorization to fill husbands’ vacancies. Postmasters praise their performance and would like more women on the force.
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New York Times
Lockport
N. Y
Gasport
Here
United States
N. S. Maynard
William Bolton
A. H. Bradford
Te Washington
Man Struck By Door Dies After Steamboat Injury
E K Camp of New York a summer resident at Atlantic Highlands is dying after a door slammed on him on the steamboat Sandy Hook. A gust blew the floor shut striking him in the head. He was knocked unconscious and brain fever followed. Doctors and two nurses attend.
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New York Times
Atlantic Highlands
N. J
Sandy Hook
E. K. Camp
New York
John H. van Mater
Edwin Fields
Red Bank
Camp
Auto Hits Horse Drawn Wagon Near Highlands Beach
In Atlantic Highlands New Jersey an auto at sixty miles per hour struck a horse and runabout near Highlands Beach Station injuring Edward Layton and Charles Johnson. The horse was later found swimming in the Shrewsbury River after the crash, while the unnamed driver fled without stopping and the auto had no lights.
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New York Times
Atlantic Highlands
N.J
Highlands Beach Station
Edward Layton
Charles Johnson
Highlands
New Jersey Central Railroad
Long Branch
Shrewsbury
Mrs Bittenbender Dies En Route to See Son
Greenwich dispatch reports Mrs. Fanny S. Bittenbender widow of William H. Bittenbender of Cambridge Mass died in Greenwich General Hospital from acute indigestion while traveling by car to see her son who was to sail for the Argentine Republic. She was 47. Her brother Thomas H. Austin accompanied her until near Meriden. The son arrived for services in Greenwich and later the body went to Brookline Mass for funeral and burial.
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New York Times
Greenwich
Conn
Fanny S. Bittenbender
William H. Bittenbender
Cambridge
Mass
New York
Argentine Republic
Greenwich General Hospital
Bittenbender
Brookline
Rosches Bed Bugs and Mice Exterminated
Disinfecting Co at 617 West ath Street reports removal of roaches bed bugs and mice from local premises, highlighting comprehensive pest control services and prompt treatment.
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Rosches
En Disinfecting Co
West
Bishop Potter Dies After Prolonged Illness
The Right Rev Henry Codman Potter seventh Episcopal Bishop of New York died at Fernleigh Coopers town at 8 35 pm after four weeks of critical illness A embolism in the leg and arteriosclerosis contributed to his decline He will be buried with public funeral planned in Grace Church New York City with services likely here first and a family bedside of Potter and his kin report from Cooperstown N Y July 21
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New York Times
Cooperstown
N. Y
Henry Codman Potter
New York
Fernleigh
Elizabeth Clark Potter
Potter
London
J. B. Janvrin
M. ST. Bassett
Grief of Churchmen Over Bishop Potter’s Death
Clergy in the city mourn Bishop Potter’s passing as many leaders are away on vacation. Coadjutor Greers and rector Manning also out of town, while other Episcopal clergy and Catholics at St. Patrick’s Cathedral express sympathy for the late bishop.
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Potter
Greers
Europe
Wiliam T. Manning
Trinity
Huntington
Grace Church
Episcopal
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Farley
Msgr
Lavelle
Episcopal Church
Potter of New York Diocese A Notable Episcopal Line
The Rev Henry Cominian Potter, seventh Bishop of the New York Diocese, sprung from a family famed in the Protestant Episcopal Church. Born in Schenectady in 18 ish to Rev Alonzo Potter, his lineage includes President Eliphalet Nott and Bishop Horatio Potter. Early education in Philadelphia, he toyed briefly with commerce before pursuing the church. Ill health later hindered his life and work.
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Richt
Henry Cominian Potter
Diovese
New York
Protestant Episcopal Church
Schenectady
N. Y
Alonzo Potter
Pennsylvania
Eliphalet Nott
Union College
Horatio Potter
Bishop Potter
Episcopal Academy of
Philadelphia
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L. B. Crail
Judge Hough
Old Guard
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Cortelyou
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