Kracke Pushes Bridge Rebuilding Plan Amid City Reforms
Mayor Mitchell praises a $100,000 cut in salaries as Bridge Commissioner Kracke updates on rebuilding efforts. He outlines timing for Williamsburg, Manhattan end work, and completion targets by August 15 for the Manhattan–Willamette linkage, aiming to speed transit across bridges and improve elevated services.
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Krackes
Ted
Mitchel
Paddy
Sufitalizineg Missioner
Aod
Brooklyn
Kracke
Tre Street
Aum
Manhattan
Advan
Public Service Commission
Wooklyn
Millintan
Brooklyn Bridge
Queens
Second Avenue
Gqueensboro
Ta Bridge
Mahattan
Broadway-Fifty-ninth Street
Militant suffragette disrupts services at St Pauls
A militant suffragette climbed to the lectern at St Pauls Cathedral and denounced the wrongs of women during morning services. She and other suffragettes prayed for martyrs before being carried out. Similar scenes occurred at Birmingham Cathedral with calls to stop forcible feeding in Christ's name.
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London
St. Paul's Cathedral
Birmingham
Christ
Princess Mirko seeks separation from Montenegro husband
Princess Mirko of Montenegro formerly Princess Nathalie Constantinoviteh has begun separation proceedings against Mirko son of King Nicholas. She cites his eccentric conduct that drew wide notice last season in the Riviera. A family council, with Queen Helena of Italy and Crown Prince Danilo present, discussed his behavior.
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Nice
Mirko of
Montenegro
Nathalie Constantinoviteh
Mirko
Nicholas
Italy
L’rince Danilo
Caillaux Injured in Paris Automobile Collision
Former French premier Joseph Caillaux was injured in a car crash in Paris as he and his wife, imprisoned for the Calmette affair, were returning home. Caillaux sustained cuts to face and hands from shattered glass and was taken to a hospital before returning home after treatment.
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Paris
Joseph Caillaux
Gaston Calmette
the Figaro
Infanta narrowly escaped acid attack in Bilbao
In Bilbao on May 31 Infanta Maria de la Paz aunt of King Alfonso survived a frantic assault as a woman, later deemed insane, tried to fling acid at her face outside a church. The suspect claimed she was a princess and sought punishment for usurped authority.
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Bilbao
Spain
Infanta Maria de la Paz
Alfonso
Colombia-US Panama Treaty Advances in House Reading
Minister Thompson in Bogota reported to the State Department that the Colombia United States treaty on adjusting differences after Panama’s partition passed its first House reading and was sent to a seven member committee for a report tomorrow. The Colombian Senate has already approved its third reading. Secretary Vigunnan said the treaty awaits Senate action until the Panama Canal tolls bill is wrapped up.
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Washington
Thompson
Bogota
State Department
Colombia
United States
Panama
House of Representatives
Senate
Viguvan
Radium Cures Cancerbelieved for Railroad Official
Baltimore May 31 radium is reported to have cured cancer of the throat in A L Glass prominent Gainesville Fla railroad official who came for treatment two months ago. An irritation in January led to an operation and a cancer diagnosis. Doctors promoted the radium treatment as the cause of the apparent cure.
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Baltimore
A. L. Glass
Gainesville
Fla
Liners Arrive Out Today From Port Call News
The two largest ships Vaterland and Mauretania left port last Tuesday at 10 A M and 6 P M and are due to reach their first ports about 6 this morning. Waterline was 120 miles southwest of Krow Head at 4 A M heading to Cherbourg at just over 23 knots, while Mauretania lay 24 miles west of Panther at 10 A M traveling about 24 knots toward Fishguard.
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Vaterland
Mauretania
Krow Head
Cherbourg
Panther
Fishguard
Gaynor Estate Decrease Touched by Transfer Tax Question
The transfer tax paid to the State Controller by Kings County Trust for the Gaynor estate raises questions about Mayor Gaynor’s finances. It is argued his salary may have been insufficient for living costs, suggesting he used personal funds to cover obligations.
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Kings County Trust Company
Willicam Jo Gaynor
Walte
Stolen Bejeweled Weapons From Paris Invalides Museum
In Paris on May 51 a numbers of valuable jeweled weapons were taken from the Hotel des Invalides military museum. Among the items is a diamond studded state dagger dating to the eighteenth century that once belonged to the Emperor of China.
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Paris
Hotel Des Invalides
China
Greece denies Washington battleship purchase report
Official quarters in Athens deny the United States is selling the battleships Idaho and Mississippi to Greece. The note cites tentative talks about transferring three old ships to New York Shipbuilding Company, contingent on a third dreadnought order and Senate approval. Greek naval circles doubt the usefulness due to gun inferiority.
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New York Times
London
Daily Telegraph
Athens
Washington
Greece
Idaho
Mississippi
Kearsarge
New York Shipbuilding Company
Senate
Navy Department
Mrs May Sewall Robbed En Route to Rome From Florence
Mrs May Wright Sewall honorary vice president of the Woman's International Congress returned to Rome after visiting Vienna. Thieves on a Florence Rome train opened her bag stealing Austrian and Italian banknotes totaling 11 dollars, but could not seize her letter of credit. The incident echoes a recent assault on Mrs Flavelle of Chicago on the same line.
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NEW York Times
Rome
May Wright Sewall
Woman's International Congress
Vienna
Florence
Aquitania Reaches 25 Knots on Atlantic Run
On board the steamship Aquitania the vessel hit twenty five knots on the first day, averaging twenty three. Passengers note the ship rides smoothly despite vigorous Atlantic swells and a nearby Mauretania. Countess of Derby christened the ship and sent a wireless message of congratulations echoed by nearby vessels.
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New York Times
Mauretania
Crookhaven
War Service Shaped Early Civil War Medicine
Dr. S Weir Mitchell described how the Civil War medical service evolved from improvised field care in churches and barns to massive pavilion hospitals near Washington and Philadelphia. The army built tens of thousands of beds, faced high mortality before antisepsis, and learned rapid, centralized management under Surgeon General Letterman.
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Pr. S. Weir Mitchell
Philadelphia
Physicians’ Club of
Chicago
Army Medical Service
Army
William A. Hammond
Mitchell
Dunster
Letterman
Army of the Potomac
Parkeburg
Beter
Washington
Naval Wireless Expands Reach of U S Navy
Arlington headquarters notes 48 naval shore stations, extension to Pekin and Panama Canal, and new links with ships at sea. Time signals, weather and storm warnings, ice and derelict reports, fog signals and direction finders improve navigation and public access to wireless services.
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W. SH. G. Bullard
Naval Radio Service
Naval Wireless Station
Arlington
Naval Institute
United States Navy
Seven Seas
Bullard
Pekin
China
United States Legation
Panama Canal Station
Pacific
Panama Canal
Guantanamo Bay
Cuba
San Juan
Porto Rico
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Philippines
Hawaii
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Samoa
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New Orleans
Pacific Coast
Mare Island
Eureka
San Diego
California
North Head
Wash
Arlington Station
Denial of Balloon Remains Discovery Near North Pole Attempt
Yakutsk authorities deny knowledge of any discovery of the balloon used by Prof. Andres on an attempt to reach the north pole and perished in TS07. Earlier reports claimed parts of the balloon were found in a forest in eastern Stheria.
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Andres
Petershrupf
Yakutsk
Ann
North Pole
Stheria
Colorado Coal Strike Toll Reaches Sixty Barricaded Dead
Denver reports show sixty six killed and forty eight wounded since the miners began the strike on September 28. 1913. The cost of eight months of conflict ranges from 10 to 12 million dollars with 1 727 federal troops guarding mines. Union leaders cite about 8 500 still out and 11 000 quitting since September.
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Induse
Bedernal
Inben
United States
Minis
James Dalrymple
Maries
Colorado
Tots
Tbh
Wis
Leanne
John R. Lawson
International Executive Board
United Mine Workers of America
Preacher Attacks Colorado Mine War at Budd Avenue
The Rev Dr Bustard at Budd Avenue Baptist Church in Cleveland denounced the Colorado mine war and the return of labor leaders to union control. He cited language diversity among miners and claimed much of the conflict stems from both labor and capital, urging less absenteeism from leaders and capitalists.
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Cleveland
Ohio
W. WW. Bustard
John D. Fockefeller
Iserman
Budd Avenue Baptist Church
Colorado
Gastard
Rockfeller
United States
Bustard
Man shoots wife then jumps from six-story tenement
Stephen Horvath an engineer with the New York Steam Company shot his wife Julia at 50 West 79th Street then fled to the roof and leaped to the yard. He died five minutes later. she lay dying. Horvath had been separated and had pleaded for reconciliation before the shooting.
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Stephen Horvath
New York Steam Company
Julia
Walsh
East Mighty-eighth
Horvath
Patrohnan Walsh
Avenue A
Seventy-ninth Street
Tie
MM Horvath
Dnches
Mary Chievk
Tarrytown Police Disperse Free Speech Protesters
In Tarrytown a group led by Berkman faced charges of disturbing the public health blocking traffic and disorderly conduct. Becky Nelson and Edelson spoke out against Rockefeller, hunger strikes were attempted, and arrests followed as police maintained city order amid a large turnout.
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Tf Rockefeller
Ludlow
Becky Hkderson
Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller
Becky Edels
Rockefellers Attend Calvary Baptist Church Service
John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller Jr. attended the Calvary Baptist Church on West Fifty-seventh Street yesterday morning. Rockefeller Jr. joined the Bible class briefly and listened to the lesson read by George Kage before the service.
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John D. Rockfeller
John PD. Rockefeller, Jr
Calvary Baptist Church
West Fifty-seventh Street
John Rockefeller, Jrr
Tie
George Kage
Mr. Rockefelll
Aa Wade Mw
Rockefeller at church leaves in electric car after service
John D. Rockefeller and followers exited the church together through a side door and departed in an electric automobile to the home of the younger Rockefeller. Police stationed detectives after word spread of his arrival, but the service concluded without disturbance.
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Leonard DD. Abbott
Joe Speech League
Berkman
Grand Central Station
Tarrytown
Fountain Square
T Will Cortinime
Joe O' Carroll
West Party
Seventh Street
Want Hillcutt to resign and new Socialist leaders urged
Walling and Sinclair called for new leadership in the Socialist Party as they attacked current leaders at the Berkeley Theatre. William Walling demanded Morris Duigutt oust agitators Kouwek White and Upton Sinclair, while Sinclair backed replacing the party leadership to align with miners’ struggles in Colorado.
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Berkeley
William English Walling
Morris Duigult
Kouwek White
Upton Sinclair
Walling
Church of the Social Pevotutvorm
Rouch White
Calvary Baptist Church
Colorado
Sinclair
Attac
von Piblgutt
Socialist Party
Rike
Reothefeiler
Bela
Borresont Nee
Egypt
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