Gomez Plans Field Command in Cuba Amid Interventions Fears
Special Cable from Havana reports President Gomez intends to take the field to quell the uprising in Oriente, seeking national support. Cuban officials doubt U.S. nonintervention assurances amid rising race tensions and debate over the Platt amendment and American troops.
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Gomez
Washington
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Roosevelt
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Servatory Sanguiry
Little Girl Found Dead in Bronx Cellar
Segred Eckstrom, six, was last seen playing on 1 075 Ogden Avenue in the Bronx. Alfred Rocks discovered her body in the cellar of 1 047 Ogden Avenue, with marks on the throat and signs of a struggle. Coroner and physicians ruled strangulation. detectives from Highbridge scoured the area as authorities prepared autopsy results. The father is civil engineer John Eckstrom, Univ of Bonn graduate.
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Bronx
Alfred Rocks
Eckstroms
Ringleman
Highbridge
Catherine Grady
Joseph D. Slack
Shafer
Fordham Hospital
John Eckstrom
University of Bonn
Cuban campaign halts as Monteagudo retools force in Oriente
Military operations in Oriente stop after plan failure. Monteagudo shifts to reinforcing regulars with plantation guards and mounted troops recruited locally near Guantanamo City. Torrential rains complicate actions as loyal citizens form volunteer corps nationwide and Camp Columbia sends more soldiers to guard the palace amid alarm in Santiago.
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Monteagudo
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Columbia
Santiago
Auto truck plows into crowd killing one woman
A southbound Reisenweber Hotel auto truck swerved across Eighth Avenue at Fifty-fourth Street striking a group boarding a southbound car. Mrs. Fannie Light and Nelson Deane died or were seriously injured, while David Sheehan survived with injuries. Police detained driver Michael Nagger on felonious assault before the death altered the charge to manslaughter. Special Deputy Sheriff John Doe aroused the crowd with his actions and Robert M. Guggenheim was fined five dollars for interfering with an officer at the drug store scene.
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Reisenweber Hotel
Fannie Light
West Forty-ninth Street
Nelson Deane
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Deane
David Sheehan
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Hemlet
John Doe
Broadway
Martin Vogel
East Eightieth Street
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Vogel
Philadelphia
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Robert M. Guggenheim
Daniel Guggenheim
Plane bullet claim shocks New York endurance effort
Dr Christmas of the Christmas Aeroplane Company denied reports that his machine used for a government mail experiment was pierced by a bullet at 700 feet over Mineola Long Island. Aviator Clinton O Hadley continued the endurance flight, with engine stops after traveling about miles, and investigators found a chipped blade. a $1,000 reward was offered for the offender.
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Christmas Aeroplane Company
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Hadley
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Newizo i
Mothercraft school promises happiness through good motherhood
A new school called Mothercraft teaches women to be good mothers and claims to reduce marital unhappiness, according to its head. The piece hints at coverage in Next Sunday’s Times.
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Separate Women's Floor Planned at Hotel McAlpin
The Hotel McAlpin plans a distinct women’s floor on the fourth level with a separate entrance and desk, staffed and run by women only. Forty rooms, a women’s restaurant, and a women’s lounge will be reserved for female guests to avoid contact with male staff. Mrs. J Borden Harriman of the Colony Club supports the idea, noting safety and comfort for solo traveling women.
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Anne Morgan
J. P. Morgan
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Pany
Frank M. Andrews
Col. B. B. McAlpin
W. D. Marlowe
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T. Coleman du Pont
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Metropolitan Tower
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J. Borden Harriman
Colony Club
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Youn Women’s Christian Association
Refusal of Trainmen Request Ends Negotiations
General Manager Long rejects the proposal by trainmen firemen and conductors on Pennsylvania lines east of Pittsburgh and Erie to man a fixed share of electric trains between New York and Newark. He also rules on local working conditions while upholding employee contentions in several points. The reply goes to the general committee for a referendum strike decision.
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Pittsburg
Erie
New York
Newark
Long
100000 Shopmen May Quit in Sympathetic Strike
Chicago June 6 referenda among nine railroad shop crafts west of Chicago show a majority backing a sympathetic strike to aid Harriman line strikers. A conference of international officers will decide next week. Only one union prefers staying at work, but that vote may be overridden. Action expected by July 1 affecting about 100000 workers.
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Harriman
Betting on Roosevelt Nomination Stirring Federal Politics
Sporting brokers circulated varied wagers on the political outlook with Roosevelt as the favored or feared nominee. Bets ranged from modest sums to larger offers, but specifics remained unsettled as the day wore on.
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Roosevelt
San Covie FE
Angry Brooklyn Housewives Target Meat Prices
A group of angry housewives visited De Kalb and Sumner Avenues butcher shops in Brooklyn demanding lower meat prices or closing stores. At J Diamond 924 De Kalb Avenue a steel bucket smashed the window after talk of price cuts, prompting temporary suspensions at several nearby shops.
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de Kalb Avenue
Benjamin Diamond
Diamond
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Gates Avenue
J. Hoffman
Plot to Kill King Tied to Anarchist Plot in Rome
Rome reports police believe the March assassination attempt on the King stemmed from an Anarchist plot. Dalba’s role is under focus as investigators seek accomplices. Italian authorities recall 1900s Paterson to Turin suspects, found with dynamite, acquitted for lack of evidence.
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NEW York Times
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Dalba
Paterson
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Genoa
Hammerstein Advertises For Return Of Lost $616
William Hammerstein seeks H M Joralmon of the Hotel Manhattan to call at the Victoria Theatre box office and recover a purse containing 616 in currency. The owner did not wish to be disturbed earlier, preferring the money held in a Hammerstein safe unless claimed.
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H. M. Joralmon
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Lawyers Convert at Billy Sunday Crusade in Beaver Falls
Thirty Beaver County Bar Association lawyers converted at evangelist Billy Sunday’s tabernacle in Beaver Falls after his sermon What must I do to be saved The converts joined seventy others as the crowd sang hallelujahs Sunday warmly welcomed each lawyer and urged the others to join their group Beaver Falls will feel lonesome.
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New York Times
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Penn
Billy
Tabernacle
Beaver County Bar Association
Meziof Bar Association
Falls
Murillo Copy Locked In Waldorf Safe Revealed As Genuine
The Murillo painting titled Immaculate Conception, a copper piece dated 1647 and valued at $200,000, has been kept in the Waldorf Astoria safe for three days. Owner C. F. Mendez, a Mexico City rare art dealer, says it is one of twenty genuine duplicates of Murillo’s work and plans to show it to critics privately today.
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America
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Virginia
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John W. Langley
Caleb Powers
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Immaculate Conception
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Louvre
Mexico
92 year old groom weds Watervliet bride in Albany
Miss Elizabeth Geer aged 55 of Watervliet married Edward Bowerman aged 92 of Port Schuyler today at the bride’s Broadway home in Albany. The romance began when Bowerman, a wealthy boarder, first met Geer about ten years ago. The ceremony conducted by Rev. Henry F. Hamlin drew only relatives and friends.
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Albany
Elizabeth Geer
Watervliet
Edward Bowerman
Port Schuyler
Broadway
Bowerman
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Erastus Geer
Geer
Henry F. Hamlin
North Reformed Church
Bride of 75 Weds 72-Year-Old Belvidere Man
Cummins H. Folkner, 75, and Mrs. Sarah E. Smith, 72, were quietly married at the bride’s Walter Street home in Belvidere by Rev. William J. Hampton. The ceremony drew a few friends. Selden S. Allen served as best man and Helen Allen was flower girl. Folkner is a retired Belvidere businessman.
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New York Times
Belvidere
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Trout Swallows Jewels. Waldorf Chef Confirms
Manager Stewart of the Waldorf Astoria reports a trout caught in Ulster County was opened by the chef after being retrieved from a tank in the hotels south grill. The fish allegedly swallowed a three carat diamond and a three inch platinum chain lost by a woman leaning over the tank.
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Waldorf-Astoria
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Waldorf
Will leaves estate to three bellboys in probate
In Albany on June 6 Hannah Dwight Greene’s will assigns nearly all her estate to three bellboys Edwin J. Greenewood N H George Hadenburg R I Providence and Frank Donegan of Boston. They inherit twelve shares of New York and New Haven stock ten shares of United States Steel preferred and a promissory note of 3481 dollars.
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Albany
Hannah Dwight Greene
Edwin J. Greenewood
Littleton, N. H
George Hadenburg
Providence
Frank Donegan
Boston
Samuel Bowles
Springfield Republican
Divorce in Pasadena Leaves Custody to Wife
Mrs. Francina Henderson, daughter of Charles G. Emory, divorced Charles Mortimer Henderson of 815 South Orange Grove Avenue after eight years of marriage. Custody of two children, Mortimer six and Francina five, awarded to the wife who asked for no alimony. Wife testified he stayed in bed, avoided work and ran into debt.
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Cal
Francina Henderson
Charles G. Emory
Frontenac
Thousand Islands
Charles Mortimer Henderson
South Orange Grove Avenue
Henderson
Mortimer
Francina
Hendersons
Orange County
Farmhand to Miss Marston Delays Wedding for Fortune
Westfield New Jersey June 6 Louis Lebout a farmhand employed by Abraham Bird of Bird's Corner will not wed this Sunday. He left for Langley Minnesota to collect a $200000 legacy left by Mrs Josephine Watts widow of a lumberman who funded the fortune. Lebout had earned $20 a month and the heiress planned a match but the legacy changes her plans.
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Westfield
N. J
Louis Lebout
Abraham Bird
Bird’s Corner
Langley
Minn
Julia Marston
Josephine Watts
Roosevelt Campaign Hours Ahead Of National Convention
Roosevelt backers scramble as Col Theodore Roosevelt may seize control before convention organize, with Flinn and Barnes in key roles. Chicago talks mark a tense day as Taft forces advance and hearings open to press, while Democrats back Wilson and Clark in distant state alignments.
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Theodore Roosevelt
May Holt
National Republican Con
Col. Roosevelt
William Flinn
Pittsburgh
Chicago
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Mr. Flinn
Roosevelt
William Barnes, Jr
New York
Taft
Minnesota
Woodrow Wilson
Baltimore
West Virginia
Clark
Roosevelt Men Gloomy In Chicago Conference
A June 6 dispatch from Chicago reports Roosevelt leaders meeting with Senator Dixon in secretive rooms. The mood was gloomy with talk of a Roosevelt bolt from the convention and plans to curb press access at hearings. Taft strength appeared evident as the National Committee adopted most rules from 1908 and set future contest procedures.
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