Ambassadors Dinner Highlights Anglo American Relations
London reports the first public appearance of the new American ambassador at the Pilgrims Club dinner in the Savoy. Lord Roberts chaired as Sir Edward Grey welcomed the envoy and outlined Britons US relations while Mr Page and Sir Edward Grey impressed with restraint and speech. Price Collier offered political rhetoric that amused yet unsettled diplomats. Lord Shaw thanked Collier for his verbal fireworks, noting the result as largely inconsequential.
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Ondon
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Pilgrims Club
Savoy Hotel
Field Marshall
Lord Roberts
Mr. Page
Sir Edward Grey
Lord Halsbury
Harry Lawson
Edward Poynter
Lord Shaw
Edward Grey
Great Britain
United States
Page
Price Collier
Collier
Tweed
Mr. Collier
Page dinner in London applauds Anglo American peacemakers
Three hundred fifty Pilgrims including prominent Englishmen and Americans gathered at the Hotel Savoy for the Page dinner. Speakers praised Lord Roberts Sir Edward Grey and Ambassador Page as peacemakers and urged Anglo American unity as a basis for world peace.
Kaisers Jubilee Sparks Wide German Festive Plans
Berlin reports Kaiser Wilhelm II receives wide public enthusiasm for the silver jubilee. Communities plan diverse celebrations from long walking races to hillside inscriptions in geraniums. A major project will compile a monumental work on social culture during Wilhelm III's reign by sixty scientists and state department heads.
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New York Times
Berlin
Cassel
Munich
Wilhelm Rex
Germany
Regensburg
Wilhelm III
Actor Knight Johnston Forbes-Robertson Bids Farewell
Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson bade farewell to the London stage at Drury Lane in Hamlet with an audience of over 3 500. He praised forty years of acting and recalled early stage days while his wife Miss Gertrude Elliott was cheered as they prepared to sail for America.
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London
Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson
Drury Lane
Hamlet
Knight
Ophelia
Garrick
Kean
Macready
Irving
Sir Johnston
Bill
Amlet
Gertrude Elliott
America
Miss Elliott
Baroness Foils Blackmail in Paris
Paris June 6 Baroness Vaughan widow of King Leopold who recently divorced her second husband outwitted two blackmailers seeking 12000 dollars. They claimed a Paris newspaper would publish a novel with her as heroine and offered six thousand for the manuscript while she feigned acceptance to trap them. Detectives hiding behind a curtain arrested the man as he delivered the manuscript and later captured the accomplice.
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Marconi
New York Times
Paris
Vaughan
Leopold
Mystery in Spy's Release Revealed by Officials
London dispatches report Karl Graves, a German spy, was released early from Edinburgh where he faced eighteen months. The Chronicle notes the decision seems improbable while New York Times inquiries found no explanation. Scottish Prison Commission officials refused to comment.
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London
New York
Karl Graves
Edinburgh
Chronicle
Prison Commission For Scotland
Peary Receives Royal Welcome in Paris Arrival
Rear Admiral Peary and family are greeted at Gare de l Est with a royal reception in Paris. Speeches by Prince Roland Bonaparte and Ernest Charles praise American science. Peary plans an American south pole expedition led by Robert A Bartlett with funding from societies or public subscription.
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Gare de l’Est
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Prince Roland Bonaparte
Paul Chassaigne-Goyon
Ernest Charles
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Geographical Society
France-Amérique Committee
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Sorbonne
South Pole
America
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Pole
Roosevelt
Scott
Amundsen
Geographical
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Peary
Charles Nordman
Paris Observatory
United States
Susman Talks to Paris Reporters in Paris
Harold Susman of New York, 29, who married Mrs. Lillie A. Coe of New Haven, 28 years his senior, arrived in Paris. He repeated to reporters the tale he prepared for newspapers and said he would write a book about his matrimonial experiences.
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Paris
New York Times
Harold Susman
New York
Lillie A. Coe
New Haven
Gomez
Havana
Europe
Espagne
Rare 16th century books headline Huth library sale results
Sotheby’s Huth library sale in London features a 1521 Nuremberg quarto Geistlich Strass with 17 woodcuts, sold for 1195. Other notable items include Goldsmiths works, a 1766 The Vicar of Wakefield at 455, and a 1772 Threnodia Augustolis fetching 1500. The sale continues Monday.
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London
Geistlich Strass
Nuremberg
Huth
Sotheby's
Veit Stoss
Henry Prince of
Purpoose
Strassburg
Johannes Geyler von Keiserberg
America
F. Bedford
William Golding
Summer Islands
Wakefield
Oliver Goldsmith
Salisbury
Paris
Thomas Nicholas
Gaspar Gomez
Toledo
Stephen Goosson
Gosson
Edward Gasynhill
John King
John Gower
William Caxton
Westminster
Caxton
Blades
Monay
Auction in Philadelphia fetches high prices for portraits
In Philadelphia on June 6 a sale of 64 canvases by old English to Spanish masters brought strong bids. Romney’s Meditation reportedly led with $5,900, while an ivory Napoleon miniature by Mansion sold for $1,950 amid strong prices for engravings and miniatures.
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Philadelphia
Allmen
Romney
Lady Hamilton
Napoleon
Mansion
Spanish Premier says U.S. legation status to become embassy
Madrid June 6 Count Romanones Spanish Premier said the Washington Senate committee report favoring elevating the United States Legation in Madrid to an embassy was most pleasing. Foreign Office notes promotion in Washington followed by a similar move in Buenos Aires will take effect immediately.
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Romanones
Senate Committee
Washington
United States
Foreign Office
Argenta
Police Fight Strikers in Stettin After Factory Killing
In Frauendorf suburb police clashed with chalked strikers after a Chicory factory dispute. Seventy wounded reported as crowds demanded the non striker culprit be turned over. Authorities struggled to control the enraged workers and called in reinforcements.
Divorce case alarms London as MPs figure in sensational test
In a landmark High Court hearing in London on the divorce list, Liberal MP Hubert William Carr-Gomm seeks a dissolution from Kathleen Carr-Gomm alleging misconduct with another MP Eliot Crawshay Williams. The case, tied to Lloyd George’s circle, hints at revelatory claims from Downing Street visits and Wales country house encounters.
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High Courts
Lloyd- George
Hubert William Culling Carr-Gomm
Rotherhith
Kathleen
Eliot Crawshay Williams
Leicester
Crawshay- Williams
Lloyd-George
Downing Street
Wales
Carr-Gomm
Sir Henry Campbell- Bannerman
London Liberal Federation
Bucks
West End
Brooks
Ranelagh
the Lighty
William Rome
Liverpool
Crawshay-Williams
Brooks and the Eighty
English Breakfasts Grow Popular in America
A. J. Giles, secretary of the Federation of Grocers' Associations, reports after a U S visit that British breakfast foods dominate American menus in hotels, restaurants, and shops. German, Italian, and Jewish shopkeepers display British goods, with teas stacked in great pyramids and clerks without overalls affecting shop appeal.
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London
America
A. J. Giles
Federation of Grocers’ Associations
United States
Belgian steamer Kurland struck Greek mine near Athens
The Belgian steamer Kurland, sailing from Antwerp, hit a mine near Phleva Island in the Gulf of Athens this morning. She sustained serious damage and was towed to Phalerum and beached.
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Belgium Seeks 120 Million Dollar Loan Negotiations
Brussels June 6 The Belgian government is negotiating in Paris for a loan of about 120 million dollars at four percent interest.
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Brussels
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Paris
Americans Fear Mexican Attack in Tamaulipas
Three hundred Americans from sixty eight families in southern Tamaulipas petition President Wilson through Consul Miller seeking assurance of protection from the U S government. They warn they may take self defense measures to avoid burdening Washington and recount indignities and financial losses while warning that departure would end lifetimes of accumulation. News also notes Francisco de la Barra leaving Mexico for Europe and explains his reasons to avoid nomination for presidency while urging constitutional restraint and national unity.
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Washington
Havana
New York Times
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Mexican Republic
Europe
Times
de la Barra
Huerta
Felix Diaz
Senior de la Barra
Eame
Diaz
Liberal Democratic Party
the Republic
Carcer
Sulzer Direct Primary Bill Endorsed by League Committee
The County Committee of the Independence League endorsed the Sulzer Direct Primary bill at a meeting last night and scheduled a discussion meeting at Murray Hill coum next Friday evening.
Taxi Bandit Joseph Young Sentenced to Penal Farm
Joseph Young known as Joseph Taylor led a taxi cab gang and was sentenced by Judge Foster to one year on Blackwell's Island with a $1000 fine, instead of Sing Sing, after threats from gang members deterred transport. The case tied to McVetty and others and linked to Stein murder allegations. Young claimed a better motive than Webber and discussed past wealth, drugs, and decline.
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Joseph Taylor
Blackwell's Island
Sing Sing
Foster
Young
Bostwick
Bost
Webber
Rosenthal
Underworld
Appar
New York
Charles Lober
Aew
Mr. Twick
McVetty
Robert McVetty
Patrick Bolt
Charles Clark
Joseph O’connell
Enjamin Gold
Samuel Goldstein
Frank Jerrie
Albert Newman
Newman
Adolph Stein
Stein
Jacob Jacoby
Thirteenth Street
Sixth Avenue
Martin Garvey
Ae Gere Young
Urges Frisco Inquiry Into Receiver Ship
Representative Hinebaugh of Illinois urged the House to back his resolution for an Inter-State Commerce investigation of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad receivership. He accused Frisco management of frenzied finance and alleged misappropriation of securities proceeds and inflated stock values under B F Yoakum. Senator Kenyon echoed the call for inquiry.
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