000,000 Soldiers Ready for Cuba
The New York Times reports that despite 2,000 US marines and four battleships off Cuba, Washington fears the crisis may worsen. Secretary Knox warns Gomez's government to protect life and property or face intervention. four regiments are landed, more ships may sail, and plans align to mobilize up to 5,000 troops if needed.
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New York Times
Washington
Cuba
United States
Secretary of War
State Department
Knox
Beaupre
Gomez
Béaupre
Guantanamo Naval Station
Key West
Guantanamo
Oriente
Wood
Twenty-ninth
Seventeenth
Eleventh Cavalry
Fourth Artillery
Signal Corps
Province of
Fifth Infantry
Plattsburg
Twenty-ninth Infantry
Porter, Jay
Niagara
New York
Seventeenth Infantry
Fort McPherson
Savannah
Fort Oglethorpe
Tampa
Fort D. A. Russell
Wyoming
Sumner
McClellan
Annapolis
Academy
Nates
Wireless Music 434 Miles From Toulon Experiments
Paris reports detail Marconi wireless telephony tests aboard the Hirondelle off Toulon. A 120 foot mast supported a station delivering a continuous current with musical notes audible at 700 kilometers. Marseillaise heard from Algeria over 700 kilometers. midday conditions and naval maneuvers off Villefranche yielded telephony ranges near 150 kilometers despite atmospheric disturbance.
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Marconi
New York Times
Paris
Toulon
Prince of Monaco
Hirondelle
Fort de Leau
Algeria
Villefranche
Verité
Justice
Convict Bank Wreckers Sentenced After Guilty Verdict
Herbert T. Jennings ex-President and Samuel K. Raymond ex-cashier of Mount Vernon National Bank were found guilty in federal court of misappropriating bank funds. Jennings faced six years with sentence to Atlanta. Raymond’s sentence suspended. Jury deliberated nine hours as foreman urged mercy for Raymond amid trial stretching four weeks before Judge Julius M. Mayer.
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Herbert T. Jennings
Samuel K. Raymond
Mount Vernon National Bank
Federal District Court
Jennings
Raymond
Charles F. Ackerman
Julius M. Mayer
Broadway
Forty-second
Forty-third
Mount Vernon
Oneonta
Mount Vernon Bank
Raymond Aser
George Gordon Battle
Atlanta
Vincent Astor Buys Automobiles in Syracuse Visit
Vincent Astor and a companion checked into the Onondaga Hotel as Averill and Wood of New York. He reportedly bought seven automobiles while avoiding recognition and stating there is no mystery to his Syracuse trip. Reported health concerns were denied as he laughed off claims of invalidity.
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New York Times
Syracuse
N. Y
Vinent Astor
Onondaga Hotel
Astor
G. Averill
W. Wood
New York
Newport
Mr. Astor
New York University Offers Magazine Writing Course
The School of Arts at New York University expands with a two year program in magazine writing and editing opening in October. The Department of Journalism tests the value of such courses, taught by working magazine professionals using magazines as the sole texts. Students will learn to write special articles short stories and editorials for current publication markets.
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New York Times
School of Earn
New York University
Mother to aid Cox campaign in pivotal Ohio race
Dayton dispatch reports 78 year old Mrs. Cox will be a chief campaign aid as son James M. Cox, Democratic nominee for Governor, secures the nomination at Toledo. At homecoming events she described joy at the nomination and voiced strong faith in his November victory.
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New York Times
Dayton
Ohio
James M. Cox
Toledo
Cox
Jimmy
Yale Princeton Baseball Game at Princeton Saturday June 8
Yale and Princeton meet in a baseball game at Princeton on Saturday June 8. Special trains run on the Pennsylvania Railroad with departures from New York and Philadelphia stations. Plan to return after the game.
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YALE
Princeton
Pennsylvania Railroad
Penapeeree
Dirdot
Gerd
Bank Clearers Face Run After Oriental Bank Closure
The January 1908 closing of the Oriental Bank followed a Clearing House demand to retire loan certificates. Testimony to the Pujo Committee disclosed solvent status at a 1907 examination, a depositor payout of 37 percent on stock, with remaining assets worth about 120 percent. Key figures included R. W. Jones, Hugh Kelly, and directors Erskine Hewitt and Charles Beekman, with a letter by Kelly describing the closure as a tragedy of finance driven by Clearing House actions.
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Oriental Bank
Pujo Money Trust
Clearing House
Brooklyn Bank
Borough Bank of Brooklyn
R. W. Jones
James G. Cannon
Hugh Kelly
Mr. Jones
Mr. Kelly
Kelly
Jones
Erskine Hewitt
Abrams
Seven Attal
Clearing House Committee
Chelsea Exchange
Reed
Brooklyn
Hey
Mr. Untermyer
The New Gang War in the Underworld
Rival sun man organizations renew shootings in underworld conflict described as over business interests. Report highlights ongoing violence and public safety concerns as the Sunday Times previews tomorrow.
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Sun Men
Hungarian Diet Chaos Ends as Kovacs Shoots Tisz Then Commits Suicide
In Budapest amid stormy parliament sessions, opposition member Julius Kovacs fired three shots at Count Tisz, president of the chamber, then shot himself. Tisz was unhurt. Kovacs likely dying. Police restrained other protestors. the incident followed clashes over universal suffrage and recent expulsions.
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Vienna
Budapest
Julius Kovacs
Count Tisz
Count Tisza
Kovacs
GSE
Tisza
L. Navay
Par
Tissa
Socialist Union
Uini
Diet
Tisan
Boston Riot Strikes Shut Down All Elevated Lines
Boston faces a broad transit crisis as the Carmen strike halts service on every elevated line. Rioting continues with police deterred, injuries reported, and a large crowd targeting surface cars and stations in Cambridge Dorchester and Roxbury. Authorities expect limited service overnight with engineers urged to fill strike gaps while the company imports workers from outside cities.
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New York Times
Boston
Mass
Malden
Everett
East Boston
Humboldt Avenue
South
Cambridge
Brighton
Newton
Boston Elevated Company
Auydark
Boston Eleva Railwa Company
Oeeet
Boston Elevated Mutual Protective Association
Amalgamated Association of Street Railway
William A. Bancroft
House of Correction
Bragg
Charlestown
Police Station 4
Sergt
Frederick Ellis
Temple
Cambridge Police
James Cox
Thomas J. Collins
Frank M. Conway
Harvard Square
Dorchester
Wash Mn Street
Broadway
Dudley Street
Roxbury
Otone
Boston. and W: Thro tickets All -the- St the wa East
Boston area notices indicate tickets available for the East Street event. The fragment suggests a sale or listing but details are unclear. Limited readable entities include Boston and East Street.
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Boston
New York Lawyer Frederick Shaw Slain in Honduras
Attorney Frederick Pierpont Shaw, Chicago Title and Trust Company representative, was assassinated June 5 in Black River Tiiana Honduras while overseeing Central American Commercial Company property. His associate George A. Malachy survived. Shaw formerly lived in Lowell Massachusetts where his wife and father reside.
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Washington
Frederick Pierpont Shaw
Chicago Title and Trust Company
Federal Court For
Northern District of Illinois
Central American Commercial Company
Black River
Tiiana
Honduras
Tegucigalpa
State Department
Lowell
Mass
Shaw Machine Company
New York City
Thomas P. Shaw
Mr. Shaw
George A. Malachy
Title Company
United Fruit Company
Shaw
Amundsen to Be Decorated at Sorbonne Ceremony
Paris on June 7 reports the Geographical Society will hold a formal reception for Roald Amundsen at the Sorbonne in the first week of October with the Ministers of Marine and Public Instruction presiding. President Fallieres will bestow the Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor on Amundsen.
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Paris
Sorbonne
Geographical Society
Roald Amundsen
South Pole
Conqueror Sets New Dreadnought Speed Record
London reports HMS Conqueror achieved 28.25 knots during an eight hour full power trial, surpassing the previous British record held by the Vanguard at 22.1 knots. The fastest German dreadnought Oldenburg reached 22.4 knots in its trial this week.
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Marconi
New York Times
London
H. M. S. Conqueror
Manguard
Oldenburg
Senator Smith thanked for Titanic inquiry conduct
John Phipps secretary of the Ormskirk Lancashire branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants writes from Washington thanking Senator Alden Smith of Michigan for his handling of the Titanic inquiry. The society adopted a resolution praising his courageous search into the disaster and the humane approach.
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Washington
John Phipps
Ormskirk
Lancashire
Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of Great Britain
Senator Smith
Michigan
Alden Smith
Tailor Killed Saving Children In Brooklyn Bicycle Crash
A Brooklyn tailor Ampere Anderson of 217 Fifty-first Street swerved to avoid children leaving Public School 82 at Thirty-sixth Street and Fourth Avenue yesterday at 3 pm, struck a man then fell headfirst and died instantly. William Mayer of 263 Forty-sixth Street shouted in protest as Anderson lay motionless. Dr Dugan of Norwegian Hospital confirmed death.
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Thirty-sixth Street
Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn
Ampere Anderson
Fifty-first Street
William DB. Mayer
Forty-sixth Street
Anderson
Three year old girl dies saving brother from truck
In New York, Yetta Weber, 3, shielded her 2 year old brother Isidor from a reversing truck on 460 East 147th Street. Yetta died at Lincoln Hospital. Isidor was unhurt but frightened as the vehicle struck the siblings. the mother learned the father was away in the country.
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Yetta Weber
Isidor
147Th Street
Lincoln Hospital
Fire in Basement C at Bankers' Trust Building
A smoky basement fire was found last night in Basement C of the Bankers' Trust Building at 14-20 Wall Street. A porter alerted the Night Superintendent and window cleaners on the main tie were directed to the basement to assist with an improvised hose.
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Bankers’ Trust
Wall Street
Taft Wins In First Contests At National Committee
Chicago June 7 taft's camp gains 24 seats from contested columns while roosevelt allies vote with taft in most rulings. ninth alabama district roll call splits roosevelt and taft, stevenson denies quotes, roosevelt camp vows fight to convention amid tense calm at roosevelt headquarters.
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New York Times
Chicago
Republican National Committee
Taft
Roosevelt
National Committee
Alabama
Oscar R. Hundley
Birmingham
G. R. Lewis
Bessemer
Cecil A. Lyon
Texas
Dixon
Crane
Massachusetts
Stevenson
Colorado
Scott
West Virginia
Theodore Roosevelt
Aft
Ala
Col. Roosevelt
Senator Se
Col
Sagamore Hill
Ormsby McBlarg
Comte Sominaton
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