Breaks into Buckingham Palace in daring midnight intrusion
A young motor engineer named Harry Pike reportedly breached Buckingham Palace defenses at dawn, entering via a basement window and roaming corridors including near the Queen's private rooms. He claimed the act was a bravado challenge to a suffragette raid claim and was captured by a palace page after a chase. Police examined his tale with Scotland Yard observers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constitution Hill
Pike
Police
Scotland Yard
Suffragettes Target London Churches in Wave of Disruption
In London on June 7 suffragettes interrupted services in Brompton Oratory and Westminster Cathedral, clashing with congregations. Several women were detained as police removed others. two were later bailed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
London
Oratory
Brompton
Christine Andrews
Mary Fausten
Gulpit
Westminster Cathedral
Church of the Oratory, Brompton
Bernard Vaughan
McLean Heir’s New Chum Joins Washington Summer Life
The McLeans invite Dr. Shirley Carter’s five year old son to stay at Black Point Farm near Newport as a nursery companion for Vinson Walsh McLean. The Carter boy travels with a Carter relative and will be supervised by Mrs. McLean, a governess, nurses, and detectives. The child’s rideable skill and bond with Washington life sparked the invitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Washington
Edward Beale McLean
Black Point Farm
Newport
Shirley Carter
Warrenton
McLean
Vinson Walsh McLean
Carter
King Carter
Vinson McLean
Massachusetts Avenue
Miss Carter
Yale Doctor Fighting For Life After Blood Transfusion
Dr. Otto C. G. Stameay of Yale Medical School aids in a transfusion to save Dr. Ramsay a renowned gynecologist at the Ramsay home on Church Street New Haven. Dr. Ramsay 45 years old and ill with pneumonia after bronchitis. Medical staff from Yale led by Dr. Wilder Tilston and Dean George Blumer report slight initial improvement but outcome remains uncertain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
New Haven
Otto CG. Stameay
Yale Medical School
Ramsay
B. H. Moore
Yale
Church Street
Moore
Wilder Tilston
George Blumer
Linderman
New York City
Johns Hopkins University
Roosevelt Off to Madrid For Son's Wedding in Madrid
June 7 Paris Col Theodore Roosevelt continues to Madrid where his son Kermit will wed Miss Belle Willard daughter of the American Ambassador. In Roosevelts party are Mrs Longworth Katherine Page and Oscar Straus. He breakfasted with Edith Wharton and received callers including ex President Fallieres Briand and Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt. A crowd gathered outside the hotel as photographers sought pictures of the former President.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Theodore Roosevelt
Madrid
Kermit Roosevelt
Belle Willard
Spain
Col. Roosevelt
Falliéres
Briand
M. Fallières
Tuileries
Place de la Concorde
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Alfonso Returns to San Sebastian After Nose Operation
King Alfonso arrives by car in San Sebastian from Biarritz where he underwent his periodic nose operation. He will ride the express to Madrid this evening, a train also carrying Col. Theodore Roosevelt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Sebastian
Spain
Alfonso
Biarritz
Madrid
Col
Theodore Roosevelt
Steamer Alliance to test Gatun Locks electric mules
Panama June 7. The 4,000 ton steamer Alliance of the Panama Railroad Line will pass the Gatun Locks at 8 am to test electric towing locomotives and gain lock crew experience. Two electric mules will move her on each side. After the test she returns to Colon and sails for New York on Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York Times
Panama
Steamer Alliance
Gatun Locks
Allianca
Colon
New York
Night Fire Wrecks E. L. Richards Home
State Superintendent of Banks Eugene Lamb Richards and family escaped a 2:80 AM blaze at their New Brighton Staten Island home. Loss estimated at $50,000 with rich mahogany interiors damaged. Col. and Mrs. William Denny, guests, aided in evacuation. Fire blamed on rat gnawing insulation near a dumb waiter shaft. cause under investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene Lamb Richards
New Brighton
S. I
Mrs. Denny
Richards
Diana Elmandorf Richards
Mr. Richards
A. B Ellman
Prospect Avenue
Col
Denny
Jonathan Randall
Randall's Island
B M Express Derailed In Vermont Derailment
A Boston to Montreal Boston & Maine express derailed near Brain tree Vermont on Central Vermont track. Eight passengers and four train employees were slightly injured as mail and express cars plunged into the White River. Several passengers, including Mrs. Leo Rene and Helen H Brown, suffered injuries. others had minor contusions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Randolph
Boston & Maine Express
Boston
Montreal
Braintree
Central Vermont
White River
Leo Rene
Manchester
N. H
F. J. Robar
Brattleboro
Helen H. Brown
Marlboro
Mass
Fred Dysone
Assiniba
Saskatchewan
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Ill With Phlebitis
Berlin June 7 The Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz aged 66 is seriously ill with phlebitis. His temperature rose to 104 last night and he was delirious. today his fever returned to normal but his condition remains critical.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Lively Talk with Gertrude Atherton in The Times
Noted novelist Gertrude Atherton rails at society novels and declares twenty thousand militants are not worth a Velasquez. She criticizes fiction as cramped artificial and aimless in a preview for next Sunday’s Times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gertrude Atherton
Velasquez
TIMES
Armed Squad Joins Rockefeller Guard at Pocantico Hills
Two months after agitators troubled the Rockefeller estate, eight armed deputies from Westchester entered Pocantico Hills with Sheriff Doyle. The incident followed attacks on the estate gates and heightened tensions amid I W W protests in nearby towns. John D Rockefeller Sr and others discussed security while John D Rockefeller Jr was not present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John J. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
WeattoreaKochester County
Rockefeller
Pocantico Hills
Doyle
White Plains
John D. Rockefeller
Mr. Rockefeller
Tarrytown
F. R. Pierson
Upton Sinclair
Sinclair
Leonard Abbott
Theodore Schroeforder
Justice of the Peace Moorhouse
Live
George Hiram Mann
Wall Street
Pierson
Arthur T. Brooks
First Baptist Church
Colorado
John PD. Rockefeller, Jr
League to Push Fight for Free Speech Rights
The Free Speech League issued a lengthy statement vowing to intercede in cases where free speech is denied and to continue the fight at Tarrytown until constitutional conformity. It acknowledges communities may regulate outdoor meetings when traffic is impeded but insists regulation must be bona fide. The group accepts police power to arrest for crime but denies forbidding speech based on conjecture of intent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Free Speech League
Tarrytown
President Emeritus Eliot Named First Citizen of Massachusetts
Boston June 7 President Emeritus Charles W Eliot of Harvard is named the first citizen of Massachusetts by a nine‑man preferential ballot. No single first choice emerged, but Eliot totals 1542 when first and second choices are counted under the current preferential method.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Boston
Charles W. Eliot
Harvard
Massachusetts
Eliot
Starving Sisters Seek Police Aid After Park Ordeal
Dinah Meyers and Pearl Schwartz, step-sisters aged 18 and 20, told Detective Haggerty they had slept in Central Park for days and begged for food after losing work and their last savings. They were taken to the 26th Street station, fed, and paroled to Elizabeth Barnett of the Sheltering Home for Girls until Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Haggerty
127Th Street
Lexington Avenue
Central Park
Hugherty
Hast 26Th Street
Dinah Meyers
Pearl Schwartz
Mr. Meyers
Paul Krotel
Sheltering Home For
Elizabeth Barnett
West Tenth Street
Denver Youth Shows Remarkable Spatial Memory Under Test
Cleo Smith, termed a human encyclopedia, was tested for 45 minutes at a public library in Denver. Psychologists praised his rapid, accurate responses on geography and mathematics, noting a strong spatial memory and a rare talent. He answered census, capitals, counties, and industrial data, with one slip about the Governor of North Carolina. He is a 20 year old from Green Forest Arkansas and appears younger than his age.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Col
Cleo Smith
Smith
Duren J. M. Ward
Colorado New Psychological Society
Atlanta
North Carolina
United States
Canada
Green Forest
Ark
Death at Dyckman Street baseball game
Charles Clarke an 18 year old member of the St Stephen's Lyceum team died after suffering heart failure during a game against the Knights of Columbus at Dyckman Street yesterday afternoon. He collapsed after reaching home plate and was pronounced dead at the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Clarke
Jast Ninetieth Street
St. Stephen's Lyceum
Knights of Columbus
Dyckman Street
Clarke
Burke
Washington Heights
Schoeler
St. Nicholas Avenue
Arthur B. Cannon
St. George Hotel
Brooklyn
Bremen to New York Ocean Liner Arrival Report
Kronprinzesin Cecile of North German Lloyd sailed Bremen toward New York, reported 280 miles east of Oak at 7 PM with a projected afternoon arrival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marconi Wireless
Kronprinzessin Cecile
Lloyd
Bremen
New York
Miles E. of Oak
Tampico blockade dispute unsettles mediation hopes
A June 7 telegram from Rear Admiral Badger reports Mexican gunboats Bravo and Zaragosa near Tampico en route at nine knots with Tacoma and Sacramento observing. Secretary Daniels insists no new orders or convoy plans have been issued and the Tampico port policy remains to keep commerce open despite the crisis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Washington
Navy Department
Badger
Bravo
Zaragosa
Tampico
Panuco River
Tacoma
Sacramento
Daniels
Admiral Badger
Puerto Mexico
Department
Antilla
Zara
Wilson
Hrgan
Church
Niagara Falls
Mayo
Ozark
Pantaeo River
Antillas
Shot Burwell and Burned Body Revealed in Inquiry
Canada cabled a report detailing the execution of Walter Burwell by Federal soldiers near Ozuluana in May. A constitutionalist committee uncovered burned remains and unburned clothing, identified at Tampico, with both Americans killed then buried or preserved for State Department guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Burwell
Daniels
Burwell
Col. Quirol
Ozuluana
Tampico
Vera Cruz
United States
Col. Quirel
Quircel
Frank Assize
Quirol
State Department
Blanquet Details Military Moves Against Rebels
Mexico City dispatch reports War Minister Blanquet declining to confirm that the Eighty-ninth Infantry was sent to disperse Zapatistas near Chalco. He says the unit’s mission was different and defers further questions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Germans at the Capital and Diaz appeal reach high level
In Mexico City, German officials including Consul Heynan and Commander Koehler met with Minister von Hintze after Heynan stated to press in Vera Cruz that he had nothing further to add about the Puerto Mexico landing and the Ypiranga firing. Sergeant Juan Diaz of the Ninth Infantry, condemned for the murder of Lieutenant Mendoza, gains legal recourse with an appeal to the First District Judge and possible Supreme Court review while remaining confined at Santago prison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Mexico City
Carl, Heynan
Hamburg-American Line
Koehler
Dresden
Richard Everbusch
Tampico
Heynan
Tank New York Times
Arma
Puerto Mexico
Ypiranga
Hevnan
Vera Cruz
Moerbusch
von Hintze
Legathon
Juan Diaz
Mighty-ninth Infantry
Adolfo Lopez de Mendoza
Santago
Tolay
Diaz
Piaz
Supreme Court
Santiaso
Tampico fortifications rush as attack threat looms
In Tampico the defense rush continues with five heavy guns placed at the river mouth and measures to block the river channel. Governor Luis Caballero declares banknotes dated after February 1 valid in Tamaulipas and similar action is expected in other Constitutionalist states. Foreign consuls meet to inform governments while oil firms and other businesses plan a course of action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tametco
Yaragoza
Luis Caballero
Tamaulipas
Onls
Tampico
Federal Gunboats Move Toward Tampico Port
Washington reports two U S gunboats Bravo and Zaragosa approaching Tampico to enforce a proclaimed blockade while the Antilla carries rebel ammunition across the Gulf. Navy officials say no new orders were issued and Tampico will remain open to all commerce as negotiations linger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bravo
Zaragosa
Puerto Mexico
Revel
Tampico
Antilla
Florida
Also Mentioned on This Page
Henry Pike
Buckingham
Vant
Buckingham Palace
Harry Pike
Virginia
Roosevelt
Edith Wharton
E. L. Richards
Staten Island
Grand Duke
III
Mecklenburg - Strelitz
William H. Taft
Rockefeller Guard
League TO
C. W. Eliot
First Citizen
Chas. EF. Matthews
E. 28Th St
Spedal
The
Harlem
Huerta
Vera Forour
W. Canada
Blanquet
Joaquin Maass
San Luis Potest
Angeles
Saltillo
San Luis Potosi
Guaymas
Oreo Cuaadalajara
Sayula
Guadalajara
Collin
Cuernavaca
Luis Hernandez
Sefier Alcover
Tuadalajara
Piowerta
San Francisco
Cenfer
Hope
Dennis G. Brussel
West
Habe
U. S
Minnesota
Gen. Huerta
Mave
Niatara Falls
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!