Peabody's Daughter Testifies in Haywood Trial Context
In Boise on June 15 the Haywood trial adjourned as the defense fought admission of drafts and money transfers tied to the Kingpin case. Miss Cora Peabody, daughter of former Colorado Governor, testified briefly to corroborate Orchard's statements. The prosecution pressed to bolster details of Orchard's narrative.
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New York Times
Boise
Haywood
Union
Borah
Canyon County
Harry Orchard
Gov
Steunenberg
Moyer Or Pettibone
Pettibone
Orchard
Pendar
Ogden
Steve Adams
Senator Borah
Adams
Damse
Telegraph Company
Simpkins Crafts
Simpkins
Wardner
Coeur d'Alene
Spokane
Houston
Richardson
Mias Cora Peabody
Colorado
Miss Peabody
Céra Peabody
Gey. Peabody
Peabody Moe
Denver
Balloon escape and pigeons terrorize Brooklyn crowd
Thousands chase a hot air balloon at a Church fair in Brooklyn as the Professor escapes the parachute drop. The balloon veers east, dropping onto Orient and Maspeth Avenues after releasing about 100 pigeons. 5,000 spectators flood the streets until police disperse them.
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Herricha Hendricks
Church of St. Cecilia
Herbert and
Edboldt Streets
Brooklyn
Edward McGoldrick
Laughlin’s
Oval Park
Kingsland Avenue
Frost Street
Orient
Maspeth Avenues
Bingham's Book At Work Sparks Police Response
A late night phone report claimed a riot at Eleventh Avenue and Fifteenth Street with many killed and wounded. Police arrived to find only an Italian pedestrian and one guard, as officers mocked the spread of fear fueled by a controversial commissioner's book.
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Eleventh Avenue
Fifteenth Street
West Twentieth Street
Quinn
Knowles
Jones resigns from Stapleton police over strict rules
William Jones, appointed two months ago, walked into the Stapleton station in Richmond at 10:40 last night and resigned. He handed back his club pistol shield and helmet and left a letter to Commissioner Bingham outlining his reasons. Jones formerly worked as a drug clerk at New Brighton and said General Bingham's regulations were too strict for the force.
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William Jones
Stapleton
Richmond
Bingham
Jones
New Brighton
Engagement Ends in Car Crash Shock on Flatbush Avenue
Richard Judd Jones a 22 year old bank clerk and his fiancée Miss Sadie Billings were struck while walking by Karl Kronemeyer a Manhattan silk merchant who swerved to avoid an incoming car and hit Jones. Jones was hospitalized with possible paralysis risk. Kronemeyer was arrested but released on $500 bail.
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Richard Judd Jones
First National Bank of New York
East Twentyfourth Street
Flatbush
Sadie Billings
East Twenty-fourth Street
Miss Billings
Manhattan
Karl Kronemeyer
Twenty- First Street
Ocean Avenue
Brooklyn
Mr. Jones
Kronemeyer
Steers
Worst Block in New York Raided by Police
Deputy Commissioner Bugher directed about fifty detectives at Police Headquarters in a large Harlem raid. Negro clubs saloons open after hours and disorderly women on West 134th Street between Fifth and Lenox Avenue were taken to East 126th Street Station. Inspector Dillon and Capt. Buchanan watched as prisoners arrived by wagonloads.
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Bugher
Harlem
West 134Th Street
Fifth and
Lenox
Percy Nagle
Freight cars plunge from bridge into Niagara Rapids
Three freight cars from a Grand Trunk train of fourteen broke away on the tower steel arch bridge at Niagara Falls New York and fell into the Niagara Rapids about 250 feet below. They damaged both decks of the structure and were driven by the current.
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Nagara Falls
N. Y
Grand Trunk
Niagara Rapids
Japan's Wakatsuki Labels San Francisco Disturbances Local
Reizko Wakatsuki Japanese Vice Minister of Finance in New York discusses San Francisco troubles as local disturbances and not national sentiment. He notes Americans opened Japan to the world and warns against sensationalism by politicians and press in both countries while expressing mutual interest in a long European mission and continued US friendship.
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Reizko Wakatsuki
New York
London
Paris
Times
San Francisco
Weakatsuk
Japan
America
Wakatsuki
Europe
Kengo Mori
Finance Department of
Special Financial Cosion
Messrs
I. Iuchi
T. Kawada
Aoki
Party of Five
K. J. Imanishi
Wall Street
Minnesota
Seattle
la Lorraine
Holland House
Special Financial Commission
Mori
Wakatsur
Imanishi
San Francis
California
United States
England
Roosevelt
Incomplete OCR Item Continues on Page 3
Fragmentary text shows continuation note from page 3 with unclear names and data. The visible snippet includes stray letters and numbers unlikely to form a full event or notice. No definitive people or organizations can be identified from the readable lines.
Katherine Eddy to Wed Senator Beveridge of Indiana
Miss Katherine Eddy daughter of Mr and Mrs Augustus N Eddy of 1601 Michigan Avenue Chicago is to marry Senator Beveridge of Indiana. The couple may wed abroad within the year and Beveridge plans a European trip starting Tuesday. Eddy is visiting her brother Spencer Eddy in Berlin and may meet Beveridge in Paris.
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New York Times
Chicago
Katherine Eddy
Augustus N. Eddy
Michigan Avenue
Senator Beveridge
Indiana
Beveridge
Europe
Miss. Eddy
Germany
Spencer Eddy
United States Legation
Berlin
Paris
Marshall Field
Abbie L. Spencer
Hibbard, Spencer Bartlett & Co
Raise in City Teachers Pay Sees Board Action
The Board of Education plans to confer with teachers on higher salaries after opposing a state equal pay measure. It notes teachers deserve more pay given rising living costs and asks teachers to submit tentative salary revision plans for board review. Summer recess looms as discussions proceed.
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McClelish
Hughes
Board of Education
Harrison
Pet dog used as messenger in New Jersey divorce case
In New Brunswick New Jersey Ellen Smith sues Frederick L. Smith for desertion seeking a divorce. Special Master in Chancery notes the couple once used a pet dog to deliver a reconciliation note, but the tactic failed and the suit proceeded.
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New York Times
New Brunswick
N. J
Ellen Smith
Frederick L. Smith
Smith
Waters-Pierce Oil bond aids fair Texas trial
John H. Kirby posted a 3.5 million dollar bond for Waters-Pierce Oil Company in Travis County to vacate receivership. The bond, approved by Judge Brooks in Austin, allows the firm to continue operations during appeals in state and federal courts over the coming year. Kirby said he aims to help every man and corporation obtain a fair impartial trial under Texas law.
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Texas Lumberman
Oil Company
New York Times
Dallas
Texas
John H. Kirby
Waters-Pierce Oil Company
Travis County
Brooks
Austin
Waters-Pierces Company
Kirby
Fort Worth
H. Clay Piercé
Waters-Pierce Company
New Districts for City Reapportionment Up in Albany
Albany June 15 Reapportionment talks stall as Senator Tully attends funeral in Corning and conferees Cassidy and Smith return home. Assemblymen Merritt Smith and O’Neck receive maps for New York Kings Counties. no decision until Monday or Tuesday when more details may emerge.
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New York Times
Albany
Tully
Corning
Cassidy
Smith
Conferrees
Oeneck
Merritt
New York Kings Counties
New York
Kings Counties
Cts
Neings
Senate
Omnia With Manttou Quest Takes Spot In Meet
Fragmentary OCR hints at a track or sports event featuring Manttou and Manion. The brief mentions a page or meet in Po from a city or venue, suggesting a local competition and a standout performance. Further readable details are lacking to confirm scores or placements.
Railroads to Join in War on Tramps
National Conference of Charities and Correction in Minneapolis vows railroad chiefs led by Hill Harriman McCrea to chase tramps from trains. A National Commission of Vagrancy will push work, lodging, and penalties, aiming to drive vagrants to labor and curb railroad losses.
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New York Times
Minneapolis
James J. Hill
H. Harriman
James McCrea
National Conference of Charities and Correction
Orlando F. Lewis
New York
Messrs. Hill, McCrea
Harriman
Delano
Wabash and Murray
Baltimore & Ohio
Hill
Great Northern
Pia
Lewis
Colt Worth $1,000 Killed In Accident In City
Mrs. Josephine Yager hired a carriage drawn by a chestnut colt valued at $1,000. The horse bolted after a train whistle, struck a Brooklyn Storage Co truck, and then dashed into a surface car on Seventh Avenue. The horse died instantly, and Mrs. Yager and driver George Parkinson were uninjured.
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Josephine Yager
West Fifty-seventh Street
Emil Seelig
West Fifty-fourth Street
George Parkinson
Fiftyseventh Street
Sixth Avenue
Brooklyn Storage Company
Parkinson
American hurt in Mexico on car tracks
F. H. Creel of Pittsburg is in critical condition at Jaurées Hospital after being found on the car tracks Monday night with a fractured skull. Authorities are investigating the cause but no clear details are available.
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Mexico City
F. H. Creel
Pittsburg
Jaurées Hospital
Great Sunspot Group Observed By Peters At Naval Observatory
Washington reports a massive sunspot group observed today by Prof. George H. Peters using the photo heliograph at the United States Naval Observatory. The group spans about 82 000 miles by 80 000 miles, nearly one tenth the sun’s diameter, located in the sunspot zone of the southern hemisphere.
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Washington
George H. Peters
United States Naval Observatory
Prof. Peters
Bankhead Named United States Senator to Fill Morgan Vacancy
Gov. Comer announced John H. Bankhead will be appointed U S Senator to fill the seat left by the death of Senator Morgan. The appointment follows the vacancy created by Morgan’s passing.
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Montgomery
Ala
John H. Bankhead
United States
Morgan
Comer
MAY ARREST COOK AT CONEY ISLAND
Newspaper reporters identified a party including the unfrocked minister Jeremiah Cook and Loretta Whaley at Coney Island. Cook fled toward an elevated station toward Manhattan after being approached. detectives followed from Brooklyn HQ and a reporter joined the same train. The girl matched Miss Whaley's description as the pursuit began.
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Coney Island
Jerimiah Cook
Loretta Whaley
Hempstead
Cook
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Frank Kelly
Franklin and
Fulton Avenues
Miss Whaley
West Shore Electric Railway Opens Between Utica and Syracuse
The forty four miles of electric railway between Utica and Syracuse over the West Shore Railroad were formally opened. For a week cars without passengers ran on the proposed schedule to test running steam and electric trains on the same tracks. The operation has been successful with no delays.
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Utica
Syracuse
West Shore Railroad
Hail Wrecks Crops in Jenkins County Georgia
A intense hail storm traveled four miles by ten miles wrecking crops in Jenkins County. The Daniel farm was destroyed and the Daniel Palmer Company farm was nearly a total loss. Hailstones killed chickens and shattered watermelons across the area.
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Millen
Jenkins County
E. Daniel
Daniel & Palmer Company
Taft Resumes Tour After Illness at Fort Snelling
Secretary Taft improved after a sudden illness at Fort Snelling and left for Sioux Falls and other Northwestern points. He reported his first good night’s rest in three weeks, and plans to continue his trip with a quiet day to recover as advised by Dr. Sneve and host J. C. Hill.
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ST. Paul
Taft
Fort Snelling
Sioux Falls
Sneve
Booker T. Washington Uses Van Wyck Homestead for Writing
Booker T. Washington has secured the old Van Wyck homestead at West Neck Long Island for the summer to write a book before leaving for Tuskegee in the fall. This marks the second time the residence has hosted a writer with a similar purpose. Mrs. Ann E. Stephens previously wrote Ruby Gray's Strategy and other short stories there.
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van Wyck
West Neck
L. I
Booker T. Washington
Washington
van Wyck Place
Tuskeegee
Ann E. Stephens
Ruby Gray
Chicago men plan major whale operation in Bering Sea
Chicago capitalists rally behind a $5,000,000 Bering Sea Commercial Company with Dr. Alexander De Soto of Seattle Alaska as promoter. Preparations are under way at the Great Northern Hotel. Captain Johan Sa of Tonsberg Norway leads a crew of Norwegian whalers bound for Alaska to oversee the venture.
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New York Times
Chicago
Bering Sea
Chicago Capital
Great Northern Hotel
Alexander de Soto
Seattle
Alaska
Johan E
Tonsberg
Norway
Great Eat Int Tm Boat Races
A fragmented OCR item mentions boat races and pricing Highlights unclear but shows event association with a team and a monetary value. No clear date or location is readable.
Czar dissolves Duma over coup and crackdown
The Czar ends the Duma after a night session dissolving the body and restricting franchise. Troops fill the capital as suppressive measures take effect and delegates are confined. Agents monitor the railway to stop suspected Social Democrats from fleeing.
Tsar dissolves Duma and orders new elections under new law
Emperor Nicholas signs ukase dissolving the 1906 Duma and sets Sept 14 as start for elections to a new Duma to be convoked Nov 14 under a revised electoral framework. Stolypin countersigns as ministers justify necessity amid alleged Duma wrongdoing and terrorism.
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ST. Petersburg
Nicholas
Russia
Council of Ministers
Peterhof
Stolypin
Messenger
Duma
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National Commission
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Mexico
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Bankhead
Alabama
Coney
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