Taft Silver Wedding Reception Draws National Invitees
Washington scene outlines a nationwide guest list for the Taft silver wedding anniversary at the White House on Monday. Aunt Delia Torrey Horace Taft and Helen Taft head a long line of relatives and dignitaries invited, with 5000 invitations issued and electric lights planned for the grounds.
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New York Times
Washington
White House
Delia Torrey
Millbury
Mass
Horace Taft
Waterbury
Executive Mansion
Taft
United States
Isit
State Department
McKinley
George B. Connelyou
Robert T. Lincoln
Andrew J. Patterson
Greenville
Tenn
Andrew Johnson
Frederick D. Grant
President Garfield
Grover Cleveland
Rose Cleveland
President Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison
Russell Harrison
James R. McKee
McKee
Roosevelt
Ethel Roosevelt
Kermit Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Nicholas Longworth
Marine Band
United States Engineer Band
Washington Saenger
Senate
House
Gridiron Club
National Press Club
Cincinnati Commercial Club
Cincinnati
Pittsburg
Helen Taft
Thomas K. Laughlin
Inttsburg Society
Pittsburg Golf Club
George M. Laughlin, Jr
Priest Halts Killing On Strike July Night
A priest stopped a would be shooting aboard a Bell Manufacturing Co truck in New York. Frank Boedge 21 of 851 First Avenue aimed a revolver during a strike clash with 200 Italian drivers. Father Joseph Splain of St Ignatius Loyola Church intervened and the weapon was handed to police. Boedge was charged with discharging a revolver in the street.
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Frank Boedge
First Avenue
Joseph Splain
St. Ignatius Loyola
Park Avenue
Eighty-fourth Street
Madison Avenue
Boedge
Eighty-second Street
Father Splain
Innocent Mud Pie Poisoning In Bronx Family
Eight year old Ethel Jackson mixed water with mud to make pies while her father Edward Jackson 49 a bricklayer at 927 Courtlandt Ave Bronx was poisoned by sulphuric acid from a gin bottle. He was hospitalized at Lincoln Hospital and may die.
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Ethel Jackson
Edward Jackson
Courtlandt Avenue
Bronx
Lincoln Hospital
Jackson
Redden
Morrisanian
Freston
Ethel
Rockefeller Carries Wife Home From Station in Public
At Cleveland's 105th Street station John D Rockefeller Sr carries his ailing wife down the car steps and into a waiting auto. The pair then join his sister in the car as he jokes about his gray hairs and hints at an early round of golf at Forest Hill.
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New York Times
Cleveland
Ohio
105Th Street
New York Central
Lake Shore Limited
Rockefeller
Mr. Rockefeller
Forest Hill
Senator Pomerene
Reciprocity vote eyed as Senate nears final action
Senator Penrose announces a July 13 vote target for reciprocity with about sixty senators in favor and warns opposition to the Root amendment. He notes daily sessions, early passage anticipated, and potential wool and free list bills sharing the agenda as hearings press manufacturing interests.
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New York Times
Washington
Penrose
Finance Committee
White House
Senate
Tariff Board
House Committee
Mark Twain Estate Wins Lower 1905 Tax Assessment
An order reducing Samuel L. Clemens personal estate assessment from fifty thousand to twenty thousand dollars was signed by Supreme Court Justice Newburger on the Clemens estate application. An affidavit by Twain used in the filing.
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Samuel L. Clemens
Mark Twain
Supreme Court
Newburger
Clemens
Moet & Chandon Imports Highlight Sparkling Selection
A chest of imported champagnes including Moet & Chandon Imperia and Crown Brut Cuvee. The list notes Moet & Chandon White Seal Very Dry and specifies sole importers A. Kessler & Co. in the period catalog.
Banks Family Yale Tradition Reaffirms Tuition Choice
A New Haven dispatch claimed Charles Lenox Banks Sr forgave his son for choosing Yale over Columbia but an investigation finds no basis. Both men are Yale alumni and the Banks family has long sent sons to Yale. the elder did not clash with Yale Faculty over entrance exams.
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New Haven
Charles Lenox Banks
Charles Lenox Banks, Jr
Yale
Columbia
Mr. Banks
Banks
Colorado Vacation Low Fares Train Ad
Rock Island offers economical one night train options from Colorado to Chicago and St. Louis with morning departures and comfortable seating. Booklets and tickets available at 401 Broadway.
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Colorado
Rock Island
Chicago
St. Louis
Broadway
The prettiest spot in New York jury reveals views
A twelve person jury of artists debates the city’s most beautiful place. The Sunday Times previews the forthcoming feature with their varied opinions on beauty spots across New York.
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New York
12 Mile Gale Dumps Snow As City Logs Unusual June Storm
A freak storm in the city produced a tornado like wind and scattered snow flakes around 3 PM with rain totaling .02 inches. Wind peaked at 72 mph, tying a June record, then eased as temperatures plunged from 72 to 53 before recovering. Mayor Gaynor endured the event aboard a police launch and later avoided comment on the trip. Local losses included downed wires and a fallen tree in Jersey City. Forecaster Scarr warned unsettled weather may continue.
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Times
Scarr
Battery
Crouzds
Governors Island
Gaynor
Waldo
City Hall
Mr. Doty
Bancroft Heir At Center Of Delaware Divorce Suit
In Wilmington on June 16 John Bancroft refuses comment as Alfred I du Pont sails to Cherry Island near Cambridge Md. The case names an infant co defendant challenging paternity and aims to bar the child from Bancroft fortunes. Court will hear in September with open sessions, not private.
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New York Times
Wilmington
Del
John Bancroft
Madeleine du Pont Bancroft
Alfred I. du Pont
du Pont Fowder Company
Cherry Island
Cambridge
Delaware
Bessie Gardner du Pont
Madeleine
Red Oak Road
le Bancroft
Paris
Breck’s Lane
Brandywine Powder Works
Poycer
du Pont
Dakota
Aew
Bancroftu Pont
Harvard Rowing Launch Vagrant Burns Fire Sinks
At Red Top Harvard training quarters a speed launch named Vagrant caught fire after Harold Vanderbilt attempted to start its engine. Vanderbilt was badly burned and rescued by crew from John Harvard as the Vagrant drifted and sank. Fire boats and oarsmen fought the blaze. wreck Scott of New London plans to raise the sunken craft for repair.
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New York Times
Red Top
Conn
Harvard
Harold Vanderbilt
John Harvard
Young Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt
W. E. Ladd
Freeman Moshier
Government
Wreck Scott
New London
Dill” Starr
Roger W. Cutter
Oliver Iselin
Crimson
Jim Wray
U. S
New York
Grand Jury to rule on McNamara kidnapping indictments
Indianapolis report says the April 24 Grand Jury findings on the McNamara kidnapping case will be submitted to Judge Markey and indictments are expected against four men for aiding the transfer of John J. McNamara to Los Angeles where he faces dynamite charges. The case hinges on misrepresentation for a requisition and whether McNamara had opportunity to defend himself in Indianapolis.
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New York Times
Indianapolis
Ind
Joseph T. Markey
Criminal Court
John J. McNamara
International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
Los Angeles
Cal
Los Angeles Times
McNamara
Adianapolis
Grand Ju
King George and Queen Mary to Stay in London
King George and Queen Mary will return from Windsor to London and remain through July 1 with a busy schedule. Premier Asquith will host a Downing Street dinner June 30 featuring plays by Shaw and Barrie. Sir Edward Grey plans a Foreign Office dinner June 2% with foreign princes and envoys for the coronation. Illuminations for coronation week will be exceptionally large, straining power supplies.
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London
George
Queen Mary
Windsor
Asquith
Downing Street
George Bernard Shaw
James M. Barrie
Granville Barker
Edward Grey
Een
Foreign Office
Nieuport Shatters Aerodrome Record In Race Prelims
In Chalons France on June 16 M Nieuport flew 145 kilometers at 129 kmh about 80 mph during the James Gordon Bennett preliminaries, beating the prior aerodrome record and signaling strong speed for the contest.
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M. Nieuport
Chalons
France
James Gordon Bennett
Derailed International Limited Kills One, Injures Two near Bowmanville
The Grand Trunk International Limited from Montreal to Chicago derailed four miles east of Bowmanville Ontario at 4:45 PM. The baggage car and seven cars left the rails. engine stayed on track. James Madill of Toronto was killed. Hector Dauphinais of St Hyacinthe and Thomas P. Stimson of Kingston were seriously hurt. The train carried 300 passengers and few injuries occurred.
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Bowmanville
Ont
International Limited
Grand Trunk
Montreal
Chicago
James Madill
Toronto
Hector Dauphenais
St. Hyacinthe
Quebec
Thomas P. Stimson
Prof Brandelle Drowned After Missing Search
Lewiston Mo June 16 The death by drowning of Prof David W Brandelle of Bates College who had been missing since Thursday afternoon was disclosed today when the Androscoggin river search found his coat neatly folded with hat and glasses on top on the river bank three miles above the city He had been an instructor in history and economics at Bates and had been suffering a nervous breakdown.
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Lewiston
David W. Brandelle
Bates College
Brandelle
Bates
Military base to host 1200 troops in city baseball league
One thousand two hundred soldiers at Fort Sam Houston prepare for a large base wide baseball season. Preliminary play has begun in a camp league with every unit forming teams and elimination rounds selecting battalion squads for the division league. A citywide series will follow.
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New York Times
San Antonio
Texas
Yale Law seniors fail to graduate in large class
In New Haven on June 16 1930 thirty five members of Yale Law School's senior class failed to pass and will not receive degrees on June 19. The class numbered 153 and the school will shift to a five year program affecting future graduates. Last year's class had many who failed as well.
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New Haven
Conn
Yale Law School
Vanderbilt's Impatient Chauffeur Fined Five Dollars
William Vanderbilt Jr's chauffeur William Ismer stood in Yorkville Court yesterday for letting an automobile smoke on East Fifty seventh Street near Fifth Avenue. Health Department officer James Anderson apprehended him. Vanderbilt offered to pay any fine, and Magistrate Kernochan fined Ismer five dollars, which he paid.
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William SK. Vanderbilt, Jr
Yorkville Court
East Fifty-seventh Street
Fifth Avenue
Health Department
James Anderson
William Ismer
Ane
Ismer
Fire in liner President Lincoln at Hoboken pier
Fire broke out in a lower cargo hold of the Hamburg American liner President Lincoln moored at Pier 2 in Hoboken. Smoke filled the hatch, water was poured in through a cut shaft, and flames were fought with hoses. The blaze, caused by broken jute bales, caused about 100 dollars in damage. Hoboken fire brigade stood by as a precaution.
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Lincoln
Pier 2
Hoboken
Union Slugging Scale Tied to Typographical Officials
Testimony to a Grand Jury in Chicago reveals a system where union leaders paid sluggers to maim or kill opponents. Three men confessed to killing Rush Denon, a non union printer, on orders from typographical union officials. Indictments of union officials are expected. details include payments of 50 to hospitalize and 300 for “going the limits.”
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New York Times
Chicago
Rush Denon
Pinkerton Agency
Grand Jury
Denon
Four Po
Piccadilly Gin Supremacy Three Reigns Described
Ad copy extols Piccadilly gin as supreme for three reigns describing start to its own. America’s cockey dry, smooth thirst banishing and available everywhere.
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America
River Factory Fire Blazes Through West Fifty Fourth Street
A four story factory at 619 to 625 West Fifty fourth Street burned after midnight, drawing eighteen engines, three fireboats, five fire trucks and a water tower. Fire spread to Tar ker Sheet Metal Works, collapsing walls and endangering the Lynch family as crowds gathered to watch overnight. Chief Kenton ordered multiple alarms as smoke and flames filled the lower West Side.
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Hudson River
Broadway
Fifty-fourth Street
Kenton
West Fifty-fourth Street
Frank Richards
Mehlin Piano Manufacturing Company
Fred Hoffstatt
William Kleeman
Tenth
Ninth
Eighth Avenues
Fiftyfourth Street
de Witt Clinton Park
Owen Lynch
Lynch
Tenth Avenue
Tarker Sheet Metal Works
Fifty-fifth Street
Lynches
A. P. Bigelow
Fifty-third Street
Eleventh Avenue
Thomas Willett
New Yorker
Brawley
West Forty-seventh Street
Mrs James Arrest Report In Manhattan Theft Case
Mrs Flora James wife of Gen Thomas L James reported to West 125th Street Police Station that a maid Jennie Jarvis stole cash clothing and a gown and pin valued at 158 She later presented the maid at the station claiming confession and returned to her home with 70 cash found under a pillow and items she says were taken from her country residence in Ighwood New Jersey
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Flora James
Thomas L. James
Linncoln National Bank
West 125Th Street
Mrs. James
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John Norris
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
International Paper Company
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Fece
Allen & Graham
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