Brakes Fail On Death Run Test In New Haven
The air brakes on Pacific type engine Ko 1.58 of the Boston express on the New Haven Road failed to hold the wheels in a test reenacting Dougherty’s fatal wreck. A loose brake pin and subsequent breakdown left the engine a cripple towed to Stamford. Officials questioned repairs and urged renewed braking training for crews.
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New York Times
Crampeord
Boston Express
New Haven
Skylark
Stamford Roundhouse
Charles J. Dougherty
Stamford
Commerce Commissio
Dougherty
New Slaven Road
Phelan
New Haven System
A. McConville
Maugherty
Sin
Noroton
McConville
Bryan snubs delegation with sharp rebuke over Mexico policy
A Washington delegation with major Mexican interests grumbled over Secretary Bryan after meeting him. Bryan defended Taft policy of non intervention and accused them of pursuing dollars over principle. He challenged them to name women and children needing evacuation. Members listed include Joseph Quailey, Brice McKinney, C. K. Warren, H. S. Stevenson, W. N. Pence, Charles Newman, and W. W. Turney.
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New York Times
Washington
Mexico
Bryan
Taft
Mr. Bryan
Joseph Quailey
New York
Brice McKinney
Cleveland
C. K. Warren
Three Oaks
Mich
H. 8. Stevenson
California
W. N. Pence
Midland
Texas
Nelson Morris Meat Packing
Charles Newman
W. W. Turney
el Paso
Nutley votes to keep seventeen saloons amid anti-prohibition push
Nutley New Jersey residents reject an ordinance to cut saloons from seventeen to ten by 579 to 306. The initiative followed a four week campaign led by anti-saloon forces with support from the New Jersey Anti-Saloon League. Reverend Edmund Wasom urged defeat of the measure.
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New York Times
Nutley
N. J
New Jersey
Edmund R. Wasson
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
Newark
Dr. Wasson
Wasson
New Jersey Anti-Saloon League
Gasoline Explosion Wrecks Kirk's Garage at Hotel Taft
Panic at the Hotel Taft in New Haven as Kirk's garage exploded from a thousand gallons of gasoline in the cellar. George Fitch was killed. five others injured including John Hansin George Lyman James Carley Wilbur F. Watkins and W A Kirk. Windows shattered and six cars damaged. Damage about $10,000.
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New York Times
New Haven
Taft
Kirk
George Fitch
Standard Oil Company
John Hansin
George Lyman
James Carley
EK. B. Butler
Chicago
Wilbur F. Watkins
Yale
W. A. Kirk
Lyman
Fitch
Wind Storm Ravages New Jersey Towns
A powerful electric storm with hail swept through Manasquan Brielle Point Pleasant and Bay Head causing major damage. One house was demolished two railroad flagmen were injured and crops suffered heavy losses as wind speeds reached up to eighty five miles per hour and visibility dropped to near zero.
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Brielle
N. J
Manasquan
Point Pleasant
Bay Head
Stefansson Ship Sails for Arctic
Stefansson leads the Karluk with Capt. Robert Bartlett and Dr. Robert Anderson on a three year Arctic expedition from Victoria to Nome. The voyage aims to chart an unknown region between Alaska and the pole, with government backing and a focus on geographic discovery over immediate results.
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Vilhjalmar Stefansson
North Pole
Stefansson
Victoria
B. Co
Robert Bartlett
Peary
Roosevelt
Capt
Bartlett
Karluk
Robert Anderson
Blonde Eskimos
Arctic
Nome
Alaska
New York
The
New York Times
B. C
Providence
Beaufort Sea
North Polar Sea
Mackenzie
Atlantic
Liverpool
Herschell Island
Are Our Government and Our People at Odds
Baron d'Estournelles de Constant, noted peace advocate, argues that idealistic citizens are pulled away by an imperialist government in this country. Read more in next Sunday's Times.
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Baron d’Estournelles de Constant
Wilson currency plan’s introduction delayed after White House talks
President Wilson held a three hour White House conference with McAdoo Owen and Glass over banking and currency legislation. The group signaled changes and a likely delay until next week for introducing the bill and delivering the message to Congress.
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New York Times
Washington
Wilson
White House
McAdoo
Owen
Oklahoma
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Representative Glass
House
Congress
Messrs
Glass
Oscar W. Underwood
Underwood
Dover Girl Receives Disturbing Missing Note From Northfield
Miss Juna Ritter of Dover and Northfield High School was alerted to a harrowing letter from her roommate Miss Anne Mackenzie of New York City claiming imprisonment in a house run by Italians in New York. police notified. Mackenzie aunt in New York unidentified.
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New York Times
Dover
Del
Juna Ritter
Northfield
Mass
Anne Mackenzie
New York City
New York
Julia Ritter
Miss Ritter
Miss Mackenzie
Miss J. Mackenzie
West Ninety-second Street
Anne
F. J. MacKenzie
Nurse confirms Annie MacKenzie safe with friends in New Jersey
Mrs. M H Wilson of New York Hospital says Annie MacKenzie is well and safe at friends' home in Elizabeth New Jersey. She left the Nurses Club at 1 pm to see a dentist then went to Elizabeth. Lieutenant Quinn reports the Ritter letter is a hoax and Miss MacKenzie asks no publicity.
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M. H. Wilson
Nurses’ Club
New York Hospital
West Ninety-second Street
Annie MacKenzie
Dover
Elizabeth
N. J
Miss Ritter
Miss MacKenzie
Lieut. Quinn
New York
Dutch Alonzo Found Dead in West Forty-Third Street Rooming House
Will iam Alonzo died yesterday afternoon in a rooming house on West Forty-third Street. Police and the Coroner found nothing suspicious but noted possible drug involvement. Alonzo, known as Dutch Alonzo, had been linked to wire tapping and gambling cases and had been out on $10,000 bail pending General Sessions.
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William Alonzo
West Forty-third Street
Dutch" Alonzo
Sir John Grey
Paper Collar Joe
Dougherty
Florida
Alonzo
Ludlum
Dwyer
Trail of Sugar Lobby Targets Newspapers in Press Associations
Alarming Senate Lobby Committee testimony traces efforts by Clarence C. Hamlin and the American Beet Sugar Association to sway public opinion against free sugar. Letters describe trying to place stories, coordinate with press associations, and enlist newspapers nationwide plus The Associated Press.
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New York Times
Washington
Senate Lobby Committee
United States Beet
Clarence C. Hamlin
Colorado Springs
American Beet Sugar Association
Harry A. Austin
Truman G. Palmer
United States
Association
Palmer
Hamlin
Clark
Wyoming
Friends
Chi Inter Ocean
Congress
Inter Ocean
Associated Press
Aaron Gove
Hawlin
Charles B. Warren
Michigan Sugar Company
Middle West
Fargo
N. C
Gove
Highton
Hardwick
House
Sugar Trust
New York
H. T
Mr. Oxnard
Reed
Oxnard
Borah
H. A. Douglass
Minnesota Sugar Company
Chaska
Chicago
Woman detective tracks, arrests shoplifter after chase
Miss Kate Dawson, a MecCreery store detective on Thirty-fourth Street, followed a man to the street and arrested Herbert Hopkins after a struggle. Hopkins allegedly took ten pairs of silk stockings, resisted twice, then was halted at Sixth Avenue by Patrolman Ryan as witnesses recovered the stock from under his coat.
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Kate Dawson
MecCreery
Thirty-fourth Street
Thirty-fifth Street
Herbert Hopkins
West Thirty-third Street
Hopkins
Sixth Avenue
Ryan
Miss Dawson
Diamond Special Held Up Near Glenarm Illinois
The Diamond Special of the Illinois Central Railroad was halted at 12 10 this morning near Glenarm 13 miles south of Springfield. Two masked men flagged the train and forced the crew to uncouple the engine and express car before fleeing. Passengers remain marooned in the coaches as a special police train moves toward the scene.
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Illinois Central Railroad
Glenarm
Williams
Sheriff's Office
Imperator Night Plan Aboard World’s Largest Liner
The Imperator neared New York on its first transatlantic voyage 510 miles east of Ambrose Channel at 8 PM. Weather shifted from clear seas to cloudy with fog and a 20 mile head wind. earlier speed ran 504 knots then 508. Passengers enjoyed three legged races and a nail driving contest. women and married men won events, with a silver jubilee ball for Emperor William.
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S. S. Imperator
Halifax
William
America
Germany
Imperator
Atlantic
Ambrose Channel
New York
Zeppelin May Try Atlantic Crossing This Summer
Berlin reports Count Zeppelin and staff think a modern airship can cross the Atlantic and reach New York in about three days if weather is favorable. The German government backs the plan, with German warships available to assist if needed.
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New York
X Times
London
Berlin
Zeppelin
Friedrichshafen
Atlantic
Germany
Rate ruling upholds Boston import freight limits
The Interstate Commerce Commission reaffirmed a prior order keeping west bound import freight rates from Boston no lower than those from New York. Boston interests and two railroads requested a rehearing, arguing lower Boston rates are needed to retain traffic manners and prevent discrimination.
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New York Times
Washington
Inter- State Commerce Commission
Boston
New York
Boston & Albany
Boston & Maine
Le.ss
Fire destroys top floor at Madison Avenue boarding house
Guests from the Martha Washington, Hotel Seville, and Colony Club watched a blaze destroy the top floor of Mrs. N. V. Baker’s boarding house at 106 Madison Avenue. No one was inside when it started. Damage is about $5,000. rooms occupied by Mason Terry and others were evacuated.
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Martha Washington
Seville
Colony Club
N. V. Baker
Madison Avenue
Mason Terry
Douglas Robinson
Curtis Guild Resigns as American Ambassador from St Petersburg
An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Paris reports Curtis Guild has arrived in Paris and cabled his resignation as American Ambassador at St. Petersburg to Washington. The date is June 17.
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New York Times
London
Exchange Telegraph Company
Paris
Curtis Guild
St. Petersburg
Washington
Page Named for Italy and Switzerland Posts
President nominates Thomas Nelson Page of Virginia as Ambassador to Italy and Pleasant A Stovall of Georgia as Minister to Switzerland. Page, a popular American writer, known for Marie Chan and The Old Gentleman of the Black Stock, has authored works on Southern life and society. Stovall, a German editor, has been active in state politics and backed Thomas L Watson in a prior congressional campaign.
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Washington
Wilson
Italy
Thomas Nelson Page
Virginia
Switzerland
Pleasant A Stovall
Georgia
Thomas L. Watson
Charles D. Edwards
Congress
Runaway horse injures policeman at 114th and Madison
Policeman John Murphy of East 104th Street Station was dragged a block by a runaway horse early this morning. He threw the horse but the animal fell on him, injuring him internally with a sprained hip and cuts to his shoulder and knee. He was taken to Harlem Hospital.
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John Murphy
East 104Th Street
114Th Street
Madison Avenue
Murphy
Harlem Hospital
Lily Drinking Cup Promoted as Best of All Fans
An advertisement touts the Lily Drinking Cup as the premier choice for office use and personal enjoyment. It highlights its portability and appeal to fans of the Lily brand.
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Lily
Union Pacific denies bid to control four great railroads
Union Pacific officials dispute claims that they or their bankers plan to seize control of the Pennsylvania, Baltimore and Ohio, Union Pacific, and Southern Pacific through stock exchanges. Judge Lovett explains the dissolution deal aims to dispose of Southern Pacific stock, with no intent to take over other lines, while bankers and Congress allies are said to seek favorable outcomes through pressure and market moves.
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Wall Street
New York
Union Pacific
Supreme Court
Congress
Stanley Committee
Money Trust
Southern Pacific
Pennsylvania
Baltimore & Ohio Common
McReynolds
Washington
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
Baltimore & Camo
Union
Bo & Control
Exc
Baltimore Ohio
Ohio
West
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Ajel
Shien Deougherts
Molic
Foxhero
Pristina
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assSern
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Explorer
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Queer Note
Julia
Press Associa
Chase
Illinois Central
Springfield
Ills
Marconi
Commerce Commission
Pireworks
Park Place
P. A. Stovall
Judge Lovett
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