Belmont Race Betting Case Dismissed on Procedure
A Court of Appeals ruling dismisses the Shane case without opinion for failure to follow procedural names. Belmont Park gambling allegations prompt Jockey Club statements urging law enforcement and possible action if proof of violations is found.
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Court of Appeals
Paul Shane
Charles F. Gittens
Hempstead
Shane
August Belmont
Jockey Club
Belmont Park
Twe
Pinkerton
Nassau
Querns
American
Eventus Journal
Albany
Sulzer
Belmont Track
Mrs Fitzhugh Guilty in Gold Bag Theft Case
Mrs Randolph Fitzhugh pleaded guilty to stealing a gold bag valued at 550 from Miss Dorothy Fiske. In a posthearing interview in the Tombs she claimed innocence and cited her past marriages and a recent parole attempt. She faces sentencing Thursday with a new court-appointed attorney.
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Randolph Fitzhugh
Dorothy Fiske
Tiny Fiske
Jack Northrup
New Mexico
Washington
Jack Tie Jis
Brooklyn
Creed Fulton
Washington, D. C
Ham wedding invitations recalled due to illness
Paris report says Mr and Mrs George J Ham recalled invitations to the wedding of their daughter Mrs Eno Ham Johnson to Big Eliot Palmer on June 19 in Paris. The marriage will be private. Also a Paris note recounts a joyful moment as Miss Davis helps a woman recover a pendant and assists a purse theft victim in the Petit Galleries area.
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NEW York Times
Paris
George J. Ham
Eno Ham Johnson
Eliot Palmer
Johnson
Bpecia
New York
Tres
Aittle Midinette
Miss Davis
Forges Petit Galleries
Rem- Tandt
Bathsheba
Miss Winter
I Lass
Servian Cabinet Crisis Ends With King Refusal
BELGRADE June 17 The cabinet crisis ended as King Peter refused to accept Premier Pasitch and his colleagues resignation keeping the government intact.
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Belgrade
Peter
Pasitch
Chicago Banks Curb Lending Amid Market Stabilization
Chicago bond houses report improved investment demand while curbing new loans to strengthen reserves. Banks raise money costs to deter speculation with 6 percent asking rates in Chicago versus 2 percent on calls in New York. Real estate lending slows and farmers sell grain to pay debts as banks study tariff and currency policy during cautious market conditions. Leadership visits to Washington reinforce conservative banking stance.
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New York Times
Chicago
New York
John J. Mitchell
Illinois Trust and Savings Bank
Carle
Mitchell
Middle West
Washington
George M. Reynotis
Continental and Commercial Bank
James B. Forgan
First National Bank
St Paul bankers deny pressure on farmers to sell grain
In a statement from St Paul bankers, F A Nienhauser of First National Bank and John R Mitchell of Capital National Bank say Western banks are not forcing farmers to sell grain to meet loans. Louis Betz of State Savings Bank adds that long term mortgage loans to farmers are not being disturbed and demand for money remains strong.
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New York Times
ST. Paul, Minn
St. Paul
F. A. Nienhauser
First National Bank
John R. Mitchell
Capital National Bank
Louis Betz
State Savings Bank
Mrs Taft voices views on suffrage and Wilson in Paris interview
Mrs William Howard Taft, wife of the former president, is in New Haven and quoted in La Liberté saying she would become a naturalized Frenchwoman if suffragettes gain power in America. She criticizes France’s suffrage trend as an epidemic and comments on President Wilson as an innovator. She cites Senator Chamberlain’s vote for women and notes intent to travel to Aix les Bains.
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New York Times
Paris
W. H. Taft
la Liberté
William Howard Taft
United States
New Haven
Conn
America
France
Taft
Wilson
Mr. Wilson
Chamberlain
Paris Doctor Sees Hope For Whooping Cough Cure
Dr. Emile Roux of the Pasteur Institute relayed Dr Alfred Conor and Sr Nicolle’s Tunis trials. In 122 children, a twice daily injection of a solution with whooping cough bacilli produced 37 percent recovery in under three weeks and 40 percent improvement. 25 percent unchanged. He cautioned the study is small but suggests a potential cure in sight.
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Paris
Academy of Sciences
Emile Roux
Pasteur Institute
Academy of Medicine
Roux
Alfred Conor
Belvedere Military Hospital
Tunis
Sr. Nicolle
Conor
French Aviator Sets 1115 Mile Hour Flight Record
Maurice Prevost of France flies at an average speed of 1115 miles per hour on a 50 mile course around a 613 mile circumference aerodrome in Rennes. He surpasses Vedrine's Chicago record of 184 miles an hour set on September 9, 1922.
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Rennes
Maurice Prevost
Prevost
Vedrines
Chicago
Mourners Meet Man Believed Dead in Kearny Double Mix-Up
James Kiely, a 58 year old painter, returns home to find a mourning gathering and a coffin he discovers is for a man who looks like him. His sister Mrs Christiana O'Brien identified the body in Paterson and arranged funeral plans. The mistaken death tale follows a prior misidentification of another man named James Kelly in Harrison New Jersey.
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James Kiely
John Street
Kearny
N. J
Kiely
Christiana O’brien
Patrick
Robert
Mrs. O'Brien
Paterson
New Jersey
O’brien
Kelly
St. Cecelia’s
Newark
French aviator completes Paris to St Petersburg flight
Marcel G Brindejone des Moulinais finished a 1600 mile flight from Paris to St Petersburg at 11 25 am. He then flew the final 300 miles from Dvinsk to St Petersburg in three and a half hours despite a strong head wind. The Russian Aero Club awarded him a silver vase. He plans to return to Paris via Helsingfors Stockholm and Copenhagen.
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ST. Petersburg
Paris
Marcel G. Brindejone Des Moulinais
Dvinsk
Russian Aero Club
Brindejone Des Moulinais
Helsingfors
Stockholm
Copenhagen
Welsh Disestablishment Bill Passes Second Reading
London June 17 the Welsh Disestablishment bill won second reading in the House of Commons by 99 to 0 in this session The bill previously rejected by the Lords last year now moves under the Parliament Act The debate offered no new feature and was largely uninteresting.
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NEW York Times
London
House of Commons
House of Lords
Paris divorce tragedy ends in double suicide
In Paris a wealthy manufacturer shot his wife dead and killed himself after she left him and sought divorce. Both were 29. The crime occurred at her father's house. Police found two revolvers and five fired cartridges. the wife’s pistol had one shot. A will left all property to the wife. The husband cried to reconcile moments before the shots.
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Cable
New York Times
Paris
Mme. Crisel
M. Crisel
Countess Seeks Mr Green in London Irish Family Tale
Dowager Countess of Donoughmore searches for an Irish Green family that moved to America forty five years ago after Kilmanahan Castle, Clonmel, was sold to the last Earl. An article found in a London taxicab linked to the Greens spurs the quest for apology and contact. The letter from Scotland Yard notes the clue and urges Green to respond.
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NEW York Times
London
Countess of Donoughmore
America
Kilmanahan Castle
Clonmel
Earl of Donoughmore
Green
Lady Donoughmore
Scotland Yard
Donoughmore
Boscobel House Not Sold At London Auction
Boscobel House in Shropshire, famed as Charles II escape site after Worcester, was offered for sale in London this afternoon but withdrawn because the reserve price was not reached.
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New York Times
London
Bubonic Plague Rumor In Port-au-Prince Area
June 17 Jacmel seaport reports an epidemic of plague like disease with many deaths. Jacmel isolated by troops while government acts to prevent spread. Local authorities deny bubonic plague though a scientific mission confirms fever epidemic without extension risk.
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Port-Au-Prince
Jacmel
Ase
Catt urged to stay as International Suffrage President
In Budapest an address from delegates of all nations at the International Woman Suffrage Alliance Congress pleads with Carrie Chapman Catt to reconsider resigning the presidency. She notes a one term limit but may announce her decision later. Jane Addams and Anna Shaw headline a mass meeting. The American Woman's Republic is limited to one representative as a fraternal delegate.
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Budapest
Carrie Chapman Catt
New York
International Woman Suffrage Alliance
Congress of the Alliance
Int
Jane Addams
Calengo
Anna H. Shaw
Congress
American Woman's Republic
Woman's Republic
Aguinaldo's Son Arrives in Kobe on Independence Mission
Dispatches from Kobe report the arrival of a son of Emilio Aguinaldo in Kobe Japan and say he is on the way to Tokyo to engage with the Philippine independence movement.
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Tokio
Kobe
Emilio Aguinaldo
Ree
Philippines
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