Nealon Wins Suburban Handicap at Sheepshead Bay
At Sheepshead Bay Nealon ridden by a Darnell entry won the Suburban Handicap by two lengths over Montgomery with Beacon Light third. The crowd swelled past 40,000 as weather and course conditions favored the dramatic event in a daylong holiday mood. Betting rings buzzed with 400 layers of odds while public excitement ran high among New York society, Wall Street, and racing patrons.
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Sheepshead Bay
Charles E. Darnell
Nealon
Emil Here
Montgomery
P. Headley
Beacon Light
Ose
Biectioneer
Keene
Superman
Brooklyn
C Coice
Dandelion
Crowd & Ce
Coney Island Jockey Club
New York
Wall Street
Broadway
John Cavanagh
F. R. Hitchcock
Newcastle
James R. Keene
Well
James R. Koons Drannett
Twain causes London gasp in bathrobe stroll
Mark Twain stunned London crowds by strolling from Brown's Hotel in a blue bathrobe and slippers to Dover Street, then to the Bath Club. He plans Windsor garden party attendance and meets King Edward, as Secretary R W Ashcroft and aides coordinate greetings from officials and fans.
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Tan New York Times Co
London
Mark Twain
Brown's Hotel
R. W. Ashcroft
Dover Street
Bath Club
Twain
King Edward
Windsor
Hamburg
Edward
Prince of Wales
Strand
Prince
Ashcroft
England
Bondsman Surrenders Meyer in Elopement Case
Louis G. Meyer asphalt contractor was surrendered to the Sheriff by bondsman Arthur B. Conway who posted 5000 bail. Meyer, pursued by a Deputy Sheriff, failed to find a new bondsman and was rearrested at his Fifth Avenue office. brother Theodore Meyer on bond did not appear. Meyer denied Philadelphia trip but sought to contact Mrs Harkness.
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Louis G. Meyer
Arthur B. Conway
Meyer
Fifth Avenue
Theodore A. Meyer
Conway
Mr. Meyer
Philadelphia
Hark
Complaint Letter Targets New York City Police Station
A letter to Police Commissioner Bingham accuses the 434 West Thirty-seventh Street area of disorderly activity and requests action. Captain Stephen O'Brien confirms the building is a police station house under his command and takes responsibility for the report.
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Bingham
New York
West Thirty-seventh Street
Stephen O'Brien
O’brien
Messener
Brien
Lly
City Council Retains Gas Plant Lease After Debate
Philadelphia council members, after a lengthy session, voted to keep the existing lease with United Gas Improvement Company for city plant operation. The decision followed an adverse report concerning bills to cancel the lease and amid debate over past disruptions and managerial questions.
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Philadelphia
United Gas Improvement Company
Gessener
Reapportionment Talks Drift Toward Special Session
Albany reports push for final adjournment with a possible later special session on reapportionment. Senate and Assembly leaders weigh votes and caucus risks as Gov Hughes weighs guidance amid deadlock. Legislature adjourns expected Saturday if concurrence holds.
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New York Times
Albany
Assembly
Senate
Gov. Hughes
Raines
Tully
Woodruff
Wadsworth
Republican State Committee
Assemblyman
Merritt
Assembly Conference Committee
Senate Committee
Cassidy
Cleveland recovering from indigestion not surgery
Ex president Grover Cleveland is reported by his wife to be suffering from acute indigestion with no operation planned. He showed improvement and will be out in a few days, though he cannot attend the Bayard monument unveiling in Wilmington and his speech will be read by a substitute.
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N. J
Cleveland
Joseph D. Bryant
New York
Bryant
Mr. Cleveland
Carnochan
Thomas F. Bayard
Wilmington
Del
Rockefeller Speeding Fined After Ride Home
John D Rockefeller was stopped near Elmsford for speeding at thirty miles per hour. He asked Constable Bunsenmeyer to accompany him to Pocantico Hills and called Justice Seth Bird for a settlement. Bird fined him 35 dollars after he appeared in court.
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New York Times
Tarrytown
N. Y
Westchester County
John D. Rockefeller
Pocantico Hills
Emate
Rockefeller
Elmsford
Bunsenmeyer
Mr. Rockefeller
Pocanticolis
Seth Bird
Ffour
Feller
Chevy
Bird Thia Oon
Big Bank Dividends Spark Record Payouts
Fifth Avenue Bank declares extra 150 percent dividend plus the usual 25 percent quarterly payout, totaling 1750000? No, 175000. The Chase National Bank increases capitalization from 1 million to 5 million after a 400 percent dividend last December. The new 8 percent semiannual dividend raises the annual rate by 2 percent. Payment to stockholders of record June 19 due July 1.
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Fifth Avenue Bank
Chase National Bank
Ten Cent Fare Turmoil Ties Up Brooklyn Line
The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company raised the fare from five to ten cents on the Sheepshead Bay to Coney Island route causing a planed at Ocean Parkway delay. Suburban riders refused to pay the higher fare triggering a three quarter mile line stoppage and rough handling of inspectors. Officials were unavailable for comment on whether the ten cent fare would continue.
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Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Sheepshead Bay Race Track
Coney Island
Ocean Parkway
Six-Foot Cheyenne Seeks Meeting With Roosevelt
Frank Philbrick, a six-foot Cheyenne Indian from North Dakota, tried to see President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay on an issue of importance. He was turned away by Secretary Loeb and left for Washington to confer with a commissioner about pardon cases. He said he had known the president for thirteen years.
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Oyster Bay
Frank Philbrick
North Dakota
Loeb
Philbrick
Washington
Mrs Howard Returns to Parental Home
Mrs George F Bronson Howard formerly Miss Des Skinner of Norfolk has returned to the home of her parents after recent events. The brief notice notes her move back to family residence in Norfolk on June 2.
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Howard
New York Times
Norfolk
George F. Bronson-Howard
Des Skinner
Jersey Central Full Summer Schedule Preview
Jersey Central announces the full summer schedule to be implemented soon with details A tentative timetable for Sunday services and routes will guide riders during the upcoming season Officials expect adjustments as the schedule is finalized across divisions and stations
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Jersey Central
Meaghore
Jeresy Central
Four Italian Workers Die in Electric Shock at P and G Site
Seven Italians moving a boiler and smokestack for Procter and Gamble in Western Avenue near Arlington were shocked when the stack touched overhead wires. Four were killed instantly, two others collapsed, and the seventh escaped. Foremen Patrick Sweeney and William Burke were arrested for criminal negligence.
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Procter & Gamble
Western Avenue
Arlington
S. I
William Corus
West Forty-eighth Street
Cahill
Patrick Sweeney
Post Lane
Mariner's Harbor
William Burke
Taylor Street
Pitt Construction Company
St. Vincent's Hospital
Livingston
Kiins
Dempsey's Undertaking Establishment
West Brighton
Elizabethport
Mariners’ Harbor
Gov Stokes Umpires As Senators Beat Assemblymen
Gov Stokes officiated a baseball game between Senators and Assemblymen in Trenton New Jersey. A 15 to 2 outcome with three innings played ended amid a mob scene as Stokes was carried off the field by the crowd and escorted by Quartermaster General C Edward Murray.
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New York Times
Trenton
N. J
Gov. Stokes
Senators
Assemblymen
House
Colby
C. Edward Murray
Backus
Hahn Investigating Committee
Duffy
Albright
Hillery
Avis
Minch
Flavell
Shinn
Silver
Higgins
Fletcher
Perkins
Newman
Daab
Lethbri
Pawelski
Haines
Olweil
Jersey Legislature Adopts Probe Continues in June
New Jersey Assembly votes to extend the Hahn investigation into state extravagances after finding proof in testimony. The body adjourns to July 5 while the Senate debates its power to act on Gov. Stokes reforms. The Hahn committee is reappointed and a resolution seeks the attorney general’s opinion on Senate authority.
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New York Times
N. J
Hahn
House of Assembly
Senate
Stokes
Hillery
Gene
Gov. Stokes
Liquor Dealers Alarmed At National Convention
Delegates at the National Liquor Dealers Convention in Atlantic City predict that liquor production or anti saloon sentiment will shape the platforms of both major parties in the upcoming presidential campaign. A call was issued to centralize all liquor interests in the United States to counter current prohibition inroads and to prevent the issue from entering the campaign. Local option laws are discussed as a political weapon.
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New York Times
Atlantic
City
N. J
Liquor Dealers
United States
Swandave Artes
Auto Kills Five. Prince Pescara Among Dead in Naples Crash
A high speed car crashed into a rock near Calannello, killing five men including Prince Pescara. The tragedy drew aristocratic mourning in southern Italy. Witnesses were Mr. and Mrs. Ogden Codman of New York touring Europe.
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Naples
Calanello
Prince Pescara
Italy
Ogden Codman
New York
Mrs Emma Kauffmann Convicted of Manslaughter
In Flandreau South Dakota on June 20 Emma Kauffmann of Sioux Falls was found guilty of manslaughter in the first degree for the murder of her sixteen year old servant Agnes Poireius. The jury retired at 4 o clock.
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Flandreau
Emma Kauffmann
Sioux Falls
Agnes Poireius
Secretary Root rejects Honduran Provisional Government envoy
Secretary Root refuses Dr. Angel Ugarte's request to be received as diplomatic representative of the Honduran Provisional Government. The move amounts to nonrecognition of that government at this time.
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Washington
Root
Angel Ugarte
Department of State
Fasting Doctor Lifts 230-Pound Man After Banquet
In St Louis on June 20, Dr I J Eales Belleville physician who promotes fasting lifted a 230 pound fat man after a banquet featuring mint sauce croquettes lamb and desserts. Eales ends his twentieth day fast at noon weighing 192 pounds and 170 pounds Thursday morning.
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New York Times
ST. Louis
I. J. Eales
Belleville
Schwab Palace Summer Honeymoon Home for Edwards Schwab
Reports from Cleveland say Prof Edward H Schwab and his bride will use Charles M Schwab's 3 million dollar Riverside Drive residence in New York for their two month summer honeymoon. The couple reportedly accepted an offer to use the home after a wedding in Ohio.
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New York Times
Cleveland
Ohio
Charles M. Schwab
Riverside Drive
New York
Edward H. Schwab
Schwab
Chicken Poison Outbreak Hits 800 at State Hospital
In Norristown Pennsylvania over 800 hospital inmates and staff suffer ptomaine poisoning after a dinner featuring stewed chicken. The birds came from a Philadelphia cold storage house. Doctors treat patients and a full food analysis is planned to identify the source.
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New York Times
Norristown
Penn
State Hospital For
Philadelphia
Deutschland Late From Hamburg Arrives Delayed by Fog
The Hamburg American liner Deutschland radioed Nantucket at eight last night she is 390 miles east of Sandy Hook and expects to reach Hoboken by Friday morning after reporting coal and fog aboard. The wireless call cited heavy fog and a boiler issue as cause for delay.
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Deutschland
Hamburg
Nantucket
Hoboken
Fridand
Greece
Wireless
Sandy Hoo
Speeding Consul Freed After Brooklyn Arrest
A man claiming to be J. W. Heins, Vice Consul of Honduras, was arrested in King's Highway Brooklyn for speeding his auto. Bicycle officer Shephard took him to Flatbush Station where he was cautioned about the identification as Honduran Vice Consul.
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J. W. Heins
Honduras
King’s Highway
Brooklyn
Shephard
Flatbush Star
Soner
Tweedwell
Inne Forsetters Fes
Heins
Broadway
Midi Revolt Flares in Narbonne Montpellier Violence
Paris dispatches report severe unrest in the Midi with bloodshed at Narbonne and Montpellier. Troops and gendarmes faced rioters as telegraphs and reports were cut amid censorship claims. Several killed or wounded, including civilians and soldiers, as clashes continued in total darkness.
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Montpellier
Paris
Clemenceau
Dr. Ferroul
M. Clemenceau
Couirassier
Palace of Justice
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