Wreck on Philadelphia Reading Line Kills One, Injures Twenty
A Chestnut Hill express collision with a freight engine at Twenty first and Hamilton Streets left Ernest Evans dead and twenty others injured. Rescue teams, ambulances, and police swapped through smoke and flames as victims were ferried to Garrettson Medico-Chirurgical and St Joseph hospitals.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Philadelphia & Reading
Chestnut Hill
Reading
Twenty-first
Hamilton Streets
Ernest Evans
Atkins
Lewis M
East Graver’s Lane
Burns
Barr
Thomas J
Barton
George
East Haines Street
Buckmayer
Lottie
East Walnut Lane
Creedon
Jennie
Boyer Street
Dolan
Benjamin
North Eighteenth Street
May Dle
Evans
Edward W
Haines and
Chew Street
Galletta
Annie
Narragansett Avenue
Milliner
Cherry Street
Shock
Jackson
William
Chewy Street
Germantown
Lutz
Savoy
Woodlawn Avenue
Lawn
Sarah
Southampton Avenue
Miller
Caroline
East Chelton Avenue
Eleventh
Washington Avenues
Molito
John
Patton
Millard F
Gravers Lane
Rouillatt
H. V
Taylor
Arthur M
E. W. Clark & Co
Thorpe
Pomona Terrace
Warner
Phillip
East Evergreen Avenue
Walton
Edward
Hermitage Street
Wittig
Farley
Ninth District
Tenth
Twenty-third District
Garrettson, Medico-Chirurgical
Hahnemann
St. Joseph's Hospitals
John Wanamaker
Twentieth Street
Garrettson Hospital
St. Joseph’s
Reyburn
McFadden
Elizabeth Rayner
East Washington Lane
Catharine Tighe
Flowertown Avenue
Preston Retreat
No On
Piccadilly Gin Promoted As A Cool Tall Glass Drink
An advertisement touts Piccadilly Gin as the coolest drink that tingles in a tall glass with dry smooth fragrance. It recommends adding lime juice ice and carbonic to make a rickey style thirst quencher. The ad urges readers to insist on Piccadilly.
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Piccadilly
Newspaper subscription offer for NYT outdoor editions
An old advertisement states one week two weeks or a month subscriptions for The New York Times to a country address. It lists prices 177 for one week two weeks 3ic and one month 76c with directions to leave one with dealer or send to section office at 1000 Bryant Adv.
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New York Times
Seation Office
Bryant
White Star to Fishguard change eyed amid Atlantic service shifts
The Olympic era brings White Star line adjustments in August. The Adriatic will move from Southamp ton to New York Liverpool service on August 10, joining a revised Southampton schedule with Oceanic and Majestic. Reports say Fishguard calls for London passengers may cut travel time, but officials give mixed signals on this potential change.
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Olympic
White Star Line
Southampton
New York
Oceanic
Majestic
Titanic
Mauretania
Liverpool
England
Fishguard
London
Queenstown
Great Western Railway Company
W. W. Jeffries
International Mercantile Navigation Company
Broadway
Thomas Kately
Great Western Railway
America
Albanian Heroine's Work Praised Amid Turbulent Albanian Crisis
Charles R Crane describes a brutal crackdown on Albanians by Tourget Pasha and the Ottoman regime. He notes a British nurse Miss Edith Durham aiding wounded in Podgoritza and cites Albanian demands for an autonomous Albania under external governance with Albanian officials and language.
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Tourget Pasha
Attila
Albania
Edith Durham
Podgoritza
Durham
Crete
Turkey
Boljetinac
Chicago's Richest Women Named in Tax Lists
The three wealthiest Chicago women shown by the personal property tax lists are Mrs. Net tie McCormick with 2595000 dollars, Mrs. Emmons Blaine with 1950000 dollars, and Virginia McCormick with 1350000 dollars. Values cover stocks bonds mortgages and jewels. Jane Addams shows no taxable property and Ella Flagg gone has none listed.
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Chicago
Nettie
McCormick
Emmons Blaine
Virginia McCormick
Blaine
Jane Addams
Ella Flagg
Col Ames Weds Lt Janney’s Widow Amid Scandal
Sacramento reports Col Robert F. Ames of New York secretly married Madeline Janney widow of Lieut Clarence M. Janney on June 6 at attorney R. T. McKissick’s home. The Janney suicide occurred in Manila after discovering a champagne cooler given to Ames. A court martial later reduced Ames after criticism by Gen. Potts, while Janney’s death was ruled self inflicted in Fort William McKinley quarters.
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Sacramento
Robert F. Ames
New York
Madeline Janney
Madeline McKissick
Clarence M. Janney
Manila
R. T. McKissick
Lieut
Janney
Col
Ames
Col. Ames
Fort William McKinley
Philippines
Virginia
Sixteenth Infantry
Twelfth Infantry
Governors Island
Brugierre
Memphis
Tenn
Jersey City
Justice Lehane
William H. Jordan
Janneys
Washington
Gen
Pershing
Ramsay D. Potts
Potts
Rhode Island
Dix vetoes anti mugging bill in Albany
Gov Dix vetoes Senator Grady's anti mugging bill that would bar police photographing suspects before conviction. He says it would hinder identification and evidence gathering. Eight other vetoes were sent to the Legislature, including a prison salary increase and a Kings County political measure.
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New York Times
Albany
Grady
Nother
Kings County
Register
Pacific Coast Round Trip Rates With Liberal Stopovers
Canadian Pacific Railway offers reduced round trip fares to the Pacific Coast with return by other routes and generous stopovers. The Rockies are praised as America’s Switzerland with grand mountain scenery, snow banners and glacial landscapes viewed from car windows. Travel options include hotels along the route, camping, fishing, packhorse trips and Alpine climbing with Swiss guides. full details available at Canadian Pacific offices on Broadway and Fifth Avenue.
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Canadian Pacific Railway
Pacific Coast
Canadian Rockies
Switzerland
Canadian Pacific
Broadway
Fifth Avenue
Keeping Americans Out Passport Dispute Revealed
A Times preview argues the Russia passport issue is misrepresented by surface history and presents deeper factors shaping U S policy. The article promises insider details from a source familiar with both sides and the real situation.
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Russia
Highest Fire Yet Strikes Municipal Building Construction
Acting Deputy Chief Thomas J. Hayes says a blaze on the twenty fifth floor of the new Municipal Building at Park Row Duane and Centre Streets is the highest fire fought by the department. Firemen fought flames on the twenty fifth and twenty sixth floors using standpipe lines and hoses with water supplied from City Hall Place.
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Fire Department
Thomas J. Hayes
Municipal
Park Row
Duane
Centre Streets
George B. McClellan
Washington Street
Brooklyn
William Street
Brooklyn Bridge
Bartholomew Clancey
Clancey
Stapleton
Kennedy
Elizabeth Street
New Bowery
New Chambers Street
Hayes
Walsh
City Hall Place
Pearl Streets
Frick plans row of shops on vacant Pittsburg block
Henry C. Frick realty agents announce a plan to line the four fronts of his long vacant downtown block with one story buildings. Leases up to five years offered. The site, formerly St. Paul's Cathedral, faces Frick's office and Carnegie building, the Court House, and Nixon Theatre. The project contradicts rumors of a thirty story hotel and follows a recent statement that the property is not for sale. The plot holds the highest valuation of any vacant Pittsburg property.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
Penn
Henry C. Frick
Mr. Frick
St. Paul's Cathedral
Carnegie
Court House
Nixon Theatre
Frick
Pennsylvania Railroad
Bronx Rowdies Fight Ends With Split Charges
William Dolan of the Bronx asked police not to arrest Michael Ambroschig after Dolan struck him with ice tongs over a price dispute for a drink. Ambroschig suffered a scalp wound and Dolan was later jailed while Ambroschig filed a complaint. both were treated at Lincoln Hospital.
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William Dolan
Brook Avenue
Bronx
Carter
Alexander Avenue
Duane
Michael Ambroschig
Dolan
Ambroschig
Halla
Lincoln Hospital
Smyth
Dr. Halla
Roanoke and West Vic Coal Fields Train Service
Through Pullman sleeping car leaves Pennsylvania Station at 6 04 P M daily for Natural Bridge Roanoke and Gary via Nor wh Western. Splendid dining car service.
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Roanoke
West Vic
Pullman
Pennsylvania Station
Natural Bridge
Gary
Norwh Western
A sane Fourth of July with Purwy Wines
An advertisement for Dewey's Purwy Wines by H.T. Dewey & Sons Co. promotes celebrating the Fourth of July with their products. Located at 138 Fulton St. N. in New York.
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H.T. Dewey & Sons CO
Fulton
Battleship Ohio Fire Threatens Magazine in Navy Yard
A fire in the aft turret of the battleship Ohio flooded fore and aft magazines, endangering 200 canisters of powder. The crew fought the blaze with hoses and pumps, halting more than an hour after ignition as Capt. Buchanan confirmed the short circuit from a hot rivet caused the damage. Nearby ships North Dakota Alabama Florida stood in the danger zone.
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Ohio
New York Navy Yard
North Dakota
Alabama
Florida
Robert Buchanan
Navy Yard
Missouri
United States
Turet
Buchanan
Jackie
Paris Rows Over American Securities Suspend Listing
Inquiries confirm the Bourse Committee plans to suspend listing American stocks for the time being. Brokers fear the American Telephone and Telegraph incident and the French market’s certificate requirement, which lowers French holder dividends and discredits American securities, prompting banks to halt operations until autumn.
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NEW York Times
Paris
Bourse
New Queen of Bay Flier Dominates Harbor in First Meeting
The Sovereign, M. C. D. Bordens four pipe steam yacht, surpassed the Jer sey Central steamer Asbury Park in a morning pass near West Bank Light. Reported speed exceeded thirty four miles per hour with observers noting a forty mile per hour sprint past Fort Wadsworth into the Narrows.
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Sovereign
M. C. D. Borden
Jersey Central
Asbury Park
West Bank Light
Wall Street
New Harbor
Queens
Fort Wadsworth
Narrows
Fourth at Atlantic City train schedule
Through trains leave Pennsylvania Station at 10 12 A M 3 04 P M weekdays 1 20 P M Saturdays 8 12 A M Sundays Special trains returning leave Atlantic City for Pennsylvania Station July 4 at 4 00 and 5 30 P M Adv
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Atlantic City
Pennsylvania Station
Pennsylvania Railroad
Snow delays steamers on Great Lakes
Duluth reports a snow storm delaying lake steamers as freighters rode out the weather after heavy snowfall last night. Winds from the east and a bright sun today bring out winter wraps despite the clear day.
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Duluth
Minn
Moros Cause Fatal Harm Among Four Americans
June 28 Manila reports four Americans fatally harmed by Moros in Mindanao. Prospector Oyler and Vexes Boses were killed near Camp Overton. Plantation owner McGill slain at Pantar. Private Michaelis of the Twenty‑first Infantry murdered at Parang, stabbed seven times in view of comrades.
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Manila
Mindanao
Philippine Islands
Oyler
Vexesboses
Camp Overton
McGill
Pantar
Michaelis
Twenty-first Infantry
Parang
Train Robbery Reported on Southern Pacific Line
Eugene Ore June 28 The first section of the Oregon express on the Southern Pacific Railroad was held up and robbed tonight at West Fork in Coal Creek Canyon. The incident follows a recent robbery of registered mail on a Southern Pacific express south of this location last week.
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Eugene
Ore
Oregon Express
Southern Pacific Railroad
West Fork
Coal Creek Cafton
Mrs Hugo Reisinger Buys 993 Fifth Avenue House
Mrs Hugo Reisinger daughter of Adolphus Busch of St. Louis buys Louis Sterns five story limestone house at 993 Fifth Avenue between Eightieth and Eighty-first Streets occupying a 52.2 by 150 feet plot. The brokers report a price near 1 million dollars. Reisinger will occupy the property this fall and currently resides at 18 West Seventy-fourth Street.
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Hugo Reisinger
Adolphus Busch
St. Louis
Louis Stern
Fifth Avenue
Eightieth
Eighty-first Streets
Stern
Henry D. Winans & May
Reisinger
West Seventy-fourth Street
Woman clubbed boy in court in Yorks case
Sixteen year old Ferdinand Burnett was acquitted in City Court Yorkers of stealing a horse. Dorothy Canter, the complainant, drew a concealed club and struck him in court. The assault caused a scene and the hearing adjourned. Judge Beall later ordered assault and contempt charges against Miss Canter and she was jailed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ferdinand Burnett
Dorothy Canter
Beall
Miss Canter
Tallest Woman to Marry in Quiet Lockport Ceremony
Mary Ellen Powers seven feet tall and Barnum’s famed figure will wed Maurice T. Stapleton, one of Lockport’s tallest men, at St. Patrick's Church this week. A previous planned nuptial was postponed three years ago without explanation.
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Lockport
N. Y
Mary Ellen Powers
Barnum
Maurice T. Stapleton
St. Patrick's Church
Miss Powers
Stapleton
Mr. Stapleton
Centenarian Predicts Death Then Passes Away at 108
In Lansing on June 28 Mrs. Latchia Williams aged 108 told a neighbor she thought her time had come. She went inside, lay down, and died peacefully at her daughter Ellen Bannister's home. She had celebrated her 108th anniversary on New Year’s Day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lansing, Mich
Latchia Williams
Ellen Bannister
Senator Lea Relapses After Blood Transfusion
Senator Luke Lea of Tennessee, who recently donated blood to his wife to save her life, returned to Georgetown Hospital for treatment after nearly collapsing. Mrs Lea also suffered a relapse but is improving. the strain from committee work and Washington heat contributed to their illness, yet both are responding to treatment.
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New York Times
Washington
Luke Lea
Tennessee
Georgetown Hospital
Lea
Lorimer
Thyroid gland linked to birth rate in mice study
Dr. Reid Hunt of Washington reports experiments showing thyroid activity affects fecundity in mice. Group diets influenced litter sizes from zero to 101 offspring in four months, with oatmeal and liver suppressing births while crackers milk and eggs boosted them and cornmeal milk lowered production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Reid Hunt
Washington, D. C
American Medical Association
Faa
One Night Trains to Colorado From Chicago
Train excursion advertises overnight trips to Denver or Colorado Springs via Rock Island Lines with direct service. Low fare, excursion tickets and booklets offered from 401 Broadway. Also promotes Horsford's Acid Phosphate for sour stomach headache and nausea as an aid to digestion.
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Colorado
Chicago
Rock Island
Denver
Colorado Springs
Horsford
Sopwith Neatly Flies 1000 Feet Over Olympic Farewell
English aviator Tom Sopwith crossed the White Star liner Olympic at about 1000 feet between Nassau Boulevard and Bay Ridge. A packet of letters was dropped toward the ship, likely landing in the water. Sopwith earned a $1000 silver cup from the Aero Club of New York for the flight and returned to Crescent Athletic Club grounds.
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Olympia
Narrows
Tom Sopwith
Nassau Boulevard
Long Island
Sopwith
Olympic
Richard R. Sinclair
Aero Club of New York
Tien
T. O. M. Sopwith
L. I
Crescent Athletic Club
Bay Ridge
England
Mr. Sinclair
Harry Horton
Belmont Park
New York
Bay Ridge Shore
Coney Island
Manhattan Beach
High Points
May Sopwith
Este Morrison
Clara Morrison
J. K. Sturrock
Timothy L. Woodruff
Staten Island
Fort Hamilton
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Asbury Place
Wood-Kramer Company
Chestnut Street
White Star
Vienna
Charles R. Crane
Abdul Hamid
N. F. McCormick
E. Blaine
Cary Toe
Gen. Potts
Dix
Times
Tong
The
Abama
Queen OF Bay
Sandy Hook
Mercury
MOROS
Oregon
Southern Pacific Line
Misa Powers
Dr. Hunt
Medical Association
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