Brooklands Track at Weybridge Aims for Speed Records
The Brooklands racing track at Weybridge is a private, concrete, pear shaped circuit three miles long with a one mile by one half width banking. It features sentry boxes, telephones, and an ambulance crew for rapid response. Managers plan England meets with a $75,000 prize fund and tests for car makers to push speed beyond public road limits. The facility seats 30,000 with a 500,000 holding capacity and aims to stage major events including French Grand Prix linkages.
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Brooklands
Weybridge
Edge
Serena
England
Besig
America
Ice Delivery Cut More Than Half Amid Strike Chaos
The American Ice Company faced a major disruption as drivers and helpers walked out, leaving only 25 to 40 percent of ice deliveries. Hospitals, undertakers, and large buyers were told to send their own teams to bridges, while strikebreakers were sworn in to man wagons.
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American Ice Company
Madison
Lexington Avenues
Thirty-fourth Street
Brooklyn
Franklin Street
Amity
Oak Street _e
Arly
Wesley M. Oler
American F3ce Company
Bingham
Oler
Brevier
Cler
Rooney
East Ninth Street
Wes
Hardware Club
Comy
Peter J. Hick
Washington
Terday
Anny Meehan
Max
Axgent Forrletti
Bennett
Antonio Ticonini
American Ice ‘Company
Eighteenth Street
First Avenue
Artist's Son Surrenders to Atlanta Police as Suspect
William H Crane Jr son of New York portrait painter William H Crane is held in Atlanta on suspicions of theft. Accomplice Catherine Courtney, formerly Hippodrome chorus member, was also arrested. Police found silverware and diamond rings at their rooms. Crane denies crimes and cites a diary to prove his innocence. He says his family history and a clean record will clear him.
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New York Times
Atlanta
William H. Crane, Jr
William H. Crane
New York
Catherine Courtney
Miss Courtney
Hippodrome
Crane
New Orleans
Courtney
University of Virginia
Washington
Norfolk & Washington Steamboat Company
Exposition
Norfolk
Norfolk & Washington
Exposition Grounds
Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Company
Potomac
Trues
Potomac River
Arbitration sought as city cleanses East Side streets
Mayor McClellan faces a street cleaning crisis as strikers clash with Craven's department. Unionizing drivers join the Teamsters while city health staff recruit to seal off the worst areas with carts and guards.
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Micky
Eecseus
McClellan
Princeton
van Wyck
Joseph Barondess
Federation of Jewish Organizations
State of
New York
Mr. Barondess
Craven
Frank A. Reed
People’s Security Company
Broadway
George W. Prescott
United Teamsters of America
Teamsters’ Union
Chamberlain Renominated by Republican Assembly Convention
Bath New York June 29 Assemblyman William H Chamberlain was renominated for the Assembly from Steuben Countys First District by the Republican Assembly Convention today. He also secured renomination from the Second District at the convention.
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Bath
N. Y
Steuben County
Republican Assembly
Henry G Weil Retires From Gavin Firm After Prominent Bear Career
Henry G Weil, once a rival of James R Keene for stock market leadership and a key figure in the 1908 bear campaign, retires as a special partner at Fb W Gavin Co. He sold his seat for 60000 and entered partial retirement. He had legal trouble in a suit by Adele W Leach over Baldomeroa Co Mexico investment. The jury verdict remains uncertain.
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Henry G. Weil
James R. Keene
Stock Exchange House
Fb. W. Gavin & Co
Weil
Stock Exchange
7Ees
Ell
Adele W. Leach
Baldomeroa
Norse Anchor Discovery Skepticism Grows In Minnesota
Albany geologist Professor James M. Clarke questions the Minnesota Norse anchor find calling the story fishy. Officials plan to send photos to Sweden and Norway and place the artifact with the Smithsonian to test its historical value.
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Minnesota
Norway
Sweden
Clarke
Albany
Jamestown Fair's Merits and Faults Exposition Struggles With Access
Norfolk residents defend the exposition while noting mud and incomplete sidewalks hinder viewing. Officials consider boardwalks to ease rainy-day access and pay bills, with steamboat travel blamed for crowd chaos. Concessionaires expect August to October crowds. Virginia Day speech by Rourke Cochran highlights tensions.
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Virginia
Exposition Buildings Progress and Fees for Access
The exposition uses brick government and state buildings on the waterfront. State houses are meant as summer residences after the fair, with few exhibits beyond state monuments. Main venues like Liberal Arts, Manufacturers, Pure Food, Marine and Fisheries, Transportation, and Mines and Metallurgy show highly developed exhibits, while overall completion remains uncertain and funding for roads and facilities hinges on management changes.
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Liberal Arts
Buffalo
Ntil
Washington
Lost Hugh Evans Found In Belfast NY
Little Hugh Evans who had been missing from his father's home in Gainesville New York since last Saturday was found in Belfast New York. He had ridden a freight train from Fillmore New York and, after reading dime novels, wished to see the world but soon regretted the adventure.
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Hugh Evans
Gainesville
N. Y
Belfast
Fillmore
Hugh
Panama Trip Sparks Bellevue Hospital Admittance
Dr. William Robertson 27 of Deer Rock Mississippi was brought from St. Vincent's Hospital to Bellevue psych ward after a disturbance. He had served as ship's surgeon with the Panama Steams line and, since returning from Panama, has been acting strangely.
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Panama
Bellevue Hospital
William Robertson
Deer Rock
Miss
St. Vincent's Hospital
Willi Robertson
Panama Steams ‘Ship Company
New York City Ad Calls for Urgent Garbage Disinfection
A strike in the Street Cleaning Department leaves garbage uncollected across NYC. Citizens are urged to treat waste with C. N. Disinfectant to prevent disease. private homes should purify cans, and apartment janitors and landlords must keep cans odor free using the product.
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Philadelphia
John Harkins
Harry Michener
Frank Lawwell
Phil. Kirk
H.esceee
Brown Bros
FEDCE
Consumers—Trust
W. H H. Crane
Darlington
Staten Island
Contagious Diseases Hospital
Salvation Arming House
Chatham Square
Bowery
Andrew J. Lusk
Teamsters
Robert A. Vaughan
Edward Corcoran
John Hargett
Board of Appeals
Ven
Murphy's Hall
East Twelfth Street
Assembly
Crookston
Minn
Smithsonian Institution
North America
Lief Erickson
United States
James M. Clarke
Great Lakes
St. Lawrence
NEW Jersey Central
Newly York
West 23d Street
Liberty Street
Jamestown Fair
Havana
United Cigar Stores Company
Dr. Sheffield
Iveryt
Callanan’s
L. J. Callanan
Vesey St
New York City
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