Banker's grain cyanide tablet case shocks Macon
Macon banker Walker remains grave after taking a grain cyanide tablet. Doctors report no major change in condition as efforts continue with saline treatments hot packs and new medical ideas from the East. Police guard the street while churches offer prayers and neighbors await a possible recovery.
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The
New York Times
Macon
B. Saunders
Walker
East
University of Georgia
Eign Garbier
Attorney Whips Five Men In Crawford Will Case
Burton Smith, prominent Atlanta lawyer and brother of Senator Hoke Smith, fought five men in the Crawford will case in the courthouse. After chatting with a woman witness, Smith clashed with C. W. Walton and others, delivering blows that knocked them to the floor as court attendants intervened.
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Atlanta
Burton Smith
United States
Hoke ‘Smith
Court House
Red
Sam
Stefansson Names Bartlett to Command Arctic Karluk
Stefansson announced he will sail the Karluk with Capt. Robert Bartlett, Peary’s north pole skipper, to lead the most ambitious arctic expedition yet. The plan aims to probe a hypothesized 1,000,000 square mile Arctic continent and gather extensive geographic and archaeological data as the team presses toward Mackenzie mouths and potential land or winter bases.
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Williaimu
Stefansson
Robert Bartlett
Peary
North Pole
Roosevelt
Karluk
Cap'n Bob
Stéfansson
Ottawa
Esquimault
British Columbia
Bartlett
Henry Beuchat
Paris
Frits Johansen
Abe
Remiex
Pesmon Brown
Arpsavents
Canaoea
Alaska
Téeland
Great Lakes
Gort P Amun
Arctic
Mackenzie
Pose
Costly Barney home swept by flames in New York fire
A fire at the Charles T. Barney residence on Park Avenue and Thirty-eighth Street swept the drawing room and two adjoining rooms after valuables and tapestries were removed. Firemen saved the marble hall. damage to antique furniture and fittings is about 25000 dollars. Barney killed himself after the Knickerbocker Trust failure. Fire began in the Breen room. storage moved valuables ahead of the blaze as Mrs Barney and two sons prepared to sail for Europe. The family and servants escaped, with jewelry recovered from the floors.
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Charles T. Barney
Park Avenue
Thirty-eighth Street
Barney
Knickerbockers Trust Company
Martin
Ely
Walit
Murphy
Six Die As Train Plunges From Mountain Tracks
Six persons were killed and others injured when a mixed Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad train was swept down a steep mountainside near Sewell West Virginia by a landslide. The engine and three freight cars plus a caboose plunged about 300 feet after debris clearing work triggered a further slide. Names include James Hinton of Landisburg and other victims are reported, with rescue efforts under way all night.
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Hinton
West
Sewell
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
Org
Siogak By
James
Ee «Aes Hinton
Landisburs
Three Lost Children Found in Polyglot Neighborhood
Police from West Thirtieth Street Station and Children's Society agents recovered three young children found among a dense crowd at Sixth Avenue and Sena Eighth Street at 6 o'clock last night. One child named Katie was identified. the others appeared to be Italian and another unclear.
Spanish Prisons Inspector Praises and Criticizes
The Inspector General of Prisons from Spain visits our facilities and offers observations on conditions and governance. The upcoming Times feature promises candid appraisal of practices, management, and reform suggestions observed during his tour.
Convict Annoyers of the President Indicted in Newark
Jake Dunn and Seeley Davenport, mountaineers from Sparta Mountain New Jersey, were found guilty by a Newark Federal Court jury on four counts for sending blackmail letters to President Wilson and to Theodore F. King of Ledgewood and Henry J. Misel of Dover. The jury recommended Davenport mercy. Trial began yesterday and lasted all day with Dunn and Davenport testifying in their own defense and denying involvement.
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Jake Dunn
Seeley Davenport
Sparta Mountain
Henry J. Misel
Davenport
Mercy
John Rellstab
Dunn
Durin
Presiden
Y Wilson
Post Office
Ing Francis” ‘A. Butler
Davenporth
Butler
Willig Kirnley
Duke Dunn
Feder
Pickets Mar Paterson Strike in New Jersey Event
City detectives observe 66 pickets during a Paterson strike in New Jersey. The scene includes reports of stones being thrown and suggestive incidents prompting police attention.
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SRIZE
Paterson
Initiative Against Saloon Licenses Surges in Nutley NJ
In Nutley New Jersey residents renew push for the initiative to cut saloon licenses from 17 to 9, a tactic Wilson backed as governor. The bitter liquor fight follows adoption of the commission form of government with initiative a year ago amid broader state interest in the reform.
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New York Times
Nutley
N. J
Wilson
New Jersey
Veteran pauses a rescue on Fifth Avenue runaway horse
A runaway horse roared west along Fifth Avenue and into a transfer wagon, saving a 17 year old girl at a cross street. The driver, a 70 year old man named James Grames, was knocked unconscious with a broken thigh. Dr Wildman treated him at New York Hospital, while Police officers tended the scene and identified him.
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Fifth Avenue
Twenty-eighth Street
Junker and
Wischart
Asvice
Grand Army of the Republic
Wildman
New York Hospital
James Grames
Hull Street
Brooklyn
Cuts Astor House in Two to Make Wall and Subway Split
The Public Service Commission and John Jacob Astor estate agreed to a $600,000 perpetual easement beneath the southern half of the Astor House to allow a wall along Broadway and Vesey Street. The subway line will be diverted to avoid the northern half owned by William Waldorf Astor. Demolition of the southern half begins June 15, while Wil Waldorf Astor’s plans remain unknown.
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The
Public Service Commission
John Jacob Astor
Astor House
Broadway
Vesey Street
Commission
William Waldorf Astor
Wil Walklorf Astor
A New Steel Process Attracts Sheffield Interest
The Daily Mail reports intense interest in Sheffield over a new high speed steel method with a foreign patent. Sheffield manufacturers may seek to produce the steel without royalties, claiming a significant advance for cutting and boring tools. The piece recalls earlier American patent battles over high speed steel.
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Marconi Transatlantic
New York
London
The
Daily Mail
Sheffield
Dynamite Found in Bomb Block Tenement
A boy led Policeman Valentine to the hallway of 185 Chrystie Street where five sticks of dynamite, twelve inches long with fuses burning, were discovered. The items were extinguished and taken to the station, with the sticks given to Lieut. Kelly. The building on Fifth Street Station area houses many Italian families and is in the so-called Bomb Block due to prior explosions.
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Valentine. Eack
Fifth Street
Chrystie Street
Lieut
Kelly
Mrs Blythe Defies Hotel Smoking Request in Minneapolis
May 20 in Minneapolis Mrs Ho bart Newell Blythe of New York City and Tuxedo Park was dining at the Radisson when a pale headwaiter delivered a manager’s note asking her to refrain from smoking. She shrugged it off with a witty remark and finished her cigarette as she and her husband headed home from Canada.
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New York Times
Minneapolis
Hobart Newell Blythe
New York City
Tuxedo Park
Radisson
Boy Falls From Subway Shaft at 103d Street
A year-old boy named Bert Mubcland fell thirty five feet from street level to the bottom of the Lexington Avenue subway extension at 103d Street. Herman Cohen chased after and found the child crawling, crying for his mother. He was scratched and briefly cut but uninjured overall and was released from Harlem Hospital after treatment.
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Bert. Mubcland
Lexington Avenue
103D Street
Herman Cohen
Selig
Cohen
Harlem
Morris Plains hospital to publish weekly patient paper
Dr. Britton D. Evans medical director at Morris Plains State Hospital proposes a weekly periodical by patients to cover hospital events. A printing area will be installed in a new building on the hospital grounds and Evans will direct editorial policy and write editorials.
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New-York Times
N. J
Morris Plains State Hospital For the Insane
Britton D. Evans
Evans
Police Seeks 16YearOld Anna Holmes Missing From Scarsdale
Police search for Anna Holmes a 16 year old girl from Scarsdale who left home yesterday morning to buy clothes in the city and later sent a letter to her mother saying she was going to an island. She was noted as traveling alone and her disappearance prompted a citywide alert and inquiries.
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Otr
Harriet
Fray
Fracina
Haledon
Green
Patrick Sni
Perete
Ne Shee
Bmck
Anna Holmes
Scarsdale
Island of
Mather
Po Fereete
Stolen stamps report unsettled by unclear text
Fragmentary OCR notes describe missing postage stamps of various denominations and unsettled intervals. Mentions checks and a person or entity with unclear identity. Details are garbled and specifics like places, dates, or names are not recoverable.
Murtaugh Defies Sulzer on Stage in Elmira Campaign
Gov. Sulzer campaigns across Elmira denouncing party bosses as Sen. John F. Murtaugh loudly challenges him from the stage. The crowd exceeds 3,000 as Sulzer warns he will drive Murtaugh from public office. Murtaugh fires back amid heated exchanges over nominations and reform.
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New York Times
Elmira
Sulzer
Albany
John F. Murtaugh
Senate
Murtaugh
New York
Buffalo
Murphy
Fitzpatrick
Barnes
Teikes
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Heidelbach
J. P., Seligman & Co
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Don Prendergast
York
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D & Haase
Mtenty Trust
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Ap Ch & Co
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Re & Loeb
Steignitz
Stern & Co
Baltimore
B. Sanders Walker
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Alexis Garrel
Benater Smith
Explorer
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Ugh
Trust Company
Taboose
Chesapeake & Ohio
TIMES
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Mr. Wilson
Patrick
Quinlan
Koettgen
Fronch
Patera
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Price Silk Mills
Pre Mills
PR Tri
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Roobai
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Joseph F. Scott
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