Raid Ends Tammany Linked Windsor Café Gambling Ring
Police raid Brooklyn’s Windsor Café at 1255 Bedford Avenue after years of complaints. Deputy Commissioner Bugher led the operation, seizing thirteen men amid a four-story complex once tied to Tammany politics and a Supreme Court justice’s son roulette loss. Conflicting reports say Cohen ran the place for a high political figure.
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Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn
Bugher
Tammany Hall
Wigwam
Gen. Bingham
Windsor Café
Bee
Ginmerian
Grand Avenue
Fulton Street
Kings .County
Windsor Club
Emanuel Cohen
Cohen
Cit
Plaice
Gara
Bedford
Granda Avenue
Judge
Fingham
Supreme Court
Bingham
Burke
Dog Leads Blinded Mistress In Park Shooting
Stamford, Conn. Miss Abbie C. Fessenden, sister of the man who coined God Almighty hates a quitter, was shot in the eye by a boy in Hill and Dale Park while walking her dog. She reached home with help from the dog despite loss of sight in one eye. doctors hope to restore the eye.
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New York Times
Stamford
Miss Fessenden
Samuel Fessenden
Connecticut
Castaway Saves Bravery on Sirocco Wreck Rescue
Six men perished and two castaways survived five days at sea after the Sirocco wreck off Mantella Reef. Mate Joseph Laing and Cook G Roberts were rescued by the British ship Tiverton after Roberts repeatedly risked his life to keep Laing afloat. They drifted 260 miles northeast of the Bahamas before rescue.
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Newport News
Sirocco
West Indies
Joseph Laing
Cook G. Roberts
Tiverton
Leisk
Galveston
Munroe
Nassau
Brunswick
Wilson City
Bahamas
Mantella Reef
Laing
Roberts
Bear Steals Girl's Hosiery at Bronx Zoo
A young woman teased bears in the Bronx Zoo den, the bear seized a parcel she dangled and dragged it away. Keeper Ferguson retrieved the parcel after the bear ripped it open, scattering six pairs of silk stockings while the crowd laughed. The stockings were taken to the Zoo office and Director Hornaday offered to return them to their owner.
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Black Bears
Bronx
Keeper Ferguson
Ferguson
Bruin
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Zoo Office. Director Hornaday
Lakewood ad outlines voting and resort information
Polls open from 7 AM to 10 PM. If you miss today you cannot vote on November 3. To participate in the next primary you must enroll when you register. Lakewood New Jersey billing resort season runs October to June. Laurel House now open with booking available from A J Murphy manager.
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Lakewood
New Jersey
Laurel House
A. J. Murphy
ManageieAdv
Mob Fights Troops Over Jail Entry in Prohibition Town
In Spartansburg South Carolina on October 10 a mob clashed with state troops and sheriff deputies to reach the county jail and seize John Irby and two other negroes amid threats of lynching. Four were wounded including Grover Fowler Ernest Foster and an unnamed man. Guards from Morgan Rifles and Hampton Guards joined the siege. Gov Ansel traveled by special train as militia reach 150.
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Foster
Ernest
Carner
Morgan Rifles
Clifton
Hampton Guards
Ansel
Greenville
Here
Southern Express Company
Irby
Clarence Agnew
Southern Railway
Duncan
S. C
Agnew
Wil Foster
John Young
Asl
Laurens
Babb
Nichols
Bryan Calms Panic At Glasgow Campaign Stop
While William Jennings Bryan spoke to a large Glasgow crowd a scare began when a bogus train alarm set people rushing off the tracks. Men women and children were knocked down and several fainted with two old men and an old woman reportedly hurt. Bryan urged calm and the train was flagged. He spoke briefly more before leaving at midnight for Lincoln Nebraska.
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Glasgow
Bryan
Lincoln
Neb
Colorado
Wyoming
Dewey’s Claret Punch Ad From New York Vendor
A vintage ad from Dewey and Sons Co at 188 Fulton Street New York promotes Dewey’s Claret Punch ready to serve for all social events. The brief catalog note emphasizes convenient service and party use.
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DEWEY
Dewey & Sons Co
Fulton St
New York
Taft Chanler Lead in New York Area Polls
The World reports postal card canvass results with Taft favored statewide by about 15 thousand, New Jersey 30 thousand, and Connecticut 17 thousand. Chanler leads Hughes in a gubernatorial poll by about 194 thousand, while New York City favors Bryan over Taft and Chanler over Hughes, suggesting Democratic pluralities statewide and in the city sufficient to offset Republican county gains.
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New York City
Bronx
New Jersey
Connecticut
Taft
New York
Chanler
Hughes
Bryan
Hisgen
Debs
Roosevelt Asked to Speak in Pittsburgh Campaign Push
Pittsburgh Pa Oct 19 President Roosevelt was urged to stump for the Republican ticket and invited to Pittsburgh for his first speech by the Allegheny County Republican Committee. The group voted unanimously to urge Roosevelt to address voters on campaign issues as they appear to him, making Allegheny the birth place of the party.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
Penn
Roosevelt
Pittsburgh
Allegheny County
Republican Committee
Longworth
W. D. Grimes
Republica
Theodore Roosevel
United States
Theodore Roosevelt
Republican Party
New William Penn Arrives in Philadelphia Amid Celebration
A baby named William Penn Gaskell Hall, Sr. is born amid Philadelphia's commemorations of founder William Penn. He is the eighth generation descendant of Penn and Gulielma Springett, tracing lineage through the Gaskell and Hall families of Spruce Street.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
William Penn
William Penn Gaskell Hall
William Penn Gaskell Hal
Spruce Street
Atlantic City
Gulielma Maria Springett
William Penn, Jr
Chistiana Guhielma
Pete Gaskell
Peter Penn Gaskell
Marriage of Mrs. Rawson to Hungarian Count Kauders
Mrs. Della Rawson of 1010 Billington Avenue wed Frack Karl also known as F C Kauders a Hungarian count in a private ceremony Thursday The groom is president and manager of a wine company with Riverside orchards Mrs Rawson Kauders a California native and prominent Los Angeles figure is mother of Marie Rawson Fuller linked to the Shriner wreck relief publicity.
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New York Times
Los Angeles
Cal
Della ‘Rawson
Billington Avenue
Frack Karl
F. C. Kanders
New Yorker
California
Record of brutal college football game ends with seventeen hurt
A Methodist college match between Union and Wesleyan at Schenectady ended with seventeen injured and five hospitalized. Captains Potter and Hammond led a rough contest as players were knocked senseless, with Brown Harmon Wright among the others carried from the field. Neither team scored in a 0–0 tie.
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Schenectady
Methodist
Union
Wesleyan
Potter
Hammond
Saratoga
Brown
Harmon
Wright
Freight Train Crash on Waverly and Passaic Branch
A freight locomotive drawing two box cars and a caboose crashed into a drill engine on the Waverly and Passaic Branch near the Plank Road Newark. Fireman Benjamin Longstreet was trapped for over an hour, badly injured and prognosis poor. Engineer Harry Traudt and Conductor Charles W. Malmsbar survived with cuts and bruises. The drill engine crew escaped unharmed. Both locomotives were wrecked.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
St. James's Hospital
Will
Harry Traudt
Charles W. Malmsbar
Girl Bride Kills Husband in New Jersey Home
In South River New Jersey Mrs Anna Madelin 18 shot and killed her husband Tony 20 after he allegedly returned intoxicated and threatened her. She says she acted in self defense to protect her life and was jailed on a murder charge.
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New Brunswick
N. J
Anna Madelin
Tony
South River
Mark
Madelin
Dreaded Accident On Dredge Leaves One Dead
Michael Coffa 26 oiler on the dredge Champion in Erie Basin Brooklyn was killed when caught in a flywheel and decapitated. Engineer Nicholas Wade, knocked unconscious by the severed head, was arrested as the operator of the machinery. Wade held for examination by Magistrate Tighe in Butler Street Court. Coffa lived aboard the dredge.
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Michael Coffa
Erie Basin
Brooklyn
Nicholas Wade
Wade
Coffa
Butler Street
Tighe
Stransky Enamelware Ad Highlights Genuine Label
An advertisement touts STRANSKY enamelware for the kitchen claiming one piece lasts longer than six imitations and that the genuine item bears the STRANSKY label.
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Stransky
Wright Sets New Flight Record with Passenger
Le Mans October 10 Wilbur Wright flew an aeroplane with a passenger staying aloft for 1 hour 9 minutes 45 seconds. This surpasses his prior passenger record of 1 hour 4 minutes 26 seconds set on October 6.
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Wilbur
LE Mans
Wilbur Wright
Iran
London Pities Roosevelt for Longworth Joke
London observers debate Nicholas Longworth's remark on "eight years more" of Roosevelt leadership after Taft. The World notes Roosevelts deserve sympathy for a humorous son in law and a jokey daughter shaping political mischief, testing his popularity.
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NEW York ‘Times
London
Nicholas Longworth
Roosevelt
Taft
Longworth
Roosevelts
Independence League Candidate Promises Jerome Dismissal
Clarence J. Shears, Independence League Governor hopeful, denounced Lieut. Gov Chanler and New York District Attorney Jerome in Albany remarks. He pledged to remove Jerome within thirty days of taking office and attacked Deputy Attorney General De Ford, also criticizing Chanler, in Troy.
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Albany
Clarence J. Shears
Independence League
Chanler
Jerome
New York
William A. de Ford
Shearnhter
Troy
Thirteen Drown In Fog Collision Near Amsterdam
In fog off Ceveningen the German steamers Pretoria and Nipponia collided. Thirteen aboard the Nipponia, including the captain, were drowned. The Pretoria sustained no damage and sailed from New York September 26 for Hamburg under Captain Schrotter. The Nipponia, owned in Stettin, was bound for Lulea Sweden via Emden.
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Pretora
Nipponia
Ceveningen
Pretoria
Schrotter
New York
Hlamburg
Stettur
Lulea
Sweden
Emden
Octogenarian Kills Deer on Harrisburg Lake Runway
Albany dispatch reports Jeremiah Cutler of Vez First Street, aged 80, returning from the Adirondacks with a 125 -wound deer killed at Harrisburg Lake after a three mile trek. He says the deer charged the runway and he dropped it with a single shot near the heart. He plans to hunt again next year.
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New York Times
Albany
N. Y
Jeremiah Cutler
Vez First Street
Adiondacks
Harrisburg Lake
C ‘Atler
Women Catch Long Island Hunting Licenses
Among hundreds of hunters on Long Island two women, Miss Lillie J. Towell of Moriches and Mrs. G. S. Baxter of Eastport I F, paid the legal fee to Town Clerk George L. Chichester at Parkbogue and received hunting licenses. The open wild duck season began October 1 with few ducks shot as yet, but colder weather may bring large flocks and active hunting on Long Island waters.
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Long Island
Lillie J. Towell
Mast Moriches
Elsport
I.F
Ensiag
Howell
Baxter
George L. Chichester
Parkbogue
Unusual Rabies Like Case Ponts to Epileptic Fit
In Newark at St James Hospital Frank Bradley presented with rabies like symptoms including barking and snapping. Doctors diagnosed rabies but quickly found he suffered an epileptic fit from a prior dog bite years earlier. The episode showed rabies signs for twenty four hours before final determination.
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St. James's Hospital
Newark
Frank Bradley
Bradley
Soen
Priest Dies Aboard White Star Liner Arabic Near Fire Island
The Rev John F Greve of Pittston Pennsylvania died Friday afternoon aboard the White Star liner Arabic as it neared Fire Island returning from Carlsbad. He fell ill Sunday evening and asked to receive the last rites with his sister Miss Ellen Greve present. Ship surgeon Dr Gilmore tried to prolong his life until port. Among passengers listed are Dr A F Alexander J J Cain Mrs Campbell Clifford Ada De Angelis Charles B Douglas Gen RE A McAlpin Dr Charles H North Mrs Ellen C Wouds and Rev E Watson.
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Fire Island
John F. Greve
Pittston
Penn
Carlsbad
Ellen Greve
West Ninety-fifth Street
Gilmore
Greve
A. F. Alexander
J. J. Cain
Campbell Clifford
Ada de Angelis
Charles 8. Douglas
RE. A. McAlpin
Charles H. North
Ellen C. Wiouds
E. §. Watson
Balkan Crisis Shapes Hidden War Talks Across Europe
A London dispatch reports Germany’s restraint while Austria-Hungary resists discussing its Bosnia annexation, signaling a tense Balkan stand. Serbia’s parliament meets in secret to weigh war demands as the Czar awaits a response and Montenegro vows support, with Isvolsky seeking Britain’s backing for a broader alliance.
Britain Seeks Four Way Out Of Balkan Crisis
London reports a cautious shift toward hope in the Balkan crisis as European leaders weigh steps to avert war. British figures including Sir Edward Grey and Winston Churchill are cited on prospects for peace, with focus on how Turkish action and Austria's stance affect diplomacy and the Berlin Treaty.
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Britain
Sir Edward Gray
Bulgaria
Austria
Berlin
Turkey
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Turkeys
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