President roosevelt insists on renominating Hughes says the president
Special to The New York Times Oyster Bay L I September President Roosevelt told Republican state leaders that Hughes must be renominated. Only William L Ward of Westchester is named among the leaders, with Ward bringing in two others by yacht and gatekeeping their visit. In a prepared statement through Silas McBee the president voiced support for Hughes, while avoiding dictating the convention action.
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New York Times
Oyster Bay
L.I
Roosevelt
Gov. Hughes
William L. Ward
Westchester
Timothy L.woodruff
Herbert Parsons
Ward
Port Chester
Sagamore Hill
Mr. Ward
Treasury
Cottelyou
Silas McBee
Churchman
Hughes
Gov
Mr. McBee
New York
McBee
Seawanhaka Club
Sylph
Executive Office
Forster
James Williams
Frank H. Hitchcock
Republican National Committee
Williams
Col
Alexander Brodie
Rough Riders
T. Jerome
Grant Laeitert Tor
Janee
Inquirers
Heroine Bears Five Children From Burning Tenement
Passaic New Jersey reports Maggie Marshall saved her five small children from a blaze by using an ironing board to cross to an adjoining building. She broke windows to reach safety, then collapsed as the three story conflagration completely destroyed the interior of the fire-ravaged building.
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New York Times
Passaic
N. J
Maggie Marshall
Hendrick Hudson Observes Labor Day Run
Desbrosses Street departure at 9 40 am marked by the Fo re e sie pod back adv event. Details focus on time route and local observance of the holiday.
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Hendrick Hudson
Labor Day
Desbrosses St
Balloon Pilots Narrow Escape Over Niagara Falls
A racing balloon Ville Dieppe landed at Devil's Hole after a perilous ride over Niagara Falls. Captain E A Mueller and two Gregory youths were injured as the basket dragged through trees, houses, and over railroad tracks before a hard landing.
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New York Times
Niagara Falls
Ville’ Dieppe
Devil's Hole
E. A. Mueller
Perry Gregory
Gerald Gregory
Capt. Mueller
C. F. Gregory
Chicago
American Federation of Aerial Clubs
Gregory
Columbus
Take Erie
Mueller
Senator N B Scott Fights With S G Smith
Senator N B Scott lies recovering at Woodlawn after a clash with State Senator S G Smith following a dispute over a Parkersburg statement. Smith refuses peace talks and vows more confrontation. West Virginia Republicans weigh Smith as a rival, while Democrats cheer the rift as a possible political realignment.
Vandeventer Held After Broadway Speeding Chase
Robert Craig Vandeventer of 60 West Fifty-third Street, recently married, was arrested for speeding on Broadway near 186th Street after a chase with John W. Hyde of Jacksonville, Florida. Vandeventer offered his wife's diamond engagement ring as bail. he stayed in a cell until friends paid $100. Hyde and his party also waited for bail after racing down Broadway. both cases were resolved as money was arranged.
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Robert Craig Vandeventer
West Fifty-third Street
Broadway
186Th “Street
125Th Street
Young Vandeventer
Vandeventer
Sergt. Whitley
Cunningham
140Th Street
John W. Hyde
Jacksonville
Fla
Mr. Hyde
Albany
New York Broker Injured in Canadian Boat Explosion
Arthur Robinson, a wealthy New York stock broker and senior partner of Arthur Robinson & Co., was badly hurt by an explosion on his gasoline launch at his Holmes Lake camp near Fredericton, New Brunswick. His hands were mangled, his face burned, and sight in one eye endangered. Douglas of Newark is listed as associate. partners and family were unavailable for details.
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Fredericton
N. B
Arthur Robinson
New York
Holmes Lake
Robinson
Arthur Robinson & Co
Broadway
Frederick H. Douglas
Newark
Latest Shipping News Arrivals by Vessel and Port
Ships report arrivals with dates and ports: Altonia at Gibraltar on August 22, Iroquois at Jacksonville on August 29, Barbarossa at Cherbourg on August 23, Oceanic at Plymouth on September 2.
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Gibraltar
Jacksonville
Cherbourg
Oceanic
Plymouth
Florida Trains Resume Through Service
Florida Railway resumes through service via Seaboard Air Line with George Conklyn as general east passenger agent at 1183 Broadway. The short notice notes the reopened passenger run and agency contact.
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Florida T
Seaboard Air Ane
Conklyn
Gen
Pass
Agt
Thirty Bookmakers Barred From Sheepshead Bay Racecourse
The Coney Island Jockey Club barred thirty men known as professional bettors from Sheepshead Bay for disobedience of regulations. Among the excluded are the Doggett brothers Samuel and Richard, Ed Ryan, Hugh Collins, and "Circular Joe" Wendig. The move aimed to curb poolroom betting and secret odds. Attendance fell and a ten-member music band also lost players as race day neared the end.
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Sheepshead Bay
Jockey Club
Sheepshead. Bay
Dogget Brothers
Samuel and
Richard
Ed Ryan
Hugh Collins
Joe” Wendig
Sol” Lichtenstein
Lichtenstein
Coney Island ‘Club
Joe” Vendig
Grand Jury
Kings County
Vendig
Farina arraigned on race bet charge in Brooklyn
Ian Farina of 646 Union Avenue was arraigned in Special Sessions on impairing morals after detectives saw him give a $1 bill and a betting slip to 15 year old De Leo of 144 Sullivan Street on August 12. The bet concerned a horse named Helen Howdy at the Brighton Beach track. He was fined $25.
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Brooklyn
de Leo
Sullivan Street
Kramer
Flynn
Farina
Howdy
Brighton Beach
de Farina
Ian Farina
Union Avenue
Chauffeur Releases Dizzy Stunt Ties Up Fifth Ave Traffic
A chauffeur named Allen Douglas drove a big touring car in circles on Fifth Avenue near First Street last night causing a ten minute standstill. He claimed the auto belonged to Theodore Kitchenmeister of Sherman Square Hotel. Douglas was arrested for intoxication after colliding with a lamp post and was not seriously hurt along with minor car damage.
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Fif
First Street
Fifth Avenue
Allen Douglas
East Fifty-first Street
Theodore Kitchenmeister
Sherman Square Hotel
Seventy-first Street
Broadway
Murray
Array
Atlantic City Labor Day Train Schedule Note
Schedule lists 3 hour trains via New Jersey Central with a timetable on Page 13. An extra Pullman train departs Atlantic City at 6 30 P M on Labor Day for New York Newark and Elizabeth City.
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ATLC
Urge Parker For Governor In Democratic Survey
Democratic leaders in New York plan to test ex Judge Alton B Parker for the gubernatorial nomination this fall. A party insider says Parker is gaining favor across the state and nationally since the Denver Convention. Parker rests at his Esopus summer home and is expected back soon. State Chairman Conners cites Chanler as strong up state, but observers doubt his candidacy beyond a cover for another chosen leader. Pressure from Bryan signals conciliatory moves toward Home Rule Democrats and McCarren supporters to avert Rochester Convention protests.
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Alton B Parker
NEW York Times
Judge Parker
Denver
Parker
Esopus
West
Conners
Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler
Chanler
Bryan
Murphy- Conners
McCarren
Brooklyn
Rochester
Boy Survives Narrow Fall into Lake Musconetcong
Frank Hammill six year old son of Charles Hammill fell into Lake Musconetcong above flood gates. Water suction drew him to the gate where a foot was sucked into the mechanism. Gatekeeper James Powers opened the gates and the boy shot through the flume like a cannon ball. He was revived on shore after six minutes and sent home with only scratches.
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Netcong
N. J
Frank Hammill
Charles Hammill
James Powers
Policeman Rescues Fireman From Oncoming Wagon
Sergt John O Connor of Oak Street Station saved James W Steel 33 from death under a fire patrol wagon in 121st Street. Steel fell while rearranging harness and was pulled away just before a wheel passed over him. He suffered a severe hip bruise and was sent home by Dr Scho field after treatment at J Hood Wright Hospital.
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John O’connor
Oak Street
James W. Steel
West 131St Street
Fire Patrol 5
121St Street
O'’Connor
O’connor
Steel
Five Thousand Hungarians Sought To Refill Coke Ovens
Pittsburg dispatch reports five thousand men needed as cokeworkers in the Connellsville field but unavailable. H C Frick Coke Co plans 75 percent oven restart and may hire 5000 Hungarian workers sent home last fall. Labor unions threaten to invoke contract labor law to bar return of Hungarians.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
Penn
Connellsville
H. C. Frick Coke Company
United States Steel Corporation
Busy days in Cleveland
Railroad officials report August traffic in Cleveland rose to the year’s best level, with more freight cars moving in and out than any prior month. Wheel ing & Lake Erie plan multi million dollar improvements including a new Cleveland station. Wellman Seaver Morgan closes a four Hulett ore handling machine contract with Pittsburg Conneaut Dock for about 600000 dollars to be installed at Ashtabula.
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New York Times
Cleveland
Wheeling & Lake Erie
Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Company
Pittsburg-Conneaut Dock Company
Hulett
Ashtabula
Girl Climbs Tree to Escape Mad Dog in Jersey City
Miss May Murphy of 821 Third Avenue Manhattan waited for a car near Newark Avenue when a pursuing crowd shouted mad dog. She climbed a tree and stayed until a policeman shot the dog. The piece also advertises Tiikit eyeglasses at Spencer's 31 Maiden Lane.
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Miss May Murphy
Third Avenue
Manhattan
Jersey City
Newark Avenue
Miss Murphy
Five Women Drowned Off Deer Isle Sloop Capsizes
A 35 foot open sloop carrying ten summer visitors capsized in Penobscot Bay near Deer Isle. Three men survived including Capt. Samuel Haskell who helped rescue others. two women Lutie Kellogg and Miss Elizabeth Evans died, along with Miss Alice Torro and Miss Eleanor Torro among the drowned. Hutchins, a Bangor Theological Seminary student, is presumed lost. Rescue efforts continued for his body as winds worsened.
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Deer Isle
Penobscot Bay
Crawley Family Back From Maine After Boating Rescue
In Philadelphia Mrs Lucy S Crawley of Chestnut Hill is noted in educational circles while her husband Dr Edwin S Crawley a Mathematics Professor at the University of Pennsylvania was saved in a boating accident He and the couple with their two daughters had gone to Maine in July and were due home soon In Springfield Mass Miss Elizabeth G Evans a former Mount Holyoke English teacher and Wellesley College graduate was to return this year after teaching in Dayton Ohio
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Philadelphia
Lucy S. Crawley
Chestnut Hill
Edwin S. Crawley
University of Pennsylvania
Springfield
Mass
Elizabeth G. Evans
Mount Holyoke Cobert
Wellesley College
Dayton
Daughters of Kellogg Drowned Off Deer Island
Misses Lutie and Evelyn Kellogg, daughters of Mr and Mrs Henry Kellogg of Lutherville Baltimore County, were drowned today off Deer Island in Penobscot Bay. They had been away about a month and were expected to return shortly.
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Baltimore
Lutie
Evelyn Kellogg
Deer Island
Penobscot Bay
Henry Kellog
Lutherville
State Real Estate Valuation Reaches 8.55 Billion
Albany September 1 State Board of Equalization reports total real estate valuation for the just closed fiscal year at 8 553 298 187 dollars up from 7 933 057 917 dollars a year earlier.
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Albany
N. Y
State Board of Equalization
A Summer Appetizer Prompted by Horsford’s Acid
A brief note mentions a teaspoon of Horsford’s acid stirred in water as a summer appetite stimulant and thirst quencher. The quip attributes appetite stimulation to a simple homely remedy.
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Horsford
STATE TREASURER IN FIGHT OVER JOB
Julius Hauser former Islip supervisor and State Treasurer clashed with ex Assessor Patrick Synalen near the post office after a heated political argument. They later claimed it was fooling but the scuffle drew public interest and a rift over a hoped Albany position.
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Julius Hauser
Islip
Patrick Svnalen
Whalen
Hauser
Albany
Countess Széchényi III Gives Birth in Hungary
Countess Széchényi of Budapesth delivered a child in Felso merte today, but the infant died at birth. The mother, initially gravely ill, is now out of danger. The Countess, formerly Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, is the daughter of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt of New York. Her husband is Count Laszlo Széchényi, whom she wed in New York last January. Mrs. Vanderbilt has been asked to travel to Budapest.
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New York Times
Budapesth
Széchényi
Felsomerte
Angvar Castle
Buda-Pesth
Cornelius Vanderbilt
New York
Countess Széchényi
Gladys Vanderbilt
Laszlo Széchényi
Lauder Denies Enormous Salary Figure Abroad
Harry Lauder told a London interviewer that reports of a huge American salary are false. He says his pay is not £1,000 a week and that cancellation indemnities with Glasgow Theatre leave him little, aiming to meet American people this year and perhaps return with some Yankee dollars.
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New York
London
Harry Lauder
America
Glasgow
United States
Potato bugs halt eight trolleys to Lake Compounce
In Bristol Connecticut on September 1 a swarm of potato bugs stalled eight excursionist trolley cars on the tracks at Lazy Lane preventing movement until work crews could sand the rails and clear the line for travel to Lake Compounce.
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Bristol
Conn
Lake Compounce
Oxygen plant disaster claims president at Niagara Falls
Joan G. Clifford, president of the United Oxygen and Chemical Co., was blown to pieces at the Niagara Falls plant as a tank of oxygen burst. His 18 year old son Roger witnessed the tragedy. the father's legs were torn from his body and flung fifty feet, while the boy escaped unharmed.
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
Joan G. Clifford
United Oxygen and Chemical Company
Roger
Boys' perilous pastime injures no one on train
A gang of youths near Forest Park Heights Queens suspended bricks from overhead bridges to smash locomotive headlights and cab windows. An eastbound express train passed Myrtle Avenue, shattering a headlight and a cab window. the engineer, leaning from the cab, avoided injury. Detectives stake out the area to catch them.
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Forest Park Heights
Queens
Myrtle Avenue
Napoleon Was a Hobo in Montclair
In Montclair on September 1, John Huffledinger challenged a vagrancy arrest, arguing he could be a campaign orator. Sergeant McGarry dismissed the charge after ten minutes, noting Huffledinger’s rapid-fire sermon on tramp life and claiming Napoleon as his hobo predecessor.
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New York Times
Montclair
Sergeant McGarry
John Huffledinger
Mulligan
McGarry
Huffledinger
Napoleon
Europe
Moscow
Waterloo
Four Smothered on Bark Puri tan in President Roads
Four seamen died from smoke inhalation in the forepeak of the British bark Puritan as she lay at anchor in President Roads. A fifth man was partially overcome but rescued by shipmates. The fire caused only slight damage.
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Boston
President Roads
New York Philadelphia Train Schedule via New Jersey Central
2 hour train service to New York and Philadelphia via New Jersey Central runs hourly from 7 A M to 6 P M. See schedule on page 13. Sleepers on midnight trains open at 10 O'clock. Adyvy.
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New York
Philadelphia
New Jersey Central
New York to Pacific Coast Fare Quoted at 55 Dollars
A brief transport item notes a fare of 55 dollars from New York to the Pacific Coast with a reference to Lehigh Valley and a 365 Broadway address. The fragment confirms travel pricing and a company connection but lacks full context or dates.
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New York
Pacific Coast
Lehigh Valley
Broadway
Vermont Election Returns Boost Prouty Victory in State Race
Vermont voters backed Lieut Gov George H Prouty Republican for governor as James E Burke Democrat trailed by about 30 000 votes in a statewide result that preserved Republican control of both branches The Independence League and Prohibition fared poorly while the election produced mixed local outcomes with several towns still reporting and a large turnout despite harvest season
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White River Junction
George H. Prouty
Newport
James E. Burke
Burlington
Quimby S. Backus
Independence League
E. M. Campbell
Prohibition
J. K. Dunbar
Senate
House
Prouty
Burke
St. Albans
Northfield
James F. Burke
Morristown
Thomas C. Cheney
Leselotura
Renreser
J. A. de Boer
Montpélier
John H. Senter
Vermont
F. E. Burgess
Chittenden
J. E. Kennedy
Backus
Independence
Campbell
Dunbar
Bell
Porter
Congress
David J. Foster
Frank Piurroy
Sta
Redfield Proctor
John A. Mead
Rutland
Guy W. Bailey
Essex
Edward H. Deavitt
Montemier
Pls
Auaitur—Horach F. Graham
Crafts Or
John G. Sargent
Ludliow
Purlington
Brandon
New Party
Prohibition Party
Wile
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Ville Dieppe
Niagara’ Rapids
Scott
Wheeling
West Va
N. B. Scott
Woodlawn
S. G. Smith
Smith
Republican Committee
Parkersburg
Elkins
West Virginia
R. C. Vandeventer
Camp
Joe Wendig
Brighton
Fifth Ave
Lamp Post
Gateman
Sergt. O’connor
Hungary
Spencer’s
Maiden Lane
Skipper
Crawley
Lucy
Evans
Elizabeth G
Mount Holyoke Seminary
Hutchins
Jason Co
Bangor
Kellogg
Torro
Alice
Washington
Eleanor
Samuel Haskell
Henry B. Evans
Mount Holyoke
Elizabeth Evans
Little Kellogg
Miss Evans
Barren Island
Ware
Maine
Capt. Haskell
Haskell
Capt
Prof. Crawley
Henry Evins
Prof
Eagle Island
Lutie Kellogg
Barren
Bangor Theological Seminary
Billeéri¢éa
Sayville Street
Countess Szecheny III
Clifford
United Oxygen and Chemical Co
L. J
Hearst
Taft
Mack Seeg
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