Gift of Constitution Island to West Point in 1908
Miss Anna Bartlett Warner and Mrs. Russell Sage gift Constitution Island opposite West Point to the United States to expand the West Point Military Reservation. President Roosevelt accepts. the island, about 280 acres upland and 50 acres meadow, would remain for Warner to occupy her home for life. The deed requires its use forever by the U.S. Military Academy and bans public recreation use.
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Russell Sage
Constitution Island
Hudson River
West Point
United States
Roosevelt
Congress
Military Academy
Continental Congress
Kosciusko
Gess Point
Hudson
Academy
Elihu Root
William H. Taft
Board of Visitors
Senate
House
Miss Warner
Warner
United States Military Academy
N.Y
Judge Tames Apple Thieves From His Jamaica Farm
County Judge Humphrey of Queens surprised five boys stealing fruit from his Jamaica area farm. He treed them in a tree and fastened them with halters, then sent for the police. He later freed them after hearing their pleas and offered a warning and mercy.
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Humphrey
Queens
Jamaica
Harriman Urges Fair Dealing at San Francisco Reception
E. H. Harriman spoke at a Fairmont Hotel reception for 40 San Francisco merchants and bankers. He defended fair dealing and capital returns, noted a less hysterical, more commonsense country, and denied reports he had acquired three Oceanic Line steamers before departing on a special Eastbound train.
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San Francisco
E. H. Harriman
Fairmont Hotel
Bay Cities
Missing $50,000 Package In Portland Salem Case
A Wells Fargo package entrusted to Salem by J R Albert president of Capital National Bank and addressed to Joseph M Meyers at the Portland Hotel has vanished in Portland. The package, containing notes and valuable papers totaling over $50,000, arrived in Portland by the Southern Pacific train Aug 21 at 11 30 pm. Detectives are on the case with clues but details remain withheld as Supt Beckwith promises pursuit until the thief is caught.
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Portland
Ore
Wells-Fargo Express Company
Salem
J. R. Albert
Capital National Bank
Joseph M. Meyers
Southern Pacific
Express Company
Meyers
Albert
Beckwith
Aha
Well-Fargo Express Company
City boxing school urged to curb Italian violence
In Bayonne New Jersey Recorder Hyman Lazarus urged establishing a gym and boxing school for Italian residents to learn to fight with fists rather than guns after Frank Dalise’s arrest for shooting Michael Kamge. Lazarus claimed such a program would lower the death rate and reduce revolvers and knives in the city. He has also gained attention for his juvenile offender reforms.
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Frank Dalise
Michael Kamge
Hyman Lazarus
Bayonne
N. J
Lazarus
Moon is a Myth Letter Urges Polar Railroad Funding
A Stockton, California writer asks Congress for a South Polar railroad appropriation and proposes fringe solar theory ideas. He claims the moon is a myth and that the sun’s high speed creates large scale electric light while Mars and other bodies reflect from a solar ring surrounding Earth.
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Washington
South Polar
Stockton
Cal
Dennett
General Land Office
Mars
Dewey's Claret or Lauterne Punch Ad
An advertisement from Stew Dewey & Sons Co at 138 Fulton Street New York promotes ready to serve claret or lauterne punch for social events. The compact listing highlights the beverage during gatherings.
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Stew Dewey & Sons Co
Fulton St
New York
Wright Makes Best Fort Myer Trials In Air
Orville Wright flies twice at Fort Myer Va under clear conditions. He stays aloft eleven minutes ten seconds, then seven minutes thirty four seconds, circling the parade ground with precise control. Aiming to beat Delagrange’s thirty one minute French record, spectators expect a longer flight but Wright ends the second run with the motor off and lands softly.
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New York Times
Washington
Orville Wright
Fort Myer
Wright
Delagrange
France
Army Board
Smithereens
Berliner crafts aeromobile with 860 pound lift claim
Emile Berliner describes an experimental aeromobile using a 36 square foot two blade propeller and a 100 pound steel aluminium frame setup. He says the device can lift 860 pounds straight up in calm air with no gas bag and no full aircraft. He plans horizontal thrust by tilting the propeller and adding small planes for lift and landing.
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Washington
Emile Berliner
Berliner
Navy declines fleet visit to Java en route to Manila
The Navy Department regrets declining the Netherlands invitation for the battleship fleet to visit Java on the way to Manila. Officials want the fleet to reach Manila promptly for the target practice season and deem the detour unwise at this time.
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Washington, D.C
Navy Department
Netherlands
Java
Manila
Zia Bey Impostor Shown As Romancer in London
London authorities and press agencies dismissed Zia Bey as a romancing impostor after his sensational claims about his role in Turkey's revolution. Izzet Pasha denied knowing Zia or any such post, and editors declined to print his London interview. Zia then left for other cities.
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Turkey
London
Zia Bey
Izzet Pasha
Zia
Izzet
Doctor Rustin inquest reveals plot to end life via murder for poison
Mrs. Rice testified that Dr. F T Rustin sought his own death and urged a man named Charles Edward Davis to kill him in exchange for poison. Davis admitted receiving drugs from Rustin but denied agreeing to murder the doctor. Davis and Rice described a scheme across multiple locations ending in a failed attempt. The coroner's inquest continued.
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New York Times
Omaha
Neb
F. T. Rustin
Rice
Austin
Charles Edward
Frederick A. Davis
First National Bank of Omaha
Davis
Dr. Austin
Charles Davis
Charles Edward Davis
Frederick Davis
First Panne Bank
Rustin
Dr. Rustin
Mr. Devis
Ships Libeled in Hamburg Stricken by Financial Trouble
The New York and Continental Steamship Company faces financial difficulties as Hamburg agents suspend future sailings. The Aboukir at Rotterdam and Jelunga at Hamburg are under libel, while the Volturno arrived from New York with a successful claim filed by Fairfield Shipbuilding. Estimated total liabilities reach $150,000.
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New York Times
Hamburg
New York and Continental Steamship Company
Rotterdam
New York
Atlantic
Aboukir
Jelunga
Volturno
Fairfield Shipbuilding Company
President Roosevelt calls Nassau leaders for Hughes support
At Sagamore Hill Roosevelt summoned key Nassau County leaders including W W Cocks and W J Youngs to pledge support for Hughes at the Republican State Convention. He expressed pleasure that local sentiment aligned with Hughes and urged unity to secure renomination.
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Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
Hughes
Nassau County
Sagamore Hill
W. W. Cocks
Westbury L. I
Smith Cox
United States
W. J. Youngs
Garden City
Charles F. Lewis
F. A. Wright
Chester Painter
Williams&. Moore
Gov. Hughes
Automobile Crash Splits Telegraph Pole In Williamsport
Albert Dinkey lost control on the State Road near Williamsport and crashed into a telegraph pole. The pole snapped and the car split in half, body torn from frame. He was thrown into a nearby corn field with only lacerations and bruises. no bones broken.
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New York Times
Williamsport
Penn
Here
Albert Dinkey
Dinkey
Labor MP Keir Hardie Involved in Riverdale Accident
Keir Hardie, a Labor MP visiting New York, reviewed the Labor Day parade on Fifth Avenue and narrowly missed striking ten year old Andrew Poffe of Yonkers with an automobile. The boy, playing outside his home at 234 Riverdale Avenue, was run over but sustained no broken bones, only bruises and shock.
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Keir Hardie
Fifth Avenue
Andrew Poffe
Riverdale Avenue
Yonkers
Hardie
New York
Toledo
Man risks life to help woman dive near Niagara Falls
Hoboken resident Harry Schafer tried to rescue a 21 year old woman who climbed the Prospect Point railing and leaped into the Niagara River near the American Falls. He leaned over the edge with one foot on shore and one on a water gauge, but could not reach her before she disappeared over the falls. Schafer narrowly escaped death as the rushing current threatened to pull him in.
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New York Times
Niagara Falls
N. Y
Harry Schafer
Hoboken
N. J
Schafer
Prospect Point
Summer Thirst Relief with Horsford's Acid Phosphate
Horsford's Acid Phosphate is praised as a delicious beverage superior to lemonade and an excellent tonic, offering refreshing relief from summer thirst.
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Horsford
Spencer’s unveils Tikit eyewear with Bisight Toric Pebbles
Spencer’s debuts Tikit stylish eyeglasses featuring Bisight Toric Pebbles at 31 Maiden Lane. Ady.
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Spencer's
New Bisight
Maiden Lane
Ady
Danish ex-Minister admits 2.5 million dollar fraud
S. M. Alberti former Minister of Justice and close ally of the King surrendered to police and confessed to frauds totaling over 2.5 million dollars at Bondestandens Spar kasse savings bank where he served as president. The bank halted payments after the disclosed losses and Alberti was briefly examined before remand.
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Copenhagen
M. Alberti
Bondestandens Sparkasse
Ministry of Finance
Stock Exchange
United States
Bondestandens Bank
Prisop
Mob at Oxford Jail Lynches Negro After Attack and Murder
Ex United States Senator W V Sullivan of Mississippi led a mob that stormed the Oxford Mississippi jail and lynched Lawson Patton a negro who had killed Mrs McMullen earlier in the day Sheriff abandoned the jail to avoid surrender Judge W A Roane pleaded for lawful process Sullivan demanded immediate execution and the mob battered down the walls to free the prisoner
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New York Times
Memphis
Tenn
United States
W. V. Sullivan
Mississippi
Oxford
Miss
Lawson Patton
W. A. Roane
Sullivan
Fire destroys Philadelphia Cricket Club home at Wissahicken Heights
The Philadelphia Cricket Club house at Wissahicken Heights burned in the morning blaze. One man died in the fire, a woman leaped from a third story window breaking her legs, and two other adults were injured. All victims were residents of the home.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Cricket Club
Wissahicken Heights
Strawn Heat Wave Pushes Town to Halted Business
A Strawn Texas special reports a 112 degree day, rising to 199 today with hot southerly winds, forcing all business to suspend. Waco also endures 101 degree heat for three days, causing wallpaper to split from walls due to extreme expansion.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Strawn
Here
Waco
Hudson River Bridge Plan Moves Forward in Bergen County
Bergen County Freeholders in Hackensack adopt a resolution to have County Engineer Earle draft a rough boulevard from the Jersey approach across the county to Hackensack then Paterson and Newark. The plan aims to tap part of a $10,000 state good roads fund to build bridges over the Overpeck and Hackensack Rivers at Palisades Park and Ridgefield Park.
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Bergen County
N. J
Board of Freeholders
Hudson River
Jersey
Freeholders
Hackensack
Earle
Paterson
Newark
Overpeck
Palisades Park
Ridgefield Park
Child Slayer Sought Near Cliffwood New Jersey
County detectives pursue Cisanto Rosino of New York in Middlesex County. The four year old Scianto girl was found dead in a gully near Cliffwood after last being seen with Rosino. A county reward is offered for Rosino’s capture as investigators close in.
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New York Times
New Brunswick
N. J
Frank Hoffman
Cliffwood
Cisanto Rosino
New York
Dominick Sctanto
Pownall
Middlesex Board of Freeholders
Rosino
Scianto
State commission delays Erie inspection over transit fee
The New Jersey State Railroad Commission met in Newark and learned it would pay $2 per mile to transport members over the Erie and neighboring lines for an on site check. The $200 cost halted today's inspection. inspectors will ride local trains instead. Gen. Congdon said the board may still pursue a personal inspection.
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New Jersey State Railroad Commission
Newark
Erie
New York, Susquehanna & Western
Joseph W. Congdon
New York to Pacific Coast Fare Listed at 55
A brief travel notice lists a $55 fare from New York to the Pacific Coast. The entry references Lehigh Valley and includes a Broadway street address 355. Ady is noted in the fragment.
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New York
Pacific Coast
Lehigh VaLley
Broadway
McCarren Wins Tight Primary Races Amid Citywide Shifts
In yesterday’s city primaries Senator McCarren scored a clear win carrying 18 of 23 Brooklyn Assembly districts, regaining control after losses elsewhere. Governor Hughes faced mixed results, losing seven of thirteen districts, while Cassidy faced defeats in Queens and Tammany leadership largely held steady in the Bronx and Manhattan.
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Hughes
Manhattan
Bronx
Brooklyn
Patrick IH. Met‘arren
Meacami Hiall
Kings County
McCarren
Kings
Queens
Lawrence Gresser
Joseph “Assidy
William Hahn
Odell
Wiliam
Hughes Test Vote Shows Mixed Support for renomination
Test vote results across nine New York districts favor Gov. Hughes by about 200 in total. Brooklyn districts vote all against him. Brooklyn’s four districts produced 1,142 votes against out of 3,156. New York County districts show varied results with strong sentiment against in tenement areas but support in residential sections.
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Gov. Hughes
Brooklyn
Jacob Brenner
Kings County Republican Committee
Baliiwick
New York County
Herbert Parsons
Saratoga
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Wells-Fargo Express Co
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New York and Continental Steamship Co
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King
U. S
Hudson River Bridge
New Jersey
Railroad
State Commission
Closeon Hughes
M’carren
Cassidy
Tammany
Parsons
East Side
Antti- Enroll
A.D Hughes
Ment
Levenson
Koenig
Blake
Nejediy
Bennet
Prentice Coves
Krulewitch
Bowers
Whittle
Veee Brenner
Aves Bert
Jacquillard
Hann
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