Mercedes U. S. A. catches fire in Hudson race finish
A motor boat racing on the Hudson River ends with the Mercedes U. S. A. bursting into flames just after finishing. Crew including H. L. Bowden and Charles Basle leaped into the river. the U. S. Revenue Cutter Manhattan quickly fought the blaze and towed the burning craft to the club dock.
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Hudson River
H. L. Bowden
Mercedes U. S. A
Charles Basle
James Barr
Saily
Revenue Cutter
Motor Boat Club of America
West 112Th Street
Mercedes
J. H. Headrey
Yacht Club
Barr
Ardsley
Bowden
Boston
Ormond Beach
Demogeot
Mr. Bowden
John Barr
Thistle
Marblehead
Mount McKinley Still Higher Says Parker After Expedition
Dr Herschel C Parker of Columbia University returns to Brooklyn after four months in Alaska with Frederick Cook and others reporting Mount McKinley higher than previously measured. They reached Sitka June 3 and attempted a northern route to the summit, estimating elevations around 21,000 feet. Cook plans another Alaska attempt next summer from the north.
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Mount McKinley
North America
Herschel C. Parker
Columbia University
Fort Greene Place
Brooklyn
Prof. Parker
Frederick Cook
R. W. Porter
Fiala
Baldwin
Bellmore, Browne
Alaska
Sitka
Parker
Mdount McKinley
United States
Geological Survey
Cook
Difference Between Stransky Enabeled Ware and Imitations
Advertisement contrasts the costs of genuine Stransky Enabeled Ware with cheaper poisonous imitations. It questions whether health is worth paying more for authentic products and urges consumers to choose safety.
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Stransky
James H. Smith Marries in Inverness Scotland
In Inverness Scotland on September 13 Mrs Annie M. Stewart of New York and James Henry Smith of New York were married at Phones Lodge Invernesshire. The Rev James Anderson officiated. The groom plans to base in England with a London home and a country estate. Bonfires lit on Alvie hilltops to celebrate.
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Inverness
Scotland
Annie M. Stewart
New York
Rhinelander Stewart
James Henry Smith
Phones Lodge
Invernessshire
James Anderson
Alvie
Briachton
Mackintosh
England
London
King Edward declines to discuss spelling reform query
A letter to King Edward asks if he would back spelling reform like Roosevelt. The private secretary replies it cannot be answered as the questions have not yet been brought before the king. The article notes the king is not prone to seek trouble.
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NEW York Times
London
King Edward
Roosevelt
the Inquirer
Edward
Pennsylvan ia Tunnel Supports Begun After Opening North Tube
With the north tube of the Pennsylvania tunnel under the Hudson River opened, work to install steel supports will start. The tubes rested on mud. soon steel columns will be driven from bed rock through breakable cast metal linings. Concrete will seal the upper ends into the tubes.
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Pennsylvania Tunnel
Hudson River
Pennsylvania
Times Sq Skyscraper Deal Nears On Fitzgerald Plot
Negotiations firming to improve Mrs Mary A Fitzgeralds large Broadway corner plot at Forty third Street opposite The Times Building. A Philadelphia syndicate is said to lease the 104.2 by 193.8 foot site for 21 years with renewal options and plans a tall building. Douglas Robinson notes talks continue.
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Mary A. Fitzgerald
Broadway
Forty-third Street
Times
Philadelphia
Douglas Robinson
Fitzgerald
Astor
Times Square
West Fortythird Street
West Forty-third Street
Pygmy Out of Monkey Cage At New York Zoo
Ota Benga the African pygmy was not exhibited yesterday in the Bronx Zoo monkey cage but wandered in the rain. Clergymen meeting at 150 Nassau Street decided to hold another session next Monday at Mount Olivet Church to discuss preventing further display and to evaluate possible actions. Rev. James H. Gordon heads the committee and welcomed the cage’s sign removal and the discontinuation of the exhibitions.
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Ota Benga
New York Zoological Park
Bronx
Wilfred H. Smith
Nassau Street
The
Baptists
Mount Olivet Church
West Fifty-third Street
Smith
General Conference of
Colored Baptist Ministers
James H. Gordon
Index to Departments and Page References
A contents listing enumerating sections such as Amusements Arrivals of Out-of-Town Buyers Business Troubles Court Calendars Financial News Marine Intelligence New Corporations Real Estate Society United Service Weather Report Yesterday's Fires Advertisements Deaths Furnished Rooms and Boarders Help and Situations Wanted Hotels and Restaurants Instruction Lost and Found Summer Resorts Travelers Guide and an advertising line about Usher's Scotch highball.
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Marine Intelligence
Society
United Service
Weather Report
Travelers’ Guide
Confesses Murder at Richmond Convention
West Brighton police arrest Henry Dean on an attempted murder charge. He then confessed to killing Esther Cozine in Mariners Harbor last April and claimed a second fatality on Fresh Kills Bridge. He spoke to Rev J H Howard during a Prohibitionists gathering. authorities say he appeared rational though may be mentally unwell.
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West Brighton
Richmond
Central Avenue
Mariners’ Harbor
J. H. Howard
Mr. Howard
Henry Dean
Esther Cozine
Columbia Street
Dean
Lve
Severe lightning storm hits Newport area
A dawn thunderstorm with heavy rain up to 2.4 inches struck Newport Jamestown and nearby towns. Twenty five to thirty locations were hit by lightning causing major damage including a large stable at Theodore M. Dav is Reefs estate and the Hoffmans cupola, Woodward Cloisters chimney top, Berwind estate elevator damage, and other electrical equipment impairment. four stablemen escaped in night clothes.
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New York Times
Newport
R. L
Jamestown
Theodore M. Davis
Reefs
Ocean Avenue
Charles F. Hoffman
Ridge Road
Ochre Point
J. T. Woodward
E. J. Berwind
JuHen T. Davies
Purgatory Road
Bryan and Johnson Phrenology Read in Cincinnati Lobby
In Cincinnati on September 13 William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and Tom L Johnson of Cleveland had their skulls read by phrenologist Prof William Warburton Tedford at the Grand Hotel lobby. Tedford described Bryan as mental, with a large head, creative and idealistic, adding he has both brain quantity and quality. Johnson awaited his turn as the scene drew attention from onlookers.
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New York Times
Cincinnati
William Jennings Bryan
Nebraska
Tom L. Johnson
Cleveland
Bryan
William Warburton Tedford
Grand Hotel
Tedford
Tom Johnson
Mr. Bryan
Bryan Tedford
Ife
Czar Sets Sail on Yachting Trip Down Gulf of Finland
Emperor Nicholas and Empress Alexandra with the Heir Apparent and Princesses boarded the imperial yacht Standart for a multi day voyage down the Gulf of Finland. The Emperor travels with the Minister of the Court and the Minister of Marine aboard the vessel.
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Czar
ST. Petersburg
Emperor Nicholas
Empress Alexandra
Gulf of Finland
Marine
Steamer Reported Across Nantucket Passage
The vessel reported via wireless from Newport Rhode Island last night passed Nantucket at 1 30 PM yesterday and was due at her pier around 8 AM today awaiting docking at the wharf.
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Wireless
Oceana
Marconi Wireless
Newport
R. I
Nantucket
Night Ride to Chicago in Eighteen Hours
An ad proclaims the 20th Century Limited on the New York Central Lines leaving New York at 3 30 P M and arriving in Chicago at 8 30 A M the next day. Describes it as America s greatest railroad with a dozen other fast trains to Chicago and St Louis.
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Chicago
New York
CEN AL
St. Louis
Insurgents Burn U S Sugar Plantations in Santa Clara
In Santa Clara Province insurgents began burning foreign property with two large sugar plantations in the southern area destroyed. San José, owned by R. A. Bell & Brothers, is American owned, and Constancia is held by New York capitalists represented by Co. B. Stillman. Unconfirmed reports say a Spanish estate at Andrieta also burned.
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Province
San José
R. A. Bell & Brothers
Constancia
New York
Andrieta
Mystery as to Washington death questioned in literary letter
Clement K. Shorter of The Sphere notes the lack of an accurate biography of Washington’s death. He observes that Americans discuss the facts but have not produced a precise account, in a literary letter from London dated September 13.
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NEW York Times
London
Clement K. Shorter
The
Sphere
Washington
Citizens' Union to campaign against unfit candidates
The City Committee of the Citizens Union resolved to actively campaign to return to the Assembly and Senate those members recommended for re election by the Union s Legislative Committee. It also favored elections of judges chosen by the Judiciary Nominators and signaled it may nominate its own candidates if unfit nominees appear from either party.
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The
Citizens’ Union
Assembly
Senate
Legislative Committee of the Union
Pearl Worth $500 Found in Huntington Clam
Frank P. Willets of Huntington Long Island says he opened a batch of common hard clams and found a rare pearl valued at least $500 inside one. Experts praise its form and coloring as unusually fine.
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Frank P. Willets
Huntington
L. I
Willets
Earl
Italian gunman fires at John Fox at Coney Island
A bullet fired by an unidentified Italian at John Fox of 1285 St. Marks Avenue pierced Fox’s hand, hit Policeman Stivens in the left leg, struck the West Fifteenth Street power house wall, and lodged in engineer Frank Pharlock’s pocket before the assailant fled.
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John Fox
St. Mark's Avenue
Coney Island
Fox
Stivens
West Fifteenth Street
Frank Pharlock
Autoists Carry Away Girl in Philadelphia
Agnes Mulrooney an 18 year old visitor to Eugene Carraine of Glenside was pushed into a car by two men and carried away after being hurled into the tonneau. The auto sped toward Philadelphia as police search the suburbs. The car license is registered to Bush of 156 North Fifty sixth Street.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Agnes Mulrooney
Eugene Carraine
Glenside
Bush
North Fifty-sixth Street
Fine for Unpainted Poles in Jersey City
The New York and New Jersey Telephone Company was fined 50 by Police Justice Higgins for not painting a pole on Communipaw Avenue in Jersey City. The penalty was suspended on condition the pole be painted, with potential 50 fines for every unpainted pole in the city. The ordinance covers electric light and telegraph poles.
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New York and
New Jersey Telephone Company
Higgins
Jersey City
Claim of New York Estate Surfaces in Des Moines
Mrs. L. E. Brown of Des Moines claims a four million dollar interest in four hundred twelve million dollars of New York City property. She asserts direct descent from Robert Edwards linked to Aaron Burr era leases and cites a New York firm and local lawyers backing her claim. Heirs reportedly identified in many states with committees formed to pursue claims.
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New York Times
Des Moines
Iowa
New York City
L. E. Brown
East Walnut Street
Robert Edwards
Aaron Burr
Lower Manhattan
Broadway
Wall Street
Jesse Edwards
Mrs. Brown
Roosevelt Aide Loeb Plans Hunting Trip With Publisher
Helena Mont Sept 13 William Loeb Jr private secretary to President Roosevelt will depart with George Thompson publisher of The St Paul Dispatch for a hunting trip in the Jackson hole country south of Yellowstone Park on Sept 20.
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Helena
Mont
William Loeb, Jr
Roosevelt
George Thompson
St. Paul
Jackson Ole
Yellowstone Park
Americans Land Marines in Havana Amid Cuban Tensions
A detachment of 120 sailors with machine guns landed at Havana from the Denver and encamped before Palma's palace. Washington said no orders issued. action followed a Havana meeting between Palma, Sleeper, and Colwell. Marooned sailors recalled except small legation guard. aim was protection of American lives and property, not intervention.
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Havana
Robert Bacon
Sleeper
Denver
Palma
Mr. Sleeper
Legation
White House
Oyster Bay
N. Y
Washington
Castle
O'Reilly Street
Plaza de Armas
Colwell
O’reilly
Miller
Associated Press
Bonaparte
United States
Cuba
American Guard at Palace in Havana Amid Cuban Crisis
One hundred twenty U.S. sailors from the protected cruiser Denver camped before La Forza Castle near the Presidential Palace. The force, landed with field guns, supports President Palma who sees it as a safeguard, while insurgents move eastward toward Havana and strikes threaten railway lines and towns in Santa Clara and Pinar del Rio provinces.
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United States
Denver
la Forza
Colwell
Alfredo Zayas
Liberal Party
Loynaz del Castillo
Havana
Sleeper
Palma
Washington
Pino Guerra
Guines
Guerra
Pinar del Rio
Feliciano Prieto
Maria Herrera
New York
Santiago de Las Vegas
Santa Clara
Cienfuegos
Santa Clara City
Manicaragua
Aleman
Edward Guzman
Las Lajas
Cruces
Western Railroad
Calabazar
Sagua la Grande
United Railway
Rincon Junction
San Diego
Regia
Havana Bay
Congress
Bonaparte Replies On Marine Landing News
Secretary Bonaparte of the Navy visited New York en route to Oyster Bay and spoke with a Times reporter. He later received word about the alleged marine landing, and could not confirm details.
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Bacon
Washington
Bonaparte
New York
Jersey City
Congressional Limited
Oyster Bay
Times
Havana
Cuba
Sagamore Hill
Denver
Secretary Bonaparte
Navy Department
Albemarle Hotel
New York Times
de White
Mr. Bonaparte
Colwell Says Denver Sailors Not Yet Ordered Home
Havana dispatch reports Commander Colwell stating he has received no orders to return the Denver sailors and doubts the Navy Department has understood his code message. He says he would comply within thirty minutes if informed to do so after understanding the situation.
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Havana
Colwell
Associated Press
Washington
Denver
Navy Department
Marines Enter Cienfuegos Amid Siege
A dispatch from Cienfuegos reports the U S gunboat Marietta has arrived and debarked a detachment. The city is besieged by insurgents and conditions are reported tense as the presence of the Marines influences the siege dynamics.
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Havana
Cienfugos
United States
Marietta
Cienfuegos
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MT. Mckinley
Parker Returning
James H. Smith
Bride
North River Tubes
New Times SQ
Bronx Park
Usher
Rhode Island
Burn American Property
B. Stillman
Long Island
Loeb
President Palma
New
York
Marines
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