Marine Engineers Threaten Strike Over Wage Scale
The Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association calls for a 5 to 10 percent pay increase and new work hour rules beginning Oct 1 for chief and assistant engineers aboard American flag steamers. They threaten a coastwise and transatlantic shutdown if employers resist, naming major lines and ports at risk.
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Atlantic Ocean
Gulf of Mexico
The
Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association
Engineers’ Organization
James J. Waters
State Street
New York City
Engineer Corps
Cage
New York
American
Red Star
Ward Line
Panama Line
Red D
Clyde
Morgan
Ee Metropolitan
Ol Dominion
Hannah
Fall River
United Fruit Company
Atlantic
Philadelphia
Boston
Norfolk
Baltimore
New Orleans
Jacksonville
Charleston
Vanpenage
Galveston
Mobile
Live Wires Bring Bronx Rush Hour Toll and Chaos
Nearly 150 feet of trolley wire snapped down on Southern Boulevard at 188th Street during a northbound car mishap. Mrs. Steitz and John Brooks suffered serious burns and shock, transported to Lincoln Hospital. Dozens were knocked down as three charged wire sections hissed and wriggled in the street, drawing a large crowd as police worked to shut off the current.
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188Th Street
Bronx
Harry Steitz
Fox Street
The
John Brooks
Addison Street
Lincoln Hospital
138Th Street
Mrs. Steitz
Brooks
Alexander Avenue
Killea
Keeper to Wed Ex Prisoner in Paroled Bride union
Frank Suydam of Bordentown will marry Mrs. Susan Doblinski of Lambertville, recently paroled from state prison after a year for Sunday selling and excise violations. The ceremony, officiated by a State Board of Prison Inspectors member, takes place at White Hill with attendants Mr and Mrs Martin Fisher. Doblinski rose from Lambertville hotelier to prisoner then parolee after inheritance and marriage. Suydam, a Bordentown politician and widower, is linked to the city’s mayoral prospects.
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New York Times
Trenton
White Hill
State Board of Prison Inspectors
Frank Suydam
Bordentown
Susan Doblinski
Lambertville
William H. Carter
Martin Fisher
Doblinski
Court of Pardons
Suydam
Pittsburg Auto Crazy Speed Fete Triggers Police Threats
Pittsburg officials express alarm over a surge in automobile accidents and speeding. Superintendent Thomas A. Mac Quaide flags a speed mania among locals, noting even prominent businessmen admit fault yet resume high speeds. Police threaten to halt all races to curb the trend.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
Thomas A. MacQuaide
Four Thrown From Auto In Stamford Street Car Crash
Abraham I. Elkus a New York lawyer drove his car in Stamford Connecticut when it collided with a streetcar. Mrs Elkus and three others were thrown from the vehicle though none were seriously hurt. The front of the auto was smashed and a section of the trolley running board torn. the butcher’s wagon was wrecked.
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Stamford
Conn
Abraham I. Elkus
New York
Demolition of Court of Honor Columns Begins
Philadelphia report describes removal work on the Court of Honor built for the July Elks celebration. A thirty horsepower car demolished column after column. The big Broad and Arch Street column weighed fifteen tons and resisted several attempts before toppling.
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Court of Honor
Philadelphia
Broad
Race Streets
Colmn
Arch
Niagara Falls Illuminated Excursion Round Trip Ad
Niagara Falls illuminated excursion by Lehigh Valley offers a round trip in September with return on the 22nd. For information contact Broadway agency at 825 Fulton Street. Deals include round trip transport and sightseeing in the Falls area.
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Niagara
Earle Divorce Bid Folds Across Transatlantic Row
Mrs. Ferdinande Earle leaves Boulogne for Paris saying her husband beat her and she will seek divorce under French law. Her father M. Fischbacher says separation the only way out as Earle plans marriage to Miss Kuttner. Paris report notes her intent to live quietly with her father and to invite visitors to Paris.
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Paris
Harold Irwin
Mrs. Earle
Monroe
N. Y
Europe
Earle
Miss Kuttner
Nouveaute’s
M. Fischbacher
Purity of Burnett’s Vanilla Questioned by Food Commission
A food commission questions the purity of Burnett’s Vanilla, raising concerns over quality and labeling. Officials may order tests or require labels to reflect contents and origin.
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Food Commission
Adv
River Day Line Promotes Unsurpassed Tourist Service
The River Day Line markets itself as America s greatest tourist thoroughfare with unmatched service in a concise promotional note featuring Narr Ve.
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America
Narr Ve
Vanderbilt Director Survives Smoke Filled Subway Ride
Cornelius Vanderbilt, director of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, rode a southbound express from Grand Central and endured a half hour of smoke as fuses blew, cars stalled, and passengers moved to rear cars at Fourteenth Street before continuing to the bridge. Vanderbilt stood the whole trip and hurried off at the bridge.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Vanderbilt
Mr. Vanderbilt
Grand Central
Fourteenth Street
Addicks Moves to New York in Secret Furnishings
Delaware gas man J E Addicks astonishes Hoboken landlady by appearing with a lawyer and packing trucks for a move to New York. He has rented a six room apartment and offices under assumed names, avoiding public notice as process servers failed to reach him.
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J. E. Addicks
Delaware
Hoboken
Hudson and
Eleventh Streets
Addicks
Taft Delayed Departure On Friday The 13th
Secretary Taft and his party faced delays in boarding the Minnesota for the East as mechanics worked on the electric steering and coal was stowed in bunkers. Taft boarded at 11 AM and expected to sail at noon but the ship finally left on Friday the 18th, amid changing sail times and last minute prep.
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Seattle
Washington
Taft
East
Minnesota
Chamber of Commerce
Alaska Yukon Exposition
Pacific
Orient
Man confined for murder speaks after five years
Jacob Pesendorfer, inmate at Norristown State Asylum, spoke for the first time in five years and will be moved to Eastern Penitentiary for life. He killed his father in law Henry Gautschi five years ago, was deemed insane after the verdict, and now regains speech as he begins a life sentence.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Jacob Pesendorfer
State Asylum For the
Norristown
Eastern Penitentiary
Pesendorfer
Henry Gautschi
Ulmer Pennypacker begins dispersing $130000 estate
Ulmer E Pennypacker of West Chester Pennsylvania as executor of Joseph Andersons $130000 estate has begun giving away the funds. He already presented $12000 to Phoenixville Hospital and says he will continue gifts until the fortune is exhausted. Anderson left most of his estate to Pennypacker with instructions to distribute as he sees fit. The hospital trustees accepted the $12000 gift during a meeting yesterday. Pennypacker is a clerk for the county commissioners earning $1200 annually.
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Westchester
Penn
Ulmer E. Pennypacker
Joseph Anderson
Phoenixville Hospital
Anderson
Pennypacker
County Commissioners
Niagara Falls and Return via BRI Railroad Ad
Travel offer for Niagara Falls and return on September 20 with grand illumination on September 21. Tickets and details at 899 and 159 Broadway New York and other BRI offices.
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Niagara Falls
BRI
Falls
B’ Way
New York
Wellman Balloon Falls on Glacier During Arctic Attempt
The Walter Wellman party arrived at Tromsoe from Spitzbergen after a Sept. 2 attempt to ascend in the airship America aimed at reaching the pole. A severe storm drove the craft onto a glacier, but the envelope remained intact and the crew unharmed though the car was slightly damaged.
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NEW York Times
London
Walter Wellman
Tromsoe
Spitzbergen
Wellman
Berlin Lokalanzeiger
Smeerenburg Sound
Coal Bay
Major Hersey
Gotteron
Andree
America
Cablegram Reports Stormy But Successful Seas Venture
Mrs. Walter Wellman, at her sister’s home in Canton Ohio, received a cablegram saying the ship started faced a storm but was saved and the expedition a success. Mrs Wellman believes the tone signals likely ultimate success for the expedition led by her husband.
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Canton
Ohio
Walter Wellman
George Clark
Wellman
Call Off Big Boycott in San Francisco Street Cars Strike
After months of rain and pressure, the Strike Committee of labor unions ended the boycott on union men riding street cars. The strike remains in force with levied assessments to fund benefits for striking carmen. President Calhoun says he can transport all applicants, while union leaders claim the move shows the railroad’s inability to carry crowds.
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New York Times
San Francisco
Cal
United Railroads
Carmen
Calhoun
Driver heir to 5 million fortune revealed in Richmond
English attorneys Pilley and Mitchell notified Robert Newton Wildbore of Richmond that he is the heir to the late Dr Frederick Wildbore’s estate valued over 5 million dollars. Wildbore, formerly a driver for the Southern Express Company, will travel to England on November 1 to take possession. The Sussex born surgeon and traveler died November 26, 1901, leaving property in trust to his widow, then to Wildbore’s line, widow dying March 19, 1907.
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New York Times
Richmond
Frederick Wildbore
Sussex County
England
Robert Newton Wildbore
Wildbore
White Mountains Excursions Tickets On Gale
Tickets available for trips to the White Mountains from Sept 14 to Oct 8 at a fare of 8 50. Deby New York and New Hampshire Rail.R. ticket agents listed in the notice.
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White Mts
Deby N. Y
N. H
Tuxedo Tobacco for Pipe or Cigarette Ad
Tuxedo Tobacco advertised for pipe or cigarette use with a note that it is a unusual Try it Sold everywhere. Ve
No Politics For Croker In New York Rumorsdenied
Mrs Richard Croker and her children Richard Jr and Miss Ethel Croker returned on the Lusitania yesterday with their names missing from the passenger list. Mrs Croker denied rumors of her daughter's engagement to an Italian Count and said her husband might visit in the fall but cannot return to politics.
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Richard Croker
Richard, Jr
Ethel Croker
Lusitania
Pettibone Seriously Ill in Hospital
George A. Pettibone, linked to Governor Steunenberg murder, was taken to a Boise hospital in critical condition. An operation was likely, and no further prosecution in the case will occur at present.
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Boise
Idaho
George A. Pettibone
Gov. Steunenberg
Virginia Reed Survives Bayou St. John Drowning Attempt
New Orleans report says Virginia Reed, a Black woman linked to a tax clerk’s $100000 theft, tried to drown herself in Bayou St. John after discovering she was missing about $90000 of the embezzled funds. She was rescued before drowning.
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New Orleans
Virginia Reed
Charles E. Letten
Bayou St. John
Roosevelt Secretary Receives African Elephant Tail Gift
William Loeb Jr. received a unique gift from Ernest Lison the American minister to Liberia. The item is the tip of an elephant tail with a tuft of hair on a crooked leather handle. Lison says it is an African badge of honor carried by the herald before the African King.
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Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
William Loeb, Jr
Ernest Lison
Liberia
Africa
Lison
Dynamite in Grain Injures Five in Wisconsin Incident
Five men were injured when dynamite exploded in a grain bundle at Peter Peterson’s farm in Chippewa Falls. Investigation shows dynamite sticks were hidden in several grain bundles, wrecking a threshing machine.
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Chippewa Falls
Wis
Peter Peterson
Admiral Lowes Bicycle Accident Shakes Stamford
Rear Admiral John Lowe, retired, rode a bicycle in Palmer Hill when a horse-drawn wagon startled the horse. Clarence Turess, 18, and Henry Spiers were thrown from the wagon. Spiers landed on feed and Turess on his head, both taken to hospital. Doctors have not yet determined skull injury.
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New York Times
Stamford
Conn
John Lowe
United States Navy
Palmer Hill
Clarence Turess
Henry Spiers
Admiral Lowe
Turess
Spiers
Indictment for Shot Fired at Governor’s Wife in Owensboro
Farmer Joe Buxer is indicted for discharging a pistol at an automobile carrying Mrs. J C W Beckham wife of the Kentucky governor and companions. Reported by Owensboro as farmers complained of fast highway traffic. a mounted man on a bridge demanded a stop and fired several shots as the car moved on, sending passengers to the car floor.
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Owensboro
Joe Buxer
J. C. W Beckham
Col Chinn Mortgages Farm In Mercer County
Col Jack Chinn files a $50,000 mortgage on his 500 acre stock farm near Harrodsburg to the Farmers Bank of Frankfort Mercer National Bank and First National Bank of Harrodsburg. The earlier $15,000 mortgage to Northwestern Life Insurance Co was six years old. The record is the largest in Mercer County and prompts comment among supporters and associates of the Kentucky turfman breeder and politician.
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New York Times
Louisville
Jack Chinn
Mercer County
Harrodsburg
Farmers’ Bank of
Kentucky
Seventy Ton Steam Shovel Upset Near Brookfield
A seventy ton steam shovel toppled from the tracks of the New York New Haven Hartford Railroad one mile west of Brookfield Junction Conn last night. The crew escaped by jumping and the machine rests on an embankment blocking no traffic. Railroad men face the challenge of re positioning the outfit onto the rails.
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Brookfield Junction
Conn
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Lusitania Speed Claims Stir Hamburg Line Official Data
J P Meyer assistant general manager of Hamburg American Line challenges Panura Line figures on Lusitania speed. He asserts the Lusitania averaged 22.994 knots instead of 23.01, calculating by dividing 2 780 miles by 120 9 hours. An advertising aside promotes Evans' beer.
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Lusitania
J. P. Meyer
After All USMER A The Beotch That Made Highball Famous
Fragmentary line from a publication notes a social comment or quotation about a person associated with a drink. The text appears as a quoted remark in a column or feature, lacking full context or clear event details.
Biggest liner cuts record in fog shrouded run
Records of German liners for fastest day’s run and avert age speed not equaled.
Lusitania Sets Transatlantic Record On Maiden Eastbound Voyage
The Cunard liner Lusitania arrives off Sandy Hook at 8:05 am after a 5 days 54 minutes crossing from Queenstown, smashing previous records with an average 23.01 knots and a peak 24 knots. Crowds greet from Quarantine to New Ambrose Channel as pilot Frank Cramer guides the ship through the new fairway.
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Lusitania
Cunard Line
Sandy Hook
Queenstown
Daunts Rock
Times
Lucania
Liverpool
Daunt’s Rock
Sandy Hyoox
Ambrose Channel
Provence
Frank Cramer
J. B. Watt
Mr. Dolphin
Battle
Foulkes
Cramer
Caronia
Vernon H. Brown
New York
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Pole
Southern Boulevard
Boulogne
Ferdinand Earle
Ryndham
North Sept
Driver
Robert N. Wildbore
Croker
Loeb
Wisconsin
Admiral
Lowe
Boy
Farmer
COL
New Haven
Evans
Plymouth
Lloyd
Revenue
Ellis Island
Dalzelline
Matthew Coneys
Army Engineers
Manisees
Gov. Flower
Dr. Doty
Steamboat Company
Sirius
Staten Island
Brooklyn
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