Committee Unseats McCarren Delegates in State Meeting
At a New York State Democratic Committee session in Rochester on September 14, McCarren delegates were unseated in two Kings districts. The Kings delegation threatens to bolt as the committee plans six new credential contests nationwide, and Chanler emerges as strongest gubernatorial candidate amid hotel lobby showings.
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New York Times
Rochester
Charles F. Murphy
Patrick H. McCarren
Kings
William J. Conners
Democratic State Committee
McCarren
Conners
Brooklyn
Murphy
State Committee
Lewis
Chanler
Tammany
Murphy-McCarren
Mar Eeeler
McCaren
Bailiwick
Committee On
Doyle
McGuire
Committee On Credentials
Gatti Casazza Denies Engagement Rumor With Frances Alda
Paris dispatch reports a circulating rumor that M. Gatti Casazza of the Metropolitan Opera and soprano Frances Alda plan marriage. He denies the report after inquiries from Milan. Hammerstein recalls a Brussels meeting with Alda’s agent years ago and notes a Barrison sister resemblance in Alda’s voice.
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NEW York Times
Paris
M. Gatti-Casazza
Metropolitan Opera House
New York
Mme
Frances Alda
Milan
Metropolitan
Europe
Oscar Hammerstein
Mme. Alda
Brussels
Manhattan
Mr. Hammerstein
Barrison Sisters
Koster & Bial
Music Hall
Twentythird Street
Stewart ordered to Fort Grant exile ends riding test
Colonel William F Stewart will not take the prescribed ninety mile riding test. A Denver headquarters order directs him to Fort Grant Arizona immediately reporting for duty. Stewart plans to depart for Wilcox Arizona and will resist retirement claiming he can prove fitness before a court martial.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Fort Grant
William F. Stewart
War Department
Gen. Thomas
Denver
Fort Huachuca
Col
Stewart
Wilcox
Ariz
William Nail
Pol Stewart
Expel E R Thomas From New Jersey Auto Club
Trustees in Newark, at their first meeting after the Long Branch accident on Aug 14, 1908, ordered E R Thomas to show cause why he should not be expelled. They denounced reckless driving as harmful to all motorists and charged Thomas with illegal speeding through Long Branch streets. A hearing was set for Oct 5, 1908, to determine membership exclusion.
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New Jersey Automobile and Motor Club of
Newark
Long Branch
E. R. Thomas
New Jersey Automobile and Motor Club
F E. R. Thomas
Thomas
Thieves Blow Church Safe In Philadelphia Heist
Thieves once again struck the Church of the Most Precious Blood at Twenty eighth and Diamond Streets, blasting a steel safe with nitro glycerine to seize a set of gold chalices. The attack, involving at least three men, followed a prior robbery and targeted vaults under the altar.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Yegeman
Three Die In Yazoo Valley Train Wreck Near Clarksdale
The Yazoo & Mississippi Valley train No 184 wrecked near Clarksdale Mississippi this afternoon killing three people and injuring about thirty. Victims include Mrs Virgie Graham of Glendora and an unidentified 15 year old girl. an unidentified woman was also killed. The train jumped the track at Dunham causing the chair car and a passenger coach to topple over an embankment. The service had departed Jackson at 6 25 am and was due Clarksdale at 1 20 pm.
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Memphis
Tenn
Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad
Clarksdale
Miss
Virgie Graham
A. M. Graham
Glendora
Dunham
Je Kson
Maine Republicans Win Governor Post in Tight Contest
Bert M. Fernald of Poland defeats Obadiah Gardner of Rockland to win Maine governor with about an 8000 plurality as Republicans claim gains in Congress and voters back resubmission of the liquor question. Contests statewide show strong Republican showing despite Democratic gains in county races.
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New York Times
Portland
Maine
Bert M. Fernald
Poland
Obadiah Gardner
Rockland
Fernald
Gardner
Cobb
Davis
Cumberland
Amos L. Allen
Alfred
John P. Swasey
Canton
Edwin C. Burleigh
Augusta
Frank E. Guernsey
Dover
Messrs
United States
Taft Downplays Maine Result for National Impact
Cincinnati dispatch reports Judge Taft saying Maine’s election outcome has no national bearing. He notes his Maine prediction of a 6,000 to 7,000 margin and says the campaign focused on local issues, not national ones, contrasting with Vermont results two weeks earlier.
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Maine
New York Thames
Cincinnati
Ohio
Taft
Vermont
Bryan elated over Maine results headline
William J. Bryan returns from a political speech at the Fifth Regiment Armory and views Maine election bulletins with elation. He says the Maine votes show a nationwide Democratic trend and confidence for victory in November. He telegraphs Maine National Committeeman Stone to offer congratulations.
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Baltimore
Fifth Regiment
William J. Bryan
Maine
Bryan
National
Stone
Red Taxicabs Ad From Columbus in New York Ad
An old classified style ad announces Red Taxicabs services from Columbus with speed comfort and economy. It lists Callphone 6600 and references the New York Taxicab Company Ady.
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Columbus
New York Taxicab Co
Dream of murder foretold ends in brutal iron crossfire
In Galveston Texas on September 14 John Buchtern a Waller County cotton planter living alone on a plantation described a dream of his own assassination. He told cousin James Barry the dream featured two men with a scarred neck and a missing finger joint. After a quarrel with Raymond Newton a plantation negro Newton shot Buchtern in the back killing him instantly. The mob hanged Newton’s brother to a tree while Newton escaped and was spirited away by officers.
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New York Times
Galveston
Texas
John Buchtern
Waller County
James Barry
Nuetes County
Barry
Buchtern
Raymond Newton
Newton
Boy Hero Fights Off Savage Dog At Glendale School
In Glendale Queens Prospect Avenue near Glendale Public School a large black and white mongrel attacked students as they headed to class. Twelve year old Arthur Blank tackled the animal to protect a girl, was bitten in the leg, then the dog was killed by a police officer. Arthur received treatment and was hailed a hero.
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Prospect Avenue
Glendale
Queensborough
Glendale Public School
Arthur Blank
Arthur
Dog Discovers Lost Boy As Astoria Man Snoozes
Richard Sanders awoke to his dog Jack barking and guiding him across the grounds. In a nearby field, Sanders found 3 year old Joseph Schnier sobbing and brought him to the police station. Parents from Manhattan later collected their son.
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Richard Sanders
Barclay Street
Old Shore Road
Astoria
Jack
Sanders
Joseph Schnier
West
Thirty-ninth Street
Manhattan
Remarkable rabbit cornea graft restores sight
The Medical Record details Dr. Henry R. Lesser’s successful cornea graft from a rabbit to a man at 4 West Ninety-third Street. Patient Hyman Cohen, 24, a piano tuner, had been blind for fifteen years due to leucoma and now sees colors and moves about unattended with improving vision.
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Henry R. Lesser
West Ninety-third Street
Hyman Cohen
Lesser
Cohen
Bear Claws Girl Trainer Attacked at Fair
Miss Beatrice Woods, trainer for six bears at a Fort Plain fair, was bitten on the shoulder and clawed on the face by the largest bear. The crowd panicked, several women fainted, and police kept spectators from stampeding. Miss Woods is expected to recover.
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Fort Plain
Beatrice Woods
Miss Woods
Messages From the Dead and Psychic Communications
London reports on Sir Oliver Lodge publicizing alleged messages from Frederic W. Myers Edmund Gurney and Richard Hodgson via a medium named Mrs Holland The Journal of the Society for Psychical Research published many blurried transmissions describing the difficulties of communicating with the living and the afterlife while skeptical voices urged caution about their origin
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Psychical Research Society
Oliver Lodge
Gurney Ran
Myers
Earth
W. T. Stead
Alice Johnson
New Jersey Central Schedules 2 Hour Train Service
New York to Philadelphia via New Jersey Central trains run hourly from 7 A M to 6 P M with sleepers on midnight trains opening at 10 O clock. See timetable on page 16.
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New York
Philadelphia
New Jersey
Central
Adv
Democratic National Committee Receives Large Daily Contributions
Gov Faskell of Oklahoma, treasurer, said funds to the Democratic National Committee average $3,000 daily from miscellaneous contributions ranging from $1 to $100. He noted these totals exclude money raised by the Finance Committee.
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Chicago
Faskell
Oklahoma
Democratic National Committee
Finance Committee
Seek Nordica's Jewels Stolen From Nordica Home
Boston police hunt a large jewelry collection stolen from Mme Lillian Nordica’s summer Edgartown Martha's Vineyard home. Value set at least 4000 dollars with prized pieces among the missing items. Local police kept piecing clues as investigators pursue thieves.
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New York Times
Boston
Mass
Lillian Nordica
Edgartown
Martha's Vineyard
Mme. Nordica
Return from Labrador to St John's Exploration Party
Eugene Delano of New York and Clarke Washburn of Chicago returned to St. John's after three months exploring Labrador. They reached Grand Falls, a major cascade about 300 miles inland, after a ten week journey. Only one prior American party, led by Henry Bryant in 1892, had made the trip.
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ST. John's
N. F
Labrador
Eugene Delano
New York
Clarke Washburn
Chicnzo
St. John’s
Delano
Washburn
Grand Falls
Henry Bryant
Philadelphia
Subway Cracks Prompt Evacuation of Two Buildings
Police find gaping cracks in the front wall of a five story brick office building at S88 and 90 Centre Street. The Building Department orders all occupants out and later orders tenants of 6 Centre Street to vacate the adjoining three story building due to excavations for a Subway extension in front of the structures.
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Centre Street
Building Department
Gould Family Estate to Be Enlarged at Kirkside
Middletown Sept. 14 Kirkside the Roxbury Delaware County estate of Miss Helen Miller Gould is to be greatly enlarged with adjoining land just purchased. She plans to spend a large sum on improvements. Kirkside Park remains open to the public and is a show place.
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New York Times
Middletown
Kirkside
Helen Miller
Gould
Roxbury
Delaware County
Jay Gould
Miss Gould
Kirkside Park
Arkansas Remains Wet in State Election
Returns show the Democratic ticket led by Governor George W. Donaghey winning by a large margin, likely around 50,000. Prohibitionists acknowledge only a small gain and concede defeat in Pulaski County where Little Rock is located. The final effect in wet counties will be known tomorrow.
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Little Rock
Ark
George W. Donaghey
Pulaski County
Wanamaker Store Besieged by Unemployed Workers
In Philadelphia on September 14 a crowd of more than two thousand unemployed men gathered around the Wanamaker building at Thirteenth and Chestnut as contractors began tearing down the remaining half. Traffic stalled and police guarded the site while only about one thousand workers were needed, leaving many turned away.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
John Wanamaker
Thirteenth and
Chestnut Streets
Jamaica mother dies during phone call at home
Mrs Mary A Young 39 of 240 Fulton Street Jamaica IL died last evening after dialing her family physician during a heart attack. Husband Frederick Young, a local merchant, was away and returned to find his wife dead. Dr George A Linnehan reported death from heart disease with no prior signs.
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Mary A. Young
Fulton Street
Jamaica
Mrs. Young
Sam
Mr. Young
Shipping arrivals update with multiple vessels
The latest shipping news lists arrivals including the SS Ocean at Rotterdam on August 30, the SS Marowijne at Trinidad, and the SS Simon Du mois at Baracoa on September 9.
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Ocean
Rotterdam
Marowijne
Trinidad
Simon Dumois
Baracoa
Great Bear Spring Water Ad Claim Highlights Purity
Ad copy emphasizes purity as the key selling point of Great Bear Spring Water. Mentions its fame attributed to purity, indicating a branding focus rather than a news event.
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Great Bear
Opposition to Hughes Forges Hill Nomination in Saratoga Convention
Republican leaders opposed to Gov. Hughes meet in Saratoga and agree to nominate David Jayne Hill for first place on the ticket. The conference ends with no firm agreement, as Taft and Roosevelt pressure persist and Ward and other delegates arrive undecided.
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New York Times
Saratoga
N. Y
Hughes
Mr. Woodruff
William W. Taft
Gov. Hughes
William ‘L. Ward
Westchester
William L. Ward
William Barnes, Jr
Bo BR. Odett Bucuk N
Littauer
J. Sloat
Fassett
Francis Thénkieks
John Baines
John €. Mott
Gdweard Greiner
L. F. Gleason
J. F. O'Brien
George Aldridge
George J. Smith
Horace White
James W. Wadsworth, Jr
William Berri
Woodruff
Afrimyd
Blughes
Mr. Root
William I. Ward
Odelt
Syracuas
Francis Hendricks
Lucius Littauer
Herbert Parsons
Depew
Roosevelt
Taft
Hitchscock
National
Crdmittee
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Joseph Cassidy
Lawrence Gresser
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William A. Doyle
Ninth
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Danni ‘F. Cohalan
Tammany Hall
Tammany Hall’ Law Committee
Thomas GB. Heffernan
Chautauqua
Cohalan
Barrisons
Hammerstein
Washington
Office of the General Staff
Col. Stewart
Arizona
Duvall
New Jersey Automobile Club of
Mississippi
Haan
Park Row
Denny Cool
B. M. Fernald
Tion
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Says Gain
Bear Claws
West 45Th St
Dead Now
Wade
Frederic Myers and
Edmund Gurney
London
Sir Oliver Lodge
Licly
the ‘Society For Psychical Research By
Frederic W. H. Myers
Richard Hodgson
Sir Oliver
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Society For Psychical Research
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New Yorker
Helen Gould
Arkansas
Wanamaker Store
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