Rockefeller Warns Against Strong Drink at Sunday School
John D. Rockefeller spoke to Euclid Avenue Baptist Church Sunday school warning members about a dangerous “good fellow” and the dangers of liquor. He cited a Harvard graduate tempted by a clergyman, illustrating how a first drink can ruin wit, friends, and dignity.
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New York Times
Cleveland
Ohio
John D. Rockefeller
Euclid Avenue Baptist Church
Rockefeller
O Beliers
Harvard University
Tso. Lewis
Owas
Wanore House
Heyl Contests Claim of $1.5 Million From Estate
Milwaukee dispatch reports Jacob Heyl is said to have received about $1.5 million under secret contends with Mrs Lizette Schandein. Attorneys contend the suit concerns a writ of not exent issued to block the estate payoff and Heyl’s role as business manager.
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Feral tosPae
New Syork Times
Milwaukee
Jacob Heyl
Lizette Schandein
Chebrirs
Papreett
Feyt
Fawsett
Milwa Wkee Trust Company
Cabsesenny atsAir
Ilex
Germany
America
Milwauker
Pabst
Schandein
Heyl
No Negroes Need Apply for Army Positions in Texas
Special to The New York Times from Austin Texas dated September 17 reports that no more African Americans are desired for the United States Army as many regiments are full. Recruiting officers in the district have received notice from Captain George K. Spencer who oversees local recruitment stations.
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New York Times
Austin
Texas
United States Army
George K. Spencer
Arrivals of Out-of-Town Buyers Listed
An index notes arrivals of out-of-town buyers with sections on Bariie intelligence and foreign mails and society items. Weather and yesterday’s wires are also referenced for page positions.
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Bariie_Intelligence
Society
Fire Fight At Fort Slocum On David’s Island
A blaze at Fort Slocum on David’s Island burned for over two hours threatening the coal docks bath house corral and barracks. Officers and men formed bucket brigades to save structures and horses and mules while two privates were treated for smoke inhalation. A military court of inquiry will determine the cause.
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New York Times
New Rochelle
Fort Slocum
David's Island
Porter
Curtin
Company A
Highth Infantry
Coast Artillery
R. H. Wilson
Sinth Infantry
Sargent
Carr
Anutsen
Lleuts
Buck
Moorman
Castle
Davis
Harris
Lutz
Kelly
Dougherty
Major Wilson
Lieut
Manchuria
Wilson
Potter
Norway Gains A Victory From Frontier Fort Talks
The Daily Mirror reports Prof Nansen saying Kongsvinger and Fredriksten will keep their modern works while other new forts are demolished. Sweden may keep parts of old forts and build outside neutrality. Norwegian Swedish delegates meet in Karlstad and Stockholm with talks ongoing about frontier fortifications and possible dismantling.
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London
The
Daily Mirror
Nansen
Kongsvinger
Fredriksten
Belng
Norway
Harald’ Hilarne
Riksdag
Sweden
Stockholm
The Unit of Society Sermon Themes Suppressed Lives
Bishop Samuel Fallows preached at Fifth Avenue Church on Suppressed Lives. He argued the era of lone individuals is over and that society rests on married couples, noting editorial writers and teachers remain largely unknown and women face former discrimination changing.
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Samuel Fallows
Reformed Episcopal Church of Chicago
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
Cholera Case Reported Among Raftsmen in Byelostok
A fatal cholera case has been confirmed among raftsmen from Byelostok on the Narew River in Lodz Russian Poland. The entire crew is isolated and precautionary measures are in place. An advertisement urges trust in Burnett's Vanilla as pure.
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Lodz
Russian
Poland
Byelostok
Narew
Father Protects Son as Viking Explodes in Far Rockaway Regatta
In the Jamaica Bay Yacht Club Fall regatta off Far Rockaway a Viking motor boat owned by Paul Boeckmann exploded near the finish. Boeckmann sheltered his son Julian in an air tight stern compartment, used water from a bucket to douse flames, then sank the vessel to prevent a broader disaster. Both father and son survived, with Boeckmann sustaining a minor burn as rescuers arrived.
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Jamaican Bay Yacht Club
Far Rockaway
Viking
Paul Boeckmann
Boechmann
Julian
Boeckmann
Jamaica Bay
George Boehm
Baby Roger
William Penn
Marion
William Mills
Kismet
Jennie
No Wealth for Goldie Johr
The executors of Allan Wood reportedly cannot locate his fortune once rumored at five million dollars after the Melxeesport mill sale. His heirs say the estate has dwindled to mortgaged property in Pittsburg McKeesport and New York, with stocks and bonds untraceable. Goldie Mohr, his widow and former Weber Fields actress, plans a Broadway vaudeville return via W L Lykens.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
Allan Wood
W. Dewees
Melxeesport
United States Steel Corporation
Wood
Allan
New York
McKeesport
Mr. Wood
Goldie Mohr
Weber & Fields
Mrs. Wood
W. L. Lykens
Mother Takes Poison After Son Fears Her
Mrs. Laura Walker Chenault killed herself by swallowing carbolic acid in Richmond Kentucky after her six year old son, their only child, feared her and refused to enter the house. The boy had been separated from his father for a month. Mr. Chenault is a banker with a country home four miles away. The boy’s grandfather J Stone Walker formerly led the State Bank and Trust Company.
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New York Times
Richmond
Laura Walker Chenault
Chenault
Bullet in Heart After Seven Years Takes Man's Life
Charles B. Nelson an 81 year old Cadillac resident died after a bullet embedded in his heart for seven years finally caused death Quick consumption was the immediate cause. He was shot in Chicago park in 1808 by an unidentified assailant. Nelson had undergone X ray checks and the bullet was displayed in museums. His wife died in Milwaukee last Monday with rumors of a suicide upon hearing of her husband's condition.
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Cadillac
Mich
Charles B. Nelson
Chicago
Nelson
Milwaukee
Burglars in Auto Try Robberies in Hempstead
Burglars used an automobile in three attempted break ins in Hempstead. They entered the Meyers and Kernochan homes, then a New York Life employee's residence on Hilton Avenue, frightening the occupants and fleeing. No arrests. police warned to watch for the vehicle. locals report a small runabout seen on several nights.
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Hempstead
L. L
Charles Meyers
James L. Kernochan
Hilton Avenue
John W. B. Vandewater
New York Life Insurance Company
Oyster Bay
Cove Road
Sagamore Hill
Secret Service
Komura's health improves. may sail Oct. 2 for Japan
Baron Komura shows rapid recovery per doctors Sato and Delafield. Initial typhoid doubt given way to old-illness recurrence. condition remains favorable with a likely sail date of October 2 on the Empress of Japan.
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Baron Komura
Sato
Delafield
Mr. Sato
Komura
Waldorf-Astoria
Portsmouth
Japan
Lost in Wilds Thirteen Days After Disappearing
Joseph Cosgrove, sought as a witness in land fraud trials, was found near Kerby Oregon after thirteen days lost in Southern Josephine County wilderness. He crawled from a cliff injured and weak with a sprained ankle and bruised arm, unable to speak clearly. Marshall Clark of Portland had served papers two weeks earlier.
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New York Times
Grant's Pass
Ore
Kerby
Josephine County
Joseph Cosgrove
Takuma
Waldo
Cosgrove
Josephine
Marshall Clark
Portland
Electric railway project under Kansas City promoter
Cole Younger promotes a rail line from Kansas City to Lone Jack via Lee's Summit funded by Eastern capitalists. Backers unnamed by Younger, but friends cite Senator Elkins of West Virginia as a major financier due to a past lifesaving incident. Elkins was part of a Civil War episode involving Younger and a parole context followed by Younger brothers.
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New York Times
Kansas City
Cole Younger
Lone Jack
Younger
Senator Elkins
West Virginia
Elkins
Quantrell
Minnesota
Wreckers derail Davy Crockett special near San Antonio
Large iron pieces on the rails derailed the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway Davy Crockett special near the city shortly after 9 pm. The locomotive baggage car and two coaches toppled into a ditch. Fireman John Wolf was killed, engineer Harry Martin seriously hurt, and two passengers seriously injured, all residents of San Antonio.
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San Antonio
Texas
San Antonio and
Aransas Pass
John Wolf
Harry Martin
Red Star Mner Zeeland Uses Wireless Link Near Nantucket
The Red Star Mner Zeeland from Antwerp via Dover spoke with Marconi station at Siasconsett Massachusetts at 1030 last night while 30 miles east of Nantucket. She is due at her pier about noon today.
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Red Star Mner Zeeland
Antwerp
Dover
Marconi Station
Siasconsett
Mass
Nantucket
Canadian gunboat rumbles with American tug on Lake Erie
Erie Penn Sept 17 Americans never surrender shouted Capt Nels Fasel of the fishing tug Barnhurst to the Canadian gunboat Vigilant in a tense chase near the boundary line. The Vigilant fired striking the Barnhurst, two or three men injured by splinters, and the tug escaped toward port after a lengthy pursuit. The incident follows other clashes as Erie fishermen face Canadian patrols and costly damage in disputed waters.
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New York Times
Erie
Penn
Nels Fasel
Harry G. Barnhurst
Lake Erie
Barnhurst
Faser
Eevery
Bertha Cockrell
Port Dover
W. J. McCarter
F. C. Oger
Keystone Fish Company
Grace M
Pennsylvania Fish Commission
Washington
Chris Schau
Sehau
Actress Held Up and Robbed in crowded city street
Henrietta Brown, actress and Yorkville stock company member, was robbed of 26 dollars and a gold-hanted umbrella on Third Avenue near Eighty-sixth Street. She struggled with the thief, who fled toward Eighty-eighth Street. Special Policeman Penrose pursued but failed to catch him. Dr. H. C. Anderson attended her. she was sent home.
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Henrietta Brown
West Fifty-third Street
Yorkville Stock Company
Third Avenue
Eighty-sixth Street
Miss Brown
Eighty-eighth Street
Arthur Penrose
H. C. Anderson
East Eighty-seventh Street
Negro murderer lynched in South Carolina
In Abbeville County near Honey Path Sam and Jim Moore white men fought Allen Pendleton and another black man. Jim Moore was killed by Pendleton who was captured and shot by a mob about ten at night. The notice ends with an unrelated railroad advertisement.
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Honey Path
S. C
Abbeville
Sam
Jim Moore
Allen Pendleton
Pendleton
Russian Emperor Sets Sail on Finnish Cruise
Emperor Nicholas and Empress with children and Grand Duke Alexis left St. Petersburg on a Finnish sea voyage for a pleasure cruise. The party includes Count Lamsdorff and Admiral Biriloff. The absence may delay ratification of the peace treaty.
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Count Lamsdorff
Baron Fredericks
Biriloff
Marine
Trongsund
St. Petersburg
Embezzlement by three Japanese naval paymasters
Tokyo reports three naval paymasters stole 165000 dollars of government funds over a year. Public reaction is calm, but the extended period of undetected crime may erode trust in naval administration and aid opposition parties.
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Tokio
Naval
Manchurian Ports Opened to Treaty Powers
Shanghai bureau of The Morning Post reports an imperial decree orders many Manchurian ports opened to all treaty powers on equal terms.
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London
Shanghai
Morning Post
Manchuria
British Cruiser Squadron Ban Ordered by Battenberg
Lieut. Gov. Jones announced receipt of a dispatch from Prince Louis of Battenberg saying the second cruiser squadron to visit the United States has been countermanded.
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Halifax
N. S
Jones
Prince Louis of Battenberg
United States
Highwaymen Rob Thomas St. O Grady Near Hackensack Bridge
Three unidentified highwaymen held up and robbed Thomas St. O Grady of 8 dollars near the Hackensack Bridge on Plank Road. One assailant released 20 cents for ferry fare as he fled. O Grady, driving from Middletown to Newark, alerted Jersey City police after the incident.
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Newark
Thomas ST. O'Grady
100Th Street
New York
Ie Plank Road
Hackensack Bridge
O' Grady
Middletown
O'Grady
Jersey City
Filipino outlaw Felizardo dies after cliff jump near Cavite
Felizardo, Cavite Province outlaw leader, was surrounded near the Batangas border and leaped to his death. The incident ends a period of unrest attributed to his band, which, with Montaleon, raided San Francisco de Malahon looting $2.06 from the municipal treasury and abducting the governor's wife and two children. The districtنف
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Manila
Felizardo
Cavite
Batangas
Montaleon
San Francisco de Malahon
J. A. O'Neill
Guggenheimer declines bid for Board of Aldermen
Randolph Guggenheimer ex president of Manhattan Borough says he has not sought the Democratic nomination for President of the Board of Aldermen and would not accept it if offered. He notes he appreciates the friendly expressions that mentioned his name.
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New York Times
West End
N. J
Randolph Guggenheimer
Borough of
Manhattan
Board of Aldermen
Famous Frigate in Peril at Boston Navy Yard
The frigate Constitution, famed as The first ship of the American Navy, is reported in danger of turning turtle. It leaks badly and the hold fills rapidly, requiring a power pump. officials fear placing it in dry dock could cause a collapse under its own weight.
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Boston
Charlestown Navy Yard
Guard member fatally shot during target practice in Cleveland
James W. Mayhan of 27 Lorain Court died after a sniper line during target practice at White Villa. First Sergeant Frank E. Locke fired the fatal shot while members of Company F of the Fifth Regiment Ohio National Guard marked scores. The exact trajectory of the bullet remains uncertain as investigators begin to determine how the fatal head wound occurred.
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Cleveland
James WW. Mayhan
Lorain Court
Fifth Regiment
Ohio National Guard
White Villa
Frank E. Locke
Mayhan
New York to Chicago Pennsylvanian Special
The 18 hour service leaves New York at 3 55 P M and reaches Chicago at 2 45 P M on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Features new equipment and rock ballasted rails advertised as a special.
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Chicago
Pennsylvania
New York
Pennsylvania Railroad
Parker on Corporate Corruption of Parties
Ex Chief Judge Alton B. Parker accuses corporate funds from life insurers and other firms of financing political campaigns. He blasts NY Life Equitable Mutual officers for using policyholders’ funds to aid Republicans and calls for laws making corporate political contributions a crime. He urges public action to curb such corruption and pressed state legislators to pass reform.
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Alton B. Parker
Park
George W. Perkins
New York Life Insurance Company
Legislative Committee
John A. McCall
Republican National Campaign Fund
Parker
The
New York Life
Equitable
the Mutual
Raise Road
Treasury
Perkins
McCall
Democratic Party
Marty
Iniquitous Corporate Campaign Contributions Criticized
District Attorney Jerome denounced corporate prop campaigns as an iniquity during a Lakeville interview reacting to The Brooklyn Eagle quote. He said most large New York City corporations contributed to campaign funds and questioned the criminality of the practice.
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Lakeville
Brooklyn Eagle
New York
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