Soldier Riot Breaks Out on Atlanta Train Route
Soldiers en route from Fort Slocum to the Pacific Coast sparked a riot at Atlanta terminal station. Local police toppled a soldier after clashes with civilians. Captain Blankhead led regulars from Fort McPherson. Frank Smith was stabbed, Joseph A. Bleak arrested as guards restored order by 630.
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Atlanta
United States
Fort Slocum
Pacific Coast
Fort
Thompson
Department of the Gulf
Gene
Fort McPherson
Frank Smith
Joseph A. Bleak
Harvard School of Business graduates to begin October 1
The Official Register notes Harvard University launches a two year Master in Business Administration program directed by Dean Edwin F. Gay. Admission requires a college degree, with specialties in Banking and Finance, Industrial Organization, and Economics. The school offers lectures by top professionals and a summer practical work component to train students in real business conditions.
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Boston
Harvard University
Business Administration
Edwin F. Gay
Law
Industries Organization
Herbert Knox Smith
United States Department of Commerce and Labor
Frederick P. Fish
Edwin S. Meade
University of Pennsylvania
James F. Jackson
Massachusetts Railroad Commission
C. C. Burlingham
New York
Westinghouse Company
C. M. Hough
United States District Court For
Southern District of New York
F. A. Cleveland
New York Bureau of Municipal Research
G. W. Wickersham
Frederick W. Taylor
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
J. O. Fegan
Boston & Maine Railroad
Atlantic Monthly
Russell Robb
Stone & Webster
Chum Killed In Third Avenue Trolley Tragedy
A nine year old boy Bela ebm of 315 East Sith street was killed after tumbling from a third story window during a trolley incident that also claimed a companion Francis McQuade of 154 East 84th Street. Julius enter on a lower floor saw the fall and found the body near Second avenue and Sth street. He died at the scene the ambulance arrived.
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Bela Ebm
East Sith Street
Young Cohn
Francis McQuade
East 84Th
Julius Enter
Second Avenue
Sth Street
Debs Seeks Funds for Red Special Campaign Train
Debs appeals to Socialist Party members for money to support a special train tour, the Red Special, distributing socialist literature at stations. He promises the train will boost morale, expand numbers, and strike a blow against opponents as it travels the country.
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Eugene V. Debs
Socialist Party
Debs
Tiemey
Asbury Park Carnival Names Norma Hornberger Queen
At Asbury Park on Deal Lake during the carnival Norma Hornberger, daughter of Harry Hornberger of Pittsburgh, is proclaimed Titania Queen for ten days. Her court includes Beatrice Connolly from Brooklyn and Marjorie Fry of Jersey City among others. A crowd of about two hundred will attend events including coronation, queen’s court ball, baby parade, masquerade fete, and caper evening in Auditorium Square Stadium seating fifteen thousand.
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Asbury Park NJ
Deal Lake
Norma Hornberger
Harry
Horn
Murray Hill Avenue
Pittsburg
Titania Witi
Asbury Park
Waite
Beatrice Connty
Brooklyn
Marjorie Fry
Jersey Berets
Merie Benit
Philadelphia
Eet
Ridgefield
N. J
Nina Reer
Ridgefield Conn
Helen Dema- Gentes
Hackensack
Margaret
Tme &T
Auditorium Square Stadium
Brother to Pasteur. John Phillips seeks rabies treatment
John Phillips of No Cornelia Street, brother of Wendel Phillips, who died of rabies, went to the Pasteur Institute. Dr. Rembaud takes charge for eighteen injections of serum. Phillips showed no symptoms initially but will be treated, driven by family fear after Wendel’s fatal bite.
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John Phillips
Cornelia
Phillips
the Tribune
John
Wendel
Board of Health to form two divisions under heads
The Board of Health approved creating two divisions. One will cover infant care, summer tenement work, school hygiene, trachoma hospitals and milk supply with a yet undisclosed head. The second will centralize city food inspection under B C Fuller, to begin immediately.
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Board of Health
B. C. Fuller
Manhattan
Dr. Bensel
Richmond
Plucky Aeronaut Brave Ballon Flight Despite Warning
William Van Steet of New York, training with Pittsfield Aero Club, ascended in the Pittsfield balloon despite doctors warning of a weak heart. He climbed to seventy five feet, tested a valve, and nearly collapsed on landing. Three physicians declared the flight unsafe, but he insisted and flew. A second Pittsfield ascent from Aug 9 landed safely at Tyngsboro after a fast high altitude voyage.
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Pittsfield
Mass
William van Steet
New York
Aero Club
Berkshires
van Sleet
Sidneys. Stowell
The
Lowell
Tyngsboro
Duke Guides Parseval Balloon Over Intricate Maneuver
Berlin reports Duke of Sachsen Altenburg steering the Parseval airship for half an hour of complex maneuvers. He briefly flew against the wind, reaching over twenty nine miles per hour, and as Aero Club president expressed astonishment at the craft's ease of control on landing.
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Berlin
Duke of Sachsen-Altenburg
Helf
Aero Club
Paris aviator wins third prize for 820 foot flight
Paris on August 19 witnessed Legagneux take the third prize from the French Aero Club by a 820 foot flight lasting twelve seconds. His aeroplane, designed by Octave Chanute of Chicago, features tandem running wheels rather than side by side.
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Paris
Legagneux
French Aero Club
Octave Chanute
Chicago
Big Customs Receipts Signal Economic Recovery
Edward S. Fowler reports New York port customs receipts of 820654 for Tuesday August 18, the highest since last fall’s financial turmoil. He forecasts normalizing conditions by mid September with rising volumes as merchants pull goods from bond for a busy fall, while tariff revisions may temper later shipments.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Edward S. Fowler
Port of
New York
Treasury Department
United States
Treat
Fowler
Treasury
Henry C. Stuart
J. H. Langier
Republican Party
Seize Art Treasures In Boston Gardner Case
United States customs officials in Chicago seized tapestries paintings statues and rare armor valued at 80000 dollars owned by Mrs Jack Gardner of Boston. The goods were imported as household items for her Back Bay home and valued by Mrs Emily Rockwell Crane Chadbourne in Chicago at 8000 dollars. A 30000 dollar tax was assessed with 70000 in fines and penalties paid. The case has been handed to District Attorney Sims for further action.
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Chicago
United States
Ames
Customs Department
Sims
Boston
Gardner
Lusitania Aims For New Short Course Record
The Cunard liner Lusitania, traveling west from Daunt’s Rock, was heard by wireless and may set three new records. It logged 650 knots from noon Sunday to noon Monday, equaling 731.25 land miles, with bursts up to 25.66 knots. She is not expected to land tonight and should reach Fire Island around 5:45 p m before anchoring for passengers to be landed around 7:30 am tomorrow.
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Lusitania
Cunard Line
Daunt’s Rock
Watt
Mauretania
Sandy Hook
Fire Island
Wright to Try for French Prize at Le Mans
Lemans August 19 Wilbur Wright announces he will compete for the 500 dollar prize offered by the French Aero Club for sustained flight at seventy five feet.
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Lemans
Wilbur Wright
French Aero Club
Injunction Against Coler Over Brooklyn Pavement Bid
Borough President Coler faced a restraining injunction from Supreme Court Justice Blackmar after a businessman alleged an iron slag block monopoly would force costly, inferior paving. Thirty-one bids from seven companies were opened. Coler defended the blocks as cheaper and effective, signaling the dispute would go to trial.
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Brooklyn
Coler
Scoria Block Paving Company
United States
Supreme Court
Blackmar
Hugh V. Monahan
Bird S. Coler
Monahan
Rev Dr Joseph Wild longtime Brooklyn pastor dies at son’s home
The Rev Dr Joseph Wild former Brooklyn minister and author of works on The Lost Ten Tribes of Israel died at his son Dr J Zimmerman Wild’s home 129 Lafayette Ave Brooklyn. Born in England he preached across Canada taught at Albert University and served in Toronto Los Angeles and Brooklyn before dying after apoplexy at Mount Cloud Wild Piqua Ohio. He is survived by three children and will be buried in Toronto.
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Joseph Wild
Brooklyn
J. Zimmerman Wild
Lafayette Avenue
Elm Place Congregational Church
Lancashire
England
Concord Biblical Institute
Concord
Mass
Mr. Wild
Canada
Albert University
Dorie Lodge of Masons
Toronto
Seventh Avenue
Paris Writer Hector France Dies at Aug Ends
Paris reports French novelist Hector France has died. The author known for his lyrical prose and satirical novels passed away on a current date in August. His death marks a noted loss in contemporary French literature.
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Paris
Hector France
Paris Journalist Henri Harduin Dies at 62
Henri Harduin, a well known Paris journalist, died in the city today after a long career. His work covered international affairs and French politics, earning him recognition in literary and press circles.
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Paris
Henri Harduin
Notable Civil War Veterans Die Across States
David H Johnstone of Harrisburg Pennsylvania aged eighty two former Mexican and Civil War veteran died at home. William Seibert organizer of the Republican party and 1856 Pittsburg convention delegate died in Pittsburg aged eighty eight. James E Hughes Missouri legislator and preacher who was imprisoned during reconstruction died in Osborn Missouri aged eighty seven. General Dwight H Bruce postmaster of Syracuse died at seventy four. He served 1872 to 1877 and again since 1897 and led the Tenth Brigade National Guard in 1880s. He helped organize the Union League of America for Civil War aid.
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David H. Johnstone
Harrisburg
Penn
William Seibert
Pittsburg
James E. Hughes
Missouri
Osborn
Dwight H. Bruce
Syracuse
Tenth Brigade
National Guard
Union League of America
Walter Collection ruling favors San Francisco Art Association
Supreme Court Justice Bischoff decided that Emanuel Walters art bequest goes to the San Francisco Art Association rather than the Golden Gate Park Museum. The ruling holds there was no Art Museum of the City of San Francisco and that Walter’s residuary estate should be treated as intestate, invalidating the trust duration.
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Emanuel Walter
Art Museum of
City of
San Francisco
San Francisco Art Association
Golden Gate Park Museum
Justice Bischoff
Supreme Court
Walter
Mark Hopkins Institute of Art
The
Art Association
Golden Gate Museum
Ticket Agent Wielded Hatchet in Station Fight
Riverton August 19 Charles Silverthorn a ticket agent at the Pennsylvania Railroad station was held in 500 bail after an encounter with C Cecil Fitler a Philadelphia mayor Fitler descendant in which Fitler was cut on the shoulder with a hatchet Mrs Fitler Edna Frismuth said she went to inquire about trains and reported the incident to her husband who went to the station with a friend a fight followed and Silverthorn was arrested
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Riverton
Charles Silverthorn
Pennsylvania Railroad
C. Cecil Fitler
Fitler
Philadelphia
Slilverthorn
Fire engine driver kills man in East New York crash
Patrick McLean, former BRT mechanic living at 861 Herkimer Street Brooklyn, was killed when fire engine 133 swerved at Herkimer Street and Vester Avenue to avoid a Long Island Railroad train. Fireman James Sheridan said he saw a white light from the gateman and a red lantern was shown by Harry Vail. Sheridan was arrested on a technical homicide charge and paroled to Captain Work.
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Long Island
Patrick McLean
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Herkimer Street
Brooklyn
Vester Avenue
East New York
James Sheridan
Harry Vail
Sackman Street
McLean
Blake Avenue
Sheridan
Captain Work
Patrolman’s Son Killed by Brooklyn Trolley Car
Patrolman John S Sheehan of the bridge station learns his wife is ill and discovers his six year old son Charles fatally injured after being struck by Brooklyn Seventh avenue trolley car 2,799. The boy died at Seney Hospital about four hours later after his legs were crushed.
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John 8S. Sheehan
Bridge Station
Charles
Seventh Avenue
Brooklyn
Seney Hospital
No. 25
Sth
6Th Streets
Schiuter Couple Mark Golden Anniversary in Brooklyn
Mr and Mrs Henry Schluter observed their fiftieth wedding anniversary at Turn Hall No 3 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn last night. The couple wed in Essen Germany and were born in 1882. They have lived in the United States since 1872 and were joined by seven children and seven grandchildren amid present friends' congratulations.
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Henry Schiuter
Eighth Avenue
Turn Hall
Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn
Schluter
Essen
Germany
United States
Judge voids Mansour naturalization certificate from 1901
Judge Hough of the United States Circuit Court set aside Isaac A Mansour's certificate of naturalization, ruling it was fraudulently obtained from a Brooklyn court. The case follows Mansour's 19% expulsion from Port-au-Prince and his demand for redress, with Haitian officials alleging the papers were secured via a man named Sersock.
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Isaac A Mansour
Hough
United States
Harti
Mansour
Port-au-Prince
State Department
Brooklyn
Isaac Mansour Fréres
Sersock
Californian Drowns At Lake Hopatcong
Peter Burns a 67 year old California financier visiting Old Point Comfort on the Lake Hopatcong scene fell overboard in darkness and drowned. His nephew Peter Burns Jr recovered the body as three surgeons labored over two hours to revive him. Burns had just left Assemblyman Braun on the Quigley Club porch and is said to have made a Alaska mining fortune.
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Lake Hopatcong
N. J
Peter Burns
Old Point Comfort-on-the-Lake
Peter Burns, Jr
Burns
Assemblyman
Braun
Quigley
Margaret Quigley
Alaska
Antis expand activity as suffrage debate продолжится
Anti-suffrage moves intensify amid summer, Mrs. Gilbert Jones coordinates Civic Education of Women league from abroad to study English and European anti movements. Albany auxiliary launches The Anti-Suffragist quarterly with Winslow CrANnell as editor to voice the no longer silent majority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilbert Jones
New League For the Civic Education of Women
Antis
Europe
League
Madison Avenue
Albany
State Association
New York
Winslow Crannell
Observations on Women and Society From A London Column
A observant woman discusses streetcar seat etiquette favoring well dressed women, noting fashion and money influence seating. The piece covers millinery wage debates, charity dinners with women hosts, suffragette treatment bills, smoking by women in London dining rooms, and cork rug friendly floor coverings for children’s rooms.
Quick emergency copper polish method
A fast emergency shine is described using a flour salt and vinegar paste applied with a soft cloth after hot water, followed by hot suds and a dry cloth. Alcohol on a soft cloth is also suggested as a quick cleaner for copper.
Australian teachers win women gain in NSW reform
The disbanded Woman's Suffrage Society of New South Wales has reemerged as the Women's Progressive Association. It successfully secured a salary rise for women teachers after Parliament granted funds, with men teachers forced to share the increase. The group aims to reform the university and push women onto the senate and faculty.
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New South Wales
Australia
Woman Suffrage Society
Woman’s Progressive Association
Emperor of Austria and the Hofburg Kitchen Reform
A palace curtain concealment of a decayed capon sparked an investigation that exposed a long standing kitchen tapping system at the Hofburg. Under Emperor Francis Joseph meals are now prepared scientifically in new kitchens with electric elevators delivering food to the banqueting hall and pared down waste while the Emperor pursues simple tastes.
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Austria
Julius Pohl
Maria Theresa
Schinbrunn
Eugene of
Savoy
Hofburg
Schmaus-Wabi
Francis Joseph
Europe
Vienna
Mundkirche
Stephanie
Elizabeth
Lightweight pongee wrap for autumn weather
The Tribune Pattern presents a simple wrap ready for all seasons. Shown in pongee with India silk lining and taffeta collar, it adapts to cooler weather while maintaining a refined, light feel.
Pattern No. 6.5 for a three size dress bust 32 to 42
Liberty satin and broadcloth fabrics are recommended for a dress pattern No. 6.5 sized small to large with bust measures 32 38 and 42 inches. The medium requires 4 yards of fabric and 271 inches wide collar fabric. patterns mail for 1 cent plus optional two cent stamp for stamped return. Address Pattern Department New York Tribune.
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New-York Tribune
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NEW Lusitania Record
Wright
Borough
Walter Collection
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Margaret Ashton
James Bryce
International Woman Suffrage Alliance
Amsterdam
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