Fleet Leaves Sydney Bound for Melbourne
The American battleship fleet sailed from Sydney this morning heading to Melbourne. Led by flagship Connecticut, the line of warships moved at ten knots and disappeared beyond the harbor. Sydney praised the visit as historic and a bridge to closer Australia-America relations with admiring conduct and broad support in press commentary.
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Sydney
Melbourne
Connecticut
Sydney Herald
America
Australia
Admiral Sperry Bids Sydney Farewell to Australian Welcome
Admiral Sperry praised Sydney hospitality and the strong ties between the United States and Australia. He noted the chance for closer commerce, the Panama Canal gains, and urged continued goodwill. The visit featured a school parade, garden party, journalist lunch, concerts, and multiple athletic events highlighting U.S. and Australian teams.
Funeral of Miss Parsons in Paris Church
Funeral services for Miss Winifred Parsons were held today at the American Church in Paris. The ceremony, led by Rev. Dr. Morgan, drew a crowded congregation of French and friends of the deceased.
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Paris
Mires
Winifred Parsons
Ameri- Church
Morgan
Thousands Murdered and Secret Turkish Society Exposed
In London Muhammed Dumoulin, founder of the Young Turkey movement, claims the group is a secret society formed in 194 to free Turkey from secret police. He estimates 40 000 killed and recalls towers and corpses by the Bosporus. He blames the sultan’s surrounded court and notes British aid to Macedonian matters.
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London
Muhammed Dumoulin
Young Turkey Movement
Young Turks
Paris
Turkey
Bosporus
Young Turks’ Society
Bebek
Abdul Kerim
Austria
Novi Razar
Macedonia
Views of M de Reus after Venezuela expulsion
The Hague Aug. M de Reus Netherlands minister to Venezuela, expelled by President Castro, held talks with Foreign Minister Van Swinderen. He denied Holland US support for Venezuelan revolutions and said his letter publication was private. He noted no Venezuelan revolutionary party, praised Castro, and described coast defenses and a difficult interior for any blockade.
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the Hague
M. de Reus
Netherlands
Venezuela
Castro
West Indies
M. van Swinderen
Holland
United States
Dupuy de Lome
America
Brazil
How’ En Trouw
Amsterdam
Republic
Crowds Besiege Berlin Bank Over Insolvency Rumor
Berlin August 26 crowds gathered outside the Friedrichsberger Bank in the eastern district seeking deposits. Police directed efforts as thousands pressed for returns. Bank directors kept it open until 6 pm and drew over 20000 in cash with Dresdner and Imperial banks aiding. Some customers received only 2 59 each due to cash limits. A schoolteacher was alleged as the rumor source and a warrant for arrest was requested. An immense midnight crowd remained.
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Berlin
Friedrichsberger Bank
Imperial
Dresdner
Coler deal defense cites sewer contract changes
Heffernan accuses Coler of steering payments and contracts around the Luton firm and Borough Bank tied to sewer work in Brooklyn. He says Knickerbocker avenue sewer was supervised, found sound, and that Coler delayed vouchers while pressuring Hurley and McCarren allies. He cites Creuzbaur’s report and a $70 appraisal for a Bruce Crane painting as context in a broader Tweed era defamation argument.
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Commissioner of Accounts
Luton & Co
Borough Bank
Brooklyn
Heffernan
Coler
Knickerbocker Avenue
Lutan
Madsen
Rutan
Hurley
McCarren
Fort
Sewer Bureau
Creuzbaur
Metz
Ww. M. Coler & Co
Weldon
Bruere
McClellan
Tweed
New York City
Bruce Crane
Silo
Fears of Anarchy in Persia
Reports reach the palace of uprisings in Kars Laristan and Kerman provinces with the assassination of a local governor. Shah’s failure to subdue Tabriz revolutionaries unsettles people and spurs resistance in other towns. Anarchy across the country is seen as imminent.
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Teheran
Kars
Laristan
Kerman
Tabriz
Condition Of President Alfaro
In Guayaquil on August 2 rumors spread that President Alfaro suffers a serious heart attack. He arrived from Quito Monday. Doctors issued a bulletin saying he had been helped and that with about a fortnight of rest he could return to Quito and resume duties as chief executive.
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Alfaro
Guayaquil
Quito
Inquest Opens Over Luard Murder in Seven Oaks
The inquest into the murder of Major General Luard's wife near Seven Oaks, England, opened today but failed to reveal new clues. The General testified about finding his wife's body, and Scotland Yard has been alerted though police say they lack a clear lead.
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Luard
Seven Oaks
England
Here
Scotland Yard
Japan May Postpone Exposition In 1912
Tokio reports government circles discuss postponing the Tokio international exposition planned for 1912 due to inadequate funds and insufficient prep time. No decision until Count Komura, new Foreign Affairs Minister, returns from London with his opinion tonight.
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Japan
Tokio
Count Komura
London
News Print Paper Auction Set for September in City
John Norris, chairman of the committee on paper for the American Newspaper Publishers Association, announces a public auction of fifteen car loads of news print paper totaling 300 tons to establish open market prices. Ten car loads come from Cheboygan Paper Mill in Michigan and five from J. R. Booth's mill in Ottawa, Canada, to be held in the city on September 2.
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American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
John Norris
Committee On Paper
Cheboygan
Mich
J. R. Booth
Ottawa
Canada
Jerome Back Silent After Hand Report Reaches Governor
District Attorney Jerome appeared at his office in a happy frame of mind but refused to discuss the Hand report. The document, now with Governor Hughes, has drawn numerous congratulatory telegrams and letters to Jerome's office.
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Jerome
Commissioner Hand
Hughes
Still Seeking Bethune Pinkertons Fail to Find Missing Lawyer
F D S S Bethune junior of Westmore Jenner law firm vanished after leaving Sterlington New York for New York City. He talked from Buffalo on Sunday then disappeared. Pinkertons, family, and friends search Buffalo Chicago and Canada. he last wore 5ft 7in 145 pounds with $700 cash and a diamond ring.
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Sterlington
No. 17
West With Street
Buffalo
Pinkerton
Canada
George S. Dougherty
Mr. Bethune
Charon Loses Job as Styx Bridge Awarded
Sussex County Board of Freeholders awarded a contract to the Canton Bridge Company of Albany to build a bridge over the River Styx in Bryan Township. The project, costing 10,233 dollars, was approved at a meeting held last evening in Montclair New Jersey.
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Charon
Styx
Montclair
N. J
Board of Freeholders
Sussex County
Canton Bridge Company
Albany
River Styx
Bryan Township
Stowaway's daring escape ends aboard ship to Ellis Island
A stowaway on the Hamburg American liner Pring Joachim, named Michael Davis, impersonated a passenger John Rawlins to avoid detection. After being exposed, he escaped via a porthole into the dock, swam to a police boat, was captured, brought to Ellis Island, and questioned by immigration officials who question his Philadelphia citizenship claim.
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Ellis Island
Pring Joachim
Michael Davis
Philadelphia
Panama
Colon
Davis
Joachim
John Rawlins
Mr. Rawlins
John Rawlinses
Devis
Pier A
Elis Island
Blackwell's Bridge Opening Plans Discussed in City Meeting
In a Fifth Avenue and 34th Street offices gathering, Manhattan and Queens businessmen formed a temporary executive committee to push the Blackwell's Island Bridge opening in December or January. Benniam H. Williams Jr. chaired the Queens Bridge Celebration Committee and a September convention will finalize arrangements with delegates from both boroughs. John D. Crimmins joined the committee seeking to rename the bridge Queensborough Bridge.
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Long Island Rest Estate
Fifth Avenue
34Th Street
Manhattan
Queens
Blackwell's Island Bridge
Benniam H. Williams, Jr
Queens Borough Bridge
Tonge Island City Business Men's Association
John D. Crimmins
Blackwell’s Island Bridge
Queensborough Bridge
Record Ocean Runs Short Atlantic Passage Fast
The Kronprinzessin Cecile set a short route transatlantic timing from Cherbourg Breakwater to New York. Lusitania arrived after a record Daunt’s Rock run, while Teutonic completed the short course in six days. Carmania left Liverpool the same day as Teutonic and was overtaken by a White Star liner on Sunday night.
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Europe
New York
Kronprinzessin Cecine
Cherbourg
Lusitania
Daunt’s Rock
Grant
Teutonic
Cunard
Carmania
Liverpool
Southampton
White Star
Death in Driving Rain Grips New York City
A violent August storm in New York City caused multiple deaths and extensive damage. A girl named Lizzie Warren was killed by a trolley while carrying bread, and John Lynch drowned trying to help others escape cellar floods. Many homeless sought shelter, sewers overflowed, water mains burst, and property suffered major damage across Manhattan and Brooklyn.
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Lizzie Warren
East Sith Street
Third Avenue
9Th Street
East List Street
John Lynch
Eighth Avenue
Lynch
Henry Street
May Gilligan
East 126Th Street
Loonan
49Th Street
Sixth Avenue
Brooklyn
Second
Third Avenues
16Th Street
Riverside Drive
Surf
Fire Island
Claire Oakley
Oprietor
Avenue
Hewes Street
Williamsburg
Nostrand Avenue
Storm deaths and damage hit New Jersey coast
A Newark report says a storm killed thousands of sparrows mostly fledglings near Mesonic Hall. Surf damage to forty eight pound nets between Seabright and Sea Side Park, New Jersey amounts to thousands of dollars as outgoing liners sailed on time.
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Newark
N. J
Seabright
Sea Side Park
Hold-Up in Sixth Ave Hat Store Caught in Daylight
In broad daylight at No. 52 Sixth avenue three men tried to rob hat store owner Paul Sachs. A chase ended with one suspect, Edward Jones of East 2d street, captured after a shot missed Peter Deringer. Jones held on $9,000 bail. The other two fled amid a crowd of thousands.
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Paul Sachs
Sixth Avenue
Sachs
Barlow
Jefferson Market Court
Edward Jones
East 2d Street
Peter Deringer
Jones
West 33d Street
Automobile Club Condemns Speeding at Special Meeting
The Automobile Club of America board, chaired by Henry Sanderson at J. P. Morgan & Co. offices, adopted resolutions condemning speeding. Action on member E. R. Thomas, involved in injuries, was expected but not discussed, as speeding dominated the meeting.
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Board of Governors
Automobile Cab of America
Henry Sanderson
J. P. Morgan & Co
E. R. Thomas
Thomas
Drygoods merchants accuse Sixth Avenue delays harming trade
Merchants from the Retail Drygoods Association protest the torn up Sixth Avenue between Mth and 23d Streets. They plan to petition the Mayor and officials, citing Hudson River tunnels construction since March 197, and demand prompt completion. B J Greenhut and firms like Simpson Crawford Co Siegel Cooper Co Sachs Brothers are among signers. Greenhut vows concerted action to compel the Hudson Company to act.
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Retail Drygoods Association
Sixth Avenues
Mth
B. J. Greenhut
Simpson, Crawford Company
Siegel, Cooper & Co
Sachs Brothers
Hudson River
Greenhut
Tribune
Hudson Company
Child Band to Play at Hebrew Shelter Band Concert
Interest centres on a concert at Manhattan Beach Hotel’s piazza Sunday from 2 to 4 pm by the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Orphan Military Band. Sixty juvenile musicians perform under seven year old Master David Bentor as musical director. Host Henry Merer arranged the appearance.
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FLEET
Telegraph
Admiral Sperry
Syndney
Pacific
Commonwealth
Panama Canal
Lord Northcote
Harry Rawson
Bent
Victoria
New South Wales
Concord
Lady Northcote
Lady Rawson
Cricket Grounds
Columbia
University of Sydney
Louisiana
Stover
Glacariuma
Bauer
Frederick
Tommy” Burns
Bju” Squires
Miss Parsons
Young Turk
Muhammed
Constantinople
Novi-Bazar
Surveying Commission
Venezuelan
Berlin Bank
Mitchel
Kings County Trust Company
Denver
Mellellan
Municipal Research
Hime
Persia
Bethune
Blackwell's Bridge
Sixth Ave
Auto Club of America
J John Hancock
John Hancock
Boston
Wabbard
Antiquarian
John Hascock
Budweiser
Grocers
Anheuser-Busch
St. Louis
U.S. A
E. 0. Brandt
Mgr
Anheuser-Busch Agency
A. Busch, Mgr. A. Busch Bottling CO
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