Robbery attempt and shooting on Atlantic City Boardwalk
Baltimore lawyer Charles B. Roberts Jr. is shot on the Atlantic City Boardwalk after a masked robber confronts him in a rolling chair. Alibi claims by Roberts and wife Mrs. Williams face police scrutiny as detectives pursue the assailant and assess possible motives amid high society interest.
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Tribune
Atlantic City
W. Ss. C. Williams
Baltimore
Charles EK. Roberts
Maryland
Europe
City
Roberts
Ashton
Williams
Charles Stewart
Roberto
Woodruff
Police Department
John Roberts
Mrs. Williams
Mr. Roberts
Rhode Island Avenue
Brighton
Johnson
the Tribune
Charles B. Roberts, Jr
American Fleet Arrives in Port Philip Bay Melbourne
The American battle fleet under Rear Admiral Sperry anchored in Port Philip Bay after a passage from Sydney. Connecticut and ships were greeted by Queenscliff boats and the cruiser Psyche with thirteen guns. Flag salutes and widespread flag display marked the welcome to Melbourne amid fine weather and public enthusiasm.
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Melbourne
Sperry
Port Philip Bay
Sydney
Port Philip Heads
Anchorage
Queenscliff
Psyche
Connecticut
Victoria
Jumpers' union refuses to coal the Relief ship
Sydney August 28 The Jumpers' union has refused to permit its members to coal the American hospital ship Relief on the ground that the battleships were coaled by their own men. American sailors are now coaling the Relief.
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Sydney
Wildcat Engine Stages Race Through Staten Island
A Baltimore & Ohio wildcat engine sped through Clifton and Stapleton narrowly avoiding a deadly crash. It derailed into a freight train after a passenger train had just passed, wrecking four cars and halting Staten Island Rail traffic for two hours as officials investigate the mysterious run.
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Staten Island
Baltimore & Ohio
Clifton
Stapleton
Stapleton Station
Staten Island Rapid Transit Railroad
Holland May Ask Aid In Venezuela Dispute
The Standard Rome correspondent reports the Dutch government has opened talks to determine what diplomatic or other aid Italy might provide over the Venezuela dispute. Similar steps will be taken with London and Berlin.
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London
the Standard
Rome
Italy
Venezuela
Berlin
Dutch battleship Jacob van Heemskerk arrives at Willemstad
The Dutch battleship Jacob van Heemskerk, sailing from Holland on August 11, entered Willemstad at 4 pm after signaling off the port. The fort saluted her on entry. The Red Line steamer Merida reached the quarantine station but was refused clearance to Curacao at Puerto Cabello, delaying her schedule by two days.
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Aug
Jacob van Heemskerk
Holland
Merida
Curacao
Puerto Cabelio
Halstead Probed for Production Costs Stir Tariff Talk
Albert Halstead American Consul faces annoyance from Birmingham merchants who resent efforts to gather cost and price data for the US Ways and Means Committee. He denies probing trade secrets and notes tariff revision support from both parties, with duties likely to fall. In San Francisco five rowers from a local club vanished after an afternoon sail, feared drowned. missing are Bert Frye Owen Healy Frank Maguire Parker Ashford and Robert Hasiety.
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Binmingham
England
Albert Halstead
Ways and Means Committee
American House of Representatives
Halstead
United States
San Francisco
Aus
Bert Frye
Owen Healy
Frank Maguire
Parker Ashford
Robert Hasiety
Arrival of American Fleet Documented by Photo Series
A historical caption notes the location of where the American fleet has arrived, with credit to Underwood & Underwood for a 1908 photograph.
Earle Out With Gun in Monroe Dispute
Goshen New York August 28 reports say Ferdinand Pinney Earle and his wife are not in Monroe and may be reconciling at the Young farm near Highland Falls. Attorneys say charges may be dropped while District Attorney Rogers contemplates presenting the case to October grand jury if a nurse who filed charges can be subpoenaed.
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Goshen
N. Y
Ferdinand Pinney Earle
Monroe
Young Farm
Highland Falls
Earle
Philip A. Rarity
Bacon & Merritt
Charles (. Chappell
New York
Rogers
FJ Kelly
Kelly
Tyson Indicted in Manslaughter Case Over Yacht Club Death
John Hamilton Tyson, son of a Tyson agency founder, is indicted for second degree manslaughter after a car he drove struck Olaf Gunderson, a Columbia Yacht Club steward, on February 23 in Amsterdam Avenue near 81st Street. Police identified occupants including Laurence, chauffeur Henry Fox, and a Mr. McKenzie during the probe.
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John Hamilton Tyson
Tyson Ticket Agencies
Olaf Gunderson
Columbia Yacht Club
Youngs Tyson
Charles Ridgway
Tyson
Miss Laurence
Henry P. Fox
Stamford
Conn
Dan
McKenzie
New York
Amsterdam Avenue
Sath Street
Gunderson
Ban on Belmont Park Betting Enforcement Planned
Nassau County District Attorney Franklin B. Coles said he will enforce the anti betting law when Belmont Park racing resumes in October. Sheriff Joseph Foster seeks a special appropriation to hire deputies to enforce the law. At Sheepshead Bay no betting will occur if the Coney Island Jockey Club cannot stop professional betting or will close the track to the public.
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Tribune
Mineola
Long Island
Franklin B. Coles
Nassau County
Belmont Park
Mr. Coles
Joseph Foster
Sheepshead Bay
Coney Island
G P Rowell Dies in Poland Springs
George Presbury Rowell of New York, longtime figure in newspaper advertising, died at Poland Springs House after a month long illness. He will be buried in Lancaster New Hampshire, his boyhood home, and was born July 4 1835 in Concord New Hampshire. He founded George P Rowell & Co in Boston and issued the American Newspaper Directory. He held many memberships in scholarly and civic organizations and clubs.
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Poland Springs
George P. Rowell
New York
Poland Springs House
Lancaster
N. H
George P. Rowell & Co
Boston
Directory
New York Chamber of Commerce
Society of Mechanics and Trades
Sciety
Phinx
Union League and Merchants’ Clubs, of
Shah's advisers angry over Shah's demand for bills
Teheran August 28 The Shah held a council of ministers last week. Four bills were introduced by the Prime Minister with the Shah demanding their passage. The council rejected the bills and resigned in protest. Only the Minister of War the Shah's uncle Naib es Sultan and Bogadundjeng back the Shah.
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Teheran
Council of Ministers
Naib-es-Sultan
Bogadundjeng
WILL NOT EXTRADITE EGLERS
Governor Stuart refuses requisition for the Egler brothers held in New York on suspicion in the Rosenbloom murder. Evidence deemed insufficient. Mrs Rosenbloom and Eva bond for December court, return to Baltimore. William Rosenbloom to Camden to help identify and arrange burial per Hebrew faith. Camden reports burial following positive ID by Fried man.
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Camden
Rosenbloom
Friedman
Mailbags Rifled on Canadian Pacific Train
Two outgoing mailbags and contents were found split along Canadian Pacific tracks near Montreal. Bank checks totalling over 10000 dollars were among the rifled papers. Train was bound for Sault Ste Marie. thieves suspected to have hidden in the mail car at Montreal.
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Montreal
Aus
Canadian Pacific
Sault Ste. Marie
Electric service crippled by generator accident at Cos Cob
The New York New Haven and Hartford line between New York and Stamford ran late all day after an armature flew from a Cos Cob powerhouse generator. Steam locomotives were used east from Tower 76 at Mount Vernon and west from Stamford to the New York Central lines, disappointing some trainmen opposed to electric gear.
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Tribune
Greenwich
Conn
New York, New Haven & Hartford
New York
Stamford
Cos Cob
Armature
Tower No. 76
Mount Vernon
New York Central
Woman receives 500 marriage proposals after misprint
Mrs Anna Rowe, awaiting a drawing at Fond du Lac Reservation on September 15, has attracted nearly five hundred marriage offers after newspapers wrongly reported she was unmarried. She remains in line for a husband, with responses arriving from across the country.
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Duluth
Minn
Anna Rowe
Une
Fond du Lac
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Roosevelt invites two famed agents on African hunt
Austin Texas August 28 Captain William McDonald revenue agent for Texas and ex ranger and John Abernathy United States Marshal for Oklahoma accepted the invitation to accompany President Roosevelt on his African hunt. They were with Roosevelt three years ago during the somandhs County Oklahoma wolf hunt.
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Tribune
Austin
Tex
William McDonald
Texas
John Abernathy
United States
Oklahoma
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
Somandhs County
Scientist Joins Harvard as Invertebrate Zoology Chair
William Wheeler, curator of invertebrate zoology at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, has been named to the Harvard chair of invertebrate zoology and resigns his New York post. Wheeler, regarded as an authority on ants, moves to Boston.
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Py Telegraph
the Tribune
Boston
William Wheeler
American Museum of Natural History
New York
Harvard
Prince Tarkhanoff Dead Noted Physiologist Prologist
In St. Petersburg on August 2% the renowned physiologist and prologist Prince Tarkhanoff died, marking the loss of a celebrated scientific figure.
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Prince Tarkhanoff
St. Petersburg
Town washed away in cloudburst disaster
A cloudburst drenched Folsom New Mexico, eight feet of floodwaters sweeping the mining town. At least twenty three dead with nineteen bodies recovered and total fatalities expected to reach thirty five to forty. hotel and several residences carried away and residents displaced. The Trinidad area also suffered heavy losses as Raton NM records severe damage.
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Folsom
New Mexican
Mount Capulin
George Wenger
Augusta Dead Six Typhoon Flood Recedes in Georgia
Floods across Augusta and South Georgia recede as recovery begins. Losses total about 1,500,000 in Georgia and 1,000,000 in the Carolinas with 60 deaths estimated in Augusta area. Rescue squads report many drownings among negro farm hands. 25 bodies seen by a river steamer captain.
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Augusta
South Georgia
Carolinas
Swan
Board of Health
Fayetteville
N. Y
Cane Pear
Fear of Hughes Speech Affects Niagara County Fair Plans
Owners planning Niagara County Fair entries at Lockport today warned fair management that horses would not race if Governor Hughes attends to speak. Republicans fear the move aims to deter inviting him, as Niagara County leans to Merritt-Wadsworth for the governorship and Speaker Wadsworth gains momentum.
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Niagara County Fair
Tribune
Buffalo
Niagara County
Lockport
Fair
Mine Train Runaway Wrecks Five Killed At Wilkes-Barre
Five men died and five others were seriously injured in a runaway mine car collision at the Warrior Run colliery of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company near Wilkes-Barre. The car derailment after the cable broke left twenty workers piled in wreckage as the cars tumbled down the slope. Only one dozen escaped unharmed.
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Wilkes-Barre
Penn
Warrior Run
Lehigh Valley Coal Company
Man Throws Wife From Window After Festivities
Bridget Gleason fell from a second story window after a gathering at the Gleason apartment. She said Mike Gleason meant no harm and was intoxicated at the time. She declined to press charges while Mike Gleason remained in custody for intoxication.
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Mike
Bridget Gleason
East S2d Street
Hughes
East Doth Street
Michael Gleason
Bridget
Gleason
Cayey Mayor Charged With Arson in Puerto Rico
Heraclio Mendosa mayor of Cayey is arrested on arson charges after a Cayey fire damaged multiple buildings. A suit by Mendosa to recover 33000 from Palatine and London Glebe insurers is cited, with bail set at 16000.
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San Juan
P. R
Heraclio Mendosa
Cayey
Mendosa
Palatine
London & Glebe Insurance Companies
Dic
Hughes Day at Trumansburg Fair Highlights Governor’s Farm Focus
Governor Hughes visited Trumansburg New York on August 28 drawing a large crowd of farmers and townspeople. He spoke on state support for agriculture and urged direct primaries while defending honesty in public funds and rural education initiatives.
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Tribune
Trumansburg
N. Y
Hughes
Tompkins County
Treadwell
Geneva
Buffalo
Syracuse
Albany
Jerome
Chatauqua County
Biggs
Trumansburg Fair Association
John W. Dwight
Sherman Moreland
Chemung
Bowden
Blood
Owen Cassidy
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