Americans Land in Melbourne for Warm Welcome
Admiral Sperry and staff led a two thousand strong American fleet contingent ashore at Port Melbourne and St. Kilda amid crowds and flags. Australian officials and citizens greeted the visitors with a grand procession through central Melbourne ending at the Exhibition Building for a reception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Kilda Road
Princess Bridge
Swanston Street
Bourke
William and Collins Streets
Treasury
Exhibition Building
Lord Northcote
Thomas Gideon-Carmichael
Admiral Sperry
Sydney
Melbourne
Collins Street
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Father Gleeson
Battleships Alabama and Maine Reach Agen on World Cruise
Agen reports the battleships Alabama and Maine arriving this morning as the leading U.S. fleet completes its voyage around the world. The ships departed Colombo on August 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agen
Alabama
Maine
Colombo
Anarchy in Persia Amid Growing Civil War Fears
Reports from Teheran and Tabriz say Persia teeters toward civil war as liberal factions push a holy war against the Shah. Anjuman rule in Tabriz and threats of bombardment by Ain-ed-Dowleh escalate tensions with European evacuations under way.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teheran
Nuddea
Persia
London
Tabriz
the Times
Lata Khan
Ain-ed-Dowleh
Aldrich Arrives in Berlin for Monetary Conference Tours
Rhode Island Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, head of Roosevelt appointed sub committee, lands in Berlin for several days of talks with Imperial Bank managers and financiers. He travels with Reynolds of Chicago and Davison of New York. He plans a visit to Aix les Bains for a short holiday and may be joined by other Monetary Commission members next year to study German banking methods and currency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Nelson W. Aldrich
Rhode Island
National Monetary Commission
Roosevelt
Messie. Reynolds
Chicago
Davison
New York
Alérich
Te Imperial Bank
Aix-lee-Bains
Tarif
Foreign Office
Interior Department
Aldrich
Germany
United States
Lanso
Monetary Commission
A. P. Andrews
Maxvard
Ures
Veterans Arrive in Toledo for Grand Army Encampment
Veterans arrive in Toledo for the forty second Grand Army of the Republic encampment. California delegates arrive with George Young and pensions advocate efforts. Officials plan receptions parades and the Fort Meigs monument dedication with expected crowds up to seventy five thousand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Grand Army of the Republic
Brand Whitlock
I. Kent Hamilton
California
Michigan
Indiana
Ohio
Howard M. Merrell
George Young
Pacific Coast
Boody House
South
Georgia
William M. Scott
Scott
van Zant
Minnesota
Livingston T. Dickason
Illinois
Henry M. Nevius
New Jersey
Nevius
Charlee G. Burton
Missouri
Memorial Hall
Fort Meigs
China Prepares Gradual Path to Constitution in Nine Years
An edict from Peking outlines annual stages toward adopting a foreign system of government and promises a constitution in nine years. Delegations from provinces, treated with respect by the Grand Council, seek early constitutional grant as Yuan Shikai confirms the promise. Russian Ambassador M Kerotovitz has arrived in China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peking
China
Grand Council
Yuan Shi Kai
Board of Foreign Affairs
Persia
Turkey
M. Kerotovitz
Robbery at Hotel Lafayette Ties Auto to Jewelry Theft
Mrs Annie Bowers of 45 West 11th street and Mr John Day of 2 Fifth avenue Brooklyn dined at the Hotel Lafayette when her satchel containing two diamond rings a diamond stickpin and $71 cash disappeared from Mr Day's car. Chauffeur Roger s and suspect Reynolds initial arrest led to recovery of most items. both men held on $100 bail after Mag istrate Barlow hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Day
Fifth Avenue
Brooklyn
Annie Bowers
West 11Th Street
Hotel Lafayette
University Place
Sth Street
Mclivor
O’donnell
Robert Reynolds
Automobile Party
Rogers
60Th Street
Reynolds
Rogues’ Gallery
Barlow
Jefferarket
Susp
West Side YMCA to Form Public Speakers Club
A public speakers club will be formed in the West Side YMCA auditorium to train men for campaign speaking and public address. Led by W. H. Britigan and instructor Grenville Kieiser, the course also aims to improve business conversation and oral salesmanship before a large audience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Side
Young Men's Christian Association
Weert 17Th Street
W. H. Britigan
Grenville Kieiser
Yale
Pequot Casino Burns in New London Harbor Fire
The Pequot Casino on Pequot avenue overlooking New London Harbor was ruined by fire at noon. Loss estimated between 315,000 and 20,00. Twelve guests from New York escaped with most belongings intact. Cause cited as short circuiting of wires under the door in the third story of the port wing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New London
Conn
Pequot Casino
Pequot Avenue
New London Harbor
Long Island Sound
Pequot
New York
Commutation of Quarters and Navy Supply Reforms
Army officers face renewed scrutiny over commutation of quarters as Treasury urges adherence to laws on public housing. Navy consolidates medical supplies in Brooklyn with set bids for staples and tighter distribution. Emergency ration tests spark debate on routine use in peacetime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune Bureau
Washington
the Treasury
Congress
Service Against Government and Powell's Civil War Claim
Lieutenant Colonel Junius L. Powell sought to count Civil War service for an advanced retired rank. The War Department investigated and found Powell served as a Confederate private, and the judge advocate general ruled that the Civil War service must be for United States forces or militia to qualify. Powell will not gain colonel status on retirement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
Junius L. Powell
Medical Corps
Powell
Army
United States
Congress
Tuberculosis Congress Draws Global Delegates to Washington
Delegates from every civilized country will attend the international congress on tuberculosis in Washington. Russian officials Dr Simon Unterberger and Dr A Vladimiroff join the list, Siam sends Dr Paul G Wooley American born and Johns Hopkins trained. French delegates include Drs Landoury Calmette Levulle Lesage Rist Vallee and Mme Beroth Berger. Austrian chair Baron Ladislaus Hengelmuller leads Drs von Schrotter Bartel and Clemens von Pirquet. Bowditch of Boston presides the clinical section where Pirquet presents on conjunctival and ophthalmic reactions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Department of State
John S. Fulton
Simon Unterberger
St. Petersburg
Russia
Unterberger
Guards
War Department
Congress
Wyman
United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
A. Vladimiroff
National Committee
Siam
Paul G. Wooley
Kingdom
Wooley
Johns Hopking Medical School
Prince Devawongse
Henry White
Paris
Root
Professor Landoury
University of Paris
A. Calmette
Pasteur Institute
Lille
M. Levulle
Lesage
Rist
M. Vallee
Alfort
Mlle. Chaptal
Society For Adult Consumptives
Mme. Beroth-Berger
National Federation For the Protection
Baron Ladislaus Hengelmuller
Herman von Schrotter
Ministry of the Interior
J. Bartel
Ministry of Education
Clemens von Pirquet
Vienna
von Pirquet
Vincent Y. Bowditch
Boston
Kuyper Named Minister of State in Dutch Cabinet
The Hague reports former Interior Minister Dr Kuyper has been appointed Minister of State, not Foreign Minister, correcting yesterday’s notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DR. Kuyper
The
Hague
Kuyper
Interior
Spanish Prisoner Swindle Reaches a Pearl Street Café
Ventura Borras, owner of La Chorrera, refuses a $160,000 reward and stays at his Pearl Street restaurant while a Madrid scam letter from a Russian banker named Beliavsky circulates. The note promises a third of the loot for help in recovering funds and portmanteaus, a classic Spanish prisoners swindle that has persisted for decades with no known payouts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ventura Borras
Pearl Street
Madrid
Sefior Borras
Beliavsky
St. Petersburg
Russia
London
America
Echague Yuvencis
Lista Telegrafos
Spain
Borras
Aeronautics Society to test airships at Morris Park
The Aeronautics Society of New York plans a lease today for Morris Park racecourse to serve as a testing ground and experimental station for heavier than air flying machines. The International School of Aeronautics is relocating nearby and members including J Christopher Lake and Wilbur R Kinball are among those involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris Park
Aeronautics Society of New York
International School of Aeronautics
East 29Th Street
Aeronautics Society
Aero Club of America
Jersey
Long Island
Morris Perk
Wilbur R. Kinball
J. Christopher Lake
A. C. Triaca
Society
Lee Burridge
E. la Rue Jones
Aeronautics
Of Interest to Women Readers in Tribune Sunshine Society
The article cites the Tribune Sunshine Society and its address at Tribune Building New York City urging careful addressing of communications and payments. It highlights grateful beneficiaries including a basement widow in West 37th Street Alabama invalids and Mrs. Clement Renan of Montana. Requests seek Sunshine columns monographs and prayers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taa
West 37Th Street
Alabama
Clement Renan
Montana
T. S
Miss Curry Board Sums For Summer Home Week
The record lists sums paid for Miss Curry to board children for a week at her summer home. Names include Mrs Arthur S Machin Sara E Machin Mrs G L S of New Jersey a Greenpoint Friend unknown and others. Amounts vary with several entries shown in dollars and percentages. The note mentions a memorial gift for a boy titled Martie and references locations Oak Bluffs Massachusetts and Adirondacks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Curry
Arthur S. Machin
Sara E. Machin
New Jersey
Greenpoint
Charitable Donations Support Trolley Rides for Greenwich Street Day Nursery
Contributions from Mrs Bowne of Long Island and Mrs George Hencken of Manhattan fund trolley rides and milk for children from the Greenwich Street Day Nursery. Donations include Theodora five dollars, A Friend at Hoboken five dollars, and gifts from Mrs Greenleaf and Miss Bender supporting the same family and a girl selling soda. A share goes to the Roth family after a father’s death.
Trolley Outing Delights Destitute Blind Guests on Broadway
Guests from the Home for the Destitute Blind rode a chartered trolley down Broadway on August 19. Mrs. Florence H. Jerome led the outing with help from the Ever Ready branch as staff served ice cream and cake cornucopias. Unwell inmates were cared for at the battery stop and back at the home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broadway
Home For the
Amsterdam
Florence H. Jerome
Neuman
Jerome
T. S. S. Outing Fund
Sunshine work at Chelsea branch report through July
Mrs. P. A. Greene reports Sunshine activity in Chelsea through July. Daily needs for two families were provided, three sick girls sent to the hills for better air and nourishment, and rent paid for an aged couple. Eight shut-ins received cheer, six received cheery letters, and a long time out of work girl secured a position. The X. L. M. Club will send a Chelsea branch girl to the Rest House for two weeks, aiding a patient who recently had surgery. Funds from gifts and a sale nearly paid for the Rest House lawn canopy, a comfort to guests and neighbors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. A. Greene
Chelsea
X. L. M. Club
Miss Smith
Rest House
Son Dies by Gas Suicide After Seashore Trip
Mrs Gertrude Moske and family returned to 833 East 142d Street to find her 17 year old son David dead from inhaling illuminating gas in a bathroom. A note said At last God has given me nerve. The youth, employed by a downtown clothing firm, feared tuberculosis he had shown symptoms. Police note the act stemmed from fear of illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gertrude Moske
East 142d Street
David
Drugs Kill Chinaman's White Wife In New York
Ida Muay known as Ida May Hufford, wife of Chin Hong of Pell Street, died at Hudson Street Hospital from chronic morphine and cocaine poisoning. She was thirty one, a white woman. Police report her real name and telegrams were sent to her mother in Stroudsburg and to a Philadelphia woman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ida Muay
Chinatown
Chin Hong
Pell Street
Hudson Street Hospital
Ida May Hufford
Sarah Hufford
Stroudsburg
Monroe County
Penn
Louisa Burnshaw
Cherry Street
Philadelphia
Mrs Reynolds to resign Dansville branch leadership seek successor
Mrs M B Reynolds, president of the Dansville N. branch, will move to Binghamton but keep the presidency until a successor is elected. She names three assistants to handle local work during her absence and expresses deep pride in Sunshine work and those who helped. The hope is her efforts will be carried on in Binghamton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. B. Reynolds
Dansville N
Binghamton
Runaway horse injures two in Harlem. animal shot
A frightened horse ran from 113th street and Lenox avenue down Lenox to 110th street, colliding with a streetcar and breaking its leg. It was shot by a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals officer. The driver Joseph Budnick, 21, of 306 East 100th street escaped by climbing from the rear of the buggy. Neither injuree is in serious condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harlem
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To
Joseph Budnick
East 100Th Street
113Th Street
Lenox Avenue
110Th Street
Budnick
Requests and thanks flood readers letters page
Readers express gratitude for music sources from Lake Placid and request back issues of Outlook and Everybodys. Mrs Blodgett confirms obtaining the music and Mrs Halstead thanks Mary Morrison for Outlook. An invalid West Virginia recipient is overwhelmed by a benevolent gift for a mountain outing.
Last Week of Recreation at East Side Pool
Last week of recreational events at the East Side pool of Summer Memorial Home in Neth erwood New Jersey. Miss Curry hosts her final Labor Day party before starting regular settlement work at St. Mark's Place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Summer Memorial Home
Netherwood
N. J
Tribune Sunshine Society to Visit Rest Home Event
A large party of officers, members and friends of the Tribune Sunshine Society will travel to the Tribune Sunshine Society Rest Home next Friday night. Some will return after Labor Day, others will stay longer. The group looks forward to a delightful time amid the early fall scenery of the Connecticut hills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Tribune Sunshine Society
Connecticut Hills
Sunshine clothing helps Virginia and North Carolina families
A Providence member gifts Sunshine clothing to two Virginia residents, with a North Carolina invalid also aided by Rhode Island members. A generous New York State donor gives $5 monthly to an Indiana family, supporting the helpless father for nine months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Providence
R. L
North Carolina
Rhode Island
New York State
Indiana
Local readers offer wool work help and gifts for Vermont child
Mrs G W Kennedy of Hammond Tioga County Pennsylvania offers fancy wool work and Shetland shawls and accepts orders. Miss Annie Miller and Mrs J B Lane of Plainfield New Jersey volunteer to finish unfinished work at the Sunshine office. Mrs Gould of Bayonne New Jersey offers to assist. Mrs William Knoer of Tennessee seeks Angora goat hides and fur rugs for carriage use and forwards them to buyers paying express charges. The Southern member distributes garden produce and doll materials and joins the National Fruit and Flower Guild in support of hospitals and community cheer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. W. Kennedy
Hammond
Tioga County
Penn
Annie Miller
J. B. Lane
Plainfield
N. J
Gould
Bayonne
William Knoer
Tennessee
National Fruit and Flower Guild
Clothing Gifts Aid Needy From Yonkers to Bayshore
A box of clothing and goods from Mrs. Alex Saunders Yonkers aids the poor including a hospital suit and trousers for two blind men. Donations from Irvington Jersey City Northport Bayshore and others support rest home residents and sick women with skirts underwear and children's garments along with quilts magazines silk fabrics and a crate of pears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alex. Saunders
Yonkers
T. M. Stanton
King’s Daughters
Doreman
Irvington
Morse
Northport
Long Island
Reiley
Jersey City
Harvard President Supports Limited Woman Suffrage in Boston
President Eliot of Harvard endorses limited woman suffrage as part of a new Boston charter. He favors an elective city commission and argues for expanding suffrage rather than restricting it. He suggests women residents who pay taxes and Boston taxpayers living outside the city be included, excluding corporations or partnerships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvard
Tribune
Boston
Eliot
Foot Found On LI Railroad Track Near Goose Creek
A severed left foot in a white sock was found on the Long Island Railroad east of Goose Creek by trackwalker Oscar I Lamb. Police say the man may have been struck by a train and a body may be in the creek waters as investigators pursue leads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goose Creek
Long Island
Oscar I. Lamb
Itill
Redaway
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Aden
Senator Aldrich
Army and Navy News
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Navy Department
General Hospitals
Navy
Bureau of Supplies and Accounts
Senor Borras
Morris Park Racecourse
Dean Stanley
A. J. McQueen
Rowland
N. C
Monday Tribunes
Katherine R. Northrop
Alandar
Berkshire County
Mass
Dave
Chinaman
Highbridge
Vermont
Sunshine
Tribune Building
DR. Eliot
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