Turkey Opens Constitutional Parliament in Constantinople
A new constitutional government begins in Constantinople with the Sultan attending the opening of parliament. Royal processions, cheers, and street illumination mark the historic event as deputies from diverse regions assemble to affirm the constitution and discuss reforms, budget, and education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constantinople
Tule
Kiamil Pacha
Peru
Kiami Pacha
Bulgaria
Roumelis
Austria- Hungary
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Panic on Ferry Boat Collision Near Astoria Slip
The freight steamer Marion bound for Norwalk collided with the ferryboat Steinway near the Astoria slip. Three deckhands John Mahoney John Donovan and John Shea were injured. The ferry landed all 300 passengers and resumed service. The Marion was beached at Jamaica Bay, later patched and returned. Damages: Marion about 8000 Steinway 700 and bulkhead 1000.
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Marion
Norwalk
John Shea
C. N. Platt
Franklin Avenue
Brooklyn
Donovan
Mahoney
Shea
Hell Gate
Astoria
Ethel
Cameron
Jamaica
E. R
Blizzard From Wilkes-Barre To Durango Described In Widespread Snow
Snowfall expands from Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania to Wyoming Valley causing drifting streets and halted streetcar traffic. Reports from Chicago to Colorado indicate rain fog and snow with snowslides killing a mine foreman near Eurekus and damaging property in Chattanooga and Howardsville. Colorado rail traffic is blocked and Silverton faces fuel shortages with potential suffering until lines reopen.
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Wilkes-Barre
Penn
Wyoming Valley
Chicago
Colorado
Philadelphia
St. Paul
Louisville
Michigan
Durango
Col
Tom Moore
Eureks
William Mondell
Chattanooga
Howardsville
San Juan
Silverton
Vanderbilt Cars Arrests Over Speed and Backing Up
Hugo Herieginer, a chauffeur, was arrested at Riverside Drive and Tith street for driving 22.5 mph in a big touring car with Reginald Vanderbilt present. A valet offering a diamond ring as security appeared in court. Thomas Wilson, Vanderbilt’s chauffeur, was later charged for backing up against traffic rules and discharged at night court.
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Hugo Herieginer
Riverside Drive
Tith Street
Sauer
Reginald C. Vanderbilt
Thomas Wilson
Alfred G. Vanderbilt
Galvin
West 47Th Street
Reginald Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt
Astor Theatre
Wilson
Hop Bill Dead in Commons Withdrawal
London December 17 The hop substitute prohibition bill by Chancellor David Lloyd George was withdrawn after liberal opposition objected to its protective character.
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London
David Lioyd-George
House of C Commons
Little Tim Sullivan Advises Liberal Policy for Republicans
'Little Tim' Sullivan told Republicans at City Hall to adopt a liberal excise and police policy to win. He argued Tammany Hall will return next year, warned Republicans they are disunited, and said voters favor broader law enforcement over narrow strictness.
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Tim” Sullivan
Tammary Hall
Tim
City Hall
Tammany Hall
City Hal
Meyor
Burglars Ransack Brooklyn Home of Miss Estes
Brooklyn detectives report Miss Elizabeth Estes residence at 247 Washington Street ransacked with about 3.40 in rare laces clothing and silverware missing. Estes, a prominent Brooklyn sorority member, has been abroad three months and returns December 2. Candle grease traces and a disabled burglar alarm imply a prolonged stay by the thieves.
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Brooklyn
Elizabeth Estes
Washington Street
Allen Thomax Runs President's Special to Atlanta
In answer to a challenge from her father J. W. Thomas president of the Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis Railroad Miss Allen Thomax ran the presidents special from Dalton to Atlanta on Monday with apparent ease the train passing through without delay.
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Tribune
Avlanta
J. W. Thomas
Nashville, Chattanooga
House Approves Request for Evidence on Secret Service
Washington notes the House, with one dissenting vote from Rep Howland, approves a resolution asking the President to provide any evidence supporting his claim that Secret Service provisions benefited criminals and to disclose any evidence linking a 40th Congress member to official corruption. The Senate won’t act until after holidays, with a subcommittee planned.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Howland
Ohio
House
Congress
Secret Service
Treasury Department
United States
Houses of Congress
Senate
House of Representatives
Perkins
Representative Bennet
New York
Committee
Bennet
Parsons
Hepburn
Hayes
Dawes
Murdock
Gillett
Wilson
Tll
Madison
Pollard
Gaines
W. Va
Douglass
Cole
Lowden
Nelson
Senate Committee On Appropriations
Roosevelt
Senator Hare
Hemenway
Indiana
Bond Issue Denied for Delaware and Hudson Refunding Plan
The Public Service Commission denied the Delaware & Hudson Company authority to issue bonds to refund notes totaling 4.665 million for stock in United Traction and 2.5 million to buy coal lands in Pennsylvania. The ruling limits bonds to 230,868 for refunding notes tied to unrelated electric railways, with dissents on treating Hudson Valley as railroad property. Opdyke said the company would pursue court action if the facts stand.
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Albany
Public Service Commission
Delaware & Hudson Company
United Traction Company
Troy
Hudson Coal Company
Pennsylvania
Troy & New England Railway
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Decker
Stevens
Osborne
Development Company
Hudson Valley Company
Hudson Valley
Delaware & Hudson
Hudson Valley Securities
United Traction
Public Service Commissions
Olmsted
Decker and
Sague
Commission
W. S. Opdyke
Collier Fails to Import Hounds Duty Free
Peter F. Collier of the Monmouth County Hunt Club lost before the Board of United States General Appraisers seeking duty free entry for fifty nine hounds. He failed to produce pedigree papers as required, so 20 percent duty was charged. He also protests a $600 repair claim on an automobile imported abroad and returned, citing excessive duty and an incident en route to Scotland. He claims to have paid $14,000 for the car and that duty was previously paid.
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Peter F. Collier
Monmouth County Hunt Club
Board of
United States General Appraisers
Collier
Secretary of the Treasury
Cillier
Andrew Carnegie
Scotland
Boston official arrested in perjury and fraud case
Leo F. McCullough president of Boston’s Common Council surrendered to police on an indict ment warrant charging perjury and conspiracy to defraud the city of 260 dollars on June 1 last. Bail set at 2500. Earlier arrest of attorney James T Cassidy followed. Investigation by the Finance Commission led to charges.
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Boston
Leo F. McCullough
Common Council
City of
James T. Cassidy
Finance Commission
Ofice
McCullough
Cassidy
Rams Emanu El Wall Crash In Fifth Avenue
A touring car owned by Walter Lispenard Suydam crashed near 45th Street on Fifth Avenue striking a cab and tearing ten feet of the Temple Emanu El wall. Mrs. Suydam, who was riding in the car, was unharmed. chauffeur George Leamen remained in place as the vehicle plowed about. Dr. F Ring aided Mrs. Suydam after the collision.
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Walter Lispenard Suydam
East 22d Street
Newsboy Killed Crossing Broadway at J1st Street
Ten year old John Nugent was struck by a northbound Broadway car while selling papers at Broadway and Columbus Avenue. His seven year old friend Eddie Bowler watched in tears as police moved the body to the Ten derloin station. The accident left Eddie heartbroken and the crowd in shock. Nugent lived with his widow mother at 5% first avenue near Cornell Medical College.
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Broadway
J1st
John Nugent
Columbus Avenue
Eddie Bowler
East 224 Street
Tenderloin
Johnny
Nugent
First Avenue
Cornell Medical College
John
Eddie
Great Fire in Rostoff Devastates City Center
A major blaze rages in Rostoff on the Don destroying the city center and another quarter. Several lives are reported lost as Rostoff, a key Southeastern Russia wheat and goods hub, suffers damage near the Oswar mouth. Population cited as about 120,000.
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St. Petersburg
Rostoff-on-the-Don
Oswar
Russia
Seven saved from sea after Marcelline foundering off Cape Breton
Seven sailors, exhausted after eight days in pumps and a forty mile open boat row, reached Port Morien to report the French schooner Marcelline foundered off the Cape Breton coast at midnight Tuesday. The 250 ton vessel, sailing from Calais on November 4 with salt, battled North Atlantic gales for 41 days before going down. Captain De Garett led the crew to lifeboats as water poured in and sails froze.
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Sydney
N. S
Port Morien
Marcelline
Cape Breton
St. Pierre Miquelon
Sydney Harbor
de Garette
Calais
France
Will of Charlestown Grocer Found In Tub
Patrick Monahan left a will valued at 259000 found nailed to the bottom of a washtub in a sub celler. He died last September without a prior will. John Monahan of Chicago named as beneficiary. the will allocates 69900 to the Chicago man and 60000 to sister in law Margaret Mullen of Boston plus 30909 to three sisters in Ireland and 10000 to Roman Catholic charities.
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Boston
Patrick Monahan
Charlestown
Suffolk County
Monahan
John Monahan
Chicago
John F. Lynch
Margaret Mullen
Ireland
Aged Mother's Gift Linked to Poison Mail Plot
Philadelphia report: Mrs. James A Wilson unaware her son J Walter Wilson is jailed in San Francisco for sending strychnine poison to business associate Harry Boas. Boas died after taking stomach powders mailed to him. coroner’s jury pins murder on Wilson.
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Tribune
Philadelphia
J. Walter Wilson
San Francisco
Harry Boas
James A Wilson
North 23d Street
Toduy
Wilson
Boas
Women Dominate Real Estate Deals In City Market
Prominent women drive yesterday real estate activity. Mrs. Emily Benedict Hopkins bought the Builders' Exchange Building at 29 to 35 West 32d and 30 to 34 West 33d streets for about 2.5 million, with partial payment including the Plaza in Chicago. She lives in New York and is widow of Moses Hopkins. Helen L. Giltender Asinari and the Giltender estate traded through Clifford N. Shurman and Huston & Asinari, including an eleven story loft at 17 West 17th Street and the Hotel Markwell at 220 to 228 West 49th Street. Margaret Sage acquired Riverside Drive frontage for 800000. The report notes first sale of the 341 West Broadway site in seventy years. The item concludes with an advertisement for Great Bear Spring Water.
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Emily Benedict Hopkins
Builders’ Exchange
West 32d Street
West 33d Street
William and
Julius Manger
Pease & Eliiman
Waldorf
Hopkins
Moses Hopkins
Mark Hopkins
California
Hopkins Academy
Oakland
Cal
San Francisco
Helen L. Giltender
Clifford N. Shurman
Huston
Gallender
West Broadway
Grand Street
Margaret
Sage
Riverside Drive
11Th
119Th Streets
Herman
van Post
Two cruisers to guard Taft on Panama trip
President elect Taft, visiting the White House with President Roosevelt, discussed the Panama journey to be led by two navy cruisers. Start from Charleston January 25, with engineers Alfred Noble and Frederick P Stearns likely joining.
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Charlottesville
Taft
White House
Roosevelt
Panama
Charleston
S. C
Augusta
Alfred Noble
Pennsylvania Railroad
Frederick P. Stearns
Boston
Landon A. Thomas
Thomas
Thomases
L. «. Horne
Augusta Chamber of Commerce
Mr. Taft
Taft Arrives Washington for White House Conference
President-elect Taft reached Washington ahead of schedule and held a quiet luncheon and talks with the President at the White House. He outlined Panama trip plans with two civilian engineers and discussed personnel for the party.
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Tribume Bureau
Washington
Taft
White House
Augusta
Panama
Union Station
General Bell
Army
Mr. Taft
Loeb
Charles P. Taft
French Polar Expedition Steamer Sails From Punta Arenas
The French steamer Pourquoi Pas with Dr Charcot on board departed Punta Arenas today bound for the South Pole in search of new discoveries. The vessel loaded a large supply of provisions for the voyage.
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Punta Arenas
Chili
Pourquoi Pas
Dr. Charcot
South Pole
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Mecca
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Nak
Allen
Steinway
College Point
Reginald
Alfred G
Hop Bill
Ouse
Williams
Legislative Branch
U. S
D. & H. Company
MR. Collier
HUB
Dewey's
Dawey & Sons Co
Emanu EL Wall
Newsboy
Lad
Rostoff
Testament of
Christmas
Son
Builders’ Exchange Building
Great Bear
Mr. Noble
Mr. Stearns
Frederick P Stearns
Metropolitan Water Board
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Wiliam H. Taft
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