Doubtful Luck in Wire Tapping Swindle at Pennsylvania Station
Deputy Police Commissioner Dougherty announces the arrest of two well-dressed men at Pennsylvania Station for a wire tapping swindle aimed at a Charlotte merchant E L Baxter Davidson. Bail set at 3000 each as Magistrate Marsh holds the pair. Davidson describes the scheme and ties to James W Osborne and Francis I Osborne while detailing a sequence of bets and forged drafts.
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Dougherty
Pennsylvania
Marsh
United States
E. L. Baxter Davidson
Charlotte
N. C
James W. Osborne
New York County
Francis I. Osborne
Osbornes
Davidson
van Cott
Police
Heat Protrates Many One Dead In Morning News
Unclear clipping lists multiple items including death, arrests, politics and social notes. Notable mentions include Murphy on Cohalan, Stilwell disclosures anticipated, mayoral race rooming, police searches, and veterans at Gettysburg. Also references to bond issues, taxes, and obituaries.
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Tribune
Murphy
Cohalan
Stilwell
Sulser
Gem Clark
McMillan
New Haven
Puta
Mies Vivan Denien
Family Escapes Bolt In Lightning Scare
A freak bolt of lightning struck the Monticello home of David Bennett today wrecking every room. Five family members were in the room of greatest destruction but all escaped death. Mrs Bennett and one child were struck by wood fragments while others suffered non serious electrical shocks.
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Monticello
David Bennett
John Williams Hero of Rockefeller Estate Fire
John Williams, a trusted employee on the John D. Rockefeller estate near Tarrytown, led colleagues into a burning barn to remove about one hundred dynamite sticks before flames spread. Rockefeller Jr. congratulated him and pledged to inform his father of the bravery.
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John Williams
John D. Rockefeller
Tarrytown
Williams
John J. Rockefeller, Jr
Eye Druggist’s Error Cost Patient Sight in Suit
Herman Schwartz sued druggist David B. Blustein for damages claiming nitrate of silver was put in an eye wash instead of the prescribed drug, costing him the sight of an eye. A sheriff's jury awarded Schwartz a verdict for five thousand dollars. The incident followed prescription by Dr. Irving Turck for the eye wash.
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Herman Schwartz
No. 158
East 110Th Street
David B. Blustein
Schwartz
Irving Turck
Blustein
Hunger strike fails as teen submits to ice cream
Philadelphia July 1 Julia Morgan seventeen of not a town Penn held a hunger strike after police detained her while relatives she sought could be found. She wandered the streets Saturday night in search of sisters and threatened to imitate suffragettes to win release. A plate of ice cream and strawberries finally broke her resistance.
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Philadelphia
Julia Morgan
Penn
Friedenwald will trial ends in four million estate split
Baltimore July 1 a jury set aside the Friedenwald will of 1906 in Baltimore County Circuit Court. The $4,490,000 estate will be divided among his children under descent laws after deducting charitable bequests. Florence Sela testified to poverty alleging undue influence. The 1910 will was declared void last year for mental incompetence. Cardinal Gibbons is understood to receive $2,000 from that will.
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Baltimore
Joseph Friedenwald
Baltimore County
Friedenwald
Florence Sela
Cardinal Gibbons
Steamer Wrecks Launch Near Poughkeepsie
A motor boat owned by Raymond Wenttang, with P. J. Smith and Irving J. Hart aboard, was struck by the steamer Rensselaer five miles north of Poughkeepsie. The vessel burned, Wenttang fractured a shoulder and was taken to a Troy hospital while Smith and Hart suffered shock.
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Poughkeepsie
Telegraph
Tribune
Raymond
Wenttang
P. J. Smith
Irving J. Hart
Rensselaer
People’s Line
Here
Troy
Texas Law Lets Drunk Persons Stay Home
A Texas act effective today makes it unlawful to get drunk outside one’s own home. Saloons must close from 9 30 p m to 6 a m. Another law grants married women control of their separate estates.
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Dallas
Rex
Texas
July heat kills and prostrates in city heat wave
July heat kills and prostrates as thermometers reach 95 to 105 in the city. Jacob Lang of Brooklyn dies after collapse delivering milk near Pulaski and Marcy. FE. Hazarovitch Hiebetiano, a 40 year old Russian prince, suffers heat exhaustion at Fifth Avenue library. Humidity soars to 86 percent in morning, easing to around 61 62 percent by afternoon. Hundreds of horses collapse. officials deploy water and sponges to save them. Many seek relief at Coney Island and parks, while authorities tolerate candle shadows on St Patrick’s Cathedral steps. Showers and cooler air are forecast.
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Weather Bureau
New York
Jacob Lang
Greene Avenue
Brooklyn
Pulaski Street
Marcy Avenue
Stevens
St. John's Honepital
Hazarovitch Hiebetianoviteh Lazarovich
West 118Th
Fifth Avenue
Tophet
the & Pc.a
Coney Island
St. Patrick's Cathedral
6Th Street
Yasters
Governor Sulzer Sued by a Woman in New York Case
Philadelphia reports a breach of promise suit against William Sulzer, alleged New York governor, by Miss Mignon Hopkins. The case cites a 1903 marriage contract in New York City and notes capias attempt denied by court. Sulzer denies the suit and leaves for New York, avoiding discussion of the matter.
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Philadelphia
William Sultzer
New York
Prothonotary of Common Pleas
Mignon Hopkins
Brooklyn
William Sulzer
Sulzer
Congress
Clara Rodelheim
Atlantic City
York City
Albany
Gates Earns 112 Dollars in Court Fee
Charles G. Gates son of the late John W. Gates remarked he is always after money as he pocketed 12 dollars received as a withers fee in a court case, reported from St Paul on July 1.
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Charles G. Gates
the Tribune
St Paul
John W. Gates
Gettysburg Triumph Reporter Aaron Byington Remembered
The Tribune’s war correspondent Aaron Homer Byington earned the first Gettysburg dispatch sent to President Lincoln and helped file via field telegraph during the battle. The piece traces his war service, later roles, and death in 1910, noting his journalism impact and civic positions.
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Gettysburg
Aaron Homer Byington
Tribune
Lincoln
New York
Gideon Welles
Navy
War Department
Byington
Welles
Lee
Hanover Station
Washington
Hanover
White House
Atlanta
Washingtons
the Tribune
Washington City
Charles A. Dana
Sun
Inter
Two Negro Americans Face Bar at London Inns
In London, two U S men Rev Richard Bolden of New York and Prof James Schelberger Jr of Arkansas faced color prejudice, denied rooms at several well known inns, and found shelter at a secluded private hotel while en route to Zurich for the World Sunday School Convention. Meanwhile in Chicago an amateur aviator Vilas completed a Lake Michigan crossing in a hydroaeroplane from St Joseph to Chicago in 1 hour 34 minutes, landing off Grant Park as 50 000 spectators watched a suffrage parade nearby.
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Davidson
Marsh
New York
Europe
Martinique
Central Park
the Waldorf
John Jones
George Harris
Harris
Jones
Chicago
Koxan
Lake Michigan
St Joseph
Mich
William Bastar
Renton Harbor
Vilas
Grant Park
Michigan Avenue
London
United States
Richard Bolden
James Schelberger, Jr
Walters Institute
Arkansas
Zurich
Hoth
Judges Left Shoes Abandoned by Sneak Thief
Boston reports seven pairs of judges shoes stolen early this week from a shop on Exchange street. The seven members of the His Honor Club at Pemberton Square are Almy Peck Mead Rudd Marvin Turner and Wadleigh. Police suspect a petty grievance thief targeted the judges by taking the footwear.
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Ily Sringrays Ser Son
Boston
Police
Pemberton Square
NO GAMBLING IN NEWPORT TOWN PLAYER CLAMPDOWN
In Newport Rhode Island the Nautilus Club on Bath Road will not open this summer as the city tightens enforcement of gambling. The mayor promised to close all gambling venues, and police now monitor sites where games of chance were played. Private homes reportedly host roulette and poker, including a poker game with over $30,000 at stake.
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Newport
Nautilus Club
Bath Road
William Macleod
German battleship Derflinger launched at Hamburg yard
The German battleship cruiser Derflinger was launched successfully at Hamburg on July 1 after three aborted moves from the stocks. The ceremony marked a breakthrough for the shipyard amid ongoing wartime production.
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Diamburg
Germany
Derflinger
Veterans reunite at Gettysburg as old foes greet
At Gettysburg July 1 1930 55 000 veterans search the battlefield in heat for spots where they fought decades ago Albert M Hamilton of the 72d Pennsylvania and A C Smith of Seth Virginia meet near the Bloody Angle and share memories then embrace in tears and kiss The scene underscores a lasting bond between former enemies Mrs Helen Longstreet widow of General Longstreet visits General Sickles and reads a eulogy praising him as the hero of Gettysburg creating a poignant moment for both sides
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Star
the Tribune
Gettysburg
Penn
Battlefeld
Albert M. Hamilton
Pennsylvania
A. C. Smith
Johnny Reb
Seth Virginia
Smith
Pickett
Cemetery Ridge
Hamilton
General Sickles
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Garrison
Kirby and Parry
Bam
Ind
Frawley Probe
Unmun
Lady Buckville
John D., JR
Young Rockefeller
Waldorf-Astoria
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania Railroad
Ists
Fremont
Incoln
Garfield
McKinley
Naples
Italy
Roosevelt
State Senate of
Connecticut
Yale College
Stuart W. Byington
Franklin Place
Flushing
London Inns Bar
U.S
Iet
Arrort
1863
Yanks” and
Rebs
Mrs. Longstreet
Helen Longstreet
Dan” Sickles
Carr
Rogers House
Emmitsburg Road
Longstreet
Tigers
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