Americans Aim to Overtake UK in Olympic Track
London July 19 United States athletes face climate problems and tough heat draws but vow to win field sports. James Sullivan says Americans, despite setbacks, expect to overturn a 14 point UK lead in track and field with events still to contest including sprints hurdles and the marathon. Marathon entrants listed from several clubs with noted favourites and weather hopes for a grand Windsor finish with royal prize ceremony preparations underway.
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London
United Kingdom
Suore
England
James E. Sullivan
United
Brighton
Sheppard
Halstead
Bromilow
Ramey
Amateur Athletic Association
Amateur Athletic Association Anl
America
Gamps
Kerr
Archibald
Marathor Mittee
Mittee
Canada
Longboat
A. Duncan
Salford Harriers
Beale
Minto
Stadiy Glam
Holland
Greece
Finland
Russia
Bel 4
Bohemia
Hungary
Italy
Germany
Eastcote Road
Palace Gates
Windsor
Shah Loses Tabriz as Revolutionists Seize City
A late Times dispatch from July 19 reports Tabriz entirely in rebel hands except for one quarter. Rabin Khan’s horsemen withdrew, signaling the Shah’s failure to reassert authority. Royal Infantry left rifles and uniforms, returning home. Rachin Khan’s chief executioner was killed in the streets amid rallies. The Mujtehid’s followers faced calls for action. the Russian Consul intervened, offering amnesty but no dispersal orders.
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Rabin Khan
Teheran
Rachin Khan
Revolt Rumors Shake Monastir Troops in Macedonia
Constantinople reports claim seven thousand Turkish soldiers in the Monastir district have revolted and thirty two thousand more are ordered to the outbreak. Officers of the Third Army Corps threaten generals in Macedonia will be killed unless court martial officers are freed, and the army will march to Constantinople to demand constitutional restoration.
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Constantinople
Monastir
Third Army Corps
Macedonia
Rain Stops Maine Fires After Weeks of Smoke and Fire
Showers across Maine halted massive forest fires that had raged for two weeks, threatening coastal resorts and summer homes. Despite hundreds of workers and village equipment battling the flames, shifts in wind and now soaking rain kept crops and timber safe, ending a quarter century of severe fire danger and alarm for communities along the coast.
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Portland
Maine Woods
Maine
Women Fight Fire Near Stamford Forest Blaze
Stamford Connecticut July 19. Mrs L D Hopkins and her sister in law Miss Hopkins and other New York women aided by carrying hose and spraying water on a forest fire that burned twenty acres of timber near Stamford. They helped shield the Hopkins home and barn from sparks as wind shifted.
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the Tribune
Stamford
Conn
L. D. Hopkins
Miss Hopkins
New York
Manhattan
Captain Greene
Stillwater
Savannah Harbor
President Praises Boys at Christ Church Visit
Fifty uniformed boys from St. Ann's Mission, New York, saluted the President at Christ Episcopal Church during the morning service. He praised them as fine fellows and shook hands with their captain, noting they are the kind of boys he likes. The heat in the church was so intense a woman nearby fainted.
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the Tribune
Oyster Bay
St. Ann’s Mission
New York
Christ Episcopal Church
Vitriol Threat for Reformer In Lodging War
Boston July 19 threats of bodily harm and vitriol were aimed at Miss Mary Boyle O'Reilly daughter of a poet and member of the Lodging House Commission amid a push to license all rooming houses. Lodging house owners formed a union to oppose the plan and have harassed her with threatening letters and street threats.
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the Tribune
Boston
Lodging House Commission
Mary Boyle O'Reilly
Floods Wash Village Juszeyna Drowning 22 People
In Vienna on July 1 floods washed away the village of Juszeyna on Archduke Stephen's Galician estate. Twenty two persons have been drowned. AAN S Restaurant Park Row Bidg Coolest place downtown for luncheon dinner. Music.
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Vienna
Juszeyna
Archduke Stephen
Aan’s
Park Row
Women Aid In Rescue Campers Answer Call
Montauk Point life saving station credits campers for aiding Captain Hedges and crew of the steamship Chippewa after it struck rocks off Montauk Point. A party from Great Neck and East Williston joined locals to haul a surf gun and tackle, board the ship, and rescue the crew amid a gale as the Chippewa began breaking up.
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Montauk Point
Long Island
Caleb Hedges
Chippewa
Charleston
Boston
Merritt-Chapman Company
Merritt
Hedges
Montauk
Government House
David L. van Nostrand
Viola van Nostrand
Great Neck
William Post
Frederick Post
Scott Libby
East Williston
William Titus
Merritt- Chapman
Carbolic acid favorite poison in Pittsburg suicides
A July report from Pittsburg records fifteen deaths by suicide in ten days and six attempts. Eleven used carbolic acid, five revolvers, two other poisons, one by jumping, one by window, and one by throat cutting. Causes include grief, love affairs, financial reverses, ill health, and despondency. Three suicides and one attempt occurred July 17 amid low barometer.
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Tribune
Pittsburg
Masked man on fire escape alarms New York residents
Mrs T S Pentegast awoke in her fourth floor apartment at 24 West 59th Street to see a masked man on the fire escape a story below. Bellboy George Brown summoned police as Detectives Tobin Cummins and Bicycle Policeman Marron arrived. No burglars found after a house search. Plaza Hotel guests were awakened and the intruder’s route believed from an adjacent empty house.
Georgia Legislators Caught In Poker Raid
Five Georgia legislators playing high stakes poker at the Kimball House were raided by two detectives. They posted $300 bonds and no charge was docketed. The raid found over $000 in the pot and liquor was served in large quantities. Police suspect the room served as a gaming site since the legislature opened, run by a House member.
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The
Tribune
Atlanta
Kimball House
Boomerang Airship Flight Ends Far From Start
C Oliver Jones launched the Boomerang at Palisade N J for a one admission spectacle. The airship rose to about two thousand feet over Harlem and the Bronx toward Long Island Sound before the rope parted and it drifted toward the river. Jones landed safely at West Chester at 8 30 PM, blaming a rudder issue and promising further ascensions.
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C. Oliver Jones
Hammondsport
N. Y
Palisade
N. J
Mr. Jones
Hudson River
Palisades Amusement Park
Hudson
Harlem
Bronx
Long Island Sound
Jones
Curtis
St. Joseph Institute
West Chester
Airships Regulated by Kissimmee City Ordinance
Kissimmee Florida July 19 The city council enacted an ordinance regulating airships within town limits. Violations carry fines up to 500 dollars or up to ninety days in jail. Boundaries extend twenty miles upward from the surface, authorizing arrest by an Aero capable marshal with an approved aircraft.
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Tribune
Kissimmee, Fla
Kissimmee City
Calaboose
Terra Firma
Scared but stubborn bill sponsor appeals for protection
Atlanta July 19 Representative George Glenn who introduced the famous bill to protect men from designing women appeals to the House for protection claiming his life has been threatened and his sleepless nights since introducing the measure His wife grew jealous of the daily mail in feminine handwriting and objected to his correspondence He intends to urge passage of the bill.
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the Tribune
Atlanta
George Glenn
House of Representatives
Fire Rips Richmond Block Beside Chamber of Commerce
A major blaze rages in Richmond Virginia as every city fire engine battles the stubborn fire in the block between the Chamber of Commerce Building and the offices of the Southern and Adams express companies. Firemen fear a disastrous conflagration in this dangerous area.
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the Tribune
Richmond
Chamber of Commerce
Southern
Adams Express
Balloons to the Fore in Naval Aeronautics Debate
Washington reports army and navy officers foresee an aero static corps in the navy. Fort Myer tests next week may include diplomats and observers. The American Airship and Balloon Corporation builds a dirigible for naval trials. Balloons in the Vladivostok harbor operations spurred a Russian balloon detachment aboard the Russ US.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Fort Myer
Diplomatic Corps
Newberry
General Allen
Signal Corps
American Airship and Balloon Corporation
Naval Board
Chester
Bureau of Equipment
Robert F. Henderson
Missouri
France
Vladivostok
Yessen
Count Stregonova
Germany
Balloons land after St. Paul flight attempt
Balloons that started from St. Paul to break distance and endurance records have landed across Minnesota. Chicago won both prizes, landing near Blooming Prairie after 73 miles. Pommern touched down at Warsaw. King Edward and America also reported landings, with Hudson spraining an ankle on descent.
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St. Paul
Pommern
Warsaw
Minn
Chicago
C. A. Coey
Blooming Prairie
J. C. Bennett
Hampton
A. Leo Stevens
P. S. Hudson
America
Owatonna
Here
Horace B. Wild
Hudson
King Edward
United States
Fight on over Guffey Penn Dems split
Open revolt against the Denver Democratic National Convention action removing Colonel James M. Guffey from the national committee leads to a Harrisburg meeting of the Democratic State Committee to redraw leadership. Kerr supporters clash with Guffey loyalists as delegates debate whether to retain Guffey or appoint Kerr, amid Bryan forces’ influence and fundraising tensions.
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Tribune
Pittsburg
Denver
James M. Guffey
National Committee
Harrisburg
Democratic State Committee
Pennsylvania
James Kerr
Colonel Guffey
Bryan
Kerr
Guffey
Democratic National Committee
Taft Named as Union Member Before Nomination
Hot Springs Virginia July 19 William A Taft heads to Cincinnati to receive notice of his Republican presidential nomination and will be notified as a member of the International Society of Steam Shovelmen of which T J Dolan of Chicago is president Taft will be inducted July 29 and may not return until the following Saturday He plans to stay in Cincinnati after September 1 for the election Willis Moore head of the Weather Bureau visits tomorrow to discuss labor policy with Taft and Tag a He will attend Germantown court opening tomorrow morning to speak on administration of justice General and Mrs Corbin attend Tafts invitation here.
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Hot Springs
William A. Taft
Cincinnati
Republican Party
International Society of Steam Shovelmen
T. J. Dolan
Chicago
Taft
Panama
Willis Moore
Weather Bureau
Moore
Taga
Germantown
Corbin
Hitchcock in Colorado opens two day GOP conference
Frank H Hitchcock, chair of the Republican National Committee, arrived in Colorado Springs for a two day conference with national committee members and Western state chairmen. Leaders from Arizona to Wyoming gathered, signaling a likely productive meeting begins tomorrow.
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Colorado Springs
Col
Frank H. Hitchcock
Republican National Committee
National Committee
Hitchcock
W. S. Sturgis
Arizona
Charles Cavender
Colorado
William E. Borah
Idaho
David W. Mulvane
Kansas
Thomasc. Marshall
Montana
Victor Rosewater
Nebraska
Solomon Luna
New Mexico
James Kennedy
North Dakota
Cash M. Cade
Oklahoma
Ralph E. Williams
Oregon
Thomas Thorson
South Dakota
Cecil A. Lyon
Texas
William Spry
C. B. Leese
Utah
Robert L. McCormick
Washington
George Pexton
Wyoming
Herbert Jorney
George Stone
California
John F. Vivian
James H. Brady
J. Tv. Moeere
Fletcher Maddox
Wiliam Hayward
George F. Turrittin
Nevada
H. O. Bursum
L. B. Hanna
Charles E. Hunter
Okige
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