La Follette Wins In Fight Over Wool Tariff Bill
The Senate ended with the La Follette insurgent coalition enabling adoption of a wool tariff bill. Ten Republicans joined the insurgents, including Borah and Kenyon, in a vote of 40 to 28. Democrats hailed the move as a way to pressure the President, while Republicans debated strategy and possible white papers for campaign use.
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Tribune Burau
Washington
Senate
Tariff Board
la Fellette
Kenyon
Clapp
la Follette
Borah
Bristow
Crawford
Cummins
Grenna
la Folltte
Poindexter
Works
House
Taft
Howe
Penrose
Costixan Pute Up to Waldo Shapiro Turns State's Evidence
Local news item informs on alleged corruption and police connivance. Judge Swann exposes systemic failings while a young wife quits home. Two canoeists drown in the North River and a burglar is locked in the caretaker’s charge. 9 protest women wireless operators and other sensational notes fill the page.
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Costixan
Waldo
Shapiro
Swann
North River
Locke
Belmont
Oekl
John D
Rodman Law
CROSS CONTINENT TO VOTE IN CALIFORNIA
Gertrude Atherton, from New York, travels to San Francisco to cast her first presidential vote for Woodrow Wilson. A California resident and College Equal Suffrage League member, she registered on arrival and plans to stay through November, noting California women’s enfranchisement.
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The
Tribune
San Francisco
Gertrude Atherton
New York
California
Woodrow
Atherton
Wah
College Equal Suffrage
Munteh
Emperor of Japan Gravely Ill Says Bulletin
Tokyo reports bulle tins on the Emperor indicate sinking condition. At 10 this morning temperature 98.7 degrees and pulse 105 to 110 with continual restlessness. Earlier bulletins showed 100.4 temperature and pulse 100, restlessness increasing as nourishment wanes. The empire remains alarmed by his weakening state.
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Mikado
Japan
Tokio
Mother's Sacrifice Falls Short as Son Dies in Lexington
Frank Glover, 17, died after his mother donated her blood for weeks to save him. She lay beside him in a hospital as her life blood transfused into his body, giving faint signs of improvement before he suddenly collapsed and died from an unknown malady.
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Lexington
Frank Glover
N & Hospital
Wealthy Millbrook woman’s will cuts women free from husbands
Anna Margaret Hayox leaves 800000 estate in trust for women’s separate use. Sisters Marcia Waterman and Hila Patrick and niece Marguerite Waterman each receive one dollar. Anna Hoxte Thorne gets 10000 and Sacharissa Baker 20000. Other women honored in the will.
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Voughkeepsie
Anna Margaret Hayox
Millbrook
Marcia G. Waterman
Hila J. Patrick
Marguerite Waterman
Framingham
Mass
Anna Hoxte Thorne
Tacoma
Sacharissa Baker
Washington
Orange linked marriage tale sparks Covington wedding license
Miss Elizabeth Seddle of Lawrenceburg Indiana and Albert Olston of Jacksonville Massachusetts obtained a license to wed in Covington after a unique courtship begun by an orange. The fruit packed with Olston’s name and address traveled from Jacksonville to Miss Seddie, prompting letters and a meeting in Cincinnati.
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the Tribune
Cincinnati
Tilzabeth Seddle
Lawrencebure
Ind
Albert Olston
Jacksonville
Covington
Olston
Timne
Miss Leddie
Detroit steamer Detroit crosses Atlantic with four aboard
Boston reports the Detroit commanded by Captain Thomas Fleming Tay began the eastbound Atlantic crossing on July 23. The vessel, noted as a remarkable hover craft, carried four men aboard and was seen eight hundred miles from Boston Light by the steamer. Further details remain scarce.
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Boston
Detroit
Thomas Fleming Tay
Atlantic
Young Wife Leaves Home After Fractured Marriage
Dorothy Marcus of Montclair, wife of William Marcus Jr, disappeared after leaving a note stating she would sever ties as wife and mother. She is described as young and attractive, with two young daughters, and is believed to have no clear destination though her father is in Europe. Her husband runs Marcus & Co., the jewelry firm.
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Teibun
William Elder Marcus
Upper Montclair Avenue
Marcus & Co
No. M4
Fifth Avenue
New York City
Marcus
Yale
Dorothy Cooksey
George B. Cooksey
Pasadena
Cal
Europe
Ple
Murour
Montair
Montclair
Driving and
Automobile Clubs
Watterson Dons White Outfit Like Twain
Louisville July 25 veteran editor Marie Henry Watterson surprised locals by strolling Fourth avenue in a snow white flannel suit white canvas shoes baby blue scarf and a new straw hat a look reminiscent of Mark Twain He joked no one could stay cool in such weather and hinted at possibly wearing the outfit in New York on his next visit
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Louisville
Marie” Henry Watterson
Fourth Avenue
Mark ‘Twain
New York
Mystery over body of Lt West links Alaska to San Francisco
The city ponders a San Francisco dispatch claiming the body of Lt S R West of the 10th Infantry arrived aboard the Sheridan from Alaska. Last year Mays Chester held rites for what was believed to be the soldier’s ashes after he died frozen on a trail in Alaska in February 1911.
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Toncoty
M.F
Auly
S. R.west
10Th Infantry
U.S. A
San Francisco
West
Sheridan
Alasi
Chichester
Alaska
TWO CANOEISTS DROWN AFTER STEAM YACHT SWELL
Five men from Edgewater set out in a canoe on the North River near Fort Washington Point. A steering miscalculation and heavy weight caused capsizing. Two men Lester Schmidt and Arthur Trouxeac drowned. Farrell, Thoms, Porter, and Plawn survived the incident as divers searched the treacherous eddies with police help.
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Fort Warrington Point
North River
Lester Schmidt
Undercuff Avenue
Edgewater
Arthur Trouxeac
Edgewater Place
William Farreil
Oithtern
Gorden Plawn
Henry Thoms
Undercliff Avenue
Robert Port
Fort Washington Point
Romedia | Tanra
Thenwell
Coogan
St. Nicholas Avenue
Schmidt
Trousene
Thome
Porter
Farrell
Murray
Thoms
Amsterdam Avenue
Manhat
Rosenthal murder grand jury hears Costigan blast on Waldo
Police Lt Daniel Costigan told a grand jury that Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo controlled gambling squad raids and reports. He claimed double cross raids and police connivance kept gambling houses open, with as many as 150 in Manhattan during Rosenthal’s murder period. Waldo dismissed the report as unworthy of discussion as Dago Frank was arrested and other witnesses prepared to testify.
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William Shapiro
Grand
Herman Rosenthal
Distriet
Shapiro
Stu
Jto
Hield Ball
Jack Beye
Jack Beye and “Bridgie’ Weber When They Are Arraigned Before Corer Feinberg
Aaron J. Levy
T Am
Mr. Levy
Polles
Levy
Whitman
Charles Becker
Hridgie” Weber
Harry Watson
Sam” Schepps
Weber
Sam” Schopps
Dago Frank
Harry Horowity
Gib the Blood
Big Jack" Zelig
Lefty Louie
Louis Rosenberg
Rowenawerg
Frank Muller
Whitle
John J. Hickey
Daniel Costigan
Rosenthal
Rhinelander Waldo
Grand Jury
Costigan
Waldo
Canfield
44Th Street
New York City
Gaynor
Manhattan
Jack” Rose
the Tribune
Fort Lowry
Bath Beach
Waldotus
Becker
Nitheat
Grand Jury Hears Costigan Testimony on Police Gambling
Grand jury sessions featured Lieutenant Costigan describing a police roulette of gambling activity in New York, implicating Commissioner Waldo and the department. Becker and Hecker were named as potential witnesses as the panel pressed for details on detection methods and the system centralizing power under the Police Commissioner.
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Helen Gould
Bares
Hilles
Marriman
Syracuse
Beveridge
Britain
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Marke
Sriecer
Florida
W. E. Marcus
Husband
Watterson
Mark Twain
Almé Dupont
Walker
Hickey
Scandal
Criminal Courts
Hecker
Police
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