Provident Life Stock Sale Delayed by Repeated Quorum Failures
Directors failed to form a quorum for the Provident Savings Life Assurance Society meeting for a third time in a month, delaying officer elections and a potential transfer of 3,000 shares to Inter Southern Life Insurance of Louisville. Colorado official protests via Sullivan & Cromwell cite an inspector’s critique of Inter Southern’s solvency and governance.
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Provident Savings Life Assurance Society
Nnec
the Provident
Inter Southern Life Insurance Company
Louisville
Rittenhouse
Colorado Insurance Department
Sullivan & Cromwell
Provident Bock
Southern Company
E.R. Thomas
Qriando F. Thomas
The
Provident
Wolfe
Taft ends Cincinnati visit boards train for Hot Springs
Judge Taft and Mrs. Taft leave Cincinnati at 9 10 p m for Hot Springs Va where he plans to stay about a month before continuing his front porch presidential campaign. He holds meetings with Ohio managers union delegates and state politicians and notes his voice remained strong after yesterday's testing day.
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Cincinnati
Taft
International Brotherhood of Steam Shovellers
Judge Taft
Thomas J. Dolan
Ohio
Mr. Taft
Pike Street
Mr. Dolan
Taft Receives Honorary Union Membership
Taft is elected an honorary member by a union praising his fair treatment of workers on the Panama Canal since 1904 and his stance against wage-cutting proposals. He expresses gratitude, noting prior presidential precedents and his effort to do justice, amid an incident where the Island Queen was fired upon near Dayton, Kentucky. A separate rail promotion advertises a St Louis round trip via Pennsylvania Railroad for late July to early August.
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Panama Canal
McKinley
Bricklayers’ Union
Roosevelt
Firemen’s Union
Judge Taft
Notification Committee
Ohio River
Ohio
Tin River
Dayton
Charles B. Russell
Hughes and Hughes era in New York politics discussed
President Roosevelt and State Chairman Woodruff met at Sagamore Hill to map the governor nominating process. Woodruff stated the choice rests with Republican voters and delegates, with the President and state committee hands off. The piece outlines anti Hughes sentiment upstate, possible Odell influence, and the evolving state convention dynamics ahead of the August 12 executive committee meeting.
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Roosevelt
Woodruff
Sagamore Hill
Taft
Odell
Mr. Woodruff
Colonel Dunn
State Committee
Oyster Bay
34Th Street
Francis B. Loomis
Needham
Messrs
Loomis
Adirondacks
Adirondack Woods
Woods
Hughes
Tribune
Upstate
Francis Hendricks
Onondaga County
Buffalo
E. H. Butler
Greiner
Erie
Wyoming
Orleans
Frederick C. Stevens
Gove
Provennor
Chautauqua
Oil Fire Rises Spreading Toward Coast Basin Doom
Telegraph report from Tampico July 29 says a vast San Geronimo oil fire near Tampico is intensifying day by day. Experts fear an underground link among Texas and Mexico fields, risking sweeping losses if connected. Flames reach near two thousand feet, spreading fan shaped over two hundred feet and visible from sea two hundred miles away.
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Tribune
Tampico
Mex
San Geronimo
Texas
Mexico
Chamberlain in Rare Condition in London
London July 29. Joseph Chamberlain, back from the Continent and staying in London before Birmingham, is reported in a very rare condition. His eyesight is seriously affected. Even if he can travel to Birmingham it is believed doubtful he will ever leave England again.
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London
Joseph Chamberlain
Birmingham
Mr. Chamberlain
England
Ban on Public Courting in the Hub
Boston officials impose a 10 pm curfew on public courting starting tonight. Police Commissioner calls the behavior nauseating and orders arrest for disorderly conduct if caught. Public spaces like the Common and parks are affected, with fines or imprisonment possible for violators.
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the Tribune
Boston
Child Falls From Fifth Floor Window Parachute Clothes Save
Theresa Astorito three years old slipped from a Fifth Street apartment at 321 East 10th last evening and landed on the sidewalk. Her light clothing acted as a parachute slowing the fall and she cried for her mother. Dr Bennett of Harlem Hospital said bruises were not serious.
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Theresa Astorito
East 10Th Street
Roanoke man claims rights in new wheat 84 seed
Telegraph to The Tribune Roanoke July 29 report that K B Stoner of Fincastle says he sold the rights in a new wheat 84 seed he developed to Westerners for cash. The first single seed is said to have produced 129 stalks of wheat.
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Telegraph
the Tribune
Roanoke
K. B. Stoner
Fincastle
War on a Visit Imagined Wife Ad Amid Alcohol Fog
In Kittanning Pennsylvania on July 29 Harrison Bowser a Red farmer who appears worse for wear posted a peculiar ad in the county paper claiming his wife had left him. He admits the notice was a drunken fabrication from his imagination during drink and seeks to clear the public record that his wife did not leave him. He says the ad was entirely his to advertise that his wife had departed.
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Telegraph
the Tribune
Kittanning
Penn
Harrison Bowser
Red Farmer
Explosion puzzles police near West Broadway block
Patrolmen from Leonard Street station and detectives hunted for the source of a heavy muffled explosion heard at 8 56 p m. at eight to ten blocks distance. Captain Cottrell led a night search of the block bounded by West Broadway Chambers Street Broadway and Duane Street but found no clue as the blast resembled safe blowing.
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Leonard Street
Dams Build Needy Dangers Below Pittsburg
River men contend 2100000 dollars spent by the government on six Ohio River dams below Pittsburg has been wasted. An investigation shows water eddies form sand bars immediately downstream, creating greater shipping danger than before the structures were built.
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the Tribune
Pittsburg
Ohio River
Smashing car crash to save a dog in Cos Cob
Miss Edith Howell drove at speed to save a pet dog belonging to Wallace Irwin. Her invalid mother was riding and was injured when the auto struck a Cos Cob laundry window. Mrs Howell suffered a nervous shock and was taken home.
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the Tribune
Greenwich
Conn
Edith Howell
Edwin A. Howell
New York City
Wallace Irwin
Cos Cob
Holly House
New York
Miss Howell
Thomas Bergen
Congressmen dive for girls purse in New Jersey
Congressman William Hughes of Paterson and Charles Curtis of Hackensack leaped into the water to recover a purse lost by four New York girls visiting Hackensack. The purse contained ten dollars and two railroad tickets. After a brief submersion, Hughes surfaced holding the purse, which was empty. Curtis later recovered the four tickets. The boys then dived again seeking the money but did not succeed.
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Hackensack
N. J
Wiliam Hughes
Paterson
Charles Curtis
New York
Hughes
Curtis
Potato Bug Parasite Found by Local Judge in Maine
Farmers in Presque Isle rejoice at Judge George H. Smith's discovery of a green parasite with a long proboscis that attacks potato bugs, potentially eliminating the pests. The finding, reported by V Telegraph to The Tribune, notes the practical farmer and lawyer identified the organism in the region.
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Telegraph
the Tribune
Presque Isle
George H. Smith
Sands Killed In Auto Crash Near Vanderbilt Estate
Paris July 29 G Winthrop Sands step son of W K Vanderbilt was killed this morning near the Chateau St Louis de Poissy twenty miles from Paris He drove a high speed five horsepower car toward the chateau as a tire burst causing the vehicle to crash into a tree The car overturned buried Sands under the front part and pinned the chauffeur Pickins The car then erupted in flames Peasants nearby aided but feared further gasoline explosion as witnesses describe the fatal accident
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Paris
G. Winthrop Sands
W. K. Vanderbilt
Chateau Grounds
Mr. Sands
Pickins
Trains Crash Injures Several in City Collision
A rear end collision between two seven car southbound elevated trains at Columbus avenue and Sixteenth street injured two men seriously and fifty others shaken. Leonard Murray 49 guard with leg crushed needed amputation after admission to J Hood Wright Hospital. Porter Axle L 32 motorman cut by glass treated at scene and hospital. Mrs Fatow 111 West 96th street sustained head and body bruises after leaping from a surface car.
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South
Murray
Leonard
Third Avenue
Lee
Axle L
Bradhurst Avenue
Fatow
West 96Th Street
J. Hood Wright Hospital
Fitzgerald
Porter
Fire and crash rescue at Deauville car incident
Eyewitnesses describe flames as a sedan toppled near the car. A chauffeur and Mr Sands were trapped. rescue efforts freed them after the rear of the automobile was raised and fire beaten down. Sands died, the chauffeur was only lightly hurt. Pickins gave an account of the crash citing brake failure. The collision involved Ninth avenue division and Sixth avenue line trains near 81st Street station. Murray signalled Porter to warn the approaching train. Continued on page two.
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Ninth Avenue Division
81St Street
Sixth Avenue Line
Murray
Porter
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