New York Governor’s Reform Drive Splits Republicans
In Western New York the governor’s push for direct nominations splits GOP factions led by Wadsworth and Barnes. Younger Republicans support reform while leaders warn of a party rift if the Meade-Philippe plan passes. Roosevelt’s stance looms as lawmakers debate extra session action and voter sentiment pressures a statewide ticket.
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Tribune
Hughes
Batevia
Niagara
Orjams
Geneseo
Livingston
Chautauqua
Wadsworth
Pares
Woodruff
Hendricks
gill-Hughes
Ge Coble
Buffalo
Taft
Roosevelt
Barnes- Nateworth-Woodrate
Elihung
Hoeteeee
Sworth
Republica
Midshipman Ames Is Out Handed in Blank Paper
Midshipman Eugene Ames has been detached from the USS Chester and dismissed from the naval service after handing in a blank navigation exam paper for promotion to ensign. The class of 1908 graduate, nicknamed Doc, faced prior scrutiny at Annapolis and later served aboard the Chester for over a year.
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Eugene Ames
United States
Chester
Naval Service
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Navy Department
Ames
Marguerite Ames
Pr. Ames
Boston Navy Yard
Auld
Dr. Cowles
Young Ames
Doc
Annapolis
Navy
Twig Picked His Pocket Near Riverhead
A Long Island man, L. M. Raynor of Riverhead, found his watch hanging from a twig in woods near Riverhead in December 1908. He had searched there repeatedly, then noticed the watch dangling at head height, likely snagged when he passed. The timepiece showed no harm after a year and a half.
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Riverhead
Long Island
L. M. Raynor
Raynor
Man's Body Turns Blue After Gas Poisoning Claim
Joseph Pick laborer from East 58th Street collapsed on Second Avenue near 51st Street. Patrolman Schultz and Dr. Newcomb suspected gas poisoning. At Flower Hospital he recovered consciousness after an hour, with purplish blue skin noted. mother says he works in a chemical factory in Long Island City and has grown increasingly discolored over the year.
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Flower Hospital
Joseph Pick
East 58Th Street
Second Avenue
51Th Street
Schultz
Dr. Newcomb
Pick
Long Island City
Judge Harris Drowned at Reelfoot Lake in Tiptonville
Tiptonville Tenn June 11 Judge Harris president of the West Tennessee Land Company and a wealthy local figure died by drowning while swimming on Reelfoot Lake He swam out then sank despite a brief rescue attempt A post mortem found heart disease He had long faced threats from the Night Riders who had previously attacked Captain Rankin in 1906 and fortified his home with guards and mines around the lake area
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Tiptonville
Tenn
Harris
West Tennessee Land Company
Reelfoot Lake
Night Riders
Quentin Rankin
Walnut Log
Nere
Farmer Beaten and Robbed Near Willis Avenue Station
Henry Bland of Dunfries Virginia, a farmer, was assaulted by two men in the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad yards near Willis Avenue station in The Bronx. They robbed him of a $20 gold plated watch and chain while neglecting $1,509 in his vest. A scalp wound and skull fracture sent him to Lincoln Hospital after Patrolman Ryan found him and Dr. Dunlop treated him.
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Henry Bland
Dunfries
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Willis Avenue
Bronx
Bland
Ryan
Alexander Avenue
Dunlop
Lincoln Hospital
Autopsy Finds Bone Fragment in Lung From Self-Inflicted Wound
The Morgue autopsy on a man who died by his own hand three years earlier uncovered four bone fragments in the left lung. The deceased used the name Michael Munnicz at a lodging house on Avenue A, with medical card for Dr. Ade J. Wile of Madison Avenue. Wile had treated a patient matching the description after a revolver wound.
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Michael Munnicz
Avenue A
Ade J. Wile
Madigan Avenue
Michael Michaele
Was Porter Charlton With Wife At Como The Trunk Mystery
Investigating agents link a trunk found at Lake Como to the murder of Mrs Mary Scott Crittenden Castle. Porters Charlton and partner are sought as investigators identify a man in athletic gear with a P on his sweater among photos in the trunk.
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Italy
Moltrasio
Charlton
Knox
Leishman
Rome
Department
Young Charlton
Charles L. Caughy
Milan
Mary Scott Crittenden Castle
Come
Porter Charlton
New York
Mary Crittenden Scott
San Francisco
Lake Como
Constantine Ispolatoff
Switzerland
Neville Castle
Castle
Trunk
Autopsy planned in Smollen case as sudden death shocks Bayside
Mrs. Joseph Smollen formerly Margaret Leavitt of Bayside Long Island died Friday at Perrigo’s private hospital in New York City from septicemia after a premature birth. Coroner Feinberg and Dr. Lehane planned an autopsy in Bayside, amid questions over board of health permit and air of mystery. The death follows her return from Europe and a troubled marriage to Smollen.
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Joseph Smollen
Margaret Leavitt
G. Howland Leavitt
Bayside
Long Island
Perrigo’s
Central Park West
Feinberg
Dr. Lehane
Lehane
Mrs. Smollen
Smollen
Board of Health
Marion J. Verderey
Flushing
Catherine McKenna
West 76Th Street
Coe
Werner
Europe
Frank R. Oastler
Central Park South
Charles ©. Meyer
Oastler
Lucille Clerk
Hotel
Grenoble
St. Louis
Hamilton In Flight Dashes The Elements Over Governor's Island
A daring aeronaut, Charles K Hamilton, flies night routes over land and water around Governor's Island in a dramatic test of his new propeller. He battles wind, rain, and fog, reaches 1,500 feet, and returns after a grueling hour and six minutes.
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Charles K. Hamilton
Governor's Island
Hamilton
New York
America
Philadelphia
Trenton
Clarence C. Culver
United States Signal Corps
Garden City
Castle William
Buttermilk Channel
Unnamed National Party Leaders Roosevelts Pinchot Garfield
A St Paul Roosevelt Club dinner honors Theodore Roosevelt Gifford Pinchot and James R Garfield. Hugh T Halbert says a new party with two wings conservatives and progressives will stand for public resource rights against monopoly and political influence. He faults Congress for guarding special interests over public welfare.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Gifford Pinchot
James R. Garfield
Pinchot
Garfield
St. Paul
Hugh T. Halbert
St Paul
Halbert
Roosevelt
Keller
Actresses Marooned After Dredge Cable Snag Near Shore
Edna Wallace Hopper and Laura Guerite with husbands Albert Brown and John Parker and Parker's chauffeur John Shriner were marooned in a small powerboat when a hawser from a government dredge hooked to a tree on shore. The boat ran onto rocks, leaking and with feet in water, overnight. Dredgers spotted them at daylight and rescued them, returning the group to Flushing after resting at their homes. Brown is a former stock broker and Parker works in electrical business at No 1 Madison.
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Little Hell Gate
Edna Wallace Hopper
Laura Guerite
Albert O. Brown
John J. Parker
Mr. Parker
John Shriner
Mr. Brown
Flushing Bay
Miss Hopper
Parker
Guerite
No. 1
Madison Avenue
Invades J P Morgans Block Boarding House Opens
A boarding house will open opposite J Pierpont Morgans home at the northeast corner of 36th street and Madison. Mrs E E Ackerson becomes proprietor after leasing No 228 Madison Avenue from the Witherbee estate via E H Wendell Company. Residents of the block include Mrs Anson Phelps Stokes Arthur P Heinze Mrs William Goot hout and Charles A Peabody.
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J. Pierpont Morgan
36Th Street
Madison Avenue
E. E. Ackerson
Witherbee
E. H. Wendell
Anson Phelps Stokes
Arthur P. Heinze
William Oothout
Gilbert Jones
Charles A. Peabody
Marathon pigs with unusual number of legs perplex farmer
Mason Michigan June 11 B B Noyes living nearby raises a litter of Marathon pigs with unusual feet two have eight legs two have seven and four have six each making the lot notably fleet by odd count firework ads follow listing Pain 12 Park Place Barclay 7030
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Mason, Mich
B. B. Noyes
Pain
Park Place
Telephone
Barclay
Advi
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Washington
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Mageon
Bureau of Insular Affairs
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Miss Roschelle
Camden, N. J
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Camden
N. J
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Duke
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