Vanderbilt Wins Grand Prix Paris Rally in 1948
Paris June 14 Will iam K Vanderbilt s dark brown colt Northeast ridden by J Childs won the Grand Prix de Paris on its fiftieth anniversary value up by 2000 to nearly 80000 dollars. Northeast beat half sister Sange Pourpree by a scant head as Medea Grill Room and Quintette trailed. Spectators included President Falliéres and foreign guests totaling about 150000.
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The
Tribune Association
Paris
William K. Vanderbilt
Northeast
Ridd
J. Childs
Pan-Matuel
Longchamps
Falliéres
Europe
Sange Pourpree
Count le Marcis
Medea
Grill Room
Quintette
P. Perth
Vanderbilt
Prince d’Arenberg
Jockey Club
Felli@res
Mayor Fends Off Mob After Pittston Double Murder
In Wilkes Barre on June 14 mobs roamed streets for six hours seeking arrestees from Pittston murders. Mayor W H Gillespie and state police kept order as twenty suspects were guarded at the station house. Victims Parke Clelland, Councilman William Vanderberg, and John Krucholsky were shot or stabbed. rival Waldiner Risko was arrested for the crime.
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Tribune
Wilkes-Barre
Pittston
W. H. Gillespie
Parke Clelland
William Vanderberg
Clelland
Vanderberg
Woman Is Crushed From Fall At Coney Island Ride
Miss Blanche Miller of Brooklyn was thrown from a runabout when a frightened horse swerved on Sherman Street at Ocean Boulevard. Irving Kahn was slightly bruised while Miller lay unconscious with a fractured skull and possible internal injuries. She was taken to Kings County Hospital by automobile after the accident occurred yesterday.
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Blanche Miller
Greene Avenue
Brooklyn
Kings County Hospital
Sherman Street
Nt Ocean Boulevard
Miss Miller
Irving Kahn
Ven Buren Street
Coney Island
Mr. Kahn
Bronx Buildings Collapse Buries Watchmen In Eastburn
Two double two story frame buildings on Eastburn avenue between 174th and 175th streets in The Bronx collapsed last night amid loud crash. Police recovered no bodies though watchmen were on site. another collapse had occurred about six weeks ago.
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Eastburn Avenue
174Th
175Th Streets
Bronx
Raeen
Newport riding accident injures Miss Una Hutton
Telegraph report from Newport details Miss Una Hutton daughter of Mr and Mrs G M Hutton of Baltimore Baltimore area suffering a fracture of her left leg after a fall while mounting her horse on Ocean Avenue. Also notes a Chicago and return railroad fare offer from Pennsylvanian Railroad with travel until June 27.
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Port, R. 7
Una Hutton
G. M. Hutton
Ingetimore
Tin Ocean
Chicago
Pennsylvanis Railroad
Blind Tom the piano prodigy dies in New Jersey
The famed pianist Blind Tom, born Thomas Greene Bethune, died in Hoboken on a Saturday. His life spanned from slave origins near Columbus, Georgia, to performances in New York Chicago London and California. He lived with Mrs. Eliza Lerche in Hoboken after guardianship battles and never disclosed his exact age.
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Megro
New Jersey
Hoboken
Thomas Greene Bethune
Columbus
James N. Bethune
New York
Chicago
Empire Theatre
London
California
Circle Theatre
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Bach
Chopin
Mendelssohn
Charity
Birmingham
Ala
Bethunes
Fishermen Escape Fire off Sea Bright in Birdie Launch
Twenty fishermen faced drowning when the Birdie caught fire offshore Sea Bright after a gasoline leak. Captain Joseph Ryerdan and nineteen men jumped overboard as flames spread. Rescue boats arrived, though some refused help for pay. Birdie towed to Canarsie as a total wreck.
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Joseph Ryerdan
Michael Blasius
Joseph Benson
Birdie
Canarsie
Gift by Henry Phipps to Found Johns Hopkins Psychiatric Clinic
Baltimore June 14 Professor William H Welsh says Henry Phipps of Pittsburg and New York arranged a large private gift to Johns Hopkins Hospital and University for a psychiatric clinic modeled after European institutions. The plan includes a four story sixty bed building with private rooms labs and modern equipment plus a medical and nursing staff for ten years. The total sum is undisclosed but believed to exceed 500000 dollars.
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William H. Welsh
Johns Hopkins University
Associated Press
Henry Phipps
Pittsburg
New York
Europe
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University
Hopkins Hospital
Ready for Mimic War at New York Harbor Forts
War game fills New York harbor defenses as regulars and state troops drill at Fort Wadsworth Fort Hamilton Fort Totten Schuyler and Totten. Cruise of coast artillery units 71st 47th 13th regiments to man 12 inch guns searchlights and mortars. More than ten thousand visitors attended Fort Hamilton as crews trained under Colonel Ludlow and Colonel Whistler.
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Pine Plains
New York National Guard
Garland N. Whistler
Fort Wadsworth
Staten Island
Fort Hamilton
Coast Artillery
Schuyler
Totten
Long Island Sound
Mauldin
Henry C. Ludlow
Totten and
East River
71St
the &Th
Fort Totten
Garland W. Whistler
Whitestone
Fort Schuyler
Throg’s Neck
8Th Regiment of Coast Artillery
71St Regiment
Albert C. Blunt
William G. Bates
Cuban Revolution Plan Reported in Mexico City
The Mexican Herald reports from an unimpeachable source that Cuban business interests have funded a revolution to begin after the United States withdraws its soldiers. The plan allegedly envisions troops reaching Tampa before they are recalled, with the return signifying "free Cuba forever." Foreigner financiers of all nationalities are said to back the secret fund.
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Mexican Herald
Cuba
United States
Herald
Tampa
Secret Revolution
Storm wrecks Camp Grants shelter at Pine Plains
Rain and hail with a gale ripped through Pine Camp in Pine Plains New York striking General Grant and his staff. Tents were torn loose several hundred dollars vanished from Major Holloways pay chest a board of survey appointed. Horses ran loose and lines of communication were cut off as units arrived and trains were delayed.
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Pine Camp
N. Y
Pine Plains
Carthage
Brooklyn
Albany
Syracuse
United States Artillery
Militia Reach Pine Plains Camp In Peace Time Maneuvers
Pine Plains New York June 14 with three thousand U S troops arriving by foot and rail and national guard units joining the bivouac General Frederick Dent Grant commands a sprawling camp on Black River near Felt s Mills midway between Watertown and Carthage The wedge shaped camp hosts thirteen sub camps for infantry cavalry field artillery and engineers with ample mule trains and a bakeshop for student bakers The encampment forecasts six thousand troops at all times and about thirty thousand during the full exercise Regulars stay the entire period while militia rotate in ten day relays Night and day maneuvers including tests of automobile usefulness in war are planned with mixed units and dog tents as well as Helen Gould cots for enlisted men"
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N. Y
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National Guard
Department of the East
Frederick Dent Grant
Black River
Felt’s Mills
Watertown
Carthage
Grant
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Engineers
Helen Gould
New England
Wounds His Uncle Then Shoots Self in Brooklyn
Thomas Lynott twenty four of 148 16th street Brooklyn shot his uncle John Lynott contractor of 346 73d street Bay Ridge at the uncle’s home early this morning. He then turned the revolver on himself and both were taken to Norwegian Hospital with slight chances of recovery. According to an aunt the youth rang the bell fired over the heart, then shot himself, collapsing across the uncle. Police believe temporary insanity.
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16Th Street
Brooklyn
John Lynott
Bay Ridge
Carroll
Thomas
Young Lynott
Roosevelt letters and lodge plan curb Roosevelt stampede
The Tribune reports Senator Lodge holds a letter from the President saying he will not accept another nomination and will seek help from delegation members to crush any Roosevelt stampede. Rumors persist of disobeyed instructions from Alabama and a possible Roosevelt proposal from Alaska. Dolliver may not run for Vice President.
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Cer
Taft
Roosevelt
Alabama
Alaska
Perkins
Iowa
Tribune
Dolliver
Plan to Submit President's Name for Roosevelt Bid
A Chicago meeting discussed presenting President Roosevelt as a candidate with plans for a larger gathering tomorrow. Delegates Teter and Curtin are instructed for Taft but may withhold their instructions. Georgia delegates bring a petition of up to 70,000 signatures urging a second term for Roosevelt, seen as likely to wait past the first ballot.
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Chicago
Roosevelt
Thomas W. Phillips
Pennsylvania
C. T. Teter
George W. Curtin
West Virginia
Georgia
South
Teter
Curtin
Taft
Awaited Death in Vain in Passaic Insanity Case
Passaic New Jersey June 14 special God failed to take her away this morning as she dreamed Mrs Anna Kisebia now seeks death from starvation at General Hospital Nurses and physicians force nourishment via tube to keep her alive She grew quiet today and spoke little claiming she would join God soon marry Him later She awaited death all day and refused food yet Miss Margaret Wallace says she is unquestionably insane but may recover with rest and quiet No decision yet on asylum transfer.
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N. J
Anna Kisebia
General Hospital
Margaret A. Wallace
Kiselias
Robbed of $16,000 in Station at Union Station
H C Taylor of Seattle was robbed of $10,000 at Union Station while traveling from Europe with his wife and daughter. On a Chicago & Northwestern train from Chicago the man reached inside Taylor's coat, taking a wallet with money and securities as he and an accomplice pushed through a narrow car passage. The pair escaped after the alarm, with most stolen items being negotiable securities.
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H. C. Taylor
Seattle
Union Station
Europe
Chicago & Northwestern
Chicago
Taylor
Break in Louisiana Levees Floods Vast Area
A telegraph report from Shreveport Louisiana dated June 14 notes a break in the levees three miles north of the city flooding a large area. An advertisement states Hotel Mount Pleasant opens the 22nd instead of the 27th to host the A C A party beginning the 19th on the Ideal Tour.
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Tribune
Shreveport
Here
Mount Pleasant
A.C. A
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Platform draft unchanged as Payne named to Resolutions panel
Chicago dispatch reports no change to the Republican platform draft approved by the President and War Secretary. Payne’s selection for the New York member of the resolutions committee faces questions amid anti injunction plank debates with labor leaders and manufacturers.
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Ellis
Senator Hopkins
Hopkins
Cannon
Wade Ellis
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
James van Cleave
Manufacturers' Organization
Gompers
Taft
van Cleave
New York
Crane
Massachusetts
Republican Party
White House
Representative Payne
Committee On Resolutions
Representative Parsons
Payne
Parsons
Platform Committee
Washington
William S. Bennet
House
Bennet
Hull University
Ida M. Tarbell
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