Bold Burglars Use Chloral In Long Island Farm Theft
Oswald farm on Jericho Turnpike near Mineola Westbury was raided by five thieves in a red touring car. They knocked down farm hand Herman Schwerter and forced chloral down his throat, then pried open the dining room safe and stole about $1,000 in cash and valuables. Schwerter survived initial treatment at Nassau Hospital. Sheriff Gildersleeve leads a county search for the culprits.
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Tribune
Mineola
Long Island
Oswald
Jericho Turnpike
Westbury
Herman Schwerter
Schwerter
Charles Oswald
Nassau Hospital
Jerichy Turnpike
Oswald Farm
Charles
Oswalds
Charlie
Oswaldis
Nassau
Gchwerter
Gildersleeve
The Czar Dissolves Second Douma In Russia
The dissolution of the second Douma was received calmly in St. Petersburg with precautionary security measures. Nine of sixteen Social Democratic leaders were arrested, while others evaded capture. The ukase proclaims dissolution, roles for officials, and a new electoral law to be drafted, with the empire seeking order and revised representation.
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Russi
Odessa
Kieff
M. Tzereteli
M Dahaparidze
Russia
Dracheffsky
Po- Hee
Hazenkampf
Nicholas Nicholaievitch
Krasnoye-Selo
Cave Alry and Cossacks
Tauride Palace
Tsarkuzyk
Taconte
Empire
Council of the Empire
St. Peterseburg
Ukase
Nicholas II
Russias
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Poland
Grand Duke
Finland
Douna
Ckuse
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Tts Senate
Duke of the Abruzzi Arrives in Boston Harbor
The Duke of the Abruzzi docked the Varese at Charlestown Navy Yard after a twenty one gun salute. Baron Tosti and Larz Anderson called on him. He plans an official call on Governor Guild and attends Brookline Country Club races hosted by Larz Anderson and Mrs Meyer.
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Brookline
Meyer
Boy Canoist Drowns in Hudson River Offerings
Englewood New Jersey June 16 Special John McCloy seventeen-year-old boy drowns in the Hudson River off Englewood Cliffs while canoeing with two companions Bert Schemp and Joseph Wirtison The two others narrowly escape with one leaping in for a swim and McCloy unable to swim well becoming locked in Wirtison's arms before both are rescued by a helper boat Wirtison saved but exhausted
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Englewood
N. J
John McCloy
Hudson River
Englewood Cliffs
McCloy
Bert’ Schemp
Joseph Wirtison
Wirtison
Rutherford high school student fatally struck by discus
Roy Hunt a seventeen year old Rutherford High School student was struck in the head by a discus during Rutherford versus Passaie high school track events at the Clifton racetrack. He lay dying at his Rutherford home after the injury occurred while another discus thrower miscalculated and sent the iron into the crowd.
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Tribune
Paterson
N. J
Roy Hunt
Rutherford High School
No.6
Passmieave
Rutherford
Hunt
Passaie
Clifton Racetrack
Riot at Elm Park Baseball Game Ends in Brawl and Jailings
A riot at Elm Park in Staten Island erupted during a baseball game and a crap game, with shots fired as detectives clashed with crowds. Detective Brown fought former pugilist John Judge in a ring formed on the diamond, resulting in Judge's defeat and arrests of fifty for Sunday-law violations on the island.
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Staten Island
Hogan
Ball Park
Detective Brown
Meyer
Davis
Henry Riches
Samuel Taylor
Charles Philips
John Judge
Brown
Judge
West New Brighton
Jim" Jeffries
Richmond
South Beach
Happyland
Midland Beach
Smelters in Mexico Idle Crisis Warns Fuel Shortage
Torreon June 16 Willard S Morse an officer of the American Smelting and Refining Company says mining and smelting interests in Mexico face a crisis in fuel and ore transport. The company currently has more than 60 000 tons of ore and about 35 000 tons of fuel tied up with no prospect of moving them.
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Willard
S. Morse
American Smelting and Refining Company
Mexico
Morse
Sun Spots Declared Harmless by Astronomers
Sun spots observed by Professor Geo H. Peters and confirmed by Professor John A. Brashear appear smaller than earlier ones yet striking with fiery bridges on the larger spot. Officials say they will have no magnetic effect on Earth and should remain visible for about three more days.
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Pittsburg
Geo H. Peters
United States Naval Observatory
Washington
John A. Brashear
Allegheny
Brashear
Baltimore capitalist dead at seventy eight
German H. Hunt, a Baltimore manufacturer and financier, was stricken with paralysis late last night and died this evening at the Chattanooga Hotel in Greens Swing Valley. He was seventy eight years old.
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Baltimore
German H. Hunt
Chattalanee
Greens
Swing Valley
Marquis and Marquise to Attend Missouri Wedding
The Marquis and Marquise Alfred Duymet Desmours arrived in New York and sail for Pittsburg to attend the marriage of Miss Amelia Oliverter to William J. Crittenden of Kansas City Missouri, son of former Governor Crittenden. The ceremony is set for the summer home of Mrs James Brows Oliver at Shields on Thursday.
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Trivone
Pittsburg
Alfred Duymet Desmours
New York
Pitts Pu
Amelia Oliverter
William J. Crittenden
Ansas City
Crittenden
Missouri
James Brows Oliver
Shields
Thaw Family Plans Denial Of New York House Rental
Mrs William Thaw will stay in Pittsburgh this summer with weekly trips to New York to visit son Harry K Thaw in the Tomhs prison. She denies renting a house on Park Avenue stating the Thaws will not gather in New York until just before the new trial. Eve lyn Nesbit Thaw stays in New York to be near her husband while George Lauder Carnegie Josiah C Thaw are in Switzerland awaiting August plans. Countess of Yarmouth may visit England then New York for the next trial.
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Tribune
Pittsburg
William Thaw
New York
Harry K. Thaw
Tomhs Prison
Thaw
George Lauder Carnegie
Josiah Copley
Switzerland
Countess of Yarmouth
England
Rob Langeloth Home Robbery At Rye On The Sound
Pirates entered the home of Jacob Langeloth president of the American Metal Company at Rye on the Sound late Friday night and carried away thousands of dollars in silverware. They left no witnesses as family slept upstairs. Footprints led from the house to the water edge and a boat named the Black Sloop is linked to the raid by Chief Pflug who suspects Sound pirates have carried out similar thefts in the area. A general alarm and booty description have been sent to police nationwide.
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American Metal Company
Rye-on-the-Sound
Pilug
Rye
Langelott
Kirby Avenue
Long Island Sound
Langeloth
Langelroth
Pflug
Train Hits Wagonload in Camden Tragedy
Camden June 16 Petro Marcello twelve is killed and six injured when an Atlantic City express on the West Jersey and Seashore Railroad demolishes a wagon carrying members of the Sylvanic Social Club Philadelphia returning from Oaklyn. Injured include John Ashley John Ashley Jr Miles Burke William Behm Benjamin Marcello all contused and lacerated at the crossing flag man absent according to reports.
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N. J
Petro Marcello
City Line
Atlantic City
West Jersey & Seashore Railroad
Sylvanic Social Club
Philadelphia
Oaklyn
Marcello
John Ashley
John Ashley, Jr
John Gaunt
Miles Burke
William Behm
Benjamin Marcello
Failed Italian home bombing in New Durham reported
An early morning blast at 660th street New Durham failed to blow up the Italian resident Guiseppe Omasula and his family who slept inside. Dynamite damaged only a window area as a gas pipe containing the charge lay in the street. police pursue suspects and a wider probe continues.
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No. 660Th Street
New Durham
Omasula
Omosula
Czolgosz Brother Demands Publicity For His Name
Michael Czolgosz, brother of President McKinley assassin Leon Czolgosz, confronted a Cleveland newspaper today in the city editor’s office. He vowed to force the papers to use his name and warned he would act even without government interference.
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Ity
the Tribune
Cleveland
Michael Czolgosz
Leon Czolgosz
McKinley
Cone
TM Fx
Minister Falls From Car In Harlem Trolley Accident
Rev. Hiram H. Hulse rector of St. Mary's Protes Episcopal Church Harlem was thrown to the street while boarding an Eighth Avenue trolley car in a hurry to reach New Brighton Staten Island to preach a sermon. He said the accident was due entirely to his own carelessness.
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St. Mary's Protes Episcopal Church
Harlem
Eighth Avenue
New Brighton
Staten Island
President declines to act in pending telegraphers strike
Oyster Bay June 16 Secretary Loeb under presidential authority has forwarded communications from boards of trade and commercial bodies urging the President to avert a nationwide telegraphers strike. Labor Commissioner Neill will review the matter with the Interstate Commerce Commission and act on his own initiative if warranted. The President emphasizes no need for direct interference or suggestions from him.
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Loeb
Charles P. Neill
Washington
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Commissioner of Labor
Interstate Commerce Commission
Neill
Golden Gate
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Sault Ste. Marie
Eads
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Seat of Trouble
Labor Commissioner
NO DELAY SAYS SMALL ON UNION GRIEVANCES
President Small and national officers of the Commercial Telegraphers Union of America in New York denied reports that the executive committee had postponed grievance adjustments with Western Union and Postal Telegraph. They urged readiness for further information, said no strike is official without national sanction, and noted meetings nationwide to gauge member sentiment while seeking to avert a strike.
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Commercial Telegraphers’ Union of America
Western Union
Postal
Russell
Chicago Board of Trade
Roosevelt
Chicago
Buffalo
Galveston
New Orleans
Toronto
St. Louis
San Francisco
United States
New York
C. W. Post
Citizens’ Industrial Association
Thost
Pasteur Case Dies From Hydrophobia In West Chester
Wilmington reports the death of Méndinhall Mullin, four, in West Chester Pennsylvania after hydrophobia from a mad dog bite. He had been treated for a week at the Pasteur Institute in New York before returning home.
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Wilmington
Del
Méndinhall Mullin
West Chester
Penn
Pasteur Institute
New York
Progressive Paper Sees Recall of Japanese Ambassador
Tokio June 17 The Hochi reports Viscount Aoki, Japanese Ambassador to America, will likely be recalled and possibly replaced by Kanekwo.
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Tokio
Viscount Aoki
America
Kanekwo
Pastor at 1st Street Baptist resigns after long conflict
The Rev. Dr. Archibald McLaurin resigns from 1st Street Baptist Church amid a protracted dispute. A younger minister is on trial for the summer with potential call in fall. Some expelled members may be reinstated. The church had dwindled, with past misconduct charges not substantiated in 1965.
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1Éth Street Baptist Church
Archibald Melaurin
McLaurin
Board of Deacons
Permanent Council of the Baptist Church
MacArthur
Two Billion New Trees Plan Aims To Curb Floods
Pittsburg June 11 Under the guidance of the Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce a campaign seeks support from city state and national governments to plant two billion trees in Western Pennsylvania to control river floods. Experts warn it will take years and funds, with initial Congress aid of 25000 and a feasibility study by William L Hall under Secretary Wilson.
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Monongahela
Allesheny
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
New York
Maryland
Congress
Forestry Bureau
Wilson
Department of Agriculture
William L. Hall
Appalachian Mountain Forest Reserve
Auto crashes into carriage at Langdon Schroeder villa
In Babylon on June 16 a red touring car crashed into a two seated Surrey carrying H. S. Orr F. W. Kellien and driver Lawrence Glynn. The occupants were tossed out but escaped with minor bruises. Chauffeur Alex Mowatt blamed steering gear trouble. The car was fast and no one was killed, seen as a miracle.
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the Tribune
Babylon
Long Island
Surrey
H. S. Orr
F. W. Kellien
Lawrence Glynn
Langdon Schroeder
Ciage
Orr
Kellen
Alex Mowatt
Killett
Man Drowned From La Lorraine At North River Dock
Levot Yvel a fireman on La Lorraine plunged from the ship as it shifted positions at Pier 42. A strong current and underwater suction near the McAdoo tunnel buried him, and John J. Ryan recovered the body after twenty minutes. The ship’s crew held prayers before the body was sent to an undertaker.
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Havre
Pier 42
North River
Levot Yvel
McAdoo
Yoel
John J. Ryan
Harrow Street
Ponceiet
France
President and Hughes Like Moses at Cornell Baccalaureate
The Right Rev William Lawrence bishop of Massachusetts delivered Cornell Universitys baccalaureate sermon in Ithaca on June 16. He warned against those who attack science and biblical criticism and said Roosevelt and Governor Hughes resemble Moses for leading with force of character. He urged graduates to act with responsibility, courage, and patience like Moses and to seize opportunities without waiting for external means.
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Ithaca
William Lawrence
Massachusetts
Cornell
Lawrence
Moses
Gol
Theodore Roosevelt
Hughes
Joshua
Family of Four Saved From Fire in Mount Vernon
Patrolman Van Pelt saved Henry Beetel his wife and two children ages five and three from a house fire in Mount Vernon early yesterday. He discovered flames in the ground floor paint store, pounded on the door, woke Beetel and led the family through heavy smoke to safety. No injuries reported. The blaze was contained at the residence.
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Henry Beetel
Mount Vernon
van Pelt
Beetel
Record Delaware strawberry price hits six dollars a crate
Wilmington June 16 Strawberries bring a record six dollars a crate at Cheswold for crates of thirty two quarts each. Competition from New York Boston and Philadelphia pushed the price and most fruit was shipped to New York in refrigerator cars.
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Time Tribune
Wilmington
Del
Delaware
Cheswold
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
After All Usher's The Scotch Highball Famous
A short note praises the scotch that gave rise to the highball cocktail becoming a well known mixed drink. It highlights its influence on cocktail culture and mentions its enduring popularity among patrons and bartenders alike.
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