Totten Sinks Fleet in Sound Defense Holds Fort Totten
Naval attack on Fort Totten appears repulsed as the flagship General Henry Hunt is reported sunk and landing parties gain footholds inside. Fort Hamilton and Wadsworth shell targets while guards drill, with damage to nearby homes and a kitchen ceiling. A late-night plan to renew the assault hinges on fleet movements and harbor entries.
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Totten
New Rochelle
Henry Hunt
Schuyler
Fort Totten
Fort Schuyler
Tange
Forts Hamilton
Wadsworth
Harvey Brown
Fort Hamilton
13Th Regiment
National
Hamilton
Colonel Ludlow
Samuel
Henry L. Ludlow
Gravesend Bev
Elizabeth Ray
Atlantic Yacht Club
Sea Gate
Bronx
War at Pine Camp Maneuvers Stir Camp and Village
Troops at Pine Camp New York enact real service conditions dividing into Blue regulars and Brown militia. Infantry and cavalry scouts clash briefly as training proceeds with outpost and Cossack post formations. A provost guard arrives to assist Carthage police amid orderly proceedings.
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Tribune
Pine Camp
N. Y
W. H. C. Bowen
Cavalry
Joseph T. Dickman
3D Field Artillery
Rumbough
Grant
Watertown
Carthage
Coler's Bog in Court Over Dog Tax Case
Borough President Coler and his dog Brian Boru faced a Supreme Court test case in Brooklyn before Justice Kelly to decide if the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals may levy dog taxes. The outcome on whether a private body can hold police power was reserved after arguments on state authority and threatened execution of the dog via gas chamber.
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Coler
Brian Boru
Justice Kelly
Supreme Court
Brooklyn
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Edward J. Reilly
Kelly
Old Swindler Found Guilty In Mail Fraud Case
Abe Rothschild alias M G Rothschild and Arnold G Cahn were found guilty in the U S Circuit Court of fraudulently using the mails with a weekly magazine The Successful Business Man raided at 30 Broadway Judge Hough ordered them sent to the Tombs for sentencing Monday They had advertised Americas greatest weekly and sent a cash register that proved a disappointment. Rothschild previously faced a murder charge in Texas tied to Diamond Bessie Moore.
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M. G. Rothschild
Arnold G. Cahn
Walter S. Mayer
Post Office
Criminal Branch
United States Circuit Court
Hough
Broadway
Rothschild
Bessie’ Moore
Jefferson
Tex
Three Italians killed in alleged blackmail raid on New Orleans wine merchant
Pietro Giacona, a wealthy Italian wine merchant of Chartres Street, says three Italians forced a barrel shipment, then demanded money. He fired with a rifle killing one man, another died near a staircase, and a third was wounded, found later in a shed. Giacona, once a Beauregard era resident, is among the South's wealthiest Italians.
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New Orleans
Pietro Giacona
Chartres Street
Giacona
Louisiana
Giaco
General Beauregard
Danville Man Dies of Hydrophobia After Dog Bite
Joseph Gerst aged 75 dies in Danville after hydrophobia contracted from a dog bite two months earlier. The town has seen a prolonged series of mad dog incidents with bites to dogs horses and at least one person amid reports of renewed attacks.
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Danville
Penn
Joseph Gerst
Gerst
Banker and brewery president commits suicide in Gallitzin
Joseph Bengele of Johnstown a fifty year old bank director and head of the Cresson BG Springs Brewery Company shot himself at Gallitzin near Johnstown after a period of ill health. He was noted as a wealthy merchant and held directorships in several banks.
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Johnstown
Penn
Joseph Bengele
Cresson BG Springs Brewery Company
Gallitzin
Here
Battleship New Hampshire to Panamanian Service
Rumor says the New Hampshire, fresh from drydock, will depart for Panama with 350 Marines and a crew of 70. Officials will not discuss orders from Secretary Metcalf. If Panama politics allow, it may return to escort Vice President Fairbanks to Canada at month end.
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New Hampshire
Panama
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Winslow
Metcalf
Navy Department
Fairbanks
Canada
Urgent appeal to aid Hebrew poor during rising distress
At a meeting in the United Hebrew Charities Building on Second Avenue representatives from Hebrew charitable societies urged prompt assistance as distress among the Hebrew poor grows. May applications rose by 150 versus last year, and Dr. Lee Frankel said about $8,000 monthly more is needed to handle the crisis. Three hundred East Side children receive free meals. school officials plan further data sharing.
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United Hebrew Charities
Second Avenue
Hebrew Charitable Societies
Lee Frankel
Addol
East Side
Board of Education
Higgins
City wins Kissena Park title case on appeal
The Appellate Division Brooklyn yesterday affirmed judgments forcing the city to take title to Kissena Park property. It found no fraud issue and approved allowances to Strauss & Anderson, attorneys for the current owners, with total awards exceeding $150,000 plus costs.
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Kissena Park
Appellate Division
Brooklyn
Marean
Strauss & Anderson
How to Make Pictures Costly and Defraud Buyers
The piece describes a scheme to overvalue paintings at customs to mislead buyers. Officials acknowledge overvaluation is hard to prevent as importers pay duty on the declared value and the government cannot challenge every price. Experts are used when authenticity doubt exists, and high value works typically bear artist names.
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United States
Michael Nathan
Overflow at Belle Terre Club Weekend Gathering
Belle Terre Club on Long Island overflows as weekend crowds fill the existing clubhouse and nearby cottage. Notable guests include Mr. and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt Jr and several prominent New York and Long Island residents.
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William K. Vanderbilt, Jr
C. D. Smithers
Glen Cove
Bird
W. L. Searls
New Rochelle
M. D. Rae
Plainfield
Edwin B. Platt
Boston
Charles I. Hudson
Westbury
Long Island
Pyle
Bernardsville
Hendrick Hudson W. Kurdstede
A. E. Rossiter
M. P. Keith
C. Keith
Babylon
COMMAND OF THE RELIEF AND NAVAL MOVEMENTS
Naval officers discuss the future of the hospital ship Relief as it accompanies the Atlantic fleet toward New York Bay in 1909. Orders issued relocate officers and surgeons while warship movements, arrivals, and sailings are reported for multiple vessels and ports across the fleet.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Naval Medical Corps
Reliief
New York Bay
New York
Congress
Senator Hales
Brownson
Bureau of Navigation
Lad Would Not Jump Overboard In Fatal Drowning Incident
Frank Fornico fifteen of East 112th street was arrested and sent to the Children's Society charged with causing the death by drowning of a Italian boy known as Joe of East 112th street. Witnesses say Fornico pushed the boy from the 145th street pier into the Hudson River after he refused to go overboard. Fornico admits pushing the boy but denies kicking him as he clung to him.
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Frank Fornico
East 112Th Street
Children's Society
Joe
145Th Street
Hudson River
Fornico
Bowery Mission
N. N. Riddell
Professor Riddell
Captain Is The Company A Ruling On Employer Liability
Judge Hough in the United States Circuit Court overruled a demurrer by Cornell Steamboat Co. in a suit by Mrs. Annie V. Fallon for her husband’s death. The ruling holds the tug captain is a vice principal, not a fellow servant, due to his authority and representation of the owners.
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United States
Hough
Cornell Steamboat Company
Annie V. Fallon
Fallon
Recount in Brooklyn Counts Hearst Gain Forty Votes
In Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Lambert supervised a recount of 153 ballot boxes yielding William R Hearst a net gain of 39 votes. The Manhattan recount will finish after 24 districts in the 4th Assembly District are counted with Hearst now up 376 votes out of 1089 boxes. John T Dooling expects to begin counting ballots from the first six Brooklyn Assembly districts.
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William R. Hearst
Supreme Court
Justice Lambert
Borough of
Manhattan
4Th Assembly
Hearst
4Th
John T. Dooling
Board of Elections
Brooklyn
Overcrowded Potsdam Steamer Sparks Pier Protests
The Holland America Line overbooked the Potsdam sailing to Rotterdam. 2,790 showed up for 1,900 steerage spots. Police kept order as 700 were left ashore, one mother fainted with a sick infant and was taken to St. Marys Hospital Hoboken.
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New York
Holland-America Line
Potsdam
Rotterdam
Mary Fingioitax
St. Mary's Hospital
Hoboken
Ryan Mums to Newspaper Men
Thomas F. Ryan sailed for Southampton yesterday on the White Star liner Adriatic. He arrived at the pier shortly before departure and spoke with friends briefly. He declined to speak to any newspaper reporters, saying he would not say a word on any subject.
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Thomas F. Ryan
Southampton
Mr. Ryan
Mothers Lead Child Training By Suggestion Technique
In Mount Morris Baptist Church Dr J Herman Randall promotes a mothers group to study suggestion in child culture. He argues moral growth is slow and punishment harms the subconscious mind while consistent gentle suggestion aids truthfulness confidence and social ease in children.
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John
Mary
Mount Morris Baptist Church
J. Herman Randall
Randall
Tribune
Froebel
Delegates From Canal Zone At General Federation Session
The biennial General Federation of Women's Clubs session in Boston will feature a Panama Canal Zone delegation led by Mrs. Thomas E. Brown Jr. with husband serving as a federal judge. Alternate delegate Mrs. F C Quimby and Mrs Sumner Coolidge of Culebra bring Canal Zone and Massachusetts roots.
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Ancon
Quimby
J. M. Coxozal
Tig Wne
Canal
National Civic Federation
Miss Boswell
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Boston
Panama
Canal Zone
Federation of Women's Clubs
Thomas E. Brown, Jr
Sumner Coolidge
Culebra
Prosperity Day Campaign for Women Employment
The Woman's League of the State of New York plans a Prosperity Day on August 15 to press employers to hire more women. They also project state industrial training for girls as the league's main goal after a Waldorf Astoria conference. A member vote on training versus unemployment relief ended in a tie.
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Woman's League
New York
Waldorf-Astoria
Bello de Rivera
League
Suffragettes Stage Staten Island House to House Campaign
A group of suffragettes traveled from New York to Staten Island yesterday afternoon and canvassed Stapleton door to door inviting residents to an open air meeting in the park. They left at 5 o clock and planned the event for an unspecified hour in the park.
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Staten Island
New York
Stapleton
Too many mothers and dining rooms in Gleanings
A nurse mocks indulgent mothers as henlike while Walt Whitman is cited. A New York clubwoman advises lighting from below for dining rooms. Edges of social welfare notes include Edgeworth cleaning days and debate over street cleaning by children. A Long Island observer contrasts immigrant families Pietro and his son, with lessons on deference and politics. A Pittsburg physician urges trained nurses in factories and stores to improve health, morals, and productivity. The piece touches pre revolutionary France and hotel versus country house holidays with evolving views on attractiveness and emotion.
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Walt Whitman
Studrin the de Dener
Long Island
Pietro
Naples
Pittsburg
Lucy , Bannistéte
France
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