Lions Attack Man at Brooklyn Zoo Car Exhibit
Emerson D Dietrich Jr a Brooklyn theater manager and animal trainer is killed when five lions attack him in a darkened circus car exhibit owned by Adgie Castille. Firemen retrieve the body using a pike and formaldehyde as crowds watch in terror. Dietrich's father, Emerson D Dietrich Sr a wealthy architect, said his son had toured with an polo team before pursuing animals. the elder Dietrich planned to bring the body to Bensonhurst for burial.
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Emerson D. Dietrich
Brooklyn
Loblife
Dietrigh
Dietrich
Lom
Gorge McCord
The
Linnie
Detrich
McCord
Teddy
Dietrite
Prilby
Adgie Castille
Pel
E D. Dietrich, Jr
Bay Parkway
Bensonhurst Ile
Erasmus Hall High School
Plathuah
Mile
Hans
Young Dietrich
Ate
Chicago
Bensamhuest
Morning News Fragments and Courtroom Notes
Fragmented items include political mediation hopes in Villa Wins and police tension. Firemen face a nine to nineteen setback while a boy hero saves a girl from a tree. Miscellaneous notes cover finance, markets, and a legal query about a dwelling versus house.
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Dildair
McCormick
Iceberg Echo Warns Ship in Fog off Newfoundland
Captain Weeks on Isle of Mull reported a near collision with ice in fog near Newfoundland on June 1. He heard repeated echoes he believed were the iceberg replying to his whistle, realizing he was dangerously close to bergs in the silent sea.
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Captain Weeks
Isle of Mull
Lisbon
Newfoundland Bawks
Ene
Nik
Stenals
Liver Dt
One Sneeze Costs 25000 Radium Vanishes
A chemist at the Standard Chemical Company in Pfitzschureh lost control during a sneeze causing radium worth 000 to disappear. Joseph M Flannery, company president, said about 2 AN dollars worth of radium had vanished after the incident in Denver.
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Tribune
Denver
Col
Standard Chemical Company
Pfitshureh
Joseph M. Flannery
Stops Mass For Fire Drill In Two And Half Minutes
In Boston, Monsignor Rohan quickly led the congregation out of St Pater Church during a fire drill. He instructed parishioners to exit calmly, noting five exits, and the church was emptied in two and a half minutes before mass resumed.
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Boston
Peleerand
Monsignor
Rohan
Sustor
Pater
Porchestar
Ltte Permans
Father Kohan
American Bride for Duke's Heir
The Tribune London reports a marriage engagement between the Earl of Eustem and Edythe Mavemeyer of New York. The Perry family notes the Duke’s lineage, the Earl's widowed status, and celebratory remarks on the 93rd birthday of the Mike of Grattan.
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Tribune
London
Earl of Eustem
Duke of ‘Aster
Edythe Mavemeyer
Henry Havemeyen
New York
Engineer Killed in Cab Run Near Metuchen
Max Jore of Jersey City an engineer for the Pennsylvania Railroad freight train was struck and killed by a locomotive of the Washington Express as he looked from his cab window at the Metuchen yard. Masters had been transferred from Jersey City to the Edgemoore freight terminal and had dinner with his family before the fatal trip. Alderman Hulut F. Sanford, a former engineer, replaced him and ran the freight to the nearest signal tower at Metuchen.
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Metuchen
Max Jore
Jersey City
Pennesylvania Railroad
Darsey City
Edgemoore
Hulut F. Sanford
Masters
Thrift Congress Urged to Seek Senate Hearing
June 21 The American Society for Thrift requests a Senate Appropriations hearing to justify a proposed $0.00 appropriation for an international thrift congress in San Francisco. BW Straus of Chicago will present the case for the society.
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Washington
American Society For ‘Thrift
Senate
San Fran Vier
BW. Straus
Chicago
Twelve Drowned As Launch Capsizes Near Mud Lock
A Oswego Canal launch capsized near Mud Lock south of Onondaga Lake killing twelve people, mostly women and children. Fifteen aboard. lifebelts existed but no time to use them as the craft sank instantly. four survived by swimming to shore. Captain Lew Daniel reported the sudden disaster and lack of rescue time.
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Syracuse
Oswego Canal
Mud Lock
Onondaga
Lake
Liverpool
George H. Adams
John Moge
Mise Webs
Meg
Jose Than
Lowik Dajuer
Lew Daniel
Laverpoat
Woman Captures Burglar in Fifth Floor Flat
Mrs Berjowits trapped burglar in her apartment at 106 Bass Street, 5th floor, after seeing two men leave. She pursued one man, police summoned help, and a doctor treated her. The other intruder escaped. flat was robbed.
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Mimose
Bass
David Brrisoner
Berjowlca
Hydroairplane crash on Boardwalk shocks Atlantic City crowd
Edward Jaquith and C. W. Titt, guests from Kansas City, survived a hydro airplane wreck on the Atlantic City Boardwalk when the craft fell from twenty feet. The motor failure caused the plunge into the sea, tearing the stern and wrecking the vessel. Nearby, the Akron disaster had claimed Melvin Vanlman and four crew members earlier today.
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Ly Teigemiph
the Tribune
Atlantic City
Hdward €. Juquith
W Titt
Kansas City
Quith
Melvin Vanlman
Akron
Jaquith
Gas Overcomes Nineteen Firemen in Cellar Blaze
A Victor talking machine store fire at Chambers Street trapped nineteen firemen, including three battalion chiefs and two captains, as gas fumes filled a smoke drenched cellar. One firefighter was hospitalized in serious condition. others were rescued after reinforcements arrived. The blaze damaged phonographic records and photographic films, with a forced draft from a sidewalk elevator complicating rescue efforts. Raymond Kelly, eight, witnessed his father being carried from the flames, and the acting chief praised his son’s reaction.
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Bhat
Alion
Victor
Chambers St
Fi Readest
Conid Rehwall
Eydaon Strcet Hospital
Gorlong
John Kelly
Michael O’donohue
Charles Grimm
William Corley
Humphries
William Pritchard
William Klein
Jacob Peyerman
Conrad Schwall
Patrick Riordon
William J. McGrath
Henry Hockswender
Frank Healy
Elwine
Joseph Flannery
Russ
Thomas’ McBride
William Werner
Timothy Curtain
George Green
Joseph Woods
Truk 1
George Kuss
Khattom
Gis Company
John J. White
Fire Department
Dugadale
Hudson Street Hospital
Schwall
Raymond
Kelly
Dr. White
Nixson
Chip
Villa Turning Tide of Battle at Zacatecas
Zacatecas remains the stage for Villa's campaign against Mexico City as reports detail gains by the Constitutionalists, heavy Federal opposition, and a feared rebel pause while Natera's forces suffer heavy losses. Barron commands strong Federal guns as Villa plans renewed assault amid mounting panic among rebel leaders.
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Villa
Zacatecas
Rebaaw
Barron
Natera
Zecatecha
Dying after fight linked to Rubin and Woods shakeup
A shooting near White Plains left one man dying in hospital and three others detained as a cross country chase continued. Zimmerman, amid a brawl at the Kountze estate, fired at rivals after a wagon fight and fled toward the Hudson shoreline. The incident coincides with reports of a rift between Police Commissioner Arthur Woods and Deputy Commissioner J Robert Rubin over detective bureau reorganization and leadership shifts within the New York Police Department.
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Eugene Zinmertiad
A. F Kountae
Manhattan
White Plains
White Plains Presbyterian Hospital
Zimmerman
Randed Sherif
William J. Doyle
Earl
Gottlib Ammon
Henry Walbrouck
Max Sehwinder
Zitamertian
Sehwins der
Doyle
Heputice
Thomas Wade
New York City
Vesters
J. Robert Rubin
Haa
Arthur Woods
Tribune
Detective Bureau
Guy H. Scull
Comemissioner
Rubin
Uniformed Force
Whitman
Police Department
Mitchel
McKay
Dougherty
McKayn
Woods
Hubin
Enid
Harea
Scull
Villa denies proclaiming Angeles provisional president
June 21 report claiming General Villa named General Angeles provisional president is disputed. Villa says he did not designate Angeles for that post and that the proclamation naming him was a mistake.
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Villa
Verreon
Angeles
Fairy Wand That Won A Waif Finds Rich New Home
Annie Wright, found starving at eight months on a West 40th Street stoop, was adopted by Morrison Moore and his wife Grage at their No 3 Kant hlaf home after a Surrogate Cohalan order. The child, once cared for by Mrs S V A Murray and the New York Infant Asylum, now enjoys a luxury life in an East 62nd Street apartment with fine clothes and a car, as the Moores gain legal status for Annie.
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Baby Hart
Loving
Bellevue Hospital
Jonnie Lebehn
Annie Wright
Annie
Morrison
Moore
Grage P. Moore
Imma
Murrogate
Ohalan
1 Townend & Moore Engineering Works
Theodore A. Crane
On Company
Erie Masin
Duchness
Lane Cotte Hustington
Moores
Kant @hlaf
Ann
New York
Angie
Cohalan
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Lord Kitchener
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Earl of Euston
Miss Havemeyer
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Merer
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Hhieemnever
England
Express
Thrift Congress
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Griffith
Phonograph
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Obregon
Mexico City
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Mexico
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la Noche
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la Prensa
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