Heat and Deaths Mark Summer Day in City and Outlying Areas
A hot day brought one death and numerous prostrations across New York City and Jersey City. Temperatures dropped to a low of 74 degrees with humidity around four percent in the forenoon, and the heat worsened conditions for residents, downtown crowds, and visitors. Doctors and charity workers convened at East 224th Street to discuss infant care in summer, led by Dr. Roland G. Freeman, as part of the milk committee efforts. The list of prostrations includes Isidore Almins et al and many others across East 13th Street, Palisade Avenue, West 28th Street, and beyond, with victims taken to Bellevue, St. Francis, Harlem, and other hospitals. One elderly Newark woman, Mrs. Christiane Cummings, died of sunstroke.
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City reports lowest death rate for week
City health officials led by Health Commissioner Dr Darlington announced New York's health as high as a good summer, with Manhattan recording a weekly death rate of 28 thousand and the city at 13.45. The figures show a new low since compilation began, with one Mies death and no sunstroke deaths last week while Minemerts reported 255 deaths versus Gan.
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Seven Deaths and Heat Prostration Roil Chicago
Chicago on June 22 saw the hottest day of the year with seven deaths and many heat prostrations. A dog scare led police to order the shooting of unmuzzled dogs. about forty were killed in Morton Park suburb. The thermometer hit 94 degrees at 5 PM and a victim was James Burden from New York City, attending the Republican convention, listed in critical condition tonight.
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Brighten Beach opens with vaudeville at Medtusi Hall
Brighten Beach hosts a newly opened resort with Medtusi Hall featuring twice daily vaudeville. The Merry Widow act leads at Herald Sere Theatre, while Levi and the band play Forties of 198 at the Manhattan Hotel. May Spooner stages Camille at Lincoln Square this week, Hammerstein's Roof Garden adds changes, and Klaw Erlanger's Little x $2 Blunderland stars for Bert Leslie and Edna Seas. The Merry Widow moves to end gardens on the New Amster roof and The Girl Question plays at Wallack's Theatre.
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Libretto by Adams and Hough. Howard supplied score
Alice Yorke retires from the Three Twins cast at Herald Square Theatre. Stella Tracey will replace her, joining the current production team and upcoming performances.
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Sherman Illness Delays Vice Presidential Candidate
James Schoolcraft Sherman Republican candidate for Vice-President has been ill in Cleveland for two days. The bilious attack arose after heavy work at the National Convention and hot weather in Chicago and Cincinnati. He will remain until tomorrow then proceed to Utica New York with limited attendance, planning a public reception there.
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King and Queen at Olympia Horse Show in London
King Edward and Queen Alexandra visited the International Horse Show at Olympia this afternoon as fashionable London filled the vast venue. The royal party greeted by a color rich gown display and packed stands, with special attention given to American bred horses including Newsboy and Shopgirl bred by E. P. McGrath. Today's first prizes went to trotters Miss Banahan and Miss Westcott owned by W. J. Buttfeld of Plainfield, New Jersey.
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Plainfield, N. J
Record Day With Recounters in Brooklyn Mayor Race
Recount teams processed 160 Brooklyn boxes with Hearst gaining 16 votes. In forenoon 1% boxes counted. For today 161 more boxes demanded from Brooklyn. Total 468 boxes remain to recount, with completion expected by Thursday.
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Mayor Plans Adirondacks Vacation This Summer
Mayor McClellan said he expects to spend his vacation in the Adirondacks this year and will not leave town until late July. He will likely rent a cottage there after finding one that suits him while President McGowan heads to Newport, where he lived as a boy. Controller Metz will skip a long summer vacation.
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Yale Football Player to Wed
Miss Lucie A. Burke of New York will marry Clarence F. Alcott, former Yale football end in 196 and 1977, this summer. Alcott will graduate from the Sheffield Scientific School on Wednesday.
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Miss Helen Taft Fetes at Green Mansion Warwick
Miss Helen Taft daughter of William H Taft is guest of William G Roelker Jr and the Misses Roelker at the Green Mansion Warwick June 22 Rhode Island alternates at the Republican National Convention attended by Roelker Jr Roelker is a Rhode Island alternate at the convention
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Prominent Arrivals at Hotels Astor and Waldorf
Notable guests checked in at major New York rooms with Baron von Konig in London and Baroness von Kettler in Detroit. Major E. T. Wilson of the U S A and A M Steckel of the U S N are listed among visitors at Park Avenue and Waldorf Astoria hotels.
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Detroit
Weather Report Sees Warmth Across Regions With Showers
Official Weather Bureau record notes warm air at Mount Weather Virginia with 75 degrees at 1,500 feet and a 15 degree drop from 1,560 to 5,760 feet. Forecast calls for showers in upper lake region South and Plains with generally fair weather elsewhere and continued warmth in Atlantic states and lower lake region.
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Taft and Taft Sherman Backed by New York Republicans
Governor Hughes lauds William Howard Taft as a capable leader with long service in law diplomacy and executive roles. He argues the Republican party offers steady constitutional government and calls for broad support for Taft and Sherman. Other speakers praise party unity and discipline, with plans for upcoming campaigning and a September return from Europe.
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Fire at Picatinny Arsenal Involves Powder Storehouse
Fire at the Picatinny Arsenal near Dover New Jersey destroyed a small frame powder storehouse. Several hundred workers watched as the blaze burned the building to the ground while police kept others back. The nearby magazines remained intact and the navy powder station adjacent to the site contained several magazines with large shells nearby.
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Williams College President backs limited intercollegiate athletics
President Henry Hopkins reports Williams College favors limited intercollegiate contests within 200 miles but sees room to modify the rule, especially for track. He argues games spark college spirit and zest in students, while stressing that a student is first a student.
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Rockefeller kin plan local property purchase plan in Greenwich
William Rockefeller Jr and his cousin Percy Rockefeller intend to acquire estates in Greenwich this week forming a residential park with homes at the center. The pair own around four hundred acres, adding 248 more from William Rockefeller. William Rockefeller had once lived in town with a large estate.
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Trinidad Liner Maracas Quarantined At Quarantine Island
The Trinidad liner Maracas from Trinidad and Grenada was detained by Health Officer Dr A H Doty and her passengers and crew moved to Hoffman Island for observation. A stoker Ignacio Jutritis died at sea June 19 and was buried. The ship was disinfected and a new crew will take her to her dock today under observation.
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Yale Alumni Board Votes For University Paid Delegates
In New Haven on June 22 the Yale Alumni advisory board decided the university will cover expenses for its representatives to annual alumni meetings. Circuits will be formed by neighborhood clusters and associations with two hundred members gain two delegates. The Yale corporation named John K. Beach to the Edward J. Phelps professorship, succeeding the late Judge Townsend. John Wesley Wetzel was promoted from instructor to assistant professor in public speaking.
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Raymond Hitchcock Served With Injunction After Play
Raymond Hitchcock who debuted at the New Circle Theatre in The Merry Go Round was served with an injunction after the performance. Writs were obtained by Henry W. Savage Arthur Tams Karl Schmidt and Marc Klaw claiming Hitchcock is under contract to 1910. Steuer to appear before Judge Holt in the United States District Court.
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Sentences in 1905 Bialystok massacre case issued
In St Petersburg judgments were handed down for the Bialystok Jewish massacre of 1905. Eleven Christians and seventy three Jews were killed and twenty three Christians and eighty two Jews wounded. Sentences ranged from six months to three years penal servitude with fifteen acquittals. The case featured contradictory evidence and contested blame between Jewish agitators and police.
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Cabinet bill boosts Douma salaries to 2.16 a year
The Cabinet in St. Petersburg introduces a bill in the Douma to raise lower house salaries to 2.16 dollars annually and imposes a penalty of 12 dollars for each day a deputy is absent without a president’s excuse.
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Havana Sewers Contract Authorized for Havana Project
Governor Magoon signed a decree authorizing McGivney and Rokeby to build a sewer and water system in Havana and pave the city. The project costs about 11 million dollars with one third paid by the city and the rest by the Cuban government. Work to start soon and must be finished within four years under Platt amendment terms.
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Funeral of Hawaiian Prince in imposing royal ceremony
Honolulu marked the funeral of Prince David Kawanananakoa with a traditional Hawaiian rite. A grand procession included the 1st Regiment of the National Guard of Hawaii, detachment from Fort Shafter, and marines from ships Maine Alabama and St. Louis, with hundreds of native Hawaiians joining the observance.
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American Congo expedition leader reaches gold prospecting site
Brussels reports from R. Dorsey Mohun, explorer and head of the American Congo expedition, that the party has arrived at a destination some distance from Laebo and has begun prospecting for gold fields.
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Americans Speak in London at Pan Anglican Conference
London June 2. The Pan Anglican meeting drew six to eight thousand as Christianity and Socialism topped the agenda. Silas McBee of New York and other American clerics urged church action against oppression, while A J Balfour warned that religion and science should not be enemies for progress.
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Nine dead in St Etienne coal mine explosion
Notes of foreign news report nine fatalities from firedamp blast at a coal mine in St Etienne. Other items list a Chinese reformers engagement in Indo China. Wu-Chow floods endangering residents. Amoy preps for US fleet. anti American circular in Manila region urging revolt. San Juan PR ships carrying American teachers.
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Blagden and Crane Riggs Marriage Notices
Marriage notices published in The Tribune announce Lydia Lawrence daughter of the late Arthur Mason Jones wed Arthur Campbell Blagden on June 22 1908 with ministers Stires and Peabody. A second notice records Maria Julsa Riggs daughter of George W Riggs marrying Robert Treat Crane on June 20 1908 in Baltimore.
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Death notices republished in Tri-Weekly Tribune list
Death notices appearing in The Tribune will be republished in the Tri-Weekly Tribune without extra charge. Fowler M. Virgiita Sarjeant Alice W Germond Jane M Simonson Julia A Haven Sarah Spencer Monica A Horton Barrett W Strong Marvy W Ingate Elizabeth A Tayior Alice Lyman George T Warren Margaret Samson Leanna
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Funeral notices and interments across New York and neighboring towns
Multiple obituary notices list names such as Elizabeth A Ingate Leanna Samson Julia A Simonson Monica Anna Spencer Mary Willson Strong Alice Taylor Margaret Warren and families in Brooklyn Boston Milton Philadelphia Woodlawn Greenwood Reading Penn and other locations. Services set at various residences churches and cemeteries with dates June 22 23 and days after.
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Harlem Access to Grand Central via Trains and Trolleys
Readable text notes easy access by Harlem trains from Grand Central Station, Webster and Jerome Avenue trolleys and carriage lots priced from $150. Telephone 48353 Gramercy for Book of Views or representative Office, 20 East 23d St. New York City.
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Uptown Tribune opens file of aspirant applications
The New York Tribune announces the opening of a file containing applications from selected aspirants for various positions at its Uptown Office located at No 1364 Broadway between 26th and 27th Streets. Office hours run from 9 am to 6 pm.
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