Morgan Wire Tap Inquiry Grows in Munition Case
A Magistrate hears testimony on a Morgan firm munitions inquiry. Only two contracts were landed amid efforts by Phillips DeWitt Morton Saltzer Wolam Dilis and others. Witnesses discuss a “crane-vine” method and a box of cigars as a share in one deal, with Seymour & Seymour named in correspondence and a handwriting expert flagging a corrected cablegram copy.
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John Doe
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Tina
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Martin Egan
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Seymour & Seymou
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Muffora
Sittean
Davievalho
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Tiffany Finds Land Grant a Gold Brick
Tiffany wins land grant dispute over Long Island shore, a New York State grant gifting sea front property to his shorefront site. Oyster Bay officials challenged the grant, court ruled in town’s favor reclaiming public land, and subsequent actions left Tiffany with water frontage now owned by Oyster Bay.
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Striking Barbers Battle Ends After Police Captain Steps In
Police Captain John Noble of the Clymer Street station intervened when a dozen striking barbers attacked Jobe Dengler at 122 Lee Avenue Brooklyn. Noble separated the crowd, cleared the shop, and arrested one man in civilian clothes as others dispersed.
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Jobe Dengler
Lee Avenue
Brooklyn
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Belmont Quizzed By Masses Head
Ex editor Max Eastman questions Belmont before Thompson committee about The Masses magazine and subway stand exclusion. Ward & Gow defend decision as offending religious taste. law methods to bar objectionable periodicals discussed. West Side plan and Riverside Park restoration debated by officials and witnesses.
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Boardman Robinson
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Franklin P. Adama
Herbert Crawley
the New Republic
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Emilio Polini
Arturo Giovanitt
Adrianni Spadini
Alter Lippman
Em. Moss
Pelmont
Richard Croker
Interborovitch
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Garden Fete for Teachers at National Education Association
A National Education Association convention program features a July 7 garden festival at Carnegie Hall with director John H. Patterson. Public School 50 pupils perform a cantata The Garden of Flowers and plant life films accompany the event. The piece appears in a Philadelphia Record column on love of ease.
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Carnegie Fall
John H. Patterson
National Cash Register Company
Hughes and T. R. Agree On Issues In Campaign
The report details Hughes and Roosevelt sharing positions on policy as they step toward the campaign. Notables including Henry Lane and Nelson Oehwaghnessy visited Hughes while Taft indicated support for Hughes and willingness to speak on the same platform if needed. The article notes potential officers for the national organization and lists several progressive and Republican figures backing Hughes.
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Mexico
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Wilson
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Willcox
Rimbia
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Roosevelt
Nelson Henry
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Women's Republican Club
Clarice Phelps Dodge
Colorado Springs
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Maine
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Illinoss Rency Trust Company
Jame B. Reynolds
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E H Hooker Joins Hughes Forces in Progressive Shift
E H Hooker national treasurer and finance chair joined the Hughes bandwagon claiming nine-tenths of Progressives will back Hughes. He praised Hughes and Roosevelt as forward looking on reform since 1913, urged party unity, and said Progressives have strengthened national morals while supporting the Hughes campaign.
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Roosevelt
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Progressive National Committee
Chicago
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Justice
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Kansas wife beaters to stand in pillory
Kansas City police judge JH Brade received permission to erect a stone pillory in the main business district of Kansas City Kansas where men convicted of beating their wives could be chained for a determined period. He argued public shame would deter such crimes.
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JH. Brade
Strike Holds Up Munitions Shipments
Allied shipments of thousands of tons of munitions were halted as the Marble Hoisting Engineers' Union led a nationwide walkout of 850 men. Sympathy came from 7,000 subway and tunnel hoisting engineers and 16,000 longshoremen. Strikers demand a 0 cent daily wage increase from their current $4 rate.
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Marbor
Congress approves over 1.2 billion for next year
Congress votes more than 1.219 billion dollars in appropriations for the forthcoming fiscal year. Chairman Fitzgerald notes an intercase and deficiencies adding to the total, with army funding and Mexican border costs cited among the factors shaping the current authorization and fortification plans.
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Urges All Japanese to Aid Carranza
Havana paper Delivers facsimile of a California colonist letter urging all Japanese to assist Mexico in its dispute with the United States. Also reports a collision of misfortune as Mia Charles B. R. Clark, wife of Lt. Clark, was thrown from a horse in Sayville, Long Island, severely injured after a lengthy drag.
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California
Ty Cable
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Mexico
United States
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Long Island
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Clark
Von Papen Named as Plot Architect in Canal Dynamite Case
In a federal trial, Cap Franz von Papen was accused by Hane Tauscher’s lawyers of engineering the Welland Canal dynamite plot. The defense argued Tauscher relied on von Papen’s word as a German gentleman, while prosecutors warned the shift in blame could affect Papen’s chances.
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Germany
Hane Tauchar
Federal District Court
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Tauscher
Krupp Gun Works
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America
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United States
Law Makes Him Pay For Having Snakes
A court hearing notes Jacob Winkler charged for keeping snakes. He claimed he captured them at Brier and that they escaped when water was poured on the jar. Two snakes entered Irving Cohen’s apartment while two remained missing in the house. The judge set a 50 cent per snake fine, totaling two dollars, with the case linked to a Bellevue police court proceeding.
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Magiatra
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Bellevue
Brieroif
Irving Cohen
Wink
Body of War Hero Found After Rowboat Tragedy
Father identifies body at morgue as his son from Troop K gone to war. Earlier, two Newark Key brothers, Joseph aged thirteen and Philip nine, set out by rowboat. Philip body found off West Sixty fifth Street while John is missing. Family relied on the son’s earnings, and worry over his fate has strained them.
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