Wild runaway bridal coach fends off street chase
A newly married couple rode in a coach drawn by a maddened team through fast New York streets. Patrolman Harvey Kiefer halted the runaways by grabbing the reins, leaping onto the coach, and steering the horses into a telegraph pole. Crowds cheered the daring rescue as witnesses praised his bravery.
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New York
Aucre
Harvey Kiefer
Liberty Avenue
Eva Telford
Lewis Birkett
Roosevelt Hall
Cleveland Street
Blake Avenue
Joseph Siones
Jonca
Jeree Morks
Blake Avetor
Megted
Parrelman McKee
Literty Avenue
Kiefer
Mire Bitken
Hie
Aitken
Gaynor
Paneer
Maude Adams to star in open air Joan of Arc pageant
Plans under city auspices include Maude Adams leading an open air performance of Joan of Arc in a Shakespearean style pageant. Charles Stover and Charles Frohman representatives are shaping the production for a future season at a Harvard studio and Greek theatre venue.
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Charles BL Stover
Charles Frohman
Mise Maude Adame
Bras Weber
Joan of Arc
Harvard University
University of Selifornie
Migs Adams Tis
Mim Adama
Centre & Hastings
Whitney's Fast Trip Sparks Long Mile Journey
H P Whitney traveled 625 miles on a special train from Waycross Georgia to Thomansville Georgia for a fifteen minute conference with his uncle Oliver H L Payne. The trip covered East Coast Line routes and included a return from New York.
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Waycross
Mareh
Oliver HL Payne
Thommsville
Harey Payne Whitney
Ute
Flo
Palny Beach
Phe
Thomanville
Jacksonville
Wayerss
New York
Coronation in India preparations for Delhi Durbar
London dispatch reports near total planning for the King and Queen’s visit to India with a coronation Durbar at Delhi. One million pounds to be spent, a hundred thousand troops mobilized, and the crowns from Westminster Abbey to be used. The event promises unprecedented splendor as symbols of British sovereignty travel to India aboard a liner escort by battleships and cruisers.
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Delhi
the Tribune
London
India
Westminster Abbey
Orient Company
De Lesseps Awarded $10,000 Statue Race Prize
The Acra Chib of America board ruled Count de Lesseps the winner of the Statue of Liberty contest prize after finding Moisant did not fly the required hour before his trial and noting Claude Grahame-White fouled a pylon. Grahame-White may protest, while Moisant, who posted the fastest time, died in New Orleans on December 31.
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Ione Fusalink
Acra Chib of
America
Count de Lesseps
Moisant
Claude Grahame- White
Grahame-White
de Lessens Grahame-White
John H. Moisant
New Orleans
Fate of Cecil Grace in Ostend Harbor
A body recovered in Ostend is believed to be aviator Cecil Grace missing since December during a flight from Calais to Dover. Grace, member of the Royal Aero Club, attempted the Baron de Forest prize flight and disappeared after turning back in adverse winds. cap and glasses were found in the North Sea near Mariakerke.
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Ostend
Belgium
Cock Grace
Calais
Cool Hirace
J. A. Grace
Willian Ro Grace
New York City
Royal Aero Club
Baron de Forest
English Channel
Dover
Belelon
North Sea
Mariakerke
Missing gowns found. maid accuses in Philadelphia
Mrs Seligman of New York reported a maid Hazel Williams who stole gowns valued over 3000 dollars. After a raid at the home three trunks and many suitcases were opened and Williams admitted taking some dresses. Magistrate Scott to hear the case tomorrow morning. Mrs Seligman arrived in Philadelphia to identify belongings.
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Philadelphia
Bertha Keligman
West 113Th Street
New York
Mrs. Seligman
Seligman
Scott
British Trawler Coquet Blocked From Base in Local Port
The Coquet skipper and crew sought to base fishing operations at the port and obtain clearance papers. Local authorities refused, citing rules that foreign vessels cannot establish a base here without a foreign port clearance, except under weather stress. The steamer arrived with ten thousand pounds of fish after being driven off course, seeking better profits at the local market.
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High Seas
Coquet
Nova Scotia
Robin May Not Go to Sing Sing At All
A grand jury hearing detailed a Carnegie Trust Company loan scheme with directors Fradley Martin Jr John V Corgey and others involving a $110000 transfer to Joseph G Robin. Robin will not be sentenced before April 29 and may seek to change his confinement location from Sing Sing to Matteawan as prosecutors seek corroboration for his testimony.
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Fradley Martin, Jr
John V. Corgey
Madison Trust Company
Nineteenth Ward Bank
Robert L. Smith
Carnegie Trust Company
Carnegie Company
Joseph G. Robin
Sing Sing
Matteawan Robin
Robin
Seabury
Whitman
Willian’ ‘Travers Jerome
Samuel J. Goldsmith
Louise Robinevitch
Dorlan
George L. Dyer
Andrew Carnegie
Platt Iron Works
Carnegie
Trust
United States
Dyer
Trust Company
Independent Fertilizer Company
Justice Seabury
Goldsmith
Jerome
Carnegie Trust
Seabury Hoad
Swann
Paddled Canoes See Ocean Dangers and Daring Talks
Four Bayonne and New York University students paddle canoes in rough waters off New York and Harlem Rivers. Two Bayonne youths capsize and are rescued by a tug after a soggy dip. Other NYU students brave waves, suffer capsizes, then reach shore. Dublin scene shifts to London where Sir Edward Grey’s epoch making speech arouses wide interest and fuels hopes for Anglo American arbitration.
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New York
Bayonnen Island
New York University
Harlen River
Sact Street
William Pierson
Bayonne
Nody
Staten Island
Zon
Parnell
William L. Conway
Battery
Sta
William H. Hamilton, Jr
Albert J. Macdonald
Harlem River
Haanton
MacDowall
200Th Street
London
Sir Edward Grey
Europe
Edward
Mexico
United States
Henry Norman
House of Commons
Sir Edward ‘Ey
Lord Reay
Great Britain
United. States
Amers
Trish
House of Ice
Ireland
Tafts
Edward Grey
Sir Edward
Taft
Evening Standard
England
France
Japan
United Stages
The
Standard
Atlantic
Pall Mall
Sirward
Baby killed by car on Eighth Avenue incident
Samuel Zimmerman and wife entered their shop on Eighth Avenue with their four year old when crying children yelled that the baby was killed. The couple found their child’s mangled body in the street after a southbound car passed over her as she attempted to cross.
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Eighth Avenue
Samuel Zimmerman
Women War Over Smoking In Boston Club Fight
A proposed women’s club at the British Tea Table building in Boston splits into two factions over a smoking rule. Mrs W B Leeds backs personal choice while Purdy argues it should not be allowed for girls and young women, even if unsmoked at home.
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Boston
Teteeragh
W. B. Leeds
New York
Boylstes Street
Back Bay
Benjamin
Tower
Airs
Purdy
Canadian Giant Lost On World Circling Trip
George Lang, seven feet tall, vanished February 27 after arriving February 17 from Genoa with two nieces Paula and Aliee von Crombrugge. Former Winnipeg trapper, last seen in New York at Lexington Avenue No 126. Described as fair-haired and florid, wearing a black coat, gray trousers.
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George Lang
Lextngton Avenue
Lang
Genoa
Paula
Aliee von
New York
Lanz
Biplanes Ordered for War Department and Navy
Three Wright aeroplanes have been ordered by the War and Navy Departments at Washington. Two are for the War Department and one for the Navy. Wilbur Wright confirmed the move before sailing on the Kronprinz Wilhelm. He noted delivery depends on border needs and logistics. The Curtiss company said Washington signaled interest but no formal order yet. Previously the government bought one Wright machine for 30,000.
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War Department
Navy
Wright
War and Navy Departments
Washington
Wilbur Wright
Curtiss Exhibition Cmpany
Curtiss
Wrights
Atlantic rate disputes to be settled by arbitration at Cologne
The Atlantic rate conference agenda shows disputes among steamship lines to be resolved through arbitration at a final conference to be held in Cologne next week. It is expected that the new agreement will be signed then.
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London
Cologne
Dream Turns Real Save Of Jenkins Team In Morristown
Coachman Michael Make awoke in Morristown, North Dakota, to find his employer George Walker Jenkins’s horses readied to be driven away after a vivid dream of theft. No traces of the would be thieves were found.
Express Strike Threat Looms Over Adams Express
The Greater New York IBT executive council and Jersey City council met at Chelsea Hall to press for terms with Adams Express Company. They warned a general strike may begin Monday if arbitration fails, with 22 000 drivers pledged to a $1 weekly assessment and prepared to lead the action if authorized.
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Greater New York
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Jersey City
Chelsea Hall
Eighth Avenue
Express Company
William H. Ashton
International Brotherhood
Indersede
Pererd
Adans Express Company
Rar Avenue
36H Street
William J. Smith
Trafic Squad
Milton Hamberg
West 48Th Street
James Maskerson
Third Avenue
Adams Express Company
Corrigan
Jefferson Market Court
Cornelius Savage
West Idist Street
Harris
West Side Court
Bartels
West 27Th Street
Adams Company
Mount Police
Daniel J. O'Connor
Teamsters’ Union
Jersey City Adams Express Company
Blind but eloquent judge Wilitan nomination of Blaine in 1884
Bellefontaine Ohio March 1 judge Wilttan West eighty seven years old known as the blind but eloquent he died. He served in the Supreme Court of Ohio General Assembly Attorney General and was a governor candidate. He nominated Blaine for the presidency in 138
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East New York
Spencers, Maiden
H. P. Whitney
Cecil Grace
Ostend Harbor
Maid
Trunks
Loeb
Matteawan
Grand Jury
Commission of Experts
Joe Shieh
Ned
Pame
Waje Mounifoxtt
Harlem
Shey
Trapper
Theompany
Suibles
Old Street
Mattson Avenue
4Th Street
Madison Avenue
Rother
Sith
Thomas Boyle
Mille Hotel No. 3
Servicess
Abraham Simon
Simon
West 47Th Street
Elghth Avenue
Blaine
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