Roosevelt Letter Confirms Roosevelts Delay in Running
Frank A. Munsey denies a published Concord report misrepresenting his views on Colonel Roosevelt entering the 1912 race. He says Roosevelt followers started late, but calls Roosevelt an exceptional man with broad public support. Munsey explains his stance to Alderman Blackwood and notes the public wants independence from politicians amid a Taft led field.
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Concord
WN. H
Frank A. Munsey
Roosevelt
Taft
Munsey
Fred I. Blackwood
Mr. Munsey
Mr. Blackwood
Fred J. Blackwood
Concord Wood- Working Company
N. H
Boston
Mr. Roosevelt
Frank
Blackwood
New Hampshire
Muntey
New York City
Fred Blackwood
USA
Would I make a good Secretary of War asks Clark foe
Ezra Webb of Norwalk Ohio writes Champ Clark Speaker and presidential hopeful jokingly proposing a cabinet post Webb recalls a Kentucky college brawl where Clark fired a grazing shot after Webb complained about food The incident led to Clark leaving college and later forming a close friendship with Webb despite the quarrel
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the Tribune
Norwalk
Ohio
Ezra Webb
Norwalk Township
Champ. Clark
House of Representatives
Webb
Clark
Kentucky
Atwood Aims Atlantic Flight From Newfoundland to Ireland
Boston reports Harry N. Atwood plans a two day Atlantic crossing using a Burgess Wright hydro aeroplane with new safety features. He expects to depart from Boston after June 15 and reach Newfoundland in about a day, trusting clear sight of vessels at sea as he flies eastward during optimal weather between June 15 and July 1.
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Boston
Harry N. Atwood
Atlantic
Atwood
Newfoundland
Ireland
Recall of Judges Urged by NYU Law School Secretary
Lasue and Tompkins address thirty five law students at Hotel Manhattan dinner arguing recall is a right to remove officials for breach of duty. Tompkins says judges should be protected if ruling just but removable by popular vote for unjust decisions. He invites reasons against recall and asks for constructive critique.
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Apie
Fifth Avenue Blaze From Manhole Lights Go Out
Patrolman Mancini reported smoke from a manhole at the southwest corner of 234th Street and Fifth Avenue after 7 P.M. Emergency response failed to extinguish the blaze as flames issued from pits and several manhole covers blew off. The New York Faison Company and Electric Light and Power Company were notified. districts lights failed and stores went dark while crews worked to restore service.
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234 Streets
Fifth Avenue
Mancini
Engine Company 14
New York Faison Company
Electric Light and Power Company
Electric Coeded
Suceet
Sercut
Central America Rail Ad Promises Pullman Trains to New Orleans
Advertisement claims two day rail service from Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua and all Central America on Southern Rail. Promises modern Pullman trains to New Orleans with superior steamer connections to Belize Puerto Barrios Fuerte Am Fleets Lamon Bocas Del Toro and New York via Fifth Avenue.
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Guatemala
Honduras
Nicaragu Cata Fica
Central America
Southern Rail
New Orleans
Belize
Puerto Barrios
Fuer- Fetes
Lamon
Bocas del Toro
N.Y
Fifth Ave
Death by own action ends Mrs Lorillard at Holland House
Mrs Beeckman Lorillard died by hanging in the Holland House eighth floor apartment while her husband was briefly away to hire a car. He found her body upon returning, and a coroner noted the act as a possible neurotic impulse with no clear motive. The couple, social leaders from Asheville and Newport, had reccurently split time between cities.
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Feinberg
Washington
Katherine L. Beeckman
T. W. Raoul
New York
Holland House
The Maine Sinks to Rest After Battle Memorial
Havana Harbor marks the final interment of the USS Maine as a U S battle fleet escorts the wreck to sea. Brigadier General Bixby and naval officers oversee the somber ceremony with flowers, marching marines, and a nationwide salute as the Maine sinks six hundred fathoms deep in the Gulf.
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Havana
Maine
Havana Harbor
Gulf
Ha ‘Vana
Julio de Cardenas
W. H. Bixby
Engineer Corps
United States Army
United States
North Carolina
Birmingham
Cabanas Fortress
Navy
Osceola
Arthur M. Beaupre
Legation
Bixby
William M. Black
Mason M. Patrick
Harley B. Ferguson
Maine Commission
Broadway Bookkeeper Hood Dies to Avoid Arrest
After seven weeks on tour and a failing run of a giant cigarette order scheme, Boston bookkeeper John F Hood killed himself in a West 4th Street loft to evade capture by state detectives and Sing Sing parole agents. He had spent lavishly with his female companion Lillian Downing while dodging reporting requirements after parole. Detectives closed in on Hood on the Empire City fifth floor when the shooting occurred. 39 cents were found on his body.
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Broadway
John F. Hood
Boston
No. 161
West D4th Street
Hood
Sing Sing
Jackson
Steath
New York
Lillian Downing
Madison Avenue
Order
White Light District
Grand
Park Avenue
Hermitage
34Th Street House
Theound
Detective Jackson
Rogers
Mrs. Downing
Hold Up Corner Trapped as Four Robbers Nab Purse
Four suspects fled from the Germania Bank on Spring Street while a crowd of vendors and sweepers watched. Peddlers and street workers sprang to aid the distressed woman as detectives in disguise set a trap at Bowery and Spring Street, a known robber hotspot, with guns drawn to pursue the fleeing gang.
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Spring Street
Bowery
Germania Bank
Dougherty
Greenwich Cuts Tax Rate in Town Meeting
Greenwich today cut the tax rate from twelve to nine mills in a town meeting aimed at easing burdens for wealthy New Yorkers and others with increased property assessments. Also noted: a record egg from a White Leghorn hen in Racine. Pope Pius X to pay a Wisconsin inheritance tax on a $500 bequest. an advertisement for luncheon and wine at Dewey & Sons Co. in New York.
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Tribune
Greenwich
Conn
Racine
Wis
United States
R. M. Boyd
Pope
Milwaukee
Pope Pius X
Wisconsin
Johanna Brand
John C. Karel
Rollin B. Mallory
Bomb explodes in judge Rosalsky library apartment
A mail bomb exploded in the Hendrick Hudson Apartments library where Judge Otto A. Rosalsky sat at a telephone. He escaped unharmed, but Owen Egan of the Fire Prevention Bureau was seriously injured, losing a finger. The incident caused a panicked, facts-at-hand investigation as police sought the culprit and tried to identify the dangerous device.
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Nii Netary
Owen Egan
Bareau
Mr. Rosalsky
Egan
Fire Prevention Bureau
Kosuleky
Powers
Otto A. Rosalsky
Brandt
Hendrick Hudson Apartments
110Th Street
Riverside Drive
Judge Rosalsky
Bureau of Fire Prevention
Bureau of Combustibles
Hendrick Hudson
Rosalsky
Hullboys
Clara Fish
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Wang
Concord Alderman
Monsey
IF. Roosevelt
Colonel Roosevelt
Beeckman Lorillard
Alety
Newport
Asheville
Herse Terday Ht
Joe
Cabinet Place
N.Y. U
Law Schoo
B. Lorillard
Guba
Jon Palma
John O'Brien
Dyt Mite Johny
Dauntless
Bimingham
Harvey
Yara
Enrique Villuendas
Barnard
Carbonell
Daughters of the American Revolution
Footula
Anul
O'Brien
Dewey & Sons Co
Fulton St
Expert
Hurt
Judge
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