Racing Auto Hits Pole in Fatal Fort Lee Crash
A car owned by Charles Weisbecker skidded at Annetts Hill Fort Lee and struck an electric pole at fifty mph, killing Weisbecker and injuring his wife, Louis Ungrich and spouses, plus the chauffeur. Witnesses say a race with a rival car caused the crash near Hudson Villa. Medical aid arrived as bystanders helped. Weisbecker’s market in Harlem was large and run in his wife’s name since a past bankruptcy. Charles Weisbecker Jr. has prior speeding arrests in Harlem.
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Charlies Weisbecker
West 126Th Street
Annetts Hill
Fort Lee
Yestern
Weisbecker
Louis Ungrich
West 144Th Street
Hudson Villa
Mr. Weisbecker
Isador Brazeman
Brady
Edgewater
Ungrich
Englewood Hospital
Hager
Englewood
Two Die In Ashland Auto Plunge Near Gordon
An auto carrying five people bound for Gordon plunged from the road into a 30 foot railroad cut. Mrs Peter Young 36 and Helen Young 11 were killed instantly. Charles Clare 8 and Peter Young 40 and 9 year old were badly injured. The car owned by A L Laubenstein failed on a curve. Peter Young among the injured was in danger. A Reading freight averted a collision. In Yonkers Louis Lendy five was run over by a George W Sutton car and likely fatally hurt.
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the Tribune
Ashland
Penn
Gordon
Young
Peter
Helen
Reading
Peter Young
A. L. Laubenstein
Ashland Screen Works
Louis Landy
Michael Lendy
Hig Parente
Yonkers
George W. Sutton
Huguenot Street
New Rochelle
Man Killed in Auto Crash Near Vriesland
Dick Brink of Grand Rapids was killed when a car descending a hill near Vriesland overturned after steering gear failure. Mrs Brink and four others, all of Grand Rapids, escaped with slight injuries during the Holland to Grand Rapids trip.
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Holland, Mich
Grand Rapids
Holland
Dick Brink
Vriesland
Brink
Bush
Ten Broeck
Grand Bagids
Parkville Chase Ends With Six Jailed For Blush Incident
A well dressed woman caused a Parkville stir when she complained of six men in running suits who allegedly caused her and companions to blush on the Boulevard. Lieutenant Duffy and reserves pursued the six, who were held for exercising on a public highway after an hour of rulebook study. The mystery woman left without a name.
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Parkville
Parkvilie
Duffy
Bingham
Even Up In Taxi War Officer Shoots A Boy
Turbulent taxi strike in New York as a special officer fired three shots into a crowd, seriously injuring a sixteen year old, while police arrested several combatants. The New York Taxicab Company aims to resume full service Tuesday and invites trained drivers back.
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New York
Roosevelt Hospital
John Mahoney
No. 219
East 26Th Street
West 15Th Street
Charles Fitzsimmons
Fitzsimmons
Phelps
Ninth Avenue
Mahoney
Harry Allen
Holland House
Arthur Sanders
Sanders
Harry Levi
No. 325
East 21St Street
Levi
Andrew Gerry
60Th Street
Columbus Avenue
Thomas Green
Green
Claud Asbury
Dfth Street
Broadway
Jerry” Leonard
Sth
Mortimer Levi
62D Street
James O'Connell
68Th Street
Peter Oliver
Sth Street
Edward Mines
Bernard J. Kellar
Charles Schirmer
Steinert
Joseph Ford
Eighth Avenue
Yom Kippur Fires Spark Citywide Blaze Run
The Fire Department battled numerous blazes in the lower East Side as candles toppled during Yom Kippur celebrations. Orthodox Jewish homes kept candles lit from sunset, causing several fires and losses ranging from five to one hundred dollars.
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Lower East Side
Colleges and Drinking Stir Dartmouth Williams Controversy
Boston reports that Dartmouth and Williams students react to Harry Vincent's claim that whiskey use is higher at their colleges than elsewhere in the East. Williams President Garfield and Dartmouth Dean Emerson dispute the assertion, insisting Cornell shows greater heavy drinking and that both schools have lighter intemperance than claimed.
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the Tribune
Boston
Dartmouth
Williams
Harry Vincent
Cornell
Schurman
Garfield
Dean Emerson
New Yorkers to lecture at Harvard
Boston on October 4 reports Harvard's new business school will feature lecturers Adrian H. Joline George W. Wickersham Charles Burtingham Judge Charles M. Hough Frederick K. Smith Thomas W. Lamont and George O. May of New York and Edward S. Meade of the University of Pennsylvania among its instructors.
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the Tribune
Boston
Harvard
New School of Businers
Adrian H. Joline
George W., Wickersham
Charles ©. Burtingham
Charles M. Hough
Frederick K. Smith
Thomas W. Lamont
George O. May
New York
Edward S. Meade
University of Pennsylvania
Copley Thaw Plans Residence in Lenox Massachusetts
Mrs. Copley Thaw formerly Miss Alice Thaw and Countess of Yarmouth has decided to live in Lenox, Mass. Her mother Mrs. William Thaw and Harry K. Thaw will also relocate from Pittsburg and London. Mrs. Thaw notes she favored Lenox since childhood visits and it remains unclear if Harry will accompany her upon release.
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the Tribune
Pittsburg
Thaw
Copley Thaw
Alice Thaw
Countess of
Yarmouth
Lenox
Mass
William Thaw
Harry K. Thaw
Massachusetts
London
Fleet in a hurricane shows Manila Bay battleships weather storm
The Atlantic battleship fleet rode out a twelve hour hurricane in Manila Bay. Typhoon signals warned of danger as the storm hit noon Sunday with winds near one hundred miles per hour. The cutters and launches were sent to the Pasig River, while the six battleships steamed to Cavite and rode out the gale. The storm caused widespread damage ashore, including unroofed buildings and downed trees. Navy coal passer Hans Streit died aboard the Vermont.
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Manila
Manila Bay
Pasig
Sperry
Connecticut
Kansas
Minnesota
Vermont
Virginia
Ohio
Hans Streit
Japan welcomes Sperry fleet for Yokohama visit
Tokyo reports preparations complete for the arrival of sixteen American warships under Admiral Sperry on October 17. The ships will stay a week and salutes will be answered by sixteen battleships anchored offshore. Sperry will stay four days at a palace and meet the Emperor on October 20. Merchants told to avoid excess charges for visitors.
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Japan
Tokio
Admiral Sperry
Yokohama
Maine and Alabama Sail from Fayal for Horta Azores
The United States battleships Maine and Alabama, which arrived here on September 39, set sail today for Horta the capital of Fayal island in the Azores, continuing their voyage.
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Maine
Alabama
Fayal
Gibraltar
United States
Horta
Azores
America's Bad Roads at International Congress Opening
Twenty four nations including United States, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, India and Japan will attend the first international road congress at the Tuileries on October 12. Papers show America lags Europe in road quality, with only 7.14 percent of U S roads improved. Delegates named: L W Page, Clifford Richardson, C S Stomwell and others from Massachusetts, Mississippi, Washington, New Mexico.
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Paris
United States
Brazil
Mexico
Chile
India
Japan
Tuileries
America
Europe
Congress
Eclties
L. W. Page
Public Roads Bureau
The
Agricultural Department
Clifford Richardson
New York
Charles 5. Stomwell
District of Columbia
Massachusetts
Harold Parker
Highway Commission
A. B. Fletcher
Mississippi
Charles Scott
Bishop Galloway
John Sharp Williams
Washington
Samuel Hill
New Mexico
Numa Reymond
Two Rembrandts Found in Germany
Two recently discovered Rembrandts are reported in Germany. One shows the painter's mother with a book from Count Schall-Biancour's Saxony collection and is praised as an early work. The second depicts the baptism of Queen Candace by the Apostle Philip in a Berlin family collection.
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Berlin
Rembrandts
Germany
Count Schall- Biancour
Saxony
Rembrandt
Candace
Philip
North German Lloyd Express cuts Genoa trip to 28 hours
The North German Lloyd Line launches a Bremen to Genoa express train to shave six days from the usual 12 to 13 day sea voyage. The service links with weekly New York and Bremen express steamers, arrives eight hours faster than current trains, and uses compartment sleeping cars dining and observation cars. Kronprinz Wilhelm sails tomorrow as the first connecting steamer.
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Italy
Mediterranean
Lloyd Line
Lloyd
New York
Bremen
Genoa
Kronprinz Wilhelm
Prominent Arrivals At The Hotels Astor and Grand
Noted visitors including Lt. 5. Eves of the U N and U S at ST REGIS, with W H Loomis from Omaha among those listed, marking a season of distinguished arrivals at New York hotels Astor Grand and St Regis.
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ASTOR
Eves
U. &. N. Grand
O. W. Hudd
U. S
ST. Regis
W. H. Loomis
Omeha
French Army Maneuvers Impress Foreign Observers in Touraine
Paris Sept 22 The grand manoeuvres near Touraine end with 120000 men and 430 guns demonstrating French marching discipline field fire and cohesion. Foreign observers including General Wood and Russian officials praise infantry endurance and rapid artillery use while noting transportable kitchens and officer initiative as key lessons for future war.
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Paris
Touraine
Loire
France
Palitzine
Wood
United States
Prince Frederick Charles
Orleans
Vierzon
Chanzy
le Mans
The
Red Army
Trémeau
Millet
Frederick Charles
de Lacroix
Picquart
Alsace-Lorraine
Rabier
Cousin
165Th
Matchida
5Th Army Corps
Manchuria
General Trémeau to Lead France's War Effort
The text predicts that General Trémeau will become Vice-President of the Supreme Council in 1998 and, in wartime, command all French forces on land and sea, becoming the emperor’s opposite number. It praises his cavalry background, elite schooling since 1876, tactical prowess, energy and magnetism, likening him to Sheridan and endorsing aggressive defense through attack.
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General Trémeau
Supreme Council
Ecole Supériere de Guerre
France
Philip Sheridan
Trémeau
C.l
Caracas Fears War as Castro Battles Dutch Demands
President Castro, ill but improving, returns to Caracas as negotiations with the Dutch over May decree and Holland's second note continue. Britain’s Sir Vincent Corbett arrives from Trinidad. The Hague warns of possible Dutch warship action with Utrecht heading to the East Indies via the West Indies and four Dutch ships ready in the area.
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Caracas
Willemstad
Castro
Barquissime
Holland
Baron Seckendorff
Vincent Corbett
Trinidad
The
Hague
Caragao
Utrecht
East Indies
West Indies
West Indian
Closing Of University Approved In St Petersburg
St Petersburg October 4 The cabinet met to address the student strike at St Petersburg University. Education Minister Schwartz endorsed the faculty decision to close the university to avert clashes between conservative and radical student factions. Police intervention and university closures have unsettled political circles, with hopes the Douma can broker a compromise.
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St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg University
M. Schwartz
Cholera Kept Well In Hand In St Petersburg
St Petersburg reports control of a cholera outbreak after previous spread. Officials credit measures to prevent transmission as the city notes twenty four hours without new cases and continues monitoring.
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St.Petersburg
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