Wright Brothers Capture World Aeroplane Record in France
Wilbur Wright, before a vast crowd including American Ambassador Henry White and French officials, set a new world distance record for aeroplanes with a flight of 98 kilometres in 1 hour 31 minutes 51 seconds, surpassing his brother Orville's mark. The event, linked to the Michelin Cup and Aero Club prize, drew intense public interest despite earlier weather and takeoff delays.
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Wrights react to Wilbur's record flight in France
Orville Wright rests fitfully but content after sleep and news of Wilbur Wright's record breaking flight. Family and Aerial Experiment Association officers pay tribute to Lieutenant Selfridge and express pride in the Wright brothers' aerial achievements.
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Gored to Death by Prize Bull at Crescentville Farm
Edward A. Hall thirty one was killed at Crescentville stock farm after climbing a wall to inspect a prize winning bull. The animal charged as his two friends escaped. Hall was the son of the farm manager and was caught against the wall. Police investigated the fatal incident.
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Philadelphia
Eo Wall
Edward A. Hall
Crescentville
Hui
Flames Threaten Cunarder Slavonia At Pier 52
A lighter loaded with burning paraffin ran alongside the Cunarder Slavonia at Pier 52. Flames leapt up to about one hundred feet as the Ariel was towed away. Fireboats George B. McClellan and New Yorker joined the effort, extinguishing the blaze before it could reach the liner.
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Gansevoort Street
New Yorker
Deserted infant case on Fifth Avenue stirs city police
A well dressed young woman described as a perfect dream in black stepped from a car on Fifth Avenue at 60th Street and pleaded with police to let her keep an infant found on the stoop of Mrs. Louisine Havemeyer’s home. She inquired about adoption while officers advised contacting the Charities Department and Bellevue Hospital. The baby boy, about one month old, was found by Benedict Evans of 134 Spring Street.
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Louisine W. Havemeyer
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No. 134
Spring Street
Razor Rampage at Williamsburg Woolen Mill
Philip Anzio, 17, of Lorimer Street burst into the J. T. Perkins mill at Kent Avenue and Hooper Street wielding a razor. He slashed at the superintendent who fled behind a room and grabbed a wrench. A young bystander, Marx Kaugman, 8, tripped the fugitive. the Italian struck him before the superintendent restrained and jailed him on attempted felonious assault charges.
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Lorimer Street
J. T. Perkins
Kent Avenue
Hooper Street
Williamsburg
Anzio
Marx Kaugman
Hewes Street
Senator A Wreck Reported Near Watling Island
The Norwegian fruiter Senator, bound between New York and Port Antonio Jamaica, was wrecked in the recent hurricane off Watling Island in the Bahama group. Captain Aarsvold was drowned. The steamer departed Port Antonio on September 11 for this city.
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Port Antonio
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Thief binds man and three girls near Chester
A robber entered William Stamm’s farm home seventeen miles north of Chester in the early hours, bound and gagged Stamm and his three daughters, stole 40 dollars and a watch, and escaped on Stamm’s mule. The incident follows a prior charge against Stamm when his eldest daughter Maggie accused him of murdering his two sons.
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Chester
Ill
William Stamm
Stamm
Maggie
Biddlees Live Off The Land On Virginia Hunting Trip
Philadelphia Sept 21 Mr and Mrs Anthony J Drexel Biddle return from a weeklong Virginia hunting and fishing excursion living entirely on game and fish. They camped in a small sailboat in Broadwater Bay thirty miles from town and faced hunger if nothing was shot. plans loom for a moose hunt in New Brunswick with Livingston Biddle and Howard Henry.
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Philadelphia
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle
Virginia
Mr. Biddle
Broadwater Bay
Two men clash on trestle. one dies under falling train
In Youngstown Ohio on September 1 John Matko and John Kriazay fought on a Baltimore and Ohio trestle near Salt Springs Road. Matko was killed after being hurled from the bridge while Kriazay survived by throwing himself between rails as a train passed. Kriazay was captured and held at Central Police Station as the crowd watched.
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Youngstown
Ohio
Baltimore & Ohio
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John Kriazay
Kriazay
Poaice
Khazay
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Salt Springs
Glynn Refutes Charge on State Funds Use by Republicans
The Republican State Committee rebutted Democratic claims of extravagant state spending. It lists receipts totaling 32 339 707 49 dollars for the year ended Oct 1 1907 from taxes and other sources and asserts a strong surplus. It compares 1894 and 1907 expenditures, noting increases in public services and infrastructure and cites a cash balance of 20 771 571 87 with a 13 678 138 47 surplus as of Sept 30 1907.
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Albany
Morton
Hughes
Martin H. Glynn
President Haskell Sees Need for Work in New York Campaign
Oyster Bay reports Timothy L. Woodruff and Congressman A P Gardner met with the President at Sagamore Hill. The talks centered on the New York State political situation and national campaign, with the President urging hard work for Republican success. He noted treasury oddities in the Democratic Party after Parker’s claims of corporate gifts. Gardner discussed plans to curb House filibustering, citing English and French parliamentary systems.
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Timothy L. Woodruff
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Judge Parker
Haskell
Democratic National Committee
A. P. Gardner
Hamilton
Mass
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House of Representatives
England
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Mr. Woodruff
New York
Guffey Set to Strike Back at Haskell in Oil Row
Colorado politicians say Governor Haskell will face a counterblow from J M Guffey after the Oklahoma delegates kissed the Pennsylvanian during the Democratic National Convention. Guffey warned he would get even for Haskell’s Standard Oil jibe and the exposé against him.
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Hearst
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Standard
Southwest
Tragic death by gas inhalation in Bridgeport yacht club home
In Bridgeport, Peter Schread of the Park City Yacht Club died last night by inhaling illuminating gas from a jet in his bedroom. A pet cocker spaniel tried to help by staying with him, holding the torn rubber tube in its teeth. A maid found the door barred and alerted others.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Peter Schread
Park City Yacht Club
Schread
Foraker Not Sociable Says He Is Not Fond of the President
Cincinnati September 21 Senator Foraker declined to comment on President Roosevelt's statement amid the Roosevelt Foraker Hearst controversy. Taft read the statement and recalled writing the letter quoted by the President. Foraker said he would probably not read the AP copy tonight and might issue a statement tomorrow if needed, adding I am not so fond of the President's company.
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W. H. Taft
Roosevelt
Foraker
Hearst
Associated Press
Watterson to discuss Hearst Foraker scandal in Courier Journal
Henry Watterson will publish a long editorial tomorrow in the Courier Journal arguing Foraker is a victim of his environment and that the Republican party includes many leaders as guilty as Foraker. He brands Hearst as unspeakable and accuses the oil and tariff factions of graft, predicting scandal and decline for the party.
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Louisville
Henry Watterson
Courier-Journal
Watterson
Foraker
Republican Party
Native leader on warpath threats in German Southwest Africa
Windhoek reports Simon Copper, a native leader, is again on the warpath threatening the eastern division of the protectorate, placing white inhabitants in danger.
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German Southwest Africa
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Protectorate
Swisher Withdraws Candidacy for Governor in West Virginia
Charleston, Sept 21. At a Republican State Committee meeting, Secretary of State Charles W. Swisher resigned as gubernatorial candidate, citing love for the party and desire to keep the presidential campaign united. Names like Judge Robinson and Senators Blue and Scott were discussed for the vacancy as Lincoln Republican leaders pressed for a unified ticket and the Scherr ticket’s withdrawal.
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Charles W. Swisher
Swisher
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Scott
C. W. Dillon
J. L. Caldwell
E. M. Grant
Lincoln Republican State Committee
Arnolda C. Scherr
State Committee
Scherr
A Revolt Rumor Surges in Lisbon Armament Drive
Reports from Lisbon claim a pending revolutionary outbreak as Republicans stockpile arms in convents while monarchist extremists, backed by clericals, plan attacks on Republican newspapers. One monarchist paper estimates seventeen thousand volunteers aim to seize offices. Republicans warn of a broader riot if provoked.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Grudge Made Man Halt Traction Car Ride
Thomas Johnson, a former Youngstown & Newcastle Traction employee, said a grudge prompted him to lie across railway tracks to force a motorman to stop the car and risk dismissal. He admitted hoping the stunt would backfire and trigger a large damages claim if he were killed.
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Youngstown
Ohio
Youngstown & Newcastle Limited
Thomas Jonson
The
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A. E. Jones
Johnson
Praying and Working for Local Option in Indiana
More than a thousand temperance workers gathered at the State House corridors in Indianapolis to pray for local option pill passage. Ministers and Sunday school workers, including three carloads from Shelbyville, plus enthusiastic delegations urged opposing legislators and cheered the Governor at the executive offices.
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Shelbyville
America
Prinz August Wilhelm Arrives at Kingston From New York
The steamship Prinz August Wilhelm reached Kingston Jamaica from New York and reports speaking with the schooner William J. Lermond near Turk's Island, both vessels considered safe and the Prinz August Wilhelm expected to arrive soon. The William J. Lermond left Philadelphia August 22 with 1 200 tons of coal for the Jamaican government. The Beacon sighted a wrecked three masted schooner at Bird Beach believed to be the William J. Lermond.
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Beacon
Bird Boeech
Eight of Black Hand Sentenced in Fernie Case
Winnipeg reports eight Black Hand Italians who traveled from Chicago to Fernie and extorted locals, receiving sentences ranging from six months to seven years in jail. The article also notes a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad timetable promotion with daily departures from New York to Richmond, and ticket office locations at 434 and 1300 Broadway.
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Zion City to Purify Chicago Visit Led by Voliva
Wilbur Glenn Voliva, successor to John Alexander Dowie, says Zion City will march on Chicago in October with a thousand followers to purge vice. The Soldiers of the Lord will parade from Zion City to Chicago under banners and sacred music, aiming to swell Zion Church membership. He denounced the city, its courts, ministers, Judge Landis, and former Zion City receiver John Hately in a Whitney Opera House address.
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Taft's Son Leads Class In Yale Scholar Rank
Robert Alphonso Taft, eldest son of the Republican presidential candidate, tops the '19 class after two years with about 365 students. He plans to keep leading in scholarship while sharing rooms with football players Herry Payne Bingham of Cleveland and Adrian Van Sinderen of Brooklyn as he enters the final two years.
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New Haven
Robert Alphonso Taft
Taft
Herry Payne Bingham
Cleveland
Adrian van Sinderen
Brooklyn
Million Dollar Policies Taken By Peavey Firm
Frank T. Heffelfinger and Frederick B. Wells of F. H. Peavey & Co. Inc. of Minneapolis arranged a one million dollar life policy on each of their lives payable to the corporation. Provident Life and Trust Co. wrote 75 000 on each life with the balance in Equitable Life. This marks the third million dollar life insurance transaction in U S history.
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Frederick B. Wells
F. H. Peavey & Co., Inc
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New York
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Equitable Life Assurance Society
American Life Insurance
Frank H. Peavey
George W. Vanderbilt
John and
Redman Wanamaker
Mrs Gardner Shocks Boston In Sheath Gown Walkabout
Mrs Gardner known as Jack Gardner shocked crowds in Boston today as she wandered the exclusive Copley Square area in a sheath gown. A crowd gathered, then she appealed to a policeman who arranged a cab and she returned home.
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Boston
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Copley Square
Hold Up Attempts Foiled by Quick Drivers in Mamaroneck
In broad daylight two highwaymen tried to hold up four auto parties in Mamaroneck. Dr. F N Irwin of White Plains swerved his car to hit a robber, then sped away to safety. Other motorists faced a lone attacker with a rusty revolver who seemed deranged.
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F. N. Irwin
North Broadway
White Plains
Dr. Irwin
Explosion in well kills farmer and son in Cincinnati
In Cincinnati on September 2 a nitroglycerine explosion in a well killed Henry Rhymindsnider, 50, and his son Henry. A second son, Charlies, collapsed from fumes but was rescued before death.
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Henry Rhymindsnider
Henry
Charlies
Engine Explodes as Sloop Robert Palmer Burns
Shelter Island reports the gasoline engine in the sloop Robert Palmer owned by Captain Marcus Griffin exploded at Fisher's Island. The boat was destroyed and several passengers were burned but will recover. No panic or fatalities occurred among the passengers.
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Shelter Island
Robert Palmer
Marcus Griffin
Fisher's Island
President on Foraker affair highlights contrasts in party aims
The President denounces Senator Foraker amid Hearst disclosures and urges Taft’s renomination. He cites Taft’s July 1907 letter, defends upright leadership, and ties opposition to reform to moneyed interests allied with Governor Haskell and Foraker’s bloc.
Taft rejects any compromise with Foraker on presidency
War Department letter from Pointe au Pic Canada July 20 1907 shows Taft stating a compromise endorsing himself for president and Foraker for senator would misrepresent his position. He condemns Foraker for opposing vital admin policies and using race prejudice to embarrass the administration.
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Canada
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