Life Saving Device Tested Off New York Bay
An experimental life saving device by Albert T. Brook Gascon was tested from the Daniel McElroy lighter near Owls Bay New York. The floatable craft, designed to automatically launch if the vessel sinks, promises seating for fifty with water tanks food lockers and a canvas cover. The trial showed the boat leaping into the water within seconds with the ship’s wake splashing around but not soaking the craft, and officials noted potential permanent deck installations on liners.
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New-York Bay
Owls Bowe
Basdertin
Brock
Moat
Daniel McElroy
Gmen
Wiliam
Cannon
Agalstant Depot Quartermaster
McElroy
Iewatterward
Proving His Honesty in a Witty Courtroom Exchange
A London Scraps item relays a humorously inverted testimony where a witness asserts confidence in plaintiff Mr. Smith after recounting a tale of an innkeeper eating his own meat pie in front of customers. The joker claim: such eating proves honesty since no man could refuse to trust him.
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London
Mitchell
Bryan
Dallasy- Tex
Jung
John Mitchell
Mhnols
Vallan Democrate
Hanellia
Denver
A Philosopher in a Cyclone and a Cheerful Citizen
An Atlanta Constitution fragment recounts a humorous claim about a cyclone carrying a house away while the resident remained unhurt. The tale mocks insurance and fear, with a citizen saying the wind might have damaged him yet. Readers are urged to tell Tus News what they saw.
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Bence
Atlanta Constitution
Wedding guests arrive as bridegroom dies in fire
Philadelphia city desk reports Nathan Presser a young Hebrew man living with his factor and sisters at 511 Greenwich street, Allentown bride Rose Schattenstein to marry Sunday. Instead of a wedding, guests found him in flames and conscious only long enough to say he sought death by fire after depleting his savings. He had twice postponed the nuptials due to money tied up in his business.
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Philadelphia
Greenwich Street
Nathan Presser
Rose Schattenstein
Grant Street
Allentown
Epeeh
Manent
Shen
Hig
Heyoni Frazh
Miss Schattenstein
Wedding plans halted as bride-to-be falls ill in Allentown
At the Behattenstein home Nathan Pressar and Misa Rosie Schattenstain faced a wedding delay as guests gathered. A letter from the fiancé in loving terms arrived Saturday, revealing an unforeseen personal crisis that left Miss Schattenstein completely prostrated.
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Allentown
Behattenstein
Nathan Pressar
Misa Rosie Schattenstain
Miss Schattenstein
Langiege
Funeral crowd endures smelling salts blast injuries
In McKeesport Pennsylvania on June 22 Miss Lida Dall suffered severe facial burns when a bottle of smelling salts exploded at the funeral of Miss Hasel Penny. The blast, from a close room, sent glass shards into her face as she pressed the bottle to her nostrils to steady herself. her condition is listed as serious.
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McKeesport
Lida Dall
Grandview Arghue
Hasel Penny
Penny
Baby Drinks Whisky, May Die
Camden police arrest Campbell and his wife after a three year old child is found in critical condition at 1007 Central Avenue, suspected of being forced to drink whisky. Detectives Painter and Hart report the case to the hospital where doctors note an unknown large liquor intake. outcome hinges on medical care.
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Nudy
Henry Hampbaibie
da Goppar Hospital
Department Way
Casaphee
Painter and
Hart
Central Avenue
Campbell
Five Ordained Into Ministry in Pittsburg Synod
Five young men graduated from the Chicago Theological Seminary were ordained at the Pittsburg Synod session in Greenville Pennsylvania on June 22. Roy G. Cattlin from Erie assigned to Decator NL Albert H. Keck from IT to Scenery Hill Charles A.Naumann from Chicago to Ligonier Charles E. Reed from Harmony to Osage C William Zundel to Knox PA Ravive Boy Under Water Six Minutes, Reading, Pa. June 22. Nine year old Frank Lamm survived six minutes underwater in the Schoylail and was revived after being rushed to the city hall.
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Greenville
Pittsburg
General Council
The
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Chicago Theological Seminary
Roy G. Cattlin
Erie
Decator
Albert H. Keck
Scenery Hill
Charles A.naumann
Chicago
Ligonier
Charles
Ravive
Reading
Frank Lamm
Schoylail
Strasser
City Hall
Crowns In Swimming Tank
The body of Frank Krisner was found in the East Side YMC A swimming pool with a broken neck. Police say he dived into the pool and suffered fatal injuries. investigators are searching for the circumstances surrounding the tragedy at the New York facility.
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New York
Jame
Frank Krisner
East Side
The
Young Men's Christian Association
Bomb wrecks steamer at Philadelphia wharf
An explosion in the hold of the Hamburg American Line steamer Arcnodta at the Washington avenue wharf killed three men, injured many, and caused the ship to burn and sink. About forty others suffered lesser injuries. A discharged Hamburg employee is suspected. A stevedore’s hook sparked the blast. the dead were Lucius Hubbard, Coleman Henderson, and William H. Butler, all stevedores, with addresses on Nineteenth, South Twelfth, and Hambridge streets.
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Killa
Philadelphia
Philadelphi
Hamburg- American Line
Arcnodta
Washington Avenue
Hamburg
Schaarachmidt
Jermon
Cansul
Lucius Hubbard
South Nineteenth Street
Coleman Henderson
South Twelfth Atreat
William H. Butler
Hambridge
WILL WEAR ROYAL JEWELS Miss Reid Receives Present From King
London reports Miss Jean Reid daughter of American ambassador A Whitelaw Reid will wed Hon John Hubert Ward. She will wear an engagement ring and three heirloom bracelets sent by King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, plus Ward’s ruby centerpiece bracelet and a gold mounted dressing cube bearing the Dudley arms.
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Miss Reid
London
Jean Reid
Whitelaw Reid
England
Chapel’Royal
John ‘Hubert Ward
Edward
Een
Alexandra
Ward
Maryland road party to inspect New Jersey roads
Governor Fort and the Maryland good roads commission will inspect New Jersey roads on July 8 and 9. The party will be met at Camden, tour south Jersey and the Atlantic shore, stop at Sea Girt, and end in Jersey City before returning home by train.
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WIII
New Jeraey Roads
Trenton
N. J
Brothers of Maryland
Maryland Good Roads Commission
New Jersey
Maryland
Gamden
Fort
Rodd
Gilkysod
South Jersey
Atlantic Shore
Sea Girt
Jersey City
Woman ends life on train near Columbus in tragedy
In Sunbury, Mrs. James Comstock leapt before a southbound Cleveland, Akron and Columbus railway train and was decapitated. Her head was found far along the track after the engine completed its journey to Columbus and back toward Condit. The shocking accident occurred June 22 as the fast passenger train passed through the area.
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Columbus
James Comstock
Sunbury
Cleveland
Akron & Columbus
Condit
Fatal Burns From Odd Cause Near Beaford Del
Fatal accident report from Beaford Delaware details Mrs. Jane Jones widow of Jacob OC Jones fatally burned while burning fog caterpillars on a mulberry tree when a torch flame set her clothing ablaze. Neighbors extinguished the fire but doctors say she will not recover. A second brief item from Atlantic City New Jersey reports postal inspector arrests of Lewis Hewitt carrier charged with robbing the mails with decoy letters seized.
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Beaford
Del
Jane Jones
Jacob Oc, Jones
Atlantic City
N. J
Post
Lewis Hewitt
Shot Negro In Woman's Clothes
In New York a man disguised in a woman's clothes was shot and killed on West 122nd Street while fleeing after threatening Patrolman George Thompson. Thompson, wounded slightly, fired three times, hitting the suspect in the brain as the assailant slashed Thompson's throat. The attacker escaped.
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New York
Vegrd
West One Hundred and Twenty-second Street
George Thompson
Thompson
Tli
Minister Shot Dead in Fredericksburg Standoff
In Fredericksburg on June 22 Rev. V Strausa a 70 year old retired German Evangelical clergyman shot at four men in the street and fled with a rifle. One man Max Kneiche returned fire with a revolver striking Straussa who died. None of the four men was hurt.
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V. Strausa
German Evangelical Church
Fredericksburg
Atrpet
Frederickeburg
Max Kneiche
Strauss
Suicide in Allentown Police Cell Details Tragic
A fifty year old man Oswald Seng hanged himself with a noose made from suspenders in a Allentown police cell after earlier drinking problems and domestic threats led to his arrest. A later inmate found Seng dead. the report notes severe drinking issues and recurring trouble at home.
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Allentown
Oswald Seng
Seng
Bridegroom Drowns in Delaware River at Bordentown
George Gengel aged thirty was drowned while bathing in the Delaware River at Bordentown New Jersey on June 22. His body had not been recovered. He was married only three weeks ago.
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Bordentown
N. J
George Gengel
Delaware River
Gengel
Fatal Hudson River remains shock news
Reports describe four men found dead in the Hudson River near New York. The text also notes a Toronto meeting of the Supreme Council of the Independent Order of Forest ers deciding on rate increases. Other incidents include a man losing balance while cherry picking in Manteim and two suicide attempts linked to marital distress in Greensburg and a lover in Greensburg, Pa.
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Hudson River
New York
Toronto
Supreme Council
Independent Order of Foresters
Harry Stebman
Manteim
Gimon Brusonitis
Clear Spring
Weat Pittston
Hed
Beasie Parugh
Greensburg
Rudolf Bomboltiah
No Need of muterine from Rheume sm
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Murderous quarrel ends in wife slaying in Harriaburg
Lula Zravic, a Servian resident, killed his wife during a quarrel at their home and wounded himself, firing multiple shots. The brutal attack left the woman fatally wounded as the man tried to reload. he was later taken to a hospital. No motive is known. In Annapolis, two farm laborers aged 29 and 21 drowned when their boat capsized in Winchester’s Cave on the Severn River. In Saratoga Springs, children rode water wagons at a temperance parade. In Newton, Indiana, Frank Parker was shot by a former partner while attempting to kidnap his own child. In Bobhley, a man bitten by a bulldog forty times, his daughter ten times. both survive but serious injuries.
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Harriaburg
Lula Zaravic
Bimh
Farmora
Annapolis
Nicklaus Kellner
Quetav C. Schiller
Winchester
Severn River
Newton
Frank Parker
Denver
Cold
Grinnell
Kellogg
George Young
Young
Bobhley W
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