Husband surrenders to reveal wife killing in Perth Amboy
George Ves walked into a Perth Amboy police station and led officers to St Marys Cemetery where his wife lay dead from multiple gunshot wounds. He said she had been unfaithful and that he planned the murder, then decided to surrender. Prosecutors assign detectives to the case amid questions of his confession.
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George Ves
Perth Amboy
New Brunswick
N.J
Mulligan
Tye
Quinlan and
Hardy
St. Mary’s Cemetery
Woodbridge Road
Wes
Roadstown
N. J
Huntington Street
Booraem
Henry Paid by Spreckels in San Francisco Trial
In San Francisco Patrick Calhoun's trial Rudolph Spreckels testified he paid Heney a monthly salary of 590 to 600 dollars for three years. The defense highlighted this contradicting Heney and associates who denied any payment. Spreckels also revealed Abe Rueff proposed a bond bid strike against United Railroads if Spreckels drew a syndicate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Cal
Patrick Calhoun
Rudolph Spreckels
Francis J. Heney
Spreckels
Heney
United States
Calhoun
Abe Rueff
United Railroads
New Governor for Alaska Named by President Taft
Walter E. Clark Washington correspondent for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer was nominated by President Taft to be Governor of Alaska, succeeding Hoggatt who resigned. The White House said the appointment aims to unify interests and foster Alaska’s industrial development and special consideration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter E. Clark
Washington
Washington, D. C
Taft
Senate
Wakter EB. Clark
Jafegka
Hoggatt
Clark
Sheen
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Alaska
First South Atlantic Map by Naval Bureau
The Navy Department released the first map of South Atlantic waters. Crafted by the Hydrographic Bureau, it details coastwise routes along South America and Africa and outlines the best routes between the continents. The project reflects years of labor to support growing South Atlantic trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naval Bureau
Washington, D. C
Navy Department
South Atlantic Ocean
Hydrographic Bureau
South America
Africa
South Atlantic
Pennsylvania Provides Funds For Katharine Frick Education
Governor approves state appropriation for the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb at Mount Airy to educate Katharine M. Frick, a nine year old blind deaf and dumb girl from Philadelphia. This marks the first state effort to educate an individual student.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Katharine Frick
Harrisburg
Stuart
Pennsylvania Institution For the
Mount Airy
Philadelphia
Katharine M. Frick
William Frick
Katharine
Helen Keller
Swift and Miss Miller Elope and Marry in New Jersey
Julian W. Swift of Chicago and Miss Mary E. Miller of Lafayette, Indiana eloped in an automobile to Hoboken New Jersey and were married there.
Mrs Taft Missed Petersburg and Charlotte Events
Mrs. Taft’s sudden illness prevented accompanying the President to Petersburg Virginia and Charlotte North Carolina. Her illness stemmed from social duties and extreme heat, leading to rest and care. Local residents faced disappointment as planned entertainments and honors were put on hold.
Feleghap by rape and other bold headlines from era
A Chicago physician Mrs Julia C Strawn risked her life to save her paralytic father and mother from a home fire. In Morgan City a sixteen year old Leroy Olivier killed Dr Allen S King seeking revenge for his sister. The feed covers a cab strike photo feature in Chicago a six year sentence for William Adler in New Orleans an axe murder in Norfolk and other era crimes with varied outcomes.
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Chicago
Julia C. Strawn
Boy
Morgan City
Allen S. King
Leroy Olivier
Norfolk
Eugene Peebles
Helen Taft to Unveil Gettysburg Monument in Honor
Miss Helen Taft daughter of the President has accepted an invitation to unveil the Gettysburg monument with President Taft delivering the principal address. The report notes a new high record for congressional appropriations totaling 1 070 482 732 dollars. The President has returned from a Southern trip in good health amid rapid travel and speeches. An order by the District Police Commissioners bans lewd indecent or vulgar placards and pictorial crime representations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Taft
Washington, D. C
Gettysburg
Taft
Congress
Appropriations Committee
Senate
House
War in Cyprus and church clashes in Limasol
In Limasol Cyprus disturbances erupted over the enthronization of the Archbishop with fighting in churches reported. Other items note German Law Society honor for Dean Burgess of Columbia, orders of St Anne to Russian clergy, and Russia's inheritance tax plan. A Tokyo dispatch says Japan will send a warship to the Bering Sea amid vessel seizures by U S and Russian ships.
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Cyprus
Larnaca
Limasol
Burgess
Berlin
John William Burgess
Faculty of Political Science
Columbia University
New York City
German Law Society
St. Petersburg
Russia
The
Duma
Japan
Tokio
Bering Sea
Henry H Rogers dies at 69 in New York home
Henry H Rogers vice president of Standard Oil and key strategist dies suddenly at his home on Seventy-eighth Street New York City aged sixty nine His career saw him guide oil trust policy and he survived a long career amid 1907 panic losses Georgia to rivals led by J Pierpont Morgan His son Henry H Rogers Jr inherits potential influence with an estate rumored around fifty million to sixty million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Henry H. Rogers
Standard Oil Company
John D. Rockefeller
Seventy-eighth Street
Rogers
Tidewater
Norfolk
J. Pierpont Morgan
Standard Oil
Rockefeller
Henry
Fairhaven
Mass
Henry Huddleston Rogers
Standard Oil Corporation
H. H. Rogers, Jr
Young Rogers
Young
Columbia College
Mary Benjamin
European optimism drives stock boom after long lull
Financial leaders report a renewed boom on the London Stock Exchange and continental markets. Easy money and diminishing influence of a socialist government bolster confidence, while Americans buy and reorganized South Africa appears strongest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Europe
London Stock Exchange
England
South Africa
Prison and the Stage Lure
About the time Captain Peter C. Hains Jr was adjusting to a Sing Sing cell Mrs Annis widow of the man he killed signed a contract to appear on the vaudeville stage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter C. Hains, Jr
Sing Sing, N. Y
Annis
Wheat rallies to $1.30 in Chicago market rise
May wheat jumped to $1.30 in Chicago, eclipsing recent Patten deal highs by a half rent over the prior two week record, signaling a new peak in the grain market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Prince and Princess Murdered in Transcaucasia Estate Raid
In Gori, Transcaucasia, Russia, a band of armed men attacked the estate of Prince Dzhavakoff. They killed the prince his wife his mother his daughter and a servant before escaping.
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Gori
Transcaucasia
Russia
Dzhavakoff
California Cherries Arrive in New York City
The first straight carload of the 1909 California cherry harvest has reached New York City signaling the season’s early shipments. It marks a notable arrival for growers and merchants awaiting fresh fruit in the metropolis.
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California
New York City
Better Not Get Dyspepsia From Kodol Advertising
A promotional piece touts Kodol as a cure for indigestion and dyspepsia. It claims stomach rest aids cure, describes symptoms, compares to pepsin tablets, and urges immediate purchase with a money back guarantee. Local distributor W A Hayes is named with product details and a Chicago lab origin.
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W. A Hayes
Toda
E.C. DeWitt &Co
Chicago
Hillsboro
N. C
Bandits Rob Fast Mail Train Near Omaha Nebraska
Four masked bandits halted the Chicago Express on the Union Pacific near Omaha and looted seven registered mail bags valued at $100000. They fired revolver shots, scattered a nearby fire, and escaped in an automobile. Union Pacific offers 5000 per bandit for capture. Police questioned for lapses as the train neared the city.
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Omaha
Neb
Union Pacific
New York
Eddy” Cudahy
Pat Crowe
Chicago
Jackson
Forty-third
Strike ties up railroad in Georgia firemen strike
In Augusta Georgia a firemen strike shuts down the Georgia railroad as strikers vow to drive every Negro fireman from the road. The railroad refuses to move trains pending state protection for property and employees. Governor Hoke Smith orders deputies to defend life and property while freight from Atlanta to Augusta and beyond is routed via Central of Georgia and Seaboard. The Georgia Railroad spans 171 miles from Atlanta to Augusta with branch lines and is operated by Louisville and Nashville lease and Atlantic Coast Line lease.
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Augusa
Georgia Railroad
Hoke Smith
McDuffie County
Atlanta
Augusta
Central of Georgia and Seaboard Air Line
Louisville and Nashville
Atlantic Coast Line
Explosion Kills Engineer On Ida May Boat
In Ogdensburg New York the compressed air tank on the power boat Ida May exploded. Peter Wadenhoff of Bridgeport Connecticut, second engineer, was killed when blown through a partition against the hull. Harry Purtell of Cleveland Ohio, chief engineer, was fatally injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ogdensburg, N. Y
Ida May
Peter Wadenhoff
Bridgeport
Fatal blast sinks boat after man crushed and hurled through partition
An explosion tore an arm and crushed a leg as Purtell was blown through a cabin partition. The Ida May, an eighty foot, 500 horsepower double-acting motor power boat, sank in churning water. Purtell had just returned from Monaco where he worked on the Standard Q power boat racer for the international regatta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Purtell
Monaco
International Regatia
Torch Proposes Cutting State Supported Universities
A Chicago figure, Richard T. Crane, writes to Illinois legislators urging ending or shrinking state support for universities. He argues such institutions moralize youth and foster disdain for labor, contending they are funded wholly or partly by the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard T. Crane
Navy Plans More Battleships and Support Vessels
The Navy Department's building program for the fiscal year ending June 1911 provides for two more battleships and either five torpedo boat destroyers or one mud repair ship.
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Navy Department
Progr
Kansas Bars Enforce Drunk Drinking Ban Across State
The new Kansas law criminalizes drinking intoxicating liquor even from a private bottle, effective now. Earlier lone drinker penalties operated as small fines in cities but have largely ended as larger joint systems closed.
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Kansas
Kaw
Nomination of Williams as Immigration Commissioner at Ellis Island
President Taft nominates William Williams to be Commissioner of Immigration at Ellis Island New York replacing Watchorn. This action announces a high level personnel change in the federal immigration service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Immigration Commissiona
William Williams
Taft
Commission Immigration
Ellis Island
Watchorn
Embezzling Cashier Captured in New Jersey
Edward B Towne Jr cashier for Matheson Lead Company York City disappeared in December and is accused of embezzling 30000 dollars before being captured in Orance New Jersey
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Edward B. Towne, Jr
Matheson Lead Company
York City
J Orance
N. J
Death of Joaquin Barandi Veteran Journalist and Statesman
Joaquin Barandi aged sixty nine newspaperman soldier statesman died in Mexico City He represented Campeche in the government and was said to be one of President Diaz’s closest friends
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Joaquin Barandi
Senor
Mexico City
Campeche
President Diaz
Household Hints From A Colonial Pantry
Household hints cover cleaning methods for wax paper, patent leather, and croquettes. Notes advise salt water cloth, saddle paste for leather, and careful frying. Tips include substitute maple flavoring, egg stain removal with salt, and a canker sore remedy with alcohol. Mentions airships priced around two thousand dollars as speculative.
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Feleghap
Adler
New Orleans
William Adler
State National Bank
Gilbert Parker
Wyncote
Foroche
Adeline Hawkins
Mississippi
Natchez
Cincinnati
Ohio
Harry Rosenzweig
Harry Victor
Brooklyn
America
Rafeal
Brooklyn, N. Y
Father Pace
Rome
Edward A. Pace
Psychological Laboratory
Catholic University of America
Scott
Rucker
San Juan
Porto Rico
C. F. Scott
Agricultural Committee
A. W. Rucker
Colorado
Hlh. Rogers
Des
Great Standard Corporation
Rockefellers
Lees
Omaha, Neb
Georgia
Providence J
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