Captain Goddard's Excursion Draws Thousands of Women and Children
Captain Goddard organized his annual outing for the Twentieth Assembly district drawing about 12,000 attendees to Staten Island. The event aboard ten barges and two steamers included ample provisions with 2500 gallons of clam chowder and 1000 gallons of milk aboard.
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Norton Goddard
Assembly
Staten Island
Deveryich
Captain Goddard
Goddard
East Thirty-first Street
Forest View Park
Hardware Club Invites Mayor Low For Yacht Outing
Alderman Walkley arranges an afternoon sail on Mayor Low's yacht with the Hardware Club leaders, including counsel Clark and Comptroller Grout. The club, housed in the Postal Telegraph building, boasts a full membership and a wait list. A topical song about the trip was written by Walkley. On the bridge strike, some Williamsburg strikers say work may resume Saturday.
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W. R. Walkley
The
Hardware Club
Mayor Low
Postal Telegraph Building
Fournes
Board of Aldermen
Alderman Walkley
Seth Low
Williamsburg Bridge
Strike Fallout Continues Among Bridge Workers
A meeting is set for Saturday afternoon of the House smiths and Bridgemen Union. About 250 men ordered to strike in sympathy with Philadelphia members will attend. Bridge men oppose the strike and resents lack of consultation. The Pennsylvania Steel Company is opposing the union and has not sought to recall workers. The strike currently does not disrupt operations and the company would welcome another month of stoppage.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Steel Company
Dock Department
Cortlandttreet
Gansevoort Market
Thirty Eighth Street
Pennsylvania
Manhattan Island
New York Central
Pennsylvania Railroad
City Salary List Changes
City government salary list released across all departments shows more decreases than increases overall. The finance department records two increases and 175 decreases, while the law department sees more increases than decreases.
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Finance
Law
Board President Warns Strike Endangers Wadleigh High
Charles C. Burlingham, president of the Board of Education, warned that the Wadleigh High School construction strike would seriously interfere with the board’s plans. He said the fight is between unions, not contractors and workers, halting work on a high school expected to serve over 3,000 girls when opened.
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Charles C. Burlingham
Board of Education
Wadleigh High School
Trials of Eight West Sixty-Eighth Street Police Push Cat Case
At the regular police trials Deputy Police Commissioner Thurston heard charges against eight officers from West Sixty-Eighth Street station for failing to report a dead cat found in front of 31 West Eighty-Fifth Street. Captain Frank Kear pressed the case, citing James E. Chandler who complained to Health Board Commissioner Lederle that the cat lay in a lot for two days. The deputy commissioner reserved his decision.
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West Sixty-eighth Street
Thurston
West Eighty-fifth Street
Frank Kear
Kear
James E. Chandler
Lederle
Health Board
Life on a battleship warned by an old mariner
An excerpt from the New Orleans Times-Democrat quotes an experienced sailor detailing the brutal force of thirteen inch guns on battleships. He explains the hazards of firing, including ear protection with cotton and the violent air vacuum that can injure drum and nearby dogs, debunking the notion of naval life as a holiday.
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Uncle Sam
Annapolis
United States
New Orleans Times-Democrat
West Indianapolis youth jailed for assault case
Harry Williamson, seventeen, son of a prominent local businessman, was fined 25 dollars and costs and sentenced to thirty days in jail in Police Court. He and accomplices assaulted a Negro tenant as part of a race tension action to force him from a house nearby. Judge Stubbs warned that such youths receive no mercy.
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Harry Williamson
Indianapolis
Indianapolis News
Williamson
Stubbs
Low Paves Way For Tunnel Franchise
Mayor Low in weekly talk outlines rapid transit plan to enlarge New York transport. He asks Board of Aldermen to appoint conference committee with Rapid Transit Commission to modify the Pennsylvania tunnel franchise and improve cross river rail connections.
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Pennsy
Philadelphia Times
New York
Low
Board of Aldermen
City of
Rapid Transit Commission
Orr
Langdon
Peck
Fusion
Cantor
Brooklyn
New York Central
Manhattan Island
Central
Grand Central Depot
Harlem River
Desertions Hit President's War Yacht Mayflower
Nine crewmen desert the Mayflower, the President's official war yacht, amid claims of overbearing discipline. The unrest centers on Lt. W. W. Phelps, with eight hour watches, restricted shore leave, and near-total ban on smoking. Crew members blame stricter rules, not Cmdr. Albert Gleaves, for the friction aboard.
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Oyster Bay
N. Y
W. W. Phelps
Albert Gleaves
Phelps
Receiver appointed for Suburban Railroad Company
Judge Horton appointed L S Owsley as receiver for the Suburban Railroad Company after Chicago Title and Trust Company petitioned as trustee for bondholders. An injunction bars company officers from interfering with the receiver. Over 400000 in interest on first mortgage bonds is said to be due and unpaid.
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Chicago
Chicago Title and Trust Company
Horton
L. 8
Owsley
Suburban
the Campany
Silk Workers Strike At Toona
About 200 silk mill employees of Schwarzenbach Huber & Co in Toona went on strike over two dismissals. The strikers, mostly youths aged 15 to 25, held a well attended meeting to organize a union, and the two discharged men were again told they were not needed this morning.
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Philadelphia Times
Atoona
Schwarzenbach, Huber & Co
Newfoundland Fines Collected From French Smugglers
Smugglers along the treaty coast faced Newfoundland Colonial Government fines for smuggling liquor and related offenses. French fishermen refused to pay in several cases but armed police compelled payment. two offenders fled to St Pierre. The action surprised the French with no official friction reported.
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ST. Johns
N. F
Treaty Coast
St. Pierre
Newfoundland
Meade Family Tragedy Sparks Insurance Motive Theory
In a poverty struck Brooklyn home at 99 Emerson Place, mother reportedly killed her three young daughters to collect small life insurance payouts, while the father arrived home to find the scene. Hunger and drink are cited as factors amid the police investigation. policies valued at $35 for Alice and $? for Mary were involved.
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Alice
Mary Meade
Emerson Place
Brooklyn Eagle
Meades
Richard Meade
Andusband
Sam
Eason
Hon
Carm
Finnegan
James Conley
Language Origins Through Courtship, Fiddles, and Flattery
A compact study traces words from courtship to crowd to good bye and more. It links Titter to courtship, crowd to fiddle, fashion to a horse disease, and flattery to wagging tails via linguistic roots in English Danish and Norman usage.
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Petruchio
Democrats Eager for Nomination in South Jersey Contest
Camden Gloucester and Salem county chairmen meet at 3 pm in Woodbury to fix the First district nominating convention date. Rivalry for Congress nomination centers on Ferrell Newrey Pfeifer Carrow and a likely Davis of Clayton. Dems aim to group Gloucestershire county against Loudenslager and retake Camden sheriff’s office amid precinct tensions.
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South Jersey
Camden
Gloucester
Satem
Woodbury
Congress
Thomas M. Ferrell
Glassboro
Joseph E. Newrey
George Pfeifer, Jr
Howard
Newrey
Albert Taylor
Edward S. Matlack
Jacob Greer
Samuel Flick
John Zane
Vansant
East Side
Justice Schmitz
Albert Mat
First Tests Of Wireless Telegraphy Set For Naval Yard Anacostia
The first wireless telegraph tests will be conducted between the Washington Navy Yard and the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Lieutenant Hudgins arrives with two sets for four systems, excluding Marconi due to unsatisfactory arrangements with his company. A board to study the subject will be appointed soon.
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Washington
Europe
Hudgins
Washington Navy Yard
Naval Academy At
Annapolis
Senor Marconi
Marconi Company
Mexico Offers Prize For Artesian Well Drill
The government of Mexico offers a prize of 5000 Mexican currency to any person or company that within three years builds and starts an artesian well in Oaxaca or the towns of Xochimilco, San Felipe Del Agua, and Hacienda De Agullera.
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Washington
Government of
Mexico
Oxaca
Xochimilo
San .Felipe del Agua
Hacienda de Agullera
Army Chaplains to report births marriages baptisms deaths
By order of Lieutenant General Miles army chaplains must include in monthly reports a statement of all births marriages baptisms and deaths at their stations starting immediately.
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Army Chaplains
Washington
Miles
Army
Coal Land Deal Increases Coal Lands In Central Pennsylvania
The Clearfield Bituminous Coal Company closed a 9000000 coal land deal totaling 23000 acres in Cambria and Indiana counties. The tract remains a solid block two miles wide and six miles long, purchased from the original owners after farmers held it for sale.
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Philadelphia Times
Altoona
Clearfield Bituminous Coal Company
Cambria
Indiana
Peat Suggested as Coal Substitute in New York
In Medina New York July 31 a coal strike and rising prices prompt a proposal to use peat as a partial coal substitute. Western New York bogs in Orleans Erie Monroe Niagara and Genesee counties hold vast peat deposits. Treating peat with petroleum could yield a fuel rivaling anthracite and often superior to hard coal.
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Medina
N. Y
New York
Orleans
Erie
Monroe
Niagara
Genesee
Ireland
Scotland
Germany
Explosion Follows Lightning Strike at Ene Coal Mine
In Pittston a lightning bolt hit No. 11 shaft of Ene Coal Company during a severe storm. The bolt set off a gas explosion that wrecked part of the mine interior. If the colliery had been operating, lives likely would have been lost.
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Wilkesbarre
Ene Coal Company
Pittston
Fruit Shipping Experiment Reported From Liverpool Cable
Liverpool cable reports a recent experiment by four large Boston fruit companies. The message details results and potential implications for future shipments from Boston. Further specifics were not disclosed in the brief transmission.
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Boston
Liverpool
Boston Fruit
New Union Station Proposed for St Louis City Blocks
A plan for a new union station in St Louis Missouri would cost two and a half million dollars. The site covers two city blocks between Twelfth and Fourteenth streets and nearby avenues are noted in the proposal.
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Philadelphia Times
ST. Louis
Moc
Union Station
Becerge
Mrs Dulles Loses 12000 Pearl Necklace at New York Port
Treasury agents seized Mrs L Harrison Dulles's $12,000 pearl necklace on arrival from Europe aboard the Kronprinz Wilhelm. The piece, with 242 white pearls and a diamond clasp, was not declared and faces forfeiture proceedings. The case, referred to Washington, involves intent to conceal and duty misstatement.
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Mrs. Dulles
Stranahan
Dulles
Washington
United States District Attorney's Office
New York
Resolutions of Sympathy for Henry Illette Woodman
The T Square Club adopted resolutions of sympathy for the parents of Henry Illette Woodman, an organ ton member who died recently. The resolutions honor his character as an architect and longtime member.
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T-Square Club
Henry Illette Woodman
Organton
Are
Obituary notices from Philadelphia districts dated 1902
Funeral notices for multiple individuals including Captain Michael Burke of the Ninety First Regulars and Harold Shortlidge. deaths listed July 1902 at Cambridge Street West End and Dickinson Street. services at St John s Church Westminster Cemetery Our Mother Sorrows Church Garden Meeting House and various family invitations with funeral times and locations.
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Dunlevy
Merion
West
Harold
Robert Harold
Klinck
Charles
Elizabeth Klinck
Jane M_ Klinck Gee Budd
Dickinson Street
Bos
Gelbes
Vas Pecscel
Alton
Shortlidge
Horace Milton Shortli
Ree
Philadelphia
Reduced Rates to San Francisco and Return Acgount Biennial Meeting
Unclear text mentions reduced rates to San Francisco and a return trip. References a biennial meeting for Pythias or similar organization. Ohio Railroad Company appears in garbled form with details unreadable.
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San Francisco
Sing
Pythias
Scl
Acattery
Ohio Railroad Company
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John Morrison
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George Murray
Locust Street
Harry Miller
Cooper Hospital
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Joseph Goddard
Dog's Corner
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Camden County
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