Delaware Deep Channel Work Pushed by Cosby
The Delaware river and harbor improvement aims to open a 30 foot deep channel to sea by December 31 1904. Captain Spencer Cosby signed the bid specs for dredging from Finns Point New Jersey to deep water near Bombay Hook Delaware with bids due August 21.
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Philadelphia
Delaware Bay
Christian Street
Finn's Point
United States Engineers’ Office
Washington
Delaware River
Spencer Cosby
N. J
Bombay Hook
Del
Engineers
United States Army
Witherspoon
Juniper and
Walnut Streets
Secretary of War
Aone
Baker
Baker Shoal
Satolli Mentioned as Leading Prefect Candidate
Rome July 22 Tonight the list of candidates for the post vacated by Cardinal Ledochowski matches the hours since his death Cardinal Vannutelli and Cardinal Francis Satelli are named as leading contenders Satelli is seen as a Pontiff favored pick with strong knowledge of American affairs to guide the Congregation of the Propaganda in its duties toward the United States was noted as key.
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Rome
Cardinal Ledochowski
Cardinal Vannutelli
Francis Sate‘i
United States
Congregation of the Propaganda
Cardinal Satelli
Message for Young Mackay on Saxonia telegrams
July 22 report from London says the Cunard liner Saxonia sailing Liverpool Bos ton carries a wireless message to Clarence H. Mackay son of the late John W. Mackay. He sailed from New York July 19 on Campania. The body of Mr Mackay is embalmed in a metallic coffin in the Mackay residence music room, with many flowers and messages arriving from dignitaries worldwide. Mrs Mackay is as well as could be expected.
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London
Cunard
Saxonia
Liverpool
Boston
Clarence H. Mackay
John W. Mackay
New York
Campania
Mackay
Miller Lunacy Commission Hearing Highlights Family Testimony
Franklin July 22 The Miller lunacy commission heard key testimony from Congressman Joseph Sibley and Mrs Miller. Sibley claimed insanity runs in the Sibley line and that Mrs Miller's mind unbalanced during revivals. Mrs Miller testified to a happy home, recent sanity, and past bladder troubles. Dr Nicholson testified she was insane two years ago but sane now.
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Philadephia Times
Franklin
Miller Lunacy Commission
Enid
Joseph ©. Sibley
Miller
Sibley
Charlies A. Miller
General Miller
Hill Spends to Bring Kennedy to Northern Meeting
Wall Street reports James J. Hill of the Great Northern and Northern Securities plans a $2500 expenditure to secure John H Kennedy’s attendance at an executive committee meeting next week. Kennedy is at Bar Harbor and Hill sent the yacht Wacoutah to fetch him, costing about $250 daily for at least ten days. The purpose of Kennedy’s vote remains undisclosed.
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Philadelphia Times
New York
James J. Hill
Great Northern Railroad
The
Northern Securities Company
John 8. Kennedy
Mr. Kennedy
Bar Harbor
Sailor Loses Leg After Grog Shop Fall
John Lockwood, an elderly sailor living at the Almshouse, celebrated with a furlough and two dollars, then collapsed near Thirty-fourth and Spruce. His left leg was severed below the knee, prompting bystanders to alert police and summon a patrol wagon to take him to a hospital.
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John Lockwood
Thirty-fourth
Spruce Streets
Lockwood
Thirty-seventh
Citizens threaten suit over Baldwin Works noise
In the 15th ward residents near the Baldwin Locomotive Works plan legal action after petitions to abate night noise smoke and dirt failed. Led by former Mayor Charles F. Warwick and William H. Staake they threaten injunctions and damage suits if September petitions do not stop the disturbances.
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15Th Ward
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Burnham, Williams & Co
Charles F. Warwick
William H. Staake
Ludwig Filbert
Spring Garden Street
Baldwin’s
Staake
Warwick
Baldwin Company
Baldwin Works
Philadelphia Times
John H. Converse
Baldwin
Pennsylvania
Fifteenth and
Chestnut Streets
Albn B. Johnson
Hammock Accident Hurts Six Year Old in Garden
Six year old Mamie Price of 3714 Mount Vernon street was badly injured when hammock ropes broke while she swung in a back garden yesterday. She fell to the ground and sustained injuries.
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Mamie Price
Mount Vernon Street
Tne
Actor Hitchcock Leaves Hospital After Appendicitis Operation
Raymond Hitchcock, the actor, has left St. Seawyn Hospital after undergoing an appendicitis operation. He was reported in good condition and will resume work after a short convalescence.
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Hitchcock
Raymond Hitchcock
Seaen
ROW OVER POROUS PLASTER AT CENTRAL STATION
James McKeever appeared at Central Station with his wife Lucy after a dispute over a porous plaster. Mrs. McKeever told the Magistrate of alleged mistreatment. McKeever said they get along, but a dispute over a plaster pat led to words. Magistrate set bail at six hundred dollars for court.
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James McKeever
Central Station
Lucy
Family disappears after sending boy to Willow Grove
Leopold Dusanda, 14, reports his family vanished to the Detective Bureau. He says his father Ernest sent him from 1336 Carlton Street with a note to a Willow Grove chef. after waiting, the boy returned home to find the house stripped and a note claiming the family had returned to France.
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Leopold Dusanda
Ernest Dusanda
Carlton Street
Willow Grove
Leopold
France
Taxed Telegraph Poles in Pennsylvania Court Cases
The Supreme Court docketed two cases challenging a state law authorizing municipalities to tax telegraph poles within town limits. Boroughs Taylor and New Hope imposed license fees on Postal Telegraph lines, raising questions about the law’s validity as applied to boroughs.
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Washington
Pennsylvania
United States Supreme Court
Taylor and
New Hope
Cramp Shipyard to Build Fast New Jersey Rail Boat
The Cramp Shipbuilding Company will construct a fast ferry for the New Jersey Central Railroad from Rector Street New York to Atlantic Highlands New Jersey. The contract requires a fifty five minute voyage making it the swiftest in New York harbor and aims to beat the Monmouth by thirteen minutes. The new flyer will use a torpedo boat stem to improve passage through shallow Sandy Hook Bay and will closely resemble the Monmouth in overall design.
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Cramp Shipbuilding Company
New Jersey Central Railroad Company
Rector Street
New York
Atlantic Highlands
N. J
New York Harbor
Monmouth
Jersey Central
Sandy Hook
W. R. Hearst
Mr. Duncan
Flyer
Sandy Hook Bay
New Flyer
Seventy Three Councils Stay Out of U A M Rift
Amid a bitter split within the Junior Order of United American Mechanics loyalist and insurgent factions, seventy three councils refuse to recognize either side. They await court resolution and have kept funds and records intact while remaining outside the dispute.
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Order of United American Mechanics
Georgia Man Dies by Shoestring in Jail Suicide
In Rome Georgia on July 22 John B McGhee awaiting trial for the murder of Confederate veteran F L Miller killed himself in his cell using a shoestring as a weapon.
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Georgia
Rome
John B. McGhee
F. L. Miller
Illinois river floods cut railway line at Pekin
The Illinois river rose to twenty one feet above low water mark at Peoria, and this morning dykes near Pekin failed, riding on the Peoria and Pekin Terminal Railway tracks. Over a thousand feet of track were washed away and water flooded acres of grain nearby.
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Peoria
Ulmnois
Pekin
Peoria and
New York and Bremen Ties Highlighted in Brief Note
A fragmented note mentions New York and Bremen with unclear names and context suggesting a connection or correspondence between the two cities.
Regional paving bids show average rates per cubic yard
Pennsylvania and Vulcanite bidders seek about 2.49 dollars per cubic yard for repaving and 2.58 dollars for paving. A former bidder in Wilkesbarre offered 1.23 dollars per yard.
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Wilkesbarre
Competition drives asphalt bids in Wilkes Barre report
In Wilkes Barre and Philadelphia bids for city street work reveal the Pennsylvania Asphalt Company and Vulcanite Paving Company, linked to the Asphalt Trust, offered the two lowest bids for repaving at about 2.49 per square yard while Warner Quinlan argued open competition would have produced lower rates. Proposals specify Trinidad Lake or Bermudez Lake asphalt, with total repaving around 900000 dollars across 124 streets. If competition had set new paving at about 1.25 per square yard, city savings could reach roughly 445000 dollars.
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Wilkes Barre
Pennsylvania Asphalt Company
Warner-Quinlan Company
Ashalt Trust
William ©. Haddock
Bureau of Highways
City Hall
Trinidad Lake
Bermudez Lake
Trust
Vulcanite Paving Company
Fidelity Building
Asphalt Trust
W. H. Lober
Fidelity
John M. Mack
Filbert
Mack
Vulcanite Company
Barber Asphalt Company
Wilkesbarre
New York City Paving Contracts Awarded
Barber Asphalt Company bid 89 cents per square yard for repaving with asphalt on Cherry Street from Eighteenth to Twenty-first. Baker Company named as lowest bidder. work to be completed in sixty days and kept in repair for five years. Granite blocks on Cherry Street become contractor property under the proposal. Bids for painting and repairing city bridges were set aside due to lack of funds.
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New York City
Barber Asphalt Company
Baker Company
Eighteenth
Twenty-first Street
Cherry Street
Bullitt Weighs Action Against Asphalt Trust
William C. Bullitt, holder of 25000 in American Asphalt 5s, and counsel J Douglass Brown have not decided the nature of his legal action against the Asphalt Trust. James W M Newlin aims to attack the reorganization plan in equity and declines to disclose his clients. Newlin opposes the plan saying extra debts and assessments could be forced on stockholders. A national committee member argued the stock would be full paid and non assessable. Receiver John M Mack said he does not know the specifics of his claims and gets his news from newspapers.
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William C. Bullitt
J. Douglass Brown
Asphalt Trust
James W. M. Newlin
Newlin
Mr. Newlin
National Committee
John M. Mack
Mine Guard Killed in Accidental Shooting at Wilkesbarre
James Thompson, a deputy at Sugar Notch for the Lehigh and Western Coal Company, was accidentally shot in Wilkesbarre by fellow officer William Jones. Thompson, whose exact identity is uncertain, stood about forty yards away as the trigger fell while he tried to remove a bullet from his rifle. The guard’s past includes time at Bloren banking and a Thirteenth and Market Street detective agency assignment.
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Philadelphia Times
Wilkesbarre
James Thompson
Sugar Notch
Lehigh and Western Coal Company
William Jones
Philadelphia
Thompson
Thirteenth and
Market Streets
Lombard Street
Bloren
Dromio Harrisons Go 10 Jail
Two Harrisons cousins living together in West Manayunk were sentenced to at least six months in the House of Correction. John No 1 aged 40 and John No 2 aged 35 have long been mistaken for each other, leading to a string of mistaken arrests and a comic mixup over a $4 find and a borrowed nickel. Magistrate Ackermann ordered both punished to end the confusion.
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John Harrisons
Belmont Road
West Manayunk
House of Correction
John No. 1
John No. 2
Manayunk
Henry McCauley
No. 2
Ackermann
Harrisons
Squire Deflects Red Auto Then Surrenders to Supper
Squire Wells of Berlin New Jersey and a deputy posse waited two hours on White Horse pike to stop a crimson automobile headed from Hammonton to Berlin. They invited the group to supper while the car vanished in a puff of gasoline dust. occupants of the wrecked carriage were not learned and not badly hurt.
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Squire Wells
Berlin
N. J
Hammonton
Pythias Ballots Sealed Ahead of August Grand Lodge
Four thousand votes cast for Grand Keeper of the Records and Seals of the Knights of Pythias are placed in a sealed strong box. The box will be opened about ten days before the Sunbury convention on August 9 to determine the official choice.
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Knights of Pythias
Grand Lodge
Sunbury
Congressional Nominations Iowa Ninth District
In Iowa ninth district Walter L. Smith seeks renomination while in North Carolina ninth district F. Y. Webb runs as a Democrat opponent.
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Iowa
Walter L. Smith
North Carolina
F. Y.webb
Archbishop Iresland on Taft Vatican talks and Catholic trust
Arch bishop Ireland discusses Taft Vatican negotiations with an Associated Press representative. He says Rome is satisfied and that Vatican cooperation will help implement agreement in the Philippines. He urges Catholics to trust American governance and warns against aggressive church factions.
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ST. Paul
Iresland
Associated Press Today
Taft
Vatican
Archbshop
Rome
Associated Press
London
Manila
Philippines
Phillippines
Washington
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Salem Cove
Duck Creek
Sajem Cove
Satolli
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Ledochowski
Young MacKay
Marconi
Mrs. Miller
Wall Street Curious
Tar
Will
Baldwins
Broad Street
Fifteenth
Sixteenth Streets
Sixteenth
Seventeenth Streets
Seventeenth Street
Baldwin's
Locomotive Works
Twentieth
Illinois River
Bremen
Friedrich Een A
Rosee Aoe Setar
Vulcanite
Bullitt
Dromio Harrisons
Squire
Pythias
Ireland
St. Paul’s
Tion
Friars
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