Saengerfest Opens Amid Grand Philadelphia Festivities
The eighteenth national Saengerfest begins tomorrow at Mammoth Hall Eleventh and York Streets with a week of concerts and a grand Thursday parade. Six thousand male voices, a Philadelphia based festival orchestra, and a star line of soloists including Emma Juch Sophie Traubmann Maud Powell and Leopold Godowsky highlight the event. A large parade with over five hundred societies precedes the celebration and Colonel Wendell P. Bowman leads as chief marshal with a long list of aides. Mayor Charles Warwick urges citizens to decorate in support.
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Mammoth Hall
Eleventh and
York Streets
New York
Philadelphia
League
National League
Committee On Quarters
Louis Goos
Goos
Young Maennerchor
Sixth and
Vine Streets
Emma’ Juch
Sophie Traubmann
Jennie Foell
Marie Kunkel-Zimmermann
Emma Mechelke-Vogt
Maud Powell
Leopold Godowsky
Josephine Richardson
William Bartels
Carl Schachner
Robert Schurig
J. Henry McKinley
Mammoth
Committee On Parade
E. W. Siegman
Wendell P. Bowman
Louis J. Bauer
George Arnhold
Charles Moser
Charles Barth
William Reiter
Louis H. Eckhardt
Thomas Berry
Paul von Kurowsky
George
Eugene K. Reyenthaler
Frank Schanz
August Blenzle
George Weisbrod, Jr
R. G. Ledig
Christian Wohlfarth
Join Birkmann
Max Thiel
Adolph Uffenheimer
Henry J. Poh
John Weide
Adolph Granzmann
Samuel Rosenfeld
Eugene Bender
J. P. Oders
August P. Kuenzig
Otto Flemming
Paul “Sske
Albert Irvin
Fritz Fried
de Kieffer
Gustave Ludwig
Gus Mueller
John F
Bickhardt
Otto Ch. Frederick Bernhardt
Jacob G. ‘Erick
William Roden
Uech
Charles Reppe
Philiud. Nett
W. F. Stitz
Paul Sebach
Henry Weisbrodt
Charles F. Schoening
Tablet Unveiled in Bethlehem Honors Continental Soldiers
Three hundred Sons of the Revolution travel from Philadelphia and across Pennsylvania to Bethlehem to unveil a bronze tablet honoring Continental soldiers who hid in the Moravian home during the Revolutionary War. The ceremony at Colonial Hall recalls historic scenes at the Moravian Seminary for Young Women.
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Bethlehem
United States
Philadelphia
Old Moravian
Moravian Seminary
Washington
Lafayette
New England
Saengerfest Hopeful for McKinley Attendance
The Saengerfest committees hope President McKinley will attend the opening tomorrow and report that an interview with him was pleasant and satisfactory. The President is anxious to be present unless prevented by important duties and a final word is awaited from Washington.
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McKinley
Washington
Hobart
Arno. Leonhardt
German Saengerfest Week Opens in Washington Park
Washington Park on the Delaware hosts Saengerfest activities with daily German musical programs led by the Boston Concert Band. Highlights include Trenkler’s The Germans Before Paris, Wagner’s Tannhauser, Die Loreley, and Schubert pieces. Free concerts run daily with a $100 electric fountain display at 8.45 pm, balloon ascent today, and frequent Arch and South street boat service with low fares.
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Washington Park
Delaware
Boston
Trenkler
Paris
Turner
Wagner
Mendelssohn
Schubert
Nicholson
Arch Street Wharf
South Street Wharf
Gloucester
Arch Street
Ex convict Gimbrat arrested after Portland escape
New York reports Central office detectives captured John H. Gimbrat an ex convict who escaped Portland Oregon jail on July 4 last year. He had an eight months term for robbery and prior four year Joliet prison sentence after a Chicago arrest on May 8 1890 linked to George W. Brown. Gimbrat claimed he walked out when a new sheriff arrived and no one stopped him.
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New York
Central Office
Portland
Oregon
John H. Gimbrat
Gimbrat
Chicago
George W. Brown
Joliet
Astourbants
Bicyclist Charged With Murder After Wyoming Clash
Cheyenne Wyoming June 19 champion cyclist Charles Erswell was arrested on murder charges after a quarrel with soldiers ended in the shooting of Private McCrimness and Private Thomas Mooney. McCrimness died and Mooney remains in critical condition as Erswell fled to his home.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Charles
Erswell
Wyoming
McCrimness
Eighth United States Infantry
Thomas Mooney
McGrinness
Mooney
New Glucose Trust Formed Amid Market Quiet
June 19 in Cuiiaco brokers report a glucose trust being formed with most major U S sugar refiners included. Conrad H Matthiesen of Chicago Sugar Refining is named as prime mover though he declines comment.
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Cuiiaco
Glucose Trust
Conrad H.matthiessen
Greatess
Chicago Sugar Refining Company
United States
Combine
Matthiessen
Opening of Pennsville's new pier and dancing pavilion
On Thursday June 24 Pennsville hosts a grand opening at River View Hotel riverside pier and pavilion. Frank Furbank funded the project with substantial investment for the town and navigation. A large band plays all day and music in the pavilion for dancing. A flag is unfurled at 3 o'clock with an ovation by H. B. Ware of Salem.
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Timess
Pennsville
N. J
River View Hotel
Delaware River
Frank Furbank
Pennsville and Navigation
H. B. Ware
Salem
Welcome for Congressman and Mrs Kulp at Reading station
A large crowd of about two thousand people greeted Congressman Kulp and his wife in Shamokin at the Reading station on their return from a wedding tour. Lincoln Post led the reception with a band, cannon boomed, and a pyrotechnic display followed as the veterans dragged the carriage to the McChunell manion after pulling it from the car.
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the Times
Shamokin
Lincoln Post
Congressman Kulp
Reading Station
Raymond & Whitcomb Announce Summer Trips to New England
The firm released a catalogue of short summer excursions to major New England and Canadian resorts. Further details are available at their Philadelphia office located at 1008 Chestnut Street in the Mutual Life Insurance building.
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Messrs. Raymond & Whitcomb
New England
Canada
Philadelphia
Chestnut Street
Mutual Life Insurance
Colonial Hall Remembered as Moravian Hospice 1747 To 1770s
Turbulent era hospital use linked Colonial Hall known for Moravian ties. Washington and Lafayette visited, flags and commemorative tablet unveiled. James M Beck spoke on Patriotism as crowds toured Colonial building, Sun Inn, graveyard and related sites. A long list of dignitaries attended the unveiling and luncheon.
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Old Moravian Church
G. Woolsey Hodge
Pennsylvania Society
Sons of the Revolution
James M. Beck
Colonial Hall
Charles H. Jones
Committee On Monuments and Memorials
Richard Cadwalader
Moravian Seminary and College For Women
J. Max Hark
Market Street
Sun Inn
Washington
Lafayette
Greene
Knox
Schuyler
Gates
Sullivan
de Kalb
Steuben
Pulaski
Army
Hancock
Henry Laurens
John and
Samuel Adams
Richard Henry Lee
Drowning of Dr Donnelly's Son at Local Reservoir
TaMaQua June 19. After a ball game this afternoon a son of Dr Donnelly Summit Hill went bathing in an old reservoir near here. He went beyond his depth and was drowned within sight of his companions.
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the Times
TaMaQua
Donnelly
Summit Hill
General William F Smith Defends Petersburg Assault Facts
General William F Smith replies to Century Magazine misstatements on the June 1864 Petersburg assault. He cites Grant's records and dispatches to rebut claims that he captured the fortifications, misdated timings, and exaggerated gains, detailing Hancock’s role, orders given, and Grant’s praise and initiatives to place Smith in command.
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Century Magazine
Horace Porter
Grant
Petersburg
General Smith
Porter
Tam
General Grant
W. F. Smith
Nagy
Jordan's Point Road
Appomattox
Hancock
Hinks
Smith
Kautz
Norfolk and Petersburg
of Hancock
Butler
Army of the Potomac
Gibbon
the James
Lee
Chaffin’s Bluff
Cobb’s Hill
River Acres
Be Hill
Ronin
Aea
Towen
Bare
Signa mL
Dana
Secretary of War
Missionary Ridge
Chattanooga
Lyman
Meade
Mil
Halleck
White House
Bermuda Hundred
Department of Virginia
North Carolina
Fortress
Monroe
Army of the James
Department of North Carolina
Virginia
Smith Will
Fall of scaffolding injures graduates in Ottawa
In Ottawa Illinois on June 19 a temporary scaffold collapsed during a county school graduation photo session. About 240 students fell ten feet. Jennie Andrews and Linnie Reid from Grand Ridge were badly hurt, others suffered minor injuries. The photographer faces anger for using rotten timber.
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Ottawa
Ill
Jennie Andrews
Linnie Reid
Grand Ridge
Reduced Pennsylvania Railroad Fares for Milwaukee Meeting
The Pennsylvania Railroad announces reduced passage to Milwaukee for the National Educational Association meeting July 6 to 9. From all points east of Pittsburg and Erie, tickets are a single fare round trip plus a $2 membership fee, valid July 2 to 4 for outbound and July 10 to 12 for return, with a possible extension to August 31, 1807 after depositing at Milwaukee joint agent and paying 50 cents. Special train departs Philadelphia at 12:50 PM.
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The
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
National Educational Association
Milwaukee
Wis
Pittsburg
Erie
Philadelphia
Northwest crashes into docks at Burrao harbor
The large passenger steamer Northwest, leaving port for Duluth, parted its hawser and struck the docks. Damage to the dock estimated at $1,000. No injuries reported and the ship continued its voyage.
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Burrao
N. Y
Northwest
Duluth
Heatwave Sees Multiple Sunstroke Deaths in Lincoln Centre
In Lincoln Centre Kansas the ongoing heat wave has lasted since Wednesday with temperatures from 103 to 105 degrees. Three deaths from sunstroke and about six prostrations were reported, underscoring the dangerous conditions.
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Lincoln Centre
Kas
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Eugene Klee
Miensi
Arno Leonhardt
William McKinley
Garret A. Hobart
Daniel H. Hastings
Pennsylvania
Charles F. Warwick
Carl Lewis
Saengerbund
W. Spiedel
Hans Heiling
H. Marchner
Oberon
Festival Orchestra
der Lindenbaum
F. Schubert
Bruemein Fliessen
Baldamus
Teenveees Weber
Warwick
Charles M. McCloud
Heros Carpenter
Ward Nter
John J. Pinkerton
T. Milner
Thomas G. Morton
E. G. Hamersley
Charles P. Sherman
Slater B. Russell
J. B. Heller
Samuel L. Kent W
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Wm. Spohn Baker
J. Campbell Lancaster
E. W. Greenough
J. Hunter Ewing
Henry Whelen
Robert
A. Edgar M. Green
P. Howe
Dalton Dorr
P. Sadler
J. W. Shackford
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F. H. Galloweys
Rufus J. Foster
A. R. Montgomery
Horace Fe, Heyden
Wm. Smith Bowen
A. A. Stull
Chas. Harrod Vinton
John Marston
Charles Williams
Samuel Small
Wm. H. Egle
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E. A. Weaver
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Setott
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Edward M. Mellyain
Benjamin J. Douglas
Joseph M. Myers
Elliston L. Perot
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A. WN. Waterhouse
Gen
A. W. Russell
H. K. Nichols
Henry R. Brown
Joseph 8. Perot
NEW Glucose Trust
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Mrs. Kulp
Perdisylamia Society Sons OF the Revo
Tony
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M. Reed Minnich
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Isaac Lane Anderson
Albert Brodhead
Robert W. Smith
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Leighton W. Eckart
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Jacob G. Morris
Alen B. Cuthbert
Wm. C. Posey
M. D. Antoine Bournonville
Frank Rattles
David K. Boyd
H. D. Lehnure
Jonathan C. Neff
J. Davis Brodhead
Charles P. Hunt
Hampton L. Carson
F. D. Stone
J. M.levering
Edward W. Kluge
Henry A. Krause
Clement Stewart
Robert P. Rathbun
L. W. Minnich
Co. G. Hellick
Chas. Gibbons Davis
John J. Henry
Randolph Clay
Henry T. Kent
John W. Buckman
Steven H. Walsh
Coleman Sellers
Charles W. Smith
Benjamin H. Smith
George W. Titman
Ard Colker
A. N. Cleaver
Daniel Waldo Howard
Louis Plumer Posey
Francis
Keese
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Dediington
Lewis Sm Firey
da “Pale
A Baker
de T . Bradford
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Charles I. Cragin
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J. P. Gobin
Henry May Siet
Harold M. Sil
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Postum Cereal CO. Limited
Battle Creek, Mich
Smith and Porter
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