Coroner Reveals Heir to Berwind-White Coal Ties
Joseph Simons, found unconscious in Franklin Square, dies in Pennsylvania Hospital from uremia after a fall. A coroner’s autopsy links the death to injuries from the fall and confirms kinship to McOwen of Berwind-White Coal Company, who had married Simons’ sister. sister Mrs. Hill learns of the tragedy and awaits burial arrangements.
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Joseph Simons
Pennsylvania Hospital
Franklin Square
J. P. Sharpe
Wharton Square United Presbyterian Church
Mr. Sharpe
Potters’ Field
President McOwen
Berwind-White Coal Company
Pennsylvania
McOwen
Henry Hill
North Sixteenth Street
Hammond
Armstrong
Reading's Summer Schedule for Atlantic City Line Revealed
The Philadelphia and Reading Railway unveils a summer timetable starting Saturday with weekday fast trains from Camden to Atlantic City at multiple times including 9, 10 45 and 1 P M Sundays offer fewer departures. Additional Cape May Ocean City and Sea Isle City service detailed with morning and afternoon runs and a $1 excursion train leaving daily at 7 A M.
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Philadelphia and Reading Railway
Atlantic City Railroad
Camden Terminal
Atlantic City
Cape May
Ocean City
Sea Isle City
Kansas Populists Rebel Over Fusion Ticket
In Topeka on June 25 old time Populists protested the state convention's fusion with the Democracy. Senator Tapp, lacking a party, said he would vote for Governor William E. Stanley, Republican, for U S Senator to succeed William A. Harris.
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Topeka
Kansas
People’s Party
Democracy
Tapp
William E. Stanley
United States
William A. Harris
Gettysburg Chosen for Camp Site
Gettysburg selects its battlefield as the Pennsylvania National Guard camp site praised as the finest in state militia history. Quartermasters from three brigades toured the grounds finding modern facilities, ready unloading points, and extended water and electric provisions. The press notes the camp offers unprecedented maneuver space and historic backdrop for the guard.
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Philadelphia Times
Gettysburg
National Guard of Pennsylvania
Thomas OC. Steele
Orlando L. Nichols
William F. Richardson
Lewis A. Aushutz
Gobin
O'Neill
Emmetsburg
Pickett
Charles Miller
Paradelphia Times
Pennsylvania
Cyclone Cellars and Windward Warnings Across the Plains
The article surveys cyclone protection in Western Kansas Oklahoma and Russian communities, noting sod houses built to face the wind, earthen caves in Oklahoma, small cannons loaded with buckshot used to disrupt storms, and the daily ritual of dismissing schools as storm fronts rise.
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Prarie West
Kansas
Oklahoma
Plains of
Roosevelt Receives Harvard Degree in Cambridge
President Roosevelt attends Harvard University commencement in Cambridge with Governor Crane and Eliot presiding. He honors Elihu Root Taft and Leonard Wood for public service noting their sacrifices and achievements in Cuba Egypt and the Philippines while praising Lincoln's memory.
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Boston
Roosevelt
Crane
Harvard
Massachusetts Hall
Eliot
Sanders Theatre
Thomas Jefferson Coolidge
French Republic
Addison Brown
United States
New York
John Hay
Theodore Roosevelt
Memorial Hall
John D. Long
Alumni Association
Hay
Alexander Agassiz
Hoar
Lodge
Great Britain
England
McKinley
Hamilton College
Elihu Root
Yale
Taft
Leonard Wood
Lord Cromer
Egypt
Lord Kitchener
South Africa
Cuba
Philippine Commission
Abraham Lincoln
Root
Wood
Fire records J B Holland singed in Conshohocken home
United States District Attorney James B Holland suffered facial injuries and singed hair while rushing into a bedroom during a fire at his Conshohocken home. The incident occurred in Norristown on June 25 as firefighters battled the blaze.
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Norristown
Conshohocken
United States
James B. Holland
Soft coal strike groups meet in Wilkes-Barre headquarters
Two delegations arrived from Michigan and Ohio to confer with President Mitchell on a new wage scale. Michigan officials and United Mine Workers leaders held talks while Ohio delegates remained reticent. Engineers and other workers gathered at Nanticoke to urge returning miners back to Susquehanna Coal Company pits, while a trespass suit headlines follow.
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C.S. Rattle
Bay City
W. F. Williams
Michigan
United Mine Workers
Edward Richards
Mitchell
Buckeye
Haskins
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Nanticoke
Mine Aim to Enforce Law After Effigy Incident
In Scranton on June 25 the Pennsylvania Coal Company filed four $2,000 trespass suits against James and Charles Brown John Burns and Ernest Danks alleging they were part of a crowd that hung engineer Thomas Borthwick in effigy before his house.
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Scranton
Pennsylvania Coal Company
Thomas Borthwick
Duryea
James
Charles Brown
John Burns
Ernest Danks
Luzerne Court
Susquehanna Coal Company
Dun & Co
Lackawanna County
Three Henry Clay miners return to work at SHAMOKIN mine
Three of the striking mine engineers resumed duties at the Henry Clay colliery operated by Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company. They are operating the water hoist and preventing water from flooding the upper level.
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Shamokin
Henry Clay
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
Steel fears bituminous strike response brewing in Duquesne
The United States Steel Corporation fears the bituminous miners will heed President Mitchell's order to strike. A large coal cache is stored at Duquesne on a four acre tract prepared for that purpose.
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Philadelphia Times
Pittsburg
United States Steel Corporation
Mitchell
Duquesne
School Directors Set to Fight Indictments in 28th Ward Scandal
Motions to quash or demurrers to indictments in the 28th ward school scandal will be made this morning. Directors Seixas Brown and Travis will plead to charges. A. B. L. Shields and John Monaghan will object to how indictments were found. Wilder and Sixel seek immediate trial. David O. Johnson remains missing.
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28Th Ward
Seixas Brown
Travis
L. Shields
Seixas
John Monaghan
Brown
Wilder
Sixel
David 0. Johnson
District Attorney's Office
Baltimore Fertilizer Dealer Makes Assignment for Creditors
Joshua Horner trading as Joshua Horner Jr and Co assigns for creditors, with trustees posting bond and assets estimated around 75000. Liabilities not yet known. Horner once led the American National Bank, which failed, and had large ties to the Automatic Telephone Exchange Co, now in receivership.
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Baltimore
Joshua Horner
Joshua Horner, Jr
Summer Rail Schedule to Upper New Jersey Coast Resorts
Beginning 12 01 P M Saturday June 28 the summer schedule on the New York and Pubes Division and New York and Long Branch rail load will be in effect. From Broad Street Station Philadelphia for Asbury Park Ocean Grove and Long Branch via Monmouth Junction and Sea Gift trains run weekdays at 4 20 6 53 and 8 22 A M 12 27 2 82 3 30 and 4 00 P M Saturdays 5 00 P M Sundays 7 30 8 32 A M and 4 12 P M express service to Beach Haven and Island Heights will operate with Pullman parlor cars on selected trains.
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Broad Street
Tome, Iver
Market Street
Philadelphia
Asbury Park
Ocean Grove
Long Branch
Point Pleasant
RS Island Heights
Sea Girt
Abit
Philade
Ket Street Sc Wharf
Beach Haven
Arrivi
Iphia
Thieves Plague Aldan Amid Delaware County Burglary Spree
A wave of burglaries hits Aldan and nearby towns with eight houses broken into between midnight and 5 am. Authorities link the Upper Delaware county crimes to the same suspects, as a mail of cash and valuables vanish while a nurse-like alarm is sounded by local residents. A separate case details a man’s arrest after the home invasion of Mrs. McManus, with valuables valued at 1500 dollars missing.
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Aldan
Baltimore Central
Lansdowne
Joseph Tomkinson
Maryland Avenue
J. Walter Jones
Miss Annie Hall
Tomkinson
William Clark
Charles Griffith
Griffith
Delaware County
Washington Wilfong
Bryn Mawr
Jennie
Paderewski and Mozart Minuet Impresses Warsaw Host
An anecdote recalls Paderewski, then a Warsaw Conservatoire professor, playing a short minuet for Swiertochowski at his host Poll poet’s house. The host Schen to chor was enraptured and declared Mozart could not have written a finer piece, a claim York Word notes with irony.
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Paderewskii
Paderewski
Conservatoire of Warsaw
Swiertochowski
Mozart
Geepetts
Paderewsk
Local Notices Present Patchy Readings From City Directory
Fragmentary OCR lists names ages and addresses with scattered dates June 9 23 28 but lacks clear actions or complete details. The item resembles a local notice or directory snippet with several persons and places incomplete.
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Potter's Field
wind-White Company
Coal President
Os Joseph
Marine Corps
Reading
Emmittsburg
John W. Schall
Wendell P. Bowman
Schaal
Lee
Reynolds
Philadelphia City
Governor's
Sheridan
Reynold
U. S. Army
Foote
Fourth
U. S. Artillery
Fort Meyer
John A. Wiley
Seventy-third New York Second
Sickles
Excelsior Brigade
Edward
J. B. Holland
West Center
Steel Trust
North Eighteenth Street
Anna R. McManus
North Bouvier Street
West Seventy-second Street
New York City
Smyth
Twentieth
Jefferson Streets
Rochersperger
Beitler
Quarter Sessions Court
Charles Bartals
Nathaniel B. Springer
Bartals
James J. Blake
Nellie L. Casey
Common Pleas Court
Vine Street
Nellie L. Davis
Blake
Hoskins Store
Strops
WM. H. Hoskins CO
Serge
William H Wanamaker
Estminster Cemetery
N. E. Cor
John
Frank Martin
Bernard Rudolph
Smedley Street
George Dunn
Nineteenth
Huntingdon
John Gerrity
Wingohocking Street
Rudolph
Gerrity
Walter Bender
Martin
Albert Scrime
Joseph Steelman
Camden
George S. Bodine
Sunset Avenue
Chestnut Hill
John T. Ferley
South Third Street
Dora Pee
Begress
Willem Benners
Cambridge
Loulea Kaelin
Second St
Wromlag Ave
Michael Kane
Renate St Camden
Lawrence i Rorke
Wood St
Broadway
St N. Y. City
W. Johnson Quinn
Proprietos
Royal Palace Hotel
Atlantic City, N. J
Chestnut Street
F. N. Pike
Lexington Corner
Pacific and
Missouri Avenues
Beach
N. J
New House
Matthew Baines
Grand Central Hotel
Penna Depot
Cuisine Francaise
F. L. Addor
Pacific
Arkansas Aves
Mary FE. McQuade
Pitmey OY Toco
W. J. Ime
Shelburne
Ocean Front
R. E. R. Ramsey
Arkansas
Pacific Aves
Reading Depot
M. Murphy
Rudolf Ocean
Charles R. Myrrs
HOTEL
Lafayette
Tracy & CO
Spa
Isle City
W. J
New Jersey
T. WW
Greenbrier White
West Virginia
Harrington Vs. Mgr
Greenbrier White Sulphor Springs
W. Va
Parot
Polly
James Dunn
New York World
Captain Dunn
Captain
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