Gorman Seen as Strong Favorite for Bryan Ticket
Washington reports that former Senator Arthur Pue Gorman is a likely choice for second on the Bryan ticket. His backers claim he would boost Democratic chances in Maryland and other states. Key figures Croker and Murphy may visit Bryan to discuss the ticket.
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the Times
Washington
Arthur Pue Gorman
William Jennings Bryan
Gorman
Maryland
West Virginia
Kentucky
Delaware
McKinley
Richard Croker
Murphy
Lincoln
Neb
Bryan
New York
Croker
David B Hill Speech Outline For Kansas City Address
A Times representative outlines ex Senator David B Hill of New York preparing to address the Kansas City convention. The speech pledges Democratic support for majority rule and policies endorsed by forty five states and the national convention. Hill is described as a strong influence and a likely candidate for the party presidency with Newark among anticipated states carried.
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Montana
District of Columbia
Clark
James L. Norris
National Committee
Bryan
Kansas City
Executive Committee
Washington
David B. Hill
New York
Times
Hill
Chicago
H Hill
Senator Hill
Dee
Newark
Alabama Delegation Heads to Kansas City for Hill VP Support
The Alabama delegation leaves Birmingham for the Kansas City convention on Monday with the majority favoring David B. Hill for vice president.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Kansas City
David B. Hill
Women organize new society linked to Grand Army
A movement seeks to form a women only group allied with the Grand Army of the Republic. It would admit women who aided soldiers but were ineligible for existing chapters. Promoters include Mrs. Agnes Korndoerfer and Mrs. Sarah Lee. A meeting at Curry Post Hall drew nine provisional names.
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Grand Army of the Republic
National Association of Nurses of the Grand Army
Ladies of the Grand Army
Agnes Korndoerfer
Curry Circle
The
Grand Army
Sarah Lee
Curry Post Hall
North Twentieth Street
Korndoerfer
John P. Shade
Sewer Reconstruction Alters Eleventh Street Car Route
On account of the reconstruction of the Cobocksink sewer Eleventh street between Diamond and Norris begins Monday July 2. The Eleventh street cars will run north to Montgomery avenue east to Eighth street north to Susquehanna avenue and west to Eleventh street.
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Eleventh Street
Diamond
Norris
Montgomery Avenue
Eighth Street
Susquehanna Avenue
New St Francis Parish Church Planned at Germantown Corner
The Catholic parish of St Francis of Assisite will build a church at the corner of West Logan and Greene streets Germantown. Current activities are held under large white tents with visitors exploring new attractions as part of the parish's early display.
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St. Francis of
Woman invites eligible applicants to her home address
She announced that any women who were eligible and wished to join could send their names to her home address at 1725 Sansom Street.
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Sansom Street
Backward Children Exhibit of Last Three Months Work
An exhibit of the School for Backward Children will be shown on Friday June 29 and Saturday June 30 from 9 to 12 A M at the school on Van Pelt street above Chestnut. The display includes wood work era modeling color work writing woven site and paper work woven baskets kindergarten occupations and sewing.
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van Pelt Street
Chestnut
Engineer Elwood Rose Weds Marguerite Vietnman
Elmer Elwood Rose first assistant engineer in the Thirteenth survey district of the Department of Public Works married Marguerite Vietnman yesterday at the Universalist Church. The Restoration ceremony was performed by the Rev. Henry BR. Rose of Newark, 6D.
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Elmer Elwood Rose
Department of Public Works
Marguerite Viet Wwman
Allen * Man
Universalist Church
Henry BR. Rose
Newark
Porto Rico Executive Council to Meet in San Juan
Porto Rico's Executive Council announces a meeting in San Juan on June 28 with all members summoned. The session aims to discuss initial governance arrangements and official actions for the territory.
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Porto Rico
San Juan de Porto Rico
Executive Council of
Sian Ag
Storm brings brief relief from heat as Philadelphia endures high humidity
The article notes a scorching day with Boston hotter than Philadelphia and high humidity. Temperatures near ninety to one hundred degrees created suffering in slums and crowded piers, with relief only as rain briefly fell later. A cooler, brief moderation is forecast for the next day.
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Washington
New York
Norfolk
Boston
Jacksonville
Fla
Delaware River
Heat to Persist as Barometric Pressure Locks In
Forecaster Dey cites persistent barometric pressure patterns as the cause of continued heat. He notes high pressure stationary over the South Atlantic coast and central pressure in Ontario north of New York, predicting the hot spell will last one or two more days.
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Dey
City Poor Aided by Rich City Milk and Ice Society
The Sterilized Milk Ice and Coal Society, now in its seventh year, distributes pure milk ice and coal to Philadelphia’s poor at or below cost. Rabbi J. Leonard Levy helped found it. Eva Ellis runs the central depot at 585 Kater Street with staff in a six depots citywide. Mayors serve as ex officio presidents. current officers include Mayor Ashbridge as president and J Leonhard Levy as chairman. Donations support wages rents and utensils, with Joseph Louchheim as treasurer.
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J. Leonard Levy
Reform Congregation
Keneseth Israel
Kater Street
Tulip and
Harold
Eleventh
Bainbridge
Twenty-fourth
Callowhill
Water Street
Eva Ellis
Ellis
Levy
Ashbridge
J. Leonhard Levy
George D. McCreary
Joseph Louchhelm
Poselbit
Joseph Louchheim
Philadelphia Park Picnic for 50 000 Children at Washington Park
William J. Thompson of Gloucester hosted a large city picnic for Philadelphia children at Washington Park. The event featured river swimming, steamboat rides, and amusements, with the day ending in merriment and appetites sated by packed lunches. Next week 20 000 children from Camden and Gloucester will receive a similar treat.
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Washington Park
Philadelphia
William J. Thompson
Gloucester
Camden
Prohibitionists Convene With Woolley Prospects Firm
The 1034 delegate Prohibition National Convention opens at the First Regiment Armory in Philadelphia. John G Woolley leads as a leading nominee hopeful while Hale Johnson and Silas Swallow contend for president and vice presidency. Delegates from New England march in with canteens bearing anti canteen insignia. Samuel Dickie is named temporary chair and Samuel Dickle is nominated for permanent chair.
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Curiaco
Prohibition Party
First Regiment
Sixteenth Street
Michigan Avenue
Oliver W. Stewart
National Executive Committee
John G. Woolley
Chicago
New Voice
Hale Johnson
Newton
Ill
Silas C. Swallow
Harrisburg
Stewart
National Committee
New England
Samuel Dickie
Michigan
A. E. Wilson
Jesls
Tennessee
E. B. Sutton
Idaho
Dickie
Homer Castle
Pittsburg
Samuel Dickle
R. 8. Cheves
Indiana
Heat Prostrations Hit City From Heat Wave
Dozens of residents suffered heat prostration across Philadelphia and Camden from a heat wave. Among the injured are Abraham Whitman nine months old at 245 Queen street and Rebecca Goldberg eighteen at 1814 South street. several others were treated at Polyclinic Hospital, Pennsylvania Hospital, German Hospital, or Episcopal and Women's hospitals with varying seriousness.
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Abraham Whitman
Queen Street
Children’s Hospital
James Donnelly
Snyder Avenue
Tenth and
St. Agnes’ Hospital
Robert Jones
Baltimore
Seventeenth and
South Streets
Polyclinic Hospital
Rebecca Goldberg
South Street
Broad
Barnoo
Christian Streets
Pennsylvania Hospital
Maggie Shrub
North
Franklin Street
Clarence L. Barrett
Clearfield
Arch
Paul Hanning
Lawrence Street
Baldwin
Seventeenth Street
Patrick Coyle
Shamokin
Nineteenth
Spring Garden
German Hospital
Walter Vollmer
Reese Street
William Howard
William Howeld
Taylor and Fourth Streets
Camden
Colorado Street
Susaqehanna Avenue
Women's Hospital
H. K. Knox
South Eleventh Street
Seventeenth
Clearfield Streets
Samaritan Hospital
Alexander Anderson
Ninth Street
Passyunk Avenue
St. Mary's Hospital
William Hamilton
Germantown Avenue
Episcopal Hospital
Police Raid Boy Bathers Near Schuylkill River
West Philadelphia police ordered arrests of boys bathing at Spring Garden and South Street wharves as a heat wave floods river cooling. Officers faced sharp watch by youths, with James Kelly and William Collier caught and jailed five days each for trespass before Magistrate Thornton.
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Schuylkill
West Philadelphia
Spring Garden
South Street
Lancaster Avenue
Spring Garden Street
James Kelly
William Collier
Thornton
Heat forces Welsbach factory to shut in Gloucester City
Special Telegram to THE TIMES reports the Welsbach Light Company plant in Gloucester City closed today at noon due to extreme heat. The factory employs about 1,000 workers, mostly women, as the thermometer hit 114 degrees at noon.
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the Times
Gloucester City
Welsbach Light Company
Fire Destroys Barn on Hetrick Farm in Dauphin County
A large bank barn on William J. Hetrick’s Shellsville area farm was struck by lightning and burned to the ground amid a heavy storm. Livestock, farming implements saved. Another barn at Conradeo bearage was destroyed by fire caused by lightning. The storm damaged crops in Dauphin and Perry counties.
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Harrisburg
William J. Hetrick
Shellsville
Dauphin County
Conradeo
Dauphin
Perry
Heatwave Claims Life In Wilmington Bridge Incident
The June heat rose to 90 at noon and 92 by four in Wilmington. James Lowe of Eleventh and Poplar streets, involved with railroad works near the bridge across Delaware River, collapsed from heat and died, ambulance attendants report.
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Tax Times
Wilmington
James Lowe
Eleventh
Poplar Streets
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Ft Dywine
Harvard Confers Degrees at Cambridge Commencement
At Harvard University's commencement in Cambridge on June 27 the honorary LL D degree was awarded to Sir Julian Pauncefote the British Ambassador to the United States and William oamacey of me tees ey of SP at
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Harvard
Cambridge
Mass
Julian Pauncefote
United States
William Oa Macey
Me Tees Ey
Deaths From Heat Rise In Sweltering Pittsburg
Pittsburg reports three more heat deaths today with prostrations and gravely ill iron workers. The deceased include Mrs. Sarah M. Shaffer 30, William Warner 39, and Mary Tierney 50. Samuel Bust and Robert Waddell are not expected to survive as the heat abates with a breeze keeping temperatures around 82.
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Pittsburg
Sarah M. Shaffer
William Warner
Mary Tierney
Samuel Bust
Robert Waddell
Heat Kills Two in Chicago as Humidity Peaks
In Chicago on June 27 two deaths were attributed to record heat and humidity. Antonio Shoggens collapsed in the street while Oscar Berzner, overcome in a second story window, fell to the ground and died from his injuries. A late heavy shower offered some relief.
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Chicago
Antonio Shoggens
Oscar Berzner
Heatwaves Hit Elkton With Thermometer Near 101 Degrees
In Elkton Maryland on June 27 during a scorching afternoon the mercury neared 101 degrees as farmers cutting wheat on the outskirts struggled in the heat with several reported overcome by the heat.
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the Times
Elkton
Laborer Dies After Heat At Shanney's Quarries
Special Telegram to Tus Times says Joseph Deno a laborer at Shanney's quarries near Lambertville was overcome by heat yesterday afternoon and died several hours later. It is reported he drank a large amount of ice water to help revive himself.
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Tus Times
Lambertville
Joseph Deno
Shanney
Aries
Mason's Patent Tablets Promote Quick Digestive Relief
Mason's Yellow Tablets cure Dyspepsia and Mason's White Tablets cure Sore Throat all druggists or send for price by mail. T Mason Chemical Company 4 Arch Philadelphia Pa Mason's Cream Olives Cure Catarrh and Gri inflammation of mucous membranes Safe and Sure Remedy for illness shown in ad.
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Mason
T. Mason Chemical Company
Arch
Philadelphia
New York Heat Wave Ends as Storm Strikes City
New York endured a record heat earlier in the day with 74 at 8 AM rising to 91 by 2 PM. A tropical storm hit, bringing down a splintered flagstaff on the American Tract building and causing shocks and panic across Manhattan.
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New York
American Tract
Newspaper Row
Towed into port after collision
The three masted schooner Abbie H. Gheen, Capt. Taylor, from Norfolk with lumber, was struck amidships off Squaw on the New Jersey coast at 2 am by the steamer Manna Hata, causing a hole and water ingress. The vessel was driven toward port and towed to safety for inspection and possible repairs.
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New York
Abbie H. Gheen
Taylor
Norfolk
Squaw
New Jersey
Manna Hata
Baltimore
Condensed Cablegrams and Shipping News Flashes
A garbled cablegram note mentions plague aboard a P. and . steamer in Yokohama and a Gret cage to appear there. In London Bankruptcy Court a receiving order was made against a person with liabilities around 200000. An Italian bark is listed for Baltic trade with details unclear.
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Yokohama
London
Ainet Min Gresastahe
Uno
Fifteen Year Old Arrested in Burglary Case
A 15 year old, Herbert Welsh of 3451 Smedley Street, was arraigned by Magistrate Ackerman on a house-breaking charge. Neighbors saw him enter the home of Mr and Mrs Parker at 1430 Lenox Avenue. A passerby alerted a police officer. the suspect fled but was later identified by Mrs Parker. The Parkers were away at the time. two valuable rings were reported missing.
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Robert Merrill
Debrie
Harlem
East One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Street
William McCoy
Manhattan
Herbert Welsh
Smedley Street
Ackerman
Welsh
W. Parker
Lenox Avenue
Parkers
Fire Damages Flat on Catharine Street Through Overheated Stove
A fire suspected to be caused by an overheated stove damaged the third floor flat at 26 Catharine Street. The tenement, occupied by Occo Toluete, sustained about 500 dollars in losses and was extinguished by Engine Company 47 crews.
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Catharine Street
Onen
Occo Toluete
Engine Company 47
Obituaries and Brief Items From Chicago and Nearby Cities
Rev. D L J Dowling archdiocese vicar general of Chicago dies of heart disease. Louis M Stein a wealthy South Bend merchant beaten and robbed of 4000 dollars in Chicago. Rev James Gligenstein a Franciscan dies at St Francis Hospital Cincinnati. Jacobson named assistant director of North Americas Sacragerfest. Electric code franchise news notes Boston and Terre Haute figures. Passengers arriving in New York aboard a steamer noted.
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Archdiocese of Chicago
Amherst Chews
Charles .H
of Rico
Louis M. Stein
South Bend
Ind
Chicago
James Gligenstein
Roma
St. Francis’ Hospital
la Cincinnati
Joba
A. Ot
Priso! Or &Eary Jacobson
North Americas
Pets Tata
Boston
P. Sjams
Terre Raw
Red
Terre Haute
Saverere
Ome
Sosa
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Jones
Charles A. Towne
Arthur Sewall
Mayor Rose
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Colorado
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Rose
Wisconsin
Daniel
Bacon
Georgia
Arthur Pugh Gorman
Tuk Times
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Society For
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Republic
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Arch St
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Burlington
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Swallow
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Woolley
Mr. Woolley
Professor McWhirter
Henry B. Metcalf
Rhode Island
W. B. Witherspoon
W. W. Smith
Jersey
Philad'a
Gilmore
Langston
Europe
Marshall E. Smith & Bro
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Gongerts
Delaware Liberati
Henry M. Day
Rome
Hashim
Farrell & Taylor Trio
Happy Fannie Fields
Gracey & Burnette
Hanson & Nelson
Thompson & Green
Kreisser's Dog Circus
Excelsior Comedy Four
American
Hilton Brothers
Mute
Daily
Orchestra
Balise
OPLE
Jake Veteran Corps First Regiment
Central Park
Marine Band
Wyoming Ave. & Fox Chase Cars On Ltd
NEW York Marine Band
Colonical Garden
MESTM
Sie
Telegraph
Lafayette
Asher’s
Omy
Bel
Walnut
Cora
A. J. Miller
Vicke
H. W. Dieffenderfer
Waterside
J. M. Woodcock
Trust In
Germany
Worman
Munich
State Department
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