Stefansson described as trusted Arctic explorer at museum
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, linked with the American Museum of Natural History, is praised by colleagues for caution and observational skill. The piece notes his Harvard background, Icelandic heritage, Canadian birth, bachelor status, and strong physical endurance suited to Arctic exploration. He recounts an expedition narrative written for the New York Sun and Sunday Light.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Vilhjalmar Stefansson
American Museum of Natural History
Stefansson
Canada
Harvard
Iceland
Arctic
New York Sun
The
Sunday Light
Seattle
Wash
Central Arctic
Coronation Gulf
Winnipeg
Edmonton
Mackenzie River
Polar Sea
Herschel Island
Mackenzie
Point Barrow
Collville
Alaska
Kotzebue Sound
Anderson
Cape Perry
Dr. Anderson
Mackenzie Delta
Hudson Bay Company
Outlaws Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards Captured
Des Moines detectives arrested Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards in a lodging house after 18 year old Maud Tiroler led them to the pair. Edwards was caught in a suburb while Allen, known as the old fox of the Blue Ridge, faced possible extradition as Virginia authorities pursue murder charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Ita
Virginia
East
Maude Tiroler
Edwards
Allen
Jenni
Justice
Baldwin, Lucas and Munger
Roanoke
Sidna Allen
Wesley Edwards
Judge Massie
Hillsville
Maud Iroler
Joseph Jackson
Iroer
the Old Fox
Blue Ridge
Floyd
Claude Allen
Claude
Friel Allen
Sidna Edwards
Victor Allen
Wyhteville
Sidna
Floyd Allen
Wesley
Mount Airy
N. C
Frank Jreler
Cameron
Miss Iroler
Jackson
Mrs Jenkins Seeks 218000 From Allen and Agencies
Mrs Helen Dwelle Jenkins sues Nathan Allen and Mooney and Boland agencies for 218000 alleging loss of personal property and smuggled gems including 126 Southern Coal shares worth 81000 two notes totaling 45000 oil paintings valued at 10000 pearl earrings 10000 and a pearl necklace 72000.
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New York
Helen Dwelle Jenkins
Nathan Allen
Kenosha
Wis
United States
Allen
Mooney and Boland
Chicago
Mrs. Jenkins
Southern Coal Company
John R. Collins
Coal Company
Schreyer
Weather Outlook for East and West Texas
The Weather Special reports east Texas with local rains Sunday and cooler interior conditions. Monday will be unsettled and cooler with likely showers in southern and central areas. Western Texas sees local rains and cooler conditions Sunday, followed by unsettled, cooler weather in the south Monday.
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Washington
Texas
Weather sketches across cities with Sunday rain likely
Observations at 8 p m report temperatures from 62 to 76 across several cities. Northeast to southwest winds range from 6 to 8 miles per hour. Several locations predict rain Sunday with varying cloud cover.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
ST. Paul
Kansas City
New York
Boston
Washington
Statement on AP leased wire carried by San Antonio Light
The note states that no other newspaper besides the San Antonio Light carries the AP leased wire into San Antonio, asserting the claim is unfounded and without basis in fact.
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Associated Press
San Antonio
Demands for Diaz Grow in Mexico City Uprising
Thousands of mobs in Mexico City chant Long live Porfirio Diaz and Death to Madero, marching on the chamber of deputies as congress debates a $50 million bond issue to quell the revolution. Women join, crowds demand recall and access to the chamber ends with mounted police at the doors.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Porfirio Diaz
Madero
Chamber of Deputies
Europe
Congress
Republic
Diaz
Federal District
Damages Sought Against S A and A P Ry Over Fatal Collision
Five suits filed in the forty fifth district court seek 1625000? wait. actual damages 7500 and exemplary 25000 per suit for five claims arising from a collision between a San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway passenger train and C C Berry's car near Floresville Elmendorf crossing. Mrs Lois Berry died. Mr Berry and children injured. Each suit targets the railway for death and injuries with statements of blocked view by brush. The engineer sounded the whistle but the car approached too late.
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Forty-Fifth District
San Antonio
C. C. Berry
Cleveland
John W
Evelyn Berry
Sap
Floresville
Elmendorf
Berry
Lois Berry
Banquet planned for the Governor at Rusk Texas
A Young Men's Business league committee will host Governor Colquitt and candidates Mayes Looney at Rusk to tour the state penitentiary. They plan a banquet with a discussion on the prison system and consider a proposed lease of the sudden accident furnace to Pennsylvania interests. The east buyers offer 3600 a year for four years plus ore payments and an option to buy the plant for 50000, with Colquitt likely to refer to the prison commission and favor leasing idle facilities.
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Tex
Young Men's Business League
W. T. Norman
Presient
William Ellis
Will H. Shook
L. Summers
D. C. Imboden
O. B. Colquitt
Will H. Mayes
B. F. Looney
Rusk
State Penitentiary
P. HB. Vaughan
J. J. Skinner
Pennsylvania
Colquitt
Prison Commission
Ramos Killed in North Side Street Row
Ruperto Ramos aged about 27 lived at 211 Guadalupe street and was shot and killed at the corner of El Paso and South Laredo streets during a quarrel last night. Blas Donnell, a dog roper, was arrested by Police Captain Charles Stevens on a murder charge. Ramos died from a bullet wound to the left eye that penetrated the brain. Ramos body taken to Riebe Undertaking.
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Ruperto Ramos
Guadalupe Street
el Paso
South Laredo
Blas Donnell
Charles Stevens
Ramos
Riebe Undertaking Establishment
Emperor Matsuhito Laid In Ancient Mausoleum In Kiota
The body of Emperor Matsuhito is carried 350 miles from Tokyo to Kiota aboard a twentieth century train and then borne by fifty Yase farmers in traditional dress to lie tonight in a mausoleum on Monoya ma Hill. Tomorrow the 10 and a half foot casket will be lowered into the marble vault as bronze doors seal the tomb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiota
Japan
Matsuhito
Monoyama
Martha Calhoun to wed Cleveland bachelor Hickox again
Miss Martha Calhoun daughter of Patrick Calhoun traction magnate and Wilson B. Hickox Cleveland's wealthiest bachelor announce engagement for a second time. The wedding is set for October 12.
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Cleveland, CO
Martha Calhoun
Patrick Calhoun
San Francisco
Cleveland
Atlanta
Wilson B. Hickox
Wealthy Amarillo Banker Slays Al Boyce in Front of Church
John Beal Snead a rich Amarillo banker disguised as a farmer shot and killed Al Boyce son of Captain A. G. Boyce in the lobby of the Metropolitan hotel Fort Worth then in Amarillo with the killing occurring outside the First Methodist church Snead surrendered and faces a renewed trial in November The Boyce and Snead families are wealthy ranching and banking interests with ties to Georgetown and Capitol Ranch in the Panhandle.
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Boyce
Fort Worth
Amarillo
Tex
John Beal Snead
A. G. Boyce
al Boyce
Captain Boyce
Snead
Boyces
Lena Snead
Georgetown
Texas
Metropolitan Hotel
Lynn Boyce
Capitol Ranch
Panhandle
John Snead
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Point Wise
Cape Bexley
Victorialand
Vilage
Snow House
Explorer Vidajalmar Stefansson
Allen and
Leather Trust
City of Mexico
S.A. and
A. P. RY
C. C Berry
Farmers Carry Body
Yung Bove
As Boyce
Ealuman
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