Love and Corset Athletes Foes
Reports from New York and Paris recount varied anecdotes. Miss Adeline Trapp, famed long distance swimmer, warns against love affecting records after a 17 mile Hudson swim in seven hours while noting she never used a corset or drank tea coffee or alcohol. In New York a $6 000 face massage dispute follows a masseuse leaving a client’s regular place of employment. In Paris John W Gates shows improved condition after a serious health scare.
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Wew
York
Adeline Trapp
Hudson River
Miss Trapp
New York
Louis Winterfeldt
Plague Scares East as Cholera Deaths Hit New York
Three deaths and fifteen cases in the Swinbourne Island detention hospital spur U.S. experts to contain a cholera outbreak. Most victims from the Moltke liner, with quarantine doubled for passengers from infected Italian districts. Investigations target Dr. Alvah T. Doty over treatment of migrants amid political pressure.
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New York
United Press
Swinbourne Island
U.S
Washington
Moltke
Italy
Alvah T. Doty
Chas. Bulger
Dix
Doty
Tammany Hall
Girl Wakes After Three Weeks Sleep Under Mysterious trance
Miss Hazel Schmidt of Vandalia Illinois awoke from a three week sleep saying she felt fine though unable to grasp the duration. She remained under care as doctors expect she will recover enough to be up in about three weeks.
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Vandalia
Fil
Hazel Schmidt
Seeing Scotland as King and Queen Begin Royal Visit
London reports King George and Queen Mary start their Scottish tour with a 6 pm Edinburgh arrival. The royal party includes the Prince of Wales and Princess Mary. City decorations mirror patriotic fervor as dignitaries greet them at Caledonian station. The king will inspect the Royal Company of Archers tomorrow. Sunnydale item notes a fatal school incident involving Althea Vince after a kick.
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Ress
London
George
Mary
Prince of Wales
Princess Mary
Edinburgh
Caledonian Railroad
Duke of Connaugat
Royal Company of Archers
Baron Pierp Read as Feudal Baron in Hungary Offer
Budapest July 17 Emperor Francis Joseph weighs J Pierp Morgan speculation as a potential feudal baron. His $1,000,000 bid seeks to gain Matthias Corvinus throne curtain and buy the entire estate with feudal baron privileges.
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Pierp
Budapest
J. Pierp Morgan
Francis Joseph
Matthias Corvinus
Hungary
Auto Hits Pole During Practice for Hill-Climb
Percy Barnes lost control of an auto owned by P. J. McHugh at 1722 East Queen Anne and struck a telephone pole, snapping it at the base. Barnes escaped injury while the car suffered major damage to the front end and springs as practice for today’s hill-climbing contest.
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Percy Barnes
P. J. McHugh
Queen Anne
East Queen Anne
Barnes
Elks Kidnap Writer Jerome in Chicago to Atlantic City Trip
Jerome the songwriter was kidnapped yesterday in Chicago and brought to Philadelphia this morning hatless and short of funds. Billy an Elk and his friends seized him at the depot as the BPOE convention train for Atlantic City prepared to depart. They hustled him aboard and held him on the speeding train to keep him from jumping.
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Philadelphia
Mill Jerome
Chicago
Coiniess
Billy
Atlantic City
Poultry Course Opened at New Jersey Station
At the New Jersey experiment station in New Brunswick a correspondence course in poultry raising has been begun with Prof. Harry B Lewis directing the new department. Over 1,000 people have enrolled and Dr. Jacob Goodale Lipman oversees the station and has arranged Yiddish translations of college literature for Jewish farmers.
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Trenton
New Jersey Experiment Station
New Brunswick
Harry B Lewis
Jacob Goodale Lipman
Theatres Notes and Seattle Play Review
At the Grand this week an animal act featuring dogs a Belgian hare and doves crowds the band. Three film programs run at the Seattle theater with the Pringle company stars Miss Virginia Brissac and Verne Layton in A Wife's Secret.
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Seattle
the Grand
Cate
Pringle Company
Virginia Brissac
Verne Layton
Eugene Mockbee
eBtty Barrows
Arraignment Today for Mrs McManigal in Contempt Charge
Mrs Ortle BE McManigal wife of the self confessed dynamiter faces arraignment before Judge Hardwell on contempt of court charges for refusing to answer questions from the grand jury in the McNamara cane case. Her commitment for contempt is probable as her lawyers advise noncooperation. Also news notes girls taught to shoot at Broad Street Park church in Trenton with a new Guild Rangers club training in firearms and athletics under Rev William Stone.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Ortle
BE McManigal
Trenton
Broad Street Park Methodist Episcopal Church
William Stone
Gili Rangers Club
Prince of Wales to tour world from England
Washington reports the young Prince of Wales plans a world tour to study the territories he will rule. The voyage is expected to head westward with a possible arrival in the United States within weeks after leaving England.
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Washington
Prince of Wales
England
Indians Have Potlatch Too
In Seward Alaska four tribes the Matanuskas Kenais Kniks and Susitnaa hold a large annual potlatch with feasting trading and dancing. A marshal ensures whiskey is kept out of the celebrations.
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Seward
Alaska
Blue and Gray to Hold Reunion in Memphis
Gen George W Gordon announces that the civil war blue and gray veterans will meet in Memphis in the last week of September. Leaders of both sides endorse the reunion and railroads offer one way fares. Taft Roosevelt and state governors will be invited to attend.
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Geo. W. Gordon
Memphis
Tenn
Blue
Gray
Taft
Col. Roosevelt
Union
George W. Gordon
The
Confederate Veterans
In Prison With Convicted Husband
In the county jail a former Oakland County Assessor Henry P. Dalton remains in good spirits as he awaits sentencing for soliciting and receiving a $6000 gift from the Spring Valley Water Co. Dalton's friends and relatives visited him, and his wife Mrs. Dalton spent much of the day with him.
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Oakland
Henry P. Dalton
Spring Valley Water Co
Dalton
Boy Drowns While Paddling at Lake Union
The first heat wave fatality was 11 year old George Berggren of 560 Prospect St. He slipped from a raft while paddling at the foot of Lee Ave. on Lake Union and sank. Fellow youth Iver Gill found help, and C A Stone at 757 Newton Ave pulled the body ashore. A doctor arrived but could not revive him.
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George Berggren
Fred Berggren
Prospect St
Lee At
Lake Union
Iver Gill
C. A. Stone
Newton At
Stone
First Chinese Chauffeur in Southern California Injured
United Press report from San Diego dated July 17 describes a Chinese chauffeur, formerly a cook for Mrs. Lyman J. Gage, who drove a new car into a light pole near City Plaza. The crash shattered light globes. the vehicle was badly damaged. The man is described as battered and grieving.
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United Prees
San Diego
Cal
California
Lyman J. Gage
United States Treasury
Gage
Steers Stampede Through Chicago Streets
A stampede of thirty steers ran wild for about a mile in Chicago on July 17 injuring a pedestrian. Three steers were killed by a locomotive and one by a street car. A dance at Dreamsend was scheduled for tonight.
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Chicago
Sunday Hottest Since 1906
Seattle endured its hottest day since 1906 with a 92 degree high while Portland hit 97 and Spokane 98. The heat wave across Eastern Washington and Oregon caused three deaths and an insanity case in Portland, plus a child death in Walla Walla.
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Seattle
Northwest
Portland
Spokane
Washington
Oregon
Pendleton
Walla Walla
North Yakima
Salem
Vancouver
Wash
Tacoma
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Cathey Brothers
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