Greek Anger Over Crete Crisis Prompts Allied Appeal
Athens plans a reply to the Porte as four protecting powers press for an amicable Crete settlement. Russia France Britain and Italy coordinate firm protests to Constantinople and Athens while German support is noted for peaceful solution efforts. An Austrian squadron and an Italian warship arrive at Volos.
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London
Turkey
Greece
Crete
Europe
M. Iswoisky
Cowes
Constantinople
Athens
Genea
France
Germany
Great Britain
Russia
Italy
Therapia
Bosphorus
Volo
Man Fought Onboard Train After Mad Dog Bite
George Pearce of Chicago, aboard a Cincinnati Southern train to Danville Illinois, became violent and barked like a dog. Four men restrained him as glass cuts bled from his arms. He was taken to the city work house and later found unable to wake, while claiming a prior dog bite and intent to visit a brother in Sunbright Tennessee.
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Danville
Ill
George Pearce
Chicago
Cincinnati Southern
Pierce
Sunbright, Tein
Brooklyn Toddler Survives Fall From Fourth Floor
Little Dora Murtha, age two, of 149 Nassau Avenue Brooklyn, fell from a fourth story window while birthday guests gathered at her home and landed safely in an unoccupied baby carriage, escaping with only a scratch or bruise.
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New York
Dora Murtha
Nassau Avenue
Brooklyn
Hout
Train Wreck Near Avondale Spreads Rails Injure Five
A Missouri Pacific No. 2 chair car derailed near Avondale twelve miles west of Pueblo when rails spread at 12:01. Five people were injured. Separately a fire at Imperial Porcelain Works in Trenton New Jersey destroyed the plant worth 90000 dollars, insured, leaving 300 workers jobless as three firemen were buried by a falling wall.
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Pueblo
Col
Aug
Missouri Pacific
St. Louis
Avondale
Trenton
N. J
Imperial Porcelain Works
Prohibition Bill Narrowly Clears Alabama House
The Alabama House passed a drastic prohibition measure by a 70 to 29 vote amid enthusiastic scenes. The bill bans liquor sales, advertising, and delivery, imposes forfeitures for violations, and empowers raids and indictments. It seeks to embed perpetual prohibition via constitutional amendment awaiting Senate action and voter ratification.
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Montgomery
Ala
House
Carmichael
Senate
Robber Shot Dead by Posse After Bank Heist
White Bear Minnesota August 6 following a bank robbery Henry Paul the robber and Fred Larkins a posse member were killed. Others wounded include William Buttler John Christie and Richard Boran. Cashier Alfred Augur helped the robbery and the robber fled to a shanty before being shot.
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White Bear
Minn
First State Bank
Henry Paul
Fred Larkins
William Buttler
John Christie
Richard Boran
Alfred Augur
Paul
Augur
Larkins
Four Drownings After Baltimore Launch Wreck
Baltimore August 6 four persons drowned when a gasoline launch struck piling near Canton Patapsco river. The victims were Katharine B Brown Marie Hawes Willard Leach and Frank Pryor the engineer. Sixteen others were rescued from the wrecked craft as rescue parties searched the scene.
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Baltimore
Canton
Patapsco
Katherine B. Brown
Marie Hawes
Willard Leach
Frank Pryor
Pryor
Epidemic of Infantile Paralysis in Winona
Winona Minnesota reports an outbreak of infantile paralysis affecting children six months to ten years old. The state board of health says the disease germ is carried in street dust. authorities are sprinkling streets to remove dust and reduce infection risk among residents.
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Winona
Minn
Witona
State Board of Health
Nine-Year-Old Slain After Boy's Slayer in Pittsburg
In Pittsburg on August 6 Jacob McCall nine, son of Henry McCall, was near to death from ambush. About 500 armed men scour the woods seeking the supposed murderer for hanging. Mr McCall had quarrelled with a neighbor.
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Pittsburg
Jacob
Henry McCall
Mr. McCall
Polar Dash Set as Wellman Expedition Reaches Tromsoe
Aug 6 reports members of Walter Wellman’s polar expedition arriving at Tromsoe from Spitsbergen. They anticipate Wellman starting the balloon voyage to the pole next week.
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Tromsoe
Norway
Walter Wellman
Spitebergen
Wellman
Court Sustains Land Alienation Suits In Oklahoma
Federal Judge Ralph B. Campbell upheld the government demurrer in 30,000 land alienation suits involving the five civilized tribes. He ruled that lands allotted to individuals after the 1906 act removing restrictions could be sold, and that citizenship was conferred with statehood, ending guardianship.
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Muskogee
Okla
Ralph B. Campbell
Five Civilized Tribes
Old
Indian Territory
Oklahoma
United States
Scotland
Mexico
Robert I. Owen
Williams
Supreme Court
Campbell
Act of Congress
St. Louis
Seven Year Old Agnes Timmone Dies After Fall in New York Tenement
In New York a seven year old girl, Agnes Timmone, died after tumbling from a fifth floor banister. She clutched four one dollar bills, while her mother Hanna Timmons is ill and the father works in the subway. Agnes had previously cared for her family through typhoid and sibling illness, earning the nickname of a brave child mother.
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New York
Lebanon Hospital
Agnes Timmone
Hanna Timmons
Subway
Agnes
Walter
Firat Avenue
Hotel altercation leaves man gravely wounded in Gainesville
Aug 7 report from Gainesville Georgia describes Mrs Mamie Lawson confronting a Black man in a room at the Arlington hotel early Friday. Lawson slashed him severely with a knife severing in several places including the throat. Night porter Dom Matthews assisted in the incident and was also wounded in multiple cuts. The victim's condition was stated as potentially fatal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gainesville
Arington Hotel
Mamie Lawson
Canadian Pacific Express Ditch Leaves Passengers Injured
Canadian Pacific eastbound train to Toronto was ditched at Woman River on Friday. Four cars including sleepers plunged down a steep embankment and piled up. Many passengers were injured but there were no fatalities.
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Canadian Express
Winnipeg
Man
Canadian Pacific Express
Toronto
Woman River
Murder at Wile Store in Nashville Wholesale District
Herman Henning a dry goods merchant was killed in his store at 208 North Second Avenue Nashville on August 7. The cash drawer was rifled and the crime occurred in the heart of the wholesale district.
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Wile
Nashville
Tenn
Herman Henning
North Second Avenue
Bis
Banner Wheat Crop Predicted as World History Peak
A prominent financier, former head of a major trust, predicts a 1909 world wheat crop of 3.4 billion bushels, far surpassing 1907 and 1908. He cites US Canada output near 900 million and global demand with rising future needs through 1912, noting a likely surplus of 125 million in 1909.
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New York
United States
Canada
Austria
India
South America
Russia
Three Men Drown Crossing Pee Dee River at Andrews Ferry
Three men perished and three others escaped when a ferry boat cable failed on the Pee Dee River near Wadesboro. Ferryman Jule Snuggs and passengers Harley Tomplinson and Frank Foust drowned. Former Representative Little and P. Myers survived by grabbing riverbank limbs. Two horses also drowned.
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Charlotte
N. C
Pee Dee
Andrews Ferry
Wadesboro
Jule Snuggs
Harley Tomplinson
Frank Foust
Representative Little
Richmond County
P. Myers
Memphis
Snuggs
Tomlingen
Foust
Snuges
Little
Myers
Nashville salesman shoots hotel steward in Atlanta
William White, a traveling salesman from Nashville, shot Michael P. Anderson, hotel steward, in the Aragon hotel lobby while his wife watched. Mrs White wrestled the pistol from him and kept it until a police officer seized it, fearing she might harm herself. Both denied intent, calling it an accident.
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Atlanta
William White
Nashville
Tenn
Aragon Hotel
Michael P. Anderson
Woman Drowns Child and Herself in Canal Tragedy
In Newark New Jersey on Tuesday the bodies of Julia Neneth 21 and her eight month old son were found in the Morris canal. Neighbors testified there was trouble in the Neneth apartments Monday night and the husband was arrested.
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Newark
N. J
Julia Neneth
Morris Canal
Neneth
Hotel Proprietor Brown Blow to Pieces in Pattenburg
Waston Pa Aug 4 Milton Bhire proprietor of a hotel at Pattenburg N J along the Lehigh Valley railroad line was split by a blast believed caused by a concealed dynamite cap on a discarded tie. The blast destroyed the tie and damaged nearby equipment.
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Brown
Waston
Milton Bhire
Pattenburg
N. J
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Brown University Graduate Killed by Pig Iron at Pittsfield Plant
William Pr. Mitchell, a Brown University graduate, was killed Tuesday when eight tons of pig iron broke through a ceiling and fell on him at his desk in the Stanley Electric Manufacturing Co. office in Pittsfield Massachusetts.
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Ferton
Pittsfield
Mass
William Pr. Mitchell
Brown University
Stanley Electric Manufacturing Co
Clergyman and organist drown in Fisher's Island waters
The Rev. H. L. Mitchell, rector of Plymouth Episcopal church, and Clarefice Blakeslee, the church organist, were drowned near Fisher's Island after Mitchell lent his life to trying to save Blakeslee on Tuesday.
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New London
H. L. Mitchell
Episcopal Church
Plymouth
Clarefice Blakeslee
Fisher's Island
Blakeslee
Train Derailment Injures Ten in Georgia Accident
Ten people were injured when a mixed train on the Brewton and Pincora branch of the Central of Georgia railway derailed near Lexsy Georgia on Tuesday morning. One coach rolled down an embankment during the incident in Stillmore.
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Stillmore
Brewton
Pincora
Central of Georgia Railway
Lexsy
Smuggled Gems Condemned and Forfeited for Sale
In New York on Aug 4 a consignment of smuggled jewelry valued between $12,000 and $16,000 was condemned and forfeited to the government by direction of Judge Hough in United States court. The items were ordered sold.
Sweden hit by general strike as 45000 workers idle
In Stockholm the general strike expands as 45000 workers join with 10000 more at Malmo and 10000 at Gothenburg. Troops guard railways bridges and ship loading while gun shops run dry and milk supplies fail. Paris news room reports widespread idling and unrest.
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Sweden
Gothenburg
Stockholm
Malmo
Executed by Guillotine in Paris Aug 5
Lazante Duchemin was guillotined for murdering his mother in September last. The execution took place at sunrise with a small crowd of officials and journalists present. He walked to the scaffold barefoot, head veiled, and attended by a priest bearing a crucifix.
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Paris
Lazante Duchemin
Connecticut Repeals Blue Laws Sunday Recreation Expanded
Hartford Aug 5 Both houses passed a bill repealing blue laws that barred Sunday recreation. The new act defines Sunday and bans most sports and secular activities except those for necessity mercy or general welfare. Penalties include fines and imprisonment. Sunday baseball is likely permitted under general welfare terms.
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Connecticut
Hartford
Funeral to scatter ashes of Rosa Peyton at lake
Remarkable funeral rites are planned for Sunday morning as the ashes of Mrs. Rosa Peyton will be scattered to the four winds in midlake. Her husband Dr. L S Peyton disappeared 29 years ago with 76 others in the Alpena wreck on Lake Michigan.
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Chicago
Rosa Peyton
Midlake
Wilson shoots Edwards in quarrel over a woman
Carmi Illinois August report says Frank Wilson killed James Edwards in a Wednesday confrontation arising from rivalry over a young woman they both courted. Wilson surrendered after the shooting.
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Carm
Frank Wilson
James Edwards
Wilson
Pitched Battle Expected Near Haskell County
Ft Smith Aug 5. Sheriff Allen of Haskell county Oklahoma and his posse pursue a band of three alleged horse thieves heavily armed. If overtaken a pitched battle and likely bloodshed are feared.
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Ft. Smith
Agk
Allen
Haskell County
Oklahoma
Des Moines Veteran Leaps Into Canal Near Rochester
John Mackay a Civil War veteran from Des Moines Iowa jumped into the Artecana Canal at Rochester on August 5. His body was recovered and taken to the city morgue.
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Rochester
John Mackay
Des Moines
Iowa
Piorgue
Doan's Kidney Pills Backed by Paris Tenn Reader
A Paris Tennessee reader reports relief from back pain and urinary trouble after using Doan's Kidney Pills. The testimonial says weak kidneys caused stiffness, cloudy urine, and fatigue, but treatment restored health and strength. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo N Y.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bright
Dean
H. Mayne
Market St
Paris
Tenn
Doan
The Law's Delay and a Mother's Hunger
A mother of a large family falls ill and dies under a physician's claim of starvation. The doctor cites the daily burden of cooking and tending children as the cause, noting she sacrificed her meals to feed them. He quips that a hen eats before a mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atchison Globe
National association on tuberculosis fight gains momentum
The National Association notes hundreds of new recruits daily in the tuberculosis war and forecasts broad public education within five years. It urges two actions: more complete registration of tuberculosis cases and stricter isolation of dangerous advanced consumption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Association
United States
A Sunday Sermon Encourages Universal Kindness
The New York Times reflects on life’s joys and sorrows and urges accepting life as it is. It advises drying tears and helping others to brighten the world and learn from troubles through universal kindness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Grape-Nuts Said To Rebuild Health From Foundation Up
A New Hampshire woman describes severe indigestion and stomach pain until trying Grape-Nuts. She reports rapid relief, improved digestion, clearer mind, and renewed energy, crediting the food for a revived sense of strength and well being. The ad also points readers to the booklet The Wellville.
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New Hampshire
Wellville
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