Thaw Escapes From Asylum Milestone Dash At Matteawan
A noted prisoner escapes Matteawan Asylum through a gate opened for a milkman. He dashes 14 miles in nine minutes amid a charge of conspiracy raised by insiders and reported by the superintendent of Matteawan.
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Wall Gate
Milkman
Matteawan Asylum
Thaw
Matteawan
Connecticut State Line
Connecticut
Haw
Stormville
Con‘ae
New
Chronology of Thaw Case Chronology 1906 1913
Timeline of Harry K Thaw events from the 1906 Stanford White shooting through August 1913. Key items include trials sentences insanity rulings habeas corpus petitions and disclosures involving Evelyn Nesbit Thaw Matteawan asylum and related legal actions. It tracks acquittal for murder insanity findings escapes and ongoing legal battles.
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Harry K. Thaw
Stanford White
Thaw
Matteawan
Supreme Court
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
William White
John R. Russell
Russell
Pettion
Union News Service
New York
Harry Kendall Thaw
Matteawan State Hospital
Connecticut
Wilson urges rural credits system to aid farmers
The White House released President Wilson's view that a distinct rural credit system is needed. A government commission is studying European methods and will report to Congress next winter, with plans to establish an adequate rural banking framework for farmers nationwide.
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Washington
White House
Wilson
Europe
Congress
United States
Department of Agriculture
Glynn as New York's Acting Governor Amid Sulzer Trial
Lieutenant Governor Martin Glynn claims executive powers after Sulzer impeachment and before his September 18 trial. State departments split between Glynn and Sulzer factions, risking a paralysis of the administration as each side attempts to control top officials.
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New York
Sulzer
State Department
Glynn
U. S. Probes Large Chicago Loan Deal
The treasury department probes a $44 5 million loan from National City Bank of New York to Chicago traction interests. Officials allege violations of the national banking act restricting large loans and improper commissions, while bank president Vanderlip denies the charges amid new supporting evidence for the probe.
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Washington
National City Bank of New York
Chicago
Treasury Department
National Banking Act
Chicago Elevated
Frank A. Vanderlip
Bank
Balloon Drama Captures 5000 Feet Leap by Marie Pickering
Ottawa reports a balloon drama filmed over Hampton Court Palace where Marie Pickering, aged eighteen, leaped from an airplane and grabbed the guide rope but lacked strength to climb it, needing a lassoo and haul into the basket.
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Ottawa
Five Die When Auto Struck By Train Near Carrollton
Five passengers were killed and the car driver injured when an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe train struck the vehicle at a crossing east of Carrollton Missouri. The dead include Carl Forbes and Mrs. Carl Forbes of Sacramento California Mrs. Mabel Warner Mrs. William Roberts and H B Vandeventer of Brookfield Missouri. The car party was on a pleasure trip from Carrollton to Brunswick.
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Carrollton
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Here
Carl Forbes
Sacramento
Cal
Mabel Warner
William Roberts
Vandeventer
Brookfield
Brunswick
Fire destroys Sharon Foundry pattern shop in Wheatland
Fire of unknown origin wipes out the Sharon Foundry company pattern shop at Wheatland. Noted loss includes a loan figure of 75 000 dollars and an insurance concern. The blaze caused extensive damage and disrupted operations in Sharon, Pennsylvania.
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Sharon
Sharon Foundry Company
Wheatland
Wilson notes stir as envoy seeks Huerta meeting
President Wilson plans to rebuke Britain over a diplomat’s remarks and to apologize to England for the clash with Mexico. Diplomatic maneuvers center on whether Lind should deliver the note personally to Huerta or through the Mexican foreign office. Lind has met with Gamboa, while Huerta remains silent on candidacy.
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Mexico City
Wilson
Huerta
Lind
Mr. Lind
Gamboa
Senor Gamboa
Men In
War Blanquet
Interior
Urrutia
Fl Paso
Tex
Didier Mason
Empalme
Sonora
Washington
Bryan
Henry Lane Wilson
Page
Edward Grey
Ambassador Wilson
Mexico
John Lind
Huerth
Charg d
Nelson O'Shaughnessy
United States
Lina
State Department
Mr. O'Shaughnesey
Boat Upset Leaves Seven Missing in Superior Bay
A launch party of 22 from Superior, Wisconsin, saw seven members reported missing after the boat overturned in Superior bay. Missing are Louls Lasky, Nettie Lasky, Clara Goldstein of Minneapolis, Mrs Aaron Siegel, Benny Siegel, Sylvia Siegel, and Phil Siegel. Two women, Ed Lasky and EB Franklin, are hospitalized and expected to recover.
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Superior
Wis
Superior Bay
Louls Lasky
Nettie Lasky
Clara Goldstein
Minneapolis
Aaron Siegel
Benny Siegel
Sylvia Siegel
Phil Siegel
Miss Goldstein
Matt Siegel
Fargo
N. D
David Aaronson
St. Paul
Ed Lasky
EB. Franklin
Fire in Newark cinema triggers theater panic
An electric spark ignited a case of motion picture films at the Auditorium theater in Newark Ohio on August 14 causing a blaze that sent about fifteen hundred people fleeing. Several persons were injured during the exit scramble as patrons rushed for doors and exits amid the smoke and flames.
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Newark
Ohio
Auditorium Theater
Pittburgh Storm Leaves Damage and Fatality in Braddock Area
A severe storm in Pittsburg area causes heavy property damage with fires and lightning strikes. One man Raab dies, two others injured, three boys shocked but recovering. Bell Avenue school sustains 15000 in damage. 100 street cars sidelined by washouts. Braddock residences hit. Liberty Brewing Co. employees target site struck by lightning.
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Western
Union News Service
Pittsburg
Raab
Stark and
Aul
Liberty Brewing Co
C. J. Hoffman
Etna
Hoffman
Braddock
Bell Avenue
North Braddock
Fireman Killed In Pennsboro Railroad Derailment
Train No. 4 the St. Louis New York flyer on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad derailed at Pennsboro thirty miles east of Parkersburg. Fireman Donald Poe of Grafton was killed. Engineer French Helms of Grafton was fatally injured. Flagman Sandy Watsop of Parkersburg was injured.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Pennsboro
Donald Poe
Grafton
French Helms
Sandy Watsop
Girl Killed by Auto Near Cleveland
Miss Alina Trachman aged 18 was struck by a car on a country road while walking with three companions and died within ten minutes. Driver G W Horn of Montrose Ohio was arrested pending investigation of the accident.
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Cleveland
Alina Trachman
G. W. Horn
Montrose
Army officer sought to teach at Fort Wayne college
Democratic mayoral candidate Benjamin Bosse of Evansville asks the War Department to assign an army officer, active or retired, as military instructor at Concordia College in Fort Wayne. He serves as secretary of the General Board of the Lutheran church.
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Washington
Benjamin Bosse
Evansville
Ind
The
Lutheran Church
War Department
Concordia College
Ft. Wayne
Cincinnati Market Prices For Grain Live Stock And Poultry
Cincinnati market report lists prices for corn white yellow and mixed by grade, hay timothy clover oats wheat eggs poultry cattle hogs and sheep with ranges for quality levels and weights. The document records bid prices for shippers and butchers, calves hogs lambs and livestock classes with per unit and per hundredweight figures.
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Bologna
Snake Sighting Ends as Mother Warns Two Children
In Smithfield Pennsylvania two children of W M Miller were saved from a four foot rattlesnake with 24 rattles by their mother. She called her husband who killed the reptile to avert a bite.
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San Francisco
Lola Norris
Marsha Warrington
Maury I. Diggs
Warrington
Miss Norris
Sacramento
Diggs
Caminetti
State Library
Miss Warrington
Maury S. Diggs
Smithfield
W. M. Miller
School Examinations Schedule Notice
Examinations for teachers will be on the first Saturday each month unless a holiday. pupils’ exams on the third Saturday in April and May. Teachers must complete the entire exam in one day. Four-year provisional certificates require prior clerkly advice. Exams in Batavia, Ohio. 8. 8. Bagby president, Davis vice president, Morris clerk.
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Batavia
Ohio
Bagby
B. T. Davis
John Morris
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Hulse
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Riffith & Nichols
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Belland Citizens’ Telephone
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