Lipton Abandons America's Cup Challenge If England Lacks Rival
New York reports that wind at Sandy Hook reached thirty two miles per hour at midnight with rain and heavy seas. Lipton, aboard Erin, said he would not challenge again unless England produces a Nat Herreshoff in yacht building. He praised Herreshoff and Reliance and admitted disappointment over his chances. Weather officials forecast fresh easterly winds and unsettled showers for the race course tomorrow.
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New York
Sandy Hook
Washington
International Yacht Race Course
Thomas Lipton
England
Nat Herreshoff
Baronet
Herreshoff
Re- Hance
Reliance
Sir Thomas
Shamrock
Barr
Polo Magnates Busy Captain Jean Heads 1960-61 Team
Walter E. Petty, manager of the Muncie polo team, announces a signed lineup for next season led by captain Fred Jean. The squad includes Higgins, Hart, Holderness, Cusick, and Cotter, with major Lowell champions and Indianapolis connections. Season opens mid November as the local rink expands seating to host fans.
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Indianapolis Journal
Muncie
Ind
Walter E. Petty
Higgins
Hart
Rush
Dean
Holderness
Cusick
Indianapolis
Lewis and Bone
Bobby Hart
Lowell
Mass
Fred Jean
Jean
Tommy Holder
Dave Cusick
Tom Cotter
Petty
Tocal
Western Roller Polo Association Future Assured at Marion
Elwood August 28 The Western Roller Polo Association gains clarity as Page and Stinson acquire a Marion rink site and plan immediate work. A new schedule and league decisions will follow at a meeting next week. Season runs November 6 to April 1 with seven teams and near nightly games.
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Indianapolis Journal
Elwood
Western Roller Polo Associator
Messrs. Page
Stinson
Marion
Anderson
Richmond
Rush
Teddy Lewis
Lowell
Marion Mayor Kiley Expels Committee Meeting Held
Special to the Indianapolis Journal reports that the committee bysinees now exiled by Mayor Kiley met, outlining the meeting's scope and the immediate actions announced by the city leadership.
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Indianapolis Journal
Marion
Ind
Kiley
Labor arbitration board formed for all future disputes
A meeting established a committee of nine employers and workers to arbitrate all future labor questions. This board of arbitrators will receive disputed employe employer issues and render final decisions.
Ball players survive Wabash wreck near Napoleon Ohio
The Cleveland and St Louis American League clubs were aboard a Wabash special wrecked near Napoleon Ohio this morning. The sleeper carriage was thrown into a ditch but no injuries are reported among the players or other passengers.
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Napoleon
Ohio
Cleveland and St. Louis
St. Louis
Cleveland
Columbia Bowling Club Joins Indianapolis League
The Columbia Bowling Club was elected to the Indianapolis Bowling League to fill the Capital City Club vacancy. The league will use City Club alleys, employ paid umpires at five cents a night, with a prize committee named. Opening Sept 5, twenty seven weeks, Columbia includes former Capital City players led by captain Henry Iman.
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Columbia Bowling Club
Indianapolis
Capital City
Marion Club
Columbia
Charles Gardner
City Club
Elmer Gay
George Comstock
H. T. Hearsey
Ralph Smith
New Columbia Club
Henry Iman
Columbias
Garstang
Havelick
Vinson
Kahlo
Purdue Football Camp Opens With Heavyweights Training
About twenty Purdue football players gather at the G R clubhouse near Delphi Indiana for camp with trainer McClaire directing preliminary drills and sports like fishing rowing and swimming. Captain Osborne reports healthy weight gain and plans include Cutts Harvard coach arriving September first. Oliver F Cutts receives praise at Chicago Coliseum banquet with Brooke's band playing.
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Indianapolis Journal
Delphi
Ind
Purdue
Cutts
Harvard
McClaire
Captain Osborne
Powers
Texas
Robertson
Montana
Rieble
Miller
Farr
Johnson
Adams
Hamilton
Osborn
Kaylor
Leslie
Athletic Association
Allen
Knapp
Lafayette
Chicago
Oliver F. Cutts
Harvard University
Derailed Southern Pacific Train Near Promontory
Eight of ten cars left the track after a defective switch near Promontory Utah. A baggage car two express cars and a day coach were demolished. No fatalities reported. Passenger Mr Blackman of Minneapolis suffered head bruises.
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Ogden
Utah
Southern Pacific
Promontory
Blackman
Minneapolis
Train wreck at Cheyenne excursion collides with lumber car
A Union Pacific excursion train from Cheyenne’s Frontier Day celebration carrying 90 passengers collided with a runaway lumber car near Brighton early today. Engineer Hutchiss likely fatally injured as lumber penetrated the cab. no passengers injured.
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Brighton
Col
Union Pacific
Cheyenne
Hutchiss
Passenger Train Collision Near Silver Lake Injures Four
A Wisconsin Central passenger train collided with a freight train at Silver Lake this morning. Four trainmen were badly injured and about a hundred cattle on the freight train were killed. All passengers escaped injury.
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Racine
Wis
Colidea
Silver Lake
Trains Collision Near Valley Park Kills Brakeman
Two Missouri Pacific freight trains collided head on near Valley Park on August 23 killing Brakeman Marshall and fatally injuring Engineer Christan and Fireman Sanders.
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ST. Louis
Missouri Pacific
Valley Park
Here
Marshall
Christan
Sanders
Times Manchurian Ports Not Solution Says Beijing
London dispatch reports a Times correspondent ridiculing the plan that opening two Manchurian ports could settle the Manchurian question. He notes all routes to Mukden are under Russian control and criticizes Ta-Tung-Kao as a small port with no anchorage and inaccessible to steamers under sea rules.
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London
Peking
The
Times
Mukden
Ta-Tung-Kao
Lucania Arrives at Quarantine After Fast Atlantic Passage
The Cunard steamer Lucania reached quarantine at five this evening after a 5 day 1 hour 7 minute crossing covering 2782 knots at an average 21.23 knots. She carried 252 saloon 293 second cabin and 60 steerage passengers and carried wireless equipment enabling real time news from Marconi to be shared with travelers.
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New York
Cunard Line
Lucania
Robert Graw
Mary Anderson Navarro
America
Luciana
Signor Marconi
Liverpool
Seaforth
Mersey
Queenstown
Crookhaven
Philadelphia
Table Head
Cape Breton
Sandy Hook
Nantucket
Sagaponack
Long Island
Railway disaster marred royal Udine demonstrations
A deadly train collision near Udine during king and queen festivities killed nineteen soldiers and a captain and injured over eighty as flames engulfed wreckage. Queen Helena and King Vittorio Emanuele viewed the scene, with officials and clergy aiding the wounded.
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Rome
Udine
Venice
Helena
Udines
Emperor commissions Roosevelt lithograph portrait
Emperor William met court portrait painter Hans Fechner and asked for a lithograph of President Roosevelt. Fechner produced the lithograph and the Emperor had two copies struck. One will be sent to Mr Roosevelt, the other kept, with no further copies made.
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Emperor William
Hans Fechner
President Roosevelt
Fechner
Germany
Roosevelt
Floods and wind destroy bridges and homes across towns
A heavy rainfall flooded Bennett Brook valley in Bradford flooding the area and damaging the Maple Grove and Sheehy ice plants while halting rail traffic on two lines. In Chickasha Oklahoma a windstorm toppled trees damaged crops and injured A W Frederick. Boydstown dam released 2 million gallons flooding Butler and nearby districts with culverts washed away and a 30 foot bridge swept away. In Connellsville a storm lifted people and moved houses, Lizzie Levowitz was killed by a fallen tree and a schoolhouse was struck by lightning sending 600 children into panic.
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Bennett Brook Valley
Maple Grove
Sheehy Ice Company
Luna Valley
Erie
Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg
Chickasha
I. T
Pocassett
Cottonwood Grove
Fort Cobb
A. W. Frederick
Butler
Boydstown
Here
Pittsburg, Etestemer & Lake Erie
Pittsburg & Western
Bear Creek
Connellsville
Lizzie Levowitz
Rene
Fourth Ward
Senator Hoar Honored In Worcester Irish Tribute
Senator Geo F Hoar was celebrated on his 77th birthday by the Father Mathew Benevolent and Total Abstinence Society in Worcester Massachusetts. Alderman Edward J McMahon spoke with Hoar praising his lifelong service and advocacy for love of God country and manhood across all races and creeds.
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Worcester
Mass
Geo. F. Hoar
Father Mathew
Republic
Wendell Phillips
New York
Boston
Kansas Money to Lend, See Examiners Say
Kansas City Journal reports national bank examiners E. E. Ames of Norton and J. T. Bradley of Sedan predict by January 1, 1904 Kansas deposits will exceed 10 million dollars and per capita deposits average over 70 dollars. They note record deposits reached 92 million earlier and expect new highs aided by crops and cattle. The flood reportedly did not dent finances.
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Kansas City Journal
E. E. Ames
Norton
J. T. Bradley
Sedan
National Bank
District of Kansas
Kansas
Ames
Mr. Bradley
Coates House
Kansas City
National
National Bank Examiners
Bradley
New York
Chicago
Annual Report Shows Higher Gross Yet Lower Net Earnings
The Chicago and Northwestern road reports for the year ending May 31 1903 show gross income of 30 119 560 and total expenses including dividends 49 800 000 leaving net earnings of 200 000. Despite higher earnings over the prior year the rise in costs reduced net profit.
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Chicago and Northwestern
Lynchings and Courts President's View Cited in Gov Durbin Letter
Mystic Conn August 28 Chief Justice Charles B Lore of Delaware condemned lynching as lawless and argued swift justice must follow fair trials not mob rule. He cited President Roosevelts letter to Gov Durbin and urged education and strict adherence to law to eradicate lynching and related violence.
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Mystic
Conn
Charles B. Lore
Delaware
Union
Chautauqua
Roosevelt
Gov. Durbin
Brewer
Ex Judge Offutt Dies in Greenfield Indiana
Charles G. Offutt former Hancock Circuit Court judge dies at 2 p.m. of cerebral hemorrhage after a brief illness. A longtime Greenfield resident and leading state lawyer, born in Georgetown Kentucky in 184, he served in the state General Assembly and as a Democratic circuit judge from 1902.
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Indianapolis Journal
Greenfield
Ind
Charles G. Offutt
Hancock Circuit Court
Georgetown
Offutt
General Assembly
William H. Martin
Col K. A. Black
Hancock
Army Worms And Cotton Invasion Warned By Paris Green Trade
New Orleans wholesale drug dealers ship large tons of paris green to fields from Florida to Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia and beyond as army worms threaten the cotton belt. Planters rely on arsenic powder sprayed by hands or machines, digging trenches, and torching fields to curb the pest before frost. The process mirrors local reliance on chemists who discovered its efficacy and on planters facing weekly ravagers through late summer.
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New Orleans
I. L. Lyons
Paris Green
Florida
Alabama
Georgia
South
Carolina
Texas
Mississippi
Louisiana
Don
Astor Guests to Attend Coming Society Event in Chicago
The announcement notes Colonel and Mrs. John Jacob Astor of Newport will visit Mrs. Arthur Caton for a short time this autumn during Roswell Field's event in Chicago. The exact dates are unpublished but will be released to invitees for the carnival of the few. The visit will include a few elaborate entertainments.
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Roswell Field
Chicago Post
Chicago
John Jacob Astor
Newport
Arthur Caton
Neelty
Notable Chicago Celebration Promises Public Pleasures
The piece contrasts lavish aristocratic celebrations with inclusive public entertainments such as lakefront fireworks, a Sharp Shooters Park picnic, and a state procession. It notes the growth of typewritten letters and telegraph usage spreading nationwide, with the typewriter improving efficiency across businesses and professions.
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Lake Front
Arthur Caton
Chicago
Prince Henry
Pat
Davis on Broadway Attractions in New York
Richard Harding Davis attracted crowds on Broadway as he carried a black cigar in an amber holder with yellow gloves and a bamboo stick. He paused at Thirty-ninth Street to watch a white streetcar before heading to Froman headquarters.
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New York Mail and Express
Richard Harding Davis
Broadway
Thirety-ninth Street
Estee i
Froman
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