Twenty-Four Injured in St Louis Trolley Collision
A rear end crash on the Creve Coeur Lake line near Overland Park left twenty four people injured, many women and children. Two women, Dora Gingham and Regina A. Carruthers, likely to die. Nineteen taken to Missouri Baptist Sanitarium and five treated at Overland. vehicles interlocked, car speeds about forty mph.
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Associated Press
ST. Louis
Creve Coeur Lake
Dora. Gingham
Regina A. Carruthers
Overland Park
Missouri Baptist Sanitarium
Overland
Perregon Extends Altitude Record With Two Passengers
Paris aviator Edmond Perregon, holder of the world altitude mark for solo and solo with one passenger, broke the two passenger record reaching 15 480 feet in Vienna on June 16. The prior record with one passenger stood at 16 568 feet.
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Associated Press
Vienna
Edmond Perregon
Toast Kaiser as Prince of Peace in New York
A June 16 gathering in New York honors Emperor William’s twenty-fifth accession anniversary with speakers including Count von Bernstorff and Mayor Gaynor. Toasts praise the emperor and nation while noting Germany’s long peace, and a German Club dinner follows.
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Associated Press
New York
William of
Germany
Count Johann von Bernstorff
Gaynor
United States
Count von Bernstorff
Chattanoogan Killed in Auto Tragedy Near Ooltewah
Finis Plumlee, 43, a well known Chattanoogan, died when a Southern Railway passenger train struck an automobile near Ooltewah, Tennessee. His wife suffered serious facial injuries and Willie Newton and Leo Chamberlain were badly hurt as the auto was hurled fifty feet and crushed.
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Associated Press
Chattanooga
Tenn
Southern Railway
Ooltewah
Finis Plumlee
Plan for federal prohibition of child labor proposed
A Progressive party briefing says Rep Ira Copley of Illinois will introduce in Washington a bill to curb child labor nationwide. The measure builds on Beveridge ideas, placing responsibility on manufacturers and carriers for unlawful shipments while exempting goods stamped under a federal act from states with similar laws. The draft defines anti social child labor as activity under fourteen in mills and under sixteen in dangerous work, seeking a national minimum standard without a full uniform ban.
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Associated Press
New York
House of Representatives
Washington
Ira ©. Copley
Illinois
Progressive Party
National Service
Beveridge
Legislative Reference Committee
Copley
Inducement 10 Use Water Power Policy Outlined
Secretary Lane outlines five conditions for using government water rights to develop electrical power. He links lower consumer rates to lower government charges and insists on public utility status, interstate and intrastate rate controls, and no monopolies with government revocation rights if abuses are found.
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Associated Press
Washington
Lane
Interior Department
Secretary of the Interior
Murder and Sui cide Discovered in Woods
In Hazleton Pa on June 16 the bodies of Mahlon Wetzel a 30 year old Weatherly tobacco dealer and Mrs William Schlenker 32 found in nearby woods. Wetzel shot through the heart and Mrs Schlenker with a bullet in her right breast. A revolver lay in Wetzel s hand no note explaining the apparent murder suicide.
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Associated Press
Hazleton
Mahlon Wetzel
William Schlenker
Weatherly
Wetzel
Fine New Motion Picture House on Dauphin Street
A new Bijou Amusement Company theatre is planned for 212 Dauphin Street Mobile. The 600 seat house aims for luxury, with Italian marble lobby, and may add a balcony. Plans call for a ten cent admission and continued operation of the Bijou Theatre.
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Dauphin Street
Bijou Amusement Company
Mobile
Alabama
Joseph Bianchi
J. B. Webster
M. Lucker
Herndon W. Fowler
Webster
Bianchi
Lucker
Bijou Theatre
Mr. Bianchi
Millionaire Clubman in Bath Tub Suicide in New York
Karl Hutter a 62 year old bachelor and millionaire who made his fortune from a porcelain bottle stopper shot himself in his New York apartment yesterday. His body was found in a bath tub of water after he dismissed his nurse for the afternoon and left a note describing his agony. His chief hobby was rug collecting.
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Associated Press
New York
Karl Hutter
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy Praised by Alabama Resident
L C Haines of Marbury Alabama endorses Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy as highly effective for colds and whooping coughs. He notes it works well for lung troubles in households and contains no narcotic, being pleasant to take. For sale by all dealers.
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L. C. Haines
Marbury
Ala
Fire At Evening Sentinel Plant Damages Lino Type Equipment
Fire broke out on the third floor of the Evening Sentinel building in Knoxville Tennessee Sunday afternoon causing heavy damage. Firemen poured water into the structure, flooding the area and damaging a large battery of linotype machines. total loss not yet estimated.
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Associated Press
Knoxville
Tenn
Evening Sentinel
Man Jumps From Tennessee River Bridge to Death
Frank Fitts aged twenty one jumped from the Tennessee river bridge in Knoxville late Sunday evening. He removed his coat and hat before stepping onto the balustrade and plunging about one hundred feet into the river. Spectators could not intervene. He was recovered within thirty minutes and died after hours of medical effort. Witnesses noted he had been drinking.
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Associated Press
Knoxville
Tenn
Frank Fitts
Tennessee River
Fitts
Four Die In Auto Crash Near Little Rock
Four people in a Pine Bluff family and companion were injured or killed when their automobile ran into an embankment and overturned near Little Rock early this morning. Robert B. Malone, planter, was killed. his son Robert, 12, and William R. Kirby were probably fatally injured. Mrs. Kirby was seriously hurt.
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Associated Press
Little Rock
Ark
Robert B. Malone
Pine Bluff
Robert
William R. Kirby
German lieutenant wins two races then flies to Berlin
Lieutenant Von Egan Krieger of the First Hussars, a noted jockey, won the first race at Magdeburg and then flew to Berlin landing on the Grunwald racecourse. He weighed in at scales and immediately rode his horse in the fifth race, winning again. Magdeburg lies seventy six miles from Berlin.
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Associated Press
Berlin
von Egan Krieger
Hussars
Magdeburg
Grunswald
Newport Deploys Two Women Officers for Summer Duty
In Newport Rhode Island on June 16 two women policemen began duty at the famous Newport beach for the summer. They wear blue blouses with brass buttons blue skirts and sailor straw hats. Their appointment follows a request by the Newport Civic League.
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Associated Press
Newport
Kr.l
Newport Beach
Newport Civic League
Three Men Drown Crossing Cedar Lake in Rowboat
Hammond authorities report three men drowned off Cedar Lake while attempting to move between paces to a rowboat during crossing. Two others were rescued after the accident on June 16.
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Associated Press
Hammond
Ind
Cedar Lake
Turks and Bulgars Join Y M C A Conference
In Edinburgh at the world Y M C A conference Turkey and Bulgaria joined the alliance of 34 nations. Delegates were received on the platform amid wild enthusiasm as international arbitration was approved by motion. Dr Paul de Gouttes elected chairman of the world committee.
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Associated Press
Edinburgh
Scotland
Turkey
Bulgaria
Lord Kinnaird
Count von Moltke
Denmark
Count de Pourtales
Rance
Paul de Gouttes
Five-Masted Schooner Paul Palmer Burned Off Cape Cod
The five-masted schooner Paul Palmer bound from Bangor to a coal port was burned to the waterline seven miles north of Race Point Cape Cod late yesterday. The crew was taken off uninjured.
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Associated Press
Provincetown
Mass
Paul Palmer
Bangor
Maine
Race Point
Cape Cod
Outsider Dagor Captures Prestigious Prix du Jockey Club
In Chantilly, Dagor the outsider edged Baldaquin and Bruleur to win the French Derby. The race drew top entrants including Americans as Nimbus and Vulcain VI faltered. The stake for three year olds covered 12 miles and paid $37,000 this year.
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Associated Presa
Paris
M. A. Augmont
Nimbus
H. C. Quin
Dagor
W. K. Vanderbilt
Pirpiriol
Madame N. G. Cheremeteff
Albanis
H. B du
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Mayor Gaynor
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Echoe
Dr. F. L. Tapia
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