Wireless finds the Lusitania near Nantucket lightship
New York Sept 12 The Cunard liner Lusitania, overdue since leaving Queenstown last Sunday, was heard by a wireless station off Massachusetts coast near Nantucket lightship at one o'clock this morning. Officials attributed the delay to heavy weather or machinery issues, with no anxiety expressed.
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Cunard
Lusitania
Morrow
Queenstown
Massachusetts
Siasconsett
Cunard “Line
Anti-Vice Crusader Probes Chicago Suburban Courts
In Chicago area hearings Miss Virginia Brooks the anti vice crusader accused Justices Frank Green and Charles Wittenburg of misconduct. County Judge Owens issued an order restricting the judges from ruling on pending cases until the investigation concludes. The session was continued to Wednesday.
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Chicago
West Hammond
Burnham
Virginia Brooks
Antivice Crusader
Frank Green
Charles Wittenburg
Owens
John Kutczyk
Miss Brooks
Two Clients of New York Lawyer Die Violently
Officials from Austria Hungary Great Britain and the United States open probes into the deaths of two former clients of attorney Burton W. Gibson and the mysterious disappearance of a third. The case centers on John Rice O Neil who vanished after receiving damages for a leg loss and carrying cash. Mrs Alice Kinnan was murdered in the Bronx six years ago. The Countess Rusena Mengeffabe vanished after a lake trip with Gibson, who later filed a will for her estate.
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New York
Austria- Hungary
Great Britain
United States
Atorney Burton W. Gibson
England
John Rice O'Neil
Whitman
Alice Kinnan
Bronx
Gibson
Mrs. Kinnan
Rusena Mengeeffaabe
Gibsop
Greenwood Lake
Couttess
Couthtess
Boye
S#abo
T Te Pee
Cory
Petronella Menschik
Chicago
Woman Dies and Son Injured in Runaway Near Hendersonville
Mrs. C. E. Armstrong of Vicksburg Mississippi, a wealthy widow visiting Hendersonville, was instantly killed when runaway horses drew her buggy onto the telegraph pole after being frightened by an approaching train. Her son Reuben, 22, suffered serious injuries as he tried to control the pair.
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Hendersonville
C. E. Armstrong
Vicksburg
Reuben
American woman freed by Lima police in swindle case
Ande Doyen, an American woman, was freed by Lima police after being implicated in a scheme that spanned Chile Bolivia Peru and the Argentine. Definite proof of guilt lacking, she was released at the request of the American minister H. Clay Howard. Police say the plotted swindle could have netted the gang about 200000. They also claim evidence of accomplices in Havana Cuba.
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Peru
Ande’ Doyen
Chile
Bolivia
H. Clay Howard
Havana
Cubs
Wilson dodges politics at New York fair gathering
At Syracuse the New Jersey governor met Dix and Murphy but avoided political talk. Wilson declared he would not meddle in state affairs and stayed focused on tariff and national issues. He faced a staged politicking sequence with Tammany Hall leaders present.
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N.Y
Woodrow Wilson
New York State Fair
Syracuse
Dix
Charles F. Murphy
Tammany Hall
Wilson
New Jersey
New York State
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Fair Grounds
Conway
Norman B. Mack
State Fair Commission
Tatimany Hall
New York
Mrs Sickles Rescues General’s Property From Sheriff
In New York on September 12 General Daniel Sickles, Civil War veteran and former minister to Spain, faced a forced sale to satisfy an $8,000 judgment. His wife, once famed in Spanish courts, settled the matter at the trust company using personal heirlooms worn in youth. The couple had been estranged for years, living near the general on Fifth Avenue.
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New York
Daniel FE
Sickles
Civil War Corps
United States
Spein
Julius Harburger
Sickies
Spain
Madrid
Trust Company
Aeronaut Franks Armstrong Survives Balloon Fire Flight
In Toledo on September 12 Frank Armstrong of Celina Ohio faced a deadly balloon blaze at the county fair. While preparing to ascend his parachute rigging caught fire and he cut loose just before the flames reached the chute. He landed safely inside the racetrack after a dramatic 2000 foot fall.
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Toledo
Ohio
Frank Armstrong
Armstrong
Celina
Tragic Plattsburgh Fair Excursion Rush Fatal for Woman
A crowded steamboat wharf in St. Albans Vermont after a Plattsburgh fair excursion caused Mrs. Charles Hurlbut of Georgia to be knocked into the water and die. Her husband Charles Hurlbut survived the plunge as 300 excursionists crowded toward awaiting electric cars.
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ST. Albans
Charles Hurlbut
Georgia
Hurlbut
Plattsburgh
New York
Stearns Electric Paste Promises Rodent Extermination
A period piece public notice warns rats and mice destroy more property than fires and spread disease. It promotes Stearns Electric Rat and Roach Paste as a ready to use remedy, sold by druggists with money back guarantee, urging customers to buy the genuine Chicago paste.
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Stearns
Stearns’ Electric Paste Co
Chicago
Gas Marets Claim Quick Relief from Headaches and Constipation
An ad touts Cascarets as a quick remedy for headaches tied to lazy liver and digestive buildup. It promises immediate liver bile relief, bowel cleansing, and improved mood, with a 10 cent box claimed to keep the head clear and regular.
Inventor Callahan Dead at 73 in New York
Edward J Callahan inventor of key telegraph devices died in Brooklyn at 73 He helped develop ticker machines and call boxes and organized major telegraph firms including Gold and Stock Telegraph and the Western Telegraph Company during the Civil War He was born in Boston.
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Callahan
New York
Edward “J Callahan
Brooklyn
Western Telegraph Company
3 Change Telegraph Company
London
Boston
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