Happenings That Are Making History This Week
Judge Joseph R. Clarkson of Kenosha Wisconsin found working in a Sabula Iowa pearl button factory after his disappearance on July 14. President Taft arrives at Beverly Minnesota for a summer White House stay until September 15 before a 13000 mile national tour. Mrs Roosevelt family in Paris. Whitelaw Reid to remain ambassador to Great Britain. Lord Kitchener named inspector general of Mediterranean forces with field marshal rank. International Typographical Union meets in St. Joseph Missouri with John M. Lynch presiding. Alton B Parker attacks tariff law pledges. Capt Rowland V Webster leaves Los Angeles for New York then London to prep for Antarctic trip. Dr Calos F MacDonald testifies Harry Thaw insane. James A Flaherty elected supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus in Mobile Alabama. M H Carmody elected deputy supreme knight. Mark Twain ordered to reduce smoking to four a day for tobacco heart. Charles H Moyer reelected president of the Western Federation of Miners. Emperor William returns to Swinmunde aboard the Hohenzollern after summer cruise.
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Joseph R. Clarkson
Kenosha
Wis
Sabula
Taft
Beverly
Minn
White House
Theodore Roosevelt
Miss Carrow
Miss Ethel
Archie
Paris
Whitelaw Reid
Great Britain
Lord Kitchener
International Typographical Union
St. Joseph
John M. Lynch
Alton B. Parker
Rowland V. Webster
Royal Geographical Society
South Pole
Los Angeles
Cal
New York
London
Calos F. MacDonald
Harry Thaw
James A. Flaherty
Philadelphia
The
Knights of Columbia
Mobile
Ala
M. H. Carmody
Grand Rapids
Mich
Mark Twain
Charles H. Moyer
Western Federation of Miners
Denver
Emperor William
Swinmunde
Germany
Hohenzollern
Eight members of commission sail for Europe to inspect waterways
Eight members of the joint congressional commission on waterways depart New York for Europe to spend two months examining continental waterways. The party includes Senators Burton Gallinger Simmons Smith of Michigan and Representatives Alexander Stevens Wanger Sparkman.
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Joint Congressional Commission On Waterways
New York
Europe
Burton
Gallinger
Simmons
Smith
Michigan
Alexander
Stevens
Wanger
Sparkman
Wisconsin
Jean Nicolet
Green Bay
State Historical Society
Union Park
Taft
South
Harry Dill
Frank Lehaney
Mabel Hudson
Toledo
Dill
Gustave
Sweden
James J. Jeffries
Jack Johnson
China
Japan
Antung-Mukden
Manchuria
Indiana Federation of Labor
South Bend
Peter Jackson
Paxsutawney
Battle Creek
Mich
Paris
Connecticut
Alabama
Montgomery
Escapes and incidents sweep through early 1900s cities
Reports detail prison escape attempts at Indiana State Prison, shootings in Perry County and Mishawaka, a fatal train crash near Niles, and a surge of other violent events. Officials warn of security risks at reform institutions, while national issues include tariffs, seacoast defenses funds, and the Alaska exposition.
Former convict shoots hotel proprietor in Middletown
James McSorley, recently released from prison, hunted down Daniel Fenton, former rival hotel keeper at Coney Island. On a street corner McSorley fired three shots from his pocket, then killed Fenton with two more bullets. Fenton died hours later in hospital. McSorley died at the scene. Fenton had served time on the jury that convicted McSorley.
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Middletown
N. Y
James McSorley
Coney Island
Daniel E. Fenton
Elberton
McSorley
Fenton
Phoenixville
West Main Street
Young Financier Persch Jailed Over Wall Street Cash Scramble
Donald L. Persch, a bold New York financier, is in the Tombs on $50,000 bail after alleged larceny of about $40,000. He supposedly caused 15,600 Ohio Copper and 4,600 David Daly Copper shares to be sold from Windsor Trust securities for roughly $90,000. The case links Persch to F. Augustus Heinze and raises questions about how capital funded the deal and why the trust stock was relinquished.
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New York City
Donald L. Persch
Wall Street
F. Augustus Heinze
Persch
Ohio Copper Common
David Daly Copper Common
Heinze
Windsor Trust Co
Tragic Murder of Anna Schumacher Shocks Rochester
Autopsy by Coroner Henry Kleindienst reveals Anna Schumacher seventeen was choked and beaten to death after sexual assault. Broken spade near a pump house, found at St Bernard’s seminary, points to a possible suspect who escaped. Victim dragged to shrubbery and buried shallowly, with extensive bruising and a fractured hyoid. Family reported her missing after August 7 while visiting Holy Sepulcher cemetery to place flowers. The crime scene and concealment suggest careful planning and remote location disposal.
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Rochester
N. Y
Anna Schumacher
Holy Sepulcher
Henry Kleindienst
St. Bernard’s Seminary
Husband and Wife Die After Locked-Room Fight in Chicago
Antonio Spizzirri and his wife Anna fought in a darkened flat after locking their two children in a bedroom. Both were shot. the wife died before police arrived. A revolver and a knife were found near the dead, and another revolver lay by the husband. A torn letter may reveal motive as jealousy is suspected.
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Chicago
Antonio Spizzirri
Anna
Spizzirri
Pennsylvania Happenings on Food Law Compliance
Chief Factory Inspector Delaney says film makers in the state show willingness to obey the new law after department assurances. State Dairy and Food Commissioner Foust reports A. Treser of Indiana convicted of selling weinerwurst with added starch and water, fined $60. first conviction under the Murphy food bill.
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Delaney
Dairy and Food Commissioner
Foust
A. Treser
Indiana
Treser
Murphy Food
New Potato Bug Found In Northumberland County
A new form of potato borer has appeared in Northumberland county. Stalks affected by the pest are received by the department of agriculture. The insect bores into the stalk and cannot be saved. Reappearance next year can be prevented by pulling and burning affected stalks.
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Northumberland County
Department of Agriculture
Flags at the Capitol Replaced Every Three Months
Superintendent Rambo of the department of public grounds and buildings oversees flag maintenance at the capitol. Flags are replaced on average every three months due to wear and occasional wind damage from violent squalls.
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Capitol
Rambo
Department of Public Grounds and Buildings
Penitentiary Parole Law Not Retroactive Says Deputy AG
Assistant Deputy Attorney General Hargest issues opinion to eastern penitentiary inspectors. The parole act applies only to indeterminate sentences and only to prisoners sentenced after the law took effect. Once the minimum is served, a parole petition can be made, and good behavior during the maximum may keep the inmate from returning to the penitentiary.
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Hargest
Board of Inspectors
Eastern Penitentiary
Attorney General’s Department
Board of Pardons
Hotel Fire in Vernon Claims Ten Lives
A blaze leveled the Okanagan hotel in Vernon British Columbia with ten fatalities among sixty guests. Firefighters arrived as flames engulfed stairways and the structure. the fire spread so fast that efforts to save the building were abandoned while rescuing others from windows. Injured guests were taken to hospitals and adjoining buildings suffered damage. the loss is listed at twenty five thousand dollars.
Pioneer Bicycle Pioneer Pope Dies After Ill Health
Col Albert A Pope, renowned Boston bicycle inventor and early good roads advocate, dies at his Cohasset summer home after months of ill health. Born May 20 1843 in Boston, Pope led the nation’s largest bicycle company headquartered in Hartford.
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Pioneer
Boston
Mass
Albert A. Pope
United States
Cohasset
Col. Pope
Hartford
Conn
Albert Augustus Pope
Will Deport Russian Woman From Ogdensburg
Mrs Ann Kuljaj driven insane by immigration rules leaves Ogdensburg with an inspector for New York to arrange deportation to Austria. Her 15 year old daughter was stopped in Prescott Ontario after a New York transfer, and may join her husband in Ladysmith British Columbia. The daughter will be sent to her father as Canadian authorities admit her.
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Ogdensburg
N. Y
Ann Kuljaj
New York
Austria
Ladysmith
B. C
Prescott
Ont
Wife shoots at husband in jealous rage in Atlanta shop
Mrs. C. C. Downs burst into a shop in Atlanta flashing a revolver and fired at her husband at work. The shot went wild and he wrestled the gun away. Jealousy was cited as the motive.
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Atlanta
C. C. Downs
Downs
Farmers urge amendments to federal pure food act
State agriculture officials urge farmers and dairymen to back changes to the federal pure food act to aid their interests. Critics cite loopholes in the federal law that allow oleomargarine sales misrepresented as butter.
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State Grange
Association
Critchfield
Dairy
Washington
Worthington Twins Celebrate 100th Birthday Milestone
Butler William and Nevin Kerr, long believed oldest twins in the United States, marked their 300th day birthday and remain in good health with likely hopes of reaching the century mark.
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Butler
William and
Nevin Kerr
Worthington
United States
Two Bathers Drowned in Lake at South Haven
In South Haven Michigan Miss Alydia Johnson of Chicago and George Engle bracht of South Chicago drowned while bathing in the lake.
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South Haven
Mich
Alydia Johnson
Chicago
George Englebracht
Fidelity Land Co sues 47 in ejectment over strike
Forty seven ejectment suits were filed in common pleas court by Fidelity Land Co acting for Pressed Steel Car Co against tenants on strike. Attorney seeks summons returnable the first Monday in September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Common Pleas
Fidelity Land Co
Pressed Steel Car Co
AS STRAIGHT MEN SEE HIM
A column from the Atchison Globe laments the dead beat as a social害outcast. It argues the thief lacks peace and prospers little, facing rejection and a harsher ending than the honest man. It notes the harm of exploiting friendship and the contempt he earns from others.
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Atchison Globe
Child’s Spring Skin Ailment Cured By Cuticura
Mrs M A Schwerin of Detroit reports that her infant daughter Vivian suffered from about sixty boils and recurring scalp ulcers each spring. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment and Resolvent the outbreaks healed, and in two years none recurred. Potter Drug & Chem Corp Boston.
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Vivian
M. A. Schwerin
Spring Wells Ave
Detroit
Mich
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Sole Props
Boston
Almost Any Mother
A Globe observation notes a mother in a large family died of starvation after feeding her children and preparing meals for hours. The physician asserted the cause and described how the mother sacrificed hunger to serve the family, concluding that children rarely take time to eat and a hen eats sooner than a mother.
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Atchison Globe
New Defiance Starch Promises Strength and Smoothness
Starch products have improved greatly since their first patent. The latest Defiance Starch removes injurious chemicals and adds a new ingredient that enhances strength and smoothness beyond rival brands.
Bachelor girl jokes about electrified tea party
A woman doctor invites guests to an electrical tea and the bachelor girl muses on what may happen. She imagines possibilities from a playful battery to entertaining themselves with an electric stove, or even the risk of being electrocuted.
Castoria Safety Reminder for Mothers
Important to mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of Castoria a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it remains in proper condition and with the correct labeling for use.
That paint you're leaning against
A busy man teases a bore from an office railing while a witty exchange opens with Hello. The piece pivots to a medical aside noting sore throat as a potential infection path via food, then promotes Hamlin's Wizard Oil as a quick cure. It ends with a quip about a girl describing her crush as a bear.
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Caledonian
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