Panic at Brooklyn School Triggers Italian Mothers’ Rage
About 40 girls in Brooklyn’s Public School 46 fainted as teacher Miss Margaret McMahon collapsed. Italian mothers, seeing their children flee, charged the building while police and janitors contained the panic. A teacher led singing to calm students. classes dismissed with no injuries reported.
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Brooklyn
New York
Union Street
Margaret McMahon
Sackett Street
Cody
Albert Eames
Eames
Coant Gallagher
Downey
Miss Duff
America
Anna McDevitt
Tick boosts living costs in cattle across the country
Dr. Peter F. Bahnson of Georgia told the U S Livestock Sanitary association that ticks cost the nation about 100 million dollars annually by attacking cattle. He urged strict inspection law enforcement and farmer education as remedies.
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Chicago
Peter F. Bahnson
Georgia
United States Livestock Sanitary Association
Rumor of Indian Princes Offer Denied by Admiralty
In London on December 6 a House of Commons inquiry asked if rumors of Indian princes uniting to present the imperial navy with three superdreadnoughts and nine armored ships were true. Winston Churchill said the Admiralty had received no such offer and had no information on negotiations.
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London
Imperial Navy
House of Commons
Winston Churchill
Admiralty
Indian fighter James Keneer ends life with army rifle
York Pa Dec 5 James C Keen er 63 a longtime Indian fighter and army member killed himself citing ill health He used the rifle he once used to fight Indians in the West
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York, Pa
James C. Keener
West
United States Army
Grave disturbance uncovers Captain Drew’s treasure site
In Lewes Delaware during Henry Rodney burial a grave was dug over Captain James Drew’s resting place. The exposed chancel foundation revealed bones from the 1798 De Braak shipwreck once carrying over one million dollars in gold and Spanish treasure. Explorations have since sought the legendary treasure.
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Henry Rodney
Capt
Drew
Wilmington
Del
Paris
Lewes
Rodney
St. Peter’s Episcopal Churchyard
Life Fresh Start for Paroled Cobbler at 75
John Warren 75, freed last June after 55 years in Wethersfield prison for murder, opens a cobbler shop in Williamantic Conn. He learned the trade in prison and is skilled, though rising sole leather prices threaten his profits. He runs his shop from his home, cooking his meals, and prefers independence over living with relatives.
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Middletown
Conn
John Warren
Wethersfield
Williamantic
Warren
Lancaster mayor sought to help a Pacific coast bachelor
A letter to Mayor McClain from Salem Oregon requests help finding a wife for a 36 year old bachelor. The writer asks for a kind, good natured woman aged 25 to 32 who can cook, noting bachelor girls are scarce in the Pacific states. All replies promised confidential treatment.
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Lancaster
Pacific Coast
McClain
Salem
Ore
Pacific States
Had White Horse Funeral For Widow Frances Williamson
Springfield Ohio December 5 Twenty white horses drew a white hearse and nine carriages at the funeral of Frances Williamson who died Saturday. An undertaker George Lewis fulfilled her last wish by scouring the country for white horses and even renting from Springfield livery stables to reach the required number. Williamson was a 72 year old widow living on a large farm.
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Springfield
Frances Williamson
George Lewis
Sprinfield
Williamson
Tried to Bribe Civil Service Board Harrisburg Item
Harry Etter of Boiling Springs Cumberland county was fined ten dollars by Judge Witmer for offering in writing to pay 400 to the United States civil service commission to obtain a high rating on a rural mail carrier exam. He did not seem to grasp the seriousness of his offense.
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Civil Service Board
Harrisburg
United States Civil Service Commission
Harry Etter
Boiling Springs
Cumberland County
Witmer
Etter
Commission
Silver Cups Awarded at Myers Town Poultry Show
Eighteen silver cups twelve prizes and medals were awarded at the Myers Town Agricultural Association annual poultry show in Myerstown. Silver cups were won by Lykens Valley farms Anasmead farms Harry Lehman Samuel Black and Clarence High.
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Myerstown
Eigh
Myerstown Agricultural Association
Lykens Valley Farms
Anasmead Farms
Harry Lehman
Samuel Black
Clarence High
Taft Seeks Merit System Reform in Foreign Service
President Taft urges improvements in foreign relations and tariff policy, highlighting a 1909 State Department reorganization, creation of regional bureaus, added trade advisers, and merit-based promotions for consular and diplomatic staff to advance American commerce and leadership.
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China
State Department
United States
Department of State
Foreign Office
Congress
Department
Diplomatic Corps
Cleveland
Eth
Carmi Thompson Receives Receipt for 1.52 Billion as U S Treasurer
Carmi Thompson signs a receipt totaling 1,519,285,908 dollars as the incoming United States Treasurer. The incident captures a formal accounting gesture marking the transition in the Treasury office.
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United States
Uncle Sam Finishes Count Of Treasury Fortunes
Carmi A. Thompson signed a receipt for 1 519 285 908 57 dollars, closing Lee McClung’s tenure as treasurer after friction with Secretary MacVeagh. The count, done in about eight and a half days, used intact sealed packages to avoid full tally. Major totals include gold coin 2 195 540, gold certificates 3 945 030, silver dollars 156 727 824, currency reserve 379 884 500, and securities 837 646 451.
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Washington
Carmi A. Thompson
United States
Treasury
Lee McClung
Thompson
Russia Not Intimidated by German Threats
The Russian press dismisses German sword rattling after Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg’s Reichstag speech. Novoe Vremya cites Austria’s Bosnia and Herzegovina moves and warns Russia to withdraw vast deposits from German banks. Reich calls for public enlightenment on government diplomacy and complains of leaks from Berlin.
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St. Petersburg
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Reichstag
Germany
Austria
Novoe Vremya
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Reich
Berlin
Russia
Timickey Smith Dead at 116 in Irish Workhouse
Timickey Smith a basket maker and cattle driver died in the Dunshaughlin workhouse at age 116. He was known for heavy drinking and constant smoking. Married three times he often slept outdoors and could work until about three years ago.
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Dublin
Mickey” Smith
Dunshaughlin
Hog shot injures worker near Glen Rock
In York Pennsylvania on December 5 a bullet fired at a hog glanced off the animal and struck Edward Harshinger in the neck on the farm of George Bantz near Glen Rock seriously injuring him.
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York
Edward Harshinger
George Bantz
Glen Rock
Bin
Prince Confesses to Murder in North Wethersfield Case
Alphose Prince, a young farmer from North Wethersfield, arraigned on first degree murder for the killing of Frank Bentley. He allegedly confessed while in jail, describing a hunting trip, a shot from behind, a wheelbarrow move, an attempted burn and burial, and citing a story from Mrs. Fanny Moore.
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Alphose Prince
North Wethersfield
Frank Bentley
MacKenzie
Johnsonburg
Warsaw
Prince
Bentley
E. M. Cowdoin
Wyoming County
Bugsy
McKenzie Woods
Fanny Moore
Minute Movies of the News Right Off the Reel
A collage of brief oddities and society items: 1500 wild geese served as goose meat in Sacramento, Chicago bakeshops under probe led by Alderman Pretzel, Wheeling health officials allow kissing if lips stay clean, a New York woman balances on her feet in a slipper, Crete’s ancient ladies wore hobble skirts and tight corsets, London says Venus would be told she is too fat for modern musical comedy, a Bremen steamer is steered off course by deer crowds in Delaware Bay, ticklers banned at the Wilson inauguration, Democrats deemed tickled by election, Mrs A Y Grant of Chicago reportedly mother of triplets, Ludlow Street jail alimony club stages a prison charity play, Charles Wells the Monte Carlo banker is jailed for swindling.
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Alderman Pretzel
Chicago
Board of Health of Wheeling
W. V
New York
Crete
London
Venus
Lloyd
Bremen
Philadelphia
Delaware Bay
Wilson
A. Y. Grant
Ludlow Street
Monte Carlo
Charles Wells
England
Grand Opera Star Campanari Delights Warren Audience
Signor Campanari wowed Warren at Library Theatre with a versatile program of foreign operatic selections and English songs. Accompanist Miss Alice Flammer received praise for Liszt and Chopin works. both artists left a lasting impression on local music patrons.
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Earth
Heaven
Signor Guiseppe Campanari
Library Theatre
Warren
Carpanari
Largo
Rossini
Soreador
Bizet
Alice Flammer
New York
Miss Flammer
Mendelssohn
Rhapsodie Hongroise N. X
Signor Campanari
When Harmonies Exhausted and a New Spirit Arises
In a discussion on music James Hinton English physician and writer faced the claim that endless compositions would exhaust harmony. He proposed that a future inspired mind would feel music not written but yet unwritten, a view echoed by Havelock Ellis in The Task of Social Hygiene applied to love.
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James Hinton
Hinton
Havelock Ellis
Ancient Glass in Slade Collection Shows Early Egyptian Link
The British Museum houses a small lion’s head from the Slade collection that bears the name of an Egyptian king of the eleventh dynasty. The artifact suggests glassmaking existed over two thousand years ago, indicating early sophistication in the craft.
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Slade
British Museum
London
Through the Earth tunnel ball thought experiment
If a ball is dropped into a hypothetical tunnel through the earth it would, in a vacuum, oscillate to the opposite side and back to the start indefinitely. With air resistance it would gradually settle at the earth’s center, illustrating damping and gravitational attraction.
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Taft
Senate
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Carmi Thompson
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Timickey” Smith
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Bently
Sacramento
Mary C. King
Campanari
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