Beattie Defense Begins After State Rested in Murder Trial
Chesterfield Virginia August 31 Henry C Beattie defense opened after the commonwealth rested. Defense witness says he saw a rough man matching Beatties description with a shotgun along railroad tracks hours before the slaying on Midlothian turnpike. Henry Beattie prepared to testify after defense evidence outlining his confession and weapon links.
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Chesterfield
Henry C. Beattie
Commonwealth
Harry Smith, Jr
Henry
Gailt
Smith
Henry Beattie
Discoveries in Samaria May Indicate Early Political Writings
London reports F F Ogilivie, colleague of Professor Reisner of Harvard, suggesting recent finds in King Ahab's palace may be tied to Samaria excavations by Relner's team. Pottery tablets bearing Ahab Jezebel and Elisha correspondence could mark early political writing, if confirmed.
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London
F. F. Ogilivie
Geo. A. Reisner
Harvard University
Samaria
Ahab
Postmaster General approves seven hour fast mail Chicago St. Louis
Postmaster General Frank H. Hitchcock authorizes a seven hour fast mail service between Chicago and St. Louis. Trains will depart terminals at 7 a.m. and arrive by 2 a.m. carrying business mails and other connected mail. Result of lengthy negotiations.
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Washington
Frank H. Hitchcock
Chicago
St. Louis
Victim in New York Hospital Suffering Appendicitis
A Lieut from Cornwallis West is reported hospitalized in New York with acute appendicitis. Medical staff are treating the officer, and his condition is described as serious but stable. Local officials have requested privacy as the case is evaluated.
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New York Hospital
Torpedo Boat in Collision Reported by Wireless
A wireless message from Boston says the schooner Dorothy B Barrett of Bath Maine collided with torpedo boat Peer. The Dorothy B Barrett was slightly damaged and proceeded to Newport News. the collision occurred off Cave Cad Waterway. An official announcement from Chicago notes the Lakes to the Gulf Waterway Association convention October 12 18 and 14, announced by W K Kavanaugh president.
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Boston
Dorothy B Barrett
Bath
Peer
Newport News
Cave Cad
Chicago
St Louis
Aue
W. K Kavannagh
Association
Publicity Law Defect Leaves Candidate Statements Hidden
Washington August 21 primary expense statements from Senators Martin and Swanson Virginia filed under the new publicity law effective August 19 reached the secretary’s office. Officials declined to publish in Secretary Bennett’s absence, revealing the law has no requirement to publicly disclose individual candidate statements for the senate or house.
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Washington
Martin and Swanson
Virginia
Bennett
Senate
House of Representatives
Gates Nephew to Receive Education Prize in Will
Henry Baker, 21, of St. Charles, is heir to 250 000 dollars if he graduates from college under John W. Gates will. He receives 10 000 dollars to cover tuition. Starvard plans announced. Blind sister in law Mrs Lucerne Angell gets 100 000 dollars, daughter Dolores 100 000 in trust until 21. Dr J Baker and wife receive 25 000 each plus farm valued at 59 000.
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Aurora
Henry Bakes
St. Charles
John W. Gates
Baker
Starvard
Lucerne Angell
Ohio fair train wreck near Columbus injures many
Hocking Valley train No. 80 crowded with state fair visitors derailed after crossing a bridge near Olentangy park. One coach left the rails and fell on its side but no serious injuries were reported though many passengers suffered bruises and cuts.
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Columbus
Toledo
Olentangy Park
Million Farmers Fight High Food Prices in Direct Sale Plan
Fifty farmers from New York and Pennsylvania arrive to back a direct sales plan through the United States Stores Grangers Dealers and Consumers Association. They aim to establish a New York market to ship produce straight to city retailers, cutting consumer prices by about 40 percent and expanding to other major cities.
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New York
Pennsylvania
United States
Grangers, Dealers and Consumers’ Association
Bush Terminal
Brooklyn
W C T U Speakers Chosen for National Conference
Announcement lists selected speakers for the thirty-eighth annual National Woman's Christian Temperance Union conference to open in Milwaukee on October 27 with the annual address by Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens of Boston.
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Boston
National Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Milwaukee
Lillian M. N. Stevens
Portland
Ella A. Boole
New York Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Florence Richard
Ohio
Mary Kuhl
Ilinois Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Direct selling method to end cold storage era declares market shift
The article states that a direct selling approach will eliminate the use of cold storage. It frames the change as a market declaration and implies a moving away from existing preservation methods toward direct distribution.
Weather Forecast For Indiana Illinois Wisconsin
Indiana generally fair today and tomorrow with rising temperatures and moderate east to southeast winds. Illinois sees local showers in the north today then fair and warmer tomorrow with moderate east to south winds. Wisconsin reports local showers and warmer today then warmer and fair tomorrow with moderate southerly winds.
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Indiana
Illinois
Wisconsin
Fire destroys Eagle Brewing and Inland Hardwood plant in SF
A blaze in San Francisco on August 21 destroyed the Eagle Brewing Company plant and the Inland Hardwood Floor Company. Emergency crews battled the flames as investigators assess the cause and total damage.
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San Francisco
Eagle Brewing Company
Inland Hardwood Floor Company
Bomb Explodes on Fifth Avenue Shaking New York Life
A powerful Dy namite and gun cotton bomb exploded on a Lexington avenue trailer, hurled from a speeding taxi by a Black Hander. It shook Fifth avenue for a mile, damaging the street and lowering the Plaza and St Regis hotels with a $5000 stock loss reported by fruiterer Charles Romo. An hour later a second blast hit East Twenty ninth street in front of Anthony Capuco’s Manhattan Macaroni plant, smashing plate glass but causing limited damage.
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New York
Lexington Avenue
Vitty-first Street
Fifth Avenue
Hotel Plaza
St. Regis
Charles Romo
Romo
East Twenty-ninth Street
Anthony Capuco
Manhattan Macaroni Manufacturing Company
New Japanese Premier Selects His Cabinet
Marquis Saionji, aged sixteen, named by the new Japanese premier to form his cabinet. The cabinet choices reflect a cautious modernization of government as the youth's influence stirs debate in Tokyo.
American Connoisseur Suspected in Louvre Heist Case
New York August 31 William Loeb Jr collector of the port says an American art connoisseur now in Europe is under surveillance by U S and French agents in the Louvre theft case. The Mona Lisa vanished from Paris ten days ago and is the subject of an international pursuit.
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New York
William Loeb, Jr
Europe
United States
Louvre
Paris
Dave Aro
Leasing Plan Favored by Interior Secretary Fisher
Secretary of the Interior Walter J. Fisher told Valdez citizens that Congress might pass an early coal lands leasing law as the best practical solution. He warned that government ownership and operation of mines and transport would face strong opposition and may not be feasible, while leasing could provide quicker relief and coal delivery to Alaska for domestic and industrial uses.
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Valdez
Alaska
Secretary of the Interior
Walter J. Fisher
Fisher
Awekans
Ceva
Cornwallis West in New York Recovering from Operation
Lieut George Frederick Myddleton Cornwallis West, husband of former Lady Randolph Churchill and Jennie Jerome of New York, is slowly recovering in New York after an appendicitis operation. He came from England in August for a Canada hunting trip and was compelled to seek hospital care. The operation is believed to have been a special procedure.
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New York
George Frederick Myddleton Cornwallis- West
Lady Randolph Churchill
Jennie Jerome
Cornwallis-West
England
Canada
Miners Trapped Alive in Oakdale Colliery Collapse
Two miners, Alexander Salima and Anthony Maregevitch, both of Freeland, Pa, were caught in a mine cave at the Oakdale colliery of G. B. Markle & Co. A rescue party is digging. The laborer says Salima is farther back and alive, but no word yet on the miner’s status.
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Hazleton
Alexander Salima
Anthony Maregevitch
Freeland
Oakdale
G. B. Markle & Co
Bridge Collapse Kills Fifteen in Swiss Gorge
A railroad bridge under construction across a deep gorge near Bruil in the Excndin valley Switzerland collapsed at night. The fall pulled thirty workers into the depths with fifteen dead and fifteen injured reported.
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St. Moritz
Bruil
Excndin
Switzerland
Wreck of the Lexington Saved by Cutter Yamacraw
Wireless operator Sheesley aboard the Lexington clung to a mast as a huge wave wrecked the wireless station and left passengers and crew in peril. The revenue cutter Yamacraw reached the ship and rescued twelve passengers, crew, and three black laborers, while two firemen were burned and another badly scalded.
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Charleston
3. C
Courane
Sheesley
Hunting Island
Lexington
Sheesiey
Per Rinety
Yamacraw
Pecseipeteana
Nesro
Bemenisten
Savannah
Philadelphia
Saionji Submits Cabinet List in Tokyo
Marquis Saionji presented to the emperor the new cabinet lineup succeeding Count Katsura. Names include Hara for finance, Yamamoto for war, Ishimotou for navy, Saito for agriculture and commerce, Nobuaki Makino for communications and foreign affairs, Hayashi for justice, Matsuda for education, Uchida to become foreign minister after arrival in Tokyo.
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Tokyo
Saionji
Katsura
Hara
Tattue Yamamoto
Ishimotou
Minoru Saito
Nobuaki Makino
Masu Hayashi
Masahisa Mattsuda
Sumitaka Hageda
Viscount Yasuya Uchida
United States
Lusitania Aims to Break Speed Record Forny Passage
The Cunard liner Lusitania left Liverpool Monday and is hastening to New York. She is expected to arrive Friday and depart Sunday night, aiming to beat the Mauretania’s December record by ten hours if she repeats the loop.
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New York
Cunard
Lusitania
Liverpool
Mauretania
Ten Hotra
New Center of Population Reported Near Bloomington
Washington Aug 31 center of population of United States announced by Director Durand as located in the western part of Bloomington Indiana in Monroe County. The new point sits eight miles farther than the July location and extends into the same county.
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Washington
United States
Cengua
Durand
Bloomington
Monroe County
Ville
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