Honor for Charles P Taft at Westminster Abbey
American representation at the coronation pageant included Ambassador Whitelaw Reid and John Hays Hammond with wives and aides. Charles P Taft and his wife gained seats by command of King George. Notable Americans, including J Pierpont Morgan, received prominent attention among diplomatic guests.
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London
Whitelaw Reid
Reid
John Hays Hammond
Wiliam Phillips
Simpson
Simipson
Slocum
Hammond
Greely
Vreeland
Taft
Charles P. Taft
King George
Washington
James Bryce
J. Pierpont Morgan
Mrs. Taft
Miss Taft
Mr. Morgan
Mr. Taft
Duchess of Roxburghe
Duchess of Manchester
Duchess of Marlborough
Miss Goelet
Newport
Zimmerman
Cincinnati
Miss Vanderbilt
New York
Miarchioness of Dufferin
Miss Davis
Countess of Essex
Miss Grant
Countess of Suffolk
Miss Lester
Countess of Granard
Mills
Countess of Donoughmore
Grace
Countess of Tankerville
van Marter
Viscountess
Falkland
Cheylesmore
Newborough
Monson
Leith
Ashburton
Bateman
Prominent Gen Bernardo Reyes in Mexican Reorganization
New Haven June 28 Two hundred commencement guests at the Tontino hotel near the Yale campus were driven into the streets by a rear annex fire. The main building filled with smoke but guests returned to rooms after about an hour.
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New Haven
Conn
Tontino
Yale Eca
Making it Worse. A boy faced a stern corner time
Willie receives a severe spanking and is sent to the corner. A humorous aside from WU He describes the scene with a sheepish grin and a comment that the punishment is “sorter rubbin’ it in.”
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Willie
Wuhe
Father’s Trade Recalled In A Youngster’s Answer
A kind old lady asks what the father does for a living. The youth responds that his father used to work for everybody but now has time just now. This reflects a nostalgic, wry view from a New York Times quotation.
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Younster
New York Times
Woman and man fashion question in Yonkers State
A Yonkers Statesman style quip asks why women choose smaller shoes and men larger hats than they can wear, reflecting satirical views on fashion expectations.
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Yonkers Statesman
Promises New Interurban Line to Municie from Newcastle
Geo A Buskirk of Indianapolis announced in Newcastle that the extension of the Indianapolis Newcastle and Toledo Traction line to Municie will start in October or November. Financing arrangements are being made for the extension. The right of way was secured years ago.
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Newcastle
Ind
Fast for Stomach Illness Man Continues Fast in Indiana
Delbert Loehr of Milford Indiana has abstained from food for thirty four days and plans to extend the fast another week. He reports no appetite since day four and no pain from hunger while drinking ample water, hoping the fast will cure his stomach ailment.
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Warsaw
Ind
Delbert Loehr
Milford
Poole Arraigned for Murder in Fowler Indiana
John Poole indicted for the murder of Joseph Kemper. The case will be tried in Tippecanoe County. His attorney secured transfer to Judge Dehart's court over the state's protest. Poole was taken to Lafayette immediately. None of his family were present at arraignment.
Two Killed in Festive Accidents Reported
Two fatal accidents mar a local fete. In Lymereyis a cannon misfire killed a prominent citizen. In Barnstable an archway collapse killed a woman and seriously injured several people including many men and women.
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Tandon
Lymereyis
Barnstable
Blindness Follows Lightning View in Mirror
Atlantic City June 23 tarry Adams son of a wealthy bath house owner lost his sight after viewing a nearby bolt reflected in a mirror. He fell unconscious yet intact, revived with total blindness and doctors offered little hope for recovery. In Warsaw Indiana June 8 Mrs Pearl Canaan twenty eight of New Paris was killed by a Winona interurban car as she walked toward the vehicle ignoring warnings from the motorman.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Tarry Adams
Warsaw
Ind
Pearl Canaan
New Paris
Winona Interurban
Mexico City's Opera Bouffe in State Governance Turmoil
Reports from Mexico City say President De La Barra will not aid Madero after his term ends and refused a cabinet post. Governors in Guanajuato Zacatecas and Jalisco clash with appointees as revolutions complicate elections. Zapata returns to Cuernavaca amid fears of mischief and split loyalties.
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Mexico City
de la Barra
Madero
United States
de la Parra
Guanajato
Zacatecas
Jalisco
Cuernavaca
Zapata
Cuermavaca
Tepuacan
Rebels Fire on Mexican Train Near Cuernavaca
A small band believed linked to Zapatas Command fired on a passenger train escorted by forces under Figueroa near Cuernavaca Mexico on June 23. No casualties reported in the fragmentary report.
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Mexico City
Zapatas
Figueroa
Cuernavaca
Five Sets of Twins in Eight Years Reported
Gulfport Mississippi June 2 The world record is believed broken by Mrs Pifarro's fifth set of twins in eight years Her husband weighs ninety pounds All the children are thriving (sic).
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Gulfport
Pifarro
Diet and Terlalih Hints by Dr T Allen Pood Specialist
Overfeeding causes waste buildup and congestion affecting body and mind. Health relies on balanced nutrition, avoiding excess while ensuring all needed nutrients. Do not overeat or obsess. worry harms health as poor eating does. The liver makes glycogen from toast or prunes easier than beef. Albumen is essential and found only in certain foods.
Hilltops All Ablaze Celebrates King's Crowning Across Britain
June night in London witnessed a nationwide display as fires lit from Lands End to John o’Groats marked the crowning of the new king. Anthony Asquitt, nine, started the celebrations by telephoning Downing Street to the Crystal Palace. Bystanders watched 2,000 fires blaze on hilltops, with pyramids of timber and creosote rising up to forty feet, symbolizing widespread enthusiasm across villages towns and cities.
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London
Cristal
Great Britain
John O'Grant
Asquitt
Anthony
Downing Street
Palace
Anaheim
Beaucoiis
Britain
Meat Packer James S Gilmore Dies in Rock Island
Rock Island Wisconsin June 1 James S Gilmore sixty five year old meat packer is dead at his home following a brief illness. Authorities say the death is from natural causes and no funeral arrangements are announced.
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Meat Packer
Rock Island, WI
James S Gilmore
Quotation on Cervantes and women's wit cited
A Chicago Record-Herald excerpt notes a debate over Cervantes and women’s wisdom, quoting a line about women proving their wit long before Cervantes. The brief reflects a literary quip rather than a news event.
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Cervantes
Carl Cago
Residence Is Dynamited in Greensburg Case
A ten story brick dwelling owned by John Ollson a miner at Cribbs Station was blown to pieces by dynamite. Ollson his wife and two children were injured though not fatally.
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Greensburg
John Ollson
Cribbs Station
Oblson
Brigham Young and Beet Sugar Beet Sugar Saga Details
The narrative covers Brigham Young’s early beet sugar experiments in Utah, the 1902 attention of Henry Havemeyer and the Sugar trusts, and Thomas R. Cutler’s role in church business as vice president of Idaho Sugar and trustee for Utah Idaho Sugar, with stock holdings and merger history noted. A separate Kokomo accident reports painter Alva Myers 34 dies after a fall from a ladder, witnessed by his wife and daughter.
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Washington
Brigham Young
Utah
Mardwick
Thomas R. Cutler
Salt Lake
Cutler
Church of Latter Day Saints
Church
Sugar Trust
Sir Culler
Sharp
H. Q. Haverheyer
Tale Sugar Trust
American Sugar Refining Company
Mormon Church
Havemeyer
Tabldaho, Sugar, Company
Joseph F. Smith
Utah Sugar Company
Cister
New York
Mavemeyer
American Sugar Company
Mormons Sixposed
Tie
Nevemeyers
Idaho @company
Jeaho
Kokomo
Ind
Alva Myers
Myers
Adverse Report Hum The Committee
Our Spexia Representative at the Fooligh Coronation.
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Spexia
Powers Pleads for Lomax at Mass Meeting
Representative Caleb Powers of Kentucky urged commutation for Mattie Lomax a Black woman under death sentence for murdering her husband at a mass meeting in support of the movement. He cited his own Kentucky case and warned of possible judicial murder as a parallel to Lomax’s case.
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Mattie Lomax
Washington
Caleb Powers
Kentucky
Kentuckian
Viva Powers
Wire Saves Girl's Life in Narrow Escape
Maury Arribea a school girl in Swampscott Massachusetts leaped from a railroad viaduct to avoid an oncoming train and grabbed a slender telephone wire that kept her from being struck by a speeding car below. She clung to the wire for several minutes until help arrived.
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Swampscott
Mass
Maury Arribea
SURRENDERS AND PAYS FINE IN SOUTH BEND
John Lane, a three week fugitive, surrendered to police in South Bend Indiana and paid a $50 fine plus costs for operating a blind tiger on his farm. Neighbors had complained a month earlier about liquor sales to African Americans and display of hemp on Lane’s property near the lake road.
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South Bend
Ind
John Lane
Alehe
Lone
Zeim
Endows a Home for Girls in Rochford Under Will
Mrs Margaret T Stiff noted suffragist and temperance worker died last field. Her will leaves 5400 of her estate to the local Young Women’s Christian Association to build a home for homeless girls to be named the Margaret To Skiff Home for Homeless Girls. Income life use goes to sister Mrs Ann Dibble of Hierkimer NY, and on her death the residue goes to the bequest.
The Borough Road seat office theft at coronation incident
Newark Ohio June 23 report says a theft from a cash box at the Borough Road seat letting office yielded nearly five thousand dollars. Thieves posed as seat hire customers and escaped. Phillip D. Smythe, prosecuting attorney of Licking County, was injured in a likely fatal automobile accident.
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London
Borough Road
Newark
Phillip D. Smythe
Licking County
Senate Finance Committee Backs Reciprocity Bill Debate
Washington June 23 The Senate Finance Committee reported adversely on the farmers free Mat bi and the Underwood wool bill after House passage of the Gore resolution. A report to the Senate is due by July 10 as the calendar items include the Canadian reciprocity bill and related measures. Senator Gore praised the finance committee for swift action while Senator Culberson proposed a probe into political campaign contributions for 1904 and 1908. Smoot defended schedule K, Nelson opposed reciprocity, and Cummins explained his stance against the Root amendment.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
House
Gore
Senate
Ton Gore
Niance Committee
Culberson
Texas
Committee On Privileges and Elections
Smoot
Nelson
Cummins
Smallest Town Clerk Edward Byrom of Sullivan
Bloomington Illinois June 23. Edward Byrom, the smallest town clerk in the west at four feet six inches and twenty eight, has served ten years as a page in the Illinois senate chamber at Springfield. He is well known in the state capital and closely connected with notables. He resigned to become Sullivan town clerk. A five year Pythian Knight, he is energetic in promoting the order’s welfare.
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Bloomington
Tim
Sullivan
Pythian Order
Lorimer Inquiry Returns to Session with Hopkins on Stand
The Lorimer committee resumed hearings as Albert J. Hopkins testifies and repeats that John M. Petters said State Senator McCormick was offered 2500 to vote for Lorimer. Petters swore he reported this to Hopkins, with McCormick likely to be subpoenaed.
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Washington
Lorimer Investigating Committee
Albert J. Hopkins
Illinois
Richard Yates
Hopkins
Helm Committee
John M. Petters
McCormicck
Lorimer
Petters
Hopking
McCormick
WRECK CAUSES ECONOMY AT BURLINGTON RAILROAD
After a major wreck at Indianola Nebraska causing 266060 dollars in loss the Burlington railroad orders all employees to cut expenses to a minimum. President Miller directs a universal economy across departments following the incident that killed eighteen and injured eighty. Two trains including farmomotives were demolished.
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Omaha
Neb
Indianola
Burlington Railroad
Miller
Weather Outlook for Indiana Illinois Wisconsin
Indiana and Illinois stay fair with continued warmth today and tomorrow as southerly winds ease. Wisconsin remains fair and warm with possible showers and a slight cooldown tomorrow, winds becoming variable.
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Indiana
Illinois—Fair
Wisconsin Fair
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Mexico
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Thomas R. Cutter
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Margaret T. Skiff
Gure
Edward Byrom
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