Col Roosevelt Leaves Chicago for Oyster Bay
Ex president Theodore Roosevelt travels by 24 hour train to Oyster Bay after staff doctors say he must have absolute quiet for recovery. A previously located bullet is outside the rib and removable. He travels in an electric hospital ambulance with guards and limited visibility for the media.
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Mercy Hospital
Chicago
Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
N. Y
Pennsylvania Railroad
Oe Schrank
Milwaukee
Alexander Lambert
Arhur Dean Bevan
Murphy
Colonel Roosevelt
Chicago River
Union Nion
Prairie Avenue
Sixteenth Street
Michigan Avenue
Jackson Boulevard
Canal Street
Union Station
Scurry L Terrell
Beveridge
Dynamite Conspiracy Trial Details Akron Blast Case
Witness describes a mailed fuse as part of the dynamite conspiracy led by McManigal. The package from Chicago reached Peter J. Smith in Cleveland, with Ni troglycerin carried to Akron for a Fourth of July blast. McManigal claimed sole knowledge of handling nitroglycerin as plans shifted to dynamite.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Akron
Ohio
R. G. Boyd
Cleveland
Ortie E. McManigal
Chicago
Peter J. Smith
Herbert S. Hockin
McManigal
Rochester
J. J. McNamara
Smith
George “Nigper” Anderson
Ployd
White Sox romp over Cubs in city championship finale
At Comiskey Park on Oct 19 the White Sox routed the Cubs 16 to 0 in three innings. The Sox knocked out three pitchers, piling up thirteen hits and a one sided rout in the city championship decider.
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Comiskey Park
Chicago
Sox
Chicago Cubs
Lavender - Smith- Reusbach-Lefield- Archer-Cotter
Cubs
Walsh Sechaik
Girders Crash to Street in Chicago Construction Accident
A derrick collapsing during work on the Continental and Commercial National Bank project at South Fifth Avenue and West Adams Street struck West Adams Street. One man injured and about twenty people narrowly escaped harm when the four ton derrick with two six ton girders fell. a Twelfth Street car had just passed.
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Chicago
Continental & Commercial National Bank
South Fifth Avenue
West Adane Street
West Adams Street
Theater Mob Attacks Walker Opera House During Football Victory
About 1 000 University of Illinois students in Champaign rioted after a football win over Indiana. They battered in the Walker Opera House doors, threw missiles, struck chorus girls and a high school student, and clashed with police and stage hands. University authorities planned punishment for rioters. Charles Adkins faced the crowd as he spoke.
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Indiana
Champaign
University of Ilinois
Walker Opera House
Smerdley
Grace
Ifletcher
Andrews
Pete
Harper
Perael
Dillavou
Elmer
Ray Warnock
Charles Adkins
Ilnois House of Representatives
Taft
McKinley
France
Threaten to Lynch Men At Ironton Jail
Five men are jailed at Ironton after an attack on Mia Mullane and her husband near Richmond Va. Armed pursuers search for eight more involved. Prisoners were moved to Ironton under guard after a Des Arc hearing to prevent lynching. An additional report notes a Perfection Biscuit elevator accident in South Pend, Ind., injuring four workers but causing no serious harm.
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Annapolis
Ironton
Mia
Lillie Mullane
Richmond
Des Arc
South Pend
Ind
Perfection Biscuit Company
Bodies Moved to Ellwood Mausoleum in DeKalb
The bodies of Colonel and Mrs. J. L. Ellwood were moved from Fairview cemetery receiving Vault to the new Ellwood mausolecum costing $60.00.
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Ellwood
DeKalb
J. L. Ellwood
Fairview Cemetery
Youth Duplicate Hero Rides Demon Horse to Steer Neck Twist
CheyenneWyoming reports Lafe Lewman of Colorado, a 22 year old broncho buster, becomes local hero after bulldogging a steer in a public contest. He leaps from his horse lands on the steer’s neck breaking it, then prepares to ride Teddy Roosevelt, the famed unridden horse, in upcoming events.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Lochinvar
West
Lafe Lowman
Bryant
Colo
Charley McKinley
Colorado
Frank Carter
California
Lafe Lewman
Lewman
Hls
Lygia
Plains
Stripling
Teddy Roosevelt
Teddy
Three Word Barred Stir in Hollidaysburg Prosecution
In Hollidaysburg Pennsylvania Holy Name societies clash with profanity in a case against Thomas Winslow for uttering twenty six oaths. Magistrate M Calvin Lewis notes dictionary makers count 296088 English words yet lawmakers ban three words Father Son and Holy Spirit. He says the language can express wrath without them and fines 67 cents per oath under blue laws.
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Hollidaysburg
Pennsylvania
Thomas Winslow
M. ‘Calvin Lewis
Local horse eats cabbage dear to John in Tarrytown
A horse owned by George Ferguson in Tarrytown reportedly devoured all of John’s cherished cabbage, a favored crop noted in local circles and linked to Rockefeller’s tea man in a curious agricultural anecdote.
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J. D
Tarrytown
George Ferguson
Rockefeller
John
Washington Branch Schedule Listings
Local passenger and freight trains referenced for Washington Branch. Arrivals and departures for Nos. 12 22 4 50 2 30 88 1 49 21 29 36 including local passenger and freight services with daily except Sunday note. Agent Hi W Rusell provides timetable details.
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Cc BR
Hi. W. Russel
Train schedule fragment at Broadgate station in busy day
A fragmented timetable shows local and long distance trains with numbers nine two, six, eight, twelve, and sixty three passing through Easthound and Milwaukee routes. Agent at Broadgate lists times including 12 15 pm and 1 31 am and 7 18 pm for several No 8 and No 12 passenger services.
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Lo'west Lim
Jecccedanen Eae
Chicago Mdae
Milwaukee Moise
Easthound
Li, L
Broadgate
No. 3 Passenger No. 9 Passenger Accommodation
The fragment references passenger numbers and accommodation but provides no concrete events or names. Unable to determine a full news item.
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Washington
Iowa
Charles A. Dewey
Over Washington Co. Savings Bank
Eicher & Livingston
Edmund D. Morrison
J.J. Kellogg
South Side Square
W.M. Keeley
Butterfield & Frame
Special Collection Department
Crail’s
Hanley
Klein Klo Ko Store
Harry H. Ross
Casen Bros
E. J. Perry
West Washington Street
Ray H. Dean
Sherman Brother
D. F. Macon
Macon
Austin Sutherland
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K. BR
Canada
Luse Land & Development Co. Ltd
St. Paul
Minnesota
Southwell & McCulley
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Lowa
J.D. Dayton
West Chester, Iowa
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Geo. Peck
Masonic
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Ateet
Fooley's
Bright
Lemmon's
Nicola
Harmon
Alpine Aerie No. 1948
G. G. Pox
W. P
R. C. Dubois
Bevy
Washington Lodge
A. F
J. M
C. A. Dewey
W. M
J. W. Morton
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H P
W. Morton
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J. BE. Kunath
Myrtle Bragg
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Washington Branch
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