Son Jefferson Rame Death Forces Rip Van Winkle Engagement Cancellation
Boston April 23 Thomas Jefferson son of Joseph Jefferson faces the unexpected loss as his scheduled Rip Van Winkle debut at the Boston Ridgeland Theater is canceled. Reports say Joseph Jefferson died after a prolonged illness as telegrams of condolence arrive from across the country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Mass
Joseph Jefferson Rame
Thomas Jefferson
West Palm Beach
Fla
Jefferson
Alles
Haris
Rip van Winkk
Rasten Theater
Thomas Jy
Barris
Jefersons
Busz- Zils Bats
Dolph Jetersen
Rip van Winkle
Grief at Buzzards Bay for Joseph Jefferson
News from Guzeads Bas Mass on April 2 notes the community's deep sorrow over Jefferson's death and recalls his longtime charm as a summer resident. His Cape Cod cottage preparations and plans to reside from mid May are described, including the legacy of his family homes and the affection villagers hold for him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ever Pont
Binsal Alt
Lister
Jefferson
Mr. Jefferson
Guzeads
Joseph Jefferson
Jeferson
Secorl
Thomas
Joseph
Josephine
Russian fleet moves in China seas amid tension near Manila
Saigon and Paris reports state the complete Russian fleet left Kamranh Bay on April 22 and is amid heavy cannonading offshore. Japanese and Russian forces maneuver near Formosa and Corregidor while rumors swirl of rendezvous and possible approaches to Vladivostok. Rojestvensky maintains strategic silence as fleets drift, with officials watching Japanese movements and neutrality concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saigon
French
Cochin
China
Kamranh Bay
Rojestvensky
Jonquierca
Kamranh Hay
Nebogatoff
Manila
Corregidor Island
Marta Gori
Kamimura
Tondon
Daily Mail
Tce
Togo
Formosa
Mania Harbor
Kamranhy
Kamranhy Bay
Hainan
Lienchau
RF Jan
Beng
Vladievostok
Juspatches
Rerestvensky
Paris
Janquieres
Kiel
Jupiter
Kniaz Gortschakoff
Kila
France criticized over expulsion of Russian squadron
Paris newspapers question France's handling of the Indo China incident as unjust to Russia. Echo de Paris, pro Russian, argues forcing Kamranh Bay departure would leave the fleet prey to Togo. The paper notes French coal rules and calls neutrality into question as the story continues on page three.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Indo- China
France
Japan
Russia
Echo de Paris
Rojestvensky
Kamranh Bay
Togo
Haili
Flowers Denied To Nan Patterson in Easter Tombs Gift
Nan Patterson spent Easter in the Tombs prison attending services in two chapels. A broadway florist sent a big box of Easter lilies but she could not receive them as the messenger refused to name the buyer. Her third murder trial against Caesar Young resumes tomorrow before Recorder Goff in General Sessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
New York
Nan Patterson
Tombs
Mrs. Smith
Goff
Court of General Sessions
Senator Alger Stricken On Return Train
United States Senator Russell A. Alger suffered a sudden attack of acute indigestion while entering Detroit on a return trip from the West. At midnight officials said he was not in serious condition, noting the episode resembled a prior attack in Washington on March 1 and on the Senate floor, from which he recovered in a few days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Mich
United States
Russell A. Alger
Alger
Washington
Senate
Sermon by the Kaiser on Hohenzollern Easter Visit at Messina
In Messina the German imperial yacht Hohenzollern hosted an Easter service in its chapel with Emperor William and the German court in attendance. Dr Goens preached a sermon after a flower decorated service. Empress Augusta visited a hospital, torchlight procession and a nobility serenade followed amid enthusiastic crowds. Emperor William to depart Monday for Palermo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messina
Italy
Hohenzollern
Goens
Berlin
William
Himperor
Augusta
Herr von Egarp
Prince Ruffo
Palarmo
Earthquakes Hit Several English Counties
Special Cable Dispatch describes two morning shocks felt in Derbyshire Yorkshire Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire. Residents awoke as houses shook and bells rang with a rumbling sound. No damage reported though Hornthorpe collery officials briefly feared an explosion. Alarm spread to Leeds Sheffield and York with tremors lasting about four seconds. The quake appeared to travel east to west amid a weather shift from cold to warm and rainy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
London
Derbyshire
Yorkshire
Nottinghamshire
Lincolnshire
Hornthorpe
Collery
Leeds
Sheffield
York
Retford
Crush to See Bull Fight in Madrid on Opened Day
Madrid April 23 The council of state approved Sunday bull fighting resumption as art. A corrida drew twenty thousand inside the ring and eighty thousand outside. Six bulls and eleven horses died as Mazzantinito, once a novillera, was hailed a matador amid celebrations and gifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Madrid
Council of State
Lojarita
Mazzantinito
Easter at the Vatican Pope Receives Easter Greetings
Pope Pius X celebrated mass in the hall of the consistory with 235 attendees and distributed communion. American guests included Martin Maloney and daughter Helen of Philadelphia and Mr and Mrs Shriper and family of Baltimore. The Pope also confirmed two sons of Portugal's consul general Ivan cich. King Victor Emmanuel marked Easter by suspending state affairs and retreating with Queen Helen to Harving Lodge Porziano for a few days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Pius X
Martin Maloney
Helen
Philadelphia
Shriper
Baltimore
Senor
Ivancich
Portugal
Victor Emmanual
Queen Helen
Harving Lodge
Cantel Porziano
Unknown schooner lost after collision in Bristol Channel
The French steamer Racine collided with an unknown schooner in the Bristol Channel on Saturday night. The vessel was cut in two and sank immediately with no identification or survivors traced. It is feared all hands were drowned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Racine
Bristol Channel
Great Central merger plan extends across railroads
The Hollins Zimmerman syndicate controls Great Central lines in a bid to dominate a vast trunk line system from Lake Superior to the Gulf and St Louis to the Atlantic. Erie and Louisville and Nashville deals are central, with through traffic expected, creating a community of interests rivaling Harriman Hill and Vanderbilt networks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollins-Zimmerman Syndicate
Lake
Gulf
St. Louis
Atlantic
Harriman
The
Hill
Vanderbilt
Erie
Toledo
Ohio
the Times
Great Central Lines
Louisville and Nashville Railway
Great Central People
the Hill
Great Central
Indiana
Michigan
Erie Railway
Pennsylvania
New York
Great Lakes
Kentucky
Tennessee
Georgia
Alabama
Ohare
Houisiana
Ann Arbor
Detroit Southern
Hollins- Zimmerman Syndicate
Pete Marquetteman
Mr. Morgan
Cincinnati
Hamilton
Hamilton and Dayton
Zimmerman
Louisville
Nashville
H. B. Hollins
South
Hollins
Louisville and
Atlantic Seaboard
Two Drownings After Sailboat Capsize at Massabesh Lake
On April 3 at Take Massabesh near Manchester New Hampshire a sailboat capsized during a squall. Charles Kettle aged twenty two and Louis Bedard aged twenty one members of an eight man party drowned. The boat owned by Albert E Herod and Charlies A Golden. The other guests were rescued after clinging to the boat bottom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Take Maasabesh
Manchester
N. H
Charles Kettle
Louis B. Bedard
Take Massabesh
Albert E. Herod
Charlies A. Golden
Bedard
Kettle
Assault and murder shocks Mount Vernon community
Mount Vernon Ohio reports the discovery of Miranda Bricker a 55 year old housemaid who was brutally assaulted and strangled behind the Fairchild residence. The victim was dragged about 400 feet after initial attack and neighbors recall hearing cries. Bloodhounds have been requested to help track the suspect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Vernon
Ohio
Miranda Bricker
Fairchild
Joseph Jefferson Is Dead in Quiet Farewell
An obituary notes the death of actor Joseph Jefferson in a quiet farewell. The notice references his long stage career, impact on American theater, and the public’s admiration for his performances across decades.
Tragedy in Portland as husband kills rival then himself
Edward Hilton aged 60 of Eastwater, Maine, killed George Young 42 with a gun, slashed his wife with a knife, then shot himself. Mrs. Hilton, wounded but expected to recover, had a quarrel with Young over her. Hilton previously shared the home with Mrs. Hilton at East Waterford, later left, then returned, fired, attacked, and ended his life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Edward Hilton
Eastwater
George Young
Hilton
Young
Hiltons
East Waterford
Spectacular Chinatown Raid Shocks New York City
Police led by McAdoo raided New York City Chinatown arresting over 300 Chinese gamblers. Nine Mott Street venues, two Pell Street shops, and one Dover Street site were seized as coaches and buses moved in across the district amid astonished sightseers. Prisoners were taken to downtown station houses for arraignment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Chinatown
McAdoo
Bowery
Mott Street
Pell Street
Dovers Street
President Roosevelts Easter in Camp Near New Castle
Glenwood Springs Colorado April 23 President Roosevelts hunting party camped fifteen miles northwest of New Castle spending a quiet Sunday They declined church services to keep in tune with Easter gowns and hunting togs The party, resting after a week in the field, notes bear tracks in several directions and expects to bag at least one more bear before moving camp
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenwood Springs
Colo
Roosevelt
New Castle
Auto collision injures Philadelphia rider in New York street
Ex judge Horace Russell rode with E Raymond when their car struck a motorcycle driven by Ira Hallack in Manhattan. Hallack, 33, hatter of 18 Evergreen avenue Philadelphia, suffered serious internal injuries and a sprained wrist but refused hospital care or to file a complaint. Judge Russell had the driver Alward Taylor wait for Dr Drury at Bellevue Hospital to assess the injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Horace Russell
E Raymond
West Fifty-fourth Street
Lexington Avenue
Thirty-sixth Street
Ira Hallack
Evergreen Avenue
Philadelphia
Rusceli
Tibetan chief massacred by Tibetans at Batong
A telegram from Chengtu reports the Tibetan chief who negotiated the Anglo Tibetan treaty with Col. Younghusband was massacred with his retinue at Batong by Tibetans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Shanghai
Chengtu
Col. Younghusband
Batong
Sightseeing auto crash kills man in New York
A crowded Easter scene on Eighth Avenue and Fifty seventh Street ended in tragedy when a sight-seeing bus rammed a billboard fence. Charles P. Koster, 21, died from a fractured skull while Anna Finnerman, 18, and Angelina Romano, 45, were injured. Roosevelt Hospital treated the wounded as police managed the panicked crowd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Koster
Finnerman
New York
Eighth Avenue
Fifty-seventh Street
Charles P. Koster
Anna Finnerman
Angelina Romano
Koster
Miss Finnerman
Romano
Roosevelt Hospital
President Roosevelt Sends Grief Note on Senator Platt Death
Condolence message from President Roosevelt reached Mrs. Platt in Glenwood Springs as plans for Senator Orville H Platt's funeral took shape. Messages from German Ambassador von Speck Sternburg and Japanese Minister Takahira also arrived. The body lies in a plain black casket with funeral arrangements to be announced by a bipartisan committee. Vice President Fairbanks will attend the Washington funeral and return to Indianapolis after. Senator Beveridge will join New York City delegates for the service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Conn
United States
Orville H Platt
Platt
Roosevelt
Glenwood Springs
Colu
Takahira
Senator Platt
Congress
Indianapolis
Ind
Charlies W Fairbanks
Orville H. Platt
Cleveland, Cincinnati
Chicago
Found Dead in Vacant Lot at Statesville NC
Louis Allen, brother of Andrew H. Allen and cousin of Mrs Donald McLean, was found dead in a vacant lot behind the county courthouse in Statesville. The coroner’s jury found no foul play. death likely occurred around midnight. Allen’s lineage includes Col Andrew H. Allen, his father. The item ends with an unrelated railway promotion for Norfolk & Washington steamers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte
N. C
Louis Allen
Andrew H. Allen
State Department
Washington
Donald McLean
New York
D. A R
Statesville
N.C
Allen
Andrew H. Alen
United States
Abigail Hussey
Portsmouth
N. H
Also Mentioned on This Page
Palm Beach
Barvards Bay Co
Jeger
Martie
Tim Ma Petree Sen
Pau Beeb
Ub Rosk
Pippen Gore
Tin Rees
Jess TR Potter
Eto
Perad
Dr Worthy
Sy Augustine
Dr. Potter
Lin Kust
Buzzards Bay
Vapyight, I Gutekunst
Philadelp
Bia
William J, Florence
Sir Faise Tugger
Caleb Plummer
Jefferson As
Bob Acres
Mikado’s
Kamimira
Mojestvensky
St. Petersburg
Admiralty
Flowers
Nan
Saar
Senator Alger Stricken
Kaiser
England
National Sport
Vatican
Pope
Konizak
Vienna
Carl Konizak
Baden
Pino
Vagos
Edmund P. Capron
Charles Smart
Virginia
Maryland
Exposition City
Cleveland
the Post
Financial Review
MADOO
Russell
Younghusband
New York Street
Loy
Old Point Comfort
Norfolk
Newport News
Norfolk & Washington
7Th St
Worfolk
Sea Ad
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!