Atlantic Monthly exposes long shipboard hours and fake records
A May Atlantic Monthly article recalls captains overtaxing endurance on transatlantic routes with 39 to 40 hours on duty, risking thousands of passengers. It cites alleged shortcutting near careful routes, notes denials from Cunard Hamburg American and others, and quotes officials on checks and the danger of falsified voyage data.
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Atlantic Monthly
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Hamburg American Orth German Uood Wd
White Star Steamtones
Tamato
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Sumurr Genera
Automobiles and Deals Darkens Washington Car Scene
Camden NJ observer Childs arrives city in a Stamnes roadster amid heavy roads after a 12 inch snowfall. Washington auto dealers meet to organize a licensed-car association while Stoddard offers reward for a stolen Cadillac. Hudson and Maxwell shipments, new quarters planned, and various agents listed in a bustling market report.
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Zell Motor Car Company
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Stevens Duryea
Clifford Long
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Tayloe Pollock
Oldsmobile
Theodore Barnes
Barnes & Hendricks
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Clarence Barnard
LP Dorsett Company
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Reo
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Court Dismisses Habeas Corpus for Mrs Snead in NJ
Judge Lan ning of the United States court in Trenton dismissed habeas corpus proceedings seeking release from custody of Mrs Mary W Snead. Indicted with five sisters for the murder of her niece Jocey Wardlaw Snead, she remains remanded to Essex County jail pending trial set for next month.
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Lanning
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Kern Accepts Nomination for Senator Seat
Indianapolis April 19 John Wern after talks with Mrs Kern accepted the Democratic nomination for the senatorship and declared his intention to wage battle for Democratic control of the legislature following the convention yesterday.
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Attack by Black Hand targets Miss Ethel Jones in Brooklyn
New York April 28 Miss Ethel Jones 20 of Marion Street Brooklyn lies in precarious condition after a brutal assault by Black Hand members. They strangled her in the street and threw liquid into her eyes in an attempt to blind her. Reverend Dr Charles Allen of Beeche Memorial Church had led a crusade against sin in the area. Jones and friends were returning home when a man approached, seized her, and blinded her briefly with liquid before escaping. Doctors say she will not lose her sight.
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Black Hand
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Alten
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Ethel Kahn
Honor for Royal Artist and Bequest in Carlisle
Fire destroyed Humbird Lumber Yard threatening two towns Spokane area reports a large lumber loss. American women plan a memorial wreath for Princess Marie of Denmark in Copenhagen. Bequest to Anna Wilson Todd totals 51750 from the Sarah A Todd estate in Carlisle, with other bequests to Washington DC.
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Carlisle Pa
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Carlisle Depost Bank
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Washington DC
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Thayer Elected to N and W Board in New York
J B Thayer, third vice president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, was elected a member of the board of directors of the Norfolk and Western Railway Company at a New York meeting. He fills the vacancy created by the death of LC Welr.
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Death in Cuban Cabinet
Havana report says Martin Morita Delgado secretary of agriculture in the rebuilt Cuban cabinet and former president of the senate died last night in Santiago de las Vegas after several months of illness.
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Bride Shoots Herself on Husband's Coffin in Tragic Pact
Isabella Hunter Rogers and James Rogers, childhood sweethearts later joined as husband and wife, pledged to live and die together. After James learned he had stomach cancer, Isabella vowed to end her life the day he died. She bought a revolver, hid it, and shot herself beside his coffin as mourners watched.
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Albanians Resist Turkish Assault at Kachanik Pass
Reports from Constantinople say Turkish forces press three armies against Albanian positions near Kachanik pass as heavy fighting continues. Albanians defend key passes, claim 10,000 troops oppose advance, seek autonomy and possible Prince Medjed as governor, with 6,000 reinforcements demanded to relieve the front.
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Seek Miss Reid's Slayers
Special Cable reports the death of American traveler Estelle Reid found in a bay. Police lack a crew to solve the mystery and note Reid did not sleep at Hotel Aussie. Two Neapolitans seen with her in Salerno remain unfound. police exclude murder or Camorra links.
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Army Orders Ends and Officers Transferred Across Units
Leaves of absence for First Lieut Philip West pulser and Second Lieut William Sager, plus reexamination for promotion for Charles G Bickham. Coast artillery changes list Capt James F Brady to 158th company, Capt Louie Bennett to 11th, First Lieut Edward Woodbury to 11th, First Lieut James Dillard placed on unassigned list, and multiple transfers including Johnston to 107th, Morgan to 66th, Himmel to 26th, Hanson Black to 23rd, Monroe to 89th, Abbott to 1st, Wenham to 90th, Lomax to 90th, among others.
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Frederick B. Johnston
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Love in a Flat Suits Her Prettiest Telephone Girl
New York April 23 Broadway learns what has become of the prettiest telephone girl who ever said Hello along the gay white way Miss Charlotte Grace De Weil now Mrs Frederick P Fattee, long courted by Edward G Barry of California. She chose love over wealth and says riches without love bring regret, while two people in love can be happy without riches.
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Edward G. Barry
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Frozen in Ship Rigging After Alaska Sloop Sunk
A Seward cable report recounts the fishing schooner Stanley wrecking on Sanal Island on March 3. Captain Koehler and mates Bauers and Williams were found frozen in the rigging, the cook drowned, five survivors leaped overboard and were rescued the next day.
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Army officer confesses to sending prussic acid capsules
Vienna reports Lieut Adolf Hofrichter confessed sending capsules containing prussic acid to ten general staff officers with a circular urging use. He hoped to rise to a staff position through the deaths. his wife is under magistrate examination. Austrian law limits death sentences without formal confession.
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Navy Yard Assignments and Fleet Movements Reported
Rear Admirer Marlz assigns several officers to duty at various stations including A Crenshaw to home, A Bhoup to duty, Sweat, Tarrant, Oxge, Landie, Smyder, Morris to training at San presession, Bostswain Saveletrom to Washington Navy Yard, Mullen to New York Navy Yard, arriving ships Connecticut New York Michigan Norfolk Albany Francisco Philadelphia George New Jersey Nebraska Hampton Roads. Vessels Yards and routes include Yackton from Hampton Roads to New York and other entries for Georgia New Jersey Neaeske and Charleston.
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Bryce Advises Students On Clear Thinking As Asset
James Bryce the British ambassador told University of Kansas students that three fourths of mistakes come from not knowing what one thinks one knows and urged study of history ancient and modern. He praised US universities and called for higher teaching standards and salaries to attract top scholars, stressing liberal arts and humanistic subjects.
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Pope’s sacristan dies after fifty years of service
Monsignor Guglielmo Pifferi, parish priest of the Apostolic Palace, dies in the arm of the Pope. The aged cleric had served fifty years under three Popes and held the sacrista post for six centuries, a rank always given to the senior Augustinian required.
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Longworth As Governor Candidate Backed By Mayor Schwab
Special to The Times Star from Cincinnati April 29 Mayor Schwab endorses Charles P Taft's editorial urging Nicholas Longworth as the Republican nominee for governor. He praises Longworth as a statesman fit for governor, noting Longworth's reputation in Congress and admiration for Taft.
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Sir George Newnes donor of chess trophy faces RI income tax clash
The Westminster Gazette founder Sir George Newnes, donor of an international chess trophy bearing his name, is linked to a Rhode Island confrontation over income tax. The Rhode Island Senate on April 3 unanimously rejected a proposed income tax amendment to the Federal Constitution.
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