Wreck Toll Rises as 2 More Die Near Manchester
Aug. 27 Manchester N Y two Lehigh Valley No 4 wreck victims die bringing total dead to above eighty eight injuries numbered seventy four with several in Rochester and Clifton Springs in critical condition identification finished at Stoddard morgue lists many names including Hassett Madden and Pownall families orphaned by the disaster observers note one girl regains a doll and a hero rescues a woman while Coroner Esseline prepares inquest set for Shortsville city officials and volunteers continue removing bodies and aiding survivors
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Manchester
Stoddard Morgue
Shortsville
Henry Becker
Waverly
N. Y
Brakeman
D. M. Best
Los Angeles
Cal
G. A
Hannah A. Hassett
Philadelphia
Mary E. Hassett
Grater
Charles B. Headley
Emily Hill
Joseph Hickey
Ine Cc. Hickey
Joseph
Icke
Charles Hicks
Newark
N. J
Isabelle J. Hicks
A.M. Hunsicker
Perkasie
G. F. Johnson
Lakewood
Cleveland
Ohio
Charles P. Johnson
Jobstown
C. P. Johnson
Mabel Lawrence
Timothy C. Madden
Trenton
N. M. Nixon
Clifton Springs
P. B. Smith
Thompson Memorial Hospital
Canandaigua
Rochester
Hitle Esther Taylor
Lansdowrie
George D. Taylor
Buffalo
Stoddard
Timothy C Madden
Frankie
Smithville
Esseline
Mary B. Hassett
Lehigh Valley
James Boyce
EB. A. Boyce
Twenty-second Street Northwest
Edward A. Keeler
Newton Street
Col. Keeler
Edgar D. Pang_ born
Brooklyn
Col. Hoole
John R’ Oursler
C. Street
W Barber
East Capitol Street
Rescue heroism after train crash in Rochester
Tut Arm in Rescue Col Keeler and Col Oursier helped a partly conscious woman trapped in a toppled car as a train bumped over railroad ties. Keeler pulled her clear through a window, severing an artery in his right arm. He received hospital care. his wife reported no serious injuries beyond bruises and pain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col. Keeler
Col. Oursier
Cal. Keeler
Rochester Hospital
BAD RAIL WRECKS TRAIN NEAR KIRKWOOD OHIO
In Playa Ohio on August 21 a southbound Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton line train derailed after striking a defective rail at Kirkwood. The engine toppled after rolling 300 yards dragging five coaches. Engineer Burton suffered probable fatal injuries, and Fireman Fred Saliers escaped. Twenty five dramatic performers aboard included Agnes Hite and Wanita Shoener who were bruised.
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Playa
Ohio
Burton
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton
Kirkwood
Agnes Hite
Toledo
Wanita Shoener
Cincinnati
Fred Saliers
Seeing Washington Comes Alive On Columbia Theater Screens
Audience members at the Col um bia Theater enjoyed a Lyman Howe travel film festival with a Washington street life theme. The cinema showcased views of Union Station Capitol building Treasury White House and Pennsylvan ia Avenue from the post office tower drawing many in the audience to identify themselves in the crowds. A notable plant growth sequence showed tiny stalks emerging from loam unfolding into leaves and fruit, illustrating nature's hidden forces.
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Columbia Theater
Washington
Lyman Howe
Union Station
Capitol Building
Treasury
White House
F Atreet
Champ Clark
Cannon
Pennsylvania Avenue
Post Ofice Tower
Broadway
Latta Improves After Surgery in Rochester
Rochester Minnesota August 27 reports substantial improvement in the condition of Representative J P Latta of Nebraska after a surgical operation last Wednesday His chances for recovery are considered bright and physicians express optimism about his return to duty
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Latta
Rochester
Minn
J. P. Latta
Nebraska
Cardinal Gibbons Preaches In Baltimore Jubilee Plans Formed
Cardina l Gibbons preached at the Church of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in Baltimore amid crowds and a benefit at the art museum raising about 1000 dollars. The parish plans a 1000-strong parade for Cardinal Gibbons jubilee on October 16 led by four priests and Judge William M. Dunn as marshal.
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Southampton
N. Y
Cardinal Gibbons
Cardinal
Henry W. Taft
President Taft
Baltimore
St. Paul's Catholic Church
William M. Dunn
Orphans’ Court
Reva. Michael F. Foley
Joseph A. Foley
I. Edward Malloy
J. H. Eckrode
Clean-up day set to remove illegal highway signs
New York automobillists will observe Clean-up day next Friday. Following a law making it a misdemeanor to deface highways with ads, the good roads committee of the Automobile Club of America asks the six state automobile clubs to assign roads to members to remove all signs violating the new law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Good Roads Committee
Automobile Club of America
Automobile Clubs
Admiral Count Togo to Visit Seattle En Route Home
Admiral Count Togo of Japan will arrive in Seattle from Victoria after a calm Sunday, on a formal visit before sailing to Japan. He will be escorted ashore and hosted at breakfast by a Japanese delegation led by Consul Leuc Takahashi, then receive a formal call from Rear Admiral Southerland, commander of the Pacific fleet’s second division.
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Seattle
Wash
Victoria
B. G
Count Togo
United States
Japan
Togo
Leuc Takahashi
Southerland
Jurists Gather for American Bar Association Convention
Boston August 27 jurists and lawyers arrived in large numbers for the opening of the American Bar Association convention. More than 60 members are expected to attend with key discussions on uniform child labor laws and uniform workers compensation acts.
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Boston
Convention of the American Bar
Death Before Prize Hymn Set to Music by Mascagni Pupil
New York August 27 A suffrage party announces that Minette Theodora Taylor of Green Castle Indiana won a $100 prize for a poem to be set to music and become the national suffrage hymn. A noted Italian composer pupil of Mascagni will write the score and a famous opera singer may premiere it at the city convention October 28. The poem promotes voting rights and the power of women, with the author linked to the Eastern Association of Writers and the Indiana State Federation of Women's Clubs. The text includes calls for justice and unity, praising women’s work and the journey toward suffrage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Woman A Suffrage Party Today
Minette Theodora Taylor
Greencastle
Ind
Miss Taylor
Eastern Association of Writers
Indiana State Federation of Women's Clubs
Mascagni
Woman Suffrege Party
Prof E J Curtis Dead Greek Instructor and Acting Dean
Prof Edward L Curtis Greek instructor at Yale Divinity School and formerly acting dean aboard the Boston boat to Rockland Maine died last night from an acute heart attack at age 57. Native of Ann Arbor Michigan he was son of Rev William Stanton Curtis linked with Knox College Hamilton College and the University of Michigan. Survived by a widow one son and three daughters. family had summered at Cantine.
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Yale Divinity School
Rockland
Edward ,L. Curtis
Boston
Castine
Curtis
Ann Arbor
Mich
William Stanton Curtis
Knox College
Hamilton College
University of Michigan
Cantine
Stiletto Attacks Send Two Men to Hospitals
Two separate knife assaults last night left Joe Serpalipi and Lucian Beavers badly wounded. Serpalipi, 30, Italian of Takoma Blair Road, refused to ID his attacker after being cut in the abdomen, side, and shoulder and was taken to Freedmen's Hospital. Beavers, 14, of 335 H Street NE, was cut in the neck during a Rock Creek Road incident near the National Soldiers’ Home and taken to Garfield Hospital. he says a stranger struck him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Serpallipi
Rock Creek Road
National Soldiers
Garfield Hospital
Beavers
Weather conditions and storm warnings across the Atlantic coast
A South Atlantic storm moved toward the South Carolina Georgia coast reaching between Charleston and Savannah. Northerly gales and high winds were reported up to Wilmington North East. Warnings extended from Fort Monroe to Savannah with hurricane warnings at Charleston and Savannah and storm warnings at Jacksonville. The system is expected to drift north with showers inland east of the Rockies and generally fair weather elsewhere. Cooler in plains and northwest, frost warnings for Montana Wyoming North Dakota and Wisconsin cranberry marshes. Winds vary by coast and region with easterly to northerly trends and warmer in the central and northwest areas. Temperature readings across the day range from the mid 40s to mid 80s with humidity around eighty percent. River conditions near Harpers Ferry show slight muddiness.
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Dept. of Agriculture
Weather Bureau
Woshington
South Atlantic Ocean
South Carolina
Georgia
Charleston
Savanneh
Wilmington
Northeat
Fort Monroe
Savannah
Jacksonville
Atlantic States
England
Atlantia
Upper Lake Region
Northwest
West
Gulf
Rocky Mountain
Southwest
Plains States
Arto
Montana
Ohio
Lower Lake Region
Rocky Mountains
Ofissippi River
Washington theaters safe after Canonsburg blaze review
District fire officials praised Washington safeguards after a Canonsburg Pennsylvania fire killed several and caused panic. A Ninth Street theater fire caused smoke and a quick exit through a south window aided by an outside fan, with two exits mandatory in D C venues and no second floor shows allowed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canonsburg
Washington
Richard Wagner
Nicholson
Pennsylvania
Ninth Street
Slocum’s Captain Free After Parole Release
Capt William H Van Schalk, who commanded the steamer General Slocum when it burned off North Brother Island in 1904 killing 1081, has been released from Sing Sing on a parole signed by U S Attorney General Wickersham. He is 75, sentenced to ten years in 1904 for misconduct negligence and inattention to duty.
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William H. van Schalk
General’ Slocum
North Brother Island
New York
Sing Sing
United States Attornegeneral Wickersham
van Schaick
German Picnic Draws Large Crowd at Marshall Hall
A big turnout at the United German Societies picnic in Marshall Hall featured impromptu singing by German singing groups and a gymnastic Turn Verein exhibition. The excursion raised funds for hosting the National German American Alliance convention scheduled for October.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United German Societies
Picnlc
Marshall Hall
Turn Verein
Allance
Old Man River Victim Identified By Police Sought
Police seek ID for a drowned man found near Second Street southeast with no identifying clothes or marks. Rivermen say he appeared in water 12 to 15 hours, about age sixty, white, 180 pounds, 5 10, with black brown hair and a sandy beard. A car ticket clutched in his right hand aided morgue description.
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George Maloy
Hell Street
George Hurst
Third Street
Second Street
Potomac
Harbor
Mtreet
Fifth Precinct
M Street
Hates to Honor the Flag at Summer Camp
Camp program to raise and lower the flag each day aimed at teaching patriotism ends season tomorrow. Superintendent Mrs Bushee says the flag salute will resume next year after a boy complained about the banner. Camp officials stress respect as a duty of good citizenship amid Sunday school renditions by First Presbyterian Church members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Pressbyterian Church
Camp meeting ends today at Great Falls
The Methodist Episcopal Church South camp meeting in progress at Great Falls for three weeks will close today with multiple services. At 11 AM Rev RB L Fultz preaches to mothers, at 2 PM Rev C M Hasser addresses children, and at 8 PM Rev J Howard Wells from Mount Vernon Place M Church South preaches. Over 3,000 attended yesterday as many campers plan to leave tonight or tomorrow.
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Methodist Episcopal Church South
Great Falls
RB. L. Fultz
C. M. Hasser
J. Howard Wells
Mount Vernon Place
M. &. Church South
F. J. Prettyman
Jennie Smith
Railroad Evangeliat
H. L. Hout
Washington
W. H. Ramsey
R L. Fultz
Creed Honors Old Maid Religion Across Forty Countries
Special from Cincinnati reports Henry Andre of Kendrick Stove Polpe and Collar Company launching a seven day a week creed honoring old maids. The order preaches to men, forbids suffrage clubs, and promotes courtesy such as offering seats to older women. The movement aims to spread to four countries with Andre as its male leader.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Cincinnati
Henry Anare
Kendrick Stove- Polpe and Collar Company
Andre
Farewell Sermon as Bethany Chapel Pastor Copp Departs
The Rev Zed H Copp preached his last sermon at Bethany Presbyterian Chapel Ohio avenue and Thirteen and a half street NW after resigning August 20 to take effect September 1 He urged loyalty to the incoming pastor Rev William A Bates who will devote full time to Bethany Chapel Copp plans rest and continued juvenile court work The reception followed the service and Bates is to assume duties next Sunday
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Bethaany Presbyterian Chapel
Zed H. Copp
Bethany Presbyterian Chapel
Ohio Avenue
Copp
Bethany Chapel
William A. Bates
Plymouth Apartments
Betheny Chapel
Hopper Refuses Food After Lake Michigan Murder in Grand Haven
Charles Hopper of Chicago killed Daisy Watts known as Grace Lyons in Chicago. He threw her from a steamer into Lake Michigan near Grand Haven to stop her return to a life in Chinese dives. He will face murder charges in Grand Rapids Federal court. he refused food in jail and confessed.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Charles Hopper
Chicago
Daisy Watts
Grace Lyons
Lake Michigan
Grand Haven
Hopper
Holand
Save There Is Not a Sixteen-Year-Old Girl Who Knows Enough
Rev George R Stewart of Cleveland Tenn addressed a Winona bible conference urging mothers and fathers to exercise authority. He warned that a nation needs obedient families, denouncing childless women and praising traditional childrearing rooted in honesty and discipline.
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Washington Post
Winona Lake
Ind
George R. Stewart
Cleveland
Chicago
Haymarket Square
Hickory
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Lehigh
Washington, D. C
T. C. Madden
Frances L. Madden
Mra. Madden
Edgar D. Pangeures
Estella T. Pownall
Newton, Pe
Helen E. Pownall
Newton, PI
Henry M. Pownall
Newton
W. P. Rundle
Easton
I. S. Unce
Rebecca Vanderlip
Niagara Falls
Fredericka Winkler
Barbara R. O .Dech
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Guiley
Columbia
Dept. O, Br
Throng
Southampton, N. Y
St. Paul's Church
Siatera
Ithan
E. J. Curtis
Newport
R. L
Bremen
New Bedford
A C. Horstmann
Local Weather Report
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Annabine
Asheville
N.C
Avanta
Atlantic City
Biomarck
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Wya
Davenport
Indi
Denver
Colo
Des Moines
Galveston
Tex
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Mont
Indianapolis
Pla
Kaness City
Little Rock
Calvid
Memphis
Tenna
New Orleans
North Platts
Omaha
Nevr
Pittsburgh
Portland
Oregone
Salt Leake City
Utah
Blaze
Slocum
William H.van Scita
Old Man River
Camp Good
M. Lansburghs Bro
7Th St
Lake
Brath
C. A. Muddiman & Co
12Th St
G St
Pianos
John ‘F. Ellis & Co
Pe. Ave
House & Herrmann
Seventh
Eye Streets
Burchell’s
Sunlan
N. W. Burchell
Jolland
Christian Xander
Odd Fellows Hall
Seventh Street
D and E
CONGRESSIONAL Life _INSURance Company
5Th St
Rufus H. Darby Printing Co
City
Bailentive
Shoemaker Co
Heister & GD
Architegts
Chi
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