Waters and Son Fire Destroys Northwest Establishment
A fierce blaze gutted the Waters and Son building on Pennsylvania Avenue near Third Street, with firemen fighting three alarms to save horse stables and nearby homes. About 100 horses were rescued amid the chaos as hotel and restaurant patrons fled in night attire. Police and watchmen aided evacuations, while extensive damage reportedly reached six thousand dollars.
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Caraveta
Waters & Hon
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Ure Department
Chartes Mates
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Sven
Orestan
Avong Quang Gm
Halle
M Munn
Adie
Vramshonte Avenue
Euan
Ioan
McMann
Taroet
Thame
Po Tkihaye
Whitk
Missouri Avenue
Ioring
Fire devastates Waters building and damages adjacent structures
A blaze at the Waters building gutted horses and harness stock while water damage spread to nearby structures. Fire crews, delayed by a faulty water tower, fought the third alarm fire as investigators, led by Fire Marshal Nicholson, probed the cause amid extensive property loss and scattered items.
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Althoug
Alther
Thea Witers
Hi F Warner
Nicholson
Nessle
Justice Harrington Putnam Seeks Resignation as Pulitzer Trustee
Supreme Court Justice Harrington Putnam asked Surrogate Cohalan to permit his resignation as a trustee under the Joseph Pulitzer will. Named in a will codicil, he would have earned 101000 for his services, but the duties would clash with his duties as a supreme court justice. The resignation is to be accepted and Ralph Pulitzer to be appointed in his stead.
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Washington Post
New York
Supreme Court
Harrington Putnam
Todey
Cohalan
Joseph Pulitzer
Putnam
Pulitzer
Hughes
Ti 1A
Ralph Pulitzer
Radium Worth $50,000 Lost in Pocket Mishap
A messenger mislaid a radium tube valued at 900,000 while delivering to an American physician. The tube was in his waistcoat pocket, and he reported the pocket was suddenly turned, causing the loss. Police seek the return of the tube to the prefecture.
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Inger
Washington
Paris
Pollos
Actor Wright Lorimer Found Dead in New York Apartment
Wright Lorimer, actor known for The Shepherd King, was found dead with his head in a gas oven at his 14 West Sixty-fifth Street room. Police say a suicide note and a will left his property to friend Charles McKenzie, with a letter to Paul Meacham claiming heartbreak over a failed partnership and financial strains. Brady’s attorney indicated Brady would relinquish Shepherd King interests to Lorimer’s widow to allow production, while Brady’s associate called Lorimer insane. Lorimer, born March 10, 1874 in Athol, Mass, studied at Colgate and Oxford and performed in The Three Musketeers, Under the Power Behind the Throne, The Shepherd King, and other works.
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Shepherd King
Washington Post
New York
Wright Lorimer
Fanther
West Sixty-ftth Street
Paul Meacham
Ben- Htur
New Amsterdam Theater
Ulluss
Wright Lormer
Charles McKenstie
Paul
Lorimer
United States Circuit Court
William A Brady
Brady Charles
McKenzie
Sherburne
Chenango County
N.Y
Nathaniel Widever
Brady
Leander Richardson
Athol
Mass
Colgate
Oxford University
England
Survives Fraternity Rite At Episcopal Academy
Henry Bassett Jr. was badly burned on his face head and neck during an Alpha Phi Epsilon initiation at Episcopal Academy last Friday. He was pronounced out of danger today. Bassett is a junior and son of Henry Bassett of Bassett & Co carp et dealers. A bottle of alcohol was used instead of witch hazel. the candidate lit a match and flames enveloped his head.
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Washington Post
Philadelphia
Henry Bassett, Jr
Alpha Phi Enation Fraternity
Episcopal Academy
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Henry Bassett
Bassett & Co
Carpat Dealera
Academy
Shuster Left Out Conference Over Terms In Persia Drama
A national council commission failed to agree on a draft reply to Russia over the Persian ultimatum. Persia yields to Russia's demand to dismiss W Morgan Shuster and to apologize, with Teheran and London reporting mixed signals as troops clash and hostilities continue in Resht and Tabriz.
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Resht
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Petersburg
Foreign Office
Russia
M. Sazonoff
Ma Shuster
Rusaia
Russana
Querrides Commission
London
Tere Rage
Mayor Preston Reported To Offer Opera Singers Cash
Chicago dispatch says Mayor Preston allegedly invited Mery Garden and Tetrazini to Baltimore for a social gathering and offered $60 to $960 plus expenses, while Garden and her manager demanded $2 400 and expenses with no encores. Tetrazini reportedly confirmed a Baltimore offer though busy in Boston. The musicale Tuesday night featured J C Van Hulatey Adelin Fermin and Miss Roberta Glanville with Thatcher and Weaver.
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Baltimore
Gerdene
Tetreszini
Chicago
Chicago Journal
Mery Garden
Tetrazaini
Mias Gerden
Tetrazzini
Boston
J. C. van Hulatey
Adelin Fermin
Roberta Glanville
Howard R. Thatcher
Frederick R. Weaver
Stab in Back Kills Girl in Hyde Park
Miss Bridget Pritchard an 18 year old Irish immigrant was mortally stabbed on the Glenwood avenue bridge over the New Haven tracks at Hyde Park. A heavy file with a red stained handle was found at the scene. She staggered a quarter mile moaning before collapsing at her uncle's steps. The priest gave last rites as she died. The attack occurred shortly after 7 PM as she walked from her workplace to her uncle's home.
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Boston
Bridget Pritchard
Glenwood Avenue
New Haven
Hyde Park
Shao
Thomas Pritchard
Woman shoots her and turns gun on himself in Cleveland
In Cleveland on December a woman named Demon Vlasz faced a violent confrontation with John Moder who sought marriage to Vlasz. Moder forced his way into her home and fired four shots, mortally wounding Vlasz before Foder shot himself as neighbors closed in. The couple had planned to flee to Chicago after warnings from friends about threats.
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Washington Post
Cleveland
Ohio
Mra
Demon Vlasz
John Moder
Vlasz
Poder
Fred
Foder
Hess
Bank of France privileges end date vote in Paris
Paris December 22 reports the chamber of deputies rejected a motion to terminate governmental privileges of the Bank of France by year end as part of ratification talks on a new agreement made November 11. A warehouse fire at Thirteenth Avenue and Twenty-eighth Street claimed the life of paymaster Gus Rath and a woman perished in a downtown tenement blaze.
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Twenty-eighth Street
Yuan May Quit as Leader Amid China Revolt Posturing
Yuan Shi Kai remains steadfast against a republican government as a path to peace. Tang Shao-i reports no reply from Yuan on Wu Ting-fang's republic proposal, preferring a limited monarchy. revolutionists push preparations for renewed fighting while Chang i Tang returns from Mexico. Alfred Sze pending as new minister to the United States.
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Alfred Sze
Bets $20 000 On Weather In Kansas County
Special to The Washington Pont Topeka Kansas Dean Fiske a Kansan bets twenty thousand dollars that rain will fall in Thomas county between March first and May first next year If rain arrives Fiske will net twenty five thousand next summer travel to Europe wear patent leather shoes and silk hats and claim the win Despite prior failed bets he remains confident rain will come and will seize the opportunity when it arrives as he keeps his eye on the door to let it in.
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Topeka
Kans
Dean
Kansas
Thomas County
Kana
Jim Fiske
Europe
Jim” Fiske
Two Jewelry Crimes Lead to Arrests in DC
Detectives arrested B F Mahoney and Ralph Anthony in connection with a fake $250 check and a diamond pin theft. Mahoney, a real estate dealer, presented the forged check to Jerome Selinger and fled. a search found 15 blank checks and led to his police court arraignment. Anthony, former Dewey Hotel clerk, admitted taking a diamond pin valued at $1,000 from Amerigo Serrao’s hotel room and pawned it.
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Jerome Selinger
F Street
Simpson and Howes
Sheit Precingl
Howes
Simpson
Selinger
Weller Mahoney
East Capitol Street
Riggs National Bank
District National Bank
Mahoney
Amerigo Serrae
Luella V. Serrae
Ralph
Anthony
Weedon and Burlingame
Dewey
Amerigo Serrao
Photographer records dramatic ducks flight from hydroplane
John C. Hemment, a photographer, captured a moving picture of wild ducks fleeing from a Burgess-Wright hydroplane about 1,000 feet over Massachusetts. He shot the film from the Almay seat, noting the rear duck tucks its feet and speeds at about 4 miles an hour while terror drives the flock. He has just returned from a recent assignment.
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Washington Post
New, York
John C. Hemment
Almay
Massachusetts
Jail for Swindlers Their Profits $15,000,000
New York December 22 four Burr Brothers promoters Shelton Burr Eugene Burr Charles Tobey and Edwin Preston pleaded guilty to one charge tied to a $68,000 stock sale. Government says the scheme was part of a two year run netting millions. They were sentenced to one year on Blackwell's Island.
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E. E. Burr
C. E. Tobey
E. W. Preston
New York
Burr Brothers, Incorporated
Blackwells Island
Shelton ©. Burr
Eugene H
Charles H Tobey
Edwin Wemley Preston
Holt
United States Circuit Court
People's Association Oil Company
Burrs
Kansas
Firat
Ny Nonce
Chicago -New York Electric Air Line
Air Lne
Toledo
Wabash
St. Louis
Pioneer Cab Signal Company
Vitak Company
Nevada
Shelton C Barr
Myrtle Gillette
Harold Giiette
Philadelphia
Gillette Myrtle Williams
Shower
Iron Workers Records Gone After McNamara Arrest
Federal grand jury in Indianapolis holds evidence that key structural iron workers records were stolen from the Central Life building and shipped out two days after McNamara arrest. The probe widens as the jury plans to question local officials about cooperation and hears its first Pacific coast witness, Charien C Kiser of Los Angeles, before adjourning to January 2.
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Washington Post
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Ind
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Pacific Coast
Charien C Kiser
Los Angeles
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Menzaleh Seized With Gold For Turkish Troops at Hodalda
Alexandria reports the British steamer Menzaleh captured by Trailian craiger Puglia with 150000 dollars in gold coin aboard destined for Turkish troops at Hodalda in Yemen’s Red Sea port. The Menzaleh had departed Suez for Aden with calls planned at Port Sudan Bussim and Hodelda. Italian cruisers patrol the Red Sea as a separate report from Hodeida claims an Italian squadron bombarded Safer Island. the Porte protests.
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Egypt
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Khe
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Hodalda
Yemen
Red Sea
Menzaish
Sues
Adén
Porte
Hotel Giants in Fire Panic
A chaotic blaze swept through a hotel causing rapid panic among guests as fire alarms blared and guests rushed to exits. Authorities investigated the incident, with rescue efforts continuing into the night and no final casualty report released at press time.
French tomb jewel theft false alarm shocks Paris
Paris reports a sensational false alarm claiming the tomb of actress Mme Lucie Lanterme in Pere Lachaise cemetery was broken into and jewels stolen. The magistrate found the pearls and other gems enclosed in an envelope beneath her head, including an $80,000 pearl necklace.
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Mme
Lucie Lanterme
Pere In Chaise
Mme. Lantelme
Roosevelt Letter Recounts Harriman Gift Amid 1912 Context
George R. Sheldon, Republican treasurer, said his letter to Col Roosevelt was written at Roosevelt's request. He stressed it was a friendship gesture and not an admission of candidacy. Col Roosevelt was away in Oyster Bay. other figures offered no comment.
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Cortelyou
Parker
Odell Suent
New York
George R. Sheldon
Republican National Committee
Theodore Roosevelt
Col. Roosevelt
Sheldon
Roosevelt
Col Roosevelt
Mr. Sheldon
Col
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Outlook
del Roosevelt
Shaldon
George B Cortelyou
Alton B Parker
Esopus
Benjamin B. Gdell, Jr
State Committee
Newburgh
Victor Rosewater
Nations
Nebraska
National Committee
Rosewater
Taft
John O. Yasser
Rosevelt
Roaewater
Petmarion
No Clue to Lost Trunk Following Hill Arrival
Dr David Jayne Hill former American Ambassador to Germany arrived in Paria and expressed concern about a lost trunk containing private papers, not diplomatic documents, tied to his resignation. He vowed to prosecute anyone who prints or uses the papers. The trunk, from Rochester, NY, was sent to the Holland House and disappeared in New York weeks earlier amid gossip over his potash dispute stance.
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Paria
David Jayne Hill
Germany
Hil
Fire destroys half block in Williamsburg area
A major blaze in Williamsburg damaged half a block between North Eleventh and Tenth streets and Berry street to Bedford avenue. Three firefighters were hurt when the Vernon bookbinding building collapsed onto nearby roofs. Loss is estimated around 500 dollars, with about twenty families affected.
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North Tenth Street
Berry Street
Bedford Avenue
Williamsburg
the & EK & M
Vernon
Loesla
Roosevelt Petition Shifts Nebraska Primary Debate
Nebraska political maneuvering over a petition to place Theodore Roosevelt on the ballot for the Republican presidential preference primary alarms La Follette supporters. The move could bind delegates to Roosevelt, complicating Taft and shaping expectations in Nebraska and potentially North Dakota and Oregon as well.
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