Taft Angwers T. B. Holds Question of National Honor May Be Arbitrated
President Taft travels from Cleveland to Marion Indiana delivering nine platform speeches on heat, sane celebration, and reciprocity with Canada. He urges currency reform and arbitration to prevent war while addressing old soldiers bankers and editors.
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Hammond Hosts Reception for 1000 at Strattonhouse
London July 3 One of the last functions of the coronation search was a reception by John Ways Hammond American Ambassador and Mrs Hammond at Strattonhouse in London. More than 1,000 guests attended including Ambassadors Reid Taft Kerens and Lipton along with numerous British and American officials and society figures.
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Newborough
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Lewis Harcourt
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James
Lady Bruce
Clarence Moore
Atwood Plans Washington Flight After Chamber Push
Boston aviator Harry N Atwood, fresh from Governors Island, will start for Washington at 9 am tomorrow guided by Granville M Blunt of the Washington Chamber of Commerce. He aims to land first at Atlantic City en route to the capital, hoping for a safe Fourth of July display.
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Dare Cause Of Boy Death In Bronx Play Yard
Special to The Washington Post, July 3. Seven year old Charles Matler died after a dare led him to walk a beam fifteen feet high in a Bronx stone yard. He fell, fractured his skull, and died an hour later at Fordham Hospital. His mother had forbidden him to play there.
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14 Dropped One of Largest Firements in Room for
A fragmented notice notes fourteen were dropped from a large event or program, leaving room for additional participants or materials. The readable text hints at a major reduction affecting likely numbers, without clear names, dates, or places.
Officers Forced to Relinquish Duties and Promotions
District officers including Lieut Semmes Read, Taft's naval aid, and Commander J R Baie are reassigned due to natural vacancies. Semmes remains hospitalized. The action reflects a wave of routine duty changes among naval leadership.
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Taft
J. R Baie
Elimination board plans 40 officer vacancies for year
The board selected 14 officers for compulsory retirement to reach 40 annual vacancies, citing only 26 vacancies from natural losses and voluntary retirements. Last year three were chosen. The process moved captains to commodore on retirement lists. Meanwhile Rev Dr W D Fletcher left ministry to work as a carpenter in Kingston Pa for health reasons.
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Plucked by Navy Board Retires Four Star Officers
A Taft directed retirement of fourteen naval officers, four captains and four commanders, one lieutenant commander, and two lieutenants promotes faster advancement. Notables include Capt. James T. Smith and Lieut. Semmes Read, injured on duty, with Read likely unable to leave hospital for over a year. The measure aims to inject mobility and avoid stagnation, reshaping senior ranks.
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Mission across colleges prompts clash over moral regeneration
Representative Towner challenges the Y M C A and Lloyd C Douglas, arguing Midwestern college students already receive religious instruction. Douglas resigns from Luther Place to lead a field mission at the University of Illinois, where a $100,000 Y M C A building is rising and four thousand students await spiritual programs. The plan targets earnest young ministers to reach students, with funding and extensions under consideration.
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Heat takes fourfold toll as Fourth of July swelters nationwide
Record heat grips cities from Boston to Chicago with temperatures above 100. Deaths from the blaze climb in Baltimore and New York as prostrations mount. Officials warn the heat wave may persist with little relief, while scattered showers offer slim hope.
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Heat wave grips nation with scorching July Fourth heat
Nationwide scorching weather leaves deaths and prostrations in many cities as temperatures top 100 in four major areas and Mercury nears 104 degrees. Drought worsens conditions with relief unlikely except in the South Atlantic and East Gulf regions. The Fourth of July promises the hottest in a decade.
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Aero aided sprint to rail by two man plane
Penn Yan July 3 Capt W L Chambers U S N rushed to the train in Hammondsport to catch a Washington bound schedule aboard a new two seat side by side triad. Lieut T G Ellyson U S N piloted the craft capable of being controlled from either seat in a first of its kind flight on water and air.
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W. L Chambers
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Bee Sting Triggers Car Wreck Hurting Brookline Man
A honey bee sting caused George Seele of Brookline Massachusetts to lose control of his car in Hartford Connecticut. The vehicle overturned, trapping him beneath it and leaving him badly bruised with uncertain internal injuries. The Seele family, known as the Scales, summer at Essex Connecticut.
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George Seele
William Seele
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Essex
New York to Hear Mrs Shonts On Divorce Rumors
Paris cable says Mrs. Theodore Perry Shonts denies divorce plans and will travel to New York with the Duchess de Chaulnes and the young duke. Report says Mr Shonts opposed to Paris residence and his financial work with Amanda Thomas. Archibald denies asserting divorce proceedings.
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She Gets 40 Kisses Daily in Chicago
Mrs H B Chip says she is the most kissed woman in Chicago after two months of marriage. She reports an average of forty daily kisses from kinfolks and husband, with four from grandpa and grandma each, plus involvement from two parents five nephews two aunts and the couple.
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Murderer slain in jail in Globe Arizona
In Globe Arizona a jailed prospector named Olds who claimed Indians killed his partner’s daughters and later drowned them was killed in his jail cell. After the drownings and his suicide attempt, threats of lynching circulated as investigators linked Olds to the deaths of Lulu and Myrtle Goswick. The report notes later discovery of the girls’ bodies in a river and Olds’s alleged mistreatment.
Taft Arbitration Reply Amuses Editors in Daily Index
Today’s issue highlights Taft’s arbitration reply to Roosevelt and Atwood’s Washington trip. News briefs report naval officers dropped, Channel crossing by 2-Eleven, College Park aero flights, and heat fatalities. Trains crash with two dead as other items cover politics, society, finance, and local Alexandria Ohio bribery case.
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Watersnake Nearly Drowns Boy in Morris Canal Rescue
Edward Berger twelve of Berkeley avenue Bloomfield New Jersey was bathing in Morris Canal with about forty companions when a four foot green watersnake wrapped around his legs threatening drowning. J Thomas Garrabrant riding along towpath jumped in retrieved the struggling boy and killed the snake.
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Strife in Mexico Raises Death Toll Across Regions
Reported fighting in Los Reyes Michoacan leaves eight dead and ten wounded as rival Made riats clash. In Torreon a garrison revolt ends with a captain killed and deserters retreating to the hills. Mexico City experiences a streetcar strike shutting service after wage demands go unmet. Guadalajara reports another clash as events unfold on July 3.
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Leaps 15 Stories to Death at Masonic Temple
Special to The Washington Pye Chicago July 3 A Wright an officer of Energy Lodge United Order of Foresters jumped from the fifteenth floor railing to the rotunda below a 15 foot fall his skull crushed and every bone broken heat may have affected his mind Several girl stenographers swooned Wright married with three children had worked for reform as a clerk for twelve years This was the third such death by self action at the temple.
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Jealous Husband Kills Wife Then Himself in Tennessee
In Chattanooga on July 3 John Crab tree of Tracy City killed his wife with a shotgun and then shot himself. The couple had been involved in jealousy over her elopement with another man. They were later found in Nashville and Tracy City.
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Yonkers Man Ends 55 Hour Hiccup Ordeal
Andrew Gustavozo, a St John’s Riverside Hospital patient, has stubborn hiccups lasting 55 hours as doctors in Yonkers race against heat and exhaustion. He is one of nine men scorched when a mold in the Otis elevator works blew out, causing severe injuries.
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King Honors Bryces Aid Appointment in Flintshire
King George appoints William Glynne Charles Gladstone, grandson of a great statesman and aide to ambassador James Bryce, as Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire. He serves from Hawarden Castle, with estate in Flintshire, reflecting royal trust in his diplomatic and landed duties.
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Alleged train bandit held in Ene Pa incident
James Roach aged 53 was arrested this afternoon connected to the hold up and robbery of the Pennsylvania express near Ene on Friday. Roach is described as a lake fisherman and is in custody following the alleged crime.
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Life Lost in River Casues Tragic Drowning of ICC Official
John Edwin Holliday cashier of the Interstate Commerce Commission drowned while bathing with fraternity brothers near The Three Sisters on the Potomac just above the Aqueduct bridge. He was a Kirkwood, Illinois native, Georgetown Law graduate, and Analesian Boat Club member.
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Dig Up Woman's Skeleton In Cedar Lane Trenton
Three local men discovered half buried remains beneath Cedar Lane in Trenton, revealing a practically complete woman’s skeleton with a gun wad beneath the bones. Items found nearby include a wedding ring, shoe soles, corset steel, buttons, and clothing fragments. Authorities believe the woman was murdered years ago and buried in a shallow grave.
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Attempt at Art Fraud In Rome See Fake Bas Relief Plot
The Rome correspondent reports Canon Casini faces crown prosecutor for allegedly aiding a smuggling attempt of a $30,000 Agostino Duccio bas relief. Two men posing as Prince von Buelow and Pierpont Morgan offered $10,000 for the forgery, but the canon allegedly approved the swap then balked after not receiving payment. Police investigations follow the visitors’ repeated contacts.
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