White Slavery Ring Exposed Across Cities Raises Alarm
New York detectives reveal a nationwide white slave network with 200+ women controlled through stations in New York, Brooklyn, Port Chester, Jersey City, Newark, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago and Connecticut towns. Police payoffs, a suspected chief Jim Wilson alias, and brutal acts including a planned killing of a victim are alleged. The Don and Square cafe figure in a sprawling operation with letters describing shipments, bribes, and coercion tied to a violen t criminal syndicate. District Attorney Martin pursues multiple leads, while searches and ransacking uncover hidden passages and coded communications.
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Washington Post
New York
Della N Hansom
Bridgeport
East 104Th Street
Martin
Bronx County
Brooklyn
Port Chester
Jersey City
Newark
Philadelphia
Boston
Chicago
Connecticut
Stallions
Square
Tort Chester
Mre Hansom
Distry
Bosa
Jim Wilson
Wilson
Tj Hn
Seymour Mark
Don
Artichoke Trust
la Monte
Weeks
Westchester County
Port Cheater Force
Dan
Francisco Massolotti
the Square Cafe
Jimmy Degenio
Angelo Bettino
Special Sale Offers Extra Clothes At Saving
The notice explains the sale is held to provide buyers with more clothes at a notable discount making it worthwhile for shoppers to stock up.
Prisoners held as missing gang chieftain fled with funds
Report describes seven men detained on unknown charges as Jim Wilson, the alleged gang leader, is said to have disappeared with the gang's money leaving the prisoners without funds. Bonds not yet posted, and inquiries to Boston about a missing girl are mentioned.
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Jim Wilson
Boston
King to honor Chamberlain for posthumous title likely
London reports that King George plans to confer a posthumous honor on Joseph Chamberlain and later a title on his widow Mary Endicott. Chamberlain had refused titles in life. Westminster Abbey interment offered, but family prefers burial in Birmingham, long associated with him.
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London
George
Joseph Chamberlain
Mary Endicott
William C. Endicott
Salem
Chamberlain
Westminster
Westminster Abbey
Birmingham
Two Boys Die as Fireworks Explode in Chicago
Two 13 year old boys Lawrence Butler and John Sulliven died Friday from burns after finding explosives in rubbish at an abandoned fireworks plant. They loaded it onto a wagon and climbed aboard when an explosion occurred. They are Chicago’s first Fourth of July victims.
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Chicago
Clawrence Butler
John Sulliven
New Home Cure Promises Free Asthma Relief
An offer promises a free trial of a new asthma treatment at no cost to the recipient. The method claims to relieve difficult breathing and wheezing for all ages and conditions, including hay fever, with no money required and a mail coupon to respond. It targets those who have failed inhalers and other remedies.
Devotion to Duty Guides Veteran Fire Captain Watt
Commander of Truck Company No 6 in the District of Columbia fire department, Capt. Charles A. Watt, born in Scotland, has seventeen years of service with no reprimands for his crew. He encourages initiative, backs his men in trouble, and advocates shorter hours, aiming for motorized apparatus and modernizing shifts.
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Charles A. Watt Gaya
Capt Watt
Truck Company No 6
Watt
Scotland
District of Columbia Fire Department
Chemical Company No 4
Brookland
Emigine Company No
Park Road
Thirteenth
Fourteenth Streets
Train Kills Two in Auto Near Hoopeston
Two killed and four injured when a northbound Chicago and Eastern Illinois train struck an automobile at Hoopeston. Victims include D. I. Ogden a banker of Bismarck and Mrs Emily Standish of Salem Indiana. injured are Ben Williams of Bismarck the driver, Mrs L Ogden, her daughter and Miss Alice Standish. Ogden's body was lodged on the engine pilot.
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Hoopeston
Danville
D. I. Ogden
Bismarck
Emily Standish
Salem
Ind
Ogden
Ben Willams
Mutderess Hai Mansion and Servants at State Expense
Investigation in New York reveals Mrs Madeline Ferola, sentenced to death for murder, living in a fourteen room Sing Sing residence with servants and guards. Warden buys furniture, matrons cook, and inmates perform housework. possible year and a half stay amid Bronx taxpayer concern over costs and conditions.
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Washington
Onsining
N. Y
Bronx County Tarpayers
Madeline Ferola
Sing Sing Drison
James M Clancy
Sing Fing
Ferola
Sing Sing
Clancy
P KE
Conneugh‘ton
Berola
Bronx County
Newport Social Register highlights 1914 coastal families shift
The 1914 Summer Social Register shows a 25 percent rise in sea shore residents, adding Seattle Portland and other cities to the list. Inland families total 5691 while seashore residents number 4634, with yacht club landings, abroad movements, and a noted shift in yacht composition and coastal settlements.
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Newport
Seattle
Portland
Ores
Los Angeles
Pasadena
New York
Washington
Philadelphia
Chicago
Beston
Providence
St Louis
Baltimore
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Dayton
St Paul
Minneapol i
San Francisco
Oakland
Buffalo
New Orleans
Richmond
Atlanta
Michigan Joins List of States Cooperating on Forest Fire Patrol
The forestry service announced Michigan is added to states cooperating with the federal government to suppress forest fires. The agreement provides $10,000 annually per state for paying lookout watchmen or patrolmen, with the federal limit. Other states in the program include Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Connecticut New York New Jersey Maryland West Virginia Kentucky Wisconsin Minnesota South Dakota Montana Idaho Washington and Oregon.
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Michigan
Forestry Service
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Connecticut
New York
New Jersey
Maryland
West Virginia
Kentucky
Wisconsin
Minnesota
South Dakota
Montana
Idaho
Washington
Oregon
National Democrats oppose colored appointees in gov offices
The National Democratic Association of the United States adopted resolutions at its fourth annual meeting criticizing the administration for appointing colored men to government offices. Resolutions note few Republicans removed from office, with vacancies filled by relatives or friends of officials. The open meeting, presided by M C Mitchell, elected J W Staggers president, Edward Voight Jr treasurer, and Lorenzo G Warfield secretary for the coming year.
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National Democratic Association
National Democratic Association of the United States
Twelfth Street Northwest
M C Mitchell
J W Staggers
Edward Voight
Lorenzo G Warfield
Cady Made Assistant Chief Clerk of Post Office
John B Cady of Takoma Park promoted to assistant chief clerk of the Post Office Department succeeding Malcolm Kerlin who becomes superintendent of the division of registered mails He is a George Washington University graduate and former private secretary to Chief Clerk Merritt He married Miriam Miller on June ? and is now in Atlantic City on honeymoon Kerlin assumed new duties yesterday
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Kerlin
Post Office Department
Malcolm Kerlin
John B Cady
Takoma Park
Merritt
Cortelyou
Cady
Business
Miriam Miller
Chillum
Atlantic City
George Washington University
Hiker Levi Jones Heads East to Sell His Book
Levi Jones a 65 year old carpenter from Charleston walked into Washington from Charleston intending to trek to New York to publish a book about his five year walking experiences. He recounts long hikes including 2000 miles from Columbia to Oklahoma City and earlier journeys from Columbia to Miami and to Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Levi Jones
Washington
Charleston
Usc
New York
Jones
Columbia & C
Oklahoma City
Columbia
Miami
Little Rock
Ark
Hungarian Leader Seeks Aid From Hungarians in U.S.
Count Karoly, head of Hungary’s Independent party, arrived on the Vaterland to urge 2,000,000 Hungarians in America to support universal franchise and reform at home. He lamented Archduke Francis Ferdinand’s death and said his mission is to win moral support for democracy and economic separation from Austria, stressing emigration’s hardship.
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New York
Cout
Michael Karolyi
Independent Party
Vaterland
Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Karoly
Hungary
Austria
Kerolyt “Eivery
Alimony suit filed by Mrs Anna A McDermott
Mrs Anna A McDermott sues Franklinssunssusus an employee of the government printing office for permanent alimony in the District Supreme Court. She claims desertion on March 27, 1908 after a marriage begun February 17, 1896. Husband allegedly paid about SH 2. a month with gaps until July 1913. Helen H Rubesam, Mrs McDermott’s daughter by another, supports the petition.
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Pranklin ' Ssunssusus
Government Printing Office
District Supreme Court
C W Claggett
Anna A McDermott
McDermott
Helen H. Rubesam
Mra McDermott
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