Taft weighs Loeb as potential New York governor
President Taft and William Loeb Jr discussed New York politics at Beverly, with Loeb signaling he would accept the governor bid if necessary while keeping his port post. Roosevelt indicated no appointment with Loeb or Gov. Hughes, but the party eyes a united front as tariff talks and civil service debates unfold.
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Roosevelt
Gov. Hughes
Beverly
Masa
William Loeb
J Jt
Port of New York
Taft
Customs Service
New York
Loeb
Hocky Mountains
Myopia Links
Henry C. Frick
John Hayes Hammond
Gloucester
Mr. Loeb
O. HK
New York State
Republlicar
Oyster Bay
Col. Roosevelt
Sagamore Hill
Frraness
Roosevelt Returns to Politics After Wood Chop and Tennis
Col Roosevelt plans to resume political work after four days of rural leisure at Sagamore Hill. Governor Hughes will visit tonight around 6:50 pm, while Roosevelt stays busy with correspondence and tennis. Speculation swirls about a Taft link through close ally William Loeb Jr. appears in Beverly.
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Oyster Bay
Theodore Roosevelt
Col. Roosevelt
Gov. Hughes
Sagamore Hill
New York
President Hart delays naming of Supreme Court justices
Treverly Mass July 11 President Hart says he will not seriously consider filling Supreme Court vacancies until fall. He has not decided on an October Senate extra session to confirm nominees and advance important tax cases. Taft awaits a new chief justice nomination from Hughes and may appoint Hadley to a rail stock commission if he accepts. Secretary Nagel heads Alaska trip with Wickersham as travel aide on a Maine cruise that starts next week.
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Senate
Treverly
Mass
Hart
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Taft
Tribunal
Gov. Hughes
Ether T. Hadley
Yate
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
Hadley
Yale
Wickersham
Nagel
Department of Commerce and Labor
Alaska
Bar Harbor
Maine
Beverly
White House
Lubec Bay
Canadian
Hughes for Chief Justice A New York note says his appointment is assured
A Beverly to New York World dispatch reports that Charles Evans Hughes will be the next chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. It asserts Justice Moody plans to retire before November when his term expires and notes Taft favors promoting from federal benches.
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New York
Washington Post
Beverly
New York World
Aties E. Hughes
United States Supreme Court
Moody
Supreme Court
Federal District
Eighth Circuit
Mississippi
Sanborn
van Devanter
Hook
Lloyd W. Bowers
United States
Taft
Bowers
Child Saved After Snakebite by Father’s Quick Action
In Harrisonburg Virginia on July 11 Mrs N R Price and her two year old son Norman were walking when he stepped on a copperhead. The snake sank its fangs in his ankle and Dr Price, the boy’s father, sucked the poison from the wound to save the child’s life.
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Washington Post
Harrisonburg
N. R. Price
Norman
Capps Forced Out as Navy Reorganization Feud Ends
Rear Admiral Washington Lee Capps resigns as chief of the Bureau of Construction after long opposition to Secretary Meyer’s naval reorganization plan. He will remain in rank until October 1 and will tour the Pacific coast and possibly the Philippines. The bureau will be run by the chief clerk during the interim.
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Secretary of the Navy
Washington Lee Cappa
Bureau of Construction
Admiral Capps
Meyer
Beverly
Department
Capps
Pacific Coast
Philippines
Navy Department
House
Senate
Naval Affairs
Navy
Naval Affairs Committees
Congress
Eustace D. Rogers
Bureau of Supplies and Accounts
Ivy Department
Bureau of
Steam Engineering
Wickersham
Meyer Pilin
Mr. Rogers
House Committee On Naval Affairs
Rogers
Navy Supply Fund
Navy Chief Constructor Capps and Bureau Power Shifts
The passage details how Bureau of Construction power waxed and waned under different administrations, highlighting Chief Constructor Capps’s long tenure since 1903. It outlines his career, education at Glasgow, service at New York and Union Iron Works, and his role during battleship design debates sparked by Commander Albert L. Key and examined by Roosevelt and the Senate naval committee.
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Bureau of Construction
Metcalf
Newberry
Capps
Meyer
Mr. Capps
Portsmouth
Navy
University of Glasgow
New York Navy Yard
Union Iron Works
San Francisco
Defell
Hig Bureau
Department
Albert L. Key
Roosevelt
Naval War College
Newport
R. 1
Commander Key
Senate Naval Committee
Senator Cummins III May Cancel Speaking Engagements
A New York World dispatch from Montgomery, Missouri reports United States Senator Cummins of Iowa may cancel all Missouri engagements due to ill health. Physicians warn heart trouble could endanger his life if his itinerary continues this summer, and his engagement here was canceled today.
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Towan
Washington Post
New York
Montgomery
New York World
United States
Cummins
Iowa
Missouri
Youngest Master of Arts at Michigan Graduates at 17
Miss Dorothea Jones of Harrisburg Pennsylvania is reported as the youngest person to earn a master of arts degree at the University of Michigan and possibly at any U S university. She was 17 when she passed the degree exams after three years at Carlisle Pennsylvania before arriving in Ann Arbor.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
University of Michigan
United States
Dorothea Jones
Harrisburg
Jones
Carlsle
Germans See New Pact Threatening Far East Trade
Berlin reports indicate German press believes a Franco-British-American alliance may form to oppose the Russo Japanese exclusion treaty in Manchuria. Articles warn the agreement harms German trade aims and blames Secretary Knox for pushing Asia toward broader internationalization.
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Washington Post
Berlin
America
England
Germany
Manchuria
Far East
Cologne
Munich Neuste Nachrichten
Munich Journal
Great Britain
Pease
Russia
Japan
Knox
Novoe Vremya
St. Petersburg
Bees Swarm in Liner Refuse Eviction on Deck
Washington reports Capt Melasner described the Alleghany voyage halted by a bees swarm that settled on the forward davits in Port de Paix on June 23. Efforts with a hose failed as the insects clustered and forced the crew to retreat in place aboard the Hamburg-American liner Alleghany.
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Bpedal
Washington Post
New York
Heea
Alleghany
Melasner
Port de Paix
Millions of Ice Cream Cones Seized Under Pure Food Act
New York July 11 United States Marshal Henkel seized more than 4 500 000 ice cream cones as part of the government campaign under the Pure Food Act. Officials allege the cones contain boric acid and pose health risks.
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New York
United States
Henkel
Robbed wife of War College officer loses gem at Baltimore station
Mrs Marjorie Connor wife of Capt William D Connor instructor at War College left a diamond and emerald ring valued at 1500 in a Baltimore Camden station ladies room while waiting for the 1145 train to Washington. The thief stole the ring and detectives in Baltimore and Washington coordinate a search. The ring features two emeralds with white diamonds in platinum settings. The loss ends upon her return to Washington Barracks and police notification.
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Marjorie Connor
William D. Connor
War College
Baltimore
the War College
Washington
Connor
Camden Station
Mrs. Connor
Mrs Procter Seeks Guard for Trip to Cincinnati
Mrs. Percy Procter a Russian claiming to be wife of a Procter & Gamble heir asks New York police for protection on her journey to Cincinnati. She plans to answer a suit over 10 shares of stock presented as a wedding gift, alleging her husband is older and kept by relatives. She fears kidnapping en route.
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Cincinnati
Washington
New York
Percy Procter
Procter & Gamble
Funston
Woman on L train startles crowd with wild antics
Passengers on a northbound Third Avenue L train are disrupted when a woman named Agnes O'Brien, 20, boarded at 129th Street and began jostling riders, flopped into a man’s lap, slapped him with a leather pocketbook, and dashed along the car. A police officer arrested her. Lt. Carr from Fordham Hospital said she is under mental strain and took her to the hospital. The note ends with a stray travel line about the St. Louis Limited.
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Washington Post
New York
Third Avenue
129Th Street Station
Oth | Street
Agnes O'Brien
Carr
Fordham Hospital
Goulds Bridal Couple Sail On Honeymoon Today
Mrs Helen Kelly Gould and Ralph Hill Thomas wed at 640 Park Avenue in a ceremony led by Rev Webster. Nine detectives guarded the Gould children, who were brought from Irvington to witness the vows and later escorted home. The couple plan a honeymoon aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosser and will tour Europe before building near Sands Point.
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Helen Kelly Gould
R. H. Thomas
Helen Gould
Europe
Washington Post
New York
Ralph Hill Thomas
Gould
Park Avenue
Webster
Brick Presbyterian Church
Eugene Kelly
Joseph Thomas
Eugenia Kelly
Convent of the Sacred Heart
Sho
Helen
Dorothy
Irvington-on-the-studion
Albert Wisner
Oienegr
Fifth Avenue
Irvington
Misa Gould
Frank Gould
Gotham
Kelly
Mr. Eng
Mrs. Thomas
Sands Point
Long Island
Scotland
England
Suffrage Debate on Bill Shelved After Second Reading
London July 11 The debate on granting parliamentary suffrage to women proceeds with Shackleton moving a second reading. The government may shelve the bill after a likely second reading, with support from aristocrats including the Duchess of Marlborough and Mrs Belmont.
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Duchess of Marlborough
C. H. P. Belmont
Vanderbilt
London
Frst
Chanse of Commons
David James Shackleton
Lancashire
Shackleton
England
America Women
Lloyd George
Haldane
Belmont
X Rays Expert Dr Kassabian Dies From Burns
Philadelphia July 1 Dr Mihran K Kassabian a leading United States X ray authority died at Jefferson Hospital from burns suffered in his practice. Secrecy surrounded his illness as physicians say repeated X ray exposure caused skin cancer and his condition is considered hopeless.
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Washington Post
Philadelphia
Mihran K. Kassabian
United States
Jefferson Hospital
Kassabians
Rice Riots In Shaq Wg Scarcity Sparks Demonstrations
Chinese accuse national leaders and officials of rice cornering in Laichow Shanghai area provoking riots over shortages. Rioters blame Chinese officials and wealthy merchants for starvation prices while foreign residents face no threat as they rally for access to rice. Armed demonstrators reportedly received arms from rebel bands in Uria.
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Nati
CIA
Shanghai
Laichow
Uria
Collision Ramming Beaches Castine After Submarine Attack
Provincetown Massachusetts July 1 The gunboat Castine the third submarine division tender was rammed by the submarine Bonita during maneuvers and beached near North Truro to prevent sinking. Eighty crew members were aboard none injured. water flooded boiler and dynamo compartments and bulkheads held. Bonita escaped with minor damage. wrecking crew and officials notified for repairs.
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Provincetown
Maas
Third Submarine Division
Truro
Ralph A. Koch
Sloan Danenhower
Donald C. Bingham
Charlestown
Boston
Navy
Birmingham
Charlestown Navy Yard
Castine
Bonita
North Truro
Fletcher
Department
Lightning kills man at grave in Tennessee
Chattanooga telegram reports Walter White, about 30, of Tyner, struck by lightning while helping lower D. Ny. Barksdale into his grave. Several funeral party members were stunned. White died instantly. his body was taken to his home in the hearse used for the funeral procession.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Walter White
Tyner
D. Ny. Barksdale
Fire wipes out town in New Brunswick incident
Reports from St Johns New Brunswick dated July 1 indicate a serious fire that started at Bamphakéen on the Inter-Colonial Railroad in the northern part of the province. It rapidly spread from Richards Company Brithgle Mills destroying most of the town, with the Great Northwestern telegraph office burned and Campbellton communications cut off. No lives reported lost.
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St. Johns
New Brunswick
Bamphakéen
Richards Company
Brithgle Mills Ang
Great Northwestern
Campbellton
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St. Louis
Guard Gould Girla
Georgia Senate
Atlanta
General Assembly
Loek
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Commons
Bill
John Rolleston
Hertfordshire
F. E. Smith
Waldron
Liverpool
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Bolt
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