Porto Rican Convention Adopts Memorial to Congress
Delegates from sixty five of Porto Rico's municipalities and both major parties meet in San Juan and adopt a memorial to Congress seeking sweeping changes in insular government. They propose a Puerto Rican senate replacing the executive council, preserve the house of delegates, and urge autonomy with governor appointment of key officers. The gathering backs a new Porto Rican Municipal League to unite municipalities.
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Insular
San Juan
Porto Rico
Speigates
Muticai
Tongreas
Les Island
Roosevelt
Executive Council
Asland Senate
House of Delegates
Seroad
Senate
Pra
Howe Posse
Porth Tern Tha
Avera Spearhes
Iealnar
Islade
Porto Hien
Roht Marér
Vention Fifa
Porto Fuen Municipal League
Mal “Haved
Congres
Death by her own hand ends broker's marriage tale
New York story says Mrs Marshall, wife of Wall Street broker Charles Marshall, killed herself after jealousy rumors. Her daughter of Genage State for mee rommisatoner of imp erition for New York and granddaughter of Henrietta Starr wealthy but unnamed, died by self-inflicted act in their apartment, with reports of a visitor and possible legal action.
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New York
Charles Marshall
Wall Street
Rte
Uia
Conspiracy Alleged Tortsque Ky Lawyers Charged in Bankruptcy Case
In Bowling Green Kentucky, Jaqub Salinder and J Ro Guftin, attorneys, are charged with conspiring to force P Perrs Sons into bankruptcy to benefit Solin Ber and four petitioners at creditors’ expense. The firm’s assets reportedly exceed 1 million dollars, with notes and counts totaling about 1,000,000 face value. A festival and tournament at Forest Glen Maryland is noted for July 2.
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Jaqub Salinder
J Ro Guftin
P. Perrs
Lamont Funeral Plans Across Millbrook and Woodlawn
Lamont family arranges funeral services at the Millbrook home with private car transfer to Woodlawn Mausoleum. Former President and Mrs. Cleveland stay at Altamount after arriving today. Revs. M Smith J Lyall and C Rogers attend, with Cortelyou leaving Washington to join the procession.
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Weauington
Poughkeepsia
Lamont
Millbrook
Millbrook Inn
Cleveland
Altamount
M. Smith
D. D
Presbyterian Church
New York
J. E. Lyall
Dutch Reformed Church
C. Rogers
Millbrook Episcopal Church
Yakima
Cortelyou
Washington
Congressional Limited
Daniel 8. Lamont
Broker Otto Bernheimer Ends Life In New York Hotel
Otto Bernheimer, partner in Bernheimer & Walter cotton brokers, committed suicide today in his Hotel Bevillia apartment. He was found beside a full length mirror with a bullet wound to the temple. He left no note. his three brothers say he had reasons to live and he was thirty five years old.
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New York
Otto Bernheimer
Bernheimer & Walter
Bevillia
Bernheimer
Bargain Stampede Wrecks Woolworth Store In Pittsburgh
A 3000 woman stampede at a Fifth Avenue Woolworth & Co bargain sale in Pittsburgh on July 2 caused several hundred injuries. Shouting about 10 cent overalls and shirts, ambulances and police crowded the doorway as eight women suffered serious harm. Mary Hoover was badly hurt, fainting at a stair, and the store became a repair hospital with injured women treated and sent home.
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Washington Post
Pittsborg
Fifth Avenue
Woolworth & Co
Everalls
Shirta
Mary Hoover
Pride Street
Dental Society Expelled at National Convention
Special to The Washington roat Buffalo N Y July The National Dental Association at its session in Buffalo denied the right of a Washington DC group to sit in the convention. Dr Emory A Bryant led the expelled faction after a prior DC ejecting case and a court ruled his removal legal. Debate turned heated with impassioned talks and an impromptu meeting after the vote.
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Washington
Buffalo
N. C
National Dental Association
District of Columbia
Emory A. Bryant
Bryant
Ion
National Association
Willams Donnally
Burkhart
Batavia
N.Y
Donnally
Lost life saving others in Brooklyn fire heroism
Nathan Newman twenty died in a Brooklyn tenement fire while saving his mother and sister and other He brews. The three story building housed several families when flames trapped occupants on upper floors. Newman reentered the blaze to guide the women to the roof but perished as he tried to follow them. The incident ends with a dedication to his self sacrifice amid a deadly blaze.
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New York
Nathan Newman
Brooklyn
Chese
Newman
Slater
Hanning
Japan Peace Delegation In New York Expects Indemnity
Baron Komura heads Japan's peace mission arriving in New York. Spokesman Mr Sato says Japan seeks peace and moderation, expects indemnity from Russia, and favors English negotiations after Roosevelt meets the commissions. He notes Japan's prosperous state, ongoing war taxes, and no territorial ambitions.
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New York
Baron Komura
Takahira
Oyster Bay
Sato
Japan
America
Russia
Portsmouth
N. H
Almar Sato
Gato
Rusela
Roosevelt
Plenipo
Harpers Ferry Round Trip by Baltimore and Ohio R R
Return trip details from Harpers Ferry on Thursday July 27 with arrival and departure times. The notice mentions Forest Glen Maryland and advertises steamship connections from Norfolk and Washington Steambeat Co to New York and Boston, plus a Chesapeake Beach family resort with saltwater bathing.
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Harpers Ferry
MC. A
Baltimore & Ohig R. R
Old Point Comfort
Norfolk
Rawport
Norfolk & Washington Steambeat Co
7Th St
New York
Boston
Yellow fever control measures expanded across Gulf region
City officials and state health authorities outline intensified quarantines for New Orleans and nearby areas while Mobile and other Gulf coast points deploy inspection teams. New cases rise and death toll reaches thirty two. detention camps planned. officials assert no fever in city limits despite regional alert.
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New Orleans
State Board of Health
City Board of Health
State Board
Mth
George B. Young
United States Marine Hospital Service
Jackson
Miss
Parvat Richardson
Marine Hospital Service
Kohnke
Dumanna Street
Hamilton P. Jones
J. J. Faget
White
Gulteras
Lnes
Mississippi
Tabor
Texas
Maus
Chaffee
Jackson Barracks
Fort Gt. Philip
Mobile
Ala
Henry Oldthwaite
Quarantine Board of
Mobile Bay
Lower Bay
Colombia
Ship Island
Organ
Gulf of Mexico
Eugene 8. Wasdin
Wasdin
Memphis
Ocean Springs
Gulf Coast
Christian
Young
Chicago
Polate
Held for mail fraud in book swindle scheme
John Powers alias Ambrose Lapreil alias A Howard alias Logan arraigned in New York before Commissioner Shields on mail fraud charges. Post office Inspector Cortelyou says the gang used forged letters and letterheads to obtain samples and books from publishers, then sold them and moved on. Powers was freed on 1600 dollars bail. he is the second arrest in the scheme.
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Washington Post
New York
John Powers
Ambrose Lapreil
A. Howard
Logan
Shields
Post Office
James T. Cortelyou
Newark
John D. Morris & Co
Philadelphia
Powers
Bai
Brutality to Miner T Explores Mine Employment Abuse
Special to The Washington Pits reports Commissioner Keating continuing inquiry into how workers are sent to Southern coal mines by agents. John Horters claims agent S Schwartz forced him to dance by shooting at his feet and that men were struck with a pistol butt. Guards with orders to shoot guarded huts at night. Southern Immigration Society filed complaints. Central Federated Union cites several aged workers deceived about mine conditions. Investigation continues.
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Washington
New York
Keating
John Horters
8. S. Schwartz
Hotters
Schwartz
Southern Immigration Society
Central Federated Union
Allo
Peru Peruvians stir over Uribe Uribe remark in Chile
Lima reports intense reaction to General Uribe Uribe, Colombia minister in Chile, who at a banquet proclaimed Colombia would not be bound to accept arbitral Spain decisions in the Peru Ecuador border dispute. He said diplomacy was impossible and spoke as a private citizen.
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Gato
M. Witte
Baron Rogen
Peace Party
China
Sato
Japan
Seto Sid
Lima
Peru
Uribe-Uribe
Colombia
Chile
Spain
Ecuador
Tiempo
Fagor and Home Rule Talks Highlight Index 10
The edition lists topics including Porto Ricans seeking home rule, Japan's peace envoys in New York, a fatal incident in New Orleans linked to insurance denouncements, a police capture of an ondimposter, a judge instructing a grand jury, and various items from Maryland Democrats to finance and legal notes.
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Japan
New York
New Orleans
Czar
Kaiser
Maryland
Cannon
Bennington
Cleveland
Orange Horses
Darrow
Laughing riveter falls from Brooklyn Bridge into river
Joseph Koen an expert riveter on the Brooklyn Bridge lost his balance while workers to the center of the bridge. He laughed at a remark then a gust tipped the staging sending him into the East River where his body did not surface.
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New York
Joseph Koen
Brooklyn Bridge
Manhattan Tower
Koen
Joe
Mitchell Sentenced to Six Months and Fine in Oregon Case
United States Senator Mitchell, found guilty of using his office to aid the law practice, is sentenced in Portland to six months penal servitude and a $1,000 fine. Execution stayed pending Supreme Court review. bail set at $2,000. He is disqualified from holding any U.S. office.
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Portland
Oreg
United States
Mitchell
Mitchell & Tanner
Supreme Court of the United States
de Haven
Cmentards
Multnomah County
Accused of Robbing Mails In Norway Sweden Case
New York July 25 John J Callahan chief clerk of the foreign branch of the general post office was arrested on a charge of abstracting mail from foreign registered letters. He posted bond for examination after a thirteen year service. Investigators traced rifled letters to a Swedish railway line and a test letter to Norway and Sweden led to his arrest. The chief clerk ranks next to the superintendent.
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New York
Norway
Sweden
John J. Callahan
General Post Office
United States
Shields
Ita Destina Hon
Callahan
Williamsport slaying ends deadly attack on stepdaughter
James Salerno an Italian who faced bail on serious charges killed his fifteen year old stepdaughter Elizabeth Carney in her Williamsport home. He entered through a window early today and mortally wounded her. a hospital trip followed and he was later captured in a South Williamsport cornfield. The victim and her mother had moved after his prior release.
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Williamsport
James Baterno
Elizabeth Carney
Salerno
Salero
Evils in Insurance Demand Reform and Probers Urged
Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Frederick L. Cutting issues a sharp annual report attacking big life insurers such as Equitable Mutual and New York Life. He accuses officials and companies of graft, deferred dividends abuses, and ties to trust firms, calling for legislative action and reforms. He also highlights Royal Arcanum rate disputes and urges decisive oversight.
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Royal Arcanum
Boston
Mass
Frederick L. Cutting
Insurance
Massachusetts
Dr. Jekyll
United States
Cutting
Equitable Life
Mutual Life
New York Life
Boustable Life Assurance Society
Tfe Insurance
Treasuries
Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Arcanum
Chicago
Ireaucis Club of
Harriman
Syndicate
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Bowling Green, Ky
Forest Glen
Virginia
Lamont Funeral Plans
Broker
Pittsburg
Dental Society
Dr. Bryant
Fighting National Association
Mother
Sister
Niagara Falls
Baltimore & Ohio
R. H
Lehigh Valley
Manchuria
Korea
Hawaii
Japanese Peace Party
Baron J. Komura
Col Techibana
War Office
A. Bato
H. W. Denison
Foreign Office
K. Konishi
8. Ishinji
K. Yamaza
M Adachi
Legation
K. Honda
Forest Glan
Chesapeake Beach
City
Gulf Ports
Scranton
Mississippi Coast
Panama Canal Commission
Miner T
Carioads
Libbey'&Co
6Th and
N.Y. Ave
Laugh
Will I
New York Postoffice
John A. Matheson
Agee
Zorert Glen
Sély
Apecal
Edward H. Harrian
Equitable Affairs
Life Insurance Society
Harrimah
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Niewseapeeh Arel
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