McAdoo cites plot to defeat currency bill over 2% bonds
Secretary McAdoo charged that New York banks and other financiers launched a coordinated campaign to depress government 2 per cent bonds to defeat the currency bill. He warned the public that the banks hold most of the issue and that the drop in market price affects notes secured by the bonds, while noting the Treasury’s ample preparedness and the bonds’ favorable terms despite the fall.
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New York City
McAdood
New York
Banking and Currency Committee of the House
Federal Reserve
Dog Dies Saving Child in Rattlesnake Fight
Special to The Washington Post from Pueblo Calro July 8 Boots a white bulldog belonging to Alonzo Hunt family died after leaping between his six year old mistress Lucille and a rattlesnake. Boots killed the snake then succumbed to its poison. Family plans a formal funeral and will mark Boots Grave with a granite tombstone inscribed No greater hero ever lived.
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Washington Post
Pueblo
Calro
Boots
Alonzo Hunt
Lucille
Fen Hunt Family
Train Kills Pair in Auto Crash Near Rochester
J H Sankpeal vice president of a lumber company and Miss Martha Wartlebin were killed when his car was struck by the Wolverine express at a Penfield crossing near Rochester New York. Mrs Sankpeal identified the bodies and said a quarrel with her husband the night before prompted his departure.
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Martha Wartlebin
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Baltimore Storm Wrecks City With Heavy Damage
A violent July 2 storm battered Baltimore from the northeast, causing at least $100,000 in property damage. Eighteen people were injured, eight firemen hurt, and two may die. Trees uprooted, homes unroofed, and wires cut off telegraph and telephone service. Three trolley cars struck by lightning. city streets and businesses left in turmoil.
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Newport bathers robbed at Gould Island private bathhouses
Special to The Washington Fest Newport R I July 2 Thieves entered the Haughton and Ames party bathhouses while guests swam the island looting clothing jewelry and money. Stolen items include Mrs Haughton pearl and sapphire brooch and Mr Ames silver cigarette cage and gold cufflinks.
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Jay
Gould Island
Remarry After 25 Years at Kalamazoo Michigan
Edward C. Hibbard retired Palmyra New York merchant and Mrs Nellie L. Hibbard of Kalamazoo wed again after a separation of over 26 years. They had quarreled, she moved with her children, later remarried, and her husband died six years ago. A year of renewed correspondence led to reconciliation and a city reunion. A separate line notes a Harpers Ferry trip offer.
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Palmyra
N. Y
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Elity
Hibbard
Fire Into Shanghai Volunteers Guard Canton Europeans
Shanghai dispatches report ongoing shelling as rebels attack foreign settlements and arsenal positions near Shanghai and Hankow. US Rear Admiral Nicholson notes relief at Kuling and American volunteers aiding guard duties. Sun Yat Sen appeals resist Yuan Shi Kai and mobilizes international response amid widespread unrest in China.
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Girl and Fiance Drowned in Canton Lake
Carlton Truman of Cleveland drowned in Congress Lake near Here while his fiancée Miss Helen Tilden of Canton tried to save him. Truman cried for help as cramps overtook him. Tilden rowed to him, but sank after he surfaced and both drowned due to heavy clothing.
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Suffragette Demonstrations and King George Encounter
Militant suffragists rush to present a petition to King George as police confiscate them near Chichester. A Holloway jail march leads to revolver shots, window smashing, and arrests amid a Pankhurst appearance at a Music Hall. Mounted police deployed after clashes with police. Cholera case reported in Temes-Sziget Hungary near the Servian frontier.
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Budapest
Temes-Sziget
Tragic drowning of two girls in Watt Mining reservoir
In Barnesville Ohio on July 28 Estelle Van Fosson 12 and Thelma Roach 13 drowned while bathing in the Watt Mining Car Company reservoir. Their rope tethered to a tree broke as divers attempted rescue. The girls vanished and two other children witnessed the incident. Andrew Roach, told at a baseball game, fell from the grandstand and broke his back with little hope of recovery.
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Thelma Roach
Watt Mining Car Company
Andrew Roach
King May Pay Visit Here Across Dominion?
A London report stated King George V and Queen Mary would lay the Canberra parliament house foundation next year, but the Pall Mall Gazette denies this, saying Canada will be the next dominion toured by the royals, with a possible border crossing to the United States including Washington and New York brief stops.
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Mrs Galt in Chorus Life on the Stage in New York
New York July 28 Mrs Walter Allen Galt of Washington DC has chosen a stage career. She joined The Passing Show of 1919 at the Winter Garden using the name Oonie Maury. She says the work is hard yet fascinating and plans to stay in New York amid rehearsals and a home on West Fifty-first Street. Her relatives include Georgia Maury Reyburn and Bettina Girard. She married twice, first to Sherburne Hopkins Jr, an annulled union, then eloped in 1914 with Walter A Galt. She recently wrote family that she intended to pursue stage work and will likely continue.
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Baltimore
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Split Panel Skirt Costume Worn at Newport Casino
Special to The Washington Post Newport R L July 28 2 The latest Paris morning costume worn by Mrs Charles DeLoosey Oetrichs at the Casino features a split panel skirt costume with the back split and semiswallowtall jacket trimmed in thick French white cord. French blue silk fabric matches a matching parasol and a mushroom hat with white feather and cord. Judge Thomas C O Sullivan Dead in Spring Lake New Jersey July 3 He died at his summer home tonight born 1860 and had been knighted by the Pope for religious and charitable work.
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Thomas C. O’sullivan
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Court of General Sessions
New York City
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St Gregory
Robber Kills Girl in Dallas Real Estate Office Vault
Dallas July 2 Miss Florence Brown a 25 year old stenographer defending her employer’s safe at Robinson and Styron real estate offices was killed. The assault left deep throat wounds and tooth marks on her arm evidence suggests robbery as motive. Twenty five suspects were arrested in a swift police round up within two hours as details emerged.
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Washington Post
Dallas
Tex
Florence Brown
Robinson & Styron Real Estate
Miss Brown
Divorce for British M. P. Carr-Gomm Uncontested
London July 28 Hubert William Carr-Gomm MP was granted an uncontested divorce from wife Kathleen The action named Capt Eliot Crawshay-Williams as co defendant Crawshay-Williams former MP and once parliamentary secretary to David Lloyd George resigned his seat Carr-Gomm formerly secretary to Campbell-Bannerman, both prominent Liberals and figures in London politics.
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Rotherhire
Eliot Crawshay- Williams
Leicester
Crawshay-Williams
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Family Shot to Death near Rumsey Alberta
George Robinson, his wife, and two children were found shot to death in their Rumsey area farm house. The bodies lay in separate rooms, a shotgun lay across the father, three empty shells nearby, and the house showed signs of a fierce struggle. Police had not yet determined whether it was an attack or murder and suicide.
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Robinson
Panama Canal Chief Gaillard Ailing Withdraws For US
Col David Gaillard III chief of the central division of operations in the Panama Canal Zone will sail for the United States on August 1 on doctors orders. He recently returned from vacation and has been in poor health since.
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My Aion Sees Plot by Bankers
Reported on page 11 of today’s issue the story hints at bankers weaving a plot, with scattered references to financial intrigue and a tense wartime backdrop affecting markets and policy. The item appears amid a collage of headlines including weather, crime, and theater notes.
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Aero Links
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James McMahon
Huerta promises punishment for shooting Americans
Mexico City July 28 President Huerta told Nelson O Shaughnessy the United States charge d affaires that as long as he is president Mexico will not sanction outrages against American citizens He pledged punishment for those who shot immigration inspector Charles S Dixon at Juarez and said Americans held at Santa Rosalia would be released He made the remarks in Percón Popol.
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Huerta
United States
Nelson O'Shaughnessy
O’shaughnessy
Charles 5. Dixon
Juarez
Santa Rosslca
O'Shaughnessy
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Pergon
Dixon
Santa Rosalia
Wilson
Madero
Washington
Nelgon O'Shaughnessy
Mexico Warship Tampico Destroyed By Bomb Hit
Nogales, Ariz July 22 The Mexican federal gunboat Tampico was destroyed by a bomb from an aeroplane over Guaymas harbor. Aviator Didier Masson claimed three flights before striking the boat. Gov. Pesqueira and Sonora Governor Maytorena planned talks on elections or transferring government. Rebels resume investment of Guaymas as federal gunboats shell positions. Dixon, an immigration inspector, to recover after being shot in Juarez.
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Ariz
Tampico
Guaymas Harbor
Didier Masson
Masson
Guaymas
Ignacio Pesquetra
Hermosillo
Sonora
Jose Maytorena
Tucson
Pesqueira
Maytorena
Mexico
Dixon
Paso
Tex
Charles P. Dixon, Jr
Juarez
United States
J W. Tappan
United States Public Health Service
Juares
Rio Grande
Wilson to Yield Post in Mexico Amid Mediation Talks
Ambassador Wil son urged a plan to have Huerta resign for a jointly acceptable provisional president, while President Wilson weighs future policy and avoids mediation for now. O'Shaughnessy may assume charge in Mexico City as talks surface about stabilizing the Huerta regime and easing U S intervention.
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Mexico
Huerta
Bryan
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