Firemen Hurt as Pillsbury Warehouse Blazes
A Pillsbury warehouse on Lowry Street northeast caught fire, causing about 20 000 in losses. Smoke and water hampered crews for hours as Chief James Keliher and three others were seriously injured when a ladder failed and the roof collapsed. Firefighters were rescued, housed at Casualty Hospital, and the scene drew thousands of spectators.
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Ferrara
James Keliher
Roth
Mt . Low
Hkelihro
North
Spice Steel
Ernest Holidge
Smersen Street
Tor Teset
Emeline Company
Chyarins
Tate
Bilisbury
Kelther
No. 6 Engine Company
Hollidge
Price
Birch
Kelcher
Capt. Peck
Casualty Hospital
Keither
Holridge
Mr. Pillsbury
Wagner
Charles Beers
Kelsher
Union Station
Government Printing Office
Pillsbury
Actor Held for Death in New York
Roy Atwell, young actor known for a Taft bust, is in 2000 bail on a charge of causing the death of Michael Sullivan an elevator operator in a New York apartment house. Playwright Herbert Bradferd—Atwell’s companion—also held. Police say Sullivan was crushed after being shoved partly from the car. Atwell and Bradferd claim accident. Bradferd is son of a New York Central Railroad vice president.
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Roy Atwell
Taft
Actors’ Fund
White House
Michael Sullivan
Partment House
Sullivan
Chenge
Herbert Bradferd
Physical degeneracy and disease warn of insanity rise
Special to The Washington Post from Toston June 2. Dr J H Kellogg, surgeon and Battle Creek Sanitarium head, warned graduates that physical degeneracy and chronic diseases are rising. He cited cancer, insanity, heart and kidney disease, and low infant survival linked to living habits, while noting a domestic travel offer: $2.00 Luray Va round trip June 5 on the Baltimore and Ohio.
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Washington Post
Toston
J H Kellogg
Battle Creek
Mich
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Kellogg
Massachusetts
Luray
Baltimore and Ohio
Union Station
Washington
Folk's Platform Issued by Former Governor Folk
Former Missouri Governor Joseph W Folk outlined his 1912 presidential principles at a St Louis dinner. He urged equal rights, removal of subsidies and tariffs except for revenue, regulation of public utilities rates, preservation of states rights, and direct election of senators.
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St. Louis
Missouri
Joseph W. Folk
Rice At Wedding Kills Bride After Ten Years
In Binghamton New York Mrs Alada Cummings died at Postgraduate Hospital from a rice kernel lodged in her ear during her wedding day ten years earlier. Surgeons failed to remove it after three operations and brain fever developed leading to death.
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Washington
Binghamton, N
Alada Cummings
Postgraduate
New York
Fervid Love Letters Sparking $56,000 Suit Against Peck
Columbia University Latin professor Harry Thurston Peck denies a sensational paternity of a $56,000 suit stemming from alleged desertion in a long courtship with Esther Quin. Quin cites a stack of about 100 letters, with phrases like My own and Always, claiming Peck authored them during 1900 to 1908. He dismisses the claim as a lawyer’s trick and refuses to discuss details, while Quin seeks monetary redress and public disclosure of the letters.
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Columbia
New York
Harry Thurston Peck
Columbia University
Esther Quin
Dame O'Reilly
Quin
Prof. Peck
Peck
Vette
Mol West 120Th Street
Tessie” Ietter
Miss Quin
Misa Quin
Harry
Esther
Wright Biplane Crosses English Channel in Record Flight
Dover to Calais and return, 48 miles over water, in 90 minutes. Capt. Charles Stewart Rolls, London army reserve captain, flies a Wright biplane, surpassing Bleriot and de Lesseps as crowds cheer. He reaches 800 feet, landed near Dover, and messages tied with ribbons were dropped over Sangatte.
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Bleriot
de Lenseps
Excort
Dover
England
Charles Stewart Rolls
London
Army Motor Reserve
English Channel
Calais
Lows Bleriot
Count de Lesseps
Channel
Rolls
France
Blerlot
Sangatte
de Lesseps
Capt Rolls
Cambridge University
Great Britain
Wilbur Wright
le Mans
England's premier motorist sails for United States
Special Cable reports Hon. Charles Stewart Rolls, famed aeronaut and third son of Lord Llangattock, leaving England October 10 for a three week visit to the United States. The piece notes his noble lineage and mechanical tastes as he embarks on his first Atlantic crossing. Also mentions King George creating Queen Mary a Lady of the Order of the Garter, and a notice about changes to the Colonial Express schedule beginning June 6 with revised departure times from Washington to Boston.
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Washington
Landos
England
Charles Stewart Rolls
Europe
Ota
United States
Mr Rolls
Rolls
Lord Liangattock
Cable
Washington Post
London
Jude
King George
King Howard
Queen Alexandra
Queen Mary
Street railway conductors barred from spitting by Missouri rep
Representative Coudrey of Missouri introduced two bills in the House to make it a crime for street car conductors in the District of Columbia to spit on their hands or moisten them with saliva while handling tickets or transfers. First offenses would incur a fine of ten dollars, with ten dollars penalties for each subsequent offense.
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Coudrey
Missouri
District of Columbia
Deneen
House
Senate
Cuban noble kills himself at Muldoon’s sanitarium
J B Circtlo di Rivas of a prominent Cuban family died by hanging with a silk cord at Muldoon’s sanitarium after returning from Europe with a nervous disease. He was 44, left a wife and child, and was brother-in-law to Burke and Gov. Deneen. The death follows a Boston, New York and Illinois report of political bribery probes and promises of new indictments as officials discuss the scope of the alleged conspiracy.
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J. E. C. di Rivas
Muldoon’s
Washington Post
Mount Vernon
Jozeph BH
Circtlo di Rivas
Muldoon
di Rivas
Europe
Springfield
Quogue
L. I
Y Burke
Deneen
F. F. Howard
New
York
Lorimer
Burke
H. J. C Beckemeyer
Carlisle
Beckemeyer
Illinois Governor Declares Broad Graft Conspiracy
The Illinois executive asserts a large graft conspiracy existed and promises state aid to investigators. After a conference the governor urges citizens to provide evidence of legislative wrongdoing to authorities, with Prosecuting Attorney Burke backing the inquiry.
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Burke
Mrs Ford Charity Patient Faces Retrial for Blackmail
New York reports Mrs Jeannette Ford once in Cincinnati Ward II charity care after claiming 1000 dollars monthly living costs. She faces a retrial for attempted blackmail linked to Charles Warriner’s embezzlement case. Ford, penniless, says she has lived on diamonds’ sale proceeds while housed in hospital.
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Warriner
Washington Post
New York
Cincinnati
New York World
Cincinnati Hospital
Jeannette Ford
Big Four
English aviator Makes Record
An English aviator sets a new flight record prompting coverage of the achievement and its significance in the era of early aviation progress.
Minneapolis merchant fined for smuggling in Hoboken
Hiram B. Lyon of Minneapolis, a wealthy grain merchant, was fined 5000 in U S district court in Hoboken after pleading non vult to a criminal information for attempting to smuggle two pearl necklaces into the United States to dodge 2400 in duties. The case was argued by Hubert Rogers of New York, with Judge Bellstab presiding.
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Washington Post
Trenton
N. J
Hiram B. Lyon
Minneapolis
Hamburg American Line
Hoboken
Bellstab
United States District Court
United States
Vreeland
Lyon
Hubert Rogers
New York
Rogers
Rellstah
Bomb Plot in Japan Women in the Conspiracy
A Tokyo cable reports a large anarchist plot against the government. Bombs were secretly manufactured by workers at a government factory near Matsumoto, targeting Marquis Katsura and cabinet members. Ringleader Shusui Kotoku, an ex Yorodzu writer, was arrested at Amanoya Hotel near Hakone. Two women among prisoners. conspiracy spans several prefectures. officials guard Marquis Katsura and ministers around the clock.
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Washington Post
New York
Tokyo
New York Herald
Nea Matsumoto
Nagano
Katsura
Shusui Kotoku
Yorodzu
Amanoya Hotel
Hakone
Marquis Katsura
Mons Salonji
Negano
Peking Legations Warned of Antidynastic Revolution
An anonymous circular letter warned all foreign legations in Peking of an imminent antidynastic revolt and urged diplomats to avoid taking sides with the Mayqchus. The American embassy remained untroubled as minister W J Calhoun viewed the message as part of ongoing unrest amid riots in Ghangsha and other areas, with no expectation of immediate upheaval though relations may persist for years.
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Peking
W. J. Calhoun
China
Ghangsha
Carnegie Exhibition To Travel Nationwide
Plans are under way to bring the Carnegie international art exhibition to major cities including New York Boston Philadelphia Baltimore and Washington as well as western centers. Mr Carnegie wishes art lovers in large cities to view the canvases that arrive in Pittsburg each year and envisions a traveling salon reaching at least eight large cities.
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Washington Post
Pittsburg
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Washington
Carnegie
Scenes of Enthusiasm and Lusty Cheer in Victory Parade
Enthusiastic scenes followed judges verdicts as victorious youths were escorted in triumph from the American League path to school by eager admirers. Teachers organized a feast celebrating the win and the students' achievement.
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Trumph
Washington High School Cadet Drill Hails Captain Covell Victory
Secretary Dickinson presents the High School Cadet pennant to Capt William Covell of Company A at American League Park after Washington High School Camel unit wins the 23rd annual drill. Gen Tasker Bliss and others prize the award. over 10,000 spectators cheer as medals and ribbons are awarded and the reviewing party declares Company A the winner.
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American League Park
William Cowell
Washington High School
Cowell
All Central High School
Triump
Ali H
Illion Nallor
Tasker H Bliss
Cayt Covell Company A
Central High
Eastern High School
Eastern High
Tasker
H Bliss
John Stofeld
Cat Burton
R Ross
T Stuart
Percy JM Hughes
Thomas J Anderson
Vertrees
Samuel W Smith
House Uister Committee
James Fo Oyster
Ellen Spencer Musse
Vrs
H Hooke
KR Horner
W VY Tunnell
Bills
Mr Hughes
Covell
Bliss
Nallor
Company A
National Training School For
Central High School
Business High School
Sup
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