Fast time on Penn system as new 17 hour train charts bold run
A special Pennsylvania line train covering Chicago to Pittsburgh in 40 minutes and a 17 hour Chicago to New York service were showcased. The July demonstration showcased the new 15 hour plus speed on routes to New York and Philadelphia with notable officials aboard. The test run from Chicago Union Station to Pittsburgh Union Station averaged rapid progress, with a brief halt for twenty minutes.
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Waller Ruff Married in Massachusetts Avenue Home
Obituary notices and marriage announcements from a historic paper record several couples: Waller and Ruff wed at 132 Massachusetts Avenue with a May 7 ceremony. Dwyer and Kelly entries discuss funerals and remembrances. extensive tribute to Mrs. Peyton and family ties, noting Yelverton estate, Dr Peyton, and connections to notable figures. The notices mix marriages, deaths, and memorials with dates, places, and church affiliations.
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Thomas Francia
Massachusetts Avenue
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MW Gristol Iizabeth Octavie Ett
Ty Willam Waller
Colonia
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Yelomon
Nannerle Gee Peston
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Gordonsdale
Robert Eden Peyton
Notice of Marriage and Death Inverted Alerts
Notice that marriages and deaths inverted in The Washington Post will, on request, appear simultaneously at no extra charge for insertion or telegraphing in morning papers across York, Boston Globe, Buffalo Courier, Cincinnati Enquirer, Chicago Record Herald, Philadelphia Public Ledger, Pittsburgh Dispatch, Providence Journal, Rochester Herald, St Louis Post-Dispatch, Minneapolis Tribune, Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Chiaco
Record Herald
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Pittsburg
D.spatch
Providence Journal
Rochester Herald
Loli Pepublic
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SF Post Standard
ST Patl
Pioneer Press
Minneapolis
Trimune
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Pennsylvania trains cut radio clock speed shows great pace
The report details miles run per hour across several segments with stops at Port Wayne and Clark Junction. It notes average speeds toward Fort Wayne and a remarkable stretch at high velocity, while praising track and power quality. Pennsylvania Railroad announces schedule reductions between New York Philadelphia Cincinnati and St Louis, trimming running times by about an hour on several routes.
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Philadelphia
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St. Louis
Port Wayne
Clark Junction
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Umit
Wireless on Trains Promises Safer Travel Between Chicago and St Louis
The Chicago and Alton Railway will install wireless telegraph on all trains between Chicago and St Louis with plans to extend system nationwide. Demonstrations showed instant two way messaging between Chicago and a Hamstead train with no delay. President Felton said moving trains can now be reached by dispatchers anywhere on the division and trains can warn each other to prevent collisions in all weather. The system aims to handle commercial messages for patrons en route.
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Chicago and Alton Railway
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Algo
Fast Train Ditching Wrecks East of Here
A Grand Trunk Express from the East to Chicago derailed ten miles east of town due to spread rails this afternoon. Seven people were seriously hurt and one woman from Roxbury Mass is thought fatally injured. Three coaches ditched. Passengers include George Button of Grand Rapids and Mrs Jennie Cook of Roxbury. A relief train transported the gravely injured to Flint.
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Precautions Issued After Harrisburg Wreck
Pennsylvania Railroad issues new safety orders after the South Harrisburg disaster that killed twenty two and injured about one hundred. Cars loaded with inflammable goods must display danger cards and require engine attachment when moved. extra care to be taken with all boxes and crates aboard. A separate report from Cesare Arkansas notes a black man, John Frasier, hanged for murder over a money dispute. Movements of several ocean steamers are listed with ships arriving and sailing for Hamburg Queenstown and New York.
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Harrisburg
South Harrisburg
Pennsylvania Railroad
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Ark
John Frasier
Webster Southerland
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Threat of Civil War Criticism of the Emperor
Delegates from remetyos and municipalities urge an immediate national assembly to decide peace or war and heal Russia’s internal strife. The Moscow address criticizes the bureaucracy, police power, and government delays, urging summoned representatives to decide war or peace without pledges of loyalty.
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Russians Caught Unprepared in Sea of Japan Battle
Survivors describe a sudden Japanese torpedo boat swarm that surrounded the Russian fleet in the Korean Straits. With no guns manned on many ships, their defenses faltered as Japanese cruisers and battleships closed in and unleashed torpedoes and heavy fire, leaving most ships damaged and demoralized.
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Wright Executes Order Disarms Russian Ships in Manila
In Manila on June 8 Rear Admiral Train will remove breech blocks and disconnect engines of Russian warships. Russian officers will be paroled within island limits while crews are paroled within city limits after word from Rear Admiral Enquist. Gov Wright cables Taft that presidential orders in Manila Bay are carried out.
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Diplomatists At Sea Advance Toward Peace Efforts
Reports describe Lamsdorff and Witte leading the peace overtures with official backing, while Russia seeks indirect talks via Britain and the United States. Roosevelt, William II, and Italy’s government back a Russian initiative, aiming to ease direct Japan-Russia negotiations and avoid outside pressure.
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Japanese Occupy Omoseo Midway Between Kirin and Niagata
London reports a Japanese force occupying Omoseo midway between Kirin and Niagata, threatening Gen Linovitch rear and severing lines to Vladivostok. St. Petersburg notes astonishment at the move, with Russian forces repulsed near Yinypenmen and two horses captured in skirmishes along the Harbin to Vladivostok rail corridor.
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Japs Near Manila as Warships Move Southward
Two Japanese ships passed the Lingayen Gulf entrance and headed south toward Manila. Lingayen Gulf lies about 160 miles north of Manila on Luzon's west coast. Reports from Vladivostok cite Admiral Rozestvensky losses of 9,000 to 10,000 killed or drowned and about 6,000 taken prisoner.
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Jail Delivery Foiled In Maryland Prison Break Attempt
Cumberland Md June 8 a jail delivery was narrowly averted at Oakland when an inmate given an opiate by Jail Physician Legge caused others to force Buckshot Johny Alten to swallow the drug. The attempt failed as the wall was removed and the prisoners were locked in their cells. Allen, nauseated, alerted Sheriff Franta and named Jesse Flynn and Will Ward as accomplices in the housebreaking plot.
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Licensed Marriages Listed for Several Couples in West Virginia
The notice inventories multiple marriage licenses including Charles A Brooks and Helen T Hawk of factinaburg Wo Va Lavja Q Jonks and Louisa A Bates Eugene W Fupitt and Jennie White Barris Lightfoot Forbes of Annapolis and Eleacor Thomas Washington Daniel D Mulcahy and Ellen H Glesson William H Waters and Elmer L Allen.
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Helen T. Hawk
Factinaburg
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Annapolis
Eleacor Thomas
Alfonso Attends Covent Garden Gala Opera at London
King Alfonso of Spain and Queen Alexandra join Edward and Princess Louise for a royal gala at Covent Garden. The hall glowed with Spanish colors as roses and lilies decked the stage and royal boxes. Performances by Melba, Caruso, Elizabeth Parkinson, and Whitehall delighted the assembled dignitaries and guests.
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Lubin Proposes International Institute of Agriculture
Rome June 8 David Lubin of Sacramento Cal says the World Farm Institute aims to found an international agriculture institute to stabilize political social and economic conditions and support equitable world price exchange for agricultural products. He notes the middleman would not be removed but the institute would expose manipulators and steady agriculture on a firm basis.
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Victor Emmanuel
International Institute of Agriculture
Lowther Elected Speaker of House of Commons
London June James William Lowther Conservative deputy speaker and chairman of the Ways and Means was unanimously elected speaker in succession to William Court Gully who resigned. This marks the first Conservative speaker since 1833. The House adjourned until June 26.
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James William Lowther
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Thia
Knights of Columbus Reject Federation Bid and Reelect Leaders
Los Angeles report states the Knights of Columbus defeated a proposal to affiliate with the Federation of American Catholics to preserve individuality. National officers were reelected led by Supreme Knight Edward L. Hearn. New Haven, Connecticut chosen for the next convention. Four surviving incorporators named without insurance vote. Amendments to state and national meeting dates were adopted with ratification likely at the next meeting.
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M. C. O'Connor
C. J. Driscoll
Elizabeth Town Skirmish 1730 Celebrated Amid Holiday
Special to The Washington Men Elizabeth New Jersey June 8 A skirmish on June 7 and 8 1730 when Continental soldiers checked British regulars near Springfield led to a citywide holiday. The 88th anniversary was celebrated as the Rat of Elizabethtown with a morning parade led by the Second Regiment New Jersey Guard Union Square featured a minuteman monument.
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Twenty-Fifth Commencement at Holy Cross Academy
A striking scene at Lafayette Opera House as Mgr Falconio presided over Holy Cross Academy graduation. Rev Dr Kerby of Catholic University spoke on graduate disadvantages and real life application, with diplomas and special medals awarded to Mary Bernadette Connor and Dolores Hernandez.
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Death notices from Berlin to Philadelphia
Death of Prince Leopold von Hohenzollern in Berlin after a stroke. Former Congressmen Henry F. Nap, of Massachusetts, found dead from heart disease in South Boston. Col William H. Chesebrough dies in London after peritonitis at sixty six. Eugene de Bocande of the French Line dies in Philadelphia. Henry Kuntz, prominent Allentown estate operator, aged about 25.
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French Line Steamship Company
Mrs Jane T Worrall Senior Army Nurses Leader Dies
Cambridge obituary for Mrs Jane T Worrall sixty-eight? seventy-eight? senior vice president of the Army Nurses Association who died at her Cambridge home after a long illness. She served as a nurse during the Civil War in Washington Fortress Monroe and Baltimore.
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