Another District Plan For Washington In Congress Debate
A House committee deliberates a subcommittee report proposing a full commission to study federal District relations and local self government. It would compare tax systems with similar cities and report a new taxation plan while considering cost shifting to the District. The piece critiques ongoing reorganizations and urges firm congressional commitment.
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Hera
Air to Europe: Wanamaker's Airboat America Opens Ocean Dream
The airboat America has completed trial flights and moved the long dreamed of ocean crossing closer to reality. Even with remaining difficulties the craft shows promise for a successful transatlantic flight if favorable conditions and liner cooperation reduce risks.
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Rodman Wanamaker
America
Eurpe
Europe
Ocean
Flying ships of the ocean herald the next step in air travel
The piece notes that while weight and safety provisions are adequate and precautions against known dangers are in place, the unknown risks threaten the new vessel. It asserts the cruise of the America may fail but marks a hopeful milestone toward transatlantic air travel, likening it to Telephones and wireless advances as logical modern progress.
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Lobeay
America
Europe
The Labor Exemption and Presidential Dilemmas
The piece argues that a sundry civil bill seeks to exempt labor and agricultural organizations from Sherman Act prosecutions, enabling wage and hour demands through unions. It contends the policy would shield one group while hamstringing others, and questions whether government should protect consumers by curbing such labor power or allow all to operate under existing laws.
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United States
Desperate Subterfuge On Church Attendance Exposed
Philosophical Ed Howe ponders best way to have good dirt roads and churchgoing. Rev J W Chambers falsely claims being robbed to avoid a church festival. The piece mocks ministers under pressure, noting low pay, ho readiness, and the clash with crass commerce while praising faith amid hardship.
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Ed Howe
J W Chambers
Bridgeport
Conn
Providence
Wpworth League
Foreign Missions
Public Health Thoughts at Atlantic City Meeting
The American Medical Association gathering at Atlantic City spurs public health discussion. Papers show research to curb disease and improve conditions, with talks on government action and possible future expansion of health powers while praising the Public Health Service's current work.
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American Medical Association
Atlantic City
Congress
O Department of Public Health
Strangeness of truth and improbable events in life
A reflective nugget of opinion traces how improbabilities appear in fiction and life. It cites Payn’s shipwreck tale and a Chinese prison swap, notes critics’ clashes with probability, and riffs on political and cultural absurdities across eras.
New Mayor of Rome from Colonna Family Elected
Don Prospero Colonna elected mayor of Rome on a clerical liberal ticket, succeeding a term ten years ago. He is a retired colonel and member of the Colonna house, with ties to the Vatican, Villa Massimo residence, and a large municipal council majority. His brother and family hold prominent roles in Italian and papal circles.
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Colonna
Rome
Eternal City
Cupital
Italy
House of
Martin IV
Julian I
Cardinal Borromeo
Saint Charles
Don Prospero Colonna
Sonnino
Rignano
Roma
Loubet
Liberal Eletant
Don Leone Castant
Prince of
Teano
Duke of
Sermansta
Princesa Vittoria Colonna Nathan
Nathan
New York
San Francisco
Prince of Teano
Don Prospero
Italan Cavalry
Aosta
Don Dmillo Massimo
Rigmato
Cotenna
Don Fabrizio
Papacy
Senate
Vatican
Don Marc Antonio
Marguerite
Quirinal
Don Prospero Coronna
Tidel
Vitorchiano
Congress Condemned and Senate Deliberations Continue
Congress wrestled with trust bills as the Senate Judiciary committee pressed on without a conclusive agreement on disputed provisions. Senator Newlands announced a possible move to take up the Newlands trade commission bill as the unassigned business. A large wave of confirmations was ordered in executive session. Virginia tobacco growers urged a joint commission to seek relief from low prices. Senator Works proposed abolishing tipping on interstate carriers and designating a dry district for the National Capital. An Indian appropriation bill valued around 12000 dollars passed. Adjournment set for today at 5:45 pm to noon tomorrow.
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Senate
Judiciary Committee
Newlands
Newlands Trade Commission
Virginia Tobacco Growers
Joint Congressional Commission
Works
National Capital
Paseed
Mob Hurns Haunted Castle Blaze Tracked by Inquiring Sheriff
Excursionists from Manhattan attacked firemen while they battled a vacant Rockland Lake castle burned to ashes. The crowd of about 3000 feared ghosts as two hose lines were cut and deputies pursued suspects. no final loss figure given.
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New York Tribune
Sheri Lawrence Seiven
Rockland County
George Krause
Manhattan
Big Tim Sullivan
Big Tim" Sullivan
Krause
Col Oh
Sherif de Noyles
New City
Go to It Doc! Dunn Itinerant Man Loses Legs
William Dunnant, paralyzed from locomotor ataxia, had both legs amputated above the knee at County Hospital. He chatted with the surgeon during the operation and planned to use a crude wheeled chair to sell papers once he heals. Local anesthetics enabled the directing role in the procedure and Dunn hoped to earn his own living afterward.
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Denver Post
Theta Geome
Willian
Baby Born On Battleship In Tampico Reach
A New York American report notes a baby born aboard a U S battleship near Tampico during a sparing trip. The child was delivered to a refugee occupying a cabin later assigned to the mother. After the danger subsided the ship returned to the Brooklyn navy yard with the mother and newborn ashore.
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New York
Failing to Catch Falling Baby in Five Story Flat
West 1st street scene ends tragically as two year old Leonard Marklin falls from a window sill at 535 West 1st street. Patrolman Tuste, nearby, reaches within four feet but cannot prevent the fatal plunge. Parents Edward and Mrs Marklin suffer shock and require physician care.
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New York
West
West 1St Street
Leonard Marklin
Edward Marklin
Macken
Titanic survivor drowns at Besek Lake in Connecticut
Adam Segmart, a Titanic survivor and former Pennsylvania coal miner visiting relatives in Middletown, drowned Tuesday afternoon while bathing in Besek Lake. He reportedly could not swim and stepped into a hole, going under before rescuers could reach him. He leaves a wife and four children.
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Middletown
Conn Lasparcaco
York Tribune
Adam Segmart
Besek Lake
Segmart
Bride questions memory of 1310 reference in Chicago News
A bride asks her husband where he was to 1310 as she reads a 1900s article noting that about one in 800 Americans were in prison that year. The exchange shows a light domestic moment tied to a historical statistic.
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Chicago News
Fred
United States
Fightening the Crows. Rate Nek Fightening the Crows.
Dialogue-laden fragment presents a rural scene about crow problems and scarecrows. A farmer claims minimal crop loss despite heavy corn acreage while a tourist questions the scarecrow necessity, ending with a self-deprecating remark. The piece reads like a satirical rural exchange with unnamed speakers.
Pitiable Plight of Woman With Broken Leg Relief by Daughter
Four days without water in a rural home described the ordeal of Mrs Dethless, a nearly eighty year old woman 17 miles north. With a broken leg from a fall and no telephone, she crawled from a cellar to seek water after a windstorm. Her daughter, absent recovering from a cordioned arm, returned to find her mother several rods away, drinking from a rainwater basin. recovery is not expected.
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Mia Dethlefa
Deth
Cost $15,000 to Make Film Stunt in Milltown
An engine drawing four coaches at 60 mph crashed into an open switch at Milltown, rolled down a half foot embankment. six movie operators stood by and filmed the stunt as the cars burst into flame and the engine exploded. Only the engineer Thomas McGuire jumped clear. no one else was hurt, and Vitagraph deemed the $15,000 stunt investment worthwhile.
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New Brunawick
NY Sun
Milltown
Thomas McGuire
Vitagraph Company
The Ballad of the Two Lame Bien
A fragmentary verse recounts a man meeting two wounded travelers who claim they are the sixth and seventh passengers of a seven passenger carriage. They deny having fought in wars yet show scars and bruises suggesting hidden ordeals.
Begged His Mule to Rise in Cuba
Visitors to Cuba marvel at the politeness of Cuban cartmen toward mules who are believed to possess souls and intelligence. A driver begged a fallen mule to rise, threatened to beat it, and after a forceful lash the mule stood, prompting the driver to defend his harsh method with a weary apology.
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New York
Cuba
Times of
Prunes Free Prisoner In Chinatown Police Case
New York Tribune reports an arrest at the Tombs police court where Lee Fung of 5 Mott Street faced arraignment for possessing policy slips. Detectives said he tore up the paper as interpreter Jim Gim read the items including ten pounds of prunes and fifty pounds of rice. Magistrate Herbert discharged him after inquiry.
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New York Tribune
Herbert Im
Tombs
Wiet Lee Fung
Mott Street
Lees Room
Jim Gim
Herbert
Lee Fung
Wan
Hunger strike quelled aboard the Caledonia in shipboard row
The Caledonia reached port from Glasgow and London with a deserter from the British navy aboard. Frank Nash hidden in a coal bunk refused to work and proclaimed a hunger strike. Captain Blaikie ordered no food or water. Nash lasted 24 hours before faint cries for sustenance. He then trimmed coal and will return to Glasgow.
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Caledonia
Glasgow
London
Londonderry
Frank Nash
Nash
Blaikie
Baby Jim Heavier Man Squeezes Through Car Door
James Simerson, a Beaumont Tex resident known as Baby Jim, weighed 792 pounds at 24 years old and stood 9 feet tall measurement inaccurate in source. he could not fit in a station seat and had to sit on an express truck. Doctor Mitchell Reese noted a normal heart during examination. Simerson continued his travels to Morris Town after Philipsburg sighting.
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Phillipsburg
Philadelphia
James Simerson
Beaumont
Tex
Philipsburg
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Simerson
Lackawanna Station
Mitchell Reese
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Morristown
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Amazon
Valparaiso
Chile
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Peru
Soria
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Amazon Valley
They Are High Born Kittens Rescue From Tree
The Sleepy Hollow area reports a cat owner Marcia Newman of Washington Street Tarrytown saved a cat and seven kittens found clinging to a tree branch. A stray kitten fell to the ground as the mother cat climbed to shelter her brood, Newman used a ladder to rescue all eight felines from potential danger.
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Tarrytown
Mary
Sapp
Newa
Sleepy Hollow
Marcia Newman
Washington Street
Elgat
Newman
Woman dies in home from cigarette inhalation
Della Rich a 33 year old colored woman living at 24 Klund street collapsed while smoking a cigarette and talking with Special Officers Green and Harris. A physician pronounced her dead after she inhaled smoke and pitched forward in her chair.
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Philadelphis
Klund Street
Green and
Harris
Della Rich
Washington Weather Summary June 24 Potomac Shenandoah Rivers
Warm weather continued across the eastern states with high near 102 in Georgia and cooler conditions elsewhere. Thunderstorms were reported in the upper Mississippi Valley and lake region, with fair weather prevailing in the Northwest and along the western slope. Local reports note showers Thursday and Friday across New England and the north Pacific coast, with unseasonably unsettled conditions possible in the central U.S. and upper Great Lakes region. Potomac and Shenandoah rivers remained clear this afternoon.
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Dept of Agriculture Weather Bureau
Washington
Roray Mountains
Georgia
Ohio Valleys
Rocky Mountains
Reasonal ¢ Range
Arizona
Shianour
Thuredar
Cantral
Miselsstop
Pper Lake
Oto
Lower Lake Region
New Mayland
New York
Paclis
Upper Lake
Senate Penrose Predicts Republican Victory in November
In Washington at the Willard Hotel Senator Penrose proclaims confidence in a strong Republican showing in November. He claims a return of 1912 Republicans to the fold, predicts gains in Pennsylvania, and says tariff tinkerings and Palmer discord drive Democratic voters away. He asserts Penroseism as the decisive issue against Roosevelt and other Progressive rivals. The Tennessee race and broader national outlook are also discussed with optimism for GOP gains.
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Belsze Penrose Deback
Washington
Roosevelt
Senator Penrose
Pennsylvania
House
Senate
Palmer
Nothng
William Flinn
Hooper
Tennessee
Tennessee Democrata
Emor
Mr Rye
Guv Hooper
Col Archilaus Hughes
Columbia Town
Rye
Col Hughes
Willard
The Toothbrush Incident A Marylander Writes
Mr Smith recounts a comic incident on a Washington to Baltimore train involving Cal Smity a Postmaster General in secretarial service. A country traveler uses Smity toothbrush from the wash basin prompting Smith to explain the lack of railroad sanitary provisions.
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Cal
Woosmith
Washington
Mr Smith
Baltmore
Cal Smity
Lattimore
Smith
This Is the Life Trog the Philadelphia Press
Jake Hoebach celebrates his 10th birthday with a cherry pie and continues as a farmhand on DBH Arans 3d estate in Roxborough. The article lists his daily tasks from rising at 4:10 to bedtime at 9, including feeding horses milking and wagon maintenance.
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Philadelphia Press
Jake’ Hoebach
Jake
DBH Arans 3d
Roxborough
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