Cadet drill at American League Park draws thousands
Thousands of spectators watch five Central and Business High School cadet companies perform in the annual prize drill at the American League Park. Captains Parke and Muhleman command squads from Central and Business High, receiving flowers as judges note precise marching and commands.
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American League Park
Central and
Business
Parke
A. Galleher
Company I
Central High School
Albert K. Muhleman
Company B
Nationals
Theentral High School
Business High School
McKinley Manual Training School
Catar
A. B
Central
Ywieh School
Koompany
Central Fist
Guy H . Smith
Douglas Compe
Enginsers
U.S. A. Laent
Robert P. Howell
Ips
Engineers
Anpudl
Blacksmiths Strike at Rogers Locomotive Works
Twenty Rogers Locomotive Works blacksmiths in Paterson New Jersey walked out after being denied beer at work and a demand to remove foreman George Browne. Browne had recently taken charge of the department and banned beer at the shop and leaving during work hours to visit saloons. The Rogers shop is a branch of American Locomotive Works.
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Rogers Locomotive Works
The
American Locomotive Works
Pugsley to resign as New Brunswick premier next week
Hon. William Pugsley premier of New Brunswick will resign at a government meeting next week to pursue Federal politics. Hon. Clifford W. Robinson of Moncton will succeed him as premier.
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Fredericton
N. B
William Pugsley
New Brunswick
Clifford W. Robinson
Moncton
Mr. Pugsley
Boy May Be Rearrested for Langley Stabbing
Dissatisfaction over the coroner jury finding exonerating Raphael Altman grows as Ernest Langley’s relatives demand rearrest for homicide. Campbell Carrington, defense counsel, says Langley family insists key witnesses were not called at the Inquest and plans are to present the case to the grand jury. Altman to return to Newark where his stepfather secured work. if indicted, he will be held to answer.
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Raphael Altman
Ernest Langley
United States
Gryen
Young Altman
Campbell Carrington
Langley
Langleys
Carrington
Altman
Newark
Grand
Wilk
Mayors reply needed as Glen Echo traffic permit stalls
Rockville May 21 Glen Echo officials seek War Department OK to link a main street with the Conduit road. Mayor Garrett suspects holdup over local speed enforcement arrests. Capt Cosby asks for Maryland traffic laws and city ordinances, while Glen Echo officials defend public notice and charter authority.
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Washington Post
Rockville
Glen Echo
War Department
Garrett
Spencer Cosby
Corps of Engineers
Whch
Maryland
Finleg
United States
Washington
Condemn Assassins Plot In Guatemala Dispatch
Minister Toledo Herrarte received a cable from Foreign Minister Barrins dated May 20 in Guatemala City detailing protests by foreign colonies and Guatemalans condemning an attempted attack on President Cabrera. It notes military and civil classes seek punishment, mentions suspects like Viteri hiding among neighbors, and disguise as women to evade capture.
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Toledo Herrarte
Guatemala
Barrins
Cabrera
Graduation Reception At Martha Washington Seminary
Principals Mr and Mrs E W Thompson hosted a reception for the graduating class of Martha Washington Seminary with a dance and floral decorations. Today they will take the students on an excursion to Great Falls and Monday a dinner was held at the New Willard. Tomorrow evening the graduation exercises will occur. The class of 1907 includes Mahel Powers Anna Levy Velma Brockway Aula Wilkinson Elizabeth Wasoorse and Margaret Savage.
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Martha Washington Seminary
E. W. Thompson
Mahel ‘Powers
Anna Levy
Velma Brockway
Aula Wilkinson
Elizabeth Wasoorse
Margaret Savage
No Panic Says Treat No Crash Now in U S
Charles P. Treat, United States Treasurer, assured Kansas bankers that there will be no financial crash and that the recent Wall Street flurry amounted to nothing. He said global observers in Paris Berlin and Amsterdam watched but found U S conditions sound and stable.
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United States
Washington Post
Topeka
Kans
Charles P.preat
Kansas Bankers
Treat
Wall Street
Paris
Berlin
Amsterdam
JOKE MAY COST LIFE IN SPRING VALLEY
May 21 Joseph Seagart lies near death at Cedar Point after an attack by a group of Lithuanians in a mining camp saloon. A dozen suspects are under arrest as Seagart rode in on his broncho and was struck with stones and long blades as he exited the saloon.
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Washington Post
Spring Valley
Joseph Seagert
Cedar Point
Meon Seagart
Seagart
Heirs may sue Philip over fatal cabman case
Heirs to Frank MacAboy may press a $10,000 civil damages suit against Gaston Philip, alleging loss as sole supporter of the MacAboy family. Campbell Carrington, representing the heirs, said damages cannot exceed $10,000, with action separate from the criminal case. Philip’s attorneys say no suit has been advised or filed and will respond after grand jury action.
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Gaston Philip
Frank MacaAboy
MacAboy
Campbell Carrington
Philip
Cartington
Gaston Philin
Harvey
Court House
Philin
Kuroki to Visit Boston Cambridge Then Niagara
Final plans for Gen. Kuroki and his party outline a brief Boston and Cambridge stay with a Harvard visit. They depart New York on the 11 o clock express for Boston, then travel via Albany to Niagara Falls, Chicago, Seattle, and sail from Seattle for Japan on June 11.
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Niagara
Boston
Cambridge
New York
Kuroki
United States
New England
Grand Central
Harvard University
West
Albany
Great Falls
Chicago
Seattle
Japan
Reform Move in Chicago Severs Tenderloin Police
Chicago May 21 Mayor Busse reshapes the Tenderloin district police by transferring the entire force of 240 men to other city beats and appointing new officers in a bid to curb law violations alleged against the district. The sweeping change is billed as the largest in the city’s police department.
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Busse
Chicago
Dawn
Pat Crowe Acquitted in Iowa Kidnap Case
Council Bluffs Iowa May 21 After three hours deliberation the jury found Pat Crowe not guilty of holding up and robbing two street cars nearly two years ago He was freed immediately Crowe declared he has been vindicated and there are no remaining charges against him
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Washington Post
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Pat Crowe
Crowe
Liberty
Six Miners Killed in Dayton Collision
Six white miners returning from the Dayton Coal and Iron Company mines were killed in a wreck involving coke cars and two freight cars near Dayton Tennessee on May 21. The deceased were John Teels Daly Green James Tower Elijah Huff Tom Jarmoen and Bert Best.
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Dayton, Tenn
Dayton
Dayton Coal and Iron Company
John Teels
Daly Green
James Tower
Elijah Huff
Tom Jarmoen
Bert Best
Hargis Case Argued in Jackson Murder Trial
In Lexington Kentucky Judge James Hargis faced arguments today in the assassination case of James Cockrill at Jackson Breathitt County on July 21, 1902. The trial judge indicated the jury may hear the case tomorrow.
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Lexington
James Hargis
James Cockrill
Jackson
Breathitt
John Q Underhill Dead Former Congress Man
John Q Underhill aged fifty nine formerly a Representative from New York State died at his New Rochelle home today He was a vice president of Westchester Fire Insurance Com
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Congress
New York State
New York
John Q. Underhill
New Rochelle
Westchester Fire Insurance Com
President to tour Mississippi with Inland Waterways Commission
Invitations flood the White House as the President plans a four stop river trip along the Mississippi with the Inland Waterways Commission. He will embark at Keokuk Iowa on October 1 and speak at Memphis on October 5 before returning to Washington by rail. Stops include St Louis Cairo and Memphis with possible additional invitations from Quincy Nashville Vicksburg New Orleans Paducah and Chicago.
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St. Louis
Cairo
Memphis
Washington
Quincy
di Nashville
Tenn
Vicksburg
Miss
New Orléans
Paducah
Ohio
Chicago
Forty Injured in Trolley Car and Train Collision
Special to The Washington Post reports forty Brooklyn residents were injured when a trolley car collided with an electric train at the West End division eighty sixth street crossing in Bath Beach New York at 9 o'clock. Four or five may be fatally harmed as emergency hospitals and nearby shops became makeshift care locations. Ambulances ferried the injured to Norwegian Coney Island Seney and Wings counties hospitals as firemen and medical staff worked through the night.
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New York
Eighty-Sixth -Street
West End
Brooklyn Transit
Bath Beach
Coney Island
Seney
Wings
Highty-seventh Street
Brooklyn
Parisian Sleuths Find Sidney Smith's Theft Tale Faulty
Paris police judge that New Yorker Sidney Smith was duped by his valet George Collins alias Bevington who boasted of recovering $10000 in stolen goods. Collins arrived in Paris in Kaiser Wilhelm II’s wake and now faces questions at Sante Prison as investigators doubt the treasure’s location. Police suspect Collins squandered cash and gave jewelry to a woman who likely fractured it to avoid identification.
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Washington Post
Paris
Sidney Smith
New York
Atlantic
Smith
George Collins
Bevington
Collins
Cherbourg
Procurer de la Republique
Sante
Mr. Smith
Chebourg
Author in Poor House. Ward claims half of Ben Hur and plans new novel
James Barton Ward eighty seven year old Oregon pioneer and half brother of Gen Lew Wallace is admitted to the county poor house after deeded property near Oregon City to the McLaughlin Institute Ward says he wrote the first half of Ben Hur and once served as secretary of the American legation at Egypt for twelve years He has a new book The Jew and the Gentile due by mid July and another work in press titled The Star of Bethlehem which public reception was cold
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Washington Post
Portland
Oreg
James Barton Ward
Lew Wallace
Oregon
Poor House
Ward
Oregon City
McLaughlin Institute
County Poor House
Old Naval Man Dead in Brooklyn at Ninety Four
Lars Larsen a sailor in the old United States Navy died of old age in Brooklyn on Monday at 237 Fifty third street He was ninety four and served on many wartime ships including the Constitution Brandywine Ohio John Quincy Adams North Carolina Vermont and Minnesota He boasted twenty three years of service and that he completed each term with an honorable discharge.
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Washington Post
New York
Lars Larsen
United States
Brooklyn
Fifty-third
Larsen
Constitution
Ohio
John Quincy Adams
North Carolina
Vermont
Minnesota
Fifty Years for Knowles at Fort Reno
San Antonio May 1 The fifty years at hard labor for Corp. E. L. Knowles Twenty-fifth Infantry was approved by Gen Albert L Mayer commander of the Department of Texas The court found Knowles guilty on two specifications assault and battery with intent to kill and assault with intent to rob The sentence is two years less than the maximum penalty.
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San Antonio
Tex
Corp
E. L. Knowles
Edgar A. Macklin
Fort Reno
Ohio
Albert L. Mayer
Department of Texas
Knowles
Assault charge shocks city as teen boy identified
Walter Boyce, seventeen, of 18 Fatreet northeast, arrested by Second precinct for assaulting Margaret Lewis, fifteen, near Second Street northeast. He confessed to earlier assault on Carrie Leavell near Twelfth Street and Rhode Island Avenue. Hearing scheduled in malice court this morning after detention.
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Walter Boyce
Margaret Lewis
Second
Bogge
Yeater
Emory Public
Third
Boyce
Boy
Carrie Leavell
Twelfth Street
Rhode Island Avenue
Monument is marked for Fly the firehouse dog
In New York City a small mound and headstone mark the grave of Fly the fire engine No 1 pet dog. The inscription notes the dog died saving others after being struck by the engine on April 26 1907. Two women residents seek permission to place flowers and decorate the grave on Decoration Day.
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New York
Fire Engine No. 1
Clymer Street
Bedford Avenue
Fly
John Howe
Mutual Life Trustee Higinbotham Quits Board
Harlow N Higinbotham of Chicago resigns as trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance Co of New York. In a letter to secretary William F Dix he cites Albany clashes between the governor and senate, and delays in state regulation, as reasons for stepping down effective immediately.
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Chicago
Harlow “N. Higinbotham
Mutual Life Insurance Company
New York
William F. Dix
Higinbotham
Albany
Senate
Fatality in Buffalo and Cleveland wreck near Little Falls
A westbound New York City bound Buffalo and Cleveland special wrecked just outside Little Falls New York on the New York Central at 1 33 a m today. One man was killed baggage man Isaac Finley of New York or Rochester. Two were critically injured including Matthew Maher Syracuse fireman and Engineer John Hyde Rensselaer. Other injured were Albert May Syracuse brakeman Mrs B W Folger Toronto and William Allsburg New York City with minor injuries or burns.
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Little Falls
N. Y
Buffalo
Cleveland
New York City
New York Central
Isaac Finley
New York
Rochester
Matthew Maher
Syracuse
John Hyde
Renssalear
Albert May
B. W. Folger
Toronto
William Allsburg
Burnham Trial Postponed in New York Court
In New York on May 27 the Burnham forgery and grand larceny trial was postponed due to illness denying the defendant Frederick A. Burnham, president of Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company, the right to appear. Justice Greenbaum postponed without date, with autumn as a likely resumption.
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New York
Frederick A. Burnham
Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company
Greenbaum
Supreme Court
Record Prices for Coins at Appleton Stamm Sale
The Washington Post reports record bids by prominent collectors across the United States and Canada at a two day Appleton Stamm coin sale. A New Yorker paid 200 for an 1806 quarter eagle variant with six stars before and seven after. Other results include 1876 $3 gold piece at 135, 1873 $3 gold piece at 87.50, Bechtler 1834 private $5 at 40, Mary 1553 sovereign at 31, Elizabeth sovereign at 41, English silver pound at 65, and a Queen Victoria 1833 proof set at 74. In all seventy four Tata were sold totaling 1 108.
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Bechtler
North Carolina
Elizabeth
Queen Victoria
Weather conditions and river bulletin May 21
Weather guidance from the Weather Bureau reports cool near the Upper Mississippi Valley and across the East with widespread frosts in the Lake region and parts of the Middle Atlantic. Showers occur in the Northwest and Central Rockies with warmer eastern regions. Local data include temperatures from 49 to 60 and a river bulletin for Harpers Ferry noting clear rivers.
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Ceat. of Agriculture
Weather Bureau
Washington
Upper
Mississippi Valley
Lake Region
Ohio Valley
Middle Atlantic States
New England
South Atlantic States
Northwest
Pacific States
Mississippi
Nebraska
Dakotas
Montana
Rocky Mountain
Utah
Missouri
Upper Mississippi
Upper Lake Region
Atlantic
Pacific Coast
Middle Atlantic
South Atlantic
Gulf Coast
Upper Lakes
Superior
European
Grand Banks
Washington Post
Harpers Ferry
W. Va
Tragic Filicide Suicide in St Louis Household
In St Louis on May 21 Henry Hahn aged sixty five shot and killed his mother Mrs Peter Brenen eighty five then shot himself. He died tonight in the aftermath of the double tragedy.
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Tills
St. Louis
Henry Hahn
Peter Brenen
Rich Woman Charged with Killing Girl Granted Change of Venue
In Sioux Falls South Dakota May 12 1 9 Judge Smith of the Circuit Court granted a change of venue in the case against Mrs Emma Kauffman charged with murdering her servant girl The judge set the trial for Moody County at Flandreau on June 4 before the Circuit Court
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Sioux Falls
S. Cak
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Neill Wo Dumont
George Oyster
Botha J. Laws
Albert K Muhleman
Tata
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Compan
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Eastern High School
Western Hush Seneal
Victors
Western Twigs School
Mary
Paterson Locomotive Works
Niewspaper
Hargis
Ciites
Ben-Hur
Macklin
Panama
Lansburgh&Bro
Seventh St
Othe
Wigtor
Sangers & Stayman
Peter Grogan
Probey
Probey Carriage CO
B. C
Umbrella Top
Mutual Trustee
Burnham
Tharp
Berkeley Rye
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N. Cc
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Cuy
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Tah
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Mino A
Springfield
M'se
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Sloan’s
G Street
Taylor & Dean
Pittsburg, PA
John Wedderburn Co
Main
Fost
Washington, Ao. c
A. F. Bornet & Bro
N.W
Funds For Foreign Travel
American Security and Trust Company
Fifteenth and
Pennsylvania Ave
Ebbard
Gageo
E. Hebbard
Ninth Street
Nelson Refrigerator Co
F Street
N. W
Christian Xander
O'Donnell's
ST. N.W
Floes
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