Taft Urges Peace Turks Appeal To Powers
United States urges intervention to halt hostilities as parley talks loom. Rome reports Rome and London advise mediation with Germany pushing for settlement. News from Constantinople says Said Pasha may resign and Kiamil Pasha could become grand vizier as Turks seek peace amid Italian advances in Tripoli.
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Bombardment of Tripoli Triggers Arab Notables Plea to Cease Fire
War dispatch from Tunisian coast reports Italian fleet fire on Tripoli fortifications beginning at 3 pm. Forts Hamidia and Sultanie destroyed as Admiral Favarelli leads bombardment. Arab notables beg commander to halt as Turkish troops retreat. American Consul Wood helps avert panic.
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Defies Law As Airwomen Flew Sunday in Nassau Field
Special to The Washington Post recounts Nassau County Sheriff Charles De Mott and three deputies attempting to arrest Miss Mathilde Moisant as she defied a Sunday flying ban. In a sequence of swift maneuvers, Moisant steered her Moisant monoplane above the field, eluding officers, then hopped to her brother Alfred Moisant’s car amid a growing scramble. The scene shifted to Mineola and Hempstead as more air enthusiasts joined, with deputies reporting blows and crowd resistance while Moisant and entourage continued their escape attempts.
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Miss Moisant Defies Sunday Flight Arrest Warrant
Miss Moisant and two aviators ignore orders to arrest anyone flying Sunday. Deputies demand warrants, but the aviators flee. Justice Gittena of Hempstead refuses to issue a warrant, deeming flying Sunday no worse than driving on land.
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Pastor Bruen and Miss Shannon Feared Drowned Ford River
Special to The Washington Post from Cumberland Maryland Oct 8 191? The Rev Mr Bruen pastor of the Springfeld Presbyterian Church West Virginia and Miss Sallie Shannon Romney West Virginia are believed drowned in the South Branch of the Potomac River after attempting to ford it on the way to Springfield to preach. Bruen about 23 Shannon 18. Their families had arranged for lodging. News reached Romney after they failed to return.
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Skull Breaks Mule's Leg In Odd Dual Incidents
Special to The Washington Post from Philadelphia reports two bizarre events. Henry Lewis, a colored man, fought over a woman and was shot in the arm. the bullet struck flesh then fell to the floor, and he was treated at a hospital before returning home. In a separate accident William Pitten, a nervous man, was knocked by a mule while harnessing it, fracturing the mule's leg and leaving Pitten needing hospital care for scalp wounds. The mule died after being shot.
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Plan to kill wife pass suicide attempt ends in gunfire
Arthur D Newton attempted to kill his wife and himself. While restraining her with a arm around her neck he fired a revolver under his pillow. The bullet travelled through his head and killed him but missed his wife. The wife was unharmed.
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Cole
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President Taft climbs Mount Ranier trip from Tacoma
President Taft traveled by automobile from Tacoma to the Blacter fields of Mount Ranier on a mountain climbing tour. He toured through Chop valley, viewed a snow covered peak, and visited Reece's camp seven miles up the road. A snowball fight occurred as the party proceeded toward Ashford where the train waited.
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Mesh bag poisons girl in New Jersey visit
Miss Beatrice MacConnell daughter of William MacConnell a city business man, is treated for blood poisoning believed caused by handling a mesh handbag. She squeezed a fever blister on her lip after holding the bag, then worsened during a Cincinnati visit. Doctors expect recovery.
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Nuns Save 300 Girls In Wheeling Fire At Good Shepherd
A fire at the Good Shepherd Home in Wheeling West Virginia endangered 300 girls. Nuns and priests led evacuations as watchmen guided students down stairs and across the lawn. Several upper dormitory girls jumped to safety with blankets. no deaths, some injuries from smoke or jumps.
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Dog with peg leg runs for owner in Missouri
Roy Chamberlain in Fulton creates an artificial leg for his dog Shep after losing a leg. The dog uses the prosthesis to set a new home running record and returns each night to remove the leg without distress aside from occasional irritation when scratching his stump.
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Black Hand Man Benedetto Captured Near Messina
A Rome cable to the New York World reports Benedetto, a notorious Black Hand member wanted in Cleveland, for killing a police officer during a tailor strike, was arrested near Messina after the American embassy and Sicilian police traced him to a woodland hiding spot.
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Man Falls to Death at Harlem Prayer Meeting
In New York on October 8 a man identified as Morris Greenwald, 45, leaped from a sixth story hotel window during an outdoor prayer gathering. The suicide was reportedly due to a love affair disappointment as onlookers witnessed the fatal fall directly in front of them.
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Taft Aims to End War and Tripoli Bombardment Tale
A compact news brief highlights former President Taft seeking end to hostilities, recounts the Tripoli bombardment story, notes aero pioneer Misa Moisant defying arrest, and references German restrictions and public unrest. It mentions naval notes, street crime, and civic reform efforts amid a flux of 1922 events.
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Entomologist Massine Missing From Washington Home
Alfred G. Massine 55, a government entomologist, disappeared Friday night from 116 C Street NW. Police in all major cities asked to search. He is described as diminutive, gray-haired, with a broken accent and six languages. A strange man rumored foul play appeared at the Massine residence Saturday. Massine had worked on entomology and government settlement tasks.
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DROWNING OF ABORN OPERA MEMBER IN DELAWARE RIVER
Henry M. Karr 19 of Brooklyn drowned in the Delaware River at Easton while rowing with the Bogemian Girl troupe of the Aborn Opera Company. The boat upset on a submerged crib near a pier. Karr, unable to swim, attempted to save a girl and disappeared beneath the water. He had traveled here with the company for a performance the following evening.
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Peru Demands Satisfaction After Attack on Legation
Lima, Oct 8. In response to a recent attack on the Peruvian legation in Bogota, Peru’s foreign minister ordered a protest note to Colombia seeking satisfaction. Officials fear possible conflict after a mob stoned the building and removed the coat of arms, marking a second strike linked to disputes over territory claimed by Colombia.
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Poison Kills After Twelve Years Doctor Dies in Ohio
Springfield Ohio October 8 Dr Ell Myere dies at home of uremic coma after twelve years of illness following a demonstration with a dead body. He had used heat therapy and advanced science in vain and was a widely known lecturer across the United States and abroad on embalming.
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Battle for 1912 Nominees Roars Across the Nation
A Washington dispatch to the Herald outlines the looming 1912 presidential contest. It cites Taft, Wilson, Clark, La Follette, Marshall, Harmon and others as likely contenders, with Bryan still influential but not an active candidate. Republicans and Democrats alike mobilize, with insurgent forces and party factions shaping convention stakes nationwide.
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