Boy's Hold Up Fails as Desperate Bank Raid Fails
Seventeen year old John W Morgan of California admits planning to rob a Maryland town bank after employment denial. He enters the counting room with a false face and revolver, but is captured by a posse following a pursuit through Laurel and nearby streets. He is arraigned and sent to hospital, cooperating with investigators and offering apologies for the attempted crime.
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Notable pursuit ends with mistaken arrest in Laurel incident
Residents recount a street chase when a man fled toward the railroad and barn, aided by a phantom alarm of an automobile accident. The pursued was later mistaken for a sergeant, detained briefly, and freed as townsfolk gathered amid rumors of showguns and revolvers in Laurel after the Morgan capture.
Lincoln memorial sites chosen for final selection
In Sept, Lincoln memorial commission narrows sites to three options near North Capitol Street, Sixteenth Street, and Potomac Park. President Taft chairs the panel. John Pope prepares designs for the Sixteenth Street and Soldiers Home sites while Henry Bacon works on Potomac Park plans. Congress has appropriated 32,000 for plans and preliminary work.
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Taft Reveals Six Sites Left For Memorial Location
A letter to Col Cosby discloses the first news of the decision on memorial placement. President Taft instructs drawings for a potential site at Mendian Hill and for the Nene Soldiers Home. The Potomac Park architect is at work while site selection proceeds.
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Mendian Hill
Nene Soldiers
Potomac Park
Fire Threatened Magazine On Ship From Spontaneous Coal Heat
Fire aboard the ship Han was caused by spontaneous combustion of wet coal stored since July. The blaze smoldered for days near the magazine forcing evacuation and delaying operations. Crew of over 300 battled flames, cooled hot steel plates, and kept water streams on deck as authorities investigated origin.
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New York
Chavers
Han
Monument site choices spark debate on Lincoln memorial road
The article notes confusion with memorials and contemplates placing a monument on the Lincoln Memorial road between Washington and Gettysburg where Lincoln delivered a famous address. President Taft and the Commission members toured sites, leading to three sites being chosen. Architect Pope, renowned in Washington, designed plans for numerous major buildings including the large Scottish Rite building under construction.
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Lincoln Memorial Road
Washington
Gettysburg
Sincoln
Taft
Heverly
Pope
La Follette Attacks Taft as Bitter foe of Progressives
In a Washington Post Milwaukee editorial lauding Taft’s stance, La Follette argues Taft became president by promising progressivism but aligned with big interests. He criticizes Taft for dismissing Pinchot and siding with Ballinger, Hammonds, Guggenheims, and other business satellites, abandoning Roosevelt conservation policies.
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Pinchot
Ballinger
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Guggenhemms
Roosevelt
German Troops Near France Reported By La Liberte
Pans says Germany concentrates troops near the French border in a triangle between Moncel Vic and Dieuze with 6 infantry 10 cavalry and 15 guns. Forces arrayed opposite Nancy. Madrid notes 3000 troops with ships sail to Melilla amid Moorish attacks.
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Morocco
Powdered explosive touted as safe and powerful
B B Wright once Harvard chemistry professor announces a new powder claimed to be three times as powerful as dynamite yet safe for children. He demonstrates by lighting two ounces on cardboard with a strike, which flames but does not explode, and asserts it resists heat, anvil hammering, and rapid-fire testing without detonation.
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Washington Post
Iniudge
Mass Pot
B. B. Wright
Harvard
Wright
Mr. Wright
Slayer Has Self Indicted In Wickborn Homicide Case
George Golden of Wickborn Pa a wealthy shoe merchant is indicted by a grand jury for homicide in the July 18 killing of his wife at their Wickborn home. He says he mistook her for a burglar and was released on bonds to await trial. The coroner previously exonerated him and a brother’s later petition led to arrest but release on habeas corpus. He now seeks a jury trial to clear his name.
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Tracy Moocan
Fernia
Daly Tie
Wasigen
Wasi Pagten
Henry Jackson
Yuma Anis
Walter Fred
Vace
Washington
Tre
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Kittanning. Pa
George Golden
Wickborn Pa
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Golden
Wickbors
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Coly
Wengenburg
Paul Beattie
Ned
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Funeral at morgue draws crowds at Bellevue Hospital
The body of George Mandel, a waterman, recovered Tuesday from the Harlem River off 85th street, was buried today. He fell from a pier and a band from the ilebenbach Society, once his membership, led thousands outside the morgue as morgue attendants recalled an unprecedented scene.
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New York
George Mandel
Harlem River
85Th Street
Sv Pieres
Ilebenbach Society
Bellevue Hospital
Albert Goldie
Wall Collapse in Nice Kills Eleven, Injures Nineteen
A restaurant linked to the Elderady theater in Nice collapsed this morning, burying workers. By nightfall eleven dead and nineteen injured were recovered, with fears others remain beneath the rubble. Train prices show regional routes from Baltimore area stations.
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Nice
France
Elderady
Astor Wedding Plans Reported At Newport
Beochwood hosts John Jacob Astor and Madeleine Force for a Newport ceremony at 10 am. Rev. Edwin S Straight, Providence carpenter and former spiritualist minister, says he will wed them. Comstock arranged talks with Straight after lengthy searches and jurisdiction questions surface in Rhode Island marriage law.
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Washington Post
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Asdur
Europe
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Madeleine T. Force
Warren
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Rhode Island
Richard B. Comstock
Comstock & Uanning
Mr. Straight
Camstock
Dodge Street
Seven Officials Accused of Bribery
A report lists seven officials accused of bribery following a wedding today. Details on charges and potential implications for local governance are noted as the case widens.
Higgins Placed Under Care After Nervous Breakdown
New London Conn Sept 4 report says Representative Edward W Higgins is seriously ill at his summer home Masgapoag on the Thames. Physicians attribute the condition to a general nervous breakdown caused by his congressional duties.
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Conn
Edward W. Higgins
Masgapoag
the Thames
Mr. Higgins
Cannon to Run Again Flatfooted for Taft
Former Speaker Cannon announces candidacy in the Eighteenth district. He attacks insurgents and progressives, pledges renomination on his Republican record, and backs President Taft. He criticizes Democrats for tariff bills passed "for campaign purposes exclusively," saying the vetoes protected party unity and avoided economic unrest.
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Washington Post
Danville
Cannon
Congress
Taft
Republican Party
Talking in Sleep Unmasks Escaped Convict in Oklahoma City
Walter Klanuiten, alias Jack Rogers, confessed in sleep to being an escaped convict from Huntsville Texas five years ago. He lived in Oklahoma City two years, married a year ago, and recently slept at a neighbor’s house where he spoke of his convict past. Police arrested him after the confession and he was identified by a crippled hand. he had shot two guards on his escape and lost fingers on one hand.
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E. P. King
Rlpde Island
Straight
Astor
Providence
Mr. Straight
Warren Church
John Champlin
Straight & Champlin
Charles H. Plummer
Oklahoma City
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Walter Klanuiten
Ile
Huntsville
Tex
Jacl Rogers
Hamilton
Beattie Guilty of Murder in Virginia Courtroom
In a dramatic verdict twelve jurors found Young Beattie guilty of killing his wife Louise Owen Beattie with a shotgun on the Midlothian turnpike. Judge Watson sentenced him to death by electricity on November 24, with a likely appeal for a writ of error. The court heard eleven days of testimony detailing the crime and Beattie’s alleged motive of infidelity.
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Chesterfield
Virginia
Henry Jay Beattie, Jr
Denness
Midlothian Turnpike
Louise Owen Beattie
Watson
Court of Appeals
Beattie
Indictments in New York Tie to Global Jewel Smuggling Ring
The article reports the indictment of Nathan Allen and Colbn RK Collins for smuggling the Jenkins jewels as part of a broader customs fraud probe. A wealthier banker tied to the case faces federal scrutiny, with offices abroad and alleged nonresidence status. Allen and Collins must appear in court within three days per US district attorney orders amid a sprawling international scam involving gem dealers and junior customs staff. Jones 27th Aunus Furniture Sale.
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Colbn RK. Collins
Jenkins
Sears
United States
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