Bronx murder mystery grips New York readers
The District is tracking coal wagon driver Joseph Girard as a key suspect in the Gussie Pfeiffer case. Investigators probe a bloody hand bite claim and trace Pfeiffer from her boarding house to the Pelham road vicinity while Girard vanishes amid conflicting evidence and rumors of a drugging incident.
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Brial
Washington Post
New York
Bronx
Joseph Girard
Gussie Pfeffer
Pelham Road
Gussie
McEssary
Felham Trail
Buehler
Lois
Mos Mivert Kienur
Urak Jq
Pfeiffer
Chaid
Jo- Sup Girard
Puente
Livy
Jay Aolise
Flencer
Tie
Tims Silice
Bias Mallen
Avzard
Jom
West Chester
Girard G
Ine Maten
Klener
Licensed to Marry in Say Bure and Baltimore Regions
A garbled list of marriage intentions states Elphanna Tolver and Mary Green Alls Gra with Dura L Henderson of Say Bure County and Fred Bernard with Saran Green. It mentions couples in Baltimore and other cities, including Trenton and Columbia, with scattered names and fragments of notices. The text ends with a September 18, 1905 time reference and a hospital emer gency notice.
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Elphanna Tolver
Mary Green
Gra
Aid Dura L Henderson
Say Bure County
Fred Bernard
Saran Green
Franz Carrol
Kya Janey Casrled J Fisher
Altice Gill
Charles L. Holler
Agnes S. Francia
Baltimore
John E. McFarland
Ida V Bevans
Benny Turner
Emma Jones
Wile H Waring
Hellen Webb
William H Wright
Trenton
Lola Brackley
Columbia
Peter Brooks
Nettie Crawford
Alley Patrick
Elmina James
James J. Butler
Mary H Webb
Oxon Mel
John Johnson
Ada Tibbs
Aaron Wilson
Nettia Dixon
James J. Kirkland
New York City
Es.eile BM. Marshall
Vienna
John Brrigo
Emelte Spadaro
Kerman T. Harris
Lou R. Matley
Health Office Record Deaths Reported Through September 18
Health office record lists numerous deaths with names and addresses including Bently Allen Garfield Hospital 4 years Marle Duckett 418 Hichard won 3 months Frederick Emig Ep is throat and Bar Hoop 8 years Francis Jackson 1249 26th st ow 5 years Mary L. Johnson 706 7th st ne 73 years William H Locklear 1716 st ave 5 days Menla Stack Casualty Hospital 63 years Philip Thomas 2035 36th st 2 1 month Richard Toor 359 Dixons ot aw 1 year Hester Tuchaoa 218th st aw 64 years Eva D Welter Garfield Hospital 24 years Hattie Wilking 1755 Bth st aw 13 months Infant of Burma Young 704 éth et aw 80 min.
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Bently Allen
Garfield Hospital
Marle Duckett
Hichard
Frederick O Emig
Francis Jackson
26Th St
Mary L. Johnson
7Th St Ne
Richard To
Dixons
Hester Tuchaoa
Eva D Welter
Hattie Wilking
Burma
Young
Deputy Assassin Target Shocks Frostburg Maryland
West Virginia born deputy McClain, armed by Gov Warfield at Consolidation Coal request, narrowly escaped an assassination in Frostburg Maryland. Gunman fled. children nearby unharmed but McClain wounded in the hand. UMW protests against four deputies including three nonresidents. Large meeting of 2,000 called yesterday amid coal region tensions and threats of a strike if deputies remain.
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Washington Post
Frostburg
R. L. MccLain
West Virginia
Warfield
Consolidation Coal Company
Porter Boarding House
Canter Street
McLain
United Mine Workers
Mov
Pirates Fly Black Flag Off Chicago Yacht Club
A sailing craft faced off against Douglas Yacht Club members near Thirty-third Street Chicago with a black flag and armed crew. After a half-hour chase and hand-to-hand clashes, police arrived as the pirates fled in a yawl. Officers suspect youthful burglars from south of Hyde Park, long sought for robberies.
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Chicago
Rept. Is
Thirty-third Street
Douglas
Chub
Yacht Club
Hyde Park
Farewell to Consul Given a Silver Loving Cup
Berlin September 18 A farewell dinner in Berlin under the American Association of Commerce and Trade honored retiring American consul general Frank H. Mason who will be succeeded by John K. Gowdy as consul general in Paris. Ambassador Charlemagne Tower and Privy Councillor Goldberger spoke about U S Germany ties and urged reciprocity to ease tariff tensions amid a strong bid for continued commercial harmony. The event reflected shared interests and hopes for a fair, mutually beneficial trade relationship without disrupting decades of peaceful cooperation.
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Berlin
American Association of Commerce and Trade
Berln
Mason
F. Heasenberg
Charlemagne Tower
Roosevelt
William
von Koerner
Department of Foreign Commerce
Foreign Office
Germany
United States
Goldberger
Herr Goldberger
McKinley
Ambassador Tower
Mason J
British Prisoner Free After Shanghai Custody Dispute
Shanghai reports the British vice consul Wei secured release of a Chinese-descent British railroad employee tortured by a Quinsan magistrate. Wei traveled to Quinsan last Friday, and returned with the freed prisoner who was held by Chinese authorities. The magistrate responsible for the torture was subsequently imprisoned.
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Shanghai
Wei
Quinsan
Shanghai-Hankow
Chaffee Entertained at Paris by French War Minister
Paris Sept 18 Minister of War Berteaux and Mme Berteaux hosted lunch for Lieut Gen Adna F. Chaffee and party. The American party included officers and officials as guests of state during the visit to the French capital.
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Paris
Berteaux
Mme
Adna
Chaf
French American military reception decorates ministry of war
Brig. Gen J Franklin Bell Brig Gen William Crozier and their wives and staffs at the ministry of war were guests of honor in a handsomely decorated hall. A representative of President Loubet cabinet ministers officers ambassadors and army navy officials attended. The band of the Republican Guard played music and exchanges of amenities occurred between French and American officers and officials.
King reviews muster of Scots volunteers at Edinburgh
King Edward and a royal party witnessed nearly 40 000 Scotch volunteers pass in review at Kings Park Edinburgh before Holyrood Palace. Sir Thomas Lipton, honorary colonel of the Second Lanarkshire Engineers, was thrown from his horse during the march past but sustained only minor facial injuries.
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Flodden
Edward
Holyrood Palace
Duke of Connaught
Kings Park
England
War Office
Thomas Lipton
Second Lanarkshire Engineer
Thomas
Packers Attack Indictment Grounds in Illinois Jury Case
Seventeen meat packers and others indicted in a federal grand jury case attack the juror impaneling and service claims. They argue the jury was drawn before redistricting and that John Murray was improperly served, with stenographer presence and note writing cited as grounds. Aimed at Northern and Eastern divisions of Illinois, the plea was filed after a long conference.
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Chicago
Preas
John Murray
Illinois
B. Morrison
John 8. Miller
Packers
Kankakee County
Murray
Murr
Oldest Shoe Drummer B Reed Dies in Brooklyn
Funeral services were held for B Reed, oldest shoe drummer in the United States, at his Brooklyn home. Reed, who began as a traveling salesman in the 1840s, was part of a family named alphabetically by an eccentric father who stopped at M. Survived by a sister C and a brother D, Reed died at eighty five.
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Washington Post
New York
B Reed
United States
Willoughby Avenue
Brooklyn
Reed
Slater
Edwin
George
Mr. Reed
Masked robbers blast safe in Amboy N J heist
Four masked men storm the Amboy division office of the Public Service Corporation in Perth Amboy New Jersey early today bound gagged the watchman and blew open the safe taking more than 3600. The crime is described as the boldest in years as police hunt the experts behind the daring job. The watchman, a married man, was nearly suffocated before a breathing hole was cut in the bag. A passing officer saw four men fleeing but captured none.
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Perth Amboy
N. J
Bechtel Pleads Guilty to Arson in Drug Store Fire
Ohio business man Dr Hi mer B Bechtel of Lodi Ohio has pleaded guilty to arson and received a one year sentence in the Ohio penitentiary. Indicted on testimony of a former salesman who reported several suspicious fires while employed for Bechtel in North Baltimore. Bechtel allegedly set fire to drug stock owned there by him and his deceased brother.
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Ohio
Bowling Green
Chile
Himer B
Bechtel
Lodi
Baltimore
Explosion Death Roll Grows in Avon Fire
The Avon Connecticut explosion death toll at the Climax Fuse Company works has risen to thirteen. Michael Canfield aged fifty and Mrs Tada Wild twenty died since Saturday. Four other injured remain in critical condition as of today.
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Avon, Conn
Climax Fuse Company
Michael Canfield
Tada Wild
The Walls of Jericho At National Theatre Review
Mr James K Hackett stars in Alfred Sutro’s Australian set drama The Walls of Jericho at the National. The play follows Jack Frobisher a wealthy Queenslander returning to England to cleanse a corrupt circle led by the Marquis de Steventon and Lady Althea. Strong support from W J Ferguson Miss Mannering and William K Harcourt frames a nuanced performance arc.
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James K. Hackett
Jericho
la Mancha
National
Alfred Sutro
London
Althea
Marquis de Steventon
Harry Dallas
Frobisher
Marquis
Lord Drayton
Australia
Dudgeon
Dallas
England
Aithea
Tondon
Mr. Heckett
W. J. Ferguson
Marquis de Steverton
Mr. Ferguson
William K. Harcourt
Bannister
Lady Westerby
Mra Dellenbaugh
Lady Lacy Dereham
May Blayney
Mids
Owen Baxter
Bertram Hannaford
Fred. F. Schrader
Swamp Root Offer Promises Free Sample Bottles
An advertisement touts Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a cure for kidney liver and bladder troubles and offers a free sample bottle and pamphlet by mail to readers who mention the Washington Daily Post. The nearby theater review compliments a Washington production of Woodland at the Columbia Theatre praising its music, cast and staging.
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Dr. Kilmer
The Inspector from Kansas and Holmes at Lafayette Square
A two part theatre note praises Chase's vaudeville sketch The Inspector from Kansas with Olive May and J W Albaugh Jr for bright comedy and skilled performances. It also reviews Errol Dunbar as Sherlock Holmes at the Lafayette Square Opera House, lauding his faithful portrayal, strong support, and the dramatic company’s handling of the melodramatic thriller.
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Kansas
J. W. Albaugh, Jr
Olive May
Chase's
Francis Taylor
Inspector
Mr. Albaugh
E. K. Spalding
Alexandre Mirret
Adolf Glosa
Pierne
Suwanee River
Sophie Burnham
Kentucky Mafia
Nick Long
Idalene Cotton
Miss Cotton
Clifton
Cain
Errol Dunbar
Eee Holmes
Lafayette Square Opera House
William Gillett
Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes
Lafayette
Dunbar
Faulkner
Holmes
Charles J. Edmunds
Morarity
Harry Dickeson
Forman
Joseph Allenton
Santley stars in A Runaway Boy at the Academy of Music
Joseph Santley headlined A Runaway Boy at the Academy of Music last night with Ma thilde Weffing as Madge Larrabee and Leora Spellman as Alice Faulkner. The circus third act wowed the crowd as Harry Reynolds flees his miserly uncle while outwitting foes to inherit a fortune. The production features realistic barn and circus scenes and strong supporting turns from Burr Carruth Pearl KE Abbott and Frederick R Seaisa.
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Sid Prince
Owen Martin
Billy
Mathilde Weffing
Adventuress
Madge Larrabee
Distinctive
Leora Spellman
Alice Faulkner
Holmes
Joseph Santley
Academy of Music
Hin~ Doo
Harry
Burr Carruth
Pearl KE
Abbott
Frederick R. Seaisaae
Reilly and Wood's Burlesque at the Lyceum
Reilly and Wood's Burlesque Company plays Kernan's Lyceum Theater this week. The veteran troupe fills the house with Pat Reilly and fellow comedians in a program of farce songs dances and vaudeville sketches including Simon Simple and Simple Simon the Golden Ballet and a raucous afterpiece titled A Hot Time at Reilly's.
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Reilly
Wood
Kernans Lyceum
Pat Reilly
Simon
Mr Fern
Ira Messner
Kennedy
Vans
Revere Ristera
Golden Ballet
Reno
Smith
Rice
Prevost
Frank Orth
Harry 8S
Fern
Reilly's
Exchange of parasites for moth warfare between Europe and America
Boston Sept 18 Dr L O Howard returned to Boston after a European trip to collect and ship parasites to suppress Gypsy and brown tail moths He announced an agreement in which Europe will ship the needed insects to the United States in exchange for American parasites required abroad.
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America
Boston
L. O. Howard
Europe
Massachusetts
Toledo Man Confesses to Forging Checks in Hotel Fraud
William Hunter, arrested in Detroit on a visit, was brought to Toledo on charges of defrauding a hotel. He confessed to forging checks drawn on his father, a prominent businessman. The case ties to alleged complicity in Denver election frauds.
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Toledo
Unio
Willam Hunter
Detroit
Denver
Hunter
Color Line in Chicago Faces Race Saloon Ban by Detectives
Special to The Washington Post Chicago reports a raid in the Black Belt where detectives led by Dodd barred white men and women from Negro saloons and banned racial mingling. Proprietor Pony Moore, a long time First Ward power, runs a large saloon, restaurant, gambling house, and hotel implicated in the edict.
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Black Belt
Washington Post
Chicago
Re Levee
Collins
Pony Moore
Detectre Dodd
Moore
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Stern
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Harned
Klener Menage
Dillon
Girurg
Lis
Pelham Woods
J. Corridon Jones
Health Office Record
NEW York Times
Boston Globe
Buffalo Courier
Cincinnnati
Enquirer
Chicago Record-Herald
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Pittsburg Dispatch
Providence Journal
Rochester Herald
PI Louis Republic
Syraclee Post-Standard
BT Paul Pioneer-Press
Minneapolis Tribune
Cloveland Flain Dealer
Undertakers
W. R. Speare
F Street
N. W
William Lee
Malin
John R. Wright CO
Tanera Srectara
Cmbalmers
Tz Son Rertion
Algat
George P. Zurhorst
Lndlataker
Emdalmer
East Capitol Mt
Maryland
F. H. Mason
American Association
Privy
Chaffee
Sauterne
Sentara
Tokalon Wine CO
Fhone Main
Sir Thomas
Mary Mannering
Wall of Jericho
Woodland
Washington
Harry Bulger
Blue Jay
Masons
Mr. Bulger
Sherman Wade
Gen. Rooster
Mr. Wade
Louis Casavant
Judge Owl
John Donahue
Mattie Nichols
Madge Dahl
Bertyne Mortimer
Evangeline Fallon
Helen Male
Greta Risly
Walter Lawrence
Chestnut Farms
Health Department
Massachusetts Avenue
Newcorn & Green
Color Line
Cretic
Naples
L'Aquitaine
Savre
Zeeland
Statendam
Rotterdam
Kronpring Wilhelm
Bremen
Sournambton
Cheebourg
Slasconsett
Mars
Friedrich der Grosse
Cherbourg
Nantucket Shoas
Dover
Hamburg
Isie_of Wight
Pasued _ bunnehaha
Vaderland
Dever
Antwerp
Morton c. Stout Tailors
Newsea Predinctive
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