Miners in Pittsburg threaten general strike over wage pact
About 14,000 miners in the Pittsburg district face a possible general strike after union president Francis Feehan warned the Pittsburg Coal company that the wage agreement is being violated by employers. The company replies the alleged violations are unknown and accuses union officials of not presenting proof.
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Pittsburg
Pittsburg Coal Company
Francis Feehan
Miners’ Union
T Pittsburg Company
Philadelphia banker found dead at club pool
Amund R. Watson, president of the Northern National Bank and treasurer of the Henry Hess Brewing Company, was found dead in the Columbia club swimming pool early today. His family is away and he had spent much of the summer at the club.
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Philagelphia
Amund R.watson
Northern National Bank
Henry Hess Brewing Company
Columbia Club
Colonel Rams Into Waldorf Style Charge at Small Southwest Inn
A traveler known as the colonel complains to a village innkeeper about a three dollar nightly rate. The colonel explains he traded a sawmill for the tavern and, knowing little of the business, will run it by charging travelers high rates to create a Waldorf-Astoria illusion. He justifies the fare as a means to earn from guests despite subpar rooms and fodder.
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Waldorf-Astoria
Letters wipe out debt at Sicklerville church
In New Brooklyn church at Sicklerville New Jersey the parsonage debt was paid off as women wrote letters to former schoolmates and men to their long ago sweethearts. Contributions flooded in fast, funded a paint job, and the parsonage brightening. Judge Blank supplied preach and venison to churches, aiding neighbors.
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New
Brooklyn
Sicklerville
N. J
Mysterious Fire Strikes Tren New York City
A confusing report details a mysterious fire in Tren New York drawing crowds and briefly blocking Broadway traffic. Smoke and flames from an old rectory near Trinity Churchyard caused exits and scattered onlookers as investigators seek a cause amid unclear clues.
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Tren
New York
Broadway
Rector Street
Trinity Churchyard
French Ultimatum Tensions Rise Over Casablanca Crisis
Paris reports the pasha of Casablanca may face execution in retaliation for a city disturbance. France orders Galilee and Forbin to Casablanca to secure Europeans and assess casualties, with reports that five Frenchmen, two Spaniards, and one Italian died. Tangier battles erupt as mobs attack Europeans. dozens killed, harbor workers harmed, and fears of a 20,000-strong Arab assault.
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Casablanca
Galilee
Forbin
Azores
Tangier
Belair
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Oudja
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Mussal
Merle
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Salten
New York Cobbler Question Tied to Bristol Tragedy
A Bristol New York eight year old girl Katie Brite was found murdered in a tenement cellar. a German waiter, tenant cobbler Jane Rippolone, was detained to explain his whereabouts. report mentions a German ship refugee arrival and unrest in Casablanca.
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New York
Bristol
East Aide
Katie Brite
Jane Rippolone
Connecticut
Deaths in July Army Disbanded
New Haven reports July deaths from violent causes totaling 110 with drowning and train fatalities leading. Korea edict disbands Korean army of 7,000. 2,000 garrison disarmed today. emperor's body guard spared. Fort y Koreans killed or wounded in Seoul clash. Japanese casualties light.
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New Haven
Seoul
Washigton
Sammons
Korea
Boston Owns Car Involved In Shrewsbury Crash
A Boston school department owned automobile 22,3 97 was in a Shrewsbury collision last night. Henry T Harrington, injured in the quarrel that followed, is in satisfactory condition and may not have been stabbed. The driver is missing, and School House Commissioner Charles Logue seeks the chauffeur.
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Shrewsbury
Siuss
Henry T. Marrington
Harrington
School Department
City of
Boston
Automobile Register
Boston School Department
School House
Charles Logue
Logue
Wit and applause drive the dramatic performer to extremes
The speaker notes a witty man depends on audience approval, claiming even a small or inattentive crowd or loss of admiration ends his career. He risks decency and relationships to win applause, arguing theater praise is essential to his existence.
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Smith
Effect and Cause in a Cleveland Plain Dealer Moment
A brief Cleveland Plain Dealer line reports a tense exchange as a man shows apprehension while his wife enters the room, capturing a quiet domestic moment with understated newsroom diction. The remark underscores emotional tension in a single, vivid vignette from a newspaper page.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Split in Salvation Army prompts regional secession
Providence August 1 reports officers of the Southern New England branch vote to form a new Christian Army after the arrest of Gen Charles F. Ross in Brooklyn. Dissatisfaction with leadership cited as the motive for secession amid internal conflict within the movement. Lightning uproots and splits a 126 foot oak near Wissahickon avenue. The bolt splits the tree into halves, stripping bark and uprooting roots with bark ring remaining.
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Providence
Oficers
New England
American Salvation Army
Christian Army
Brooklyn
N. Y
Charles F. Ross
Wissahickon Avenue
Lincoln Lake
Philadelphia Record
Boy wants a sling shot after Sunday school tale
A five year old boy who began Sunday school showed great interest in lessons and soon asked his mother for a sling shot. He explained he wanted one after hearing a story of a little dog killing a giant with a firing shot at Sunday school.
Dinner table dispute linked to livelihoods vignette
The passage recalls a dinner table argument where a man, Mooing himself in a corner, asks how a living would be earned without him. The lady replies she would struggle to find another job if she lost him, highlighting a humorous yet sharp exchange about dependence and employment.
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Harper's Weekly
John
Fragmentary obituary of a nineteenth century U.S. president
Fragmentary OCR reads about a twenty-sixth president tied to William Henry Harrison and a misread biography. It mentions birth in North Bend, Indianapolis, Supreme Court reporter, Civil War service, a Senate nomination and defeat, and a death date in March 1601 at Indies, all uncertain due to garbled text.
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United
Public Service Commission probes Interborough merger
New York today begins a major inquiry by the public service commission into the Manhattan Bronx transit merger known as Interborough Metropolitan. Witnesses include Theodore P. Shonts and H. H. Vreeland with focus on traffic and later financial aspects.
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New York
Public Service Commission of
Greater New York
Charles E. Hughes
Manhattan
The
Bronx
Interborough Metropolitan Company
August Belmont
Thomas F. Ryan
Theodore P. Shonts
Panama Canal Commission
William R. Willcox
Public Service Commission
William M. Ivins
Ivins
Hughes
City Hall
Shonts
H. H. Vreeland
New York City Railway
Oren Root, Jr
P. Bryan
Interborough Metropolitan
Frank Hedley
Ice Driver Unhappy and Poison Attempt on Cherry Street
Ice driver Williams of Waterbury Ice Corp attempted suicide by ingesting poison on Cherry Street in the afternoon. Aid arrived in time. stomach pump removed the poison. One life lost during the Boston Cambridge bridge dedication celebration as Jacob Berkman drowned after being pushed by a surging crowd. Other brief items note eight motor races in Providence and Rhodes scholarship honors awarded to three Americans F H Forbes GC Vincent and R H Coon.
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Waterbury Ice Corporation
Cherry Street
Williama
Boston
Cambridge
Jacob Berkman
Providence
R. L. Ang
Blackstone Boulevard
Hill's Grove
Oxford
F. H. Forbes
Massachusetts
GC. Vincent
Ohio
RH. Coon
Nebraska
City News Highlights and Transfers
Mary and William McCoy sold their Laurel street house to William W. Scofield. Miss Netthe Mellroy of Wood street and Miss Carrie Percy of North Willow street spend a week at Savin Rock. Barney Alden surrendered at the police station for aiding in an assault on Speci Officer Road at Lakewood last evening. The annual report of W. C. Langley Furniture Company is released. Agnes Kane, five years old of 111 Seorill street, died this morning. funeral at 2:00 PM tomorrow at Calvary cemetery.
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Mary
William McCoy
Laurel Street
William W. Scofield
Netthe Mellroy
Wood Street
Carrie Percy
North Willow Street
Savin Rock
Barney Alden
Lakewood
W. C. Langley Furniture Company
Tremens Langley
Agnes
Dangnenr
George Kane
Seorill Street
Calvary Cemetery
Striker Uprising Flares In Lodz With Fatalities
In Lodz Russia Poland Aug 1 labor unrest explodes as police arrests ignite a general strike. 22 000 social democrats and Polish socialists join the nationalists to halt all business. Armed workers wreck streetcars and clash with cavalry. at least thirty are killed or wounded and civilians, including a German subject, die or are injured as ambulances clear the streets. Cossacks patrol while electric transit resumes.
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Lodz
Russian Poland
Loda
Oil price fight between Standard and Connecticut in city
In the city a price war unfolds between Standard Oil and Connecticut Oil with a weekly kerosene cut from nine to eight and a half cents a gallon and gasoline and benzene also reduced. Connecticut moves aggressively, driving market share as Standard restructures under new manager Knapp related to H H Rogers while Warren exits last week. A separate note reports the Hong Kong hotel collapse timeline.
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Standard Oil Company
Connecticut Oil Company
Standard Company
Benwine
Connecticut Company
Dig
Big Combine
Knapp
Standard
H. H. Rogers
Warren
Kase Oe Ees
Hartford Commission Bill Promptly Passed by Legislature
Hartford Aug 1 The public utility commission bill passed the house after unanimous approval in the assembly. It creates a five member commission Marcus Holcomb Thomas Street Charles Phelps P Howard and Washington F. Wil report to the General Assembly to correct public service evils and defects The comptroller may draw on the treasury as needed for clerical hires and tabors The senate vetoed a bill permitting liquor sales near agricultural lands striking Windham from the list and adjournment was expected later in the day.
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Hartford
Walsh
House
Marcus H. Holcomb
Thomas D. Street
Charles Phelps
P. Howard
Washington F. Wi
Treasury
Senate
Windham
Weather outlook for Connecticut with showers likely
Forecast projects scattered showers tonight and Friday across Connecticut. Winds from the west to north, with tightening conditions and changeable skies expected through the period.
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Connecticut
Augustair Drove Money Saving Event at Gleewood Range
An oblique advert notes a money saving event at The Hampson Sellew Furniture Co Waterbury Agency for the Gleewood Range, with mentions of Reid and Hechen nearby. The fragmented copy hints at a local sale or display involving household goods and durable ranges.
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Hampson-Sellew Furniture
Waterbury Agency
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