Navy to Review Jack Tars Uniform Rules
Aug 6 New York reports sailors in the United States Navy protest current dress. A committee led by Captain Hugo Osterhaus of the battleship Connecticut seeks proposals on replacing the pancake hats, wide collars, and baggy trousers with visor caps and shorter neckerchiefs, potentially outfitting about 30,000 sailors at cost.
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New York
Jack Tara
United States Navy
Navy Department
Hugo Osterhaus
Connecticut
Osterhaus
North Atlantic
The King's Fad and Other Aug. 6 News Highlights
Berlin reports lavish royal jewelry purchases by the king of Binm, including a $75,000 diamond studded gold thimble, with palatial stores of gems across Bangkok. In Baltimore a grieving mother admits to killing her two sleeping children while awaiting death in prison. In Teheran a Turkish raid across the Persian frontier destroys Maxaneh, killing many Christians. Mrs Mansfield in New York says his health is improving after a relapse rumor. In Cowes a gunner earns a royal decoration after nineteen hits. In Pittsburg officials plan talks amid looming mine strikes. In Kingston a woman dies after shooting a rival, and in Arklow a drowned World War veteran attempts to swim the channel.
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Berlin
Binm
Bankok
Bombardment of Casablanca by Franco Spanish forces
Tangier reports French cruiser Gallice bombarded Casablanca and its Moorish quarters aided by Du Chayla and Don Alvaro De Bazan. Kabyle attacks sparked French and Spanish landing, seven French wounded, city cleared of tribesmen, guards placed at foreign consulates, gunfire on a Moorish battery, demand for surrender to French authorities. Berlin notes German concern for foreigners at Mazagan with French cruiser deployment to protect Germans.
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Tangier
Gallice
Casablanca
Galilee
London
du Chayla
Don Alvaro de Bazen
Berlin
Maxagan
Morocco
Baroness Harden-Hickey committed to Connecticut sanitarium
New York August 6 The probate court in Stamford has ordered Baroness Annie Harden-Hickey daughter of John H Flager committed to a Connecticut sanitarium. Her mental state shows little hope of cure and her conservator father manages a fortune largely in Standard Oil stock.
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New York
Annie Harden-Hickey
John H. Flager
Connecticut
Stamford
Harden-Hickey
Ancle Flager
Trinidad
James I
England
United States
France
Baron
el Paso
Tex
Wool Market Quiet as Receipts Rise in Boston
In Boston the wool market shows quiet activity with negotiation undercurrents. Receipts from the West are large and local stocks rise, while finer grades maintain demand. Washed Ohio delaine sells at 3% to 40 cents, Oregon staple grease at 7 to 8 cents, with some sales up to 25. Medium unwashed Ohio wools fetch 35 to 36 1/4 cents for half bloods and three eighths.
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Boston
Ang O
Ohio
Oregon
Tide and Flags Shadow Isle Royale Jazzed Feats
A Port Arthur report says Captain Young and five filibusters may not have reached Isle Royale to plant a flag, with one man purportedly waving the Union Jack. In England, Jabez Wolffe failed again to cross the channel amid tides and wind, after a 15 hours long attempt from South Foreland.
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Chicago
Port Arthur
Ontario
Isle Royale
R. Young
Lake Superior
Dover
Eng
Jabez Wolffe
English Channel
Wolffe
Cape Blanc
France
R. D. Heaton
Liverpool
Rogers Is Well The Standard Oil Magnate in Good Health
New bedfont Massachusetts August 6 despite rumors from New York that Henry H Rogers is seriously ill. He remains at his Fairhaven residence in usual good health. The only recent indisposition was indigestion about a week ago from which he recovered. Rogers is spending the week with his family in Fairhaven and plans to return to New York Sunday or Monday.
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Standard Oil
New Bedfont
Mass
Ang
New York
Henry H. Rogers
Fairhaven
Suicide of NY broker William Alley at Larchmont Yacht Club
William Alley a longtime New York stock exchange member since 1878 shot himself in his Larchmont Yacht Club room last night. Diners on the club house piazza heard the revolver. he died en route to hospital. Alley 51 had been suspended from the exchange for almost a year and had confined his dealings to the curb market amid financial troubles, leaving no note.
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New York
William
Alley
New York Stock Exchange
Larchmont Yach Club
Piazza
Mr Alley
The
Stock Exchange
Assault on Woman on West Side Street
A lone woman resisted an attempted assault near Manhattan Avenue and 106th Street by an Italian, Adelaide Wildrer fought with a hat pin and police later shot the suspect dead in Central Park. The man identified as Pietro Daurio, an Italian peddler, claimed innocence amid the shooting. Outlook is bright for a settlement in the Southern railway state dispute as two plans surface after talks between railway and state officials in Montgomery.
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New York
West Side
Adelaide Wildrer
Manhattan Avenue
106Th Street
Miss Wildrer
Central Park
Pietro Daurio
Montgomery
Ala
Southern Railway
FR. L. Russell
Mobile & Obile
Finley
Southern
Guy Comer
Connecticut Forecast Clouds and Breezes Tonight
Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight in Connecticut with a Wednesday mix of clouds. Southerly to westerly winds noted, shaping a mild to moderate breeze pattern across the state.
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Connecticut
Bride Forgives Man In Quiet New Britain Wedding
In New Britain at St Marys church Miss Mary L Mulvihill and Felix A Gosselin wed after a prior June 24 postponement. Groom previously failed to appear amid rumors and a collision tale but renewed vows to win back the bride. Best man was William Mulvihill. bridesmaid Miss Margaret Madigan.
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Hartford
St Mary's
New Britain
Mary L. Mulvihill
Felix A. Gosselin
Theresa Mulvihill
John Maloney
Gosselin
Mulvihill
Swain
John T. Winters
William Mulvihill
Margaret Madigan
Marine Missing from Georgia in Hudson River Mystery
Henry Francis Lynch, 19, a United States Marine aboard the battleship Georgia, vanished near her Hudson River anchorage after a Saturday night report. Officers say he toppled from the side while hanging a yardarm lantern had been recovered. Lynch’s father suspects foul play and seeks police investigation as Lynch was to testify in the gun turret explosion inquiry.
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New York
Henry Francis Lynch
United States
Georgia
Hudson River
Lynch
Daniel Lynch
McCrei
Couple Fined for Rocking Boat in Washington Park
In Chicago, August, a man and woman accused of rocking a rowboat during a Sunday outing in Washington Park paid fines. Mrs Annie Finn was fined court costs totaling 7 dollars, and George Morris was fined 25 dollars plus costs.
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Chicago
Washington Park
Annie Finn
George Morris
Mobbed in New York after sightseeing car accident
A group touring the city in a sight seeing automobile was mobbed by a crowd of several hundred on the east side after the vehicle ran over and killed a boy riding on its step. Stones and missiles flew as the machine fled the scene.
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New York
Paper Making by Hand Ends in Adams Massachusetts
In Adams Massachusetts on August 6 the sole U S hand paper making department of the L L Brown company closed after 25 years of operation. The firm had sustained the craft with skill and tradition but replaced it with modern methods, signaling the end of an era for local handwork.
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Adams
Mas
United States
L. L. Brown Company
Capitol Construction and Storm of 1814 Destruction
The text notes the Capitol’s construction started in JTW with a cornerstone laid for the central portion by Protest Washington in September that year. On August 24, 1814 British troops partly destroyed the Capitol, firing public buildings. The wings’ cornerstone was laid July 4, 1501 by President Fillmore and Daniel Webster.
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JTW
Washington
Fillmore
Daniel Webster
Diphtheria Claims Seven Year Old Anna Ortis
The 7 year old Anna Ortis of Johnson Avenue died at 11 this morning from diphtheria. Her funeral is set for 9:30 tomorrow morning with interment at Calvary cemetery.
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Anna
Ria Ortis
Johnson Avenue
Calvary Cemetery
Joseph Manktyich
Tve
South Leonard Street
Michael Mankivich
Torrington
Waterbury
George Mullings
George Camp
Charles A. Templeton
A. W Castle
Dr Beecher
B. R. Kelsey
Fidelity Construction Co
Marie W. Phoenix
Boston
Henrietta E. Beardsley
Mra Phoenix
Fidelity Co
Puller Street
John Gilmour
Sul Gually
Gilmour
Glasgow
Loral
McMahon
Adam
Japanese Attache Defends Stoessel In Port Arthur Surrender
In Paris on Aug 6 Captain Tsunoda the Japanese military attache who helped arrange Port Arthur surrender defends General Stoessel on the eve of his court martial saying the fortress could not have held out and would have faced a massacre. He notes 60,000 Japanese lives spent and 40 km of parallels dug while urging honorable treatment for Stoessel. Washington dispatches report a Korean reform pamphlet from the Japanese Residency General praising Ito’s work and detailing reforms, corruption, and the new legal framework in Korea.
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Paris
Tsunoda
Nog
Port Arthur
General Stoessel
Stoessel
Japan
Nogi
Washington
Korea
Marquis Ito
Fourth Annual Teamsters Convention Credentials Report
Report of the credential committee at the fourth annual International Brotherhood of Teamsters convention. One contested seat involved William Newman from New Orleans over occupancy rights. his vest was contested as per capita tax. Rules committee also presented its report at today’s session.
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International Brotherhood of Teamsters
William Newman
New Orleans
Seselon
Emperor Starts for Homer
Seer Jaeneba Prussia, known as Avg Em iebotes, is requested to return home at 2 oclock today aboard the Restan. The strange message hints at a voyage or omen involving Homer and a maritime journey.
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Emperor
Seer
Jaeneba
Prussia
Emiebotes
Six Die In Pennsylvanian Express Wreck Near Kellys
Pittsburg August 6 A Titusville express southbound on the Buffalo and Alleghany division was side swiped by a heavy car that broke away from a northbound freight near Kellys station. The engine derailed, two baggage cars a smoker and a passenger car were wrecked. At least six people were killed and eight injured.
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Pittsburg
Titusville
Buffalo & Alleghany
Pennsylvania Road
Kelly's Station
Qualifying Round At Western Amateur In Wheaton
More than eighty golfers began today’s qualifying round for the western amateur golf championship at Chicago Golf Club Wheaton. Competitors travel from Atlanta Denver Birmingham Nashville and Denver and include title holder Ned Sawyer and notable players Warren K Wood Walter Fairbanks and others. Twenty nine? thirty two will advance after 36 holes.
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Wheaton
Ill
Chicago Golf Club
Atlanta
Denver
Birmingham
Als
Nashville
Tenn
Ned Sawyer
Warren K. Wood
Cleveland
Jerome D. Travers
Walter Fairbanks
Body in Trunk Stuns Marseilles as Owners Arrested
A trunk from Monte Carlo arrived in Marseilles containing a dead woman. The trunk owners and wax man were arrested after the discovery. They had requested shipment to London.
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Marseilles
France
Monte Carlo
London
Offer of Odd Pieces of Fine Furniture
A catalog-like notice advertises remaining odd pieces of fine furniture from a season of sacrifice prices. The seller highlights varied items and reduced rates, inviting buyers to inspect the selection as quantities last.
August Sale Highlights Fine Furniture at Hampson-Sellow Waterbury
Thousands of dollars in fine furniture advertised for August sale by Hampson Sellow Furniture Co Waterbury Agency. The campaign promises savings for those moving out entire houses or buying remaining items. Located next to Reid and Barbe at 112 120 Beak Street.
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The
Hampson—Sellow Furniture Co
Waterbury Agency
Glenwood
Reid & Barbe
Beak
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Bo Utter
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Steward
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