Gingles Case Hearings Highlight Hospital Wounds Debate
In Chicago the Ella Gingles case returns, with Benjamin Bron sBon first witness recounting finding Gingles in a hotel bathroom and doctors disputing the severity of her injuries. Dr. Price testifies wounds appear superficial and may be simulated, while defense experts prepare to counter impeachment testimonies as courtroom intrigue rises.
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Chicago
Benjamin BronsBon
Wellington
Ella Gingles
O'Donnell
Miss Gingles
W. O. Krohn
Frances Willard Hospital
Short
Arthur E. Price
Bell
Eliz Gingles
Agnes Barrette
Wellington Hotel
Shorts
Patrick H. O'Donnell
Brentano
Gingles
State Street
Miss Adina Williams
Miss . Williams
Miss Williams
Frances WiHara Hospital
Peice
Jie
Roosevelt's Aid by British Officer Across Naivasha Lake
July 13 Naivasha British East Africa Commander Fredartes a retired British navy officer known for a grand European estate on the lake's rim crossed Naivasha in a steam launch to reach the Roosevelt camp. He delivered food and water then returned to his estate on the far shore assisted by his brother Allendborough.
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H. W. Attendborough
San Franccisco
Roosevelt
Lake Naivasha
Attendborough
A. J. Cunninghawe
Attendborough Manor House
Cunninghame
Attendborough Esstate
Roosevelt Camp
Desert
Attendborough Estate
Africa
E. A. Mearns
O. C G. Chapman
Naivasha
British East Africa
Fredartes Attendborough
Ake
Allendborough
Tour Sahara in Auto by Chicago Couple Across Sahara
Chicagoans Mr Edward E Ayer and Mrs Ayer completed a two month journey through Africa describing an automobile trek across Sahara sands a feat never before attempted by a vehicle apart from camel trains. The trip featured sand driving a nomad guiding the car and pacific relations with local bands and drew praise for its novelty and perilous challenges with the traveler advising others not to attempt it again.
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Chicago
Sahara Desert
Aver
Girl Jumps to Death Into River at Fort Madison
Miss Elsie Hunt a 24 year old resident of Fort Madison leaped from the Santa Fe bridge second span into the river yesterday. She had epileptic fits that impaired her mind, and her mother had long watched her. The tragedy occurred as the mother followed and a toll gate keeper watched. Despite witnesses no aid could be rendered as the body sank. A second item notes Edward Payson Weston leaving Sacramento bound for San Francisco with ninety miles to go.
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Fort Madison
Elsie Hunt
Santa Fe
House Votes For Tax On Incomes
Washington July 13 11 The House, by 217 to 14 with fourtee n Republicans opposing, passes the senate joint resolution for submitting an income tax amendment to the states. Democrats largely back the measure while the named Republicans vote no. The bill now goes to the President for signature amid long debates.
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Washington
House
Senate
Allen
Maine
Barchfeld
Daizell
McCreary
Wheeler
Fordney
Mich
Gardner
Mass
McCall
Weeks
Hill
Conn
Henry
Olcott
Southwick
Calderhear
Kas
Payne
Committee On Ways and Means
Mars
Congress
Breckenridge Summerville Marriage At Salem Church
Miss Marietta S Breckenridge and Mr 8 L Summerville of St Louis wed at the Episcopal church in Salem on Thursday July 7 delayed from June 14 due to illness. Groom returned from hospital to Odin before union. They will reside in St Louis after August. Engagement announced as Miss Lilian Mack to Mr Guy Hover of Cory Col. Guests included Ruth Eglott and Jeanne Hanson. Armours to become tanners in Minnesota within a year.
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Breckenridge-Summerville
Marietta S. Breckenridge
L. Summerville
St. Louis
Episcopal Church
Salem
Waterloo
Lfe
M. E. & T Railroad
Lilian Mack
W. F. Mack
Miss Mack
Guy Hover
Cory
Col
Colorado
Ruth Eglott
Cedar Pally
Mack
Amen
Jeanne Hanson
Manchester
Minneanotis
Minn
Armour Co plans tanning works near New Brighton
Abattoir and packing plant of Armour and Co at New Brighton will start construction of a large tanning works. The New York Journal of Commerce says the Minneapolis venture is part of a broader plan by American packers to control the leather and shoe industry in the United States.
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Abattoira
Armour & Co
New Brighton
New York Journal of Commerce
Minneapolis
United States
Catholic Educators Open Sixth Annual Convention
Boston July 12 mass at Cathedral of the Holy Cross marked the opening of the Catholic Educational Association sixth annual convention. Distinguished educators of the Roman Catholic church attended and nearly all Catholic institutions in the United States were represented.
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Boston
Mass
Cathedral of the Holy Cross
Catholic Educational Association
United States
Entombed miners big Belmez mine disaster near Cordova
Rescuers pull 30 dead, 12 dying, 42 injured from collapsed Belmez coal mine galleries near Cordova Spain. About 663 miners believed entombed as main gallery walls collapsed after an explosion of fire damp. Debris and shifting coal hinder rescue teams.
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Cordova
Spain
Belmez
Baby Sends Snell 2,000,000 Kisses in Letters
In Clinton Illinois a will contest over Cal Thomas Snell's estate reveals letters from women who courted the elderly magnate for money rather than affection. A niece and other correspondents describe Snell as a magnet for dating demands, with one note confessing funds and travel plans while promising love and fun.
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Clinton
Ill
Cal. Thomas Snell
Madelie Snell McNemara
Snell
Richard
Mabelle Snell
Europe
Buelow Proposes His Own Successor for Chancellor
Berlin July 13 Prince von Buelow the retiring imperial chancellor will formally propose in his audience with Emperor William tomorrow that Dr. von Bethmann Hollweg Secretary of the Interior and vice chancellor succeed him. There is reason to believe the emperor will accept and the appointment will be made at once. Buelow thus names his own successor. The emperor requested him at Kiel.
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Berlin
Prince von Buelow
William
von Bethmann Hollwee
von Buelow
Kiel
Glidden Tourists Leave Kalamazoo
Kalamazoo Michigan July 13 with a run of seven miles ahead the forty automobiles making the Glidden tour began leaving control here at minute intervals after seven this morning Pathfinder Lewis led with his confetti car and Pace maker Hower followed fifteen minutes ahead of the first contestant weather conditions were splendid and every prospect auspicious for the second day's tour.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Lewis
Hower
Independence Boat Club at Fourth of July Celebration
The Independence Boat club enjoyed the postponed Fourth of July celebration at the club grounds north of town. Boat races and other events were held on a scenic river section. The club, one of the state's largest, features a fine clubhouse and well kept grounds along the river.
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Independence Boat Club
Nationalists Invest Teheran Fight Continues Desultory
Dispatch from Teheran dated July 18 reports about a thousand Nationalists entering the city and seizing the northern section. Street fighting remains desultory and unanswered. foreign legations and banks are not yet attacked, and lives and property of Americans and Europeans are not in danger as of 1:30 p.m. local time.
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Teheran
Persia
Wright Again Makes Fast Flight at Fort Myer
Orville Wright completed a successful flight in the Wright aeroplane at Fort Myer Virginia lasting five minutes and thirty seconds. The machine reached about forty miles per hour and circled the parade grounds six times covering roughly three and a half miles before landing. The flight followed a hour and a half wait due to wind, and Wright ended the test due to occasional spark failures in the motor. Both Wright brothers were pleased and planned short flights until bearings warm and motor works perfectly for the official government test.
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Washington, D. C
Orville Wright
Fort Myer
Army Signal Corps
Mr. Wright
German actress in police court test case over framed art
A German 25 year old performer, silent in English, is led to Harrison Street police station after a spectacle framed as art but challenged as indecent. Manager William Jacobs vows to defend her, arguing the act is not indecent and has appeared in Europe and America without prior police interference.
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Europe
America
Harrison Street Pollee
William Jacobs
Jacobs
Fair Weather Opens Trans-Miss Golf Championship
Des Moines sees a fair sky and light breeze as W. G. Case and Hanlon Hurley begin the ninth annual championship tournament of the trans Mississippi Golf association. Ambitious golfers pack the links seeking to qualify in the first round of 32 with pairs sent off every four minutes by officials.
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Des Moines
W. G. Case
Hanlon Hurley
trans-Mississippi Golf Association
Fight over Junken reward sparks Des Moines visit
Des Moines July 13 John W Gray a private detective from Ottumwa came to Governor Carroll with claims to the $300 state reward for the arrest and conviction of John Junken, killer of Clara Rosen. The case has drawn many claimants including Pinkerton men and Ottumwa officials who aided the confession and prosecution. The total Ottumwa fund of about 32000 may be affected by the reward decision as various sleuths seek payment. Governor Carroll has not acted. A pawnbroker who held Miss Rosen's diamond also filed a claim.
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Des Moines
John W. Gray
Ottumwa
Carroll
John Junken
Clara Rogen
Gray
MIL- Waukee
Tanken
Junker
Centerville
Pinkerton
Smith
Dunken
Albia
Mr. Gray
Sherif Griffin
Monroe County
Chief Galligher
Henry Williams
Ottum Wa
Clara Rosen
Junken
Seneca
Cornell
Wapello County
Miss Rosen
Girl Ends Wife At Museum In Milwaukee Tragedy
Stella May Dunn daughter of S M Dunn of Bloomington leaped from a Milwaukee Public Museum window to a forty foot granite promenade, amid witnesses including women and children. After a nervous breakdown since March, she had been at a Wauwatosa sanitarium since May 28, with the act following the family dispute during a city visit.
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Milwaukee
Stella May Dunn
Bloomington
Ming
Dunn
Arrest of Bare Bronze Beauties at White City
Chicago authorities arrested Bertha Faulk in her dressing room during a show at White City. Acting Chief Schuettler’s censorship squad intervened after guards warned about painted nude performances. O Donnell ordered removal of explicit talk and paint from the models.
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Chicago
Arthur Burrage Farwell
White City
Charles HE
O’donnell
Bertha Faulk
O'Donnell
Foolish Girl Meets Frisky Showman in Cherokee
In Justice, Green's court yesterday morning Walter Guenther of Cleveland pled guilty to assault and paid costs. He came with a circus troupe and was jailed on suspicion of rape after an alleged encounter with a local girl. Investigators found insufficient evidence for a serious charge. The article notes a common pattern of a young girl with a stranger and regretful parity.
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Green
Walter Guenther
Cleveland
Guenther
Barcum & Bailey Circus
Caireys
Clerks in Panic Scramble to Hold Jobs at Commerce
Washington July 18 130 of 472 employees at the Ellis Island immunity station in North Carolina were found below efficiency standards and face dismissal reduction or reprimand The Commerce Department led by Secretary Nagel reports a sweeping personnel shakeup with further reductions and resignations anticipated despite a small overall efficiency gain since the reviews begun six weeks ago.
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Washington
Ellis Island
N. C
Department of Commerce
Washington, D. C
Department of Commerce and Labor
Nagel
Robber of Women Confesses to Twelve Purses Snatched
Chicago July 13 Oscar von Hagen a former Bonn College student confessed to police that he snatched twelve purses from women. He named victims and amounts including Mrs Alice Rittman 2900 Lake Avenue $3 and Lauretta Kennedy 305 Ward Street $14. Hagen said he was not a thief by nature and thefts followed from hunger after money disappeared and unemployment.
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Chicago
Oscar von Hagen
Bonn College
Germany
Alice Rittman
Lake Avenue
Alice Kennedy
Ward Street
Lauretta Kennedy
Larris
Wilson
Magnolia Avenue
L. T. Stubbs
Glengyle Place
Phelps
Kenmore Avenue
Ollie Wood
Sixty-second Street
Vendome Hotel
Leonard
Kimbark Avenue
Simonds
Dayton
Ella Habter
Olive Wilson
Thirty-eighth Street
Vou Hagen
Abscess of Brain Causes Death in Young Local Resident
Nashua July 1d A 17 year old son of Mr and Mrs Henry Stille six miles west of Nashua died after an illness of a day though symptoms suggest a months long onset. The fatal illness was an abscess of the brain from a head injury years earlier.
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Nashua
Henry Stille
Waterloo Teacher Weds Professor
Nashua July 13 Special News has been received of the marriage of Milo M. Quaife a former Nashua boy to Miss Letitia May Goslin at Pokagon Mich The ceremony was performed by the bride s father assisted by her brother The bride is a graduate of Iowa college and formerly taught in the Waterloo schools The groom is professor of history at Lewis Institute Chicago
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Nashua
Milo M. Quaife
Letitia May Goslin
Pokagon
Mich
Juno
Iowa College
Waterloo
Lewis Institute
Chicago
Great Western Railway Property Auction Ordered in Iowa
Judge Reed issued a federal court order for a sale of the Great Western railway property in Iowa by a special master at St Paul. The property is valued at twenty million dollars. In olive oil production Aal adie Turkey leads with Spain second and Italy third.
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C.G. W
Des Moines
Reed
Great Western Railway
Iowa
St. Paul
Turkey
Spain
Italy
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Cal
Edward Payson Weston
San Francisco
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Buelow
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Wright
Nagel Gleang
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