Roosevelt Speaks At Charlestown Night of Bunker Hill Celebration
Boston June 18 Roosevelt at the Charlestown district night event for the 138th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill spoke with Secretary of the Navy Daniels and Treasurer Burke. He backed a peace policy with a strong navy and rejected arbitration of vital national questions, saying the navy is Uncle Sam's punch as a last resort.
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Boston
Charlestown
Bunker Hill
Theodore Roosevelt
Navy
Daniels
United States
Burke
Roosevelt
Uncle Sam
Working Girls 100 Poor for Church in Kansas City
Kansas City, June 18. Working girls in Kansas City lack spiritual training because they cannot spare money for church contributions. Miss Louise Mittlestadt of the Woman's Trade Union League testified at the state senate wage committee inquiry, blaming churches for the condition. Mrs. Nan Sperry noted social caste affects girls' job choices, with independence valued and domestic work looked down upon.
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Kansas City
Louise Mittlestadt
Woman's Trade Union League
State Senate
Mittlestadt
Nan Sperry
Two Die In Auto Crash While Racing For Hospital
Sacramento, Cal June 18 A car driven by Guy E Pearce wrecked while racing to save a poisoning victim Miss Vere Brennon who had swallowed poison in a personal crisis claim fatally mangled Pearce instantly killed and Herbert Woodall the chauffeur may perish from injuries. The party had attended a devil s ball at a suburban point. Brennon acted from jealousy and Pearce volunteered to rush the unconscious woman to a hospital in the city.
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Sacramento
Cal
Guy E. Pearce
Pearce
Vere Brennon
Herbert Woodall
Miss Brennon
Pearce's Car Crash Ends Fatally. Brennan Severely Injured
Pearce, a city businessman, died after his car overturned three times when it struck soft earth at the roadside. Miss Brennan was frightfully mangled. Blackie? Thomas, known for promoting the devil's ball, is under arrest.
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Pearce
Miss Brennan
Blackie
Thomas
Fire at State House Endangers Supreme Court Records
Des Moines June 18 A small fire in the basement of the state house was spotted when Adjutant General Guy E Logan searched for heat. Paper in a waste basket burned in the record room beneath the clerk of the supreme court office. Wainscoting by a window caught fire and was quickly put out with water. It is thought a cigar stub or stray match started the blaze. Spanks Son Start Big Blaze Monticello New York June 18 Mrs B Wolfe of Ferndale Sullivan county tried to spank her son and toppled an oil stove causing a fire that destroyed 12 business houses and three dwellings including the Wolfe home. Loss estimated at 100000. Firemen from three towns used dynamite to halt the spread.
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Des Moines
State House
Guy E. Logan
Supreme Court
Monticello
N. Y
B. Wolfe
Ferndale
Sullivan County
Wolfe
Severe New Jersey storm damages shore resorts
A powerful electrical storm swept along the northern New Jersey coast causing extensive damage to seashore resorts. Reports place losses around 100000 dollars with buildings blown down and military encampment tents damaged. In Montreal two people were killed and several injured as the storm crossed the area.
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Brielle
N. J
New Jersey
Montreal
Personal Briefs Highlight Travelers and Visits
Miss Selma Iversom visits Kamrar relatives while Mrs. Eliza Thompson returns home. Rosa Wepel visits. Anna Brown returns to Jefferson. Maude Schmoll arrives from Fort Dodge for Had dob x Peterson wedding. Travel spans Ames Ames to Cedar Falls and Stanhope with multiple family visits and engagements.
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Selma Iversom
Kamrar
M. J. Cleveland
Eliza Thompson
R. A. Lewis
Rosa Wepel
Henry Holland
Baby
Radcliffe
Mr. Holland
Anna Brown
A. J. Peterson
Jefferson
Maude Schmoll
Fort Dodge
Hattie Haddox
Haddox-Peterson
al Michener
West Branch
A. L. Michener
Stockdale Street
Marshalltown
C. H. Swiney
Cedar Falls
Grace Kincaid
Omaha
L. E. Crowter
W.G. Seamands
Kamrar and
Jewell
Irma Foster
Leila Payne
Seattle
Washington
Stanhope
Harold R. Meekins
Boone
Eagle Grove
John F. Carey
New York
C. W. Soule
Mary Evers
Independence
W. A. Grandall
Sheldon Tatham
Minnesota
J. S. Moore
Toledo
F. Elias Smith
Frank Sparks
Ames
C. E. Buell
Sylvia Gibson
Nevada
John McGee
Milwaukee
A. J. Kahl
Freeport
Iinois
Telephone Girls Called On Strike in St Louis
News reports from St Louis indicate a strike by Bell Telephone operators with 63 of 900 workers quitting per company figures and as many as 300 claimed by union leaders. The company sought temporary staff and urged the public to limit messages while patrols and taxis assisted strikebreakers.
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Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Company
Bell
Bell Telephone Company
St. Louis
1Kinloch Company
Silo Fall Injures Essex Man On June 18
Grant Prideaux of Essex Indiana survives a 26 foot silo collapse north of Shenandoah. He and Lawrence Bakke worked on the silo when scaffolding failed. Prideaux broke five teeth and suffered a chin injury while Bakke escaped bruised.
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Shenandoah
Grant Prideaux
Essex
Lawrence Bakke
Bakke
Prideaux
Canadian polar expedition sails for three year arctic study
The Karluk, commanded by Capt. Robert Bartlett, with ten scientists and a fifteen man crew, departed Victoria bound for Nome to begin a three year Arctic exploration under Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Stefansson stays to finish a book and will join at Nome around July 20. The mission aims to map islands east of the Mackenzie, locate a polar continent, collect flora and fauna, survey channels for potential trade routes, and study Coronation Gulf blond Eskimo life.
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Victoria
B. C
Arctic
Vilhjjalmar Stefansson
Iowa University
Karluk
Robert Bartlett
Stefansson
Nome
Alaska
R. M. Anderson
Victorialand
James Murray
Fritz Johansen
United States
Murray
Johansen
Mackenzie River
Coronation Gulf
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