Hurricane News in Communications Void
Lack of communications makes it hard to cover a disaster, and so it has been with the hurricane that swept the Gulf Coast on Monday.
View ArticlePeary’s Claim to Pole Appears to Satisfy Experts
Robert E. Peary yesterday presented the data behind his claim to the discovery of the North Pole to a National Geographic Society committee in Washington, and the society then asked him to present a...
View ArticleWilliam J. Gaynor Elected Mayor of New York
Voters elected William J. Gaynor yesterday as the next mayor of New York, a victory for Tammany Hall, but the Republican Fusion ticket won control of the powerful Board of Estimate and captured the...
View ArticleGustaf Mahler Unveils a New Philharmonic
Gustav Mahler, the new conductor of a wholly reorganized New York Philharmonic Society, opened the orchestra's 68th season last night at Carnegie Hall with works by Beethoven, Richard Strauss and Franz...
View ArticleTo Make South Republican, Deny Blacks the Vote, Senator Says
When reading The Times in 1909, sometimes you have to pinch yourself to be sure you are not dreaming of reading a satirical newspaper.
View ArticleOne Lynching in Cairo, Ill.; Then, Another
A huge mob in Cairo, Ill., perpetrated two savage, brutal lynchings yesterday, first of an African-American, Will James, and then of a white photographer, Henry Salzner.
View ArticleGuile and Militia Prevent a Third Cairo, Ill., Lynching
The guile of police and deputy sheriffs, and then the arrival of the militia forces, prevented the Cairo, Ill., mob yesterday from seizing a second African-American, Arthur Alexander, after it lynched...
View ArticleHarvard Officials Are Fossilized Mollusks, Suffragist Says
In her opening address to a mass meeting for women's suffrage last night at Carnegie Hall, Frances Squire Potter compared Harvard officials to fossilized mollusks for blocking admission last month to...
View ArticleCourt Orders Dissolution of Standard Oil Co.
In the equivalent of an appeals court decision, the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey has been ruled “an illegal combination operating in restraint of trade.” Frank B. Kellogg, United States special...
View ArticleU.S. Breaks Relations With Nicaraguan Dictator
The United States announced last night that it has broken off relations with the government of Nicaragua under José Santos Zelaya, and opened diplomatic channels with his rival, Gen. Juan Estrada. The...
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