Notable Weekly News Notes on People and Places
Mary Davis a 13 year old New York girl survived a fall from a five story fire escape landing in wet clothes and escaped unharmed Andrew Carnegie studies the heavens at his Mount Wilson observatory near Pasadena California Virginia Earls once a Broadway musical comedy star is now ill and destitute in New York found unconscious in a shabby flat
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Mary Davis
New York
Andrew Carnegie
Mount Wilson
Pasadena
Cal
Virginia Earls
Pittsburg fire at L Fish Furniture kills twelve in crowded building
A blaze at 1906 1908 Wabash Ave in Pittsburg destroyed the L Fish Furniture Company building trapping many young women at the Sixth door. Investigators found no prior building department inspections and code violations widespread. Separate parades of indictments and graft revelations surfaced as grand juries pursued city corruption. Mount Etna eruptions and tremors reported across Italy with new craters and seismic shocks. Public and political turbulence continued with corruption probes in Pittsburg and policy debates in Washington. Roosevelt’s Egypt visit drew heavy guard, while house rules and committee changes reshaped Congress proceedings amid graft disclosures.
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L. Fish Furniture Company
Wabash Avenue
Proqueis Theater
Pittsburg
Mount Etna
Fee
Francisca Nava
Nicolosi
Saint Agatha
Frank Fehr
Alma Kellner
Louisville
Willson
Kentucky
Theodore Roosevelt
Cairo
Sheppard
Col. Roosevelt
Khartum
Agssouan
Boutros Pasha
House
Dalzel
Michigan ‘College of ‘Mines
Houghton Agreing
Grent
Britain
United States
Republic of
Liberia
Mire
Charles T. Yerkes
Chicago Traction
Ouc
Fifth Avenue
Sixty-eighth Street
New York
National City Bank
Cambridge
Mass
George W. Coleman
May Hightower
Kansas City
Tohn M. Hayes
Oklahoma City
Okla
Santa Fe Road
Louis Brandeis
Glavis
Ballinger- Pinchot
Ballinger
Vertrées
Alfred Mitchell
New Orleans
Senate
Mileto
Catanzara
Italy
Messina
House Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Bil
Taft
Navy
John Pratt
Henry 5. Boutell
Illinois
Sylvester ©. Smith
California
George P. Lawrence
Massachusetts
Champ Clark
Missouri
Oscar Underwood
Alabama
John J. Fitzgerald
Lincoln
Dixon
Indiana
Will
Cannon
Dalzell
Smith
Iowa
Clark
Fitzgerald
Grand Jury
American Druggists’ Syndicate
John A. Johnson
Brotherhood of Railroad Firemen
Western Railroads
Col
Egypt
Bia
Roosevelt
University of
Republican Caucus
Walter J. Smith
John Dalzel
Pennsylvania
J. Bloat Fassett
Sylvester G. Smith
Henry 8. Bout
Golden wedding honors for Crooks couple in Ames
Fifty years after their marriage William and Mrs Crooks celebrated at their home 1202 Duff avenue Ames. The party attracted fifty guests with a noon dinner. Their family includes twenty one grandchildren and five great grandchildren with eleven grandchildren present. All seven children attended except Robert Crooks in Illinois. Other relatives listed include Mrs B H White Pierre South Dakota Mrs F B Whiteman Nevada Mrs R Siddai Salem Oregon Andrew Crooks Ames Ira Crooks Nevada Charley Crooks at home.
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William Crooks
Duff Avenue
Ames
Iowa
Mrs. Crooks
Robert Crooks
Ilinois
B. H. White
Pierre
S. D
F. B. Whiteman
Nevada
R. Siddai
Salem
Ore
Andrew Crooks
Ira Crooks
Charley Crooks
A. P. Gilliland
Greene County
van Sant
Minnesota
Dubuque
Mississippi
Congress
McDonald
Bayard
Jennie Berry
Berry
Cedar Rapids
State Teachers’ College
L. W. Parish
Ernest. E. Day
First Congregational Church
J. E. Snowden
Iowa & Omaha
Neoga
Council Bluffs
James Rawson & Company
State University
Iowa City
R. T. Cameron
Ottumwa
Anna T. Stuart
Washington
Clara_Mahan
Waterloo
Iowa’ State
Court of Honor
Yeoman
Des Moines
Treasuerer Bentley
Bentley
Mae Hoff
Lows
Estella _Hammerten
John. Reed
Lundgrér
Clinton ‘High Bridgetender
Canton
Widespread Iowa Rail Disasters Feature Historic Wrecks
Des Moines reports recall of Iowa rail accidents from Green Mountain to Cedar Falls, noting Rock Island and Burlington wrecks with high fatalities, including the Green Mountain disaster that killed over forty-eight and a Des Moines pilot. The piece also covers Great Western line fatalities and earlier crashes, plus local memorials and ongoing building and convention news in Des Moines.
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Des Moines
Mar
Rock Island
Great Western
Iowa
Northwestern
Logan
Omahd
Green Mountain
Burlington
James H. Miller
Miller
Charles Pickel
Hugh. Pickel
Sells Circus
Circus Company
Thayer
Brown
Cedar, Falls
Illinois Central
Waterloo
Milwaukee
Cambridge
Gideons
Betts
Cedar Rapids
Gideon Organization
Gideon
Myed
Avith
Bridget White
Ninth Street
Christmia ) Ingted
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Mabray
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McPherson
Frank Scott
Winsora S. Harris
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Bert R. Shores
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Dean C. Curtis
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Commercial Club
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Hurlington
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Stella
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W. R. Henderson
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John’ Schmisat
Bennett
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Ernestine Schumann. Heink
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Marietta Bagby
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New. York
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