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Newspaper

Algona Courier

Location

Algona, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Apr 01, 1910

Page

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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

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.

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.

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.

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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