Dynamite Found Under Bridge Aimed at Tafts Train
A 36 stick dynamite bundle was found under the Calitman viaduct twenty miles north of Santa Barbara. Two men fled after a night watchman fired on them as the Taft presidential train neared Los Angeles. Sheriff’s deputies recovered the explosives and hunted the suspects.
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San Francisco
Southern Pacific Railway Company
C. B. Brown
Naples
Cal
Calintan
Santa Barbara
Taft
Los Angeles
Wines
Santa Barbara County
Fog and storms kill and injure across cities
In Chicago heavy fog caused two deaths and over twenty injuries. A tornado destroyed main street in Hilleboro Indiana with no fatalities. A French professor proposes canal to turn Sahara into ocean. Associate Justice Harlan died in Washington. John S. Hoch killed Henry Owsley during arrest resistance.
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Chicago
Hilleboro
Ind
Sahara Desert
John Marshall Harlan
Supreme Court of the United States
Washington
John S. Hoch
Herrick
Henry Owsley
Owsley
Dr John Jackola found dead in woods near Duluth
The missing Duluth physician Dr John Jackola was discovered dead in nearby woods after months of search. The Finnish doctor, once notable for ties to woman suffrage and lectures in New York and Brooklyn, gained notoriety for persistent attention to society leader Mrs C H P Belmont leading to his arrest.
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Duluth
Minn
John Jackola
Jackola
New York
Brooklyn
East
C. H. P. Belmont
Kaiser seeks peace conference with Italian envoy
Berlin reports on October 17 as Emperor William invites Italian ambassador Sig Alberto Pansa to a peace talks at his hunting lodge near Eberswalde. Chancellor and German foreign minister were to join but the planned meeting at the foreign office was canceled after the emperor's message.
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Berlin
Eberswalde
Prussia
Sig. Alberto Pansa
Herr von Kiderlin-Waechter
Foreign Office
New Insect Rust Halted by New Ash Plant Concord Experiment
Boston reports that Norton of the U S department of agriculture says rust on asparagus will end thanks to a new species developed at the Concord Mass experiment farm. This promises relief to New England growers and price focused housewives facing crop failures this season.
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Boston
New England
J. BR. Norton
United States Department of Agriculture
Concord
Mass
Mexico City Balloting Names Jose Pino Suarez VP
Result of electoral college balloting in major cities and many towns shows Jose Pino Suarez elected vice president by a slim majority. De la Barra was second and Vasquez Gomez third.
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Mexico City
Jose Pino Suarez
de la Berm
Vasquez Gomez
Earthquake in Sicily Kills Many. rescue under way
An earthquake of short duration struck Sicily near Catania on Oct 17 killing many as buildings collapsed. Troops rushed to aid in rescue efforts and retrieved twenty bodies with more fatalities suspected among the injured and missing.
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Catania
Sicily
Annual meeting set for St Paul July 6 to 12
Educators in St Paul Kansas City area announce the next annual meeting of the educational association will be held in St Paul from July 6 to 12 inclusive. Professor J M Greenwood of the executive committee announced the dates.
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William Grienhcer
St. Louis Aviation School
Chillicothe
Margaret Curtis
Boston
Lillian Hyde
Hayshore
John Henry Smith
Mormon Church
Joseph F. Smith
Salt Lake City
Owen Wister
Jackson
Hole
Wio
American Kertrie Railway Association
Atlantic City
Western Seal Tobacco Dealers’ Association
Milwaukee
Fieet
American Tobacco Company
John W. Walsh
George C. Martin
Walsh
Carlinville
John Dean
Maryville
Dean
Mabray
Leavenworth
Dea Moines
Kansge City
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Co-Operative Store
Box Butte Ave
Drake & Whetstone
Alliance Cafe
M. D. Kimball
Burlington Station
Commercial Department
IST. Agnes Academy
NEGR
U. S
Winchester
U.S. Ordnance Board
U. S. Army
U. S.S. Ordnance Board
Archer Whitwell
Gus Webb
Kansas City
Gompers
Mitchell
Morrison
American Federation of Labor
District Supreme Court
John J. Walsh
Kan
Chicago National Bank
Missouri River
Torkk
Federal
H. T. Wells
Kenosha
Wis
H. G. Goll
Bigelow
Charles Deniston Price
New Orleana
United States Asiatic Fleet
New Orleans
Manila
Price
Artie Conly
Rock Springs
Wyo
National Farmers’ Congress
Columbus
Western Canada
Omaha
Des Moines
Western Passenger Association
M. Level
Rheims
France
Herbert & Hadley
Missouri
the Lakes
Gulf Deep Waterway Association
United States
Myer Falconio
Kaiser
Suarez
Oliver and
J. C. Smith
Paul
Model Candy Kitchen
W. H. Stowers
Harry Johnson
IS. Acheson
Alliance
John Snoddy
Showers
May Snoddy
Treas
Nelson Fletcher
Fire Insurance Agency
Nebraska State Building and Loan Association
Rodgers’ Grocery
John Garrett
Frank Wallace
Ravenette
Priestley “ Cravenette
Ravenete
Ghavenelle
Chie
Inter-State Rubber CO
Z. T. Lindsey
Omaha, Nebraska
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