Woman Burned When Liniment Ignited On Porch
Mea Maggie Rooke, 22, sustained severe burns and her husband John M. Rooks, 33, was hurt helping extinguish flames after turpentine liniment she heated for him erupted. Both treated at Grady Hospital in Atlanta. bystanders aided rescue and fire was contained before the fire department arrived.
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Grady Hospital
Maggie Rooke
Central Avenue
John M. Rooks
Rooks
Mandle Lumpkin
Mrs. Hooks
Prince Ito Is Slain By Vengeful Korean
Tokio reports Prince Hirobumi Ito famed Japanese statesman assassinated by a Korean in Harbin. News arrived at 3 pm in Tokio. Ito helped frame Japan’s imperial constitution and modernize the nation. He was 62 and his English pilgrimage in 1863 marked a pivotal moment in Japan’s rise.
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Ito
Tokio
Prince Ito
Harbin
Hirobumi Ito
New Japan
Japan
England
Athens Female College Girl Illness Sparks Scare
Birmingham report from October 25 says about forty Athena Female College students at Athens Alabama are ill with a malady, initially thought fever, now described as ptomaine poisoning or grip epidemic. No deaths. seven Nashville nurses assist. The school is suspended for ten days. about 100 students reportedly left.
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Birmingham
Ala
Athena Female College
Athens
Colege
Nashville
Methodist Church
Athena
Mary N. Moore
F. W. Brandon
Bessemer
Cotton Mills Plan Curtailment Across New England
Boston reports Arkwright Club members plan a curtailment of 224 hours between November 1 and August next, with New York state mills likely to follow. if all mills join, nine to ten million spindles could be affected. Nine mills in Union County, D C will close for a week due to high cotton prices. Anderson and nearby mills in South Carolina reduce to five days weekly. Greenville and Greenwood districts plan one day a week curtailment. Merchants' Association and Tobacco Board of Trade join to welcome National Warmerg Congress delegates to Durham en route to Raleigh.
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Boston
Arkwright Club
New England
Milis
Mila
New York State
New England Mills
Union
D. C
Lockhart
Anderson
S. C
Greenville
Senden
Greenwood
Disveiay
Merchants’ Association
Tobacco Board of Trade
Thia City
Warmerg Congress
Durham
Raleigh
Furnace to Go Into Blast at Chattanooga Plant
Chattanooga Tenn October 25 The Chattanooga furnace a plant of the Southern Tron and Steel Company will go into blast tomorrow morning. The furnace has a capacity of 200 tons and the reorganized company has expended $45000 in repairs. Two hundred men will be given employment.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Southern Tron and Steel Company
Murder revealed as husband shoots after kiss in Bay Shore
Frederick Gebhardt, using the alias Otto Mueller, confessed to murdering Anna Luther near Islip after a confrontation over marriage and child. He said he killed her when she kissed him after he told her he must leave and return to his first wife and child. The confession follows a staged letter to the German consul and a brutal verbal recounting to detectives.
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New York
Otto Mueller
Astoria
S. 1
Anna Luther
Europe
Henry Wertapp
Newark
N. J
Amma
Thirty-fourth Street
Bay Bhore
Islip
Anna
Anne Luther
Bay Shore
Gebhardt
Savage
Tam
Anne Mueller
Germany
Newport
Florida
Jamaica
Bradley
Denver
Mueller
Long Island
Zelaya Regime in Nicaragua Threatened by Insurgents
Insurgents under General Estrada rapidly mobilize and seize Atlantic coast ports in Nicaragua. Washington considers Zelaya’s regime near collapse as U S recognition of the port closure signals a de facto blockade. Duties paid to revolutionists would be owed to Zelaya if ports are retaken.
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General Estrada
Washington
Zelaya
Nicaragua
Atlantic
United States
Reliability Runs End at Speedway Club House
The Georgian Automobile Association marks the official terminus for reliability runs to be held November 9. Entrants from Savannah Albany Fitzgerald and Dublin will lodge at the Atlanta Automobile Association club house on the grounds of the 2 mile Speedway Course before racing starts. Committee plans and timing will be announced after a Chamber of Commerce meeting led by W. G. Humphrey with John W. Grant Edward H. Inman and others assisting.
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Savannah
Albany
Fitzgerald
Dublin
Augusta
Geonrta
Automobile Association
Atlanta Automobile Association
R. J. Guinn
Chamber of Commerce
W. G. Humphrey
Atlanta
T Humphrey
Charles J. Ryan
John W. Grant
W. Ye Kile
Edward H. Inman
John’ Murphy
Healthy people held as lepers on dreaded Molokai island
Honolulu reports fifty of the first hundred examined as non leprous at Molokai. Physicians found no disease after bacteriological tests and expect many more in line for re examination under a regulation designed to grant doubt to outcasts. The revelation causes hope and surprise on Molokai and among residents of the group.
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Molokai
Honolulu
Fire department rushes to quiet family row in Atlanta
Fire wagons sped to East Hunter and Martin streets just before 8:30 last night to quell an alleged dispute between William Evans and his son-in-law Emory Willis. No fire, but the firefighters’ arrival sparked laughter as the families agreed to end the quarrel. Police did not file charges.
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Atlanta
East Hunter and
Martin Streets
Wiliam Evans
East
Hunter Street
Emory Willis
Terry Street
Fire Department
W. B. Cummings
Evans
79 year old woman enrolls in Ohio State University classes
Columbus Ohio October 25 Mrs A K Winship of Racine Wisconsin, nearly 79, has entered Ohio State University for the year. After two years of summer school she progresses to a regular course, studying psychology and literature. She plans this program to stay engaged until her eightieth birthday.
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Columbus
Ohio
Mrrs
K. Winship
Racine
Wis
Ohio State University
Boen
Uni
Fitzgerald Auto Endurance Entrants From City and Region
Fitzgerald Ga October 25 Special One dozen Fitzgerald cars already entered for the Constitution endurance auto run to Atlanta November 4 with more expected from Fitzgerald and nearby cities including Macon Thomasville and Irwinville. Mayor Knapp optimistic about forty starters and notes road conditions are good with rain needed only before the event.
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Fitzgerald
J. G. Knapp
Jacksonville
Macon
Thomasville
Irwinville
Fltzgerald
Atlanta
E. J. Dorminy
Buick
J. Dorminy
BT Strickland
D. B. Warr
C.D. B. Ware
Murray
Farmer
Cadilac
E. K. Farmer
A. HW
Denmark
James Fletcher
Fitzgerald Ga
Ford
Clase C
W. R. Park
Tlme
Parsons
T. M. Parsons
Richard Armantrout
R. M. Ware
F. A. Russell
Mo McLaughlin
M McLaughlin
Billings
Derminy
Kerminy
HO Farnell
Adams
Fitsgerald Ga
Maxwell
James Paulk
Fletcher
Gao
MN PB Fletcher
T. Joe Rogers
Oly
Momand
Chase
Knapp Talka
Knapp
Fitzgrerald
Sign Myers
Savannah
Weather Prophecy Fair Warmer This Week
A forecast indicates fair and warmer conditions with Tuesday and Wednesday sunny skies and variable winds. Rainfall in the past 24 hours remains minimal, while the monthly deficiency continues to be tracked since January 1.
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Georgia
Exceya
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