Making a Coat Forty Theorems of Work by Many Hands
United States Bureau of Labor findings debunk the nine tailors myth, showing a coat requires thirty nine distinct trades and about 3 000 fingers from sheep to wearer. Lincoln’s Chicago case Jones versus Johnson (1860) touched land accretion on Lake Michigan. Judge Drummond and Isaac Arnold hosted a dinner where toasts celebrated Illinois potentially supplying the next president.
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Llor
Lincoln
Jones
Johnson
United States Circuit Court
Drummond
Lake Michigan
Isaac.n. Arnold
Illinois
Unite States
Douglas
Chicago
Poison Not Found In Mrs Clayton Case Report
Beloit college chemist Erastus Smith will report that no poison or trace of poison was found in Mrs. Clayton’s stomach after exhaustive analysis. Doctors Baden and Gibson found her heart and lungs normal with no signs of violence, challenging the murder theory.
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Milwaukee
Erastus Smith
Beloit College
Clayton
Baden
Gibson
Beloit editor dies after brief illness at sixty nine
Wisconsin editor Chalmers T. Tm Gersol longtime Beloit journalist dies at age sixty nine after a brief illness. The news, from Beloit, notes his long involvement in state political affairs.
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Beloit, Wie
Chalmers ‘Tm
Gersol
Beloit
Loaer
Salvation Army anti suicide bureaus show 1125 London aid actions
A year into the Salvation Army program General Booth reports 1125 men and 9 women in London sought help to avoid self harm with many others aided globally. Most came from middle class backgrounds facing financial hardship. about 75 percent avoided suicide and many professionals were saved.
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London
General Booth
Salvation Army
Booth
Bureaus
Injunction Denied to Block Georgia Prohibition Law
Judge W P Newman refused to grant an injunction pending litigation filed by two breweries from Chattanooga and Cincinnati. The ruling does not dismiss the case, which will be heard in due course, as prohibition remains in force in Georgia with no major disruptions reported.
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Georgia
W. P. Newman
United States Circuit Court
Beralf
Chattaioog
Cincinn
Juda Newman
Tie
Newman
Moran and Attell Fight to a Draw in San Francisco
The featherweight title bout ends in a draw after twenty five rounds with Moran of England pressuring Attell and Moran bleeding from the nose while Attell struggles to land clean blows. Jeffries separates them as the crowd approves the result though some critics call for a clearer winner. Weight issues force Attell to pay 260 for the surplus ounces.
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Owen Moran
England
Mbe Attell
America
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Attell
Moran
Wade
Big Jim Jeffries
Jeffries
Appoval
Wight
Jeffrias
Bridegroom Killed in Sensational Dillon Montana Tragedy
In Dillon Montana on January 2 Fred Baker killed F A Lawrence from Butte as the wedding neared at Baker’s home. Lawrence in wedding clothes wore a marriage license. A dispute with Justice Rich preceded the fatal shot through a glass door that blinded Lawrence and toppled him as the bride fainted in her white gown. Baker surrendered to arrest.
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Baker
Law
Beker
Justice Rich
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Wounded Firemen in Vancouver Japanese Riot
Allen Anderson and two fellow firemen were badly wounded in a fight with Japanese residents in Vancouver. Anderson was severely slashed and stabbed, others were injured as the crowd surged from a storefront. police arrested four suspects and all three were taken to hospital.
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Ore
Oregonian
Vancouver
B. C
Allen Anderson
Fire Department
Anderson
J. Frost
T. McDonald
Frost
New Year Brings Brooklyn Crime Wave Across Boroughs
Brooklyn blotters on New Year’s Day record many killings and assaults. Gas from a partly open burner asphyxiated Jacob Spriester and his wife on Ocean Parkway. Burglar shot dead entering David Jaffo’s Meserole Street store. Jaffo killed burglar. Frank Fereno sought after fatal shooting of Michael Schindelio on Carroll Street. Hattie Schu vert stabbed husband Max Schubert on Ocean Parkway. Archibald P Mitchell, tied to Augusta Herne, died by gas inhalation on West Seventy first Street Manhattan.
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New York
Manhattan
Jacob Spriesterback
Ocean Parkway
David Jaffo
Meserole Street
Jaffo
Frank Fereno
Michael Schindelio
Carroll Street
Hattie Schuvert
Max Schubert
Archibald P. Mitchell
Augusta Herne
West Virginia
West Seventy-first Street
Coast Defenses Topic Raised for Pacific States
The Oregonian reports adjutant generals of California Washington and Oregon invited by the War Department to Washington for a conference on coast defenses. The meeting is seen as signaling government readiness for emergencies. Training volunteer coast artillery reserves to man forts will be the main focus.
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Ore
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Oregonian
Pacific Coast
California
Washington
Oregon
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Coast Artillery
Mary Ramsey Wood Dies at 119 in Oregon Home
Mrs. Mary Ramsey Wood, a Tennessee native, died in Htsboro Oregon at her daughter’s home aged 119 years. Her long life spanned the 19th and early 20th centuries, with roots in Tennessee.
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Htsbero, Ore
Mary Ramsey Wood
American chargé d'affaires returns to Guatemala City over consular attack
William F. Sands, the American charge d'affaires, has come back from Ocos to Guatemala City to probe an alleged assault on the American consul there by the Mexican consul. Guatemala authorities are accused of failing to protect the consul as tensions rise with Mexico. Judge San Marong is dispatched to Ocos to conduct a judicial inquiry, expected to aid Americans.
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Guatemala
William F. Sands
Ocos
Mexico
Senor Gamboa
United States
Sands
San Marong
Marshall Murdock, Wichita Eagle Editor, Dies at 70
Marshall Murdock, editor and proprietor of the Wichita Eagle, father of Congressman Victor Murdock, a renowned American newspaper man, died in Wichita, Kansas, on January 2 at age seventy. His death ends a long career in journalism.
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Kan
Marshall Murdock
The
Wichita Eagle
Victor Murdock
United States
Accidental Shooting Kills James McQuirk in Niles Home
In Niles Mich on January 2 James McQuirk was fatally shot while dining. An accidental discharge from a gun handled in the adjoining half of a double house caused the fatal wound through the wall hitting him in the back.
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Niles, Mich
James Mc Quirk
Fred Behumacher
McQuirk
Death of W. P. Ferris Under Delirious Morphine Drive
Investigation into the death of W. P. Ferris in a hallway at 31 East Fourteenth street reveals he shot himself through the stomach during a delirium spurred by a determined effort to effect morphine suicide, the drug he had consumed in large quantities.
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Minneapolis
W. P. Ferris
East Fourteenth Street
Ice accident drowns two skaters at Ford Slip
Wyandotte Michigan January 2 Agnes Petterson twenty five and Otto Huglin twenty six drowned after breaking through ice while skating at Ford slip.
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Wyandotte, Mich
Agnes Petterson
Otto Huglin
Ford Slip
Roosevelt Receives New Year Throngs at White House
President Roosevelt greets a New Year throng at the White House in a three hour procession of well wishers. Notables including presidential aspirants and Admiral Brownson participate amid diplomatic pageantry and orderly lines through the East Room and Blue Room.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
House of Representatives
Cortelyou
la Follette
Japs Active in Chile Supplying Explosives Private News
Report from the Kosmos liner Neko crew describes Japanese government purchases of all Chilean saltpetre and abundant yucca shipments from Iquique. Fast 6000-ton steamers are moving saltpeter and yucca to Japan, yucca supplying picric acid for Shimose powder used in the war with Russia.
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Kosmos
Neko
Iquique
Chile
Sahara
Japan
Porta
Russia
How Fast He Could Go
A breeder and trainer of race horses notes an English buyer who wants to see the horse run before paying. The trainer replies the horse’s speed is constrained by its own telling, saying he can’t go faster than it can tell. Source: New York Sun.
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England
New York Sun
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