Earthquakes Drive Miners From Death Valley Camps
Bernardine Cal Nov 11 In Death Valley and surrounding country a sequence of quakes has shaken the area for three weeks with the violent tremor of last Wednesday morning causing miners and prospectors to flee. Samuel Lawrence reported daily rumbles and a total panic as Funerals Range crags seemed to totter and camps were disrupted by falling rocks and stampeding animals. Miners began deserting at daybreak.
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Bernardine
Cal
Death Valley
Samuel Lawrence
Arbitration to settle Casa Blanca incident between France and Germany
Paris November 11. France and Germany agreed to submit the Casa Blanca incident to arbitration after exchanging regret. M Cambon and Baron von Waech signed, with the venue to be chosen later. The guilty country must apologize.
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Paris
France
Germany
M. Cambon
Berlin
Baron von Waech
Tew
Hague
Fire and stabbing shock Kentucky town after Sherburne incident
In Sherburne Bath county after an incendiary fire destroyed Dr. W B McClures drugstore and office one man is jailed and another may die from stab wounds A bloodhound hunt led Captain Mulliken to Harry Morgan at his home Morgan then stabbed T G Daugherty twice during arrest attempt. Morgan held at Sherburne with a riot risk lingering.
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Lexington
W. B. McClure
Sherburne
Bath County
W. G. Mulliken
Harry Morgan
Mulliken
T. G. Daugherty
Daugherty
Morgan
aged man kills his wife in Wisconsin killing and suicide attempt
In Viroqua Wisconsin on November 11 84 year old Eland Olson killed his wife a year younger and then attempted suicide. Jealousy was cited as motive as the couple’s son found the wife in a bloodied room with an axe wound and the father later found in another room.
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Viroqua
Wis
Eland Olson
Olson
Husband succumbs after hanging incident and deep abdominal wound
A man died after hanging from a rope and sustaining a deep abdominal cut. the husband could not be revived. The incident prompted police investigation and a gravely injured survivor.
Ship canal proposed from Atlantic to Mississippi by Dr. W J McGee
In Columbus Georgia on November 11 Dr W J McGee secretary of the bureau of soils for the national conservation commission urged a Gulf Coast Inland waterways canal linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River at a convention of the Gulf Coast Inland waterways association.
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Columbus
Atlantic Ocean
Gulf-Coast-Inland Waterways Association
W. J. McGee
Bureau of Soils
National Conservation Commission
Two More Fire Victims Dead In City Fire
Horace Watson of Springfield South Dakota and Ella Hawke of Mercer Pennsylvania died from burns suffered in Monday’s city fire. Gladys Hall of Kansas City is not expected to survive and four others are still in doubt about recovery.
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Iwai
Horace Watson
Springfield
S. D
Ella Hawke
Mercer
Gladys Hall
Kansas City
Market Quotations Wheat Prices in Minneapolis
Minneapolis wheat prices on November 10 show December at 1.94 and May at 1.08 with on track bids for No. 1 hard 1.08 No. 1 Northern 1.07 No. 2 Northern 1.05 No. 3 Northern 1.03 71.04.
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Minneapolis
Northern
Wheat and flax prices on track for November delivery
In Duluth on November 10 wheat and flax futures were listed on track with Nor 1 hard at 1.08 dollars, Nor 1 Northern at 1.07, Nor 2 Northern at 1.95, Dec at 1.04, May at 1.08 and Nov at 11.95. Flax quotes showed arrivals on track with Nov at 1.36 and Dec 1.34, May 1.38.
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Duluth
Northern
Cattle and hog prices in St Paul market report
St Paul markets report prices for cattle range from good to choice steers at 6.00 to 6.75, cows and heifers 4.00 to 5.00, veals 5.25 to 46.00, hogs 5.00 to 5.75, sheep wethers 4.00 to 4.25, yearlings 3.90 to 4.10, spring lambs 5.00 to 5.35.
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St. Paul
Chicago price quotes for grains and livestock
Wheat futures for December at 1.02% May 1.07% July 1.61% Corn options November 62% December 62% May 62% Oats December 49% May 5144 51% July 47% Pork January 15.92 4 May 15.82 Butter creamery 22 29c dairies 19% 21c Eggs 2 Tc Poultry turkeys 13c chickens 8 9c springs lic
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Chicago
Market quotes for cattle hogs and sheep at Chicago
Cattle Heeves and Western cattle quoted at 3.35 to 5.80 per unit with varied ranges for stockers and feeders cows and heifers calves and calves. Hogs listed by weight class from light to heavy with prices from 5.15 to 6.10 and pigs up to 3.78 to 6.10. Sheep and yearlings quoted 2.50 to 6.00 with lambs around 3.75 to 6.00.
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Chicago
Beers Killed In Train Collision Near Butte
Butte Montana November 11 Arthur Beers a veteran railroad man with the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul was killed in a wreck seven miles east of Butte when a passenger train collided with a freight. Beers recently from Austin Minnesota was a freight conductor hurled from a flat car and mangled dying a few hours later.
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Butte
Mont
Arthur Beers
Chicago, Milwaukee and
Fire at 221 Sidney Street. two children burned
A rear tenement fire at 221 Sidney Street in St. Louis badly burned two children and left a man missing. Firemen fought the flames as residents aided in evacuations and investigators began work at the scene.
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St. Louis
Sidney Street
Drunken Shooting Ends in Double Tragedy in Grand Rapids
In Grand Rapids on November 11 Jacob Sikkema thirty two shot his wife Cora twice at their home then fatally shot himself. A six week old baby in the room survived. The woman is listed in slight but possible recovery.
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Grand Rapids, Mich
Jacob Sikkema
Cora
Taft Narrowly Leads Minnesota With 85 Thousand Plurality
With practically complete returns and official counts, Taft's Minnesota plurality reaches at least 85,000, tallying 85,316 in most districts. Only a few counties remain and their results are very close to final figures.
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St. Paul
Taft
Minnesota
Mrs Reed Arrested in Denver Blackmail Case
Denver police arrest Mrs. Reed wife of Allen Reed a Denver druggist in a blackmail plot believed driven by drug habits. She threatened Mrs Genevieve Chandler Phipps for over 29000 and claimed a large family fortune. Police doubt her sanity and hold her for further action while husband seeks private treatment.
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Denver
Genevieve Chandler Phipps
Reed
Allen Reed
Dre. Reed
Springfield
Mass
Campbell
Phipps
Buffa c Park
Lawrence C. Phipps
Pittsburg
Gerald Hughes
The Chinese Hoe and Its Proven Role in Farming
A London article extols the Chinese farmer for mastery with simple tools the hoe plow and harrow. It notes the hoe replaces the spade in England and describes how seasoned workers form calloused hands from years of hoe use. It highlights hoe work to till, level soil and spread nutrient mud from streams onto fields.
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Engand
London
Killing of Carmack shocks Nashville in street duel
The body of former Senator E. W. Carmack is sent from Nashville to Columbia after a street duel with Robin J. Cooper. Crowds at Union Station sing hymns as Mrs. Carmack and friends follow the coffin. Cooper is wounded and under arrest. Colonel R. Cooper is jailed after being with his son.
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Nashville
Tenn
E. W. Carmack
Robin J. Cooper
Columbia
Union Station
Carmack
Jesus
Ira Landrith
Robin Cooper
R. Cooper
Coopers
Examination Hammer and the Notable Howlers
A Manchester Guardian note surveys student exam comments in Normal Eehoes praising their oddities. It cites lines on Blake as precocious yet dogmatic and remarks that satirical works dominated the era, plus vivid phrases about Cromwell and a churchgoing “lapsed man” who mislearned Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Normal Eehoes
William Blake
Cromwell
Sodom
Gomorrah
Manchester Guardian
Early pledges to abstain from gambling and drinking found in Italy
Researches in Italy reveal medieval written pledges to abstain from gambling and limit drinking. Three documents from Milan archives recount oaths by individuals in Pavia and surrounding areas with penalties for breaches. The practice appears linked to master employees rather than organized temperance movements, with Germany taking early honors for temperance orders in 1517 and 1500.
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Italy
Turin
Stadi Medievali
Girolamo Blecato
Milan
Giacomo Paegeali
Tien
Pavia
Papio Bovatorio
Perano de Ono
Uberto de Proto
Mentiro
de Proto
Sileto Ferrario
Lamperia
Germany
Order of St. Christopher
Sigismund de Diettrichstein
Landgrave of
Hesse
Place of Learning Quote Explains Teaching Value
Sydney Smith once answered why a college is called a place of learning. He said many have been there to get learning but none ever took learning away, justifying the name.
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Sydney Smith
Weight and longevity link in medical study
Dr Brandreth Symonds cites a life insurance study showing people under normal weight live longer than those at or above standard weight after age thirty. Heart disease, Brights disease, apoplexy, paralysis, cerebral congestions, and liver cirrhosis are rarer in the underweight, while pneumonia and tuberculosis pose higher risk. no fat man reached eighty, while forty four underweights did.
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Brandreth Symonds
Bright
Symonds
Bride’s entrance sparks vivid Telegraph quip
A London Telegraph quip recalls a bride marching to the altar as if led by force. The friend retorts that she walked willingly and could not be stopped, likening the moment to a cavalry regiment.
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London Telegraph
Wheat buyer Frank Sedivy killed in runaway at Harriott
Frank Sedivy a wheat buyer at Harriott Struck by a runaway team and died minutes later. He was thirty, left a wife and two children. The accident occurred near Stratton North Dakota on November 11.
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Stratton
N. D
Frank Sedivy
Harriott
Angry Wife Confronts Delinquent Husband Over Late Return
A tense domestic scene unfolds as an angry wife questions her husband about his late homecoming. The husband replies with evasive, taunting lines suggesting he could have stayed out longer but faced a wait to go to sleep.
Seon Gets Over It
A witty remark about marriage and the honeymoon’s timing quotes a man saying the honeymoon is when a husband finds it funny to return home and find his wife has no dinner ready on time.
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Seon
Politician Faces Chorus of Dishonor Amid Outburst
The politician faced public denunciation then dismissed the uproar with a joke, declaring the noise not music and deciding to stay only briefly before leaving. The Philadelphia Ledger reports the incident as a cautionary moment in public life.
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Scott
Philadelphia Ledger
How Rows Begin in a Domestic Dream Fracas
A short quarrel erupts when a wife complains in a dream that her husband does not love her. He retorts that her dream proves nothing and mocks the notion, igniting a playful yet pointed domestic exchange reported by the Louisville Courier-Journal.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
What a Scotsman Wears
A Scotsman wears trousers, not a kilt or kilts, in contrast to a reader’s note about Harry Lauder in a kilt and a London News reply. The column maintains truth by stating Scotsmen generally wear trousers.
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Haggis
Harry Lauder
London News
Means to the End by Benham and His Mother-in-law
In Harper's Weekly a humorous exchange follows Mrs Benham asking why a man hates his mother-in-law. Benham answers the man does not hate her, only resents how she entered his family.
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Benham
Harper's Weekly
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