Tokyo Hails Sperry as Fleet Heads to Yokohama
In Yokohama a grand welcome for Rear Admiral Sperry closes Japan's fleet visit with a banquet on the Fuji, a Mikasa reception, and torchlit processions. Sperry walks Tokyo streets amid tens of thousands, greeting crowds and attending Nodzu's funeral wreath lay. Departure to Yokohama drew thunderous ovations from schoolchildren and locals along Ginza to Shimbashi.
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Sperry
Count Nodzu
Shiba Palace
Shimbashi
Ginza
Tokio
Evil Dently
Schroeder
Wainwright
Bedlam
Connecticut
Coast Towns in Nicaragua Destroyed by Destructive Hurricane
A cable from Bluefields Nicaragua dated Oct 21 reports a disastrous hurricane along the coast from Pearl Cays to Cape Gracias destroying the towns of Rio Grande and Prinzapulka and causing extensive interior damage with many lives lost. The fruit steamer Dictator is safe and uninjured.
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New Orleans
Bluefields
Nicaragua
Rio Grande
Prinzapulka
Pearl Cays
Cape Gracias
Hfe
Bold Robbery at Perkins Home in Morristown
Three masked men cut telephone wires outside the Perkins residence, entered the Morristown home, knocked down a maid, choked Mrs. H W Miller sister of the Perkins sisters, and ransacked the house. Jewelry valued at least $2,000 and other money were taken.
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Newark
N. J
Stein-Porter murder case Indictments Not Returned
Ashland Oct 24 the grand jury failed to indict Mrs Stein and Mrs Bayard of Des Moines Ia in the Stein Porter murder case citing insufficient evidence.
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Ashland
Stein
Bayard
Des Moines
Stein-Porter
Richard Le Gallienne III In Critical Condition In New York
Renowned journalist and author Richard Le Gallienne III lies seriously ill in a private New York sanitarium with double pneumonia and jaundice. Physicians describe his condition as critical.
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Richard LE Gallienne III
New York
Richard le Gallienne
Two Macedonians killed in mystery shooting near Milwaukee Pit
In Waterville road crossing twelve miles west of Waukesha two Macedonians died in a cook house shooting at the Milwaukee Light Heat and Traction camp. Victims Rompo Usranoff, 19, a cook, and Sperro Achishiroff, 23, a laborer, were killed.
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Waukesha
Wis
Milwaukee Light, Heat and Traction Company
Waterville Road
Rompo Usranoff
Sperro Achishiroff
Threats Against Life of Governor Patterson Heighten Security
Samburg Tennessee October 24 threats against Governor Patterson directing night rider investigations led to doubled guard lines and extra troops. Proprieter T C Ward and merchants Knox Morgan Elmer Tate in custody as governor calls sheriff recruits and coordinates with county forces to secure the area.
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Samburg
Tenn
Patterson
T. C. Ward
Walnut Log
Elmer Tate
Dyer County
This
Lake County
Rankin
Union City
Governor Jeered by Crowd On Porch Advertising Show
The governor faced jeers and verbal assaults from a crowd on a porch. Several in the gathering shouted that he would not live to run for office again.
Triumphant Ascension of Zeppelin No 1 at Friedrichshafen
The re constructed Zeppelin dirigible airship No. 1 appeared and ascended with ten passengers at Friedrichshafen on Oct 24. It flew three and a half hours over Lake Constance averaging 29.31 mph at 800 feet. Crowds cheered its graceful movements and precise steering, naming it the finest dirigible yet from Mansel.
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Friedrichshafen
Lake Constance
Mansel
Scarlet Fever Epidemic Detected in Chicago Jungle District
The Chicago health department reports an epidemic of scarlet fever and diphtheria among children in the Jungle area of the stockyards district. More than sixty cases are listed as discovered, with quarantine avoidance by affected families hindering containment efforts.
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Chicago
Health Department
Stock Yards
Jungle
Market Quotations Wheat Prices in Minneapolis Oct 23
Minneapolis Wheat quotes show Dec at 1.00 to 1.01 percent, May at 1.05 to 1.05 percent. On track prices list No. 1 hard 1.04 to 1.04, No. 1 Northern 1.03, No. 2 Northern 1.01, No. 3 Northern 7c to 1.90.
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Minneapolis
Northern
Cattle and hog prices listed in St Paul market report
St Paul market report shows cattle ranges from good to choice steers six to six eighty seven, cows and heifers four to five, veals three seventy five to six, hogs four fifty to five seventy five, sheep with wethers three seventy five to four, yearlings four ten to four twenty five, and spring lambs four fifty to eight dollars.
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St. Paul
Wheat and flax prices listed for futures contracts
Wheat futures to arrive and on track show No 1 hard at 1.04 1 2 Northern 1.03 No 2 Northern 1.01 Dec 1.01 May 1.05 Oct 1.02 Nov 1.03 Flax futures to arrive and on track quoted at 1.24 Oct 1.23 Nov 1.23 Dec 1.22 May 1.26
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Duluth
Northern
Market Price Snapshots From Chicago Exchange
Chicago notes show futures for corn oats pork butter and poultry with assorted contract months and price figures. Corn values range mid sixty to seventy cents with May and July bids. oats near forty to fifty cents. pork prices top around thirteen to fifteen dollars. butter reported for creameries and dairies. poultry prices list turkeys chickens and springs.
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Chicago
Brigges
Springs
Lllec
Taft Campaign Draws Indiana Crowds Despite Rain
Indiana voters give Taft a rousing reception with huge crowds in Brazil Crawfordsville Lafayette Kokomo Anderson Muncie and Indianapolis. Heavy rain and delayed trains could not dampen enthusiasm as Taft urged that Indiana is alive to its political responsibility and will help Republicans win.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Taft
Brazil
Crawfordsville
Lafayette
Kokomo
Frankfort
Marions
Senator Hemenway
Muncie
Hemenway
Anderson
Harrison
Virginia Avenue Auditorium
Fairbanks
Representative Overstreet
Chauffeur William Kauffman Beaten Stabbed in East Side Assault
New York on October 24, William Kauffman a strike breaking taxi driver for New York Taxicab Co was lured to a lonely East Side location where he was brutally beaten and stabbed ten times. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital in serious condition.
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New York
William Kauffman
East Side
Bellevue Hospital
Market quotes for cattle hogs and sheep in Chicago
Chicago livestock prices list cattle types including cattle Beeves Western cattle and stockers and feeders with price ranges from $1.50 to $8.00. Hogs show light to heavy classes from $5.05 to $6.40 and pigs up to $4.80. Sheep and yearlings priced between $1.50 and $6.00 with lambs around $3.76 to $5.65.
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Chicago
Farmer Kills Neighbor Then Takes Own Life
Bay City Mich Oct 24 After a quarrel with his wife Charles Smith an aged farmer of Poseyville Midland county shot and killed William Duchan a neighbor at whose home Mrs Smith had taken refuge and then died by suicide
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Bay City
Mich
Charles Smith
Poseyville
Midland County
William Duchan
Trolley worker killed as train plows into switch
Detroit October 24 Carl Volkeninz trolley boy died and twelve workmen were hurt when a Detroit United railway construction train struck an open switch. Five of the injured are seriously harmed in the accident that halted the line.
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Detroit
Carl Volkeninz
Detroit United Railway
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