Apple Wagons Line Three Miles In Watsonville Parade
Apple wagons form a three mile parade main body at the Watsonville show with special excursions from San Jose and bay cities bringing 3500 visitors to the streets. News from Colorado floods reports the river raging along the Cotton Land Company dike near Needles driving settlers to flee.
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Watsonville
San Jose
Bay Cities
Colorado
San Bernardino
Cotton Land Company
Arizona
Needles
Sea Returns Watch After Year in Surf
Santa Rosa reports a gold watch lost by Jacob Schelling on Decoration Day last year was recovered by waves and returned to his widow yesterday. The watch was only lightly damaged and had eluded divers who failed to recover it when lost.
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Santa Rosa
Jacob Schelling
Mr. Schelling
Swallows Gold Tooth While Asleep
Miss Mearl Hemingway of Santa Monica swallowed a large gold tooth while sleeping Saturday night. The tooth had been inserted by a local dentist about two weeks ago and will be replaced by that dentist under guarantee. She has suffered no ill effects from the incident.
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Santa Monica
Mearl Hemingway
Third Street
Hemingway
Colonist Travel Breaks Records in Los Angeles
Colonists arrive in Los Angeles at over 1000 daily as the 1911 fall season nears its end. Officials from the Santa Fe Southern Pacific and Salt Lake passenger departments say Southern California will shatter travel records before month’s end. Railroad men note travelers with cheap fares are a higher quality group than usual westbound migrants.
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Los Angeles
Southern California
Santa Fe
Southern Pacific
Salt Lake
Collapse of the Gusher at Lakeview well
Bakersfield reports that the Lakeview gusher may have collapsed from wall caves forming a fifty foot diameter crater. Excavation reveals vertical walls to twenty feet depth and recurring cave ins as oil is pumped. Nearby wells show strong gas pressure and high production.
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Bakersfield
Lakeview
Scotty in Los Angeles After Death Valley Dig
In Los Angeles a Death Valley miner nicknamed Scotty arrived by the Santa Fe with a companion, describing a flashy past as a spendthrift. The brief dispatch notes his arrival and the brash, breezy tone surrounding his notoriety.
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Scotty
Los Angeles
Death Valley
Prince of Spenders
Los Anges
Santa Fe
Ris
Scotty Returns as Death Valley's Loose Cannon
The familiar figure known as Scotty strolls through town in a blue flannel shirt red tie and sombrero, tossing gold pieces to crowds and handing change to bartenders. His "good fellows" cheer his return as Death Valley leaks a new tale of his lavish presence and spiked luck.
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Scotty
Death Valley
Women Register Now to Vote After Amendment California
Sacramento October 18 Women may register with county clerks immediately and be ready to vote in any general or special election after thirty days from the passage of constitutional amendment No. 4. Secretary of State Frank C Jordan calls the amendment part of the constitution, with Attorney General Webb confirming unofficially. Under election law, registrants must be registered thirty days before an election, delaying local option votes within the next month.
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Sacramento
Frank C. Jordan
Webb
California land open to settlers for farming prospects
Washington reports more than 3,000,000 acres formerly in national forests opened to entry and settlement under presidential proclamations. Lands spread across Oklahoma, Arkansas, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Washington, Wyoming, Colorado, Alaska, and especially California, promise homes and opportunities for fruit culture with low prices under homestead laws. Applications advised at local land offices.
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Washington
Oklahoma
Arkansas
New Mexico
Nevada
Utah
Idaho
Wyoming
Colorado
Alaska
California
Lower
Oregon Line
Whisky From Bananas Reports From Paris
Dispatches from Paris say two French men have produced pure whisky from bananas claiming two appealing qualities cheapness and a pleasant odor. In Rome four aeroplanes arrived from France to be sent to Tripoli for experiments in aerial warfare with Italian officers piloting to drop bombs on enemy camps.
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New York
Paris
Rome
Frontier
France
Tripoli
Bee Stings Farmer in Apple at Cider Mill
Pendleton Indiana October 17 A farmer William Jones after biting an apple at a cider mill suffered swelling of the tongue. A physician removed a bee's stinger from his tongue. The insect is believed to have entered the apple and stung him.
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Pendleton
Ind
William Jones
Ten Buried Alive at Colwood Railroad Mine
A premature blast at a Canadian Northern railroad cutting in Colwood, near Victoria, killed two men one nearly torn in two and another buried under earth. Five others were severely injured and rescued by fellow workers. ten foreign laborers were in the mine at the time of the accident.
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Victoria
B. C
Canadian Northern
Colwood
Treasure Fleet Bringing Millions to Seattle voyage
The steamship Victoria sailed from Nome with six hundred passengers and more than a million dollars in treasure from Seward Peninsula mines. Two more steamers will sail for the States before navigation closes for winter, expected to carry large treasure consignments.
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Nome
Steamship Victoria
Seattle
Seward Peninsula
Bering Sea
74 Women in Kansas Hold Offices 10 Are Judges
Kansas City report states seventy four women hold elective posts in Kansas. Aside from one woman mayor, Ella Wilson, all were elected by men. Offices not held by women include coroner sheriff county prosecutor and county commissioner.
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Kansas
Kansas City
Ella Wilson
Register of Deeds
Treasury issues tests for imported tea to speed release
The Treasury Department instructed customs officers to detail the tests imported tea must undergo to expedite release of hundreds of thousands of pounds held on the Pacific Coast and in Chicago. The move aims to settle the controversy over government regulations against colored tea and ensure faster clearance.
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Washington
Pacific Coast
Chicago
Treasury Department
Wine-Soaked Fish Protest Customs Action in Frontignan
In Frontignan several hundred gallons of confiscated wine were dumped into a canal by customs officers. The wine allegedly intoxicated fish that rise to the surface making them easily picked by hand. Housewives balk at buying fish and local fishermen unite in protest.
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Paris
Frontignan
Boiling Lake Eruptions Reported At Bogoslof Island
SEWARD Alaska Oct 17 Three distinct eruptions of Bogoslof volcano in the Aleutians this season are noted by Deputy U S Marshal Hastings of Unalaska who arrived here and reports Bogoslof Island again showed a boiling lake with no sign of tearfser at the scene.
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Seward
Alaska
Bogoslof
United States
Hastings
Unalaska
Aooslof
Island Sides Battered as Bay of Cold Water Rises
A bay of cold water surged against the shore after a portion of the island's side blew away, leaving surrounding areas exposed to the elements.
Chicago Marks Fortieth Anniversary of 1871 Fire Parade
Chicago celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the 1871 great fire with a nighttime parade. In Grant Park a replica of Mrs O Leary s barn was burned as a feature. A cow played the fabled animal role linked to the blaze's origin.
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Chicago
Grant Park
Dawn of Gold Fair Planned in Sacramento for 1915
Sacramento officials endorse a dawn of gold exposition to run with San Francisco and San Diego fairs in 1915. The event would celebrate California’s 49ers era featuring Sacramento’s mining history and Gen. Sutter’s fort site, drawing tourist traffic through the capital.
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Sacramento
San Francisco
San Diego
California
Marvelous One Trades Clothes for Silence and Strength
A Savannah report describes John Castellon a 61 year old man who has never worn clothes or spoken beyond Gee. He lives four miles east of Windsor in Bertie County North Carolina and remains in excellent health with prodigious strength, able to break a double plowline as easily as cotton cord.
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Savannah
North Georgia Mountains
John Castellon
Hale
Harris
Windsor
Bertie County
N. C
Pies Sealed In Cornerstone At Domestic Science Building
Cincinnati scene reports six freshly baked pies sealed in the cornerstone of the Domestic Science building on Fourth Avenue near Stone Street. A baking concern placed the pies, noting phonograph records are in other cornerstones for posterity but future generations may crave pie.
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Cincinnati
Domestic Science
Fourth Avenue
Stone Street
Beets Will Stop High Price of Sugar
Secretary Wilson of the Department of Agriculture says the public can end high sugar prices by increasing sugar production. He notes beet sugar production is rising rapidly with Colorado California and Wisconsin producing large crops.
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Milwaukee
Wilson
Department of Agriculture
Colorado
California
Wisconsin
Public Land and Mining Contests Information
If you are interested in any contest before the Interior Department, write to Clark Wright land lawyers at 902 F Street N W Washington D C. Free information about contests and locatable upon public lands without residence or cultivation.
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Interior Department
Clark & Wright
F Street N. W
Gen’l Land Office
Washington, D. C
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