Ten new steamer lines to call here
Los Angeles officials forecast the arrival of ten major steamship companies after the Panama Canal opens. Represented by D F Robertson the lines control 1034 ships totaling about 4 million tons and will link Los Angeles with global ports. Names include Union Steamship NZ Royal Mail Nippon Yusen Kaisha P&O Messageries Maritimes Lamport Holt Toyo Kisen Kaisha Hamburg American Pacific Mail.
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Los Angeles
Panama Canal
D. F. Robertson
Citizens Trust & Savings Bank
Robertson
Union Steamship Company of
New Zealand
San Francisco
South Seas
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
South America
Nippon Yusen Kaisha
Japan
Seattle
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
London
Messageries Maritimes
Lamport & Holt Line
New York
Toyo Ki
Jealous Eyes Are Watching Mexico
The United States alerts to the Diaz insurrection on the gulf coast and demands open communication between Mexico City and the Tampico port. The Des Moines has arrived at Vera Cruz and the Tacoma is en route to Tampico to establish wireless links to the United States.
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Washington
Diaz
Gulf Coast
Madero
United States
Mexico
Mexico City
Tampico
China
Tien Tsin
Pekin
Des Moines
Vera Cruz
Tacoma
Schrank Insane Declared By Alienist Spitzka
Philadelphia October 21 Prof Edward Anthony Spitzka the eminent alienist who examined Czolgosh after the McKinley case announced that photographs of Schrank who attempted to kill Colonel Roosevelt show he is unquestionably a maniac. Spitzka a leading criminologist studied the picture in his laboratory and after measurements declared the man insane.
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Philadelphia
Edward Anthony Spitzka
Czolgosz
President McKinley
Schrank
Roosevelt
Spitzka
Schranck
Los Angeles Harbor Fortifications Detail Costs
The Los Angeles harbor fortifications will comprise three batteries with two 14 inch rifles eight mortars and two 3 or 6 inch guns. Total cost slated at 3 million dollars with 653000 requested for 14 inch guns. Site chosen on the bluffs at Point Firmin where government land was purchased last year.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles Harbor
United States Army Board
Point Firmin
War Clouds Over Europe Threaten Balkans and Turkey
A London dispatch warns that if the Balkan allies crush Turkey, Europe faces a full scale war as powers plan to partition Turkey. Battles loom at Uskub Scutari and Milana with Greek and Bulgarian forces advancing while Russian diplomacy remains uncertain. Oct 21 1912 reports note mobilizations and a Greek pledge to aid civilians under Turkish rule.
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London
Balkan
Turkey
St. Petersburg
Europe
Montenegro
Novipazar
Servia
Albania
Old Servia
Greece
Thessaly
Salonika
Bulgaria
Roumelia
Thrace
Austria
Sanjek
Kossovo
Near East
Hungary
Vienna
Russia
Constantinople
Dardanelles
Bosphorus
Egypt
M. Sananoff
Russian
Poland
Danubian
Uskub
Macedonia
Scutari
Milana
New York
Athens
Olga
Balkan States
Daily Telegraph
Black Sea
Janina
Epirus
Nations Choose Sites for Panama Exposition
President Taft reports from the state department that eighteen nations will take part in the Panama Exposition in San Francisco and seventeen have already selected their sites. Thirty states and territories have promised to exhibit.
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Washington
Taft
State Department
San Francisco
Five Dollars for Five Years Prison Release Reward
Fred Froehlinger, once sentenced to twenty years in San Diego for a crime he did not commit, will receive five dollars for each year served from the state upon pardon by Acting Governor Wallace and his release from San Quentin.
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Sacramento
San Quentin
Fred Froehlinger
San Diego
Wallace
One in Seven Dies of Cancer
Dr E F Bashford of the London Imperial Cancer Research Fund tells the New York Pathological Society that cancer kills one in seven people and that most so called cures are worthless. He urges early operation to save or prolong life and notes cancer affects more young people than expected.
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New York
E. F. Bashford
London
Imperial Cancer Research Fund
Deadly X ray becomes harmless through silk glove
Paris reports M. L. G. Droit at the Academy of Sciences reveals a silk based armor absorbing heavy metals blocks X rays. A six thickness glove made from this silk shields handlers while preserving suppleness and enabling safer X ray work.
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Paris
Academy of Sciences
M. L. G. Droit
M. Droit
U S Makes Strict Mineral Land Rules
Washington orders tighter mineral land location rules. Receiver O R W Robinson reports the land office restrictions require a in place vein or lode carrying gold or valuable deposits and that surface rock alone does not prove a discovery. A prudent expenditure warranted by combined vein and ore presence is required for a valid lode mining claim.
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Los Angeles
Land Office
Washington
O. R. W. Robinson
United States Land Office
Los Angeles County Registration Totals Revealed
Los Angeles city and county registration figures show 259 239 eligible voters for the November 5 presidential election. City is 171 079 with 97 186 men and 73 893 women. county is 88 160 with 49 265 men and 38 895 women.
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Los Angeles
Five ships fail to pull submarine F-1 from sand
The submarine F-1 ran aground four miles offshore near Watsonville Friday and remains stuck after five hours of pulling by navy tugs Iroquois Vigilant Active a private tug Sea Rover and the tender Alert. The cruiser Maryland was dispatched from Seattle to assist.
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Watsonville
Cal
Navy
Iroquois
Vigilant
Active
Sea Rover
Alert
Maryland
Seattle
San Francisco
Live oranges roll through Ontario streets during Festivo de Ontario
On October 25 to 26 Ontario hosts Festivo de Ontario featuring auto races football and baseball games. A parade for farmers plus three other processions will march through the city with 300 five foot diameter oranges rolling in a notable spectacle for 300 school children aboard.
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Ontario
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