Kangaroo Takes Bridge as Sonoma Skipper Is Relieved
Off Pago Pago the Oceanic liner Sonoma features a kangaroo hijacking the bridge moment after Captain J. H. Trask briefly loses command. The marsupial seized the lever and sent the engines from stop to full speed astern, prompting Chief Engineer and officials to recapture control.
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San Francisco
Sonoma
Australia
J. H. Trask
Pago Pago
William H. McNulty
Caleton
G. W. Clark
Trask
Many Warships To Visit Exposition
Rear Admiral Sidney A Staunton reports to the navy department on foreign naval participation at the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. He met European ministers of marine and urged naval presence in 1915 as the U S fleet plan is refined. Responses were cordial and likely to boost international naval turnout.
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San Francisco
Sidney A. Staunton
Commission
Europe
Navy Department
United States
200 Physicians to Give Their Bodies to Science
New York October 16 news reports a campaign by the Associated Physicians of Long Island to educate the public on autopsies and the need for wider body donations for post mortem examinations. At a meeting 200 society members voted to urge heirs to permit autopsies on their bodies as part of determining death causes. The society comprises about 1000 medical professionals.
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New York
Associated Physicians of
Long Island
Famous twins Millie Christine die after shared body
Millie and Christine twin sisters die within hours of each other at their Wilmington home. The famous pair shared one body with two heads and two lower limbs, leaving Christine to live a short time after Millie’s death.
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Wilmington
N. C
Millie
Christine
Millie-Christine
California voters face six proposed amendments and a referendum
In Sacramento on October 16, California outlines six amendments and one referendum to be decided November 5. Five are initiatives covering free school books irrigation bonds city and county consolidation a racing commission and home rule taxation. The registrar of voters would be created by referendum. Consolidation would allow mergers of adjacent cities and counties with population thresholds and charter votes.
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Sacramento
California
Board of Education
University of California
State Board of Education
United States
Registrar of Voters
Alameda County
Freeholders
Hermit Ten Years He Loses Power of Speech
Arthur Britton, a U S army officer who served in the Philippines, lives as a recluse in a cave in the Pawling mountains. After a decade of isolation he vanished from family life and was found unable to speak, communicating only in barks and yelps. He is now an inmate at the state hospital for the insane in Poughkeepsie, NY.
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Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Arthur Britton
United States Army
Philippines
State Hospital For
Pawling Mountains
Britton
Powder to Prevent Roosters Crowing
Santa Monica report on A J Weinland a retired chemist who has created a whitish powder fed to roosters to stop crowing. Police anticipate it could end the rooster crowing nuisance in the Palisade district and sunrise disturbances.
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Santa Monica
Palisade District
A. J. Weinland
Ocean Avenue
Weinland
No More Stripes for California Convicts
Three quarters of prisoners at Folsom and San Quentin will wear civilian clothes within a month under a Board of Prison Directors plan. Stripes remain a punishment after rule violations while a new three class system is set, with parole paths for first class and a Napa reformatory in the works to teach trades.
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San Francisco
Folsom
San Quentin
Board of
Prison Directors
Napa
Dying guard fights bandits saves cash on train
Express Messenger MERRILL BURGGET sacrificed his life to defend a large express shipment as four would be robbers attacked a speeding train. He hid the money, engaged in a gun duel, and was beaten and shot before the robbers fled. authorities pursue the bandits.
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Fort Smith, Ark
Jesse James
The
Daltons
Express
Merrill Burgett
Burgett
Fough
Triplets Named After Taft Teddy and Wilson in New Orleans
In New Orleans a cow birthed triplets named Woodrow Wilson Teddy and Bill Taft. Woodrow Wilson shows high energy, chasing Teddy and Bill Taft around the yard. Bill Taft is short and chubby. Teddy arrived last. The owner plans to present Roosevelt with the name when he visits later this month. The cow had twins eleven months ago, both still alive.
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New Orleans
Woodrow Wilson
Teddy
Bill Taft
Roosevelt
Curtiss Flyers Manager Plans California Auto Meet
William H. Pickens manager of the Curtiss aviators works with a Merchants and Manufacturers' committee to arrange a December aviation tournament in Los Angeles and plans a San Francisco visit, praising the city as the center of aeroplane progress as observers watch its aviation year.
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Los Angeles
William H. Pickens
Curtiss Aviators
Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association
San Francisco
Curtiss
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Kangaroo
Racing Commission
Paris Mutual
Hermit
Taft
Wilson
Curtiss Flyers
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