Ills of notable figures and disasters flood era wire
A collage of diverse reports: M Taft’s ill health at Millbury. James Grinnell killed in Baltimore auto race. Langston University fire losses. bear attack on John Norden. Machinists Union officers elected in Atlanta. Edith Root wed to Lt Grant. Kalamazoo businessman Horace Davis slain. Borough Bank loot confessed. Lamoure fire at Capital Hotel. Vanderlip predicts currency stabilisation. Wheeling fire kills Mrs Deschler and injures husband and children. New York schools back Christmas song books. Chicago shotgun death of Franz Lundstrom. Cuban chancellor Bombalier attempts gas suicide rescued. leaf of thornless cactus exhibited. tobacco anti trust hearing notes supply demand. Kansas City rooming-house fire victims. St Louis crash injures Gratiot Cabanne and others. East River tunnel first test run. Nebraska dress reform clash over ribbons and colors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ise M. Taft
Millbury
Mass
James F. Grinnell
Baltimore
State Agricultural and Normal University
Langston
Oklo
John Norden
Steubenville
Ohio
International Machinists’ Union
Atlanta
Edith Root
Borough Bank of
Brooklyn
Lamoure
N. D
Capital
Frank A. Vanderlip
New York City National Bank
Chicago
Wheeling
W. Va
J. F. Deschler
New York Board of Education
Franz Lundstrom
Rango
Franz
West North Avenue
Don Rogelio M. Bombalier
Legation
Washington, D. C
Bombalier
United States National Museum
Luther Burbank
California
America
American Tobacco Company
T. B. Yule
Union Avenue
Kansas City
Patrick Tucker
Missouri Pacific
Michael Summerbeck
Thomas Lane
John Shea
Jack Sheehan
Frenchy
Porter
Springfield
Nore Department
Gratiot Cabanne
St. Louis
Ralph Orthwein
Samuel Kessler
Northern Alaska Fur Company
Cubanne
Forest Park
Cabanne
Kessler
New York
East River
Nebraska State University
Lincoln
Neb
Canal construction rush planned for next year
Congressmen report Panama canal work will accelerate with about 32 million dollars planned for 1914. James A. Tawney leads a 17 member appropriations group forecasting completion by year end 1914. They note better conditions for workers and favorable pricing on supplies, while bond issues draw widespread investor interest and a cash resumption moves ahead nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama Canal
James A. Tawney
Minnesota
Committee On Appropriations
Panama
United States
New York
Chicago trade and money outlook from Dun's Review of Trade
Chicago reports show check to trade less severe with payments through banks. Currency demand remains acute, note circulation and specie rising. Interior funds easier to obtain, mercantile sectors cautious yet hopeful for better results by Christmas. Less new building hurts planing mills and lumber, hides prices lowest in years. District failures total 50, with 14 liabilities over 5040.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Dun
October Canal Excavation Record Beats All Past Totals
The Panama Canal project shattered monthly records with 1,844,471 cubic yards excavated in October, surpassing prior months and even full-year totals. Despite rockier cuts and heavy rain, 23,007 workers produced nearly 78 cubic yards of rock and earth per man, suggesting faster completion than earlier forecasts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kipling
Wallace
Lumbermen Charge Railroads With Rate Fixing
The Oregon and Washington Lumber Manufacturers Association files with the Interstate Commerce Commission a complaint against most transcontinental railroads. It accuses them of fixing and raising rates on forest products, including an 8 cent increase per hundred on November 1, and argues that capital stock greatly exceeds the value of construction and equipment used as a rate basis. An advertisement invites readers to respond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon and Washington Lumber Manufacturers’ Association
Interstate Commerce Commission
Thirteen Cremated in NYC Tenement Fire
Thirteen persons died and seven were injured in a five story tenement blaze at 2121 Second Avenue near One Hundred and Ninth Street New York. The fire began in a ground floor liquor store and climbed via air shafts and stairs trapping families on the upper floors. Firefighters faced smoke filled stairs and could not reach all victims before the flames. bodies were found on the fourth and fifth floors as tenants fled to adjoining rooftops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Second Avenue
One Hundred and
Ninth Street
New York
Concrete houses urged to solve tenement problem by Edison and Phipps
Edison of East Orange New Jersey and Henry Phipps of New York plan a city of concrete houses. Edison says he can build a nine room double house in 12 hours for 1000 to 1200 dollars. Each apartment could rent for seven fifty monthly, reducing working families rent from ten dollars for a two room tenement. Phipps, who funded model tenements in 1905, visited Edison with architects to discuss cement homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas A. Edison
East Orange
N. J
Henry Phipps
New York
Mr. Edison
Mr. Phipps
New York City
Fire and arson tale tied to Edison plans
A fire in a tenement is blamed on incendiaries seeking revenge. Three weeks earlier three Italians were caught attempting a safe robbery in Giuseppe Cudano’s saloon, with over $2,000 taken. The police suspect a link to the prisoners’ friends, and Edison plans involve cast iron molds and concrete houses after basement work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Giuseppe Cudano
Cudano
Edison
Mr. Edison
Fire destroys hotels and damage in Memphis district
Fire at Memphis Tennessee wiped out the Dannahy and Hungarian hotels, fifteen stores and five saloons. Loss pegged at fifty thousand dollars with partial insurance. Meanwhile President B I Winchell of the Rock Island at Guthrie Oklahoma said his road would accept the two cent fare provision of the Oklahoma constitution. Protests by Jewish women against meat prices lead kosher butcher shops in Paterson New Jersey to close for a meat boycott.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Tenn
B. I. Winchell
Rock Island
Guthrie
Okla
Paterson
N. J
A Meath
Cunard Liner Link for Canada Route Strategic Move
The Grand Trunk railroad reportedly reached a deal with Cunard Steamship Company to operate a Liverpool to Canada line. The aim is an all British route for passenger and freight traffic between England and the Orient.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cunard
Canada
Grand Trunk Railroad
Cunard Steamship Company
Liverpool
England
Orient
Exposition Receipts Forecast Major Deficit After Exhibition
The Jamestown exposition receipts from visitors and concessionaires are now estimated at 1 million dollars, signaling a deficit exceeding 3 million dollars. The buildings cost 5 million dollars, and only about 10 percent of the government loan has been repaid. Elvira Giordano, Milan opera ballet dancer, collapsed and died on stage at Ye Liberty theater in Oakland during Mig non.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elvira Giordano
Milan Opera Company
Ye Liberty
Oakland
Cal
New York Business Tone Shifts Amid Currency Shortage
New York reports a mixed business picture with a brighter tone in some cities but overall quietness nationwide. Currency scarcity persists at points, industrial activity slows, and winter goods distribution is affected by unseasonably mild weather. For the week ending Nov 21, 263 business failures occurred, up from 250 last week and higher than past years. Canadian failures stood at 35, down from 45.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bradstreet
Chicago markets feed prices by commodity across cities
A historical list reports cattle hogs sheep and grain prices in Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York and Toledo with bids for cattle hogs and sheep and assorted grain futures including wheat corn oats rye and hay showing wide regional variation and specific per unit ranges for each item. Names of cities commodities and price ranges anchor the data set as a snapshot of Midwest market activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Milwaukee
Northern
New York
Toledo
$12 a Week Means Privation in City Living
Dr. Lee Frankel reports from the State conference of charities and correction on shelter and sustenance costs for a $2-a-day, $600-a-year worker with a wife and three young children. Rent for two to three rooms runs about $14, yearly food share is $270, daily cost around 0.044 dollars, fuel and light $25, papers $5, dues $8, leaving $3 monthly for recreation, highlighting compromised physical efficiency per Yale expert Underhill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee Frankel
United Hebrew Charities of
New York
State Conference of Charities and Correction
Big City
Prof
Underhill
Yale
National mining congress backs stricter federal mining control
In Joplin Missouri the national mining congress adopted resolutions calling for tighter federal oversight of mining lands. Attorney General W S Dixon of Colorado filed suit in Denver District Court to dismantle the grocers trust. A Parsons Kansas fire caused 200000 dollars in damage. the largest losses were Kress & Co 40000 Cooper Lumber 30000 and Dodge Bryan Lumber 30000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Mining Congress
Joplin
W. S. Dixon
Colorado
District Court
Denver
Grocers’ Trust
Dparsons
Kan
Kress & Co
Cooper Lumber Company
Dodge-Bryan Lumber Company
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Ichigan
Uncle Sam
Owen
Serda
Trey
Solio
Wall Street
Cortelyou
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
San Francisco
Postoffice Department
Thomas T. Lovelace
Fort Wadsworth
New York Harbor
War Department
United States Army Balloon Corps
Roosevelt
Wiley
Department of Agriculture
State Root
Ambassador Creel
Mexico
Washington
Root
Chicago Journal
City of Edison Homes
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