Week's News Record From The Bessemer Herald
Front page roundup lists memorial tablets for Lincoln on the steamer President Lincoln in New York June 5. It notes price stability for stoves by the Central Association of Stove Manufacturers in Columbus. Reports include J. W. Hamby's fraud sentence, a North Kingston youth killed playing baseball, a Houston suicide, a Chesterfield man’s self harm, a Tornado near Alva Oklahoma with fatalities and damage, mine fatalities in Salinesville Ohio, Admiral Crowninshield’s death, NC prohibition election returns, Stark county coroner findings, a forgery telegram case, a Chicago murder, baseball standings, and the Trinity river flood damage in Texas.
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Lincoln
President Lincoln
New York
Central Association of Stove Manufacturers
Columbus
Ohio
J. W. Hamby
Cleveland
Robert W. Pierce
North Kingston
R. I
Clara Wesson
Houston
Texas
Walter Johnson
Chesterfield
Trenton
N. J
Peter Rudy
Alva
Oklahoma
Salinesville
John Rowe
Westerly Wright
Theodore Lewis
Frank Skinner
Crowninshield
Episcopal Hospital
Philadelphia
North Carolina
Prohibition
Buncombe County
Rothwell
Stark County
John Adams
Massillon State Hospital
Adams
Fais
Beach City
United States
Baker
Washington
J. Sloat Fassett
Cassidy
Albany
Julian E. Timberlake
Timberlake
Airship Morrell Disaster at Berkeley Cal Crashes
Three hundred feet above a crowd of 10,000 the Morrell airship burst and plunged in Berkeley. Sixteen passengers including inventor John Morrell were seriously injured or mangled. The ship’s 32,000 cubic feet of gas escaped as it fell, the craft crushing occupants and fainting spectators. Captain Morrell was taken to hospital with a broken leg and possible internal injuries. A separate Toledo crash near Armory Park involved A Roy Knabenshue and two helpers as their dirigible fell from over 1,000 feet after engine failure, they survived by dumping ballast and abandoning the basket.
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Morrell
Berkeley
Cal
John Morrell
Armory Park
A. Roy Knabenshue
Hess
Hamilton
Toledo
Knabenshue
Thaw Denied Release From Lunatic Asylum
Justice Morschauser rules Harry K. Thaw remains insane and unsafe at large, denying habeas corpus relief. He upholds that Thaw was properly committed under section 454 and rejects claims of due process gaps, affirming continued confinement at the State lunatic asylum.
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Justice Morschauser
White
Harry K. Thaw
Stanford White
New York Supreme Court
Thaw
Justice Dowling
Farmers' News and Crop Reports Across Regions
The Rio Grande drought relief brings rejoicing while Oklahoma cattle stocks suffer from a new disease. Government crops put winter wheat yield at 493 898 000 bushels as of April 1. Wisconsin Shorthorn sale saw 47 head average 417 dollars, top price 2750 for a 10 month bull calf. Water protection plans restrict grazing along irrigation streams. Kansas Agricultural College sent seed corn to India and grain to Russia, with smaller lots to Australia and South America.
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Wisconsin
Kansas Agricultural College
India
Russia
Australia
South America
Platt Wins Suit in Perjury Divorced From Mae Wood
Mae C Wood Platt's divorce suit against Senator Thomas C Platt was dismissed by Justice O Gorman who jailed her on a 5000 bail for perjury. The court found no marriage and that Wood forged her claim amid detective work tracing the marriage certificate and her confession as fraudulent.
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Mae
Wood
Thomas C. Platt
Justice O'Gorman
New York Supreme Court
Mrs. Wood
New York City
United States
United States Express Company
Mae C. Wood
Wood-Platt
Thomas Collier Platt
New York
Commonwealth
Congress
Homes for Poor Men Under the Carey Act
The Carey act allows 1,000,000 arid acres to be segregated and irrigated by private firms. Settlers can buy water rights with annual installments of 3 to 4 dollars per acre, gaining ownership after full payment. In Wyoming the Big Horn Basin Development Company opened 245,000 acres, requiring only a 30 day residence.
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Wyoming
Big Horn
Trade and Industry Notes From Early Chicago Labor News
Continental Express Company files articles of incorporation as it plans to run its own express service under the Chicago, St. Paul and Milwaukee road. A dynamite attack targets non union woodworker Charles Kirchner. seven occupants unharmed but windows and stairs severely damaged. Kirchner left the union for a rival group. Corn Products Company builds a non union labor colony near Summit to staff a $4 million new plant, with cottages inside a ten foot fenced enclosure to keep walking delegates away.
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Continental Express Company
Chicago, St. Paul and
Milwaukee Road
Charles Girdhner
Chicago
Kirchner
Corn Products Company
Summit
Fire at Read and Sons Chemical Works Causes $50,000 Loss
A blaze at Read and Sons chemical works in Holliday, New York, caused extensive damage estimated at fifty thousand dollars. Fire officials reported the incident as under investigation with no immediate details on casualties.
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Holliday
Read & Sons’ Chemical Works
New York
Flood Devastates Fort Worth and Dallas. Thousands Homeless
Torrential Trinity River flood after heavy rains leaves at least twenty five dead and over six thousand homeless across Fort Worth and Dallas. Rescue crews use rowboats and street cars to reach stranded residents. bridges and power facilities are destroyed. Dozens killed, many missing as city copes with widespread damage and evacuations.
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Leam
Fort Worth
Tex
North Fort Worth
Handley
White City
Lake Coomo
East Fourth Street
Rock Island
Long Bridge
City Park
Trinity
W. D. Hart
Salvation Army
Trinity River
Dallas
Taft movement gains, Roosevelt and convention tickets
In Iowa and across the nation, Taft gains momentum as GOP leaders shift from anti Taft efforts. Utah and Texas echo Roosevelt support while derailing third term talk. National committee chair New bars free mailed tickets and limits access to convention seating with scenein distributed tickets.
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Taft
Utah
Texas
Roosevelt
New
Republican National Committee
Chicago
Sceeinns
Ole Miss Meon
Madam Fairfax enjoyed moonlit nights on her Virginia porch and spoke of the meon rising behind the eastern hills. Her maid Dahlia praised the moon's beauty, and on moving to Washington Dahlia marveled at the new night sky and hoped homeward under the same moon.
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Madam Fairfax
Virginia
Dahlia
Washington
I Love You But Must Speak To Mamma
A young heiress confesses love to Clarence but plans to speak to her mother first. She fears her mother may have arranged a marriage with a nobleman during her three months in Europe, prompting a tense, bittersweet moment.
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Clarence
Shell
Europe
First Taste of Coffee Warns Parents on Child Health
A testimonial from Rattle Creek Michigan cautions parents about coffee harming children. The writer recalls coffee habits since childhood and describes nervous spells, poor sleep, and weakness until switching to Postum. He reports better sleep and reduced nervousness after using Postum and endorses the product to coffee drinkers.
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Postum
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Mae Wood
Justice O’gorman
Daniel Frohman
Actors’ Fund of America
Prospero Colonna
Italy
Prince Mario Colonna
Sommi
Senatoi
T.C
Trade and Industry
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