Banquet of Carnegie Steel Officials Under Scrutiny
Pittsburg officials attended a lavish Carnegie Steel dinner criticized as a Seeley style event. The United States Steel Corporation probes claims of secrecy, expensive catering, and a rumored human goldfish stunt, with questions about William E. Corey and possible involvement by Andrew Carnegie.
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Pittsburg
Penn
Carnegie Steel Company
Seeley
United States Steel Corporation
Broadway
Corporation
William E. Corey
Steel Corporation
Corey
Andrew Carnegie
Banquet hall lake feature cited in dining hall design
It has developed that one of the main arrangements for the dining hall where banqueters sat was an artificial lake. It has been asserted that in this lake,
American Farmers Feeding the World 1909 Exports Highlight
Figures from the Department of Commerce and Labor show 1909 domestic exports with corn at 70 cents a bushel wheat at 11.0 cents and cotton at about 12 cents per pound. Corn exports exceed 24 million dollars, wheat about 48 million, and cotton over 3460 million dollars to foreign markets.
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Washington
Bureau of Statistics
Department of Commerce and Labor
Real Countess to Sing on Stage in Hub Next Week
A debut by a real countess under the alias The Lady in Black is set for next week at the American Music Hall. Manager Lindsay Morison controls her identity, promising secrecy while she performs a private piano accompaniment act with a contralto voice and a black stage setting.
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Hub
Lindsay Morison
Conductor Owen H. Owens Dies After Car Incident
Owen H. Owens, 50, a Boston Elevated conductor, collapsed on a car at Huntington avenue and Massachusetts avenue yesterday. He was taken to City Hospital where he died later.
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Owen H. Owens
Washington Street
Dorchester
Boston
Huntington Avenue
Massachusetts Avenue
City Hospital
Rescued Crew To Be Brought Here
The revenue cutter Gresham will arrive here at 8 o'clock this morning from Provincetown with Captain Brown, his wife, and seven crew members who escaped from the three masted schooner 8 M Bird Tuesday just before she sank in eight fathoms of water in Pollock Rip Blue off Chatham.
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Gresham
Provincetown
Brown
Chatham
Harlem Shooting Kills Boy and Wounds Two
A black bearded man opened fire in Harlem injuring two six year olds. Robert Lomas died instantly from a shot to the heart while Arthur Shively was critically wounded with a shot through the left lung. The attacker produced an automatic pistol from a long coat and fired five rounds at taunting schoolboys.
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New York
Harlem
Robert Lomas
Arthur Shively
Man in Black Opens Fire Killing Boy and Fleeing
A man in black wounded Arthur Shively and killed Robert Lomas during a pursuit in Manhattan woods. Police and a large crowd searched the area with Harlem River picketed while reports spread of multiple shots. The killer fled northward and may have boarded a downtown subway.
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Harlem
Manhattan Island
Speedway Woods
Arthur Shively
Cold remedy ad promotes relief for colds and headache
An old advertisement touts Bromide Quinine as a universal cold and grip remedy. It claims to remove the cause and urges readers to seek the full name and look for signature E. W. Grove, priced at 25 cents.
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E. W. Grove
Plan to Pool 1910 Tobacco Crop in Kentucky
Lexington Ky Jan 12 The Burley Tobacco Society executive committee was authorized to distribute the pooling pledge to prospective growers and county chairmen were told to begin operating the pool at once, assuring a 1910 tobacco crop pool plan.
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Lexington
Burley Tobacco Society
Coroner to Dismiss Murder Charge in Niederhelman Case
In Terre Haute Indiana today a chemist reported W H Niederhelmans stomach contained 53 grains of potassium cyanide. The coroner will recommend that murder charges against Effie Sells berry and Henry Corcoran be dismissed.
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Terre Haute
Ind
W. H. Niederhelman
Helman
Effie Sellsberry
Henry Corcoran
Hen lays two eggs daily in West Brewster
Mrs Mary Y Nowles of West Brewster reports her Plymouth Rock hen has laid two eggs a day for three weeks. She notes the eggs are unusually thin shelled and pure white, round as marbles, though normal in size.
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Lassar
Birt
Brewster, Jan
Mary Y. Nowles
West Brewster
Plymouth Rock
Knapp Named Chief of Hydrographic Office
Commander J J Knapp, who recently led the United States steamship Cheyenne, was designated by the Navy Department as chief of the hydrographic office. He will succeed Commander Winterhaier, who has been assigned to the battleship Louisiana.
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Washington
J. J. Knapp
United States
Cheyenne
Navy Department
Hydrographic Office
Winterhaier
Louisiana
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