Tragic Killings and a Major Fire Sweep Inkster
Andrew Zydusa shot and killed his wife then died by suicide in Jessup Pennsylvania. A large fire destroyed Inkster’s business district, burning Twenty businesses with $119000 in property loss before reaching the residential area. A separate note mentions a railroad deal in New York involving Kuhn Loeb Co and the Frisco system. Earthquake shocks disrupted public buildings in southwestern Russia and Kiel injuries were reported as people tried to flee.
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New York
Kuhn Loeb &Co
Russia
Kiel
Sophia Breha
Lapecolo
St Petersburg
Giaynn
Vancouver
Seattle
Tetertives
Seate 1
Inkster No
Wireless link atop Washington Monument proposed by Navy
The Navy Department weighs a plan to convert the Washington Monument’s top into a wireless telegraph station. Admiral Cowles says the temporary use could test reaching Europe and ships at sea, with a permanent tower of similar height to follow if successful. The project would aim signals to the Atlantic and Caribbean, not the Pacific.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Monument
Bureau of Equipment
Navy Department
Metcalf
Lind
Metcealf
Europe
Washington
Bureau of Equipment Beleves
Admiral Cowles
Werelesa
War Department
Pacific Coast
Atlantic
Caribbean
Global labor unrest rises as unions push for shorter weeks
Across cities and nations, workers demand shorter hours and stronger rights. Longshoremen in Liverpool idle while unions in New York and Paris push 40 hour weeks, wage increases, and enforcement of limits on women and child labor.
Bulgaria and Turkey face tense Eastern crisis over railway
In Rumelia eastern Bulgaria occupies the Oriental railroad after a strike, refusing Turkish control. Britain signals cooperation while Austria Hungary moves toward annexing Bosnia and Herzegovina. Emperor Francis Joseph explains the shift in a letter to world leaders.
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Germany
Rlin
Turkey
Nnde
Tendiones
Bulgaria
Oriental Railroad
Rumelia
Ruguria
Tle
Turkes
Hulgaria
Austria Hungary
London
Ferdinand II
Vienna
Austria-Hungary
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Francis Joseph
Freedom of Bulgaria Proclaimed by Prince
Bulgaria, a tributary principality under Ottoman suzerainty, proclaimed its independence at Tirnovo led by Prince Ferdinand elected in 1887. The Bulgarian cabinet accompanied him, signaling a historic shift as Turkey contemplates a conference among powers to avert regional war. France and Britain are mediators seeking to prevent hostilities in the Near East.
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Bulgaria
Turkey
Tirnpovo
Ferdinand
Tirnovo
London
Near East
France
Great Britain
Bul
Pension Increases and Civil War Veterans Deaths Report
The report from the commissioner of pensions shows 34,333 deaths among civil war veterans on the pension roll in the year ending June 30, with 628,084 survivors. Net pensioners at year end totaled 951,687, 64,850 dropped and 38,682 added. Widows receiving increased pensions to 122 dollars monthly total 188,415. Expenditure reached 153,003,086 with roll value at year end 159,495,701, up 18,644,821. Pending claims stood at 123,583, down from 356,181.
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Commissioner of Pensions
Bureau
Rival of 11 Trust Dransches
During the oil trust investigation in New York, Vice President F B Squire of the Standard Oil Company of Ohio testified while government lawyer Kellogg exposed the Toledo Oil connection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
11 Trust Dransches
F. B. Squire
Standard Oil Company of Ohio
Oil Trust
New York
Kellogg
Toledo Oil
Public Health Drive Proposed Sanitary Science School
Dr Norman E. Ditman urges Columbia University Quarterly plan for a national school of sanitary science to educate the public on preventable causes of death. He cites over 400,000 deaths annually in the country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman E. Ditman
Columbia University Quarterly
School of Sanitary Science
Ditman
Lght
Wanamaker work draw massive Philadelphia crowd
John Wanamaker announced 1,000 jobs to demolish the old Chestnut Street store section, starting last Monday. About 5,000 men gathered, clogging streets and prompting police reserves to control traffic. Soon after the chosen applicants were selected the rest dispersed without incident.
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John Wanamaker
Chestnut Street
Philadelphia
Standard linked firms used old names for goodwill
Squire admitted that Commany and the American Oil Company operated as independent concerns to enjoy the goodwill of the old names though owned by the Standard. He described firing Cr. Castle who ran the Cleveland Standard unit for giving rebates to customers.
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Commany
American Oil Company
The
Standard
Squire
Cr. Castle
Cleveland
Beel Buys Eighty Acre Farm Near Colby Wisconsin
Fred Beel the wrestler buys an eighty acre farm near Colby Wisconsin and plans to continue wrestling. Griffin of Joliet a second place discus winner in London Olympics will enter Beloit College this year. Freddie Welsh defeats Frank Carsey in Los Angeles. Macalester College reports forty football candidates and Carlisle thirty five. Norris City area sports figures and college notes follow.
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Fred Beel
Colby
Wis
Mr. Griffin
Joliet
London
Beloit College
Freddie Welsh
Frank Carsey
Chicago
Pacific Athletic Club
Los Angeles
Macalester College
Carlisle
Deep Waterway Convention Opens in Chicago With National Figures
The Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterway Convention began in Chicago's Auditorium Theatre with Willliam Jennings Bryan, Taft supporters, and other national figures as guests. Secretary Saunders outlined the movement's history, aims, and economic benefits, stressing steady freight rates, rail and river transport collaboration, and a nationwide push toward a Chicago to New Orleans waterway.
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Auditorium Theater
Chicago
the Lakes
Gulf
Willings Bryan
Sandohn
Coliseum
Kavanaugh
William F. Saunders
Association
United States
Willadi F Saunders
St. Louis
Saunders
Cage
Orléank
Tate
Prigelja
Mississipp
Lakes
Actos
New Orleans
William Lorimer
Henry T. Rainey
Illinois
Ren. Humphreys
Mississippi
Deep Waterway Association
Memphis
Segregation urged to curb bovine tuberculosis
Dr. Y A Moore of Cornell urged at the American Veterinary Association convention that separating healthy cattle and enacting laws to control cattle sales is the only hope to check the rapid rise of bovine tuberculosis in America.
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Y. A Moore
Cornell University
American Veterinary Association
America
Day reelected MN Democratic chairman and race results
Frank A. Day was reelected chairman of the Minnesota Democratic State Central Committee. At Sheepshead Bay Priscillion won the Occidental handicap at one and one-eighth miles in 1:52. On Labor Day Samuel Gompers addressed labor organizations nationwide, reviewing events since the previous Labor Day.
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Frank A. Day
Minnesota
Democratic State Central Committee
Sheepshead Bay
Samuel Gompers
Fighting Formosana Tribes in Formosa Submits Proposals
The Nan-Ow aborigines of Formosa offered submission to the government after negotiations. The conditions required skulls from killed foes and surrender of arms, but while skulls were agreed, arms were contested leading to renewed resistance near the Alyu line as government troops shift to guard duties.
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Giran
Formosa
South China Post
Record of Historic Storm Wave Heights and Shaped Rock Forecast
An excerpt notes average storm waves at thirty feet and peaks between forty four and forty eight feet. It cites Skerryvore lighthouse where a mass of rock weighing five and a half tons was hurled seventy two feet, and a thirteen and a half ton mass lifted seventy four feet from a cliff, per Pall Mall Gazette.
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Skerryvore Light House
Boot- Aund
Pall- Mall
Grape-Nuts Diet Credited With Digestion Relief
A New York man reports indigestion improving after a week on a Grape-Nuts and Postum based breakfast. By week two his stomach acidity vanished and appetite returned, with noon meals becoming enjoyable. Read The Road to Wellville in Postum packaging.
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N. Y
Postum Co
Battie Creek
Mich
Wellesville
Mela
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Teria
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Hartke
Wong
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Tpfau
Chiage
Jaro
Waterbury
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Fry
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Vota Peer
New Task
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Piefoctland
Oreo Garment Workers
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Fromghart
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Tonto
Llie Dalisge
Oh Gee
Atkr Dmiona
Total Brewery Workers of Aiviera
Dele Rries
International Union of
Hha Brewery Workers
Baltimore
Batth
Theational Miners’ Federation of France
General Federation of
Tabor
Chicago Tribune
Freedom OF
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Cenfer
Chool of Sanitary Science
QODS
Spor
Nashua
NHL
Charles L van Zach
Albany Club
Mighty Broseben
Dave Johnson
Weir
Roseben
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Acquin
Dewitt
Magoffin
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Chicago Auditorium
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