Fires Destroy Springdale Glue Plant In Big Loss
A series of fires culled across the nation include the American Glue Company plant at Springdale near Pittsburg with a $120,000 loss insured. Incendiary theory is suspected as the fourth blaze in a month. Other items include a dormitory burglary at Hardin College in Mexico Missouri halted by a Latin teacher, and fundraising for a battleship “The American Boy” during the Spanish American War.
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American Glue Company
Springdale
Pittsburg
Hardin College
Mexico
Bertha Pattengill
Atlanta
Spain
Rankin Goode
Cincinnati
United States
John W. Herron
Taft
Philippines
Silinsky
Wrecks and fires reel through several cities in 1900s report
A cascade of incidents fills the page: Eastern engines and a brakeman killed in a wreck near Barre Pennsylvania. Nazareth hosiery mills destroyed by fire with $100,000 loss. Miss Beatrice Blaine marries Charles Byrne in Washington. hazing at West Point nearing end per Col Mills. Schraft & Co planing mill fire in Newark with $90,000 loss. Charles Gager dies at 17 after a spinal injury in Mort ford Connecticut. Charles Ham dies in Montclair New Jersey. D Wilfeon & Sons furniture plant in Baltimore nearly destroyed with $125,000 loss. William Ziegler withdraws from Baldwin expedition plans. Michael Mosca arrested near Cambridge Ohio in murder case. Homestead tragedy death toll rises as Cawley faces jail. Ida Craddock of Chicago commits suicide in New York. treasury buys $15,000,000 in bonds on NYSE. Paul Brigham and Charles Bartlett plead guilty to swindles in Pittsburg. many industrial fires, accidents, and legal actions follow including naval officers, road strikes, and a dramatic triple murder linked to a divorce suit.
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Berlin
Europe
Amert Yi
George IA
Chietee
Pfuiboldt
Altona Fregelit
Natianal
Ea Wall
Vwelena
Mout 9
Laght and Power Company
Great Northern Poissoner Station
Nancy Sewell
Gospel Hall
Briars
Sewell
Iyer
Phat Ola
Lewis Texas
Otatween
Mobile
Sonal Fland
East Africa
JJ TE
St Paul
Northern Securities Company
Owent Balteumore
Lo Sternberg
Urbana
Ind
Charles Eggert
Wichita Kan
Frankfurt
Bremerhaven
Eingineer Smith
Traxtow
Barre
Henry Mkramer
Nazareth
Beatrice Blaine
James G. Blaine
Charles Brancis Byrne
Washington
West Point Military Academy
Col
A. L. Mills
Schraft & Co
Newark
N. J
Charles Rt. Gager
St. Francis’ Hospital
Mortford
Charles HU. Ham
Port of Chicago
Board of
United States General Appraisers
Mont Clair
D. Wilfeon & Sons
Baltimore
William Ziegler
New York
Evelyn B. Baldwin
Baldwin
Yvearth Pole
Michael Mosca
Innes Run
MtDonald
Kings Mines
Cambridge
Ohio
Adelaide Cawley
Pittsburg
Charles W Bartlett
Arthur Keith
D’a
Simpson Brothers
Manayuuak
WOM
Longstreth
Schill, Taylor & Longstreth
Philadelphia
Thomas OG F Selfridsr
Waverly
Mass
Selfridge
Navy
Pitts
Secree
Craig 9
Roosevelt
Point Chanuiteyes
Chautauqua Lake
Lord Kitchener Heads for India to Lead British Forces
Secrecy cloaked the movement as Lord Kitchener departed via Paris toward India to assume command of British military forces. The Parliament session opened amid Irish protest and bans on non-government business, while Ireland’s John O'Donnell faced suspension after clashing with Balfour. News from abroad reports refugees fleeing Turkish advance into Bulgaria and massacres in villages, plus typhoon devastation in northern Japan with ships wrecked and Yokohama breakwater destroyed.
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Lord Kitchener
India
Paris
Khartum
Balfour
John O’donnell
St. Vincent Island
Robert Llewellyn
Jamaica
Dubait
Bulgaria
Stamer
Drenovo
Serbinovo
Irine
Qranovo
Machinists extend strike to Harriman lines likely
Trade and labor developments fill the page from an extended machinists strike to a coal and car shortage. An auction sale in New York brings $75 from Edward Noyes Wescott memorabilia. The United States Packing Company debuts with $1,000,000 capital as industry consolidates nationwide.
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Harriman
Edward Noyes Wescott
David Harum
National Candy Company
St. Loui
Combine
Trenton
United States Packing Company
Vast London transit and utility figures reported
The passage lists extensive city statistics for London including 700 railway stations, 5,000 omnibuses, 7,000 hansoms, 14,000 cabs, 7,000 bridges, 4,000 postmen delivering 10,000,000 letters weekly, a travel distance twice around the globe, 10,000 miles of overhead telegraph wires, 6,000,000 telegraph messages last year, and 90 million gallons of water consumed daily.
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Thames
London
A Cure for Rheumatism and Kidney Trouble
Bridgeport Washington October 20 Rheumatism and Kidney Trouble prevail in Douglas County A new remedy Dodd's Kidney Pills is praised by John Higgins who reports great relief He says the pills have more virtue than any other medicine and will be recommended to friends Also mentions Burdock Blood Bitters Dr Wood's Norway Pine Syrup and a family Bible as gifts and remarks Omaha Nebraska named from a tribe of Indians
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William Treeney
New Amsterdam Gas Company
Albena Green
New York
Alexander Young
Sfudson County
Louie McAdlister Young
Ward MeAllister
Young
Frank Jo Fieddo
Papoo
Newcastle
John Blevens
Judson Field
Commander Peary
Arctic
Peary
Philadelphia
Wow Keen
Bridgeport
Wash
Douglas County
John Higgins
Dodd
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Peoria
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Norwalk
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Henry Geswine
Charles Davidson
Norfolk and Western Railway
Frank Geswine
Ironton
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Forbes, Mo
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Murray
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Rio
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Illinois Federation of Labor Convention
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T. D. Merrill
Minnie Smith
Ohio Medical University
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Cassville Slough
J O C. Gilchrist
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Ashtabula
Frank Werner
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Omaha
Novotny
Jung
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Whittemore
Brown College
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Chamberlain Banking House
Tecanseh
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Charles M Chamberlain
Chamberlain
Tecumseh
Arche Woodin
Woodin
Joseph B. Galick
Gulick Farm
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Southern Stove Manufacturers Association
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Muir Station
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Siam
Chole Longkorn
Acua Prieta
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Marshall B. Woodworth
Knox
Meanis
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Castoria
Wwe Cantavn Courasr
Germany
River
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England
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Austin
St. John's Skin Tonic
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Omaha, Neb
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S.le
L. Douglas
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Doug Greckton
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Protective Leagues
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Will Son
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