Odd Ball News From The Week In Review
A compilation of miscellaneous items notes oddities from science, crime, and politics. Highlights include a Wisconsin professor’s estimate of 97 897 432 bacteria on a one dollar bill, a Brooklyn thief jailed for deer skin theft, a jail warden’s wife stopping an escape with a revolver, and a music writer going mad over a failed pop song. It also touches on railroad and political cabinet shifts, pensioners, and early warnings about the Mexican boll weevil threatening cotton crops in Mississippi and Louisiana, with local notes on law, weather, and infrastructure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Black
Wisconsin
Brooklyn
Sing Sing
Norristown
South
Glenn W. Herrick
Mississippi Experiment Station
America
Louisiana
Mississippi
Mally
Massive Baltimore fire devours wholesale district
A ten million dollar blaze raged through Baltimore on February 8 destroying large stores, telegraph and bank buildings, with officials dynamiting threatened blocks to halt spread. The fire overwhelmed the department despite help from Washington, Philadelphia and Wilmington as losses climbed into the tens of millions and hundreds of firefighters perished or were injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
John E. Hurst & Co
Baltimore Street
Hopkins Place
Howard
Holliday Street
Charles
Lexington
Fayette Street
Holliday
Washington
Philadelphia
Wilmington
Horton
Charles Street
German and
Lombard
J. W. Butts & Co
Nation
Charles and Fayette Streets
Daily Record
Ross’ Drug Store
Union Trust
Mullins
Weaver
Baltimore Fire Destroys Buildings and Paralyzes City
Fire rages through the financial district and downtown Baltimore with flames leaping from the Continental Trust building to the Associated Press office. Seventeen injured, including firemen, as militia deployed and hospitals shift patients amid collapsing infrastructure and exploding sites. New York engines prepared to rush help. Baltimore post office and court house burn as city confronts catastrophic blaze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Western Union Company
Gay Street
City Hospital
Calvert and
Pleasant Streets
Baltimore
Baltimore & Ohio
Sun
Baltimore & Ohio Road
Maryland Institute of Art
New York
Hayes
Pennsylvania Railroad
Jersey City
Indorsed by President Roosevelt Letter Read At Meeting
Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett addressed the executive council of the national council of women in Indianapolis on February 7. She read a letter from President Roosevelt praising Florence Crittenden Homes for rescuing young women and urging support for philanthropic reform and rehabilitation efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kate Waller Barrett
Florence Crittenden Homes
Indianapolis
Ind
National Council of Women
Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
War munitions seized at Puerto Plata
War munitions intended for Dominican revolutionary leader Gen Jimines were seized at Puerto Plata on the northern coast after landing from the steamer New York on January 20. In Chicago the Can Makers strike widens with 950 quitting work at three plants bringing total on strike to 1700. A Russian officer returning from the Far East is quoted by a New York Times correspondent on a Pacific squadron voyage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Kirby Lumber Company
Houston Oil Company
William Co. Whitney
Navy
New York
Maryland
Isidor Rayner
Baltimore
United States
New York Union League Club
Root
Morocco
Roosevelt
Adolph Schwarzmann
Puck
Princeton
N. J.) University
Louis B. McComas
Walter W. Woolnough
Michigan
Battle Creek
Knoxville
Tenn
Bremen
el Paso
Tex
Gillespie
Daniels
Berea
Berea College
Springfield
George A. Hose
Produce Exchange Bank
Cleveland
Rose McHugh
New London
Wis
Snow
Indiana
Chicago
American Can Company
Grand Chain
Carthage
J. G. Myers
Detroit
Bally
Railroad Commission
Cape Haytion
Hayt
Jimines
Puerto Plata
Republic of Santa
Can Makers
American Can Co
Minors Can Co
Die Sel
Norton
Maywood
Illinois
Russian Pacific Squedros
York
Far Gant
Timean
Electrion Pacific Sqnadron
Imitated Carter’s Jute Trade Mark Case Leads to Bail
A Philadelphia court held Joseph T. Grit and Griffith’s clerk Joseph C. Fore on charges of trademark imitation and sale of Carter’s pills. Warrants issued by Magistrate Jer mont and Brent G. No. 190, Weat Fifty-seventh Street, NY, allege deliberate deception through a near copy of Carter’s label. Prosecution notes the imitator spent sizable sums on advertising to mislead buyers, with the label’s large L symbol. The case references the Carter Company representative and cites a Philadelphia Telegraph dispatch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carter
Joseph T. Grit
Druggiat
Grifith
Joseph C. Fore
Jermont
Brent G
Fifty-seventh Street
New York
Charles C. Orcutt
James Terrace
She Carter Company
Tatter
Griffith
Carters
Philadelphia ‘Telegraph
Also Mentioned on This Page
Houlihan
Indianapolis Journal
Secretary of State
Padui Szent Antal Batayseyeyzo Bolesetes Natalozasia Szovelezet
South Bend
Florida
John R. Thayer
Whitaker Wright
London
Bureau of Statistics
Rockefeller
Morgan
Carnegie
Arthur Lynch
England
Britain
Col. Lynch
Gov. Taft
Mr. McKinley
Gov. Shaw
Iowa
the Treasury
Lyman J. Gage
Henry C. Payne
Charles EB. Smith
William H. Moody
Massachusetts
John D. Long
Mr. Root
Thomas E. Sauls
Webb City
Tennessee
Sixth
Kansas Cavalry
Canada
Reacue
Senate
House
Panama Canal
James P. Clarke
Arkansas
Panama
Committee On Appropriations
St. Louis
Porto Rico
Luke E. Wright
Philippine Commission
Ben J. Vilnen
Transvaal
Kaiser William
Harvard University
United States Senate
Department of the Potomac
Grand Army of the Republic
Shaw
Shipbuilding Trust
C. M. Schwab
Mississippi State News
Mexico
Rio Grande
Texas
Gulf & Ship Island Road
Sherman Fox
Arkabutla
Tate County
Andrew Brown
Fox
Brown
Senatobia
Gulf and Chicago
Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City Road
Pontotoc
Middleton
Hearst
Wallace McLaurin
W. BR. Hearst
North
Mckaurin
Jackson
Baptist
Sulurbs
Laurel
Consignee
East St. Louis
Aberdeen
Pepper
Vardanian
D. G. Pepper
Yazoo-Mississippi
Natchez
Congress
Committees On
Rigby
Vicksburg National Park Commission
Park Commissioners
National Park
Rankin
Cam
Capitol Grounds
Rankin Farm
State Committee
C. C. Miller
Democratic State Executive Committee
E. H. Nall
Will Mileski
Biloxi
Fridge
Arthur Fridge
Hillsville
Mississippi National Guard
Supreme Court
Vardaman
T. B. Keene
Yazoo County
Will Lee
Lincoln County
Scott County
Itta Bana
J. L. Haley
Itta Bene
Ps Bending
Imeiraner
AAS
Postal Telegraph and Western
UNION
American
Sun and
News
Continental
Jones Falls
Contnental Trust Company
Herald
Ite
Postoffice
Narned
Post Office
United States Express
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Fuerto Flata
Santo Dontinga
Uys
Victoria
Stampa
John A. Salter Seed Co
LaCrosse
Chicago Daily News
Memphis
B.C
Nashville
Chattanooga & St. Lenin Ry
Chattanooga
Kentucky
North Alabama
Pointe
Cincinnati 'Times-Star
Atlanta
Taylor
Bette
Times Macent
Emmons Co
Dakota
Ocean Grave
3. D
W. Holmes
Ran
Boston
Mass
Lydia E. Pinkham
Bee
Jay
EF. Hayes
Dudley St
Roxbury
E. F. Hares
E. Pinkham
Elo
Lynn, Mas
Candy Cathartic
Cascarets
Steenimo Remedy Company
Scan Toe
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