Fireworks Blaze Kills Eight in Chicago Warehouse
A blast in a West End warehouse in Chicago killed eight and injured about 106 as illegal fireworks manufacture and storage in violation of city ordinances was blamed by police and officials. The Weil & Co warehouse and nearby Singer & Shaffer shop were tied to illicit production. Dozens homeless, temporary schoolhouse housing arranged, and investigation continues with several arrests.
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Chicago
West End
Weil & Co
Singer & Shaffer
Charles Fitzmorris
Shirley High
Singer & Schaffer
Fitzmarri
Max Singer
Edward Schaffer
Singer
Schaffer
High
Fitzmorris
Central West
Garfield School House
Weil
Singer-Shaffer
Mike Taplrfskie
Harry Weil
Joseph Weil
Edward Shaffer
N. Shaffer
Schaffers
Pennsylvania
Amusements and advertisements in an old directory page
A fragmented index page lists numerous businesses and products including eye remedy Bon-Opto, cigars, wedding gifts, coal supply, furniture, phonographs, laxatives, candies, tobacco remedy, overcoats, tires, underwear, dry cleaning, and savings institutions. The text reads like a classified advertisement catalog with varied company names and goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amusements Art Museum
Weipetals
Bon-Opto
Cigar Makers’ Co-Op. Co
Crapsteoms Domsant
Closson
East Hills Coal and Supply Co
Financia
Beasell & Chatfield
Doria Ery
Provident Savings Bank
T. de Stacy & Braun
Elees Han Eatehiy Gidding
Globe-Wernicke
Nornees Lock Canh
Graul
Grove’s
Hotel Linton Candies
Hathaway
Hewitt & Mackenbach
Louisville & Nashville Railway
Northcott-Smith Co
Overcoats
Abeed Park Tire Co
People's Savings Bank and Trust C. Pogue
Ridgway's
Swift Laboratory
Teasdale—Dry Cleanin
Ulland Coal Co
Benission Ticket
Fireworks Explosion Shatters Chicago Tenement District
Fireworks debris and percussion caps scattered after a warehouse explosion in Chicago Illinois on March 29. The blast hurled timbers and bricks hundreds of feet and shattered windows in a nearby department store. Porches and cornices were ripped loose as witnesses reported two loud reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
West Side
Charles Plot To Regain Throne Shocks Vienna
Vienna reports former Emperor Charles of Austria Hungary visited Monarchists then left for Budapest under darkness. Officials say motives unclear amid tense Austrian Hungarian politics and no government disclosure of his movements. The Horthy government quickly urged his departure once his presence in Budapest was known.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Associated Press
Charlies
Austria-Hungary
Budapest
Austria
Hungary
Charles
Horthy
Greeks Seek to Stop Flight of Turks
Constantinople March 28 Greek naval forces watch the Black Sea for Turkish transports seeking to flee to Anatolia. Turkish withdrawals from Asia Minor blow up Bagdad Railway bridges and tunnels, worsening Greek transport difficulties and possibly dooming the Greek campaign. Three Greek columns concentrate against Eski Shehr Abadabazar Seugud and Kutaia.
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Constantinople
Associated Press
Black Sea
Anatolia
Asia Minor
Bagdad
Isham Pasha
Eski- Shehr
Abadabazar
Seugud
Kutaia
Clashes in Essen Leave 15 Dead and 40 Wounded
In Essen Germany March 29 riot ers clash with security police during a general strike attempt. Fifteen are killed and forty wounded as authorities quell unrest, with the strike failing to ignite widespread action in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Essen
Germany
Associated Press
Red revolt threatens to spread in Germany
London march 29 Reuters reports police in central Germany making progress against revolt but indications arise of spread to the Rhineland and Westphalia. Communists from Elberfeld, Duesseldorf occupy Mettmann and Velbert. rail links seized. Dortmund fights leave casualties. sieges declared in Munster Arnsberg and part of Duesseldorf. Minsk reportedly captured by revolutionaries. Bolshevist forces join a Democratic White Russian republic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Germany
Reuter
Berlin
Red
Rhineland
Westphalia
Belberfeld
Duesseldorf
Mettmann
Velbert
Elberfeld
Cologne
Dortmund
Seige
Munster
Arnsberg
Minsk
Russia
Copenhagen
Exchange Telegraph Company
Helsingfors
Bolshevist
Obregon Faces Pressure Over Mexico Recognition Policy
Washington dispatch examines how American interests and lobbyists push Obregon toward or away from U S recognition. It notes Secretary Colby’s terms, fears of renewed instability, and the U S stance that guarantees for Americans and debt relief must accompany any formal recognition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wilson
Mexico
Harding
Obregon
Colby
Mexico City
General Obregon
Carranza
Diaz
State Department
United States
U. S
Pennsylvania Avenue
Hughes
Dynamite at Genoa Cafe Arrests Anarchists
In Genoa a fashionable cafe was shaken by a police arrest of anarchist Settimo Caminciatti who carried a dynamite loaded bomb and cartridges. He attempted to draw a revolver and confessed to causing several explosions as bombs were found by officers leading to multiple detentions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Genoa
Settimo Caminciatti
Bullet Removed From Brain of Sing Sing Prisoner
In Sing Sing Prison hospital a rare brain bullet removal was performed by invalid surgeon Dr William L Chapman using a chair for support. The patient Roman Leondowski had two bullets. one removed with care, the other left in place due to risk of tissue scar, operation lasting about an hour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ossining
N. Y
Sing Sing
William L. Chapman
Brooklyn
Roman Leondowski
Chapman
John R. Ross
Dannemora Hospital
Leondowski
Pittsburg Churches Ban Rent Gouging
Pittsburg March 29 The Pittsburg Baptist Ministers Association adopted a resolution to oust rent profiteers from churches calling unwarranted rent advances un Christian Phariseeism and urging ministers to combat gouging and lead community protests to curb greedy extortion on the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Banker Guy Stillman paternity case stirs court
John E. Mack guardian claims absolute proof banker James A. Stillman father of Guy Stillman twenty eight month old child. Evidence to be presented at referee hearings or court including witnesses from the Stillman household and an outsider who visited the banker's home in 1918.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Morschauser
Guy
Stillman
Mack
Fred Beauvais
White Plains
the Guardian
Guy Stillman
U. S. Steel Plans Pacific Coast Shipping Line
United States Steel Corp prepares a steamship line to ship steel from the Ohio down the Mississippi to the Panama Canal and thence to the Pacific Coast. Twenty vessels are ready with five more under contract as E. H. Gary returns from Vancouver. Independent mills fear pricing pressure if the line starts.
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Youngstown
United States Steel Corporation
Pacific Coast
Panama Canal
E. H. Gary
Vancouver
Ohio
Mississippi
Canal
Army Captain Free on Bond in Murder Case
Robert Rosenbluth former United States Army Captain was released on a $25,000 bond by Federal Judge John C. Knox after being charged with causing the murder of Major Alexander Cronkhite at Camp Lewis Washington on October 25 1918 He will return to Seattle to answer the charge in U S District Court and waived examination in removal proceedings He pledged to cooperate with grand jury proceedings and to waive immunity to expedite the truth reaching the court and public
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Robert Rosenbluth
United States Army
Alexander Cronkhite
Camp Lewis
Wash
John C. Knox
Seattle
United States District Court
Knox
Rosenbluth
United States
Hitchcock
Sheldon
Liquidation Proceedings In Estate Of Anderson Brokerage
Accountants in contact with Hornblower Weeks as liquidation proceeds. Creditors met at Paxton Warrington Seasongood to discuss administration and potential court appointment of a commission to oversee the estate. The proposal by Westheimer and Co. to liquidate accounts was rejected amid ongoing book examinations and court deliberations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Anderson
Powell & Anderson
Gano & Cherrington
Paxton, Warrington & Seasongood
Citizens’ National Bank
Westheimer & Co
Bakercourt
Anderson Brokerage House
Charles W. Dupuis
Edward A. Sisson
Seasongood
Hornblower & Weeks
New York
Cincinnati
Drug firm worker dies after ingesting stimulant in accident
Henry Hueil a 43 year old employee of Vogeler Wholesale Drug Company 217 225 East Sixth street died after drinking carbolic acid mistaken for Jamaica ginger a stimulant He had worked there over fifteen years leaving a widow and four children Coroner Handley ordered an autopsy after the body was viewed at General Hospital morgue
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vogeler Wholesale Drug Company
East Sixth Street
Henry Hueil
Horton Street
General Hospital
Karl Vogeler
Vogeler
Hueil
Baan
Balloon explosion injures four soldiers near Los Angeles
An Army Balloon School unit at Ross Field Arcadia suffered serious burns when a balloon exploded at Coyote Pass near the Midwick Country Club. The blast occurred as a balloon Lieutenant George E Watts had jumped from neared Earth. Officers suspect a cigarette sparked the explosion.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Army Balloon School
Ross Field
Arcadia
Coyote Pass
Midwick Country Club
George. E. Watts
Newport MO Pursued Negro Lynch Fear Shot
Constable William Fryer halted a mob at Newport Missouri as a crowd of about 200 pursued Charles Fuller a 23 year old man from West Fourth Street Newport. Fuller was captured after a chase through Sixth and Patterson streets and treated at Speers Hospital before being jailed for disorderly conduct. Neighbor Charles LaFeber says Fuller insulted his wife on two occasions and admits to assault during a hallway encounter after luring Fuller to a rear hallway. The West End community braces for hearings with Mrs Weisman expected to identify Fuller at court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Fryer
Fifth and
Patterson Streets
Newport
Charles Fuller
West Fourth Street
West End
Sixth
Fifth Street
Fryer
Charles LaFeber
Patterson
LeFeber
Lafeber
Fuller
Charney
IaFeber
S‘uller
Laleber
Fourth
Sarah Weisman
417 West Sixth Street
Redding and Mcavick Sentenced to Be Hanged in Abyssinian Riots
Chicago March 29 Grover C Redding and Oscar Mcavick two Black men and alleged leaders of the Abyssinian riots last June were sentenced to be hanged on April 22 after Judge George Kersten overruled motions for new trials They were convicted of murdering Robert L Rose a Philadelphia sailor who was shot while defending the U S flag set by Abyssinian order members.
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Chicago
Grover C. Redding
Oscar Mc@avick
George Kersten
Robert L. Rose
Philadelphia
United States
Two Seaplanes Missing on First Leg to West Indies. Four Airmen Lost
Two Marine Corps seaplanes carrying four airmen left the naval air station at 1 02 p m for the Virgin Islands on the first leg of a long flight. They were to stop at Payetteville North Carolina and Langley Field Virginia but neither plane nor crew has been heard from since.
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West Indies
Flyer
Washington
Marine Corps
Naval Air Station
Virgin Islands
Payetteville
N. C
Langley Field
Thomas C. Turner
Search for missing naval balloon crew shifts to Apalachicola region
G R Wilkenson chief quartermaster and four companions remain missing since March 22 after a naval balloon vanished. A report from Apalachicola described cries heard in a swamp near Lake Wimico prompting Sea plane search from Panama City and the dirigible C 7 to assist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pensacola
Fla
G. R. Wilkenson
Apalachicola
Naval Air Station
Panama City
Apalachicola Bay
St. Andrews Bay
Lake Wimico
Jackson River
Voice Returns After High Altitude Flight For Veteran
H A Renz Jr a 22 year old former soldier regained his ability to speak after an air plane flight to 14000 feet at Bolling Field Doctors believed his condition was partial aphonia with adductor muscle paralysis and connected to prior finger injury Renz had tonsil adenoid and submucous resections with no prior success by specialists The high altitude flight restored his voice within an hour and he spoke upon stepping from the plane with uncertainty about his ability to talk again
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Washington
H. A. Renz, Jr
Bolling Field
Tank Corps
Camp Colt
Ranz
Public Health Service
Charles E. McEnerney
Army Air Service
Renz
Blind Burglar Leaves Noted Footprint in Cold Springs Harbor
A blind burglar named George Hawxhurst was arrested after a curiously shaped footprint found on a sofa tied to a burglary of William T. Lockwood in Huntington. Hawxhurst, born blind, confessed to robbing Lockwood and Matthew Curley homes using touch and hearing to navigate.
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Cold Springs Harbor
William T
Lockwood
Huntington
George Hawxhurst
Hawxhurst
Matthew Curley
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Capital
City
Lobes
Lawrence
Southern Republic
David Lawrence
Pauoe
U. S. Steel
Panama
Pacific
Kentucky
Fleming
Palmyra
Major Cronkhite
Quabht
M Anderson
Anderson
Com
Jamaica
Virgin Isles
Swamp
Newport MO
Charles la Feber
NAVY
Everglades OF Florida
U.S
Florida Swamp
Footprint Crew
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