Large New York Area Tragedies Highlight Week
Across the nation a string of incidents unfolds. A San Francisco furniture polisher commits suicide over family strain. In California a bill seeks a $5 million exhibit for 1913 Balboa anniversary. A Sioux City robbery suspect confesses and seeks surrender. A Colorado ranch adoption ties a late Oliver Wendell Holmes kin to a multiracial child. A New Jersey judge frees a killer after questioning murder charges. A railroad accident leaves an engineer trapped, then freed as a boiler explosion devastates debris. Pittsburg woman found dead with neck wounds, husband jailed for murder. A landslide at Slaverstraw, New York kills sixteen as eight houses slide into brick excavations, with fire and water outages hampering rescue efforts.
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Aloysius Jaeger
San Francisco
Sioux City
Iowa
American Express Company
Joseph Wisnieski
Supreme Court
Garrison
Camden
N. J
Wisnieski
Antonio Grocbowski
Grover Hinderer
Darlington
Wood Station
I Ile
Lena Able
Pittsburg
Slaverstraw
N. Y
Rockland Street
Explosion at Akita mine kills 101 in Japan
Brevities report an Akita Japan mine explosion causing 101 deaths. Other items note Chicago violence with 17 deaths in 24 hours, New York tax assessments, an Astor guest story, a tornado in Albany Georgia, a Morgan Works engine blast in Alliance Ohio, and various personal tragedies and discoveries.
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Akita
Japan
Chicago
New York
Saaee
Minilie Grigsby
Charles T. Yerkes
Williamn Astor
Astor Mansion
Albany
Corliss
Morgan Engineering Works
Alliance
Ohio
George Stevens
R. Ll. Gillespie
Cincinnati
Gillespie
Stevens
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
R. W. Steger
Jeky
Tryde
Morrison Cafe
Mareuardt
Des Moines
Charles Rice
Detroit
Toledo
Cornelius Duffy
Hazelton
Duffy
New York Governor Urges Drastic Insurance Law Reform
Governor Higgins asks the New York Legislature to pass a sweeping insurance law. Proposals include real estate backed bonds, restricted deposits to corporations, ban on subsidiary control, no conflicting director ties, regulated corporate bonds, standard policy forms, uniform audits, full policyholder publicity, limits on deferred dividends, safeguards against forfeiture, equitable gains distribution to policy holders, and policyholder oversight with director discretion review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Higgins
Insurance Department
Impending strike risk sparks state constabulary deployment
Reports warn of a long bitter coal strike in the anthracite region with 185000 workers potentially called out. Financiers urge large coal purchases, storage yards fill, and retail dealers push yearlong supply as the Pennsylvania Legislature authorizes a four troop state constabulary to operate across counties with broad authority.
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State Constabulary
Pennsylvania
National Guard
Education and donors shape college and school policy
The text notes Georgetown University’s new president opposing current football methods, Andrew Carnegie offering 1 000 000 to Schenectady’s engineering department with matching alumni subscriptions, a Wisconsin teachers committee urging storytelling in language study, Dr. William Osler’s return to the U S to engage with Johns Hopkins and Oxford, Hazleton High School teachers refusing Christmas gifts, Pennsylvania railroad funds to equip Altoona High School for railroading instruction, and Boone Iowa Board of Education’s strict contract enforcement policy for teachers.
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David Tillhouse Buel
Georgetown University
Tnion College
Andrew Carnegie
Schenectady
Wisconsin Teachers’ Association
William Osler
Regius
Oxford
America
Johns Hopkins Medical School
Baltimore
Hazleton
Pa.) High School
Pennsylvania Railroad
Altoona
Board of Education
Boone
Iowa
Battleships Kentucky and Kearsarge collide with Alabama near New York Channel
The Kentucky and Kearsarge ran aground during a squadron passage under Rear-Admiral Robley Evans. Alabama struck Kentucky on the starboard quarter causing damage and bending upper plates. Kearsarge freed and joined the fleet outside the bar as wind and tide pushed ships toward the east side of the channel.
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Kentucky
Kearsarge
Alabama
Robly Joyous
New York
Maine
Charles N. Davis
Threship
Joe
Althama
Pattison Inaugurated Governor Of Ohio In Glass Cage
John M. Pattison was inaugurated as Ohio governor amid protestant and political oddities. The Democrat’s ceremony featured him reviewing the parade from a ten by twelve foot glass cage on the reviewing stand. Pattison, ill with a cold, stood in the cage while crowds across the state watched the event. Meanwhile in Torrington Connecticut a police chase ended with a fatal shooting and Chief Hull wounded, as Italians exchanged gunfire. President Taft urged wage concessions in the window glass industry to meet competition.
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John MM. Pattison
Columbus
Ohio
Buckere
Pattison
Gov. Pattison
Torrington
Conn
Robert Newitt
Hull
Roosevelt Reports On Canal Progress And Integrity
President Roosevelt sent to Congress the annual reports of the Panama canal commission and the Panama Railroad Company with the War Department letter of transmittal. He lauds swift careful work on the isthmus and predicts earlier completion within the budget, rejects accusations of corruption, and vows severe punishment for any misconduct.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Puinamit
Isthmian Commission
Isthiian Commission
Elopement Fiasco Ends In Repatriation Of Couple
In St Louis the romance between Adolfus Trusch’s daughter and Scharrer of Stuttgart failed to secure a license. The girl returned home after her father ordered her to. Rumors of coercion with a pistol were not confirmed. Scharrer reportedly demanded a two million dollar dowry.
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St. Louis
Srewer Adolphus Tbusch
Belleville
Scharrer
Stuttgart
Germany
Miss Busch
Ile
Notable Local Losses and Labor Strife Across States
San Francisco broker B B Mitchell closes doors with liabilities of 1000000. Mrs D Stuart Null killed in Wellsboro Pa with husband and Miss Fmina Mathers severely injured. Miss Goldberg 22 fatally burned at Thomasville Ga. About 150 workers at Kirschbaum & Co Philadelphia strike for eight hours. Louisville Board of Public Safety enforces theater aisle standing rules. Walter Morer Osage trader dies in Denver of brain tuberculosis. Carmelita home site in Pasadena sells for 180000 to L V Harkness. Charles W Tiecker Chicago and John Kelly Memphis murdered and robbed near St Joseph La by Asa Bee.
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B. B. Mitchell
San Francisco
Cal
D. Stuart Null
Wellsboro
Fmina Mathers
A. TB. Kirschbaum & Co
Philadelphia
Board of Public Safety
Louisville
Walter A. Vlorer
Gray Horse
O. T
Denver
Pasadena
Carmelita
L. V. Harkness
Standard Oil
Charles W. Tiecker
Chicago
John Kelly
Memphis
St. Joseph
Asa Bee
Taft on the Canal and Panama Affairs Sent to Congress
Secretary Taft reports to the President and Congress on Isthmian Canal Commission findings and Panama Railroad issues. He notes pending major and minority canal reports and discusses bond repurchases, contract cancellations, and cost questions tied to feeding Panama laborers.
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Taft
Panama
A New Being by Dodd's Kidney Pills Impresses Mrs Rowe
Mrs Sarah Be Rowe aged 57 says she feels like a new being after taking Dodd's Kidney Pills. She claims the medicine cured rheumatism and kidney pains, improving her condition beyond years. She praises the pill as a godsend to homes suffering from such ailments.
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Dodd
Tam
Sunday School Misquote About Good Friday Story
A Sunday school teacher at a prominent Methodist church recalls a class moment when a pupil mistakenly answered about Good Friday. The boy claimed Efe did the chores for Hobinson Crusoe, revealing a humorous mis recalling of figures and events.
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Efe
Hobinson Crusoe
One Hundred Dollars Reward for Catarrh Cure Claim
An 19th century dental pitch promises a reward for catarrh cures with Hall's Catarrh Cure sold by J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio. It includes testimonials and internal use claims, plus a lemon oil extraction anecdote describing hand pressing of rind to obtain oil and a statistic on lemons needed for one pound of oil.
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Hiall
I. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
J. Cheney
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
Lelecto
Hall
Blue Sea
Speemath Talk Sparks Curious Exchange
In a terse exchange a speaker asks about a speemath and what can be learned from it. The dialogue hints at a current topic and a possible realization or progress toward an idea or project.
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Syes
Little Sunshine Character Sparks Playful Banter
The dramatist compares the heroine to an illicit distiller's daughter, inviting the name Little Moonshine in a sharp communal aside. The exchange highlights wit and social judgment within the scene.
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Sunshine
Houston Chronicle
Grape Nuts Help Woman Recover From Illness
A Michigan farmer's wife describes severe illness in early 1902 with nervous breakdown and suspected consumption. She stops medicines and coffee, starts eating Grape Nuts with cream and bread and butter, and soon regains flesh and strength, aiding a family of six. Read The Road to Wellville.
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Michigan
Severa
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Vaughn & Vanyest, Publishers
Clinton
Indiana
John Fusilier
Kahn
California
Pacific Ocean
Balboa
Indianapoolis Sun
Rear Admiral Evans
Laulkner
Cleveland
Amalgamated Window Glass Workers of America
Commission
Lieut
Miss Buscil and
Scilarrel
Isthmian Canal Commission
Panama Tail Yoad Company
Oine
Board of Directors
Canal Commission
Markel
Panama Railway Report
Panama Railroad Company
Hallowe'en
Kent
England
Chiladelphia Dprees
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