Fire devastates Missouri Athletic Club in St Louis with many missing
In St Louis, a seven story blaze at the Missouri Athletic club left eight dead and 27 missing. The fire trapped many inside as rescuers searched ruins with searchlights and ropes. Dozens were injured while citizens gathered, and authorities listed names of the dead and missing including John M. Rickey and A J Odegaard. The Bank owned building housed currency believed intact in vaults and caused a multiagency search through the night.
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Swingley
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Norman Roe
Robert McGill
Athletic Club
Joseph Chasnoff
St. Joseph
St. Louis Republic
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Fourth Street
John M. Rickey
Chicago
Ford Manufacturing Company of
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A. J. Odegaard
Railway Supply Company
L. A. Ruff
Edwin C. Kessler
Cashier Wire Company
James D. Reilly
William IE. Erd
East St. Louis
Allen Hancock
Charles Schimel
R. D. Harned
Edward T. Kaub
Forest Park
Inl
T. C. Little
Theodore Levy
A. M. Stott
Ben F. Williams
Mississippi Bank Closes in Canton Over New Deposit Guarantee Law
The Mississippi State Bank, capital $100000 with $400000 in deposits, failed to open due to a new state law guaranteeing deposits. A notice on the doors says depositors will be paid in full. The bank was among the oldest in the state.
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Canton
Miss
Mississippi State Bank
Partly Solves Paleon Mystery At County Hospital
Los Angeles March 10. The poison mystery at the county hospital where seven men died after blood treatment was partly solved. Dr Lyman B Stookey toxicologist said indications pointed to partial decomposition of the medicine used leading to death with effects similar to arsenic.
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Los Angeles
Lyman B. Stookey
State Happenings Recorded in Grief
Special Prosecutor Joseph Roach and Judge James W Fortune seek Governor Ralston protection for next week's election fraud trial in Terre Haute. They received threats after anonymous letters and an arson at Judge Blankenbaker's home. Governor says troops only after full investigation. In Lafayette, Master Plumbers' Association opens its annual state convention with 300 members attending.
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Joseph Roach
James W. Fortune
Vigo
Roach
Terre Haute
Ralston
Donn M. Roberts
Felix Blankenbaker
Fortune
W Blankenbaker
Lafayette
Master Plumbers’ Association
Foresters’ Hall
Hotel Lahr
State Association
Thomas E. Bauer
Mr. Wooley
Hope for the Hopeless
A sermon notes how Jesus called Matthew the publican, transforming him from outcast to disciple. It emphasizes divine selection, Jesus friendship with sinners, and the cost of following Christ including public confession and evangelism. The piece cites Romans 10 9 and Matthew 6 33 to urge personal conversion. It ends noting Japan church data with 37 percent non residents.
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Jesus
Matthew
Raphael
Christ
Lawful Use of the Sabbath in Luke Teachings
The lesson contrasts mercy and legalism as Jesus heals on the Sabbath. He frees a woman in a synagogue and later heals a man, arguing mercy and human need outweigh ceremonial rules. The study urges true rest in fellowship with God and rejects sacred day fanaticism.
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Jesus
Satan
Goshen Forms Travellers Protective Association Post
Goshen March 10 Post H B Trav elers Protective association organized here with about 75 members. State officers present were A D Gorrell Marion president W J Counts Indianapolis third vice president W D Chambers Terre Haute secretary Harry Zimmerman Terre Haute E E Lebo Richmond L P Colenbaugh Vincennes and C A Bronenberg Anderson members of the state board.
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Goshen
T. P. A. Post
Fire at Logansport Bakery Causes $40,000 Loss
A fire at the Streckler wholesale bakery in Logansport started from an overheated furnace and spread to flour in the basement. Firefighters battled four hours to extinguish flames, ruining large flour stocks on the second floor. insured loss listed at about $40,000 for 1988.
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Logansport
Streckler
Veteran Henry Miller Found Dead After Despair Over Mortgage
In Swansville on March 10 a hat and coat were found on the river bank identified by Mrs. Henry Miller as belonging to her husband, Henry Miller aged seventy six. She believes he ended his life in the stream after two weeks of illness and despondency over a mortgage loss of 1600 dollars. Miller was a Civil War veteran.
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New Jerusalem
Savigur
Bunyan
Swansville
Henry Miller
Miller
Lad Kills Chum in Wild West Game
Richmond coroner confirms accidental shooting as two 12 year olds play at Creager hotel. Ernest McDonald dies almost instantly after being shot by playmate Robert Creager who did not know the gun was loaded.
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Lad
Chum
Richmond
March
Ernest McLonald
Samuel McDonald
Robert Creager
Creager
Pierce
Shooting at colored resort leaves one dead and another wounded
A shooting at a colored resort in the southern part of the city leaves Cera Lyle dead and Elijah Weaver critically wounded with a bullet in the head. William Anderson, colored, is held on a murder charge.
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Cera Lyle
Elijah Weaver
William Anderson
Youth Crushed in Machine at Elkhart Mill
Earl Dollman aged 18 son of John Dollman was killed after falling into the bearing of a calendering machine at the Elkhart Paper company mill in Elkhart on March 10.
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Earl Dollman
John Dollman
Elkhart Paper Company
Stone Plants Reopen in Bedford
The Salem and the Furst Kerber stone plants resumed operations in Bedford with a full workforce after weeks of idle status.
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Bedford
Salem
Furst-Kerber
What 10 Dollars Did for This Woman
Mrs Matte Haney of 501 Colquhoun Street Danville Virginia shares how she spent ten dollars on Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills and felt relief from bearing down pains and insomnia. She credits improved health to the remedies and urges others to try them. The ad promotes Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Massachusetts and also mentions Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as a laxative and cathartic.
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Lydia Pinkham
Matte Haney
Colquhone Street
Lydia E. Pinkham
Sufficient Proof and Defense Clash Over Insanity
A courtroom debate centers on insanity as a defense with the prisoner seeking justice and a lawyer arguing for sanity-based dismissal. The exchange foregrounds legal standards and potential outcomes.
Nephew's Graduation Question Sparks An Old German Wit
A Wilkes-Barre man with self made pride teases his nephew after a graduation. The youth replies he learned Greek Latin German and algebra. The elder quips asking what algebra is for potatoes.
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Wilkesbarre
Wilhelm
Honest speech and a joke on Washington roots
In a speech by Harvey Woodruff the G A R historian of Houston he mocks the idea that honesty brings wealth and argues virtue means poverty. He cites Auntie Martha Washington Clay seeking a divorce from Cal claiming he has found religion and won’t share chicken freely.
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Houston
George Washington
Martha Washington Clay
Martha
Nola Chucky
Cal
Life's Road Smoothed by Change of Food
A Troy woman credits Grape Nuts with ending years of bilious headaches and indigestion. After starting the daily cereal she reports better sleep, no headaches for over a year, and renewed vitality, recommending it to others. The ad invites readers to read The Road to Wellville and notes new letters periodically.
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