The Roaming Notes On City Life And Westward Dreams
A loquacious column blends anecdotes from insurance suitors to frontier commerce. It contrasts Alaskan squalor with New York style retail, jokes about slander and self importance, and surveys North Dakota land sales progress. It also highlights local theater previews, county board vigor, and Columbus era dreams of a transcontinental waterway.
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North Dakota
Gath
Jesus
Board of County Commissionrs
Toe Valley City plant sold to private parties
State news items report the electric light plant of Toe Valley City has been sold to private parties. Other notes include a draw between Kenney and Frost after fifteen rounds, Fargo grower George Jacobson crushing his corn, a death by possible self harm near Cando, a check sent by the G N to a North Dakotan, a threshing engine incident at Abercrombie, efforts to secure Indian domestic workers, Westhope seeking city incorporation and a new jail, Minnewankan justice fining Halloween property destruction, macaroni wheat yields near Cass county, Hebrew farmers near Madan facing farming doubts, and local ads for Tiall’s Catarrh Cure and Mall’s Family Pills.
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Toe Valley City
Westhope
Justice of the Peace
Falling Wall Kills Three Firemen in Cleveland Barn Fire
Cleveland on November 17 witnessed a major street car barn fire at Holinden avenue, injuring two and killing three firefighters Robert Duffy James Schweda and Robert Reed. Incendiary origins suspected as 100 motors valued about 2000 each burned in a four acre site with $30000 building loss. Rescue efforts were hampered by a collapsing wall as firemen pulled colleagues from the ruins and a firefighter Michael Corrigan was saved with both legs broken. Battalion Chief Andrews was struck by debris but survived.
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Cleveland
Robert Duffy
James Schweda
Robert Reed
Duffy
Schweda
Reed
Cleveland Electric Railway Company
Holinden Avenue
Michael Corrigan
Corrigan
Frank Behweda
Harry Vandevelde
Vandevelde
Andrews
Thirty Die in Ill Central Wreck at Kentwood La
New Orleans reports a rear end collision on the Illinois Central at Kentwood Louisiana killing thirty people and injuring eighteen. The Macomb City accommodation, mostly Black workers, was late and collided with the Northern express bound for Chicago. One white man died later. Authorities dispute fault.
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Illinois Central
Kentwood
New Orleans
Illinois Central Railroad
Northern Express
Chicago
Macomb City
Kentwoo
Chatawa
Tangipapo
Four Men Die in Dynamite Blast Near Columbus
A dynamite explosion on Dr. J. B. Hartman’s stock farm south of Columbus kills four men all from the city. A work crew had spent the summer blasting rock and stumps, cutting hills and filling low places on the property.
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Columbus
Columbus, O
J. B. Hartman
Train Kills Foreman in Hastings Handcar Incident
Hastings Minnesota November 17 A passenger train struck a handcar carrying fencing crew workers near Rosemount. Richard Overacker foreman of the crew died. others jumped clear as the car was moved from the track. Duluth ore shipments report shows a drop from last season with 5,329,957 tons shipped.
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Hastings
Minn
Milwaukee Road
Rosemount
Richard Overacker
Overacker
Duluth
Smis' Gabe and
Northern
Steel Corporation
Minnnesota
Aratie
Also Mentioned on This Page
Alaska
Newpork City
New York
San Francisco
Reid
Bill Juley
Teddy Roosevelt
Brain Gymnasium
Siun
Everry
Holbrook's
Devils Lake
Holbrook
St. Paul
Arama
J. Parl Barrington
Switzer
Orphia ‘Crow
Blues
Crows
Darian
Washington
Colmabas
Colmmiims
Indias
Gulf of Mexico
Balboa
Jon
State News
Kenney
Frost
Bobus
George Jacobson
Fargo
A. Englar
Cando
G. N
North
Red River
Abercrombie
Green
Cass County
Madan
Farmig
Hebrew Society
Mall
Mallenry
St Paul
Min
Ffashion
WM. Wilson
Prop
Sevilla Bus and Transfer Line
Postoffice
F. T. Fox
Geo. W. Jmieson
Prosser & Serumgard
Webster
Starhweather
Hi. Brown & Co
la Salle
Mandan
N. Dak
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