Storm hits train near Owatonna Minnesota
A tornado struck a Chicago and Northwestern line wrecking six coaches five miles west of Owatonna on Sept. 1. Three killed, four fatally injured, and thirty four others hurt as engineer and Conductor Kensie led rescue efforts amid extensive property damage to farms and towns along the route.
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Owatonna
Minn
Chicago and Northwestern
Here
Delmar Peterson
Waseca
Ethel Richards
New Ulm
Lake Mills
Mitchell
Kensie
Thomas Raike
Medford
Milwaukee Road
Thirty Die as Negroes' Excursion Train Wrecks in Alabama
A Southern railway excursion train derailed near Perry Alabama at 8 30 am causing the instant death of thirty persons and injuring eighty one most of whom are Negro and from Mississippi. The wreck crushed cars and spread bodies over a sixty foot embankment with twenty nine of the injured not expected to survive.
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Alabama
Birmingham
Ala
Perry
Southern Railroad
H. M. Dudley
Southern Railway
Roscoe Shelby
Columbus
Miss
Mississippi
Jim Smith
Lillie Martin
Child
Charles Carp
Ezel Patterson
Ed’Clark
Nate Green
Willie Thompson
Dun's Review of Trade Notes Fuel Scarcity Worsening
R G Dun & Co reports gradual anthracite revival but output remains inadequate for commercial use. Transportation bottlenecks hitting crops and industry as coke shortages curb furnaces. Rail shortages and limited canal movement worsen fuel access. week’s failures total 173.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
Review of
Dan Patch Sets Fast Exhibition Mile at Narragansett Park
Dan Patch unbeaten son of Joe Patchen paced a 1:59.4 exhibition mile at Narragansett Park to near the world record. Myron McHenry drove the brown stallion for owner M. E. Sturgess of New York before a large crowd as a fast breeze blew home. An all but record mile with a 29 second quarter and a 59.5 half highlighted the Grand circuit meet.
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Providence
Narragansett Park
Dan Patch
Joe Patchen
Star Pointer
Readville
Myron McHenry
M. E. Sturgess
New York
Municipal League Elects Leaders at Sixth Annual Convention
Grand Rapids reports the sixth annual League of American Municipalities convention closed. Next year’s gathering will be in Baltimore. Elected officers include Mayor J A Smythe Charleston as president and Thomas P Taylor Bridgeport as treasurer.
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Mayer Smythe
Baltimore
Grand Rapids
Mich
League of American Municipalities
J. A. Smythe
Charleston
S. C
Thomas P. Taylor
Bridgeport
John M. McVicar
Des Moines
Thomas Hayes
John Arbuthart
Winnipeg
Jacob Cantor
New York
I. Sullivan
Hartford
Haskell
Omaha
Why Women Join Clubs A Debate on Female Club Life
Grace Elmo rde reports a lively discussion among men and women on why women join clubs. The dialogue covers happiness at home, social relief, and how clubs expand interests for working women and single earners. The piece endorses clubs as beneficial yet improvable.
Miles to visit Philippine camps in inspection tour
General Nelson A. Miles plans a brief Philippine trip with Mrs. Miles and aides Colonels Whitney and Mays. He may not take Mrs. Miles beyond San Francisco, aims to visit most army camps, and expects the journey to last thirty to sixty days.
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Philippines
Washington
Nelson A. Miles
Miles
Whitney
Mays
Philippine Islands
San Francisco
Pacific
General Miles
Arsenic in Coffee. Mrs Frost Arrested in Blackwell Okla
Mrs Jack Frost wife of a prominent businessman and politician in Blackwell Oklahoma was arrested on a serious poisoning charge. She allegedly poisoned Mrs Alice Combes and her son Ernest with arsenic in their coffee during a kitchen entry last Tuesday. The others in the seven person family remained unharmed. Mrs Combes and Ernest are in critical condition.
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Frost
Blackwell
Okla
Jack Frost
Alice Combes
Ernest
Newkirk
Bar Association Elects Officers in National Meeting
The American Bar association elected officers in Saratoga New York with Francis Rayle of Philadelphia named president John Hinkley of Baltimore chosen secretary and Frederick E Wadham of New York selected treasurer.
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Bar Association
Saratoga
N. Y
American Bar Association
Francis Rayle
Philadelphia
John Hinkley
Baltimore
Frederick E. Wadham
New York
Woman's Club Writings Linked to Local Madness
A recent case notes a lady driven to insanity by a literary work associated with women’s clubs. She was committed to an asylum after exposure to club papers, a warning to clubwomen to curtail writing and reading such material.
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S. S. Patterson
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Burlington
St. Louis
Chicago
Kansas City
West Second South
R. J. Neslen
Sleeper
Dillon Brewery
J. L. Weiser
Prop
Superior
Dillon
Montana Mining Code
Morrison's
Tribune Store
C. C. Groner
Dillon, Mont
Tribune Pub. CO
Billon, Mont
Harlem
Scintillant
Boanarges
Washington Park
Vincennes
Ind
Ire Fidlow
John’ Scott
Abrer List
Dun’s Review OF Trade
Municipal League
Hinks
Grace Elmorde
ICA Akes
Standard Oil CO
C. DeWitt & Co
Central Pharmacy
Ely
Ily
Red Cross
Vin de Cinchona Co
Iowa
City Drug Store
Catarr
Ety
CH Baum
Wivfever
ELY Brothers
Warren Street
F.W. VogLer
Gen. Mer
K. ‘Hy III
Bedrock, Salmon & Gibbonsville Stage Co
U. S. Mail
Salmon City
Gibbonaville
Ida
Leesburg
Blackbird
Forney
Yellow Jacket
Silvercreek
Prairie Basin
Wne
Upper
Salmon
Red Rock
Mont
Care Stage Co
F. W. Vogler
Gen. Mgr
Red Rock, Mont
Stockmen’s Directory
Philip Lovell
Dewlap
Visi Brothers
F. L. Stone
N. Ae W Cassworr
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