Elgin Tragedy as Husband and Wife Involve Firearm Fatality
In Chicago area home a 42 year old, George Mayer II, was shot and killed by his wife during a quarrel witnessed by two young children. The mother, accused of the act by police, claims the shooting was an accident. The children, Robert 7 and William 2, hid in a corner as their father died. Mayer was a proofreader. the mother was later arrested after the incident.
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Thildren
George Mayer II
Grome Mayer
Wax
Chicago
Robert
God William
Mohert
Ale
Shen
Mayer
Mybfe
Kansas City fire kills seven in rooming house blast
Seven men died when a rooming house at 1102 Union Avenue Kansas City burned early Whitsun morning. Victims include Warrick Tucker trackman Michael Simmerbeck 50 waiter Thomas Lane John Shea 47 railroad track foreman Jack Sheehan porter. Fire department condemned the building amid threat of demolition. owner resides in Springfield. Injured expected to survive.
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Union Avenue
Kansas City
Warrick Tucker
Missouri
Michael Simmerbeck
Siomas Lane
Lie Borer
John Shea
Jack Sheehan
Frenely
Massachusetts courts to rule on Jonah and the whale dispute
Rev Gustavus A Homan of Maplewood Mass sues a Christian Bible college to enforce payment on an indorsed note. Mosiman refused payment claiming the college is not orthodox and cites the Jonah story as evidence. He will seek judicial determination of the college's beliefs.
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Massachusetts
Jonah
Christian Bible College
Gustavus A. F Homan
Maplewood
Mass
Thornless cactus exhibited as forage plant by Luther Burbank
The United States National Museum on exhibition displays a single specimen of a thornless cactus by Luther Burbank. The plant is described as a forage option for arid and moist regions, with a flattened stem resembling a leaf. Some specimens reach nearly three feet in length, about a foot wide and three inches thick, surface akin to a watermelon.
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Luther Burbank
United States National Museum
California
Frightful Family Tragedy and Other City News
A boy shot and killed his seven year old brother Franz Lundstrom in a Chicago home at 2100 West Worth Avenue. Davis Captor died in Allegan Michigan at 73, veteran Gen. 11 Pritchard, who helped capture Jefferson Davis. A Wheeling fire kills Mrs J. I. Deachler and injures her husband and three children. Edward Landrum, 77, Kansas City merchant, is slain by a robber. Fire damages Langton Oklahoma State University main building at a loss of 50000 pounds. Howard Maxwell, former Brooklyn bank president, commits suicide. Three Jenkins brothers indicted for forgery in Brooklyn. First New York to Brooklyn train via East River tunnel tested. public opening not expected before January.
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Franz Lundstrom
Bango
Franz
West Worth Avenue
Chicago
Davis
Pritchard
Allegan, Miel
Fenre
Pedestrian Completes Greatest Walking Feat
Toward Payson Weston completes a 1,284 mile trek from Portland Maine to Chicago in 24 days 10 hours 45 minutes setting a new endurance mark. The aged athlete surpassed his 40 year old record by about a day and a half, walking with a light stride and zigzagging to ease leg strain while covering long daily distances.
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Payson Weston
Portland
Chicago
Temarki Ile
Wweston
TRY IT ON THE DOG
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley warns refrigerated meat may be unsafe after long cold storage. Tests on meat and other foods behind closed doors compare odor and texture to fresh beef, then feed to a department dog to assess health risks.
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Harvey W. Wiley
Akree
Whiley
Congress
Wiley
Fire Devastates Major Plants and NYC Property
Sparks from the Wires reports a 60 percent coal-rate cut effective Jan 2 affecting Oklahoma vendors. A plumbing manufacturing site in a Winton Waco area suffers a blaze causing substantial loss. Conwy Island on One Hundred Twenty Fifth Street in New York is also destroyed by fire with estimated totals reaching $300,000 to $80,010 in losses.
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Oklahoma Corporation
Vonunlesion
Oklahoma
Lally Lipp Company
Winton Waco
Cincinnati
Snlzer
Hirlem
Silver Park
Uy Tun
Conwy Island
Fifth Street
New York
Record-breaking Panama Canal progress fuels optimism
The Isthmian project shows October excavation at 1,844,471 yards, surpassing prior months and nearing the climax of progress. With 23,007 workers, efficiency far exceeds past projections, suggesting canal completion may come sooner than earlier forecasts and challenging previous doubts about pace and manpower.
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Isthmian Canal
Kipling
Tavice
Cuttlnga
Wallace
Lumbermen Charge Rate Pool Against Transcontinentals
The Oregon and Washington Lumber Manufacturers Association filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission a complaint against most transcontinental railroads for fixing and raising rates on forest products. It alleges the Navy and other items were advanced 8 cents a hundred without cause, claiming stock values greatly exceed construction and equipment costs as a basis for rate hikes.
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Oregon and Washington
New York Tenement Fire Kills Thirteen In Five Stories
Thirteen people died and seven were injured in a five story tenement fire at 2121 Second Avenue near One Hundred Ninth Street New York. The blaze began in a liquor store on the ground floor and raced up the shaft trapping families in the upper floors. Firefighters could not reach many victims amid smoke filled stairs. Some residents fled onto the roofs of adjacent buildings as the fire drove them from the affected tenement.
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Second Avenue
Ninth Street
New York
Mames
Fromen
Concrete houses eyed by Edison and Phipps plan city
Thomas A Edison and Henry Phipps team up to solve housing with a concrete city. Edison claims 12 hour builds and nine room two family homes costing 1000 to 1200 dollars. Rentals of seven fifty a month could cover costs for workers shifting from ten dollar two room tenements. Phipps, a steel magnate, funded model tenements in 1905 and toured Edison’s Wast Orange lab with architects present.
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Thomas A. Edison
West Grange
N. J
Henry Phipps
New York
Hadison
Phipps
New York City
Mr. Edison
Wast Orange
Fire officials blame arson for burning tenement
Police and firemen deem the blaze the work of incendiaries seeking revenge after a prior attempted safe robbery in Giuseppe Cudano’s saloon. The cafe held over $2,000. three Italians were arrested and await trial as suspects linked to the earlier plot.
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Giuseppe Cudano
Cudano
Cunard Liner Deal Shapes Canada Route Claim
The Cunard Steamship Company reportedly reaches an accord with the Grand Trunk railroad to run ships from Liverpool to Canada, creating an all British route for passenger and freight traffic between England and the Orient. Exposition Detroit receipts hit an estimated 1 million, foreshadowing a deficit over 3 million as buildings cost 5 million and government aid remains sparse. Elvira Giordano, Milan Opera ballet dancer, collapsed onstage at the Ye Liberty theater in Oakland, California during a performance.
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Canada
Grand Trunk Railroad
Cunard Steamship Companny
Liverpool
Avord
England
Orient
Elvira Giordano
Milan Opera Company
Oakland
Qal
European labor leaders warn of winter misery amid Europe to New York emigration
Anxious European union leaders fear a worsening winter as hundreds of destitute aliens roam Paris streets awaiting ships home. Officials say return voyages are overwhelmed by demand from New York. Shipowners report steamer capacity strained and fares rising to curb the exodus.
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Europe
Nicholas Martin
Paris
Ministry of Works
New York Harbor
New York
Defective Children and Saturn Ring Theories Headline Review
A committee led by Charles C Burlingham reports one third of U S school pupils have defects such as impaired hearing vision enlarged glands or malnutrition Often curable with early action The piece also weighs competing views on Saturn rings Newcomb rejecting Lowell and supporting Clarke Maxwell The Paris aviation prize story notes a German aviator nearly wins a 50 000 franc prize with a closed circuit flight
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Board of Education of
New York City
United States
New York
Uchese
Jmrents
Ina
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