Explosion of Gasoline at Braddock Pa Tragedy in Fire
Eyewitness accounts recount a terrible gas explosion in Braddock Pennsylvania at a butcher’s home. A father rescued his children at great personal risk as the blaze spread, several family members perished, and the house suffered extensive damage. Firemen saved others but the scene was chaotic with smoke and collapsing stairs. Damage estimated at about two thousand dollars.
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Paty
Harry Metis
Soyer
Moser ‘Ards
Medes
Miate
Aiyeet Fk
Fatally Cijurest
Sarate Titus
Dupre Trevi Cros
Gabdor Titus
Hay PS
Cation Vane
Herre
Moser
Demand for Home Rule Memorial Adopted for Porto Rico
Delegates from 65 of 66 municipalities convened in San Juan to memorialize Congress for sweeping changes in Porto Rico's government. The memorial urges a senate, limits executive council power, preserves key officials, and shifts appointment authority to the insular governor with senate consent. A petition for autonomy to the insular legislature was also adopted amid strong anti centralization sentiment.
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San Juan
Porto Rico
Jualy
Porto Elea
Congress
Porto Hien
Roosevel
Cnstome
Bourke
Ehsemn
Vounel
Executive Council
Senate
Ue House
Thaar Thin
Pardo Reo
Cheanedtar
Interter
United States
Porto Alep
R. Hl. Todd
San Jan
Fishery Painter and the Tackle of Fate in a Miners Tale
A fragmented historical page describes a poet at dawn preparing his pen as sportsmen snatch sleep. Maud debates drawing horses while a narrator reflects on talent and restraint. A fisherman narrative thread follows a poet who struggles with luck, fate, and a line about capturing minnows and horses.
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Maud
Ceeil
Gu Wither
Gaail
The Literary Partnership Tales of Maud and Cecil in a shared studio
In this tale Maud and Cecil form a comic book partnership after Lamplight dies. They merge Cecil’s stories with Maud’s drawings to publish collaborative romance and adventure, including a rhinoceros charging scene. Their collaboration grows, ending with Cecil writing daring adventures and Maud producing striking illustrations while their bond deepens.
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Lve
Cecil
Maud
Galog
Ethel
Geolf
Menelik's Prize Town Adis Ababa Described by German Mission
Prof. Rosen of the German mission to Abyssinia describes Adis Abeba as Menelik's capital standing on four hills with an estimated population near 89 000, likely higher. Most residents live in tents or huts. water is hauled in heavy jars from a rocky gorge. few shops and one inn. coinage is almost nonexistent with salt used as small change.
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Rosen
Abyssinia
Adis-Abeba
Menelik
Feathers and skins flood auction rooms abroad
A large consignments of bird skins was received from India including 6000 birds of paradise and about half a million hummingbird skins. An auction house in London reported a record for a third of a year near a million skins, mainly from the East and West Indies and Brazil, drawing attention to the exotic trade.
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India
Laidon
East
West Indies
Brazil
Resignation in Swedish Cabinet and Global Dispatches
Brief telegrams report the Swedish cabinet resigning, a deadly fire in Huntsville Texas destroying the state penitentiary with about 50000 dollars in losses, and Norway’s recognition question before President Roosevelt. Also noted are mosquito-control freight limits from New Orleans to Texas, Otton Bernheimer’s New York death by own hand at the Seville, mass layoffs in Terne Italy for eight hour day demands, a fatal Brooklyn tenement fire involving Nathan Newman, a Salerno murder case in Williamsport, Taft's Japan visit and Yokohama welcome, a Marine City train wreck injuring workers, pending Pennsylvania beaft trust prosecutions and preservatives in meat.
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Huntsvile
Tex
Norway
Hugsevelt
New Orleans
Texas
Otto Bernheimer
Bernheimer & Walter
New York City
Seville
New York
Terne
Iialy
Armas Plate
Nathan Newman
Brooklyn
Willamsport
James Salerno
Elizabeth Carney
Salerno
Taft
Japan
Yokohama
Tokio
Marine City
Mich
Great Lakes Engineering Co
St. Clair
Pennsylvania
Beaft Trust
B. H. Warren
Dairy and Food Commissioner
For Your Health's Sake Vacation Promotion
An advertisement urges readers to value a vacation for health and business gain. It promises real value and happiness from time spent away, inviting readers to address D. C. Navination Co. Dept B Detroit Wich for particulars.
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D.& C. Navination Co
Dept. B
Detroit
Wich
Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea Ad Appears
A vintage ad promises eye brightness cheek tint and stress relief from Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. It touts 36 cent tea or tablets and is signed H A Dykeman Bruggs.
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Hollister
H. A. Dykeman
Bruggs
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Ted Powers
Pele
Sues Harvester Combine
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Margaree Jolson
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Gia
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Steel Trust
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Son
Lot Abe
Tony Kreiter
China
Itd
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Island
Desireto Esseape
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Narrows
Swensen
John J. Callahan
General Post Office
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Mitchell
Portland
Ore
Mitchell & Tanner
Supreme Court of the United States
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Pasquale Pillegrino
Sykesville
Cefoli
Milwaukee
Wis
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Pure Food Commissioners
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Lode
Ltirough
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Ronald
Ronalt
East Africa
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Rockies
Manis
Menelik's
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Bayseed
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Gaus
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Caelion
Auralia Marlowe
Elyria Block Shoe Store
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Plats, Sons of
Cardus
Miss Root
D. &C. Coast Line
Mackinac
Weare
West Sixth Street
S. Day Elyria
Hygienic Ice CO
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