Coldest Weather in Forty Years Hits West and South
Thirty degrees below zero at Miles City Mont marks a westward chill core, with San Diego posting 28 and Denver IS below. Colder fronts sweep from Texas to the Mexican border as high pressure stalls along the Atlantic offering temporary relief to the northeast.
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Miles City
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Gulf States
Atlantic
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Pueblo
Col
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Salt Lake City
Cheyenne
Minnedosa
Manitoba
el Paso
Texas
Amarillo
Louisiana
Omaha
St. Louis
Fort Worth
San Antonio
Kansas City
Wichita
Chicago
Nashville
Memphis
Athimakos
New Orleans
Heavy frost harms California citrus crop losses rise
Los Angeles reports temperatures 4 to 6 degrees cooler than Sunday night crippling orange and lemon growers. Damages projected from ten to thirty million dollars with shipments 10 20 thousand car loads short. Crop value at season start was fifty million dollars, rail freight and refrigerator charges total eleven million. Fuel distillate used in smudging operations.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Water famine grips Salt Lake City as cold snaps
Utah capital faces a water shortage with freezing streams. Schools and businesses close as heating becomes impossible. Switch engines must travel sixteen miles to Farmington for boiler water. Temperature dropped to 2.3 below zero at 7 am with limited ice melting later.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Farmington
Mercury
Edwards Named in Logue Murder Mystery Suspect Arrested
Chicago authorities disclose John Edwards a black man held in the Logue murder case admitted being in the building shortly before Joseph H. Logue was killed. Edwards had been arrested days earlier with his name withheld until now.
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Chicago
John Edwards
Joseph H. Logue
Edwards
Logue
Move to Buy Old Capitol Museum
Indiana lawmakers push to purchase the Corydon old capitol building for a state museum with a bill by Representative G R Beverly and Senate action led by Senators Stotsenburg. Caucus to elect senate leaders amid ongoing talks on drift laws and county accounting oversight.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Corydon
G. RR. Beverly
Harrison County
Stotsenburg
Floyd
Harrison Counties
Senate
Wil
General Assembly
Frank J. Hall
George W. Curtis
Mount Vernon
Warren N. Hauck
Lawrenceburg
Earl BK
Friend
Watson
le General Assembly
State Board of Accounts
Boards of Coury Commissioners
Idiana
Cross Examination Begins in Archbald Impeachment Case
Senate impeachment trial proceeds as Judge Robert W. Archbald testifies in his own defense. He declines bribery claims and says motives were not improper while Senate questions focus on alleged misconduct and misuse of judicial power.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Robert W. Archbald
Commerce Court
Senate
Archbald
House
Scranton
Erie & Lehigh Valley Railroad
Arcibald
Mrs Hiatt Wins Divorce in Lapel Scandal Case
Mrs. Nellie W. Hiatt is awarded a divorce from Fred W. Hiatt former Lapel public schools superintendent amid adultery links to Miss Neva Galbreath. Galbreath resigns. court grants divorce to Hiatt on cruelty grounds. Custody given to Mrs Hiatt with five dollars weekly support and one thousand dollars alimony.
Surgeon performs self operation in desperate pain
Dr W M Beck of Clarkfield Minnesota, driven by pain, gave himself an incision below the left jaw, scraped bone, and sewed the wound. The self operation failed to relieve a jaw threatening growth and another operation was later performed in a hospital with only a nurse aiding.
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Minneapolis
Minn
W M. Beck
Clarkfield
Beck
Nurge
Atrain
Oil Steamer Rasecranz Runs Aground In 59 Mile Gale
Astoria Oregon reports the oil steamer Rasecranz ashore at Pea cock spit during a 59 mile gale. Tugboats and lifesavers strive to rescue the crew as the hull sank near 11 o clock. Three sailors clung to a mast while 33 others are believed lost in the wreck.
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Astoria
Oregon
Dan
Rasecranz
Peacock Spit
Attendance cut by bad weather opens Indiana painters convention
More than a hundred trade representatives gather for the fourth annual Indiana State Association of Master House Painters and Decorators convention at Odeon hall. Bad travel weather delays delegates. officers expect large arrivals tomorrow as trains unload from across Indiana. Committees named include Credentials, Resolutions, Question Box, and House. The opening session was called to order.
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Indiana State Association of Master House Painters and Decorators
Odeon Hall
Indiana
Oliver S. Jones
Frank. Cornish
Fort Wayne
George Hayser
Richmond
F. ‘Hellopeter
Peru
August Kever
Indianapolis
T.O. Bryant
Kokomo
William Callahan
Greencastle
Muncie
J. Marshall
L. Fahlsing
House
J. Bowers
William Pape
Henry
Meyers
Indiana Health Bills Move To State Legislature
Dr. Eric Crull reports new health measures from Dr. J. N. Hurty to the Indiana legislature opening Thursday. A proposed sanitary engineer would oversee city health work to fix slipshod sewers and improve housing conditions, backed by Alice Fellows Bacon of Evansville, aiming to lower urban mortality.
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Eric Crull
Board of Health
Indianapolis
J. N. Hurty
State Board of Health
Crull
Hurry
Indiana
Hurty
Alice Fellows Bacon
Evansville
Crull Bays
Bars Spooning Over Phone At Shelbyville
Shelbyville Indiana January 7 spooning matches over the telephone must be stopped in the future. B Early manager of the telephone company says five minutes is long enough for anyone to coo over the dial. He has ordered that service shut off after that length of time. Kicks have been rene from business men who have been unable to get service for several minutes. An investigation found the delay was caused by young people who meet at the phones to exchange felicitations.
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Shelbyville
Ind
B. Early
Ian An
Train wreck near Stockwell leaves one dead and thirty hurt
A Big Four passenger train bound for Chicago derailed 12 miles south of Stockwell Indiana in sleet. The baggage car front end fell into a ten foot embankment. many passengers from Cincinnati Indianapolis and Chicago were injured. A unidentified man remains unconscious and may die.
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Ind
Big Four Railroad
Rex
Here
Pfeiffer
Harry J
Central Avenue
Connersville
Patterson
W. G
Indianapolis
Bushman
J. C
Caughill
Leonard
Dearmond
James
Express Messenger
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Baird
Charles
Voigt
Albany
N. Y
Lovelace
H H
Boston
Mass
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Elmer
Powers
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Jaques
W G
Thorntown
Kennedy
W. D
Montgomery
George
Porter
Calumet Avenue
Chicago
Wiebers
J. Herman
Otterbein
Moore
H. W
Reblinger
New York City
Thornburg
J. E
Anderson
Turner
James W
Greensburg
Webster
I. L
Ames
Ingalls
Theodore
Wentworth Avenue
Frank
Nickelson
Victor
Dwight
Gallup
Mrs
Stella
Herman Avenue
Evaston
Hl. Fishe
Janet G
Mullens
Lucius
Ammerman
G. A. Greenburg
Schlechter
Power
Stockwell
Noted Men to Speak at Bowser Banquet
At the Thursday banquet by S F Bowser and Co in honor of the Pacemakers club two noted men will speak Wilbur D Nesbit of Chicago humorist and Hon Frederick Landis of Logansport They will discuss Few Chosen Words and Opportuni ties respectively.
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S. F. Bowser & Co
Pacemakers
Wilbur D. Nesbit
Chicago
Frederick Landis
Logansport
Saye He Wil Stay On Hie Fruit Ranch at Glendora
Chicago January 7 Frank Chance arrived and confirmed he would engage in baseball, despite another statement suggesting he might stay on his fruit ranch in Glendora. The report notes uncertainty over his future with the team.
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Saye
Glendora
Chicago
Frank Chance
Experts Heard On Substituting Currency Plan For Congress
A House Banking and Currency sub committee opened public hearings in Washington to gather views from bankers and financial experts on a new currency system to replace the Monetary Commission proposal. Participants included A Barton Hepburn Paul M Warburton Victor Morawetz and Leslie M Shaw as hearings aim to draft a bill for next Congress.
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Washington
Congress
National Monetary Commission
House Committee On Banking and Currency
A. Barton Hepburn
Paul M. Warburton
New York
Victor Morawetz
Leslie M
New York Stock Exchange
House Money Trust Committee
G. G. Henry
Solomon & Co
New York City
Hallgarten & Co
Lewisohn Brothers
Henry
California Petroleum
House
Merchant Marine Committee
Shipping Trust
Paul Gottheil
Lorenzo Daniels
Paul F. Gerhard
John C. Seager
Allerton D. Hitch
Wm. H. Douglas
Joseph Purcell
J. J.slechta
Sidney Storey
William Lowery
New Orleans
General Shipping
Perfumery Debate Remains A Duty Issue In Tariff Hearing
Washington January 7 hearings on the chemical schedule before the house ways and means committee heard from manufacturers led by Theodore Richsecker of New York opposing raising distilled and essential oils from the free list to a twenty percent ad valorem duty. He argued perfumery is not a luxury and cited working girls who spend wage on it.
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Washington
Paris
San Francisco
House
Ways and Means
Underwood
Theodore Richsecker
New York
Bet Ends Fatally in Hat Trick Across Marshall
Danville Kentucky January 7 Jack Coleman of Harrodsburg wagered Henry Marshall he could shoot through Marshall’s hat without touching the scalp. The bullet passed through the hat and Marshall’s skull, killing him instantly. Coleman was arrested.
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Jack Coleman
Harrodsburg
Henry Marshall
Marshall
Nat
Coleman
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