Three Killed as Train Hits Auto at North Riverside Crossing
Illinois Central passenger engine struck an automobile at a surface crossing in North Riverside. Three persons died, two others seriously injured. Victims named Revert Miller and Mrs. M Strethe. injured include Thelma Puffer and W V Logan, Studebaker sales staff. Police believe occupants did not see the approaching train.
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Chicago
Tnnols Central Miilread
North Riverside
Revert Miller
M. Strethe
Putter
Studebaker Company
Robert, Puffer
W. V. Logan
Fire Ravages Marion Apartments Killing Three In Knoxville
A blaze at the Marion apartments in Knoxville Tennessee killed Mrs Ed wards Lockett and J D Rath and fatally injured Mrs John Lister who jumped from a third story window. Several others were severely burned as they fled. Judge Wild Wright owner suspects arson. Loss pegged around 80900 dollars.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Marion
Edwards Lockett
J. D. Rath
John Lister
Wild Wright
Ohio Electric Car Collision Near Trenton Kills One
One man died and seven injured when an Ohio Electric passenger car crashed into an express car a half mile north of Trenton, Ohio. The motor man Val Johnson of the passenger car was crushed to death in the impact.
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Ohio
Hamilton
Trenton
Val Johnson
Dynamite Blast Kills Farmer and Son Near Montpelier
In Montpelier Indiana George Gaskill a wealthy farmer four miles east of town was blown to pieces by a premature dynamite explosion while blasting stumps. His son Ralph age 9 was fatally injured and another son Russell age 5 was severely injured but expected to recover.
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Montpelier
Ind
George Gaskill
Here
Ralph
Russell
Death of Dr Francis Bacon in New Haven at eighty one
Dr Francis Bacon aged eighty one and famed surgeon and alienist died at his New Haven home. He was the son of Rev Dr Leonard Bacon noted abolitionist preacher before the Civil War and a recognized authority on yellow fever in the era.
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Francis Bacon
New Haven
Conn
Pr. Bacon
Leonard Bacon
Bolt From Clear Sky Kills Man Near Logansport
A man named Elmer bobbins, age forts, was struck by a bolt of lightning while tending cows in a wood near Logansport. He died at the scene as lightning struck him while he attempted to drive cattle.
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Logansport
Elmer Bobbins
Grerthy
Tobbites
Strick
Fire injures eleven at Covington dry cleaning plant
A Covington Kentucky fire at the Paria Dry Cleaning plant injured eleven people. Six were firefighters and five were plant employees. responders battled flames in the city.
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Covington
Paria Dry Cleaning Company
Ene Dployes
Dry Clenuins
Robbery at Bank of Mide land Leaves Loot Behind
A bank robbery in Port Smith Ark leads to a two hour pursuit after unknown gunmen blew open the vault at the Bank of Mide land. They fled thirty miles south with about $8,000 in cash while escaping in a passerby carriage. Authorities offer rewards.
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Port Smith Ark
Roders
Bank of Mide Land
Here
Infant Smothered by Family Cat in Lawrenceburg
Infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel H. Gibson was found dead in a cradle with a family cat on or near the child. Authorities believe the death resulted from the cat smothering the infant.
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Lawrenceburg
Samuel H. Gibson
Woman Guilty After Second Manslaughter Trial
Ann Kilduff and husband Kilduff were found guilty of manslaughter after a second trial. The earlier trial ended with an agreement. The case details reflect a disputed charge and a courtroom verdict in a homicide matter.
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Davero
Ann Kilduff
Ebn Kilduf Wes Ord
Launch Capsized Sinks Three In Grand River
Grand Rapids youths Clyde Carpenter aged 19 and Frank Perry aged 20 were drowned when their launch capsized on the Grand river. Clarence Belding aged 18 escaped a like fate narrowly.
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Grand Rapids
Clyde Carpenter
Frank Perry
Clarence Belding
Grand River
Torpedo boats head south from San Francisco amid secrecy
Torpedo boat destroyers Reble and Perry left port under sealed orders with 40 regulars, a surgeon and medical equipment aboard Buford as a convoy plan shifts. Refugees from Mazatlan report widespread bandit violence as American lives and property are at risk along the west coast of Mexico. Newport brings 57 west coast passengers and details a brutal murder of American White near Acapulco, with bandits and a plantation tied to a hidden fortune.
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San Diego
Cal
Reble
Perry
Mexico
San Francisco
Buford
Los Angeles
Mazatlan
Abessenia
Petersdorff
Acapulco
White
Newport
Manzanillo
Storms Toll Reaches Fifty Five Across Oklahoma Texas
Tornado across Oklahoma and Texas leaves at least 55 dead and over 100 injured. Settled towns like Foss and Butler suffer near annihilation with many buildings demolished and widespread isolation due to damaged wires. Reports from Sentinel Hubart Lugert list multiple fatalities and heavy farm losses.
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Oklahoma
Texas
Oklahoma City
Okla
Sitten
Frouy Arapahoe 2
Foss
Butler
Sentinel
Hubart
Lugert
Rock Island County State's Attorney Candidate Indicted
Harry Mc Caskrin, Republican nominee for state's attorney of Rock Island county, indicted by the federal grand jury on sending improper postal cards. Witness Rev Shutt of Genesee formerly lived in Rock Island received six such cards mailed from his former home between November and February.
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Peorty
Harry McCaskrin
Rock Island County
Manus
Rev
F .F. Shutt
Genesee
Rock Island
New 1 850 000 Merger Formed In Carpentersville
A merger was effected Thursday between the new Higin Winess Tron Holt company and Star Manufacturing of Carpentersville. The resulting corporation is capitalized at 1 850 000 dollars.
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Higin
Ne H Winess Tron & Holt Company
Star Manufacturing Company of
Carpentersville
Ross R Winans Dies at 62 in Baltimore
Ross R Winans, prominent national figure and member of the Winans family, died in Baltimore on a recent day. He was sixty two years old.
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Ross R. Winans
Baltimore
Ross Hetition Winns
Nationaire
Winans
D K Pearsons Dies at Hinsdale Sanitarium
Chicago April 27 Dr Daniel K Pearsons philanthropist dies at 2 a m after pneumonia from a cold suffered on his ninety second birthday April 14 Friends meet at Hinsdale sanitarium to arrange funeral services at Hinsdale Congregational Church He gave 6 000 000 to 47 colleges and religious institutions in 24 states and bequeathed his home library and art gallery to Innsdale.
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Chicago
Daniel K. Pearsons
Hinedale Sanitarium
Pearsons
Dr. Pearsons
Hinsdale Congregational Church
Daniel Kimball Pearsons
Bigs
Innsdale
Bradford
Peace meeting opens sixth annual American Society of International Law session
Washington on April 27 the sixth annual meeting of the American Society of International Law opened at the Pan American Union Hall. Established at Lake Mohonk in 1906 its aim is to foster study of international law and promote relations based on law and justice. This session focuses on the program organization and procedure for the third Hague conference.
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Washington
American Society of International Law
Pan-American Union
Lake Mohonk
New York
Fatal duel over woman shocks Miertus Village
In Miertus Village a fatal shotgun duel followed an argument over a woman. Jotinar Kins, 71, is dead while Brant Roddy, 58, lies dying. The incident occurred after a dispute between the two men.
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Philadelphia
Jotinar Kins
Brant Roddy
Miertus Village
Meade’s Son Robert L Meade Dies by Suicide at Home
Robert Leo Meade, son of Brigadier General Meade of the U S Military Commission, reportedly died by self-inflicted death at his Bunton home on April 24 after commanding U S troops in a recent Chinese theater engagement.
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Meade
Bunton
Robert Leo Meade
Ger Meade
U.S
United States
Paris Bank Robbers Bonnot and Dubois Shot Dead in Garage
In Cheisy le Roi near Paris, Bonnot the "Demon Chauffeur" and anarchist Dubois were killed after a five hour gun battle as police, gendarmes, guards, and engineers attacked a ruined garage. Ten thousand spectators watched while dozens were wounded and 100 residents helped.
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Dubois
Bonnot
Paris
Cheisy le Roi
Tonneau
Bonnet
Bounot
France
Choisy
M. Lepine
Roosevelt and Wilson Win Key County Primaries
In Seattle on April 10 about six thousand votes were cast in county primaries. Republicans backed Roosevelt with about 3,000, La Follette 1,500, Taft 400, while Democrats favored Woodrow Wilson with most of the 1,000 Democratic votes. Kansas City counties on April 29 chose delegates for Roosevelt to state and congressional conventions.
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Colonel
Wilson
Seattle
Wash
Woodrow Wilson
Roosevelt
LaFollette
Taft
Kansas City
Kansas
Theodore Roosevelt
Father Murdered by Son in Indianola Home
Des Moines April 30. A. J. Wayman seventeen confessed to Sheriff Ness that his father John Wayman was killed by him in their home near Indianola. He claimed he killed to save his mother and said his sister Mabel, thirteen, knew nothing of the crime. Young Wayman was taken to Indianola to face murder charges.
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Des Moines
Mabel
A. J. Wayman
Ness
John Wayman
Indianola
Young Wayman
Girl Fatally Shoots Doctor in Chicago Incident
In Chicago on April 29 Dr. W. C. Fischer, a young physician, was shot and fatally wounded by a revolver held by Miss Mara Osborne on Park Avenue. The weapon was believed to be loaded, though she did not know it.
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Chicago
W. C. Fischer
Mara Osborne
Nord Park Avenue
Prince of Wales Near Paris City Visit Plans
The prince of Wales is in Paris and will travel to the United States soon, per a Paris report. The prince may remain in the city through the summer before heading overseas.
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Prince of Wales
Paris
Apric Fia
United States
Cri de
Biys
Roosevelt Defends Harvester Case and Morgan Inquiry
Oyster Bay, April 27 Col Theodore Roosevelt says reports on suppressing the Harvester case are baseless. He notes Cabinet advice to delay prosecution pending Senate‑led investigations and recalls Taft’s role. Roosevelt asserts no fear of Morgan interests and cites actions during his 1904 efforts while seeking the presidency.
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Oyster Bay
N. Y
Theodore Roosevelt
International Harvester Company
Harveyer Trust
Washington
Corporations
Smith
Senate
Roosevelt
Taft
Morgan
Harvester Trust
Northern Securities
Mr. Taft
General Grant Buried with Full Military Honors
Gen Frederick Dent Grant, late commander of the department of the east, was buried at Governor's Island West Point New York on Friday with full military honors. The ceremony featured a short chaplain's eulogy a salute of 18 volleys and the interment in an underground reinforced concrete vault.
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Governor's Island
West Point
N. Y
Frederick Dent Grant
Department of the East
Carnegie Fund Awards Honor Fifty Heroic Acts
The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission awarded fifty acts of bravery in Pittsburg on April 29. Total cash 40 500 and monthly pensions 525, with two gold medals 18 silver and 0 bronze. Recipients include rescues from drowning and mine, sewer, railroad, fire, electricity incidents. Two women and a girl among awardees. one gold medalist is African American. Awards cite mine explosion at Panama, II November 1910.
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Pittsburg
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
Panama
Copper Miners Get Raise in Michigan Copper Field
Practically all Michigan copper companies have followed Calumet and Hecla granting a ten percent pay increase. About 18,000 workers are affected. Iron mines shift to eight hours instead of ten. April 30. Marquette, Mich.
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Michigan
Calumet
Hecla
Maronette
Mich
Polar dash sailors drown near Crescent Beach
George Borup of New York, who with Peary on the north pole dash, and Samuel Winship Case of Norwich Yale graduate, were drowned at Crescent Beach Connecticut on April 2y.
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George Borup
Crescent Beach
Conn
New York
Peary
North Pole
Samuel Winship Case
Norwich
Yale
Hinschtar C. General Counsel Killed in Albany Auto Crash
Hinschtar cons vice-president and general counsel of General Electric Co. at Schenectady was killed in a motor vehicle accident on the Pittsfield road a few miles east of Albany on April 26.
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Albany
N.Y
Hinschtar
Cons
General Electric Company
Schenectady
Pittefeld Road
Garfield Tea and Old Cure Advertisements
A vintage advertisement fragment describes Garfield Tea to “keep the Hyer normal” and urges a nightly drink before retiring. It also markets Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething with claims to ease gums, reduce inflammation, relieve pain, and cure wind colic at 25 cents a bottle. Howell and Powell are briefly mentioned in observational notes about individuals.
Cole's Carboni salve promises quick burn and cut relief
Stop the Pain. The hurt of a burn or a cut stops when Cole's Carboni salve is applied. It heals quickly and prevents scara. 2c and &c by ruggists, or free sample write to J. W. Cole & Co., Black River Falls, Wis. They Draw interest. A kiss, he said after just having had one, is the most precious thing, yet women give them away. You are mistaken, she said. We never give them away, we merely invest them.
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Cole
Ruggists
J. W. Cole & Co
Black River Falls
Wis
How Old Was He
In a country school a young teacher asks a boy his age after he shows kindness. The boy replies with humor that he is old enough to enjoy being kissed, illustrating a playful anecdote from Mack's National Monthly.
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Mack
National Monthly
Missing the Point in Sugar Tariff Exchange
Representative Rucker of Colorado disputes a tariff argument on sugar saying opponents miss the point. A Washington correspondent recalls a punchline about 5,000 elephants a year making piano keys and billiard balls, with a quip about trained elephants and intelligence.
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Rucker
Colorado
Washington
Bulletin
The Old Plea He Didn’t Know It Was Loaded
A sufferer attributes years of stomach and nerve troubles to coffee and caffeine. After extensive illness, a switch to Postum improved headaches, nausea, vomiting, and weight loss, with eventual full recovery and renewed health. The letter lauds Postum’s benefits and cites personal improved condition and weight gain.
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Postum
Wellville
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Cecil Lyon
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D. K. Pearsons
Hinsdale Sanitarium
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Powell
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