Blizzard of 1888 Rages Across Atlantic Seaboard
A brutal blizzard paralyzes New York and surrounding areas for 24 hours with fourteen inches of snow, cutting telegraph and telephone lines, blocking rail traffic, and stranding thousands. Fifteen people die, dozens injured, and hundreds face peril at sea as steamships and trains are stalled. City services struggle to cope while a large force of workers scrambles to clear streets amid harsh winds and widespread outages.
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Prominent London Cotton Broker Edward Comber Dead
London reports the death of Edward Comber a prominent cotton broker once chairmen of the Gomboay chamber of commerce. The note mentions his prominence in the field and connects to the London market scene amid a winter context with fluctuating temperatures.
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Edward Comber
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Gomboay
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SCHOONER GREW LOST New England Floods From Heavy Rain
A schooner drifted ashore on Outer Island in a gale near Stony Creek Connecticut with four crew spotted on deck then lost. no rescue due to high seas. Meanwhile Boston reports widespread floods across New England from unprecedented rainfall. rivers like the Connecticut and Nashua swell, dams and bridges threatened, electric railways disrupted. Stamford partially flooded. railroad traffic severely impaired as trains cancel or delay.
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Snapped wire saves train in California ocean embankment
A suburban electric train with 260 passengers running at 45 mph along the Los Angeles coast was saved when a trolley wire snapped just before a 12 foot embankment into the ocean. The train slowed and stopped. police and crews searched for a possible rescue and the incident halted further progress along the Del Rey to Redondo Beach run.
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Senate Votes 10 Take Up Suffrage
The Senate voted 14 to 47 to take up immediately a resolution for a constitutional amendment granting women’s suffrage. The motion to table or proceed faced sharp partisan division with named senators on both sides. David Lamar testified to alleged unlawful rebates by United States Steel, claiming $75 million over six years, as the Interstate Commerce Commission prepared a hearing into steel and railroad rebate practices.
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Ashurat
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Bryan
James
Martins
Overman
Robinson
Smith
South Caroing
Gore
Swanson
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Hitchcock
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Ashurst
Borah
Bradley
Brady
Drinton
Burton
Chamberlain
Clapp
Clark
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Cuminoins
Dingham
Full
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Grenna
Hyllia
Hughes
Jones
LaFollette
Lane
Laa
Tennessee
McCumber
Myers
Nelson
Morris
O'Gorman
Oliver
Page
Perkins
Poindexter
David Lemar
Wolf of Wall Street
Interstate Commerce Commission
Nenata
Lamar
Steel Corporation
United States Steel Corporation
Atack
Duluth, Iron Range Company
Duluth, Mesiba and Northern
Bothia
Commission Acon
Elgin, JoNet and Daytern
Aviator Newberry Killed in Argentine Mountains
Argentine report says George Newberry, a leading American aeroplane designer, was killed during a flight near the Andes mountains. Lieutenant Laath, the French pilot, was said to be injured as Newberry’s machine crashed while attempting a high altitude maneuver.
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Buenos Ayras
Andere
George Newberry
Gératz
Threa -Peraans
Watch Concern Hit Denies Right of Corporation to Fix Prices
The US Supreme Court dismissed the appeal of the Waltham Watch Co from the second federal circuit ruling in favor of Charles A Keene a New York jeweler regarding resale price fixing. The decision signals skepticism toward using specific contracts to control retailers' resale prices amid pending anti trust legislation. The court also set April 6 for Georgia’s injunction petition tied to copper plant operations near the Georgia border.
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Supreme Court of the United States
Waltham Watch Company
Second Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
Charles A. Keene
New York
Haad Tor Auling Waltham Watches
Waltham Company
Congress
Supreme Court
State of Georgia
Ducktown
Tenn
Georgia
Tennessee Copper Company
Boosts Pay of Professors at Stanford University
Wives of Stanford instructors and assistants will see an Easter salary raise of 2000 dollars a year for 225 teaching staff members. Most benefit goes to the male professors bearing most of the teaching burden. President Branner says the increase aims to sustain a livable living standard for those scholars and their families. The 160 married beneficiaries reflect a similar raise enacted last year totaling 40000 dollars.
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Cooper Branner Caid
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Petras Released on Bail in Aurora Murder Case
Anthony Petras was released on $10,000 bail by Judge Irwin at Geneva after being held for three weeks on a murder investigation linked to Misa Theoran. Bonds were signed by local residents including William Goorkéd, president of the Aurora’s Record National Bank.
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Misa ‘Thoeratn
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Aurora
Dudge Irwin
Geneva
Aurovi Mon
William Goorkéd
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Ryding
U.S Club Guarded in Mexico Amid Conspiracy Fears
In Mexico City two hundred police were posted around the American club after reports of a plot to attack the building. President Huerta ordered guards and arrests were made as a detachment of the Twenty-ninth Infantry watched nearby. In Washington, Villa acknowledged Carranza as his chief and said the American commission would wait for new instructions before acting on the Benton inquiry. President Wilson commented that the United States can wait and that urgent armed intervention is not needed. Carranza’s stance and the U.S. policy toward foreign nationals in Mexico face scrutiny as tensions rise.
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Twenty-ninth Infantry
Carranza
Washington
Wilson
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Congress
Carranza Prestigo
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Great Hiitein
College students return as Illinois campus resumes normal
Champaign UI students from Chicago who fled home due to scarlet fever have returned to the University of Illinois. Most trains discharged hundreds of travelers, many from Cook County, with several patients to be released today. The university reopened Beards, Willard halls, and theaters will reopen Thursday as conditions improve and no new cases have appeared since Saturday. The gymnasium reopened after fumigation and athletes resumed training after days of disruption.
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Chicago
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Fiance Murder Suspected After Train Tragedy
Elizabeth Davidson travels from Springfield to Chicago with her father to press for an investigation into the death of Mavslus M. Fairman a wealthy Dale Park broker whose body lay on the tracks near West Chicago after a snowbound Denver Lines train incident. Police initially considered suicide but family seeks the killer. The ring necktie clasp ruby and $8,000 in cash found on the body.
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Mavslus M. Fairman
Dale Park
Tendka
Elizabeth Davidson
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Springfeld
Ne.b
Esha
Wisconsin Avenue
Oak Park
Mias Davidson
Mr. Walters
John L. Davidson
Jesse H. Hamilton
Fairman
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Chicago& Northwestern Railway
Overland Limited
Wheaton
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Mildred Allison Rexroat
Henry Spencer
Giorge Nellis
Duke of Sutherland Leases Yacht Catania to Countess Szechenyi
The Duke of Sutherland, returning from West Indian waters aboard the yacht Catania, has leased the vessel to Countess Szechenyi formerly Miss Gladys Vanderbilt.
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London
Duke of Sutherland
West Indian
Countess Sgechenyi
Gladys Vanderbilt
Cardinal Kopp Dying in German City
Cardinal George Kopp, the highest dignitary of the Roman Catholic church in Germany, is dying of acute menigits at Troppau. He is seventy-seven years old. A mixed medical note appears, while a separate report states a girl’s internal organs were reversed during surgery at Devis Memorial Hospital.
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Breslau
Germany
George Kopp
Troppau
Austrian Russia
W. Ve. March
Laura Crisel
Widdel
Devis Memorial Hospital
Markets Feature Mixed Grain Prices Across Minnesota and Dakota
Market notes show spring wheat and winter patent goods listed with varied prices from 4.25 to 5.80 per unit, plus rye and jute futures at several figures. Poultry and potatoes appear with scattered prices, while miscellaneous stocks and packing items show varied, unclear valuations.
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