Horrific Powder Mill Blast Kills Four in Cumminsville
Toronto reports a terrible explosion at the Namillon Powder Company mill in Cumminsville Ontario. Four men died and two were badly burned as a large portion of the building collapsed and debris flew up to a quarter mile. The cause remains a mystery and damages are estimated at fifty thousand dollars.
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Cumminsville
Lfe
William Muay
Henry Tibbles
George Matthews
Willis
Naanvilne
Tenn
Warner's Furnace
Tiekman
Iti Arnte
Troy
Ind
Teter Boek
Creveland
Franz Vetter
Mornuns Vetter
Srepare
Hinds
Vetter
Embargo on Foreign Rags Shocks Paper Trade Prices Rise
The rag embargo slashes supply, forcing up prices across paper grades. Publishers report a strong market despite no rag use. costs jump 10 to 25 percent with fears of further hikes. Eastern makers convene in Cleveland to study impacts as pulp shifts to writing paper.
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New York
Paper Trade-Journal
Rose Street
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Disaster on Lake Michigan Leaves Ten Dead
Chicago Hyde Park laborers perished when a sunken work site tower broke apart during a gale. Five survivors tell of a brutal night on the lake as a life saving crew fought surf and wreckage to reach the men trapped on spars and timbers.
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Lake Michigan
Chicago
Chicaco
Cheltenham
Wyde Park
Board of Trustees
Hyde Park
Hean & Corbyn
William Sooy Smith
Burt
Robert Hawkins
Onty
Cheltenham Beach
Henry Khiussen
Beinyg
Sas
W. H. Henan
Sonra
Knowlton Bo Corbyn
Cheng David
Pepe Kiehwon
South Ghienvo
Tebeagees Watt Fam
Ipsworth Hig Sears Clymactied
South Chithwo
Otte Hoswoski
Walllan
Roaswowki Clarities
Owas
Theo
Corbyn
Children as Beasts of Burden in Transit
A Mormon family of six from Lewis County traveled through Nasir Tennessee. Aged ten and twelve were harnessed in a small cart, their ankles swollen and bleeding. The father and mother each carried a child, all in evident terror, claiming they were not exactly Mormons but were forced to flee under harsh treatment.
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Lewis County
Burglars Loot Town Offices in Noble & Sons Route
On the night of October 9 burglars raided Noble & Sons coal office Tomlinson mill Sweet market and Tallmadge wagon shop in Piary NY. They took $21,000 Arkansas levee bonds $25,000 mortgage bonds and $73 in cash from Noble & Sons and $150 in cash from Tomlinson. Tools used to open the safe were stolen from Tallmadge’s wagon shop. A $250 reward is offered for the burglars’ capture.
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Piary
Nobles & Sons
Tomlinson
Sweet's
Tallmadge
Noble & Sons
Arkansas
Circus Worker Horribly Injured by Wild Beasts
Richard Clark of Caledonia Canada, a Forepaugh’s circus employee, opened a ventilator in the cage when he was seized by deer and injured severely. He was rescued after guards beat the animals away. Clark suffered extensive hand and leg wounds.
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Waversrry
Conn
Richard Clark
Caledonia
Canada
Forepaugh
Clark
Illinois State News: Commissioners Named for New Orleans Exposition
Governor Hamilton appoints Illinois Special Commissioners for the World’s Industrial and Cotton Exposition in New Orleans. Names span penal and charitable institutions rail exhibits photography books and periodicals education geology and archivology. Also reported are local crimes weather damage farm disruption and a pending execution.
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New Orleans
Hamilton
J. C. Salter
Chester
St. W McClaughry
Joulet
Fred H. Wines
Springfieid
D.R Gilham
Alton
J Pearson
Godfrey
R. H. Dennin
Caleazo
Hiver
Wt. Halliday
Cairo
C. 1. Mosher
Chicago
John Fairbanks
Newton Bateman
Galesbury
A.W Worthen
Warsaw
Uuinois
E. G. Mason
Carrie C. Hughes
Our Young Readers Dream Tale Of A Bird And Boy
A whispered folktale recounts a boy killed by a sparrow then a mother distraught cries for her child. The tale ends as the narrator notes the events were imagined from a dream the boy had after killing a bird in St Nicholas.
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Sparowsbird
Tweedledum
Ahrist
Tweediedium
Oie
Conant Foster
St Nichulua
A Deserved RebuKe. A True Story.
Kate and friends attend a political event in the Farragut square crowd. Kate's flirtatious vanity draws attention from the Senator and President, prompting a public rebuke that humbles her. She retreats home, resolves to mend her manners, and no longer speaks the Senator’s name.
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Josie
Senator
Kate
Kannie
Kann
Furen
Bo Mullowell
Balloon steering and nature’s limits in flight theory
The article argues that artificial balloon flight cannot easily imitate natural flying balance. It notes the bird’s wind relation and gravity as essential to lift and stabilization, suggesting levitation would rarely succeed mechanically. It cites the swallow’s migrations and a convict’s hammer built for the State Fair.
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Brchler
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No. 3
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