Bitter Cold Grips Kansas and Plains Blizzard Hits Midwest
A Kansas blizzard rips through Rock Island No. 28 travel with a coach blown off leaving passengers shaken but unharmed. Temperatures plunge below zero across Kansas Missouri Nebraska Iowa and Colorado with winds up to 40 mph and widespread frost and sleet. Denver reports 14 below zero with Colorado rail traffic disrupted while Omaha and Des Moines see heavy cold and wind chills.
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Rock Island Railroad
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Dix Inaugurated as New York Governor
John Alden Din, a Democrat, was inaugurated as the New York governor at noon, succeeding Horace White who resigned to join the U S Supreme Court. In his address he urged strengthening personal rights while protecting collective state rights.
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MS. C
John Alden Din
New York
Afate
Horace Whites
Averior
Charles E. Iughes
Wilt States Supreme Court
Great Assembly
White
Tile
Barts
To Separate Towels Proposal Sparks Kansas School Test
In Topeka Kansas on January 4 B T Watts state superintendent of practical instruction drafts a towel teat using paper towels for Kansas classrooms. If successful the state will give individual towels to students. The state board has already abolished communal drinking cups in schools and on trains. Professor Joseph tip thues the sculptor died in Berlin on January 4, born in 1800.
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B. T. Wattschild
Kansas
State Board of Shearth
Dies
Berlin
Joseph Tipthues
Two Airmen Die in Falls to Earth During Aviation Meet
The 1910 aviation tragedy claims Joba R Moisant and Arch Hoxser among the fallen. Both pilots perished when their aircraft crashed as wind unsettled the air over New Orleans and Los Angeles during public exhibitions.
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Arch Hoxser
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A Feld
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Ition
London
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New World
California
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AGENT MAY GET Commission On Own Life Insurance
Des Moines January 4 Attorney General Byers ruled that it violates Iowa anti discrimination law for an insurance company to refuse to pay a regular agent a commission on life insurance the agent writes.
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Six Die In Wreck On Nutters Creek Trailway
Ashland Kentucky January 4 six persons killed in wreck on Nutters Creek Trailway near Vanlear a few miles from Parisville last night emergency crews reported.
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Trade review notes steady holiday demand and mixed prospects
New York where R G Dunn reports quiet postholiday business across most mercantile lines. Leather and hides hold firmly while iron and steel stay weak. footwear steady. cotton and dry goods face cost pressures and anticipated production cuts after year end. Business failures: US 246, Canada 36 for week ending December 29.
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R. G Dunn
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Canada
B F Yoakum Escapes Death in Awful Form
Galveston January 3 B F Yoakum head of the Frisco system escaped serious injury and near death when attacked by a number of travelers and riders at a wild chase on a ranch. Ranchmen intervened shooting three attackers saving Yoakum from being gored by fighting javelins and a hazardous beast.
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Eight Men Die in Mine Disaster at Steek Fork Incline
In Fluefisida West Virginia January two a cable snapped above an incline mine car sending five loaded cars down the plane. Eight men including Americans Italians were killed and two injured. Bodies not recovered at latest report.
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Swindling Pair Tricked City Businessmen
A young man and woman posing as Frederick Fulton Robinson of Haven Connecticut and Miss Floren Sevreizs of Cedar Rapids coaxed local business and professional men to loan money after false Yale reminiscences. The duo interviewed bank presidents, used stylish clothes to seem legitimate, then disappeared after promising remittances that never arrived.
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Thlarmseeond
Gary
Frederick Fulton Robinson
En Haven
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Floren Sevreizs
Cedar Rapids
Yale
Cellar Rapids
Old Squaw Is Dead in Calumet Michigan
Mrs Mary Beniche widow of Chief Beniche of the Chippewa Tadlaas tribe died yesterday at her Bara Michigan home at age 75. She lived most of her life in the Upper Peninsula including ten years at LaPointe Wisconsin and is survived by two children 17 grandchildren and five great great grandchildren.
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LaPointe
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Not Worried About Brigham Young Picture on Marble Service
New York on January 3 reports engravings of Brigham Young and the Mormon temple on a silver service mounted aboard a battleship. Citizens in the state see no disruption to Whited Sintea governance after a protest from Ted G. Miller acting for the Women's Republic.
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Elals
Daring: Aviator Cadets Die In Separate Fatal Crashes
In New Orleans John B. Moisant dies during a Michelin cup trial when his Blériot crashes after a landing attempt on the Mississippi river bank. The incident shocks New Orleans as a crowd gathers at Union Station. Moisant, born in Chicago, had been a noted aviator with ties to Belmont Park and the American Aeronautical League.
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New York
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Austrian immigrant con artist jailed for love scam and theft
Denver authorities convict Alexander Kahn in a west side court of obtaining $150 from Minna Rupp by promising marriage. He had a pattern of soliciting sums from 25 cents to 25 dollars while courting her, then delaying nuptials. He also lived with a different woman at 1429 Boulevard claiming marriage. He denied being married when questioned, saying he would marry only after a fortune. The case ends with a jail sentence and sworn testimony.
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Woman Hurt by East Side Bomb Explosion
Police blame the Black Banders for a New York East Side blast that wrecked an Italian grocery at East Thirteenth Street. A woman, aunt of the proprietor Georging Logano, was severely injured by flying glass as the explosion caused panic and thousands of dollars in damage to the tenement and surrounding property.
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East Side
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Geording Logano
Roosevelt Denies Dealing With Taft in 1912
New York reports Colonel Theodore Roosevelt denies ever backing William Howard Taft for the 1912 Republican nomination. He states there is no truth to rumors of any arrangement to secure New York’s delegation for Taft and says he has seen nothing more than what the newspapers have written.
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Fugitive Banker Willing to Surrender
New York December 1. Joseph G. Robin, tied to the Northam bank of New York, appeared briefly in New Jersey last Friday with his sister Lourte Robinevich and then vanished in an automobile. District Attorney Whitman received word from William Travers Jerome that Robin has retained him, and a surrender may be arranged.
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Lourte Robinevich ii
Bryan declines Baltimore banquet amid Jackson day affair
Lincoln Nebraska Dee 31 W J Bryan informs Albert VW Almoney of Baltimore that he cannot attend the Jackson day celebration January 1 6 He will not be present and would not sign a letter read at the event He says the party and platform have shifted and vindicated planks since the last election while noting events from the past month at stake.
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Married men to wear rings under New Jersey measure
The Cupid Wings club of Trenton proposes a law requiring all married men in New Jersey to wear a wedding ring at all times outside their homes. A two year prison term and a $500 fine are set for violations. Jewelers back the effort and Mrs. Charles Howen led the drafting with an attorney. A sister bill to compel married women to wear rings is suggested.
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Howell
Resignation at Pennington Seminary Cited in Sober Address
The Rev. Morgan Bell has resigned the presidency of Pennington Seminary. A guest, Dr. Rleki, urged Sabbath observance and urged students to adopt a strong religious tone. A vivid winter scene near the Kirk prompted reflections on reverence and duty among the young and older students.
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Washington Star
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Pennington Seminary
New Jersey
Wales
Kirk
Their Money's Worth on a London Train
A passenger from Aberri... Tendon rides a London to Aberiernes route. The Englishman and Scotchman discuss delaying a stop for refreshment. The Scotsman claims the journey costs more than expected and reacts with a sour, wary smile at the end.
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Fireman Knit Logs and Lovely Doilies in Sharon
Local Sharon firemen are humorously noted for knitting and embroidery at the main station amid a city forest fire. The piece mixes light fiction and poetic verse, highlighting community chatter and the era's quirky newspaper tone.
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