Old Rome key to Peoria blast case undetected
Unexploded device found in Peoria yards sheds light on the Sunday night blast that damaged A. Lucas & Sons steel works and adjacent rail facilities. A two gallon nitroglycerin can with fuse and a timing clock was hidden among girders. the clock failed, possibly due to a weak battery, preventing a larger blast that could have wrecked rail yards.
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Peoria
Hast Peoria
A. Lucas & Sons
John Scurry
Peoria and Pekin Union
Pittsburg
Riot in Portland Ends Parade With Arrests
In Portland Oregon a Labor Day parade riot drew about two thousand participants. Police halted the clash after a drag was toppled and a crowd of about twenty supporters joined. Indictments for inciting riot were filed against ringleaders. most arrestees were not union members.
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Portland
Ore
Post’s Petition Denied in Labor Case at St. Lands
United States district court Judge Smith McPherson of Vintile Creek Michigan denied C. W. Tost's request for an injunction to restrain the American Federation of Labor and its officers and the Tuck Stove and Range Company of St. Lands from entering into a closed shop agreement.
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Post
Hted Oak
Ludge Smith McPherson
United States District Court
C. W. Tost
Vintile Creek
Mich
American Federation of Labor
Tuck Stove & Range Company
St. Lands
Five Negroes Reported Lynched Near Athens Georgia
An unconfirmed report claims five African Americans were lynched near Carion, ten miles east of Athens, as they allegedly planned to attack J. W. Muff’s family. A Muff daughter allegedly found a negro in her room.
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Athens
Carion
Here
J. W. Muff
Blakebex
Muff
Tragedy at Wisner Field Ends Local Youth Pitching
Saginaw Michigan youth Hadward Ballard aged years was killed during a baseball game when a foul tip struck him in the heart while he pitched. Authorities report the accident occurred at Wisner field with no immediate explanation given.
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Saginaw
Mich
Hadward Ballard
Wisner
Sioux City Live Stock Market Quotations
Sioux City markets report Saturday prices for feeder cattle at 8.75 and top hogs at 2.90 dollars.
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Sioux City
Tragic Bleacher Collapse Hits Troston Baseball Game
A bleacher collapse at a Troston amateur baseball game on the college field killed one boy and injured four others among more than 7,000 spectators including many women and girls. In Marion Ohio a car frightened a horse killing seven year old Anna Rath Wratt and seriously injuring her father Thomas Wyatt.
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Troston
Mass
Tostan College
Marion
Annna Rath Wratt
Thomas Wyatt
Alaska’s Forests and Climate: Asectional View from the North
The report outlines Alaska’s vast geography from the Aleutians to the Arctic coast, noting four main divisions and climate contrasts between the southerly Pacific coast and the central plateau. It details vegetation, forest types, timber species, and the heavy role of spruce and hemlock, with coast forests largely protected and interior forests facing threats from unregulated cutting and fires.
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Eines
Alaska
Aleutian Islands
Havannah
Los Angeles
Canada
Mexico
Florida
Maine
United States
Fiering Sea
Arctic Ocean
War Department
Signal Corps
Doa
Congress
Senate
United States Geological Survey
Pacific Mountain
British Columbia
Mount McKinney Range
Pacific Ocean
Central Plateau
Yukon
Kuskokwim
Pacific
Mount McKinley
BO Torch
Tanane
Kuskokwim Rivera
Rocky Mountain
Rocky Mountain Region
Juneau
Sitka
Valdeza
Bitka
Puget Sound
Scotland
Interior
F&o
Yukon Valley
Washington
Alseka
Tongass and
Chugach
Deer Mountain
Ketchikan
Apluce
Wrangell
Joe
Cordova
Douglas
Katalla
Petersburg
Seward
Valdez
Oreron
Pacific Coal
Alani& Mills
Moat
Alsaka
Beneft
Kurkokwim
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Rome
Peoria Steel
Oregon
Katy
Bartlesville
Okla
Mussouri, Kansas
Texas
A. PT. Walker
Big Heart, Ola
Wes
Klondike
Russia
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