Fire Destroys Equitable Building in New York
Inferno at the Equitable Life Assurance marble and granite block on Lower Broadway killed at least six and injured twelve. Fire began in a basement restaurant, destroying priceless records and libraries while vaults held securities. Firemen rescued trapped executives as icy facade and dense smoke hampered efforts.
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New York
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Broadway
E. H. Harriman
Mercantile Trust Company
Equitable Trust Company
Kountze Brothers
August Belmont & Company
William Campion
Mercantile Safe Deposit Company
Frank J. Neider
W. J. Giblin
Giblin
Campion
McGean
Fire Department
Candidates Engage Rooms for Democratic Convention
Within an hour of Baltimore as the convention site, hotel room requests poured in by telegraph. Representatives of Governor Woodrow Wilson of New York and Governor Judson Harmon of Ohio secured rooms, with Massachusetts and Vermont first to reserve for their delegations.
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Baltimore
Woodrow Wilson
New York
Judson Harmon
Ohio
Massachusetts
Vermont
Bid to Provisional Government Solidifies in Ecuador
Guayaquil troops supporting the provisional government proclaimed December 28 by General Pedro Montero gain adherence from Canar province residents. Quito forces under General Plaza hold high ground near Alausi and Garanda as a battle with revolutionists looms.
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Guayaquil
Ecuador
Pedro Montero
Canar
Montero
Quito
General Plaza
Alausi
Garanda
Free weddings offered by Justice of the Peace in Bakersfield
In Bakersfield California Justice of the Peace Marion announced he will marry free of charge any couple where the bride makes the marriage proposal. Several such weddings are expected to take place as leap year customs are observed in the area.
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Bakersfield
Cal
Justice of the Peace
Marion
East Bakersfield
Chicago for Peace at Mammoth Hamilton Club Meeting
A large Chicago audience gathered at the Hamilton club Auditori um to back the Taft administration’s international arbitration treaties now before the Senate. Ex-Vice-President Fairbanks Colonel Henry Watterson Jane Addams Dr. Emil G. Hirsch and Representative Foster spoke praising Taft and urging ratification to promote world peace and abolish war implements.
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Chicago
Hamilton Club
Auditorium Theater
Fairbanks
Henry Watterson
Louisville
Representative Foster
Vermont
Jane Addams
Emil G. Hirsch
United States Senate
Taft
United States
England
Maine
Canada
Mr. Fairbanks
Senate
Douglas fir oil discovery at Washington promises new products
University of Washington chemists under Dr. H. K. Benson report a process to extract oil from Douglas fir wood including stumps and limbs. The oil rivals pine oil and yields three tar products, a light oil for shingle stain, a heavier tar oil, and a pitch usable as protective paint. Rosin and tannic acid from fir byproducts also show value for paper and other uses.
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University of Washington
Seattle
H. K. Benson
Linden
Anacortes
Dr. Benson
Poindexter backs Lawrence for Washington governor
Washington Senator Poindexter endorsed J. C. Lawrence ex Railroad commissioner for the Republican nomination and predicted his nomination and election. He cited Lawrence as progressive and not subservient to railroads or large interests.
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Washington, D. C
Poindexter
J. C. Lawrence
Washington
Lawrence
Sailors reduce mast height to steady fire control
Naval officials find Pacific fleet masts vibrate too much for accurate observations by the fire control officer. The height of the masts is blamed and work begins on the armored cruiser Pennsylvania to shorten them by ten feet to restore accuracy.
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Seattle
Pacific Fleet
Pennsylvania
New Mexico Enters Union as 47th State
President Taft signed the proclamation of statehood at 1 35 p m on Saturday ending New Mexico Territory status The ceremony occurred in Taft’s private office with four cabinet members two congressmen elect from New Mexico a dozen prominent citizens several White House staff and three photographers witnesses to the historic moment
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Washington, D. C
New Mexico
Taft
White House
Tea Adulterated Goods to Enter U S Market
Washington reports 6,000,000 pounds of colored and adulterated tea not meeting treasury or pure food laws will be admitted and sold in the United States within days unless government acts. Senator Root and a New York Tea Association delegation have appealed to President Taft.
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Washington, D. C
Treasury
Senator Root
New York Tea Association
Taft
Melonite shells dumped from Brest cruiser after Toulon blast
One Brest port cruiser sailed to sea and threw 67 tons of melonite shells overboard after the Liberte explosion at Toulon last September which killed 235 sailors, condemning the shells.
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Brest
France
Liberte
Toulon
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Polk County
Independence, Oregon
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company
Drexeler & Alexander
Oregon
Cherity Meat Market
Street
W. W. Newton & Son
Judge Boon
Chicago For Peace
Mammoth Meeting
Oure
Oregon Power Company
Tell 41
Mutual
J.L. White
H. Hirschberg
D. W. Sears
C. W. Irvine
B. F. Smith
W. H. Walker
Otis D. Butler
OUR Grocery
Independence
L. G. Reeves
the Grocer
C. D. Tharp
Lendell Dairy
W. M. Roberts
Independence, Ore
WM. McGilchrist & Sons
Willamette Valley
Salem
State Street
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