New Northwest Line Promises Shorter Trip From L A To Spokane
A new trans state railroad under the Harriman system will link Los Angeles and Spokane cutting the distance from 1550 miles to about 1175 miles and from San Francisco to Spokane from 1075 miles. Construction has begun at two points with dirt flying at several others as surveys finish and right of way is prepared for hundreds of miles of existing track plus new lines through rugged terrain.
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Sas Angeles
Great Northwest
Southland
Los Angeles
Spokane
San Ndeco
Panama
Harriman
San Francisco
Unprecedented Rains Devastate California Crops
Severe September storms drenched California, halting work in orchards and vineyards. Reports from Freano and Santa Rosa say half to two thirds of table and shipping grape crops ruined, thousands of hops beds collapsed, and drying fruit spoiled while workers slept in rain soaked fields. Authorities fear total damage will be enormous.
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San Francisco
Freano Gays
Sonoma Valley
Santa Rosa
Navy Withdraws Elk Hills Oil Lands for Warship Use
The president has withdrawn thirty seven thousand acres of oil lands in Elk hills California near Mid way and McKitrick fields for development and use by the United States navy The Navy department plans to sink wells and supply oil to naval vessels equipped with oil burners Many officers foresee oil becoming universal on warships
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Washington, D. C
Elk Hills
California
Midway
McKitrick
United States Navy
Navy Department
Woman Wireless Operator Fired on Pacific Liner
Miss Mabel Kelso, the only woman wireless operator aboard a Pacific liner, loses her job on the Mariposa after two months at the key. The company cites objections by the Federal department of commerce and labor to employing women as wireless operators at sea.
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Mabel Kelso
San Francisco
Seattle
Alaska
Federal Department of Commerce and Labor
Aviator Garros Surpasses Altitude Record In Mono Plane
Roland Garros ascends to 16 240 feet in a monoplane eclipsing the prior world altitude record of 18 779 feet set at Vienna by Czakay who carried a passenger on that flight. Garros's engine cut out at peak altitude and he glided down safely.
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Houlgate
France
Roland G. Garros
Garros
Vienna
Czakay
Immigration totals rise in four months across Canada
Canada welcomed 209 042 immigrants from April 1 to August 1. Ocean port arrivals numbered 148 742 while 65 900 came from the United States. The period shows a 15 percent increase over the same months in the previous fiscal year.
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Ottawa
Ont
Canada
Ocean
United States
Fort Stevens Shelled At 6 Mile Target Range
Fort Stevens conducts sensational target practice with a 6 inch gun, destroying an $1800 sea going target built from 10 by 10 timbers and steel masts. Ninety crew trialed the firing, while a second shell struck wreckage as the 625 pound projectile landed. The demonstration compares the target to a British dreadnought at 700 feet long.
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Fort Stevens
Norton
Columbia
Fornance
Motorcycle tragedy at Newark motordrome kills twelve
Eddie Hasha of Waco Texas dies after careering over the rails into a crowd during a four mile free for all race. Johnny Albright of Denver and Edward Fischer of Newark among the dead. five thousand spectators witness the crash as Hasha rides at 90 miles per hour and a spectator is fatally struck. Six others die or are fatally injured. several youths among the crowd are listed among the injured.
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Newark
N. J
Eddie Hasha
Waco
Tex
Hasha
Johnny Albright
Denver
Edward Fischer
Edward Rolle
Frank J. Amburg
Albright
Queen Learns Golf At Balmoral As Mary Leads
Queen Mary begins golf lessons at Balmoral in Scotland to imitate her daughter Princess Mary who has started playing daily there. The Queen finds the game very bracing though tiring after her first lesson. Princess Mary notes the Queen's driving is strong but occasionally wide.
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Aberdeen
Scotland
Queen Mary
Balmoral
Princess Mary
Mexican rebels mobilize near Agua Prieta to Cananea
Movements of Mexican rebels below this point indicate a mobilization. Rebel chiefs Rafael and Emilio Campa join forces 20 miles south of Agua Prieta near Douglas. Ialazar plans to move west along the border toward Cananea signaling a general mobilization of about 1000 men, stronger than federal commands.
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Douglas
Ariz
Rafael
Emilio Campa
Agua Prieta
Ialazar
Cananea
Boundary talks ease tension with Mexican rebel leader
In Hachita New Mexico United States army officers met with Mexican rebel leader Inez Salazar about sixty miles southwest of town. Major Sedgwick Rice rode to the boundary to confer as Salazar apologized for rebels crossing the line and firing on American patrols days earlier.
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Hachita
N. M
United States Army
Inez Salazar
Here
Sedgwick Rice
Salazar
Morgan Offers to Fund Pompeii Herculaneum Excavations
Rome reports J P Morgan submitted a plan to the Italian government to complete excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum. He is said to be willing to bear the entire cost of uncovering Herculaneum.
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Rome
J. P. Morgan
Pompeii
Herculaneum
Airship Falls at France Aviation Meeting Kills Four
An aeroplane lost control at an aviation meeting in Gray France and plowed into spectators, four people killed instantly and many injured. Authorities investigated the trainer and aircraft as emergency crews aided the scene.
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Gray
France
Madero Given 30 Days to Protect U S Interests in Mexico
Washington reports that President Taft has ordered Madero to safeguard American lives and property within 30 days or face U S intervention. A State Department official and Mexican envoy Don Manuel Calero were central to the disclosures amid growing tensions over troops moving to Northern Mexico and the Rio Grande.
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Washington
D. C
Taft
Madero
Mexico
United States
Department of State
Juan Pedro Didapp
Don Manuel Calero
Mexico City
Calero
State Department
Republic
Rio Grande
Emergency Transports Ready at Fort Mason
San Francisco reports unusual activity aboard the army transports Crook Buford and the troopship Sheridan tied at Fort Mason docks. Steam is up on all three ships and they could sail within an hour if the Mexican border crisis requires troop movements, though officials deny authorization.
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San Francisco
Crook
Buford
Sheridan
Fort Mason
Nitrate Supply Limited Sees No Ammo for Britain
Colonel Samuel Eyde of Christiana Norway told the eighth international chemical congress at Columbia University that if Chilean nitrate supplies are cut off Britain would have no ammunition for its guns. He said nitrate of ammonia from atmospheric nitrogen is pure and improves gun heat mechanics.
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Nitrate Supply Limited
New York
Great Britain
Chile
Samuel Eyde
Christiana
Norway
Columbia University
Bombs Placed by Black Hand Fail to Injure in New York
Black Hand agents allegedly planted three bombs across New York City on Sunday. Two devices were found before exploding. a third detonated, damaging windows and doors on two floors of a West Thirty-fifth Street building. No injuries reported amid the 76 families in nearby tenements.
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Black Hand
New York
West Thirty-fifth Street
Auto Freight Rates Challenged Before ICC in D C
Protest filed against the existing freight rate of seven dollars per hundred pounds for automobiles in less than carloads from New York and other Eastern points to Pacific Coast terminals. Other self-propelling vehicles in the same class pay four dollars and fifty cents per hundred. Protesters demand lowering automobile rate to four dollars and fifty cents.
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Washington, D. C
New York
Pacific Coast
Interstate Commerce Commission
Butterfly Farm Pays in Truckee Venture
Miss Ximena Mc Glashan of Truckee operates a butterfly farm, propagating and selling 6200 mounted butterflies in six weeks. She earned $310, averaging over $50 per week, at five cents each.
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Truckee, Cal
Ximena McGlashan
Truckee
Butte
Great French Army Maneuvers Open in Touraine and Poitou
In Touraine and Poitou the French Army began large scale maneuvers with about 120000 soldiers, 50 aircraft, and two dirigible balloons for a week of simulated combat.
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Paris
Touraine
Poitu
Horse Plague Spreads Across Iowa Counties
The horse plague has crossed the Missouri River and killed several animals near Shanandoah Clarinda and Pacific Junction in Page and Mills counties Iowa according to local reports.
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Council Bluffs
Missouri River
Shanandoah
Clarinds
Pacific Junction
Page and
Mills Counties
Iowa
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