Pacific Mail liner Korea sets long distance wireless record
The Pacific Mail liner Korea on its first voyage with a wireless plant sent an aerogram from 8900 miles west to San Francisco and received messages back. Operator Phelps reported the distance from Japan at the time, and General Manager Schwerin had anticipated 1600 miles as a milestone.
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Pacific Mail
Korea
Phelps
United Wireless
S Point
Honolulu
Japan
Schwerin
Hen as Coin Maker Delights Topeka Farmers
United States Department of Agriculture data show poultry earnings in one year exceeded the value of cotton and wheat crops and wine output. The egg output alone topped 290 million dollars, signaling Kansas shifts toward poultry farming as a profitable mortgage relief for farmers.
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Topeka
Kan
United States Board of Agriculture
United States
Department
Kansas
State Agricultural College
Sean
Canada Loses Ground in Cheese Trade This Season
Ottawa reports Canadian cheese production reaching about 1,786,000 boxes, slightly above last year by 8,000 boxes, but prices average one cent per pound lower. Exporters cite rising New Zealand output as the main cause, noting New Zealand produced 620,000 boxes last year after only 66,000 five years earlier, now challenging Canadian sales in the winter market.
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Ottawa
Ont
Canada
New Zealand
Twelve Die in Cambria Steel Mine Explosion Near Johnstown
In Johnstown Florida a dynamite explosion at Cambria Steel coal mine two miles away killed twelve foreign workers. Only fifteen men were inside. three escaped via life ladders through poisonous fumes. Rescue crews cleared debris and found the twelve bodies in the lower level.
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Johnstown
Fla
Cambria Steel Company
Egan
Desertions Plague Noord Brabant Sailors in San Francisco
Dutch cruiser Noord Brabant sailors desert in San Francisco as she sails for Honolulu and the Orient. Thirty five men deserted last week during shore leave with most returning aboard. four men defied orders after failing to obtain leave and attempted to slip away, facing severe duties upon return.
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San Francisco
Noord Brabant
Honolulu
Orient
Earth Shock Record Reported Near Salt Lake City
A well defined earth shock was recorded at 3 26 50 this morning. Seismic evidence suggests the quake originated near Mexico or Southern California, with the event detected in Salt Lake area.
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Salt Lake
Peek
Mexico
California
Immediate coastal appropriations urged to boost Pacific commerce
Washington report cites John A. Fox special director of the National Rivers and Harbors congress urging immediate federal funding to deepen Pacific coast harbors from Portland to Eureka. He warns larger sums are needed now to benefit traffic via the Panama Canal and river systems on the western slope. Fox plans a December 8–10 Rivers and Harbors congress session in Washington to push for these measures.
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Pacific Coast
Congress
Panama Canal
Portland
Tacoma
Seattle
Grays Harbor
San Diego
Sos Angeles
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Eureka
Sacramento
San Joaquin
Columbia
Snake Rivers
John A. Fox
National Rivers and Harbors Congress
Taft
Fox
Rivers and Harbors Congress
National Congress
Missouri
Prairie Fire Rages Across Tripp County in South Dakota
A three mile prairie fire swept east to west through Tripp County threatening Lamro and McNeeley. Hundreds fought flames under a south wind with the towns saved after strenuous efforts. No deaths reported as crews battled the blaze across open prairie and farmsteads.
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Tripp
Lamro McNeeley
McNesley
Boldere
Arete
Bad Barrow
Carter proposes warrants to fund irrigation plans
United States Senator Thomas C. Carter of Montana arrives in Denver to press a plan to issue warrants against the reclamation fund instead of government bonds. He cites the Pathfinder system in Wyoming with $1 million spent and the Salt River project needing over $3 million, with $2 million already used and the dam to impound 1,000,000 acre feet of water. The aim is to rush $40 million to $60 million in reclamation work to open land for settlers.
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Denver
United States
Thomas C. Carter
Montana
Senate Committee On Irrigation and Reclamation
Carter
Wyoming
Salt River
Freight airship promise ends 60 years of Lowe’s work
Professor Thaddeus S. C. Lowe of Pasadena says he will soon complete his life work, a practical freight carrying airship. He claims plans are secret but shown to General Allen and other experts as feasible. He envisions carrying 20 tons and a voyage to the Atlantic coast.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Thaddeus S. C. Lowe
Pasadena
Lowe
Atlantic Coast
Allen
United States Signal Service
McClellan
Blind mind reader studies medicine and surgery in Chicago
The Chicago College of Medicine reports J. W. Bowlatin a blind student who claims telepathic reading of minds helps him gain medical knowledge. Bowlatin says he can comprehend from his roommate H. Wolk what they read, though he dismisses supernatural implications.
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Chicago
J. W. Bowlatin
Chicago College of Medicine
Bowletin
H. Wolk
Bowlotin
Wolk
Quake Shakes Siskiyou Redding Cal Oct 30
A strong quake rattled Redding California on October 30 causing houses to tremble and awaken residents. The tremor disrupted the night with noticeable shaking across the Siskiyou region. No injuries or damage details are provided in the fragment.
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Siskiyou
Redding
Cal
Taft Deep River Trip Delayed by Flotilla Disarray
President Taft's river schedule faltered as vessels including the Oleander could not maintain speed. He slowed to let 26 governors and 177 congressmen land together at Memphis, delaying his next stop Vi and causing confusion among cabinet ministers and officials.
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Helena
Ark
Taft
Memphis
New Orleans
Kansas
Donaghey
Martin
Prince Ito’s Body to Return on Japanese Warship Iwate
The body of Prince Ito, Japan’s elder statesman, will be taken aboard the warship Iwate at Darien and brought to Japan with a full royal suite. The coffin rests under a white pall in a Darien hotel as guards guard the scene and staff members are admitted.
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Prince Ito
Japan
Iwate
Darien
Darion
Te Won
Abe Sante
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