World News Briefs Highlight Turbulent Year
A collage of short items reports: football tragedy with casualties, Wyoming cattlemen pleading guilty, Toronto labor convention backing women’s suffrage, Cairo tense with troops, Roosevelt's party unaffected, suffragette violence in Bristol, treasury pay rules for irrigation workers, Bering Sea seal catch short, Kaiser snubs tradition with archduke’s wife, Mia Roosevelt en route to New York, sugar trust indictment, Cuba’s near 30 million annual expenses, South American letters conference, Nicaragua’s Zelaya claims victories, Denver & Rio Grande raises shop pay, New Haven infant mortality conference yields a society, Fresno man linked to checks, Newfoundland storm casualties, Taft vase valued by customs, Milwaukee Road ordered locomotives, Alaska census supervisor named, Haiti rains cause damage, four mail car robbers convicted, New Haven scientists discuss infant mortality, New Albany bank robbery, Winni girl burns saving brother, Portland robbers flee with loot, Chicago arson attempt, Oakland bankers jailed for dummy loans, Mount McKinley expedition offer, kerosene explosion kills seven, New York betting law upheld, Southern Pacific slides continue.
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Austria
Mia
Roosevelt
New York
Sugar Trust
Cuba
Reforestation 18 Easy. Timberman's Practical Plan
The Timberman argues for conserving and reforesting logged lands, noting forests as a major wealth source on the Pacific Coast. He outlines timber growth expectations, economic returns per acre, and critiques current taxation, proposing a cutting tax with earmarked funds for state reforestation.
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Inman-Poulsen , OY
Pacific
Ned Acre
Westion Ip
Fire at lodging house leaves three dead and five injured
A riverfront lodging house fire in Pittsburg early today kills three unidentified men and injures five others in a scene of bruises and shock. Eighteen people reportedly affected by the incident, with ongoing inquiries into the blaze.
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Pittsburg
Storm in Jamaica records massive rainfall and damage
A Jamaica storm page reports 48 inches of rain from November 6 to 10, with daily totals up to 13 inches. Widespread damage includes Kingston losses of about 500000 dollars, railway and coastlines damaged, banana plantations hit, ships wrecked or grounded, and limited communication by boat.
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Kingston
Jamaica
Holland Bay
Arcringston
Ton
Able House
United Fruit Company
Bradford
Port Antonio
Copenhagen
M. Jobsen
Hamburg
Amanda
Mob quell in Cairo after four days of unrest
Cairo reports the mob spirit tamed as Arthur Alexander, last of arrestees tied to the murder of Mims Pellay, is moved to a northern point by militia. James, a victim, was escorted from jail to a special train amid jeers, while armed guards led the prisoner through cleared streets.
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Cairo
Til
Arthur Alexandler
Mims Amun Pelley
Univors
Alexander
Mins Pellay
James
Here
Bory
Remarkable Confession From Local Robber Reveals Theft Span
Sheriff Haneef takes a statement from Robert Perry a young church worker and writer who admits theft of a motorcycle and eleven horses and describes proceeds and sale of the animals. He details locations and weeks of travel and repayment plans.
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Toe Angeles
Mon
Haneef
Robert Perry
Eneredor
Verry
Gam Perry
Abelifhas
North Dakota to Solo Steamship Battle
Official figures released reveal North Dakota cannot travel without resupply. a new battleship, the ship title unclear, remains isolated in the clamor over steaming radios. The report notes concerns about modernization and communications.
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Quiver
Maan
Battleuhig
North Dakota
Taft to Push Ten Civil Reform Bills in One Message
Washington Nov 1 Taft plans a single comprehensive message to Congress proposing ten major reforms affecting interstate corporations regulation of stocks and bonds rate commissions bureau expansions and new agencies A railroad court postal savings ship subsidies and Sherman act amendments are among the items outlined for immediate enactment promising a long contentious session with strong opposition in Congress.
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Washington
Taft
Congress
Roosevelt
Senate
Bureau of Corporations
Department of Justice
Ruef Faces Eye Operation for Possible Blindness
Abe Ruef former city boss and longtime power in San Francisco is threatened with total blindness and deafness after a planned eye operation next Wednesday. He has been jailed for four years tied to the trolley franchise graft case and says lack of air worsens his afflictions.
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San Francisco
Abe Ruef
Banseo
Owen
Ourse
Jusaan
Board of Supervisors
Ruof
Grag
War cloud clears on Canadian navy plan
Ottawa reports a shift in naval construction plans as the Canada Britain and Germany reach understanding that may pause the proposed 25 million project. The move reduces the need for a Canadian fleet to aid Britain amidst fears of Germanhostilities.
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Ottawa
Ont
Aes
A Empires
Arey
England
Germany
Spa
Berlin
Scientist Parker questions McKinley party evidence at Patria Club
Professor Her schel Parker of Columbia University, a member of Dr Cook's McKinley expedition, told the Patria club in New York that after thorough consideration of the evidence he was convinced.
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Cook
New York
Profesor Herschel
Parker
Columbia University
Patria Club
Taft Home After 96 Day Journey Across Nation
President Taft returns to the White House after a 13,000 mile West and South tour. He says he could stand two or three weeks more on the road and plans to rest briefly before resuming public duties. Taft arrived amid quiet welcomes and quick goodbyes from aides and staff.
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Washington
Taft
White House
Capital
Peing
Fourteen Die in Rail Crash Near Vancouver
A Tanaway lumber freight car collided with an interurban coach near Vancouver on Wednesday morning. Four teenagers died and nine were injured, most of them women. The lumber car rolled downhill after detaching from a freight train, followed by a passenger train close behind in a curve.
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Vancouver
B. C
British
Cal Electric Railway
New Weetmia
Missing link found in Texas fossils by Williston team
An ancient fossil discovery in northwestern Texas by University of Chicago geologist Professor Samuel Wendell Williston reveals a missing link between reptiles and mammals. The find, from an expedition led by Williston, dates the creatures at more than 15 million years old with romaine remains uncovered in recent excavations.
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Darwin
Texas
Samuel Wendell Williston
University of Chicago
Department of Geology
Williston
Mra U. & Grant Jr Die. San Diego News note
Mrs. U. and Grant Jr., wife of the well known capitalist and builder of the U. and Grant Hotel, died today of apoplexy in San Diego Gal. She had been an invalid for years, but her sudden demise shocked Grant U. and Grant IV. at the home in Dest Pannie Rho.
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San Diego
Gal
U. & Grent
Grant
U. & Grant
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