Russell Sage Dead Veteran Financier Dies at Lawrence
Russell Sage, veteran financier and New York railroad and telegraph director, died at his Lawrence Long Island country home. Cause was heart failure after a sinking spell. He would have turned 90 on August 4. Funeral Wednesday in New York. interment in Troy. Execs named: Mrs Sage and Colonel Slocum. Sage built wealth in railways and Wall Street. 25 directorships at death. The story notes past explosions and Sage’s early career from Troy to Wall Street.
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Russell Sage
Cedarcroft
Lawrence
L. I
Mr. Sage
West Presbyterian Church
West Forty-second Street
N. Y
Troy
Nestor
Verona
Oneida County
New York
Eliza
Pendance Sage
Connecticut
Henry
la Crosse Railroad Company
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Sage
Wall Street
Jay Gould
New York Stock Exchange
Exchange
Broadway
Henry P. Norcross
Boston
Norcross
Fifth Avenue
Beit Estate Bequests Reveal Large Public Endowments
London reports premature notices about Alfred Beit's will showing a public bequest scheme totaling about 9.675 million dollars plus estate and art gifts. Trustees would manage 6 million dollars for Rhodesia railway telegraph and wireless projects and Cape to Cairo lines, with Hamburg city receiving Borstlers Jagar for public benefit.
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London
Alfred Beit
Beit
Bell
Hamburg
National Gallery
Rhodesia
Cape-to-Cairo
South Africa
Cecil Rhodes
Borstlers Jagar
Spokane Fruit Fair Promises Pacific Northwest Spotlight
Spokane Inter State fair offers a $25,000 premium contest with large cash prizes for best fruit and general exhibits. Counties and districts plan space with aims to showcase preserved fruit, grains and grasses, potentially filling the main exhibition floor and shifting art and mineral displays elsewhere.
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Northwest
Spokane
Spokane Chamber of Commerce
Robert H. Cosgrove
Pacific Northwest
Art
Soldiers to American Lake Camp for maneuvers
The First Ninth and Twenty-fourth field batteries have left the Presidio for the camp of instruction at American Lake Washington. Other troops about the day will soon follow. On July 25 General Funston and his staff will go to the camp to take charge of the maneuvers.
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Presidio
American Lake
Washington
Funston
War talk and royal toys: a miscellany of 19th century notes
E. J. Mather predicts inevitable US Mexican war within six months citing rising native hatred and foreign meddling. The czar's daughter owns a vast toy collection from Paris London and Berlin while the prince and princess of Wales donate affordable items to children. Professor Perkins, aged 80, lives simply in an attic among books in Boston. Bulgaria’s Prince Ferdinand is a noted ornithologist and Vienna society member. Oklahoma fossils surface with Deer creek jawbone fragment in Kay County Carlisle township.
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E. J. Mather
Ohio
Mexican National Railroad
United States
Mexico
Mather
Paris
London
Berlin
Prince and Princess of Wales
Prince Ferdinand of
Bulgaria
Europe
Oklahoma
Kay County
Frank Lambert
Deer Creek
Carlisle Township
Printing Office Burned in Mountain View Fire
The Pacific Press Publishing plant at Mountain View near San Jose owned by the Seventh Day Adventists burned recently. The fire's cause is unknown and the loss is estimated at 300000 dollars.
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Pacific Press Publishing Company
Mountainview
San Jose
Carl
Chicago
Seventh Day Adventists
Nine Die as Tug Chehalis Is Cut in Two by Princess Victoria
A collision on Burrard Inlet near Vancouver B C leaves nine dead and several missing from a party aboard the chartered tug Chehalis bound for Blunden harbor oyster beds. The steel steamer Princess Victoria struck amidships at about 19 knots, severing the Chehalis and sending passengers and crew into icy waters.
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Burrard Inlet
Vancouver
B. C
Victoria
Seattle
Blunden Harbor
British Columbia
R. H. Byrce
British Columbia Native Oyster Company
Howse
J. O. Benwell
P. G. Shallcross
R. N. Rich
Shallcross
C. A. Dean
Chehalis
R. H. Brice
Hilda Mason
Brice
Barnet Benwell
J. C. Benwell
Dr. Hutton
Rockbay Hospital
P. J. Chick
William H. Crawford
Cook
Hutton
Erysipelas Overview and Preventive Measures
Erysipelas is an acute contagious disease caused by Fehleisen streptococcus. It presents with spreading skin inflammation, fever, headache, and malaise. Prevention focuses on isolation, disinfection, and hygienic care, especially for surgical patients, with careful nursing and gradual convalescence.
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Fehleisen
Mining unrest and pay news from Western mining districts
A clash in Butte pits ropemen against mill and smelter workers as union tensions rise amid Western Federation of Miners actions. Reports cover a bankruptcy petition against Montana Zinc, a costly Butte plant fire, a fatal fall at Rossland, new ore strikes in Idaho, and the eight hour day announcement for Coeur d Alene.
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Butte
Smeltermen’s Union
Mill and Smeltermen's Union
Western Federation of Miners
Denver
Montana Zinc Company
Rossland
Robert Inches
le Roi
Wallace
Idaho
Callahan Group
Nine Mile
Beaver Creeks
Camp Bird
Pine Creek
Priest River
Boundary
B. C
New York
Hecla
Coeur d'Alene
F. W. Bradley
Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining Company
Carnegie Epitaph Jeer Sparks Broker Talk
A broker ridicules Andrew Carnegie claiming his epitaph would read That s d d white of Andy. He recalls Carnegie s tenacious childhood in Dunfermline and a school tale where the master demands a straight answer to seven times nine, prompting the boy to exclaim Fraudyér god man and complaint at being spoiled.
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Andrew Carnegie
Andy
Mr. Carnegie
Dunfermline
Reading fuels knowledge more than wealth says college president
An address to teachers from Hamilton College’s president praises reading as more valuable than all other knowledge and argues that if schools do not foster a love of reading they neglect their core duty. The piece cites St. Nicholas as the source and notes a contrast with playful quips about leisure and a pun laden exchange from the Baltimore American.
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Hamilton College
St. Nicholas
Wreck Kills Four on Spokane Falls & Northern Train Near Waneta
Four people died instantly when a buffet sleeper and the day coach derailed eight miles north of Waneta B C and plunged 40 feet down a steep embankment. Injured were five passengers moved to Nelson for care, including Mrs W B Poole and Clarence Poole. Names of the dead include Judge William Townsend and W E Smith known as Plum Smith. The cause remains undetermined.
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Spokane Falls & Northern Railroad
Waneta
B. C
W. B. Poole
Spokane
Clarence Poole
Rossland
Northport
Nelson
Spokane Falls & Northern
William B. Townsend
Kootenays
Coast
British Columbia
England
New Westminster
W. B. Smith
Peace Accord Signed by Honduras Guatemala and El Salvador
The three nations signed a peace treaty outlining armistice timelines delimited to three and eight days for withdrawal and disarmament. It calls for prisoner exchanges and a general amnesty, with arbitration by US and Mexico presidents for future disputes. Costa Rica and Nicaragua supported the mediating effort.
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Honduras
Guatemala
Salvador
United States
Mexico
Costa Rica
Nicaragua
Oddities and oddball feats from a curious era
Lovelocks Nevada faced extreme fuel shortages forcing residents to burn building materials as temperatures plummeted to 30 degrees below zero. Other notes include long bridge spans worldwide, grasshopper cages as good luck charms, woodcocks carrying their young, a Elizabethan law targeting false cosmetics, a life saving dog in Innsbruck, and a Monte Carlo roulette caper ending in escape with player’s bread.
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Lovelocks
Nevada
Danube
Cuernavoda
Galveston Bay Bridge
Texas
Firth of Forth Bridge
Queenspring
Scotland
Brooklyn Bridge
Niagara Bridge
Rhine Bridge
Bonn
Dusseldorf
England
Innsbruck
Stipo
Herr Bugoot
Lycee of Lubeck
Monte Carlo
Black
A Chinese Cinderella Shoe Its Escape From Chinatown
The photograph shows a shoe worn by Mrs. Chu Nan a Chinese woman who escaped from Philadelphia's Chinatown after six years imprisonment She used an ax to cut her way free and reached New York where she was aided home to China by wealthy Chinese women Her shoe measures three and seven eighths inches with a fine oriental silk upper.
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Chu Nan
Philadelphia
Chinatown
New York
China
Local gossip and sharp quips echo in a street tale
The exchange portrays a flirtatious man described as a gay Lothario as he targets girls on the street. A counterpoint notes how years leave scars on a man similar to battle wounds, reflecting on lasting effects of time and judgment in a Catholic Standard and Times page.
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Nell
Belle
Catholic Standard and Times
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Rimaldo Lothrop Perkins
Tug Chehalis
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