Fires, Fires, Deaths and Steel Strike Notes Across Town
A week of diverse events unfolds from Langston to Chicago with fires destroying buildings in North Dakota and Wisconsin, a fatal boar attack in Steubenville, and a burglar killing in Kalamazoo. Edith Root’s daughter wed in Washington to Lieut Grant III while unions gather in Atlanta and the national museum highlights a thornless cactus specimen.
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Millbury
Mass
James E.G
State Agriculturali Sed Normal University
Langston
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Steubenville
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Internationl Machinists
Atlanta
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Root
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U. S. Grant
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Kalamazoo
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United States
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California
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Tia
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Patri Tucker
Afissourd Pacific
Michard Saniah
Themis Lane
John Ab
Springfield
Gratiot Cabanne
St. Louis
Ralph Orthwein
Samuel Kessier
Northern
Alaska Par Company
Cabanne
Thlis
Kessler
New York
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Record-breaking progress on isthmus work fuels optimism
Report highlights a surge in canal work with October setting yardage records and rock to earth ratios improving while only about seven thousand workers excavate at a rate yielding nearly three cubic yards per man per day. Analysts anticipate faster completion and shorter timelines than earlier forecasts.
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Menetena
Wiel
Taskey
Kipling
Wallice
Fire claims thirteen lives in New York tenement blaze
Thirteen people including men women and children die in a five story tenement fire on Ninth Street New York. Flames from a ground floor liquor stove race upward trapping families and filling narrow stairways with smoke. Firemen reach adjoining roofs as tenants flee the blaze.
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Ninth Street
New York
Lumbermen Charge Rates Against Transcontinental Railroads
The Oregon and Washington Lumber Manufacturers' Association files with the Interstate Commerce Commission a complaint accusing most railroads of fixing and raising rates on forest products. It alleges a November 1 rate hike of ten percent with no legitimate basis and questions the capital structure used as a rate basis. Advertise in this paper.
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Oregon
Washington
Edison and Phipps Plan City of Concrete Houses
Thomas A Edison and Henry Phipps propose an entire city of concrete houses to solve the tenement problem. They claim a nine room two family home can be built in 12 hours at about 1000 dollars with rents around 700 dollars monthly, potentially easing workers travel costs. Phipps, who funded model tenements in 1905, toured Edison East Orange laboratory with a group of architects to discuss cement or concrete housing possibilities.
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Thomas A. Edison
East Orange
N. J
Henry Phipps
New York
Mar. Ldiseo
Jesus
Speeno
Aneh
Edison
Phipps
New York City
Mr. Edison
Fire and arson swirl around tenement blaze
Police and firemen say the burning tenement was started by incendiaries seeking revenge. Three weeks earlier three Italians were caught attempting to rob a saloon safe of Giuseppe Cudano, containing over 82000. The would be robbers await trial as investigators suspect ties to the Edison plan builders who praised concrete molds for basements.
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Giuseppe Cudano
Cadano
Memphis fires devastate hotels and shops in a score of losses
A Memphis wire reports widespread destruction at the Darnahy and Hungarian hotels and fifteen stores with five saloons damaged. Losses reach about 50000 dollars, partial insurance reported. President B. E. Winehel of Rock Island at Guthrie, Oklahoma, accepts a two cent fare provision. Jewish women protest meat prices leading to kosher butcher shops in Paterson New Jersey to close for a macoth observance.
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Memphis
Eun
B. E. Winehel
Rock Island
Guthrie
Okla
Paterson
N. d
Cunard Lines Tied to Canada Route Plan
A report claims the Grand Trunk railroad reached an agreement with Cunard Steamship to run ships from Liverpool to Canada, creating an all British route for passenger and freight service between England and the Orient.
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Grand Trunk Railroad
Cunard Steamship Company
Liverpool
Canada
England
Orient
Exposition deficit looms after million in receipts
The Jamestown exposition receipts from visitors and concessionaires total about 1,000,000, signaling a deficit over 3,000,000. Buildings cost 5,000,000. Government loan repayment stands at just over 10 percent. Elvira Giordano, Milan opera dancer, collapsed and died on stage at the We Liberty theater in Oakland during Mig non.
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Elvira Giordano
Milan Opera Company
We Liberty
Oakland
Cal
Panama Canal Construction Schedule Set Next Year
A report from Speaker James A. Tawney shows construction on the Panama Canal to be rushed next year with about 32 million dollars to be expended. He notes possible cuts may come from a few departments and says the project could be completed by December.
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Panama Canal
Congress
James A. Tawney
Minnesota
Committee On Appropriations
Pausania
United States
New York
Dun’s Review of Trade Domestic Conditions Improve
Measured by bank payments the month shows reduced severity with average under 15 percent. Currency demand remains acute though note circulation and specie rise. Interior funds calls ease, most mercantile lines slow with caution. outlook for healthier financial sentiment and post Christmas revival. Building slows planing mills and lumber, hides cheaper, Chicago district failures 36 vs 20 last week and 26 year ago.
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Chicago
Dun’s Review of Trade
New York and national business trends report mixed signals
New York notes improved tone in cities while nationwide business shows lower activity and currency scarcity. Wholesale and retail quietness persists with mild winter weather boosting distribution of goods. Week ending Nov 21 saw 268 business failures, up from 209 last week, with Canada reporting 34 failures.
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Bradstreet
Weekend Grain and Livestock Prices Across Major Markets
A fragmented list shows bid ranges for Chicaro-Cattle hogs sheep and wheat across multiple markets including Indianapolis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo St Louis New York and Toledo. Prices span hogs four to six dollars a hundredweight, cattle four to six dollars, sheep two to seven dollars, and wheat around five dollars per bushel with varied quality grades and NO. 2 classifications.
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Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Milwaukee
Harley
New York
Seo
Sito
Toledo
Twelve Dollars a Week Means Privation Study
Dr. Lee Jerankel of United Hebrew Charities reports to a state conference on living conditions in cities. The analysis shows a $12-a-week worker with a wife and three children spends most income on rent, fuel, debts, and basics, leaving about 26 cents a month for recreation and minimal funds beyond necessities.
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Lee Jerankel
Imanager
United Lebrew Charities of
New York
State Conference of Charities and Correction
Ide City
Underhill
Yale
National mining congress endorses tighter federal mining land control
The national mining congress held in Log sion at Joplin Missouri adopted resolutions calling for stricter federal control of mining lands. Attorney General W T L Dixon of Colorado began action in the District Court at Denver to break up the so called gra corsa. Fire caused 8200,000 damage in Parsons Kansas. The biggest losses were Kress & Co 40000 Cooper Lumber Coning and DodgeBryan Lumber Company 30000 each.
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National Mining Congress
Log
Sion
Joplin
W. TL. Dixon
Colo~ Rao
Pisteret
Denver
Gra.corsa’ Lyuust
Parsons
Kan
Kress & C O
Cooper Lumber Conping
Dodge-Bryan Lumber Company
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