Utah News Roundup Signals Industry Shifts and Disasters
Utah aid totals beet purchases and sugar output, with Lehi factory record. Fire destroys a university building slated for rebuild. Lehi youths depart on missions as Salt Lake bakers warn higher bread prices. Provo Springville beet serenge up one third, railroads offer March-April immigration rates. Oil stock exchange planned. Manti lights outage continues. Smallpox precautions linked to cold weather. cannery site chosen in Kaysville. Wheat shipments delayed by car shortages in northwest. Dairyman Peter Christanes proves lucerne profits. Grass Valley Indians plan orchard trials. Theft and tragedy mirror rising crime, while tax reform strains Salt Lake County finances. Utah Sugar Co. posts best season ever with 4.55 million pounds of sugar from beets.
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Lehi
Tab
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LeRoi C. Soow
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Oregon
Washington
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Fire destroys Utah university building. $25,000 loss
The University of Utah’s physical building at Salt Lake City burned Friday morning, destroying the structure and its contents valued at $25,000. Insurance covers the loss and rebuilding will begin soon. Fire originated in the qualitative chemistry lab, cause likely unknown, with an explosion of chemicals aiding the blaze before firefighters arrived.
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University of Utah
Salt Late
Acree
Wilcox
Richard Lyon
Arnoldson
George Silver
Rosaly
Secretary Hay Declares No Resignation From Cabinet
The secretary of state states with full authority that he does not plan to retire from the cabinet. President Roosevelt has urged him to remain, aligning the two leaders' views and disputing rumors of Hay leaving his post. The statement covers the present moment and the period after negotiations on the Sino-American issue conclude.
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Hay
Secetary Hay
Roosevelt
Northwest notes of crime and politics across the West
A long list reports appointments in Wyoming and Hawaii, mine incidents in Colorado and Montana, a fatal mine fall in Cumberland, Wyo, a gun discharge killing a rancher in Dillon, and a possible espress robber capture in Knoxville. Also noted are an irrigation visiting Irish MP, mine purchases in Buliton and the Carson River project, a boy shot by an accidental revolver, and plans for a sugar factory and Sundance boiler accident.
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Robert J. Breckens
Cheyenne
United States
District of Hawaii
Levi Davis
Sundance
Wyoming
Fred W. Daniels Ban Bese
Register
Eugene B. Mather
Huffalo
Wyomlot
John W. Prowdilt
Colorado
Sprim
Florence Oil Company
Ploprece
Cumberland
Wromiog
Lowell
Waldo
Oregon
San Francisco
Roy Piddell
Anaconda
Carson River
Comstock
Bert Cummings
Laramie
Fort Lupton
Charles Boetteler
Great Western Sugar Company
Aam
Wyo
Wealthy Heiress May Marry British Noble Lord Ingestre
Miss May Goelet, the richest American heiress, in London with her mother, is reported to be engaged to Viscount Ingestre, heir to the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot. They have been seen together at Wilton and photographed, with Ingestre a close friend of Lord Pembroke. The match would please London society as he is wealthy from entailed land, Brereton collieries, and cab ownership, and Wilton circles regard Miss Goelet as almost family. The Countess of Shrewsbury, once famed for a sensational elopement, remains a notable figure in the Pembroke circle.
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Miss May Goelet
London
Viscount Ingestre
Earl of Shrewsbury
Talbot
Miss. Goelet
Lord Ingestre
Wilton
Saliabury
Countess of Pembroke
Lord Inkestre
Brereton
Countess of
Shrewsbury
Earl
Miller Mundy
Lightship Diamond Shoal gets new 13 inch beam system
Capt Tawes arrives in Baltimore to install an electrical apparatus on Lightship No. 71 allowing a 13 inch beam of light to reach clouds. Two mast top clusters now show thirteen miles, with a sky pillar visible at thirty to forty miles at sea. The system, devised by Commander Albert Ross, will operate Jan 1 and may be adopted at Fire Island, Sandy Hook, and Nantucket Shoals.
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Diamond Shoal
Tawes
Baltimore
Baltimore American
Albert Ross
Fire Island
Sandy Hook
Nantucket Shoals
Three Lonely Men Left A Tucson Club
A peculiar club in Tucson Arizona dissolved after twenty two bachelors joined then were forbidden to marry or maintain ties to the club. The building was erected and the twenty two men began housekeeping. Since then defections grew and now only three men remain living in the club building, a notable Southwest structure.
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Tucson
A. T
Buiilding
Fastest Greyhound Pace Claims Record Speeds
A traveler at a Kingsbridge roadhouse heard three men and four dogs discussing Greyhounds. They claimed a greyhound ran twenty yards per second, about a mile in 3 minutes 28 seconds, a speed rivaling pigeons and faster than many horses. They cited foxhounds, wolves, and Siberian dogs as notes in dog speed history.
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Kingsbriege
Westchester County
Nansen
Freaks of the Tornado Across Oklahoma Territory
A drama described in Ainslee's Magazine details a Texas to Indian Territory tornado in May 1801. A Shermans Oklahoma observer reports a ball shaped cloud rolling toward him at about 30 mph lifting houses and leaving a damaged path, with a man carried hundreds of yards before landing unharmed though shaken.
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Texas
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Maay
Ainslee
Shermas
Oklahoma Territory
Sherman
Jpapers and Their Shirt Collar Highlight Cultural Change
The article notes rising stature among Japanese people as military discipline spreads and water temperature shifts replace hot baths. It cites average throat circumference increasing from 13 inches to 14 inches in twenty years, linking athletic development to broader muscular growth and bolder neckwear fashion.
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Jspapers
Lendon
Japan
Chambers
Protestant Growth in East India and Ceylon 15 Years
Protestant Christians in India and Ceylon rose from 446,780 to 753,641 over 15 years, an increase approaching seventy percent. The growth reflects rising church membership across the region.
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India
Ceylander
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