Ten Killed in Two Railroad Wrecks
Ottumwa Ia December 13 Five persons died and ten were injured in a derailment on the Chicago Burlington and Quincy line three miles west of Albia. Five cars burned, bridge high, rescue difficult, unidentified victims and unclear cause. Piedmont West Virginia December 13 Five men were killed and several injured when two engines of a Baltimore and Ohio freight train toppled on the 17 mile grade near this city. Engineers Ernest D Ervin Emery Erwin and fireman Walter E Hine among the dead. trainmen injured, track torn up, traffic to resume late tonight.
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Ottumwa
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Albia
Cedar Creek
Ars. F. E. Tomen
Mildred Mitchen
Jaomas Beatty
Ranklin
Piedmont
W. Va
Baltimore & Ohio
Ernest D. Ervin
Emery Erwin
Walter E. Hine
J. W. Carter
John Hays
Michael J. Gibbon
J. C. Buckler
B. F. Bolinger
Panic as Union House stairs fail in Boston blaze
In Boston on December 13 a fire sparked by a gasoline torch at 1035 Washington street left the Union House crowded with 60 lodgers. The wooden stairs collapsed trapping inmates and causing 26 to fall into an area behind the building. Patrolman Cyrus Waite led rescuers, freeing the trapped as firefighters extricated the injured. Three men were hospitalized with fractures and a scalp wound. fire damage was limited.
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Boston
Union House
Washington Street
Frank Galena
Woonsocket
R. I
John M
Cyrus Waite
Colombians' cruisers seen near Gulf of Darien after Cartagena exit
United States cruisers Atlanta and Mayflower examined the San Blas coast and confirmed that the Colombian ships General Pinzon and Cartagena appeared in the Gulf of Darien about 36 hours after leaving Cartagena. No troops were shown landed. two theories arise: return to Cartagena or landing between Cartagena and the Gulf of Darien en route toward Cauca. The Atlanta resumed patrol toward the Gulf to continue the search.
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Colon
Colombia
San Blas
United States
Atlanta
Mayflower
General Pinzon
Cartagena
Gulf of Darien
Gulf Coast
Cauca
Wealthy Indiana financier Judge Cheney dies at 96
Fort Wayne Indiana December 13 Judge Cheney reputedly the wealthiest man in Indiana died today. Born in Vermont in 1817 he partnered with Jay Gould in financing ventures across Ohio Indiana and Illinois. At his death he was a major stockholder in Wabash and Nickel Plate with an estimated fortune of 25 million dollars.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Cheney
Indiana
Vermont
Jay Gould
Ohio
Illinois
Typhoid outbreak outlook improves in Butler
Butler Pennsylvania reports only one death from typhoid fever and four new cases today. Doctors express cautious optimism, stating the epidemic’s backbone may be broken as the situation improves.
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Butler
Taunton Man Rescues Men Then Dies In Lake Accident
In Middleboro sector 13 a Taunton man, S A Lewis, saved two men, Harry Haskins and Frank Allen, from drifting on Lake Assawampset ice but their boat swamped in a squall. Lewis survived, while Haskins and Allen drowned. Both victims were married with one child.
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Middleboro
Sec
Lake Assawampsett
Harry Haskins
Frank Allen
S. A. Lewis
Taunton
Lewis
Haskins
Allen
Judge Fletcher Ladd Dead in Boston
Boston reports the death of Judge Fletcher Ladd at St. Pauls Hospital following an operation. Born December 21, 1862 in Lancaster New Hampshire he was for three years a justice on the Philippines Supreme Court. He was the son of William Ladd and Mira Barnes Fletcher Ladd, noted NH lawyers and former state supreme court justice.
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Boston
St. Paul's Hospital
Fletcher Ladd
Supreme Court of the Philippines
Judge Ladd
Lancaster
N. H
William and
Mira Barnes (Fletcher) Ladd
New Hampshire
Supreme Court
Reverend O Butler Dead Edartown Obituary
Rev O Butler aged 80 died at his Edartown home after addressing geobaterel societies across the state. He leaves a son and a daughter. Fountain pens advertised at Lawler's.
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Lawler’s
Edartown
O. Butler
Hall's Catarrh Cure Claims Nationwide Cure
The readers are told that Hall's Catarrh Cure can cure catarrh in all stages, a constitutional disease needing constitutional treatment. The advert promises to pay one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure and urges sending for testimonials, with the cure taken internally and claimed to strengthen the constitution.
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Hall
Hal
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Attack on elderly antiquarian Miss Narbonne shocks Salem
Miss Mary Narbonne aged 80, renowned antiquarian, was assaulted in her 11 Essex street home. A housebreaker struck her, blood spattered, she bit the intruder’s fingers, and she lapsed into insensibility. Though wounds not fatal, shock likely proves deadly.
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Salem
Mary A. Narbonne
Essex Street
Miss Narbonne
Desperate Burglars Clash With Police in Haverhill
In Haverhill a running street battle with three armed burglars and Policeman Henry Grimshaw left no injuries after a dozen shots. The gang, linked to the Merrimac post office break and other recent robberies, escaped but are described. in Groveland they looted a blacksmith shop and a grocery safe attempt failed with nitro. At Boynton’s store a small box contained $20 and cigars were taken. Cobban fired on the burglars during their escape.
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Haverhill
Henry Grimshaw
Groveland
Charles P. Boynton
John C. Cobban
Lves
Boynton
Cobban
Merrimac
Lynn Danvers
Salem
Buchanan Named While Pan American Ties Shape Policy
President nominates William S. Buchanan of New York as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Panama. Akins named assistant treasurer in St Louis. Buchanan, longtime U S minister to Argentina, brings Latin American expertise and will serve temporarily during new Panama relations crystallization. He has Ohio roots and has held posts at Chicago world fair Buenos Aires and Buffalo Pan American exposition.
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Washington
Senate
Thos. J. Akins
St. Louis
Panama
William S. Buchanan
New York
United States
Buchanan
State Department
Ohio
Chicago
Cleveland U
Buenos Ayres
McKinley
Buffalo
Chicago Coldest Day Since 1876 Sparks Blaze Destruction
Chicago records 13 below zero with snowbound streets as Bodzinski and Company three story store on West Twenty second Street burns to ash. Fire precluded by deep drifts, losses estimated at 85000 dollars. One death reported a switchman frozen in the Chicago and Northwestern yards.
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Chicago
Bodzinski and Company
Northwestern
North West Basks in Cold Wave from Minnesota to Wisconsin
The North West endures the season's coldest spell with readings from 4 to 24 degrees below zero. Minnesota reports 23 below in St Paul and 12 below at night as rail traffic slows. Central Wisconsin and Northern Michigan cite a severe blizzard causing widespread delays.
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St. Paul
Minn
Weather Bureau
Mercury
Wisconsin
Michigan
Root misquote sparks Washington debate on war timing
Reports claimed Secretary Root said war would come soon. He clarified that he never predicted a coming war. His remarks stressed unity of army and navy and readiness to defend the country when called.
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Washington
Root
Carabao Society
Army
Navy
Philippines
United States
It Keeps the Feet Warm and Dry Rowder Remedy Ad
An early 20th century ad touts Allen's Foot-Ease as a cure for chilblains swollen feet and damp feet, promising warmth and dryness and availability at druggists and shoe stores. Lawler's offers to order any backordered book, while a Puck quote jokes about fiction and Wall Street rumors.
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Allen
Closed in Part at Hamilton Mills Amid Loom Shutdowns
A despatch to Boston papers said No. 5 mill looms at Hamilton were stopped indefinitely though the yarn department would stay open. Supt. Oliver H. Moulton denied a wider No. 6 shut-down, noting only a few looms idle since last spring. He warned the Boston report exaggerates the situation and the South’s curtailment circular had limited impact locally.
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Boston Sunday
Hamilton
Oliver H. Moulton
Hamilton Corporation
Courier-Citizen
Boston
New England
Lowell
South
Trunk line cable destroyed by fire in Worcester
A trunk line cable of the New England Telephone and Telegraph company containing sixty wires was burned by contact with an underground feed wire in Chadwick square. Several feet melted, cutting telephonic service to the north part of Worcester and northern Worcester county including 120 private telephones. A fire alarm circuit in the same area was also affected with 15 boxes out of service.
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Worcester
New England Telephone and Telegraph Company
Chadwick Square
Worcester County
Bryan Receives Private Audience With the Pope
William Jennings Bryan and his son were received privately by the Pope in Rome with Monsignor Kennedy interpreting. The Pope expressed interest in Catholics of the United States as books in choice bindings by Lawler’s are noted.
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William Jennings Bryan
Mr. Bryan
Monsignor Kennedy
American College
United States
Nine Points of the Law and Other Works Listed
A catalog-like listing presents multiple book titles and authors including Nine Points of the Law by Wilfred Scarborough Jackson and The Filigree Ball by Anna Katherine Green among numerous 19th to early 20th century works. The compilation includes varied authors such as E W Hornung, Ian Maclaren, Paul Gwynne, H Rider-Haggard, Alfred Henry Lewis, and Lillian Bell, with others like Owen Wister and Thomas Nelson Page.
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Wilfred Scarborough Jackson
E. W. Hornung
Satan’s Mound
Tellfair
Elmore Elliott Peake
W. D. Howells
M. Imlay Taylor
Rye Owen
Pirath
Helen Milecete
Anna Chapin Ray
Lillian Bell
Charles C. D. Roberts
Anna Katherine Green
Annual stockholders meeting of bank for directors
The annual meeting of the stockholders to choose directors and transact other lawful business will be held at the bank’s rooms in Lowell Massachusetts on Tuesday January 19 1904 at 10 30 a m. CHAS M WILLIAMS Cashier. Lowell Mass December 12 1903.
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Prescott National Bank of
Lowell
No. 40
Centra Street
Chas
M. Williams
Mass
Middlesex Probate Court Citations for Heale y Estate
Heirs and creditors are cited in Middlesex to show cause why Melvin B Smith of Lowell should receive letters of administration for Henry Healey late of Lowell in testate. Court to meet December 22, 1903 at nine in Cambridge. Publication required weekly for three weeks. Witness Judge McIntire.
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Middlesex
Henry Healey
Lowell
Melvin B- Smith
Cambridge
Lowell Daily Courier
Charles J. McIntire
Esquire
H. Folsom
Mi-o-na Bond Guarantee Backed By Ellingwood Co
Ellingwood and Company advertise Mi-o-na the flesh forming food with a bold guarantee. Each 50 cent box comes with a signed bond promising a refund if the product fails to relieve dyspepsia build strength and restore health, asserting they have never seen a failure in 500 trials.
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Ellingwood & Co
Ellingwood Co Refund Notice for Miona Claims Restored
Ellingwood and Co offer a refund of the purchase price for Miona if the buyer reports that it has not increased flesh or provided relief from stomach troubles. This notice states the condition and willingness to compensate the purchaser upon verification of the claimed outcomes.
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Ellingwood & CO
Miona Digestive Aid Promises Health Restore
Miona is described as more than a temporary relief, aiding digestion and strengthening the digestive organs. It claims to restore nerve power of the stomach and overall health, with a money back guarantee from Ellingwood & Co. if the product fails to work.
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Ellingwood & Co
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