Disaster on Archer Avenue Chicago Gas Explosion Tragedy
A gas explosion on Archer Avenue at Twenty second Street in Chicago killed eleven and injured many as two buildings collapsed and streetcars were lifted from rails. Fire and rescue crews fought flames for hours while the missing were recovered, including Lena Trostel and Otto Trostel Jr. and Anna Trostel as bodies were identified among the wreckage.
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Chicago
Archer Avenue
Twenty-second Street
Dodica
Campion
Maloney
Lena Trostel
Otto Trostel
Annie
Otto Trostel, Jr
Anna Trostel
Minnie Trostel
Baby Prostel
Frank Selpp
Aver
Wah Sing
Otto Wrostel
Wallace
Ashland Evegue
Bedrd
Bown
Twenty-second
W. Mcreod
Ser
Bac
Stover
Rious
Amhawork New Daimayre
Pantie
People’s Hospital
J. C. Gary
Vieve du
Snow Storms In Clear Adirondack Sky
A vivid account of rare clear sky snowstorms in the Adirondacks. Snow-laden clouds drift over distant hills and Creek Valley, driven by strong winds at about 1800 feet. The blizzard-like flurries reduce visibility to trunks while sunlit shadows persist through a calm, frigid landscape.
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Adirondacks
Scribner's
USA
Good Old Days on Ice Remembered by Washington Boarder
An elderly Washington boarding house resident recalls past winter rituals at the river basin. Firemen dammed the banked water, ice formed thick enough to skate, tickets sold for ten cents, and a freer social scene without racial divisions around the White Lot skating pond.
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Washington
Washington Star
White Lot
A Hunting Episode In New Jersey Closed Season Lesson
Two hunters clash over skill as one bags many birds and the other misses. A game warden arrives and explains the birds are during closed season, costing ten dollars each. The moral: a bird in the game bag may be worth more than a lunch in the bushes.
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New Jersey
Puck
Ile
Few Paid Women Drivers in City Work
A New York Sun note finds women rarely drive business vehicles in lower Manhattan. A veteran observer recalls never seeing a woman drive a truck and only two driving wagons, one possibly a garden truck at Manhattan’s edge. The piece contrasts women entering new fields with limited change in traditional man’s work.
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Bee & Woman
New York Sun
Freig 3
Manhattan Island
Wkb
Divine
Bold Bank Robbery Ends in Sheriff Slain at Clarksville
Clarksville Johnson county Arkansas awoke to a Wednesday morning bank raid around three o clock five or six robbers opened fire as Sheriff Powers confronted them in a bank area he fired back taking multiple wounds and dying about 20 minutes later as the bandits fled with an estimated sum between one and two thousand dollars after a dramatic exchange of gunfire and a nearby explosion in the bank quarters
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Clarksville
Thierry
Krenning
McBride
The
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Fhe Merchants’ Exchange
Swingley
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G. A. HH. Meeta
Washington
Pension Board of the
Eli ‘Porrance
Robert B. Beath
John C. Linehan
Wiliam H. Upham
C. G. Burton
Henry C. Taintor
Roosevelt Party To Visit Charleston Exposition
President and Mrs Roosevelt will travel by special Southern Railway tram to Charleston for the exposition trip. They will stop in Summerville Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday for farm inspections and a Charleston day with a hotel banquet. The return journey to Washington begins February 13 with Secretaries Wilson Hitchcock Knox and Payne in the party.
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Roosevelt
Charleston
South
Southern Railway
Summerville
D. C
Pine Firest Inn
Capt. Wagner
Exposition Grounds
Wilson
Hitchcock
Knox
Payne
Fire destroys Chestnut Street building killing six firemen
The February blaze at the five story American Tent and Awning plant at 312 and 314 Chestnut street in St. Louis claimed the lives of six firefighters.
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St. Louis
Chestnut Street
American Coronation Scene After Bank Robbery
Sheriff Powers was killed and robbers vanished after a bank explosion. The interior showed a wreck from dynamite used to break the vault door. robbers armed with Winchesters guarded outside. A blood trail from the bank suggested Powers injured robbers. Rewards totalling $5,500 offered by Gov. Davis and Arkansas Bankers Association, with more expected from locals. Fugitives believed to have escaped into the mountains near Clarksville, Arkansas. Powers, a 12-year Johnson County sheriff, famed for his bravery. Wires spread to towns between here and Fort Smith to aid pursuit. a battle may occur if captured. Clarksville lies 50 miles east of Fort Smith on the Little Rock Fort Smith line.
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Powers
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Arkansas Bankers’ Association
Clarksville
Arkansas
Johnson County
Here
Fort Smith
Clerksville
Littl Rock
Agreement on Danish West Indies Suits Senate Committee
Senate committee on foreign relations ordered a favorable report on the treaty to acquire the Danish West Indies with no amendments. In Washington, Feb 6, discussions covered defense appropriations, Alaska judge Noyes case, and speeches on judicial integrity.
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Whmnheton
Pet
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Danish West Indies
Senate
Washington
Arthur K. Noyes
District Court of Alaska
Alexander McKenzie
McCumber
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Noyes
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Tiflian
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Hat
McCumbers
Jie
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Stewart
Alaska
Schliey
Frankfort
House
Kentucky
Schley
Santiago
Committee On Education
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