Aberdeen Carnival and Harvest Festival Opens in City
Aberdeen South Dakota prepares for the carnival and harvest festival with decorations and a larger than usual midway. Agricultural entries promise a fine display and excursion trains are planned as crowds are expected to attend. Gov Herreid Col Hunter and guests are noted in a Missouri River hunting trip nearby.
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South Dakota
Aberdeen
S. D
Gov. Herreid
Hunter
Missouri River
H. F. Finter
Chicago
Gev. Herreid
Colonel Hunter
Canton Merchants Offer Cash Prizes for Exposition Exhibit
Canton South Dakota merchants plan an agricultural display for the New Orleans Purchase exposition in St Louis. Mayor H E Thayer offers 25 dollars for the best dozen ears of corn. other merchants will add prizes for corn oats barley and other crops to secure a strong local exhibit.
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Canton
S. D
St. Louis
H. E. Thayer
Whitewood Builds New Hotel On Main Street
Whitewood North Dakota resident Enos Lane advances a new white cut stone hotel on Main Street facing Northwestern station. Cost estimated at 15000 dollars with a 36 by 90 foot two story building plus basement. An adjacent 36 by 40 foot addition will house a store on the first floor and hotel facilities above. Completion targeted for early next year amid earlier plans funded by subscriptions and a lot bonus from Whitewood citizens.
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Whitewood
3. D
Enos Lane
Main Street
Progr
Lawrence County to Meet on Bond Repayment Plan
Lawrence County commissioners convene a special meeting on September 30 to discuss methods to retire 30 000 dollars of overdue bonds bearing interest. Only 25 000 dollars have been paid so far and recordkeeping gaps hinder precise terms. Officials consider refunding bonds if needed.
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Lawrence County Commissioners
Deadwood
J. H. Warren
Professor Wheeler Resigns to Join Brookings College
St. Paul Minn Sept 30 Professor Archibald Wheeler of the Minnesota school of agriculture resigns his position in botany to become chair of botany and entomology at Brookings South Dakota agricultural college.
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Wheeler
South Dakota
St. Paul, Minn
Archibald Wheeler
Minnesota School of Agriculture
Brookings, S. D. Agricultural College
Bonesteel Braces for Big Railroad Excursion
Bonesteel South Dakota plans an October 15 excursion from Omaha Sioux City and eastern points. The prior trip drew about 1500 visitors and officials expect a much larger turnout with extensive preparations underway. A week long Rosebud reservation fire caused extensive damage to hay and livestock before a light rain helped quell it.
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Bonesteel
Landseekers
S. D
Omaha
Sioux City
Rosebud
Grosscup declines Northern Securities post
United States Circuit Judge Peter S. Grosscup, visiting in Columbus, says he will not resign from the U S circuit bench to become general counsel for the Northern Securities company or to represent the firm in its pending case. He notes conscience forbids him from taking public office now and stresses no fees were discussed.
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Northern Securities
Columbus
United States
Peter S. Grosscup
Chicago
Northern Securities Company
Grosscup
Missouri machine managers target Reed for governor
An anti Folk campaign plan surfaced after a Plant ers' hotel conference in St. Louis with Democratic machine leaders signaling Mayor James B. Reed of Kansas City as their gubernatorial choice. Sam Cook and Fred Fleming registered, with heightened secrecy and multiple prior meetings in St. Joseph and Kansas City shaping the debate.
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Missouri Machine
van Reed
St. Louis
Planters
James B. Reed
Kansas City
Democratic State Machine
Sam 4. Cook
Sam Cook
Fred Fleming
Cook
St. Joseph
Reed
Dockery
Excise Conisioner
Seibert
Crenshaw
Messrs
Hawes
Kleiber
Flynn
Dolan
Faust
Allemma
VARNISH FACTORY FIRE IN CHICAGO
The Standard Varnish Company plant burned in Chicago causing a loss of about 206000 dollars. Firefighters from two companies narrowly escaped death from exploding oil barrels and collapsing floors. several firemen were seriously injured.
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Standard Company
Chicago
Standard Varnish Company
Sioux City Market Report Hogs and Cattle Prices Mixed
Sioux City stock yards report hogs at light and butcher prices with heavy hogs around 5.50 to 5.00 per cwt and cattle and calves trading from 2.00 to 3.75 for cows and heifers to 5.50 for butcher steers. Other markets show mixed results with Chicago and Kansas City notes on receipts and price ranges for hogs cattle sheep and lambs.
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Sioux City
Chicago
South Omaha
Texas
H.wgs
Kansas City
Grain and Provisions Markets Report Sept 29
Chicago cash quotations steady with wheat at No 2 red 4279c, corn No 2 444c, No 2 yellow 454c, oats No 3 white 3c, rye 0.2, barley 8 50 9 5c, timothy seed 3.10, clover 4.70. Mess pork 12.20 12.25, lard 10.15 10.50, ribs 3.12 3.33, shoulders 5.80 6.00, market firm. cheese 10 11c. Minneapolis wheat on track No 1 hard 84c, No 1 northern 83c, No northern 76 84c, No 3 northern 73 76c.
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Chicago
Ustec
Minneapolis
Northern
Paymaster Killed by Daylight Dynamite Attack
In Washington Pennsylvania on September 28 Samuel T. Ferguson of Ferguson Construction, Pittsburgh, was instantly killed and his secretary Charles L. Martin of Cincinnati seriously injured when dynamite placed on a public road exploded as their buggy passed. The robbers, two men believed Polish, fled with a missing satchel of $3,600. Authorities arrested two camp workers. farmers suspect other suspects in a nearby abandoned coal mine. Mrs. Ferguson is gravely ill.
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Washington
Samuel T. Ferguson
Ferguson Construction Company
Pittsbw
Charles L. Martin
Cincinnati
Middleton Road
Ferguson
Martin
Mies
West Middleton
Middletown
Seminary Hill
Lewis Liggett
Liggett
Isaac Smith
Smith
Was
Foreigners Ordered Out of Fez as Campaign Proceeds
Tangier Morocco September 1 decree orders all foreigners to leave Fez and prove cause or face expulsion amid ongoing campaign. Separate dispatch notes a schooner sale in New York harbor and a racer trade shift involving a firm tied to the tiner industry.
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Sultan
Fez
Tangier
Morocco
Ceed
Tangiers
New York
America
March Without Music Vig Centennial Parade in Chicago
Chicago reports the centennial parade will lack marching music as Chicago musicians refuse to involve themselves if the United States Marine Band plays at the mass meeting in the Auditorium on Thursday night. The Musicians Union cites its constitution against government service personnel performing. The committee presses ahead. Marine Band will provide the sole music for the celebration.
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Chicago
Musicians’ Union
United States Marine Band of Washington
Union
Marine Band
Parks Makes Trouble in Labor Convention Fallout
New York reports that Samuel J. Parks victory at the National Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers convention in Kansas City signals a sharp slow down in winter construction. Experts estimate a potential $20,000,000 drop in annual output as several major projects including Trinity Building, Hotel Brunswick, a Central Park area hotel, high end homes, a theater at 124th Street and St Nicholas Avenue, Longacre Square hotel, the Loft building and related projects may be postponed or canceled.
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New York
York
Samuel J. Parks
National Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
Kansas City
Parks
Trinity
Broadway
Brunswick
Sixty-third Street
Central Park
West
John 8. Drexel
James A. Burden
J. H. Hammond
Train Strikes Cow. Engineer Killed in Tennessee Crash
Cincinnati and Southern passenger train No. 2 left Chattanooga and hit a cow near Glenn Mary Tennessee. The locomotive and several cars derailed and rolled down an embankment. Engineer Frank Parker of Chattanooga died instantly and crew members were badly injured, two fatally.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Cincinnati and Southern
Glenn Mary
Frank Parker
Maneuvers start as troops tackle advance guard problems
The first real work of the troops assembled for the combined maneuvers began at Camp Young West Point Kentucky on September 30. About 2,400 regulars participated as the exercise simulates actual warfare and tests advance and rear guard operations near the enemy.
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Camp Young West Point
Would Burn Building at World’s Fair
An attempted arson targetting the agricultural hall at the St Louis World's Fair was thwarted overnight. A guard saw a man near the building and fired as he fled. nearby straw and oil were found. Authorities believe the suspect, an Italian workman recently fined for trespassing, planned the act.
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St. Louis
Butler to Quit
Former North Carolina Senator Marion Butler, a last remaining figure of the old populist movement, announces he will retire from the populist committee chair after the next convention. He predicts the party will field a ticket and win more votes, and promotes government ownership of railroads and public money over bank notes to break monopoly.
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California
Washington
Marion Butler
North Carolina
Butler
Cleveland
Democratic Party
John G Carruth Named Receiver for Consolidated Lake Superior Co
Large Firm Fails in New Haven appoints John G Carruth of Philadelphia as receiver for the Consolidated Lake Superior company. Bond set at 10000 dollars.
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New Haven
Conn
John G. Carruth
Philadelphia
International Title and Trust Company
Consolidated Lake Superior Company
Train Wreck Kills Nine in South Carolina Route Crash
A Southern Valley fast mail train No. 97 jumped a 600 foot trestle on a sharp curve near Danville Virginia killing nine and injuring seven. Names of dead and injured listed. engine and five mail cars and an express car derailed into Riverside mill area as wreckage spread. High speed on the curve presumed cause.
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Clarence White
Statesville
N. C
D. T. Flory
Nokesville
P. N. Ardanwright
Mt. Clinton
Malti
Louis Wy. Spiers
Menassas
Frank E. Brooks
Charlottesville
Percival Indenmayer
Washington
Charles E. Reams
Culpepper
Jennings Dunlap
M. C. Maupin
J. Harrison Thompson
St. Luke
Brodie
Southern
Riverside
Panic on a Steamer Sparks Claims of Panic
William Gillespie Wyle of New Orleans, 72, a Louisiana Supreme Court justice, died of pneumonia on the steamship St Louis after an engine breakdown and a claimed passenger panic. Officers deny the panic saying journals overheated the report. A wireless message attempting to shore the incident was blocked by ship censors.
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New York
William Gillespie Wyle
New Orleans
Supreme Court of Louisiana
St. Louis
A Moving Sidewalk Across Williamsburg Bridge Proposed
The rapid transit extensions committee favors immediate adoption of moving platforms from Brooklyn to Manhattan via the Williamsburg bridge to the Battery through the Broadway tunnel. The plan, costing about 5 080 000 dollars, now awaits action by the board of aldermen. The idea aims to ease the New York Brooklyn travel crush and would extend through the bridge and Manhattan end tunnel.
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New Bridge
Brooklyn
Subway
New York
Sept
Rapid Transit Commission
New
Williamsburg Bridge
The
Battery
Manhattan
Lower Broadway
Widge
Hetty Green May Become Newport Summer Resident
Newport Rhode Island Sept 29 1911 reports say Mrs Hettie Green the richest woman in America may buy a summer home in Newport. She is visiting with Countess Anna Leary and was joined by her daughter Miss Sylvia Green.
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America
Anna Leary
Newport
R. J
Hettie Green
Countess Anna Leary
Sylvia Green
Green
Iheport
Distinguished Travelers Detained by Newport Immigration
William Callard of Torquay and John Falconer of Dover were detained ten hours by immigration at Newport on the way to Boston for lacking medical certificates. The incident, reported from Montreal, drew much comment and prompted officials to tighten inspections.
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Montreal
William Callard
Torquay
John Falconer
Dover
England
Congress of Chambers of Commerce of the Empire
Boston
Newport
Four Dynamiters Repeat Extortion Plots Against Northern Pacific
Helens Montana September reports four dynamite attacks on the Northern Pacific line between Livingston and Missoula over the last two weeks. The company had earlier received a $25,000 demand and a later $75,000 demand, with threats to dynamite bridges and trains if not paid. Police intercepted one trap attempt but multiple letter threats and attempted sabotage continued, aiming to force immunity and payment.
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Helens
Mont
Bevin
Northern Pacific
Livingston
Missoula
Tecate
Dad
Mot
Mee Livingston
Balfour Defends Leaving Macedonian Policy to Austria and Russia
In a lengthy letter to Archbishop Canterbury Premier Balfour defends handling of the Macedonian crisis. He says a Turkish misgovernment and ethnic/religious tensions require European pressure but criticizes delays by the Porte. He urges continued British support with Russia and Austria playing leading roles.
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Austria-Ruccis
London
Canterbury
Davidson Q
Balfour
Macaig Ln
Otto
Amoiy
Europe
Russia
Austria
Turkey
Greece
Bulgaria
Servia
Roumania
Exarchists
Mr. Balfour
Berlin
Massacre of Refugees Reported Near Jalatan
Turkiye troops killed fourteen of fifteen refugees who returned to fields near Jalatan under government protection promises. Survivors found, then taken to Resna governor who refused to listen to accounts. Washington notes Beirut warships unlikely to depart amid unsettled conditions in the region.
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Monastir
Macedonia
Sofia
Jalatan
Jant
Resna
Canal Treaty Nearing Closure With Nicaragua
Washington reports say if President Roosevelt approves the U S action the State Department could finish the Nicaraguan canal treaty within a week. Costa Rica and Nicaragua pledge ratification speedily as the document is finalized. Costa Rica and Nicaragua aim for a reasonable agreement before the United States commits to the Nicaraguan route.
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State Department
Nicaragua
Washington
Roosevelt
State Partment
Nica
Costa Rica
Senor Calvo
Adee
Colombia
United States
Pantin Canal
Costa Rea
Insurgent Leader Surrenders in Albay Islands
Manila dispatch reports General Ola, a key insurrectionist leader in Albay, surrendering to American forces with twenty eight officers and troops. Governor Betts says the surrender practically ends armed resistance in the province as reconcentrado forces have largely dispersed.
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Manila
Ola
Albay
Betts
Reconcentrados
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