Dr Cook Returns Home After Pole Controversy
Dr Frederick A Cook arrived in New York aboard the steamship George Washington and gave only a brief typed statement. He said he was in the United States recently and that he has no plans to lecture or profit from Arctic experiences. Among passengers a debate arose over whether he was received without discrimination or shunned, as reporters noted the division among fellow travelers.
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Frederick A. Cook
George Washington
North Pole
United States
Quebec
Troy
N. Y
Newburg
Poughkeepsie
Hallifax
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America
Weather forecast signals cold night and bright Saturday
Tonight will be fair and colder with freezing temperatures expected. Saturday outlook calls for fair conditions and mild daytime air.
Doctor Cook Appears On Ship Quietly Among Passengers
Dr Frederick A Cook travels aboard after arrival in Bremen and is later listed as a supplemental passenger. He avoids public attention, plays cards with friends, and toasts the Stars and Stripes while aboard, presenting a calm, restrained demeanor as reporters press for statements.
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Dr. Cook
Bremen
Frederick A. Cook
Cook
Friction Over Adoption Of Rules In Next Congress
Washington Dec 23 The row over House rules centers on Champ Clark as speaker designate with power limits After a counter move a caucus resolution would let Clark name minority committee members and appoint a tentative Ways and Means panel to study tariffs 800 committee slots must be filled and Oscar Underwood of Alabama is expected to chair the tariff panel with other tariff experts limited in number
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Washington
Champ Clark
Joe Cannon
Clark
House
House of Representatives
Oscar Underwood
Alabama
Negotiation May End Wage Dispute Between Railroads and Engineers at Critical Point
Negotiations reach a pivotal stage as railroad management and engineer unions press for a settlement. Key figures from both sides, including leaders and negotiators, attend sessions aimed at avoiding a strike. The talks focus on wages, conditions, and job security amid rising costs.
Aviator Missing in North Sea Fog
News from the North Sea reports an American aviator Cecil Grace missing after fog shrouded his return flight from Calais to Dover. A large search by motor boats and warships followed, amid hopes he survived the Channel crossing in a prize attempt.
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London
Cecil Grace
Calais
France
Dover
North Sea
Grace
Baron de Forrest
English Channel
Channel
Belgian
Famine in China Threatens Millions in Two Provinces
Reports from Anhui and Jiangsu describe a wide famine due to last year's floods. About two to two and a half million people face starvation, with local committees raising funds and appeals for American aid via the Red Cross. The crisis is described as imminent and severe, with food theft and deaths reported.
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An-Hui
Kiang-Su
Taft
China
America
Red Cross
Victoria
British Columbia
Americ
Anhui
E. C. Lobensteine
North Anhui
Fire on Baronne Street hits Bars and Business District
A blaze on Baronne Street damaged several establishments with estimated losses near a quarter of a million dollars. Fire crews fought flames through the night, keeping the blaze from spreading to adjacent buildings. No injuries were reported.
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Baronne Street
New Orleans
Ainy
Chicago Disaster: Firemen Endangered as Bodies Recovered
New Orleans reports a massive Baronne Street blaze starting at 4 am causing $250,000 damage. Union Furniture Co Hansell Bros. Stationery Co and Schwartz Eustic Co furnishings burned. Schubert Theatre sustained light damage. Twenty firemen died and six more are missing as eyewitnesses recount the catastrophe.
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Hansell Bros. Stationery Co
Schwartz-Eustic Co
Schubert Theatre
Stockyards Disaster Deepens as Wall Collapses
Chicago dispatch reports the Morris & Company stockyards fire worsening after ware house No. 6 collapsed injuring Captain John Windheim and William Sheridan. Two more bodies were recovered, twenty dead, many missing firemen, with fifty thousand dollars raised for dependents. Lieutenant Joseph Mackey provides a graphic account of the wall collapse that sealed the deaths.
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Horan
Morris & Company
John Windheim
Engine Company
William Sheridan
Warehouse No. 6
Warehouse No. 4
Morris
Joseph Mackey
Brokers Hit Lean Year with Santa Gifts in Wall Street
New York on December 23 1910 concludes trading with a three day holiday for banks brokerages and financial firms. Wall Street firms gave substantial Christmas bonuses to officers and staff despite a lean year with three months of poor business. Many firms planned year end distributions into New Year’s Day, the final ten days of the year shaping Wall Street’s Christmas mood.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
Wall Street
Stock Exchange House
Fulton Street
Local stores close Monday for clerks holiday
All grocery stores sign an agreement to shut Monday as a holiday for clerks. Banks, wholesale houses, and dry goods stores will also close.
Fire marshal and crew trapped as wall collapses at yard blaze
Mackey led a canopy escape as bricks buried Horan and Burroughs and a dozen firemen. He warned others and leaped to safety with ten to twelve men. Rescue efforts continued though many were injured and hope dimmed that Horan and Burroughs survived with eighteen to twenty men trapped beneath the collapse.
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Marshall
Horan
Batallion
Lacey
Stock Yards
Burroughs
Kauffman Challenges Big Jack Johnson Fight Proposed
Barney Girard received a telegram from Al Kaufman in San Francisco asking him to challenge Jack Johnson for the heavyweight title. Girard sent word to Johnson in Chicago requesting a bout within six months to a year, with a purse of twenty five thousand dollars.
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Barney Girard
Johnson
New York
al Kaufman
San Francisco
Jack Johnson
Girard
Chicago
Johnson accepts Kaufman challenge for heavyweight title
Chicago December 23 Jack Johnson holder of the heavyweight title said he would accept the challenge from Kaufman. He is willing to fight any time at any place provided a suitable purse is offered. Johnson has not yet received the telegram from Girard and will not fight for less than 25000 dollars.
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Chicago
Jack Johnson
Kaufman
Johnson
Girard
Cotton grades debated by New York Cotton Exchange
New York December 23. The Board of Governors of the New York Cotton Exchange held a protracted conference with Nathan A Cobb head of the USDA Crop Technology and Field Investigation division. Arthur R Marsh said there was no definite agreement after informal talks. Some members favor government standards, others oppose, and many are indifferent. Marsh did not confirm Cobb’s Washington visit.
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York Exchange
New York
Board of Governors of
New York Cotton Exchange
Nathan A. Cobb
Bureau of Plant Industry
United States Department of Agriculture
Arthur R. Marsh
Exchange
Cobb
Washington
New York Exchange
Wheat Firm in trading with firm tone
The Markets Today reports wheat as firm with minor gains while provisions ease. Cotton in New Orleans stays quiet with active months up about one point. Obituaries note the deaths of Michael Macheca at 58, a wealthy realty dealer, and Samuel Hy man at 71, a cotton broker.
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New Orleans
Michael Macheca
Samuel Hyman
Americans Report Navarro Surrounded in Chihuahua War
An American observer from Pedernales says General Navarro with about 250 troops is surrounded by insurrectos in Pedernales. He estimates 650 more Federals elsewhere, notes heavy losses, and reports widespread insurgent presence in surrounding mountains. A Mexican Herald correspondent Gerald Brandon is reported wounded or missing.
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el Paso
Texas
Navarro
Pedernales
Mal Paso
Gerald Brandon
Mexican Herald
Brandon
la Junta
Cerro Prieto
A. F. Sommerfield
Hernandez
Navarrs
Bustidoc
San Antonio
Pasquele Orostco
Vfumor
Parral
Zeragosa
Balleza
Santa Barbara
Surrectos
Five Acre Cotton Patch Yields 5 Bales in Newton County
Newton Mississippi December 21 Farmer N Doo little reports a five acre patch produced five bales of cotton averaging 605 pounds each selling at 24 cents per pound total gross per patch about one thousand eight hundred dollars the crop sold in Newton vicinity.
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Newton County
Miss
Newton
N. Doolittle
Granted New Trial for Huston in MailFraud Case
Washington on December twenty third Justice Wright granted John N Huston former United States treasurer a new trial after his recent conspiracy to defraud via the mails conviction.
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John N. Huston
United States
Wright
Criminal Court
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