Purse Snatchings Under Investigation by Police
Police investigate four purse thefts and search for an auto thief and a chicken thief. Victims include Mrs. Aubrey Miles and Mrs. Fred Hanna on Jackson street, with sums ranging from 35 to 100 dollars plus a car key loss. A fourth incident involved Miss Katherine McGee and Mrs. L Rosenberg as investigators pursue suspects.
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Aubrey Miles
Jackson Street
Fred Hanna
West Monroe
Presbyterian Church
L. Rosenberg
Bros Avenue
North Third Street
W. G. Renfrow
Theft Reported at Renfrew and Sons Store on DeSiard Street
A rear theft at Renfrew and Sons, 322 DeSiard street, occurred about 10 p m Monday. Separately, L. J. Hays of 114 Cole avenue reported ten to twelve Barred Rock chickens stolen after an intruder pried open the hen house door.
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Renfrew and Sons
DeSiard Street
L. J. Hays
Cole Avenue
Apparent plan to burglarize bank thwarted
Sheriff Coverdale said cutting through steel doors would be needed, with serial numbers filed off the equipment tanks. The culprits likely assumed the canning plant would not be in use for days as the season slows and much meat canning happens earlier in fall.
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Essary
Coverdale
Man Charged With Assault In Domestic Incident
Willie Pitts was arrested Tuesday by sheriff’s deputies on assault and battery charges alleging he beat his wife.
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Willie Pitts
Sheriff's Department
Holiday disaster near Dundas claims multiple lives
A Toronto bound holiday special collided with a passenger extra near Dundas siding, injuring and killing passengers. Train No 16 from Detroit to Toronto rear ended the London to Toronto extra, causing three cars to be damaged and several deaths with rescuers pulling survivors from wreckage hours later.
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Philip Sise
Toronto
Paul Sise
Northern Electric Company, Ltd
Mary Parker
G. H. McGuffin
Cooksville
Ont
F. Green
London
Negro Porter
O. H. Erloch
Harry Parker
R. F. Lise
John Kennedy
Dundas
W. A. Kingsland
Central Region
Canadian National Railways
Detroit
Points East
Dundas Siding
T. C. Hudson
General Hospital
Hamilton
Piggoot
London Division
Dundas Valley
Wreck Witness Recounts Dundas Train Crash Night
Douglas Mackie describes the London Toronto train collision near Dundas Ontario. He details the moment the signal came, the violent shudder, smashed windows, and the chaos as passengers escaped and authorities collected the injured at Hamilton’s Stuart Street station.
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Dundas
Ontario
Douglas Mackie
Subury
Seven Killed as Train Hits Car in Illinois
Seven workers from the Illinois emergency relief station in Chicago Heights were killed when their car was struck by the Grand Trunk Line International Limited at a crossing near Harvey. John Burk of Chicago drove the car. others missing were Ruth Greenberg Hope Hines Harvey Freidmann Marion Riggs Mary McCann Wendell Tarkoff. Four women and two men were taken to a Harvey funeral home. authorities said a seventh body may be trapped under the locomotive.
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Chicago
Illinois
Chicago Heights
International Limited
Grand Trunk Line
Harvey
John Burk
Ruth Greenberg
Hope Hines
Harvey Freidmann
Marion Riggs
Mary McCann
Wendell Tarkoff
Harvey Undertaking
Flood control plan urges rapid studies across multiple basins
Experts press immediate field investigations for Yazoo St Francis and Black River flood control. They outline nine Red River class A projects and ten class B options, with large scale dam and levee work, plus Ouachita improvements and a Yazoo reservoir plan to reduce flood crest and support land settlement and farming.
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Yazoo
St. Francis
Black River
Red River
Louisiana
Ouachita River
Denison
Arkansas
White
Mississippi
Ouachita Basin
Red
Bayou Pierre
Red River Parsh
Natchitoches
Saline Point
Bayou Des Glasses
Eagletown
Mountain Fork River
Bossier Extension
Fire Point
Caddo Lake
Cypress Creek
Shreves Island
Blakely Mountain
Rommel
Mississippi River
Yazoo River
First Canadian Expeditionary Force Departs for France
The first Canadian expeditionary force sails toward France on October 3 1914 signaling a major step in Canada’s WWI involvement. The move joins Allied efforts as troops embark from a maritime port with wartime momentum and national anticipation.
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France
Cold Wave Heads for Dixie States Warns of Deep Freeze
A cold wave sweeps into the south and central states as frigid air chills the nation. Williston North Dakota records 22 below zero on Christmas Day, the coldest spot noted, with temperatures expected to rise slowly by Wednesday night.
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Central States
St. Nicholas
Williston
North Dakota
Frigid Christmas Weather Spreads Across Regions
A cold wave blankets much of the United States from Dawson Canada to Florida as temperatures plunge across the Midwest and Northeast. Minneapolis and St Paul report 10 below zero while snow falls in New York New England Pennsylvania and parts of Illinois and the Dakotas.
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New England
New York State
Chicago
Iowa
Wisconsin
Pennsylvania
Twin
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Florida
Kansas
Missouri
Mercury
Kansas City
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Alameda
Sively
Wala
Stechawks Coffee
Monroe Milk Company
A & W Sandwich Shop
Monroe
James Cagney
Joan Blondell
Warner Bros
Victor Jory
Frank Craven
Capitol
Donald McFarlane
N. 2Nd. Street
Douglas Mackie Hamilton
Sudbury
Canadian National Railway
Stuart Street
Holt
Washington
West Virginia
Rush D. Holt
Senate
Cold Wave
Dixie States
United States
Dawson
Canada
Far Northwest
N. Second Street
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