Millionaires Held Prisoners An Hour In Bankers Trust Suite
In New York J P Morgan Jr and Robert Bacon former ambassador to France were trapped on the Bankers Trust building thirty first floor for nearly an hour. They fled through a broken private door panel after failing to relax a steel bar and a jammed fire alarm. Bacon and Morgan finally freed the door using a pocket knife and the steel bar.
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New York
J. P. Morgan,Jr
Robert Bacon
France
Bankers’ ‘Trust
Mr. Morgan
Mr. Bacon
Bankers’ Trust
J. P. Morgan Sr
Rebel and Federal Meet After Battle
Tracy Richardson a 23 year old Kansas City youth who fought at Villa Lopez was wounded in the chest by a federal bullet. He later died after a brief exchange with a federal prisoner who also fell. Richardson has been hailed as the hero of Jiminez. His father A R Richardson was a contractor in Kansas City.
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Ansas City
Tracy Richardson
Kansas City
Villa Lopez
Addison Hughes
Orozco
Jiminez
Chihuahua
Mexico
Richardson
Federal
Buemos Dias
Villa Rose
A. R. Richardson
Lamar
Two Utah Girls Hold Up a Stag Car
On a Shriners special train near Salt Lake City two masked women armed with revolvers robbed the stag car. They announced they sought bachelors and paraded two men, Dr. L A Corwin and A L Swearingen, as unwilling participants, with an auctioneer joking about a “bargain day.” No bids were made and the bachelors were confined.
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Utah
Alt Lake City
Shriners
Salt Lake City
L. A. Corwin
Goffs
Kan
A. L. Swearingen
Kansas City
J. F Hereford
Doctor Corwin
Doctor Hereford
Mystic Shrine
Cyclone Lays Waste in Willisville and Dale Areas
A southern Illinois cyclone devastated Willisville and Dale, flattening about a dozen homes in the Dale section and damaging structures in Willisville. A house near Dale and a horse were moved or killed by the storm's path, while ten families survived by fleeing the wreckage. The funnel widened to roughly 300 yards as residents watched and escaped.
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T Louis
Ilinois
Dale
Isaac Harwood
Erby
Willisville
Girl Diplomats Pay Their Bus Fare Together
Four girls on a southbound Fifth Avenue bus debate fare payment. A tall brunette volunteers, then the red haired girl offers four dimes, and the group wins relief when the tall blonde pays her fare, followed by the others.
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Fifth Avenue
Sage
Punished Not for Sleepers at Notre Dame Banquet
Dean William Hoyne of Notre Dame society in Chicago recalled a pupil who slept in class and quipped that the student would learn law by paying tuition. The joke ended with Hoyne letting the pupil off and noting he became a leading Chicago lawyer.
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Notre Dame Society of Chicago
Willam Hoyne
St. Gregory
Pope Pius
Notre Dame
Chicago
Dean Hoyne
In the Wrong Way Sink Hole Traps Two Anglers
Two men venturing into a Mississippi swamp spring day misjudge footing on a water grass area and plunge into a sink hole. One man becomes stuck, ankles in mud, while the other seeks help. A nearby farmer asks how deep he is and is told he is in the wrong end up, highlighting the danger.
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Wildé& J
Mississippi
Mack
National Monthly
Headache as body warning says Dr Crile lecture
Dr George W Crile of Cleveland told the College of Physicians that headache warns the body to rest fast and reject food to prevent harm from infections and auto intoxication. He said pain laughter and crying stem from motor excitations due to brain cell disturbances and that brain tissue itself cannot feel pain.
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George W. Crile
Cleveland
College of Physicians
Philadelphia
Rhine Improvement Project Seeks Shared 10 Million Funding
Germanys Bavaria Baden Wurttemberg along with Austria and Switzerland border Lake Constance and are expected to contribute to a 10 million dollar plan to improve the Rhine from Basel to the lake. The aim is to create a navigable passage for barges and boost regional commerce.
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WII
Bavaria
Baden
Wurtemberg
Austria
Switzerland
Lake Constance
Rhine
Depew Reflects On Youth And Public Opinion
Chauncey M. Depew, age seventy eight, sits in his No. 27 West Fifty fourth Street home discussing youth, wealth, health, and the era of defamation. He recalls writings of Joseph Choate and Jefferson era letters to illustrate shifting views of public opinion.
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Chauncey M. Depew
Wes Fitty-fourth Street
Lage
Mr. Depey
Depew
Joseph H. Choate
Mr. Depew
Republic
George Washington
Hamton
the Treasury
Choate
Jefferson
Weyler Defends Cuba Policy In New Madrid Edition
General Valeriano Weyler says he glorys in insults from Americans and Cubans in his new Madrid published fifth volume My Command in Cuba. He defends harsh methods as just and predicts if in command against Shafter he would drive the invaders to defeat and ensure a Spanish triumph.
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Valeriano Weyler
Cuba
Trocha
Madrid
Weyler
Shafter
Ava Willing Astor becomes England resident in social gaze
Ava Willing Astor proclaims residence in England and plans to wear her daughter Muriel abroad while public debate continues on whether she or Madeline Force Astor can reclaim the social leadership once held by Mrs William Astor. Society awaits a London return note as mourning restrains discussion.
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Ava. Willing Astor
England
Muriel
London
Ava Willing Astor
Astor
John Astor
Madeline Force Astor
Mra
Astora
William Astor
Colonel Astor
Maj Thomas L Rhoads Succeeds Butt as President's Chief Aid
Maj Thomas L Rhoads 42, unmarried, from the medical branch, becomes the president's chief military aid after Maj Archibald W Butt perished in the Titanic wreck. He previously served at Walter Reed General Hospital and has begun forming social links in Washington.
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Thomas L. Rhoads
Archibald W. Butt
Army Service
Major Rhoads
Waltered General Hospital
Brightwood
Washington City
Major Butt
Gperrich
Torehte Butt
Retreat From Moscow Desolation Of Napoleonic Army
The 1812 retreat from Moscow left Napoleon's invasion force of 650000 decimated to about twenty thousand survivors. As troops fell back, thousands of horses lay exhausted and many soldiers wandered in frost and famine, cut down by Cossack raids.
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Moscow
Napoleon
Russia
Ancient Sacred Meteorites and Holy Stones
The National Museum in Washington houses a 1400 pound meteorite while Yale holds a 1635 pound specimen and Amherst a 437 pound rock. Sacred stones include the black meteorite revered at Emesa Syria the Kaaba in Mecca and the Cholula pyramid stone in Mexico tied to belief in fertility and form.
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National Museum
Washington
Yale
Amherst
Emesa
Syria
Mecca
Pyramid of
Cholula
Mexico
Australian wool growers warned against breeding black or gray sheep
An English chamber of commerce warns Australian wool growers to avoid mating black or gray sheep and to select rams from flocks free of black hairs. It urges slaughter of all black and gray lambs to maintain wool quality.
Aa to Buying
A reflection on consumer choices urging consideration of fit, wholesomeness of production, and whether the expenditure achieves equal or greater good than alternative uses. The piece questions value of purchases against broader welfare.
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Ruskia
Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Praised in Testimonial
A Hooper Nebraska woman Susie Tex pleads how Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound cured five years of female troubles. After seven bottles she regained health and could work hard, urging others to try the remedy.
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Hooper
Nebraska
Lydia E. Pinkham
Toften
Susie Tex
Pleton
Pinkham
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Kur
Maj
Rhoades
Butt
Portland
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J. E. Martin Co
Oregon
Aime
Jesse Holson
Portlan
Daisy Fly Killer
Dealara
Marold Somers
LO DeKalb Ave
Brooklyn
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