Gas Explosion Kills Two in Wilkes-Barre Mine Disaster
In the Hillman vein of the Dorrance colliery, Lelich Virlley Coal Company, an underground gas explosion killed John Lintner and Andrew Polachek and injured 17 others, four of them likely fatally. First aid workers aided the wounded as hundreds gathered for news, with initial reports miscounting the fatalities.
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Wilkes-Barre
John Lintner
Andrew Polachek
Hillman
Dorrance
Lelich Virlley Coal Company
Sil
Mouse Kills Giant Cat in Dramatic Dinner Chase
In a Brooklyn doorway Mrs. Anna Kieckhoffer’s Persian cat, a massive predator, is slain by a small mouse. The mouse darts from hiding and the cat leaps, then chokes and dies as the rodent escapes.
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New York
Brooklyn
Anna Kieckhoffer
Rats Ate 520 Canary Birds On Hamburg to Philadelphia Steamer
Rats ripped into the Legie cargo hold, devouring 520 canaries from 1600 birds aboard the Czechoslovak steamship Legie bound from Hamburg to Philadelphia. Guards watched as the birds lived in slatted wooden cages, but the rodents breached the cages and consumed the majority before the ship reached port.
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Philadelphia
Hamburg
Buffalo Refuses to Stay in Far North Edmonton Alta
Buffalo in North Edmonton refuses to stay in a distant area as reported in an Alberta edition. The note mentions a buffalo wandering behavior and a local response by authorities. No further details are provided in the fragment.
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Buffalo
Edmonton
Alta
Straight Talks With Aunt Eadsy About Stock Promises
Helen and Aunt Emmy discuss a stock promoter offering vast profits with guaranteed future prices. Aunt Emmy cautions that stock prices reflect supply and demand and warns against unknown firms and sure-thing promises. She urges checking the company and banking guidance before investing.
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Emmy
Helen
Aunt Emmy
Stock Exchange
Eges
United States
Aunt Pavany
Restricting Loans on Uneconomic Farming
Bankers in rural areas warn against lending for farming systems deemed uneconomic as the risk harms both borrower and lender. They urge frank discussion of advantages and dangers to create a true partnership and safeguard depositor funds. The note discourages speculative schemes and advises prudent, informed lending and investing.
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Dong
Bunker-Farmer
Haynes Deposed in Day Campaign
Washington report indicates Assistant Secretary Lincoln C. Andrews rejects linking Henry Ford or Judge M. Gary with the prohibition administration. He plans to enlist expert organizers from industry to aid enforcement while curbing reckless use of prohibition powers. Andrews approved a Treasury order restricting Roy Raynes and orders investigations into graft and a bootlegger shooting in Havre de Grace.
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Washington
Andrews
Inaml
Oman
Thavre de Gra
Mahet Walker Willete
The
Treasury
Ma Tlaynes
Ulivnes
Missing Infant Found Dead in Corn Field
Reading Pennsylvania reported the body of Jennie Behm a 23 month old child missing from Dryville for five days was found in a corn field about a mile and a half from home. She died of exposure after wandering away from home. The discovery was made by Topton boys who helped search with hundreds of others. Cortland New York section notes 39 indictments against 11 cattle dealers and farmers by a special grand jury over fraud in tubercular cattle.
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Reading
Jennie
Charles Behm
Dryville
Topton
Cortland
N. Y
Cortland County
Man Dies by Hanging in Lonsdale Home Cellar
Thomas Moore, 75, of Cumberland RK, committed suicide by hanging in the cellar of his residence in the Lonsdale section. The death is reported as self-inflicted.
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Self
Noose
Cumberland
RK. I
Thomas Moore
Lonsdale
General Market Prices for Philadelphia Flour Poultry
Winter flour priced at 8.40 and spring at 9.80 per hundredweight. No 2 yellow corn 12.61. No 2 white oats 58. Poultry: live hens 28 to 29 cents, old roosters 16 to 18 cents. Dressf fowls 32 to 34 cents. Utilities and related items noted with firm tone and scattered prices.
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Philadelphia
Ae. i Poe
Live Stock Quotations From Chicago Market Report
Weak to 2 cent lower cattle prices with top around 15.25 to 15.32. Yearlings about 15.10. Slaughter weights and steel trade show steady signals. Pigs near 13 dollars and sheep 50 cents lower with fat sheep around 14.00 to 16.30.
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Chicago
To. Inc
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