Jerome Praises Wadoo as Back from Southwest Trip
District Attorney Jerome returns to Criminal Court Building after a month near the Mexican border, praising the current city administration and Police Commissioner McAdoo. He discusses West travels, cowboy life, and notes the Iroquois Theatre fire's cause, citing the skylight failure and the ventilating flue as factors.
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Jerome
Criminal Court
Rutgers Street
Rand
New York
McAdoo
Greene
Low
Southwest
FE Paso
Texas
Deming
Grant’ County
N. M
Mr. Kent
Chicago
Florida Plains
Ed James
Jack Crawford
Floridas
Silver City
James
Bill Johnson
Bill
Metropolitan ‘Street Railway Company
Grant County
New Mexico
Florida
South
West
Mr. Jerome
Hearst
Tlinois
Troquois Theatre
National Farmers Exchange to be formed in Omaha
Representatives of all cooperative agricultural interests of the Mississippi Valley will meet in Omaha on March 1 to organize the National Farmers Exchange with a capital stock of 50 million dollars. The call emphasizes concentrating efforts first on grain and then on live stock.
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New York Times
Topeka
Kan
Mississippi Valley
Omaha
National Farmers’ Exchange
Famous Trains to Florida Ad Offers Unexcelled Service
The notice promotes luxury rail service with two named trains, the New York and Florida Special at 2 10 PM and the Florida and West Indian Ltd at 9 25 AM, highlighting connections via Penn and Atlantic Coast Line and listing 1 161 miles.
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Florida
N. Y
Grain storage and terminal facilities urged across grain belt
A recommendation calls for stockpiling in cold storage and lumber and coal plants, with beef and pork packing and milling sidelines. It endorses establishing branch offices and building elevators and warehouses from Oklahoma to North Dakota and California to the Alleghenies. Farmers should store grain locally and sell gradually, with terminal facilities planned at Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha and other hubs.
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Oklahoma
North Dakota
California
Allegheny Mountains
Chicago
St. Louis
Kansas City
Omaha
Georgians Bound Over in Peonage Case in Athens
Weldon Brooks Edward Huff and George Huff of Oglethorpe County are bound over to answer peonage and conspiracy charges for allegedly holding negroes in servitude on their plantations. Accusations include kidnapping and forced labor with mistreatment and underpayment highlighted by Mary Jackson's account of five years of bondage. Government officials say a broader peonage trafficking network exists in the area and additional arrests are expected.
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New York Times
Athens
Weldon Brooks
Edward Huff
George Friuff
Oglethorpe County
United States
Kinnebrew
Huffs
Justice Courts
Brooks
Huff Brothers
Mary.Jackson
Standard Oil controls Ontario asbestos supply in bold expansion
The Standard Oil Company allegedly controls the entire output of Ontario asbestos mines and plans a nationwide push to turn asbestos into a multipurpose, monopolistic commodity. A Canadian family owning the richest mine land rejected a $5 million bid but agreed to long term contracts for a portion of production.
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Standard Oil
New York Times
Chicago
Standard Oil Company
Ontario
Franklin Manufacturing Company
Pennsylvania
Canada
Bible A Scrapbook Says Prof Moulton In Boston Lecture
Boston February 6 Professor Richard G Moulton of the University of Chicago likened the Bible to a scrapbook in a lecture on The Bible as Literature He argued old Bible versions arrange numbers chapters and verses without literary form and that revisions should aim to restore true literary structure The future version he said will produce the genuine literary form.
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Boston
Richard. G. Moulton
University of Chicago
Moulton
Contagious View Of Appendicitis Noted In Madison
Dr C C Sheldon a leading Madison physician declares appendicitis contagious and of microbic origin. He attributes an epidemic level to a transferable germ and cites the disease’s prevalence as supporting evidence.
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C. C. Sheldon
Madison, Wis
New York Times
Madison
Wis
Sheldon
Yale
Central Wisconsin Medical Association
New York to Atlanta Return Fare Advertised
Travel offer from New York to Atlanta and return priced at 26.40 dollars via the P R R and Southern Railway. Tickets go on sale February 20th to 22nd. Three fast trains daily with Club Dining Observation and Sleeping Cars. New York offices at 271 and 1 185 Broadway.
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New York
Atlanta
Southern Rwy
N. Y
Broadway
United States Acts in Santo Domingo Crisis Tackled
Washington moved to protect American interests in Santo Domingo after reports of a siege on the San Isidro plantation. Rear Admiral Wise, with the training squadron, is ordered to Santo Domingo to guard life and property while ships return to the area.
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Washington
Santo Domingo
Wise
Guantanamo
Dominican Republic
United States
White House
Loomis
Moody
Navy
State Department
San Isidro Plantation
San Isidro
Bartram Brothers
New York
Bass
Ozama River
Admiral Wise
Minneapolis
Dominican
Columbia
San Domingo
Hartford
Johnson
Lewis C. Heilner
Powell
Navy Department
Sanchez
Munitions Seized for Dominican Leader at Puerto Plata
Quantities of war munitions intended for Gen. Jiminez, Dominican revolutionary leader, were seized at Puerto Plata after being landed from the Clyde Line steamer New York on Jan. 30. Earlier consignments aboard the Cherokee, also of the Clyde Line, were seized at the same port.
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Cape Haitien
Haiti
Jiminez
Puerto Plata
Republic of Santo Domingo
Clyde Line
New York
Cherokee
SOTHERN'S KENTUCKY WOES IN LOUISVILLE COURT ACTIONS
Actor E H Sothern received injunctions and lawsuits in Louisville over a play titled A Holiday's Diversion and related contracts. He disputes signatures on a purported agreement with Kentucky writer Ellanetta Harrison and says a manuscript was lost and later found.
Palm Limited Puts On Splendor and Punctual Service
The Southern's Palm Limited via P. R. R. Southern Rwy. and F. E. C. showcases splendor in equipment and punctual schedules. Superior patronage credited to reliable performance with New York offices at 271 and 1,185 Broadway.
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Florida
Cuba
Nassau, Aiken
Augusia
S Palm Limited
Rwy
N. Y
Broadway
Adv
Panic in Flaming City Car Traps Women Passengers
Fire erupts in Third Avenue electric car No. 2164 near Lenox Avenue injuring none seriously as women shoppers flee into knee deep mud and water. Police and workers extinguish blaze. seven feet of car floor burned. mail bags and debris scattered.
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Third Avenue
Twenty-fifth Street
Lenox Avenue
Schultze
William Norris
Eighth Avenue
Seventh Avenue
Oliceman Ennis
Hanley
One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Street
Ennis
Mary Cauldwell
Prospect Avenue
Miss Cauldwell
Fire Strikes Car 2036 on Amsterdam Avenue Line
Passengers flee as car 2036 of the Amsterdam Avenue line catches fire in front of the Nevada apartment house at Amsterdam Avenue Broadway and Sixty Ninth Street. Smoke alarms alert crews. firemen extinguish the blaze with minor damage. The car blocks the road for about thirty minutes before being towed away.
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Amsterdam Avenue
Town
Nevada
Broadway
Sixty-ninth Street
Pencoyd Iron Works Closes Indefinitely
Philadelphia February 6. Pencoyd Iron Works shut down indefinitely, laying off 150 workers the last of nearly 3,000. Paid 40 to 50 dollars weekly previously, now averaging 18 dollars. An official said reopening in March with 2,500 jobs looks unlikely and no definite resume time is set.
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Philadelphia
Pencoyd Iron Works
Hearst Opposes Olney In Democratic Convention Struggle
Boston reports a looming fight at the Democratic State Convention to select delegates for St. Louis. National Committeeman George Fred Williams and Col. A C Drinkwater are slated to lead the Hearst effort as Hearst clubs form statewide and a Hearst newspaper plans to start in Boston before the convention.
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New York Times
Boston
Olney
St. Louis
George Fred Williams
Col. A. C. Drinkwater
Hearst
Hearst Clubs
Woman saves six children from blaze after waking to smoke
In Rochester New York, Mrs. Jacob Marks woke to smoke with six children coughing. She hurled them from a third story window to a five foot snow bank then fainted herself. All survived but the mother and children suffered smoke inhalation.
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New York Times
Rochester
N. Y
Jacob Marks
Woodward Avenue
Schwab Resting at Atlantic City Hotel
Charles M. Schwab former Steel Trust president is at the Hotel Brighton with his secretary for rest and recreation. The visit may extend, and he is said to have leased Busch cottage for summer occupancy.
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New York Times
Atlantic City
N. J
Charles M. Schwab
The
Steel Trust
Brighton
Schwab
Busch Cottage
Mardi Gras Train Tickets to California Return Route
Advertises Mardi Gras train travel from New York to New Orleans and return via Southern, A and W, W of A, and L and N on the Sunset Limited Route to California. Tickets on sale February 9 to 14. New York offices at 271 Broadway and 1185 Broadway.
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New York
New Orleans
Southern Anv
W. of A
California
N. Y
B’ Way
Mrs Maybrick Found Identity Hidden in Truro Convent
Mrs Florence Maybrick remains a prisoner under an assumed name at the Epiphany Convent in Truro Cornwall under tight guard and without contact with the outside world. She follows strict convent discipline while awaiting release next July as officials say she is still a prisoner.
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London
Florence Maybrick
Sisters of the Epiphany
Truro
Cornwall
Aylesbury
Baroness de Roques
Mrs. Maybrick
Maybrick
Cornish
Sisterhood
Miss Dalrymple
Sisterhood of the Epiphany
Epiphany
Tragic Bobsled Accident Claims Young Coaster
In Mamaroneck New York James Trama nine dies after being struck by a fast moving bobsled while attempting to regain his own sled on Mount Pleasant Street. The injury sequence includes a broken limb and internal damage. he dies at home two hours later. A prior week also saw a coasting accident on the hill with a broken arm.
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Mamaroneck
N. Y
James Trama
Washingtonville
Mount Fleasant Street
Trama
William McGuire
Miss Loftus to Star in Frohman New Drama
Louisville dispatch notes Miss Cecilia Loftus, leading woman of E H Sothern, will star next year under Charles Frohman. Frohman telegraphed that Israel Zangwill sent a manuscript for her, a dramatization of his story The Serio-Comic Governess, and he read it with favorable opinion.
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New York Times
Louisville
Cecilia Loftus
E. H. Sothern
Charles Frohman
Wells College Girls Return From Quarantine
Wells College in Aurora New York lifts a two week smallpox quarantine as Miss Hortense A Baker of Columbus Ohio recovers from varioloid and no new symptoms appear.
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New York Times
Aurora
N. Y
Wells College
Hortense A. Baker
Columbus
Ohio
Dewey and Sons Co Advertises Port Wine and Grape Juice
An advertisement from Dewey and Sons Co. at 138 Fulton Street New York promotes Dewey Port Wine and Dewey Grape Juice as superior for sick people. The brief notice emphasizes health use and availability.
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Dewey’s
Dewey & Sons Co
Fulton St
New York
Germans Battle at Omaruru Pushes Toward Windhoek
German forces storm Omaruru on February 4 with four killed and thirteen wounded, while seven missing. Omaruru surrounded as 400 more troops with artillery move to assist. North Colony declared grave with ninety one dead and over two hundred missing. Francke's Company involved, Rabichi crew and Winkler corps advancing, railway to Windhoek now operative.
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Berlin
Koloniale Zeitschrift
Windhoek
Gobadis
Omnaruru
Ekanena
Swakopmund
Francke
Omaruru
Rabichi
Lieut. Winkler
Karibib
Fast Mail Narrowly Avoids Clyde Freight Wreck
The New York Central west-bound fast mail at sixty mph narrowly avoided a collision with a Clyde freight wreck. Ten east-bound cars carrying provisions and dressed beef derailed after leaving track No 1. two plunging down the Clyde River embankment. Towerman Frank Halloran closed the block just in time. damage to goods about 5 000 dollars. No injuries reported.
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New York Times
Syracuse
N. Y
New York Central
Clyde
Frank Halloran
United States
Illinois
Weehawken
N. J
Clyde River
Towerman Halloran
Susquehanna Flood Fears After Ice Gorge Forms
Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania reports state warnings of a disastrous flood as thawing rain builds a massive ice gorge on the Susquehanna. The ice dam stretches forty three miles from Sunbury to Nanticoke, two to three feet thick beyond the gorge, prompting towns to ready for evacuation to higher ground tonight.
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New York Times
Wilkesbarre
Penn
Susquehanna
Sunbury
Nanticoke
Susquehanna River Threatens Port Deposit Area
Heavy rainfall and rapid snowmelt raise the Susquehanna river to dangerous levels from Port Deposit to Harrisburg. Creeks run turbulent, Havre de Grace flats are submerged, and the town remains on alert. Officials compare conditions to the 1857 flood.
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Port
Deposit
Susquehanna River
Harrisburg
Havre de Gracé
Cold snap wrecks Hudson Valley fruit trees
Albany reports show be low-zero conditions damaging Hudson Valley crops. Columbia Dutchess Orange and Greene counties suffer scattered losses with 250000 Pine Islands trees in Orange County largely affected. Bartlett pear buds harmed in Germantown and Kieffer pear buds killed in spots.
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Albany
Hudson Valley
State Commissioner of Agriculture
Columbia
Dutchess
Orange
Greene
Pine Islands
Orange County
Germantown
Bartlett
Tobacco deemed a necessity by Minnesota Supreme Court
The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that tobacco is a necessity and tobacco stores may remain open Sundays with the same license as drug stores. The Sunday closing law does not apply to tobacco shops. A test case under the general Sunday opening ban led tobacconists to win while grocers must close.
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New York Times
ST. Paul
Minn
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Arkansas Supreme Court Affirms Argenta Annexation Split
The Arkansas Supreme Court upholds Chancellor Hart's ruling that the 8th Ward Argenta is detached from Little Rock and annexed to North Little Rock. Argenta becomes part of North Little Rock with separate municipal government. The decision reduces Little Rock's population by over 10,000 and shifts the river’s best business district northward.
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New York Times
Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas Supreme Court
Hart
North Little Rock
Eighth Ward
Argenta
Supreme Court
Arkansas River
Seaboard Florida Limited Tickets to Florida Resorts
Advertisement promotes securing tickets and Pullman reservations on the Seaboard Florida limited for Florida resorts. Claims service will make travelers come again with a short line and short time, listing office at 1.183 Broadway.
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Seaboard Florida
Florida
Japan and Russia Sever Diplomatic Ties Reported
Tokyo reports clear rupture of diplomatic relations with Russia as troops were dispatched to Seoul. Baron de Rosen to depart soon. final interview with Foreign Minister Komura occurred yesterday. In Port Arthur, Viceroy Alexei forward approves Russian reply to de Rosen by telegraph.
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Komura
Baron de Rosen
Port Arthur
Alexieff
Tokio
Pacific
Russia tells Japan in Tokyo on the brink of war
The Russian reply to Japan is handed to the Japanese government by Baron de Rosen in Tokio. Kurino departs for Germany preparations grow, and talks with Sir Charles Scott hint at a possible diplomatic break. Public nerves rise as war fears mount in St. Petersburg and Moscow awaits the Emperor's call to arms.
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ST. Petersburg
Baron de Rosen
Tokio
M. Kurino
Igh
Warsaw
Germany
Legation
M.kurino
Winter Palace
Kurino
Sir Charles Scott
Russia
Japan
Moscow
Troitzko
Flight from Vladivostok triggers Japanese exodus to Japan
A Vladivostok dispatch reports Japanese residents evacuated to Japan on the British steamer Afridi under Tokyo orders. The exodus, aided by the Japanese Consular Agent, left stores short of goods as traders dumped stocks at low prices. Local authorities express news shortages and rising tension while troop movements toward Korea halt and commerce stalls.
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ST. Petersburg
Vladivostock
Tokio
Japan
Afridi
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E. D. Schoonmaker
Lexington
Schoonmaker
Ellanetta Harrison
Massachusetts
Ments
Miss Loftus
Fast Mail
Towerman
Ittle Rock
Baron de. Rosen
Seoul
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Séul
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