Fire in Parker Building reveals high rise water and hose failures
Firefighters faced severe water shortages with limited mains at Fourth Avenue and Nineteenth Street. Six engines fought four streams for hours to reach upper floors, while rescuers saved workers on the fifth to seventh floors and recovered bodies as crews battled the blaze.
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Fourth Avenue
Cental Park
Nineteenth Street
Amercan Lithographing Company
Parker
Hundred Foot
Arker
Oys
Binns
Antry
Lse
Parker Building
Beanswick
Balke- Callendar Company
Everett House
Seventeenth Street
Kay-Scheerer Company
Ellz—P. Schneider & Sons’ Company
Allan Stirling
Cushing Jo Engraving Company
Post & Co
P. F. Collier& Son
Mark Twain Honored at Lotos Club Dinner in New York
The Lotos Club hosted Mark Twain as guest of honor at a dinner in its old Fifth Avenue house. Speakers praised his life and wit while a menu card mimicked an Oxford diploma with Twain in robes. Guests included Carnegie and other notable figures as Twain joked about collecting compliments.
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Lotos Club
Mark Twain
Frank R. Lawrence
Col
Robert P. Porter
Larence
Fifth Avenue
Dr. Lawrence
West Fiftyseventh Street
Mr. Lawrence
Col Robert P. Porter
Mr. Clemens
Oxford
Porter
London
Clemens
Engineers
Mr. Carnegie
Hamilton W. Mabie
la Salle
Mississippi
Albert Bigelow Paine
D. Howells
Hartford
Howells
Neptune
Saturn
Columbia
Edison
Montana
John the Baptist
Wns
England
Andrew Carnegie
Mark Tawin
Robert S. MacArthur
James M. Beck
George M. Harvey
William C. Church
Stewart L. Woodford
Lotus Club
Punch Brothers
Hadleyburg
White Elephant
Chateau
Yuem Royals
Henkow
Lawrence
Ward's Island patient Leonard Roll found dead by hanging
The Coroner's office was alerted at 11 PM that Leonard Roll a 20 year old patient at Manhattan State Hospital on Randall's Island had been found strangled in a bathroom with a towel around his throat. Hospital staff provided minimal information claiming the body would be sent to the Morgue.
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Manhattan State Hospital
Randall's Island
Leonard Roll
Roll
Dooley
Mabon
Bellevue
Bagshaw
Three Alarm Factory Blaze on West Side
Three alarms responded to a midnight fire in a five story brick factory between Nine Third and Ninety-fourth streets. Flames swept the Ninety-third Street end, a partition wall limited spread, and two firefighters were rescued from a backdraft with ladder help. Fire under control by 1:30 AM. The building housed Adam Happel Iron Works, Central Steam Laundry, Edelmann Iron Works, J Grossman shoes, Sidney Solie rugs, and Kroll Button Works.
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Nine Third
Ninety-fourth Street
Fire Avenue
Ninety-third Street
Lynch and McCarthy
Engine Company No. 8
Adam Happel
Exact Time on Telegrams Ordered in Georgia
In about ten days the State Railroad Commission will require telegrams between Georgia points to show the exact hour and minute of receipt at both forwarding and delivery offices. The order follows business complaints and is understood to apply within Georgia.
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New York Times
Atlanta
State Railroad Commission
Georgia
Col. E S L Des Chapelles Dies in New Orleans
Col. Emil S Lebreton Des Chapelles 75, a prominent Confederate veteran from New Orleans, died today. He served in the Civil War on the staff of Gen. Marshall J. Smith.
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New Orleans
Emil S. Lebreton Des Chapelles
Marshall J. Smith
1843 Poor Relief Appeal From New York Association
The Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor asks for donations to aid over 2,000 families with food coal rent clothing and medicine. Gifts of 1 5 10 50 100 are welcome and donors can request a receipt detailing use. R S Minturn treas room 210 no 105 E 22d St New York.
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R. S. Minturn,Treas
Belmont urges private finance to fund New York transit
August Belmont told 200 Long Island Real Estate Exchange brokers that no new subway or transit line would be built in Greater New York unless private capital has a guaranteed fair return. He warned against local prejudices and urged changes to enable extensions and new tunnels like the Steinway plan. Ralph Peters of the Long Island Railroad praised recent company improvements.
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Ers
Real Estate Exchange of
Long
Mr. Belmont
H. Stewart McKnight
Belmont
Queens County
Forty-second Street
Greater
New York
Murderer Henry Cato Dies After Flight From Jail
Henry Cato 22, who escaped from Sherman jail, ended his life at his father's home in Pilot Grove Creek after a 30 mile trek through a blizzard. He shot himself as a sheriff posse neared the house. Cato had murdered his friend Alvin Frizzell and disposed of the body in Pilot Grove Creek two months earlier amid a robbery motive.
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New York Times
Dallas
Henry Cato
Sherman
Grayson
Collin Counties
Pilot Grove Creek
Cato
Alvin Frizzell
Frizzell
Snell Aided Pastor's Wife Court Records Reveal Gifts
Clinton Illinois January 31 Special to The New York Times. The will of railroad builder Tom Snell, who cut off his son to leave money to a minister and his family, is contested before Judge Cochran. Letters from Rev Hamilton and wife Laura outline loans, homes, and schooling funded by Snell.
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New York
Clinton
Tom" Snell
E. A. Hamilton
Newman, Il
Lara
S. H. Whitlow
Danville
Mr. Hamilton
Srell
Laura
Darling
Decatur
Dartling
Eelna
Eelne
St. Louis
Belna
Maybelle Snell McNamara
Snell
Col. Snell
Maybelle
George Argo
State Bank of
L. R. Murphy
State Bank
Tubes Found in Miner During Surgery in Montana
In Deer Lodge Montana January 11 Dr Gust Pitkaner removed two half inch rubber tubing pieces from Charles Joakinen a young miner after an earlier New York hospital operation. A rusted safety pin was attached to one piece. Removal accompanied patient improvement.
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Deer Lodge
Mont
Gust Pitkaner
Charles Joakinen
New York
Joakinen
Used bogus union labels
Nathaniel G Meads a cigar broker from Red Lion Penn convicted in the Criminal Courts here was sentenced to a $50 fine and one year in the county jail He was charged by George P Allen of the Cigarmakers Union with using counterfeit union labels The case was brought by I B Kuhn business agent of the Cigarmakers Union and Chief Detective Charles S White Meads had been found guilty in Adams County last year and received a fine of 1k but escaped imprisonment on technicalities
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New York Times
York
Penn
Nathaniel G. Meads
Red Lion
Jil. Meads
George P Allen
Cigarmakers’ Union
Sohery Aa
I. B. Kuhn
McSherrytown
Charles S. White
Meads
Adams County
Sik
South Orange police dogs move to new kennels
Police dogs in South Orange New Jersey moved into a new stable adjoining the police station yesterday. The dogs reportedly liked their quarters but objected to the dark. The darkness is meant to habituate them to night prowlers and to help them sleep for nightly patrols.
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South Orange
N. J
Norfolk and Western train collision injures three workers
A vestibuled Norfolk and Western passenger train from Chattanooga to Washington collided near Crockett's Station with a freight train. Injured were W. C. Caldwell and H. C. Ackerson, postal clerks, and John Brook, a Black man, all with minor bruises. No deaths. In Pennsylvania, an idle Baltimore and Ohio engine started by itself at Janeau Station, Fatally injuring fireman Wherton Griffith after a 15 mile run into a freight train. brakeman John Reed died beneath wreckage.
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Roanok
D. Va
Norfolk& Western
Chattanooga
Washington
Crockett's Station
W. C C. Caldwell
H.C. Ackerson
John Brook
Punxsutawney
Penn
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Janeau Station
Wherton Griffith
John Reed
Food and health on the railroad road
A railroad worker extols Grape-Nuts as the perfect food aiding digestion and appetite. He reports lasting relief from indigestion, seven pound weight gain, and increased energy after using the product for about a month. His wife also starts using it, prompted by his recovery.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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