Hocking Pool Collapse Triggers Exchange Suspension
The year old Hocking Pool collapse in Columbus drags down Hocking Coal and Iron stock and sinks two brokerage houses. The New York Stock Exchange suspends all transactions as Governors seek settlement, amid chaotic floor scenes and rivalries among firms tied to the pool.
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Columbus
Hocking Coal and Iron Company
Stock Exchange
Exchange
Wall Street
Lathrop, Haskins & Co
Broadway
Hocking Company
J. M. Fiske & Co
Hocking Group
Hugh F. Criss
Roberts, Hall & Criss
Criss
James R. Keene
Henry Stanley Haskins
Lathrop & Haskins
Mr. Criss
Cincinnati
Thomas
The
Northern Pacific
Flood cripples elevators in 17 story Manhattan building
Occupants of the Manhattan Trust Building at Nassau and Wall Streets faced hours of climbing as a flood from a burst water pipe disabled electrical machinery. Firemen cleared the pipe, but the Water Department needed four hours to stop the hydrant, allowing water to rise to the dynamo level and shutter elevators until late morning.
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Manhattan Trust
Nassau
Wall Streets
Water Department
Mpst
Alpine Resorts Isolated Amid Severe Alpine Weather
A crowd of American visitors is effectively imprisoned in Swiss mountain towns after days of rain and heavy snowfall. Flooding, washed-out telegraph lines, and damaged railways strand travelers in Davos Engelberg and other resorts. In France, Rheims region floods threaten villages. a landslide near Allemond destroys homes. Belgium faces widespread storms closing factories and submerging roads and bridges.
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New York
Geneva
Alps
Davos
Engelberg
Paris
France
Rheims
Allemond
Brussels
Belgium
Sambre
Paladino medium called a fraud by Harvard psychologist
Boston January 19. Professor Hugo Munsterberg of Harvard declares Mme Paladino a fraud after private examination. He cites table lifting tricks, suggestive influence, and a held table during air rise. He notes photographs show her hand on the table and says other experts misjudged her powers. Professors James and others dispute his finding.
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New York Times
Boston
Hugo Munsterberg
Harvard
Mme. Paladino
New York
Miinsterberg
William James
Morse Not Put to Work at U S Penitentiary in Atlanta
Charles W. Morse, jailed in Atlanta for nearly three weeks at the U S Penitentiary, has not yet been assigned work. Warden Moyer offers no reason, Morse enjoys books magazines and smoking, and chaplain Tupper befriends him. Ex Gov Hoke Smith, said to aid in habeas corpus efforts, visited the prison.
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New York Times
Atlanta
United States Penitentiary
Charles W. Morse
Morse
Moyer
Tupper
Hoke Smith
Georgia
Twins Born Aboard Ice Floe Houseboat On Ohio River
In Gallipolis Ohio on January 19 twin girls were born aboard a houseboat adrift in an ice floe on the Ohio River. Parents William and Mrs Shields lived on the vessel moored at Hillwood West Virginia. The boat was torn loose by ice but landed safely with the twins named Ohio and Virginie.
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Gallipolis
Ohio
Ohio River
William Shields
Hillwood
West Va
Gils
Virginie
Rainey Rejected by Republicans in Ballinger Inquiry
President Taft backed removing Rainey from the Ballinger-Pinchot investigation in a three hour House caucus. Loyalists voted to substitute Lloyd for Rainey, while insurgents split, insisting the majority not choose minority members. The compromise later allowed James and Lloyd on the panel with Rainey excluded.
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New York Times
Washington
Taft
Rainey
Ballinger-Pinchot
House
Lloyd
Missouri
James
Kentucky
Messrs
Nelson
Cary
Cooper
Mr. James
Mr. Rainey
Mr. Norris
Nebraska
Gaines
West Virginia
Gillett
Massachusetts
Douglas
Ohio
Hamilton Fish
Norris
Messrs. Rainey
Goebel
Clayton
Alabama
Gardner
Morse
Wisconsin
Murdock
Kansas
Cannon
Ollie James
Tawney
Currier
McCall
Olmsted
Pennsylvania
Denby
Michigan
Madison
White House
Panama
Ice Gorges Break Again on Allegheny River
Two more ice gorges in the Allegheny River between forty and fifty miles from Pittsburg broke late this afternoon. They carried with them ice and snow from back of the Freeport gorge. No danger due to the soft spongy ice. shipping and river mills prepared for high water. The event signals the near end of the upper Allegheny ice accumulation from winter.
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Pittsburg
Allegheny River
Freeport
Allegheny
Seaboard Air Line Promo for Florida Route
Pinehurst Camden Florida presented as Seaboard Air Line shortest, best priced route with attractive timetable. Office contact listed as 1183 Broadway for tickets and information.
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Pinehurst
Camden
Florida
Seaboard Air Line
Times Feature Preview Urges Early Orders from News Dealers
Readers are urged to place orders with news dealers now to ensure access to the many notable features scheduled for next Sunday's Times. The notice emphasizes securing copies ahead of the publication date and avoiding shortages.
Inside story of Syracuse insurance deal and loan
State Insurance Supervisor Hotchkiss exposes the People's Mutual Life Insurance Association and League of Syracuse tied to a $150,000 Canada loan. Promoter John Tevis is linked to stock schemes and a $21000 note bundle. Lieutenant Governor White’s role and a $180,000 bank purchase are noted amid potential indictments.
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Syracuse
N. Y
John Tevis
Moran & Co
New York
Big Vein Copper Mine Company
Farmers’ Bank of Canada
Travers
Farmers’ Bank
First National Bank of
Canada
First National Bank
Gov. White
People's Mutual
People’s Mutual
Supreme Court
Hendrick
Yesterda
People’s Mutual Life Insurance Association
League of Syracuse
Bernard Bennett
Harry F. Lee
Bennett
Tevis
Louisville
Rinehart
Edison Plant Fire Destroys Much of Belleville Factory
Fire at the Edison Manufacturing Company plant on Belmont Avenue Belleville caused about 20000 dollars in damage. Night watchman John Gough Sr. alerted crews as flames erupted from the roof near the smokestack. Five of nine night workers escaped. no injuries reported. Fire units from Silver Lake Bloomfield and Newark battled the blaze, saving most buildings and the chemical storage section.
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New York Times
Belleville
N. J
Edison Manufacturing Company
Belmont Avenue
John Gough, Sr
Silver Lake
Bloomfield
Newark
Paulhan Flies Over Ocean Sets Passenger Records
Louis Paulhan carried five passengers in a single day including Mrs Cortlandt Field Bishop and W R Hearst while flying from the aviation field to near the ocean and back. He also flew a two passenger cross country and brief flights with others setting new heavier than air passenger records. Curtiss, Beachey, and Hamilton also performed with mixed results at the Los Angeles meet.
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Aviation Field
Los Angeles
Louis Paulhan
Paulhan
Redondo Beach
Venice By
Orville Wright
Englehardt
Berlin
Wright
Clifford B. Harmon
New York
Paul Beck
United States Army Signal Corps
William Randolph Hearst
Ocean
Pacific
Lieut
Beck
Mr. Harmon
Charles M. Hamilton
Hamilton
Gill-Dosch
H. W. Gill
Baltimore
Hillary Beachey
Glenn H. Curtiss
Curtiss
Hammondsport
N. Y
Nana
San Francisco
Glenn H. Noe
America
Zeppelin Plans Monster Airship For London Service
Count Zeppelin aims to launch a giant airship capable of carrying 300 passengers for a Hamburg to London passenger service with routes to Cologne and Baden-Baden. Engineer Colsmann met with Cologne's mayor to discuss landing yards while the craft, 984 feet long and 85 feet wide, will use eight motors with four mainly for normal weather and four as backups.
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Cologne
Zeppelin
Hamburg
London
Baden-Baden
Colsmann
Eer
Ted
Danish University Panel Questions Cook Notebook Claims
The Copenhagen commission reports Dr. Cook is a swindler based on notebook analysis but delays final action on withdrawing his honorary degree. It cites pencil marks on the typewritten data and notes the notebook lacks important content. Secretary Walter Lounsdale telegraphs from Heidelberg but receives no reply.
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New York Times
Copenhagen
Cook
North Pole
Explorer
Copenhagen University
Salomonsen
Greenland
Capt. Loose
Walter Lounsdale
Heidelberg
North Pole conquest noted by Geneva groups
A Journal de Genéve report says on September 19 a message was sent to Commander Robert E Peary from the Ninth International Geographic Congress committee and the Geographical Society of Geneva. The society, an honorary vice president, did not acknowledge Dr Cook from the start.
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NEW York Times
Geneva
Journal de Genéve
Robert E. Peary
International Geographic Congress
Geographical Society of Geneva
Peary
Dr. Cook
Man Severed Arm in Newark Elevator Drum
Panic among shopgirls at a Newark department store as John Carey lost his right arm in an elevator drum. Carey ran toward a doctor's office, fainted en route, and was taken to St Michael's Hospital likely to die. The incident shocked shoppers and staff.
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Newark
John Carey
Carey
St. Michael’s Hospital
New Comet Visible From Cambridge After Sunset
A new comet was spotted at Harvard College Observatory after sunset by Leon Campbell. He placed it near right ascension 20h 30m and declination minus 16.4°, in Capricornus, easily seen with naked eye and brighter tomorrow about ten degrees above the sun.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard College Observatory
Leon Campbell
Capricornus
Huyler Promises 20000 for Syracuse University
New York candy manufacturer John S S Huyler, a longtime Syracuse University trustee, apologized for tardiness to a trustees meeting and pledged 20000 to Chancellor Day, continuing his pattern of generous support to the university.
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Huyler
Syracuse University
New York Times
Syracuse
N. Y
John S&s. Huyler
New York
Day
Englishwoman Files Reno Divorce Suit for Name Reversion
Mrs Elsie A Usher also known as Mrs E A Harrison sues Frank A Usher for divorce in Reno alleging neglect and failure to provide. Daughter of a wealthy English family, she seeks permission to resume her maiden name Elsie Harrison after a secret marriage in 1900 and separation from Birmingham England, eventual divorce.
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New York Times
Reno
Nev
Elsie A. Usher
A. Harrison
Frank A. Usher
Wyse Street
Birmingham
England
Harrison
High Holborn
B. C
London
Usher
Elsie Harrison
Peace Bureau proposes ban on explosives from airships
The International Bureau of Peace at Brussels asks governments to readopt the Hague Peace Conference provision banning dropping explosives from dirigibles and aeroplanes, noting the clause expired after five years.
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ST. Petersburg
International Bureau of Peace
Brussels
Tour to Mexico on Pullman train from New Orleans
Advertisement offers a personal Pullman train tour to Mexico from New Orleans with 77 cents, leaves February. Contact A., 263 6th Ave., New York for details.
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Mexico
New Orleans
Cares
Vanderbilt Braganza Notes Claim to Vanderbilt Name
Fred Vanderbilt says he holds the Vanderbilt name and intends to press claims for 1.625 million dollars in acceptances from Prince Franz Josef of Braganza. He alleges Austrian royals would pay to avoid scandal and asserts close ties to William K. Vanderbilt and the Duchess of Marlborough.
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Prince Franz Josef
Austria
Vanderbilt
New York
William K. Vanderbilt
Duchess of Marlborough
W. H. Vanderbilt
Vienna
Paris
Henry Apponyi
Count Nicholas Arco
Liebenstein Castle
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