Two Pittsburgh Theatres Fire. Ushers Save Patrons
A matinee at the Grand Opera House continued as the Avenue Theatre next door burned, destroying the Avenue Theatre and damaging the Grand Opera House. No lives were lost. estimated loss about 300,000, insured. The Grand ushers guided patrons calmly to exits. Fire likely started by crossed wires. Fifth Avenue structure tied to Diamond Street, fronted by Smithfield.
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Pittsburg
Grand Opera House
Old
Avenue
Avenue Theatre
Tully
Fifth Avenue
Wood
Smithfield Streets
Diamond Street
Tifth Avenue
Smithfield Street
Associated Press
Newell
Antier
Sarah Bo Miller
Rrs
Thomas Carnegie
Red Nimjek
Mt.fuller
Jeanno Bradley
New
Organize Against Strikes Leads CNIA America Change
D. M. Parry resigned and C. W. Post elected President of the Citizens National Industrial Association of America by the executive committee in Chicago. James A. Jamery of San Francisco named Secretary as headquarters set in New York City. The new president intends to organize local branches nationwide to defend business interests and personal liberty against labor union actions. The committee sent a telegram to Senator Platt congratulating him on his stance in the teamsters strike.
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Chicago
D. M. Parry
C.W. Post
Citizens National Industrial Association of America
Parry
Rost
James A. Jamery
San Francisco
New York City
Senator Platt
United States Express Company
Teamsters
Chicago Can Take Lines
Chicago faces a Supreme Court ruling on a ninety nine year act that could place street railway control under municipal ownership. Judge Grosscup refused to extend the temporary injunctions blocking Mayor Dunne and the City Council from moving to oust traction companies from streets where their franchise life is in doubt.
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Chicago
United States ‘Supreme Court
Grosscup
Dunne
United States Supreme Court
Officials arrested over missing fish ladders in Cumberland
City government officials including Mavoring Crey, Attorney Whiting, and eleven councilmen were arrested by State Game Warden John W. Avirett on June 2 for failing to provide fish ladders in Wills Creek. They each posted personal recognizance for appearance before a magistrate.
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Cumberland
John W. Avirett
Mavoring
Crey
Whiting
Wills Creek
Woman Found Dead In Richmond Hill Despondent Widow
Mrs Volburg Peterson thirty years old missing since Decoration Day was found dead under a tree at Church and Forrest Avenues yesterday afternoon by golfers. Authorities say she hanged herself with a black mourning ribbon after the death of her husband about a year ago. She was taken to the Richmond Hill morgue and identified by her brother Peter Holt of Atlantic and Lessert Avenues.
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Volburg Peterson
Richmond Hill
Church and
Forrest Avenues
Peter P. Holt
Atlantic and
Lessert Avenues
Cypress Hills Cemetery
Washington building dedication at Lewis and Clark Exposition
Portland celebrates as the Washington state building is dedicated at the Lewis and Clark Exposition with Vice President Fairbanks and Oregon and Washington governors in attendance. Fairbanks praises the exposition and the Pacific Coast's commercial potential.
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Portland
Oregon
Washington
Fairbanks
Pacific Coast
Declamation Contest Held by Interscholastic League in Brooklyn
The first annual Declamation Contest of the Greater New York Interscholastic Debating League took place at the Girls High School Brooklyn with representatives from Boys Commercial Manual Training Eastern District Curtis De Witt Clinton. Awards went to Ralph Duval Robinson Boys High School first for The Chairiot Race Second Samuel Gurian Commercial High School for The Man for the Crisis and Vincent Gilroy De Witt Clinton Manhattan for Affairs in America.
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Greater
New York
Brooklyn
Maxwell
Curtis
Richmond
de Witt Clinton
Manhattan
Swanstrom
Ralph. Duval Robinson
Ben-Hur
Samuel Gurian
Commercial High School
Man For
Kennedy shot by janitor in New York apartment row
John Kennedy aged 30 was shot and seriously wounded in front of his apartment at 19 West Eighty-fourth Street yesterday. Police seek John Ellison the janitor and stepfather who fled to Central Park after the shooting. Kennedy and his wife, living with Ellison, argued over beer in the basement. Ellison claims tenants would be displeased. Kennedy reportedly struck Ellison. Ellison allegedly drew and fired two shots. Kennedy's condition at Roosevelt Hospital was described as having a chance for recovery.
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John Kennedy
West Eighty-fourth Street
John Ellison
Kennedy
Central Park
Ellison
Roosevelt Hospital
Grow Giant Trees From California Seed Discoveries
The Bureau of Forestry reports California giants need not vanish but can be multiplied. A June bulletin says seeds germinate mainly where ground has burned recently. young growth requires light protection from fire and grazing. Some seedling pockets exist and may be relocated to suitable areas.
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Washington
Bureau of Forestry
California
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Big Blaze
Citizens’ Industrial Association
Maryland
Youmans
Saxony
Ladies’ Department
Broadway
Fifth Ave
Panama
Canal Zone
Saks & Company
H. O'Neill & Co
Stetson Soft
Sixth Ave
21St St
Forestry Bureau
Trish Jinen
St. Gall
Kuppenheimer
Rochester
Pmne House OF
Mark
Denmark
Kneipp
Simpson Crawford Co
Four Feathers
A. E. W. Mason
Edith Wood
David Grieve
Humphry Ward
Wea
Caroline Brown
Crawford CO
Mpson Cray
HE Simpson Crawford Co
Keyser
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GF. Kuppenheimer
Brilliantine
PSON
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