Subway Reopens After Night Crane Work In Parker Fire
Interborough Rapid Transit engineers and officials from the Public Service Commission authorized a 5 am resumption of subway service after constructing a heavy timber crib in Fourth Avenue between 28th and 29th Streets. Inspectors found walls largely sound and no imminent collapse risk, while fire crews continue pumping water and clearing debris.
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Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Public Service Commission
Edward S. Murphy
Interborough Company
George W. Pegram
Fourth Avenue
28Th
Parker
Murphy
Hedley
18Th Street
Fallon
O'Connor
Fourth
Madison Avenue
23D Street
West Side
Post Office
Astor Place
Bureau of Buildings
Cornell Man Apparentl y Insane
Ithaca New York January 12 A Cornell civil engineering student Tully J Liddell from Fayette Mississippi appeared insane after a dawn fight with five men He was jailed then moved to Mobbs Tavern He has eaten nothing since Friday when a letter arrived containing unknown contents He withdrew from Cornell yesterday A farewell letter to his father was found He was described by his landlady as high strung but temperate
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The
Tribune
Ithaca
N. Y
Tully J. Liddell
Cornell
Fayette
Miss
Smallpox Epidemic Reported Near Poughkeepsie
A Wappingers Falls outbreak near Poughkeepsie, N Y, prompted a new free vaccination bureau in City Hall after police and health officials confirmed at least twenty five cases of a mild smallpox form. The village of four thousand lies seven miles south of the city and is connected by treiler service.
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Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Wappingers Falls
Trelier
Moral Board of Health
Mysterious attack on horseman shocks St Louis
Michael J. Hoffman, owner of race horses and bookmaker from New Orleans, lies dying at City Hospital after a mysterious assault last night. He was struck with a shotgun barrel while asleep, suffering a fractured skull and seven scalp wounds. The locked house held no valuables, and Hoffman had lived alone since his mother’s death.
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Tribune
St. Louis
Michael J. Hoffman
City Hospital
Hoffman
New Orleans
Incendiary Fire Destroys Fulton Village Businesses
A January 12 fire in Fulton Fulton Three Rivers Michigan devastated about half the village business district. L Th Wood general store Merrill harness shop Burns buggy and implements Wicks feed mill Marrson Colp hardware Framers barber shop burned. Estimated loss around $50 000.
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Three Rivers
Mich
Fulton
L. TH. Wood
Merrill
James Burns
C. W Wicks
Marrson & Colp
William Framers
Gunboat Bravo Disabled in Gulf Storm Towing to Vera Cruz
A Mexican gunboat Bravo was towed into Vera Cruz after a Gulf storm damaged her in Mexican waters. Water flooded the hold and left all machinery inoperative, reported by a Mexico City dispatch to The Express.
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San Antonio
Tex
Mexico City
Bravo
Vera Cruz
Gulf
Labor Boycott Targets Boston Newspaper
The Central Federated Union boycott targets William Randolph Hearst's Boston American over the newsboy strike. The action, advised by telegraph from Boston dated January 12, joins broader labor pressure against Hearst publications.
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the Tribune
Boston
Central Federated Union
Wm. R. Hearst
Boston American
Oklahoma Banker Accused of Deed Falsification
J A Henry president of First National Bank Altus Oklahoma is under 2400 bond until June grand jury meets. He was arrested on a charge of falsifying a deed to 3 and 2 acres of land owned by C E Traweek, though he held notes of Traweek and his wife.
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the Tribune
Altus
Okla
J. A. Henry
First National Bank
C. E. Traweek
Traweek
Hydraulic Laboratory for Tufts College in Medford
Medford Massachusetts January 12. The Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners grants Tufts College the use of Wrights Pond as a hydraulic laboratory and engineering outpost. The pond, three miles from campus, has a capacity of 199 million gallons even in dry times.
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Medford
Mass
Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners of
Tufts College
Railroader Fatally Shot by Wife in Georgia Home
Savannah Ga Jan 12 W E Estes general freight agent of the Central of Georgia Railway was accidentally shot and perhaps fatally wounded by his wife early this morning. She said she heard a noise and asked him to take a pistol from the table by her bedside. As she handed it to him it discharged.
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Savannah
W. E. Estes
Central of Georgia Railway
Estes
Lincoln centennial plans move forward in Kentucky
Governor Willson will send a message urging a bill for a state appropriation and a commission to organize the Lincoln centennial. Lincoln's 16th birth anniversary is February 12, 1908, with Lincoln Farm Association plans in Larue County underway. President Roosevelt has agreed to deliver an address.
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Louisville
Willson
Lincoln
Lincoln Farm Association
Larue
Roosevelt
Human Chain Saves A Skater In Morris Canal
Charles McCormick an eighteen year old violinist at Centenary Methodist Church Newark was saved from drowning in the Morris Canal Soho section Belleville by a human chain. He went in over his head and surfaced to grasp a hockey stick offered by John Kieran. Skaters formed a human chain to pull the rescuers to shore as ice proved too weak to bear them.
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Belleville
N. J
Charles McCormick
Centenary Methodist Church
Newark
Morris Canal
Soho
McCormick
John Kieran
Fearful Brooklyn Senior Attempts Suicide Over Burglars
Thomas Henderson eighty nine a retired merchant of 473 Willoughby avenue Brooklyn tried to kill himself early yesterday by slashing his throat with a large pocketknife. Taken to Cumberland Street Hospital his recovery is doubtful. He lived alone with a visiting house keeper and had become obsessed with phantom burglar attacks. neighbor calls and police responses intensified as his cries frightened the area.
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Thomas Henderson
Willoughby Avenue
Brooklyn
Cumberland Street Hospital
Hughes
Vernon Avenue
Henderson
Conners
Trip to Berlin travelogue at Carnegie Hall review
Burton Holmes presented Berlin as the most modern European city in a travel lecture at Carnegie Hall last night. The program traced an imaginary Hoboken start to Berlin with stops in Hamburg and the Spreewald and included scenes of the Auguste Victoria liner launch the crown princess entry and Emperor William observing fleet maneuvers with the goose step.
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Burton Holmes
Carnegie Hall
Berlin
Holmes
Mr. Holmes
Hoboken
Hamburg
Spreewald
Auguste Victoria
William
Aked to preach twice next Sunday despite health doubts
Rev. Charles F. Aked announced after last night’s Fifth Avenue Baptist sermon that he plans to preach twice next Sunday and will not take a vacation. Doctors’ consultation last Friday deemed an operation unlikely, keeping him active in ministry. He blamed strong drink for social decay and urged Protestant restraint to protect families and churches.
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Fifth Avenue Baptist Church
Charles F. Aked
Aked
Sunday Tipplers Disturb Lee Avenue Court
In Williamsburg yesterday morning the Lee avenue court heard noise from a saloon behind the courthouse. Detectives arrested the proprietor's son on excise charges after a disturbance and a prior similar arrest under Magistrate O'Reilly.
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Lee Avenue Court
Williamsburg
O'Reilly
Lee Avenue
Albert Hartman
Endurance Auto Race Fatal in Houston Collision
In Houston on January 12 during a endurance race among sixteen autos John Trenton, Houston Post sporting editor, was killed in a collision with a streetcar. Brown Botts suffered internal injuries and Ray Weiss, lumber company sales agent, was badly hurt.
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Houston
Tex
John Trenton
Houston Post
Brown Botts
Ray Weiss
Bridge Burns At Monterey Bridge San Luis
A Monterey dispatch reports the San Luis bridge linking north and south Monterey burned yesterday. Nearby frame business blocks were destroyed and the total loss is estimated between 300,000 and 496,000 dollars.
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San Antonio
Tex
Monterey
Mex
San Luis
Bail Granted in Conspiracy Case Tied to Di Giorgio Home
Antonio Lanasa and Alfred Constantine Goffe were released on $19,900 bail as leaders of a conspiracy to dynamite Joseph Di Giorgio's home, president of the Atlantic Fruit Company. The blast occurred December 19 after a demand for $16.0 percent was rejected. six men have been arrested in connection with the case.
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Tribune
Baltimore
Antonio Lanasa
Alfred Constantine Goffe
A. Lanasa & Co
Lanasa & Goffe Steamship and Fruit Importing Company
Joseph di Giorgio
Atlantic Fruit Company
di Giorgio
Two Women Die After Trolley Collision in Massachusetts
In Randolph Massachusetts a late night trolley on the South Braintree Line struck two women waiting in a dark place near Braintree. Mrs Leahy of 16 Everett Street Dorchester was killed instantly and Mrs Annie Fitzgerald of the same address was badly injured, likely fatally. The crash occurred about two miles from Randolph Centre.
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Braintree
Randolph Centre
Plan to cut capital stock at American Writing Paper
Holyoke mass January 12 telegraph to The Tribune notice of a plan to reduce the American Writing Paper Company capital stock from twenty five million to twenty two million dollars. Directors propose to retire one million of unissued common stock and two million of stock bought in the open market at panic prices while the preferred stock remains twelve and a half million dollars. The reduction is believed to be at stockholder suggestion.
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the Tribune
Holyoke
Mass
American Writing Paper Company
East Orange
N. J
THINK PRISONER MAY KNOW OF MURDER
Police arrest Harry Michaels at 286 First avenue on suspicion of knowing something about an unidentified man found with a fractured skull at 11th street and Third avenue and who died at Bellevue Hospital. Michaels denies any knowledge of the death.
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11Th Street
Third Avenue
Bellevue Hospital
Harry Michaels
First Avenue
Hast
Fear for big buildings on lake front
Cleveland January 12. Despite engineers recommendations the county buildings commission led by General Jared A Smith refuses to drain the lake front site for the group plan. Engineers warn the foundations lie on quicksand and may slip into the lake. a public protest meeting is planned tomorrow to press for drainage before construction continues.
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Tribune
Cleveland
County Buildings Commission
Jared A. Smith
J. Milton Dyer
W. J. Carter
Motor Box Blows Out on Bay Ridge Train
A motor box exploded with a roar as a Bay Ridge train of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit system departed Atlantic Avenue station. Damage totaled about 500 dollars to the car. Passengers, mostly women, fled to rear platforms while guards kept them aboard for safety near the third rail. Firemen on board used extinguishers and traffic resumed after about thirty minutes.
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Bay Ridge
Brooklyn
Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn Tunnel Draws Crowds on Opening Sunday
Thousands of Brooklynites and New Yorkers rode the new subway tubes yesterday the first Sunday of operation. Borough Hall in Brooklyn and the Manhattan side were crowded all day with trains from Borough Hall stopping at 14th Street. Many visitors traveled to 11th Street to view the Parker Building ruins.
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Union Square
20Th Street
Grand Central
14Th Street
Bridge
Brooklyn
Borough Hall
New York
Gas accident kills man and wife in boarding house
William P. Granville thirty and his wife Annie thirty were found dead from gas poisoning in a room at No. 221 East 18th street. Investigations say accidental deaths as gas escaped from a stove cock. Barbara Walkerman ran the boarding house where the couple lived and alerted police.
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William P. Granville
Annie
East 18Th Street
Granville
Barbara Walkerman
Zehnder
Bellevue Hospital
Gen Grant Speaks at Calvary Church on YMCA Army Posts
Major General Grant was the principal speaker at a Calvary Baptist Church meeting last night in support of the YMCA work at army posts around New York. Miss Helen Gould attended and joined a reception afterward with old soldiers who served under Grant's father.
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A. F. Mosely
Cuba
Grant
Ruland
Eight Men Drown In Eunice River Sinking Barge Disaster
The Express reports eight men drowned after a barge owned by E. M. Fowley capsized in the Eunice River while crossing with twenty oyster shell loaders. A passing steam tug caused a large swell, tipping the craft. Foreman Lucas and seven others perished.
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San Antonio
Tex
Tampico
Mex
Eunico
E. M. Fowley
Lucas
Actor Wool and Wins On Stage
Miss Ethel John an actress of Jersey City and George O Malley an actor of Manhattan appeared at a Bayonne theatre last week in a love sketch and rode to the office of Justice James J Boylan where they married late Saturday night Malley said he proposed during the love scene and was accepted
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Ethel John
Newark Avenue
Jersey City
George O. Malley
East 114Th Street
Manhattan
Bayonne
Office of Justice of the Peace
James J. Boylan
Avenue C
Malley
Misa Johnson
Brunswick Merchants Demand Cash Payments
New Brunswick retail merchants announce that all bills must be settled in full. Local buyers face shortened grace periods as wholesalers reduce thirty days to seven. Peter S. Van Anglen has been reelected president of the association.
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New Brunswick
N. J
Peters
van Anglen
Judge Bartlett Improves After Hospital Stay
At Presbyterian Hospital Judge Edward T. Bartlett of the Court of Appeals is reported greatly improved after heart illness. Doctors say the condition is not severe and he should be able to leave in three or four days with rest and care, then return home.
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Presbyterian Hospital
Edward T. Bartlett
Court of Appeals
Thatcher
Weather in a Medley Causes Widespread Damage
A strong wind damaged several small buildings, with no reported injuries. At the Rucyrus Steel Casting Company plant, windows were smashed and two small storehouses were blown down in the same weather event.
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Rucyrus Steel Casting Company
Snow shuts Michigan churches and halts service
A blizzard froze Michigan today with trolley, train, and telegraph disruption. Bay City reported eighteen inches of snow while the Thumb district saw massive drifts covering miles of track, forcing churches to abandon evening services and likely delaying trains for days.
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Detroit
Michigan
Bay City
Thumb
Chicago Isolated For Hours In Snow Storm
Chicago and surrounding areas were cut off from wire communication for hours as a snow storm began before dawn and raged through the day. A northeast gale drove blinding, melting snow, overloading wires and poles. Electric car lines to suburbs were blocked and fire alarm service was crippled, causing delays in responding to fires, though none proved serious.
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Chicago
Central Station
Milwaukee Blizzard Paralyzes City With Record Snow
A fierce blizzard hit Milwaukee and continued through the night. Telegraph and telephone wires are down and streetcar service is halted. Railroads report minor train delays as the Weather Bureau logs sixteen inches of snow by seven PM.
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Milwaukee
Weather Bureau
Blizzard Does Damage in Texas
A Texas blizzard sweeping the state for forty eight hours wrecked a church at Cresson and destroyed the Haw Thicket School near Howland. A new church under construction at Elgin was blown down and heavy livestock losses are feared.
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Tribune
Fort Worth
Tex
Cresson
Howland
Lamar
Elgin
January Lightning in Maryland Strikes City and Suburbs
A historic January electrical storm swept Baltimore and nearby areas, following a rapid temperature rise. The storm caused damage across Carroll and Baltimore counties and the Eastern Shore, with a Walbrook residence struck by lightning but occupants uninjured. Westminster’s United Telegraph and Telephone exchange was hit as well.
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the Tribune
Baltimore
Chesapeake
Walbrook
Carroll
Westminster
Carroll County
United Telegraph and Telephone Company
Two Men Struck by Train in Jersey City Yard
John McNamara and Leo Egan were walking through the Delaware Lackawanna & Western freight yard in Jersey City when they stepped from behind a freight train onto a adjacent track and were struck by a drill engine. Egan escaped with a scalp wound while McNamara suffered fractures of both legs and internal injuries that may prove fatal. They were taken to St. Mary's Hospital in Hoboken.
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John McNamara
12Th Street
Leo Egan
Jersey Avenue
Jersey City
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
11Th Street
Jail Breaker Caught in Newark
Edward Haugh, sought since April 15, 1906 for escaping Orange jail by prying bricks from a cell, is detained at Police Headquarters after Newark police arrested him yesterday afternoon.
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Orange
Edward Haugh
Newark
Kilties Hear Dr Wylie Address At Scotch Church
Representatives of several Scotch societies gathered at the Scotch Presbyterian Church to hear Rev. Dr. David G. Wylie speak on The People of the North Countrie. About thirty attendees wore Highland dress, and the church was filled.
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David G. Wylie
North Countrie
Scotch Presbyterian Church
9Th Street
Central Park West
Wilson Trial Delayed In Newark Court
George Wilson, accused of killing Frederick Romer at Orange last month, was set for trial in the Court of Oyer and Terminer Newark today but delays in the Ready trial push start to Wednesday or possibly Thursday.
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George Wilson
Frederick Romer
Orange
Court of Oyer and Terminer
Newark
Wilson
Ex Governor Ladd Hospitalized in Providence
Ex Governor Herbert W. Ladd, long a Boston resident and business figure, is a patient at Butler Hospital in Providence. He is under a nervous disease specialist’s care and is reported to be improving.
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Tribune
Providence
Herbert W. Ladd
Boston
Butler Hospital
Patrolman’s Body Believed Found in River Near Pier
Joseph Reiss, a pier watchman at Roosevelt street, saw a police officer’s body in the river at 9:30 last night near the foot of the pier. A patrol boat and Lt. McKinney searched the dock but could not locate the body. It is believed to be Patrolman Robert J. Fitzgerald of the bridge squad who was knocked off the Brooklyn Bridge Friday night during an attempted arrest.
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Joseph Reiss
Roosevelt Street
Reiss
McKinney
Oak Street
Robert J. Fitzgerald
Bridge Squad
Brooklyn Bridge
Texas Oil Company to Build Refineries on Kill von Kull Site
The Texas Oil Company, a Standard Oil subsidiary, has bought a large land tract along the Kill von Kull to erect a refinery. The plant will employ about two thousand workers and sits on the former Vreeland Daly and Tremley homesteads.
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The
Texas Oil Company
Standard Oil Company
Kill von Kull
Texas
Vreeland, Daly and Tremley
Bayonne Conductor Finds Wallet and Papers on Streetcar
George Ryner, a Bayonne streetcar conductor, found on Saturday four items including $3.40, two bankbooks and valuable papers in his car and turned the lot into the company. An excited woman later claimed the items and rewarded him with a bill.
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George Ryner
Bayonne
Secon
Shot To Death By Foes In Street In Bronx
Italian barber Frank Sica was shot twice in the street at 10th Street and First Avenue and died at a drugstore on 197th Street and Second Avenue. Unknown assailant fled, threats found at the scene, detectives question Charles Pandalfi who allegedly returned property from the body. Missing items include two diamond rings valued around $490.
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Frank Sica
Second Avenue
10Th Street
First Avenue
Sica
Francisco Sica
Becker Brothers
197Th Street
Father Collins
St. Lucifus
164Th Street
Higgins
Naughton
Charles Pandalfi
Somnambulist Gallern Roams Montclair Streets
Arthur Gallern of Montclair New Jersey longtime night worker awakened from sleep to discover he had entered a barber shop and walked the streets without waking. A trolley conductor and others observed him. he rode a few blocks but did not pay fare or greet anyone. He has shown somnambulism in the past but never left home before.
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Montclair
Khows Gallern
Gallern
Colombian Marine Prospects in Cartagena Markets
Consul Manning notes opportunities in deep sea fishing along the Colombian coast near Cartagena. Local markets overflow with green turtles and various reef fishes. sponges and mother of pearl are abundant but underexported. Hawksbill shells and crafts show potential, with cold storage planned to ease U S shipments. Lobsters are plentiful and of good quality, while a small oyster yields little food value.
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Isaac A. Manning
Cartagena
United States
Nnted
Bay of
Arrested for Shooting Norwich Academy Students in Jewett City
Detmar Gardner was arrested in Jewett City on a charge of shooting two Norwich Academy students, John Rollins and Arthur I Heureux, on October 19. Rollins fled to Florida, Heureux studied in Massachusetts. Victims said a man asked the time at the railroad station before firing. police cite jealousy as motive.
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Jewett City
Detmar Gardner
John Rollins
Arthur I. Heureux
Norwich Academy
Rollins
Florida
L’ Heureux
Massachusetts
L Heureux
Gardner
Foreign Notes Of Interest In A Curious, Patchwork Column
A Paris watch for the blind uses movable relief buttons on the dial with a strong minute hand to show minutes. In Glasgow three men discuss a gasometer, with playful banter over names. Reports from British Columbia describe child trafficking for profit, with two fourteen year old girls sold for cash, and payments made in blankets. The Empress Dowager of China day is celebrated with a grand banquet for officials, with elaborate menus and flowers. In Rio de Janeiro a physician persuades a patient to drink sea water as medicine. Woodbridge Suffolk notes a dangerous road corner where mirrors are installed on walls to aid drivers in sighting oncoming traffic.
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Columbia
Alert Bay
Rosa
Rivers Inlet
Woodbridge
Suffolk
England
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Fuller Company
Pierre L. LeBrun
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Oklahoma
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DR. Aked
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Bridge Burns
Brooklyn Tunnel
Gen. Grant
Calvary Church
Army Y. M. C. A
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Wool
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Judge Bartlett
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Ladd
Texas Oil CO
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