Subway Fire Kills Woman and Traps Hundreds in NYC
A January subway blaze between Broadway stations caused chaos as about 200 people were hospitalized and one woman died. Fire crews battled flames wrenched through the conduit and trains, while crowds poured into the streets amid smoke and torn clothing.
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New York
Fiftieth
Fifty-ninth Streets
Broadway
Pulmotor Squad
Kenton
Fifty-third Street
Fifty-ninth
Fiftieth Streets
Garibaldi Killed in Action Amid French War Claims
Paris reports the French war office identifies Chief Adjutant Constantine Garibaldi as the second Garibaldi killed on the French battlefield, a brother of Lieutenant Colonel Peppino Garibaldi. Another brother, Lieutenant Bruno Garibaldi, fell in December in the Argonne forest. In Rockford Illinois Horatio Taft, a second cousin of ex president Taft, dies in a taxicab en route to hospital. Paris also notes a protest league urging healthier living and a humorous pledge by the Wie Makers to avoid neckwear.
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Garibaldi
Paris
French War Office
Constantine Garibaldi
Peppino Garibaldi
Bruno Garibaldi
Argonne
Taft
Rockford
Pittston Banker Arrested in Over-Certification Case
William J. Watson president of the First National Bank of Pittston was arrested after U.S. District Attorney Roger L. Burnett filed charges in Wilkes-Barre. He allegedly overcertified checks to his own account totaling 48,009 dollars between 1914 and 1915, disposing funds via securities bought in Scranton and pledged back to his bank as collateral.
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First National
Wilkes-Barre
Wiliam J. Watson
First National Bank of Piston
Roger L. Burnett
United States
Comptoner Geoarze
CL Shauer
Watson
Ridgway
le Washington
Scranton
Boy Coaster Killed in Pa Snow Sledting
Hartisimeg Pennsylvania January 7 John Walker nineteen was killed and Tiaude Williams twenty nine seriously injured when sleds on storis near Carlisle left the road and ran through fences during a coast atop a storis hillside.
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Hartisimeg
John Walker
Tiaude Williams
Storis
Carlisle
Tana
Copper $625 a Ton In Germany Report
Ad vices from Germany state copper, due to high demand and limited supply, is selling for 250 mark per ton, about 825 dollars. In the United States a fair price would approach a ton.
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Germany
Geneva
Switzerland
Ian
Empire
United States
German Armored Train Shattered in Flanders Fight
German and French armored train clash in Flanders ends with French victory as the German convoy is shattered near Calais on January 7. The encounter highlights a rare armored-rail engagement with notable damage to the German train.
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Calais
Flanders
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Commercial State Bank
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Globe-Wernicke
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North Market,st., Frederick
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Thas ' FY & Son
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