Destructive Montclair Fire Destroys Businesses
Fire in Montclair New Jersey destroyed several business buildings and damaged others in the downtown core. The blaze began at W M Glover dry goods and spread rapidly, gutting multiple stores and upper floor offices including the board of health and various professional offices. Loss estimated at 90000 to 100000 with minor injuries to firefighters.
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ntclair
N. J
New York
Montclair
W. M. Glover
F. Piaget & company jewelers
Alfred Wrenesh
toy and notion
Essex
Schley Denies Political Ambitions After Royal Reception
Rear Admiral Schley declared he has no intention of entering public life despite widespread admiration. He attended a series of receptions including a Hamilton Club banquet, visited the Winfield Scott Schley School, and received resolutions from German societies in Chicago before plans to depart for Louisville.
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Chicago
Schley
Hamilton Club
Admiral Schley
Memorial Hall
Louisville
Salem
Ind
board of trade
Knight Templars of
Knight Templars
Taft Defends Philippine Policy From Chicago Visit
Governor Taft arrived in Chicago from San Francisco and denied concealing any facts about the Philippines. He said opposing views are sensationalized and that no concentration camps exist, only an insurgent cordon with a dead line to corral remaining rebels.
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Taft
Chicago
William H. Taft
Philippine Islands
San Francisco
Philippines
Stephen Bonsz
Aguinaldo
Choked to Death by Meat in Camden Mill District
Philadelphia January 27 James Cregar 52 of 527 North Front Street employed as a watchman at the Front and Erle streets worsted mills Camden choked on a sandwich Saturday night a piece of meat caught in his throat. He was rushed to Cooper Hospital and died after suffering intense agony during attempts to relieve the obstruction.
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Howard Holt
Chase
Farson
Holt
Pretoria
Wilson
Frankfort
Orange River Colony
London
Lord Kitchener
Johannesburg
Viljoen
Lydenburg
Transvaal
Botha
Camden
N. J
Joseph Olds
Atlantic City railroad
Ferry avenue
Jackson street
Litchfield
Olds
Philadelphia
James Cregar
North Front street
Front
Erle streets
Cooper Hospital
Prince Henry of Prussia to be the nation’s guest
Belachter Berlin photograph caption announces Prince Henry of Prussia will soon visit the nation as a guest. The garbled text hints at a ceremonial arrival and a grand reception tied to a newly christened launch or unveiling, but details are unclear due to OCR errors.
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Belachter
Berlin
PRINCE HENRY OF
PRUSSIA
Large Sum Raised By Sixty Five New York Sunday Schools
Children from 65 Sunday schools packed Carnegie Hall for the Twentieth Century Thank Offering Fund drive. Bishop Andrews spoke along with Methodist Episcopal clergy. Of the 1,000,000 goal, 520,000 was already raised or pledged. Tremont Sunday school gave 3,000 as the largest subscription and one person contributed 1,000.
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New York
Carnegie Hall
Bishop Andrews
Tremont Sunday school
China to Engage Foreign Instructors for Army Navy
Chinese officials report uncovering treasure worth over 100 million taels buried in the palace women’s quarters before the court fled Pekin. Yuan Shi Kai is granted 5 million taels yearly for an army of 100,000 in Chi Li and will control the army and navy, planning Japanese instructors for the army and British instructors for the navy. In Chicago, Poles protest Prussian cruelties, citing arrests for Polish prayers and language, amid widespread indignation. In Pana Illinois, a deserting U.S. soldier is surrendered after a year on the run, ending a San Francisco pursuit.
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Manila
American Chamber of Commerce
congress
Philippine Islands
United States Philippine commission
Felipe Buencamino
Federal party
United States
China
Japan
Siam
Borneo
Charles W. Miner
Sixth
United States Infantry
Negros
Papa Isio
Pekin
Yuan Shi Kai
Chi Li
Chicago
Poland
Prussia
Bath Mugger Confessed To Murder With Hammer
William Strother a negro attendant at the bath house of Alexander Dean Cooper confessed to fatally striking millionaire Cooper with a coal hammer as he slept on a cot. He gave the confession before police chiefs and a stenographer after intense questioning. He claimed drunkenness or anger drove the act.
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St. Louis
Willam Strother
bath house
Alexander Dean Cooper
Franklin avenues
mllonaire
Kiely
Desmond
erbaimm
Strother
Chef Desmond
Cooper
Outlook in Congress opposes oleomargarine bill action
Washington dispatch reports Democratic Senators poised to speak against the Philippine tariff measure while Senator Lodge presses amendments. House leaders delay program as leg measures stall and hearings on war taxes and Cuban reciprocity begin. Other items note wreck fatalities near Keller Texas and a Cleveland McKinley memorial service.
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Washington
senate
Lodge
friends of the
Carmac
Money, Teller
Culberson
Furner
Patterson
Jones
Arkansas
Bacon
Lodgs WHI
hhis
Nelson
department of commerce
ways and means
United States
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paira
FANESY HELFENSTEIN
W. Patrick St
Frederick, Md
ARCHIVE
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navy department
Lemly
Hanna
White House
ST. PAUL'S MONASTERY
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Vienna
Daily Chronicle
Athens
St. Paul
briof
Roosevelt
Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania
George Washington
Oyster Bay
S. L
Fredericksburg
Baltimore
Maritime Exchange
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Coleman
Mobile
Ala
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Inman
Bat Thomas
New Orleans
Michael & Lyons Grocery company
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Milwaukee
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Hobart
Ross tunnel
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Bud Knight
Johnson
Knight
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Yale
University of Pennsylvania baseball committee
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Welsh Brothers’ Circus
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hisser
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ternoon
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Prince Henry
Arion Society
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Muncie
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Thomas Paine memorial
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J. T. Winscarver
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Selby county
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Porto Rico
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Becking
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Tex
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Fort Worth
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Adkins
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McKinley
Thomaston
Conn
Edward Miller
Miller
Colombia
Panama
Panama canal
J. G. Lewis
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Senor
Carlos M. Sika
canal
Middletown
N. Y
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Wilber Fleming
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Henry Leitz
Glen Rock
York county
Pennsylvania railroad
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Seltz
Williamsport
Clarence Reider
Newberry
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