Hundreds Die as Forest Fire Rages Through Porcupine District
A massive fire roared through the Porcupine mining district near Toronto, wiping out towns and trapping miners. Fire swept from Philadelphia to Porcupine lake, destroying mines and buildings with hundreds dead, including officials and families. Rescue crews race to reach isolated refugees as death toll climbs into the hundreds and millions in property losses are tallied.
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Toronto
Can
forest fields
neveral
Phiadelphia
Dome
North Dome
Preston
East Dome
Vipond
Foley O'Brien
United Forentine
EL Dorado
Porcupine
Standard Imperial
West Dome
Success
Philadelphiaa
United Porcupine mine
El Dorado Porcupine
Standard
Imperial
West mine
Porcupine Camp
Philadelphia
Air
Ashmore
Samuel Shovel
Adams
Porcupine lake
South Porcupine
Pottsville
Golden City
Big Dome
Fieton
MME Emma Eames Marries Emilio De Gogorza Amid Fire Losses
Fragmentary report notes famous singer MME Emma Eames wed Emilio De Gogorza while disaster scars a mining town. It mentions 300 staff at the Dome, with only a few saved, and three of eighty four workers at the West Dome lot alive. Six charred bodies found on the highway between West Dome and South Porcupine. In South Porcupine ruins, bodies of William Gohr and clerk MacSmith, Captain George Runbar and Tom Geddes located.
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the
Dome
West Dome
South Porcupine
William Gohr
MacSmith
George Runbar
Tom Geddes
LaFollette assails Taft over election pledges in Senate
Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin delivers a fierce attack on President Taft on the Senate floor while speaking on the reciprocity bill amendments. He charges Taft with breaking pre election pledges and criticizes administration acts from the Ballinger-Pinchot affair to Alaska land controversies and tariff reform pledges.
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Washington
Taft
senate
LaFollette
Wisconsin
Alaska Controller bay land
Republican party
Eames Married in Church After Civil Ceremony
Paris July 14 The singer Madame Emma Eames and Emilio De Gogorza tied the knot in a private religious service following their civil marriage at St. Pierre de Chaillot. Only the legal witnesses attended, including painter William Francis Warden and composer Fairchild Blair for the barone, banker George Armstrong for the prima donna, and lawyer Trust Arnal.
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Gogorza
Paris
Emma Eames
Emilio De Gogorza
St. Pierre de Chaillot
William Francis Warden
Fairchild Blair
barone
George Armstrong
Trust Arnal
Rattler Killed Beside Jug in Voorlees Farm
A rattler with a dozen rattles and a button was killed beside a stone jug on Dr Shepherd's Voorlees farm. a passing motorist bought the carcass for 4 dollars to tan the shin and rattles. Also notes a Bull Run reunion trip from Washington on July 21 and a car crash near Asheville with three dead and two injured, including Lena Bowman and Robert Bettis, who were to be married soon. Jersey names new school chief Kendall to head New Jersey education department.
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Rattler
Newton, WN. J
Dr. Shepherd
Voorlees
Newark
Asheville
N.C
Lena Bowman
Sumter
S C
Robert Bettis
Trenton
Mabel Bowman
Bettis
Riotous Elks Parade Fascinates Atlantic City Crowd
In Atlantic City on July 11 the Elks twenty-fifth reunion parade drew about fifteen thousand marchers in varied costumes with another quarter million spectators. New York and Philadelphia lodges led divisions, with elaborate floats and women paraders in purple and white. The event featured vivid displays from Cincinnati and Harrisburg, while local police and onlookers filled the streets. In Pembroke New Hampshire, Senator Gallinger’s son Dr Ralph E Gallinger was killed in an auto accident nearby, prompting condolences and reminders to rest after injuries.
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Atlantic City
Nod
Venevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Atlantic
New tampshire avanues
Intel
Pennsylvania avenue
muarch
New York
Fikdom
Edward Leech
Arthur C. Moreland
the Elks
Philadelphia
Gallinger
Pembroke
N. H
Ralph E Gallinger
Concord
United States
Galllinger
A E. Davies
Gallager
Wiley ondefensive charges grow from employee payment
Washington July 14 The White House awaits Dr Harvey Wiley chief of the bureau of chemistry to reply to a personnel committee report recommending his resignation and the dismissal of Dr Busby over an illegal $1600 annual salary arrangement with I F Kehler. The affair may trigger a partisan battle at the White House as Taft weighs removal. Also notes Bailey woollen amendment defeat and a clergyman killed in Indiana automobile accident.
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Washington
Tait
Harvey W. Wiley
bureau of chemistry
Wiley
White House
department of agriculture
Wrey
I. F. Kehler
division of drugs
E. H. Busby
New York College of Pharmacy
Columbia university
Busby
Kebler
Taft
Dr. Wiley
Rusby
Wey
Mig
ilegal
Wickersham
Hays
George P. McCabe
C. C. Clark
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ROSENSTOCK BROS
One-Price Outfitters
QUYANS
iECTR Nee
ALLEN G. OUYNN & CO
Frederick, Md
East Patrick Street
Gur
G. L. BREAD
THE CENTRAL RESTAURANT
North Market Street
Jas. Carros
Prop
FIRST MORTGAGE RAILROAD SECURITIES
PUBLIC UTILITIES CORPORATIONS
MOTTER BROS. & CO
BANKERS AND BROKERS
Markell & Ford
Moving Pictures
McLain and Mack
ress
WHITE CROSS
Lehr Piano
BIRELY
JOSEPH D. ZIMMRMAN
Promat
iPhore
E. Church St
Ontario
590-R
FELTON & KELLY
RIZONA
HARNER’S DRUG STORE
MME, EMMA EAMES
EAMES
Bull Run
Manassas
Jersey
Cahan M . Kendall
Indianapolis
Wilson
New Jersey
Dixie
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Chamberlain
WILEY ONDEFENSIVE
Bailey
Winona Lake
Ind
Rev. S. Fiuiott
Lafayette
Nevere Wise
Wise
Elliott
HARRIVES
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