Fire Advent at Apollo Talk Hall Sparks Chicago Chaos
Fire destroyed Apollo Talk at 256 to 202 Blue Island Avenue Chicago just before 5 am injuring more than twenty firemen and trapping others under falling walls. Captain Bean and crew on the third floor were saved as walls collapsed into the street amid a ghetto neighborhood blaze.
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Chicago
Apollo Talk
Blue Island Avenue
Captain Bean
Engine Company No. 1S
B. Cohen
J. Swartman
J. I. Tosenwasser
Race to Finish Warships in Naval Construction Race
A naval construction race compares Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company building the Delaware with Fore River Shipbuilding Company in Quincy Mass building the North Dakota. Fore River leads in completion by a margin of about 50 percent over Delaware, as of the latest government report.
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Newport News
Louisiana
Connecticut
Delaware
North Dakota
Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Fore River Shipbuilding Company
Quincy
Mass
Fore River Company
Stevens Sees Canal Failure in Proposed Panama Project
John B. Stevens former Panama Canal chief engineer and NY New Travel and Tart ford Railroad vice president warns the canal will fail to boost US trade with South America since most inhabitants lie east of the Andes. He says Pacific islands and Far East trade gains will be limited and finish date he cites as January 215.
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Panama Canal
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South America
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Mir
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Recruits Receive Full Toilet Kit Including Housewife
An army enlistment order supplying a full kit of toilet articles to new recruits has been upheld. The issued items include a razor brushes for hair teeth shaving shoes comb polish towels toilet soap whisk broom and a housewife a compact case with thread needle buttons and patches.
State Officials Face Auditor Investigation Request
Governor Harris asks General Assembly to appropriate funds for a statewide audit of the Auditor of State and all state officers in response to charges circulated across Ohio. The move follows a request from Auditor Guilbert seeking an investigation.
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Harris
Ohio
General Assembly
Office of Auditor of State
Guilbert
Woman Kills Adopted Daughter in Rapid City Quarrel
In Rapid City North Dakota Mrs Charles S Barbour shot and killed her adopted daughter Rose Adams aged 17 during a quarrel over a trivial affair No one witnessed the tragedy.
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Rapid City
N. D
Charles S. Barbour
Rose Adams
Kentuckian Dies at 116 in Mount Sterling
Joseph Fletcher, oldest man in eastern Kentucky, dies in Mount Sterling at 116. His wife also died recently at 102, marking a long life for the couple.
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Joseph Fletcher
Kentucky
Mount Sterling
Conductor Killed After Being Thrown From Box Car
Frank Taylor of Sylvania Ohio a conductor on the Toledo and Western Traction road was thrown from a box car and killed at Franklin Junction in a fatal railroad accident reported today.
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Frank Taylor
Sylvania
Ohio
Toledo and Western Traction
Franklin Junction
Three convicts kill assistant warden in Deer Lodge prison escape
The assistant warden was killed and the warden seriously injured during a clash as three convicts attempted a prison break at the Montana state penitentiary in Deer Lodge. Two escapees were wounded in the melee.
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Deer Lodge
Mont
Collision injures seven on Indiana Union Traction Line near Noblesville
Seven passengers were seriously hurt and others received minor injuries in a collision between a passenger and freight car on the Indiana Union Traction Line two miles from Noblesville. No fatalities were reported.
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Indiana Union Traction
Noblesville
Ind
When China's Empress Dies and the Philippine Question
A Manila correspondent reports that Japan would pursue Manchuria after the dowager empress's death. The piece notes US naval strength in the Pacific, risks to the Philippines, and the possibility war if Japan strikes Manila given 11404 US troops and 40 000 landing capacity, amid tensions since Russia.
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Philippines
Manila
Japan
Manchuria
Evans
Pacific
Uncle Sam
United States
America
Russia
Global labor unions and wage actions sweep early 1910s
The item surveys union activity across Canada the United States and Europe noting new formations and wage increases. It covers Ontario Canada New England New York Chicago Jackson Mississippi and Syracuse with unions for shoemakers clerks hospital superintendents and miners plus a night work ban for women to start December 1910.
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St. Paul
Lynn
Mass
New England
Ontario
Canadian
Maritime Provinces
Chamber of Deputies
Chicago
Chicago Hospital Association
Mississippi
Farmers’ Union
Jackson
New York
National Federation of Miners of Great Britain
New York State
Board of Education
San Francisco
New Union
Tragic North Collinwood Fire Kills Nearly 200 Children
A graphic diagram portrays the North Collinwood school disaster where about 200 students and several teachers perished. Eyewitness descriptions recount how exit doors failed and victims crowded the stairways in the inferno.
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Oho
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Thames
US Aims Deportations in War on Anarchists Census
The federal government launches a nationwide drive to deport aliens who become public charges, ordering immigration inspectors to census prisons asylums and reformatories to quantify aliens in care. May 31 reports set deadlines, with potential radical immigration changes ahead and possible mass deportations.
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Shippy
Chicago
United States
Washington
Bonaparte
Strauss
Department of Commerce and Labor
Department
Wealthy women form private factory inspectors group
To improve conditions for workers in large cities Miss Anne Morgan daughter of J Pierpont Morgan and other society women lead a nationwide movement. They have voluntarily become factory inspectors in New York City and nearby areas to closely examine hygiene and social conditions and pursue private influence on individual firms rather than lobbying for legislation.
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Anne Morgan
J. Pierpont Morgan
New York City
Ohio Republican platform sets keynote for national race
The Ohio platform, crafted with top Roosevelt and Taft campaign advisers, advocates rail regulation, tariff reform, anti-injunction limits, a stronger navy, civil rights protections, and electoral reforms. It signals the Roosevelt Taft contest and foreshadows Denver’s national platform. Bryan warns of party strategy to split rivals as he names delegates to the convention.
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Taft
Ohio
Congress
Nebraska
Denver
National and State Railway Commission
Bryan
Senator Young expelled from Philippine assembly in tight vote
Senator Young faces expulsion by a 40 to 35 vote in the Philippine assembly after bitter clashes with party leaders. Dr. Inslee B. Berry of New York urges trains carry a first aid kit with bandages whisky splints plaster and sterilized cotton. The German steamship Robert Heyne reached New York after twenty days of storms and a furious voyage the captain calls the worst he has seen.
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Young
Philipine Assembly
Inslee B. Berry
New York
Robert Heyne
Senate and House Pay Tribute as Death of Senator Proctor is Noted
Congress pauses for memory of Senator Proctor of Vermont with adjourning honors in both chambers. Senate workload shifts to currency debate and postal concerns while House investigates naval influences and passes church damages bill amid mixed bills.
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Senator Proctor
Vermont
House
Bailey
Texas
Finance Committee
United States
Panama Canal
Adolph Meyer
Louisiana
Meyer
National Capitol Notes and Legislative Briefs
A bill to create a territorial government in Alaska was introduced by Delegate Cale. James Speyer met the President to discuss business conditions but would not reveal interview details. N B Thistlewood was sworn in to Illinois’ Twenty-fifth District House seat, succeeding George W. Smith. Navy Chief Constructor Capps submitted a report refuting construction criticisms. The naval board headed by Commander Fletcher found the Newport drownings accidental. A House labor subcommittee heard a bill limiting daily work to eight hours for federal projects. The Senate passed the bill codifying federal criminal law, with Culberson’s amendment penalizing improper disclosure by officials. Secretary Taft ruled eight Allegheny River bridges in Pittsburgh will not need height raises. future bridges must be 47 feet above water. A favorable report was issued on Humphrey’s Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exhibit bill for Seattle 1909, by the House committee on industrial arts and expositions. The bill cares 60,000.
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James Speyer
N. B. Thistlewood
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George W. Smith
Metcalf
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Marine Corps
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Taft
Humphrey
Washington
Seattle
Wash
House Committee On Industrial Arts and Expositions
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