Eve of Betrothal Fatal Gas Tragedy in Chicago
On the eve of a double engagement party Marie Saliger and Margaret Mills were found dead by gas asphyxiation in their home above a grocery store. A gas jet left running filled the rooms as neighbors discovered the odor after hours. Mills was about to announce an engagement from the East. Smallpox vaccination and quarantine were ordered by state health authorities with one death reported so far.
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Chicago
Marie Saliger
Margaret Mills
Miss Mills
State Board of Health
Nine Hundred Vaccinated in Greensburg Mining Town
Greensburg Pennsylvania reports nine hundred residents of United, a mining settlement, have been vaccinated, leaving many with sore arms while the mines operate nearby.
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Greensburg
United
Girl Foils Jailbreak Holds Off Attacker at San Bernardino
Grace Wells, 16, an inmate at the San Bernardino Detention Home, remained hospitalized with serious injuries after fending off George Russell and a companion during an escape attempt. Russell, aged 16, allegedly struck Wells with a spike studded club and broke her arm after throwing C. J. Lewis from a freight car. Russell was later captured as deputies pursued him.
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San Bernardino
Grace Wells
George Russell
Russell
C. J Lewis
Santa Fe
Liberty
George Miller
Bigelow
Tokio to Become Socialistic Paradise
Tokyo to be transformed as government ownership expands public services. Japan’s government arranged a 45 million dollar loan likely to be joined by English French and possibly American bankers. Funds will buy tramways electric lighting plants and other private public service firms.
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Tokio
Paris
London
United States
Vanderbilt in Card Row Sparks Boxing Challenge
London report says Lord Howard de Walden and Alfred G. Vanderbilt, once close friends, feuded over card play at a West End club. Walden challenged Vanderbilt to a multi discipline bout including rowing, running, swimming, boxing three rounds, and swords finishing under any conditions.
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London
Lord Howard de Walden
Alfred G. Vanderbilt
Nnl
West End
Vanderbilt
Walden
Hare Custodian of 100 Dollars Found Tied to Hare
A Scottish hare wearing a handkerchief tied around its neck containing nearly 100 dollars in gold is being hunted on Argylshire moors. A shepherd’s daughter, after cashing a Canada bound check from her father, wrapped the remaining money in a handkerchief and used it to attempt to choke the hare she found in a snare. The incident ends with the animal's struggle and disappearance.
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London
Argylshire
Canada
Hare escapes as woman loosens hunting snare
A reader described a hare in a snare moments before the animal sprang free. The narrator notes the woman believed the hare dead and began to loosen the snare, but the hare suddenly jumped up and fled.
Chinese Woman Orator Represented at Albion College
Albion College will be represented in the state Intercollegiate oratorical contest at Olivet by Miss Sui Wang of China. A junior, she speaks on "China's Crisis" and has given addresses in Michigan cities in support of her country's missions.
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Albion
Mich
Albion College
Olivet
Yale President Hadley Speaks to Chicago Alumni Banquet
The forty sixth annual Yale club of Chicago banquet at the Blackstone hotel features a telephone speech by Yale President Hadley in New Haven, praising the effort to bring Yale and its alumni closer together as 1000 miles separate them.
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Hadley
Yale
Chicago
President Hadley
George 8. Paraon
Yale Club of
Blackstone Hotel
New Haven
Conn
Ascot Cup Missing From Equitable Ruins in New York
The Ascot gold cup, won by James R. Keene's Foxhill in 1882, remains unfound amid the Equitable Building ruins. Valued at 2500 dollars, its sentimental worth is incalculable, and it was kept in Keene's office case. The searchers have yet to locate the trophy.
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Keene
Equitable
New York
James R. Keene
First crossed Rockies woman dies in Vancouver
Mrs. Eloise Tremblay, the first white woman to cross the Canadian Rockies into British Columbia, died at her Vancouver home at age 652. In 1883 she and her husband A Tremblay left Winnipeg with a pack train, traveling an old trail to Golden, B C.
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Vancouver
Eloise Tremblay
Canadian Rocky Mountains
British Columbia
Dog-Faced Bird-Beaked Men Studied By Explorer
German Africa expert Akko discusses a race that stands on one leg like a stork. Los Angeles reports Dr. Carl Kumm, an African explorer and scientist, arriving with notes on this unusual human variation.
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Africa
Akko
Los Angeles
Carl Kumm
Dr Kumm claims astonishing African discoveries
Dr Kumm announces plans to present to the National Geographical Society alleged evidence of Africans with dog like faces who bark and live by clans, a stork like one leg running tribe near water, and others with beak like facial features living in trees in remote Africa.
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Washington
National Geographical Society
Dr. Kumm
Africa
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