Miners Entombed in Starkville Mine Forty One Deadline
Fifty one miners are trapped in a Starkville mine after a fire damp explosion. Rescuers race to penetrate the main shaft amid dangerous after damp. A coroner lists 46 to 61 men believed inside with nationalities including Poles Russians Americans Mexicans and a Serb. The scene at the mine grows increasingly somber as helmet crews struggle to reach survivors.
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Trinidad
Storkville
Colorado Mine & Fuel Company
Engleville
Starkville
Colorado Fuel @ Iron company
John D. Jones
Frank Oberding
Ena
Society gamblers worse than whisky says woman
Mrs. A. SIm, a self styled reformer, told a Purity league meeting that fashionable society gambling harms more than whiskey. She warned that about eighty five percent of society gamblers are church members and that card playing undermines faith, leading to further sins.
Honduran Soldiers Guard Americans in Amapala
New Orleans dispatch reports Honduran soldiers guarding American property in Amapala island as a gunboat Princeton may land marines to retake properties. The local commandant, described as radical and foreign, ordered the move. Americans’ lives are believed safe.
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New Orleans
Amapala
Princeton
Sheriff Locked Up by Prisoners in California Jail Break
Two inmates Sains and Marris overpowered Sheriff Lacy and locked him in a cell with missionary Christine Kerl during services in Santa Anna California. They seized a rifle and revolver from the jail office and escaped on stolen bicycles after fleeing into foothills. Sains is charged with murder and Marris with forgery.
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Santa Anna
Calif
Possos
Rosirio Sains
Alejo Mairis
Lacy
Great Apple Show Opens in Watsonville Calif
Great Apple Show opens in Watsonville to run through the week. Jajaro valley hosts Bellflower and Newton Pippin apples displayed in one of the west’s largest pavilions. Watsonville funds the structure with bonds. Next year planners aim for a national event. Northern California apples gain reputation alongside Southern California oranges as buyers from Europe and major cities visit amid a booming orchard industry.
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Watsonville
Cal
Jajaro Valley
United States
California
Southern California
Europe
Citywide voter registration begins with rush in New York
New York voters lined up as registration started in all boroughs this morning and will run until 10 p m tomorrow Saturday and next Monday Registration begins Friday in other state cities and larger villages hamlets and country districts start Saturday The deadline for party nomination certificates to the secretary of state at Albany expires today Independent certificates may be filed through Friday The Tammany congressional conventions for this city will be held Thursday.
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New York
New York City
Albany
Labor Men in Politics in Worcester Convention
Massachusetts labor organizations will actively engage in politics this fall as delegates to the American Federation of Labor state convention in Worcester decide union leaders will oppose those blamed for failing to secure key labor laws. The convention will also discuss postal savings banks and other labor issues.
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Worcester
Maas
Massachusetts
American Federation of Labor
Organized Labor
Travel Agents to Convene in Dallas for Annual Meeting
Passenger men in Dallas start the American Association of Traveling Passenger Agents annual meeting representing major railways in the United States Canada and Mexico. Deliberations conclude tomorrow then the group tours Texas through week with plans to return for the Texas state fair opening next Saturday.
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Dallas
Tex
American Association of Traveling
United States
Canada
Mexico
Lone Star State
Seven Towns Destroyed by Forest Fires in Canada
Winnipeg dispatch reports seven towns Baudette Spooner Graceton Pitt Cedar Spur Swift and Roosevelt wiped out by forest fires. Five hundred missing and death toll likely to reach a thousand with sixty bodies recovered. Railroads run relief trains through smoke and burning bridges as hundreds seek safety fleeing isolated villages.
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Winnipeg
Baudette
Spooner
Graceton
Pitt
Cedar Spur
Swift
Roosevelt
Rainy River
War Road
Minn
Sprague
Manitoba
Canadian Northern Railway
Rairoad
Jelef
Canadian Northern Railroad
Beaudette
Fires in Canadian border forest kill hundreds in Minnesota area
War Road Minnesota reports claim dozens of lumbermen were burned alive as forest fires swept a 5 mile wide zone along the border from Grave Pit spur to Stratton Ontario. Authorities say seven towns destroyed and at least 750 dead, with rapid-fire responses by special trains rushing to the scene.
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War Road
Minn
Grave
Stratton
Ontario
Minnesota
Herbert Strohm Visits Hermiston Figure in City
Hermiston resident Herbert Strohm, a well known young man, was seen visiting the city yesterday, drawing attention from locals.
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Herbert Strohm
Hermiston
Ely Suffering Second Flight Accident Near Chicago
Aviator Ely attempted a Chicago to New York record flight for a 30000 prize, rising from Beverly Golf links. After an 11 mile first ascent, a clogged carburetor forced a descent. a broken wheel during a later attempt halted progress as Curtiss Willard McCurdy aided repairs and Ely prepared for another start.
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Chicago
Ely
New York
Beverly Golf Links
Elgin
Geary
Hawthorne
United States
Willard
Curtis
Nice
Gary
Ind
Boston
McCurdy
Curtiss
Boomerang Ties Gilliland to Taxes in Told Tale
A local paper supporting Judge Gilliland quotes a figure showing Gilliland paid 74.92 in taxes this year while Jim Maloney paid 141.75. The piece labels the opponents who raised Maloney’s taxes as using dirty politics and calls the gambit a boomerang that backfires on Gilliland.
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Australia
Gilliland
Jim Maloney
Bushman
Judge Gilliland
Messrs. Maloney
Gillland
Maloney
Court House
L. Hodgens & Co
Mr. Maloney
Girliland
In-flight speed noted at twelve minutes
A brief item states that during a twelve minute flight a person covered eleven miles, highlighting rapid travel time and distance achieved within the short duration of the ascent.
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Henoe
Spain Tests Loyalty of Reserve Troops
Madrid Oct 16 There is growing turbulence across Spain with agents smuggling arms into Barcelona and border towns. The government has called its first reserves to colors to test troop loyalty as leaders warn an uprising is imminent and Republicans claim troops will desert when the rising begins.
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Madrid
Spain
Barcelona
Roosevelt Opens Arkansas State Fair In Hot Springs
Colonel Roosevelt arrived in Hot Springs and opened the Arkansas state fair with an address after a formal station reception. A dove ceremony symbolized Arkansas' desire for peace as a girl in blue and a girl in brown released two white doves. Governor Donaghey presented Roosevelt, who will spend four days in the southwest to advocate his tariff position.
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Hot Springs
Roosevelt
Donaghey
Southwest
Police clash at depot over women’s waiting room use
Nightwatchman Armstrong and Glenn Bushee were injured in a two hour scuffle at the depot as a group of Italian men and women attempted to convert the women’s waiting room into a sleeping area. Police arrived with Da gores party and a knife was reported but not used. No arrests were made.
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Armstrong
Glenn Bushee
Dagores
Beda
O. R
John Armstrong
John Kearney
Amaszons
Monks and Nuns Arrested Across Portugal
Lisbon Oct 10 reports say monks and nuns were arrested wholesale as mobs looted. Government faced policy chaos while Cardinal Netto and Bishop Vasconcellos were escorted to Spain. Parochial school children returned home.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Government Ia
Carolinal Netto
Vasconcellos
Beja
Spain
Abstinence Union Convention Opens in Springfield
A Catholic Total Abstinence Union convention opened in Springfield Massachusetts with William J. Larkin, longtime secretary, announcing his voluntary retirement at this session. abstainers gathered to discuss policy and future leadership.
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Springfield
Mass
Catholic Total Abstinence Union
William J. Larkin
Lutheran Convention in Charleroi Pa With 128 Churches
Delegates from 128 churches attend the Lutheran church synod convention in Charleroi Pennsylvania. Sessions continue through the week with representatives meeting to discuss church affairs and activities.
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Lutheran Convention
Charleroi
Lutheran Church Synod
Baltimore Hosts Annual Convention of Stainers Association
Staitioners in Baltimore Md. Oct 10. Baltimore will entertain this week the annual convention of the National Association of Stainers and Manufacturers.
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Staitioners
Baltimore
National Association of Stainers and Manufacturers
Photo Romance Sparks Logansport Marriage Plan
Logansport Indiana reports a photo courting Miss Qarrie Loser a Indiana Commercial College graduate featured in several papers. Forest Graves New Ross druggist and city clerk, also a graduate, wrote and received a reply. Romance culminates Friday with marriage at her Crawfordsville home.
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Cupid
Logansport
Ind
Qarrie Loser
Indiana Commercial College
Forest Graves
New Ross
Harnessed waters power about six million horses per wheel
The statement notes that over 6,350,000 horsepower is developed by the harnessed waters of the United States, with the average per wheel around 100 horsepower, reflecting the scale of hydroelectric capacity referenced in the source.
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United States
Taft to Visit Panama for Graft Probe
Beverly Oct 10 Information that combinations have been formed to reap a big graft at the Panama canal has been received with secrecy. President Taft has revoked his decision not to visit Jamaica and will go at once, possibly the first week in November, to learn of the alleged graft firsthand. Supplying coal to ships through the canal at monopoly rates is said to be one planned activity.
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Beverly
Panama Canal
Taft
Janame
Panama
Combine
Wireless telegraphy blamed for pigeon losses in London
London reports claim wireless telegraphy disrupts homing pigeons. Captain Fraser, Move mayor and breeder, says increased bird losses in recent years follow the electrical influence. He notes deaths may rise and that losses have jumped from a few to sixty percent.
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London
Captain Fraser
Move
Tram Car Fifty Years Old Semi Centenary Celebration
In London England a semi centennial celebration marked the first tram car in Europe. George Francis Train operated the initial tram at Bankhead with office boy Clifton Robinson, who has since become a leading figure in tramways. Sir Clifton Robinson spoke of a future where tramways tubes and railways operate under unified management.
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England
London
Europe
Bakenhead
George Francis Train
Train
Clifton Robinson
Sir Clifton Robinson
Clifton
World's biggest cheese built on a flat car
Appleton Wisconsin reports the world’s largest cheese completion weighing 4029 pounds net. It uses milk from 5000 cows totaling 40250 pounds and required seven cheese makers two days to construct. The cheese, sold to a Chicago retailer for 1409.80, will be shown at the national dairy show in Chicago.
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Appleton
Wis
Chicago
Raps Student Tactics at Washington State College
Miss Grey dean of women at the Bellingham normal voices criticism of Pullman town morals to the student body. She cites "terrible marks and sighs" painted about the town and contrasts with her Chicago teaching experiences.
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Washington State College
Pullman
Miss Grey
Bellingham Normal
Chicago
Tenment
Dublin Offenders Are Literate
Dublin figures show 5496 males arrested. 502 could neither read nor write while 6130 could read only or read and write imperfectly. The data highlights literacy levels among arrestees in the city.
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Dublin
Man Recovers After Heart Stitch in Austria Hospital
A man who had his heart stitched up at Schoerding Hospital, Austria, seven weeks after a stabbing, has left the hospital in excellent health.
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Vienna
Schoerding
Austria
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