Wall Street blast shocks nation naming anarchist plot
The New York financial district faced a deadly explosion near Broad and Wall streets injuring about 300 and killing around 30. Officials blamed a deliberate act by anarchists, noting a time clock bomb likely triggered by a truck. Victims were mostly clerks. Junius Spencer Morgan was among the injured.
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New York
America
New Assay
Broad and
Wall Streets
Wall Street
French High Commission
EF. Fischer
French Commission
Toronto
Fischer
Junius Spencer Morgan
J.P. Morgan
President Deschanel to retire. Millerand to meet successor
President Deschanel of France, gravely ill for months, will retire and has left his resignation with Premier Millerand. The national assembly will convene on September 25 to choose his successor.
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President Deschanel
France
Millerand
National Assembly
Nebraska News In Concise Fork Spotlighted Local Items
A roundup of Nebraska news highlights spanning Pawnee City contracts, Ak-Sar-Ben Omaha crowds, McCook bank plans, Ord courthouse cornerstone, and Shubert crash deaths. Voters in Saline County defeated moving the county seat to Crete, while northeastern states faced frost risk to upland corn.
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Pawnee City
Omaha
Fourth Bank
McCook
Valley County Court House
Ord
Gus H Manika
Stella
Shubert
Saline County
Witber
Crete
Over the Clouds A Pilot’s View of Flying Above
Writer Edward BP Warner describes the aerial perspective for travelers above 3000 feet. He contrasts cloud interiors with sea level air, noting the instant shift from shadow to opacity and the serene brightness once clear of the overcast. He paints upper cloud surfaces as changing billows and highlights the surreal, dazzling sky above while the ground below stays shadowed.
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Edward BP
Warner
Maxfield Parrish
Dhieir
Short Candle Burned Out Mannie Chappelle and a Glittering Broadway Life
Emanuel 8 known as Mannie Chappelle rose on Broadway as a living legend of social excess. He sold a champagne brand at dinners for wealthy clients, earned large sums, and enjoyed luxurious companionship. Once he boasted of never seeing daylight, a life ended at fifty five after prohibition ruined his business. His wife was Billie Burke’s sister and they divorced. The Waterbury American notes his brilliant years and asks if happiness matched the high life.
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Lincoln
Dixon County
Garden
Hitchcock
Lancaster County
State Agricultural College
Nebraska
Merman Upton
Union Pacific
Hhin Creek
Murray
State College of Agriculture
Dakota County
Lloyd and
Leon Harlan
Schuyler
Charles Sweet
Milhorn
Spitewok
Consolidated Electric Company
Beatrice
Holiesville
Rockford
Willey
Virginia
State Railway Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Rev. E., Gratz
St. Paul’s M. BE
Institute and Life Work
Epworth League of the
Methodist Episcopal Church
Chicago
Middle West States
Wall Street
Anton Hason
Carrie Boutelle
Missouri River
Omaha
River
Frank
Stanley Bartos
State Supreme Court
Fawcett
Ronald R. Williams
Rolla Wiliams
Anselmo
Nebraska Conference
Nebraska Wesleyan
York College
Doane College
Crete
Cottner University
Hastings College
Warne Normal
Kearney Normal
Per Normal
Midland College
Fremont
Grand Island Colege
University of Omaha
Central College
John Olson
Harmy Lueken
Latter H
Florence Olson
Lueken
Beryl Kirk
Senator Bushee
Mimball
Mel
Elvie
Barrows
Malstock
Rooney
Des Moines
Kirk
Mannie Chappelle
Emanuel 8
Broadway
New York
Billie Burke
Lfe
Waterbury American
Millionaire Traveler Relies On A Snack Budget
A frugal lunch by a touring millionaire with a sixty horsepower car ends with the waiter noting the bill. The motorist asks for his chauffeur’s order, and the waiter explains the chauffeur enjoyed an omelette grilled trout lamb cutlets peas iced coffee a half crown cigar and a bottle of claret.
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Shin
London
Gasoline Substitute From Molasses On Hawaiian Plantations
A new automobile fuel labeled motor alcohol is made by processing molasses on Hawaiian sugar plantations. It is claimed to provide more power, better mileage, easier starting, and less carbon buildup than gasoline. Hawaii reportedly has enough molasses to produce 9,000,000 gallons of motor alcohol, sufficient for all island automobiles.
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Congressional Investigating Committee
Cox
League of Nations
Harding
Women's Club
America
Geneva
West
Elihu Root
Advisory Commission of Jurists
Mr. Cox
League
Congressional Junket Party
Orient
Japan
Shidehara
Colby
Tokyo
Wilson
Snaghalinsland
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Washington
Leavenworth
Kan
Lesle A. Tibbetts
Wymore
Stuhr
State Department of Agriculture
Nebraska
O. A. Smith
Institute
Beatrice
State Health Bureau
Lincoln
S*remont
August Thompson
North Bend
Marie Krael
American Legion
Thompson
Nebraska Presbyterians
William I. Kearns
Omaha
New Iran Movement
Synod of Nebraska
Chirence C. Lange
Government
Air Mail Service
Dawes County Fair
Crawford
Lange
Grand Island
Edward Gardner
Nebraska Aircraft Co
Warren P. Wite
Grand Island Aero Co
Board of Control
Stewart
Nebraska Building and Investment Company
Milford Soldiers’ Home
Ernest Rnokahr
Nebraska Company
Hawaii
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Wahoo
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State Board of Control
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