Important News Notes of a Week Condensed for Busy Men
Secretary Nagel returns to Washington to prepare for the next census and plans a summer home in Massachusetts. He notes a considerable saving in census costs. Edward H. Harriman sails from Cherbourg reporting improved health and eagerness to return to American soil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nagel
Department of Commerce and Labor
Washington
Massachusetts
Edward H. Harriman
United States
Cherbourg
America
Fires on the Illinois river steamship burn to water edge
Aboard the steamer Fred Swain on the Illinois river near Averyville, a large group of passengers including many women and children escaped death as the vessel burned to the water’s edge while the crew fought the blaze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Swain
Illinois River
Averyville
Taft
Mexico
Indianapolis Speedway
Strang
Zengel
W. D. Mahon
Amalgamated Association of Street Railway
Chicago
Santiago
Chile
George Tate
Gettysburg
Virginia Paul
W. Brooke Lessig
Philadelphia
Daniel Hayes
Addie
Ola Porcher
Brunswick
United States
Detroit
Porte
Ferdimnand
Emperor William
Mukden
China
Japan
Antung-Mukden
Great Northern
Minnesota
Seattle
Jean Gaston Darriboux
Academy of Sciences
Paris
France
New York
New York City
Hamersley
Arthur Hamersley
William Grevel
Fleischmann
Model Bakery
Argyle Lett
Durwood Dentwood
Henderson
Lett
Fire and water crisis after $1,000,000 Decatur blaze cripples city
A Sunday fire at Moorehouse & Wells Hardware in Decatur caused widespread destruction and a water famine. Springfield sent engines to assist as walls fell and hoses ruptured. Dozens of businesses were destroyed or damaged, with losses estimated from ten to seventy thousand dollars. The fire prompted citywide police measures and rapid rebuilding plans. Separately, Colorado land prospectuses tout Little Snake River valley farms at fifty cents an acre under the Carey Act, with water rights and canal access guaranteed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur, TM
Springfield
Moorehouse & Wells
Main Street
Decatur
Cullen
Brinkmeyer
Roggers & Clark
F. H. Cole Shoe Company
Shade Lakey
Frank Curtis
Young’s Clothing
Ralph & Young
East Main Street
Merchant Street
Water Street
Colorado
Little Snake River Valley
Routt County
Little Snake River Canal
Moffat Road
Union Pacific
Routt County Colonization Co
Welton St
Denver
Tragedy Near St Croix River Drowns Four Youths
Four youths from Lakeland and Moose Lake drown when a skiff capsizes in high winds on the St. Croix river near Hudson. Miss Hilda Peterson 20 Louis Wendell 18 and Miss Sigma Peterson a Moose Lake cousin perished. Harry Staberg survived by clinging to the overturned craft. The party had been visiting in Hudson, Wisconsin and was returning when the storm swamped the boat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stillwater
Minn
Hilda Peterson
Louis Wendell
Lakeland
Sigma Peterson
Moose Lake
St. Croix
Harry Staberg
Hudson
Wis
Heney Rejects Nomination for San Francisco DA
Francis J. Heney in the Cascade mountains says he cannot accept the unsolicited Democratic nomination for San Francisco district attorney. He cites the new primary law as preventing a partisan nomination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heney
Portland
Ore
Francis J. Heney
Cascade Mountains
San Francisco
Visiting man debunks kissing danger theory in Atchison
A young traveler in Atchison declares kissing is harmless, boasting he kissed hundreds without harm while a listener asks about the girls, reflecting playful debate on germs and affection as reported by the Kansas City Journal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atchison
Kansas City Journal
Land Auction Offers 25 Tracts of 40 Acres Each
Twenty five tracts of forty acres each will be sold at sixty five dollars per acre with eight hundred seventy five dollars in cash and the balance in one two and two years at eight percent. Located in Wyoming with high potato yields and rail excursion on September 21. Only one hundred tracts available. applications recorded in order of receipt. coupon urged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Timothy
Redrop
Illinois
Wisconsin
Iowa
Indiana
Wyoming
Union
Greeley
Colo
Also Mentioned on This Page
General News
John D. Rockefeller
Williamsburg
Kan
William H. Wright
Neosho
Nevada
National Association of Postmasters
Toledo
O. Terre Haute
Ind
F. S. Rawley
Gov. Comer
Alabama
Conference On Uniform Laws
Mich
Bayone River Company
Panama
Colon
Isthmus
William Bradley
Fred L. Graves
Grand Ledge
Isthmian Canal Zone
Montgomery
Ala
Wilson
Department of Agriculture
Lieut
Sutton
United States Marine Corps
Canea
Crete
Turkey
Ashley Deneen
Wichita
Pressed Steel Car Company
Pittsburg
James Shaw Maxwell
Glasgow
Scotland
Pressed-Car Company
McKees Rocks
Illinois City
Gee
Ane
Kidne
RLU
Guar
Rinnesota
H. L. Wood
First National Bank
Warren, Minn
Shenais Farms
Georgia
The
Georgia Trading Company
Forsyth
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Laramie
Wyoming State University
Agricultural Experiment Station
Laramie Valley
Ft. Collins
Irrigated Lands Co
Adams Street
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