Week’s Global Events and Disasters Highlight 1912 News
Armistice talks fail as Chamuli leader misses meeting. Fire destroys Eagle Temple in Philadelphia. losses reach $100,000 insured. How a Mineola wife-killing shocks Long Island. Record by Charles Daniels lowers 100-yard swim mark in Manchester. Various Europe, US crises and accidents across articles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Drude
Caid Mazi
Eagle Temple
Philadelphia Aerie 42
Order of Eagles
Martin J. Smith
Mineola
L. I
Charles M. Daniels
New York Athletic Club
Manchester
England
Clif
San Francisco
Leopold
Belgium
Congo Independent State
Lusitania
Cunard
Liverpool
Robert Ramsey, Jr
Howard Riley
Graff
Count Kamarovsky
Italian National Guard
Venice
Nicholas Naumoff
Perm
London
Leffingwell Mikkelsen
Duchess of Bedford
Naval War College
Admiral Evans
Farriers
Fort Riley
Junction City
Kan
James Herbert
Cornell
Evanston
Vancouver
B. C
Lieut
Dunsmuir
British Columbia
Charles Walloway
Ina Reousnider
Akron
May Adkins
Cleveland
la Savoie
Europe
United States Court of Appeals
Grosscup
Chicago
Frederick A. Gale
Erie Heating Company of
Gale
Elizabeth Rohrback
Etruria
Edward C. Kennon
St. Louis
Gottlieb Unser
Fort Wayma
Auto Races Fatal Crash at Brunos Island Track
Rex Rainersten, 35, president of the Automobile Repair Co., died from a fractured skull after a 50 mile derby accident near Pittsburg. Driver Walter Christy, 26, and mechanic Clarence Bastion were injured, along with a city policeman struck by a flying car. Rainersten and Bastion were pinned beneath the wreckage as cars streamed past and the crowd surged. Christy later struck the wrecked car while attempting a new track record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Brunos Island Track
Rex Rainerston
Automobile Repair Company
Walter Christy
West Eighteenth Street
New York City
Mineola
Long Island
Clarence Dastion
Rainerston
Bastion
Allegheny
Frank Farnos
Rainersten
Dastion
Christy
Gans Defeats Britt For Lightweight Title
In San Francisco at Recreation Park Joe Gans stopped Jimmy Britt in five rounds to claim the lightweight championship. A mid fourth round blow damaged Britt’s wrist when Gans blocked a left swing, leaving Britt unable to mount a serious offense in the final rounds before the referee’s call.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Joe Gans
Jimmy Britt
Recreation Park
Gans
Britt
Mountaineers Mob Train In Virginia And Tennessee
A band of mountaineers stopped a passenger train on the Virginia and Southwestern in Carter county Tennessee after one member was forcibly ejected. A battle ensued with pistols drawn. Conductor Captain Robert Carnahan and brakemen R B Taylor and A D Cross narrowly escaped. Dan Berry led the assault and was captured. remaining attackers were repelled.
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Bristol
Virginia & Southwestern
Carter County
Tennessee
Robert Carnahan
R. B. Taylor
A. D. Cross
Dan Berry
Morocco Row Triggers Cabinet Meeting Conclusions
Paris reports a special cabinet session on the Moroccan crisis concluded that the Moroccan government bears responsibility for the July 30 Casablanca massacre and subsequent looting and unrest. Indemnities would be set by an international commission.
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Paris
Casablanca
Race War Threatens Suffolk After Arrest in Burkville
Race trouble is threatened at Burkville following the arrest of Allen Vaughan a black man charged with the attempted murder of J A Mason and two other white citizens. Vaughan was arraigned and held for the grand jury. Bloodhounds tracked the scent to his home near Larkyilie within 26 minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick M. Fish
Mary E. Perren Fish
Bryanston
Texas
James River
Frankfort
S. C
Chicago
Belding-Hall Manufacturing Company
Jesse F. Hall
Rock Island
Lincoln
Henry Duval
Rocky Mountain Limited
Alvo Station
Neb
Dryden
New Jersey Rifle Association
United States Cavalry
Roosevelt
Newberry
Boston Navy Yard
Annapolis
Naval Basin
Washington
Boston
Morteza Khan
Kingdom of Persia
United States
Mexico
San Francisco
Royal Typewriter Company
New York
Washington, D. C
Hoboken
N. J
Young Women's Christian Association
Williams
Wirsing
Uniontown
James R. Smith
International Harvester Company of
Wisconsin
Austin
Hkdward Glasgo
Brazil
Ind
White Milk Hands
Bellingham
Wash
Windus
Kamarowski
Venice
Frank A. Perret
Vesuvius
Watson & Co
New York Stock and Produce Exchanges
Chicago Board of Trade
Interstate Commerce
Lane
Northwest
McKinley
Buffalo
Gov Hughes
Adam
McNeil
Tacoma
Lebanon
Huntress
League Island
Pensacola
Fla
Naval Militia of
Missouri
St. Louis
Mississippi River
Muscatine
Juncal
Mattoon City Railway Company
Central Illinois Traction Company
American Locomotive Works
Baldwin Locomotive Works
St. Louis Car Company
Japan
China
South America
West Indies
Ferdinand Penney Harle
Monroe
N. Y
Europe
John Roach
Miners’ Union
Goldfield
Nev
H. McKinnon
Aero Club of America
International Aeronautic Federation
Spanish Aero Club
Kermit Roosevelt
Thirteenth Cavalry
Fort Leavenworth
Fort Sheridan
la Follette
Wemple Gravely Tobacco Company
Danville
Suffolk
Burkville
Allen Vaughan
J. A. Mason
Larkyilie
Worn to a Skeleton by Kidney Troubles
Mrs Charles N Preston of Elkland Pennsylvania describes severe fatigue weight loss and thirst due to kidney problems. After using Deans Kidney Pills her sugar disappeared and she regained her weight becoming well. Sold by all dealers six cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles N. Preston
Elkland
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
New Zealand Sets Aside Land for Education and Pensions
New Zealand allocates 9,000,000 acres for endowment to fund education and old age pensions. Customs duties drop on necessities while other rates rise to protect industries.
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New Zealand
New Homes in the West Exposition Pamphlet Offer
Free pamphlet with synopsis of United States homestead laws and guidance to secure a quarter section of farming or grazing land along the Chicago and North Western railway lines in South Dakota Wyoming and other states Special excursion rates for homeseekers Full information upon request to W B Kniskern Passenger Traffic Manager C N W Ry Chicago
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Chicago & North-Western Ry
South Dakota
Wyoming
W. B. Kniskern
Chicago
A Horse's Good Fortune
A spiritualist claimed to locate lost friends and revealed a former helper in Los Angeles married to a rich young woman after a table knock. The judge recorded the exchange as part of a court or public note on superstition.
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Los Angeles
Moon in Texas Prompting Italian Praise in New York
Tom Ochiltree, famed for quick wit among New York society, escorted Count de Biscout to the Battery one night. The Count praised the moon over the water, exclaiming its beauty as unmatched in Italy, while Ochiltree quips Texans boast a moon worth seeing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Ochiltree
Congress
New York
Amuser
John W. Mackay
Sam Ward
John Mackay
Count de Biscout
Battery
Italy
Ochiltree
Texas
Family Food Grape Nuts Help Family in North Carolina
A North Carolina mother writes that Grape Nuts aided her family after a Charlotte mayor recommended it on a physician’s advice. She notes weight gain, her ill weaned baby improving after Grape Nuts with warm milk, and the entire family recovering during a La Grippe outbreak using the cereal and oranges. There's a Reason. Read The Road.
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Charlotte
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William TI. Abercrombie
Nagasaki
Navy Department
Athabasca Landing
Canadian Northwest
Mikkelsen
Bonaparte
Sims
Alton Road
Z. J. Phillips
Warant
Brunos Island
Sritt
California
Mountaineers
Morocco
Pennsylvania
N. C
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