Tragedy at Boyertown Sunday School Benefit
A deadly fire swept the St Johns Lutheran church benefit at Rhoades Opera House in Boyertown Pennsylvania on January 14 killing many including prominent families. Panic and a floor collapse trapped crowds as coal oil footlights ignited and flames spread rapidly. Firefighters were overwhelmed and some victims died before reaching a temporary hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhoades
Monroe
Washington
St. Johns Lutheran Sunday School
Pittstown
Wex
Night Fire Tragedy Hits Boyertown Opera House
A devastating fire at the Boyertown opera house injures at least seventy five people during a mass escape. Special trains with nurses and doctors rushed to assist, and temporary hospitals operated within six blocks of the building as the death toll rose with several victims fatally injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reading
Pottstown
Opera House
Boyertown
Thaw Defense Opens With Claim of Mental Infirmity
Martin W. Littleton opened the defense for Harry K. Thaw asserting Thaw was insane at the time of the 1906 Stanford White killing. He promised to present hereditary insanity, unusual acts, and testimony from European doctors and nurses. Thaw’s attorneys aim to show insanity regardless of consequences. A medical first defense evidence was taken this morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Thaw
Garvan
Stanford White
Martin W. Littleton
Littleton
Harry K. Thaw
Mr. Littleton
Europe
Evelyn Nesbit
Paris
El Oro gold camp destroyed by fire in Mexico
Brief dispatches report a major fire destroying the El Oro gold mining camp in Mexico. Other items note the Wisconsin Central sale denial, Judge Bankhead sworn in as senator, Franklinville bank closure, Harmon may run for president, Isle of Pines control bill, Cardinal Segna appointment, Mormon mission activity in Berlin, Aldrich bill debate, ten injuries from NYC explosion, Odessa plot arrests, and Norwalk Steel bankruptcy proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
el Oro
Mexico
Wisconsin Central Railway
United States Steel Corporation
Judson Harmon
Isle of Pines
United States
Francesco Segna
Berlin
Senate Committee On Finance
Aldrich Financial
East Sixty-fourth Street
New York
Odessa
Norwalk Steel End Iron Company
Norwalk
Ohio
Martial Law Ended in Muncie After City Quieted
Governor Hanly ends martial law in Muncie and surrounding area once again under civil rule. Gen. McKee remains with a small force to deter riots and aid authorities. Streetcar strikes persist with unions boycotting cars and a hack line service expanding city transport. Total costs reflect state funding for soldiers and county covering deputy sheriffs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muncie
Ind
Hanly
Maeisor
William J. McKee
McKee
Green
Dela Ware County
Indiana Nurserymen Receive Full Bulletin on State Laws
Indianapolis January 14 state entomologist Benjamin W Douglass issued a bulletin detailing Indiana nursery laws in full and summarizing other states laws Copies were mailed to state nurserymen One Indiana section requires growers to notify the entomologist of suspected San Jose scale or similar diseases and threatens fines from 10 to 85 dollars if remedies are not applied Attorney General Bingham has ruled this section valid a later law's repeal question is raised
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Benjamin W. Douglass
Indiana
Bingham
Auditor seeks change of venue in Fowler bank case
Auditor Bilheimer and counsel pressed for receivership power over Fowler and Ambia banks. Judge Saunder son rejected appointing Hall or Boyer and proposed new names. Lairy of Logansport was appointed special judge to try the case and appoint a receiver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Vinton
Lafayette
Isaac Schoonover
Attica
John
Lairy
Logansport
Bilheimer
Vinton
Schoonover
Larry
Venire for Duncan Murder Trial in Greenfield
A special venire of sixty five names is drawn to select a jury to try Francis M. Duncan for first degree murder in the LaFollette case. The state counts on an important witness fleeing with LaFollette’s widow as the trial nears. Thurman Conger, who witnessed the killing, also left with the widow. Wire destroyed the William H. Page boiler works in Norwich, Connecticut, causing about thirty thousand dollars in damages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duncan
Greenfield
Ind
Francis M. Duncan
James LaFollette
LaFollette
Thurman Conger
LaFollettes
William H. Page
Norwich
Conn
Temperance urged as health issue in Indiana schools
Indiana state Superintendent A Cotten urges teachers to promote temperance, linking it to health as hungry and poorly clad children attend schools. The piece also reports Republican district conventions naming district chairs, with indications of contested districts and intra party moves involving Barr Cromer Bendell and several candidates for congress and governor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Barr
Thomas Nugent
Barr
Chaney
George W. Cromer
Muncie
Cromer
Harry Bendell
Huntington
George B. Lockwood
Evensville
Bloomfield
New Albany
Columbus
Terre Haute
Cambridge City
Winchester
Lebanon
Lafayette
Peru
Fort Wayne
South Bend
Watson
Hugh T. Miller
Chas. W. Miller
William L. Taylor
Indianapolis
Bert Wayne
Oliver Ensley
Hice Ivy
Nelson Delivers Clean Knockout in Ogden Bout
Nelson of Chicago knocked out Jack Clifford of Grass Valley California in the fifth round of a twenty round fight in Ogden Utah. Clifford broke a bone in his left wrist in the first round, and was counted out after a long knockdown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ogden
Utah
Battling Nelson
Chicago
Jack Clifford
Grass Valley
Cal
Clifford
If every year were leap year for women to propose
A Chicago based medical sociologist Dr Denslow Lewis argues that if women could propose and select mates there would be fewer divorces. He contends women would choose physical perfection and prefer long term compatibility over expedient marriages, transforming society and reducing divorces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denslow Lewis
Medico Legal Society of America
American Medical Association
Mr. Right
Drudge
Sleeping Cars De Luxe on Express With Hotel Like Rooms
A New York Times report describes a New York Hartford railroad midnight express adopting a luxury sleeping car style. Each compartment offers a hotel sized room with toilet amenities and two berths, opening onto a car corridor. Ten rooms per compartment allow group travel with doors between cabins and rare woods including tiger wood and Philippine wood in use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suore
New York and Hartford
New York Times
Philippines
Washington
Rare cabbage stump yields cluster of tiny heads
Gettysburg gardener G Manful reports a freak of plant nature a cabbage stump from which the original head was removed produced a fifteen inch seed shoot and around it a cone of twenty six little cabbage heads each perfect in itself the smallest at the top.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gettysburg
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
All the Comforts of Sea Aboard a Ship
A humor poem imagines a tailor shop and endless voyage aboard a crime-free liner. The speaker praises aboard comforts from zoos to museums and sports while lamenting absence of sailors, noting land lacks such amenities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conservatory
Stock Exchange
C. B. Quincy
New York
Also Mentioned on This Page
Peraty
Rible Theater
Boyertown, Pa
Galdren
Ance
John H. Bankhead
Alabama
Senator Morgan
Pecnte’s National Bank of
Franklinville, N. Y
Tion
New
Republican State Committee
Claypool Hotel
James P. Goodrich
Carl W. Riddick
Winamac
E. BF. Branch
Martinsville
National Rivers and Harpers Congress
Board of Trade Assembly Hall
Henry Riesenberg
William H. O’brien
Democratic State Committee
National Democratic Committee
Castoria
Géa
Sleeping Cars
WM. Swan
Swan & Mason
J. W. Burns
Rockpot
Court House
R. E. Roberts
Attorney-At-Law
Main Street
Occidental Hotel
W. M. Smith
W. M. McCullough Smith & McCullough Lawyers
Rockport
A. Brown
J.J .Brown
Brown & Brown Attorneys-At-Law
Arch Stevenson
F. J. Reinhard
Reinhard & Stevenson
F. A. Hearing,jr
Kramer
B. F. Huffman
Allen J. Payton
Sargent’s Drug Store
Main and
Third Streets
Via
J. Philip Burns
Eva Buxton
Krieger
Fourth Street
Main
Cumberland
William H. Field
First St
St. George Hotel
Evansville
Wm. E. Hartley
Rub’t Luckado
Rockport Indiana
D. C. Pattridge Rockport
Chase. Poole
Home Insurance and Loan Company
Hastath Street
Farmer’s Bank Building
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!