Detroit Man Surrenders After Walla Walla Warrant
Reuben Kreatz 27 surrendered to Detroit police after learning a warrant for embezzlement in Walla Walla Washington had been issued. He admitted stealing 1200 dollars from Pacific Light and Power while auditor and said anxiety to see his wife and children prompted his surrender. He had left Walla Walla a month earlier after losing the company’s funds in failed investments.
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Associated Press
Detroit
Mich
Walla Walla
Wash
Reuben Kreatz
Pacific Light and Power Company
Kreatz
Damage in suburb by Fort Worth AP: Platt Street blaze
Fort Worth reports eight houses on Platt Street damaged by a suburban fire. Details are sparse as AP dispatch notes the extent of the damage and potential causes are under investigation. Fire crews worked overnight to control the flames and prevent spread.
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Fort Worth
Associated Presss
Fort Worth, Tex
Platt Street
Fire Wrecks Suburban College Property in High Winds
A Thursday morning blaze in a college suburb of Polytechnic swept away buildings within an hour. Loss estimates range from Fire Chief Bideker's 7000 dollars to about 12000 dollars overall, with only a small portion insured.
Mission Finishing Co Motto and Address
The record notes the slogan The kind that pleases for Mission Finishing Co located at 701 Bibbs Building. No further events or details are provided in the readable text.
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Mission Finishing Co
Bibbs Bidg
Surgeon E Halstead Boyland Weds Mary Lloyd Key Gilmore
In Baltimore on June 15 1900 surgeon E Halstead Boyland who served in the Franco Prussian war by special government appointment wed Mrs Mary Lloyd Key Gilmore granddaughter of Francis Scott Key author of the Star Spangled Banner The note ends with an unrelated phone line about Antiseptic Laundry.
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Baltimore
Southern photographers to hold three day convention in Atlanta
Professional photographers from ten southern states meet in Atlanta June 20 for a three day convention to form a southern organization, discuss improvements and compete in an exhibition. More than 250 delegates expected. Riebe Undertaking Co. auto ambulance service. 221 E. Com. Phone 341.
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Atlanta
Riebe Undertaking Co
World steel men to meet in Brussels January
International congress of iron and steel manufacturers to discuss a worldwide market stability plan with representatives from American British German French and Belgian interests. The United States Steel Corp head E H Gary presides as delegates propose output regulation tied to demand to balance prices.
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Associated Press
New York
Iron and Steel
Brussels
E. H. Gary
United States Steel Corporation
Relics Returned to South Carolina Historical Society
Three charred volumes of the revolutionary records of South Carolina, escaped the Albany capitol fire, have been received by the South Carolina Historical Society. The three volumes cover the navy commission minutes during the Revolution and were returned under a special act of the New York legislature.
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Associated Press
Columbia
8. C
South Carolina
Albany
N. Y
South Carolina Historical Society
New York
State approves ten month cold storage limit
Albany June 16 State regulation of cold storage plants is provided for in a bill signed by Governor Dix last night. The new law provides that no goods shall be kept in storage more than ten months except butter products which may be held twelve months.
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Albany
N. Y
Dix
Fire destroys Tioga Lee Lumber mills and yards
Alexandria La June 16 Fire last afternoon destroyed the sawmill planing mill and lumber yards of the Lee Lumber company at Tioga La five miles north of Alexandria. The yards contained several million feet of lumber. Also reported June 16 in Goldfield Nev several persons killed and several injured in an explosion at the Mary mine in Blair today.
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Alexandria
Lay
Lee Lumber Company
Tioga
Goldfield
Nev
Mary
Blair Toay
More Postal Banks Designated by Postmaster General
Postmaster General Hitchcock announced fifty more postal savings banks bringing the total to seven hundred. The new offices include Fortythe Ark Arkansas Hobart Oklahoma and Corpus Christi Texas.
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Washington, D. C
Hitchcock
Forythe Ark
Hobart
Okla
Corpus Christi
Texas
Massive Dynamite Ordered for Isthmus Digging
Canal diggers on the Isthmus plan to blast about 10,000,000 pounds of dynamite next year as part of ongoing excavation work. The announcement signals a major blasting program tied to canal construction efforts and related engineering projects.
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Washington, D. C
Isthmus
Travelers Protective adopts death benefit rise to 10000
At its twenty second annual convention in Philadelphia on June 16 the Travelers Protective association approved an amendment to raise the death benefit for members killed in a railroad wreck from 5000 to 10000.
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Philadelphia
Travelers Protective Association
Grocers Choose Oklahoma City for 1912 Meeting
The National Retail Grocers' Association adjourned in Denver after selecting Oklahoma City as the 1912 meeting place and declaring opposition to the parcels post.
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Oklahoma City
Denver
Col
National Retail Grocers’ Association
National Conservation Congress Planned for Kansas City
The next National Conservation Congress will meet in Kansas City on September 25 to 27. The announcement came from Thomas B. Shipp, secretary of the congress in Washington.
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Conservation Congress
Kansas City
Thomas B. Shipp
Congress
Washington
Taft Receives Honorary Touring Club Membership
President Taft today accepted honorary membership in the Touring Club of America and was given official automobile blue books and a gold emblem to display on his car.
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Taft
Washington, D. C
Touring Club of America
Castro Not Aboard in Haiti Steamer Arrival
In Port au Prince Haiti the Consul Gros tuck arrived at 3 PM under the German flag and Cipriano Castro was officially not aboard. Paris notes Madrid reports a duel between Alfonso Ruiz de Grigalda and Andre Tardieu, but no duel was arranged.
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Paris
Madrid
Alfonso Ruiz de Grigalda
Diario de la Marina
Andre Tardieu
Paris Temps
Workers Strike in Havana Over Wage Increase
Fifteen hundred laborers employed by the Cuban Engineering Construction company on the new sewer system struck today demanding higher pay. The walkout affects Havana's major public works project as workers seek improved wages and conditions.
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Havana
Cuban Engineering Construction Company
No English in Cuban Schools Bill Passed
HAVANA The house of representatives passed a bill abolishing English instruction in public schools. The measure aims to shift language education policy and affect classroom requirements nationwide.
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Havana
House of Representatives
New Turkish Massacres Reported in Armenian Regions
A London Chronicle dispatch from Constantinople details renewed Turkish massacres of Armenians in the Diarbekr and Moush districts, highlighting ethnic violence and peril for Armenian communities.
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London
The
Chronicle
Constantinople
Diarbekr
Moush
Painter Is Not Dead In Paris Mixup
A Paris report notes a false obituary due to a name mix up. The painter Jules Joseph Lefebre was misidentified as deceased while Maurice Rathore, a sculptor and Lefebre’s son, was the true deceased individual.
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Paris
Jules Joseph Lefeb
Maurice Rathore
Yale Student Forgiven Over Yale Admission
Charles L. Bangs, a wealthy New York lawyer, has forgiven his son Charles L. Bangs Jr. for choosing Yale. The father will travel to New Haven to witness the son receive a diploma next week. The Bangs family produced four Yale men before a quarrel drove the elder Bangs to Columbia, from which he graduated in 1882. The reconciliation leads the son to consent to attend Columbia Law School.
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Associated Press
New Haven, Conn
Charles L. Bangs
New York
Charles L. Bangs Jr
Yale
Bangs
Columbia
Young Bangs
Columbia Law School
Woman credits Lydia E Pinkham remedy for relief
In Dewittville New York Mrs A A Gries writes that after long pain and weakness she used Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and now has a healthy baby daughter. The Pinkham Medicine Company in Lynn Massachusetts receives thousands of grateful letters proving the remedy helps obstinate women's illnesses.
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Littell
Rhuma-Sulphur Co
N. 2Nd Street
St. Louis
A. A. Gries
Dewittville
N. Y
Pinkham Medicine Company
Lynn Mass
Lydia E. Pinkham
San Antonio Hosts International Sunday School Delegates
Seventy five delegates to the International Sunday School convention in San Francisco praised San Antonio as a fine city and hospitable hosts. They enjoyed a five hour welcome in the city with a two hour auto tour and a supper at Cafe Mexicana before àfterward returning to the depot after a singing finale.
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San Antonio
San Francisco
New Orleans
Cafe Mexicana
R. H. Wester
Ray Mackey
Jay Adams
J. E. Adams
L. J. Hart
Highland Park Land Company
Nicholson, Furnish & Smith
J.R. Wood
Woodward Carriage Company
Fowler Bros
Fowler Bros., Mrs. H. C. Carter, C. G. Taylor, William A. Cocke, W. C. Lott
J. W. Warren
Harry Hyman
Carter & Mullaly
W. A. Godbey
Hilda Richmond Linscot
Jay E. Adams
Senator Lodge Pushes Audit Control on Senate Mineral Water
Senator Lodge introduced a resolution to place all running expenses of the senate under the audit and control committee to curb the high cost of mineral waters in senators offices. Senator Bacon asked if contracts would be affected. Lodge said no, the measure targets farming expenses such as office mineral water. The note also mentions fruitless efforts to provide summer lemon aid in the cloak room.
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Associated Press
Washington
Lodge
Senate
Bacon
Dge
Overrun with snakes prompts New Jersey clubs
Northern New Jersey reports a rattle of rattlesnakes, with snake clubs formed to fight the pests. Thousands have been killed as clubs vow to continue until extermination despite reasons offered, including blasting driving snakes from hiding.
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Associated Press
Newton
N. J
New Jersey
Gemagere to Settle Strike
The striking garment workers are told Samuel Gompers president of the AFL will arrive in Cleveland early next week to seek a settlement of the strike.
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Gemagere
Associated Press
Cleveland
Ohio
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
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