Stalkers Armed with Gang Besiege Utah Copper Camp
Report from OURKE CITY dated September 19 describes a siege at the Utah Copper camp near Bingham. Strikers, estimated over 1,000, fortified trenches and breastworks while Sheriff and deputies confront armed groups. Widespread firing, dynamite seized, and fears of a broader assault loom as tensions rise between strikers and the company.
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Ourke City
Utah Copper Com
Bingham
Utah Copper
Utah
Candy gum for traffic officers in Los Angeles
Los Angeles police officers are adopting candy gum to accompany their traffic duties as a morale booster and balm for stress during patrols and crowd control. The unusual practice highlights a lighthearted approach to officer welfare amid city traffic challenges.
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Tos Angeles
Los An
Weather Forecast Pair for Tonight and Friday
A pair of forecasts shows northeast winds at noon with a 5 percent probability of precipitation. The outlook covers tonight and Friday with brief wind and visibility notes.
My Confession Edited By Fred L Boalt Chapter II
Fragment from a serialized account recounts a performer's touring life. A visit to Minor hospital in Seattle reveals the narrator's illness and isolation. Attentive stranger Ortis Hamilton appears with a card. Ray McRoberts helps cover bills and housing while the narrator struggles with trust and memory of a fall. The piece ends with an invitation to read tomorrow for continuation.
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Fred L. Boalt
Fort Lawton
Hamilton
Ortis Hamilton
Ray McRoberts
Ray Me
Ortie” Hamilton
Olympia
Moenmber
Injunction Ends Straphanger Relief Law in Portland
A federal injunction blocks Portland Oregon's streetcar rule that offered 3 cent fares for standing passengers and long rides. Judge Bean issued the restraining order delaying the ordinance from going into effect while arguments for a permanent injunction proceed. The case hinges on whether the city can require riders to pay reduced fares by occupying vacant seats.
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Portland, Or
United States
Wudge Bean
Port
Way
Light and Power
Ordithe Street Car Company
Prize Baby Weighs 36 and Eats Pie
Dorothy Kulemeyer known as Peaches won the baby contest at the Iowa state fair and was judged a perfect baby. The two year old weighs 36 pounds and eats pie as a regular part of her diet without harm. Her Des Moines parents describe raising her in a sturdy, old fashioned way.
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Des Moines
Dorothy Kulemeyer
Peaches
Little Pierpont Hunchback Newsie Dies
Clair Nelson known as Pierpont the hunchback newsie died at home 1520 20th Ave after a lifelong struggle from birth affliction. Friends like E W Smith of Swift drug store recall his optimism and daily Star sales on Second and Pike despite pain.
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Newsie
J. Pierpont Morgan
E. W. Smith
Swift Drug Store
Smith
Pierpont
Mr. Morgan
Second
Pike
Clair Nelson
20Th
Date Set for Opening of the Panama Canal
Washington reports a revised government statement announcing completion of the canal by January 1, 1915 with unrestricted use for commercial ships from December 1914. The first through passage will be a naval vessel, costs estimated at 375 to 400 million dollars, and 5 million in bonds authorized but only part issued.
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Ustredreese
W . Washington
United States
Panama
Uncle Sam
Big Ditch
Col. Goethals
Pedro Miguel
Mira Flores
Gatun
Wee
Confess
General Treasury Fund
A trap for auto speeders and a new road design proposed
A reader signs as X Y Z and outlines a fantastical invention to curb speeders. The plan envisions collapsible reversible roads with drawbridges and embedded registers. Speeders would be fined and passengers returned to the road after a sequence of mechanized checks and lifts.
Random Tide of Courtroom and City News Bits
A collection of brief notices reports and quirky events from across the country. Theodore R Taft appears in court in Washington over a divorce dispute. An undertaker Clair Byrne dies from blood poisoning after embalming. Miss Assunta Gazia receives Pasteur treatment for a hydrophobia fear. East Orange New Jersey weighs an ordinance to curb night barking by dogs. A wedding gift yields a rye leaf eight feet long weighing 100 pounds. Col John L Clem remains the last Civil War veteran officer on active duty. In Redondo Beach George Freeth the lifeguard stages a beachside high spirited resistance to flirting. Los Angeles enacts a ban on stocking up liquors before closing time. A Brescia girl undergoes a needle removal from the heart aided by X rays. In San Francisco Mrs Corinne F Gohramson seeks a divorce after a spankings incident. Los Angeles begins earth moving for a new municipal railway to San Pedro.
Faith healer Henry C Oertle charged by grand jury in Chicago
Three young girls accuse Henry C Oertle of Chicago Heights of improper religious practices. Ella Borman, 15, is among the witnesses who described the alleged acts to the grand jury in Chicago.
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Chicago
Henry C. Oertle
Chicago Heights
Ella Borman
Woman Judge Seeks High Brow Jurors in Evanston
In Evanston Illinois Judge Catherine Waugh McCulloch demanded highbrow jurors after a constable reported punters in a livery stable and poolroom. She urged summoning professors and Northwestern figures James A James Walter Dill Scott and John Scott to present a superior jury pool.
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Evanston
Ill
Catherine Waugh McCulloch
James A. James
U. 8
Grant
Walter Dill Scott
John Scott
Northwestern University
Pond Disowns Son Over Bull Moose Affiliation
Connecticut State Senator B L Pond disowns his son Edgar a Yale graduate and lawyer after Edgar declared himself a Bull Moose. The rift stems from political loyalties amid Taft era tensions in Hartford.
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Hartford
Conn
Edgar
Yale
B. L. Pond
Taft
Archbold to Be Called Again Before Senate Probe
John D. Archbold president of Standard Oil is expected to testify again as hearings resume September 30 on campaign contributions. He will expand his earlier claim that Standard Oil gave 125000 to Roosevelt’s 1904 campaign. Roosevelt and aides like Cortelyou and Loeb are expected to testify next.
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Unites Press
Vie
Washington
John D. Archbold
Standard Oil Co
Senate Committee
Archbold
Standard Oil Company
Col. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
George B. Cortelyou
Wm. Loeb, Jr
West Hammond Tale Reveals Mass Murders Tied to Vice
In West Hammond Illinois investigators extract a long confession from 21 year old Frankie Ford about a string of murders tied to a vice ring. Miss Virginia Brooks pressures reform and exposes a pattern of death at local dives. Police arrest Henry Foss and Con Moore as the probe widens with threats against Brooks.
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West Hammond
Frankie” Ford
Middle West
Virginia Brooks
Ford
John Messmaker
Miss Brooks
Hazing Fatality At UNC Kills Freshman Rand
Isaac William Rand, a UNC freshman from Smithfield, was killed during a hazing prank. Four sophomores were held on $5,000 bonds each after coroner’s inquest found the barrel stunt caused him to fall onto broken glass, piercing his neck and severing major arteries.
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Chapel Hill
N. C
Isaac William Rand
Smithfield
University of North Carolina
Rand
Trust Buster Kellogg to Arrive For Banquet Here
Frank B Kellogg, famed trust buster and American Bar Association president, arrives tomorrow with Mrs Kellogg. He will attend a banquet with local judges at the Arctic club Saturday night before heading to San Francisco to appear for the government in the circuit court of appeals. Kellogg rose to prominence as special counsel in the Standard Oil prosecution and as attorney for the Interstate Commerce Commission in the Harriman inquiry. He was a Minnesota committeeman at Chicago and opposed Taft’s recall of judges.
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Frank
Kellogg
American Bar Association
Federal
Superior
Supreme Court
Arctic Club
San Francisco
Circuit Court of Appeals
Standard Oil Co
Interstate Commerce Commission
Harriman
Minnesota
Chicago
Fellow Who Will Get New Face
Philadelphia report says surgeon plans success for James Nolan after a baseball injury. The operation uses paraffin gold wire and silver plates to reconstruct the right cheek and cover the artificial bones with skin.
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Philadelphia
James Nolan
Nolan
Deputy Sheriff Discharged Over Prisoner Escape
Los Angeles County deputy Geo Kevin who oversaw Lloyd E Knapp during transport to San Quentin was discharged by Sheriff Hammel. Mrs Knapp, wife of the escapee, has vanished and is reportedly traveling from San Francisco to rejoin her husband.
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Los Angeles
Geo. Kevin
Lloyd E. Knapp
San Quentin
San Francisco
Hammel
Prison First or Is It Death
James Schrum has been sentenced to be hanged October 24 for killing Mont Hall at Iron Mountain and is under a 99 year sentence for killing another man at the same time. His lawyer argues the 99 year term, imposed first, should take precedence. the supreme court is expected to resolve the issue.
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Portland
Georges Levy
David Levy
Boise
Idaho
Levy
Farmington
James Schrum
Mont Hall
Iron Mountain
Hall
Schrum
Supreme Court
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Theodore R. Taft
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Newark
Board of Health of
East Orange
N. J
A. B. Seelig
Winsted, Conn
John L. Clem
United States Army
Redondo Beach
Cal
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Police Commission
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Corinne F. Gohramson
San Pedro
Harbor
George Alexander
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Wichita
Kan
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Ireland
Myra McHenry
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