Fire at Davenport destroys warehouse and homes
A massive Davenport blaze started in the A N Roberts warehouse used by Gordon Vantine Co, sweeping Case Street to Tremont Ave. It burned a stock of sash and doors for $100000, fully insured. Ten nearby homes were lost as residents escaped in their night clothes. Firefighters confined the flames, leaving a dozen homeless cared for by neighbors.
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Davenport
Case Street
Tremont Avenue
A. N. Roberts Company
Gordon, Vantine & Co
Rights of kids upheld in Mason City sidewalk ban
In Mason City Iowa a special city council meeting rejected an ordinance barring tunnel and push wagons and roller skates on sidewalks. The 2 to 4 vote reflected a split between aldermen with and without sons, as Swile McAuley Burnham and Miller opposed the measure while Stanton and Wilcox supported it.
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Mason City
Swile
McAuley
Burnham
Miller
Stanton
Wilcox
Washington Explorer Rivalry Analyzed by Wellman
Walter Wellman, in a lengthy statement from Washington, D. C., analyzes the North Pole claims of Frederick A. Cook and Commander Robert E. Peary. He praises Peary as precise and credible while denouncing Cook as an obvious deception.
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Washington, D.C
Walter Wellman
North Pole
Frederick A. Cook
Robert E. Peary
Peary
Dr. Cook
Iowa's Great Corn Show Opens at Des Moines Coliseum
Des Moines opens the seventh annual Iowa Corn Growers Association contest and exposition at the great coliseum. It bills itself as the greatest corn show in the state and features premiums valued at more than half the amount awarded at the national exposition.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Iowa.Corn Growers’ Association
Youth Hangs Self Near Nevada Iowa
Callie Skiles, 16, daughter of FP W Skiles, a farmer nine miles southwest of Nevada, Iowa, died by hanging while her parents were away in Ames. The tragedy occurred November 29. Local authorities reported no other details.
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Nevada
Callie Skiles
FP. W. Skiles
Ames
Des Moines Woman Dies After Basement Fall
Mrs. Maggie B. Dow, about 65, slipped on a basement stair at her son in law Hugh M. Schuler’s home and fell to the cement floor, fracturing the skull base. She died three hours later.
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Des Moines
Maggie B. Dow
Hugh M. Schuler
Fatal Coal Mine Fall Claims Alfred Loony at Garfield Mine
In Qakaloosa Indiana November 29 Alfred Loony aged 51 died on his first day at work after a slate fall at Garfield company's mine near Evans east of Oska Joosa. The accident halted his labor and ended a brief start in mining. He leaves a widow and several grown children. The Garfield company reported the incident to local authorities and pledged cooperation with investigators.
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Qakaloosa
Alfred Loony
Aged &L
Garfield Company
Evans
Weat
Oska- Joosa
Wires Down In Kansas Sleet Storm Report
Wires are down across western Kansas as a terrific sleet storm sweeps the region. No other damage has been reported.
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Kansas
Northwestern railroad approves 1600 miles of new track
The Northwestern railroad announces 1600 miles of new track for the coming year. Among these, 43.18 miles extend from Hin ton Ic to Hawarden Ja within the Sioux Pakota Northwestern division.
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Chicago
Northwestern Railroad
Hinton
Hawarden
Sioux ‘Pakota & Northwestern Division
Consul in Prison Reports on Invasion Threat
New Orleans dispatch says United States vice consul Harry Caldera in Managua may be imprisoned or harmed by Zelaya. Washington reports prepare three army transports to Nicaragua and naval reinforcements as the crisis over Zelaya’s execution of Grace and Cannon deepens, with ports and communications officials noting possible intercepted dispatches.
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New Orleans
Castrillo
Harry Caldera
United States
Managua
Zelaya
Caldera
Washington
Nicaragua
Aelaya
Pacific Coast
Princeton
Navy Department
Corinto
Vicksburg
Bremerton Navy Yard
State Department
Mr. Caldera
Department
Bluefields
Revolutionary Army
Dispatch
Standard Oil Appeal Ready for Supreme Court
After three days of deliberation Standard Oil's legal team determined the form of appeal to the United States Supreme Court from the circuit court decree at St Paul Virgil P Kine departed for Cleveland and Moritz Rosenthal of Chicago will sail for Europe An official denied Rosenthal's trip was to review grounds for a planned foreign holding company
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New York
Standard Oil Company
C Ros
United States Supreme Court
Circuit Court
St. Paul
Virgil P. Kine
Cleveland
Moritz Rosenthal
Chicago
Europe
Rosenthal
Bell Company Faces Missouri Antitrust Scrutiny
Attorney General Major reports complaints from across Missouri that Bell telephone interests are buying control of independent companies. He plans action in the supreme court, potentially appointing a commissioner to take testimony, seeking ouster, or seeking an injunction to halt further acquisitions.
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Jefferson City
Major
Bell Telephone
Missouri
Supreme Court
Bell Company
Richmond man found guilty of sextuple murder
Howard Little was found guilty in the first degree of the sextuple murder of Mrs. Betty Justis, George Meadows, his wife, and three other family members. He was sentenced to be electrocuted in Richmond on January 7. The murders occurred at Turley and the victims were burned.
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Richmond
Howard Little
Betty Justis
George Meadows
Jjury
fTurley
Chilean satisfaction over Alsop claim settlement
In Valparaiso on November 29 Americans express general satisfaction at a likely amicable settlement of the Alsop claim dispute with the United States. The press credits Great Britain for its intervention and praises the country for its role, seen as a sign of friendship toward the disputants.
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Valparaiso
Chile
Alsop
United States
Great Britain
Sallis to Study a Volcano in Tenerife Expedition
Naples Nov 20 Jrank A Perrett an American volcano expert left for Tenerife to study eruptions there. He will compare the phenomena with those of Mount Vesuvius and Mount Etna.
Porto Ricans Plead Tyranny of Sugar Trust Abuses
A Porto Rican delegation with 600 plus agricultural and industrial workers urged President Taft at the White House to ease laboring conditions. Led by Santiago Iglesias the group demanded higher wages, eight hour work, child labor limits, factory inspections, educational aid, better sanitation, abolition of convict labor, citizenship for Porto Ricans, and reform of the sugar trust, accusing legislative bias against labor and favoritism to capital.
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White House
Washington
Porto Hico
Taft
Santiago Iglesias
Free Federation of Workingmen of
Porto Rico
Roosevelt
Sugar Trust
Legislative Assembly
Unionist Party
Storm cuts off cables in western Indian Ocean region
Heavy storms in the western Indian Ocean disrupt telegraph lines to Antigua, Guadeloupe, and Martinique, with the West Indian and Panama Telegraph Company rerouting telegrams from nearby stations. Madagascar also loses contact, while the company cites no specific cause and notes noon and November 28 opportunities from Zanabaiby and Mauritius on November 30.
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New York
West Indies
Antigua
Guadeloupe
Martinique
West Indian and
Panama Telegraph Company
Madagascar
Zanaibay
Mauritius
Oregon curfew restricts underage tobacco use and night mobility
North Bend city council approves an ordinance banning tobacco sales to boys under 18 and imposes fines of five to fifty dollars for violations. A curfew prohibits boys under 16 from being on streets after 10 oclock unless with a parent or adult guardian. The measure aims to curb youth access to tobacco and enforce late night grounding.
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Oregon
Marshfield
Ore
North Bend
Aero Club Names Cur Hag Wrights as Official Pilots
The Aero Club of America designates Glenn A Cur Hag, Orville Wright, and Wilbur Wright as official aviation pilots. They will oversee issuing licenses to pilots. Applicants must meet required qualifications set by the directors.
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New York
The
Aero Club of America
Glenn A. Cur Hag
Orville Wright
Wilbur Wright
Therse
One Life Hour Is Railways Toll
New York November 29 One human being is killed each hour and one injured every ten minutes on American railroads, per W L Park Union Pacific president. He cites eight percent of accidents caused by employee negligence and urges railroad education to reduce deaths. Truesdale calls for laws against trespassers riding trains to avoid fare, while Hamilton notes shared guilt among companies but argues one wrong does not implicate all.
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New York
W. L. Park
Union Tacic Railroad Company
New York and New
Parks
Park
Atchison
Opeka & Santa Fe
Japs Grateful to America
In San Francisco the 67 member honorary Japanese commercial commissioners party attended several functions and will travel to Seattle and Japan after Tuesday. Baron Shibusawa, their elder leader, reported improved health and voiced deep gratitude for American kindness and courtesy, saying words fail to express their obligations and indebtedness to the U.S. for the generosity shown.
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San Francisco
Seattle
Japan
Baron Shibusawa
America
Army Men Win Promotion List of New Second Lieutenants
Army announces promotions from competitive exams. Sergt Frank A Turner and Sergt George G Seaman of Second Cavalry plus Sergt Charles C Reynolds of Eleventh Cavalry are named second lieutenants. Armine W Smith of Fifteenth Cavalry and others in Inf, Coast Artillery, and Ninth, Seventeenth, and Twenty First Infantry also promoted.
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Washington
Field Artillery
Frank A. Turner
Second Cavalry
George G. Seaman
Charles C. Reynolds
Eléveenth Cavalry
Armine W. Smith
Fifteenth Cavalry
James A. McGrath
Courtney H. Hodges
Rolla C. Ditto
One Hundred and Sixty-Sixth Coast Artillery
Samuel S. Stribling
Twentieth Infantry
World’s Poiss to Rejoice Celebration Planned for Grunwald Anniversary
New York on November 29 reports Poles across the United States will join in a July 15 commemoration of the Grunwald battle marking the Poles and allies as they toppled the Teutonic knights. Major cities including New York New Jersey and Connecticut plan parades and a grand international banquet. Estimates cite large Polish populations in New York and Chicago with hundreds of thousands in each area.
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New York
United States
Grunwald
Poland
Teutonic Knights
New Jersey
Connecticut
York City
Hia City
Chisago
Pittaburg
Ballinger Urges Private Enterprise Under Supervision
Washington November report to the president by interior secretary Ballinger discusses public lands policy. He credits Garfield and Hitchcock for land fraud prosecutions and urges continued action. The measure favors private enterprise under national supervision, calls for remedial legislation, and details reclamation service funding and park policy.
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Reclamation Service
Washington
Richard A. Ballinger
Secretary of the Interior
James R. Garfield
Ballinger
Hitchcock
Garfield
Congress
Reclamation Fund
Indian Bureau
New York
Chicago
Omaha
St. Louis
San Francisco
Yellowstone
Yosemite National Parks
U. S. Seizes Own Flour Case in Iowa District
Des Moines November 29 In a move under Attorney General Wickersham M L Temples United States district attorney in the Southern Iowa district dismissed the case against 810 sacks of bleached flour served by government officers at Fort Des Moines The claim that the flour was government property at the time of its seizure was cited as the reason for the dismissal
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Des Moines
Wickersham
M. L. Temples
United States
Iowa
A&cks
Fort Deg Moines
State Board of Railroad Commissioners Issues Order
The Kansas state railroad board issues an official order to the railroad company. The action concerns a repair or maintenance directive issued from Topeka with details pending in the record. Officials confirm the measure aims to ensure safety and compliance across the route.
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Topeka
Kan
State Board
Gt: Railroad
Cook sails for Europe as Arctic claim rides on records
New York reports Dr. Frederick A. Cook sailed for Europe on the Caronia after officials confirmed his observations and papers are en route to Denmark. He says his records were shielded from theft and will be examined by the Danish commission. he plans to rest in Italy awaiting the verdict before publishing his Arctic journey narrative and resuming lectures. Some Explorers Club members criticized the departure amid the Mount McKinley dispute.
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New York
Frederick ‘A. Cook
Europe
Caronia
Higang
Het
Offeis
Caronta
Denmark
Cook
Italy
North- Pole
University of Copenhagen
Pole
Explorers’ Club
Mount McKinley
Sherman law to be fixed in coming Congress
Auburn N Y Nov 25 Representative Serena E B Payne chair of the house ways and means committee says the next session of Congress will be one of the busiest ever with amendments to the interstate commerce law the postal savings bank question ship subsidy and Sherman anti trust law needing consideration He doubts Congress will touch the Nicaraguan question or investigate the sugar trust noting progress by Mr Loeb and federal prosecutors.
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Auburn
Serena EB. Payne
House Committee On Ways and Means
Congress
Payne
State Department
Sugar Trust
Butter Corner Denial Rings From Washington
Through a Chicago representative J. Ogden Armour denies that Armour interests led by Mr Armour cornered the butter supply. Chicago Dairy Produce records show a drop of 17,000,000 pounds from last year’s output. The denial says the claim of a corner to force higher prices was instigated by dairy interests.
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Washington
J. Ogden Armour
Chicago
Armour
Chicago Dairy Produce
National Dairy Union
Armour Company
Chilean clash to Edward mediation in Alsop claim
Washington reports from authoritative sources that the United States and Chile have reached a final protocol on King Edward's mediation for the Alsop claim. The protocol is expected to be signed within three to four days. King Edward has signified willingness to act as mediator.
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Washington
United States
Chile
Edward
Alsop
Customs bar Key to Heaven as reimported book binds
Washington reports customs officials closed the gates to several books with titles deemed to breathe the higher life. Key to Heaven was among the religious works rejected after being printed in the United States and reexported to Belgium for binding. The government asserts under the copyright law reimportation after abroad binding is prohibited. books must be printed and bound in the United States.
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U. 8
Washington
Loeb
New York
Heaven
United States
Belgium
America
United ‘States
Man Led by Dream Finds Body at Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Portland reports a man led by a dream found the body of Alfred Britout, engineer of the United States government, in Mount Pleasant cemetery. The discovery occurred recently, and authorities are reviewing the circumstances surrounding the death.
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Portland
Mount Pleasant Cemetery
William White
Alfred
United’ States
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