Remarkable wireless message from Pensacola fleet text
The Navy Department received a telegraphic message from Pensacola stating direct contact with the Atlantic battleship fleet. Rear Admiral Thomas, commanding the second division, reported the fleet’s position near latitude 14.27 north longitude 102.01 west with ten and a half knots speed and expected Magdalena Bay arrival on March 12, two days ahead of schedule.
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Washington
Navy Department
Pensacola
Gulf of Mexico
Texas
Mexico
Thomas
Georgia
United Wireless Telegraph Co
Magdalena
Magdalena Bay
Racecars in transcontinental New York Paris event update
Chicago reports the New York Paris race progress with Italian, German, and American teams moving between Cheyenne Omaha Le Grand and Dixon. The Italian car resumes westward after repairs, the German car passed Dixon at 10 20, and a French car halted for repairs in Le Grand before Omaha.
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Chicago
New York-Paris
Cheyenne
Wye
Omaha
Marshalltown
Iowa
Dixon
Staren
le Grand
St- Chaffray
Chaffray
Wyo
Dixon, Ill
Herehia
West
Aged couple found dead in Chicago home
Chicago March 9 Theodore Engle Beck age 70 and Tigwits Anna age 75 were found dead in their daughter's residence. Death resulted from asphyxiation due to illuminating gas. Police believe the couple, facing hardship after a fire damaged their home Saturday, died in a joint crisis pact.
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Chicago
Theodore Englebeck
Tigwits
Anna
Janesville Mystery Suspect Nabbed in Attacks on Women
Norwestia named Otto En de Wallin is jailed in Janesville on burglary charges and matches descriptions of a man suspected of assaulting local women. Police seek his sanity as a potential key to a string of attacks. ICE MEN OUT OF JAIL in Toledo, Judge Brough frees Lemman Miller and another man sentenced for antitrust violations.
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Janesville, Wis
Norwestia
Otto Ende Wallin
Janesville
Wallin
Toledo
Ohio
Brough
Common Pleas Court
Baird, Lemman
Miller
Former chief engineer warns Panama Canal will fail
New Haven March 9 John P F Stevens once chief engineer of the Panama Canal issues a critical statement predicting the canal will fail to aid U S trade with South America and will not significantly benefit Pacific or Far East commerce He says costs will exceed estimates finish date set for January 1925 and the project would be a costly defense plant unable to withstand wartime shellfire.
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New Haven
Conn
John PF. Stevens
Patama
Stevens
United States
South America
Pacific
Panalia
Nation's Capitol News Roundup In Brief
Washington reports March 9 Secretary Taft repudiates a political manager story from Taft news bureau in Ohio. House probes Electric Boat and Holland Boat company methods and past and proposed existence. Banking and currency committees plan to report minority currency bill. Supreme Court rules campaign contribution requests by letter are equivalent to in person requests.
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Washington
Taft Today
Arthur L. Vorys
Taft News
Ohio
Roosevelt
House
Electric Boat Company
New Jersey
Holland Boat Company
Existal
Afardia
Banking and Currency Today
John Sharp Williams
Fowler
Supreme Court
Trial of Aliosco Alico Begins as Jury Is Chosen
Denver March 9 The task of selecting a jury to try Giuseppe Alico the suspect who murdered Father Leo Heinrichs on February 23 began today. Alico who understands little English sat behind his attorney glancing at the jurors.
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Denver
Guisseppe Alico
Leo Heinrichs
Talesmen
Alix
Firemen Injured as Apollo Hall Burns in Blue Island
A blaze destroyed Apollo hall a three story building in Blue Island injuring a score of firefighters three fatally. Estimated damage stands at 85000 dollars. A separate anecdote tells of a Waterloo porter turned Fort Dodge barber famed for a huge smile, unable to dislodge a billiard ball from his mouth in a dare.
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Chicago
Blue Island
Robinson
Waterloo
Fort Dodge
Joe
Insmouth
Jor
Water loo bridge contracts signed for Cedar Rapids firm
Bartlett & Kling of Cedar Rapids signed contracts for two concrete bridges in Waterloo. Bonds and council ratification are pending, with a total contract price of 109,425 for the Fifth street structure and Vir den creek crossing at 9,000. Work to start within the week under Superintendent Smith.
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Bartlett & Kling
Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Fifth Street
Virden Creek
Lafayette
Wood & Oakley
Chicago
Smith
Bartlett
Supt. Smith
C. T. Wilson
Death of Iowa history figure Charles Aldrich noted
Charles Aldrich founder and curator of the Iowa history department died in Boone Iowa aged about 52 He served as editor and publisher in several towns and held roles including adjutant in the Thirty second Iowa Infantry chief clerk of the Iowa house and US geologic survey member His work built the state collection later housed in Des Moines and Webster City with a dedicated building planned in 1899 for a premier history hall
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Boone
Cunrley Aldrich
Iowa Department of History
Gundry
Aldrich
Des Moines
State Historical Department
Webster City
Charles Aldrich
Chautauqua County
Western Literary Messenger
Buffalo
New York
Pennsylvania
Cattaraugus Sachematt
Rendolph
Iowa
Hamilton Freeman
Dubuque
Grant
United States Geologic Survey
Historical Department of
Ilona
Grain in Farmers Hands and Bishop Appeals for Aid
Washington reports show wheat in farmers hands on March 1 at 23.5 percent or 148,721,000 bushels of last year’s crop. corn 97.1 percent or 969,424,000 bushels. oats 35.6 percent or 267,476,000 bushels. London coverage notes Bishop Arthur T. W. Ingram appeals in Wall Street and London to boost funds for spiritual regeneration with bankers and city officials in attendance. G. U. Crabtree of Clarksville visited Waterloo on Sunday.
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Washington
London
Wall Street
Arthur T. W. Ingram
Death claims two in Waterloo area noted in deaths
Two men, Abraham Wolf and George Josep Lemon, died within days in Waterloo. Wolf, born in Russia 69 years ago, had run a harness business in his homeland and recently lived with his daughter at 916 West Fifth street before funeral rites in Cedar Rapids. Lemon, born January 10, 1884 in Freeport, died after a cancer illness at 2:10 pm at his sister’s home on Mulberry street. he previously ran a harness business in Janesville and had lived with his sister since moving to Waterloo two months ago. his funeral and burial will be in Janesville after services conducted by Rev. J. E. Johnson.
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George Josep Lemon
Life
L. G. Reding
Mulberry Street
Waterloo
Janesville
Neneased
Freeport
Charles Lemon
Tibbits
Nashua
Sparks
Cedar Riplds
J. E. Johnson
Janeaville
Abraham Wolf
Weat Fifth Street
United States
Jacob Cohn
West Fifth Street
Chicago Grand Jury to Probe Anarchistic Literature
Chicago on March 9 reports the march grand jury, led by foreman Rockwell W. Hosmer, will investigate anarchistic teachings and incendiary literature linked to Emma Goldman and Ben Reitman with police collaboration. Possible testimony includes other related figures.
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Chicago
Shippy
Rockwell W. Hosmer
Emma Goldman
Ben Reitman
Banker Lipman Loser Dies in Nashua After Illness
Nashua March 9 banker Lipman Loser died at 3 30 am after weeks of kidney and heart trouble. He was cheerful with wife and staff earlier and died suddenly. Survived by wife mother two brothers and a sister. Burial planned in Chicago with brothers from Denver also traveling. Remains to be viewed Sunday evening before departure. Leader in local banking for years and once partnered with Abraham Slimmer.
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Nashua
Lipman Loser
Loser
Chicago
Slater
Tipman Losar
Denver
Golgrado
Abraham Slimmer
Vinton Pioneer Sheriain Stickney Dies Quietly
Winter March 9 Special: Sheriain Stickney a pioneer of Vinton and a longtime community worker died suddenly Saturday night in the company of his wife and daughter. Born April 1835 in Wessex county New York he moved to Vinton over forty years ago. He taught school then worked at the county courthouse before entering lumber and poultry packing businesses with his brother John Stickney. He married Kate C Boynton in 1871 and leaves two children. Ill health had kept him mostly home the past few years.
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Sheriain Stickney
Stickney
Sibkney
Wessex County
N. Y
Vinton
John Stickney
Stail Lumber Hualnesa
New York State
Kate C. Boynton
Jerome files his answer to charges in Albany
District Attorney Jerome filed today with Goyer his answer to charges brought by William F F Irwing former president of the New York Merchants association. The governor is asked to remove Jerome from office. The answer is a general denial of the charges. Governor Hughes said he would announce the procedure after examining the document.
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Albany
Jerome
Goyer
Hughes
William FF. Irwing
New York Merchants Association
Janitor's Testimony at Collinwood Fire Inquest
In Cleveland March 9 Coroner Burke resumed the inquest into the Collinwood school fire. Janitor Fritz Hitter testified he was in the building all morning and tried to save children by opening doors and windows as flames and panic spread. He described doors that were not kept open and the chaos of escape as three girls perished.
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Cleveland
Burke
Collinwood
Julius Deltrich
Janiter
Fritz Hirter
Dietrich
Burka
Hitter
Hitter Statin
Thickay
Tragic Lake View Funeral Buries Losses Of Unnamed Children
Sorrow fills Cleveland as twenty one white caskets are laid in the cemetery for victims of the Lake View School fire. Seventeen unidentified children and four identified youngsters are interred, reflecting a devastating Wednesday blaze.
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Cleveland
Collinwood
Lake View
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