Seven Are Slain In Oklahoma Penitentiary Clash
In a pistol battle at the McAlester Oklahoma penitentiary three prisoners attempted to escape forcing a fight that left seven dead and three wounded. Victims include former United States district judge John R. Thomas and superintendent H. H. Drover along with deputies guards and sentenced inmates. Wounded are turn key John Martin guard C O Wood telephone operator Mary Foster. The mutiny followed the end of the class war and was fed by Reed Lane and Koontz.
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McAlester
John R. Thomas
Muskogee
United States
H. H. Drover
Bertillon Department
Patrick Oates
I. C. Godfrey
China Reed
Tom Lane
Paul's Valley
Charles Koontz
Comanche County
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Cheek
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Mary Foster
Clas
Reed
Lane
Koontz
O. L. Bruner
Rock Island
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
United States Steel Corporation
John Claflin
New York
ITB Claflin & Co
South Africa
Federation of Trades
Bangor
Opera House
Maurice Connolly
Iowa
Board of
Smithsonian Institution
Harry Toy
Seattle
Goldie Goodell
Portland
Ilinois
Houston
JD. Bickham
Louisiana
Commercial Bank of
Dagalousa
Isaac Osborn
Osceola
Sylvia May Hendricks
California
Johnson
Canada
Wilson
Turner W. Barnes
Fred Robinson
Teavenworth
Tarold S Vanderbilt
New York Central
Iris
1 P Morgan
Congressional Committee
National American Woman’s Suffrage Association
Washington
Congress
Bath Schoon
Senator Martine Urges Government Ownership of Coal Mines
Senator Martine calls for public ownership of coal mines as part of a strike report. The news item surveys proposed nationalization ideas amid labor unrest and political debate at the time.
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Martine
Nebraska teachers seek local candidate for Kearney Normal president
No Nebraska applicants for the Kearney Normal School presidency have been filed with the board though many outsiders have applied. Deputy State Superintendent Robert Telliott may be a possible selection. The normal board will meet on January 13 to choose a president and discuss related board business.
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Kearney Normal School
Nebraska
Robert Telliott
C C Nelson Suffers Severe Ear Amputation in Wagon Accident
C C Nelson was thrown from his wagon on a rough road while en route to his ranch. A wheel ripped off his left ear, found the next morning by Mark Iddings. Dr Palmer treated the severed member, and Nelson remains in good spirits despite the mishap. The event was reported by the Bridgeport Blade.
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C. C. Nelson
Mark Iddings
Palmer
Nelson
Bridgeport Blade
Man Falls From Red Bank Porch Doorway
William Hodson stepped onto a second story porch roof at his boarding house in Red Bank New Jersey and while attempting a tango dip he plunged twenty feet to the ground. He suffered a fractured leg and is not expected to survive.
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Red Bank
William Hodson
Refugees Arrive at El Paso Under Guarded Escort
After marching 67 miles from Presidio to Ojinaga attacked by rebels, 3200 Mexican federal soldiers and 1300 women and children become prisoners of war. They travel by train from Marfa to Fort Bliss near El Paso, where they will be interned indefinitely under Major McNamee and US cavalry guards.
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Tex
Ojinaga
Mex
McNamee
Marfa
Fort Bliss
el Paso
Suit Seeks Damages Over Titanic Lawful Departure
Thomas Whiteley a Titanic steward sues White Star Line claiming negligence over the ship’s seaworthiness when she left England in April 1912 for her doomed maiden voyage to the United States. He broke a leg in the wreck which killed more than 1,500 people.
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England
United States
White Star Line
Thomas Whiteley
Villa Plans Aggressive Campaign Across Mexico
General Villa announced he will enter central and southern Mexico with 15900 soldiers. He aims to join with General Carranza at Guadalajara, where an army of 25000 or more will begin marching toward Mexico City.
Explosion at Howard pavilion kills four at Ottawa winter fair
Four persons are dead and several injured when an explosion wrecked the Howard pavilion during Ottawa's winter fair. Many prize horses and cattle perished in the blast, the cause of which is not yet known.
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Howard Pavilion
Ottawa
Undesirables Deported From Oakland Pier to New York
Twenty one undesirable citizens, dered deported by federal authorities, left the Oakland pier bound for New York. Ten nationalities, picked up across the west, are represented.
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Oakland Pier
New York
West
You are wanted at the telephone
A fragmentary line shows a speaker insisting someone is needed at the telephone. The garbled text mentions a woman and a husband, with unclear attribution or context.
Familiarity in Detroit Free Press Phrase Evidence
Brief quotation from Detroit Free Press notes an exchange where one man remarks on a woman’s improving appearance, suggesting familiarity as the speaker overheard gossip about her being “getting fab.”
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Detroit Free Press
Hall's Catarrh Cure Advertisement and Endorsements
One hundred dollar reward offer for incurable catarrh and a testimonial pledge from National Bank of Commerce Toledo backing F J Cheney. Hall's Catarrh Cure promoted as a blood and mucous remedy with 75 cents per bottle sales through druggists. Also advertises Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
F J. Cheney
National Bank OF Commerce
O Hall
Eight Men Rescued After Vessel Wreck Off Monomoy Point
Captain Hart and seven crewmen were saved from the schooner General Adelbert Ames by breeches buoy after the vessel wrecked near Monomoy Point Massachusetts. The rescue preserved all eight aboard with no reported injuries.
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Hart
General Adelbert Ames
Monomoy Point
Massachusetts
German Army Aviator Killed in Munich Air Crash
Sergeant Schweisser, a German military aviator, was killed when his aircraft fell at Munich. The accident occurred after he turned too sharply, ending the aviator's life.
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Schweisser
Munich
Lost Submarine A-7 Located Off Plymouth Sound
The British submarine A-7 that disappeared on Friday during maneuvers in Plymouth sound with eleven men aboard has been found on the sea floor at a depth of 290 feet.
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Plymouth Sound
Failing Copper Strike Endangered by Union Recognition
Conciliators failed to end the Michigan copper miners strike after a final effort by B Densmore of the department of labor. He blamed the mine owners uncompromising stance on union recognition as the rock that split negotiations and shattered hopes of peace.
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Michigan
B. Densmore
Department of Labor
Murdock Announces Candidacy for Kansas Senate Seat
Congressman Victor Murdock, a Progressive leader in the House, announces his run for United States senator from Kansas to succeed Joseph J. Bristow. The election is set for next fall.
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Victor Murdock
House of Representatives
United States
Kansas
Joseph J. Bristow
Two Wits and a Street on Craven Street Strand
A fragment recalls James Smith of Rejected Addresses who died in Craven Street London. It mentions ten attorneys, ten dark coal barges moored at the base, and a quip by Sir George Rose about honesty fleeing to safety from lawyers at top and barges at bottom.
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Craven Street
Strand
London
Higher Praise A playful quarrel over perfection
The Kansas City Journal notes a light exchange where Mabel is praised as perfect and Henry George jokes about being called pluperfect, showcasing a witty back and forth on compliments.
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Mabel
Henry George
Kansas City Journal
Finest English speech praised by Curzon at Cambridge
The speech by Abraham Lincoln, delivered after his rise from farmer and district lawyer, is celebrated as among the greatest in the last fifty years. Lord Curzon at Cambridge University calls it the masterpiece of British eloquence, selecting Lincoln’s work as the finest.
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Gettysburg
Abraham Lincoln
Lord Curzon
Cambridge University
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