Roosevelt Urges Action On Nation’s Water Power and Conservation
President Roosevelt backs the national conservation commission report urging bold action to conserve forests minerals and waterways. He calls for inland waterway plans forest protection and public duty over private gain, outlining steps to guard against monopolies and expand opportunity for all citizens.
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Washington
National Conservation Commission
Roosevelt
Congress
Lawa
United States
Panama Canal
Commission
Mit
Dayton's New Murder Mystery Grips City
A 15 year old girl Mary Forschner was found dead from choking after a Saturday assault near Knox street Dayton Ohio. Her body was dragged to a barn on the Grafton Kennedy estate and discovered early Sunday. Two suspects are under arrest as witnesses while police pursue leads including muddy ground and corduroy trouser prints.
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Dayton
Dona Gilman
Anna Markowitz
Mary Forschner
Berk & Fry
Fifth Street
Knox Street
Vermont
Knox Avenue
Grafton-Kennedy
Allaback
Hughes
Robert Geppert
Dayton Savings & Trust Co
Geppert
Mather
Maggie
Arthur Hyre
John Merkle
Lieut
Haley
North
Kennedy
Baltic Steamer Near Sandy Hook and Fatal Collisions
The Baltic nears anchorage off Sandy Hook after reporting the Florida and Republic passengers early Monday. Wireless confirms fatalities aboard the Republic from the collision, rising to six with two passengers and four seamen dead. two more passengers seriously injured. In Pottsville, conductor John Dillinger dies saving Mrs. Mary Groff, 60, who is badly injured after an express collision.
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New York
Baltic
Florida
Republic
Sandy Hook
Marconi
Seagate
Siasconset
Nantucket
Mass
Pottstown
Mary Groff
John Dillinger
Reading Railway
Student Electrocuted at Cornell During Junior Week
Ithaca New York January 25 a Cornell freshman Park Leavitt Hast Orange New Jersey died after contact with a live wire on Oak avenue on the eve of junior week. The tragedy stunned the undergraduate community as investigators probed the incident.
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Ithaca
N. Y
Cornell
Parkman Leavitt
Hast Orange
N. J
College of Mechanical Engineering
Leavitt
Oak Avenue
Wreck On Pennsylvania Line Kills and Injures Dozens
A two train collision on the Pennsylvania railroad near Mineral Point east of Johnstown at 12:30 AM leaves at least 20 dead and many injured. Identified dead include F J Kelly and Charles Coleman. injuries include W F Johnson and W D Kissell. A Curry of carriages from New York to Nashville and from New York to Pittsburg Atlas crushed, with physicians rushing to the scene. Mayor Busse of Chicago was among the injured two years ago in a major wreck at Mineral Point.
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania Railroad
Summer Hill
Allegheny Mountains
Johnstown
Chicago Flyer
F., J. Kelly
Pullman
Jersey City
N. J
Charles Coleman
Pullman Porter
Philadelphia
W. F. Johnson
McKeown
Cincinnati
Adam Rankin
Green Street
Anderson
W. D. Kissell
Altoona
South
Charleston
New York
Nashville
Tenn
Pomeroy
Mineral Point
Busse
Chicago
Forceps Sewed Up in Abdomen Kills Woman in Philadelphia
A Philadelphia woman, Miss Mary G Donovan, died after forceps used in an operation 11 years earlier remained embedded in her abdomen. The surgeon, now deceased, performed the operation at University Hospital. an X ray led to discovery and a late corrective surgery, but she died within hours.
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Philadelphia
Mary G. Donovan
University Hospital
Mob Hangs Suspect in Deputy Sheriff Killing
A mob in Mobile Alabama abducted Douglas Roberson from the county jail and hanged him to a tree after he killed Deputy Sheriff Fatch in a pistole fight. In Transvaal Colony floods claim 173 lives across Johannesburg and surrounding areas.
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Mobile
Ala
Douglas Roberson
Fatch
Transvaal Colony
Johannesburg
Tranavan Colony
Nata
National Child Labor Conference Pushes Factory Inspection
At the fifth annual National Child Labor conference in Chicago the emphasis was on halting child labor by official factory and mine inspection with enforcement power. Leaders cited the influx of foreign races and fragmented state laws as obstacles and urged school attendance mandates and a federal child labor bureau to lead U.S. reform.
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Chicago
Ill
Owen R. Lovejoy
New York
A. J. McKelway
Atlanta
Kentucky
Louisiana
Lovejoy
New York State
Leaps 25 Feet to Liberty After Double Murder
An Italian gunman fleeing in New York jumped 25 feet from a roof to escape police after shooting Pasquale Miami on East Fifteenth Street. Miami died at Bellevue Hospital minutes later. The suspect, identified later as Black Hand, escaped amid a crowded scene as bystanders gave chase. In California, Angel's Camp suffered nine houses washed away by a cloudburst, with one Chinese national killed and Farmington and Linden facing rising San Joaquin water levels.
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New York
Pasquale Miami
East Fifteenth Street
Miami
Bellevue Hospital
Black Hand Brotherhood
Stockton
Cal
Angel's Camp
Farmington
Linden
San Joaquin
Levees Give Way In Sherman Island Flood
Levees of the lower division of Sherman Island failed Thursday afternoon near Isleton, flooding about 5000 acres. The breach occurred on the Sacramento river side under a strong current and a fierce southeastern gale that sent waves washing over the levee tops.
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Sacramento
Cal
Sherman Island
Isleton
Sacramento River
Earthquake Destroys 600+ Houses in Phocaea Smyrna
An official dispatch reports more than 600 houses destroyed by the quake at Phocaea and Smyrna on Wednesday. Shocks continue and residents flee to the mountains. In Lincoln Mrs Francis B Heald signs the lobbyist register to push temperance reform.
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Constantinople
Phocaea
Smyrna
Lincoln, Neb
Francis B. Heald
Osceola
Neb
Letter Published to Promote Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Minneapolis readers are urged to learn from a Mrs John G Moldan letter praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female troubles. The testimonial claims the remedy relieved pains and restored health within three months and notes free confidential advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Lydia E. Pinkham
John G. Moldan
Second St
North
Lydia FE
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