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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1902
Page
2
An advertisement extols Scott's Emulsion as a nourishing fattening tonic for invalids convalescents and weak children. It promises to increase bone flesh blood and nerves and to support those on milk diets or lacking appetite as a natural restorative food.
Fire swept the Alameda mole end in San Francisco destroying the Southern Pacific depot, ferry slips, and many railway coaches. The Oakland ferry crew rooms burned. around ten dock workers are missing and presumed dead. Loss estimated at 450000 to 500000 dollars as two fireboats battled the blaze.
A fire in Monongahela on Main Street destroyed a block and a half of business property, caused about 125000 dollars in damage, and left several families homeless. Firefighters faced no water in mains initially, but dynamite was readied as water finally flowed and fighting began.
Nelson Hersh editor of the Sunday World is killed near his West Brighton home when his buggy plunges into a ditch. He falls and sustains a fractured skull, dying at forty one. A Yale graduate and former Davenport Gazette and New York Commercial Advertiser staffer, he had led the Sunday World for two years.
The trading town of Resht in Persia has burned with about 200 confirmed deaths and many more missing. Warehouses storing valuable goods were destroyed. Resht lies near Ensili on the Caspian with 25 000 to 30 000 residents. The city is a silk and cocoon market with strong Russia trade. it was plague decimated in 1830.
A thick Detroit fog in the morning caused multiple street car crashes with numerous minor injuries. Cars collided along several lines, bumped other vehicles, and edges with pedestrians, while river navigation was largely halted from midnight to 8 am.
Sioux City November 21 C J Dixon superintendent of the Omaha division of the Illinois Central railroad is dead at Cherokee Iowa after a long illness He had served the road for more than twenty five years
In Scranton on November 22, it was learned that parties to the mining dispute intend to adjourn the president's arbitration commission to allow workers and operators time to confer. Judges indicate this plan as attorneys on both sides refuse to discuss details.
Dr. R H Gibbons testifies that mining work exposes men to pleurisy gout neuralgia asthma bronchitis and other diseases and urges medical exams. He warns against underage workers and notes poor ambulance conditions in coal regions. The panel considers delaying to gather company records and expert analyses for a full factual tally.
Hazleton Pennsylvania November 21 workers at A Pardee and Co Cranberry and Crystal Ridge collieries settled a strike by agreeing as a group to sign a noninterference pledge. Three accused men will not be reinstated while Coxe Bros and Co talks continue Calumet Michigan November 21 Finnish leader Alex Leinanen dies at fifty six after cancer fight. He founded the United States first Finnish paper.
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