Ohio River Disaster: City of Pittsburg Destroyed by Fire
The steamer City of Pittsburg built at Marietta Ohio in 1899 and valued at 80000 dollars burned to the water edge on the Ohio River near Cairo Illinois at 4 am. A long list of passengers and crew perished or were saved as the craft sank into the Kentucky shore eddy. Rescue efforts included Wesley Neeley carrying two from the wheelhouse and many passengers leaping into the river with children tossed overboard. The vessel, 300 feet by 80 feet, was jointly owned by John M. Phillips Al Brahm and Dana Scott and was deemed the finest craft on the river.
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Cairo
Kentucky
Pittsburg
Ohio River
Wesley Neeley
James Neville
Dayton
Emma Smith
Paducah
Ardue M. Allen
Louisville
Judge Walkey
Metropolis
Ill
Arthur Shelby
Buckner
Watchman
Tunnymyer
Point Pleasant
W. Va
Margaret Bridges
Jennie Bessick
Lexington
C. K. Stakens
Careysville
Shimers
Leech
Pritchett
Marie Lisler
Carrollton
Silvester Ross
Mr. Adams
Ohio
St. Louis
Mr. Downs
Memphis
Tom Smith
Patrick Adams
Owensboro
Morehouse
Joe Ridding
Bud Jones
Striker Engineers
Cincinnati
Sweeney
L. L. Hunter
Litinti
Marietta (O.) Ways
John M. Phillips
al Brahm
Dana Scott
Zanesville
Series of fires in Dallas leaves two dead
In Dallas on Sunday morning a string of fires starting at the Dorsey printing plant caused a $370000 loss. Fire Chief Magee was prostrated and later rescued, while his son was found with a fractured skull. Fireman Will Burr was badly injured by a brick. The chief's condition improved but the son's prognosis remained bleak.
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Dallas
Tex
Magee
Dorsey Printing Establishment
Lower Elm Street
Will »Burr
Wheat Loss From Southern Wind Strikes Kansas
A dry hot southerly wind sweeping Kansas since Sunday morning has caused widespread damage to vegetation and, according to observers, incalculable harm to the wheat crop across the state centered on Topeka. the day is April 21.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Slupsky Claims Self Defense in Fatal Shoting
St Louis April 21 Abe Slupsky a prominent local politician shot and fatally wounded saloonkeeper Chas Piichard with Piichard s revolver during a quarrel Slupsky says he acted in self defense and is under arrest awaiting further action.
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St. Louis
Abe” Slupsky
Chas. Piichard
Slupsky
Ariest
Hottest April Day Recorded in 15 Years at Omaha
Omaha on Sunday marked the warmest April day in 15 years with a 5 p.m. reading of 95 degrees, exceeding the 91-degree record. The heat followed a cold week that required overcoats, causing illnesses in several people, including two in a church. Falls City reported 100 degrees in the shade and drought-stricken fall wheat, while other Southern Nebraska locations noted record April heat.
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Omaha
Neb
Falls City
Mercury
Nebraska
Colored barber runs amuck in Chicago, kills employer
In Chicago on Sunday night Bissett Rolooger, a deaf mute African American, shot and killed his former employer Lee Robinson, a colored barber, and fatally wounded customer James Jefferson during a fit of rage after discharge. He attempted to shoot a nearby policeman but the cartridge misfired, was disarmed, and arrested.
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Chicago
Bissett Rolooger
Lee Robinson
Jas. Jefferson
Rolooger
Fatal Fire in Hackney Printers' Warehouse
A midnight fire in Hackney London gutted a three story printers warehouse with top floors used as living space. Fire crews could not enter as flames raged. Six victims including a man two women and four children were found dead when the blaze subsided.
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London
Hackney
Fire in Kansas City devastates 400 houses
Fire swept a southwestern district of Kansas City Missouri on Sunday afternoon destroying 400 houses along a quarter mile strip. The blaze left 50 poor families homeless and destitute with an estimated loss under 50000 dollars and one fatality reported.
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Kansas City
Earthquake Ruptures Wide Area Reaching Central America
Mexico City reports a strong quake on Friday night affecting a wide region. The Pacific coast area suffered severe damage, and Tapachula in Chiapas near the Guatemalan frontier faces property losses estimated at about one million dollars, with a single wealthy man citing two hundred thousand dollars.
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Mexico City
Central America
Pacific
Tapachula
Chiapas
Guatemalean
Fatal train crash at Dallas Confederate reunion near Bolivar
At Leone seven miles north of Bolivar Tennessee on Sunday a Dallas bound Illinois Central special struck a wagon attempting to cross railroad tracks. Four people were killed and a fifth fatally injured. The victims were in the wagon at the time of impact.
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Bolivar, Tenn
Leone
Here
Lawson to name seven-masted schooner in Quincy yard
Quincy April 21 a Fore River Ship and Engine Co yard project will bear the name Thomas W Lawson for the seven masted schooner under construction it will be the largest sailing vessel ever built and honor the financier and industrialist Thomas W Lawsonобиль
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Lawson
Quincy
Mass
Fore River Ship and Engine Co
Thomas W. Lawson
Fire at Monerey Five-Story Burned. Girl Dies
A Sunday night blaze at the Monerey five story apartment house at 95 Thirty-ninth street in Chicago left several people burned and a little girl dead. The fire raged through the building causing extensive damage and distress in the neighborhood.
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Chicago
Monerey
Thirty-ninth Street
Bank Robbers Loot Goodlettsville Safe and Mail Box
Nashville April 21. Bank of Goodlettsville robbed as bandits blew open the safe taking about 2000 dollars. Post master box looted with 500 dollars in stamps and 90 dollars in currency. Local police vow swift pursuit.
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Nashville
Tenn
Bank of
Goodlettsville
Three Hundred Men Out of Work in Joliet Fire
Three hundred men will be out of work for six weeks after a fire partly destroyed the Proenix Horseshoe Co plant in Joliet Illinois Sunday. Loss is stated at 410000 with no insurance.
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Joliet
Proenix Horseshoe Co
Family wiped out in crowded tenement by Chicago breadline tragedy
Chicago April 22. Dead in a stuffy State street tenement, seven members of the Butler family were found gnawed by rats in advanced decomposition. Police suspect murder and suicide after Butler, an upholsterer, who had frequent disputes with his wife, seemingly killed his family and then died by his own actions.
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Chicago
State Street
Jones Butler
Butler
Talmage Will Leaves Widow One Third Of Estate
The late Rev. T DeWitt Talmage's will filed in Washington grants the widow Eleanor M Talmage a third of an estate valued at over 300000 dollars. Personal property totals about 250000 dollars with real estate around 50000 dollars. Executors plan probate with heirs at law and children confirmed in consent.
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Washington
T. DeWitt Talmage
United States
Massachusetts Avenue
East Hampton
Long Island
Brooklyn
Washington Loan & Trust Co
District Supreme Court
Talmage
Eleanor M. Talmage
City
Jessie T. Smith
May Mangan
Edith T. Donnan
Richmond
Frank DeWitt Talmage
Chicago
Jennie G. Talmage
Ctv
Maud Twickoff
Cape Vincent
N.Y
Terrible Guatemala quake devastates cities and kills hundreds
A powerful earthquake struck Guatemala on Friday night, with reports of up to five hundred dead in Quetzaltenango and Amatitlan destroyed. Communications are down, ruin spans 100 miles of the western republic, residents flee to camps, and aftershocks continue to be felt as the scale of destruction remains unconfirmed.
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Guatemala City
Guatemala
Quesaltenango
Amatitlan
Tragic kerosene fire kills wife and injures husband
In Chicago on April 22 Mrs Abraham Antonarum of Waukeegan Illinois drenched her garments with kerosene and set them ablaze while her husband slept in an adjacent room. He awoke to her screams, broke down the door, and was severely burned trying to extinguish the flames. The act followed a recent quarrel.
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Chicago
Abraham Antoranum
Waukeegan
Antoranum
el At
Tragic Suspected Robbery Death Near Ravenal’s Station
Charleston, April 22. W. W. Jones, a Plant system section master, returned home to Ravenal's Station and found his wife dead in a dog house. Her throat was cut from ear to ear and the head nearly severed. A blood-stained knife and missing items suggest robbery as the motive.
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Charleston
S. C
W. W. Jones
Ravenal’s
Heat Wave In St Louis Sees 88 Degree Peak
A western heat wave hit St. Louis on Monday raising the temperature to 88 for two hours, a jump of 25 degrees in six hours. A cool breeze later lowered temperatures several degrees as the day progressed.
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St. Louis
Heat Sharpens Across Nebraska With 103 at Fairbury
Reports from across Nebraska show higher heat Sunday than early totals. The peak was in Fairbury where the thermometer hit 103 degrees, with clouds later Monday easing the extreme warmth.
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Omaha
Neb
Fairbury
Five Inches of Snow Falls in Black Hills
Reports from Deadwood and Rapid City describe five inches of snow since morning with rain in other Black Hills locations. Omaha dispatches dated April 22 note the snowfall totals and continuing precipitation across the area.
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Omaha
Neb
Deadwood
Rapid City
Meat Prices Rise Across Foreign Market Stages
Cincinnati report shows wholesalers lifting smoked meats by half a cent per pound on Monday. Jams and bacon up to 13 cents per dozen and shoulders at 10 cents. Lamb also increases by 2 cents per pound.
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Cincinnati
Santos-Dumont in talks on aerial contest at fair
St Louis on April 22 reports that M Santos-Dumont the Brazilian aeronaut met with World's Fair officials and scientists to decide terms for the aerial contest at the Louisiana Purchase exposition.
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St. Louis
M. Santos-Dumont
Treasury Statement from Washington April 22 shows cash and gold
Monday's treasury balance report lists available cash at 182,122,684 dollars and gold holdings at 92,085,652 dollars in the general fund excluding the 159,000,000 dollar gold reserve in the division of redemption.
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Treasury
Washington
General Fund
Butter Took a Drop on the Board of Trade
Elgin Illinois April 22 butter prices dipped three cents as 2400 pounds were offered and 690 sold at 28 cents. The quotation committee ruled the sellers too high and set the market at 27 cents.
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Elgin, Til
Board of Trade
Quotation Committee
Steamship Europa Brings 250 Horses to Chickamauga Park
The Europa arrives from Havana with 250 horses and 60 attendants under Lieut. Ciaty of the 7th Cavalry en route to Chickamauga Park.
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7Th Cavalry
Mobile Ala
Europa
Havana
Ciaty
Chickamauga Park
Intercepted Letter Targets Caracas Revolt Leader
Caracas April 22 The government reveals an officer of the Indefatignable within the British squadron wrote to an English friend urging assassination of President Castro to end bloodshed. Official papers attack the British navy and legation officials over the Venezuelan revolution.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Castro
Legation
Pittsburg Players Pool For National League Pennant
The Pittsburg baseball team formed a $10,000 pool to wager on winning the National League pennant this season after Frank DeHaas Robison of St. Louis announced he would back against them. The team accepted the challenge and wired Robison that his bet is on.
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Pittsburg
Frank DeHaas Robison
St. Louis
Robison
Vincennes apartment hotel in Chicago burns, $150000 loss
Chicago April 22 The Vincennes apartment hotel at Thirty sixth and Vincennes avenue was destroyed by fire Monday afternoon. High winds fanned the blaze and firefighters restrained it from spreading to nearby structures. The hotel contained 150 apartments but all occupants escaped unharmed. Loss estimated at 150000 dollars.
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Chicago
Vincennes Apartment
Thirty-sixth and
Vincennes Avenue
Stabbed Professor Huey Hurt In Park Incident
Emporia Kansas April 22 Professor Charles S Huey of Kansas State Normal School was stabbed in the right breast and suffered a crushed upper jawbone after a crowd of young Negroes attacked him at a park fence during a baseball game He was driving the youths from the fence when the assault occurred Both wounds are serious and under medical care.
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Emporia
Kan
Charles S. Huey
Department of Physical Training
Kansas State Normal School
Huey
Nominations for Navy Bureau Chief Sent to White House
Washington April 22 The nomination of Rear Admiral Henry C Taylor for chief of the Bureau of Navigation Navy Department was sent to the White House from the Navy Department Crowninshield's resignation also transmitted The change will be made on the 28th instant.
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Bureau of Navigation
Washington
Henry C. Taylor
Navy Department
White House
Crowninshield
Pruden Interred at Congressional Cemetery in Washington
The remains of Major Octavius L. Pruden, assistant secretary to the president, were interred in Congressional cemetery following full Episcopal rites at Trinity Episcopal Church. A wreath from the White House was among the floral offerings.
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Washington
Octavius L. Pruden
Congressional Cemetery
Trinity Episcopal Church
White House
Missing Huronian Search by Bellona and Thames
The admiralty orders the Bellona to join the Thames in searching for the missing Allan line steamer Huronian. The Bellona will patrol 21,000 miles of the northwestern Atlantic in the effort.
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London
Admiralty
Thames
Atlantic
Will Enter Politics in UK City Seat Contest
London April 22 Rear Adm. Lord Charles Beresford has decided to contest the House of Commons seat vacated by Edwin Hughes the former Conservative agent for the city of London Kent and Greenwich.
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London
Charles Beresford
House of Commons
Edwin Hughes
Kent
Greenwich
Bones Found In Wisconsin Gravel Pit Likely Mastodon
In La Crosse Wisconsin on April 22 bones found in a railroad gravel pit are believed to be mastodon remains. The discovery includes exceptionally large bones and teeth about eight inches long, suggesting an extinct species rather than any living animal.
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la Crosse
Wis
Representative Grosvenor Seeks Congress Thanks for Hay Oration
Washington April 22 Representative Grosvenor of Ohio favorably reported a resolution expressing Congress gratitude to Secretary Hay for his oration at memorial exercises in Congress honoring President McKinley.
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Hay
Washington
Grosvenor
Ohio
Congress
President McKinley
Veteran Circus Clown Dead in Erie
Robert Hunting, famed as a premier circus clown after Dan Rice, died of apoplexy at the Soldiers Home in Erie on Monday. He had resided at the institution for some time.
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Erie
Robert Hunting
Dan Rice
Soldiers
State Items of Interest in the General Assembly
Ohio lawmakers debate bills on penitentiary safeguards, embalmers, and school and municipal reforms. Senate measures include redistricting and high schools. House acts cover fire pension funds, poisons control, tax shifts, and oil company liability. Meantime, high meat prices prompt concerns over unfit cattle and slaughter practices in Cleveland.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Canal Commission
Board of Administration
Toledo
Senate
Ohio Penitentiary
United States
House
Seavill
Archer
Patterson
State
Druggists’ Association
Moore
Riggin
Madison
Washington, D. C
One Man Killed and Six Injured in Newark Train Collision
In Newark Ohio on Friday morning the second section of B&O Freight No 32 collided with the first section, killing one man and injuring six. Engineer Shannon Osborne of the second division was believed to be asleep or dead in his cab when the crash occurred. Osborne’s engine plunged into the canal feeder and the locomotive buried him. workers had to tunnel beneath the monstrous machine to recover his mangled body.
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Newark
Erie
Shannon Osborne
Osborne
Trestle Burned Cuts Freight Train Drop into Walnut Creek
A 12-car Cleveland, Akron and Columbus line freight train derailed after its 300-foot trestle burned and collapsed at Sunbury Delaware. The wreck caused $200,000 in losses as two wrecking crews work to complete a new trestle within 48 hours. In Toledo a St Bernard saves a nine year old girl from a cistern by supporting her head above water after she fell in.
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Delaware, O
Cleveland, Akron & Columbus Railway
Sunbury
Walnut Creek
Toledo
Josie Smith
Ohio stove makers to announce 5 percent price rise
In Columbus on April 22, ahead of a meeting of the Ohio Stove Manufacturers association, it is reliably stated that a minimum five percent price increase will be announced. The manufacturers cite higher production costs as the justification.
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Columbus
Ohio Stove Manufacturers’ Association
Boy Decapitated Riding Train Above Bridge Near Dayton
Day on the Big Four limited train ends in tragedy as Harry Egbert, a Dayton youth, rides on top of a locomotive and is decapitated by an iron string under an overhead bridge six miles south of Dayton. The train arrives with the headless body atop the car.
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Dayton
Harry Egbert
Mrs Slusser Dies After Carbolic Acid Swallowing
Cincinnati April 21 Mrs Carrie Slusser wife of assistant building inspector Edward A Slusser swallowed carbolic acid Sunday morning in an alleged insane impulse and died after a half hour of terrible agony at the city hospital.
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Cincinnati
Carrie Slusser
Edward A. Slusser
City Hospital
Oxford Mayor Murders? No, Oxford Mayor Marries Secretly
Hamilton Ohio April 22. Mayor John S Muddell, newly elected, reveals he and Miss Jennie B Murray wed in Allegheny Pennsylvania on October 9 1901 The marriage remained secret while Mrs Muddell completed training as a nurse at Western Pennsylvania Hospital Pittsburg.
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Hamilton, O
John S. Muddell
Oxford
Jennie B. Murray
Allegheny
Strike at Youngstown carpenters and shopmen walk out
Two hundred carpenters and shopmen at Heller Brothers lumber firm struck after the company refused to reinstate seven carpenters it had discharged. The action began Monday morning in Youngstown Ohio.
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Youngstown
Heller Brothers Lumber Concern
Local capitalists plan large sewer pipe works at East Liverpool
Independent capitalists in East Liverpool Ohio announce construction of a major sewer pipe manufactory. The plant, to sit under a trust-free umbrella, will boast at least twenty five kilns and position the city among the nation’s largest producers of sewer pipe.
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East Liverpool
Trust
Engineer Died Suddenly in Chillicothe Return Trip
John Randolph Walters, a prominent Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern engineer, returned from Cincinnati on Train No. 2 with his engine and began home. He was found dead, the cause given as heart disease, in Chillicothe Ohio on April 22.
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Chillicothe, O
John Randolph Walters
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
Cincinnati
Redistricting Bill Nears Passage in Columbus
The conference committee in Columbus Ohio on April 22 recommended the Patterson bill as amended in the House after a lengthy fight over Congressional redistricting. The provisions now move toward final action.
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Columbus
House
Who Owns the Ring Found in Grand River Fish
Matt Hietta of Fairport found a gold ring encrusted with a lime like substance in a big catfish from the Grand river near Richmond. The initials B. L. are engraved and the owner remains unknown.
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Painesville
Matt Hietta
Fairport
Grand River
Richmond
B. L
Thatcher scores another victory in forgery case ruling
Springfield C April 22 George W Thatcher has scored another victory in the alleged forgery case. Judge Mower sustained Thatcher's motion to strike from the files the motion by Prosecutor McGrew for a new trial on the plea in that case.
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Springfield
George W. Thatcher
Mower
Thatcher
McGrew
Tramp Confesses Dynamite Incident In Springfield
Springfield police report officer Gonder arrived from Mechanicsburg with a tramp who registered as Earl Aikens. He confesses to throwing a dynamite cartridge on the stove at Joshua Allen’s home Thursday.
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Springfield
Gonder
Mechanicsburg
Earl Aikens
Joshua Allen
Raids Reported On Two Dayton Saloons
Dayton April 21 police raided Keller Bros. saloon at Main and Ring and George Grimme's saloon at 1203 Brown street for alleged Sunday closing ordinance violations.
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Dayton
Keller Bros
Main
Ring Streets
George Grimme
Brown Street
Child’s dress caught near bonfire. death follows
Newark Ohio reports Elmer Linton’s seven year old daughter died from burns after getting too near a bonfire near St Lou isville. Linton suffered severe burns while trying to extinguish the flames, leaving the family in distress and the incident under local notice.
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Newark
St. Louisville
Elmer Linton
Louis G. Olb Dies Suddenly at 32
Louis G. Olb aged 32 died suddenly of cerebral hemorrhage in his Hotel Algonquin room on Sunday. He served as private secretary to Congressmen Houk and Sorg in Dayton Ohio.
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Louis G. Olb
Dayton
Hotel Algonquin
Houk and
Sorg
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