U S Consul Kirjassott Dies Saving Wife in Osaka Quake
Eyewitness account recalls U S Consul Kirjassott rushing into a shattered Tokohama consulate to rescue his wife as the building collapsed during the quake. He urged staff to care for his two boys before succumbing to burns, while the boys escaped. News from Okohama reports fires fanned by gale after the quake, with American and other foreign nationals among the dead.
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Hama
Yokohama
Bay
Reich
Kite
Purington
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Kirpas
Sembach
Pine
Albert
Cannon
Coolie
Epita
Tokio
Kiryassoff
Oshima Island Vanishes After Massive Eruption
Reports from KIO outline a catastrophic eruption and earthquake that sank Oshima off Japan, killing or drowning its population. Yokohama and Tokio suffered massive destruction with widespread homelessness. relief efforts are mobilized as the royal family and foreign officials endure.
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Kio
Iwaki
Oshima
Mother of Pearl
Yokohama
Bay of
Tokio
Greece issues Albania ultimatum over Italian officers slain
Athens accepts the Council of Ambassadors terms in the Greco Italian dispute and Greece delivers an ultimatum to Albania demanding the surrender of five Italian official slayers near Janina within five days. Demonstrations and attacks on Italians flare in Patras and Corfu as Greek violence rises.
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Greece
Council of Ambassadors
Corfu
Albania
Janina
Patras
Rome
United Press
Names of 12 more Americans die in Japanese disaster
Washington reports 12 additional American fatalities from the Kobe Japanese disaster per Comsal Dickover. The list includes relatives of E. E. Miller San Francisco W Purington J Quint of Hilo Hawaii and several New York Tokyo Yokohama and Grand Hotel residents among the missing and identified.
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United Press
Comsal Dickover
Kobe
E. E. Miller
San Francisco
W. Purington
Purington
J. Quint
Hilo
Hawaii
Irvin Lex
Feltman & Company
New York
Robert Swain
Yokohama
Raymond Arias
Rogers Moore
Grand Hotel
Destroyers Wrecked Near Honda and Raging Bay News
Reports from Conception California describe destroyers wedged on rocks near Honda with several vessels ashore in dense fog. Other dispatches cover horse riders reaching Sacramento after crossing a border, Navy perfume safety in Tokyo, a Japanese earthquake impact on ships, and Portland coach Pop Newell moving to Harvard.
Man is identified in Tacoma shooting death
A 66 year old well dressed man killed himself this afternoon at the stadium in Tacoma Washington. The only identifier found was R. M. Gray of Portland on a hat band marked with the number 4. No other marks were found.
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Wash
R. M. Gray
Portland
Detroit man charged in Portland forgery case
Albert Preston alias Albert P. Morton, 27, of Detroit Michigan, was arrested in Portland on forgery charges after allegedly signing another’s name to negotiable paper stolen in Salem. The documents yielded $2,000 from a local bank and Preston reportedly had robberies in Denver and Portland.
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Ore
Albert Preston
Albert P. Morton
Detroit
Michigan
Salem
Oregon
Preston
Denver
Pacific Mall Liner Cuba Wrecked Off California Coast
Adrift in fog, the Pacific Mail steamer Cuba crashed on Point Bennett rocks near San Miguel Island. Chief Officer Wise and eight crew members volunteered to seek help as the Cuba sinks, with the destroyer Melville and the Reno diverting to aid. no official death toll confirmed, all aboard were being transferred ashore as rescuers arrived.
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Santa Barbara
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Whee
Bearest
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Los Angeles
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Reno
San Pedro
Federal Telegraph Company
Panama Canal
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Inglewood
San Diego
Santa Barbara Channel
Santa Catalina Island
Mexican Porte
San Francisco
Englewood
Fremo
Miners and operators sign two year wage pact ending strike
In Harrisburg Pennsylvania the final agreement to end the hard coal strike was signed in Governor Pinchot's office. The contract provides a 10 percent wage increase and an eight hour day for two years. A tri district convention in Scranton will ratify followed by local sanctions and signatures.
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Scranton
Harrishurch
Herrin Outbreak Linked to Klan Activity Against Liquor
Fire officials report an arson attempt at Carl Hellson residence and a blaze at Marshall McCormick’s grocery as authorities warn of an outbreak of incendiary actions tied to Ku Klux Klan activity opposing liquor law violators and bootleggers in Herrin Illinois.
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Iifs
William- Leon County
Serene
Carl Hellson
Marshall McCormick
Wobblies Strike in Ore Lumber Region
In Portland Oregon on September 2 the IWW poured into the city as the Vanguard of the Wobbly army ordered a strike aimed at tying up lumber camps and mills across the Northwest. The marchers came by foot and five special cars led by M I Shull, strike committee chairman. Most participants were from Hurley Mason construction crews on the upper Clackamas river.
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Ore
I. W.W
Northwest
M. I. Shull
Hurley-Mason
Clackamas River
Thut
Man Drowns After Suicide Attempt in Lake Michigan
In Seattle on September 8 a well dressed man about 60 years old waded into Lake Michigan and killed himself. He used a knife and drank poison to ensure death before sinking. His body was recovered and sent to the morgue.
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Seattle
Wash
Lake Michigan
Frieda Marks Picked as Arizona Republican Associate Member
Prescott Arizona Sept 8 Special Arizona joined the nation in GOP steps today as Mrs Frieda Marks of Maricopa county was named associate member of the Republican National Committee from Arizona. Mrs Marks has long been active in the state party and in organized women’s activities.
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Arizona
Atep
Mra
Friedda Marks
Maricopa County
Republican National Committee
Marke
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