Utah and Ogden News Snapshot from 1910 Era
Reports detail local incidents, from a Belmont incident to a fatal overdose hint. Notes mention a new macadamized road, a prison project, and a railroad boulevard between Huntville and Ogden Canyon. Significant items include a shooting near Spanish Fork, Frederick Lutz’s death, governance visits, and regional pop events like peach day and tabernacle park plans.
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Asrest
Alavelot
Thomas
Belmont
Bn Ogden
Hfuntaville
Ogden Canyon
Eph Y Teppsons
Nilee Magele Christianson
Brigham City
Gilbert Nielson
Timothy Ltrch
Spanish Mark
Frederick Lutz
Overland Company
West
Salt Lake
Gov. Spry
Lieut Com. Pearson
Utah
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Ward Room
Ailver
Davis County Light and Power Company
Halliday
Patriarcha
IOOP
Ffrat
William Glasminn
Ogden
George Wilson
R T Smith
Weber County
Post Office Department
J W Unsion
Brigham
Goldin Fosgate
Eden
Liberals Defeated in Canada Landslide Replaces Laurier
Liberals swept from power in a Dominion wide landslide as Conservatives win a large majority. Ontario backs the Conservatives while Quebec retains some Liberal gains. Laurier retires after nearly two decades directing Canada. Conservatives secure 132 seats to Liberals 91 for a 51 seat opposition majority.
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Montreal
Laurier
Canada
Liberals
Ontario
Robert L Barden
Conservative
Fielding Knox
American Congress
United States
Empire
Quebec
Liberal Party
Wilfrid Laurier
Haa
Dominion
Taft disappointed as Canada reciprocity fails in Kalamazoo
President Taft, in Kalamazoo at a banquet, said he had learned reciprocity had failed in Canada. He expressed disappointment but stated the two countries can still conduct business as before and that Canada’s decision does not alter American trade relations.
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Kalamazoo Mich
Taft
Canada
Dissolution of Steel Trust Reported in New York
Reports from New York say the United States Steel corporation faces dissolution and reorganization under intense DOJ scrutiny. Authorities indicate the steel trust is negotiating to meet government demands, but the complex case hampers progress.
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Big Corporation
New York
United States Steel Corporation
Department of Justice
Billon Dollar Trust
Steel Corporation
Wedding party spill injures multiple on Ogden canyon curve
A wedding party returning from Huntsville in a heavy carriage on Ogden canyon road overturned on a curve early Friday. Thirteen people were injured including the bride Blaine Daxter of Ogden and bride Pearl Smith of Huntsville. Bishop E A Olson of Ogden who presided at the ceremony also injured.
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Ogden
Hunteville
Ogden Canyon Road
Blaine Daxter
Miss Pearl Smith
Huntsville
E A Olson
Population estimates hint at Canada’s fifth cen ten a total
Unofficial calculations project Canada’s fifth century population near eight million, with Ottawa and national figures tracking the trend. The June-started census completion is expected to yield a population total under eight million.
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Ottawa
Canada
Aces airship tragedy ends in fatal blaze at Troy
Dayton aviator Frank H Miller aged 23 from Toledo was forced aloft amid jeers and burned to death when his aeroplane exploded after stalling at Miami County Fair grounds. Spectators watched as the craft plunged and flames erupted, destroying the machine and leaving Miller dead.
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Dayton
Frank H Miller
Toledo
Spectatora
Miami County Fair
Troy
Miller
Assassin Sentenced at Court Martial for Stolypin’s Death
Dmitry Bogroff the assassin of Premier Stolypin was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by hanging. He shot Stolypin on the 14th during a gala at the opera. the premier died of his wounds on September 18th. The court martial, attended by twenty officials, none of them testified due to Bogroff’s guilty plea except Colonel Kuliabko who examined him and enabled the admission to the theater.
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Kiev
Russia
Dmitry Bogroff
Stolypin
Kuliabko
Gogroff
Stelypin
Bogroff
Reyes Withdraws From Mexican Presidential Race
General Bernardo Reyes says elections on October 1 would be illegal due to unrest and urges followers not to vote as Congress debates postponement. This foreshadows defeat of the move to extend the election date beyond October 1.
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Mexico City
Mexican Congress
Bernardo Reyes
Denver Postal Official Arrested Over Funds Misuse
Joseph P Havilck long time superintendent of the money order division at the Denver post office was arrested Friday on charges of misappropriation of funds sent to the Denver office from substations and outside offices.
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Denver
Joseph P Havilck
Money Order
Denver Post Office
Kenosha Manufacturer Dies in Chicago Hotel Fall
Charles WW Allen a wealthy Kenosha manufacturer was killed Friday afternoon after falling from a fourth floor hotel window in downtown Chicago. The coroner's jury ruled the death accidental.
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Chicago
Charles WW. Allen
Kenosha, Wis
Twenty Die As Storm Ravages Vesuvian District
A terrifying storm swept the Vesuvian district Friday causing heavy loss of life and property damage. Twenty people are known to be killed, with many families still unaccounted for and feared dead.
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Naples
Vesuvian
WILL EXTEND ROAD Reorganization of the Moffat road
Stockholders meet in Denver October 14 to authorize 5 percent bonds totaling 40 million to retire 22 million old debt and 66 percent income bonds of eight million six hundred thousand. Capital stock to double, new preferred at 6 percent. Plan aims to finish road to Salt Lake and related lines, with eastern bankers financing.
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Moffat Road
Denver
Colon
Evans
Pew Preferred
Perry
Cvana
Salt Lake
Une
Colorado
Sherman’s Son Committed to California Insane Hospital
Thomas E Sherman, son of Gen William Tecumseh Sherman, is committed to the Agnew State Hospital for the Insane after a suicide attempt Wednesday morning near Los Gatos following discussion of the Civil War march from Atlanta to the sea. The case arose in San Jose California.
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Sherman
San Jose
Cal
Thomas E Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman
Atlanta
State Hospital For the Insane
Agnew
Los Gatos
Wealth Joined to Wealth in Deauville Marriage
Wealth and social circles unite as Ogden L Mills son of Mr and Mrs Ogden Mills of New York wed Miss Margaret Rutherford daughter of Mrs William K Vanderbilt Sr in a Deauville ceremony conducted by Mayor Da Launoy of Neauville.
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Deauville
France
Ogden L Mills
Ogden Milla
New York
Margaret Rutherford
William K Vanderbilt
da Launoy
Neauville
Hearst Buys Castile Castle in Lincolnshire News
Reported Thursday, William R Hearst purchased Tattershall Castle in Lincolnshire from the mid fifteenth century era. The ancient fortification will be torn down and reconstructed on Long Island, New York.
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London
Tattershall Castle
Lincolnshire
William St Hearst
Long Island
Unrest in Europe Driven by Food Riots and War Fears
London dispatches report widespread socialist uprisings, food riots, and general strikes across Europe with Spain at the center due to a Morocco war. Governments in France, Austria, and Hungary suppress unrest as workers demand a larger share of wealth while monarchies face revocation efforts.
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London
Europe
Hlland
Sweden
Switzerland
Spain
Socialista and
Revolutionarate
Morocca
Losbon
Bac
Austria
Hungary
Taft Busy Day in St Louis with Speeches Games and Travel
President Taft spent a busy Saturday in St Louis delivering speeches and riding in an automobile tour. He opened the local football season at Saint Louis University, laid the cornerstone of a new building for the WCA, attended a baseball game between the St Louis and Philadelphia NL teams, and was made a life member of the Mason's Club before traveling overnight to reach Kansas on Sunday.
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St Louis
Taft
St Louis University
Mason’s Club
Kansas
Swindling the Public in High Society Stock Scheme
New York detective squad arrests target Jared Flagg once a dive keeper and Daniel N Mogran former U S treasurer, along with Tennyson Neeley and five associates including a clergyman. They raided Flagg's lavish Tilden building suite where a fifty two percent stock brokerage syndicate operated. Reported receipts exceed $1,600,000.
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New York
Jared Flagg
Daniel N Mogran
United States
Tennyson Neeley
Flage
Tilden
Ita Recelpte
Maine Destroyed by Internal Explosion at Havana
The Maine was destroyed by an internal explosion, with the coffer dam around the wreck pumped out and mud cleared. The wreckage shows the ship’s double bottom and part of the keel standing about twenty eight feet higher than its natural position.
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Maine
Havana
Pioneer Run Down by Car in Salt Lake City
John P Morten senior a 79 year old pioneer of Salt Lake was struck by an eastbound Ashton avenue streetcar on Saturday night and died from severe injuries an hour later witnesses said the man had helped settle the city decades ago and his death shocks the community
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Salt Lake City
John P Mortensen
Salt Lake
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Mberal
Liberata
Dissolution OF Steel Trust
Population of
General Reyes
Reno
Nev
Nichols
Washoe County
G M Smith
Velizzari
Sparks
Hearst
Castile
Morocco
Pioneer
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