Two Hundred Dead in New York Drugstore Explosion Riot
A massive blast at a wholesale fan building in lower New York caused five alarms and widespread destruction. Reports say about 200 people perished or were gravely injured as debris flew through streets. high fires, collapsed walls, and damaged elevated rails disrupted a wide area around Warren and Chambers streets.
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New York
Tarrant & Co
Sixth Avenue
Tarrant
Ng Bank
Chambers
Warren
Washington
Greenwich
Olipeman
Gavin
Warren Street
Galvin
Head hacked to pieces in Chattanooga homicide arson
In Chattanooga on October 29 police found the body of Effie Cawthorn’s 16 year old son in a bedroom, hatchet wounds and blood in a fire set to hide the crime. Detectives with bloodhounds searched the scene after the widow confessed to killing the boy for being bad and smoking cigarettes.
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Chattanooga
Onarranooga
Effie Cawthorn
Legislature Meets in Annual Session in Georgia
The Georgia lower house opened the session with officers chosen from a Democratic caucus. Governor Candler’s message praises prosperity, urges cautious taxation, and supports larger appropriations. He notes cotton prices, a record wheat crop, and calls for tax reform, a home for aging veterans, and amendments on suffrage and convict management.
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Georgia
Atlanta
John T. Boiseiullet
Alerks
Lumpkin
Morris
Cobb
John D. Little
Muscogee
John T. Boisenillet
F. M. Durham
Williford
Fayette
T. R. R.cobb
Candler
General Assembly
Enormous Increase in Russian Cotton Output
Soviet data show Russian Central Asia cotton area rising about 80 percent this year yielding an estimated 7.5 million pood, half of Russia’s needs, up from 6 million pood. The gain follows a higher raw cotton import duty last winter and signals an improving cotton industry.
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Permissora
Cotti
Russian Central Asia
Novos Vromyna
Trans
Aspia
Thora
Moscow
Russia Imposes New Red Cross Tax on Rail Tickets
The government, citing aid to the Red Cross, taxes railway fares at 5 kopecks on trips costing 2 rubles or more, a second such levy in two months after an earlier 5 to 10 ruble license tax. Estimated yearly yield is about 120,000 dollars from tickets and 100,000 from licenses. The czarina linked to the Red Cross is noted as originator of the idea.
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Georgi
Treasury
General Assembly
Thnis
Petersoune
Red Cross Society
Wis
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THE
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London
Leoppold de Rothsschild
Times
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United States
Prierspura
Baltic
Poland
Warsaw
Central Asia
Russia
RED Cross
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