Descent From Smokestack Echoes a Narrow Escape
Harrington recalls his fall inside a 110 foot smokestack at Jones and Laughlin’s South Side mill. He emerged atop the boiler house, then fell through to the steam dome, surviving a near death moment. Fellow riggers Frank Woolen and Frank Grady escaped serious injury.
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Harrington
Seth Harrington
Jones & Lancblin
South Side
Frank Woolem
Four Mile Run
Frank Grady
Twenty-seventh Street
Woolet
Grady
Counterfeit Money Made in New York Prison Workshops
Readable fragments detail a Blackwell's Island penitentiary operation where convicts produced hundreds of dollars in counterfeit dimes from prison workshop lead and plaster casts. The warden uncovered tools, and the scheme’s duration remains uncertain while public nerves reel from the Parkhurst Lexow era. Jane Addams plans street cleaning contracts in Chicago, with specific ash sorting methods and a price for clean ashes.
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New York City
Blackwell's Island Penitentiary
New York
Parkhurst
Lexovns
Big
Paris
Jane Addams
Hull
Chicago
Summons in Justice Court of Wads Worth Township Nevada
The document summons the defendant to appear before the Justice Court of Wainworth Township Winahot County Nevada to answer a debt claim of 740 dollars for goods and merchandise delivered by Williams Macvin Company at San Aire, CHL. WE-VONP Seka Hyalwaee and others are named in the action. notice requests appearance and full defense by the defendant. Given under the hand of the Justice on the fourth day of November 15.
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Justice Court OF
Wadsworth
Willians-Macvin Company
San Aire
Mrbignee
Willams
Dollaeah
A. de Bryn
Wisbuve
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New Hill
Holmes, M.D
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DR. P. Harmony
Ome
Roalleave
Mra
Dorsey
Track
Men
Popo
Phelps
Reso, Nevada
DR Hi
McDonald
Sfen Wadsworth, Nevada
Disraton
Nevada House
David W. Rolison
Reno
College of Dentistry
University of California
Goodwin & Dodge
Attorneys-At-Law
Witive
First National Bank
Weno, Nevada
T. V. Julien
Reno, Nevada
DR. Geo.fer
Nites
KAW
Anon
Baik of Smaly
Bieneluer's
C.D. Horman
Bronelly
GTS Cine
Wadsworth Dispatch
THE
Dispatom Publibiing CO
Jose
Jones & Laughlin
Whal
Marrington
Pittsbury
Pn Innorts
Mintersignet Wave Leuser
Folly
Peedine Corals
Wileworth Willel
Tenegraph
Poole & Willy
White Horse Livery
Maudaworth
Nev
Wadsworth Mining and Milling Co
Emo B
White Horse
Cras. T
Wadsworth Saloon
SHORT
Tim
Fireie
J. G. Ede
Nevada
Conor
Wadsworth — Com
Mercial CO
ATENT
Jeni
U. S
C.a.snow &Co
Washington, D.C
Ising
Scientific Patren Agency
Notiov
Eolinghouse, Prop'r
George Herberth
P. Russak
Wilite
Poole & Willey
New
W. T. Golding
Practical Boot and Shoe Maker
Yeates
TOSP
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