Fire consumes six story factory as ladders fail
Fire in a six story factory at 58th street and West 59th in New York destroys the building and endangers adjacent tenements. Water pressure failed, ladders jammed, but firemen connected engines and saved surrounding homes. Spectators watched a man struggle at a window while a blanket was readied below.
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New York
Fifty Eighth Street
Eleventh Avenue
West Hfty-ninth Street
Consolidated Gas Company
Roosevelt Hospital
Tenegent
Fifty-eighth Street
Ong Sreman
Fraternal Notices Funeral Services and Deaths
Fraternal notices from Jerusalem Lodge No 9 announce a special communication at Maronic Temple for Dolph Bilot funeral. Obituaries list Corron Fellows Hart Murphy King Keefer Bealing Youngs with funeral details in Norwich Conn and Washington DC. Comrades invited to attend services at St Stephens Church and local residences, with dates December 25 1906 and December 27 1905.
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New Jerusalem
Maronic Temple
Sin and Fats
Brther
Rat Dolph
Chenderem
Corroy
James M. Corron
Seventh Street
Fellows
Norwich
Conn
Jane E. Fellows
Elizabeth Key Hart
Wilam Hart
Sixth Street
St. Dominic's Church
Murphy
Matthew Murphy
United States Dragoons
Kit Carson Post
St. Stephen's Church
Pennsylvania Avenue
Twenty-fifth Street
E. Uglass King
Chas
F. Keefer
Bealiing
Ignatius
Mary A. Spalding
Tate
Fifteenth Street
Leonardtown
Youngs
Elphanza Youngs Wera
First Congregational Church
Newspaper Name List Shielding Local Readers
A compilation of major U S newspapers including Buffalo Courier Chicago Record Herald Philadelphia Public Ledger Pittsburgh Dispatch Providence Journal Rochester Herald St Louis Republic Syracuse Post Standard St Paul Pioneer Press Minneapolis Tribune Cleveland Plain Dealer Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Buffalo Courier
Chicago Record-Herald
Philadelphia Pulic Lecure
Pittsburg Dispatch
Providence Journal
Rochester Herald
S T Louis Republic
Syracuse Post-Standard
ST Paul Pioneer Press
Minneapolis Tribune
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cincinnati Enquirer
Turmoil in the Baltic as Riga and Libau Brace for Change
Reports from Riga and Libau describe ongoing unrest as revolutionary forces gain influence. Soviet-like committees replace police, money loses value, and foreign ships offer refuge while authorities maintain a wary, uneasy calm amid strikes, protests, and nightly patrols.
Fatal shot in the dark in Tallahassee
W F E Collins an art worker for the Tallahassee Light and Waterworks was killed at work when an unknown caller ordered him and a negro helper to come out. A bullet struck Collins in the forehead. Moments later Robert German, a young local figure, stumbled into a nearby home with a chest wound and his coat singed from a close range gunfire. German cannot explain his injuries. Collins recently moved from Wrightsville Georgia.
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Talahassee
Pla
W. FE. Collins
Tallahassee
Collina
Wrightsville
Strike Off At Warsaw Ends Telegraph Strike
Warsaw Russian Poland December 9 The strike of post and telegraph employees ends with strikers accepting conditions. Telegraphers resume work today. Military governor bans street newspaper sales singing revolutionary songs meetings and processions with up to three months in prison and fines up to 1500. Railroad men decide to resume work unless St Petersburg comrades join the strike.
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Warsaw
Russian Poland
Post and Telegraph
St. Petersburg
France Sends Warships to Baltic to Protect Citizens
Brest December 23 French cruisers Cas Salt and Admiral Aube ordered to Baltic runs with planned Copenhagen call. They will protect and may embark French citizens in danger. Petersburg December 23 Quarrel in town left Andrew Beasley cut on neck by Noy Southall. Southall arrested.
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Baltic
Republic
Washington Post
Brest
France
Cassal
Copenhagen
Admiral Aube
Petersburg
Andrew Beasley
Noy Southall
Southall
New Flying Machine Aims to Let Men Fly Like Birds
John P. Holland, Newark inventor, previews a light thirty pound two winged flying device. He says it can ascend by two pairs of wings vibrating in opposite directions, enabling a man to fly up to forty miles per hour and land safely if power or control fails. He expects trials next spring and mentions interest from two syndicates.
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New York
John P. Holland
Mgr. Holand
Mr. Holland Mves
Newton Street
Newark
N. J
Nassau Street
Mr. Holland
United States
Holland
Knabenshue
Washington
Locomotive Explodes Injuring Two Trainmen at Paterson
A Paterson New Jersey freight locomotive boiler explosion today badly scalded two crew members. Fireman Charles Debarr of Stroudsburg Pennsylvania and Conductor Mabie of Butler New Jersey suffered severe injuries with Debarr in critical condition. The engineer escaped unscathed as the engine and surrounding equipment were wrecked.
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Paterson Paterson
N. J
Charles Debarr
Stroudsburg
Mabie
Butler
Debarr
Bugquehanna
Neer
Otiers
Two Killed by a Train Near Philadelphia
Charles H. Hansen, a well to do farmer, and his eight year old daughter Edna were killed crossing railroad tracks near Camp Hill fifteen miles north of Philadelphia. They were riding in a runabout and the view of the approaching Reading Railway express was obstructed by a high embankment. The accident occurred within sight of their home while they were returning home after gifting relatives and friends for Christmas.
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Philadelphia
Charles H. Hansen
Edna
Reading Railway
Camp Hil
Festivities Aboard Dolphin Christmas Day Observed Aboard
The U S S Dolphin celebrated Christmas Day with decorations from stern to bow and a special dinner for Yemen by Commissary Yeoman E A Thelal. In appreciation the men presented Mr Thelal with a combined satchel and travelling case, and he expressed gratitude and pledged to look after their needs to the best of his ability. Also advertised is travel to Asheville via Southern Hunway in Pullman sleepers leaving Washington at 10 45 PM Tuesdays and Fridays arriving Asheville 1 40 PM next day.
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Yemen
E A. Thelal
Mr. Thelal
Asheville
Lamb of the Sky
Southern Huniway
Washington
Schwabs Celebrate Christmas Dinner in New $6,000,000 Mansion
Charles M Schwab and Mrs Schwab hosted an informal Christmas dinner for relatives and friends in their new Riverside Drive mansion, a French chateau style palatial home famed as perhaps the finest in New York after Carnegie and Vanderbilt. The six million dollar house, spanning blocks between Riverside Drive and West End Avenue, was lit at night and drew admiration from guests touring the residence.
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Speela
Washington Poat
New York
Charles M. Schwab
Mrs. Schwab
Riverside Drive
West End Avenue
Seventy-third
Seventy-fourth Streets
Mr. Schwab
God the New House
New York City
Andrew Carnegie
Fifth Avenue
Ninety-first Street
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Fifty-seventh Street
Hudson River
Schwab
Louis XIV
Prefontaine Dies in Paris While Minister of Marine
Joseph Raymond Fournier Prefontaine, Canada’s minister of marine and fisheries, died suddenly in Paris after heart trouble. He arrived with solicitor general Randolph Lemieux to discuss a Marseilles to Canadian ports steamer line. Born Longueuil, Quebec in 1800, educated at McGill, he served in Parliament and as minister since 1902.
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Paris
Joseph Raymond Fournier Prefontaine
J. BR. F Prefontaine
Longueuil
Province of
Quebec
New France
McGill University
Montreal
Dominion House of Commons
Sailors Capture Norfolk Amid Street Disorder
In Norfolk Virginia on December 2 a thousand sailors and marines crowded Church Street between Main and Cove streets. The mob threatened two Negro men, prompting Patrolman Stephenson to intervene and rescue the pair. The gathering marched past the YMCA, blocked streets, and disrupted trolley service with candy-throwing sparks lighting up roofs.
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Norfolk
United States
Church Street
Main
Cove
Stephenson
Church
Holt
Naval ¥. M. C. A
Chorus Singers Strike Threat at Metropolitan Opera
Heinrich Conried faces a chorus walkout as Local No 14 demands 5 a week for all chorus members. While most foreign singers earn that, the average is 15 dollars. Conried may rely on Arion and Teuterklang societies for substitutes, and could stage operas without choruses if no replacements can be found.
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Heinrich Conried
New York
Metropolitan Opera House
Chorus Singers Union
Actors’ National Protective Society
Herr Conrted
Conried
Arion
Tiederkrang
Tegfried
Don Pascuale
Miss Root as a Playwright in Lyceum Theater
Ivy Root niece of Secretary of State Root writes Mozart a biographical play about the composer. Howard Kyle star brings a lively line portrayal to a large Havana audience amid favorable notices. President Palma hosted a palace dinner for papal delegate Aversa and Archbishop de Barnardo in Santiago.
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Harrisburg
Ivy Root
Root
Lyceum Theater
Howard Kyle
Kyle
Palma Dines
Havana
Palma
Monsignor
Glosseppe Aversa
Cuba
Porto Rico
Francisco de Barnado
Santiago
Mrs. Fiske Stars in Leah Kleschna at Belasco
Mrs. Fiske appears in Leah Kleschna at the Belasco to a large holiday audience. The performance blends romance and crime drama with strong natural acting and a sympathetic heroine, supported by an artful cast and a strong Manhattan company.
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Paul Sylvaine
Sylvanne
Leah
Bertolt
Sylvaine
Mra. Fiske
John Magon
Frederic da Belleville
Kleschna
Mack
Schramm
Arliss
Raoul Berton
Limily Stevens
Claire Berton
Claus Bogel
Fernanda Eliscu
Martha of the
Sophie Chaponniere
Manhattan Company
No Mother to Guide Her at the Academy of Music
Lillian Mortimer stars in a new play she wrote titled No Mother to Guide Her at the Academy of Music this week. The production blends humor with melodrama and features Mortimer as Bunce with supporting turns by John Livingston and others, promising both artistic appeal and audience interest.
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Hose Day
New York
Ralph Carlton
Rose Day
Rose
Carlton
Livingston
Eva Benton
Mother Targar
Alice Mortlock
Fred Wickhof
Silas Waterbury
May Manning
Landy Jane Smithers
The
Academy of Music
Lillian Mortimer
Littan Mortimer
Sis Hopkins
Lélitarn Mortimer
Bunce
John Livingston
John 'T
Nivkol
Leaps Thirty Feet by Gertrude Breton at Hippo drome
Washington girl Gertrude Breton performs a 30 foot leap on a bicycle at Convention Hall's Hippo drome amid a varied winter program. She warns of real danger while describing the four second dash and the need to look straight ahead. An initial platform misalignment caused a hard drop during a trial, but later performances pleased the audience.
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Gertrude Breton
Washington
Hippodrome
Convention Hall
Post
Kansas City
Adjustiies
Todd-Judge
Lakely
Barnum & Bailey
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Opare
Moscow
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Workman
Jo-KaLon
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To-Kalon Wine Co
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Miss Root
Robert Conness
U.S. A
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Lieut. Dick
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Harry McRea Webster
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Dick Blesworth
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Lottie Briscoe
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Harry Criseste
Capt. Beverly
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Flora Snyder
Nora Flynn
Mr. Webster
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Blanche Walsh
the National
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National Theater
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Rolfe
Miss Walsh
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Martin Alsop
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Quaker City
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Wagner
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Tschaikowsky
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Strauss
Carnegie Hall
Arthur Rubinstein
Paderewski
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Mr. Ade
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George E. Bryant
Prof. Witherspoon
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Jane Witherspoon
Thomas Meighan
Billy Bolton
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Stephen Maley
Bram Hicks
Squantumville
Frederik Burton
Bob Hicks
Morgan Coman
Stubby’ Pearson
J. B. Hollis
Copernicus’ Talbot
Robert Kelly
Ivy Troutman
Gertrude Quinlan
Louise Forde
Chase’s
Harry Howard
Bert Coote
Mr. Coote
Ada Russell
Robert Minster
Carlin
Otto
Young
Kathleen DeVoie
Sydney Deane
Q@mpany
Blackwell's Island
Adeste Fidelis
Wiss Breton
Morten C. Stout & Co. Tailors
Welskad
Ual
Telesh
Bayne Highde Dropead
My Store Tour
New Years Wines
A. Gollins
the Fiquossne Company
Wabashawe
Chicago
Regal
Lasnington
Penna. Ave
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