New York Letter Behind the Big Automobile Show
The tenth Madison Square Garden automobile show displays 260 machines with prices from 550 to 15000 dollars. Foreign makers are few, and market slumps push many used cars onto sale. Wall Street lessons and stock gambling are discussed alongside Ellis Island improvements and Castle Garden’s immigrant role.
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New York
Madison Square Garden
Garden
Wall Street
Ellis Island
Congress
Jenny Lind
Barnum
Goldschmidt
California
Old Castle
Bilis Island
Castle Garden
America
New York City
Florida in February Season Opens Southbound Travel
Florida in February draws rapid travel south as hotels prepare for a two month season. Palm Beach and St. Augustine see crowded trains while new deluxe schedules rival Chicago routes. The piece contrasts warm southern climates with harsh New York winters and notes rising travel costs and luxury in the Palm Beach corridor.
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Florida
New York
Palm Beach
St. Augustine
Southern
Palm
Hudson River
Jersey City
Philadelphia
Quaker City
Washington
South
Chicago
Aiken
North Carolina
Blue Ridge Mountains
City
Coe
Terrible Mine Disaster In Pennsylvania Coal Mine
Pittsburgh January 29 1911 103 bodies rescued at noon with 30 more at shaft bottom and about 50 still inside making 175 dead total. Inspectors and workers probe mine as undertakers rest. graves prepared near Lutheran cemetery for those without funds. Chief Inspector Roderick leads search. explosion blamed on firedamp. Recovery continues with 160 victims recovered by January 30 and about 20 more buried under debris.
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Pittsburg
Allegheny Coal Company
Lutheran Cemetery
Here
Springdale
James E. Roderick
State Department of Mines
W. F. Cunningham
Fifteen Fall to Death in Stratton Independence Mine
Fifteen miners die and one is severely injured in a mine cage accident at the Stratton Independence mine near Victor Colorado. The cage failed after rising to the surface, plunging 1500 feet, with two men entangled near the top. Eighteen men were involved across two incidents, with one identified survivor.
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Independence
Victor
Col
Frank Cochrane
L. P. Jackson
Harry Cogane
C. C. Statten
James Bullbek
L. P. Johnson
Jackson
Bullbek
Stratton Independence
Edwin Twiggs
Iroquois Theater Verdict Sweeps City Officials
Chicago reports the coroner's jury verdict holding eight city officials and theater personnel liable for the Iroquois theater fire with malfeasance and manslaughter charges to be sent to the grand jury Mayor Harrison later exonerated by a habeas corpus ruling calling the jury findings illegal and the mayor’s culpability a great wrong.
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Chicago
Iroquois
Carter H. Harrison
William H. Musham
George Williams
Will J. Davis
Iroquois Theater Company
Ed Loughlin
O. K
William McMullen
William Sallers
James B. Cummings
Mary Edna Torney
Traeger
Harrison
Richard Tuthill
Verdict of death by own action in Whitaker Wright case
London coroner's jury returns death by own action in the Whitaker Wright tragedy. Cause is suffocation from cyanide poisoning with prussic acid. Jury finds Wright sane and free of other disease. brain shows no lesions and heart remains healthy though enlarged.
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Whitaker Wright
London
Wright
Russia Replies to Japanese Note Sought by Britain and Paris
British envoy reports Russia’s reply to Japan’s note will be delivered today and may offer concessions. Officials in St Petersburg and Tokyo assess the move as a possible basis for a peaceable modus vivendi. Delays in framing the response in Paris and London are seen as efforts to keep tensions from rupturing. A separate Chefoo dispatch claims the Russian steamer Argun was fired on by Japanese warships, causing passengers to fear an encounter.
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Washington
St. Petersburg
Russia
Great Britain
Japan
Tokio
Griscom
State Department
Foreign Office
Paris
Count Lamsdorff
Czar
London
Daily Mail
Chefoo
China
Argun
Nagasaki
Dalny
Chemulpo
Danny
Tail end Burlington yards collision kills four in Nebraska
Broken Bow Nebraska reports a tail end freight collision in the Burlington yards on Thursday. Three trainmen died and a passenger in the caboose was killed. The wreck disrupted rail service as investigators begin work at the site.
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Bow
Neb
Burlington
Caboose
McKinley Birthday Observances Across Cities
Red carnations marked McKinley birthday in Chicago Washington and Canton. In Chicago Hamilton club ceremonies honored the sixtieth anniversary at noon. In Washington members of Congress and White House staff wore carnations. In Canton schools held patriotic programs and Mrs McKinley visited the cemetery with flowers for the tomb, with Cortelyou sending a floral piece.
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Chicago
William McKinley
Hamilton Club
Washington
McKinley
House of Representatives
Congress
White House
Canton
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
George B. Cortelyou
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Gotham Town
McCutcheon
Chicago Daily Tribune
Pennsylvania
Colorado
Roderick
Harwick
Daniel Lysle
Leechburg
Brownsville
Minor Hill Coal Company
Samuel Henry
Connellsville
Wao
Briar Hill Company
Republic Iron &Steel Company
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